Thankfully, that actually wasn't their own decision. (I'd seen somewhere that they'd been poisoned and were racing because of that, and I'd been thinking, "what genius came up with that, because they clearly need to be shot," too, but no, it wasn't a choice, really.)
They went to the reading (well, viewing - it was a hologram message) of Krew's will. They all had a drink to toast him prior to the viewing, and then the message told them to build a racing team. Everyone shouted at him, and he'd anticipated that so then informed them all they'd just been hit with a slow-acting poison (DO NOT TOAST DEAD MEN, OR AT LEAST NOT DEAD CRIME LORDS, BECAUSE THEY WILL TRY TO KILL YOU), but if they fulfilled his dream of creating a combat racing team and winning the Kras/world/whatever racing competitions, he'd had it arranged that they'd be given the antidote. If they failed, they'd drop dead shortly after the racing season ended. Because his timing with the poison is just that awesome.
(And I think there's probably something more going on with this "win everything!" business, but we haven't seen what, if anything, that could be.)
...Of course, I keep wondering, if it's a known toxin and there's a known counter, why are you not trying to have someone who isn't poisoned (like, say, Samos, who is there, or Tess, who's probably in Haven, or Sig, who's probably in Spargus, I mean, the group of you have got to have some people who'd be willing to do this for you) go try to obtain one. Sure, it's rare, but you know what it is! Keep racing just in case, but, come on...
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They went to the reading (well, viewing - it was a hologram message) of Krew's will. They all had a drink to toast him prior to the viewing, and then the message told them to build a racing team. Everyone shouted at him, and he'd anticipated that so then informed them all they'd just been hit with a slow-acting poison (DO NOT TOAST DEAD MEN, OR AT LEAST NOT DEAD CRIME LORDS, BECAUSE THEY WILL TRY TO KILL YOU), but if they fulfilled his dream of creating a combat racing team and winning the Kras/world/whatever racing competitions, he'd had it arranged that they'd be given the antidote. If they failed, they'd drop dead shortly after the racing season ended. Because his timing with the poison is just that awesome.
(And I think there's probably something more going on with this "win everything!" business, but we haven't seen what, if anything, that could be.)
...Of course, I keep wondering, if it's a known toxin and there's a known counter, why are you not trying to have someone who isn't poisoned (like, say, Samos, who is there, or Tess, who's probably in Haven, or Sig, who's probably in Spargus, I mean, the group of you have got to have some people who'd be willing to do this for you) go try to obtain one. Sure, it's rare, but you know what it is! Keep racing just in case, but, come on...