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Rules:
-Each team is dealt a hand of four cards. Each card has a point value between 1 and 10 and an attack.

-Each team will pick one card to play, and their first, second, and third choice of which team for the card to be played on.

-There is a 12 point limit on what cards will actually be accepted. Cards with higher values will be accepted first. After 12, the only cards that will be accepted are one with a matching point value. (e.g. if the highest card submitted is an 8, it will be accepted. If the next highest card submitted is a 7, and three 7s are submitted, all 7s will be accepted, but nothing lower than a 7 will be accepted).

-Only cards which are accepted will have their attacks carried out.

-Teams that have their cards accepted are protected from the attacks of other teams. If a team's first choice is protected, the card goes to their second choice.

-Teams whose cards go through also will not have to participate in the possible second round, should the game require one.

[You find that once the robot has moved away you cannot see or hear the other teams.

Your robot hands you four large, heavy stock cardboard cards, each with a point value and attack on it. You also get a black card, and a sharpie to write your choices on.]

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Unless one of them decides to kill us all, if we get hit, I'll take the punishment.

I'm just more so concerned with our target. Looks like I'm outvoted, card wise.

Byzantium hits hard too, you know. ...they don't seem to be well-liked, in competitions.

Cardinal is fine. Do what you want. But you're not getting killed on your own, so stop trying to pull that crap.

I'm not Byzantium, so I don't know. I do think they might be a better option as well, since they seem fairly logical about this whole thing.

--I didn't say killed, I meant like having an arm chopped off!

Either way, no.

So instead, I should let Coco or Vanilla or you get hurt, in my place, despite your loud distaste of continuing to get the short end of the stick in these contests?

I'm not human, and I sincerely doubt Vanilla is either. We can handle it much better than you guys probably can.

Whether it's hypocritical or not doesn't matter.

...............yes it does! That's exactly why it matters!

You hate being hurt, yet you would get hurt unnecessarily--it's like you allow a revolving door of misery upon yourselves! Y-you can't think like that, human or not. It's a nice gesture, but really now!

It's not unnecessary if it's for the people important to me.

Are we picking Cardinal or not?

And what about those who feel like you're important to them? Don't our feelings count?

It's your call.

As long as you're not hurt, it's fine.

[ :V!! ]

[SIGHS...]

Cardinal.

[g-god I don't want to hit Canary I don't I don't I don't]

. . . Seriously, Tiramisu.

If it's a single person punishment, I mean!! Would you like your limbs to be amputated?

If it spared a teammate, yes.

Coco, have you noticed how the others are extremely protective of you and how our morales have dropped watching you die or even talking about it?

Not to say any one teammate is more important than the other, but I think we can all agree you are the last person any of us would allow to take a hit.

I won't let myself be protected all the time. I can shoulder an equal part of the burden for this team.

When is the last time you let yourself be protected? Willingly.

. . . Why are we debating this now, anyway? We need to choose.

I'm going to take that as a 'never.'

It's not a never.

[HUFF.] I know that people want to protect me. But, I want to protect them as well. It's only fair if we share.

Share we will then.

So! If one of volunteers for something, it's alright.

The next time, someone else can take it.

It's not okay to shoulder all the burden. Especially if you don't want to be hurt. It's alright, it's normal, and it's okay to be scared. I'm terrified that something might happen to Trucy--that something could happen to us. That moment we all fell in Clover's game, ugh, I still get flashes of that.

But you act as if you have to be strong all the time, and that isn't the case. I'm going to tell you right now, that if any of you die again, I'm probably going to cry, a whole lot. I really, really hope none of you get used to this, and think "this is the way it's going to be."

Okay?

Does it really look like I'm trying to shoulder the burden . . . ? I'm trying not to. Vanilla and Mochi have been the ones choosing this time.

[siiiiiiiiiigh]

Tiramisu, I don't mind being hurt. I've chosen to be hurt before. Dying is the one thing I can't just accept—I've made promises.

. . . Maybe we should do rock paper scissors for that sort of thing.

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onlygoodlawyeris - 2013-02-23 04:27 (UTC) - Expand

[BUT NO]

I'm pretty sure that's not how it works, and even if it were, there's no way we'd allow that.

Well, the entire team is emphasized by the kill card, so I can only assume the others only take a single or select few members.

You guys act like you'd jump at the chance for it instead, honestly. . .!