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TAKSHAKA

[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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Swan wants to ask the Echo what the sword is like, since I pointed out that many swords are little better than tools to beat things with, not cutting implements.

A hook should have a point that can help cut through things.

Are they not more pointy than edged?

If you drag the point along the surface, you can make a cut for thin things.

Not the most useful way to use a grappling hook, admittedly.

But it has that extra use, making it more versatile.

[nods]

I wouldn't argue. As for the question of competition . . . [wrinkles her nose.] I'd say our biggest competition is harmful games.

I'd say Rata or Amalthea.

Let's not.

I don't think we get a choice here. No one will get hurt, anyway.

Of course we have a choice. If nobody's going to be hurt, we can answer with whatever we'd like.

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takewing - 2014-02-05 01:06 (UTC) - Expand

Does that count as a competitor, though? I'm not sure it answers the question.

It's a less literal take on the question, but personally I'd say it's no less of a valid answer . . .

Though perhaps, "The Echoes who run harmful games" might be a better way to put it.

I still don't know if we compete against those echoes, necessarily, since I imagine they get the benefit of their game whether we win or lose.

They do, it's true. They benefit in the short term no matter what game they run, unless, like the Rotten, we successfully break it.

That's where I see the competition. We can beat the Echoes at their own game, and push them to change.

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takewing - 2014-02-05 01:29 (UTC) - Expand

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takewing - 2014-02-05 01:44 (UTC) - Expand

... Does that count as a competitor?

To rephrase, "The Echoes who run harmful games."

[listening to the conversation for a moment]

He's asking about our competition.

Not our enemies.

Though I suppose if that's what it takes to spare the other teams, we could lie.

It's not a lie. Being enemies and being a force to compete against and overcome—those aren't mutually exclusive.

Yeah, you could put it that way, but it seems to me that "competitor" is a friendly word, and I hate to dignify creatures like Nyssa with something like that.

[a brief pause]

In the end, our biggest competitor is ourselves, isn't it? We always strive to outdo what was our best a moment ago.

Hah, but it's probably not a good idea to say that here. We should go with your answer.

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[oh no that is kind of cute]

[grins, laughing]

"Ourselves" certainly isn't a bad answer.

My thoughts exactly.

Though, Swan had a rather cute idea, as well. We could say that we're our own biggest competitors, as we're always striving to outdo ourselves.

...That really is a cute idea...

We're going to combine the two!

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