Audience: Harrowhark Nonagesimus

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Comments

[bonetiddies]

Hmm.

[She finds herself a little skeptical of this, but it's hard to try and explain why without talking about things she doesn't want to say to him.]

I agreed I wouldn't ask about Eleanor again, but I find myself needing to, now. Perhaps you cannot answer this, but was the reason you said we ought not to look into it because it was related to what we have recently learned?

[probe]

Ah. No, that's completely unrelated and I would still advise you not to waste time looking into that case. I understand the need to know...but it will only distract you from the bigger problem.

[bonetiddies]

All right.

[She'll accept that, then.]

When you said you thought murder was 'worth more' as an indulgence because it meant indulgence would be shared among a smaller group, does that remain your opinion?

[probe]

That would be correct. Murder is worth more as an indulgence, though of course there are other ways to indulge. Forms of intimacy amongst yourselves are naturally easiest, but they aren't necessarily worth more.

Likewise, moments in which you are given options can add to your indulgence counts. Especially when it's a hard choice, such as implicating someone.

[bonetiddies]

[A little embarrassment here. It's fine.]

. . . Ah. Like the choices in those little adventures we're whisked off on. Or the choices we make at trial? Is that why they're structured that way?

[probe]

Both of them can have an influence on your indulgence generation, though I would say that one specific choice you make per trial can have an impact on things.

[bonetiddies]

One specific choice? Voting, you mean?

[probe]

Well done. [there you go.]

[bonetiddies]

Is it voting correctly for a culprit? Or simply the act of making a decision, whatever it may be?

[probe]

I don't entirely know how it breaks down, but I do believe there is indulgence earned by voting at all. I would only imagine there would be other benefits if it were right, or if it were in the name of another indulgence.

[bonetiddies]

Ah. Hmm. But deciding not to vote gains no indulgence at all?

[probe]

I think it would have to be a very purposeful decision to count for anything at all.

[bonetiddies]

All of my decisions are purposeful. [A little defensive, since she's done the no vote several times.]

. . . I have heard that typically, the spread of votes is fewer than what one might expect.

[probe]

[it gets complicated, and he thinks to explain that simply not voting isn't the same as not voting for a reason or stating so out loud or a number of other stupid nuances, but....it's fine. harrow will do her best and that's all he can expect.]

Where did you hear that from? [he's not resisting giving her an answer, he's just curious.]

[bonetiddies]

Supposedly, there is a power that allowed someone to view the vote spread, and that was their conclusion. But it also goes along with what I have noticed - for example, I suspect there was only one vote for Gu Yun and only one vote for Gojou in the last trial.

I've also talked to a few people so far who've mentioned they don't always vote.

[probe]

Oh. That came from me. [hello.] Obviously I cannot confirm nor deny your suspicions but can only encourage you to continue working off of the data presented.

[bonetiddies]

Very well, I shall.

Something I noted with Sheila, and that would seem to carry through in the execution reports I received. The body is always destroyed. Is there any significance to that?

[probe]

Leaving corpses around is hardly advised, Harrowhark.

[bonetiddies]

I beg to differ.

[Leaving corpses around is fine, actually. But.]

It may be meaningless. I just noted it when I was going over with Sheila who she's been given. I wondered if there was any significance; if the executions were a different process.

[probe]

Ah. No, I believe that's merely just coincidence. [...] You have to understand that these executions you've witnessed aren't the same as the ones we saw. The nuances still manage to escape me at times.