[If there's one thing that Tseng has surely long since become familiar with by now, it's Rufus's tendency to never back down from a high-risk course of action if the reward in question is sufficiently worth it. Case in point: by now he's managed to get enough of a lay of the land to catch on that "extra large" payouts come few, far between, and generally through a lot more time and dedicated effort than a single spin of a slot machine's roulette. It's by far the most direct solution to securing resources for himself. The faster he can lock down and solidify his position, the better.
Of course, that's before his roll comes up. He's done a few previously, and lucked out in that they were relatively...achievable. This one, by contrast, is —
Well. It's riding face in the bridal suite. There's not much ambiguous about all of that.
To his credit, his distaste never makes it into his expression; quite the contrary, he's busy thinking through possibilities and alternatives, weighing out courses of action and arranging them by viability. The security risk that Tseng raises is a valid one, on its face — but Rufus, being Rufus, is also capable of reading between the lines, and picking up on the implications that Tseng doesn't give voice to.
For this to be a security risk, his person would have to have unique value, distinguishable value. Under normal circumstances, his bloodline and connections would accomplish that. But those aren't present here, which means that in truth, Tseng simply doesn't like this. He really doesn't like this.
Hardly surprising. He's not exactly thrilled with it, either.]
...Let's go examine this suite.
[He's not going to dignify the question with a direct answer, of course. The direction will more than do that, at least until they're out of the generally public eye.]
i'm still losing my shit about "nonvoting" 🤝
Of course, that's before his roll comes up. He's done a few previously, and lucked out in that they were relatively...achievable. This one, by contrast, is —
Well. It's riding face in the bridal suite. There's not much ambiguous about all of that.
To his credit, his distaste never makes it into his expression; quite the contrary, he's busy thinking through possibilities and alternatives, weighing out courses of action and arranging them by viability. The security risk that Tseng raises is a valid one, on its face — but Rufus, being Rufus, is also capable of reading between the lines, and picking up on the implications that Tseng doesn't give voice to.
For this to be a security risk, his person would have to have unique value, distinguishable value. Under normal circumstances, his bloodline and connections would accomplish that. But those aren't present here, which means that in truth, Tseng simply doesn't like this. He really doesn't like this.
Hardly surprising. He's not exactly thrilled with it, either.]
...Let's go examine this suite.
[He's not going to dignify the question with a direct answer, of course. The direction will more than do that, at least until they're out of the generally public eye.]