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]

[...]

If I have any secret tunnels or rooms, I'm not particularly interested in helping Luca find them.

[seventhprogenitor]

You did tell me that there were places you could go that we couldn't get to. So why not see how long the mouse tries before he gives in?

[...]

Unless there is a way to access them from where we are.

[andexecutioner]

[He just shrugs a bit before he sets the cat down on his desk again.]

Not at all, which is why I don't see a point in doing it.

[seventhprogenitor]

It's the little things in life, my dear host. The little things! How much one can hope to find an exit of any kind only to have the rug pulled from beneath them, for example, is nothing short of delectable.

[From!! Experience!!

He shrugs.]

But we all have our different tastes. To each his own.

[andexecutioner]

[...why are you everything that you are.]

That's never really been my thing, personally. Slow-setting despair like that.

[seventhprogenitor]

[if anyone finds out, they'll get a prize.]

As I said, to each his own~. I get excited just imagining what the future might bring~! And then to see it happen...

[The happiest sigh, Juri. Almost a swoon. I'm so sorry?]

You've certainly given me the opportunity to experience that over and over again here. It makes up for your stubbornness regarding my request for silly straws.

[andexecutioner]

...Good to see that you're still having fun, I guess.

[YOU'RE A MESS.]

Not that I haven't been enjoying myself as well; I'm pretty sure everyone gets the idea by now, as far as that goes.

[seventhprogenitor]

[BUT ISN'T HE JUST THE PRETTIEST MESS?]

What would bore you most of all, my darling?

[andexecutioner]

[You know, he actually has to think about that.]

I don't like pointless things, and I don't like aimless things. If there's some sort of purpose behind something, then it's not completely boring - I like figuring stuff out, I like figuring people out.

It's disappointing when everything is straightforward and superficial. That's boring to me.

[seventhprogenitor]

You like it when people play hard to get.

[... so to say...]

Jean told me once you had a kind of... goal, I believe she said, and we were more or less a means to an end. Or so it sounded. Do you get paid by the murder?

[andexecutioner]

[...dude.]

...I'm sorry, what?

[seventhprogenitor]

What do you get out of this, exactly? Payment? Power? I'm only curious, lovely host of mine, considering I would run this simply to kill some time. I might even do as you do and live among everyone. It's easy to hate those they don't see, after all.

[But people they can have a much more tangible form. Especially in regards to hobbies and the like.]

[andexecutioner]

[He tips his head a bit.]

I like giving them a person to focus all their anger on; it's harder to do it blindly when you can get to know them, sure, but seeing how people treat their captors is an interesting pastime for me.

It's not something I'm doing out of boredom, though. What I get out of it doesn't really matter, but it's not boredom. I'm closer to you than I am to them in a lot of ways, but I'm not really like you, either.

[seventhprogenitor]

[Their main difference is motivation, clearly. And what they find fun. And other things, probably, but he hasn't asked very much on the... species side, only a few times here and there.]

Does your kind live a long time, or is it more like a human's lifespan? I will say, my wonderful host, if you're simply a human who's tampered in things he shouldn't have, it wouldn't make you much different than someone else I know here.

[andexecutioner]

...I actually don't know.

[And from the sound if it, he genuinely doesn't; it's not an attempt at deflecting the question or feigning ignorance.]

We're around for as long as we need to be. How long that is on average, I can't really tell you.

[seventhprogenitor]

And you've been needed for twenty-five years now. My, how short a time~.

[...]

Needed for what, exactly? I don't expect an answer for you specifically, but you certainly can't blame me for asking in general.

[andexecutioner]

You'll have to ask someone else about that one, if you ever get the chance.

[...]

Twenty-five years is a rough guess at my age. Not how long I've been needed. That one's harder to keep track of.

[seventhprogenitor]

[Oh, he certainly will.]

My age is what's hard to keep track of for me. I know I'm roughly in that area... but I couldn't say if it's any more or any less. We don't exactly celebrate birthdays.

[Even if he knows when his is!!! Maybe he is two thousand on the dot. The big two-oh... oh-oh.]

Does time move... oddly, I suppose it is, for you as well?

[andexecutioner]

...Something like that, yeah.

[seventhprogenitor]

There isn't a very good way to describe it, is there. Nothing one thinks on for long.

[... Because, you know. It's normalized someway or another.]

Setting that aside, my dear host, I'd like to get to know you more in a different way~. Do you like movies?

[andexecutioner]

I don't know.

[Again, he sounds as though he genuinely doesn't.]

I've never really watched any.

[seventhprogenitor]

[NANI THE FUCK, JURI]

Really? [He's genuinely surprised.] Well, I was asking because I thought you'd agree that it's criminal that Aligula's never seen Little Shop of Horrors before, but now it's criminal you haven't watched any!

[Brady might've asked for a TV, but who cares. This is something a little more #aesthetic.]

They're one of the more interesting things humans have invented, I'll admit, and I'm positive you'd agree! Won't you see if you can get your hands on a projector of some kind? As well as a few old reels -- I can handle everything else, you'd just need to enjoy the show.

[andexecutioner]

...I'll think about it.

[That's the sort of "I'll think about it" that implies a "probably not", but at least it's not a straight-up rejection.]

I know about them, and I've known some people who like them. I could probably get my hands on them if I felt like it. At the same time, I don't have a lot of reason to watch them.

[seventhprogenitor]

You can't think of a single reason why you might want to watch them?

[Because, like... Ferid has a whole list of reasons.]

[andexecutioner]

...That sounds like you're about to give me a list of reasons if I can't provide any.