EVENT: The Trial of Bremen - 19 June 2021
Re: EVENT: The Trial of Bremen - 19 June 2021
Irving is now in righteous indignation against the slimy insinuations of this devil's wordsmith.
You ask, 'How would you know if a voice was actually a demon claiming to be Baudh?' I answer you:
'We were in a consecrated chapel of Baudh. We were guided by our faithful cleric. We were sent by this very Archbishop with a vision from Baudh of that very chapel.' This is called divine confirmation. What you suggest
is impossible in such a place. Nobody said ever anything of a demon. Why, it would have been our honor to strike such a thing down with our own swords! Should we question all that happens here in this chapel as well? No! I think not, sir! This holy quest happened as Baudh fortold, here, in this very chapel. You cannot twist my words to anything else."
"Markd swore to bring Bremen to justice, I knew not what for, two days prior. I am certain that his accusations have nothing to do with your impuning of us, the Archbishop, and the good, holy, outcome of this quest."
Pendleton appeals to Archbishop Keelan. The Archbishop looks sour. "His answers stand, councilor. Move on.."
You ask, 'How would you know if a voice was actually a demon claiming to be Baudh?' I answer you:
'We were in a consecrated chapel of Baudh. We were guided by our faithful cleric. We were sent by this very Archbishop with a vision from Baudh of that very chapel.' This is called divine confirmation. What you suggest
is impossible in such a place. Nobody said ever anything of a demon. Why, it would have been our honor to strike such a thing down with our own swords! Should we question all that happens here in this chapel as well? No! I think not, sir! This holy quest happened as Baudh fortold, here, in this very chapel. You cannot twist my words to anything else."
"Markd swore to bring Bremen to justice, I knew not what for, two days prior. I am certain that his accusations have nothing to do with your impuning of us, the Archbishop, and the good, holy, outcome of this quest."
Pendleton appeals to Archbishop Keelan. The Archbishop looks sour. "His answers stand, councilor. Move on.."
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"Very well. It was Baudh because you think it was Baudh. How can anyone argue with that—or give it credence?."
"As for your refusal to answer what the voice told you to call it, we can only presume that either your memory of the event is poor or that you know Bandy's testimony is correct and are deliberately avoiding admitting it because it does not fit the story you have in your head of what happened."
"Speaking of Bandy, you were on an expedition with him and Stancell. Do you consider them both to be honest men...er, people?"
I knew having the same person play the witness and the judge would be a bad idea.
"As for your refusal to answer what the voice told you to call it, we can only presume that either your memory of the event is poor or that you know Bandy's testimony is correct and are deliberately avoiding admitting it because it does not fit the story you have in your head of what happened."
"Speaking of Bandy, you were on an expedition with him and Stancell. Do you consider them both to be honest men...er, people?"
I knew having the same person play the witness and the judge would be a bad idea.
Re: EVENT: The Trial of Bremen - 19 June 2021
He doesn't know Bandy's testimony. The witnesses are sequestered.
"I like them both just fine, I suppose." He seems dubious of some trap.
"I like them both just fine, I suppose." He seems dubious of some trap.
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Pendleton is starting to wonder if Irving is incapable of answering a straight question.
"You seem to like most people who aren't asking impertinent questions," answers Pendleton, "but that's not quite what I asked. Do you think they're honest?"
BTW, any judge in the world would require a witness to answer a direct question about what a voice said, even if the answer is "I don't remember." No lawyer or judge would let a witness dodge the question entirely.
"You seem to like most people who aren't asking impertinent questions," answers Pendleton, "but that's not quite what I asked. Do you think they're honest?"
BTW, any judge in the world would require a witness to answer a direct question about what a voice said, even if the answer is "I don't remember." No lawyer or judge would let a witness dodge the question entirely.
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He answers uncomfortably. "Well... Bandy tried to steal our horses once, and Markd is cursed by the Gods themselves to ensure that the whole world knows not to trust him, so I suppose both have their issues..."
(He did answer. You pushed him to call it Baudh. He did. He then explained how he knew it was Baudh through divine confirmation. It doesn't occur to him that 'justice' would be a name - it is just Baudh's domain.)
(He did answer. You pushed him to call it Baudh. He did. He then explained how he knew it was Baudh through divine confirmation. It doesn't occur to him that 'justice' would be a name - it is just Baudh's domain.)
Re: EVENT: The Trial of Bremen - 19 June 2021
Pendleton doesn't even know where to start where the bit about the gods cursing Markd. In any other court room, he'd immediately object that the witness is speculating about things he has no direct knowledge of and move that the remarks be stricken. And then there's Irving's speculation on the motives of the gods, which seems pretty presumptuous. But then again...
"Which god, exactly, do you believe cursed Stancell?"
"Which god, exactly, do you believe cursed Stancell?"
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Re: EVENT: The Trial of Bremen - 19 June 2021
"No. It just confirmed it was a servant of Baudh," he repeats crisply."[D]id the voice tell you what you should call it?"
