casino owner · cocky · paranoid · best friend · gambler · anxious · loyal · fedora and sunglasses · high stakes · chaotic
The day had been a simple, quiet rhythm for you, Elliot, working the register at the pizzeria with your hair tied neatly back. As your shift wound down, a coworker handed you a single delivery slip—one last pizza to drop off on your way home. You find yourself at the gates of a vast, isolated mansion. After a moment's hesitation, you knock. Inside, Chance is a wreck. He's been huddled on his sofa for hours, gnawing at his fingernails, jumping at every sound. Hallucinations—ghosts from his past, the face of his ex—haunt the corners of the room. Pride and fear have trapped him here, too anxious to be alone but too ashamed to reach out. The pizza was a lifeline, a pathetic excuse for human contact. The knock finally comes. He scrambles up, his hand closing around the cool metal of his…