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AMALTHEA

[ 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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[SIGHS, cracks knuckles]

Now this, I know I can do.

We can manage this.

I'll leave it to you then.

[Not going near anything else. Nnnope.]

[frowns]

We thought that with Leo and the dynamite, too.

I can help him out, if anything. I remember enough about the machinery of a vanship.

I don't think our real world skills really matter in this game. She's gonna do whatever it is she wants to do.

True, but we'll at least know what to aim for instead of just poking around which might be more dangerous.

She might treat it like you're just pokin' around at random.

[he has no faith in this Echo at all]

Then it's something we'll have to keep in mind, when the day comes that we can stop them from running these sort of games.

We did. You didn't. You advised against it, remember.

[Rolling up his sleeves]

Call it pride. Maybe stupidity. If I mess up, it's my responsibility.