"In that case, it is time to vote on the law itself. For clarity's sake, I will now re-read the law, with the approved amendment."

He does so.

And the vote itself?

Against. We can do better than this.

In favor. It's the next step in the plan to have Valia Wain and her co-conspirators slowly disemboweled in the town square.

In favor. It's just a normal law everyone's treating as a much bigger deal than it is.

No! Stop trying to torture people!!

Yeah this seems...fine? In favor.

In favor, of course.

You have to vote yes on this one to actually get the lions, right? In favor.

So, they already voted on lions, and on final blades, and now this one is on a bunch punishments at once? Why'd they stop voting on them one at a time? Abstain.

Does he really want lawmen handling this? Workmanlike folks whose interest in each case is as personal as Raimon's interest in each letter and announcement he bags and totes? ...nah.

Seems a little puffed-up to go around pretending that it's your job to decide who gets tortured. That's the Judge's purview. Against.

He likes this bill a lot less with the lions in it. Abstain.

Against. Torturing people to death is evil and not even in the way that's hard to notice.

She honestly doesn't like this law very much. It's missing a lot of important punishments, and it might let people get away with hurting innocent people if they're strong enough to fight a lion. But—

—when they voted on censorship, she had a lot of issues with the law they voted for, but Delegate Requena i Cortes said they needed to vote for it to prevent an even worse law, and it turned out that he was right. And if this fails, Delegate Bainilus is almost certainly going to go up and introduce the Lastwall law, which is even worse, and they won't even be able to change it if it passes. She's still kind of uncomfortable with voting for a bad law just to prevent a worse law, but — maybe it's the best option.

In favor. Some people deserve worse than just death.

LIONS LIONS LIONS

For.

The paladin said not to vote for it and she is a loyal servant of Iomedae. Against.

In favor.

In favor.

For, even with the lions.

For.

Against. It's sort of ridiculous to be relieved about having a nice, uncomplicated vote when the thing they're voting on is torture, but apparently he is.

He's kind of confused about why the paladins don't want to give people time to repent but he doesn't have to listen to them. Paladins are always so focused on faraway battles, never on the things that really matter, like whether your neighbor's kid who turned bandit goes to the Abyss for it. For.

Gladiator games, with uncoerced combatants, can be a healthy part of military training and public spectacle. Gorum is no Abadar, but he can contribute to civilization all the same. Having the condemned act as executioners as a temporary stay of their sentence can be appropriately merciful and stern. But having the condemned slaughter each other for a chance to stay out of the Abyss for another day, further damning them? No. This is what he hoped this bill would prevent.

Against. They'll have a chance to try something else if it fails, and will be stuck with it if it succeeds.

In favor. He kind of thought Iomedaeans weren't allowed to lie but maybe Narikopolus isn't Iomedaean enough to realize that? Seriously, though, how does he think anyone is going to buy the whole 'people do just as many crimes whether or not you torture them for it' line. (Or maybe he's wrong that they aren't allowed to lie, and Narikopolus is just trying to show how loyal he is to Iomedae?)

Wow, he really doesn't want anyone breaking his legs and leaving him in the woods to be eaten by wolves. That sounds like it would suck. In favor of this list of incredibly mild punishments.