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Or other inconvenient things that aren't easily healed, like turning into glass that's easily shattered by moving.

[Looking around a little in case they can loot things but finding nothing due to getting an 8.]

Seriously? Just got over the dolljoints....

Then again, we still got stuck with that even when we won that game, so I suppose either way we might end up with strange effects like that.

Seriously? Punishments even if people win? What kind of system is that?

Exciting for the fans, not so much for us.

How? That just promotes sitting in place. It's like the watching paint dry of dismemberment.

You'd be surprised at how many people jump for the chance to avoid punishment. There was a pretty nasty game where we had to vote for people to punish based on their "sins" and the more we voted for others, the safer we'd be.

One unit voted for everyone each round and the others all fought to catch up. I'm sure the drama of everyone trying to make those excruciating decisions while realizing they might be sacrificing others needlessly when their own fates were sealed was extremely fun for the audience.

I meant more the glass punishment itself, but a popularity contest is also a dull way to go about it. Just a lot of arguing.

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I assume mixing up the rules ensures enough doubt to give them some entertainment - like what we're doing right now.

Hanging out in a swamp, how exciting.

[Looking around with a frown.] We're all here.

We are.

Hm.

[And his sense of duty and need to be useful is creeping up.]

Do you want to play to win so we'll be available in case anyone needs to be revived?

...it is the job we were given.

There isn't anyone holding us at gunpoint to do it.

...But if you want to, you can tell the others that. Personally, while I don't mind withholding the entertainment they want from us, I don't enjoy dying, either.

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I'm sorry what.

It was really annoying... I could barely move for a few days after that.

[Sigh.]

Why is this place like this!

They thrive off our torment.

I don't even know what to do with all this kind of... weird supernatural stuff.

After a while it becomes much less surprising, if that helps? Or if it's surprising, it's only because they've come up with a strange effect you never would have thought of before...

[This probably is not helping.]

[ internal screaming ]

Okay. Okay, that's. Fine. That's fine.

...Are you sure it is?

It's obviously not fine but I'm just going to put that on the backburner for processing for now.

I appreciate the warning, at least, since I can pre-load this before it actually happens.

That's more or less what I was hoping for, even if it's bad news.