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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: I think I smell a rat! Da da dum dum dum!
I think I smell a raaaaaaaat! ...
Kel: Not gui- / Isolde: Hold it. Hold it. / [[Isolde is speaking from off-panel. Dódr and D'Owd look at her sternly.]] / Isolde: Your venerablenesses! That last charge was not in the charge sheet I got two days ago! / [[Fafnir, the lawyer for the prosecution, retorts. Next to him stands Wythllew,...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: In which the counsels for the Prosecution and the Defense get down to ... Fafnir: Well, it will come up in testimony anyway. At least if you keep it on the charge sheet, you won't go home wondering why the sentence was so harsh. / Isolde: Grrr. / Dódr: The prosecution has a point, mistress ... Sheepsmiter? If something like that comes up it'll either be as an aggravating...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Opening statement for the prosecution. [[Dódr is speaking from off-panel.]] / Dódr: Harrumph! What do you plead? / Kel: N-not guilty, your venerabablenessessess. / [[Dódr is speaking from off-panel.]] / Dódr: Kangra Rotskivvensdottir, you stand accused of attempting to hinder the work of the Office of Rites, and of complicity after the...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: The prosectution presently proposes a paronoid yet somehow compelling ... [[Fafnir's opening statement continues.]] / Fafnir: There are, sometimes, good reasons to abandon the Rite: Ill-treatment and insult traditionally justify it. In such cases, the initiate gets to apply with the Office of Rites and try again. / [[Fafnir's reconstruction of events is shown in a style based...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: The prosecution continues with an outline of the case against Kangra. [[Fafnir's opening statement continues.]] / Fafnir: When the other defendant, Kangra Rotskivvensdottir, heard of her sister's first crime, she decided to cover for her! / [[Fafnir's reconstruction of events is shown in a flat-coloured art style with fixed-width lines, as if it was drawn in a vector program.]] / Fafnir:...
 
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: The trial begins in earnest. The legal phrase Isolde: Your venerablenessess, the prosecution is trying to connect dots that just aren't there! The case against my client is a load of old cobblers'! / Kangra: Zing! Kapa-pow! / [[Isolde is speaking from off-panel. Daoibleagh walks along the aisles of the audience brandishing his tray of foodstuffs.]] / Isolde:...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Hywell Bastardsson is sworn in. [[The harpist strikes a chord. Hywell Bastardsson appears.]] / <> / [[Fuddeaigh shows Hywell a hand full of fossilized teeth.]] / Fuddeaigh: Hywell Bastardsson, these are teeth of the Ancestor. / Fuddeaigh: Do you swear not to lie through the Ancestor's teeth? / / [[Hywell puts his hand...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Hywell Bastardsson is sworn in. [[Hywell Bastardsson, the clerk at the Office of Rites, walks towards the witness stand. A herald plays a chord on the harp.]] / <> / [[Fuddeaigh swears Hywell in, by holding up a handful of teeth.]] / Fuddeaigh: Hywell Bastardsson, these are teeth of the Ancestor. / Fuddeaigh: Do you swear...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: What will undoubtedly be the first in a long series of embarrassments ... [[Fafnir speaks off-panel as the Statue of Justice looks on.]] / Fafnir: ...And what did she say next? / / Hywell: She insisted that she was Kel Mansdottir. At that point, the enforcers had come in, so I left it at that. / / [[Fafnir ambles off.]] / Fafnir: No further questions, your Venerabilities....
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Cross-examination of prosecution witnesses continues. Drippy word balloons ... Fafnir: Objection! She's asking the witness to speculate! / Isolde: No further questions... / / [[Fafnir interrogates the captain of the Office of Rite's Enforcers.]] / Fafnir: Did the defendant - Kel Mansdottir Davignon - resist arrest? / Captain: Yes, quite vehemently. She threatened us with an iron...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Cross-examination of prosecution witnesses continues. Drippy word balloons ... Fafnir: Objection! She's asking the witness to speculate! / Isolde: No further questions... / Fafnir: Did the defendant - Kel Mansdottir Davignon - resist arrest? / Commander: Yes, quite vehemently. She threatened us with an iron medaillon. Of course, we made short work of that. / Fafnir: Did she have...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: The Keeper of the Shrine's records incites religious controversy through ... [[Isolde is questioning Clampfoot the Shrine Administrator. Four faeries from the audience interrupt from off-panel and in an insert. Dódr whacks his hammer and speaks from off-panel.]] / Clampfoot: ...Quite a few femurs, more than could be from a single ancestor. / Faerie 1: Boo! Blasphemy! / Dódr: Order!...
 
