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]

[IT WAS HYPOTHETICAL..........]

Okay, got it. I don't actually... well, I definitely don't need one of those. I'm not planning to kill anyone here. I just wanted to know if there were hard no items.

[...]

Just one other thing, I guess.

[andexecutioner]

There probably are, but I haven't run into any requests like that yet.

[So there's that.]

But go ahead with your other thing, though.

[didntgetdadslooks]

[It's time for THIS IS TOTALLY A RANDOM EXAMPLE AND NOT AN ATTEMPT TO FIGURE OUT THE MORAL VALUE OF HER PAST ACTIONS IN THIS LEGAL SYSTEM AT ALL. And hey, maybe Juri likes riddles or something.]

So... there's a kingdom, ruled by a king who murdered his way to the throne. And he keeps his daughter locked in a tower, where she has to use these magic crystals that the king's servants mine to fuel her powers that let that king stay in power. And the flow of the crystals has to be constant, or she'll die. In secret, the princess calls on a group of mercenaries from a kingdom the king wants to use her powers to scorch the land and kill every single living being in and tells them how to get past the gates of the tower and slay the dragon guarding it, so that they can destroy the stockpile of crystals, stopping the flow and killing her.

Applying the rules of this game, and... in your personal opinion, if that's different, is it the king, the princess, or the mercenaries that are responsible for her death?

[andexecutioner]

[...jesus, angel.

He'll listen to all of that, though; it actually doesn't take him long at all to reply, though - his response is prompt, though possibly not for the reason she might think.]

My thoughts on it are different than the outcome required by the rules of the game.

According to the game, the princess is responsible for her death, using the mercenaries as a weapon.

According to my personal thoughts on it, though, the king is.

[didntgetdadslooks]

[That... is not actually what she was expecting? Shoutout to Juri with the thoughts and opinions and shit. Just a second here, let her just... go back to not looking surprised.]

Why the king?

[andexecutioner]

From the sound of it, the king's the one that drove her to do it in the first place.

[He tips his head slightly after that's out there, his brow furrowing a little as he does so.]

Obviously, I can't know everything about the situation based only on what I've been given here. I'm sure the king has his own version of events detailing what happened and why.

But he's the one that put her in that situation. Happy people don't call on mercenaries to come murder her by proxy. So the one who caused the princess' misery is responsible.