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SUN SIGN

You find yourselves in a surprisingly sterile room. It's entirely white, almost blindingly so. There are a few beanbag chairs to sit on, though perhaps not enough for your entire family. On one of the walls, there's a laminated poster of a wheel. At the center of the room is a table with a glass case on top. If you lift the case, you'll find a single red button. Behind a glass panel on the wall is a monitor that is currently off.

Curiously, it does not seem as though you can actually destroy anything in this room (save for a simple note by the button), regardless of how much you may try. The glass will never shatter. The poster cannot be torn into pieces. Furthermore, your blessings and powers are off and none of your personal belongings are actually on your person.

A simple note lays by the button on the table, a reminder of your directive: Will you push the button?

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So this is one of the famed Limelight performances, is it?

Oh... yeah, you aint had one of these yet.

Oui! They have been a complete mystery to me thus far, though it appears the Madame prefers for the story to have Stakes.

Yeah uh. I aint sure how keen yer family's gonna be on this whole thing...

Oh? They are usually quite enthusiastic about the arts.

Yeah. They just use a lot of red in these ones.

…You may speak more frankly if something is troubling you, Monsieur?

Well, uh. It don't look like this is the proper kinda shit where we can just fight each other t'win. So we're usin' some coward device to attack or be attacked.

Anyway, it's either gonna be really fuckin' weird or a lot of murder.

Aint sure which one yet.

Ohlàlà, I see...

I don't suppose it is something that we might offer a proper bout over later?

...

Worth a shot.

[Knocks on the monitor.]

HEY, Producer!

[Nothing happens, though.]

Ah, I did not mean through the Madam, but ourselves. We could offer to fight the other family about it if they are dissatisfied with the outcome.

...

I mean. Depending on who. If it's Disorder, prolly the best way t'do it, actually.

FYI, sometimes people die.

Oh?

[looking around]

By the wheel?

Yeah, like one of those mortar and pestles.

[no]

That is a troubling image you are conjecturing, though I’m not certain I understand your meaning?

Do you think I'm being literal or figurative about it?

You did not say which, Monsieur, though by your countenance, whichever it is is dire?

Rude to talk about my face that way.

Ohlàlà, I meant no rudeness; your face is quite lovely! But I cannot divine your meaning from it, much to my chagrin.

Alright, I'm being literal about the death thing and less literal about the mortar and pestle.

And are death and punishment usually equivalent?

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Whomst?

Bonjour! Please rest assured that we have not met before.

Oh, good. I'm not completely losing it.

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