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[evilopportunityemployer]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, BLACK HAT. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 333.07.333.06 *** BlackHat has joined 333.07.333.06 <BlackHat> ^J help <BlackHat> help <BlackHat> J <BlackHat> Official business with Black Hat only. Don't waste my time.

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<TruthSeeker>

[pawntakesking]

An opportunity for what, precisely?

<BlackHat>

[evilopportunityemployer]

To reclaim what was stolen from me.

<TruthSeeker>

[pawntakesking]

And what was that?

<BlackHat>

[evilopportunityemployer]

My power. The Fog god brought me here and took it from me.

I thought she would return it to spare her beloved priest an agonizing death. It seems I overestimated how much she cares for her followers.

<TruthSeeker>

[pawntakesking]

You can believe that if you like. Or perhaps She simply knew that giving in to blackmail is the kind of thing that spirals very quickly.

You killed him for leverage against Her, then. And where did the angel come into it?

<BlackHat>

[evilopportunityemployer]

So she would rather let her follower starve to death than return what she stole. He begged me to stop, you know. Pleaded for it. And yet she let him die! What a loving mother.

I didn't kill him for leverage. He died because the Fog fears me more than she loves her priests. And here I was even willing to let her transgressions go if she lifted her binding magic. I would have taken my leave of this wretched peninsula, perhaps even helped her deal with that little Fourth problem of hers.

The angel was very helpful. I wouldn't have been able to execute such a plan without the knowledge he provided.

<TruthSeeker>

[pawntakesking]

I don't believe you. I don't imagine She did, either.

Nonetheless, you've been very helpful. Thank you. I'll be in touch.

<BlackHat>

[evilopportunityemployer]

I heard she accepted a sacrifice of nearly one hundred innocent souls shortly before bringing me here. That manner of malevolent demand is precisely the type I cater to.

But you're not the first to doubt me here - pray that I don't choose to correct you in time.

[Not that it'll help!]

<TruthSeeker>

[pawntakesking]

I don't particularly care what you choose. What you've done already is a great deal more important than what you may or may not do in the future.

<BlackHat>

[evilopportunityemployer]

Then let it be an indicator of what may come.

<TruthSeeker>

[pawntakesking]

As you wish.