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Roy Victor Chess was a hired assassin who attempted to kill Adrian Veidt in his New York City office building on November 1, 1985

Biography[]

An employee of Pyramid Deliveries had been ordered to hire Roy Victor Chess for a contract hit against Adrian Veidt and give him a brown envelope.

Chess shot Veidt's secretary before being disarmed by Veidt. Veidt attempted to interrogate him, but he died by means of a poison capsule. As he explained later, Chess did not commit suicide with the capsule, but that Veidt had fed it to him.

On November 1, 1985, Rorschach and Nite Owl II interrogated the driver at Happy Harry's Bar & Grill who revealed the story to them. He protested that he didn't know Chess had attempted to assassinate Veidt, and he demanded protection, as he was a part of Veidt's ultimate plot and would have to be eliminated.

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