Chapter Fifty Nine: The Technical Working Group

The Brokerage Firm has been disturbed by the peculiar delivery of a strange letter scroll. It contains several warnings about the pursuance of this edition of the Prudence Wars, with the ink used to write the body of the message with the use of a bright purple color.

ALL AGENTS OF CHANGE, BEWARE!

But that was a plain and simple warning (though some consider it as a subtle threat) for the Brokerage Firm to be seriously concerned about the potential peril that the scroll wanted to portray to happen; however, nobody from the Technical Working Group actually believes that this strange letter carries with it a credible (and suitable) warning to begin with. Nothing in the body of the message makes sense, and many of its divulgence are plain and simple outrageous. Nuisance at best.

To begin to argue first and foremost, the main content of the letter plagiarises many stories and legends (even blatantly lifting many lines verbatimly therefrom), and then goes on to shamelessly steal the identity of famous authors, or even the heroes and antiheroes of their very own stories, that are known to be protected by the many publishing laws that the Fellowship had taken an Oath to protect. This letter of a plagiarist nature simply attempts to destroy the true spirit of the Games to the point of annoyance. Whoever sent this demented letter was suffering from the Delusional Effect; there is absolutely no doubt about that.

But, who is this mysterious person who wrote the letter? And why send it to begin with?

Of course, the Technical Working Group was busy polishing the ground rules of the Games as it was signed by the Commissioner, and they cannot be bothered in this crucial moment of the detailed preparation of the Prudence Wars. There can be no delay. But whoever delivered this letter was highly likely to be a suffering Delusional, and that is enough reason to be worried at all.

The Dark Masters have repeatedly assured The Most Prudent Treaty Organization that they will provide the best security arrangements possible for the success of the Games, especially since they are campaigning hard enough for the Steel of Willows to be the question to be affirmatively answered, an important tradition that must be resolved through the chivalric spirit of the War and in the best interest of fair play.

They have also made the assurance that the fairness of the conduct of these Games is within the competenxe of the Masters of Darkness. There is no reason for them to sabotage the peaceful proclamation of its result (or even change its outcome), and has complied with all the oversight request of the Technical Group of the Brokerage Firm.

But as for the Potioneers, they have the basis to insist reasonable doubt, because they have consistently assailed the integrity of the Steel of Willows as a "stolen" property rights of the ancient practice of Potion Making. Although none has been proven to be a sweeping inference just yet, the Fellowship and the Most Prudent Treaty Organization have been informed of the possible consequences of the adverse claims related to every aspect of this controversy.

For the interest of patience and peace, more representative guards were recruited from the side of the Potioneers to join and contribute to the function of check and balance within the Technical Working Group, and they are mandated to be fully aware of the several criteria of what needed to be confirmed and validated. But this particular issue is not just about falsehoods, about dummies and deception, about the pain of regret nor the integrity of the Sinister Agents; more than that, the greater end was truly to be achieved by the shameless duplication of the truth. 

It was the most clever form of Plagiarism that they knew nothing about. Nobody saw it coming.

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