#rangian street poker

[secretlyhuntokar]

Penumbra podcast Junoverse headcanons

(under cut because there are a Lot) ((Also spoiler warning up to Thief's Honour pt 2))

- Juno leaves notes in his and Nureyev's room on the Carte Blanche if he gets up before him so Nureyev doesn't worry he left again

- One of the main reasons Nureyev is scared of aging is because he's already lived a full hallucinated life and doesn't want to waste any second of his real one

- Juno wears a trenchcoat because Rita was really into old Earth noir detective streams when they first met and she bought a trenchcoat for him. And it was the first gift someone had bought for him in years.

- Juno still wears that trenchcoat to this day

- Nureyev once bought/stole Juno a new trenchcoat and while Juno thought it was a really nice trenchcoat and a sweet gesture, he never wore it because its not the one Rita got him

- Nureyev likes to see how many of Vespa's knives he can steal before she notices and yells/threatens him for them back

- Vespa taught Buddy how to play Rangian Street Poker

- The Ruby Seven is green because wherever it's from, Ruby is their word for green

- Rangian Street Poker varies very slightly across Outer Rim planets, and even more so on the Solar planets

- New Kinshasa's version of Rangian Street Poker is the most similar to the Solar version out of all the Outer Rim Variations

- Nureyev and Rita make each other jewelry. Rita hands the jewelry she makes to Nureyev directly, while Nureyev sneaks what he makes under Rita's door at night, or leaves it on her seat for her to find in the morning

- Rita is from the Cerberus Province or someplace similar to it. Or she spent a lot of time sneaking out to the Martian sewers while growing up and befriended the Martian sewer rabbits

- Jet didn't know how to wash his hair properly and one time it got especially greasy after changing the Ruby's oil or something, so Rita showed him how to clean it properly. Since then they try to have a 'spa day' sort of thing once a week

- The Mechanisms are somewhere Out There in Junoverse

- Buddy Aurinko has met the Mechanisms, and Vespa has not. She is definitely not jealous about that. Nuh uh.

- Buddy is naturally taller than Nureyev but she does not know this because Nureyev is always wearing heels that make him appear an inch taller than her. No matter what shoes she herself chooses to wear that day.

- Nureyev kept the handcuffs from the Murderous Mask ep

- The entire Carte Blanche has matching friendship bracelets that they made together (suggested by Rita and organised by Buddy). The Ruby Seven's bracelet was made by Jet and is tied around its steering wheel. Nureyev also made it one later on, which he hid under one of the seats.

- Juno has 10 eyepatches he frequently wears and they are all identical.

- Juno and Slip would've loved each other if they had the chance to meet properly. Platonically or romantically it doesn't matter. Either way, they would pretend to be jealous of each other around Nureyev for a while, until one day Nureyev catches them watching a shitty stream together, making fun of the bad writing.

- Slip didn't want to be revived

- Slip was sometimes conscious enough to hear everything that happened around him

- Slip calls Nureyev "Petya" either because that's the Brahman pronunciation of it or because he misheard the first time they met and it stuck as a nickname

- If Petya is the Brahman pronunciation of Peter, then Mag was the one who changed his name to "Peter" so it "sounded more Solar"

- Buddy and Vespa dye their hair together

- One time they were real tired while dying their hair, and accidentally switched the colours around. For a few months Buddy had green hair and Vespa had red hair. Vespa has a photo of her and Buddy with swapped hair colours as her comms homescreen

- Juno used to think diamonds were beautiful, and now can't stand the sight of them

- Ben would teach Juno to dance (I think this one is canon? Juno's "I had a good teacher" line in Man in Glass makes me think so? And it might've been brought up in other episodes too)

- Juno couldn't bear to do any sort of dance for years after Ben died

- Juno tried to keep the dahlias and roses Nureyev got him for his birthday alive for as long as possible, but they probably wilted either during the THEIA stuff or soon after he left Hyperion city. They still sit in his office though, and he has a photo of them from before they wilted that he looks at sometimes

- Buddy sometimes does her makeup in a green that matches Vespa's hair. Vespa does the same, but in red

- Nureyev used to not have a favourite colour, but it became gold after Man in Glass

[reygunsandreynbows]

So heres a version of rangian street poker me and my friend came up with. its a slightly different version of @thiefwithoutaname 's version since we noticed it didnt account for the random compass directions

the game requires 4 shuffled standard decks of cards

cards are set up in a diamond with one player sat at east and one at west

cards can be ripped or put in a discard pile that never returns to the game

there should be 2 jokers (goats) in total in random piles

player 1 places a bet

player 2 places a counter bet

P1 accepts and they play or skips round (p1/p2 switch)

each player takes the top card of each deck moving clockwise from the deck furthest from them

this is their HAND (4 cards)

P2 chooses a direction

they play blackjack from that deck (P1 draws first)

(both players get a face up card and then a face down card

they choose to take another card or to fold

whichever player is closer to 21 wins

getting over 21 is going bust (a loss)

an Ace = 11 or 1 and a face card = 11)

LOSER- other player chooses where they discard HAND (either to a deck or the discard pile, loser chooses where in deck)

IF BOTH GO BUST- both discard and redraw hands (other chooses which, they choose where) and restart blackjack phase

WINNER- can choose to redraw HAND and restart blackjack phase OR move on to next phase

P1 names 2 directions as off limits

P2 chooses 1 from remaining 2 decks.

