JUDGING CRIMES

LUCINIA MAG

ASSAULT, PUBLIC DRUNKENESS, THEFT

Prosecution Local drunk and troublemaker Lucinia Mag has been causing problems for years. Most recently she started a brawl in Piscum’s pub, punched the sheriff, and ran off with the night’s take—22 sp—and a bottle of oldlaw whiskey worth 20 gp. Sheriff Piscum found her passed out drunk in Jo Sini’s barn the next morning.

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Defense Lucinia has little to say in her own defense, aside from her opinion on the your parentage.

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Investigation (Knowledge (local) or Diplomacy DC 15)

• Lucinia has a long history of harassment, minor violence, and petty theft extending back to her childhood. She’s been run out of town twice in the last 10 years, but both times she came back after a few months.

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RESOLUTIONS

Banishment

Dismissal

Fine

Dismemberment

Pillory

Public Service

PORTIMER OF STACHYS

POACHING

Prosecution Portimer was caught by several guards poaching the count’s deer in the Abbeywood just north of the Stachys Spur, and after a severe beating has been returned to Stachys for trial. Local law demands execution for such a crime.

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Defense Portimer insists he wounded a deer while hunting south of the canal and followed it to finish off the suffering creature, not realizing he’d trespassed on the count’s land.

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Investigation (Knowledge (local) or Diplomacy DC 12)

• Portimer was trained as a miller. He has struggled to get by as a farmer since the mill shut down in his youth, and he, his wife, and their child are all struggling to feed themselves.

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Investigate - Hunting Area (Survival DC 18)

• Investigating the area he claims he was hunting in reveals no sign of Portimer hunting—nor even any signs of deer—south of the canal; he clearly shot one of the count’s deer on the count’s land.

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Investigation (Knowledge (local) DC 18)

• You determine that the local population generally feels that Portimer was justified and that any punishments will likely anger the town.

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RESOLUTIONS

Death

Dismissal

Fine

Dismemberment

Pillory

Public Service

ANLLEL OAKLEAF

BEWITCHMENT, TRESPASSING

Prosecution Several local farmers report illness among their livestock causing frail animals and souring their milk. It began around the time locals started seeing a stranger moving among the fields at night. Sheriff Piscum caught this unknown woman poisoning the flock of the Gagrus family, who have now fallen ill with the same blight, and locals accuse the stranger of witchcraft.

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Defense Anllel refuses to speak to the superstitious locals.

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Investigation (Knowledge (nature) DC 15)

• You identify her as a Wildwood Lodge druid from the Verduran Forest to the north.

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Investigate - Coax (Bluff, Diplomacy, or Intimidate DC 25; or speak Druidic)

• Anllel reveals that a member of her lodge bought a strangely diseased goat from a Meratt merchant a few weeks ago, and the circle dispatched her to investigate, examine the animals, and try to formulate a cure in case the blight spreads.

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Investigate - Gagrus Farm (Heal or Knowledge (religion) DC 22)

• You investigate the Gagrus farm and find the sheep have indeed contracted a strange disease; while examining an infected creature reveals small nodules usually associated with ghoul fever, though none of the sick animals have risen as undead. Simply asking around is sufficient to learn that all the sick animals have come from lands bordering the swampy terrain surrounding the broken pump house. While the animals won’t transform into ghouls, their growth is permanently affected by drinking tainted water.

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RESOLUTIONS

Banishment

Death

Dismissal

Public Service

PARTULLES MAYNE

MURDER

Prosecution Partulles Mayne owns an outlying goose farm west of town and has never liked the locals, who likewise keep the area’s only half-orc at arm’s length. He’s known to skimp on deals and keep livestock that wander onto his land, and one of his recent arguments with a local appears to have turned violent. A family driving their goats by earlier report seeing Mayne and Ershal Sutor arguing over a mule that had wandered on Mayne’s land, and later Sheriff Piscum ran across Mayne trying to bury the body of Sutor. Sutor was killed by a powerful blow to the head.

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Defense Mayne growls that Sutor’s mule wandered into his garden and ate a fair supply of his turnips, so he intended to keep the beast to eat over the winter in the turnips’ place unless Sutor paid him 6 gp for the animal (“Well below market price”). He has no idea how Sutor ended up dead on his property, but he knew he’d be blamed for it, so he decided to hide the body.

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Investigate - Sutor (Heal DC 15)

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Investigate - Mule (Handle Animal DC 15)

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RESOLUTIONS

Banishment

Death

Dismissal

Pillory