agentlenpc: (Fay2)
agentlenpc ([personal profile] agentlenpc) wrote in [community profile] agentlenet2019-03-03 02:50 pm

psychic thread

[The gentle brush against the Strangers' minds comes in early evening. It is, as all mental touches are from Fayura, soft and unassuming, much like a polite knock at a door. Once as many minds are connected as she thinks will open the door to her, she speaks.]

I am curious, Strangers, what you would do with the young man who shot and killed Councilwoman Vera.

Many of you come from worlds where there are laws against murder. While we have no such laws here, when a Blood male in a Queen's Territory kills another without cause, she may demand a price from him. Sometimes, that is his own life if he was negligent enough with his temper and sometimes, it's something less.

My trouble is this: if I execute him according to the laws of the Blood, of which he is not one, the Guilds will rouse their people into a furor and attack not only me, but the people of Draega. If I turn him over to the Ebon Council, the Guilds will do much the same, and that will incite the Council to strike back. And if I return him to the Guilds for accolades instead of punishment for taking a life, the Ebon Council will have cause to rip apart the Guilds and anyone in their way to extract from him the price for murdering one of their own.

Were you me, what course would you take? And please try not to shout over each other; this is as many of you as I could reach.
yesterweek: (Default)

[personal profile] yesterweek 2019-03-04 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ Don't mind Calvin as he slides in here. ]

Would there be any chance that his sentence could be lessened even a little if he was cooperative in explaining his actions?

I mean, he killed someone, so he's obviously not going to be let loose... Still, if a death sentence is hanging over his head maybe he'd be willing to spill a little more information with the promise of that being taken off the table?
yesterweek: (That wind around your eardrums)

[personal profile] yesterweek 2019-03-04 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Jurors have to go through a selection process first. Most of the time people really close to the case, or with some sort of knowledge base that could potentially color their views on a case before hearing the evidence are eliminated from the final set.

I mean, it sounds like it'd be hard to get a fully unbiased jury in this case, but you could still look for people who are as neutral as possible on this issue?
yesterweek: (This is the story 'bout the three of us)

[personal profile] yesterweek 2019-03-05 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Probably. I mean, all things considered with what happened I don't think anyone is going to be fully happy here... a woman died.
yesterweek: (For crowd dispersal)

[personal profile] yesterweek 2019-03-12 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Wow... they sound like cool people...

[ Heavy sarcasm at that. What disgusting people. ]
yesterweek: (Default)

[personal profile] yesterweek 2019-03-19 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Delusional is certainly another word for them. ]

I hope it does... I mean, someone else might come up with something better, but it doesn't sound like there's a lot of other great alternatives right now.
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[personal profile] thestewards 2019-03-20 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
For his sense of fairness, Calvin earns +1 Reputation with Verim.
unwieldy: (THAT'S HOW MUCH I HATE THIS.)

[personal profile] unwieldy 2019-03-04 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hey now, Verim, don't start putting ideas in Haein's head. ]

Fine, then. Say he explains his side of things. Why does it matter what his motives were? It doesn't change the fact that he killed the councilwoman in cold blood. Based on the facts, he actively made the decision to murder her. To premeditate a killing like that, to actually go through with it, that's not something any angry person can do.

[ Haein would know, maybe. He's made of about 99% anger and he's never murdered anyone. Sure, he'll suggest it, but don't expect him to get his own hands dirty. ]

You can assess intent as much as you want, the outcome will still remain the same.
unwieldy: (maybe apple? microsoft??)

[personal profile] unwieldy 2019-03-05 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Haein has a hard time wrapping his head around this idea. Retaliation has always been his tried-and-true method. He's never found a need to delve any further beyond that, and the only justifications he's ever sought out were his own. ]

It's a waste of time.

[ Stubborn, always so stubborn. ]

I don't understand it. Maybe you and the others have convinced yourselves that finding a motive will make it easier to deal with the burden or guilt when the final verdict comes for his life, maybe not. But all it does is delay the inevitable.
unwieldy: (didn't make too many this time.)

[personal profile] unwieldy 2019-03-10 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ Okay, maybe there's some sense in that. The first part of Verim's statement also helps quell a bit of the defiance he'd felt earlier, though he still finds most of this process time consuming.

If he's already feeling this restless about the fate of a murderer he cares little about, he can't imagine how the other factions are faring. A valuable pawn like that... They could make a hundred more just like him, especially with this acting as a catalyst. ]


Fine. [ There's a weariness that comes through from his end of the connection, a dismissive force. ] But he'll garner support as long as he's alive. The sooner he's dealt with, the better.
unwieldy: (lordy i hope none of these first words.)

[personal profile] unwieldy 2019-03-11 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hm. Well, that's not entirely untrue. ]

Shouldn't I be? Things have been deteriorating at an alarming rate ever since we got here. We're supposed to be helping, but nothing's getting better, only worse.
unwieldy: (tunnel vision at 2am nice.)

[personal profile] unwieldy 2019-03-16 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ What an uplifting message. Too bad Haein's having a hard time pulling himself out of doom and gloom. ]

People are finicky by nature. One mistake and they'll turn on us in an instant, so I'm not exactly hopeful that the trust and good will are going to last.

[ A long sigh. He's going to sound like a broken record at some point. ]

... Whatever. I just wanted to say my piece. I got way more invested in this than I thought I would.
unwieldy: (lordy i hope none of these first words.)

[personal profile] unwieldy 2019-03-20 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ Cool to know that his shitty ideas are still heard??

Not that he thinks they're shitty. ]


Right... [ The doubt is still strong. ] I guess we'll just have to wait and see how things go down.