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[aunter]

G R E E N > You enter the door and find yourself in a glass box, suspended in the deep, dark ocean. Darkness surrounds you on all sides and once in a while, the box shakes. It'll be clear enough after a while that that's because of the movement of the water. The deep, dark water that they're surrounded by. Once in a while, something moves in the darkness, unnaturally large and much too close for comfort. Then... the noises. The moans and hisses of things living out there, in the deep. Then the words appear:

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[plasmastorm]

[YES. SHE HAS THE KNIFE. she has the knife for a reason]

. . .

No. There's one other place from which we can take something. Isn't there?

[cantdecideonausername]

Is there?

[ chidi isn't super useful, sorry, but then he rethinks sara's words with a furrowed brow. he swallows and musters up his strength to respond- ]

Do you... mean the-- the other group?

[unnames]

[............ UHHHH

yeah pls explain sara]

[plasmastorm]

[to Chidi]

That's exactly what I mean.

[. . .]

[forcefully]

We aren't going to die here. Not if I can help it. I don't expect you boys to agree with this decision, but--

If it must be made, then I'll make it and take full responsibility for it later.

[cantdecideonausername]

But -- But how! How -- How do we-- [ he breathes in, straining hard from both the thought and the logistics- ] What's your plan?

[unnames]

[HE'S NOT SURE HE LIKES THIS AT ALL.]

Wait--

[not that he has any good arguments against but--]

That's not... [It doesn't feel right--not that he wants anything taken from Sara or Chidi either, but--]

[plasmastorm]

[a breathless laugh. she is definitely noticing the way Chidi and Alice hesitate, and she can't help but think. . . they're good people. much better than she will ever be, right. . .?]

Well. . .! I suppose technically I'll have to ask for permission.

[tilts her head back and yells]

Helloooooo! Mysterious game master!! I'd like to take the right hand of that suave and handsome butler on the red team, if you'd be so kind!

[WHY DOES SHE IMMEDIATELY GO FOR DISMEMBERMENT]

[aunter]

HI LOL
NO CAN DO 🤣😉🙃
FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS TBH
MOSTLY THAT IT'S ALREADY GONE LOL 🤭

[plasmastorm]

[. . . . . . . . . . . . . OH]

[WELL]

Wow! What a bummer. Someone beat me to it!

What about the right hand of Mr. Spidey? I believe Chidi said his name was Peter?

[aunter]

ALSO GONE 🤐

[plasmastorm]

[WOW WHAT THE FUCK]

[. . .]

Ooookay. I'm rethinking my plan.

[lifts knife]

[. . .]

[glances at Chidi and Alice]

If you're squeamish you might want to look away. . .!

[unnames]

No wait--don't!

[He has no arms to fling out but he's shaking his head fiercely.]

... Take it from me.

[plasmastorm]

[-- what]

Alice--?

[cantdecideonausername]

No! No, no. [ he makes a loud 'gah', not even using his energy for anything but trying to still talk. ] From me.

[ alice is paper and sara has suffered enough, it has to be him. ]

[unnames]

[TO CHIDI with very, very rueful humor:]

Oi, stop that. Let me have the lead role for a minute.

[And back to Sara:]

Just... do it. Look--

[AUGHH this is so hard to say out loud but he has to acknowledge it, he has to admit it--]

That's not even my name. I don't have a name. I'm not a real person.

So it's... it hardly counts anyway. It'd be like taking something from... from a character from a book.

[cantdecideonausername]

Alice, you are paper, shut up!

[ to sara: ]

Sara. I have --- suffered the least of us all. It's only right that I be chosen. Take my finger. Or, my hand. Or - Or whatever! I'm --

[ he swallows and shuts his eyes. ]

--already dead. I died before I came here! So it doesn't matter.

[plasmastorm]

[what]

[is happening here]

[her boys??? HER BOYS!!!!]

[for some reason she feels awfully touched and proud of them both]

[TO CHIDI FIRST]

Whoa, whoa! This isn't normal! Normal people don't race to cut off their own hands! Even when they're supposedly dead!! Also-- how can you be dead when you're stuck here with two people who are very much alive!!

[and then, to Alice]

And I don't want to hear that kind of talk from you! As long as you're standing here breathing, as long as you're right here in front of me talking to us, you're just as real as Chidi and I!

[unnames]

[whaaaat is happening, he was firmly expecting that to be it, but for some?? Reason?? They're not okay with letting him take the fall.

He has no idea why; he's not a likable person.

(It makes him feel overwhelmed, his throat tight.)

...

(Alice is with Sara. Chidi's breathing, right? He can still feel pain. So...)]

... So what do we do?

[cantdecideonausername]

I -- I don't know, but I died!

[ god and it was such a stupid death too, so so stupid. all because he was paralyzed with indecision over the most inconsequential choice. which is why he has to make a stand now... while lying down in a glass case with pooling water mixed with blood.

wow this is awful! ]

Sara. Sara -- don't do this. Please. Lets -- Lets all con-contribute.

[plasmastorm]

[this is awful and terrible, but. . .]

[Sara lowers the knife]

. . . soooo. How do we all contribute?

[unnames]

All we have to do is take "something".....

[MMMMM....]

I guess we just have to decide what sort of thing we wanna take.

[cantdecideonausername]

Preferably - not limbs.

[ he breathes in through his nose sharp and looks to the ceiling like it has the answers. ]

Ok. What can we 'take'. Maybe -- not literally.

[plasmastorm]

[. . . well. she looks over at Chidi now, obviously intrigued]

[unnames]

... Yeah. Can we take bad things from each other too?

[cantdecideonausername]

We...

[ breathes in, still in pain, still the crushing weight of the world and also the invisible force. ]

'Take something.' Could mean... taking on, taking off. Maybe... tear off 'something'? Tearing the paper?