Posted by Takallanar on January 18, 2000 at 17:23:12:
In Reply to: Point of view is a wonderful thing, isn't it? Text posted by Quinthen on January 18, 2000 at 16:43:45:
> You've been making a rather big deal over cackling, why I am unsure. The sight of a corpse pleased me.
Even so you did not know he was an oath any more than we did in the confusion. Frankly there are so many names beginning with Sath, Santh, Salth... I find it impossible to keep track of them all and he was caught in the middle. It hardly matters that you cackled though, since it is not against Imperial Law to cackle, I just wanted to point it out that this could have happened to anyone.
> Don't presume to know what I was going to do.. returning his things was but a start... I had something else in mind as well, but did not get a chance to act on it.
Whatever you had in mind would probably have been preferable to what happened for both parties. The other two didn't seem too upset by it all though.
> Crap? Its called Imperial Law.
Agreed, I don't believe it is possible however to write a law that can enforced literally in any given situation possible. You don't go for a stroll in the middle of a war and charge one of the sides for murder because you were caught in the crossfire.
> *eyebrow* I got my ass kicked? Interesting. However, a bit untrue.
Right, I don't know what the tiger did but I worded right away. I was still collecting my thoughts and I wasn't ready to fight what I considered an authority figure less than a minute ago.
> > So then vitzlar and I prompty get anathemaed,
> The law is the law....
Yes, if you read it literally in every possible circumstance that can ever occur.