073114lilymerrow

-- galliardTartarol0gist [GT]  began pestering arcaneArtisan [AA]  at 03:35 --

[03:35] GT: "MERROW," a voice says brightly outside the door.

[03:36] AA: Merrow recognizes the voice and rolls his eyes before coming to the door. "MAVICO. HOW MAY WE HELP YOU?"

[03:37] GT: She looks...slightly frightening. "Let's exchange INFORMATION."

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:40] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "VERY WELL, COME IN." Merrow indicates a couch in the sitting area of his lavish quarters.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:42] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: She walks in and sits on the couch, still smiling in a way that makes you feel as if she's watching irritable panthers flay you alive.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:43] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "YOU SEEM PLEASED WITH YOURSELF. OR ELSE YOU ARE INTENDING TO DEVOUR ME."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:44] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "I'm intending to devour my DAD. ALIVE. WITH BUTTER AND BERNAISE SAUCE. Maybe that'll drown out the unpleasant flavor of Mountain Dew and SMUGNESS."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:45] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WE SEE. WE ARE FAIRLY CERTAIN THAT IS ILLEGAL ON EARTH, BUT WE CAN'T SWEAR TO IT."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:47] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "We're on Alternia now, remember? I don't give a flying FUCK what the laws are. He's going to PAYYYYY." She growls fairly threateningly. "Incidentally do you have a phone I can borrow."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:48] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: Merrow's eyes narrow in concern. "...WHY?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:49] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Because all of MINE are waiting patiently for Episode Two of Sex Talkstravaganza." She shows him the dead screen of her smartphone as proof. "I have to wait a fucking DAY for them to power on again, and even then I won't have internet access."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:50] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: Merrow's lips curl in a mischievous smile. "'SEX TALKSTRAVAGANZA?'"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:51] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Don't ask. Really, please." She grins mischievously. "Of course, if you do, I can tell you exactly which techniques he photoshopped your face into."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:51] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: Merrow's smile disappears. "WHO DID?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:52] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Dad. I don't think I'm ever going to look at a weather vane the same way again, especially if you're holding it."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:53] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: Merrow spends a few seconds in silence before silently pretending to not have heard that.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:54] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "SO THIS IS A MATTER OF PARENTAL UPBRINGING? PERHAPS IT WOULD BE RUDE OF US TO INTERFERE WITH YOUR FATHER'S WISHES..."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:54] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Then you'll be encouraging his fervent suggestions we start rampantly hateboning like there's no tomorrow."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:55] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: Merrow winces, only a slight tinge of tyrian passing his cheeks. "WELL NO ONE WANTS THAT, WE'RE SURE." He sighs. "VERY WELL, YOU MAY BORROW OUR PHONE FOR A MOMENT." He hands over the phone grudgingly.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:56] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: She takes it gratefully. "Thank God. Maybe I'll hold off on the Seven Veils Dance for another day or so."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:58] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WE ARE SO DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED." His tone is sarcastic.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:58] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "That's the idea, I think." She grins.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[03:59] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: He grunts, but it doesn't really indicate any genuine response other than acknowledgement that she said something.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:00] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "YOU SAID YOU WISHED TO EXCHANGE INFORMATION?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:01] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Why not?" She puts her feet up and looks expectantly at him. "You first."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:03] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WELL WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW? WE ARE NOT SURE WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR EXACTLY."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:04] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "What's going on behind the scenes around here that the head honchos don't want us to know about? Why do you all know who Scarlet is? Stuff like that."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:07] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: Merrow sighs. "FROM WHAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GATHER, SCARLET CONTACTED OUR MOTHER SOME YEARS AGO, SOMETIME AROUND THE TIME OF THE TRUCE BETWEEN EARTH AND ALTERNIA. IN FACT, IT PROMPTED THIS TRUCE."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:07] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "SHE PROVIDED THEM INFORMATION ABOUT A GAME THAT WOULD SOON BE PLAYED THAT WOULD END THE WORLD, BUT WOULD ALSO BE THE ONLY KEY TO SURVIVING THE END ONCE IT CAME."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:08] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "SHE HAS PROVIDED THEM WITH A GREAT DEAL OF INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT IS TO COME, IN EXCHANGE FOR CERTAIN CONCESSIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN SEEN TO."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:08] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Concessions? Like what?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:09] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: Merrow sighs. "PRIMARILY CONCESSIONS RELATED TO THE WELLBEING OF HER DAUGHTER."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:10] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: She chuckles. "Might've known."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:12] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "YES. THUS THE BETROTHAL AND HER PARENTS' PARDONING. WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE FALLEN FOR HER IN TRUTH....WE WOULD HAVE BEEN STUCK WITH HER EITHER WAY, IF WE HADN'T, BUT..." Merrow smiles, looking off into the distance as if daydreaming. "...IT TURNED OUT SCARLETS PRICE WAS NO BURDEN AT ALL."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:13] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Mm." She looks faintly disgusted. "Can we get on with it?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:13] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: Merrow shakes his head as though to clear it, then turns back. "YES, OF COURSE. OUR APOLOGIES."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:14] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "BECAUSE OF THIS BOTH THE GOVERNMENTS OF EARTH AND ALTERNIA WERE PREPARED AHEAD OF TIME TO BEGIN SELECTING PLAYERS AND PREPARING THIS BASE FOR THEIR SAFETY, FOR WHEN THE GAME WOULD BEGIN."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:15] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WE ARE NOT ENTIRELY CLEAR ON THE SELECTION CRITERIA USED BY THE GOVERNMENTS. THEY SEEM TO BELIEVE THEY HAVE CHOSEN THE PLAYERS INDEPENDENTLY, BUT INFORMATION FROM DARMOK LEADS US TO BELIEVE THAT THERE MAY BE A HIDDEN HAND AT WORK--BE IT FATE, OR SOME MANIPULATOR. FOR EXAMPLE SCARLET HERSELF OR ANOTHER PLAYER ALREADY IN THE GAME."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:16] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: Her grin widens almost imperceptibly, but she says nothing.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:17] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WHAT IS THAT GRIN FOR?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:17] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Nothing. Keep going."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:17] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "HMM. THIS NEXT BIT MIGHT BE SOMEWHAT HARD TO BELIEVE. OR IF NOT, SOMEWHAT HARD TO ACCEPT..."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:19] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "THOUGH IT'S POSSIBLE YOU'VE ALREADY BEEN TOLD BY THIS 'AUNT JACKIE,' OR THAT GIVEN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR FATHER IT MIGHT COME AS SOME BELIEF."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:20] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: (( Relief, rather. ))

