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Proto Badger ([personal profile] protoshepherd) wrote in [community profile] crybadger2015-03-03 01:19 pm
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MIDNIGHT/DAY 2 - suspicion

[ In the spirit of Ace Attorney, the game where murders happen but NO ONE ACTUALLY SEES THE ACTUAL THING EXCEPT FOR THE PERPETRATORS…

The night has ended. You might have ousted someone, but NOTHING HAPPENS. You go back to your rooms and you find some samurai dogs by your bedside. At least there's food. Better than nothing. But you feel tired. It's been a long and stressful day. Could you even sleep at that rate?

In the middle of the night, you might hear a loud thud. If you wake up (or if you were already awake) and check the hallway, you'll find a bust—or its remnants—by the mirror closer to the Hawthorne and Gavin rooms. The statue is coloured… pink? Magenta? Well, whatever.

Behind the bust is a body… a dead body. Yup, that's right.

If you approach it, you'll find the dead body of Myriam Scuttlebutt. There's no box, just the young girl. If you saw her without the guise of her box, you'll realise that she isn't wearing her school uniform. She has a green jumpsuit on. Her arms were raised and had some red markings on her wrist, as if her hands had been tied. An awl was lodged in her abdomen. Dried blood by her wound, as if the blood had seeped through from her wound.

Myriam Scuttlebutt has been taken out by the allies of the Bad Badger. You have all been warned. You should have expected this.

If you decide to do a headcount, you'll find that one team is missing. One team with two members in it. The room to the Engarde room is swinging open. Do you check it out?

Upon entering, you'll find Matt Engarde's corpse placed conveniently on a chair. You'd think it's Matt, anyway. He seems to be wearing the Nickel Samurai costume. He's seated with his head facing the ground. There's a scarf on his neck, placed rather too tightly. Did he did from strangulation…? By the chair is an open guitar case, and a vanity with a wine glass on top of it.

By the only mirror in the room is Simon Keye's body, hanging frrom the ceiling. Nearby is a coffee table, and an envelope with the police department's seal on it. Whoever opens it will read a letter that reads "proto badgr kill."

If you go back to the library, you'll find Myriam's mirror still standing, but it doesn't function as a mirror anymore. You'll find a portrait of Aristotle Means instead, like a huge picture frame. A huge X painted in red covers about half of the portrait. The same goes for Matt and Simon Keye's mirrors - except Simon's mirror also has Matt's face on it. L O L.

The other mirrors have names again… although if you count, there seems to be only ten teams now: ]

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 10

ho bad badgr?????? vote for edgeworth safe

Furio Tigre Team
0 (0.0%)

Redd White Team
3 (30.0%)

Dahlia Hawthorne Team
3 (30.0%)

Jacques Portsman Team
1 (10.0%)

Morgan Fey Team
0 (0.0%)

The Phantom Team
3 (30.0%)

Horace Knightley Team
0 (0.0%)

Luke Atmey Team
0 (0.0%)

Daryan Crescend Team
0 (0.0%)

Kristoph Gavin Team
0 (0.0%)



[ If you've still got an appetite, there are calzones (WHICH IS BASICALLY THE GRANDFATHER OF PIZZAS - THANK YOU PARKS AND RECREATION) and sushi (NOT BURGERS) that is edible in the dining hall. If you are thirsty, here is a water dispenser, as well as a bowl of punch. Not alcoholic. ]


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[ 00:01 MARCH 3 EST: Day 2 begins, and a new suspicion poll pops up. ONLY TEN TEAMS REMAIN.

00 MARCH 4 EST: A clue will be given. Suspicion poll closes at MIDNIGHT.

00 MARCH 5 EST: Ousting poll gets put up! ]


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CLUE!!! (Handcuffs can be broken, feel free to play around with it.)
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[personal profile] doubledefense 2015-03-03 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ WHELP.


TIME TO POKE THIS DEAD BODY FOR CLUES.


She looks at the scene around Scuttlebutt's body. Adding all manner of useless notes to her Court Record. ]


This is really serious.
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[personal profile] feytality 2015-03-03 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
Poor Myriam....

[THIS IS AWFUL]
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[personal profile] stagewright 2015-03-03 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
myriam, middle of the night dang;
[ Oh, okay, we're just going to scream. Give her a second, here. After she calms down, forcing herself to breathe, Trucy's...not sure what to do.

Are there even any clues here as to the identity of the killers? This set-up...it's pretty much exactly like... ]


...We...need to clean this up. We can't bury her, but...

[ ...Maybe they can put her in her room, for now. ]
dining hall, early morning;
[ But later in the day (or rather not in the middle of the night) Trucy can be found hanging out and eating a calzone. It's not going to do her any good to faint from hunger, or something. ]

So, do you think we're going to get "clues" again? The same way we did yesterday...

[ She finishes off the calzone and pulls out a deck of cards, which she idly begins shuffling. ]
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[personal profile] doubledefense 2015-03-03 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
I hadn't spoken to her, I'm afraid. Did you know her?
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[personal profile] doubledefense 2015-03-03 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ nothing suspicious other than the STAGED MURDER SCENE??????????? ]


This is weirdly thorough...
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myriam

[personal profile] talldarkbitter 2015-03-03 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ He doesn't mean to sneak up on her or anything, but. ]

Do you know where her room is?

