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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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All right? I'm still going to.

I'm saying please don't.

Why not? I want to.

It makes things more complicated for your team during games, doesn't it?

So? This whole place is complicated. If trying to protect you is a complication, it's one I'm willing to deal with. I won't always succeed, but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna try. My feelings are just as important as anyone else's on Wild City, so it's my right to fight for them.

It's a complication that you don't need to even have. Neither of us can ever guarantee we'll be able to help the other, and it's a really shitty feeling trying to tell your new unitmates that maybe a unit will help us because of one connection or two connections and none of them do.

I can't do anything for you with the way my unit is right now either and no, that's not fine.

There are no guarantees in this place! That doesn't mean roll over and just let people important to me fucking die though. Just because I can't guarantee it, doesn't mean I'm not going to TRY.

Wild City understands my feelings. They don't resent me for wanting to protect you and voting to protect you. They don't make me feel bad for having someone I want to protect or that my feelings are less important than theirs or that I'm being selfish! My feelings are important to them!

So I don't see how it's a problem? I'll feel worse NOT doing what I can to keep you safe. So if you're actually concerned about MY feelings, then know it would be harder on me to NOT try to protect you!

And if you're worried I expect my feelings to be returned, I don't! I don't expect anything! I don't want to protect you expecting you to protect me!

[ GOD, why are you like this!! ]

Fine, I'm saying it's a problem for me, you ass! I can't have your back, I can't even try to argue and save Wild City because no one else on my unit cares and have their own priorities and also our stupid units broke an alliance most of us didn't even know about! Avante's an absolute shithole hell to navigate politically and not even being able to get my own brother's unit on the table for saving makes me feel useless and I hate it!

You might not give a shit about being on equal grounds but I do, and the fact that you don't expect me to have your back makes me feel worse, not better, you shitty selfish self-sacrificing shit pig!

[What am IIIIIII like this???? Why are YOU like this!!!! Chucking a fucking volleyball at his head]

So stop feeling bad and do something about it then! Fucking TELL THEM THAT! I know you wanna keep the peace, but no one on Avante wants you to hurt! SO WHAT if they have their own priorities? You ALL have your own priorities because you're ALL different people, NO SHIT! And yours are JUST AS VALID AS THEIRS, DUMBASS!!!!

They're not gonna kick you off the unit for having feelings! You wanna do right by your unit, but you're not letting them do right by you! They're not psychic, you fuck! Stop putting other peoples' feelings before your own! Be a little selfish! Avante won't collapse just because you're not a God damn robot, you sad excuse for a piss stain!

[ Where the fuck did you even get a volleyball from!! Throwing it back!! ]

Don't call me a dumbass, dumbass! Every unit's different, dipshit, but your blind ass doesn't see how different your team is and the stark as hell difference in how they treat you compared to every other damn person in this place!

You have no damn clue what it's like for Avante during games and how fucking rough it is during games for us- we barely even talk with each other outside of games! Does your dumb ass really think it'd get better when you toss in more complications to a mess like that!

You think I don't fucking know!? You think I didn't see how uncomfortable you and B and C are???? Why the hell do you think I kicked B and C out of the party?! I'm so God damn SICK of everyone treating me like I'm some delicate flower that'll break because you don't like my team! Boo fucking hoo!!!

[FUCK fhdjkfha Kicking at him!!!!]

You wanna know what, turd monkey? I don't like your team either! Ace gives me the fucking creeps! He's an asshole! And Cardigan really fucking sucks at looking after you! Cardigan can't get over their Aries hate-boner long enough to see what's actually best for the team! Cardigan is the reason people are weird about Avante! Nobody fucking HATES Avante though, so stop acting like everyone is out to get you! Everyone is just out to save what matters to them, you dumpster fire fuck face!

[ GRABBING HIS SHIRT to shake him, don't kick me you ass!! ]

Maybe if you fucking talked about yourself instead of pretending you don't have anything you need to talk about all the time people wouldn't treat you like the spit gobbing whiny toddler you are! Boo hoo my unit got hit once when no one knew us and Aries did a dumb as hell thing once, time to carry around a stupid fucking knife all the time because I think some crazy murder-happy person is going to jump me for no damn reason!

And newsflash, people might not hate us but they sure as hell don't like us! Raijuu was killed in a game where the only two deaths to other players, not the dumb ass game mechanics, were both Avante! Nemesis was fucked up to royal hell after that stupid murder tournament because of SensitIV and that Taisho asshole again! Nemesis is the most likeable person on our unit and even she gets in fights with people, my fucking team live is fighting and that's all anyone on my unit seems to want to do, so of course there's people who don't like us for that you ass slurping shit monger!

