The Holder of Luck

In any city, in any country, in the shadiest part of town, seek out any casino that you can find. Ensure you have brought with you a heavy weapon of some sort. You will need it. Upon reaching the front desk, decline the offer of chips and instead ask to see "The Holder of Luck". The attendant will call for their manager, who should arrive promptly. Repeat your request. The manager will make their way outside of the employee area, beckoning you to follow. You will be led through the casino to an elevator. Even if the building is only one floor, it will always be an elevator. If you are led to stairs, an escalator, or any such similar apparatus, leave at once, for they seek to deceive you. Upon entering the elevator, the manager will push a button labeled "HR", and leave, wishing you "the luck of god". If they do not, close your eyes and wait for death to claim you. The journey may seem to take a few seconds. A few minutes. A few decades, centuries, eternities.

When the doors slide open, you will be greeted with an impossibly lavish casino. Gold leaf adorns the walls, brilliant chandeliers hang overhead. But not a single living soul can be seen within. There are only 247 slot machines, all inviting you to test your luck. You will find that you now hold 247 blue chips. Use these chips to play the slot machines. Sit at a machine, and play. Each spin only costs one chip. You may take any offered prize, save for the following wins:

• Triple cherries - straight across
• Triple sevens - diagonally
• Triple bar - diagonally
• Lemon, cherry, lemon
• Triple bell

If you roll any of the above results, make use of your weapon, and smash the machine to pieces. You will be tempted, but do not take any of the chips from damaged machines.

Upon spinning triple sevens straight across, a small compartment will open on the side of the machine. There, you will find a small, gold-trimmed four-leaf clover. Take it in your hand and place it gently in a safe spot on your person. You must take great care not to break the clover, for it is Object 627 of 2538.

A person will appear to you, wearing a clean suit. Their appearance is otherwise indistinct. They will congratulate you and claim that their manager wishes to do the same. This "manager" is the Holder of Luck. You must decline this offer, and leave at once. When you turn your back on the employee, do not look back for they are not - and never were - human. It is around this time you might start to notice the distinct aroma of rotting meat. Ignore it and make your way back to the elevator. Press the button for the ground floor, but take care not to look at the thing that once was the employee.

This Object will grant extraordinary luck to the one who holds it, but at a great cost to others. A building may collapse, leaving you the only survivor. A bullet may curve around you, only to hit a bystander in your stead.

And do not break the clover, lest you wish to dash all good luck from this world.