{"sf1_id":852495,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Casinos are Death Traps","author":"Niniju","words":1756,"posted_at":"2015-04-26T01:07:00.000Z","tags":["Bear","Diapers","Dragon","Fox","Human","Husky","Niniju","Panther","Snow Leopard","Tiger","Wolf","diaper","red fox"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/852495-casinos-are-death-traps","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/852495","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=852495\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"\n(Friz's Point of View)\n \n   \"Well, now that\nwe've got it covered why and who, we still need a how.\" I said. \"How are we\ngoing to all appear to be twenty-one or older?\"\n \n   \"I can help with\nthat, you know.\" Regir said.\n \n   I asked, \"Can't you\nonly regress people? I thought you weren't allowed to progress their age beyond\nhow old they really are.\"\n \n   \"The nightmare that\nTimler and I had forced some knowledge upon me,\" Regir explained, \"and I now\nhave abilities dealing with age I didn't have before. I can age someone until\nthey turn to dust if I so choose, I can change the age of plants, and so much\nmore.\"\n \n   \"Well, that's\nsomething should've known.\" I commented with a slight chuckle. \"What else?\"\n \n   \"I,\" Timler spoke\nup. \"Can create rifts in time and space now. I can literally link different\noutcomes together to create one fused outcome the branches off on its own.\"\n \n   \"Okay...\" I said.\n\"What?\"\n \n   \"I'll put it as\nsimply as I can.\" Timler explained, standing up. \"There are an infinite number\nof universes with an infinite number of conclusions. We're trying to change our\npresent, when in reality we're just asserting ourselves into a new set of presents\nwere those anthros were never sentenced to death. There's also a universe were\nwe fail, a universe where we all were never born, but, since we've all\nexperienced time travel, we are all orphans to the universe. We belong to all\nand none of the universes. Our decisions are law. To put it simply and to help\nyou grasp how much power we actually wield, if we prevent the present we're\nfrom, it ceases to exist in all forms. Any and all universes were we failed are\nwiped from existence. The logical reasoning to go with this is that, since\nwe're erasing our own universe, wouldn't we create a paradox? We'd erase\nourselves because we were never born, therefore we could've never achieved\nthese actions. The answer has been solved simply by us using the temporal\nmists. We no longer are affected by the disappearances of probabilities.\"\nTimler looked around. He had been walking back and forth, practically rambling,\nbut everyone seemed to have paid attention to the whole thing. I agreed that it\nkind of made sense, but suggested we not dwell on that philosophy.\n \n   \"I think I've had\nenough mental trauma to last a lifetime.\" I joked. \"Well, Regir. Let's get\ngoing with our plan. The sooner we start this, the sooner we can finish it.\"\n \n   \"You really don't\nlike this, do you?\" Gary asked.\n \n   I sighed. \"Not\nentirely, but if it means my stomach stops growling like a zombie, I'm all for\nit.\"\n \n   \"You just had to\nuse that simile, didn't you?\" Nick asked, looking unamused. I just smiled a\nfriendly smile.\n \n   A couple minutes and\na few age progressions later and the four of us that were going to the casino\nwere ready to do just that. I was still a little averse to being in public with\nmy diaper showing, but I decided not to let Ghastillo show me up on what it\nmeans to have confidence. \"So, where are we getting our initial amount,\nTimler?\" I asked the bear. \"If we're going to do this, I would rather we keep\nit as optimal as possible.\"\n \n   \"If we're going to\ndo this,\" Timler said, \"You will do exactly as I say when I say it.\" His voice\nhad gotten deeper than all of ours. We had all been accelerated to twenty-two,\nexcept for Gary, and I was a bit dismayed to realize my voice was probably\nnever going to change. Ghast's got slightly deeper, but not too much. Timler\nalso had gained a decent amount of muscle, making me jealous of my slender\nbuild. The women we passed on the street couldn't stop staring at us, but I\nsuspected that Timler was the main attraction. I could definitely see why the\ngirls would be all over him if he went to a club to pick up chicks. Not the\nanimal, mind you. Timler was glancing around rapidly, scanning the area with\nhis mechanical methods. He eventually sighed and said, \"That female. She's got\na crush on Gary.\" The female was a human. Judging by her height and figure, I\nguessed she must be in her early twenties. Couldn't be older than twenty-five\nby any stretch of the imagination. Gary flirted with her for about five seconds\nbefore he tried a sleazy move just to prevent using his charm speak. He said\nthat he was a walking kissing booth, and that it was two credits to kiss him.\nShe happily agreed, much to my annoyance and Ghast's childish disgust, and we\nhad the money we needed to go gambling.