[agodr] A bone to pick with the proctors

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Broen didn't start walking again, instead just holding his cigarette to his lips between his fingers. His eyes narrowed a bit and he took another drag before blowing out smoke through his nose. "Okay. More ominous. I've lost all but one of my matches so far."

Things were clicking together. Shit like this had happened in Halcyon. The Pharaoh of Fun... "Cocksuckers... the winner has to take his place, don't they?"
 
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"Oh good, now I can stop dropping hints." Really, it was a surprise nobody else had caught on yet. Was Cornelius even trying to keep it a secret? "Yes, that's exactly what this tournament is for. Cornelius thought that we Regalia should return to our roots. Become more of the protectors we were meant to be. More actively, anyways. And who better to lead us than somebody who knows exactly what they want from mysterious protective spirits? Humans," he scoffed.

"Of course, we've attracted all types besides that but the ideal was humanity in charge. Possibly another spirit. Cornelius wasn't really picky so long as the person is capable of managing many people at once." Hence why there was no limit to how many pacts a person could have.
 
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"Fucking hell," Broen threw down his cigarette and cursed a few more times. "That's bullshit. This fucker knew nobody would sign up if he told them the actual prize."

He pulled out his phone and texted... fuck. Travis. Jude. Oh shit. Zora. Telling them to stop winning. The prize was a trick. Do not pass go. Do not collect the throne.
 
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"To be fair, you can always decline," Aslan said casually, not really trying to make an argument on Cornelius's behalf at all. "Because Cornelius is stupid and thinks that people might actually want the throne, it'll just go down the line. Ideally, somebody will want it because honestly, can you imagine us having this idiot for our king?" He looked at Broen with such obvious disdain for the idea.
 
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Broen was texting furiously, updating his friends and girlfriend as Aslan spoke. "Still... he should have been up front. He got no right to fuckin treat people like this. Not here. He's gonna get a fuckin bullet between his eyes if the wrong people find out about this."
 
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He rolled his eyes. "There was some moronic prophecy about how the rule of the king and queen was ending, blah blah, Cornelius this, Cornelius that. Thus the tournament. Honestly, they should have just kept Claudius around instead of kicking him out. I'd rather have that pathetic wreck as a king than Cornelius, even."

Curiously, he peered over Broen's shoulder. "While you're at it, tell your friends not to go making pacts with Cornelius or Claudius either. There is honestly no benefit to it unless you count gaining an unstable heap of Regalia as a benefit. If anybody, go for Loralai."
 
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"Loralai? What does she do? Better yet, what's she like?" Broen only looked up from his phone briefly. He had sent the group texts already and was texting individual people now. An, of course, Jude and Travis were blowing him up with follow up questions. Like fucks.
 
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"She's a lawyer," Aslan answered. "Although she likes working as a telemarketer for some reason that escapes me." He shrugged; Loralai could be weird like that. "She's nice enough, I suppose. A little too cheerful for me, a bit too loud. She likes things that are cute," he tacked on as an afterthought.

 
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"Cheerful, loud, and cute. Does that really seem like somebody I could pact with? I mean... I guess I could put on the Crawford charm, but really."

Broen stopped and put his phone away. He leveled a stare at Aslan and chewed on his lip. "Okay so, I kind of get the why. But how does this whole thing work? Because as far as I can tell there's nothing magical about the challenges themselves. How does Cornelius know who's winning? You guys aren't around for all our matches, and I can't imagine every Regalis is reporting to you."
 
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Aslan smiled vaguely. "Are you sure about that?" he asked. "We might seem obvious to you now but the six of us are rather good at staying hidden when we want to. How else could we have been on the island all this time without anybody noticing?" Besides that, there was Lucianne and her powers but he didn't feel the need to out her just yet.
 
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