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Chapter 23

Rajesh had been trying to set a hexagonal suduko but had ended up with a similar number puzzle. Now his head was swimming with Mathematics memes.

Rajesh found himself recreating the clown scenario from the betrayal board game then designing a puzzle platform game entitled "Is, Was, Will Be" to take a break - he wondered how he'd create suitable hardware now, though in practice it was the free fall dungeon.

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Thalia was inspecting the various laws attributed to Astria. There were several financial focused ones, including the wages for all sorts of jobs including ones from later times than were permitted. Another set fixed the exchange rate of various Earth currencies to the local one, most noteworthy were that all the crypto currency was worth negative amounts with the best known one being negative one hundred thousand copper pieces for each coin.

A random Australian voice started ranting about the shopping not being done and how there was no milk in the house before switching to an American reciting the navy seal copy pasta, it seemed her oracular powers had tapped the audio archive belonging to Rajesh.

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Seth was continuing to run the free fall dungeon while Emily was taking on the crocodile hydra again. This time, she had the power of the candle flame spell to call on. It still wasn't enough but her experience in the dungeon was preserved so she was improving in her fire magic skills. A few runs later and Emily had unlocked the classic fireball spell as a new skill. Meanwhile Seth had completed three further runs of the shuffled free fall dungeon and earned a Skill for controlled falling.

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Sarim had finally arrived to grant legitimacy to the judicial proceedings against The Reporter. Carmen was now authorised to hold the trial. It began with the appointment of legal representatives for both sides but this was going to be an issue, there were literally no individuals with adequate legal skills to participate even though several had been holding mock trials for the two years since the transmigration as practice. Two were almost the right level and would need just one more case to be eligible. It would only be a day as there was a suitably quick example of a speeding case, though nothing capable of achieving the alleged offence of forty miles per hour in a thirty zone was actually road legal - all vehicles with such powerful engines were banned.

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The search for the rouge barber-surgeon was at an end, he had been captured and was in custody, his trial would have to wait, the crimes he was accused of were more serious and it was hoped that once the trial of The Reporter was completed the lawyers would meet the requirements.

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The speeding case got underway, the person who intended to be the defence lawyer had to make arguments about the unsuitable notices, whilst the prosecution lawyer relied on an argument about national speed limits. Both were making valid points but they proved to favour the defendant given the setting did in fact have a higher national limit than the speed in question. It was the first time anyone present had seen photographs such as those included in the evidence prepared for the defence as part of the scenario which were of English road signs. By the end, it was determined that if the case was real then the fine would be overturned as invalid though both lawyers and Carmen ended up with better understanding of English traffic law but which didn't have an associated skill, even though Carmen found he'd ended up with some levels in an equivalent one for Retowner.