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However they want, I'm guessing. Though I think their favorite way involves electricity and zapping people with it.

I see. And the rules are?

So far I've gotten: no sharing with teams outside you and your partner team, no killing each other outside of the games, and I think someone mentioned no punching walls.

But the big rule... those rules, yeah, sure. Whatever. You might just get hit by the black team by yourself, but this rule--they will punish the whole team. Worse, the judges will single you out in a game and put you and yours through hell. Trust me. Me, Dagger, Hope, and Lynx's Arrow? We watched that happened to another team. It ain't pretty.

... No, I imagine it was anything but pretty.

That rule is simple: Don't ever throw a game. Don't purposefully lose a game. Don't set yourself up to take the fall. No matter how things are? Record says it can and will get worse.

... I can do that.

Good. We need to make sure we can stop ourselves from doing that at all.

I just want to know who "him" is. The person the tube spoke of.

Sorry. No clue. We win games, we get back memories. We get back memories, you can fine out who that guy you mentioned in your message is. Simple as that.

In fact, Lynx and Corvus... we won the second game we played in. 'Course, it had to be the game that that team was punished in.

Which team?

... the dark green one. Lacerta.

... How bad was it?

Know how there's supposed to be six on a team?

Now I do.

Thought I mentioned that--anyway. Five of them were killed. Some drowned, some burnt alive. One of them was a little girl.

... I can still remember the smell.

[the expression on her face doesn't flicker]

I see their punishments can be absolute.

Yeah... you think that's bad... normally, from what I understand, the judges can just revive you. So you're dead until the game ends but then you get pieced back together.

The judges who threw that game, though, they couldn't revive. A lot of the other teams went to another judge to get them to revive Lacerta. It's why you're gonna see a lot of people in dresses--men, women, children, dogs...

So if you think getting killed is the end here, think again.

I'll remember that.

Reason why breaking that rule and getting punished is so bad... isn't because of the horrible dying. I don't think I can really explain it but there's bad games a lot. People went on about the most recent bad one when I first woke up, so you'll get a lot of warnings on that. Bad games happen, people die... and that's not what people consider the worst possible outcome.

No, I imagine death is not the worst.

Yeah. Anyway. So, uh... judges. Couple that you should keep on the look out for.

Who?

There used to be this one called Trickster--real bad mother, this guy. But apparently something happened to him and now he's gone. Now this judge called Flowers took his spot in doing horrible things, but it's not the same way. Not malicious or anything. But it was her game everyone was going on about when I first woke up. Bunch of teams got crushed in the end of it.

Surgeon is another one. He likes to experiment on people. I think someone mentioned not wanting to lose his game because he takes the penalty of a lose out on your team and experiments on someone. Game Master's another one. I dunno what his games are about but I know it was on the list of Bad Ones. Something about one called Persona being invasive and stuff--Brass on Lynx might have more information on those guys, though. He's been getting the details. I've been mostly going out and experiencing first-hand.

Try not to say their names in open spaces and if you want to talk where the judges can't overhear you, stay indoors and have the door shut.

How very god-like.

Ain't it just?

Continuation from the door thing, though: never open the door without asking who it is first. Judges have been known to randomly snatch up Blanks--one of our types on team in color--for no reason except to amuse themselves. You stay indoors, they can't get you. You open the door, they can. So as long as you know it's not a judge, it's okay to open to knocks.

Doesn't help much with the everyday thing, but hey, I'm not gonna put down ways to keep a judge from getting a piece of my ass.