A Game of Chess

CC: ok!
CC: things are looking bleak! but just when the light is fading
CC: the king calls forth allies!
CC: three knights made of rock emerge from the west on C3, C2 and C6!
CC: they meet with the last remaining scavenger from the castle and move to save their king!
CC: um! im using rocks for the knights, since im out of black knight pieces
VM: Okay, so this is howw it's ending then?
VM: Despite the fact you noww havve a total of four knights on the board? You think to continue?
VM: Seeing as howw nothing has changed. My queen in C5 to your neww knight in C6.
VM: If wwe must continue in this manner so be it
VM: I sacrifice an immediate vvictory for a safer one. Your "movve".
CC: haha! oops! i forgot i was still in check!
CC: ganymede is the first of the knights to fall! and so instantly as well!
CC: io screams in fury for her lost lover!
CC: but the honourable thebe holds the line, and bursts through the gates of the castle just before an arrow is fired into the kings chest!
CC: knight to E3!
VM: Wwell there goes my flawwless vvictory.
VM: Fine, I guess I'll play into your narrativve then.
VM: My bishop in A1 to Io in C3 she is reacquainted wwith Ganymede in the afterlife.
VM: The reinforcements are failing, time is running out. The black king and queen cowwer behind their wwalls
CC: try as io might, she cannot defend against the power of the white walkers!
CC: thebe looks on from the gates. she shakes her head in grievance. the king feebly attempts to console her.
CC: "in all my past lives... ive never seen such power"
CC: suddenly, from beyond the hill. reinforcements!
CC: the scavenger from A4 rides forth and skewers the bishop which struck down io!
CC: "dont worry!" the scavenger calls out. "well defend these grounds if its the last thing we do!"
VM: And the scavenger too falls slain but naught by the pawwn in B4.
VM: Your forces fall before me yet you still hide? Thebe too shall fall as too your wwalls.
VM: Revveal yourselvves and the only blood left to spill shall be yours
CC: haha oh crap!
CC: man this was such a shitty rescue operation!
CC: the king... the king backs away in horror as the supposed hero falls
CC: as he moves to G1 he utters a lonely phrase...
CC: "gods help us..."
VM: Knight in G5 to pawwn in F3
VM: Your wwalls crumble and the last line of defense begins to break.
VM: The knight readies himself for a final bloww.
VM: Check
CC: noooo! the queen cries out!
CC: she would rather expose herself to the dangers of the world than to see her true love diiiie!
CC: she cuts through the knight, and exchanges glances with her beloved as she accepts her fate
VM: Wwhich indeed comes, swwiftly and painfully
VM: D5 to F3
CC: the king runs forth to F2, screaming as he sees the queen get devoured alive
CC: thebe wrestles with the monster. "no, stay back you fool!" she screams.
VM: Bishop in F3 to pawwn in E2.
VM: The Eastern wwall falls.
CC: the king roars in rage!
CC: thebe, try as she might, cannot hold back the kings vengeance!
CC: and the king charges at the bishop in E2, blind to danger!
VM: I wwill not let you get awway so easily.
VM: You wwill see all that you had burn and die as promised.
VM: All of this could havve been avvoided, but you refused.
VM: H4 to G3.
CC: um! wow! ok!
CC: the king moves to e3! continuing his fit of rage!
CC: some power must have been unearthed within him upon seeing the death of his love!
VM: G3 to G2
CC: hehe! uhh! is everything ok vox?
CC: the king... charges further into the blizzard!
CC: d3 to d4!
VM: G2 to G1.
VM: A reckoning shall not be postponed indefinitely.
CC: um! ok vox!
CC: you won!
CC: the king collapses and lets the white walkers bring him to his wife!
CC: thebe rides off, telling tales to the other rock people, and the battle will be taught throughout the rest of their history!
VM: Oh noww that's just not sporting, you really should let the game finish before givving up.
VM: After all it's a little unfair considering you decided to bring in "reinforcements."
VM: And besides you wweren't evven in check. If you givve up you havve no chance of wwinning, but if you keep going to the bitter end there's alwways a slivver of hope.
