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[soulping]

[The interior of your team cabin is far warmer than the winter outside. Each cabin is outfitted with enough beds for all present, and a table laden with food. Thick, juicy meats. Fatty broths. Congealed blood sausages. The sort of food that gets you through a harsh winter. The sort of food that makes you fat and tasty.

There is something here only for the wolf cabins, a trap door leading to a hidden basement where you can talk in absolute secrecy with the other wolf team.]

Comments

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

Because clearly this is one of the psychotic Echoes.

Three teams gonna die at least...

[quackery]

Do you think there's a way we could cheat this one? It seems more unlikely, but...

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

...at this point, at least four teams are dead, minimum.

Either because both wolves break the rules, or we avoid getting found out for the rest of the game.

[peoplediewhenikillthem]

[ Staring and watching, as if silently daring them to try to out them. ]

We already know which answer we should pick.

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

I'm sick of being used as some psychotic bitches' pawn.

[quackery]

What do you think we should do?

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

I want to spite her.

[quackery]

...What if the other wolf team doesn't go for it?

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

Can't force them too.

But they might do it too.

[quackery]

So there's no guarantee this will work...

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

There's never a guarantee.

But does that mean we shouldn't try?

[peoplediewhenikillthem]

Then stop showing up to games.

[ What a simple answer. ] What matters is we're here now and we're winning.

Let's get rid of our competition.

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[And she just glares at Badass.]

Winning isn't what matters in games like these!

[peoplediewhenikillthem]

If there was a way to break it, we could.

[ Robin don't even start with her, she will knock you out. ]

But if you say the wrong thing, you're going to end up getting a lot more people killed. Us included.

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

The game's point is distrust. Maybe death, but definitely distrust.

Four teams are dead anyway.

[peoplediewhenikillthem]

Then deal with fixing that trust after the game.

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

I doubt it'll last after the game. It's during that's important.

Isn't this why we had a team meeting?

[peoplediewhenikillthem]

[ We had a team meeting? What was any different than the last conversations we've had... ]

So if everyone refuses to vote, we all end up dead.

You think everyone is going to be that self-sacrificing?

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

Everyone took the chance during Rotten's game.

And for teams close to us, it's Amalthea or Takshaka. Takshaka is obvious and Amalthea is already up there.

[quackery]

These are people, not competition! Stop talking like that!

[peoplediewhenikillthem]

We're people too.

[quackery]

But we should do what's best for everyone, not just us.

[peoplediewhenikillthem]

And what's best is following the rules of this game while not getting your team killed off.

[quackery]

No, we should make sure that the smallest number of people possible from all the teams get killed! It's not only us that matters.

[peoplediewhenikillthem]

Oh, so you want to casually figure out whose life is worth more than somebody else?

[ Sarcasm works better if she actually uses the right tone, but Badass is as monotone towards the situation as any other. ]

I'm certain that will earn us more allies and trust. How many people do you think will be happy to hear we think their lives value less than others?