GRAVEYARD aka the locked basement LOL

[protoshepherd]

[ You're dead. Either you were ousted and seemed as an ally of the Bad Badger, or the actual allies of the Bad Badger actually got to you.

You remember dying. If you were already dead prior to this whole game... well, you're alive again.

Your death may have been terrible. Poison, being stabbed multiple times, blunt trauma to the head, hanged... whatever. You can still feel the pain.

But... Where are you? You see white walls around you. You're in a hospital...? You're in a room, but there's no one else but you and a man in a blue costume. He doesn't want to reveal his real head, so he hides behind a mask. A badger wearing a blue jester's hat.

And... another person? Has that other person been there all along?

Then you remember being in a mansion. Was that all a dream? You try to figure it out on your own, but you can't seem to come up with an answer. If by any chance you look into the badger's empty black eyes, you might feel like you're being taken to a completely different place. It's as if you can see the mansion again. You can see the people talking, but if you try to call out, nothing happens. They can't hear you.

You avert your gaze from the badger, and those images disappear.

There's so much happening. Pain, and this crazy badger.

You, on the other hand, aren't wearing a blue costume. You have a white dress on, with an opening at the back. That was definitely not what you were wearing... or was it?

You have so many questions. But at least you're not alone. Someone can answer those questions for you. ]

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[ NOTE Your characters will be able to see the events happening in the game while in the graveyard as long as they're looking at the Proto Badger. They cannot participate in any of the polls, or try to converse with anybody that isn't in this room. ]

Comments

[feytality]

[Technically it could still be Uncle Ray and Aura Roboabuse bur Maya frowns]

M-Mr. Armando wouldn't agree to....

[Yeah, okay, she can't even claim that] Myriam's just a kid! Why would he...?

[devilsworkday]

Perhaps Mr. Armando wouldn't. But we don't know about the others, do we?

[feytality]

[Myriam's just a kid, says Maya, close to the same age]

....That stupid badger must be forcing them to play along...

How many hostages does he have?

[devilsworkday]

[...Ah, that.]

...It's difficult to say. There were four named hostages that I can recall - Mr. Justice and Mr. Edgeworth were the ones we were directly told about, as well as a pair of people named Athena and Iris. I don't know either of them.

Of course, this person is also claiming to have the entire police force sequestered somewhere.

[feytality]

The entire police force? In this place? [IT'S MORE LIKELY THAN YOU THINK?]

...No way....

[devilsworkday]

...I can't say for certain. It said that they were locked up in a house with white walls...either way, it doesn't sound very promising, does it.

[feytality]

Well.. there are white walls here, aren't there? Maybe they're close by. [Her head is starting to hurt from all of this. And possibly the blunt force trauma that did her in]

Well... if we can talk like this, we're not really dead, are we? Maybe there's still a chance.

[devilsworkday]

...I doubt we're really dead, honestly, but that doesn't give us much more information than what we already had.

[He also kind of hates everything right now and will surely be more generally agreeable in a few hours. In the meantime, however...]

Don't do anything rash until we have more information. Given that we likely aren't dead, there are a few things I told Wright that I would see through and I would prefer that you not make my job any harder than it needs to be.

[feytality]

That just means we have to wait for our chance to bust out of here! There's probably something freaky going on behind the scenes, and once we unravel it... [PL VS AA 2: BADGER]

Eh? What did you tell Nick? [Gosh, Kristoph, why would you think she'd act rashly?]

[devilsworkday]

With unraveling it in mind, I'm going to try to talk to the badger again, because apparently it'll answer if we ask it things; do try not to assault it while I do so, hm?

[I'M SORRY WAS THERE ANOTHER QUESTION]

[feytality]

I wasn't assaulting him, I was trying to get in his suit. [THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE, GOSH]

Did you make a solemn promise to him to become my sidekick in his place if anything should happen to him...?

[devilsworkday]

Hardly. The specifics of what was said are really none of your concern, but it's in my best interests to ensure that you don't end up actually dead by the end of this, let's put it that way.

[...Although.]

You spoke to the badger last night, however, before you did everything else - something was said about Wright clearing our names, something to that effect? What were you talking about, if I may?

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[feytality]

[Gosh, Kristoph, don't play hard to get] Okay, okay, I get it. But I'm going to need a temporary assistant, anyway, so we should team up.

[feytality]

[HMM....]

Well.... the problem is that the badger is confused, right? It thinks we're all criminals. It keeps calling sis and me "Redd White", even though that werewolf pizzaman called me "girlie." So, if Nick could defend us, and prove to him we're not those dumb codenames..... [Except she trails off, because in Kristoph's case, his name is his real identity. Oops]

[devilsworkday]

[Actually, that might not be as much of a problem as she thinks it is.]

...Did it entertain the idea of clearing our names otherwise? Notable absence of "Phoenix Wright" notwithstanding - did it actually acknowledge that as a possibility?

[feytality]

Sort of.... I mean, it was really stuck on the idea of Nick being Xin Eohp.... but if it didn't think Nick was him, I think it might have listened.

But I don't know if just presenting evidence would be enough... it's really stubborn.

[devilsworkday]

...Come with me. I may need you to sign something.

[We are going over to that table over there, and he...really doesn't like writing in crayon of all things, but when all else fails...

This is really undignified but he's had an idea, Maya, as idiotic as an idea though it may be.]

[feytality]

Wow! Are you making an official witness testimony or something?

[In... crayon??]

[Well, she's tagging along as instructed]

[devilsworkday]

[WE HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO WRITE WITH, APPARENTLY POINTY THINGS ARE VERBOTEN.]

Something like that. I doubt you're familiar with the concept of audita querela?

[feytality]

I have no idea what hearing squirrels is, but I bet it's law-related!

[GOLD STAR FOR MAYA]