11-07-2017, 02:38 AM
The Magistrate listens as each prisoner speaks. Once finished he replies, "Unfortunately, ignorance of our laws is no defense against punishment otherwise everyone would claim such. However, I do consider myself more 'liberal' than other Magistrates who believe a good ReMaking can set an example for others even if the punishment isn't entirely fair to the convicted. However I believe, when justified, ReMaking can be a rewarding task and my peers consider my ReMakings to be quite creative. But every so often for one reason or another I do lose a bit of enthusiasm for my profession when required to ReMake certain individuals whose guilt may not be absolute."
Turning his gaze to address Selina, the apparent leader of the group, the Magistrate says, "Your passion while stating your case is reasonable without being pitiful and it is appreciated. So often the accused believe excessive emotion will sway judgement. But tears are truly wasted in this court."
"Now... I have heard many of you use for your defense that your arrival to this world was purely accidental. I am inclined to accept this defense as a reasonable. And in the interest of Justice I grant each of you a reprieve from execution. However, whether intentional or not, you (Looking at Kee) have damaged the barrier between our plane and others. In laymen's terms your disrupted ritual has created tiny fractures in the dam which holds back an ocean of planar chaos. The rest of you then further weakened this dam when you attempted to sail through one of those fractures and smashed your way into this world. Thereby turning that fracture into a gaping maw which is now vomiting this ocean of chaos into our reality. Do you see how that may be a problem for a world still recovering from the last planar incursion by aliens into our realm? How maybe the population would want a punishment to be exacted upon those who have endangered them to the possibility of another age of untold horrors?"
Turning his gaze to address Selina, the apparent leader of the group, the Magistrate says, "Your passion while stating your case is reasonable without being pitiful and it is appreciated. So often the accused believe excessive emotion will sway judgement. But tears are truly wasted in this court."
"Now... I have heard many of you use for your defense that your arrival to this world was purely accidental. I am inclined to accept this defense as a reasonable. And in the interest of Justice I grant each of you a reprieve from execution. However, whether intentional or not, you (Looking at Kee) have damaged the barrier between our plane and others. In laymen's terms your disrupted ritual has created tiny fractures in the dam which holds back an ocean of planar chaos. The rest of you then further weakened this dam when you attempted to sail through one of those fractures and smashed your way into this world. Thereby turning that fracture into a gaping maw which is now vomiting this ocean of chaos into our reality. Do you see how that may be a problem for a world still recovering from the last planar incursion by aliens into our realm? How maybe the population would want a punishment to be exacted upon those who have endangered them to the possibility of another age of untold horrors?"
