Editing Accord (section)

==History==
===Background===
Accord originally worked in [[WEDGDG]],<ref name="R1">The Watchdog group is the group Accord belonged to. Parahuman thinkers and investigative bodies keeping an eye on economy, politics and other possible shenanigans behind the scenes. - [https://redd.it/3ec7eu Excerpt] from a comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref> an office handling economic oversight within the [[Parahuman Response Team]]. He took an afternoon off one day to solve world hunger and devised a plan that would solve it. He turned the sum of his work over to his employer who barely looked at it before demanding that he get back to work. He began siphoning and redistributing funds from his department but was discovered because he underestimated the other [[Thinker]] that worked there. He was caught, imprisoned, and then broken out by a jailbreak specialist.<ref name="I20.y e2">It was only one imbalance, one irregularity, but it had been an important one.  It had nagged at him, demanded resolution.  He ''had'' to prove it was possible.<br><br>So he’d siphoned the very funds that his department was managing.  It hadn’t been hard to redistribute some of the wealth that the villains and rogues were trying to manipulate.  One ambiguous evil for the sake of an undeniable good.  He covered his tracks flawlessly.<br><br>In the process, he failed to account for the full breadth of his newest coworker’s talents.  Thinker powers interfered with one another, and despite his ability to work with that particular drawback, even help them to work in concert, the clairvoyant had found him out.  He’d been caught, jailed, and subsequently freed by the jailbreak specialist he’d contacted well in advance. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/interlude-20/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 20.y]]</ref>

Nobody that Accord contacted took up his ideas. Government after government failed to read the documents he sent them while no one raised the subject of his work to the United Nations or any major political body.<ref name="I20.y e3">Here he was, years later.  Nobody he’d contacted had taken to his ideas, and government after government had failed to thoroughly read the documents he sent them.  Nobody raised the subject of his work to the United Nations or any major political body.  They were too interested in maintaining the status quo.<br/><br/>His plans weren’t ''observably'' closer to fruition, but he had contacts and he had wealth, and that went a long way.  He would take the slow, steady path to victory.  The binder relating to world hunger had been expanded on, with the addition of further binders to detailing the specifics.  Other sets of binders had joined it, each relating to a major issue: disease, population, government, energy, and climate.  He spent an hour and a half every morning ensuring that everything was up to date with recent changes to the economy and international politics. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/interlude-20/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 20.y]]</ref>

Accord later decided that he would take the slow, steady path to victory. He amassed contacts, wealth, expanded upon his plans, and spent half an hour each morning to ensure that everything was up to date.<ref name="I20.y e2" /> Cauldron sent him a friend to get him started.

===[[Boston Games]]===
Accord had come into contact with Cauldron. They provided him with Cauldron vials and a partner, [[Detente]], with which he formed the [[Clockwork Dogs]], and began to establish himself in [[Boston]]. The team arrived at the local villain moot and presented their plans for peaceful cooperation. It was not accepted fully.<ref>[[Eclipse x.3]]</ref>

They continued working all over the city, trading territories, brokering alliances, and whittling down their weaker opponents.<ref>“We’re leaving the south-end, south-Boston, Roxbury areas,” Detente said.  “This is not the only moot that we’ve been attending.  We’ve been talking to other groups and we arranged a compromise.”<br/><br/>“What did you assholes do?” Burning Sensation asked.<br/><br/>“We’ve traded territory.  Much as the Four moved to Hyde Park, we will take Charlestown.  Our numbers have swelled, and in the interest of building connections and ensuring that we can take Charlestown without any incident, we’ll be loaning out our capes to other factions.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/06/01 Excerpt] from [[Eclipse x.7]]</ref>

