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[The Showmaster leads you through the dark stage and you find yourself entering something that looks like a very nice and expensive classroom.

Each desk is spacious with drawers that you will conveniently find any important item that had been on your person or that you feel like you would need here. Each chair is cushy and swivels.

Sitting on top of the teacher's desk is a young girl, older teen / younger adult in age at most, hair that looks like mint cotton candy that probably reaches down to her ankles. She has a knee drawn up to her body, resting her chin on top as she scours the room of who arrived . . .

And then she looks at you all with uncertainty in her face. You'll notice that her purple eyes shifts when she makes the expression, it goes from a solid purple to a purple mixed in with this symbol in yellow also.]

I mean, I certainly don't blame you for splitting away from that nasty shitty ass Holy Order family, but you're still from them so I can't imagine you're that great either.

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I say the same, but I wouldn't put it past a couple of families to fuck us over and buy unused squares.

Especially if they want info on these... 'Forgotten Families'?

Kind of a catch-22. If they dunk us for info, it's possible that we just withhold the info. That could hurt us as well as them though, I guess, if we're wanting to figure out a way permanently off this shitty vessel.

I guess we could extort them for something, but the idea of being totally fucked by another family kind of pisses me off, too.

If I ate shit for more info, only for the people who got it t'not share it, I'd be pretty pissed. I'd think twice about sharing anything ever again. Forget anymore free info-sharing meetings.

If they're the ones eating shit, then I wouldn't feel bad about sharing. So I guess the question is how badly do we want info to risk eating shit? Since there's no guarantee that someone else would try and buy them up, anyway.

Except maybe Cirrus because they're fucking insane.

You think Hex would fuck himself up for this?...

Maybe. I'm not sure. They're kinda pretty good at fucking themselves over already, though.

Except they're still the ones paying the price, not us.

And be real with me, do you care about the Forgotten Families? Personally, while I could care less, I wouldn't say I could care much less.

I'm not really smart enough t'do much with the info.

But bigger numbers means a better chance of winning, right?

Sure, but who cares if we win? We can get more visions next time. They hand them out like candy.

I was thinkin' more like getting stuck with shit after the Performance from losing would really suck...

Hm. It doesn't say there's a penalty for losing, only that the Showmaster will be punished if we choose 0 the whole time...

I mean...

You think you could convince Goose not t'shotgun every single crime?

[no force on this earth could, imo]

O... of course I could.

I don't think he responds to normal logic.

He just needs to be incentivized. Let me think...

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How would that fuck us over? They'd be taking all the punishments.

Would they...?

[. . . Hmm.]

Guess I misunderstood. What is in it for them, then, to do so?

As far as I can tell, nothing other than ensuring that the information isn't completely lost. They could guilt trip us over it, but it's not our fault or responsibility.

Yeah, that's true. If someone else decided to get fucked then that's on them.

Same time though, if someone doesn't we're totally out of information. I'll bet the faster we gather information, the faster we get home permanently.

I don't disagree in principle, I just don't see how this particular information helps us.

There are better ways to accomplish that goal. They just have to wait until we reach shore.

You think those answers are going to lie out there?

I don't care about the answers. I care about resolving our situation. And back on shore, we will have resources that we can put toward that resolution.

I'd like to believe that but I'm not so sure. Our families were all too happy to sell us out to begin with.

Heh. You're not wrong, exactly, but trusting people and utilizing them are two different things, my friend.

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