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[kingmakereffect]

If you have something to ask the Kingmaker about over text, this is where it goes! The Kingmaker will respond to text messages as soon as he's available. You will most likely get a text back very quickly.

Your smartphones will only connect to the Kingmaker. There is no option to send a text to anyone else, instead it will connect automatically to his phone.

Comments are screened for privacy; no looking at each other's private texts without permission, after all.

Comments

[penduli]

[ SIGH..... at long last, Black has returned. we're gonna have a better time than before god willing ]

hello, kingmaker. do you have the time to answer some questions? they're all pretty much yes/no ones, if i can just go ahead and put them all in one text.

p.s. thank you for the washing machines

[kingmakereffect]

I have time. What's on your mind?

[penduli]

1. in a lot of fiction, knowing someone's true name gives you power over them, so i was wondering if the same applied here. do you have some magic/power over us if you know our real names?
2. can we get some fabric that isn't in neon colors?
3. if aqueous had actually gotten away with murdering miss devoted, would she have really gotten her sister back?
4. following that: hypothetically speaking, if her sister would've been saved, would her sister have ever found out that aqueous murdered someone? like would you tell her what aqueous did, or would it have been kept a secret?

[ one of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong ]

you don't have to answer all of them, though i'd like you to

[kingmakereffect]

In order:

1. No.
2. That depends. What do you want?
3. It's not really an effective promise if I can't deliver, right?
4. Whatever happens after someone wins the game isn't any of my business. If Aqueous had won and chosen not to tell her, it wouldn't have really mattered to me.

[penduli]

[ Well, at least Caren can rest peacefully knowing that having her name posted wasn't something to worry about. ...she might not rest so easy knowing her sister really would have been saved though. (He can barely rest easy reading those words.) ]

2. color-wise: natural ones (grey, brown, cream, etc) and pastels, mostly
fabric: cashmere, silk, burlap... actually if you could provide us with dye you could just give us white sheets of pretty much anything and we'd be set
3. how would you have managed it? i thought we (us in the vault) were the only ones that survived, and that was because you "saved" us.

[kingmakereffect]

2. I'll see what I can do. Maybe.
3. ...I won't tell you the exact method, but time is an obstacle that can be overcome. It's not easy, but it can be done. I'm sure you've noticed that most of you aren't from the same year, for one.

[penduli]

thank you. and you're right, most of us aren't--is it okay if i assume you [ oh my god this sounds ridiculous ] can travel through time, or something like that?

[kingmakereffect]

If it's easier for you to understand that way, then sure.

[penduli]

thank you. [ ...

okay, one more question. ] would you lie to us to get us to participate in your game?

[kingmakereffect]

Any incentives I give you won't be based on lies. Like I said, there's no point in promising anything I can't fulfill.

[...]

Why are you so interested in this all of a sudden?

[penduli]

my parents wanted me to keep my sister safe, and if i had acted on your incentive last week, i would've done that.

but i was scared, and i thought the risk was too great. there's still two dozen of us in here--it'd be crazy to think i could've gotten away with something like killing someone with that risk to reward ratio. [ maybe that's playing it safe, but he could have kept his sister safe. isn't that worth the risk?

or does he want to live more than he wants to see her again? it's troubling. ] and i like dealing with open, honest people. that's all.

[kingmakereffect]

Most people prefer that, don't they?

[...]

There are ways to get information outside of a simple yes/no, you know. More indepth answers and all. If you're interested.

[penduli]

[ ... ]

what do i have to do?

[ that's gotta be answer enough for how interested he is. ]

[kingmakereffect]

Nothing too terrible. I'm not going to ask you to kill anyone for me or anything like that.

I just like the concept of even trades. I'm good at what I do, but I'm only one person, and keeping track of all of you would be difficult, even for me. But if you give me information, I'll answer questions for you to the best of my ability.

[penduli]

so you're asking me to sell out my peers, essentially.

[ ... ]

what kind of information would you be looking for, exactly?>/font>

[kingmakereffect]

Again, nothing terrible. I just want to know if people are planning to cause trouble for me. That's all I'm really asking for.

If you want to go above and beyond the call of duty, it'll get you more favors or information, but I'm not going to require it or demand it from you.

[penduli]

[ fuck html on phones ]

i'd be surprised if they weren't, but you have a deal. [ ... ] i suppose you already know there are a fair amount of people who'd really like to punch you, right?

miss boundless and mr charismatic off the top of my head. i think sacrificial mentioned wanting to get you below the belt. they're empty threats unless they find where you're hiding though.