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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 ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

... you did not have to use it for me.

Kinda wanted to.

Why?

You were hurt.

... you are too good a person, Hurricane.

Nah. Just worried about my friends.

You can be both. I checked.

...anyway. You need any help getting home, dude?

I think I shall be all right. As I said, we have a similar power. But thank you.

For checking on me as well. It is nice to know that you consider me a friend.

Course I do.

That makes me feel very special. To be part of that group.

[ Tail wag ]

Sorry it wasn't worth much.

Not worth much?

You guys bit it, right?

...sorry.

Ah... that does not change anything I said. Yours was not the unit I expected to intervene.

[That does not actually... make him feel better.]

Yeah?

As I said, I surmised you and Avante would protect each other. It is all right. Your unit has close friends there.

[Opens his mouth, then closes it.]

...yeah. Guess so.

So I do not expect priority treatment, nor do I hold it against you. And I can still be happy you think of me.

...

Thanks, Okami.

Why are you thanking me?

Just for being you, I guess.

Being me?

Yeah.

Anyway, uh. You need help getting back home?

... if you wish to help, I will not reject it.

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