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:28] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: ((*20 years later lily's skeleton is found still trembling in anticipation*))

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:30] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: (( I wasn't sure if you wanted to have her react before wall of text continued. =P

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:31] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: ((oh, sorry))

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:31] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "OUR PARENTS, AND I MEAN THE PARENTS OF ALL OF US PLAYERS, ARE NOT ACTUALLY OUR PARENTS. OR RATHER, THEY ARE, BUT NOT EXACTLY."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:31] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "GENETICALLY, THEY ARE OUR PARENTS. HOWEVER, IT SEEMS THAT OUR ACTUAL PARENTS ARE VERSIONS OF THEM WHO WERE ALREADY PLAYING THE GAME THAT WE ARE ABOUT TO PLAY."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:32] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "I think you told me this already. Actually, yeah, you did."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:32] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "OH, DID WE? WE APOLOGIZE."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:32] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Enh, no prob. Infodumps can get hard to manage."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:32] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WELL THEN YES. YOU SEE WHERE THE ISSUE OF FATE COMES IN. IF ALL OF THE PLAYERS WERE INDEED CREATED IN THIS MANNER, THEN THERE IS REALLY NO ROOM FOR NON PRE-DETERMINED CHOICE OF PARTICIPANTS."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:33] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WELL, FATE OR MANIPULATION."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:35] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Man, you realize that means their session was doomed to fail from the start too, though? Like, they were never gonna succeed. It was literally impossible."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:35] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WHY DO YOU SAY THAT?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:37] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Cause the game made us while they were still playing. It'd already given up on them, pretty much. Or at least, I think that's what we can assume."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:39] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "HMM. AN INTERESTING POINT."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:39] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "IT SEEMS THAT THESE CREATURES WHO YOU CLAIM TO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT AND HAVE NEVER HEARD OF WERE ALSO PLAYERS AT SOME POINT."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:40] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "FOUR OF THEM HAVE BEEN NAMED TO ME: JACK, THE PROGRAMMER, SCARLET, THE COMPANION, LIBBY, THE ARCHIVIST, AND HERALD, THE WARRIOR."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:40] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: Merrow looks a bit troubled at the mention of Herald.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:40] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Jack's a twink?" She looks interested. "Jack Oswald?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:41] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WE DO NOT KNOW OF JACK OSWALD. WE WERE TOLD THERE ARE THREE SEPARATE JACKS."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:42] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "JACK OF ARENA, JACK HESTON, AND SOMEONE NAMED JACK NOIR."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:42] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Well then, Jack Oswald has to be the third, right? All the others HAVE last names. Thiago's involved with him somehow. I don't think it's in a good way."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:43] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "THIAGO IS? HMM. THAT SEEMS ODD....BUT WE THOUGHT DARMOK'S CONCERNS ABOUT HIM WERE MERE CALIGINOUS INTEREST..."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:44] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WE SUPPOSE IT'S POSSIBLE JACK OF ARENA IS JACK OSWALD. WE HAVE NO OTHER NAME TO GIVE HIM, AFTER ALL. BUT IF SO THAT IS NOT GOOD..."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:44] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WE HAVE HEARD JACK OF ARENA REFERRED TO AS 'THE ENEMY OF THE PLAYERS.'"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:45] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WE ARE NOT SURE WHICH PLAYERS WERE BEING REFERRED TO THOUGH--US, OUR PARENTS, OR THE PEOPLE OF ARENA."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:45] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Could be all of 'em, even."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:46] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "POTENTIALLY. THOUGH HE WAS ONE OF THAT LAST BATCH."