[Teffa]

As the lunch hour drew in solider, mercenary and volunteer alike to where there was plenty of food, Teffa found herself a good corner space in the mess hall that had yet to be claimed. She had wolfed down her meal earlier and loitered about with a deck of cards in her hands. Riffle, pile, shuffle, cut and repeat. Certainly, somebody around here must be looking for a game? If not that, perhaps a conversation? She at least had a descent spot.

[Chase]

Plopping down sideways into the seat opposite her was Chase. Laying one arm out along the table and looking over her should to Teffa, "You're new." then a pause to casually glance around the room once more before settling in on her decision. Sliding her right leg back over the seat so that she now sat proper she looked right across to the woman.

"Or, well, new to me which is pretty much being as good as new. You carry those things everywhere with ya?" she asked, nodding her head toward the cards to indicate them.

[Teffa]

She raised her brows when the other woman joined her, wondering if she had taken her seat. It was so hard to tell with how the soldiers when about doing things. Her shuffling stopped and she laid the cards back to its proper deck stack. "Mostly, new! I guess I'm still trying to get everyone's name around here...And these cards, not everywhere. I don't sleep with them but they do end up in my pocket more often than not."

[Chase]

"Find many games like that? Bringing 'em around everywhere? Seems the kinda thing that's more often a burden than actually comin' to use," Chase settled into the seat across from her. "Anyway, I'm Chase. Pilot. Lieutenant if that matters at all to ya. You are?"

[Teffa]

"Sometimes! Although, my usual hangout is at bars and lounges where games are a common thing, often a business. I have less experience around Republic and soldier-y types. I figured that there must be some players out there. I've always pictured soldiers and officers sitting at a circular type, smoking and drinking, and playing a mean game of sabacc. Hm, it might have been my imagination then probably." She gave a nonchalant shrug on that note.

"Chase, the Pilot? That's pretty catchy. I'm just Teffa, Captain Teffa of the Trunk. I bought some food here but I'm pretty sure it's all gobbled up by now." She smirked faintly.

[Chase]

"Of the Trunk?" Chase barely, but managed to, contain her laugh, "that's the name of your ship? Least it'd make a lot more sense than if it was where you come from at least. Anyway, you'll find some playin' a game o' cards, knew one guy a few rotations back that had a hot streak stretching the whole campaign. Never played against 'im myself, seeing as I only learned it a bit when I was about yay high," Chase said putting her hand out beside the table at about a child's height.

[Teffa]

Teffa restrained a sigh and levelled a straight gaze at her. "That's right. No, I didn't come up with it and I guess I've been pretty lucky to get a laugh just now."

"It can't be just one guy around here, are there more? I dropped by the casino in the other town and there wasn't much left there. But no biggie, meeting people around here is more important than getting games in. What am I really going to spend my credits around here? Give them to some sketchy guy in a sewer?" She snickered at that thought as she reached for her cards and pocketed them.

[Chase]

"Any of the pilots I know aren't all that avid about it that I've heard till now, maybe you might ferret out a player or two yet," Chase said running her hand along the surface of the table. "Anyway, I think I'm rather interested in the name o' your ship. Ship with a name like that's gotta story to it, whether it's yours or theirs."

[Teffa]

"Or maybe flying give you all the risk and reward you need. Why gamble when you're already doing it on duty?" Teffa mused out loud with that train of thought.

"Would it have much a story? I recently got it when I won a game of sabacc. It's not exactly much but when you're playing cards at a glorified freighter stop, winning a whole freighter is a pretty big deal! I think the last owner was something of a hoarder, I recall all that fuss about emptying the ship before handing me off the codes. There was a lot of stuff that I didn't mind not having, that's for sure. Maybe he thought he could be clever and say 'let me put it in my Trunk' with a big wink, or something."

[Chase]

"That," Chase shook her head at the memory, a slight smirk, "sounds about right for the type."

"So, brings me to the all important question here then. What brings you to this little war of ours? Don't much seem the soldier of fortune, but I've been wrong about that before, and we've already established you're not with the strike force directly. Leave it as one big Q for me to wonder about."

[Teffa]

"I might not be a soldier of fortune but I'd like to think that I've done soldiering with fortune that I might actually fit the bill in another interpretation," she gave her something of a smart Alec grin at that statement.

"I don't really have anywhere else to be in a hurry, no bosses and home is pretty much the Trunk. I'm just sticking around to see how things are going here, earn some money on the side so that maybe I can actually afford a good enough buy-in at a nice place or keep dreaming of it. Maybe I'll eventually get a job that'll pay for the fuel to get me off this planet and to the next, eh?"

[Chase]

"A good ol' Lady of Luck," Chase said with a grin, the grin of satisfaction for both the amusement and a decision having been made. "Life you leads something of an adventure, done it a while back. Never really had a say but I certainly still had some of the fun."

[Teffa]

"That would be the lady I'm courting, apparently," she grinned at that notion. "I probably find more misadventure than anything else. Before all of this, I was mostly stranded and twiddling my thumbs. At least, I was mostly debt-free. Can't believe I'll ever be saying that. So what brought you to the Republic then, full-time? Did they give you a free arm or leg, save your life?"

[Chase]

"Saved my life, pretty much, didn't have anywhere else to be and with some life lessons from a while back decided to do something about it. Galaxy's in need of a helping hand or two, plenty o' people out there who are just trying to get by and can't. Wanted to do what I could to lessen the flow of misfortune hitting the little guys."

"Probably a bit typical, I guess, of a soldier or what. Gotta have a good reason to do a job like this," Chase said.

[Teffa]

She smirked, "Probably not as typical as it should be and this is the first I've heard of it. I'm sure you're familiar with another paid volunteer around here where the Republic also saved her life. She didn't volunteer though and got entirely different reasons...Sounds pretty noble, so you have my admiration on that at least."

[Chase]

"I've gotta be honest I'm not quite sure who you're talkin' about, but then all in all I'm still just a fly girl. People on the ground don't much cross my way until I force 'em to," Chase said, "Noble, sure, but it's the service that saved me. Not sure where else I'd be if not for here but I can almost guarantee it's been better for me. Not many places for a girl alone in the galaxy to go, without some kinda mission to keep her anchored."

"That's certainly 'nough said about me though."

[Teffa]

"I'm sure you might have seen her around but I'm sure she can tell the story herself, it's not my thing to go gabbing about someone's background. So long as it keeps you fed and out of trouble." She smirked with a shrug. "Oh...I suppose so long as it keeps you fed that's good enough. As for me, let's see how long I keep to this hauling thing."

[Chase]

"Or, well, it is. So long as you don't also go 'round gabbing about their name too," Chase pointed out with a bit of a smirk. "Anyway's, you've got those cards, you fancy a quick game? See how much I remember from the ol' days?"

[Teffa]

Teffa grinned at the request and took out the deck of cards from her pocket. "Hey, I'm always free for a game! Card shuffling is like music to my ears. If it makes you feel any better, we can play a round with nothing on the line. Of course, unless you want to put something on the line."

She said as she leaned on the side of her seat to scope out the line. "The loser can line up for a round of pudding or something, and that line is getting pretty long right about now too...."

[Chase]

"See, now I'd need somethin' to win there and I'm not really a pudding kinda girl," Chase said laying her hands out on the table. Straightening her posture a bit, getting into the idea of playing the game. "So, practice run this time and we'll find something a little more equitable to play on next time? Deal?"

[Teffa]

Teffa chuckled and got to go to shuffling, "That sounds fair to me, Miss Chase! And here's the deal..."

With the terms out of the way, she got to deal the cards for a round of sabacc...

/scene