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Who: Champions & Losers
Where: The Game Tower & the walk back home
When: Day 78 evening

[ Finally, the elevators open for everyone to leave. As they open to ground floor, confetti balls pop open from the ceiling, with "CONGRATULATIONS!" banners hanging in the lobby of the Game Tower.

The television screens are on this time, broadcasting some choice moments while radio announcers excitedly chatter - they're loud, but you can probably make out the audio from the television if you concentrate. Occasionally, the television also flips to a kill count tracker, as well as a ranking system.

"Listeners, this was sooo hard for us to choose. All the contestants were so good! But there can only be winners and losers, so here we go - "

"Up first, our most vicious underdogs! You cheered and cheered for them, listeners, and they heard your voices! It's ☆ZRAEL in first place, with the most kills! They did so well they even got a second category of most brutal murder - "

"It was the boat, right? It was totally the boat!"

"Couldn't it be the rock!? That was so brutal!"

"Well, that's ☆ZRAEL for you, they're sooo ruthless! So cute, best unit! ♥"

"wwww we have a ☆ZRAEL fan here wwww"

"Next up for most individual kills is avante en garde - Cardigan tooooooootally carried you guys wwww"

"Speaking of carry, did you see Whiskers with those strategic kills on WILD CITY!? He's a sneaky bastard!"

"Fucking bastard!"

"Yeah!"

"But my heart honestly broke when I saw A Bird With Blue Wings . . . AlcheME!, man . . . they just hit you straight in the heart with that most emotional kill. . . Damn. . ."

"Speaking of hearts, Heart Soldier Senshi - they were really good, huh? Best co-op kill of the game! Totally like O●●●wa●●●, right?"

"Yeah, it was like I was watching a match on O●●●wa●●●. I don't usually watch those though wwww"

"Last but definitely not least! sensitIV!"

"You know, they didn't do half bad."

"Yeah, it was honestly pretty average."

"But Nyarlathotep was so great! His struggle to survive! He'd even put more arms on himself to do it!"

"Do you think he could attach even more on himself? I want to see that, now!"

"Hahaha! Well, that's all the time we have for today listeners, but you should definitely watch all these choice moments - the audience picked them! Here comes our highlight reel!"

The chatter goes on, becoming indistinct and eventually fading out. The television screen is still playing the highlight reel, though.

☆ZRAEL, avante en garde, WILD CITY, AlcheME!, Heart Soldier Senshi, and sensitIV will find their wounds healing, leaving behind no scars - they'll also find 800 points in their bank, though ☆ZRAEL will find that they get a bonus for a total of 1000 points from this game. Everyone else will find 100 points in their bank, and they'll also have to get themselves their own healing.

Something to note though, is that Hurricane is missing. ]

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[ jaws theme

GUESS WHO'S APPROACHING ]

[Oh shi---

What if he uses this head injury to pretend to conveniently forget who the fuck you are?

... Too bad he has too much pride for that]

Congratulations, King. Looks like the Paladins were dispensing justice left and right this game. You must be tired.

[ There's not a single flicker of remorse in his expression at the dig. ]

Extremely tired, thanks for noticing.

And you must be satisfied. You finally got your win.

[ It doesn't sound bitter or taunting, just matter-of-fact. ]

"Finally". Don't downplay my victory, Your Excellency.

I beat you in an actual duel. You beat me in a card game.

And could you manage it again without the two-on-one I wonder?

Could you manage it without magic weapons and armor and a bottomless HP pool?

Don't act like you weren't also using all the resources at your disposal.

I guess we'll never know.

Still, what was it you called me before - a "sore winner"? Ironic.

[. . .]

What the fuck do you want, King?

Right to the point. Fine.

I want to know what the hell your problem is.

What fucking problem!? I win and now suddenly there has to be something wrong with me.

You're too smart to get away with playing dumb, Intensity.

What kind of fucking backhanded compliment is that?!

If you're such an expert on me -- like you and your fucking facetwin claim all the time, then you should be able to fucking figure it out.

[ Well now his own temper flares a little, a bad game and frustration suddenly getting the better of him. ]

I never claimed to be an expert on you! You haven't noticed I've been spending all this time just trying to understand you?!

Why?! Just because we supposedly took fucking chemistry lab together. As if that fucking matters here.

When are the two of you going to stop living in the fucking past and try concentrating on your future not being stuck as a puppet on a fucking string.

Are you seriously—

[ MAKING A FRUSTRATED NOISE, god ]

Then you clearly don't understand either! The future is why I'm trying to understand you!

Then what about me is so fucking hard for you to understand?

I've been pretty fucking transparent about my intentions and end game!

[ Getting right up in his face ]

Then explain to me how you went from handling me just fine to running away like a coward and genuinely wanting me dead.

Don't think so fucking highly of yourself. I tried to kill everyone who accepted my challenge for a duel.

I didn't know you wanted me to pull my fucking punches!

[ HE'S NOT FOOLED!!!!! ]

You're avoiding the question again.

Because your question is fucked up and wrong.

I don't want you dead.

[ [x] doubt ]

Don't insult me. I can tell the difference between a duel to win and a duel that's personal.

[Danger danger.

Running out of bullshit excuses to use.

Abort (a), Retry (r), Fail (f)?]

All duels are personal! You're looking for something that doesn't fucking exist.

[ He's pretty sure it's not in his head. And he could get the answers he wants in just a few seconds, just by activating an ability.

... But there are just too many other fights that need his attention right now to yank this wound open, too. ]

Fine. I didn't realize running away was how you operated, but as we've established, I clearly don't understand you very well.

I didn't---

[Fuck, if he denies this then there are going to be more questions. And he just fucking---

Not today.

He doesn't want to do this today]

Anything else, Your Excellency? Me and mine still have wounded to attend to.

No.

Go get your thick head fixed. And offer my sincerest thanks to Shogun.

[ And then he's turning on his heel and marching off to go deal with the absolute clusterfuck that is everything else going on right now. ]

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