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[ The elevator opens up to a room spacious enough to house the whole unit comfortably, but with no furniture to speak of except a touchscreen podium near the far wall, displaying a row of four larger-than-life mahjong tiles on a red background. On the left side of the screen is a square that says TRADE. The walls and floor of the room are nearly checkered with metal panels, out of place against the rest of the marble flooring and unremarkable off-white walls.

The elevator doors close behind you. ]

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. . . . Our choices weren't picked.

Someone went harder than we did.

Every one of the units we picked went harder than we did, or as hard as we did.

If they escalated this much last round...this next round might be worse.

We escalated this much last round.

It will be worse.

You're, ah, right.

But how much worse could it be?

Someone might decide that it's best to play a 9 tile. If the 9 goes through, then no other tile can go through - that could minimize the number of units that are damaged. That would prevent any other unit from getting hurt, in exchange for an entire unit getting hurt.

If nothing else, this time the tiles were 7s and 8s. The next round will most certainly warrant an 8 at minimum.

...and whoever doesn't play high will take whatever the damage is.

People are... more likely to panic. And, to choose the units that weren't hit in the previous round.

Then...we should be prepared. Plan for the, ah, worst.

[some of the initial shock is wearing off and being replaced with frustration instead]

I don't want to make someone lose their eyes...!

Our choices are very, very few.

I know. I know! Any unit that doesn't play high this round will get all the damage deflected onto them. But that's...

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Man, that's fucked. That means they all chose more than us, right?

Or exactly as much. At least one unit chose exactly as much, at least, as they played the exact tile we did.

I'm glad I get to tell everyone I was fuckin' right all along. 'Santaaaa, why do you have a knife, no one's gonna hurt nobody!'

We are the reason why we needed a knife as well.

We had a knife 'cause we don't know who else might have one, dipfuck. That's how shit works, you know?

And in doing so, we contribute to the danger.

[ brushing back his hair, quiet ]

. . . It isn't wrong to want to protect ourselves. But, we aren't blameless.