>ROARING KNIGHT: Dig up DIRT on WW. There's gotta be something there.

The ROARING KNIGHT watches the WHITE WARLOCK closely. It doesn't have evidence of any wrongdoing, but there's a HUNCH nagging at the back of its mind...

The WHITE WARLOCK whispers conspiratorially with its APPRENTICE and the CACTUS FARMER PAWN. The KNIGHT can't hear what they're saying, but it seems rather heated.
Fortunately, we can understand their conversation perfectly. The CACTUS FARMER PAWN is agreeing to help rig the ELECTION and help the WHITE WARLOCK with whatever other schemes it has- but in exchange, the WHITE WARLOCK must help it assassinate the BLACK ADJUDICATOR and, if it shows its face again, the GREY JESTER as well.
The WHITE WARLOCK asks what the CACTUS FARMER PAWN has against the ADJUDICATOR, and the CACTUS FARMER PAWN says look, do you want the election rigged or not?
The WARLOCK figures that having one less ADJUDICATOR will probably be good for business in the long run, so it doesn't push the issue.

The CACTUS FARMER PAWN begins hushed negotiations with the TALL ROOK.

Meanwhile the WHITE WARLOCK'S APPRENTICE uses a POTION to turn itself BLUE.
The WARLOCK has questions about this- questions like, "What is WRONG with you?" and "Why are you blue?" The APPRENTICE replies that it was a strategy suggested by the FARMER PAWN. Whoever is the most INTERESTING gets the most ATTENTION, and whoever gets the most ATTENTION is the person most likely to win. Or at least that's how the FARMER explained it.
It's a pretty good strategy, but the WARLOCK is FURIOUS that anyone other than it would tell its apprentice what to do. The APPRENTICE is already blue, that can't be changed, but the WARLOCK forbids it from taking orders without running them by it first.
>ROARING KNIGHT: Question legitimacy of SUMMONED PAWNs as voters.

The ROARING KNIGHT asks if the SUMMONED PAWNs' votes should really count. If the BLACK BISHOP B controls their will, that basically gives the BLACK BISHOP B three extra votes compared to everyone else's one.
The BLACK BISHOP B hisses at the ROARING KNIGHT to SHUT UP, because both of them are voting for the same person anyway so the advantage is theirs. The ROARING KNIGHT rebuts that the advantage is still an UNFAIR ONE.
The BLACK ADJUDICATOR agrees with the knight! The SUMMONED PAWNS are stripped of their voting rights. In the true spirit of COMPROMISE, nobody actually wins and the world sucks a little more.
>ROARING KNIGHT: Report WW's criminal activity to the ADJUDICATOR.

It hasn't done anything illegal! At least not yet, not that the KNIGHT can prove. It needs to keep an eye on it for a little longer, and also see if there's any other CRIME going on across the board that it can report to the ADJUDICATOR.
>BLACK BISHOP A: Become MOIRAILS with BLACK QUEEN B.

Neither of these pieces are certain MOIRAILEGANCE is a concept that exists in this reality! The QUEEN is familiar with the concept, but the BISHOP is completely in the dark.
Real or not, no PACIFICATION is necessary in either direction!
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