A rigged potato-peeling ring, four hundred gold, one very pleased vampire
Someone has dragged every chair in the dormitory into a ring, chalked sixteen names on a slate, and started a potato-peeling speed contest with four hundred and twelve gold coins sitting in an open pot. That someone is Marie Dunareff, Flower of the South, eldest daughter of an agricultural empire, currently sitting on the table with a paring knife and a shameless smile. The odds are fixed. She is fixing them as you watch — better numbers for anyone who brings her a more impressive vegetable, which is not a rule anyone agreed to. You hold the key to the vegetable store. She has noticed. She would like you to sit down, place a bet, and take exactly as long as you need to work out that you are being scammed by someone who very much wants you close while it happens.
You play a new dorm resident pulled into the betting ring
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