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TIAMAT

[ Everything fades to black...and you awaken in a run-down one-room shack, with the distinct feeling that the people around you are your family, if you didn't already have such a bond with them.

You're wearing raggedy versions of your uniform, and a newspaper informs you that you are currently in Cathay, on the fifteenth anniversary of the day the company Lupus' Secret Stash led a coup and established their own government. In fact, you can now remember why you came here - to escape the misfortunes of your own country - because this is truly the land of opportunity and freedom. ]

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[sigh]

I like games we can't win.

[he says super dryly]

. . . I say we give the least to clothing. The other three are a lot more important.

[He nods.]

Diamond and I were bouncing around a budget... I'm thinking 500 in housing, and 900 in food. Then, we're thinking split the rest between clothing and medicine... 225 and 200.

We can live through leaky roofs and working shirtless, but you gotta' have food and medicine.

[shakes his head]

Add another 100 to housing. Take it from the clothing budget.

I think we should pass on taxes, too.

That's a little bit dangerous...

Well, but you are a thief.

[haha]

We don't have enough anyway, so we're just gonna have to risk it.

Diamond'll probably be with you...

I'm against it, but I guess it's fine with me. Taxes are supposed to be to help make a social safety net in the event of someone not being able to get by, after all, and we're definitely not.

Also... there's no profit in auditing us right now. At all. Seriously, the government would totally lose money on it. [Nodnod.]