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I've managed cigarettes. [...Or something like them. He hasn't had to make his own in this fashion in quite some time. Still, some experimentation, and he's getting at it.] An' there's liquor enough.

Now. The important question, though--

Does anyone here play a good game of cards? Whist, perhaps? Know American poker, if that's more to someone's likin'.

Not much t' play for here, by way of stakes, but that doesn' make much a difference in a place like this.

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Poker, craps, gin rummy, blackjack, sixty-six-- take your pick.

[Now, doesn't this just sound like a pup?

Moran chuckles.]

I know rummy. Can' say I'm too familiar with the others, but I'd be willin' to learn.

[American card games? Just as good as England's. Or India's. He's not concerned with what's played, just with something to play.]

Aw, they're all easy-- but rummy's fun to start, even if you don't got nothin' to bet on. Shots are fun, but not if we're gonna be playin' for a while and I gotta teach you everythin'.

[He's very clearly teasing-- but just to be sure there's no hard feelings, he adds:]

Name's Jack, Jack Kelly.

We'll work our way up t' shots, how's that sound?

[Because he can hold his liquor, even if he tends to prefer to play cards sober. That's only when there's money on the line.]

Colonel Moran. Good to meet y', Mister Kelly.

Oo-ooh, a colonel! Scuze me, here I thought I was just playin' with a regular man. Where you wanna play?

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Where you found your fags?

[ He means cigarettes.

Also do you want to play cards with a mobster, Moran. Do you. ]

[His boss is a criminal mastermind with an international network while presenting himself as just a professor, whose only real weakness is if Moran ever gets caught and talks.

Professor James Moriarty practically is a mobster.]

Garden thing you lot 'ave here has tobacco. Only one breed, which is a damn shame. Makes for a duller smoke than I like, but it does well enough.

Dry the leaves, crush 'em, roll 'em with some paper... Bit crude o' one, but it's somethin'.

[ Fucking ace. Though you're probably more Italian-type than Russian-type. It's okay, he still likes you. Victorian mobsters, yeahhh. ]

Fucking big gardens. [ Flick of lighter going on, then it snaps back off. ] Which floor?

I'm on eight, think it is, but [he chuckles, friendly enough] I think I can manage a bit of travellin' for a good game of cards.

[Still a sad state of affairs to have no stakes, but probably for the best.]

Yeah? I can do poker, you can do Durak?

[ ... Russian mobster, Russian card games, man. ]

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I'd play, but I think that would hardly be fair.

[ because irene is a terrible cheater. ]

Oh, come now, Miss Adler. I think I could match you.

[Hard to cheat a cheat.

Not that he always plays dirty, but he doesn't mind it either.]

Most men who say that end up penniless.

Already taken care of here, now isn' it?

There's always more to lose, isn't there?

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You had me at liquor.

[ yup, you piqued his interest with that one, but he could use some time outside of his room. plus, cigarettes, cards and booze smells like debauchery to him, and he hasn't debauched since he got here. ]

I'll play anything, but pokers boring without something in the pot.

Could keep track of money owed, even if it can' be paid at present.

Might be able to get one of these computer nerds to hack together something to do it for us. This thing has to be useful for something other than texting.

Sure we could manage somethin'.

Gonna to make this a regular thing?

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[ a little bit surprised. ]

Trying to look for a way to kill time, already?

[ Number that comes from when you post said 008. ]

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A man can't want t' play cards? Get t' know the company he'll be keepin'? [He chuckles.]

Some of us like bein' social, gettin' to know our fellows.

Space expedition, people trying to sort out their lives. Not in the least bit -

[ a pause. ]

invested in trying to answer the big questions? Why are we here? What's our purpose?

If y' don' mind my sayin' so, sir, those're questions asked everywhere, all the time.

I'm no man of God or philosophy or the like, an', here, I'm afraid I don' know about space or machines like this.

Other men? Ones who know what they're lookin' for an' at? I'll help 'em any way an old soldier can, but I won' get in their way, interferin' in things I don' have a prayer of understandin' in.

I'm not a selfish man I can wait my turn to be of use.

That's why they call them the big questions, after all. Look, I'm guessing I'm way ahead of you timeline-wise, but let's be real - if we're still asking those questions now, even at what a little over 900 After Earth - I guess that means it's still important we're trying to find answers for them.

[ he's a bit of both, a man of science and belief - not in god in specific, but he believes in ideas. ]

We've got a gunnery crew as far as I remember if you're a soldier. I dunno, I hate the feeling of just doing nothing. But we're talking about entertainment so -

What's your poison, soldier?

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