ID: 220

Outcome: Great Victory

Open After Story: Yes

Manual Prompt: Yes

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Since forging your pact with the will of ultimate malice, none had understood the power of evil as you did.



This power had trampled all legitimacy beneath its heel. It could elevate slaves to Sultans and vice versa. To demonstrate this, you chose the child in Zazie's womb as the next Sultan. The boy would be steeped in your cruelty from birth. He would be pliant, agreeable and terrified. As for his mother, the golden lioness of a slave, you had known how to silence her.



So you seated Zazie upon the Golden Throne and declared to the court that she was but the vessel for the next Sultan. Then you crowned yourself Regent with a diadem larger than the last Sultan's own. As the nobles gaped at this breach of decorum, you unveiled your masterpiece:



Joyous Ticket, a game mimicking the Sultan Card. People bought these tickets to commit the acts inscribed upon them without legal consequence: Carnality, of course, but also Bloodshed. You ranked every citizen by tier though, naturally, one could rise in tier by paying you enough. Why fear a mere Stone Bloodshed Card when three gold coins could spare you? The Golden ones, however, cost a hundred and twenty! You rewarded and punished officials with these tickets. At first bewildered, they soon groveled desperately, who would gamble their entire fortune to satisfy the whim of a card?



The court fell silent. You had overthrown one Sultan already, the power was yours. You could order any noble to fulfill a Bloodshed Card...or another to become a beggar with Extravagance Card that could consume all of his property...



This time, no hero rose to stop you like you used to do. The realm descended into a game, and in your eyes, everyone reveled in delight.

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