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The palace had finally seated everybody.
Purple coin pots filled the first reel from roof to floor.
The third reel matched it exactly.
Three pots on the left.
Three pots on the right.
The centre reel rose one position higher between them, carrying two more pots and two versions of the ox.
Both Wild oxes wore the same sunglasses.
Both had the same red jacket.
Both smiled with the confidence of a host who had solved a seating crisis by attending his own dinner twice.
Ten occupied positions.
One symbol family.
No empty chair.
The green roof began glowing.
Gold poured through the courtyard.
The x10 seal descended over the reels with enough ceremony to suggest the palace had been waiting several dynasties for the tables to match.
One ox raised the ingot.
The other opened both arms.
The coin pots flashed across every line.
Beneath the centre reel, the spare chair remained empty.
The palace had finally filled every position and still kept furniture in reserve.
That chair had been waiting there since the opening screen.
Fortune Ox stood beneath the green tiles as red confetti crossed the courtyard around him.
Sunglasses under a roof.
A red jacket over a white shirt marked with a golden ox.
A ring through his nose.
One gold ingot balanced in his left hand.
His right palm faced upward in the universal gesture for welcome, admiration or please place all expensive objects here.
Behind him, a round golden gate framed his shoulders.
The palace walls shone red.
The roof tiles were green.
Coins floated through the air without any visible source.
Fortune Ox smiled as though he had already congratulated himself before the game began.
The first and third reels had three positions each.
The centre reel had four.
Someone had built the middle table one chair taller than both wings and placed an extra seat directly beneath it, apparently in case the architecture wanted to become even more ambitious.
The ox nodded toward the empty chair.
It was the kind of nod given by somebody who had not carried anything.
I played at €1.00.
The banquet began with oranges.
They arrived on white plates, leaves still attached, bright enough to suggest the kitchen had polished the fruit.
Red envelopes followed.
Blue ornaments crossed the lower routes.
Money pouches entered tied with gold cords and stood upright despite being round enough to roll directly into trouble.
Purple pots overflowed with coins.
Golden ingots settled inside larger bowls, each shaped like concentrated prosperity and far too heavy for the ox to be holding so casually.
Ten paylines moved through the three tables.
The outer reels stayed short and balanced.
The centre rose above them with its fourth position, a private balcony where the wrong symbol repeatedly arrived to observe everyone else eating.
Three oranges could meet across the lower route.
The centre balcony received a money pouch.
Red envelopes gathered through the middle.
A blue ornament sat above them like a guest who had climbed onto the roof to avoid conversation.
Coin pots appeared on both sides and waited for one more in the centre.
The fourth position received fruit.
Every banquet was one seating decision away from becoming useful.
Fortune Ox watched from above.
The sunglasses hid any awareness of responsibility.
His Wild appeared inside the reels whenever the courtyard needed a replacement guest.
Between oranges, he became part of the fruit course.
Among red envelopes, he joined the gift table.
When purple coin pots reached him, the ox became money without changing expression.
He could turn into an orange, an envelope, a pouch, an ornament or a heap of coins.
The jacket remained red.
The sunglasses remained black.
The palace accepted the disguise.
One small line of coin pots crossed through him and paid enough for the ox to lift the ingot slightly.
Another arrangement of envelopes used the Wild and returned a few euros.
The host celebrated every modest line as though the banquet had produced a new province.
Confetti fell.
Coins spun.
He opened his arms.
The spare chair remained empty below the centre reel.
The opening never collapsed into disaster.
It became dinner.
Slow.
Decorative.
More expensive than the portions justified.
Symbols circulated through the palace in broad courses.
The oranges arrived too early.
Money pouches reached the wrong table.
Ingots appeared in pairs, each sitting several positions away from the other and refusing to acknowledge the distance.
Purple coin pots repeatedly occupied both wings while the centre table served blue ornaments.
The outer reels often looked ready.
The fourth centre position kept adding one more opportunity to be wrong.
Fortune Ox had built a palace where every feast required an additional guest and then dressed himself as the solution.
The balance drifted behind.
The host remained delighted.
He held the ingot like proof that money existed somewhere nearby.
Then he struck it against the banquet table.
The sound travelled through the green roof.
Coins stopped in mid-air.
The red confetti hung above the courtyard.
Fortune Ox lowered his sunglasses with one hoof.
For the first time, his eyes appeared.
He looked at the left table.
Then the right.
The two wings of the palace changed.
Whatever appeared on the first reel also appeared on the third.
Matching symbols.
Matching positions.
Identical arrangements at opposite sides of the courtyard.
Fortune Ox had decided that dinner would continue only after both wings dressed alike.
The first mirrored banquet arrived wearing red envelopes.
An envelope at the top left appeared again at the top right.
Another occupied the bottom on both sides.
The centre reel responded with oranges, ingots, blue ornaments and one money pouch spread across four positions.
Nobody met.
The tables remained silent.
The entire palace respun.
The outer reels returned as identical collections of golden ingots and money pouches.
The left wing displayed wealth.
The right wing copied every piece.
The centre table served oranges.
Fortune Ox looked toward the kitchen.
