Editing Consider the Magistracy with new eyes

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|Icon = Windowlight.png
|From Storylet title = Outside the Magistracy of the Evenlode
|ID = 240501
|Description = You have seen more of this place than most visitors.
|Game Instructions = Success will grant Rumours of the Upper River.
|BroadQuality = {{IL|Watchful}}
|BroadDiff = 250
|Unlocked with = {{Unlock|A Day in the Life of a Novice Policeman}} 10
|Success title = All Matters of Law
|Success description = (see below)
|Success summary= The description varies with {{IL|Airs of the Evenlode}}.
{{Variant table
|Condition = Airs of the Evenlode|Compact = yes
|Effect = Description
|Value 1 - 4 = The long, potholed journey from London has clearly done nothing for the tempers of the two lawyers climbing down from the carriage. They are arguing the case already, with language that would never pass in a court room.
|Value 5 - 9 = It's the close of courts […]<p>The building empties of all but a few. That man found guilty of arson hasn't emerged […] Nor have the twins found guilty of contempt of court. And the 'private detective' who perverted the course of justice […]
|Value 11 - 14 = An unholy shrieking! […] But it is the tortured scream of metal, not murder. There is embarrassed relief all round, and that track layer is given a stern talking to re the appropriateness of using ''those'' methods in a populated area.
|Value 15 - 19 = Two tired-faced men […] stand considering the railway. A worker looks up from his work on a sleeper. His face flushes. He stands, rushes towards them, but stops yards away – it is only a mock charge. "Go! Shoo! […]" The figures turn and walk along […]
|Value 20 - 21 = The shout goes up. "Drownie! Get yer plugs in!" Railway workers shove wax in their ears. Police fetch barge poles, ready to encourage the drownie to move along.
|Value 25 - 29 = Fishers gather downriver of the Magistracy. When a novice […] begins to head upstream, they haul him to one side. It's not that […] he'll steal their fish […] (He is […] convinced by […] a portion of their catch.) You do not fish there. The currents run too deep.
|Value 30 - 33 = A carriage draws up outside the Magistracy. The doors are not unlocked until it is circled by a dozen Evenlode constables. Finally, the door is unlocked and a diminutive woman steps down. All this security, just for her? What crime did she commit? 
|Value 35 - 38 = A lawyer is conducting a client meeting […] When the client asks why is must take place outdoors, the lawyer grimaces. "I don't like to spend longer in there than is absolutely necessary."

"Too many cops, is it?"

"Something like that." […]
|Value 42 - 43 = From their unfashionable attire, this pair must be from one of the more distant London suburbs. From the tone of their speech, they are on either side of a civil case. The magistrate is going to have their hands full. 
|Value 45 - 49 = A gaggle of police roll out […] drunk. Either they finished their shifts hours ago, or they've been drinking neat gin. One bellows, half weeping: "The things we've seen. […] You don't ''know''!" His fellow shushes him with, if anything, less discretion.
|Value 50 - 54 = A defendant is ushered from a carriage towards the entrance of the Magistracy of the Evenlode. They stop, and look up. And look up. To someone unused to the taller buildings of London, it must look grotesque – a giant's home, inhabited by ants.
|Value 55 - 59 = A shrill-voiced man is yelling […] a […] lawyer […] repeats her advice: "It is entirely legal. It's a power granted to certain members of the Constabulary. […]<p>[…] "My advice would be to accept it. The courts here have a ''remarkable'' way of preventing recidivism. […]
|Value 60 - 64 = There is a stand off between an usher and a railway worker. On the one hand, she is covered in grease, dirt and oil. On the other, why ''should'' only the nobs and the cops get to use the fancy toilets?
|Value 66 - 69 = A woman climbs out of the Evenlode. She wears a long coat and carries a lamp – it must have made clambering out awkward. She doesn't have the pallid tones of a drownie. Perhaps she just went for a refreshing dip.
|Value 70 - 74 = Disarray in the square! A London urchin has stolen shattered stone souvenirs from the more crumbled parts of the Magistracy building. Several portly police chase her towards the railway – she disappears into the kicked up dust cloud 
|Value 76 - 79 = Two lawyers discuss their latest case. "I'm surprised your arguments were so weak. Are you well?" "I know, I know. I had to let you win – I saw the look in the judge's eye and... he's not a bad lad. Well, he doesn't deserve—" You are spotted. "That." 
|Value 80 - 88 = On a bench by the river, a rail worker and a copper are sharing a picnic. They sit close, for the warmth. Both are ignoring the glares of their peers. 
|Value 90 - 100 = A parade of legal students clamber off a carriage and make for the courts. They whisper excitedly – a day in court, no matter the case, is more exciting than any in the classroom. 
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* {{Success Increase|Watchful}}
* {{Airs|Airs of the Evenlode}}
* {{Gain|Rumour of the Upper River|1 x}}

{{Redirect|Outside the Magistracy of the Evenlode}}

{{Failure
|Failure title = All Matters of Law
|Failure description = (as for success)
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* {{Failure Increase|Watchful}}
* {{Airs|Airs of the Evenlode}}
* {{Gain|Incisive Observation|2 x}}
* {{Gain|Scrap of Incendiary Gossip|1 x}}

{{Redirect|Outside the Magistracy of the Evenlode}}