Private overtures were made prior to the public posts by both sides. Initial negotiation (read: surrender) attempts were nearly torpedoed by hosile negotiators who made the exclusion of t$ a sticking point, and then set an arbitrary 24 hr deadline for kerchogg to offer their surrender, while simultaneously going afk for a majority of that period. In the process, t$' private inquiries and requests for clarification were entirely dodged and avoided, with the t$ representative being bounced back an
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