The kitchen had already disappeared behind the feature.
The palace spun again.
There was no escape clause for bad hospitality.
The reels would continue until a win formed.
The courtyard became one long mirrored banquet rehearsal.
Both wings repeatedly entered in matching outfits.
When the left reel wore blue ornaments, the right reel wore the same blue ornaments in the same positions.
When money pouches occupied the upper and lower seats on one side, their twins appeared across the palace.
The centre reel remained independent and four positions tall.
It received every object except the one both wings had agreed upon.
Two identical orange tables faced one another while the centre served coin pots.
Matching red envelopes waited across the courtyard while blue ornaments occupied the bridge.
Ingots sat on both wings, heavy and solemn, as the middle table filled with fruit.
Fortune Ox refused to end the meal.
He paced above the reels holding the gold ingot.
Every failed seating plan sent the palace back into motion.
Green tiles shook.
Red pillars flashed.
Coins flew from one wing to the other and returned because even the loose currency had been ordered to match.
The empty chair below the centre reel shifted beneath the light whenever the palace respun.
Sometimes it appeared aligned with the top position.
Sometimes with the bottom.
Sometimes directly under the ox.
No guest ever used it.
The host had created compulsory symmetry at both ends of the palace and left chaos in the middle.
He called it good luck.
The mirrored wings looked increasingly tired.
The left and right money pouches sagged in identical positions.
The oranges appeared in matching pairs with the same leaves pointing outward, as though the fruit had been given choreography.
Two sets of blue ornaments faced each other across the centre reel and waited for anybody there to recognise the colour.
Fortune Ox tapped the ingot against his palm.
The palace respun again.
Purple coin pots arrived.
Three filled the first reel.
Three identical pots filled the third.
Both wings now contained nothing except money.
Coins overflowed from every purple rim.
Gold light gathered around the tables.
The centre reel spun between them with four empty positions.
Fortune Ox leaned forward.
The first centre position received a coin pot.
The second received another.
The outer wings flashed.
Two centre positions remained.
The palace slowed.
One Wild ox entered.
Same red jacket.
Same sunglasses.
Same grin.
He occupied the third position and immediately became a purple coin pot for every winning route that crossed him.
One place remained.
The original Fortune Ox was still standing above the reels.
He looked down at the empty centre position.
Then at the duplicate already seated below.
Then at the gold ingot in his hand.
The palace had reached the point where wealth required him to become furniture.
He jumped.
A second Wild ox landed in the final centre position.
The host now existed twice inside his own banquet while also remaining above it long enough to applaud the arrangement.
Three coin pots on the left.
Three on the right.
Two real pots in the centre.
Two oxes willing to be recognised as pots for the evening.
Every position belonged to the same winning symbol.
The full palace lit.
All ten paylines crossed purple wealth.
The x10 seal opened.
The courtyard disappeared beneath gold.
Coins burst from the pots.
The red pillars shone.
The green roof became a bright ceremonial horizon.
Both Wild oxes threw their arms wide and turned every route through the palace into another coin-pot line.
The x10 struck the total.
Fortune Ox paid 500x.
At €1.00 per round, €500.00 rolled through the courtyard.
The balance leapt hundreds ahead.
The feature had not found a polite win.
It had forced both palace wings to become identical treasuries, duplicated the host, occupied every position and multiplied the entire feast because nothing solid remained outside the celebration.
Purple coin pots shook under the weight of their own importance.
The oxes danced among them.
One still held the ingot.
The other had somehow acquired another identical ingot, which raised questions the palace had no intention of answering.
Confetti returned.
Gold coins struck the courtyard.
The spare chair disappeared beneath the pile.
The two Wild oxes began folding back into one.
First the sunglasses merged.
Then the jackets.
The duplicated ingots touched and became a single piece of gold.
The two grins compressed into one much wider grin.
Fortune Ox rose above the reels again, now carrying the full confidence of somebody who had attended every table personally and charged the palace for the duplication.
The coin pots cleared.
The ordinary banquet returned.
Oranges rolled back onto the plates.
Red envelopes resumed their routes.
Blue ornaments reappeared.
The feature had finished.
There was no reason to ask the host for another feast after he had already multiplied dinner by ten and paid €500.00.
I gave it one final round.
A money pouch landed on the left.
An orange appeared in the centre.
Another money pouch reached the right but sat on the wrong path.
No line formed.
Fortune Ox remained above the reels, smiling at the quiet tables.
The confetti thinned.
The mirrored wings returned to ordinary symbols.
The extra chair emerged from beneath the coins and slid back into place below the centre reel.
Fortune Ox looked down at it.
The palace had spent the entire session treating that seat as the source of every problem.
He lowered himself onto the main throne beneath the golden gate.
Then placed both hooves on the spare chair.
The sunglasses tilted back.
The ingot rested across his stomach.
Red confetti drifted through the courtyard.
Both outer tables stood perfectly matched and completely empty.
I stopped with the €500.00 hit secured.
Fortune Ox had multiplied the banquet, duplicated himself and filled the palace with money.
The fourth chair had only ever been there so the host could put his feet up.
Solar Sentinels made me feel every decimal of pain.