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The deal was set, vote with reservations, reap the benefits, then cover for the cost-bearer's mess afterward.
If no agreement could be reached, vote as one wished; although there were no benefits, there was also no need to help the other side clean up the mess.
Therefore, in most cases, a family adjudged 'guilty' would opt to speak with the other seven families individually and then preliminarily lock in four of them for a benefit exchange based on the initial results.
Of course, the details were far more complicated, but this was the general situation.
