KasinoKing
Maybe we should ask Darth Vader if he's spotted Casino Rewards floating around the galaxy somewhere....?
I'm on speaking terms again with IG-88. We had ourselves a little pow-wow recently on Tatooine. We decided to settle our differences recently over a game of Milton Bradley's "OPERATION", that I had purchased at TOY'R'US last time I was visiting EARTH. I had the clear advantage, since I was using The FORCE to pull the bones out of the holes, but IG-88, unfortunately, has really big claws and had a bitch-of-a-time trying to make sure that the game pliers wouldn't hit the side of holes. He's no doctor (as the red-light nose going off every 2-seconds would indicate). Moahahahaha!!! Everyone at the Cantina was in tears.
It took me awhile, but I understand the constant stress that IG-88 is under. It's not easy always having to be the "bad-guy". He went AWOL in Costa Rica, because he was in the middle of a nervous breakdown. I had no idea, I was in the middle of one myself. He needed to get centered, and seeing how upbeat he was the last time I saw him, it was a vacation long overdue. I can't blame him really. Back on the heels of the success of the EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, Lucas promised him a studio contract with 20th Century Fox, and those contracts were outdated and unheard of at that time. The last of the studio contracts, would date back to the late '70s, a few years too late for him I'm afraid. And while I'll always be in Lucas' corner, he could have given IG-88 a percentage of his KENNER toy merchandise. Only one empire is stronger than the Imperials, and that would have to be the Lucas empire.
Anyways, making a short story longer than it has to be, when IG-88 was visiting, he mentioned to me that he hooked up with Zuckuss and 4-LOM at a recent Bounty Hunters UNION meeting. Zuckuss claims that a certain "EARTH" casino affiliate, was doing some work behind the scenes, although in the farthest reaches of the Galaxy. And, I won't okay something that Zuckuss has said, because many years ago, when I had hired a handful of bounty hunters to locate Captain Solo and the Millenium Falcon, he indicated that Solo had made a U-turn back to the Hoth System. Well, Boba Fett had tracked-him down to Cloud City (a mining colony). So, is he a reliable and credible source, hardly. And even if this casino affiliate were working in that sector of the Galaxy, I wouldn't okay a search party. Fuel prices are at an all-time high right now, and sending a convoy of transports just to make a drop with my precious Prode Droids, no way. I always lose them, and these things add-up by the end of the year (yes, I go by EARTH's calender).
Vader