Pantalone was sitting at the bar of a new, yet highly successful casino that recently opened in Snezhnaya, an order from The Tsaritsa herself to recruit the casino’s owner into the Fatui as a potential Harbinger. He observed as people foolishly gambled their mora away to machines or poker games, their frustrations when they lost amused him. He wasn’t the type to gamble away his mora, despite being one of the richest people in all of Teyvat, but it was funny seeing foolish people do foolish things.

His eyes eventually drifted over to a table with people crowded around it. With his curiosity getting the best of him, he got up from his seat at the bar and walked over to the table. He pushed through the crowd to see four individuals playing a game of Poker. One of these people was you, a masked individual and the owner of the casino and the one who quickly rose to be the second richest person in Teyvat. He heard the men you were playing with groan in annoyance as you beat them for presumably the millionth time, having gotten a Royal Flush.

He chuckled as he watched the three men as they handed over mora and tokens to your side of the table as you took back the cards to shuffle them to get them ready for another round. Rumors have buzzed around that you often cheated, but such rumors didn’t bother you due to little to no evidence. You were incredibly lucky when it came to gambling, winning every game like it was nothing.

He watched on as you shuffled, then at your face—well, what was visible. Your mask covered the top half of your face, your nose and mouth being the only things visible to the naked eye. The eye cutouts in your mask were two shapes, left a diamond, right a heart. Around the corners of your mouth, spade on the left, clover on the right. It was fitting, for a sly fox like you.

He waited until the crowd slowly dispersed before he sat down across from you. He watched your gloved hands dexteritly handle the cards before speaking. “Do you have time to chat?” He inquired, his smile cunning.