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[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

[cherryblooded]

You won't even tell me why my son died.

[He's not surprised. It's the Kingmaker. He just - really wishes he knew.]

[kingmakereffect]

[...]

I know you don't want to hear it from me, but I'm sorry for your loss.

[cherryblooded]

You know I don't believe that. But thank you for saying it, anyway.

[kingmakereffect]

Don't mention it. He talked about you a lot, so I'm assuming you were important.

[cherryblooded]

Really?

[Now that he thinks about it, he realizes that their interactions can't have been just limited to 'do I have to kill someone this week' 'no', from how often Mettaton texted.]

[kingmakereffect]

Yes. He talked about some of you sometimes. You came up a lot.

[cherryblooded]

Huh. That's... reassuring, actually.

[kingmakereffect]

Is it?

[cherryblooded]

He's my son no matter what he thought about me. That doesn't mean it wouldn't hurt if he really meant what he said at the trial. I didn't believe it then and I don't believe it now, but the confirmation is nice.

[kingmakereffect]

Oh.

[...]

No, he didn't mean any of that. And there were people that he refused to act against, too.

[cherryblooded]

Sigrun?

[kingmakereffect]

Probably, because he talked about her a lot too. He just said that if I assigned him certain people, it wouldn't happen.

[cherryblooded]

I see.

...Thank you for telling me this, but it doesn't change that I hate you.

[kingmakereffect]

I don't expect it to.

...While we're here, can I tell you one other thing?

[cherryblooded]

Anything.

[kingmakereffect]

I'm sorry about what I said to you about your wife. It wasn't a good day for me and that was out of line.

...More out of line than usual. This whole thing is kind of out of line, I know.

[cherryblooded]

Your apology is accepted. It's nothing I didn't know you'd say already, I just didn't like hearing it.

She might be dead anyway, you know. Before the world ended, I mean.

[kingmakereffect]

A lot of people here seem to be like that. They've lost important people.

[cherryblooded]

Is that why your first incentive was what it was?

[kingmakereffect]

Probably.

[cherryblooded]

Would you ever be willing to give an incentive that let you save someone else from here, instead of someone from our homes?

[kingmakereffect]

To let someone else win the game with you, you mean? Or something else?

[cherryblooded]

At this point I wouldn't care if it was just instead of me.

[kingmakereffect]

...You want to save Meteoric, is that it?

[cherryblooded]

That's right.