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Journal #13 - The Trial

by Amity Pell

Um. Well first, everybody got a good night’s sleep, so that’s good. Even the people in the village. A lot of them still look worn down, but nobody looks… crazy. Also, am I already getting used to not having nightmares? Guess I’ll worry about that if they come back.
 
We go to the temple early, but it was TOO early, so Azalea sends us away. Also Variel is all barfy and hungover, and Swindle is… weird. He keeps talking funny and waving his hands around?? So we go on a quest for Hangover (etc.) Cures!
 
The half-orc shop keep lady seems happy to see Variel, she gives her a soft smile. She tells Swindle to get out though, cause she’s still mad at him for last time. But we tell her we need to fix them, and she mixes a horrible smelling drink for Variel. She almost doesn’t keep it down, but pushes through and I guess it seems to help? She’s just burpy now which is ok as long as you’re not right next to her face. You know, I suppose I could’ve offered to make it taste better with Prestidigitation…. oh well.
 
Swindle keeps insisting he’s fine, which he is obviously not, and I ask if he’s got a spell to help himself, but is too proud to use it, or what. And he says no, but actually yes, and then casts Restoration and now they’re both fixed. Which is good because it’s about time for the trial.
 
I’m pretty nervous about it, even though Azalea says my character won’t be on trial or anything. Anyone who’s talking has to stand in the space where she’s cast the truth telling spell. Variel is in charge of talking for our group, which is good because Variel is really good at talking, and I don’t want to.
 
Lynden is gonna be the judge on behalf of the Sovereign Host, and Peony and Variel have to each take turns making arguments to convince him of their rightness. We also have to list our charges, and Variel says they are:
 
Kidnapping / slavery, ____, and intent to do harm. She says the last one is all the stabbing. I don’t remember the middle thing.
 
Peony says she’s innocent of everything because:
-you can’t kidnap property, which Maxwell is.
-he’s a construct, and belongs to the Sovereign Host.
-so she had the right to use force to retrieve Max when we wouldn’t give him back.
 
Variel says:
-Max is a person, cause you can cast Healing magic on him.
-Swindle testifies that this is the case, healing doesn’t work on constructs.
-also Peony is a jerk.
 
Peony:
-she calls me up???
-she makes me put Prim on the ground and asks me to explain about him.
-so I say he’s my pseudodragon, and he’s a very good boy.
-she asks if he was hurt would healing magic work on him...? and I step in front of Prim to make sure she isn’t gonna stab him.
-she says it’s just a question, and Swindle answers that yeah, I guess healing magic would work on him too.
-so her point is: if healing magic works on animals, and animals are property, then just because healing magic works on Maxwell, doesn’t mean he’s a person.
 
Then there is A LOT of back-and-forth about what makes somebody a person. And how you can prove whether Maxwell is, or whether anybody is. The longer both sides go back and forth, the more tired Lynden looks.
 
Near the end they finally let Max talk, and he says that he thinks he is a person. Also he does think that he belongs to the Sovereign Host - but in the same way that Azalea, Peony, and Lynden do. He wants to serve to the best of his ability and he thinks the best way he can do that is to be out here, helping people. Max is a good person.
 
Peony says that she was acting in the best interests of the Sovereign Host and to the very best of her knowledge, and with those things in mind she had every right to do what she did.
 
And then Lynden decides.
 
He says that Max is free to go, and Peony has to go back to Pharos Shrine (under guard). Also that she has to pay Humplebumble reparations for anything that got broken when her and her soldiers were fighting the caravan. And she can’t use the Host’s money, she has to use her own. Also Variel asks him to write up a contract or some papers, that Max can have that says something about his judgment and then we can show it to people in the future if anyone tries to take him away again.
 
I give Max a hug and everyone is real glad that he isn’t gonna get taken away. I don’t think we’d let that happen though, do you? But still, that would be a whole other problem.
 
After the trial everyone is excited, and just wants to go, but we have to kill some time because we’re still waiting for Variel’s fur to be ready, so we go back to the blacksmith to see if he’s there, ‘cause Max still needs a shield.
 
Well he’s not there! Swindle and Max knock on his door a bunch, and Variel tries to see inside. No answer. Maybe he left, or maybe he’s just finally asleep. Now I COULD get inside real easy, and find out for sure, but I REALLY don’t want to spend one more second here that I have to, and if we get caught that’s one more trial AT LEAST, so we leave it alone. We play with the idea that maybe the dwarf is going through his chrysalis and / or metamorphosis stage... You know how dwarves are, right? When they get to a certain age and just curl up inside their beards and emerge as a beautiful stout butterfly? Yeah, that could be it.
 