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:46] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "IF WE UNDERSTOOD DARMOK CORRECTLY."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:47] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Darmok also said Thiago was a 'snake in the grass', which is probably a really bad sign."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:48] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "AND 'SOLD FOR A SONG.' WE WERE WORRIED AT FIRST, BUT NOW THAT HE'S SHOWN THAT HE WAS INTERESTED IN THIAGO AS A KISMESIS, WE AREN'T SURE WHETHER WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO WORRY OVER IT."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:49] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "THOUGH DARMOK'S IDEA OF BLACK COURTSHIP IS FAR MORE BRUTAL THAN WE OURSELVES WOULD BE COMFORTABLE WITH....THIAGO SEEMS CONTENT WITH IT. SO WE SUPPOSE IT'S NOT OUR PLACE TO JUDGE."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:49] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: Merrow shrugs.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:49] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "I dunno, that stuff seemed more like a warning than a declaration of undying hate. I don't have a ton of experience in this field, though." She shudders. "Wait, no. I do now."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:50] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "DO YOU?" Merrow sounds surprised. "HUMANS DON'T TRADITIONALLY GO IN FOR THE BLACK QUADRANT, TO OUR UNDERSTANDING." Merrow shrugs. "WITH SOME NOTABLE EXCEPTIONS."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:51] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "AND EVEN SHE SEEMS TO BE MORE CONFUSED THAN GENUINELY CALIGINOUS..."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:52] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Dad said people'd done it. Then he showed me. With pictures." She shudders again. "It was enlightening."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:53] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "OH. THAT SOUNDS....VERY..." he stifles a giggle. "...EDUCATIONAL, MAVICO."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[04:53] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "I can make sure you're there for the next showing, Pretty Boy. Don't fucking test me."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:01] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "KEEP IT IN YOUR PANTS, MAVICO. WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN WATCHING PORNOGRAPHY WITH YOU." He shrugs and changes the subject. "WELL, WE BELIEVE WE HAVE SHARED WHAT INFORMATION WE HAVE TO GIVE YOU. WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO ADD?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:02] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Well, now it's my turn to ask you what you want to know."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:03] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WELL FOR STARTERS, WHAT WAS THIS SEER OF MIND THING YOU MENTIONED EARLIER?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:04] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "It's my title. Everyone gets one when they enter the game. It determines what super awesome powers you're able to use. Eventually, if you play your cards right, you'll be able to God Tier and become ridiculously OP while flying around and apparently getting really cool pajamas."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:05] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "POWERS? WE WILL RECEIVE POWERS?" Merrow sounds pleased. "THIS SHOULD MAKE WINNING THIS GAME EASIER. WERE OUR PARENTS NOT GIVEN SUCH POWERS?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:06] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "The powers are common to every session, so yeah, they'll have powers. Some of 'em might even be God Tiered, even, if they're the seasoned veterans we're all expecting them to be."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:07] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "ONE WONDERS WHY THEY COULDN'T COMPLETE THE GAME WITH SUCH POWER AT THEIR DISPOSAL."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:08] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Cause games aren't fun if you get all the upgrades right at the beginning. You gotta WORK for your death rays."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:08] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "FUN....THAT RESULTS IN THE DEATHS OF BILLIONS OF SENTIENT BEINGS, POTENTIALLY OURSELVES AMONG THEM."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:09] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "SO DO YOU KNOW THE TITLES OF ANYONE OTHER THAN YOURSELF?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:10] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Nope. Don't even know what mine does, actually. I know how they're structured, though!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:11] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "OH?