Accompany the Monkey
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From: Ambition: Your Monkey is ready to play Mr Pages
Success
A bitter bout
Description summary:
The trimmed description - more so than other trimmed descriptions - is a mere fraction of the story that is told. The Monkey bets everything on the first hand, has terrible cards (maybe a pair?), and loses. Mr Pages generously offers to accept the Monkey's Chance: one more round, all or nothing.
That said, the Monkey asked you to accompany it because it intends to wager you as its Chance. Pages accepts, over your objection. The Monkey's strategy is now clear: Pages started with far more coins, but in a single all-or-nothing round they are useless.
The Monkey reveals an Ascension (a seven-card straight flush) from three to nine. Pages desperately offers a Chance of its own, including a Firkin of Hesperidean Cider or a Vial of Masters' Blood, but it even refuses Pages' Chance. The cause of Pages' disdain for the Monkey becomes clear.
As it turns out, Pages had an Ascension of its own, but only from two to eight. So the Monkey wins.
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Return home to make your final preparations. (Sets 
Ambition: Heart's Desire! to 638 - Return home to make your final preparations)
Your opponent is your own monkey. (Sets 
Your Opponent to 4 - Your own Monkey)
