Harley Highstakes

24.

Oh.

Oh.

Just barely do you get the ski car.

Also, as you go to get it, Mesmera kind of like wanders up near Harley and she like looks at Harley and she's like, don't you know who this is?

And she gives you like a little moment to grab what you're trying to get.

Mesmera.

As you all deal with the downed boy baccarat and spilled drinks everywhere and, for Riot, a keycard in hand, you start to head to the north side of the room.

Which is easy at this point because the crowd is currently a flutter as Harley Highstakes steps onto a circular disk platform that begins to move.

lifting her up to the wheel's lever.

When she arrives, she raises her hand with a flourish, and after a dramatic pause, pulls the lever down with a practice snap, sending the wheel and the crowd into a spinning frenzy.

The partygoers cheer and shout encouragement to the wheel, entreating it to land on their particular favourite arcana, or pleading for it to avoid the likes of the tower or the devil.

After a minute or so, the wheel begins to slow.

It clicks past the star,

and then the moon.

And a hopeful gasp as it appears to pause on the sun, but no, past the sun.

And the crowd, very suddenly, falls silent as, will it?

Yes, it is.

The hand slides past judgment, and for the very first time in recorded history, lands firmly on the world.

Everyone is motionless.