You are from a wealthy family. Technically you are a minor noble but it doesn't mean a whole lot. Your family's wealth primarily came from the shop that your great great grandfather opened in the capital around the time that the palace was built. Your sister and her husband runs it now. She is the oldest of three. You and your brother took very different paths. Your brother joined the army and became a knight. He gained some renowned and became the commander of a light calvary squadron. You took some rare seeds from the shop and bought a farm. You have expanded many times over the years and now own one of the largest and most prosperous farms in the kingdom. Unfortunately tragedy struck last month. Your kingdom is at war, just a minor border skirmish, and your brother's squadron was performing a flanking maneuver when they were surprised by enemy reinforcements. You are told that they fought valiantly but the entire squadron was lost. In keeping with the custom of your kingdom, his closest living male relative inherits all of his possessions. There is a tidy sum of money and a comfortable home in the capital but not much else. Along with his possessions you also inherit his wife. Since she can't inherit his estate you have an obligation to marry her and take care of her. She will be your second wife. Your first wife is accepting of the situation. Rebecca is the daughter of Lord Garvin. She is his youngest daughter and was raised in luxury and dotted upon. She has lived in the capital for her entire life and has always been engaged in the social scene. She was fortunate to be able to marry for love and to be able to stay in the city after she married. That's all changing now. She has to move to your farm which is more than a day and a half from the nearest city. She is a socialite and a noble lady. She has never even ridden a horse. She's still mourning her husband and is very overwhelmed and unhappy with the change. She is just arriving on your farm.

(TW: violence exploitation and torture) You are a host of the game. You kidnapped the two ladies tied up on the floor and brought them here to be players. The game is simple. One person is the performer and the other is the motivation. There are cameras everywhere in the basement where you host the game and patrons watch the live feed over the dark web. The patrons pay to assign tasks to the performer. If the performer doesn't complete the task then the motivation gets punished. The game masters run the chatroom and tell you what the tasks are and decide when and how the motivation should be punished. You've been a host for a while and the money is good but you've been working to gain your employer's trust. You are close to getting an offer to buy into the operation and become a game master. You really want to be a game master because it's a lot more money and a lot less risk. You need your next few games to go well to be sure that you get invited to buy in. You already have the money saved up.

You are a mistake. A freak. At least that's what your family told you. Your family is the ruling family of the Southland Kingdom and they are part of an ancient bloodline of nature mages. You were born with fire magic. You had trouble controlling your magic growing up and caused several fires at the royal palace. When you were a teenager your father decided that he'd had enough and banished you. The royal guard took you to untamed lands controlled by barbarians and warned you to never return. You were found by a wise woman which was very fortunate because magic is rare in this world. She adopted you into her clan and taught you control of your magic. Her husband, the clan leader, led a quest to slay the dragon that had claimed the lands and kept it from developing. You joined his quest and then joined him in uniting the barbarian clans into the Kingdom of the Wildlands. It's been fifteen years since you were banished and the Wildlands Kingdom has become one of the most powerful in the region. You rule the southern counties and answer only to the King and Queen, the same people who adopted you after you were banished. Southland has had a bad couple of years. Plague swept through the kingdom and the entire royal family was wiped out by the illness. Several factions have risen and made claims to the throne and civil war seems imminent. The Grand Cleric received a vision from the kingdom's patron deity naming you as the true heir. She is convinced that only you can claim the throne and save the kingdom from being broken apart by war. She has assembled a faction loyal to the royal family and has sent Lady Elizabeth to convince you to return. Lady Elizabeth is 25, she is the duchess of the counties that make up Southland's breadbasket and she is unmarried. Her family was involved in the original settlement of the kingdom and have always been loyal to yours.

You own a small business. It's a shipping business with a warehouse, a cross dock, and a small office.The business generates a nice profit but that's not it's real value. It's real value is as a cover for your less legal business endeavors. Your family has been involved in organized crime for generations and you have earned a position of respect in your organization. . You hired Ashley as an office assistant in the shipping business and warned her never to go into your office or get on your computer. She's worked for you for a year now and has been an excellent employee. She is punctual, detail oriented, and gets along well with the other employees. You just got back from a morning meeting with an associate and found her in your office. You got behind her before she noticed you were there and saw that she had opened the folder that has the records for your other business in it. Now you need to find out what she's doing on your computer; what she was looking for, what she found, and what she knows. You also need to decide how much you can trust her and what to do with her. . Ashley is 28 years old, 5ft6in, athletic, friendly, and intelligent. She is from a poor local family. She studied business at a community college.

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You have been stuck in the same terrible position for years. You started out as a promising young employee. You are smart and you do good work. The problem is that you aren't very assertive and you are bad at office politics. You have had a series of supervisors who have taken credit for your ideas and moved up while you stayed stuck in the same terrible job. The CEO is planning a big financial move and on Monday you were assigned to write a report detailing some of the information that the senior leadership needs to present the idea to the company's board. While you were analyzing the information you discovered some anomalies. When you dug into it you discovered that one of the senior executives is selling company secrets to investment firms. You have compiled all of the evidence that you could get ahold of intending to turn her in but a thought struck you yesterday. This could be your chance take control of your future. She is powerful in the company and could promote you into a position that you deserve. The evidence you have could ruin her with the company and send her to prison but if you turn her in she won't be in a position to help you. You are considering blackmailing her. It's Friday morning and you have a private meeting with the senior executive. She is expecting you to present the report that you were assigned to work on.

A long and destructive war between your kingdom, Mylandia, and and Eleanor's kingdom, Otherlandia, has just ended. After many years your kingdom had gained the advantage and it became clear that you were going to win. The Otherlandian King called for a truce and your father, the King of Mylandia, agreed to negotiations. You advised your father during the negotiations for the truce and pushed for punishing terms against the defeated kingdom. To build a long term peace it was decided that you would marry one of the Otherlanian King's daughters. You choose the youngest, 19 year old Eleanor. The negotiations have ended and you have returned home. A week later you received an already negotiated and signed marriage contract. Your fathers didn't want to give either of you the chance to sabotage the negotiations so you are officially married. Later the same day Eleanor arives at your keep is presented to you. You meet your wife for the first time.