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:12] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "They're two-part titles. You got your Class and your Aspect. The Aspect tells you what you can control. The Class tells you how you can control it. Like, I'm a Seer of Mind, so I...see minds, I guess."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:13] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "SEEMS A SOMEWHAT SIMPLISTIC POWERSET. ONE HOPES ITS SIMPLICITY IMPLIES ITS BROADNESS"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:14] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WE ARE FAMILIAR WITH CLASS SYSTEMS THOUGH. LIKE, SAY, ONE MIGHT BE A BOY SKYLARK OR SOMETHING. AND HAVE POWERS THAT START WEAK BUT BECOME VERY POWERFUL AT LATER LEVELS."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:16] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Yeah, it's something like that - " She cocks an eyebrow. "You FLARP?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:16] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: Merrow blushes. "NO, OF COURSE NOT. WE HAVE MERELY....EXAMINED SOME OF THE DOCUMENTS AS A SOURCE OF....TACTICAL INSPIRATION."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:17] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: Merrow, faking non-chalance, turns around in his desk and tries to subtly captchalog a couple of papers from the top of his desk.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:17] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Whatcha doing over there?" she says with equal nonchalance.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:18] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "THIS? NOTHING!" His voice comes out a little shrill. "WE HAVE NOTICED HOW DIRTY OUR DESK IS, AND SIMPLY FELT IT RUDE TO CONTINUE LEAVING IT OUT WHILE A GUEST IS PRESENT."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:18] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTINUE."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:20] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: She grins widely, noting down his reaction for mocking purposes. "Like I was saying, yeah, it's something like that. Aunt Jackie didn't really go into a whole lotta detail there, though, so I don't know much more than that."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:20] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "HMM. WE WERE HOPING AS A PROGRAMMER AT SKAIANET SHE MIGHT HAVE OFFERED GREATER INSIGHT INTO THE NATURE OF THE GAME. WE ADMIT TO KNOWING MUCH ABOUT THE SITUATION SURROUNDING THE GAME, BUT LITTLE ABOUT THE GAME ITSELF."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:21] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WE HAVE LEARNED THAT THIS DERSE AND PROSPIT THAT THE OTHERS SHARED A DREAM OF ARE CONNECTED, AND THAT THE FACT THAT THEY ARE DREAMING SEEMS TO IMPLY THAT THE GAME IS STARTING, BUT THAT PROVIDES US LITTLE TO GO ON IN HOW WE SHOULD APPROACH THESE MYSTERIOUS DREAMS."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:22] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Just keep on dreaming 'em is my guess. Don't let the Archagent get the ring, though. That leads to bad shit going down, apparently."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:23] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "NO INDICATION OF WHO THIS 'ARCHAGENT' IS, WE ASSUME?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:24] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "OR WHICH RING HE IS TO BE DENIED?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:24] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "He's on Derse, I know that. And it's the Queen's. Presumably the Black's."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:24] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "THE BLACK'S? SO YOU ARE NOT REFERRING TO QUEEN BEAU, THEN."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:25] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Nah. The game's got this big chessboard motif thing going on in the cracks."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:25] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WE SEE....AH, YES. CHESS IS THE HUMAN GAME WITH THE BLACK AND WHITE SQUARES. WE BELIEVE WE HAVE HEARD THAT QUEEN BEAU IS A FAN."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:26] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "AH, SO THAT MAKES SENSE. A LIGHT MOON AND A DARK MOON--WHITE AND BLACK SQUARES."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:26] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Haha. Hopefully the last session's version survived. And yeah."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:26] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WE MAY NEED TO STUDY UP ON CHESS. PERHAPS THE QUEEN WOULD TEACH US IF WE WERE TO ASK..."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:27] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WAIT, THE LAST SESSION'S VERSION OF WHAT? PROSPIT? DERSE?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:27] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Queen Beau."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:27] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: ((WAHAHA))

