And so, before we die...(Lana/Ludro)

[lana]

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"Outta my way, outta my way!" Lana barked at servants as she pushed them into walls. She ran down a flight of stairs at the end of the hallway going down to the next floor of the castle, having just realized in her battle plannings that she had had the greatest idea known to ham man.

Because she was a fucking champ instead of a generally civilized human being, she roundhouse-kicked the door to Ludro's chambers and knocked it open before barging on in.

"Ludro!" she roared, "time for a duck hunt!"

That is to say if he remembered she'd recently been using 'duck hunt' as the code for 'binge drinking'.

[Ludro "Ace" Gamblington]

Ludro was looking over some plans for the navy when Lana came barreling in asking for a duck hunt. Ludro put his papers down, stood up, and turned to Lana.
"OH SO VERY MUCH!" Ludro said, "I've been looking at these summeries all day, and I could shoot down some ducks." He put on his suit jacket, and walked out.
He walked towards the door, but he stopped in mid-step. He shook his head, and continued towards Lana.
"So where do you plan to shoot these ducks?"

[lana]

Excitement boiled up in Lana as Ludro expressed his interest in the idea. She wasn't sure how this was going to all go down, and not that she didn't have any confidence in their own strength against someone like Duo (pssh, one guy. who cared?*) but a war was a war and the rule was if you're going to war, you need to spend one night drinking yourself into numb, brain-throbbing stupidity and possibly knock out a few teeth while you were at it. No it wasn't a real rule, she just made it up. Right now.

Eagerly she awaited Ludro by the door and yet he looked almost confused as he approached her, which wasn't right considering Ludro loved rum and once he had it in his eyes she knew him to be happier than a kid getting a whole cream cake to itself (the thought of kids made Lana shudder). That was, of course, when he dropped the question about the ducks. Actual ducks?

"Irie's?" she answered, raising an eyebrow as she dropped the name of her usual go-to pub. Surely he was just playing along!




*Lana's never read a history book or anything so her knowledge on Duo is "wahh, he's big and scary" really, so she doesn't care.

[Ludro "Ace" Gamblington]

"Irie's sounds great. They have the hardest time keeping our tabs." Ludro said as he grabbed his coat, and threw it on his shoulders. He locked his door and walked down the hall.

It had been a while since Ludro went out for a drink. He mostly drank his private collection of rum, brandy, and sake alone as he was did his yearly rounds of doing stuff for the castle, and since it was his duty as captain, he had to make sure it was done, for the glory of Nerezza.

As they walked towards Irie's, Ludro felt his pockets and pulled out a coin from his pocket. "Wanna flip on who buys first round?" He asked with a smile.

[lana]

Upon revealing the coin and asking to flip on it Lana swiftly shot her arm out under Ludro's, knocking his forearm as hard as she could to try to launch the coin upwards into the air.

"HEADS!" she shouted.

[Ludro "Ace" Gamblington]

Ludro watched as the coin fly right into a woman's head, striking her,and making her stumble onto the road. Ludro looked at Lana, with a scolding look, "Just had to knock it out of my hand, didn't you." He walked over the lady, and he noticed the coin. It was heads up.
Dammit. He thought as he put his foot on top of the doubloon. "Ma'am, you're ok?"

[lana]

The woman whom the duo indirectly hit was a little older, wrinkles just starting to show themselves on her aging skin. She wore a long red dress and as she fell over she shrieked something awful as the basket she'd been carrying fell over and the contents within poured out. And worse than that, the glass contents of that basket had broken and out poured along the street was a mixture of blue and green liquids.

She hurriedly grabbed all of her belongings that weren't destroyed and got to her feet, rounding on the two younger captains and glared.

"No, I'm not okay! You just ruined a whole week's of work!" she snapped as she brushed her skirt off. Lana looked from Ludro to the lady and shrugged.

"It was an accident," Lana answered quickly, though noting how odd it was that a frail old thing could have actually been knocked over by an airborne coin of all things, "we'll just...buy you more? We have that kind of money, right, Ludro?"

And by that she meant "Ludro, fork up some cash right now."

[Ludro "Ace" Gamblington]

Ludro reached into his pocket to pull out his wallet for the woman. He reached for it, as it was in his coat... that was on the chair...in his room in the castle.
"Uh yea... Lana, why don't you handle this and I will get it the next time?" Ludro said with a grin on his face.