De Crancé's Political Alliance against the King

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Report to Your Majesty on de Crancé's Political Alliance

Leaders

 
Leader

Name: Councilman de Crancé
Age: 67
Power: Extremely high
Occupation: Ex-soldier and general who retired following injuries. Now a member of the Royal Council.
Popularity: Extremely popular with the public thanks to his military victories, his part in inventing clippable devices, and his sense of the theatre and love for causing dramas.
Second in command

Name: Councilman de Fresnoy
Age: 42
Power: Extremely high
Occupation: Ex-dueller. Now a member of the Royal Council.
Popularity: Extremely popular with the public thanks to his past as a top sportive. He left the Duelling Arena after a series of spectacular victories and used this to propulse what is turning out to be a lukewarm political career.
 
 

Goals

Avowed goal: Making the kingdom a better place via a political alliance to develop and promote laws that will benefit all citizens.   Secret goal: A coup to seize power or to outright murder Your Majesty.  
 

Tactics

Recruitment

Recruiting people by convincing them that the kingdom is currently heading in the wrong direction and criticizing Your Majesty's ruling and morals.
 
Advice: While any criticism of the government cannot be forbidden, outright criticism of Your Majesty's morals should be taken as ground for expulsion from any administrative positions, as those individuals have clearly proven that they cannot work with Your Majesty in good faith for the betterment of the country.
 
Debates

Holding public debates about current events and laws, the political direction of the government, and the future of the country. They encourage average citizens to participate and pretend to only arbitrate. However, they feed arguments and counterarguments to the side they agree with to give it the illusion of superiority and ensure its victory against unprepared adversaries. They then use this to argue at the Royal Council for the existence of a political consensus in their favour.
 
Advice: We should follow the same tactic of feeding arguments in our favour to the right ears whenever such a debate takes place. Exposure of their act will be impossibly to prove in a convincing and definitive manner, and so talking about it will only make us lose public opinion.
 
Sabotage

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Sabotaging Your Majesty's public undertakings, be it public celebrations, food distributions, or building projects. They cause endless delays through administrative channels by blocking all work until additional paperwork is filled, eventually losing said paperwork or even outright falsifying it to pretend it has not been filled properly and needs to be redone. More direct sabotage on the ground cannot be proven at this point but is highly likely. The purpose of all this is to create a reputation for incompetence for Your Majesty's government that will be reflected on Your Majesty yourself.
 
Advice: Mathematicians should be told repeatedly to never leave their notes out of their sight during the building of titanic architecture, as a wrong number is a very quick modification to do with potentially devasting consequences.
 
Interference in the duelling ring

Interference in the duelling ring, and by extension into the official challenges against Your Majesty's rule. None of this an be proven, but we share your suspicion regarding Councilman de Crancé's dealing with your past challengers. Challengers are, of course, highly likely to have assisted to past challenge duels, to have intensely studied Your Majesty's technique, and to have come up with a strategy they think can overcome your skills.   However, the way they proceed is too systematic, the way new challengers' choice build up on their predecessor only makes sense when looking at the bigger picture rather than for each individual. If someone is not holding their hand all along, then they are certainly being offered information and incitations to follow that person's advice.
 
Advice: There is unfortunately very little we can do against his. We are already keeping track of all the top duellers in the country and keeping up-to-date profiles with their strength and weaknesses.   However, we would like to bring to Your Majesty's attention the fact that Councilman de Crancé's attention on duellers might go further than it seems. The recent scandal of the Champion Dueller de Verteuil has dirtied the court's reputation because of his link to Your Majesty and to members of your government. This happened at a very convenient time for de Crancé and might not have been caused by chance.   With Your Majesty's permission, we will investigate this further.



 

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Jul 15, 2025 11:07 by Keon Croucher

Political upheaval and intrigue, to help those in need? An interesting approach, and one that certainly held my focus to read about and learn of. Well written Amelie :)   Oh side note your @ command under Sabotage section seems to have not worked? Just so you know.

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Jul 19, 2025 15:50 by Amélie I. S. Debruyne

Thanks <3 (and thanks for pointing out that misbehaving @!)   I love those "good guys" who're not perfect little angels. Especially when placing my MC in the opposite side! Although I do still want them to have that good motivation at their base and to sincerely believe in it, even if their motives are questionable.

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Jul 15, 2025 23:02 by Dr Emily Vair-Turnbull

Off with their heads!

Emy x
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Jul 19, 2025 15:51 by Amélie I. S. Debruyne

How cruel of you! :D Such good and well-meaning people!   Thanks for your comment Emy <3

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Jul 22, 2025 09:25 by Annie Stein

I really like the format of this, by doing a secret report we get to learn about both sides of the conflict. Really neat and well done!

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Jul 23, 2025 18:47 by Amélie I. S. Debruyne

Thanks <3 Yes, getting all the infos while keeping to an "in-world" format is always a challenge, and I'm proud of the idea I had for this! XD

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