Story Post: Closing time
After a long, tiring day, the humble bookkeeper flips the sign on the door to “closed”.
Running his gnarled old finger down the accounts ledger, he gives an occasional raised eyebrow, dusty sigh, or dry harrumph.
Finally, he writes four names on the back of a discarded betting slip.
The paper says:
* KEVAN: account balance 75 Readies
* BUCKY: account balance 148 Readies
* JONATHANDARK: account balance 166 Readies
* CLUCKY: account balance 347 Readies
“Good day for Clucky”, he grunted, “I’ll deal with that in the morning.” Then he closed the shutters, turned off the lights, and started making his way towards bed.
Kevan: City he/him
That was a good, focused dynasty, although it would have been good if we’d got the black-box event process down earlier.
I came closer to winning than I expected to. Knowing I was about to go idle for external reasons mid-dynasty, I submitted an all-in bet on Ducktank to win the 4/10 Blogbots match at 5:1 (forgetting about the 100 cap) - if I’d made it a legal R100 rather than an illegal R175, I’d have gone into the lead. If I’d lost the best, I would have reinitialised before idling, in case I returned later.
And I came back to make a four-match R100 Acca on the last day of the dynasty, on the grounds that some of the outcomes looked a safe bet and other players would presumably be doing the same (with idle players having no reason not to). I called three right and one wrong. The Bookie tells me I would have made R4,156 on it if all four had placed.
I was a bit tempted to also make an Acca on the preceding day and reinitialise if it failed, but wasn’t sure how the response would play out from the longer-term players, if they had a full day’s notice.
By a process of elimination I assume that the players of the dynasty were all secretly horses.