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Post by Phen on Jul 22, 2017 21:49:47 GMT
Lady Luck started out as just a gambler in Las Vegas. Not for fun but because her mind was good for it and she needed money. It was the old job a young women like her could do that was not degrading, she didn't make tons of money as she knew when to pull out when things where going down so she never could get any big scores so she just had enough money to live. Then one day the government came knocking, she was on a sudden win streak after winning a sudden sizable jackpot at a slot machine, now it wasn't that she was being suspected of a crime but that they thought she unlocked her birthmagi and for record reasons it needed to be tested. They suspected that her birthmagi was luck so they did a simple test to find that out, they had her flip a coin several times. Around 100 times. In total she had a 99% heads rate. That was more than enough to say that it was luck.
After went public she was banned from pretty much every casino in the city, she was pretty well known the area and was on her way to even be a professional poker player so this left her on a spiral to debt as she had no way to pay her taxes, buy food, or even pay rent. But she had a good idea: Join the military. She wouldn't have to do much after all, just stand around until it was time to fight and when it was time to fight all she had to do was get in cover and take pot shots, after all pot shots used luck meaning that she'd have the same odds and firing a normal shot and getting hit in cover also took luck so the odds of her getting hit where next to none. But things went wrong very fast.
She was on break at a outpost in the Middle East, it was a pretty sweet place. Not much to worry about as it was just over looking some little town and with a military base not too far away it's not like anything would target the outpost before the main base, that would be like killing your own element of surprise. Too bad monsters don't care about that.
A dragon! Fire Wyvern to be specific, came down on the town, burning and eating anything that moved. The soldiers and her did move in the fight it but there was no way they could kill it, they where prepared for people and the uncommon civilian vehicle, not a monster with scales that rival tank armor!
Everyone was dying, being burnt or being eaten as Lady Luck stumbled into a some what intact house. Her left eye was completely burnt, there was no chance that it would be able to be saved, there was no way SHE would be able to be saved, as soon as the dragon was done killing everything that was clearly alive it would come for anything hiding including her, Lady Luck was going to die here, she knew that. So hey, she decided it would be fun to do her last gamble. She took out her revolver, unloading all of the bullets and loading back in one, she thought it would be humorous to see how many rounds it would take before her birth magi gave way. So she started playing.
She put her revolver to her head and fired. A red light filled her only working right eye, instinctually she turned to see it, she saw a single red glowing heart. A ace of hearts.
The round hit her square it he head, she fell on the ground but her much alive, thought the impact of the shot did leave her disorientated she felt a lot better. The lesser burn wound and scars on her body from the wyvern was gone! Though while her eye was still blind the pain around it was also gone. She had no idea what was happening but she knew one thing. She had a chance.
She picked her round back up, loaded them into the revolver, and bolted out of the house. The wyvern's head snapped to her as it's senses instantly caught wind of her. It started preparing a blast of fire but was interrupted by a bullet to the face "What? I thought this thing was magic now!" She yelled at no one, confused about why nothing special happened. She kept firing and as ran until she was down to her last shot "... I wonder..." She stopped in her tracks and turned to face the dragon that was now quickly coming down on her position, she flipped out cylinder and spun it, flicking it closed her aimed it at the charging dragon and she fired. Joker.
Light filled her eye and pure magic burned her skin as she flew back, a large pure magic explosion erupting from the gun, vaporizing the dragon and sending her flying into a wall. But after the whole ordeal who stood up in tattered military armor holding a empty Colt Python .357 Magnum proudly was no longer the opportunistic women from Las Vegas. That was Lady Luck.
A month later she was getting out of a bus and looking at a large concrete wall. SRT.
(Not the best thing I ever wrote as it came off the cuff after getting an idea for unlocking her birthmagi but how well)
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