After that we go back to the caravan, because that’s it really. Humplebumple is excited to hear about the reparations, but he says he has been on “the other side” of those before, and he knows not to ask for more than the truth. Swindle stays behind to ask him about something, but I’m not sure what it is.
 
Doesn’t matter, cause I can’t wait to get out of here !!

Continue reading...

  1. Journal #1
    Amity!
  2. Journal #2
    Amity!
  3. Journal #3
    Amity!
  4. Amity & Prim
    Amity!
  5. Journal #4
    Amity!
  6. Journal #5
    Amity!
  7. Journal #6
    Amity!
  8. Journal #6 AKA I Got Stabbed!!
    Amity!
  9. Journal #7 Flowers
    Amity!
  10. RP w/ Prim and Variel- Royalty, Family, and Luck
    Amity!
  11. RP w/ Rhogkun - Familiars and Spellbooks
    Amity!
  12. RP w/ Rhogkun and Delebean - Secrets
    Amity!
  13. RP - The first one. Amity and her Fortune.
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  14. RP - the second one. At the Siren's Sigh w/ Rhogkun.
    Amity!
  15. Journal #9 - Arriving in Blackbough
    Amity!
  16. zoop
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  17. Journal #9 - Arriving in Blackbough
    Amity!
  18. RP w/ Swindle - AKA You Cant Bullshit a Bullshitter
    Amity!
  19. Journal #10
    Amity!
  20. Journal #11 - Into Darkness
    Amity!
  21. Journal #11 - Into Darkness
    Amity!
  22. Journal #12 - Inside the Nightmare
    Amity!
  23. RP - With Azalea. Very Short.
    Amity!
  24. Journal #13 - The Trial
    Amity!
  25. RP - w/ the group - Night Before the Trial, Actually
    Amity!
  26. RP w/ Swindle (secrets?)
    Amity!
  27. RP w/ Rhogkun and Prim - Pockets
    Amity!
  28. Journal #14 - Back on the Road
    Amity!
  29. RP w/ Variel - In Between
    Amity!
  30. Journal #14 - Back on the Road
    Amity!
  31. RP w/ the group - We're Going to Riverpuddle!
    Amity!
  32. Journal #15 Back in Town
    Amity!
  33. Journal #16 - River Night and Golden Day
    Amity!
  34. Journal #17 - The New Old House
    Amity!
  35. Journal #18 - The Terrible Room
    Amity!
  36. Journal #19 - Ghosts
    Amity!
  37. Journal #20 - More Ghosts
    Amity!
  38. Journal #21 - Everything Falls Down
    Amity!
  39. RP w/ Rhogkun, Swindle - Two Conversations That Go Just Fine
    Amity!
  40. Journal #22 - Dogged
    Amity!
  41. Journal #23 - Treya....
    Amity!
  42. RP w/ Everyone - Tale Telling
    Amity!
  43. RP w/ Rhogkun - Dad Talk
    Amity!
  44. Journal #24 - The Next Day
  45. Journal #25 - Heading North
  46. Journal #26 - On the Road
  47. Journal #27 - Vimgalier
  48. Journal #28 - Instructions...
  49. Journal #29 - Rigani's Tower pt 1
  50. Journal #30 - Rigani's Tower pt 2
  51. Journal #31 - Rigani's Tower pt 3
  52. RP w/ Variel and Swindle - the god plate
  53. Journal #32 - Ambush
  54. Journal #33 - Music
  55. Incident Reports
  56. Journal #34 - Ivorfall
  57. Journal #35 - Shire!
  58. Journal #36 - Escalation
  59. Journal #37 - Giving Up
  60. Journal #38 - It's Fine. Let's Go to Another Wizard Tower.
  61. Journal #39 - Memories, All Bad
  62. (out of order) RP w/ Variel at the Bergwin Inn
  63. (out of order) RP w/ Max - Caravan Guards
  64. (out of order) RP w/ Katya - Taking a Break
  65. That Dream Again
  66. Journal #40 - Talking Too Much
  67. RP w/ Swindle - Asking for Help is Hard
  68. Journal #41 - The Wizard's Friend part 1
  69. Journal #42 - The Wizard's Friend part 2
  70. Journal #43 - The Wizard's Friend part 3
  71. RP - Checking In

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