Mammon Catch-All

[burningrescue]

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[burningrescue]

[Catch Galo hanging around the billiard room. It looks like he's trying to figure out how to play pool? But he hasn't realized the cues are involved yet, so he's just sort of bowling the balls across the table.]

[mammoney]

[Obviously he's going to be here because he likes a good game, but....]

[Galo. Galo, honey. What are you doing?]

Uh, dude? That's not how you play this.

[burningrescue]

Huh?

[He's literally dropping two balls into one of the pockets right now.]

How do you mean?

[mammoney]

You have to use the cue sticks to get the balls into the holes! See, they're hangin' over there!

[He points to over Galo's shoulder. Look! Cue sticks!]

Have you never played billiards before?

[burningrescue]

Nope!

[He grabs one of the cue sticks and does a complicated kind of baton twirl with it, checking it out.]

We used to have foosball in the breakroom, but it broke.

[mammoney]

Foosball is pretty good. But billiards...billiards requires STRATEGY.

[Which is a lot to say for two idiots with no brains.]

Hey, hey, this ain't flag tossing. Be careful with that! Here, let me show you how to play. Hand me that triangle thing hangin' on the table.

[burningrescue]

Oof. Strategy, huh?

[He doesn't seem like a strategy guy, does he? But handing Mammon the triangle anyway.]

I'm better at flag tossing than strategy.

[mammoney]

...Well, honestly, it's not rocket science. Its just a matter of knowing where the balls go. Like, I'm pretty sure you can figure it out.

[He's getting all of the balls into the triangle, leaving the cue ball out.]

Do you flag toss as part of puttin' out fires, or what?

[burningrescue]

I'm glad you asked!

[Mammon won't be glad he asked. Doing a toss again.]

I fight fires with my matoi! Or, well, the Captain says it's useless and doesn't belong in a fire situation, so now I use the matoi gear instead. But I still know how to wield one really well.