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Iolite

[Upon entering your team's cloud of mist, you find yourselves transported to a bare stone room with a single stone table and chairs. (The chairs have been bolted to the floor.) On the table are a 16 red stones, 8 blue stones, and a 2 black stones. There are also indentations around the edge of the table, each one marked in the color of one of the teams.]

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I don't know what the scale is. But it's still causing the least harm to each, compared with the most harm we can subject to one.

I don't agree with his plan, but I think yours is shit too. You're not putting a stone on Sapphire or Kunzite or I'll make sure you won't be walking for at least a month, got it?

Do it. I have attachments to Sapphire and Tiger's Eye, as well as a knight I care about on Jasper. They'd understand why I'm suggesting this -- and if you think breaking my legs, or whatever other harm you might like to inflict on me, would even that out later, then I'll accept that.

Oh, you're gonna order me around now, huh?

The answer's "no", though that should've gone without saying.

Calling your threat is me ordering you around?

If you wouldn't go with either plan, what would you suggest?

"Calling it" suggests it was a veiled threat. I think it was pretty clear to everyone exactly what I meant.

I mean the part where you expect me to do it later and then just get revenge after the fact. That's against the whole point. . . what the fuck do I want with revenge? What's that gonna accomplish?

I wanna protect the things I wanna protect. You can't save everyone, so let's save the ones that matter to us the most. What's so wrong with that?

We can't control whether any of the other teams target the ones you want to protect. What I'm suggesting is minimizing the damage to everyone -- the idea is to keep from laying too much on anyone.

This is a situation where we can't really save anyone. But we can try damage control.

I can control whether or not I damage the things I'm supposed to protect.

You're outvoted, so just deal with it and move on already.

Am I outvoted? That's fairly black and white -- the compromise you and Spitfire have been talking about is a good middle ground.

Oh? I'm talking about the same thing with both of you, though, you know. Maybe you oughta stop ignoring everything I say to you and substituting it with whatever you've decided I mean.