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

[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.]

[didntgetdadslooks]

[blonde fuckin stuffed cat lovin weirdo

... as an aside are those stuffed cats like stuffed animals or taxidermy it occurs to me that i'm not actually sure]

I'm just not sure I understand what it entails.

[andexecutioner]

[...THEY ARE STUFFED CATS LIKE STUFFED ANIMALS NOT LIKE TAXIDERMY DON'T WORRY

they're like little toys oh my god i'm so sorry

Anyway, he'll just sort of shrug at that.]

I'm pretty big on people understanding that whatever actions they take are their own, and no actions are free from consequences.

[didntgetdadslooks]

[MORE KIDDISH QUIRK, LESS GOTHIC MANOR SHIT, GOT IT]

So would it be fair to say it's more of a statement than a rule?

[andexecutioner]

[...FERID MADE A COUPLE OF THOSE

HE'D HOPE THEY'RE NOT TAXIDERMY, BECAUSE OTHERWISE THE NEW MYSTERY WOULD BE "WHERE THE HELL DID FERID GET CATS"]

Yes and no. It's also there to prevent arguments like whether stays of execution should be granted and stuff.