He settled into the Charleston area that he took good care of.<ref name=17.8e3>“Yes.  We’re staying a little bit longer here.  We looked into it, the heroes don’t have a strong presence here in your Charlestown territory.  We can get away with just a little bit more.”<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>Accord looked down and corrected the position of the pen on his desk before turning back to Trickster.  “Fifteen thousand dollars, and fifteen percent of any take.  The heroes don’t have a strong presence here because they don’t ''need'' a strong presence here.  I maintain the peace.  It will cost me if I have people here, active and causing trouble.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/15 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.8]]</ref> [[Worm|Four years on]], the Clockwork Dogs are defunct and Detente is long gone. Based on Director Armstrong's suspicions, it is likely that he faked his own death or simply disappeared once Accord was firmly established.<ref>“How do I put this?  Some of this is classified, and there’s information I can’t give you.  Accord’s power made him very valuable to people who are playing on a level on par with the PRT, understand?  I can’t tell you who they are, but Detente is one of them.  He’s a powerful individual from halfway across the planet, and as far as we can tell, someone sent this guy to Accord to help establish him in Boston.  Detente is liable to disappear or fake his own death.  He’s been going back and forth between his roles.” -[[https://www.parahumans.net/2018/06/01/eclipse-x-7/ Excerpt]] from [[Eclipse x.7]]</ref>

===Story Start===
He had dealings with the Travelers, hiring them to attack [[Blasto]]'s Lab. When [[Sundancer]] interrupted the initial meeting he claimed he would have to have the girl killed. [[Trickster]] was able to convince him otherwise by offering up the 'true' person responsible for the interruption.<ref name="17.8">[[Migration 17.8]]</ref> After the Travelers supplied Accord with [[Perdition]], things became much more equitable.

Before they moved to Brockton Bay, Accord outfitted the [[Travelers]] with their matching red and black costumes.<ref name="17.8 e4"/>

===Post-[[Slaughterhouse Nine]]===
In order to push out the newly arrived members of [[Fenrir's Chosen]], Accord called a truce with [[Blasto]]; allegedly so that he could construct a powerful creature that would send the neo-Nazis out of town, but actually as part of a plot to turn him in to the authorities. Accord's Ambassadors were attacked in the building they were stationed in before either plan could be completed, and the tinker was kidnapped by Bonesaw for her own ends.<ref name="19.xC1">In Accord’s defense, he was planning on framing [[Blasto]], and not letting the tinker get to the point where he really finished a dangerous project; let him start working, get caught up in things, and then disappear, leaving a message for the heroes so they can stumble on the guy with piles of classified material and a possible Endbringer-in progress (note how the place is nice, but it’s not Accord’s real headquarters, as they were described in the last chapter of Migration).<br/><br/>I was going to have something like that in there, but couldn’t find a place for it at the end that wouldn’t kill the tempo. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/interlude-19-donation-bonus-1/#comment-11649 comment] by Wildbow on [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref><ref name="19.x">[[Interlude 19.x]]</ref> As a consequence of the Slaughterhouse Nine coming to Boston, Accord lost all but two of his current Ambassadors.

===Post-[[Battle against Echidna|Echidna]]===
Accord and his organization would travel to [[Brockton Bay]] where they came under the aegis of [[The Undersiders]]. Despite initial hardships, he succeeded in accepting the alliance.

===New Delhi===
As per the agreement with the Undersiders, Accord attended the Endbringer fight in India.<ref>[[Drone 23.5]]</ref> Where he met his doom.

Accord was killed by [[Cody]], a former member of the [[Travelers]], who had been sold to the [[Yangban]] by Accord. Cody was the reason Accord's meeting with the Travelers had been interrupted when they visited Boston prior to the Travelers moving to Brockton Bay.<ref>[[Interlude 23]]</ref> Cody also grievously wounded [[Chevalier]] and [[Tattletale]].<ref>[[Interlude 24.x]]</ref>

===Legacy===
Accord's plans benefited the global populace well past his death. One of his most exemplary subordinates planned to use his designs to save everyone possible on Earth Bet.<ref>[[Interlude 7.y II]]</ref>