I'll call your bluff

Eli - Jack of Spades - Twenty-Six In visions of a dark night, I dreamt of joy-departed, but a waking dream of life and lighthath left me brokenhearted

[gospelofluke]

I think my services would be best utilized elsewhere...

[gospelofluke]

It shouldn’t be this bad. I still should’ve checked up with you. I’d have been upset if you had done to me what I’ve done to you — practically disappeared for a few days. I’d be worried sick. Sorry about that. Ah, I probably don’t know anything you don’t know.

I missed you though. How are you? How are things?

[eli-ofspades]

Honestly, I've been so swamped that I barely even realized that it'd been a couple of days. It's okay though, I know you can handle yourself so I wasn't worried much. 

I missed you too, but I'm okay. Just trying to do what I can here for the Spade kingdom. It's hard to organize or do much since I'm here, but my father isn't well enough to be seen on camera so I've been behind cameras for press conferences and shit all day.

[eli-ofspades]

Sophia,

[sophia-ofspades-deactivated2012]

Sorry to disappoint, brother, but even I haven’t been able to find anything. 

My loyalties lie with the kingdom Eli. I would never be involved in something this destructive.

[eli-ofspades]

Says the woman who sold out her brother. I should have you arrested for treason. Unfortunately, I'm not like you. I care about our family too much.

[eli-ofspades]

Sophia,

You wouldn't happen to know about anything behind these attacks, would you? It's hard to know these days, considering your tendency to stab me in the back.

[gospelofluke]

I think my services would be best utilized elsewhere...

[gospelofluke]

Mostly working. There’s been a lot going on. I’m sorry, I should’ve checked in with you.

[eli-ofspades]

No, it's fine. I may as well have forgotten that we're from two different kingdoms. Any updates on your end?

[gospelofluke]

I think my services would be best utilized elsewhere...

but, alas — we don’t always get what we want.

[eli-ofspades]

Where the hell have you been the past few days? 

[benjamin-ofspades-deactivated20]

Temporary closure for the Ad Absurdum,

[benjamin-ofspades-deactivated20]

Thanks for that Eli. But we’ll be alright. You have a lot more to worry about. Bradly and myself can take care of ourselves. 

Alright. But I need something to write this paper, Eli. People need to know what happened, so if you know anything that could be useful to me, I beg you to tell me. Or else I’ll just have to go and ask everyone about it and I can’t promise that Cole won’t kill me.

[eli-ofspades]

Just remember that I'm here if you need me.

I'll try to find out what I can and get some agents to start doing some legitimate investigating. We're still trying to get some people out of their houses after the systems crashed and locked them in. You should get Bradly to analyze the virus they set in the system network, considering that he once stopped all of the elevators and escalators once too in one of our old pranks as kids. That'll help out a lot.

Cole's a waste of your time. He didn't even care about what had happened, even to his own Kingdom, until his father chewed him out for it. I've already had the "you're a pathetic excuse for a human being" conversation with him, so you can save yourself the trouble. What a ruler he will be.

[benjamin-ofspades-deactivated20]

Temporary closure for the Ad Absurdum,

[benjamin-ofspades-deactivated20]

I don’t have time to cry over corpses. And I have pretty much all my fortune and my father’s to put on the Ad Absurdum 2.0. 

This is something easy to find. You have any information that what I’ve been told?

[eli-ofspades]

I'm just saying that I'm here if you need me, Ben. For anything. That's what the Jack's for. That's what friends are for.

I've resumed my role as Ace temporarily to find out details, and work on the security of the Spade kingdom, but my job as the Jack is currently overruling any attempts I have at investigating. My agents in the Kingdom are still helping with the wreckage and victims, and I'm stuck here with a shit ton of paperwork and more televised conferences since my father can't do them. It's all so fucked up, Ben. 

[benjamin-ofspades-deactivated20]

Temporary closure for the Ad Absurdum,

But don’t worry. Your favorite journal is coming back in a few with some fresh news on what happened. 

I will find those bastard and burn their houses for them to know what if feels like.

[eli-ofspades]

Glad to hear that you're getting things running again. I'll fund anything you need me too to help get Ad Absurdum back on its feet. 

I've got the matches if you have the gasoline.

[cole-ofdiamonds-blog]

This day just keeps getting better and better.

[cole-ofdiamonds-blog]

Did I ask for your fucking opinion, Eli!

You have your shit to deal with and I have mine. The Casino is more than half of our kingdom’s economic value, if it goes so does the livelihood of the majority of our people. It’s relied on, and it has always been a constant. The fact that it lost millions is a devastating blow, so go fuck yourself. Lives can be ruined in more than one way, Eli.

[eli-ofspades]

You didn't ask for my opinion, but you're going to get it. Deal with it.

I understand that, but honestly, the fact that you clearly was not concerned in the slightest until your father obviously chewed you out for it is despicable. You are the worst kind of person, Cole. How anyone expects you to ruin a kingdom is literally beyond me. If this isn't the collapse of the Diamond Kingdom now, it most certainly will be when you take the throne.

[cole-ofdiamonds-blog]

This day just keeps getting better and better.

[cole-ofdiamonds-blog]

I’m sorry, when was my business any of your concern again? I have a crisis on my hands, so if you’d be so kind as to leave me the fuck alone that’d be great.

[eli-ofspades]

You have a crisis on your hands? You do? Seriously? Excuse me while I choke.

Cole, your kingdom lost money. My kingdom lost lives.  Are you seriously that fucking selfish and that fucking full of yourself? I'm beginning to think that you most have this gravitational pull around your ego, because everything just has to revolve around you, doesn't it?

[cole-ofdiamonds-blog]

This day just keeps getting better and better.

What’s next, an attempt at my life? It really wouldn’t surprise me at this point, and it would just thrill my father.

[eli-ofspades]

Are you actually serious right now? What are you, a child?

[dragneto]

[iamnevertheone]

[iamverylazy-blog]

[eli-ofspades]

I have a press conference today for the Spades kingdom.

If anyone needs me, leave a message with Hudson until I'm available. I'm offering protection to any of your family members of the Spades kingdom from the Royal Guard.

[hanniballecters]

[piper-clubs-deactivated20121120]

Everything is a mess.

[piper-clubs-deactivated20121120]

No, I am not alright. Some douchebag group of people decided it would be ok to mess with my family and my kingdom. Well, when I find out who they are, I’m showing them why they call Clubs beasts.

[eli-ofspades]

I understand. I'm temporarily resuming my position as Ace until all of this is settled and stopped. Hundreds of people died as a result of the arson on the Spades, and the explosions at the Clubs' factory. I'll be damned if these so-called Jokers aren't brought to justice.