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A perpetually drunk NPC advisor who quietly insists the impossible Cabaret escape 'has happened before.'
Mistress Tiatha is an NPC advisor who stands with Mordecai and Rosetta around the hovering Li Na as the crew prepares her exit from the game. Swaying and drunk again, she says little, but her few words carry weight: where Rosetta can only say they *believe* the cleaner-bot smuggling will work and Li Na *should* survive the floor's collapse, Tiatha flatly declares 'It has happened before' — the sole voice claiming firsthand knowledge that a crawler has left the board this way and lived. She does not elaborate.
Earlier, it was Tiatha who helped Mordecai identify Dong's affliction as the incurable Separation Anxiety curse. Her quiet, inebriated certainty is one of the few reassurances the crew has that the whole desperate scheme isn't suicide.
A visibly drunk woman who sways where she stands, sparing of words.
A drunk NPC advisor whose cryptic assurance that the escape 'has happened before' underpins the crew's gamble.
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