pcl_0534_012_02_46

Puddleby Court Log: 12 Winter, year 534 of The Ascendancy. 02:46

In the matter of Healery v Doa Noog, accused of “fraud and embezzlement”

Before the jurors: Babajaga, Cloud, Rimbaud, Slipknot, Ananna, Bocephus, Braindead

With Bellafae serving as Bailiff.
To all who read these precepts, the following transcript of this trial is true and correct, to the best of my knowledge.
Clera, reporting.

[Haengemie] <standard pre-trial court briefing>
[Healery] Ladies and gentlemen, I am here representing the social club known as the Fellowship of the Red Quill.
[Healery] During my case, I will be presenting evidence from this statement, signed by several other exiles.
[Healery] Healery hands a copy of the statement to each member of the jury.
[Healery] On the 60th day of Autumn, we commissioned Doa Noog to register our club and provide small tokens for us to wear.
[Healery] Noog agreed, and demanded a total of 2400 coins for the registration fee and the first five tokens.
[Healery] She pretended to fulfill the contract. But in exchange for our 2400 coins, she handed us meaningless blank tokens.
[Healery] Healery holds up Exhibit A1: "Sleipnir is a Human, is male, is a Fighter, and has not joined a clan."
[Healery] Healery holds up Exhibit A1: "Sleipnir is a Human, is male, is a Fighter, and has not joined a clan."
[Healery] Healery holds up Exhibit A2: "Gnaroon: So, Sleipnir. You want to add a member to ."
[Healery] The thief then fled out the back with all our money! We tried to follow, but she had locked her doors.
[Healery] Healery holds up Exhibit B: "Bigfat: Shes gone...Doa Noog. Nevyn: Interesting, I can't go north."
[Haengemie] 10 seconds remaining, Please finish up, or say "done"...
[Healery] Doa Noog's actions are inexcusable. She is guilty of fraud and theft. She has abused the public trust!
[Healery] done
[Haengemie] Thank you, Healery
[Haengemie] Doa Noog, you have 90 seconds to speak.
[Doa Noog] It wasn't me!
[Doa Noog] I was framed!
[Doa Noog] The money... it was counterfiet.
[Doa Noog] I had to turn it over.
[Doa Noog] Joe made me do it.
[Doa Noog] My poor dying mother...
[Doa Noog] she...
[Doa Noog] I mean...
[Doa Noog] I didn't take the money.
[Doa Noog] They stole it from me.
[Doa Noog] The Red Quill are bullies, out to get me.
[Doa Noog] I was framed, I say!
[Doa Noog] I didn't take the money.
[Doa Noog] And besides, Joe made me do it.
[Haengemie] 10 seconds remaining, Please finish up, or say "done"...
[Doa Noog] Um...
[Doa Noog] It wasn't my fault.
[Haengemie] Thank you, Doa Noog
[Haengemie] Healery, you have 120 seconds to speak.
[Healery] Doa Noog's defense is clearly self-contradictory.
[Healery] First she says she didn't take the money,
[Healery] then she says she did, but she needed it for her mother.
[Healery] Then -- of all things! -- she says it was counterfeit!
[Healery] A ludicrous suggestion, as you all know.
[Healery] Each and every coin was earned through hard work, earned from bounties on beasts.
[Healery] As for her ill mother...
[Healery] If she had only asked us, we of the Red Quill, or indeed any of the compassionate exiles...
[Healery] We would gladly have helped.
[Healery] But to steal the funds, to abuse the trust the public placed in her!
[Haengemie] 10 seconds remaining, Please finish up, or say "done"...
[Healery] We seek not punishment, only our cins back.
[Haengemie] Thank you, Healery
[Haengemie] Doa Noog, you have 120 seconds to speak.
[Doa Noog] It wasn't me.
[Doa Noog] I didn't do it.
[Doa Noog] The coins...
[Doa Noog] they killed the beasts
[Doa Noog] and the mothers
[Doa Noog] the beasts had mothers...
[Doa Noog] and they're using strongarm tactics to blackmail me.
[Doa Noog] I didn't do it.
[Doa Noog] They say they're nice, but then they take the tokens.
[Doa Noog] Joe said we could have the money, since it was counterfiet
[Doa Noog] But then they said they'd kill us.
[Doa Noog] and kill the beasts and take the moneyl.
[Doa Noog] I was framed!
[Doa Noog] Doa Noog sobs uncontrollably...
[Haengemie] 10 seconds remaining, Please finish up, or say "done"...
[Doa Noog] was that good, Joe?
[Doa Noog] Doa Noog wipes her cheeks.
[Haengemie] Thank you, Doa Noog
[Doa Noog] I'm done
[Haengemie] <standard jury verdict briefing>
[Bellafae] Bellafae hands Haengemie the jury's verdict.

[Haengemie] Doa Noog this court finds you guilty, as accused.
[Haengemie] <standard jury sentence briefing>
[Haengemie] Jurors, you should take Doa Noog's record into account when deciding what sentence to recommend.
[Bellafae] Bellafae hands Haengemie the jury's sentencing recommendation.

[Haengemie] Doa Noog, you are hereby sentenced to spend 16 minutes in the Puddleby jail,
[Haengemie] and fined 651 coins.

Court adjourned at 3:55 on 12 Winter, 534