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:27] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: Merrow thinks for a moment.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:27] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: ((*somewhere on the ark sami cries*))

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:28] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "OH MY. WE HADN'T REALLY THOUGHT OUT THE FULL RAMIFICATIONS OF OUR PARENTS BEING PLAYERS YET."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:28] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "BUT YES, QUEEN BEAU *WOULD* BE AMONG THE PLAYERS, WOULDN'T SHE? AND THE CONDESCE AS WELL."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:29] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "...AND MUCH MORE POWERFUL THAN US, YOU'VE SUGGESTED. WE HOPE THIS DOES NOT BODE ILL....IT IS POSSIBLE THE VERSION OF OUR MOTHER ON THAT SIDE IS NOT SO FOND OF ANOTHER TYRIAN BLOOD JOINING THE GAME."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:30] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Ah jeez. Hopefully they'll have beaten the spirit of teamwork into her by the time they get here."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:30] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "OH MY. FOR THAT MATTER....HOW WILL THEY REACT TO ACENIA? HER MUTANT BLOOD COULD MARK HER FOR CULLING!" Merrow looks concerned.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:30] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "NO....NO, WAIT. LEYERS WOULD BE AMONG THE PLAYERS IN THAT SESSION. THEY MUST ACCEPT MUTANTS FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:30] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "SHE IS PROBABLY SAFE."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:31] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "I WILL *KEEP* HER SAFE."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:31] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "D'aww."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:31] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "ESPECIALLY FROM THIS 'HERALD' DARMOK MENTIONED."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:32] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "I haven't heard about this Herald guy yet. What've you heard?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:32] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "LITTLE, OTHER THAN THAT HE WAS A WARRIOR, AND THAT IF ACENIA'S 'PRIMER' IS NOT FILLED, HE MAY TRY TO TAKE HER."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:33] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "THIS SEEMS TO INVOLVE LOVE AND MARRIAGE AMONG TWINKS, WE THINK, SO WE BELIEVE WE'VE GOT THAT COVERED."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:34] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Does she have a Primer, though? Like, I don't. I dunno if that's really a cause to worry."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:34] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WE DON'T BELIEVE SO. DARMOK SPOKE AS THOUGH HE WOULD BE 'FILLING' MILOKO'S 'PRIMER' BY HUMAN MARRYING HER. SO PERHAPS THAT IS ENOUGH."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:35] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "PERHAPS IT IS JUST A METAPHOR. AS MUCH OF WHAT HE SAYS IS."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:35] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "I don't think it's QUITE equivalent, but yeah, it's probably close enough for the Herald's standards, whoever he is."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:36] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WE ARE MATESPRITS NOW, AND BETROTHED TO BE HUMAN-MARRIED AT SOME POINT. THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH, YES?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:37] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Yeah." She waves a hand. "I wouldn't worry about it"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:37] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "SO THAT LITTLE DIVERSION ASIDE, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU KNOW ABOUT SBASE THAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BEFORE IT COMES TIME TO PLAY?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:38] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "ANY INSTRUCTIONS, OR WALKTHROUGHS, OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:40] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Entry's pretty unintuitive. You have two players, a server and client, and the server has to drop a bunch of machines and shit and then the client has to figure out which machines do what and also toss an object into this glowing seizure kernel thingy called a kernelsprite before making a little statue and breaking it before a meteor crushes their house and kills them."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:40] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "TOSS AN OBJECT? LIKE A SPECIFIC OBJECT?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:41] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Any object works. You have to prototype it before you enter, though, or you fuck EVERYONE over reeeeally bad."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:41] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "'PROTOTYPE?'"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:41] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Toss a thing into it."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:41] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "The game has a fondness for renaming things."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:42] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WE SEE. SO YOU CAN ENTER WITHOUT PROTOTYPING? HOW DOES IT 'FUCK EVERYONE OVER' IF YOU FAIL TO?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:43] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Each side's Queen and King have a ring and a scepter respectively. They get neat powerups based on what we prototype, which is good for them but makes the final boss battle utter shit for us. It also affects the imps too, though, so if you dont prototype anything apparently you get creepy skeleton monsters that don't drop grist and you cannot win, ever. You're stuck."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:45] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "HMM. SO WE MUST PROTOTYPE THEN. IT SOUNDS LIKE THE MOST SENSIBLE COURSE OF ACTION WOULD BE TO DROP SOMETHING INTENTIONALLY WEAK OR HAMSTRUNG INTO THE KERNELSPRITE THOUGH, TO WEAKEN THE ENEMY."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:46] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "PERHAPS WE SHOULD HAVE A MEETING TO INFORM THE OTHER PLAYERS TO BEGIN PREPARING CRIPPLED OBJECTS FOR PROTOTYPING."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:47] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Pppbpbpbpb." She blows a raspberry. "This is why I didn't wanna tell you guys anything. It isn't any FUN if you guys prepare ahead to make the game a cakewalk."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:48] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "MAVICO. YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT TAKING THE LIVES OF OUR SUBJECTS, AND OF THE HUMANS AS WELL, INTO OUR HANDS FOR THE SAKE OF 'FUN.'"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:48] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "THIS GAME HAS ALREADY DEFEATED OUR PARENTS, IF YOUR THINKING IS CORRECT."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:49] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "AND EVEN KILLED SOME OF THEM, TO HEAR DARMOK TELL IT. WE KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT THE 'OTHER SIDE'S" VERSION OF COMMANDER AGGARO WAS KILLED."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:49] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "And that's surprising?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:50] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "PERHAPS NOT. BUT IT IS A WARNING NOT TO TAKE THIS AS A MERE GAME."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:50] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "THERE IS A VERY GOOD CHANCE THAT NOT ALL TWENTY OF US WILL BE SURVIVING THIS GAME. THAT THERE WILL BE FEWER THAN TWENTY SURVIVORS OF THIS UNIVERSE ONCE WE WIN."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:51] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "I've never taken it as just a game. I've taken it as the way I go out in a blaze of glory and finally get to meet my mom, and I'm not about to have you ruin that because you think you can keep people from dying by weakening the imps."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:51] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "THIS IS NOT SOMETHING WE ARE DOING TO 'HAVE FUN, AND MAY THE BEST MAN WIN.' THIS IS A FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL. THIS IS A WAR. WE CAN TAKE NO RISKS THAT DO NOT OFFER US GREATER REWARD THAN WHAT WE RISK BY TAKING THEM. "

