Rules of the Game " Rules of the Game " is a short story written by Saladin Ahmed for the anthology " Canto Bight " . The story was narrated in the audiobook edition by Sean Kenin . Plot summary . Arrival at Canto Bight . After winning " Salesperson of the Year " , Kedpin Shoklop arrived to the planet Cantonica , where his prize was a two week all expenses paid vacation to Canto Bight . Upon arriving however , Kedpin encountered problems , the first of which that he did not have a sponsorship chip . Two officers however decided to let him go due to the work required had he remained detained . When leaving the spaceport , Kedpin was then stopped by an " acting gate agent " who asked for his luggage pass . When Kedpin couldn ' t produce one , the agent gave him a choice that they detain his bags or settle a fee for an exemption claim . Realising the trouble he could be in , Kedpin pays the fee and the agent offers to send his luggage to his hotel . Elsewhere Anglang Lehet , a criminal Syndicate , had been hired by the Old City Boys to kill one of the more brutal officers in the Canto Bight Police Department named Brawg . In order to do so , he needed to find a target who would ingest a explosive device , get them arrested and just as Brawg interrogates them , Anglang would detonate and kill him . His contacts delivered the person they suggested he use to ingest the device , none other than Kedpin Shoklop . Anglang found him with ease and watched and waited . Kedpin was dropped off just shy of his hotel by the limospeeder where he then encountered a " tourist droid " . Whilst Kedpin believed the droid would show him to his hotel , it instead took him to a mud bath , where he was thrown into one by a large creature named Sweetheart , though he came out smelling very clean . The droid took off with most of Kedpin ' s money for the services , but gave him directions to his hotel . Anglang watched from afar at Café Raduli as he saw the whole ordeal of Kedpin being roped into a scam by V - 333 . Kedpin eventually found his way to the Canto Casino Hotel where he met a pleasant creature named Altovan who checked Kedpin in . Upon doing so however , Kedpin had realised his luggage did not arrive and figured out his luggage had in fact been stolen . Despite this , Altovan made Kedpin feel very welcome and relaxed and then showed him to his room , where Kedpin slept for an hour . He was soon awoken by Altovan due to Kedpin stating he was interested in visiting Zord ' s Spa and Bathhouse where he relaxed there for the rest of the day . The Interrogation . As Kedpin left the spa , he encountered two orange humanoids , one wearing blue clothes and one wearing red . They told him that there was a problem with his hotel room , but Anglang , realising the two were about to steal all of Kedpin ' s money and take his mark away from him , stepped in to help him and shooed the two away . Anglang introduced himself with his real name to help make his half truth story more believable , and said he would buy Kedpin a drink to welcome him to the city . The two were then drinking at Klang ' s Place soon after , where Anglang then got to work by sneaking an ingestible detonator into Kedpin ' s drink and placing a tiny patch of fake spice onto his back . Anglang then slipped away for a moment to notify the CBPD of Kedpin dealing spice , but then returned for another quick drink before stating he had to attend a business matter for five minutes . During this time , Anglang watched as the CBPD arrived and dragged Kedpin out of the bar and into a police van . Kedpin arrived at the police station where he was soon interrogated by a purple furred and impossibly muscled man named Officer Brawg . Whilst Kedpin tried to claim he was innocent , Brawg instead lifted Kedpin up and threw him to the ground and started kicking and punching him . Brawg demanded from Kedpin who he was working with , where Kedpin reflected back on the hell of a day he had . He thought back to the weird gestures Anglang had done , patting him on the back and then leaving not long before the CBPD showed up , and felt he might have been set up . He also thought back to other instances where any one of the people he met throughout the day could also have set him up . Meanwhile Anglang , stationed in a room near the CBPD , listened through the audio monitor on the detonator he had Kedpin ingest . He waited for the right moment before detonating the device , but before he could do so , Kedpin stated he wouldn ' t give anybody else up to avoid Brawg hurting them also . Although Anglang had killed numerous innocents for work , this was the first instance where someone had shown some compassion . Despite needing to detonate the device to kill Brawg for a job he was being paid for , he deactivated the device and set off to save Kedpin . Consequences . After being beaten up by Brawg , Kedpin realised he had been knocked out and found himself in a cell . Outside he heard Brawg and Anglang talking , where Anglang made up a lie about his employers writing off the alleged offence , where in fact he used his advanced pay to bail Kedpin out . Kedpin and Anglang both walked out of the CBPD where Anglang came clean on needing to blow him up to kill Brawg . As they walked up an alley , they were surrounded by Klatooinian ' s who were in fact part of the Old City Boys . The Old City Boys were angry at Anglang for not completing the job and were there to kill him . Anglang told Kedpin to escape , which the Old City Boys allowed before they started . As Kedpin ran , a fight between Anglang and the Klatooinian ' s broke out . Although Anglang was able to stop two of them , he was outnumbered and stunned by the Klatooinian named Uk with a stun stick . Hearing the commotion behind him , Kedpin stopped and realised that although Anglang had tried to kill him , he also saved him . He ounced up all the courage he had and ran back into the alley , knocking himself backwards from ricocheting off a Klatooinian . With the Old City Boys momentarily distracted , Anglang was able to grab the stun stick off of Uk and knocked out the remainder of the group . Anglang then emptied out all of their pockets and gave some of the money to Kedpin to help compensate for his luggage . Instead , Kedpin suggested they go to the races and enjoy the moment . A Vacation At Last . Kedpin , finally living out a dream of watching a real live Fathier race , bet all of the stolen money on a fathier named Kessel Runner , as suggested by Anglang . The two watched the race where Kessel Runner won by a small margin . Anglang and Kedpin cheered excitedly , as Kedpin had won what amounted to a whole years salary . In order to celebrate , Kedpin invited Anglang for a drink , where they both went to a more expensive place named Ubialla Gheal ' s nightclub . Kedpin poured his winnings into a bowl , where he told Anglang to take half of the money as they had earned it together . After Kedpin claimed he had never won anything in his life , Anglang reminded him that he had won the trip he was currently on . Kedpin came clean and explained that the competition he won was in fact rigged in that the higher management , or a favoured employee named Laz Lazzaz would always win every year . Kedpin learned of this , and as the computer system for choosing the winner was old , he succeeded in hacking into it so that it made out he won . Nobody within VaporTech confronted him about this to claim he cheated the system as they would too have exposed that the competition was rigged , so instead allowed him to go on the two week vacation without any consequences . The two finished their drinks and they both then went their separate ways .