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Two more technical witnesses go [[Isolde continues questioning Clampfoot from off-panel.]] / Isolde: So, how likely is it that the bone would have been stolen without anything being noticed and recorded? / Clampfoot: Well, a thief wouldn't leave a receipt, would she? / [[Clampfoot is speaking from off-panel. Kangra daydreams of Hywell.]]...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Isolde objects, the court adjourns
but to her horror, Isolde learns
Isolde: We don't have time! My client has a young daughter to go home to! / / Dódr: The court will adjourn for half an hour to deliberate. And drink. / Kel: At last,a break. / Kangra: I'll fetch us some drinks! / [[Isolde is speaking from off-panel.]] / Isolde: Damn! Damn! Damn! / Kel: ? / Kel:...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Plenty of tasty doom in this episode, plus a word on the discovery of ... Isolde: Sorry. I have no excuse. I shouldn't be making mistakes like this. / Isolde: I'm just intimidated by him. His fast mind, his goatee and his / Scottish burns*). / Kel [[Thought]]: DOOM. / Isolde: I try to make up for it by working harder... I thought I'd stand a chance if I just knew the...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Before the days of the in-ear prompter, incompetent officials needed to ... Dódr: Will that woman ever finish consulting her advisors? / / Fuddeaigh: That's nothing. My friend Booklearner Duilaillidh told me of the confirmation hearings for that human Grimborgsman... / Her high elven confrere had an army of advisors prompting him at all times, while he just sat there drooling......
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Ottar is sworn in, and the next part of the show begins. [[Ottar takes the oath.]] / Ottar: I shall not lie through the Ancestor's teeth. / [[Ottar speaks from off-panel.]] / Isolde: Ottar... You were brought from Wodeskog to Clwyd-rhan to serve the Fae w- / Ottar: Nay! / Ottar:I was brought in by Wythllew to serve my Serfdomrite with the Corby Kin. / [[Ottar...
 
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Yeppers, we managed to get Fafnir to use a classic line from courtroom ... [[Ottar is speaking off-panel.]] / Isolde: When... did you hear that Wythllew had stolen the bone? / Ottar: ... At the Mudslope Festival of 1001. / [[Ottar narrates. He is seen watching outside the tent at the 1001 Mudslope Sabbath.]] / Ottar: I o'erheard talk tween the mage Sanderon, my lady Kel and...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Yeppers, we managed to get Fafnir to use a classic line from courtroom ... [[Ottar speaks off-panel.]] / Isolde: When... did you hear that Wythllew had stolen the Bone? / Ottar: ...At the Mudslope Festival of 1001. / [[Ottar narrates. Ottar is seen outside the tent at the Mudslope festival.]] / Ottar: I o'erheard talk tween the mage Sanderon, my Lady Kel and Raven Corby. / Ottar:...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Fafnir utters the most ominous phrase a lawyer can utter. Isolde: What sort of person was Wythllew to work with? / Ottar: She seemed kind e-nowe to me as a bloodful fae. But she was hatesome to my lady Kel and the witch. / [[Isolde and Ottar are speaking off-panel. Fafnir is taking notes.]] / Isolde: Hate...some? how? / Ottar: Calling my lady names... Onsetting...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Fafnir explodes one bomb and plants another. Read carefully. [[Fafnir is questioning Ottar.]] / Fafnir: Why do you refer to the defendant as "my lady Kel?" Did you not say that you had committed to serving your Rite with the Corbies? / Ottar: Aye. / Fafnir: But does not the use of those titles for the defendant and her alleged husband suggest that you are working...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Fafnir is only now hitting his stride. Fafnir: On the contrary, your venerablenesses. The witness is here to defend someone accused of reckless abandonment and disloyalty. When he himself is lacking in loyalty, how can we trust- / / Ottar: I sware an oath! / Fafnir: - The trustworthiness of which is now itself in doubt for the same reason....
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Ottar had heard of the idea of courting rejection, but he wanted nothing ... Isolde: I wish to ask a few more questions. Ottar, when did you leave the Corbies? / / Ottar: Near-like a year ago. / Isolde: What made you switch? / [[Ottar narrates. Ottar is seen arguing with Leroukh Corby.]] / Ottar: Once I wot that Wythllew was a thief, I tried for to warn the corbies, afore...
 