And Cardigan may not be liked by most people but Cardigan is always doing their best to help this dumb as fuck community that would rather kill each other just because someone tells them to than even try to work together so don't give them shit when you're just feeding into this stupid as fuck selfish system!

If the knives make me feel better then what the hell does it hurt?! I'm not gonna start stabbing people for fun! Have some fucking faith in me! And why should I talk about it when you won't even talk about things?! Practice what you fucking preach, you filthy jock strap shit smear!

[SHOVING A PALM INTO HIS FACE]

AND NEWSFLASH FOR YOU! You're not Nemesis OR Raijuu OR Cardigan! YES, Support them, grieve for them, protect them, BUT YOU AREN'T THEM! Instead of complaining about it, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Instead of sitting there pissing your diaper because you don't like the way your team interacts with each other or the community, THEN FIX IT! TELL THEM YOU WANT TO BE CLOSER! HOST LIVES SO PEOPLE WILL SEE AVANTE ISN'T SOME MURDER MYSTERY TEAM! BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE, YOU WHINY SACK OF HORSE SHIT!

Do you have any idea HOW HARD I work to be SOCIAL?! TO TALK TO PEOPLE! TO BE FRIENDLY AND LIKABLE IN THE HOPES THAT MAYBE THEY'LL LIKE ME JUUUUUUST ENOUGH THAT WILD CITY WON'T BE THEIR FIRST CHOICE FOR DEATH?! Do you think it's EASY to be the only person on Wild City who wants to play TRUST? Who wants to NOT PLAY HARD? It's NOT! I have to push for what I want! You just hide in your little castle and accept the way things are! DO YOU KNOW HOW SCARED I AM FOR YOU?! EVERY FUCKING GAME?!

[ Time to dig his foot into Silver's shin; the only reason he is not biting Silver's hand is because he needs to yell at him more. ]

I talk about my shit with people eventually don't you even start with me you dick muncher keeping everything locked in some shitty box until you explode all over someone for some tiny thing they're doing to help like a total asshole.

And Avante's lives aren't people-friendly by default, or are you too much of a dipshit to realize that? You think picking fights will encourage people to get to know us? Declaring stupid shit in an 'oath' you have no obligation or method of keeping makes you appealing to people? All our lives do is either give people more reason to criticize us or look like attempts to show off physical superiority in some way because that's how the half the assholes around here take that kind of thing it's like every idiot around here is looking for a reason to be offended by something so that they can have a target to be mad at and surprise that's us!

[ God PUSHING HIM. ]

AND I'M NOT YOU! Even though you're a selfish, loud asshole people like you anyway! Ninety percent of the people at that soccer live were there for you, dipshit! Most people brush me off after one conversation for being boring and I can't change that without looking completely ingenuine and driving people off anyway you cow thighed horn sucker because that's just how I am!

I'm also not going to make things harder for a unit that can barely make decisions as is. How the fuck does it make any sense to split a team already going in five directions into six?! If it means my unit can get along for fucking once without someone storming off being upset then I'm willing to go through some shitty, temporary death for a while because dying once or twice is nothing compared to having to live with how tense it is all the time!

[SHOVING HIM BACK]

FIRST OFF, I don't have cow thighs, you simpering crap wart! SECOND OF ALL, people don't like me! They like the IDEA of me. BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE. Everyone that likes you, actually likes you! B and C only tried to like me for your sake at first!

And for the record? You can make your stupid competition lives fun! The arm wrestling was FUN! Quest? You could do a scavenger hunt! I'm so tired of people complaining about their lives just because they're not creative enough to figure out something fun!

And it's NOT. THAT. HARD! Take turns, draw straws, pull buttons out of a hat! Every body gets ONE team they can put in the hat! "Fight Club" can get that much through their thick skulls as 'FAIR' and not piss their pants, right?

Oh my mistake.

Cow ass.

[OMG THATS IT. FUCK THIS. TACKLING HIM]

GET OFF ME.

[ THIS IS WRESTLING NOW. ]

THEN STOP FIGHTING BACK! WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO HAVE THE LAST WORD?!

[Dumb boy grappling]

BECAUSE YOUR DUMB COW ASS DOESN'T GET IT.

You're the one that doesn't get it!

You're talking about yourself!

And you wonder why I don't want to talk about things! Fine, enjoy practice!

[ Pushing him off. ]

Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

[Slamming the door hard enough on the way out that it falls off the hinges. May or may not have used ability strength out of spite on the door. Sorry door.]

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