[ Oh, Scuttles... ]
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[personal profile] stagewright 2015-03-03 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a start - because dead body, nerves - but Trucy nods her head. ]

Yeah. She has the room across from Pearls - the one with Means' name on it. Almost right by the stairs.
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[personal profile] doubledefense 2015-03-03 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ DON'T WE HAVE A DETECTIVE FOR THAT AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE??? ]
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[personal profile] spiritpearls 2015-03-03 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ Pearl is drowning her sorrows in a glass of punch. She did eat, though, if just because she knew she had to. It might as well have tasted like sawdust considering the taste in her mouth. ]

I... I'd think so. If we assume that Mr Engarde and Mr Keyes were one of the "bad badger friends", there's still two teams left to find.

[ And vote for and die, um. ]
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[personal profile] devilsworkday 2015-03-03 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Engarde room, because that won't end in disaster]

[Technically the entire setup with Myriam is closer to him, but for various reasons that isn't exactly somewhere Kristoph wants to be right now; there are other things to look into, namely what...happened to the other set that were up against the wall with both himself and Palaeno.

The door hanging open is not a good sign. Everything that room has decided to be, likewise, is...]


...Ah.

[You know, sometimes there isn't much to do outside of just sort of...let your brain shut off and reboot itself. And maybe have a hideously inappropriate reaction to whatever caused that because wow rictus smiling is going to be a thing we are doing today, just because there's no real reaction to have to that.

Thankfully it passes quickly enough, though the general sense of being at least mildly disturbed does not; he'll be in here checking Matt over, assuming he's not interrupted by anyone, and trying to...ignore Keyes, despite the fact that his body is hanging right there.]
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[personal profile] stagewright 2015-03-03 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it obviously wasn't Myriam.

[ Trucy can't even feel properly validated about being correct about Myriam's innocence. :c Poor Myriam. She liked Myriam. ]

...And today it says "vote for Edgeworth safe".
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[personal profile] talldarkbitter 2015-03-03 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ He stands there for a moment, hands in his pockets. ]

...

As soon as Miss Fey there is done looking for clues, I'll handle it. [ He nods towards Mia. ] Would you go and check if the room is open? And if it is, leave the door open?

[ He'll have his arms full. That, and it looks to him like an excuse not to be looking at a body of a girl close to her age would be welcome. ]
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[personal profile] bewrightback 2015-03-03 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
Crime Scene A: Scuttlebutt

[It's all too sickeningly familiar. The thud, the body positioned almost identically to that of his old colleague's...

He doesn't even need to remember the brief looks under her box given back in court to recognize that this might be Miriam. Maybe he'll do some light investigating, but mostly he'll just stand sadly nearby, his hands in his pockets.]


Crime Scene B: Good Night, Sweet Princes

[And of course when he notices the open door, he slips inside to take a look. It's nauseating and of course all too reminiscent of a case from so many years ago. He'll check the scene at least to see what clues he can find. It's the least he can do, after he put one vote in their coffins.]
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[personal profile] stagewright 2015-03-03 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
I can go and check. If not, her key...

[ Should be somewhere. But Trucy doesn't finish that, just nods and heads over to look at Myriam's door. It shouldn't be too far from the scene, and she can call back easily enough after peering inside - ]

It's open!
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[personal profile] paybent 2015-03-03 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Gee, you sure know how to hurt a guy's feelings, Mr. Badger!

Shut up Gumshoe you don't even go here]
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[personal profile] spiritpearls 2015-03-03 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
Not that we thought it was... Poor Myriam, she was so sweet.

[ All she did was hide under her box. Why would someone kill someone like that? ]

I'm guessing that means if anyone misses a vote this time, it'll be Prosecutor Edgeworth losing fingers instead of Apollo... [ or cravats ]
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[personal profile] talldarkbitter 2015-03-03 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ Once he's done assuring Trucy he'll move the body, he approaches Mia. Hunting around for clues - good girl. Nevertheless, it's a grim situation. ]

What have you got?
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[personal profile] stagewright 2015-03-03 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe...it was because "only one was bad"?

[ Like, the killers making the pool of innocent possibilities even smaller...they didn't really get any confirmation they were right, but they hadn't been told they were wrong, so...

Of course, Kristoph and the Ambassador could totally be evil and they could have gotten the wrong team, but Trucy's so far inclined to think they guess right (maybe) and at least she knows they were right about poor Myriam. ]
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[personal profile] spiritpearls 2015-03-03 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
That makes sense. If they're bad, they'd want to take out whoever was good. Maybe the bad guys don't know who else bad, either?

[ Since no one seems to know what's going on... then again, surrounded by criminals, sobs. ]
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dining room

[personal profile] butzhurt 2015-03-03 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
[You'll find Larry in the dinning room with his head off, glumly munching on a calzone and gloomily swigging punch. He'd seen the bodies, but he hadn't bothered to stay around.

He's not even that hungry, man, but he knows he should probably eat something if he doesn't want to conk out and probably die.

He promised that monkey dude he'd protect him and then this happened. And then he'd messed up on revoting on time and that funky bangs dude probably lost his fingers and ARGH.

Not a good day to be the Butz.]
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[personal profile] stagewright 2015-03-03 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
...Nah, I think they'd have to know who was. Otherwise, what if they...killed one another, you know?

[ So the three "Teams" probably know (or knew, if they were right about Engarde) one another... ]
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[personal profile] huglife 2015-03-03 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ray can be seen standing quietly beside Simon's freshly discovered body. He knows that this is the first of many horrors they will face from now on, unless they find a way to end it, but for now he just takes his moment to pay the man his respects.

It's another client he couldn't protect in the end, despite his best efforts. ]


Forgive me, Mr. Keyes...

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