Person to be Blamed Will Sample Copyright (©) 2000

Cast: Inquisitors, Judges,and Initiates, Oh My!
Special Guest Star: Chancellor Wentworth

Setting: In a Smoke-Filled Room at Conclave:

 Inquisitor Wu:    Gentlemen, Mercurian....the game is Five Card Draw.  Kings or better to open. 

Judge MacEwan: *smirks*  You Mean something by that comment, James?

 Judge Burns: *flubbers his lips at James*  Deal, already. 

Inquisitor Gregory:  When do we use swords in this game? *

Enter Initiate Moore, carrying a humidor, as Wu deals* 

Initiate Moore:  Cigars, gentlemen? 

*Wu, Burns, MacEwan,and Gregory accept the proffered Havanas-- exeunt  Initiate Moore.*  

Burns:  Didn't we invite Yegevanni?  

Wu:  Yeah.  Sara wouldn't let him come. 

*Laughs all around the table*  

MacEwan: Anyone seen Chancellor Wentworth yet? 

Burns: Yes...we had a reported sighting down by the Rock a & Roll Hall of Fame....or was that Elvis? 

Wu:  Nicolas, you open the wagering 

Gregory:   Is four of a kind good? 

MacEwan, Burns, and Wu, in Unison: ' I fold'  

Gregory: Do I get to kill someone now?  

Wu:  Not now, Nicolas--.you won the...er...why....sure...you get first dibs on the diablerists. 

*Wu takes his money from the pot,* 

MacEwan: Are you trying to cheat my cousin?  You know he gets to kill the disloyal now, too! 

*MacEwan takes his money out* 

Burns:  Exactly.  Shame on you, James. 

*Takes his money, and a small part of Gregory's too, as Wu deals the next hand*  

MacEwan: So, gentlemen, whom do you think is behind all of the recent deaths of the Elders of our Clan? 

Gregory: Stellus  

Wu: He's dead Nicolas. 

Burns:  Give it up, already. 

*everyone looks at their cards *

MacEwan: Where is Peirston? 

Burns: Last time we invited him, he had some sort of card counting scheme.  

Wu:   How many, gentlemen, Mercurian?  

MacEwan: One  

Burns: Two,  

Gregory: Three aces, please. 

*Wu deals out the cards* 

Wu: It's your bid, Calen.

MacEwan:   I will raise you...a torpored Lasombra infiltrator. 

Wu:  See that and raise you a  trivial boon, 

Burns: Call 

Gregory: Not worth it, I fold.  Who do I get to kill again? 

Wu: Two pair, Sixes and jacks. 

MacEwan: Three fours 

Burns: Full house.  Kings over Queens.  Fitting, with Lasombra on the line. 

*another hearty round of chuckles, as the phone rings *

Wu: Get that would you Nicolas?  It may be important, so, put it on speakerphone. 

*Nicolas looks at the phone and begins to draw his sword* 

Burns: I'll get it: 

*places the call on speakerphone* 

Wentworth:  Whaazzzzup!!!!!!!