Maybe they don't know how to use it...? Or like... can't with their hooves or something?

[ we are grasping at straws here. ]

Maybe? I don't have any better ideas, so.

[ shrugs! ]

It just feels weird to be this clueless about things this close to the end.

I guess it really could be anything, by now.

[ ugh ]

Seriously, though. At least we knew we'd have to fight Ruby by this point. It feels like we're going in totally blind here.

Yeah, and we pretty much knew exactly what we had to do to mess with the ritual...

[ we'll ignore how badly he was spiraling about which ingredients were the debuffs the night before endgame ]

Ruby was the villain of your thing?

I guess we know that it's supposedly a race?

[ whatever the fuck that'll even mean in this context ]

Pretty much. She was one of our "hosts," but she was planning to kill all of us from the start to end all of the Reaper's Games.