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FORESIGHT=DEAD END

[ Everything fades to black...and you awaken in prison.

You're wearing raggedy versions of your team uniform and a newspaper informs you that you are currently in %COUNTRYNAME% in the year %CONTEMPORARY%+1. The newspaper is otherwise actually fairly unhelpful, aside from something detailing the results of a recent attempt at revolt in a city in %COUNTRYNAME%: worker’s success at managing a nearby gold mine led to dreams of every man being a king - the revolutionaries may have been successful had it not been for a concurrent jailbreak and mass slaughter putting local authorities on alert, buying time for military intervention - the town was nearly levelled to the ground, with few survivors.

But you seem to remember - you survived, didn’t you? Well, some of you just died of alcohol poisoning, actually.

...Also, below the main headline about the failed revolution, there's something about Those Who Crave Hands? Huh.

Anyways, you've got marketing to do! ]

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At this point, I'm barely a kid and I've died more times than you in games already.

Also, vetoing you dying since you already went through shit this past week while I've been stuck playing videos games for half a month.

[he is-- going to exhale slowly, pinching the bridge of his nose.]

And that's the fucking problem-- it's not a fucking competition. We need to play like we want no one to die-- but it shouldn't be kids falling on their swords for people like me.

That's not what I said. But you also need to know your limits. I don't go looking to die when I've been back to back terrible, nor would anyone let me in that case. So why should I let you?

Kids shouldn't be dying for adults.

[pointedly.]

I'm not the only one here-- but if we let him, Scythe'll go up every goddamn time. And apparently, so will you.

I've been here longest. So excuse me for wanting to protect my unit when I've been gone half a month.

Being here the longest is not a fucking argument. It's an excuse.

Using age as a barrier for who can do what when we all have to live with whatever happens is the fucking excuse.

No.

You know that you're still growing? And what trauma can do to you that you can't just bounce back from for the rest of your life?

Someone shoulda been looking out for you so you wouldn't think your life's just a ticket you trade in when it's been "long enough."

Yeah, well. Most adults I know are shit. So I do what I can to get by and getting by for me is doing what I can to help my unit.

No.

[he doesn't need a good argument. he doesn't care, he'll just do his best, subconscious bruce wayne impression.]

Yeah, you're not the boss of me.

[flipping Jay off because Rebel Unit Represent.]

Calm down. I’ll go.

-- What?

[excuse him what]

She is an adult.

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You know you having died a lot doesn't make it more okay. Right?

He's trying to make it okay for him.

[just saying]

...different people handle things differently.

[He maybe had a conversation with someone about this kind of thing not that long ago,]

Yeah, well. It's ignoring a lot of our personal experiences and wants, and I'm not here for that and that's not how we operate.

So if more than one person wants to go up, how do you want to settle it?

Janken? I don't really care. Just not discriminating due to age. For one thing, that's a sure-fire way to burn you guys out. For another, no?

Honestly, I'm severely annoyed at this sudden overprotectiveness.

[He lowers his voice a little, so that they can't be overheard]

...might be because we're sharing.

[His gaze flickers toward the youngest member of AlcheME]

He's about Jay's brother's age.

[equally quiet:]

Think it's more to do with recent events, but that's part of it.

You think it's got to do with...?

He sure didn't kick up as much of a fuss about me doing shit before this.

[no offense, but no adult on Bad End's really put up that much of a fuss about him doing shit]

[Keeping his voice lowered]

Might be making a show on purpose. There's a difference between an actual child and someone who's almost an adult.

[His eyes track to AlcheME again, just for a beat]

I'd be pissed, too, if we sent some kid off to die.

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