The most self-sacrificing people of all are Vildeis and Iomedae.

Now I'm imagining Footloose but set in Lastwall - with Reverend Shaw Moore played by the Empyreal Lord Vildeis.

Of course, we'd have to eradicate all sin in the universe before She'd agree to take the part.

I'll add "eradicate all sin in the universe" to the agenda. 

After the play, do you want to grab snacks and play Mario Party?

That's why he said Mario Party, and not Mario Kart or chess!

Excuse her, but Cressida Kroft does know how to play chess! 

The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentlewoman.

Neat! What's her elo?

What's an elo?

Mario Party.

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.

What's a capped pawn?

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.

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.

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.

!!

Has Olin Mull got something to show her!

She learns that Earth has invented a way to make chess terrifying, and that they call it Blitz.

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.

Her heart is pounding.

That's the first game of chess she'd have played better with a belt of Dexterity than Constitution!