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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8931233" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>It's absolutely extrajudicial. The "Absolution Council" meets irregularly with random numbers of members (I guess they don't need a quorum), and seems to act based on whim and with no representation, no legal guidelines, and so on. Logically one would say they're always going to do what is going to please their superiors back in the cities they work for, which will be release people who are trouble for cities they don't like, and keep imprisoned anyone who their city doesn't like. There's no justice, law or "parole" there. Just a a group of people who explicitly don't even want to be there making self-interested decisions.</p><p></p><p>As for "imprisoned judicially", that's something <em>you've</em> made up. There's no real indication of that, and certainly none that the imprisonment was just, and the city-states involved are deeply corrupt ones with extremely dodgy judicial systems. As I pointed out, Waterdeep's legal code doesn't even have a provision for imprisoning people for more than a year, and it's a corrupt legal system in the first place.</p><p></p><p>Pretending that it's fine because some corrupt council members in Waterdeep railroaded a person and gave them a made-up sentence which doesn't even fit their own legal code is a great illustration of why this isn't an LG-acceptable situation.</p><p></p><p>LOL. The old "bounces off me and sticks to you" schoolyard approach, huh?</p><p></p><p>But it doesn't bounce off you. You completely failed to address my criticisms on even a basic level. And it's clear you actually know this place is a terrible mismatch for the FR. It doesn't make sense thematically or tonally. You complain about me "not making good points" and then totally fail to make any yourself.</p><p></p><p>Also, how are you not understanding what tone means? I think you do understand and are making a cheap and not necessarily good faith argument, frankly.</p><p></p><p>Half of the text isn't "necessary for the adventure". Fetish-y descriptions of someone's badass tats, the weirdly self-indulgent description of the hilarious secret Harper (lol is like literally anyone in the FR not secretly a Harper or Zhent?) warden, a whole bunch of the scene-setting and so on.</p><p></p><p>Exactly. You're so close to putting the pieces together.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8931233, member: 18"] It's absolutely extrajudicial. The "Absolution Council" meets irregularly with random numbers of members (I guess they don't need a quorum), and seems to act based on whim and with no representation, no legal guidelines, and so on. Logically one would say they're always going to do what is going to please their superiors back in the cities they work for, which will be release people who are trouble for cities they don't like, and keep imprisoned anyone who their city doesn't like. There's no justice, law or "parole" there. Just a a group of people who explicitly don't even want to be there making self-interested decisions. As for "imprisoned judicially", that's something [I]you've[/I] made up. There's no real indication of that, and certainly none that the imprisonment was just, and the city-states involved are deeply corrupt ones with extremely dodgy judicial systems. As I pointed out, Waterdeep's legal code doesn't even have a provision for imprisoning people for more than a year, and it's a corrupt legal system in the first place. Pretending that it's fine because some corrupt council members in Waterdeep railroaded a person and gave them a made-up sentence which doesn't even fit their own legal code is a great illustration of why this isn't an LG-acceptable situation. LOL. The old "bounces off me and sticks to you" schoolyard approach, huh? But it doesn't bounce off you. You completely failed to address my criticisms on even a basic level. And it's clear you actually know this place is a terrible mismatch for the FR. It doesn't make sense thematically or tonally. You complain about me "not making good points" and then totally fail to make any yourself. Also, how are you not understanding what tone means? I think you do understand and are making a cheap and not necessarily good faith argument, frankly. Half of the text isn't "necessary for the adventure". Fetish-y descriptions of someone's badass tats, the weirdly self-indulgent description of the hilarious secret Harper (lol is like literally anyone in the FR not secretly a Harper or Zhent?) warden, a whole bunch of the scene-setting and so on. Exactly. You're so close to putting the pieces together. [/QUOTE]
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