The game of the sixth month was meant to resolve a dispute between the three adult male administrators over who could run the Tower the best, and I believe it was the first time Ruana revealed herself to the Tower populace.
Once again, those chosen to participate were taken away from the part of the Tower we are most familiar with and separated into three different "pods": one each for Dax, Riki, and Jason. We were told there were challenges we had to complete to earn points for the administrator who was overseeing us. Obviously, Dax was the most humane, and those of us in his pod worked as hard as we could to ensure his victory. For a while, we even held the lead against Jason despite the modifications he was making to those under his care.
[I swear no one will have to suffer like this again. Oh, what a fool she had been. Conveniently, she leaves out the bit about the elimination process. Not something she wants to talk about, that.]
The situation grew more chaotic as time went on, however. At the end of one of the later weeks, when the various groups gathered to see who won the challenges, a girl from Jason's pod killed another. I do not know the specifics of what was happening in Jason's pod, but it is not beyond imagining the stress of it all was too much to bear. What was truly strange about it was how Ruana struck Jason for his negligence as it occurred. He was disqualified, and when we saw him again the next week, he had these large, black stitches crisscrossing over his skin.
[...]
There was a failed infiltration during the third week, apparently, because the competition was ended early. The administrators were so caught up in the game, they forgot about the rest of the Tower, it seemed. Even as the others returned, Ruana continued to play with those who had been dragged into their squabble until the end of the month, after which we were returned to the residential levels.
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The game of the sixth month was meant to resolve a dispute between the three adult male administrators over who could run the Tower the best, and I believe it was the first time Ruana revealed herself to the Tower populace.
Once again, those chosen to participate were taken away from the part of the Tower we are most familiar with and separated into three different "pods": one each for Dax, Riki, and Jason. We were told there were challenges we had to complete to earn points for the administrator who was overseeing us. Obviously, Dax was the most humane, and those of us in his pod worked as hard as we could to ensure his victory. For a while, we even held the lead against Jason despite the modifications he was making to those under his care.
[I swear no one will have to suffer like this again. Oh, what a fool she had been. Conveniently, she leaves out the bit about the elimination process. Not something she wants to talk about, that.]
The situation grew more chaotic as time went on, however. At the end of one of the later weeks, when the various groups gathered to see who won the challenges, a girl from Jason's pod killed another. I do not know the specifics of what was happening in Jason's pod, but it is not beyond imagining the stress of it all was too much to bear. What was truly strange about it was how Ruana struck Jason for his negligence as it occurred. He was disqualified, and when we saw him again the next week, he had these large, black stitches crisscrossing over his skin.
[...]
There was a failed infiltration during the third week, apparently, because the competition was ended early. The administrators were so caught up in the game, they forgot about the rest of the Tower, it seemed. Even as the others returned, Ruana continued to play with those who had been dragged into their squabble until the end of the month, after which we were returned to the residential levels.
Is that sufficient?