[For Lenka, it's not so much about who is or isn't more useful -- that's something he acknowledges because it is fact, and something he'd put more weight on before all the revelations about the Reapers they're dealing with -- it's about the deception involved, the tactics, and the fact that Magnus and Taako doing this for three more weeks both leaves a bad taste in his mouth and makes him wonder how the hell they will.
But knowing them, they probably could pull it off.
They have a few options -- he could list out all of them, but he's going to go with the ones that work best for him first.]
I'm not going to hold it against them. We're... The next three weeks aren't going to be good.
[Understatement of the fucking year. He really doesn't want to fight them, in trial or out of it. Not out of lack of confidence or unwillingness to throw himself in -- well, okay, he'd actually have quite a bit of trouble raising a paw against his fellow Players, even if he hadn't run into the hell of all revelations this week. But they need to think this through. They need to think about the rest of the Players, and what the Game will look like. He still believes that this needs to be about trust and cooperation, rather than lies and a race to the bottom. Newt's story is... bleak, but Lenka is too busy searching for holes in the walls they'll need to climb.]
Okay. First: we could talk to them. I'm not as easy to threaten as you and Hermann. [and that goes for physically or in terms of credibility and Partnership] Second: we get a polygraph, or something else that can help the way it helped Hermann last week. They can't use dirty evidence if we have enough failsafes. Three: we find someone with a trial hint, or we buy enough trial hints to cover you.
Those are the ideas I can think of, right now. I'd still rather talk to them first, I think.
[If he was unsteady and afraid through most of their previous conversation, he's perfectly steady now, eyes flinty. He can't put together trial hints as well as some of them, exert the same influence as the pair they're facing, or provide scientific analysis, but he can come up with strategies on the fly if he needs to. Call it a job skill.]
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But knowing them, they probably could pull it off.
They have a few options -- he could list out all of them, but he's going to go with the ones that work best for him first.]
I'm not going to hold it against them. We're... The next three weeks aren't going to be good.
[Understatement of the fucking year. He really doesn't want to fight them, in trial or out of it. Not out of lack of confidence or unwillingness to throw himself in -- well, okay, he'd actually have quite a bit of trouble raising a paw against his fellow Players, even if he hadn't run into the hell of all revelations this week. But they need to think this through. They need to think about the rest of the Players, and what the Game will look like. He still believes that this needs to be about trust and cooperation, rather than lies and a race to the bottom. Newt's story is... bleak, but Lenka is too busy searching for holes in the walls they'll need to climb.]
Okay. First: we could talk to them. I'm not as easy to threaten as you and Hermann. [and that goes for physically or in terms of credibility and Partnership] Second: we get a polygraph, or something else that can help the way it helped Hermann last week. They can't use dirty evidence if we have enough failsafes. Three: we find someone with a trial hint, or we buy enough trial hints to cover you.
Those are the ideas I can think of, right now. I'd still rather talk to them first, I think.
[If he was unsteady and afraid through most of their previous conversation, he's perfectly steady now, eyes flinty. He can't put together trial hints as well as some of them, exert the same influence as the pair they're facing, or provide scientific analysis, but he can come up with strategies on the fly if he needs to. Call it a job skill.]