"I wouldn't claim to know, sir, nor would I claim that it matters. The Gods have done so, and the Gods allow it to stand. We are just men.""Which god, exactly, do you believe cursed Stancell?"
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"But you did claim to know, just now. 'Markd is cursed by the Gods themselves to ensure that the whole world knows not to trust him.' Are those not your words, sir? Are we to believe that you know the motivations of the gods?"
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Re: EVENT: The Trial of Bremen - 19 June 2021
Irving now faces the villian squarely, deepening his convictions against the continuing inquiry. "The Gods place a mark to make a man reviled on-sight by all who behold him. Then, you ask if that man should be trusted. If the Gods wish that man to be despised, who could answer another way? That is my answer. I pray for Markd's redemption as my companion, but I will not sit here before Baudh and be tricked into disputing divine will."
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Markd just sits there saddened by the errant testimony.
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Re: EVENT: The Trial of Bremen - 19 June 2021
"I suppose we can take that as a, 'Yes,'" says Pendleton. "If only we could all be as certain of our gods' will as you are."
He sits down and nods to Bremen.
He sits down and nods to Bremen.
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Re: EVENT: The Trial of Bremen - 19 June 2021
Bremen rises again and addresses Irving. Mr. Rosemont, I am sorry for the brusque manners of Markd's representative. At one point, he asked if you felt Bandy Sandybanks was honest, you mentioned that he had tried to take our horses. Can you explain what was happening at that time, please? In particular, I believe the good people would like to know about the first we were facing and what you did about that. He gives Irving a wink.
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Irving straightens up, then tells his tale. "Well, we were in our first foray to explore beyond the river and seek the White Tower of Baudh's Sigil. We were atop a catacomb filled with the spirits of the dead and, perched atop the tombs were three mansized gargoyles... which we realized were watching us. You see, not just horrors of stone, they were magical creations with a vicious intelligence. They attacked, laying low Kellstrom, the priest of Baudh from this church, and prepared to carry his limp body off for their feast."
"I split one gargoyle from forehead to navel with my ancestral sword blade; it turns out that only I could harm them.
Seeing their companion fall when they believed themselves impervious, the other monster grabbed up Kellstrom's body and attempted to flee. I could not allow the body of a Priest of Baudh to come to such a fate. I charged the beast and it dropped our cleric and fled before me."
"Bandy disappeared when the gargoyles attacked. While we struggled to save Kellstrom's body, if not his life,
we found that Bandy had escaped to our mounts and was beginning to ride off with them."
"I split one gargoyle from forehead to navel with my ancestral sword blade; it turns out that only I could harm them.
Seeing their companion fall when they believed themselves impervious, the other monster grabbed up Kellstrom's body and attempted to flee. I could not allow the body of a Priest of Baudh to come to such a fate. I charged the beast and it dropped our cleric and fled before me."
"Bandy disappeared when the gargoyles attacked. While we struggled to save Kellstrom's body, if not his life,
we found that Bandy had escaped to our mounts and was beginning to ride off with them."
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Re: EVENT: The Trial of Bremen - 19 June 2021
Bremen marvels at Irving's gallantry as he tells his story, and at the close he makes a melodramatic, shocked face. Wait. So you mean to say that, Bandy Sandybanks, the halfling that Mr. Pendleton was just fawning over moments ago... We'll Bandy not only abandoned his quest-companions while locked in a deadly battle with magical creatures, but he also tried to steal the mounts we would need to carry that holy relic back with - while you were defending or very lives? And we only found out because you had destroyed one beast, then frightened another off before he could totally disappear? It seems the party was fortunate he did not try it again when we were in the White Tower. Perhaps it's because we brought a pair of young men to guard the mounts on our second outing...
But I'm rambling a bit. You described the events from the chapel in wonderful detail. Mr. Sandybanks, who - to me - seems a bit suspect now, was asked a question he never got to answer earlier. After I pointed out that Bandy had no formal knowledge about demons, Mr. Pendleton asked Bandy if he would know a demon if he saw one. That seems a simple question, but I wonder, did you see any demons in the chapel-room? Did you see any creatures aside from Stancell, Bandy, Brother Florian, me and yourself in that holy place?
But I'm rambling a bit. You described the events from the chapel in wonderful detail. Mr. Sandybanks, who - to me - seems a bit suspect now, was asked a question he never got to answer earlier. After I pointed out that Bandy had no formal knowledge about demons, Mr. Pendleton asked Bandy if he would know a demon if he saw one. That seems a simple question, but I wonder, did you see any demons in the chapel-room? Did you see any creatures aside from Stancell, Bandy, Brother Florian, me and yourself in that holy place?
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"No," he says firmly. "I did not. I am confident that, if any of my Companions saw or even suspected such a hideous creature present, we would have slew it."
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Re: EVENT: The Trial of Bremen - 19 June 2021
Bremen nods. I agree. But just to satisfy Mr. Pendleton and Bishop Keelan (who, as you have reminded everyone, sent us on our holy mission), do you think I was making an oath to anything demonic when I "swore to restore Baudh's worship at the sacred temple"?