The Law System
Ok, this is a basic breakdown of what will happen from the time you
commit a crime, until you are punished.
1. You commit crime.
- crime is logged.
1a. If the crime is committed inside of Mordor, the crime is not logged
and is not reportable. The same goes for Minas Morgul
2. Victim finds who commited the crime
2a. A player investigates if the victim is unsure who the criminal is
- Players skilled in the 'intuition' skill can investigate a crime,
and try to determine who did it.
- This is possible with both steals and kills.
2b. Crime is reported by the victim.
- There is a statute of limitations on crimes. If it isnt reported
within 7 RL days (that's Real Life to the mud-impaired), then it is
no longer reportable.
- Only the victim can report the crime.
- They have to name a suspect.
- If the suspect isn't the person who committed the crime and the
suspect pleads innocent, then the suspect gets off and the victim
must pay court costs - which multiplies for each false report
- If an attempted murder was committed, the victim must report BEFORE
logging off or going linkdead.
3. You are ordered to report to the court (if you are good) or to
a commander (if you are evil) to respond to the accusation.
- it will say you are charged with (insert crime here) and that you
must report and enter your plea
- You have one hour of playing time. A login message will remind
you.
3b. If the victim changes their mind, they can 'withdraw report'
and cancel the subpoena.
4. You report to the nearest judge and enter your plea
- If you plead not guilty you have a chance of not being convicted
but if you are the fines will be higher
- If you plead guilty the judge tells you your fine and gives you a
time period in which to pay it.
- If you are guilty of attempted murder or murder you will become
"wanted" right away.
...this is also when you can attempt to bribe the judge if
you are a thief or assassin.
4a. If you become "wanted" immediately because of being guilty of attempted
murder or murder, you still have a chance to pay off your fine and get
off the "wanted" list. If you fail to do this then you will stay "wanted"
5. From the time you are fined (either by pleading guilty or not
pleading within one hour) you receive messages when you log on
indicating your fine and the time left to pay it.
5a. You pay your fine within the time. The victim gets some compensation
for your offense.
5b. You don't pay, so you become wanted after time runs out.
- Wanted posters go up in the post offices: ex. Manwe is wanted
- Any player may become a deputy in a courthouse, and try to handcuff you.
- Any player can now also legally kill you!
- Hiding at places where no deputy can arrest you (handcuff) is
ILLEGAL, and will be punished accordingly to 'help bugabuse'.
- Hiding on mounts and on flying beasts is NOT illegal.
6. You are handcuffed by a deputy.
- Once handcuffed, you the criminal are locked into combat with
the deputy. Neither of you will be able to move, until:
6a. If your hit points fall too low the deputy hauls you off to a
jail cell.
6b. If the deputy's hit points fall too low, the handcuffs are
broken and the criminal (or the deputy) may escape.
7. Ok, now you are taken from your cell to court..where you go through
a simulated trial...that will give you a slim chance of not being
convicted. The judge will give you a sentence, which will be a larger
fine...and you cant leave until you pay it. (in the case of multiple
Pkillers...death sentence? *cackle*)
8. You are sent back to your cell until you pay the fine, or it is sucked
out of you in the form of stats and skills and possibly exp.
- In the case of multiple pkillers...who get death sentence...you would
be issued a LARGE fine...and if you cant pay it...then the executioner
comes for you. MUHAHAHAHAHAHA
- If you pay the fine, or after it is sucked out of you...you are set
free outside the jail.
9. If you can avoid being caught for 1 day of age the warrant is dropped
Crime Breakdown:
False Report - wrongly accusing someone of a crime. Make sure you know
who commited it before you accuse.
Attempted Steal - a failed attempt to take belongings. Thieves get a 10%
discount off the bribe cost for this offence.
Steal - taking things from an unwilling person. No bribe for this crime.
Attempted Murder - A failed attempt on a persons life. You will
have 10 minutes to pay your fine before going
wanted. Assassins get a 10% discount off the
cost of a bribe for this offence.
note: Attempted murder fines are capped at 5000 gold.
Murder - Taking the life of another character other than in
self-defense. You will have 10 minutes to pay your fines
before going wanted for this crime. You may not bribe
the judge for Murder.
note: Murder fines are capped at 10000 gold.
If the criminal pleads innocent he has a 5% chance to not be
convicted. If convicted, the criminal faces a 10% fine increase.
Emotes of crimes:
To keep from being fooled by crime emotes, look for
the following messages, none of which can be emoted:
You catch XXX trying to steal YYY from you!
You noticed that XXX stole YYY from you!
You are attacked by XXX!
Without warning, XXX stabs you from behind!
NOTE: Attacking a horse when someone is riding it is no longer considered
attempted murder, because of the recent changes to mounts.
Killing a horse or other mount is considered an act of theft
against the owner of the mount and is reportable as such (theft).
The owner of the horse must be online for the act to be a crime.
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It is illegal to abuse the lawsys to 'drain' ones
character, or otherwise convert ones arrests into
monetary gain.
