Report 29

Tale of Aiso C̊ehkwhtw

So Bep cities typically operate by distributing water supply across their districts. Each of them has their own, interconnected but independent network. These networks are largely placed above ground level, since houses are generally locates quite far up in their respective trees and it's inconvenient to lay pipes in the ground for a variety of reasons. The tubes used for these networks are often suspended in the air together with tubes for other things, like for instance waste or industrial stuffmoving. Now, in the summer of YEAR, our 14-y/o* friend Aiso was setting up their house in the metropolitan area of Đekeʌan [d͡ʑɘ.kɘ.ʎɑ.n], since they'd just moved from the village they Occurred in to start an apprenticeship as a rubber sculptor. As is usual, they dug themselves a reasonably large hole to store food in (usually ca 2x3m, about ~2m deep) and started filling this hole up with water, since the climbing plants (essentially algae) reinforcing the walls need a lot of water to grow. Takes about 3 weeks before you can cover them in clay and stone.

Now, if you're anything like Aiso, you don't pay too much attention to this hole. You give it a water supply and wander off to do something else, since you're not living in your yet-to-be-built house anyway. You also fail to notice that the bank robbery taking place two blocks down the next night ends up sending a bolt (sharp hunk of metal) flying off into the dark, and into the cluster of goop/liquid-pipes that your house's water supply is in. This bolt, see, managed to damage both Aiso's (and some neighbours', who were gone for the summer) water piping, and another pipe atop it transporting leftover, liquefied animal remains from a slaughterhouse to a dump. This led to some of the animal goop leaking out into a back alley, and some of it into Aiso's water supply. Because water supply pipes have filters setup every 20 or so metres to filter out any potential large travellers, only the blood from this goop managed to get through and actually end up in Aiso's future basement. 4 days after starting the watering process, they decided to check on the house, and to their horror found a hole half full of blood instead of water.

This incident sparked public outrage, but not about the water supply system being full of blood. See, the firm responsible for Aiso's water supply was not insured against inadvertent sabotage by bank robbers, and in a bizarre turn of events they ended up not only fixing the water supply and compensating Aiso, but also being sued for negligent architectural proceedings and attempted armed robbery. Now, the standard thing to do when this happens would be to blame the robbers or whoever represented the criminals deceased in the robbery. However, the robbers had to represent themselves as they had survived the incident, but they couldn't because they'd both died in a car crash on their way to court regarding a different charge, and since nobody responsible was left (the robbers were dead but not from the incident and as such didn't get representation) the water supply firm ended up having to fight itself in court. This was completely ridiculous, and major changes were made to how the Bep judicial system worked.


 * I should also note that fighting yourself in court involves your head legal representative throwing coins at themselves.*

tldr: kid gets their basement flooded with blood, water supply company gets sued for a bank robbery that broke their equipment because the robbers died in an unrelated car crash, legal system is reformed