Clue #007 :.: L (Ryuzaki) :.: [Text, Private to Himself]

[hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com]

You're watching us, aren't you?

I have a proposition for you.

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[the-3rd-person.livejournal.com]

As long as you wish to pay for your justice system.

[hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com]

[That's what he was afraid of.]

I have prepared a list of laws, a simple judicial system and possible repercussions. I can send you the files to approve.

[He's not expecting she'll go along with everything he's laid out, but speaking with a little authority can't hurt.]

[the-3rd-person.livejournal.com]

Tell us now what you wish.

[hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com]

[He rehashes what was established in the OOC plot post, because Het is too lazy to write all that shit out again. Although he's arguing for something harsher than that, being L. He does expect to get turned down for all of it, but he's hoping to haggle so he will get something more than he would have gotten otherwise.]

[the-3rd-person.livejournal.com]

We will not isolate characters. But we will allow you to hurt characters, and we will allow you to kill characters.

[hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com]

...

Would you allow certain restrictions on characters?

[the-3rd-person.livejournal.com]

What sort?

[hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com]

Disallowing the violent access to weapons, for instance.

[the-3rd-person.livejournal.com]

That cannot be a permanent solution. Nothing in a story can be unchangeable.

[hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com]

...Perhaps a probation period. They will be able to earn back the privilege or simply wait out a sentence.

[Like in real life.]

[the-3rd-person.livejournal.com]

Two weeks without weapons for those who committed a crime with a weapon.

[hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com]

A month for assault. Longer for murder and sexual assault.

[the-3rd-person.livejournal.com]

No more than six months.

[hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com]

[He would argue for longer, but he's hoping he'll have somehow found a way out by then.]

All right. Six months.

Murder and sexual assault should have another punishment. Harsher. Their behaviour should not be tolerated.

[the-3rd-person.livejournal.com]

Is the wrath of the victim's friends too little?

[hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com]

Vengeance is not justice.

[the-3rd-person.livejournal.com]

Consequences will not last forever.

[hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com]

That statement only reinforces your amateur status as a writer.

[the-3rd-person.livejournal.com]

Is that how you would like to bargain with her?

[hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com]

No.

I am simply making an observation.

[the-3rd-person.livejournal.com]

What would you suggest the penalty for murder to be, L?

[hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com]

I stick with the idea of banishment of some kind. But you do not seem keen on that.

[the-3rd-person.livejournal.com]

Banishment cannot last more than three days. Death is decided randomly.

[hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com]

Longer for banishment. They will nothing otherwise.

[the-3rd-person.livejournal.com]

There can be no longer banishment. There can only be death or pain or disability.