Accept
Take over
Take over verb - To take to or upon oneself.
Usage example: took over the responsibility of caring for the animals
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Both terms in one sentence
- It's an inversion, since they accept an offer to take over their Big Bad's operations so that they can later expose the members of the Circle of the Black Thorn, the cabal affiliated with W and H.
Source: Expose the Villain, Get His Job -
Curtain's goal is to take over the world, manipulating people's opinions and memories with his Whisperer so that they accept him as M.A.S.T.E.R.
Source: Take Over the World -
The downside to that is that you don't automatically get all the loyalist lords back if you take over (they accept the pretender as their legitimate liege lord on defeat, but not you).
Source: Video Game / Mount & Blade
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