I also don't get the note for the last event, at all. The queen is taken during the move, but it is assumed that it was taken three days ago? What?
First off, yes, Scedasticity (love the name btw) has it right.
A Foundation higher-up, who had worked his way up through the ranks for years, got promoted to O5. More or less concurrently with the signing of the papers to do the deed, SCP-928 announces that it has promoted a pawn to queen. Needless to say, the O5 council has opinions on this. The newly-crowned O5-13 decides to seal those records, first. The rest of the council, in part because of the event itself and in part because of how O5-13 reacts to it, votes by a narrow margin to supervise him closely and restricts his powers.
A few days later, O5-7, who was the deciding vote, suddenly resigns and makes himself disappear from the face of the earth. His announcement corresponds with a bishop taking a queen that was on the same spot that O5-13 used to occupy. Figuring that their placement of restrictions on 13 constituted the piece being taken, O5-1 decides to seal up the whole shebang and leave that note in the log. Now the O5s are paranoid about each other being chess pieces, and suspicious of this mysterious bishop that prompted the disappearance of O5-6.
What would be nice is too see how White uses the captured individuals to gain an edge in the game, not even necessary directly, but maybe as an allusion during one of the vocalizations.
I want to keep the content of the vocalizations the same as they are now, but I have been trying to think of a good explanation for how the players manipulate events in our world. I might try and integrate something along those lines.
Now, @Scedasticity
I'm very confused. I'm not sure whether I'm more confused than the reader is supposed to be, though.
You're a little more confused than you should be, but there is supposed to be confusion. I imagine I'm walking a thin line by intentionally confusing the reader, but whatever.
It's sort of an empathy thing, really. The reader reads it and tries to figure out what's happening and how things fit together, and that's how the Foundation feels, with the only difference being that they have to try and figure this out.
I have no idea what it wants
To win, either by getting to the endgame after lots of pieces have left the board and trapping the black king, or by backing the black king into a corner or something.
how its vocalizations or chess moves correspond to events
I don't know how to make that clearer. It's stated that the Foundation doesn't think that the vocalizations are directly related to the game state, and the real events that I put in the addendum actually happened on the dates mentioned.
Anyways, I changed things up a bit in the sandbox. Does anyone have thoughts on said changes?
