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DRAMA

[You step into a small room, reasonably comfortable room with plenty of chairs for you to sit on, and the door promptly locks behind you. Everything is decorated in your team colors, with splashes of neutral cream.]

On one wall is a huge, laminated poster bearing your instructions. On the lone table in the middle of the room, you find a tall glass cylinder labelled "Bank"; it contains 15 small orbs in your team color. You also find: four buttons (Hand, Shield, Lunch, Kit) that you can press should you wish to make a purchase; the six cards that are to be your starting hand; and five card-shaped, team-colored slots. Your team color is notably missing.

Everything is utterly indestructible, no matter what you try to do.]

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We'll make sure of it.

Who's the most likely to play a card against us? I know you have a friend on Music.

We have a friend, or several friends, on every team except History. They're the most likely.

I'm going to feel a little badly for playing on them ... if the others all think like I do, they're going to get hit hard.

Damn...

[ His hands curl into fists. ]

I don't like thinking like that. History could hit anyone, and anyone could hit them.

But our low cards aren't that bad.

Mmm ... our hand could be a lot worse.

[ Taps her chin thoughtfully. ]

Kit suggested we play another card on Science. They have a friend of ours, Swift, but out of everyone we know he's the most likely to take it in stride.