“The butler never tells, so I can’t exactly say what the next game is but I can wager my guesses.”
“Well that’s unfortunate. What else have you found?”
“That they can hear us, which is pretty clear. Remember the wall slashes.”
“Uh huh.”
“Considering how ludicrous this all is, it's obvious we have to think as far out of the box as possible. So currently I’m thinking, they’re in a sort of losers bracket right on top of us. Or around us, your team has never lost. But my teams have and I’ve seen a different manor than this one, seems we’re in the winners bracket.”
“So what does that mean?” Felix put some cheesecake down in front of them and sat with X and began eating as they looked at one another.171Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGQSNykshfN
“Does it mean they know our every move?”
“It could mean something like that, I didn’t really think of that at all. But considering we can’t be hurt I’d think we couldn’t be heard either.”
“It's probably some kind of one way mirror situation, we can’t see our reflections but we can see something else. Or well, they can not us.” Felix took another bite of his cheesecake leaving X to ponder on it…
“A one way mirror, if that’s the case you should tell everyone to keep quiet on their plans. The last thing we want is for anyone to find out what we’re going to do.”
“Understood.” And off he goes, once more. Now that he’s gone, I can work these problems out. They think I don’t know what they’re playing at but I know more than enough. Our next threat, The Surgeon. Someone I’ve seen before and escaped from before… Alone. Something few others can say has happened. A sadistic psychotic man, constantly creating creatures and amalgamations. But as much as I worry about what he does, something else is bothering me.
“There were double the amount of us and two of them, it didn’t tell us that it happened nor did any of us know it. We all got our papers but that’s not the thing I need to concern myself with… If they’re throwing in bonus rounds I need to know what counts for something being changed. Sirens? Sirens… Those were never present in her prior games, the water would slowly rise up when she did her prior work. That means the Siren wasn’t for us, it was for her ally.” So that means there will be things that aren’t often in their battles for us to exploit if there are any extra additions that they put in without our knowledge… But that also means they want to make this harder. They’re trying to kill any and all inexperienced players off. But I still can’t figure out the purpose, it doesn’t make sense. Then again, none of this has. Next in line, cooperation. Despite them all being on the same team they seem no better than us. They don’t work perfectly in union and don’t seem to agree with the fundamentals of their side of the game. Meaning we can exploit their lack of teamwork, they won’t just effortlessly work together. They’ll be scrambled. Issues being I’ll have to get everyone else on board. Without giving us away, we need to keep winning. For the fallen. Like Officer Scott.
“So… I can’t talk. About anything game related?”
“It's not recommended, they can hear us and it’ll give everything away if we do.” Felix told me and William, funny that he’d come to us just as the Butler handed us our envelopes for our following games. Pretty clear that he didn’t get his. Odd.
“Felix.”
“Yeah?”
“Did you get your envelope?”
“Envelope?? I got one when the last game started.”
“Yeah but what about recently?? They give envelopes before the next day.”
“I didn’t get one, should I go ask the Butler??”
“That would be best, we’ll tell everyone else.” And off he went, cute guy. Just hope he doesn’t get rounded up as our Adversary again. No offense, he did good but I don’t think luck is gonna streak him through the whole game. Especially when he’s so sweet.
“Alright Willy Will, come on. We’ve got folks to talk to and stuff to tell, gotta make sure all our friends here know what we have to do.” First was the doctor girl, then we went to the mean guy, after him we checked on the scholar and well… He wasn’t looking game worthy. Which sucked bad, if he wasn’t up to snuff we’d be down a teammate and that’s what it was. The looney guy and his girlfriend were okay as well and seemed to understand the whole ordeal we stressed about, after that well. We went on our way, there wasn’t much to talk about anymore. All we can do right now is wait and wonder what we’ll be up against. As much as I don’t want to rely too much on him, it’s X or getting Xed out. And I, for one, plan to win this thing.
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