Skitters
Prince
I thought I'd have a stab at the Courtoom myself
Curse those cards! He’d been so close to winning his passage on the earlier ship, when he was dealt the Curse of Arawn – particularly sickening as it had followed a Seven of Towers which surely would have won him the pot. His luck had been horrendous since then, he’d lost most of his winnings on that game, and then spent a lot more drowning his sorrows. He’d then been woken with a pail of water, finding himself press-ganged into service on a Galley heading for the unknown lands. After five torturous days of seasickness, Lanun pirates struck, the galley was sunk and here he was now - after being washed ashore - in a Svartalfar courtroom charged with spying.
What did he know about these Elves? Civil war was it? Something about Seelie and Unseelie Court. Growing up on a farmstead had left him a little vague on World politics. His eyes looked around this strange court - pretty grandiose décor, with a sense of opulence, certainly not the functional style of his Hippus homeland. His eyes fell on a statuette. There was something not quite right about it…ah…yes…the scales, tipped with coins. So…Mammon has a part to play in this courtroom does he? There were still some coins in his hidden pouch. Once he signalled to the bailiff, things began to gather momentum, indeed Mammon had obviously provided a slick fast tracking system as he found himself ushered away from the courtroom – at the cost of a few coins - to a private room.
“It seems you have been a little down on your luck, and would like to…aha…speed the courtroom process up, so to speak?”
“Yes, your honour”
“…and you can pay the fine of five coins?”
“Yes”
“Okay…that seems in order. No need for paper work, I think we can come to a satisfactory conclusion here and now: Guilty as charged, you hang tomorrow. In Esus we Trust”
“…but…but the statuette to Mammon?!”
“Yes, a pretty little thing isn’t it?….and worth it’s weight in gold I must say”
- When entering a courtroom, effort should be made to check the patron Angel before constructing your defence.