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Ottar discusses sewing and baking. Dódr discusses the good old days. Isolde: And then you went on to serve Kel's family. Is that an easy task? / Ottar: Nay. My lady Kel is kind... / [[Ottar speaks off-panel.]] / Ottar: ...But the stead is crowded, with two babes. There is ever filth and screaming. / Kel: Hey! Fay never screams! / Kangra: Suuure she doesn't. / Ottar: I toil...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Isolde gets touchy-feely for a moment. Ottar: Milady, forgive me. She does, when you are not there. / [[Kel is genuinely surprised.]] / Kel: He does? Really? I didn't know that. / / Isolde: Hurts, doesn't it? / Ottar: Aye. / Isolde: You don't want to shatter her illusions. Why bother her with a truth she doesn't wish to hear? / [[Ottar...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Lord Chief Justice Dódr is not amused. Hairsplitter Fuddeigh reminisces ... [[The Green Knight's head in a jar is placed on the judges' desk. Dódr is surprised. The harpist strikes a chord off-panel.]] / <> / <> / / Dódr: What in the Ancestor's name is this, Shieldbiter? Are we to cross-examine a severed head? / [[Dódr and Isolde argue off-panel.]] / Dódr:...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Hey, Green Knight! Did you eat your mother with that mouth? Dódr: Sounds like a precedent to me. Swear it in, will you, Dowd? / Dowd: Green Knight... do you swear by... whatever it is you believe in... to tell the truth- / Green Knight: Damn you woman! Your court means nothing to the Green Knight! / / Dódr: Sounds like another contempt citation to me. / Fuddeaigh:...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Green Knight: A year. / Isolde: Did you give her the traditional reward for completing a year's worth of service? / / Green Knight: Yes. / Isolde: And then she left for home, didn't she? / Green Knight: No, she stayed with me. / Isolde: Did she stay out of her own free will? / / Green...
 
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: [[Isolde is speaking off-panel.]] / Isolde: Did she? Or did you, as the defendant will undoubtedly tell us, use an enchantment to prevent her from leaving? / [[Isolde waits for the answer, as do Kel and Kangra's supporters in the audience.]] / [[The Green Knight speaks off-panel.]] / Green Knight (off-panel):...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: The Green Knight's testimony continues. There is cross-hatching. Fafnir: This enchantment... what was it? / [[The Green Knight narrates. Shown: Kel, naked except for her hat, is admiring a dress laid out for her on the castle floor.]] / Green Knight: It was a dress... a good one, with iron thread in it. / Fafnir: A dress... Did she wear it throughout her stay...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: It could be the beer, but the Grimborgsman is suddenly interested in what ... [[Fafnir and the Green Knight are speaking off-panel. Kel is angered by what she hears.]] / Fafnir: Did you ever make any attempt to stop her from leaving? / Green Knight: No. / [[Fafnir is speaking off-panel.]] / Fafnir: No further questions, your venerablenesses. / Isolde: I will have to question...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Wythllew is brought to the fore... [[Isolde is speaking off-panel. The Statue of Justice is shown, with her cormorant, her sieve and her eye.]] / Isolde: Please call... Wythllew of Wodeskog! / / [[Fafnir is speaking off-panel.]] / Fafnir: Objection! Is she even fit to testify? / Isolde: She's been at your table all morning....
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Wythllew is making it easy for Isolde. Too easy, I'm sure. [[Wythllew points at Kel.]] / Wythllew: Yonder mongrel human. / Isolde: How did you get it in the first place? / Wythllew: Why, I took it! / [[Wythllew narrates. Atra in her Douard disguise is shown, taking the Bone out of its box.]] / Wythllew: I sent a human shrinewards for to fetch it for me....
 

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