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The panda stole one dumpling and became nine positions of panda.
He had been sitting peacefully beside the reels.
Round.
Armoured.
Holding a plate of dumplings.
Then a dumpling landed inside the 5×5 grid.
He collected it.
The panda jumped onto the reels.
3×3.
Nine squares.
One snack had increased local panda coverage by several hundred percent.
I was playing €0.80.
The bamboo courtyard had thirty-five paylines, coloured animal masks, little bamboo tiles and three Pandits watching from the side.
The panda wanted dumplings.
The red panda wanted rockets.
The raccoon wanted smoke bombs.
Only one member of the group had selected an object normally associated with an animal wanting something.
The other two had chosen explosives.
The session had been about €9.60 down when the wind arrived.
Leaves and petals crossed the screen.
Then Loot landed everywhere.
Dumpling.
Rocket.
Smoke Bomb.
More Loot.
The three Pandits activated together.
The panda went first.
3×3 Big Wild.
The grid lost nine positions to bear.
The red panda followed.
He was dressed in red, holding enough rockets to end several peaceful bamboo evenings.
He did not fire one at the panda.
He placed multiplication on the floor.
Position Multipliers appeared around the grid.
One x2 landed underneath the Big Wild.
The panda’s multiplier increased.
x3.
He did not get larger.
He was already nine positions large.
The dumpling had handled physical growth.
The rocket handled mathematical growth.
Bamboo Pandits had separated panda development into departments nature had never requested.
Then the raccoon acted.
Smoke Bomb.
Mystery symbols appeared across the positions the panda had not already occupied.
The reels respun.
For a moment half the courtyard had no species.
Pink mystery tiles.
3×3 panda.
Multiplication under the panda.
The bamboo had become a wildlife experiment conducted by thieves.
The reels stopped.
Every Mystery symbol revealed as the same thing.
Golden dragon masks.
Several.
Enough to stretch paylines across the enlarged panda.
The wins fired.
The Big Wild’s x3 joined.
Gold moved across the courtyard.
The panda occupied the centre like an extremely successful dumpling-based land acquisition.
Then another Smoke Bomb landed.
The raccoon collected it.
Another Respin.
More Mystery symbols spread in before the reels moved.
Some appeared beside positions already covered in mystery.
The raccoon had discovered that smoke was contagious.
The second reveal produced red masks.
Not as valuable.
Still enough for several lines through the panda.
The sequence kept counting.
Past €20.
Past €35.
Stopped at €48.80.
The original spin had begun with a breeze.
It ended with a 3×3 panda, rockets buried in the paving and a raccoon removing the identities of half the local wildlife.
The wind stopped.
The panda left the grid.
He returned to normal size at the side.
Same dumplings.
No visible indication that one of them had recently caused nine squares of bear.
I kept the stake at €0.80.
The courtyard behaved for a while.
Green masks.
Purple masks.
Bamboo.
One golden dragon line.
A Wild in the corner.
Small wins.
The earlier €48.80 gradually leaked away.
The panda continued holding dumplings.
I started checking every snack symbol before the paylines.
Dumpling meant possible panda expansion.
Rocket meant the red panda had found arithmetic ammunition.
Smoke Bomb meant the raccoon had acquired the right to temporarily erase zoology.
The session remained ahead, but the advantage came down.
Around €14.40 remained when the wind returned.
This time it brought lotus flowers.
Bonus symbols blew onto the grid.
There had already been one.
Four more arrived.
Five lotus Bonus symbols sat among the masks and bamboo.
The wind had solved horticulture by throwing flowers directly into the reels.
Bonus Game.
Five symbols gave me three intro spins.
The first landed on the dumpling section.
Wild Pandit.
Of course.
The panda had been selected for a feature larger than the base game.
Excellent place to send an animal whose main mechanic was becoming physically larger.
Second intro spin.
Three extra Bonus Spins.
Third.
Smoke Bomb.
Mystery Pandit.
The red panda remained outside.
The panda and raccoon went in.
Eight Bonus Spins.
The courtyard expanded from 5×5 to 6×6.
Forty-four paylines.
The architecture had gained another row and another column specifically to provide more places for the panda to occupy.
First Bonus Spin.
Dumpling.
The panda entered as a 2×2 Big Wild.
Four positions.
Restrained.
Almost tasteful.
Mystery symbols appeared elsewhere.
The reels stopped.
Green masks.
All the mysteries became green.
A couple of lines passed through the panda.
€4.80.
Next Bonus Spin.
The panda moved.
He was no longer 2×2.
4×4.
Sixteen positions of panda.
The dumpling intake remained unknown.
The result was visible.
The 6×6 courtyard now contained a panda large enough to make the bamboo feel decorative.
A line crossed through him.
Another.
€6.40 from the sequence.
The Mystery Pandit threw more smoke later.
Several symbols disappeared behind the same pink uncertainty.
They revealed as blue masks.
Small payment.
The raccoon had concealed half the grid so it could eventually reveal the least expensive animal in the area.
That was commitment to mystery over outcome.
Then three Bonus symbols landed.
The feature paused.
Another Pandit could arrive.
Rocket.
The red panda joined.
Now all three thieves were inside.
The panda had food.
The raccoon had smoke.
The red panda had explosives.
The courtyard had already been enlarged to 6×6.
There was nowhere sensible left for this situation to go.
Next active sequence, a Rocket landed.
Multiplier Pandit collected it.
Position Multipliers appeared.
One landed directly inside the Big Wild.
The panda’s multiplier increased.
Again.
He was now being improved by fireworks while occupying a large portion of an ancient courtyard.
A second multiplier appeared nearby.
Another position gained value.
The reels respun.
Mystery Pandit added smoke.
Pink tiles spread around the few remaining parts of the grid not currently covered by panda.
Then the Wild Pandit moved again.
5×5.
Twenty-five positions.
The Bonus grid had thirty-six spaces.
The panda took twenty-five.
Eleven positions remained available for the rest of the animal kingdom.
The game was called Bamboo Pandits.
At this point it was mostly Panda With Some Bamboo Around the Edges.
The Mystery symbols revealed.
Purple masks.
Several of the remaining positions matched.
Lines crossed the Big Wild.
The panda’s multiplier applied.
The Position Multiplier beneath part of him joined.
€12 moved into the Bonus total.
The red panda stood at the side with rockets.
The raccoon held another smoke bomb.
The panda occupied enough of the screen to qualify as scenery.
A final couple of spins followed.
One small Mystery reveal.
One ordinary mask line through the Big Wild.
Nothing surpassed the first base-game robbery.
The Bonus finished at €31.20.
Added to the €14.40 advantage still remaining when the lotus wind arrived, the session ended €45.60 ahead.
Then the courtyard began removing evidence.
The extra row disappeared.
The extra column followed.
6×6 returned to 5×5.
The 5×5 panda vanished with it.
Wild Pandit returned to the portrait beside the reels.
Normal-sized.
Armour still fitted.
Plate still balanced in his hands.
Dumplings still present.
The red panda still had rockets.
The raccoon still had smoke.
Three thieves had spent the session turning lunch into body mass, fireworks into multiplication and concealment into temporary species reassignment.
Only the panda had finished exactly where he started.
Holding dinner.
Inside Cash Legion is a tiny man laughing at me.