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TIAMAT

[When the game starts you find yourselves on a platform. At least this part is pretty relaxing as it's large enough to fit a table with six (or seven) chairs around and that may be the place you want to sit at for now. There's several pieces of parchment laying on the table and a box in the center.

Of course, if you were careful you might want to pay attention to what's before you. Because immediately after the platform is a slide that ends in a pit of water? That turns into a dark forest. In what looks like a mile across is another large platform, presumably the end. Though that's all you can see right now.]

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Can't see why we shouldn't be able to! They're all standin' between us and our memories, whether they wanna or not.

Oh, and maybe we should say the Echoes are our competition, too.

...But the echoes are our friends.

And I have a lot of friends on the other teams, too.

A-and we definitely don't compete with the echoes, we compete with each others! The echoes make the tracks! You can't compete with them, that's like saying a bike racer competes with the asphalt paving... guy!

We compete with the Echoes to break their games whenever they try to murder us, and bein' in competition doesn't mean you can't be friends.

That just makes you weird.

You can be friends with someone and still compete against 'em, y'know.

Having friends doesn't make me weird!

B-besides there's a lot of teams that aren't competitors at all! Like... like...

Takshaka! They have a guy who cries in his hands!

Them winning could still take a victory away from us.

[oh my god brb laughing at "guy who cries into his hands"]

Well yeah, but they're not our biggest competition.

Our biggest competition is probably either like, Ratatotskr or Epona, honestly. The others really didn't manage to win the rap battle, and I think Ratatotskr and Epona won that magical tree path game, too.

So they're definitely really strong teams... and Schooler and Roxy are both really smart.

Lookit Vetoed, judging the other teams.

Seriously, let's just say 'all of them'.

I-I-I'm just saying that we should at least make an attempt to consider this stuff instead of just running off half-cocked with a half-true answer that might make stuff harder on everyone!

I-I'm really not judging anyone, it's just.. you know..!

You are totally judging them. Calling some teams strong implies that the others are weak, y'know.

And it's not a half-true answer! It's a fact.

Everyone being big competition doesn't make everyone our biggest competition!

And it's not judging someone to say 'These teams have come closer to beating us than those other teams!' Th-that's research! It's way different!

Shhh, shhh. You don't gotta justify it. Trick understands.

I'm not justifying anything!!

Are too! And I'm not budgin'!

Th-that aside, we can't just pick 'everyone' as our biggest competition!

Especially not the echoes, who we don't even compete with!

Sure we can! You're the only one saying we can't.

[SIIIIIIGH]

Fine... fine. I guess it's fair if we say they're all equally good.

B-but if this ends up not being allowed or we end up hurting everyone else that's not my fault.