Draw the top card from that deck as a shared card

considering the shared card as part of both HANDs, each player establishes the value of their hand

the player with a higher value hand wins

the winner puts their card into the discard pile (inc shared card)

the loser pays their initial bet

CARD VALUES:

- Twin War Goats [the two goats are in your hand at all]

- Singular War Goat [one of the goats is in your hand; if you both have a goat compare the rest if your four cards]

- Royal Flush [A, K, Q, J, 10 all of the same suit, in a sequence]

- Straight Flush [five cards all of the same suit in a sequence]

- Quadruplets [Four of the same exact card]

- Four of a kind [all four cards the same rank]

- Flush [Five cards of the same suit, but not in a sequence]

- Straight [Five cards in a sequence, but not in the same suit]

- Triplets [three of the exact same card]

- Three of a kind [Three cards of the same rank]

- Twins [two of the exact same card]

- Two pair [two different pairs]

- Pair [two cards of the same rank]

- High card [if you have none of the above, your highest ranked card represents your hand]

the game continues with player 1 and player 2 alternating roles

once one of the 3 piles is empty the game ends

the piles do not need to be reshuffled between rounds

[bamfwizard]

rangian street poker but every player has to apply different card game rules

you have one person playing pokemon with tarot cards, someone is pulling out magic the gathering cards and shouting "UNO", and someone is dealing Game of Life cards like they're Monopoly properties

[scifikimmi]

Someone make me edit / beta readdddd i dont wannnna i already wrote the damn thing.

... anyone want to beta read a penumbra juno/nureyev fic?

Its like 5k words of a game of rangian street poker ... aka the game that we canonically dont know the rules to. Also u have to have listened to at least 4 seasons to even vaguely understand what going on

But it queer and gendervibes in space !!!

[this-witch-writes]

Whose Verdict Counts (A Penumbra Podcast Fic)

Peter Nureyev & Vespa Ilkay, Peter Nureyev/Juno Steel (background)

POV Vespa Ilkay, No spoilers for Season 4, takes place at the end of season 3.

The night after the successful heist for the Curemother Prime, Buddy is recovering in the medical ward and Vespa can't sleep. A visit to Jet to discuss the way history looms gets interrupted by an unexpected way to learn more about her most distrusted crew-mate and very illuminating game of Rangian Street Poker

Read on AO3.

[note: this is an old fic that has bizarrely remained canon complaint a whole season later and probably more relevant than I realized]

[flintmirandas]

i’m not really one for theorising, but after this episode it really does seem like nureyev’s debt is in some way related to the pharmacorps or medicine/disease (given his extreme reaction upon learning about the aurinko’s plan in man in glass), i’m also gonna guess that slip dies because of the pill/sudden absence of water which absolutely haunts nureyev from then on

[ananxiousgenz]

okay okay okay wait i have just experienced A Thought

so it's been established that the title of the most recent juno steel eps comes from the coal miner song "sixteen tons", most notably covered by tennessee ernie ford. you can find it on youtube or spotify, but it's about the backbreaking labor and dangerous conditions these miners would go through for very little pay, and because of this, the most obvious reading is that this song title was chosen to be about nureyev working to keep slip alive for years only to discover that the dokana group was screwing him over.

but. what if the song title wasn't just in relation to nureyev but to slip as well?

stick with me for a minute here, because i've got some interesting thoughts about this.

the lyrics of the first verse focus on how the people in power think that the men working beneath them are just soulless lumps of dirt when in reality they are people made of "muscle and blood and skin and bones" who are purposefully under-educated ("a mind that's a-weak") so they can only do manual labor for a living ("and a back that's strong"). slip's intention with his drug formula was to give people an escape from reality. he wanted to help those people who could do nothing but work and wanted to flip off the pharma corps by making it easily affordable and non-addictive. the first verse is basically a summary of the motives that drove him to that game of rangian street poker with the executives that brought him where he is now.

the chorus is even more interesting.

yeah, you really could interpret this in relation to peter's quest for slip's resurrection, but it could also get connected to slip's dedication to creating this drug. peter flat out told us that slip put A LOT of work and testing into it and it wasn't just something that happened overnight. however, what specifically stands out to me here is the last two lines and the reference to st. peter. in sixteen tons part 2, slip basically gives peter permission to let him go (see this post from @smidgen-of-hotboy). if we're reading this from slip's pov, the song is just reiterating that message: peter can let slip go. he knew the risks he was taking by tangling with the executives and stealing from them so his soul is really the one that is owed "to the company store", which is why slip wouldn't want peter to "call him" (resurrect him) because he made the decisions and mistakes so he would want to be the one paying for them. every day that peter leaves him alive is just another day slip is getting older and not better. every day peter leaves slip alive is another day his debt is growing larger. for the sake of his own wellbeing, peter HAS to let slip go.

the rest of the verses are basically a summary of nureyev's story thus far (verse two being his new story being born as he starts working for the dokana group, verse three being his interactions with juno and leaving him at the end of season 4, and verse 4 being the absolute ass-kicking he's about to hand the dokana group) but with the chorus that is just chock-full of slip's voice getting repeated between those verses, it just almost feels like slip is begging to be let go but peter, being peter, won't listen. it's very interesting stuff.

