TEXT

[kingmakereffect]

If you have something to ask the Kingmaker about over text, this is where it goes! The Kingmaker will respond to text messages as soon as he's available. You will most likely get a text back very quickly.

Your smartphones will only connect to the Kingmaker. There is no option to send a text to anyone else, instead it will connect automatically to his phone.

Comments are screened for privacy; no looking at each other's private texts without permission, after all.

Comments

[kingmakereffect]

...Have you ever talked to Boundless?

[SHE STEAMROLLS THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYONE, IS THE IMPLICATION HERE.]

[penduli]

...yes, miss boundless and i are very close.

[ some.....how.... ]

i didn't think you'd be cowed by her though. you've been very firm otherwise. is she just that arrogant?

[kingmakereffect]

She is exactly that arrogant.

[penduli]

[ ...he

he actually feels kind of sorry for the kingmaker right now? sigrun is a bull to handle. he loves her, but she is. something else. ]

she really reminds me of the women in my family. they never take no for an answer unless you start crying.

[kingmakereffect]

Well, hopefully it won't come to that.

Is your sister like that, too?

[penduli]

she used to be. being put in the hospital took the wind out of her sails, but she still has a sharp tongue and mind. if she were out and about, there's no doubt that she'd be just like miss boundless.

[kingmakereffect]

She sounds like an interesting person.

Why is she in the hospital?

[penduli]

she has heart issues due to an event that happened three years ago. she's gotten better, admittedly; her heart doesn't seize up as much as it used to, and she's otherwise a perfectly healthy young woman, but i still feel like that's all the more reason to keep her in there.

[kingmakereffect]

...You want to make sure that she doesn't get sick again, is that it?

[penduli]

[ sure, let's go with that, that sounds vaguely less insane than the actual reason ]

more or less.

[kingmakereffect]

If you say so.

[...]

Did you want anything else in exchange for the information you've given me? I doubt you're satisfied with just asking about how I am and talking about Boundless.

[penduli]

[ hmmm. ]

there's a lot of stuff, but i suspect you won't grant me them or answer whatever serious questions i have if i try to get information.

[kingmakereffect]

It doesn't matter to me if you ask or not.

We do have an agreement, though.

[penduli]

[ that they do. ]

it's about the executions. are you open to answering questions on that, or should i try my luck with another topic?

[kingmakereffect]

I can't know that unless I hear the questions.

...If I can't answer, I'm not going to tell you that you wasted your one try and have to try again next time, if that's what you're afraid of.

[penduli]

[ ... ]

right. [ okay, how does he word this... ]

it's about the victims. they show up in the pit to face their killer, but we've already obviously seen them dead. we investigate the crime scenes, we check their bodies. provided they leave one.

are you "saving" them from some other point in time and bringing them here so they can exact justice on the person who killed them?

[kingmakereffect]

That's an interesting theory. I genuinely mean that, I'm not just saying that.

But no.

[penduli]

[ an interesting theory, but a flop. hmm. ]

well, i thought it'd be more plausible than asking if they were zombies, which was the first theory everyone had after we had our first trial.




they're not zombies, are they?

[kingmakereffect]

No, no. They're not zombies, either.

[penduli]

[ yes, that's what he thought.

it is not going to be as easy as this, but. ]

what are they then?

[kingmakereffect]

Oh, come on. It's no fun if I just tell you.

[penduli]

[ that's also what he thought ]

and playing twenty questions is?

[kingmakereffect]

...I get bored easily.

[penduli]

are you really older than me

[kingmakereffect]

Definitely.