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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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And if the group on the other end of our particular farce is Acidia?

...

Then yer a vote fer taking it on too?

I see sense in both courses of action. And I'm also open to both.

If the question were just, "Will you sacrifice people you don't care about for those that you do," you and I would be fully agreed. I'd have no hesitation in making that choice.

But there are as many people I care about outside this room as there are within it. My allegiances are to people, not Families -- not even my own. And of the two... I have more faith in your ability to "tank a car" than I do Aster's or Snowdrop's.

Yeah, but I aint thinkin' many of the rest of yall can neither.

No. That's very true.

[He sighs.]

Ideally, either everyone would press that button or no one would. But knowing the mix of personalities throughout the Families, I doubt such a perfect alignment will happen twice.

If you feel strongly about preserving the safety of those here, or if there is anyone else who is likewise not comfortable with taking this on, I am willing to concede. No one should be pressured into shouldering more than they are prepared to handle.

[He stares at the button a long moment.]

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGG WHY CAN'T WE JUST PUNCH IT OUT WITH THE OTHER FAMILY LIKE CIVILIZED FOLK

[Sorry Red's ears.

ANYWAY HE SITS DOWN, TAIL LASHING.]

Fine, we gotta figure somethin' else out for damage control though. Losing three times in a row in one Performance is too much fer me.