idolpro | FORESIGHT=DEAD END

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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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[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."