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Who: Exael and the Unlucky Contestants
Where: The Game Tower
When: 86, Evening

[ Between one step and the next the walls (or streets, or open air) around you changes. The sight before you is a room inside the game tower, a new pressure at your neck. Reaching up or looking at the people around you reveals it to be a collar, titanium with a small green blinking light set in the center. ]

[ the screen flickers on, on your cellphone. It's a half-second, blink and you miss it— Exael, chewing on a nail, looking uncharacteristically nervous— then the moment's gone and she waves both hands and smiles for the camera. ]

"Ladies, gentlemen, honored guests! Units of all stripes and sizes! I come offering you a game and a few familiar words, rearranged for the occasion!"

Her carnival barker demeanor shifts for a moment as she lowers her head to say: ] "Glory to the highest, and on earth peace—" [ her head snaps up, her pigtails bouncing with it, and she's grinning again, all pomp and energy ] "even if we're not getting much down here! So let's kick up a ruckus, put on a show, and see how much good goodwill alone can manage! If you wish to save your fellows, now is the time speak!"

[ The rules appear on your phones. ]

[ Rules ] [ Rooms ] [ Results ] [ Endgame, Revivals & Winners ]

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A distraction is honestly probably a good idea.

Perhaps I shall brainstorm one when I feel like moving again.

... have you seen Sol?

Mm, no....I just kinda panicked and immediately went for Gold.

Did Heart Soldier protect them?

I don't know. I'll probably look into it once everyone has had time to....breath.

... I am glad your brother is safe.

Me too. I'm really, really grateful.

[ Half-hearted attempt at tail wag ]

And... AlcheMe?

Alcheme is safe too...

Then things worked out all right for you, I suppose... There is that at least.

Mori's hurt, Duality's hurt, you're hurt... I'm grateful me and the smalls and Gold are okay, but I wouldn't say I'm all right. I don't really want to see anyone hurt.

Ah, more friends... I should have known.

Known what?

That there are many people you wish to protect.

I don't think it's that many compared to most people.

Perhaps that is for the best. Too many allegiances spread across units only makes these games more painful.

Mm...

That said, I am surprisingly poor at following my own advice.

[ Pushing self onto all fours ]

I think it's impossible to be an island here. Lonely too.

Despite logical evidence.

Mm, logic doesn't always win.

Which makes these things increasingly more difficult to manage.

Tell me about it.

I see there are things we can agree on.

[That surprises a bark of laughter out of him]

Seems like it, huh?

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