The Chief nods. "I've been worse." It's his usual answer now, shrugging off the issue, and it probably says something very negative about his life as a whole that it's true.

"Arcade expected us to kill one another or die in the arena. He didn't account for how stubborn we are."

He eyes the perimeter they've set up speculatively.

"The whole place was full of traps and monsters. We'd find one another and team up, then he'd have to use his teleportation array to separate us again before we could break anything. After three days he stopped being able to keep up with all of us at once, and we broke into the infrastructure."