Dear Urist mcfortress guard
Look, I get it: doling out punishment is part of your job. Its what you get your leather armour for in case somebody tries resisting arrest.
However I was extremely angry when I discovered that the 2 weeks of jail time allocated to urist MclegendarySwordsmanandsmith had been altered to a beating and then you beat him so hard his lungs collapsed and he died in agonising suffocation.
What in Armok's name possessed you to do this??
Urist's crimes consisted of toppling a single low quality chair and punching an elven bard that was visiting on the 26th of slate, hardly crimes warranting any sort of punishment. Let us examine this in detail
Urist was for all intents and purposes deserving of leniency. He had just left the military on compassionate leave as he had just had to suffer his wife murdered just before he could save her, and then raised by the invading necromancer which then attacked him and he had to put her body down.
He went to the tavern for a well deserved drink only for that elf to start the fight by insulting him and make vile comments about desercrating the corpse further. The elf threw the first punch for Armok's sake when Urist stood up for himself!
Urist was for all intents and purposes holding himself far back when all he did was break a couple of bones in the elf and smash his instrument (which was on the chair)
2 weeks of jail time in the cell with the diamond encrusted masterwork furniture would have done Urist a world of good, giving him time to grieve and shiny craftsdwarfship to admire. In fact, had you done as I initially thought you were in giving him mercy and downgrading his punishment, I would not be writing this letter.
Hell, beating an elf is not grounds for punishment if its retaliation. Just ask those hippies that we executed last week when they ambushed us. He should have had a week in the cells instead of 2 for furniture destruction after we took his circumstances into account.
Instead you beat him. You beat him until he stopped moving then beat him some more. Then had the gall to complain that there were no prison cells available.
How dare you.
There were 3 cells available all for justice (I checked) and on top of that you saw fit to sneak his body outside and throw it on the goblin corpse stockpile instead of burying him in the masterwork tomb heroes like Urist deserved. You even reported him missing during that time.
As I write this, I am realising this is sounding less like a punishment and more like a straight up murder under the cover of duty...
Urist. Please report to the Baroness' chambers at once. I hear she's mandating a wooden carving the damn traitor for that new hot water bath I had installed for her before she uses it for the first time and I need specifics. I'd send Urist Mcpeasant but I just assigned him a lever order and he's taking his sweet time.
Yours
The Overseer