[Beginning]
That will complete the preparation portion of this task. Please step up to the terminals, you will enter the game in partners, and shall win as such. The path is yours to chose.
[As the terminal flashes, you peer deeper and deeper into it to make out a fuzzy image... ...
And without warning, you stomach lurches and you feel a dizzying sense of vertigo... around you there are paths with light swirling around in them...
In front of you, is the assistant... except sometimes you see the clockwork body... and sometimes you see a freckled young teenager.] "Take it to the end, trade it or give up. Does it really matter?"
[The teen laughs and disappears... the paths are open to you...
But they disappear as soon as someone steps through one...and their entire team and partner team vanishes with them.]
((Please comment to each thread with which scenario you are choosing and I will begin descriptions there.))