"Did someone tell you that? Where is everyone getting all this information about the Captain? How do we know he even exists?"
Max is still convinced he doesn't, it's just some ruse to get everyone banded together against a common cause, except the cause is fake. It would be a good plan, blame it all on some supernatural being that was in control of everything and have everyone so distracted by that they don't find the real cause. He'd come too late for Jenny and no one has told him anything about that other than there was some sort of storm which he's glad he missed, being not waterproof.
He diligently hits another card for her, a 9, while looking down at his own four. That's never good, anything under 17 he has to hit again as the dealer and what he needs with a 17 is.. well, a four. And now two are already out on the board.
"You're not wrong, if there was no hope everyone would give up and sit around waiting to die. And generally those who want others to suffer do want them to think it's their own fault." He runs his fingertips along the edge of the deck absently, "Conversely if this is simply entertainment for some sadist, then we could be as boring as possible until they lose interest."
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Max is still convinced he doesn't, it's just some ruse to get everyone banded together against a common cause, except the cause is fake. It would be a good plan, blame it all on some supernatural being that was in control of everything and have everyone so distracted by that they don't find the real cause. He'd come too late for Jenny and no one has told him anything about that other than there was some sort of storm which he's glad he missed, being not waterproof.
He diligently hits another card for her, a 9, while looking down at his own four. That's never good, anything under 17 he has to hit again as the dealer and what he needs with a 17 is.. well, a four. And now two are already out on the board.
"You're not wrong, if there was no hope everyone would give up and sit around waiting to die. And generally those who want others to suffer do want them to think it's their own fault." He runs his fingertips along the edge of the deck absently, "Conversely if this is simply entertainment for some sadist, then we could be as boring as possible until they lose interest."