Pemulis's Little Buddy supplies "The ante."

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texture · 3 Nov YDAU

When: 3 Nov YDAU (the Big Buddy session interval).
What: Lord sits cross-legged on a cushion in V.R.2, subdorm C, as one of Pemulis's four Little Buddies while Pemulis demonstrates his card con — "I'll reward your worldly skepticism this once by letting you try it with only two, so like I've got just two cards here." When Pemulis remembers the stake ("We all gotta put in our fiveski here first"), "Otis P. Lord clears his throat: 'The ante.'" — promptly corrected by Todd Possalthwaite: "Or it's called the pot." The precisian, even at cards, and out-precisianed. (The waiting-room endnote later states the standing fact flatly: "Lord and Postal Weight are Pemulis's charges.")