conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "SECRET SERVICE?" King l’Ausseil regarded me for a long moment, as if testing me.
conversations.prefix: King l’Ausseil:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "I eventually managed to say. I don’t know what that means. What does Your Majesty wish me to do?"
conversations.prefix: Rae Taylor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  When he finally spoke, it was to completely change the direction of the conversation. "What is your opinion of our current political situation?"
conversations.prefix: King l’Ausseil:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “I think it is far too complex for a mere commoner to comprehend.”
conversations.prefix: Rae Taylor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Don’t be modest. I know your grades at the Academy. I’m aware you possess a deep understanding of this country’s inner workings.”
conversations.prefix: King l’Ausseil:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  Obviously, I couldn’t tell him it was all just memorization from playing a game. “I believe Your Majesty’s attempts to encourage meritocracy have been successful," I said instead. "Not just for royalty and nobles, but for the talented people from commoner backgrounds who are being promoted to positions of power.”
conversations.prefix: Rae Taylor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “And yet, the Commoner Movement,” the king sighed. “We are stagnant, Rae Taylor. The aristocrats wield too much influence over government officials, and they resist every opportunity for change. I wanted us to reach for the future. That was why I introduced policies to elevate talented commoners.”
conversations.prefix: King l’Ausseil:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Have you not seen that begin to happen?”
conversations.prefix: Rae Taylor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “We’re off to a decent start, yes, even if it’s slow. But the essential structure, the hereditary oligopoly in which aristocrats benefit from the oppression of the commoner class, hasn’t changed in the least,” the king said. “Hence, I need you.”
conversations.prefix: King l’Ausseil:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “I apologize for repeating myself, but what does Your Majesty wish from me?”
conversations.prefix: Rae Taylor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “You will expose the crimes committed by powerful nobles.”
conversations.prefix: King l’Ausseil:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “I decline,” I said immediately.
conversations.prefix: Rae Taylor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  The king frowned.
conversations.prefix: Narrator:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Why is that?”
conversations.prefix: King l’Ausseil:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “My food’s already being poisoned. I have no wish to make more enemies.”
conversations.prefix: Rae Taylor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Do not lie to me.”
conversations.prefix: King l’Ausseil:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “I’m not lying.”
conversations.prefix: Rae Taylor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “You seem perfectly healthy.”
conversations.prefix: King l’Ausseil:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “I counteracted the poison.”
conversations.prefix: Rae Taylor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Then you have no real objection.”
conversations.prefix: King l’Ausseil:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  Ugh. This was hard—wildly so. It was difficult to get anything past this man, which, I supposed, made sense. He was the king, and the foremost politician in this country.
conversations.prefix: Rae Taylor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “At least listen to what I have to say," said King l’Ausseil. "I don’t believe the entirety of the aristocracy is complicit, but two in particular I suspect of underhanded dealings.”
conversations.prefix: King l’Ausseil:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Ahhh…”
conversations.prefix: Rae Taylor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “First, the Chancellor, Salas Lilium, and second, the Minister of Finance, Dole François.”
conversations.prefix: King l’Ausseil:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  I stopped short. In the game itself, the king didn’t have much of a presence. Other than having put the new policies of meritocracy into motion, he seemed like a pretty generic monarch. If anything, he came across as kind of dumb, because—depending on the route taken by the player—he could make strategic blunders like stoking the flames of the Commoner Movement and precipitating the loss of his own throne. He might have been acting with the people’s best interests in mind, of course, disregarding his own fate, but I’d always gotten the impression he was more unable to control the nobility.
conversations.prefix: Rae Taylor: