Trip048-c

Katie is having one of her regular losing streaks, and besides losing all her clothing has also lost an arm and both legs. She's just lost another game, and is going to have to pass much of her remaining arm over to the bank.

Fortunately for all of us, one of the house rules is that any player who loses any body parts is fully restored at noon on the following day. Nevertheless, it very much looks like Katie is destined to spend the next fifteen hours without any limbs at all.

Still, the night is yet young. There's still time for her to try and win some of those missing limbs back. But all of us, including Katie herself, know how improbable that is. She might even go on to lose the upper two-thirds of her torso, leaving her with just her head attached to her hips; once she lost her eyes, her hearing, and her voice as well. And then got fully restored the following day, ready to gamble again the following week.

The other players say they think she loses deliberately, something she always denies. All the same, she always performs badly at games nights, and regularly ends up as the worst-performing player of the day.

Today won't be the first time I've taken her to bed limbless, and I doubt it'll be the last.