Object

Royale Blackjack Tables

A bank of semicircular blackjack tables lining the Royale lobby; each is a '21' table draped in green/dark-green felt with a padded player rail, inset chip trays and a dealer's shoe area. Lamps hang low over the tables, throwing light across worn felt and lacquered shoes. These tables function both as the venue for regulated play and as a narrative locus—one specific table is used by Data to pocket chips and test the casino's scripted behavior while other characters react nearby.

3 appearances

Purpose

Serve as gaming surfaces where dealers facilitate blackjack rounds—holding cards, chips, and bets while organizing play between dealers and patrons.

Significance

Act as vivid set dressing that anchors the crew inside a functioning casino ecosystem; their bustle and inattention heighten the protagonists' isolation, converting failed outside contact into claustrophobic urgency and forcing characters to confront the construct from within.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

3 moments

S2E12 · The Royale

Communications Cut — Trapped in The Royale Lobby

The blackjack tables are described as part of the modest casino area, serving as visual and functional set dressing that conveys a busy, populated venue and reinforces the illusion of normal life within a synthetic enclosure.

Before: Set up with chips and dealers, actively in play as part of the casino floor.

After: Remain in place and active; their presence continues to distract and disorient the visitors.

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S2E12 · The Royale

Rigged Twenty-One — Data’s Evidence

The semicircular blackjack table functions as the staged platform for the scripted interaction: cards are dealt, chips are exchanged, and social roles are performed around it. It concentrates attention and provides the practical props that allow Data to collect complimentary chips as evidence.

Before: Set on the casino floor, surrounded by players and onlookers, stocked with decks and chips, actively in play.

After: Remains in play on the casino floor; chips have been circulated and two complimentary chips have left the table in Data's possession as potential evidence.

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S2E12 · The Royale

The Casino's Tempo: Rules Over Agency

The semicircular blackjack table serves as the focal prop where social choreography occurs: the dealer deals, players display cards, chips circulate, and Data studies procedures. The table's layout and dealer actions enforce a fast tempo that ultimately interrupts Data's inquiry; it also yields the two complimentary chips Data pockets as evidence.

Before: In active use on the gaming floor, occupied by two high‑rollers, Texas, Vanessa, and surrounded by onlookers; felt worn, lit by low lamps.

After: Still in active use, the gameplay continues after the away team departs; two complimentary chips have been removed (taken by Data) but the table's function and players remain unchanged.

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