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POSTED ON Jan 10, 2023 17:50:49 GMT

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While Penelope's eyes remained hard, her heart softened. The palpable envy emmiting from the Florist had been a familiar flavor she'd been forced to endure time and time again. When faced with those who've been given the world, it felt nearly impossible feel anything more than bitter toward one's own reality.
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"Don't lie to yourself," she sighed, "Everyone is granted the power of choice. You squandering that innate gift is a choice in itself."
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The crimson liquid swayed as she lifted the glass tumbler back up to her lips. Like bubbling lava, it brought a sensation of numbed warmth to her hazy thoughts. It was finally starting to kick in.

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POSTED ON Jan 10, 2023 18:37:32 GMT

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"Squandered, hm?" Maybe it was the way that PENELOPE LIVY sighed that led to a shift in her own tenor. This time when Elisabeth laughed, it came out subdued: a quiet thing, echoing with unspoken regret. "There's some truth to that, I suppose."[break][break]

She had squandered her freedom early in life, and paid the price for that dearly.[break][break]

"I was supposed to be a botanist, you know."[break][break]

A wistfulness carried into her voice, and as she spoke aloud, her shoulders hunched closer together, cradling her drink close between both hands.[break][break]

"When I was younger, I had this dream I'd work in botanical gardens, or museums. Preserving rare species of plant life. Keeping them, and the Grass-type and Bug-type Pokémon that thrived within them, alive for generations yet to come. Like a living history."[break][break]

The manic energy, and the anger that had bled into it, both ebbed entirely from her drunken stupor in favor of a sudden descent into melancholy. With it, her own head lowered, the effects of the ZOMBIE aptly beginning to have an effect that dulled her mind.[break][break]

"But I made other choices, not realizing that every choice you make closes off another one. Until one by one, doors you thought would always be open to you in life slam shut, and you are left with precious few available as time marches on."[break][break]

Elisabeth lifted her head then, her hair tousling with the movement to cascade behind her in a rippling curtain of gold. Her eyes shut, and for a moment she allowed herself a strained smile, as if remembering a private memory that warmed her as much as it pained her to recall.[break][break]

"My father taught me that in chess, it's the early moves that matter most in setting the game to your advantage. But in the late game, it's a question of who can make do with what little pieces they have left. Who can best endure the mistakes they've already made, or make the most of the successes they've built upon."[break][break]

With that, she allowed her eyes to flutter open once more, and she offered Penelope a crooked smile.[break][break]

"I've learned to make do with my chessboard, lacking as it is. But yes, sometimes I wish I had left myself a better position to play upon."

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- Bar Crawl: Burning Maw (Zombie).[break]
- Resolution: Success.

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POSTED ON Jan 11, 2023 18:17:38 GMT

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What prevents you from following that dream, she wanted to ask, but willed herself to swallow down instead.
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The regret that tainted her wistful expression was palpable to anyone within range. Even Penelope, who held held an overwhelming amount of disdain toward this serpent-tongued woman, could feel her own heart grow brittle at the forlorn story she'd told. Back straightening, she awkwardly cleared her throat.
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"You know, I used to play chess with my dad, too. I can say without a doubt that I hate that man, but those moments. They're still a cherished memory for me."
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Back pressed up against her chair, she hung her head back, fixing her eyes back up toward the bar's ceiling. It was nothing more than a dull set of planks strung together by a handful of nails struck down by a hammer. In that moment, however, those dried pieces of wood had become her anchor. Her life vest to weather against the incoming storm.
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"At first, he'd always let me win. Like always.Just to get my confidence up, I guess, since I was super competitive back then. I still am."
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"And you know, out of all those matches, I'd always try to do the same thing: get my pawn to the other side of the board. Even if it meant forfeiting everything, I'd do it every time without fail. I was addicted to the thrill of the turning such an insignificant piece into an unstoppable queen."
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Strains of red fell down from her face, only to be caught by her sagging shoulders. Lips curled in a small, private smile; she relished the few golden memories of her father.
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"There's always a play to be made. A door to be opened. A pawn to evolve. You just have to make to the other side."
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Her gaze slowly floated back down to the row of glimmering bottles behind the bartender, each one more unique than it's neighbor. It looked like an alcoholic rainbow.
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"But, fortunately for us, life isn't a game of chess. We don't have to follow it's rules or rely on our pieces alone."
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POSTED ON Jan 12, 2023 2:20:05 GMT

