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TIAMAT

[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.]

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If we try to bullshit our way out of playing, it drags out and more people are gonna die. If the Echo thinks we're sabotaging her stupid game, we die and so does a team who had nothing to do with it.

If we play along and get both of the wolf teams quickly, they don't have to murder even more people. They're the poor suckers who have two votes to cast.

[balling his hands into fists at his sides]

It's not mercy to kill them just because they're stuck in a stupid, unfair position. . .! It's not mercy to kill anyone!

We can find a way past this, I know we can. If all of us work together, then we can find a way to break the stupid game so no one dies!

It's not mercy. It's murder.

And it bein' murder doesn't change the fact that it's the only way out of this without making an even bigger mess!

Say we try to break it, Lucky. And then say the Echo wasn't bluffing about the punishments. I dunno about you, but I don't wanna have to be the one to explain, hey, sorry we dragged you down with us whether you wanted to kill yourselves or not!

[Seems to realize she's raising her voice, and takes a deep breath.]

Lucky, I get it. I get it. Forced to eat people, remember? [Shakes her head] Sometimes the only way to help people is to lay low until the time is right.

I don't want to drag another team down with us, either. But we have to at least try something!

[but what?]

Like what?! Refuse to vote, and let the Echo pick? Get caught trying to sabotage the game, and get two teams killed?

If there's anythin' we can do, it's after the game! Hold your nobility chocobo until then!