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what they guessed was supposed to be

 

a stack of playing cards with pictures

 

of Vulcan philosophers. The Surak of Diamonds

 

was considered to be the most valuable

 

card, but the T'Plana-hath of Spades, if

 

you were even lucky enough to get

 

one, meant instant death for all players.

 

A lirpa would be used to decapitate

 

the players, with the lirpa-holder commiting

 

a violation of no fewer than nine

 

temporal violations in order to maintain secrecy

 

of how he learned to use a

 

lirpa without having any victim's blood remain

 

on the blade. Lirpas were legendary for

 

being difficult to clean without severing the

 

main artery in the hand

 

and having your fingers all fall off

 

into a bloody pile. Lirpa accidents were

 

the #1 cause of hand injuries on

 

Vulcan between 2209 and 2255, and were