"Oh a guillotine would be delightful." He's French, they have a proud history of guillotining shitty people in charge. He might even have come with patterns on how to construct them pre-installed on his software!

"Annoying him into responding is certainly one strategy to take. It," he actually considers that for a moment. "might actually be effective since I'm not sure anyone has tried it other than Jinx and you're less likely to show up with a rocket launcher."

He snorts at that last bit, not wanting to admit they'd had a fairly civil conversation here. And neither of them are trying to murder the other. Must be the heat and dust. "Indeed."

At least he nods politely when Rich leaves. That's... something.