[nureyevs-worst-alias]

Guy who has only played Rangian Street Poker, playing regular Poker: Getting a lot of 'bet your real name' vibes from this lmao

[waters-and-the-wilde]

okay yeah Train From Nowhere hits different now, i put on the Rangian Street Poker scenes for my dnd group bc i thought they’d get a kick out of it and like. they’re hearing it for the first time and I’m havign a Normal One bc I haven’t relistened since S4 has been coming out and holy shit the layers

I’ve always loved the duke rose to nureyev transformation after ‘i take it the game has changed’ but now hearing it back to back with next page it felt like i was hearing a lot more of that softer lighter ‘Petya pretending not to be scared’ voice peeking through the nonchalant mature Nureyev one and I don’t know if that’s something noah’s voice was actually doing or if I’m just superimposing bc of the new context?

but also previous impressions of time-out in the bathroom were like ‘nureyev genuinely and understandably frustrated over juno being a little shit and jeopardizing them both’ and now there’s also this distinctly frantic edge of ‘if i stop moving i’ll die’ in ‘glAd you’ve caught up canwegobacknow??!’ this man is reliving the catalyst for some of his worst horrors and he’s having to reassure somebody else that it’s going to work out fine bc keeping it together is the only way to make sure it does actually work out

and then like. it sort of doesn't? like sweet boy how did you even manage to get to sleep that night?? you didn’t have to lie about your name this time but juno nearly died anyway. are you also haunted by the fact that he never would have won the game or gotten that assassin in the hotel room without the mind reading powers? or was it nice bc regardless of how he did it you actually made the right call in trusting him?

[cowboy--radio]

Man if I knew the rules of Rangian Street Poker there would be no other way to communicate with me

[unmechanism]

ok, so again, to recap what we know :

He's in debt. Those people know who he is and that could end him. This has something to do with Slip Jackson directly or the people they met together. It definitely has something to do with the no chemical dependence psycho effective drug thing. Which is maybe what we can see on the poster? He owes Slip his life, but ALSO. He owes him for saving his ass in the Rangian Street Poker game, by lying. Which could definitely be a problem for both of em later on too. Nureyev sure doesn't seem like he's mad or disappointed in Slip at all in his journal so he's probably not his deptor. But, he could be the reason Peter's in debt. "The worst has yet to come" it could be something unrelated to what Nureyev has told us about Slip selling his formulas but that would make no sense at all. So the heart of the mystery is definitely there. I'm so excited to understand how.

[orangetubor]

Oh my fucking god. Rangian street poker. Neureyev being slips good luck charm

This is just like train from nowhere

[bamfwizard]

peter nureyev (me playing cards with my classmates) winning a game of rangian street poker (blackjack) in order to hijack a train (pass time after we finished a quiz)

[sofaeatspaint]

rangian street poker? i barely even know her!

[batuuan-artist]

[id a tweet edited to read

“Juno Steel @/privateoneeye

Miasma: got some straight gas 🔥😛strain is called "the lassonionic capsule" 😳you’ll bezonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don't feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw Brock Engstrom cheating at rangian street poker

My buddy 16 years old Peter Nureyev pacing: Mag is lying to me

/end id]

is this anything

[chainlxnk]

aww Juno is having such a time with this journal

It sounds like they're in a restaurant? are they in the lighthouse??

Juno and Vespa's twin "WHAT" when Buddy offered to let Juno and Rita stay was so great

and the immediately following "NO" from them both was even better!

Vespa still adjusting to the idea of not having to deal with radiation sickness!! Her and Buddy really are gonna get their happily ever after <33

Slip failing to reassure Peter by telling him that no matter where they went the rangian street poker associates could still track them down easily !!!

ohh smths gonna go wrong aint it

Peter telling Juno that that night with Slip was so perfect it was unmatched up until the evening that Juno arrested him is so cuteee

WAIT THE WORKERS IN THE EARTH FOOD RESTUARNT HAVE TO LEARN ALL THE EARTH LAUNGAUSES??? ALL OF THEM???????

uh ohh

there it is.

oh nooo Jet's leaving :(

hes going after dark matters????

HE'S GONNA NAME THE RESISTANCE THE AURINKOS I'M GONNA SOB

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?????????? DRAPER??????

I am VERY concered.

ALL OF THEM HELPCO😭😭😭

AURINKO DOMINATION 😞 jet they could never make me hate u

im still not over them literally making bro relapse like oh my god give him a break