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Post by Roland Cordwayner on Jan 28, 2022 21:07:31 GMT 1
Roland acquiesced, dutiful to convention and law.
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Post by Father on Jan 29, 2022 21:17:22 GMT 1
It takes considerable time for Lord Lothston to be alerted and find time to deal with this issue, the small party must climb several stairs to The Lord's Solar, a room larger than Lord Starling's Hall, evidently much bigger than it's occupant seems to have found any use for other than looking impressive enough when resolving small matters. And Lord Lothston already appears annoyed by the interruption -as if he expects an accusation of cheating at cards that a pompous knight had demanded be brought before him- as he asks to know what the matter is.
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Post by Roland Cordwayner on Jan 30, 2022 15:56:42 GMT 1
Roland bowed, showing due deference to Lord Lothson given the man's rank.
He reported the situation briefly and factually, as if briefing a commander during war.
"... therefore, I would be indebted to you if you allow me to convey my prisoner to face justice," he concluded, conscious that the Black hood was likely to extract a price if he deigned to facilitate Roland's actions. Still, at least the post Highgarden Ser Roland was conscious of such matters, rather than a naive romantic as he had been before everything span out of control with Ser Donnel's death.
Seven be kind, it was out of control long before.
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Post by Father on Jan 31, 2022 11:22:22 GMT 1
"Odd then, that Ser Roland would have me dragged before either Lord Cordwayner or Starling on accounts of acts done in Blackwood lands, my lord!" What Ser Morgil's lacked in physical prowess, he could certainly make up for with a sly tongue. "And on the testimony of one absentee common brigand no less, I apparently fit the description given by such an unreliable source, and that seems enough pretext to seize a knight?"
"I think, my lord, that I am only targeted for being in Lord Merryweather's service, asked by my liege to observe the proceedings here. Clearly, the harassment of Longtable by the so-called knights of Kingsbridge are not above soiling these negotiations to carry on their vindictive ways."
A second-hand account of a commoner was weak evidence against a knight to begin with, and when Ser Morgil drops the name of Longtable, it seems as if there will be no justice to be had, a hedge knight could be arrested on such testimony perhaps, but to demand the arrest and extradition of one in the service of Lord Merryweather would have required a great deal more. Roland's earlier statement of intention to bring him to The Reach, and naming his nephew who Ser Morgil and Lord Lothston both must surely know to be no friend of Roland, is hardly helpful to his case.
But at least Roland now knew for certain who had ordered the attempt on his life. And that Lord Eldon did not desire the gelding of Ser Simon, although it may be possible that Ser Morgil had assumed that his master would not wish for such an example to be set and acted accordingly, this would seem more likely than Ser Morgil riding to Longtable and back to give his report and receive new instructions.
Roland could try some form of intrigue (he'll be outmatched) to change the outcome I guess.
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Post by Roland Cordwayner on Jan 31, 2022 12:08:56 GMT 1
"This knight is an idiot as well as a criminal. I stated that he deserved to be dragged to the Reach, not that I would take him there."
"If Ser is innocent, a court or trial by combat will prove as much. You swore to the Father to uphold the law - facing a charge is part of a knight, not a pretext."
[OOC: happy to give up a favour as a negotiated yield. Otherwise he can just leave.
Even Roland was bright enough to choose his words earlier so that they were misleading but honest.]
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Post by Father on Jan 31, 2022 17:57:43 GMT 1
Lord Lothston need only cast a glance at the onlookers confusion as to Roland's exact words to conclude that both may be speaking the truth about their meaning, implied or literal, but no matter.
"If a crime had been committed on my lands, ser, and only a knight's statement of it having occurred and the re-telling of a description of the guilty party as given to that knight by one of his fellow malefactors, without even providing the man to point out his co-conspirators, I could not possibly judge him to be guilty, and nor can I have a knight arrested based on a second hand account that judging by the looks of a man before me would surely fit a dozen other men that can be presently found inside the walls of Harrenhaal."
The reaction might be different if Ser Morgil had not invoked the weight of Longtable, few would care if Ser Morgil Cooper without a sworn liege had been detained at Lord Blackwood's behest, but it was far safer to let Roland depart in disappointment than to risk the ire of Lord Merryweather.
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Post by Roland Cordwayner on Feb 1, 2022 18:51:02 GMT 1
[/scene?]
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Post by Father on Feb 1, 2022 22:26:36 GMT 1
/scene
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