Artists: None
Characters: Buffy, Lloyd, Spike
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy, Humor, Lighthearted
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1
Word count: 145 Hit Count: 441 ePub Downloads: 12
Published: December 05, 2020 Updated: December 05, 2020
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Banner by me, using photos by flickr users Gimli62, julochka, and Kenn Wilson, some screencaps from kissthemgoodbye.net, and other screencaps I made myself.
Originally posted on Seasonal Spuffy, Fall 2020.
1. Poem by thenewbuzwuzz - Likes: 14 Comments: 8 Word Count: 145 Hit Count: 441 Published: December 05, 2020
Major props to maryperk for the irresistible prompt and to thewiggins for betaing this thing into the night and gifting me with a stack of thoughtful comments taller than the poem. Well, I say poem. This feels only borderline poem-y to me, but the poetry magnets made writing simpler in some ways, and I wasn't going to do sentences.
Poker Notes:
I did some Poker Research for this and decided Spike and Lloyd were going to play Texas hold'em poker. It's not what the demons play in Life Serial, but it's a variant suitable for two players. As Wikipedia puts it,
"Each player seeks the best five card poker hand from any combination of the seven cards; the five community cards and their two hole cards.... If a player bets and all other players fold, then the remaining player is awarded the pot and is not required to show their hole cards. If two or more players remain after the final betting round, a showdown occurs. On the showdown, each player plays the best poker hand they can make from the seven cards comprising their two hole cards and the five community cards."
Not that you'd notice from the text, but I headcanon that Lloyd brought his own weird card deck, so instead of normal-looking playing cards Spike got one card that was just an image of himself in his William days and another card that he thought was probably an ace of hearts. And that's when things went south.