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You step into a small airy room made entirely of porcelain and frosted glass. Squishy armchairs — the old fashioned type; pretty velvet affairs with patterns of roses in your team’s color and legs of dark wood — line the walls.

Pride of place in the center of the room is a table, upon which rests: a list of instructions; a spread of cards; and a box made out of mirrored glass with eleven slits in the top. Each slit is outlined in a team color.

Beyond the table is a huge, floor to ceiling hourglass. A certain number of blood red crystals reside at the bottom ...

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You're being stubborn! [POT, KETTLE, ETC]

We're not in the library, Erik! I know things were awful there, but it doesn't mean it has to be that way here!

[ oh my god you guys please. please. ]

Again, we need to stay calm. None of us really know how this is going to go. Star, I know you never want to hurt anyone, but Blade has been in a very similar situation before, so maybe we should trust his judgment. He doesn't want to hurt anyone, either.

[ haha, right?? ]

Of course I don't. But it's not about me not wanting to hurt others. It's about me wanting to save us.

[SHE'S MAD NOW, SRY] Erik's been in a similar situation in a totally different place, where teams were always out to get each other and harder games happened all the time! This isn't that place! I've played this game before, here!

If you both don't want to hurt people, then don't immediately jump to the cards that do! We can save ourselves without going all out!

Who's jumping to those immediately? Only one of these should hurt at all. People are going to get hurt and die here even if we play nothing but ones. No one's advocating killing anyone, either. But we don't know what will happen if we go into debt, and I don't want to find out by watching it happen to you.

[ whoops. ]

[he still thinks the skills one could hurt a lot, but now is not the time to say so.]

If I was out to get everyone, I'd be playing the cards we left on the table.

Yeah, and I bet no one wants to watch their teammate get beaten unconscious, either. I know all of that! But that doesn't mean we have to play to hurt right away! If things get hairy, then next round..... we can play tougher. But we don't need to jump the gun.

No one wants to, but I guarantee you it will happen to some, if not all.

And my primary concern is not for the other teams right now. It can't be.

[THAT PART WAS ACTUALLY SOLELY ADDRESSED TO MUSHROOM, so she stares him down. But:]

We can't even attack the same teams in a row, can we? If we only play two cards... then we'll have one more option, if it comes to that.

Edited 2015-04-11 08:03 (UTC)

But that's not really your concern. You're not going to be any more willing to play three cards next time.

I didn't say that. If we have to..... I'll do it, but we don't have to, right now.

I think we do. I'm sorry, but that's how I feel about it.

That's because you're comparing it to the library! No one's hurt us or sent us into debt yet! At least give them a chance.... Hurting people to get ahead isn't the same thing as hurting people to survive!

It's one and the same, in a game like this. You say 'yet', but I don't want us to reach that point at all.

We don't know that we will. Didn't we agree to avoiding hurting people as much as we could in games like this? It's only the first round....

Not at the expense of our own chances! Do you really think no other teams will play the violent cards on others? Because I don't.

We've still got chances! Ten points is a lot!

I know it's going to happen, but that doesn't mean we have to start it off! This isn't protecting ourselves, this is attacking right away! We're supposed to do the first thing!

Three cards achieves protection.

No they don't. You're just saying that to justify using them.

Fifteen points trumps ten.

That isn't protection. That's hurting another team just for a head start we might not even need.

[ yeah, he knows Star's glaring at him. but it's unlikely anyone has ever won a staring contest with him. he's not interested in starting one, either. in fact, after a quick look, he averts his eyes. not that he ever looks happy about anything, but he's very clearly disconcerted about this. ]

[Fine, she's just going to give him a look of total disappointment and look away]

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