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]

[...Interesting.]

It's nothing personal for me, either, if you end up down there. Though I'm wondering how likely you think it is that you're going to.

[oasisrose]

Under normal circumstances? There wouldn't be the slightest chance. As much as I miss my freedom... I'd rather give that up before my integrity.

[With a grim tone, she continues...]

... but there's a reason it's bothered me so much that this game is so unfair.

[andexecutioner]

[...]

...You can talk about it, if you want. It doesn't bother me.

[oasisrose]

[On one hand, it seems like a spectacularly bad idea to tell the man handing out incentives how to flip her murder switch. Like slipping him a wildcard under the table.

On the other, there's an odd sort of freedom in talking to an enemy, since one doesn't have to worry about scaring them off. And come to think of it...]

Tell me, Juri. [He did say he preferred his name.] How much do you actually know about us? About who we were before we showed up here? Did you write up those profiles, and give us all titles?

[andexecutioner]

I was the one who did all that, yeah.

[He doesn't seem to be forthcoming about the rest, but that's just kind of how he is a lot of the time. Receive two or three questions, answer one of them.]

[oasisrose]

[Eventually, someone should point out to Jean how stupid it is that she gives him those kinds of opportunities. But for now, it slips her attention again.]

Well, then, you must know what I was before I was a dancer, right? Unless you weren't paying attention to why it was on my profile.

[Oddly enough, no one's asked her about that particular dislike.]

[andexecutioner]

I know what you were, and I know why it's there.

[Well, you have his full attention by now, at least.]

[oasisrose]

[Should she be relieved that she was right about that? At least it makes it easier to air her real grievances.]

... it was my choice to abandon that wretched art. No one told me to do it, I never had my eyes opened by a life changing epiphany -- I decided on my own that it was wrong, and I would not accept it anymore.

But a choice isn't so simple as hitting a button and watching the world change around you, is it? It's committing yourself to that course of action and seeing it through. And in my case, it meant I had to clean up the overemotional mess I was and build a better person out of it. I've been working on it for years...

I'm far from finished, but I was proud of how much I had accomplished -- and now this damn game is trying to break it back down again.

[andexecutioner]

[He's quiet for a moment after that's out there; his gaze doesn't dart away the way it often does, he isn't breaking eye contact or looking for something to do with his hands. He's just kind of staring, and the expression is a little intense, though it seems to be at least partially due to perhaps not knowing what else to do with his face at the moment.]

If you really believe that, then I'd think it's a matter of not letting it.

You still have choices that you can make here.

[oasisrose]

[Hearing that reaffirms what she was already thinking about Juri. Given his role and the apparently point of this game, one would think he'd be more interested in pulling the pain behind all her melodrama out to the surface. Instead...

It's almost funny. But while she suppresses her laughing habit, she does still find a smirk starting to come to her lips.]

Yeah, you're right about that one. And that, I guess, is the goal I've set in my mind here. I didn't come this far just to give up now.

But... I'm not so arrogant that I don't see what kind of danger I'm in. I know I must still have a breaking point. And if I reach that...

[Her voice is resigned, but surprisingly, not heavy.] ... well. I trust you to hold nothing back.

[andexecutioner]

[Again, he's quiet for a moment at that, though he's kind of smirking to himself a bit once all that's out there.]

I'm not going to give you guidance once way or another, because it's not my job to do that and really? It's none of my business. You'll do whatever it is you'll do, with or without my help.

But I won't hold anything back if you don't.