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"After months of constant fear and wanton slaughter from above, the residents of Outpost 3 came to a difficult, grim decision. Everyone over the age of eighteen was assigned a number, and they instituted a lottery. The worker whose number had been drawn was to be sent out to the ferrovores’ lair as an offering, like a metal and silicone sacrificial lamb. The hope had been this practice would placate and pacify the creatures plaguing the bunker, and minimize the death the ferrovores brought down by way of curbing their bloodlust before it grew to proportions only sated by a massacre, as it had so often done. The brutal thing is that it had worked. There hadn’t been a killing spree in years, and all it cost was a single life every time the lunar phases reached their darkest."
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[In which Uzi's number is drawn]