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AVANTE EN GARDE

This room is not real.

That's the first thought that crosses your mind as soon as your consciousness comes back up. You're not even sure if that's your own thought, but the feeling doesn't leave no matter how much time has passed. The room looks nice and cozy, but everything feels wrong. You don't belong here, you're you, aren't you?

Aren't you?

You'll soon notice that there are other things that just isn't right. You can talk, but is your mouth moving? You can see, but are your eyes blinking? You also have ball joints. Nothing hurts, and you're fine, but it's a little weird.

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[Well for some reason Nemesis feels three times more intense about beating this one, and smacks one doll fist into the other]

Alright, now what. Who we gotta take out next?

Pep.

[nods]

Nobody touched us, so we can only assume they ain't gonna go nuclear yet. What do we do to keep it that way?

We can't play on the same three –– and they shouldn't want to come after us now, anyway.

And we can't do, like, half this place because someone on the unit will mope.

So we've got Lilis, Pep, and sensitIV left.

––Oh, uh, if we're going to hit Lilis, let's make it something not-so-bad, though.

We can do repeat plays since it's a different round. But we've already taken something from them, so makes sense to take stuff from everybody else. Then we're the realest by default, whether it's something "bad" or no.

...What makes somebody "human" anyways?

Oh. Well.

Then let's do pep, Taisho, Bad End, and sensitIV.

Should definitely take their capacity for violence. Then Sensitiv can't come after us.

That's just going to make us pretty wild, you know?

Besides, we should be aiming for stuff that makes us "human". We could end up stuck like this.

[She rotates an arm, letting the ball joint and connected parts click.]

Being human's about who you are, not what parts you got.

...Unless you really wanna end up with somebody's heart and soul and torso?

[pauses]

...'Sides, ain't like we gotta take the same thing from everybody. We don't need to be the mostof nothing, just more of everything than everybody else.

Ugh, gross. No way.

But I meant losers might not get put back how they're supposed to be.

What about names, from someone? That's, like, how you have an identity and be a person, right?

Ohh...yeah, that's real good. If you don't got a name, you ain't nobody.

Heck yeah, see, knew it'd work out. Looks like drive's the way to go!

I mean, they chose what they were gonna do before getting hit by what we wanted 'em to do, but so long's we can finish 'em out before anybody else can, it don't matter.

All's we gotta do is show we're more human than the rest, and the will to survive's as human as it gets, ain't it? What else do we gotta take to have more'n everybody else?

We could take more drive? Or uuuh, enthusiasm? Yeah, that way folks won't even care about the game!

Enthusiasm's good... Will to play, or to cooperate... Love of life, desire to find your place in the world, shame regarding your position in life...that's all human stuff, right?

Conviction? Freedom? No wait, taking freedom is bad I think. But we could totally gank their resolve. Or bad attitudes? Yeah! Get everyone to look on the bright side.