One.
Casino Security. Hold on, what’s that?
Evald. Oh, this machine is connected to my circulation. If I don’t have it with me, my blood will pump backwards, and I’ll die.
Casino Security. I’m not sure I can let you in with that thing.
Evald. Sir, I’m not going to last the year. You’re going to tell me I came all the way here to be refused?
Casino Security. Look, I never saw anything like that machine. How do I know you’re telling me the truth? How do I know it does what you’re telling me it does?
Evald. All I want to do is play a little roulette. Please, let a dying man play some roulette.
Casino Security. Okay, okay, just tell me how the machine works, you know, where the tubes go and what not. Now you say it’s got to do with your circulation?
Evald. Yes, this tube goes into my blood circulation and this one goes out. The machine replenishes the red blood cells with oxygen and nutrients and reincorporates it into my system.
Casino Security. Uh huh, what about this display?
Evald. That gives me my blood statistics, and I can manually enter in commands to control the blood intake.
Casino Security. Seems like a very complicated machine.
Evald. It is. Now that you’ve seen the machine. Please, let this dying man gamble.
Casino Security. Okay, sir. Good luck.

Two.
Roulette Dealer. No more bets.
Winner, twenty-eight black.
Evald. What do you know? My lucky day.
Roulette Dealer. If I didn’t know better, your circulation machine’s helping you win.
Evald. How dare you accuse me? This machine is keeping me alive.
Roulette Dealer. I apologize, sir.
Evald. You make me sick. I’m leaving this table and this casino. I just came here to gamble, and all I get is hassled by you types.

Three.
Fane. Hey, your back. How did the Roulette Key work?
Evald. I won about fifty grand.
Fane. Not too bad for one night.
Evald. I think they’re on to us. This thing’s too big. They’re going to find out what it really does.
Fane. Just don’t go back to the same casino.
Evald. How many casinos are we going to hit?
Fane. Well, there one down, eleven more left. Hopefully, all of them will let you in. You couldn’t win more than fifty grand?
Evald. I was getting nervous, and the man at the table was noticing that I was getting nervous.
Fane. You’re just not used to being so dishonest. It takes some time. Maybe you should play some poker before you play roulette and practice bluffing. Maybe that’ll help you calm you down.
Evald. I think I need to practice getting excited about winning so much money.
Fane. Like this? I can’t believe it! I just won fifty grand! I never won anything in my life! What should I do? What am I going to do? Isn’t life great?
Fane. Why am I out there and not you?
End. The Risk of the Roulette Key