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The Death of Senator Lemonsnout
Terezi looks at you, sitting backwards on her chair with her arms crossed over the top rail. Well, this is it. You, senator lemonsnout, have been convicted of stealing from the imperial beetle coffers. She gets off the chair, almost trips stupidly, and walks towards you. This isn’t the first time you’ve been convicted of this. She stares at you quietly. Then, she slaps your face, in a business-like type of way. You cannot do anything to defend yourself, as you are a stuffed animal. She then leans forward, closer to your face, grabs our snout, and says, “Mr. Senator, you smell very nice. Your luscious yellow scales are like the sweetest gumdrops to the prosecution's nose. But your deceit STINKS. Did you honestly think you could dip your corpulent snout into the imperial beetle coffers like that and get away with it?? Did you think your revolting abuse of the public trust would go unnoticed??? THINK AGAIN, GOOD SENATOR. WHILE THE PROSECUTION MAY BE BLIND, REST ASSURED THE LEAGUE OF LEGISLACERATORS SEES ALL.”
She then looks across the room, looking to call a witness, which is more of a stuffed dragon then a living thing. It has a blade stabbed through its chest. Fake chalk blood is sloppily drawn around it. Terezi looks back at you with a fake shocked face, and says, “Oh, well played, Lemonsnout! Well played. The key witness, murdered. The courtblock has little choice but to acknowledge your cunning. You have earned back just a little of your respect back... For now. But wait...” She then darts around to look at a brown small bag of... CHOCK FULL OF ILLICIT, EMBEZZLED BEETLES!? She runs back over to you with a giddy look on her face. “LEMONSNOUT!! You appear to have dropped something...” She leans closer to your snout, “What's inside? ILLICIT EMBEZZLED BEETLES WHICH YOU HAD THE AU-DAC-IT-Y TO WALTZ TOWARDS HIS TYRANNY WITH PERHAPS????? I DECLARE A FIVE-MINUTE RECESS!!!” She then counts to five and continues the case. “YOU KNOW... Maybe... Just for this court case, I'll flip a coin!!” She grabs a double headed Troll Caegar. One side has the face of a troll, and the other has the same face of a troll but its eyes are crossed, signaling death.
She positions the coin comfortably on her hand in a perfect position for flicking into the air. She stares straight into your eyes before she lets her thumb shoot up from her index finger, making the coin fling up into the air. This is it. This decides life or death. Each time it flips in the air, a knot becomes done in your stomach. As it starts falling, through the air, it becomes worse. Lemonsnout is sweating bullets!! Then, finally, “Pling!” it lands. You look down and see that it’s landed on the no kill side. She looks back at you and says, “Why so happy, Mr. Lemonsnout?” You have a confused look on your face as you look down, seeing as the coin has exonerated you. She says, “Coin? What coin? Surely you jest, Mr. Senator. The prosecution sees no coin.” Very quickly, startling you, she pulls you against her face and yells, “SHES BLIND, REMEMBER?????”
GAME OVER.
She grabs you by the throat, and ties a rope around it, and proceeds to hang you on a tree branch on outside. Guilty.