A Practical Guide to Evil II: The Last Thread's On Fire, But It's Not Our Fault

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and Above is not really the side of careful preparation.

To be fair, neither is Below. Preparation, yes. Careful preparation, no.

"When using tigers you don’t have enough time to gloat, when using rats you risk awkwardly running out of gloat before the end: true equilibrium is found in a pit of humble man-eating tapirs, beasts that have never once failed me.”
– Dread Empress Atrocious, later devoured by man-eating tapirs