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:52] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "THE SURVIVORS OF EARTH AND ALTERNIA ARE *NOT* EXPENDABLE."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:53] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "The game sure as Hell thinks they are."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:53] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WELL WE DO NOT INTEND TO LET THE GAME TO MAKE THAT DECISION FOR US, IF AT ALL POSSIBLE."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:54] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "It's not, I'll tell you that right now. The game's been making decisions for you since before you were born. What makes you think it'll stop now?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[05:57] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK PHILOSOPHY, TALK TO MEDEIS. WE MUST BELIEVE THAT IF THE OUTCOMES OF ALL OF THIS WERE PREDETERMINED, THERE WOULD BE NO POINT IN EVEN CALLING IT A 'GAME' IN THE FIRST PLACE--IT WOULD SIMPLY BE A PLAY, OR CINEMA. THERE MUST BE MULTIPLE ENDINGS, AND OUR ACTIONS MUST DETERMINE WHICH ONE COMES ABOUT."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:03] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: She shrugs. "All right, go ahead and call your little seminar about crippling the game. I'll just be waiting over here for the game to fuck us over some other way. It's got lots of options."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:03] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "LET IT THEN. WE NEED NOT AID IT IN DOING SO."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:04] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE INFORMATION, IN SPITE OF YOUR RESERVATIONS ABOUT DOING SO, MAVICO."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:06] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "I have even more reservations than I had before we started," she snarls. "Better not tell you about the Black King or you'll blow up the fucking Battlefield."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:07] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "AS YOU HAVE MADE VERY CLEAR, WE CANNOT ORDER YOU ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL AT LEAST THINK IN OUR COUNCIL ON THIS MATTER. IF THE GAME IS AS DETERMINED TO SCREW US OVER AS YOU THINK, WE ARE SURE YOU WILL FIND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUR 'BLAZE OF GLORY.' AND SURVIVING LONGER WILL INCREASE YOUR ODDS OF MEETING YOUR MOTH--" Merrow's eyes narrow.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:07] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "--TELL US WHAT ABOUT THE BLACK KING?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:08] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Big final boss fight. Super easy way to disable it, though. Shame I'm not gonna tell ya what that is~"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:09] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WHY ON *EARTH* WOULD YOU NOT TELL US SUCH A THING? DO YOU *WANT* OTHER PLAYERS, AND YOURSELF, TO DIE MAVICO?!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:11] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: (( Probably should be "Why on Alternia." ))

