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Do you want to be co-gm, Wiz? I wouldn't mind the help.

Also, I think Matthew would be too smart to approach Magnus. The wacko vamp is likely to kill him no matter what he can say or do, just because he didn't like his face.
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Yup, Mathew is a chess player right? He likes convoluted tactics and power plays. But all his tactics are based on being smarter than his opponent, and by that virtue being able to predict his actions. So Mathew will overestimate Magnus assuming he is smarter than him.
If that is true or not doesn't matter, Magnus will do something crazy and unpredictable, even if it's just to do something Mathew wouldn't expect.

Hell, if Hale was in that scene where Mathew explained his nuke failsafe, Hale would've shot him immediately.