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It is the first day the Chelish Constitutional Convention reconvenes after the riots on the 3rd of Sarenith. Shortly after all attending members of the delegation take their seats, a booming voice rings out to them all:

"CONGRATULATIONS, MORTALS! YOUR DEVOTION TO VIOLENCE PLEASES GORUM!

AS A SHOW OF HIS FAVOR, HE SHALL GIFT ALL DELEGATES OF THE CHELISH CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION ACCESS TO GOLARION'S KILLS / DEATHS / ASSISTS SCOREBOARD! YOU MAY NOW SEE HOW YOU AND YOUR PEERS RATE ON SLAUGHTERING THOSE THAT DARE OPPOSE YOU, AND COMPETE FOR THE TOP SLOT!"

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A druid sloooooowly slides down in her chair, debating the merits of turning into a bird to fly off or not. It's not like it would help, anymore, not with those numbers available for everyone to see. Damn it, and she was trying to make druids seem so friendly...

Voshrelka: 53,482 / 1 / 134,925
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Whaaaat? There's no way that's right, she's killed more than that in twenty years of making breakfast! 

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If this were a "souls damned to Hell" board she'd clean the Hell up (pun intended). Wait, that's a bad thing.

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Her Majesty Aspexia III  | 2446 | 57 | 34,682,473

Well, that's out in the open now.

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He’s relieved none of his debt shenanigans contributed to anyone’s death so he is at a nice 0/0/0

He glances at the leaderboard for anything interesting.  That’s interesting about the Queen, he didn’t realize adventurers got killed and resurrected so much?  And the assist count must be really generous?  What could even get it that high?  Maybe helping close the worldwound killed multiple cities worth of demons?

Glancing at the rest of the board… wow, he makes a not to his self not to piss off any of the Druids.

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If anybody asks that was a baby. Maybe a deformed baby.

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If anybody asks that was....... fish...... pirates. Yeah.

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2/0/0 for herself.  Well, she’s glad she truthfully shared her past when asked.  So no one can accuse her of hiding it.

She starts looking over the board to note people of interest.  Is it giving Valia and Victoria credit for the riot?  And the Queen is what you’d expect from a person of legendary power who works with 3 archmages.

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Huh, is she getting credit for Myrtle? Fair enough.

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If pirates didn't want to get cut down they should not be pirates, that's all he has to say about it.

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These numbers are wrong. Kicharchu is a scavenger, not a predator.

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3/0/0? ...Fuck, babies count after all. He was pretty sure that was a lie to make Good feel better about itself.

Also, why is GORUM interfering with the convention? Does Gorum enjoy Galt-style riots and blood in the streets? ...Probably, yes. Maybe he should leave.

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Literally most of that number is people who were attacking the manor and killed his nephew and servants. Usually he just shoots bulettes and owlbears and things like that.

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Maybe the 0/0/0 will make people stop acting so weird around the holy symbol. Probably not though.

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He would really have expected to rank higher on this chart, what with the situation with Galè, but apparently the other delegates have killed a lot more people than he thought. Hopefully people will be too distracted by all the people ahead of him to decide they aren't willing to work with him over it.

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He starts at the bottom, and it still takes him a while to find his name; turns out the 0/0/0s were sorted alphabetically. 

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1/1/17

Well, fair enough, she didn’t directly participate in the fighting at Pezzack but she did do some support casting; if anything she would have expected her assists to be higher.

Next question: how the fuck are the Queen’s assists that high. Liushna hadn’t been specifically aware that numbers went that high before.

(So many dead, and how many ever returned…?)

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103 / 0 / 9381 is... really quite a lot more than he was expecting. How broadly does Gorum define assists? Did he get all of this from that time he sabotaged the Druma supply chain?

Also he would really like to know what the Queen did.

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1298/2/6189?

... It's a fair cop.

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140/0/84781 informs hin that Gorum counts every death in every battle in which your personal cavalry company served as the tip of the spear to break enemy morale as an assist, or at least every death after they broke. Useful information, that.

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Four kills. Zero deaths. Eight assists. 

(She hadn't actually been sure how many people she'd personally killed. It was hard to know if it was her magic or her companions' blades that struck down any individual person.)

...Why is it eight assists? The lord and his family is nine, less the two she killed personally, so it should be seven. Who is she missing... oh.

Apparently Gorum, God of War, is giving her partial "credit" for the slave who got tortured to death in her place. Which makes some amount of sense when she thinks about it, just... it was innocent, it straightforwardly didn't deserve what happened to it, she didn't — she didn't want it dead — 

She is not going to start crying in the convention hall, that would just be pathetic, but she is absolutely not managing to hide that she's upset.

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0/0/4. She guesses she's... been a witness whose testimony led to some executions, working in her father's court? Does that count?

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1/0/0. Apparently it doesn't count if your child gets sick and dies. (Is the Queen going to round up everyone with a positive number? The scary wizard lady said she'd be safe but she knows they executed some delegates for murder.)

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This is farcical. He has defended his and others' property with lethal force and that is not a category usefully combined with murder OR adventuring.

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It's hard to see the scoreboard from a Final Blade.

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