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:17] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "I DON'T CARE! I AM NOT GOING TO HAVE YOU RUIN THIS FOR ME! IT MIGHT BE SELFISH, BUT I HAVE BEEN WAITING AND DREAMING ABOUT THIS FOR 13 FUCKING YEARS, AND MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, I WANNA GET THE FULL EXPERIENCE INSTEAD OF LIMPING THROUGH ON EASY MODE. THAT MIGHT BE YOUR STYLE, BUT IT SURE AS HELL AIN'T MINE."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:20] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "MAVICO, I AM TEMPTED TO PETITION TO HAVE YOU LOCKED AWAY TO PREVENT YOU FROM SABOTAGING THE SURVIVAL OF THE REST OF US. THESE ARE PEOPLE'S LIVES YOU'RE GAMBLING WITH FOR THE SAKE OF 'FUN.'"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:21] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "IF *WE* WERE TO DO SUCH A THING WE WOULD BE SEEN AS A TYRANT."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:25] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "I'm not gonna SABOTAGE the game!" She looks at him incredulously. "What kind of insane maniac would do that? I could HELP, even. But not if you're gonna crush the soul out before we even start playing. And hey, it's not that bad of a thing to be a tyrant! Hell, you might get congratulated! Great start on living up to the family name, right?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:25] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "HOW DOES DECREASING OUR ODDS OF SURVIVAL NOT FALL UNDER THE HEADING OF SABOTAGE, MAVICO?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:27] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "YOU ARE SUGGESTING ACTIVELY CONTRIBUTING TO THE DEATHS OF YOUR TEAMMATES. HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO RESPOND TO THAT? 'LMAO, YOLO?'"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:29] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "I'M NOT TRYING TO GET OUR TEAMMATES KILLED!" She growls in frustration. "Why can't you UNDERSTAND THAT? I'm trying to make this a better experience for everyone. You mistake is looking at it as if it were a deathtrap instead of a game, and I'm some kind of cackling mastermind that watches in glee as you set off the spike pit!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:30] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "WEREN'T YOU THE ONE JUST GOING ON ABOUT HOW THE GAME KILLED OFF OUR PARENTS AND THAT IT WILL ALWAYS FIND A WAY TO SCREW US OVER? HOW ARE WE NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE THAT AS A DEATHTRAP?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:33] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "The others don't have to know that, though! They can go into this thinking it's just a game, and we're all gonna make it out OK. They can have HOPE. If we do it your way, everyone goes into this wondering if this is gonna be the day they die, or their friend dies, or their MATESPRIT dies." She put special emphasis on that word.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:35] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "SO YOU THINK THEY'RE BETTER OFF GOING IN BLIND TO THE DANGER? WAIT UNTIL THE FIRST ONE GETS KILLED BEFORE TELLING THEM 'OH, YEAH, AND THIS GAME MIGHT KILL YOU. PROBABLY SHOULD'VE TOLD YOU THAT BEFORE WE LOST THAT TEAMMATE, BUT WE THOUGHT IT'D JUST MAKE YOU UPSET?'"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:39] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Like I just SAID, they don't ever have to know that WE know. Why do you think I've been so tight-lipped? Because I knew that if I told anyone, they'd turn on me faster than blinking. Look at YOU! We're not even in the GAME yet and you've already called me a TYRANT.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:48] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:48] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "SO JUST ACT SURPRISED WHEN PEOPLE START DYING. DEATHS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN PREVENTED. THAT IS YOUR SUGGESTION?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:49] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "AND NEVER LET ON THAT WE KNEW AND MIGHT HAVE PREVENTED THOSE DEATHS?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:50] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "It's what I've been doing for my entire life," she says with a touch of bitterness. "Seems to have worked just fine so far."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:52] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT IF IT IS IN YOUR POWER TO PREVENT A DEATH AND YOU ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN, YOU HAVE ESSENTIALLY KILLED THEM YOURSELF?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:54] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "And believe me, if I have the ability to prevent a death, I'll prevent it! Contrary to popular belief, I'm not a heartless bastard!"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:55] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "...SAID THE HUMAN CHILD ASKING ME TO NOT WARN PEOPLE THAT THEY ARE RISKING THEIR LIVES BY PROTOTYPING DANGEROUS ITEMS."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:56] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Ohhhhh my Godddddd it's not like they're gonna die if they prototype a hammerhead shark or something the game wants us to survive past the tutorial at least."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:57] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "DOES IT? YOU HAVEN'T GIVEN ME ANY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT. IN FACT, WE ARE TO UNDERSTAND IT WILL BE SENDING METEORS TO KILL US ALMOST IMMEDIATELY UPON STARTING."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[06:58] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "AT LEAST TELL ME SOME SORT OF *ADVANTAGE*, MAVICO. WHAT IS TO BE GAINED, BY PLAYING 'ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT OF THE GAME?'"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[07:02] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "We get to not look like PANSIES in front of our parents? Besides, if Scarlet's actually been working with the base officials, don't you think they've already thought about the prototyping problem?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[07:03] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: Merrow looks like he wants to argue, but nods. "FAIR ENOUGH. WE WOULD IMAGINE SCARLET HAS INFORMED THEM."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[07:05] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "THANK GOD." She flops back down on the couch again. "OK, see? They've probably already got a solution and everything! Why don't you ask the Condy about it before running off and proposing we all prototype boxes of Kleenex?"

