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Message: <blockquote data-quote="silentspace" data-source="post: 1509397" data-attributes="member: 14316">The dwarves roughly manacle Solli, Denasa and Rogoth, and confiscate their weapons.  Patting the prisoners down, the dwarves discover Denasi's spell component pouch, which is also confiscated.  Legs is captured in a sack.Without much further ado, you are herded into a closed iron carriage and transported through the tunnels of Earthheart for several minutes.  After being removed from the carriage, you are led past a heavily guarded steel door and into a very solid-looking tunnel system, where you are marched down long, busy halls filled with Steel Shields and other Gold Dwarves.  You pass several others in manacles as well.You are brought into a judge's chambers.  The room is at least eighty by eighty feet, with the ceiling vaulting forty feet above.  It's filled with a wide assortment of characters, obviously under arrest, several of them injured very badly and bandaged.  There are even a couple corpses arrayed here as well, suffering from what looks like fresh axe wounds.The judge is a middle-aged male dwarf, with a shiny breastplate visible under his judicial robes.  His thick beard, once dark brown but now greying, is neatly trimmed.  He looks tired and uninterested, barely bothering to look up as the Steel Shields line up prisoners one after the other, and state their cases.  A pair of svirfneblin jewel thieves.  A dwarf murderer.  A half-drow rapist.  The prisoners uniformly plead guilty.  Two bloody, bandaged half-orcs, with two dead half-orc corpses, are next.  They are accused of fraud.  The half-orcs plead guilty.  Then, realizing the corpses are dead, the judge groans and calls out for the Dead Inquisitor.  A few minutes later a thin, dour-looking dwarf appears, and after a few moments of manipulating the weave, the corpses speak.  They also plead guilty.You learn that people rarely plead innocent.  If you plead innocent, but are found guilty, you have to pay the costs for the court Truthfinders as well.  This must be paid for with hard labor (there is no other option), and usually results in decades being added to a sentence.  You are unable to discover what will happen to you if you are found guilty.  Your Steel Shield keepers don't know.Finally it's your turn."Your honor, we have three Underdarkers accused of robbing the old Stronghammer family tomb.  Complaint brought by Deep Lord Karam Stronghammer."The judge looks up, suddenly interested.  His grey eyes study you carefully, before turning back to the Steel Shield.  "Stronghammer's tomb?  I hope you took all the necessary safety precautions in arresting them, you've got to be pretty powerful or pretty stupid to break into a Deep Lord's tomb!""Aye, well, we got 'em in here, your honor.""That you did."  Losing interest, the Judge looks back down at whatever paperwork he was looking at, and says "How do you plead?"</blockquote>

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