week 1 ( saturday )

[subordinacy]

[MAX ISN'T REALLY SOMEONE SETZ WANTS TO TALK TO but he has questions so he's sucking it up and Max has to too. :/

Anyway, he'll get to the point.]

To confirm, including Dahlia Hawthorne and Terra, how many Reapers are there for this Game?

Comments

[concertmaster]

Most likely? Bad. Composer meddling has never been good for anyone.

[subordinacy]

... Which is to say we probably shouldn't try to and get them to show up on purpose, then?

[concertmaster]

They know everything that goes on in the Game, so I don't know why you'd want them to show up in the first place.

[subordinacy]

[Truthfully,]

At least a few of us would like to alter this Game somehow. I doubt that's a secret.

[concertmaster]

Yeah, but you guys oughta know petitioning the Composer ain't gonna do shit, right? So. What's your actual plan, there.

[subordinacy]

It wasn't really a plan. I'm just thinking. [...] Is it possible at all to change this Game?

[concertmaster]

The only person who can change how a Game is run is its Composer.

[a beat and then he shrugs]

So, yeah. If you become Composer of the Game.

[subordinacy]

... Not that I have any intention of it, but how would one become a Composer?

[concertmaster]

Two ways. The long one is to become Reaper and rise through the ranks until you get promoted.

[a beat]

... The shorter version is you kill the Composer.

[subordinacy]

I assume the second option would be extremely difficult.

[concertmaster]

For a Player? Yeah. It's been done once or twice, but Player to Composer promotions are a bitch and a half to even consider pulling off, never mind succeeding.

[subordinacy]

But it's possible, huh...?

[Not that he especially wants to do it.]

... If you could guess, which is the Composer most after: to see how far people will go for a second chance at life, or how far people are willing to stand by their morals? If they even care at all?

[concertmaster]

Like I said. It's been done. Rumor goes it happened in this very city.

[he shrugs like it ain't no thang]

This is about the judgment, right? You're asking the wrong questions. Most of you are, to be fucking honest.

[subordinacy]

... So there are right questions, then. [...] This probably isn't one, as I'm guessing you've been asked it before, but to be frank: is there any way to save those who've been erased?

[concertmaster]

They haven't asked that one, actually.

[.......... a non-answer is still an answer, in this case, so:]

That's a question I can answer later.

[subordinacy]

... In other words, it's not entirely impossible, or you'd have just told me no right now.

[concertmaster]

That's. A. Question. I. Can. Answer. Later.

[he won't clarify one way or another]

[subordinacy]

[... He won't hope, but he'll keep it in the back of his mind.]

For the judgment... how are revivals selected? Do people have to volunteer to become Reapers first, thus culling the numbers that way, or is that after they've been left behind?

[concertmaster]

Judgment criteria is Composer business. [so. no can do.] But you can choose to be a Reaper at any point once you've won.

[subordinacy]

Understood.

[And then, because it occurred to (jan) him, even if he's not sure if Max will answer it—]

... Are there other duties besides that of a Reaper at play in this game?

[Because Jacopo wouldn't tell him shit. :/]

[concertmaster]

Yeah. Nothing I can tell you about, though.

[jacopo IS a shit]

[subordinacy]

Is there anything meant to help others, though? Or are they all working against us?

[concertmaster]

Some of you have access to Player advantages. I can't list who or what, obviously.

[subordinacy]

And you can't say how they were selected, I'm guessing.

[concertmaster]

Nope.