It's poker, I described poker. The Necronomicon auction is, just a big poker tournament.
Which is totally a spy thing to get caught up in, especially in the Tower of Babel.
stale beer and martini flavors
(There are two basic "flavors" of spy fiction: stale beer and martini. Stale beer fiction is the stuff that focuses on the tedium and paranoia, martini is the stuff that focuses on the gorgeous women and invisible cars. A lot of fiction does mix the two, but genre conventions help you understand what you have to spell out vs what you can gloss over. TTDECBA is (magical) stale beer, with a lot of martini-splashed vampire parties.)
The auction I wrote, going back through it now-- holy crap, that Punch and Judy stuff, that's so cool, is Cloud sausages? that'd be great--
alright here's the detail I went into
The auction took place in [five] stages; it was a silent auction, with a hybrid tiered system and a steep entry price. After each round of bidding, the available funds would be checked against the number bid, and the top bidders would advance to the next round [or something.]
Moone checked his own wooden, bone-shaped [macguffin piece] hooked up to the team's Tooth Fairy-funded boon bubble. The income was still trickling in, the number going up steadily as Moone watched, but Moone could also apparently use the [macguffin] to monitor Unwin's progress through the back doors of the coffers of Babel, digging his way to the source of the income stream and digging the hole open a little wider for himself.
[research unusual auction systems and bidding-type games. make it complex enough to justify all the cloak-and-dagger surrounding the use of strategy. Think of it like a big old game of Diplomacy, but as an auction.]
[bid continues, pool narrows down I guess, pressure grows more intense,]
and I also talked about the Tooth Fairy bestowing some of his boons upon each faction at the bidding war. So there's that.
magic poker
How would magic poker work? Well, just thinking about it, and then going back and reading the way that couriers and spies are sent around from table to table (and everything's all subject to change of course) you'd figure magic would totally break poker, wouldn't you?
(Tarot maybe? It's a trick-taking game, associated with the occult because of the symbolic connections that the major arcana (trump suit) have; I don't think it would function in the narrative way that a poker tournament does, though, but we can always create our own hybrid 'cause why the heck not.)
But I don't think so, and here's why- there's a lot of magic and counter-magic going around, and... and there's still a big old question mark over why the auction is in the form of a poker tournament; maybe it's not an auction at all. Maybe it is just a straight-up, high stakes, magical poker tournament, with slivers of time as the chips.
But poker it would make sense because the winnings would all get pooled, THEY'D GET POOLED and then more money to the Tooth Fairy!
But poker it would make sense because the winnings would all get pooled, THEY'D GET POOLED and then more money to the Tooth Fairy!
need to rewatch casino royal
In the book it's baccarat, which I've never heard of outside of the fact that, in the book it's baccarat. Maybe look into baccarat?
there's this too
Also, as long as I have you: Himsters Keepses' nickname is The Dreaded Eye. I rediscovered that, it's a note I made when I first jotted his name down after it first came to me. I wrote it down as, Himsters "the Dreaded Eye" Keepses. Which works, but apparently that information got separated from the name itself at some point.
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