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[07:07] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: Merrow groans. "FINE. WE WILL. BUT YOU HAVE LEFT US VERY CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR PRIORITIES IN THIS GAME."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[07:09] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Mm. I'll be sure to target you first when I inevitably turn on the group and join forces with Jack Oswald."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[07:10] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: Merrow sighs. "Or tell him how to hit us hardest because it will make for a more challenging and 'fun' game..."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[07:11] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "I keep SAYING. There are a lot of things I am. A murderer is not one of them."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[07:13] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "VERY WELL. WE WILL ACCEPT THAT FOR NOW, MAVICO. BUT YOU REMAIN AN INFURIATINGLY ERRATIC ALLY. "

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[07:15] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: "Can't wait 'till we have to work together in-game."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[07:15] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "YES. IT SHOULD BE QUITE THE FUN TIME."

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[07:16] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#6495ed;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">AA: "VERY WELL MAVICO. WE ARE SATISFIED WITH WHAT YOU HAVE SHARED WITH US. FOR NOW. THANK YOU. DISMISSED." He turns to a notepad and starts to write something down.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[07:19] <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#aaaaff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">GT: She scoffs. "Oh, I'm dismissed, am I? I'm so grateful you decided to acknowledge me, Your Grand High Poo-Bahness." She bows deeply, offering both her middle fingers in obeisance, before exiting, slamming the door behind her.

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