#Roll the dice (1)

[holylulusworld]

Roll the dice (1)

Summary: You’re in trouble, and it’s all your fault.

Pairing: Mobster!Steve Rogers x fem!Reader

Warnings: mafia au, angst, mentions of criminal activities, mentions of sickness, mentions of stealing, scared reader, bruises, hand around throat (non-sexual)

Catch up here: Roll the dice (Prologue)

Holding your breath, you watch it land on… 3

“Three,” you murmur, scared to the bones. While Steve smirks darkly, you wring your hands. This can’t be good. Of course, it can’t. All your life, you never had luck in the game. Why change your bad luck now? “What does it mean?”

Steve crouches down to grab the dice. He chuckles as you try not to faint. His cheer presence is intimidating. Having him up close while he holds your life in his hands is terrifying.

“OH, you got lucky, doll,” he taunts. Steve grabs your hand to place the dice in the palm of your hand. “Three means roll the dice again.”

“Again—” you whimper. Rolling the dice once was scary, and you made peace with death, even embraced it with open arms to end this nightmare you’re living in. Rolling it again means doom. “No… please decide.”

“I don’t make the rules,” he lies while his smirk deepens. His cheeks dimple and he almost looks like a beautiful angel, if not for the dangerous glimmer in his ocean-blue eyes. “How about I explain what every number means before you roll the dice again?”

A question is not in his words. He will tell you what the numbers mean, whether you want it or not.

You nod the moment his features darken. “Yes. Please.” You’re surprised the words come out of your mouth at all. It was a struggle to bring yourself to speak to him.

“One means quick death.” You shudder at his happy smile. “Two means painful death.” You whimper as he cups your jaw to force you to look him in the eyes. “You already know what three means.”

Steve watches your eyes glistening with unshed tears. He grins like the devil as he leans closer, his nose brushing yours.

“Four means an eye for an eye. In your case, it means paying me back my money, but ten times the amount you stole from me.” He hums when you silently start to cry. “I like five very much. It means working for me for the rest of your life. You already know about six, too.”

None of the options are appealing to you. Steve lied. There’s not a chance you get to walk out of his office alive and unharmed. You’ll never roll a six.

“So, go ahead,” he purrs your name and points at your hand. “Roll the dice again.” Steve gets back up to sit back down on his armchair, smirking as you stare at him with teary eyes. “Now!” He growls as you hesitate.

“Okay,” you sniffle and drop the dice, not even looking at it. You hold your breath and close your eyes.

“Aw, you’re a lucky lady,” Steve whistles. “A three again. Wow! I don’t think anyone ever got it two times in a row.”

You shudder. A three means you must roll the dice again. For a third time, you grab the dice and throw it toward Steve’s feet. It’s all a game to him.

“Another three,” he laughs in your face. “Pick it back up, lucky doll. Maybe this time, you’ll get a six, huh?”

Gritting your teeth, you glare at Steve. He’s toying with you, and you hate that you’re too weak to fight him. Before he can get mad, you move toward the dice to roll it again. You watch it stop at three and sniffle.

“Again.” He says.

You roll the dice. Three.

“Again, doll.”

Three.

“And again.”

Three.

You scream and throw the dice against the wall. “Why don’t you just kill me? I know this dice is manipulated!”

“You accuse me of lying!” Steve rises from his seat to grab you by your throat. “I gave you the chance to save your life! You’re not only a thief but ungrateful too!”

“It only ever shows three!” You claw at his hand, trying to get it off your throat. “Three. Three. Three!”

Heat speckles all over your face and neck. Your body becomes heavy, and your eyes flutter shut. You try to fight the invisible power dragging you into darkness, but it's useless.

“Hmm…yeah. That’s much better, isn’t it? Letting me take control over your body, life, and mind. You never stood a chance, doll.” Steve presses a kiss to your trembling lips before your head lolls back. “Did you honestly believe I would let you walk out on me? Of course, the dice shows whatever I want.”

A few weeks earlier, the night you stole from Steve…

“Steve, I don’t know why you let her get away with it. Man, she didn’t even avoid the cameras,” Bucky grunts. Steve and he are watching you walk toward the back entrance, your bag filled with the money you stole from your boss. “Let me stop her.”

“No,” Steve smirks. “I want to know why she found the guts to steal from me. She was always a shy little mouse. I wonder what happened.”

“With all due respect, that’s just stupid,” Bucky huffs. He can’t believe his friend lets a random employee get away with stealing from him. “This could ruin your reputation.”

Steve chuckles. “Buck, she won’t get far. I told Sam to keep an eye on her, and Jensen is checking on her digital life. I’m still Steven Grant Rogers, not some inexperienced newbie. Likewise, I know what I’m doing.”

“You’re playing with fire, Steve.” The brunette can only watch you sneak out of the door, the money still in your bag.

Steve grins like the wolf he is and says, “I think it will be worth it, Buck. I haven’t had much fun lately. I’ll get me a sweet little mouse to toy with...”

