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Castle Game: BAD END=DEAD END

[Suddenly, you hear the wailing of a horn. Outside, tension is turning to panic. You can't see anything, but you can hear people gathering up their things, sobbing in fear or speaking in harsh whispers. A lone voice calls from the distance:

The enemy approaches!

Upon the map, an unfamiliar geography appears -- several small nations, clustered together. Outside of them, an endless sea of enemy forces, identified only by a symbol of a cracked skull. Each of the small nations is marked with a flag in one unit's colour, and a tiny model of a castle.

You are at war. How will you protect your people and yourself?

(Rules & questions are here. Cleo is your gamerunner!)

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You didn't factor in break the trust of the rest of your unit.

And I know Wild City isn't easily approachable--Haruto is the one I know best outside of North, and that's barely saying anything because he's cagey as hell and won't let people close! But I worked at it, and have been getting somewhere! And now there's this giant reason he and the person he's closest to on that unit who is the unit leader have zero reason to keep giving me chances! At all!

[he's just... so mad. he spent 4k points and so much time trying to become Haruto's friend?!]

And now even North, someone I know from home, has been given reason to doubt me!

If I'd known about any of this, I could have easily just gone over there and claimed responsibility since I'm the fucking idiot who summoned the goddamned demon in the first place!

Don't even fucking think about it.

[TOO LATE. ALREADY THINKING IT]

You are not taking the hit for this. Period.

[JUST LET HIM???

but no, Nine's already... smacked him]

What Nine did was wrong, but martyring yourself isn't the right call.

[Yanks on Joker's fluffy hair]

I knew you'd say that.

[this is not a sexy hairpull!!!!

kind of hisses a bit]

--it makes sense!

It doesn't.

It so does!

[now he's just being petulant.]

It doesn't. If anyone takes a hit, it should be Nine and he knows that.

You should know, I told Talon that you had your memories messed with too, so he knows this isn't something we take lightly.

... you tattled about me not remembering the Trial already?

[gosh, Silk]

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Why would he be mad at you for something I did? Why would your friend from home doubt you? Are they so stupid to think we are just one conglomerate hive mind for fuck's sake.

[And for that last comment, Nine Nine is going to try to slap Joker across the face.]

Don't you dare become a fucking martyr!! How many times do I have to tell you, while your approach was less than stellar you probably did fix people from actually fading away?!

What the fuck do we owe Wild City anyway?

[gdit JUST LET HIM TAKE THE HIT FOR THE TRIAL!?!?

but he takes the slap like a champ, just stands there for a moment, fists clenching and uncenching, not wanting to lash out but just needing to. move.]

We owe them not fucking with their minds!

And other units don't work the way we do, you know that! And it's not like you're fessing up to who did it in the first place, so why wouldn't I be on the table for being doubted by someone who's an amnesiac?!

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Look, I'm not saying it isn't dumb in hindsight, because it is. And I've already told Silk I'd undo it. And you may owe them that, but I'll make that decision for myself.

And because, Joker, anyone that knows you, understands that you would never ask me to do that. You'd ask Silk or Tatsuya or Phoenix. We just don't work that way. So Haruto and your friend have nothing to worry about. Or maybe they don't know you at all.

[... goddamn you and your logic. logic should be made illegal.]

They won't even let you near them at this point.

And there lies the root of the problem.

No one has ever asked why. I'm just the end of the chain. The clean up crew. I didn't come up with this scheme. If Wild City thinks I'm their greatest danger they are just fooling themselves.

You're both fucking idiots.

[... honestly, reasons he's taking Nine-Nine's slap, tbqh.]

You don't get to own every consequence forever and ever, and he made a shitty fucking call.

Get it together and let's fucking salvage what we can.

It's not every consequence, but it has clear ties to the Trial.

[SO HE'S JUST SAYING???]

But fine. I'll table it.

You got the ball rolling. You didn't shove it onto spikes and watch it deflate.

[He crosses his arms and leans back against the wall.]

...we'll figure it out when the game's done. If Wild City wants help fixing it, we'll fix it. If they don't, that's their call. Worrying about it now's not going to do any good.

[... mrrrrr levelheaded reasonableness...]

... fine.

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[DUH. That was never in question.]

[I MEAN PLAINLY. BUT SOMETIMES IT NEEDS TO BE SAID.]

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