\n \n   \"Alright, Gary.\nLet's turn those two credits into a couple thousand.\" Timler suggested. \"The\nfourth slot on the front row will have a jackpot in approximately ten seconds,\ngive me a credit.\" He walked over to the machine and inserted the coin, waiting\na few seconds before pulling the stop lever. The slots all landed on red sevens,\nand a siren sounded and we got back one thousand percent of what we inserted.\nThoroughly satisfied with 101 credits, I would've been happy to go home, but we\nneeded to be able to feed eleven for a good few weeks so we didn't raise\nsuspicion by being here so often. Timler took the one hundred credits and\nsuggested we get an electrical banking card. The higher-paying machines needed\none to play. It took about an hour for Timler to sign up for a bank account at\nthe bank, under a false name, and we went back to the casino, which was next\ndoor to the bank, and continued to gamble. Rather, Timler gambled while Gary\nused his charm speak to effectively give amnesia to any suspicious people or\nanthros in the casino. Ghast and I stay at the bar in the front, chatting about\nhow interesting it was to be able to just sit around without worrying about\nbeing arrested for once. The bartender, unfortunately, overheard us.\n \n   \"Are you two\nrunnin' from the long arm of the law or somethin'?\" he asked. He was a husky\nwith normal coloring, and he was much more muscular than Ghast. He seemed to be\nthe serious type at first glance, but I was good at reading body language. His\nmuscles weren't tense except from cleaning the glass he held. I decided to use\nhumor to lower his suspicion.\n \n   \"We're actually\nrunning from an ex-girlfriend of mine. She'd been cheating on me with my friend\nhere. We pranked her, and she hasn't stopped trying to find us. We had moved to\nkeep her scrambling around our hometown to try to find us.\" I chuckled to add a\nlittle laughter to the air. The bartender didn't buy my story.\n \n   \"You both reekin'\nof inexperience with ladies, so stop lyin'.\" He scolded. \"I won't turn ya'll\nin, if tha's what yer worryin' 'bout.\"\n \n   \"It's actually more\nof a problem of how to explain if we chose to. We don't even know you well\nenough to trust you with secrets like ours.\" Ghastillo admitted. I turned\naround to go look for Timler, but the bartender stopped me.\n \n    \"Not so fast, young'n.\"\nHe warned. \"I might not tell the fuzz, but I will tell the management that a\nsixteen-year-old and an eleven-year-old are'n here, so ya better get talkin'.\"\n \n   \"I really need to\nfind my friend, though.\" I insisted. \"I need to make sure they aren't losing\nmoney.\"\n \n   \"It's a casino,\nthey'll lose money.\" The bartender said. I looked at him with a desperation\nthat he must've noticed from somewhere before, so he added, \"Look, if ya'll'll\ntell me what yer doin' in a casino, I'll letcha go.\"\n \n   \"I'll let my friend\nexplain.\" I promised. \"I really must go.\" I walked away as Ghastillo introduced\nhimself as William Nightshade. I thought it was risky using his real last name,\nbut to each their own. I walked around until I saw Timler and Gary getting\nexcited at a machine in the corner. \"How much have you won?\" I asked.\n \n   \"We just reached enough to last a couple\nmonths.\" Timler replied.\n \n   I sighed. \"Good,\ncuz we needed to scoot, like, yesterday.\" I said. \"There's a bartender can see\nGhast's and my real age, so it's risky.\"\n \n   \"Need me to charm 'em?\"\nGary asked. I shook my head.\n \n   \"We really need to\ngo.\" I growled with such an urgency that their excitement melted. I walked back\nto the counter and Ghastillo was stalling like I'd hoped he would. I told him\nwe were leaving, and bid the bartender farewell with a handshake, freezing the address\nfor our hotel room into his arm so he'd see it. He nodded at me in response and\nthe four of us that were currently twenty-two left and went back to the hotel.\n \n   Once out of the\ncasino, Gary started asking questions. \"What the hell, Friz? I was having fun!\"\n \n   \"You overextended,\"\nI hissed, \"and the employees were getting suspicious. I saw a man in a suit\nstaring at Ghast and me like we'd robbed a bank. Did you not see the ones\nstaring at you?\"\n \n   \"What suited men?\"\nTimler asked. \"I made sure we chose a strategy that didn't draw much attention.\"\n \n   \"You obviously didn't\naccount for the cameras that were everywhere!\"\nI snapped. \"We're going to have a visitor at the hotel, by the way. And Timler?\nNo more time travel for the day for you.\"\n \n   \"Since when can you\nsay when I can use my power?\" Timler inquired.\n \n   I stopped walking\nand approached him. \"Since you let your excitement get the best of you, and you\ngot us in a hell of a lot of shit!\" I yelled.\n \n   \"Friz, who's the\nvisitor?\" Ghast asked. I explained that it was the bartender. He was special,\nand I needed to know more about him. I needed him to be an ally so he wouldn't\nbe an enemy later on down the road. I needed his help...\n"}