Guilty or Innocent? How to avoid public burnt at the stake for heresy!

Bies#4376 · March 2018

"Since the time of Sigmar Himself, we have been no more than a flicketing beacon of hope amidst a sea of despair and corruption, but never before have we faced so many dangers. We must suffer the simple-minded liberalism of our burgomeisters, the sactioning of magic use, the heresy of false prophets and religions, the arrogance of the Arch-lectors and the convulted plots of the Dark Gods - the rot has sunk deep into the flesh of the Empire, where even now it festers and grows"
- Witch Hunter

Avoiding execution....

If you will not manage....

Some_Scribe · March 2018

Witch Hunter: "Fear not, my fellow Sigmarites! We have come to save you..."

Imperial citizen: "Hooray! It's the Witch Hunters!"

WH: "FROM YOURSELVES!!!"

IC: "...Oh no, it's the Witch Hunters..."

(Thanks for the awesome post, good sir!)

Wargol#7449 · March 2018

Trial by cake is the worst. By. Far.

Arthas_Menethil#3421 · March 2018

Bies#4376 · March 2018

Wargol5 said:
Trial by cake is the worst. By. Far.

Some slaanesh right there ^^

Eimosan#8471 · March 2018

Bies#4376 · March 2018

Eimhosan said:

Haha just normal day in the Empire

Draxynnic#3149 · March 2018

Wargol5 said:
Trial by cake is the worst. By. Far.

I wonder if there's a prescribed recipe for the cake. Otherwise, that might be even easier to rig than some of the others.

BaronKlatz#7357 · March 2018

Pretty sure that's the point (unless i'm misreading sarcasm).

You really don't want wealthy patrons being killed off left and right because their sneeze got called out as Nurgle worship and the hunters had no choice but to trial them.

Awesome post again, btw, Bies!

Krilral · March 2018

"I demand a trial by cake!"

Reeks#2417 · March 2018

I wish I could stand trial by cake every day!

TempestWolf#8881 · March 2018

So... if you are a chaos worshiper of Slaanesh and your visage does not get damaged... you can pass the ordeals? Nice to know.

TheGhostOfProman16 · March 2018

Hmmm seems like the witch hunters secretly want a Slaanesh master race... #MakeTheEmpireSexxxyAgain

Eimosan#8471 · March 2018

TheGhostOfProman16 said:
Hmmm seems like the witch hunters secretly want a Slaanesh master race... #MakeTheEmpireSexxxyAgain

Bies said:

Eimhosan said:

Haha just normal day in the Empire

BaronKlatz#7357 · March 2018

Krilral said:
"I demand a trial by cake!"

(Sees you are just a peasant)

"Okay, here."

(Puts cake on table in the middle of flaming ploughshares)

"Go grab it."

Draxynnic#3149 · March 2018

BaronKlatz said:
Pretty sure that's the point (unless i'm misreading sarcasm).

You really don't want wealthy patrons being killed off left and right because their sneeze got called out as Nurgle worship and the hunters had no choice but to trial them.

Awesome post again, btw, Bies!

Indeed, but if there isn't a set recipe, it would be very easy to put something in the cake that would cause someone to gag if they decided they did want to off the accused.

"Oh, so you bit down on the middle cake and broke your teeth because it was full of tiny little steel hammers? Must be Sigmar's judgement!"

BaronKlatz#7357 · March 2018

Ohhh, I see. Rigged Against them, I thought you meant for them. (And that's a neat idea XD )

Yeah, it could be but I feel if you had it out for someone despite being a wealthy nobleman that filled your coffers you'd just choose one other ones which are far more painful and certain.

Draxynnic#3149 · March 2018

True, but there may well be times when they do want to take out someone who gets the trial by cake for whatever reason.

The others are all rigged in the sense that you'd practically need a miracle to pass (although depending on the specifics, the trial by hammer and the first trial by fire might be easier to pass), but in each case, short of actual magic or divine intervention, it's largely random on whether the accused passes. Trial by cake allows it to be selective.

One could imagine, for instance, a situation where multiple people are accused. It would be too obviously rigged if some got the trial by cake and others got the trial by water. But they could give them all trial by cake, but the Witch Hunters have very carefully placed the inedible cakes.

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