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]

Not all day - it depends on the time of day. I'm a busy guy sometimes, but it's the sort of busy that means I'm really productive for short periods of time. I have a lot of downtime inbetween, and I've got to keep myself occupied somehow, when I'm not talking to all of you.

[That's...actually a surprising amount of words, given what he usually offers.]

Something on your mind?

[greenmamabear]

I guess everyone needs a hobby.

Well, I was kind of gonna do a whole "ask questions and hope for something more than vague not-answers" thing.

[andexecutioner]

[Oh. Well, all right, then.]

Go ahead. If I can't or won't answer something, I'll let you know, but there's nothing stopping you from asking.

[...]

I'm still listening, even if I'm messing with the board. I like having something to do with my hands.

[greenmamabear]

["Can't or won't" huh. Very interesting.]

I get that. I doodle sometimes when I'm thinking through stuff.

[She glances around the office curiously. Quite a set-up he's got here.] ...Not gonna lie, now I'm kind of wondering if you, uh, eat or whatever. I haven't seen you in the kitchen or anything.

[andexecutioner]

Yeah, sometimes I do. Not really in front of anyone, I guess, but I've had coffee with Critical before.

[greenmamabear]

...Okay, look, I'm not gonna claim higher moral ground here because I've survived on coffee before. But are you. Actually eating healthily. At all.

[Fern, please remind yourself this man kidnapped you and took a soul in front of you.]

[andexecutioner]

[...Okay, that seems to have gotten his attention; he cocks his head a bit when he looks up at her, toying with one of those marbles between his fingers as he does so.]

Don't worry, I know better than to mess with that too much. I'll be fine.

[greenmamabear]

That wasn't a yes.

[andexecutioner]

[...madam...]

My necessities are a little different than yours, I think.

1/3

[greenmamabear]

Oh yeah, because sitting in an office all day is the pinnacle of good hea-

[greenmamabear]

3/4 actuallly

[greenmamabear]

done

[greenmamabear]

...Right!

Yeah.

That stuff.

[andexecutioner]

[...a w k w a r d...]

...Anyway...

[greenmamabear]

Uhhhhhh...

[ > Fern is demoralized by her own mistakes and loses one heart.

> Roll for Charisma to recover.]

Do souls taste good?

[BAIL OUT BAIL OUT.]

[andexecutioner]

[...HOLY - okay. Okay, from the look of it that actually wasn't what he was expecting, hang on, god will you just look at his brain screech to a sudden halt- ]

I...don't. Eat them. So I wouldn't know.

[greenmamabear]

You- [Huh.

Huuuuh.

HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH.]

So. What was that at the execution?

[andexecutioner]

There's a difference between taking it out and eating it.

[greenmamabear]

Oh.

Well.

Mistakes have been made.

[andexecutioner]

Well, it...I guess that's a fair assumption? Most people aren't used to that sort of thing, I guess.

[...it. it could have been worse.]

[greenmamabear]

[This is the most uncomfortable conversation she's ever been in. Maybe barring that time she had to drink coffee from a sentient coffee cup, but she doesn't remember that so. Most uncomfortable conversation.]

So. Uh. Let me just lay this out, for myself. We get pulled here. Probably kill each other, do these trials, and then you take the souls.

[andexecutioner]

I take the souls if you kill each other. You don't have to do anything, remember.

[i mean there was the incentive earlier, but who's counting.]

[greenmamabear]

Uh huh, sure. [Look how convinced she is, murder man.]

I'm gonna go ahead and assume you can't- or won't- tell me why or how this is happening?

[andexecutioner]

You're assuming right.

[greenmamabear]

But you don't eat souls.

...But you are eating, right?

[Fern.]