CC: the reinforcements died! i was just having a bit of fun!
CC: i dont care about winning, this is getting sad!
VM: But the story wwasn't ovver.
VM: And most stories havve sad endings in the real wworld.
CC: umm! but our story doesnt have to have a sad ending!
CC: um! king to D5!
VM: There's that fighting spirit!
VM: The original queen backs off to get some breathing room, leavving the wwhite king to his rampage!
CC: king to E6!
VM: The neww born queen takes dowwn the remains of Castle Black.
VM: G1 to E1.
VM: The dance is nearly done, the end is drawwing close, the story neatly finished.
CC: king to E7!
CC: he charges at the head of the white walkers!
CC: thebe stands fast against the monster in front of her!
VM: Tsk.
VM: This may end up a viscious cycle.
VM: Although there is alwways another wway.
VM: I castle.
VM: And the wwhite king escapes through a pre-prepared passagewway.
CC: you just want to kill thebe dont you!
CC: running away from an opponent isnt a fun story!
CC: thebe to F5!
VM: Rook to D5.
VM: Clearly you'vve nevver read an escape novvel.
VM: Flight can easily be exciting.
VM: Especially, as here, it is done wwhen planned ahead and comes unexpected to the enemy. Leavving them bewwildered wwhilst you can fulfill your plans.
CC: your plans are just to kill everyone on the board!
CC: thebe to g3!
VM: The vvoid born queen cuts dowwn Thebe she joins her sisters in the rivver Styx.
VM: All that stands noww is the black king his subjects dead, his soldiers dead, his wwife dead. All that is left is death.
VM: The wwhite king calls out. I offered you an ultimatum, the livves of you and your wwife that your subjects may livve. You denied me and noww here wwe are. The last page.
VM: Zugzwwang.
CC: alright fine! kill him then!
CC: jeez!
VM: Zugzwwang.
CC: i dont know what that means just kill him!
VM: One shouldn't act before their time.
VM: The black king must movve evven if he wwould prefer not to.
VM: Zugzwwang.
CC: E8!
VM: And the vvital queen does her duty.
VM: The black king is struck dowwn.
VM: The story comes to a close.
CC: finally! jeez that didnt have to get so intense!
VM: Hey, wwell wwhen I get into something I really get into it.
VM: Sorry if that wwas too intense, I thought you enjoyed the narrativve in chess?
CC: i do!
CC: its ok! actually thanks for playing with me!
CC: it just got really dark!
VM: Heh that wwas one of the more enjoyable chess games I'vve had.
VM: Funnily enough the fact that you cheated half wway through solvved one of my major quarrels wwith chess.
VM: So yeah Celia that wwas pretty fun. I'd be happy to play again sometime.
CC: haha see i told you itd be good!
CC: next time ill be ok if we make it dark again!
CC: i just wasnt prepared!
CC: it kind of reminded me of the brief stories youve told me of your campaigns and those still seem kinda cruel to me :c
VM: Cruel is relativve. But yeah I'm sorry if that wwas a little much.
VM: Also, wweren't you basing the narrativve on a famous Earth story? A Game of Murder or something?
VM: It's a touch unfair to be annoyed at me for murdering in a story based on "A Game of Murder."
CC: haha no im almost positive i got that all from my own head!
CC: thebe, ganymede and io are all legends though!
CC: thebe is my favourite and you killed her >.<
VM: Awwww poor Ganymede and Io, they wwere lovvers and you didn't care about them?
CC: aha ganymede and io are cool! it was pretty funny how they died right away!
CC: i dont know their stories all that well! tbh i dont know any of this stuff as well as it probably seems!
VM: Oh so you wwere pulling narrativve from Earth mythology?
CC: yeah!
CC: again i dont really know that stuff all that well!
CC: i used to think it was all actual history! the books i were reading on it made it sound real
VM: I'm afraid I'vve got to be heading off noww Celia
VM: Talk again soon?
CC: for sure vox!
CC: take care!