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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. ]

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Think?

About what caused certain units to win and certain ones to lose.

... maybe people were trying to predict the results.

[Shrugs]

It was a stupid game anyway. Something is wrong though. Exael was off.

You mean that weird speech in the beginning?

That's the one.

So who was there from pep!pep! at the game?

Most of us, save Cobalt and Senpai.

Glad your demise was averted then. Wish they all could have been averted, but that makes for bad ratings.

Yeah, I know how it works...

Ha. Listen to me lecture.

Thank you for watching out for Thorn. He really respects you. Any friends he can get it good.

Thorn's a good guy. I just wish more people could see it.

He is a good guy. Rash, but good.

And I don't think people don't realize he's good. He's just hard to get to open up.

I don't blame him for that.

I just meant I wish more people could see what he's like when he reaches out a bit. He's really pulled me out of some dark places before. And I just keep thinking... how angry everyone was when I saved him from the tunnel collapse and woke him up... They acted like I had brought a wild animal into their midst. I don't think they even realized... we were friends.

Ha!

If you want to talk about anger management problems, no one has it like Thorn does. It is going to get him killed one day. Oh, wait. It already probably has.

[ Maybe he just won't comment on that last part... ]

It's a defense mechanism.

It's short sighted.

I get that. But if it's a defense mechanism, it's not going to be easy to just shut off. It needs work.

Huh. Maybe you can practice with him.

That takes an insane amount of trust to go poking around someone's defense mechanisms.

Do you trust him?

Well, yeah. I don't generally risk my life for people I don't trust.

Then you simply have to ask him for the reverse.

You say that like it's so easy.

He's ... well not honest, but blunt.

I don't mind that. I just think... it might be a lot to expect him to be comfortable with that. And, uh, I still have to tell him about the other thing...

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