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When the game starts, you find something grabbing onto your ankle and dragging you under the ballpit until you find yourself sitting on a disco floor platform with your team. It is only being held up by eleven balloons.

You make decisions on a cool arcade machine where you can SELECT A TEAM'S BALLOON. If a character is blind or has no hands or smth, you can assume things can be read to you and you can automatically pick through your speech. Thanks, Alexa.

If you look over the platform, you can see a lot of sparkling rainbow spikes below.

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I haven't been dragged into games for a while--how is our record looking?

[like just how hard are we going to get fucked here]

We didn't die last time. But that's only because there was a loophole that Baritones took advantage of. People still voted to kill us.

... thanks, Baritones?

Well, I wasn't mad about it. But Nine was.

I guess I'm half at the point of "why expect differently at this point?" and half "probably I would also be mad about everyone voting on us if I had been there".

No. I was mad about that. Nine was mad about Baritones taking advantage of the loophole. It involved lying to everyone. He didn't like that. Undermining community trust or something. I don't know.

Even though we had talked about doing the same thing ourselves at the time.

[Nine is weird.]

[when you can't ask if it's not because of his nihilistic tendencies of huffing the abyss because memories of how far 99 goes for that have been deleted.]

... I guess, but realistically, thinking that the community as a whole is going to trust is too optimistic. Narrowing scope to handfuls per unit is probably more productive, so...