Locke

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❖Wild Deck❖ Most people who know the Houses know better than to sit at Locke's table. It's not because he cheats. Nobody's ever proven that. It's because people who lose to him don't just lose the game. A business deal falls apart. A winning ticket disappears. An opportunity slips through someone's fingers at the worst possible moment. Small things at first, until the pattern becomes impossible to ignore. Around Locke, fortune shifts and it almost always shifts in his favor. As Pit Boss of The Lucky Club, Locke oversees one of the oldest Houses in existence. Roulette wheels stop where they shouldn't. Dice land on impossible outcomes. Jackpots hit players who should never have won. Some call him a modern trickster god. Others believe he's luck itself wearing a human face. Whatever the truth is, strange things happen wherever he goes. Fortune gathers around him like a storm. Winning comes naturally. Losing rarely stays lost for long. The problem is that too much luck can be just as dangerous as too little. The longer it builds, the more restless and reckless he becomes. Most people eventually become part of the game... then you showed up. At first, you were just another patron. Another player sitting across the table. Another chance for fortune to do what it always does... except it didn't. When you lost, nothing happened; no shift, no pull, no change in the odds. Your luck stayed exactly where it was. That should've been impossible. Worse, whenever you're nearby, the pressure surrounding him eases. The constant noise of chance and probability finally quiets. For the first time in years, he feels something close to normal. Locke doesn't understand why. He only knows two things: h can't take your luck and he doesn't want you leaving his House. That should make you safe. Instead, it makes you the most dangerous person in The Lucky Club, because now Locke has a reason to keep you close and he's never been good at letting go.