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

[notaccurate]

Why not. You were potentially brought here, wiped of all of your memories, and then told to manage 'games' in which people kill each other. Doesn't that lack of agency bother you in the slightest? I know if I were going to send people to their deaths, I would at least like to have it be because of a personal choice on my part, not because of amnesia-induced coercion.

[andexecutioner]

[That just gets one of those odd, blank looks out of him.]

Whatever the reason is...I'm still doing it, aren't I?

[notaccurate]

[JURI PLZ]

What? Of course the reasons matter! The reason why you do something is just as important as what you did, if not more! There's a reason things like 'self-defense justifications' exist!

[andexecutioner]

No, I know that.

[The hand that was trailing over the desk comes up to run itself through his hair; the gesture is more idle than frustrated.]

At the same time, there's a difference between understandable and justifiable, and that's what I'm getting at.

[notaccurate]

[Luca is practically tearing out his hair here, but after a moment he forces his hand away from his hair and tries to speak in a collected voice.]

So you feel what has happened here isn't justifiable?

[andexecutioner]

[I'd say he'd apologize if he was sorry but I'm pretty sure we both know he wouldn't.]

I feel most of the people here would believe that it isn't, and as such this is kind of a moot line of questioning. Once things get beyond a certain threshold of what's not acceptable, the reasoning behind it pretty much doesn't matter to anyone but the person who's doing it.

[notaccurate]

[That's alright, baby steps here. Apologies are hard to do anyway.]

The people here aren't going to think that it's justifiable because they're the ones who might die because of it. But what do you think? Do you think your actions are justifiable?

[andexecutioner]

I think it doesn't matter whether they are or not. Things like that don't really concern me.

[notaccurate]

...I see.

[Luca is not used to dealing with these levels of apathy.]

It seems like you can't be swayed on that point, then. And since you seem to be doing alright, I will go ahead and leave you be for the night.

[andexecutioner]

[It's okay, Luca. You'll get used to it. Maybe.]