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Richard Pearman @graptopetalum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#WIPSnips September 27 delay A pedophile with a spell keeping him in Minris is on trial. From "Tales of Midbar: Religious Intolerance" - if you like this, click this link: www.inkitt.com/stories/618270

Background: An old woman with brown skin and long, grey hair standing in a shop.

"I believe the witness is correct in claiming that there are no lawyers who are licensed to work in this state and would not have similar issues to us," said Rolat.

"Are you saying that the school board's misuse of the legal system has made it impossible to proceed with this trial?" asked the judge.

There was a pause and then the defence lawyer said, "Would it be possible to licence a lawyer, just for this case?"

"The legal code has no such provision," said the judge. "It may be possible to find a lawyer; we need two lawyers who are new to the state to replace yourself and act as legal counsel for Ice. Maybe we could raise this to a federal case but then it would have to be heard in Tarngrath and we can't do that because the defendant's got a spell keeping him in Minris."

The mayor stood up and walked onto the stage. "Sorry," he said, "I would like to file a claim of interest in that providing a lawyer who could act for the Winemakers or raising this trial and therefore related trials to federal level would endanger a considerable financial investment by the town and is likely to cause considerable problems due to delayed justice."

"What financial investment?" asked the judge.

"The school board hiring all the lawyers in the state so the Winemakers couldn't use them to sue the school board, very probably bankrupting the town ..."

"The school board shouldn't have discriminated against Winemakers to start with!" said Ice.

The mayor continued, "There's also the issue of cases going back decades which could be highly problematic if they actually came to trial."