"...Probably not? But he cares about it. And he doesn't have anything we care about."

"This is a bad idea."

"What? Jingyan asked, right?"

"I would not normally suggest bringing a dead horse to the negotiating table" -- why is this a sentence he has ever said "--but it may be your only option."

"Gonna be honest here, I think this will go better if we just. Cooperate. He's not asking for anything unreasonable as long as we cooperate, probation might suck but you'll be fine and it'll be over in a couple weeks, and we really, really can't afford conflict right now."

"Probation may be the best plan. If the terms are reasonable."

"He has to write daily reports on what he did and show Fundy, he's temporarily stripped of political power, and if he does more shit like this while on probation then Dream'll get mad, probably. --Fundy's a citizen of L'Manberg, we got to choose who he reports to."

"That sounds reasonable." Which doesn't mean it actually is. Much blood has been spilled in the name of "reasonable terms."

"Yeah. As long as we can convince him that it's working and he doesn't need to punish Tommy further, I think we'll be fine."

"We will just have to hope Dream is reasonable."

"He's fucking not, though. This is stupid. I don't know why you even went along with the stupid probation, you could have just covered for me--"

"I'm not going to put an entire nation at risk because you think you should get to burn down whoever's house you want without any consequences."

He is... Not getting in the middle of this. It's not that he disagrees with Tubbo, you can not just burn down people's houses. But-- he does not trust Dream to be proportional about this, and that's important too.

... And he himself has been the person who "should just stop what he's doing" and-- he agrees with Tubbo, mostly. He's not going to say that though.

"Look, you're being kind of a dick, man."

"I'm sorry, okay? I'm just... stressed. Just... promise me you'll behave at the meeting tonight, for your own sake."

"You have met me, right, like, I can't fucking promise that."

"...I'm going to go build the meeting room for tonight. You can come or not."

"Do you need resources to build it?"

"Nah, I've got blackstone. It'll be, like, nostalgic."

On the one hand: He would like to be useful.

On the other: He would not want to get in the way of reconciliatory meeting room building. So.

"Is there anything you would like help with preparing?"

"I don't think so? I guess I might need more blackstone. We can take down one of Ponk's towers, maybe. I can also ask Ranboo to help, though, if you want to get yourself... more... stuff?"

"It would probably be useful long term to have weapons and tools."

"You can go mining, then. D'you want me to call when it's time for the meeting? 'S fine either way. The cabinet will be there, and Ranboo, but Ghostbur and Phil and Niki will be staying home."

"Wait, why's Ranboo going to be there?"

"Oh, I didn't tell you! He's the minutes man now. He'll be minutes man-ing. Taking notes, keeping track of time, all that stuff."