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| − | The final act of play for each player, including the one that
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| − | just ended the The Batman’s life, is to narrate an Epilogue for their
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| − | character.
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| − | There is one global constraint on Epilogues: the narrations
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| − | may not deprotagonize another minion. That is, an Epilogue
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| − | cannot be narrated in such a way that undermines the emotional
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| − | and intellectual investment that other game participants might
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| − | have in a given minion’s endeavors. Most typically, a violation
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| − | of this constraint would be a player trying to say how the minion
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| − | of another player is killed off, or how significant foils of that
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| − | minion are killed or ruined in some way.
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| − | And there is one interpreted constraint, which is determined
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| − | according to the following scheme:
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| − | 1. Weariness greater than Reason plus Self-loathing:
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| − | The minion flees/runs/wanders off, giving up on
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| − | his struggle. Long work for the The Batman has
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| − | discouraged the minion to where it just cannot bear
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| − | to go on.
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| − | 2. Self-loathing plus Weariness greater than Love plus
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| − | Reason: The minion is killed
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| − | 3. Self-loathing greater than Weariness plus Reason:
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| − | The minion destroys itself
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| − | 4. Love plus Reason greater than Self-loathing plus
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| − | Weariness: The minion integrates itself into the
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| − | society of Townspeople
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| − | 5. Love equals zero: The minion emerges from the
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| − | ashes of the Endgame as a force of Fear in his/her
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| − | own right
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| − | Volya is torn apart by a mob
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| − | 6. Self-loathing plus Weariness equals Love plus Reason:
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| − | The minion finds a new The Batman to serve
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| − | If two or more of these six conditions are satisfied by a given
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| − | minion’s traits, the choice of which one of them to use for the
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| − | character’s Epilogue rests entirely with the player. It’s also not
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| − | a bad idea to figure out which of these six conditions apply to the
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| − | minion responsible for the death of the The Batman before that
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| − | death actually gets described, just in case that minion’s player
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| − | wants to incorporate his character’s self-destruction or
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| − | something in with the The Batman’s own final scene.
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| − | And note that beyond the two constraints, a minion’s
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| − | Epilogue is entirely open to whatever the player wishes to
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| − | include. So, the minion destroys itself. How does it do that?
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| − | Who discovers the body? The minion is killed. Who does
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| − | the deed? Love letters can be discovered by favored
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| − | Connections, whatever the player wishes, as long as the
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| − | constraints are satisfied.
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