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Survivor's Guilt

Another two weeks have passed since the last contest. Whistle has been hanging out more with (most of) his team members these past few weeks: playing games, telling stories and such. In fact, he now considers his team members his friends.

He is currently sitting on the grass, playing a familiar board game to him called "Dipoly" (get it?) with Coiny, Firey, and Naily, an armless hardware nail that the three accepted to join the game. Coiny rolls 2 dies, the two top faces of the dice adding up to 8. He moves his piece, which is a dragon, across the board.

A sense of dread fills Coiny's mind as his piece gets closer and closer to.....

Whistle's hotel. Which he then landed on. "NOOOOO!!!", he subsequently yells, with his hands up in the air in dismay.

"Haha, give me all your money, money!", Whistle teased Coiny.

"Oh my miiiiiint.......", Coiny whined, covering his face in embarrassment as he hands a thousand's worth of fake currency to Whistle. 

"Hehe, wait-", Whistle caught on to something Coiny said after receiving the currency. "Did you just say, 'oh my mint'?"

"Y-yeah. What's up with it?"

"Ohhhh, it's because a mint created you, didn't it?"

"Yeah. Exactly."

Whistle then audibly giggled to himself. Coiny felt confused, and asked, "What's so funny?"

"Oh, nothing."

Firey chimed in, "Ooh, I say 'Oh my oxygen', when I'm distressed!"

"'Oh my oxygen'? That's a GOOD one." Whistle loved how he could understand why that is Firey's phrase.

"Enough talk, I'm gonna roll!", Naily declared. She grabs the two dice with her feet and tosses them into the board. The two top faces of the dice add up to 5, making her move her piece, which is a fish monster, up 5 spaces. She lands on a chance space.

She then grabbed a card from the middle of the board. The card reads,

Go To Jail: Move directly to jail; do not pass go, do not collect $200.

"Are you serious?!" Naily was absolutely fed up. She just got out of jail, and now she was sent back almost instantly?!

"That's actually good, you won't get to land on any of our properties.", Firey clarified.

"Yeah, but.. I wanna get some properties! I need more income!"

"Team Objectpals! Assemble or you will tremble!", Four called out in a voice everyone can hear.

"Oh wait, Cake at Stake starting now?", Coiny says.

"What's Cake at Stake?", Whistle asked.

"You seriously haven't seen a Cake at Stake ceremony?", Coiny remarked.

"Oh, uhh... I never really went out of my way to watch one. What is it?"

"Well, it's how eliminations are held. Y'know, 'cause we lost the last contest?"

"Oh, right."

"Aww... you guys are leaving?", Naily retorted.

"Naily, we have played this game for over 2 hours, we need to leave.", Coiny explained.

Naily then frowned. Whistle felt sympathy for her and tried to comfort her as Firey put away the pieces and the board. "Hey, don't feel bad, we're free to hang out all day!"