Part 2

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[helpimstuckposting]

Steve agrees to play D&D as long as Eddie plays too, so they get Will to DM. Somehow, Steve rolls three nat20s in a row and Eddie’s like ‘no fucking way, not possible, give me those’ and rolls with Steve’s dice. He immediately gets a nat1

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

Btw this is what John is doing with the fact that he has control of Arthur's arm

[potatobugz]

Doubt

[thefloatingstone]

I ended upping the difficulty of my 2nd run because now that I have a better grip on how the mechanics work, Act 1 was going past REALLY quickly and I wanted it to be more challenging

this is the first buried chest I found after switching...

[anaconda-creates]

the chances of rolling a one on a twenty sided die is one in twenty. the chances of rolling a one on a twenty sided die twice in a row is one in four hundred. I rolled not one, not two, but three natural ones in a row. Those odds are 1 in 8000.

???

[fly-the-pattern]

[corvidscreams]

Day 27: Tabletop Cere plays a Jawa Bard for the tech bonus. Merrin is playing a Dathomirian Witch and argues with Greez about how her abilities should work. BD-1 and Cal have swapped for the bit so BD is playing an 8 foot Mandalorian Barbarian and Cal is the Droid Cleric who keeps forgetting he’s the party healer. Greez would appreciate having one session that doesn’t end with crumbs all over his goddamn floor. (Prev/Next)

[freakinator]

if it turns out that wemmbu does not in fact consider himself a PlayerTM i think im gonna call his + the PlayersTM alliance the HA which stands for the House Alliance (at least until somebody can come up with a better name) cause:

ha - laughter, their alliance developed during the election arc alongside zam's joker arc

the house always wins - thanks to pb&j's own hypocritical actions it basically ensured a PlayersTM victory, if not physically then ideologically

house aka cards theme - they have each decided to deal with whatever hand they are dealt, refusing to bite the hand that serves them (playing as fairly and as honorably as possible) and biting the ones that do (aka punishing pb&j not playing along with their interactions even after their consideration by no longer playing along themselves)

cards aka casino theme - casino games rely a lot on luck if left on their own but the thing about casino games is that theyre almost always rigged, two things that they have constantly dealt in and with the entire election arc... also clownpierce is there lol

casino aka gambling and monetary and seedy negotiations theme - the mapicc bet, the wemmbu bribes, the zam deals, theyre basically constantly gambling on whether or not their schemes work or if they even get to live another day

the connection between casinos and players - it's an alliance between the PlayersTM and wemmbu, casinos need players just as wemmbu needs the PlayersTM but players abide by the casinos rules just as the PlayersTM abide by wemmbus rule, players know that gambling in casinos has a massive risk of backfiring just as the PlayersTM know that aligning with wemmbu has a massive risk of getting backstabbed but they keep playing anyway cause if they play their cards right they know theyll get a massive reward

[adrastea-moon]

fabian’s main hobbies this season include: flirting with mirrors, jumping out of cars, and being run over

[arttsuka]

Ok let's do that tumblr trick or treat thing. You'll send me an ask, 'trick or treat' and I'll answer with, something.

[prick-up-ur-ears]

my Imogen dice came today, and in true Imogen fashion, the first roll was a natural 1

[mik-arts]

I didn't have "try to keep your friends from falling off a ladybug" on my 2023 d&d bingo card and yet here we are

[invinciblerodent]

I know it's probably because the poly options (and Halsin's entire romance in general) were added later, but it's still kind of weird to me how, even if you're actively romancing two people at the same time, the game only lets you do Zethino's test once.

Like, I get that it's probably so that players won't just abuse the system to get +/-6 approval from someone over and over again for 100 gold each, but it just comes off as slightly odd from a story standpoint that they can both be standing there, and you'll just... choose one of them over the other willy-nilly, without anyone saying anything.

Honestly, instead of tweaking Astarion's specific lines and expressions in act 1 for the 13th time (and yet keeping his grammar wonky in act 3?), they could have just made this dialogue repeatable, and made each additional attempt cost an absurd amount of gold or something.

(I did and recorded both, but went with Halsin's for my save- Shadowheart has been on 100 approval since like act 1, whereas for Halsin, this is what finally put him over 80 lol.)

[captainsparklefingers]

You cannot convince me that the ghost of Mollymauk Tealeaf wasn't nudging those dice rolls last night to end in as favorable an outcome as possible.

There was some external power seeing that there was an extremely high chance that one of Taliesin's characters was about to kill themselves (again), and looked at the situation, went 'not today, motherfucker, not again', and made sure that didn't happen.

Am I well aware that that's very silly to think and he just got very lucky with those dice rolls? Yes. And yet here we are. Somebody wasn't going to let that happen again.

Realistically, that somebody was Aabria (so everyone say thank you @quiddie ), but hey, maybe the fictional ghost of Molly did something too. Jesus.

[sparks-chaotic-cove]

Did Quixis just No-Dice Ven into the present. Is that what happened-