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>Dani: Keep trying

Third time's a charm. You materialize 10 more chips after a bit of waiting and slap them on the pass line.

The dealer slides you the dice.

You firmly grasp them in your hand. Were your calculations incorrect before? Is going for the best possible outcome perhaps too infeasible? Should you just find a method instead with an optimal amount of estimated value?
Your hand shakes. You can't do this. You can't do this. It's impossible--

The Dragon roars with flames bellowing out of his mouth. "Hoooooly shit. LOOK. Even if you DO carve that twig into a fuckin' rad vampire-hunting stake, that won't make it more valuable!"

Evi twirls the stick around. "Okay but what if weee carved it into a, uh, a basketball!"

The Dragon massages his temples. "That thing's not even shaped like a ball. At all."

Nobert chimes in. "How about a bunch of tiny wooden basketballs."
Evi's eyes light up. "Vampire-hunting wooden basketballs!"

The Dragon sighs.

You take a deep breath. The other two are trying their best. You can't afford to let their efforts go to waste.
You close your eyes to focus. The shaking in your hand lessens as you clear your mind. This is just a game, like any other. As an internet-reknown speedrunner, you just have to know how to break it.
Your eyes open as you wear nothing but intense concentration on your face. You inhale and hold your breath, readying Word of Power. Looking at the exact spot where the dice's apex will be, you throw them out.
The moment it reaches the very spot your have your sights on, time stops.

A prompts appears: [ Hack ]

Without a second thought, you focus on the prompt to activate it.
Upon doing so, everything turns black, leaving only you and the dice in sight.
0's and 1's surround you like a tornado, then a bunch of HUD panels appear before you showing line after line of letters and numbers, along with another panel that shows a timer counting down from 30 seconds.

You're taken aback by all this happening at once, but you can't afford to lose your concentration now. You inspect the panel with lines of code closely. You grin with the realization that it's just a bunch of hexidecimal, and crack your knuckles.

25 seconds left. All the hexidecimal looks meaningless to you; you don't have a point of reference to experiment with. At this rate, you won't be able to narrow down the address you need.

You stare blankly in front as you think about all your options.

15 seconds left. You come to a realization. The dice in front of you is spinning slowly in place. In other words, it's changing its value constantly. You stare holes through it as you note what numbers you can see, then compare it to the code. You can feel sweat running down the side of your face and your breathing getting more and more labored as you flip your vision between the dice and the code at breakneck speeds.

7 seconds left. You found the address you need and jab your finger on the panel immediately, forcing out a keyboard panel. You then erase it and replace it with 03 and 04--the 7 roll that you need.
You nearly let out a sigh of relief that you got it, but you see that the numbers are still changing. Shit.

3 seconds left. You managed to find the read-only flag.
2 seconds. You select it and start changing the values.
1 second. The flag's on and you get the dice back to what you wanted.

"Tremble before..." you wind up your finger like you're about to unleash a special attack, "my wizardry!"
You scream as you spear your finger right through the enter key.

The dice stop spinning.

0 seconds left. The panels disappear along with the tornado of 0's and 1's. Your surroundings then return to normal, and the dice fall into place.
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