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

[fortunatedetective]

Right. Technicalities. Since that's what you choose to mention, let's imagine a scenario.

[Oh boy, here she goes. Pessimistic people can think of some rather outlandish scenarios]

If someone, let's say Terumi-san, killed someone and got caught during the trial, he'd have complete liberty to kill half of the residents of the lodge before the trial ended. Is that right?

[...okay, that one isn't very outlandish]

[andexecutioner]

[...Actually, it isn't, and he's actually sorry to shatter your faith in the people in this place further. But: ]

You know, I've actually been asked by someone before, whether or not they can do that. And it was someone who isn't Terumi - or Walter White, for that matter.

[...Yeah.]

The answer I gave them is that I wouldn't recommend it.

[fortunatedetective]

[Good thing she isn't exactly holding people in pedestals. As soon as Juri says that, she can already think of a few she could see asking that]

Why wouldn't you recommend it? It isn't against the rules. Someone twisted enough wouldn't hesitate to do it there's a chance to do it!

[andexecutioner]

I'm aware of that.

[There's a bit of a sigh behind it, but there isn't any agitation. Not yet, anyway.]

If they choose to do that, then they're going to do it. I won't stop them, because it's like you said - there isn't a rule against it. But just the same, I wouldn't recommend it.

[fortunatedetective]

[Right. Naoto's a bit less angry now, mostly because wow things are looking really bad. She's so tired of this all.

She sits, hunched over]

I knew this place was dangerous but I didn't think that could be a scenario that could happen. The fact you're more or less fine with that doesn't fit with anything I have envisioned, too.

Five weeks have passed and I still haven't made progress on finding out what the purpose of this all is. There must be something I'm not seeing, but I don't know what it is!

How have past groups managed to win this game? I can't see a way yet.

[andexecutioner]

[...And that actually gets his gaze to dart a bit; he can't say why it does, but it does either way.]

It's not because of anything you're overlooking or doing wrong.

It's just the nature of the game. That's all.

[fortunatedetective]

[Oh dear. If Naoto weren't in a moment of lost composure she would have noticed and formed conclusions, but by the time she has attained some impersonality, that behavior may be gone.

She sighs]

...how many games have you supervised?

[She's sure that asking for what the winning requirement for those who escaped would be would be a dead end]

[andexecutioner]

If you're asking for an exact number, you're not going to get one. But there have been a lot of them.