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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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I want to tell you things too.

So let's get that done first?

[ Gonna take a seat next to him. ]

Mm.

[...fiddling with his coffee cup]

Do you want to go first or should I?

You can go first, looks like you're more nervous about yours.

I'm not nervous! It's just weird because I don't talk about it much.

I just...you know....died. Not this game. A while back. It was bad. I just felt like I should tell you.

[ Just kind of. Gives him a look. ]

... You okay?

It was scary, but I just....don't think about it? Or try not to. I don't really want to give anyone that kind of satisfaction. I had nightmares before that, so those weren't anything new.

Do you have nightmares a lot now?

...more nights than not. Sleeping on the couch helps. Or working out until I pass out.

I think there's dreamless potions you could get from B or C.

I'll probably ask C.

Mm... let me know if there's anything I can do too.

This is enough.

Um. Princess Maker. Zrael came after Wild City during the game and said like....killing us was the only way to save their "daughter". So fucking stupid.

A lot of them are kind of weird.

I try not to judge by unit, but it was a whole lot of them. Five or so? The one named "God" led the charge or whatever, so thankfully that one is gone. Psycho leveled a gun at my head and was going to shoot me, so Whisky shot them before they could.

[ Winces. ]

And I'm guessing everything after that went to hell?

It was a mess. Ah, everyone from Wild City that was there is either gone now or died before I did. So I’ve kinda stayed quiet just in case. I didn’t want a blood feud with Zrael over it. That said... I really wasn’t down with them being in our dorm.

What about the people who're there who are on Zrael? They're all still around?

Some of them, yeah. Super awkward.

I can imagine...

I felt like I was gonna buzz out of my skin.

Can't you just mention you're a little uncomfortable around them? Most people are.

That would mean admitting they bug me and I don't want to give Zrael that kind of satisfaction. I'll get over it through sheer force of will because fuck those guys.

I don't think that's how therapy works.

I am pretty sure that's how it works because I am doing great.