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"Oh? My father never let me win, but I always loved him for it."[break][break]

For this brief, transient moment, the Rocket admin and the League councilwoman were simply two souls in a bar.[break][break]

Elisabeth leaned an elbow against the counter, eyes half-lidded as she listened to PENELOPE LIVY describe her own childhood. At the description of the pawns crossing the chessboard, another small laugh escaped her as she shook her head.[break][break]

"It's hard to imagine you not playing to win, Councilwoman. Precious few people exist who would sacrifice the safety of their King for the fleeting legacy of a Pawn." Rather than the bite that had accompanied her earlier commentary, her dry humor manifested here with a playful hint of mockery. "You're right, though. It's an addictive thrill, to accomplish the improbable."[break][break]

Her mind drifted to her little flower shop for a moment, and she went briefly silent.[break][break]

Elisabeth's husband had wielded her own lack of education against her so many times, despite being the reason it had remained incomplete in the first place. What would you do, Lisa? he'd sneered at her. You, who have no family, no fortune of your own, no skills and no education? Be reasonable. [break][break]

And yet, that obstacle to her happiness was now a year buried underground, rotting somewhere deep beneath Kalosian soil.[break][break]

What was there preventing Elisabeth from pursuing that ambition, now? Seemingly nothing, truth be told.[break][break]

"Perhaps life isn't a game," Elisabeth conceded with a sigh, "but it has winners and losers all the same, doesn't it?"[break][break]

Because PENELOPE LIVY was wrong. Elisabeth Fiorelli was not a woman who hid from her shadows.[break][break]

Instead, she'd surrendered to that abyss, and let the darkness of her misdeeds swallow her whole.

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- Bar Crawl: Burning Maw (Zombie).[break]
- Resolution: Success.

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"Leaving behind a legacy was my version of victory," she clarified, "I just think...I rather spend my time looking forward, than play a defensive game til the odds perfectly fit my favor. I mean, where's the fun in that?"
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Winning, losing -- what fit either criterion was subjective in nature. To Elisabeth, the legacy of overcoming the odds might be considered fleeting, but for Penelope, who'd grown up chasing the improbable, it meant everything. And she'd sacrifice everything if it meant achieving it.
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"Hence why I don't play chess much anymore."
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With a shrug, she finished off the rest of her drink and signaled for the bartender to pay off the tab. Might as well begin wrapping up before things became sloppy. Glancing back at Elisabeth, Penelope shrugged, "Says who?"
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Camphrier Town, Kalos

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POSTED ON Jan 17, 2023 3:16:52 GMT

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"You show a surprising disregard for rules for a politician," Elisabeth teased, but the thoughts lingered for awhile, turned over and reexamined as PENELOPE LIVY stood up to depart.[break][break]

How many choices had Elisabeth made in her life simply out of spite for her own circumstances?[break][break]

How many doors had she closed, herself, because losing in the same way over and over again gave her more of a thrill than living the lie of the good, perfect wife?[break][break]

Perhaps they were not so different, in that way.[break][break]

"Maybe I'm just too acquainted with the taste of losing," she said with a soft laugh, taking another sip of her drink. It blurred in front of her slightly as her eyes unfocused. "But it sounds nice, what you describe. A life where existing is enough."[break][break]

She inclined her head as the redhead intended to leave, turning back to the counter with the expectation that the conversation was to end here.[break][break]

"May you overcome improbable odds in the next year, then, Penelope."

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