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So now she's laying down ground rules for her paladin order, apparently.
Cressida Kroft's Guide to Lawful Good Living
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Now she's feeling competitive!
If they find he's that much stronger than her he can take his queen off the board or play with a capped pawn.
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Take a ring off your finger and put it on a pawn - now you must use that pawn to deliver the checkmate, and if I take the piece you can't win.
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Oh wow, I like that.
Why aren't the two of us playing chess right this very moment?
If we put our heads together, this seems like a problem we can solve.
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Maybe some day she'll have time again for frivolities or else someone will devise a version of chess you can finish in literally five minutes.
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She learns that Earth has invented a way to make chess terrifying, and that they call it Blitz.
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She's not bad.
But she's also never played with a clock before.
The Primate of Varisia complicates the board purely for the sake of complicating it, offers trades, forks her pieces, his pawns and knights and bishops a wave that crashes and shatters against the shore - before long at all he's a touch behind on material but vastly ahead on time, and now she has to move quickly while he has all the time in the world to pick off her pieces and corner her king.
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He wants to play again some time in a format she's more familiar with, but at least at Blitz it seems that he's much better than her.
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Her heart is pounding.
That's the first game of chess she'd have played better with a belt of Dexterity than Constitution!
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Was it too much fun?
Do we need to establish a rule against such sinful vices as speed chess, lest Korvosa's paladins fall into Chaos and Evil?
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What's his advice? How can she provide moral guidance to people who she statistically expects to need moral guidance, and who want moral guidance from her, when she only knows how to be herself, which is sufficient to ping as Lawful Good in some circumstances but not a complete handbook to the alignment?
...By the way, thanks for existing for her to ask questions at, Olin. She hopes it's not too inconvenient for him.
She'll write everything which seems relevant to her, a sort of Cressida Kroft's Guide to Lawful Good Living, and she'll get some of the other paladins to write their own guides to Lawful Good Living - older ones, who've had the chance to stress-test their moral codes -, and LG non-Paladins like Arbiter Zenderholm, and then she'll combine the overlap and stick that in the Standards of Conduct, and turn the non-overlapping parts into different proven LG "templates" and tell new paladins to pick one or write a new template of their own which a) contains the overlap, and b) seems just as Lawful Good as existing templates to both them and the Field Marshall or whoever the Field Marshall delegates that to.
Or maybe even if it doesn't seem as LG as existing templates? A moral code is a highly personal thing, and there are costs to empowering people established in the order to be too nosy or domineering there.