House Party

[Sage]

Sage found Ashton down stairs and gave him some friendly advice. But he didn't think the man would take it. He didn't ask like he cared. He could take care of himself, he did lure Nox into a trap. Sage wasn't exactly sure why he was helping the family still. But that was Nox and totally not any of his concern. It did give him a few more interesting people to follow.

The music was loud as he stood over the poker table. It wasn't like being Phaser, The Wicked Truth was hardly known, so new to the game since losing his old identiy. But that hack was now in jail and he wasn't, so that made Sage all the happier. He felt bad that Grimm had taken his place -- but only a tiny amount. He had tried to use his name while he was sick to do shit more devious than Sage could have done. And he got caught -- too bad he had tarnished the good name of Phaser.

But Sage was happier now anyway, he had a boyfriend who was his boyfriend and not some girl he was playing at being a little more than friends. Though he did miss Sasha some days. But with Aiden he had no reason to regret his decisions.

Sage watched the cards and the currency that was in play. How many of these hackers counted cards? How many of them cheated through other means? How honest of a game was this really? Did it matter? Sage didn't play poker. Not because he did't know how, or because he sucked at it. In fact he was very good at it, but when he could calculate the odds of winning in a microsecond it took the fun out of playing and hoping. It didn't matter if he didn't pay full attention, he could run an algorithm that counted the cards, without actually paying attention. He'd written something like it once for a friend who went to Vegas. Wired the program up to pair of contact lenses. His friend won a butt load of money, but he got greedy and tried to use the same thing on the roulette table and got caught cheating. Dumbass.

But the amount of Obscurium in play was interesting. He had his own stash of it for obvious reasons. It was after all safer than any bank. And it was fun watching Jaxen playing cards. He almost had a mind to sit down and play himself.