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[principals]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 1 – noon
Where: The Auditorium
What: ROUND 1 BEGINS

[Some hours have passed, leaving you time to mingle and explore to your hearts content. However, as the clocks tick over to noon … the bell rings again. And this time, it's followed by the hissing static of an intercom system.]

Ahem! Ahem, is this thing on? Ahh, yes … If all Students and Instructors could kindly make their way to the Auditorium, our first class can begin.

[Those people who are understandably reluctant to follow that instruction may just find their feet moving for them, plodding them into the massive assembly hall. Once they're there, the door slams shut and locks behind them.

… There's nobody there, but the intercom is still on.]

Comments

Re: MINGLE

[lionrogue]

So this is it? Th' part where they make us fight?

Re: MINGLE

[clocksandroses]

They like to make us wait a little, first.

Re: MINGLE

[lionrogue]

What, t'scare us?

Well, whatever. Th' other teams got people who've done this kinda thing before too, so we don't got that advantage anymore.

Re: MINGLE

[clocksandroses]

A-Ah, about that …

… Most of those people are friends of Kit and me. Our teammates, actually, from where we were before.

Re: MINGLE

[lionrogue]

...Then if it's us vs. them, what are ya gonna choose?

Re: MINGLE

[clocksandroses]

To do the least possible damage without forcing people to throw their lives away. [ And by "people", she means you, Henry, and Bucky. ]

I've been in this position before, so I'm prepared to handle it.

Re: MINGLE

[lionrogue]

'Least possible damage' ain't no way t'get ahead.

Re: MINGLE

[clocksandroses]

Aim to survive, not to win.

Aiming to win gets you and your whole team targeted.

Re: MINGLE

[lionrogue]

What's sayin' we're not gonna be targeted anyway?

Re: MINGLE

[clocksandroses]

We most likely will be. But with the teams being as connected as they are, everybody should be arguing to play as low as they can.

The thing is that … mm, escalation doesn't actually help. If you escalate, they escalate, and before you know it there's death and torture that never needed to happen, both in and out of the competition.