"So I just sit here helplessly? Nothing I do matters?"

"Continuing this conversation is not in your interest."

"Objection!"

"In the opinion of Nirvana."

"I still object. If Nirvana is going to advise the decedent, backed by the reputation of Sarenrae, then I, representing Marra, who has a claim on his soul should he be found Lawful Evil, ought to be allowed to advise him backed by an explanation of what Marra would offer him."

"Denied. This court is no place for proselytization. Hell may advise the decedent, to be interpreted how he pleases. Factions within each plane are irrelevant."

"Are you a devil, wolf girl? What is it that the snake doesn't want me to know?"

"Your Honor?"

"She's a marrenai, not a devil. If you don't know what that means - I only found out when I checked the roster an hour ago - that is not a matter for this court."

"And to answer your second question, actually Hell agrees with Nirvana."

"Go rend yourself."

"Order!"

"There are four things a decedent can do that matter: draw attention to particular aspects of their life, make legal arguments, think thoughts which they overlooked in life, and take real actions affecting other people."

"Of which the first is by far the most common. You are not trained to argue in this court, did not have your thoughts particularly suppressed while you were alive, and while it is theoretically possible to change alignment after death" sharp glance at Kireh "it is very rare. Focus on searching your memory for examples of behavior characteristic of the alignment you want, and stay silent unless there's an opportunity to use your examples to disprove an unfair generalization."

"So, as a pure hypothetical, if I were to go punch miss fang-y not-a-devil and then strangle her with the snake, would that affect my alignment?"

"In theory, yes, towards Chaos, and Evil if you consider us to be people."

"He does."

"The bailiff would stop you before you got that far, anyway.

Axis agrees that the decedent's project, if successful, would have caused increased population of extant mortal species, which is not inherently Good or Evil; Abaddon vs Mozi -0391. By analogy, creating the new population of mice is also neither Good nor Evil. The relations between them and the other species, and any resulting Good or Evil done, is too speculative to be attributed to the decedent."

"Hell concurs. On a more personal scale, though, we can predict a few hundred slaves being created and distributed. With some Good results, sure, so let's start the Leudorfell."

"I object to the term 'Leudorfell' being used in this colloquial manner. The decedent had a non-Evil alternative. Also, the balancing test of Leudorfell looks at results, not hypotheticals."

"Well then I would argue that he did not actually have a non-Evil alternative, so we do the balancing test, and the actual results of the decedent's project so far include negligible Good and plenty of Evil."

"Keeping fewer mice in better conditions. Not doing the project at all. Hiring a wizard for research, or a druid to Speak With Animals. Becoming a wizard himself."

"Most of those proposals are not feasible, and 'not acting' is too vague, Elysium vs Friston 2006. That leaves treating the mice better at the cost of slowing the project.... Fine, there was an alternative. If we're just looking at results, the project still wasn't Evil, because keeping farm animals in 'conditions better than natural' is not Evil, Asmodeus vs Erastil undated."

"The unusual aggression implies that the conditions were not better than natural."

"That was quickly fixed."