PRIVATE MEETINGS

[andexecutioner]

If you'd like to have a private meeting with the Adjudicator, this is where you should go! The Adjudicator is available at almost all hours of the day; just knock and he'll answer.

Comments are screened for privacy; no eavesdropping, that's rude.

Comments

[andexecutioner]

She would have.

[It's calm, easy. He doesn't look up from the cards.]

If it was actually her plan and she sent you, that technically makes you the weapon.

[didntgetdadslooks]

[So intent does matter, at least somewhat.]

So, by extension... could someone use you as a murder weapon? Goad or trick someone else into breaking Rule Five.

[andexecutioner]

[And that does seem to catch his interest, a bit.]

...Technically. I can be used as a weapon in a lot of ways in a situation like this.

[didntgetdadslooks]

I guess so. Make someone else break the rules. I take it Rule 3 still counts if the sleep is involuntary? [And, come to think of it...] What... is the reasoning behind Rule 3, anyway?

[andexecutioner]

Well, first of all you're wrong about it - Rule Three only counts if you fall asleep under your own power. Or lack thereof, I guess. If someone knocks you out then I'm not going to punish you for it. The infirmary's also an exception. If someone's sick or injured or something and you decide you can't or shouldn't move them, they can stay in there all they want. There's a difference between sleep and unconsciousness, and if you're in the infirmary it's closer to unconsciousness because you probably wouldn't be voluntarily passing out somewhere in the open like that if you weren't sick or injured.

Rule Three is actually pretty hard to weaponize. I just don't want you guys deciding to have sleepovers anywhere you want; it's pretty much for convenience's sake.

[didntgetdadslooks]

Heh. I guess naps aren't your secret weak point after all.

[Some of the strange mixture of frustration and resentment manages to sneak into her voice there, but she pulls it back. She's quiet for a moment, and then.]

Why the coffin?

[andexecutioner]

She hated the dark.

[And that, too, is calm, though he isn't looking up to establish eye contact any.]

[didntgetdadslooks]

And killing her in front of everyone wasn't enough.

[It's not a question, just. A statement.]

That thing you do, with the flash of light. I assume you can't tell me what it is, but... does it hurt?

[andexecutioner]

No, it doesn't.

[And there isn't any hesitation in that whatsoever; just how things are.]

It feels kind of weird at the start of it, but generally it's like going to sleep - everything shuts down all at once, and you don't even feel it happening beyond the initial contact. So it's not like she was suffering or anything.

[didntgetdadslooks]

[Well, that's a comfort, but ALSO...]

Has it... happened to you?

[andexecutioner]

You think I'd live through something like that?

[didntgetdadslooks]

I mean I did watch you pull a knife out of your throat. But... why do you know how it feels otherwise?

[andexecutioner]

[He shrugs. Goes quiet for a bit.]

That sort of thing affects me differently than it affects you guys. But yeah, it's happened.

[didntgetdadslooks]

Right.

[She exhales.]

Do you... enjoy what you do, Juri? Being the Adjudicator. You don't seem super enthusiastic.

[andexecutioner]

A bunch of you have commented on that, actually. It'd be more of a concern if I was really into it, I'd think.

[didntgetdadslooks]

Yeah, but... this doesn't seem like the kind of thing someone sets up without being really into it. If my experiences with the kind of people who would consider running something like this are any indication, anyway.

[andexecutioner]

Does it really make much of a difference? What I think about it, I mean.

[It's not pointed or anything; it's just a question, really.]

[didntgetdadslooks]

Because if you don't care about it, it doesn't make sense why you would go to the trouble of running it.

[andexecutioner]

I never said I don't care about it; I think it'll be worth it, in the end.

[didntgetdadslooks]

So it's just... a process? I assume you're not going to tell me what you're expecting to get out of it.

[andexecutioner]

It's something like that, yeah. What I'm trying to get out of it...well, it probably won't make much sense to anyone but me, but I know what I'm looking for.

[didntgetdadslooks]

[Some bitterness enters her voice. Sorry, Juri, she is... not a fan of her life being at risk so someone else can achieve a goal.]

Well, I guess all I can do is hope it's worth our lives. Since at most one of us makes it.

[A pause. If that's the case, then taking into account what he said earlier...]

What you said this morning to Fern... are you really looking for someone to win?

[andexecutioner]

[It's not like he's offended by it or anything.]

I want you guys to play the game however you see fit. If someone wins, then they do.

[didntgetdadslooks]

[This guy.]

Okay. Then I guess I only have a couple other questions right now. How much can you clarify on Rule Nine?

[andexecutioner]

[...Juri is kind of "this guy" incarnate; sorry, Angel.]

Depends on what you want to know about it.

[...this fuckin' guy though.]