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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 38: Discussion
« on: October 03, 2013, 04:15:39 pm »
Uh-oh... this isn't looking good for Crest.
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'Marks' could just mean 'lashings'. So, Bern would get a thousand strikes of the whip.Yeah it is, doubly so given that the Romans used it as a punishment for runaway slaves. Lets hope its just a fine of some sort. Or some kind of community service.
...Still a pretty brutal punishment though.
Even though the only law is 'No Violence Allowed'? How does that work?In a completely unrelated curiosity... I wonder how Stalkers are dealt with?
If you tell them you don't want to be touched, then they can't legally touch you. If you tell them you want them off your private property, then they can't legally be on your property. Otherwise they can do whatever they want.
Maybe trying to throw Bern out of the house was something the Healer wasn't supposed to do. It was violent action, after all. And by doing it, maybe forfeited any legal action she could take against Bern later? Thus making this a sham.Well Bern still did some violent action herself though. But it is odd that the law against violence is the only law, after all none of Bern's extortion was particularly violent, so there should be no legal ramifications of that. The beating up of two people who started the fight themselves? Maybe, depending on how the law goes and whether they were Enforcers (given that they seem to have something of an exception to the one law).
In a completely unrelated curiosity... I wonder how Stalkers are dealt with?
The only law in Marvallo is no violence http://flipside.keenspot.com/comic.php?i=1191 . So how this plays out will depend on how that law is applied, namely does defending yourself from a thug still get you in trouble? And what would constitute proper provocation, if anything. And whether those two guys were Enforcers would play into it.This is something which confused me massively here, why she used such a word where the situation is pretty clear, Bern broke Marvallo law, extorted a free service and then willingly gone with Enforcers for punishment, how that can be called like that?
(Unless the 'sham' comment by Polly isn't just an insult she's using and this is, in fact, a false proceeding in some way?? )