BLACK PAWN B: CAPTURE the body to make it disappear.

It can't CAPTURE a member of its OWN TEAM! It drags the body to the edge and drops it.

Behind it, the CYBER-BLACK ROOK and the PAST BLACK ROOK A from 5 turns ago appear.

WHITE BISHOP B: Examine LIBRARY.

It isn't sure it can? The LIBRARY is kind of an INTANGIBLE POCKET DIMENSION, it's pretty sure. PIECES can just sort of... summon and unsummon books from them at will. Some of the books are available to both sides, and some are only available to one.

It could send the book there now, but the WHITE QUEEN wants to read it, and the TURN won't be complete until she does.

WHITE QUEEN: Read DARK TOME.

Yes, yes! The WHITE QUEEN intends to use the power of the book to make itself IRRESISTABLE. Then the BLACK QUEEN will be its bride!

BLACK ROOK A and BLACK ROOK B: Fly! Fly, my pretties!

The BLACK ROOK B doesn't think it can do that. It'll need to learn MOVEMENT MAGIC first. It makes a note to ask the BISHOP for the DARK TOME asap.

The BLACK ROOK A just got back from the past and doesn't know what's going on. Also, it's pretty sure it just witnessed the tail end of a murder.

Neither of them do anything, though, so it's still BLACK's turn.

BLACK KNIGHT: Develop a powerful sense of JUSTICE, don DETECTIVE HAT.

Sure thing, toots.

It's a dark day on the BOARD. It isn't actually dark, and the BLACK KNIGHT isn't sure it's day either. The sky is stuck in some liminal timeframe, unmoving and unchanging, day after day. The darkness don't linger in the sky, but in the hearts of the PIECES. Doesn't matter if they're BLACK or WHITE. The BLACK KNIGHT has been around long enough to know everyone's rotten to the core.

The BLACK KNIGHT don't care about winnin' or losin', time travel or magic. What it cares about is JUSTICE. It's difficult carin' about justice in a place with no rules, where crime is not even technically possible it doesn't think.

Still, somebody's gotta root through the BOARD's collective trash. And the BLACK KNIGHT is it.

WHITE BISHOP A: Discover COMMUNISM, become COMMISSAR instead.

COMMUNISM? It's sorry, COMMUNISM!? What do you take it for? No, this piece is no fucking COMMUNIST. Its empire is going to be built on CAPITAL, the only REAL thing in the whole world. It fucking REFUSES to even CONSIDER the idea of communism.

WHITE KING: Screw the proletariat networks of CHESSBOOK and BOARDSPACE. Begin a FLAME WAR on CHECKGRAM.

The WHITE KING goes to CHECKGRAM, the preferred social media of ROYALTY. Only KINGS and QUEENS can use this network. Mostly they just yell at each other. It makes a taunting post disparaging the BLACK SIDE. This was a great use of its time.