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| plot:mawne:2025-03-08 [2025/03/29 15:46] – Today's session pinkgothic | plot:mawne:2025-03-08 [2025/04/05 18:10] (current) – Addendum for today's session! pinkgothic |
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| Jagdish chuckled mildly. "I recommend the one you feel most confident upholding under pressure," he said. Not making the decisions for her, apparently. He took a few sips of his tea and twirled Mew's tail around two of his narrow fingers in an absent-minded, practised gesture. | Jagdish chuckled mildly. "I recommend the one you feel most confident upholding under pressure," he said. Not making the decisions for her, apparently. He took a few sips of his tea and twirled Mew's tail around two of his narrow fingers in an absent-minded, practised gesture. |
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| | <color #884400>Very helpful. Well, no, likely that was helpful advice, even if it was sidestepping the question.</color> |
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| | <color #884400>Adelaide stared into her teacup. It was notable that Jagdish seemed confident in her survival without pushing for an angle. So surely the worse case scenario was 'only' an incredible amount of pain! And here she was, the complete fool, sitting and drinking tea and being ridiculously compliant instead of... well, she wasn't sure what the 'correct' option was. Possibly it involved either stealth or hitting something with a frying pan. </color> |
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| | <color #884400>The fact she hadn't seriously contemplated it was concerning in its own way. Planning was what she did! "I quit the circuit and left my job, but I kept my team and was willing to go to a job interview with Yarver," Adelaide said, working on untangling her thoughts. "That's... perhaps not fully aligned with pure ignorance. Or at least not a sudden blinding revelation, a complete change of everything, and shunning anything even remotely associated with battling forever more and pleading ignorance.</color> |
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| | <color #884400>"I was perfectly willing to take a job with one of Yarver's associates, am still inclined to stay and work with you in future, and am sitting here instead of in a cell because a trial seemed... seemed the right path forward. That does seem like a tacit admission of guilt, no matter what narrative is chosen." Adelaide shuddered. There was a difference between coming to a conclusion and liking that conclusion. "That seems more a request for clemency than mercy."</color> |
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| | "I'm not the one who decides your fate," Jagdish commented. "I can only try to persuade the Council, which happens naturally. It's my role in the trial to defend you - hence why I'm asking about your persona. I can do better if I know what to lean toward. I have a good deal of experience with the audience, after all." Although presumably, as did the audience with Jagdish. He watched her attentively past the motions of finishing his tea. |
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| | <color #884400>She thought she had been clear, but perhaps Jadgish was intent on making her explicitly say it. "I'll go with the persona of making a conscious choice. I'm-" she grimaced some more, "- possibly having too many errors rubbed in my face this week to successfully plead innocence."</color> |
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| | <color #884400>And if she had to deal with the Council in future, provoking them now was unwise. She could pile up more justifications for her choice if she put an effort in, and thereby convince herself not to gibber in terror, right?</color> |
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