Board 8 > Wifebolo plays Ace Attorney Trilogy [progressive spoilers]

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3-3 almost completely wiped itself from my memory for whatever reason. I had to go read the cliff's notes to even remember who the victim was <_<

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SeabassDebeste posted...

in my translation, tigre's name is furio, not fiore

Thanks, I corrected it.

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I had no problems with Maggey. I didn't see her as a whiner so much as someone who really did get the shit end of the stick a bunch and kept one foot in front of the other in spite of that. She was simply aware of that. Some people really do seem to have everything happen to them. I used to say there are three kinds of people, those who make things happen, those who have things happen to them, and everyone else who watches. Maggey's in group 2.

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Case 3-3 - Recipe for Turnabout

So we round out our investigation by unlocking all these Psyche Locks. Turns out Viola hit Furio on his scooter back in the day, and he paid for the damages and Violas million dollar medical bill in order to get in good with her grandfather, Bruto Cadaverini. Furio is using Viola, and her persisting while being aware of this is kinda painful.

We talk to Lisa Basil, Glen Elgs boss and find that he marked on the calendar that he was going to meet Tiger aka Furio Tigre on the day he was killed. Glen was very behind in his debts and needed to make lots of money fast. Don Tigre also needs to make money fast, because he probably pulled a bunch of shady deals to pay for Violas medical bill in the first place. Glen clearly orchestrated the MC Bomber virus that Tigre sent running through the computer systems over at police HQ, which has thrown the entire precinct into a panic.

Upon further discussion with Victor Kudo, whose nose is still suffering from a horrific case of rosacea, he left the scene for at least a full 5 minutes at Chef Armstrongs request because he had no cell phone and needed to find a pay phone to call the police. This means that with Glen Elg dead, Victor Kudo out looking for a phone, and Maggey Byrde unconscious, Chef Armstrong was left to his own devices with no witnesses for an amount of time, and no one can vouch for what he did during that time.

I would like to state for the record I also dont have a problem with Maggey, as a person or as a character - I just dont think shes a realistic match for Gumshoe. It seems like hed have to do all the heavy lifting emotionally, on top of whatever cheerful optimism hes using to keep his own head above water, and thats just not cool.

Now that weve learned more, its trial time tomorrow!

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Case 3-3 - Recipe for Turnabout

We go to the trial and thoroughly question Chef Armstrong, he makes up some lies including one about putting a mirror in the middle of the dining room, but we see through that pretty easily. Phoenix easily figures out that its a phony victim, meant to have Victor Kubo as a witness and throw him off the scent of the real crime!

We grill the Chef a little further and find that he hid the original body of Glen Elg in the kitchen, thus the non-aromatherapy bottle that we had given to Gumshoe to get analyzed by the lab. That bottle does, in fact, contain the ear medicine that Mr Elg needed. However, the lab didnt have enough time to analyze the prints.

Chef Armstrong is terrified of revealing the real culprit/person who is putting pressure on them to do all these things. We wave the loan paperwork in his face and bring up the fact that hes $500k in the hole. This leads us to believe that Don Tigre is the only person who could ask the Chef to be party to these dark dealings. The Chef doesnt really have a choice.

Don Tigre will have to be summoned to court, and before the Judge sets a new court date, Godot promises to have Furio Tigre in the courtroom after a mere 30 minutes recess. The Judge reluctantly calls the recess and says we will reconvene after.

Gumshoes feeling a little jumpy, saying he cant just stand around and do nothing. I think thats adorable. We give him the ear medicine bottle and ask him to get that down to the lab for further analysis on the prints. It will take a full hour, but hopefully he can return just in time for us to need it. I have to say, that BURST INTO THE COURTROOM WITH NEW STUFF function was helpful and exciting last time.

The trial continues tomorrow. See you then!

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the armstrong trial is kinda frustrating, but cutting through layers upon layers of bullshit is very satisfying

this is among the most contrived of the coverups in the series and it's thoroughly ridiculous.
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Case 3-3 - Recipe for Turnabout

Don Tigre tries to intimidate us for everything hes worth, talking tough and disrespectful to every person present in the courtroom. He keeps trying to hurry the proceedings, saying hell have to take more and more expensive travel back to his office because hell be late for a meeting, etc. He says hell be forwarding the bill to us, but Im not worried. I wanna get this guy in the slammer.

He keeps lying to us, and you cant press on the wrong parts of his testimony, in the interest of speeding things up. For some reason the you couldnt see the back of the victims head concept was difficult for me - I think I just assumed Don Tigre stepped into the restaurant briefly, but the game actually wanted you to believe he literally opened the front door to Tres Bien, just stood there, and lied about what he saw. So that was the only part where I looked up a guide to direct me, because I was pressing and presenting evidence on the wrong statement. I got distracted by the fact that I wasnt getting penalized and got excited, I guess.

Thankfully, GUMSHOE, YOU WONDERFUL MAN bursts through the door with the ear medicine bottle, now with verified fingerprints.

I proceed to lie to Don Tigre, who was not there earlier, telling him that we found the poison in this container. He falls for our obvious entrapment, correcting me by describing the real bottle containing the potassium cyanide. Ah, its good to be the defense team.

Maggey gets cleared and we finally get to give her that second, giant lunch of cocktail weenies and plain white rice that Gumshoe had lovingly made for her and given us...yesterday? The day before? In any event, its literally stone cold. Gumshoe has booked it right out of there because he figures aside from a quick congratulations to Maggey on being a law-abiding citizen, that ship has sailed. So Maggey appreciatively cries while she eats her room-temperature weenies and rice. Despite her vitriolic protest the other day in the detention center, she really does like weenies, and she is feeling nicer now that she knows Gumshoe was trying to do Things For Her. Freedom is certainly better than the alternative.

We continue with Case 3-4 - Turnabout Beginnings tomorrow!

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nailing tigre is so good!
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I'm going to call it a holiday break - I'll see you guys on Sunday, okay?

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Case 3-4 - Turnabout Beginnings

Characters Ive met:
Mia Fey [flashback case!]
Miles Edgeworth [flashback case, hes 20 years old, a baby! and in full Von Karma regalia, to boot!]
Terry Fawles [defendant]
Diego Armando [hmmm, this coffee guy looks familiar]
Valerie Hawthorne [deceased]
Dick Gumshoe [flashback case]
Blonde Beard Judge [a different judge!]
Melissa Foster >___> [Dahlia Hawthorne]

Although I do try my best, I am terrible at thinking like other people. I cant find stuff at the grocery store if it doesnt make sense to me, I have trouble understanding why people are upset about certain things, I get offended sometimes when people dont respond the way I would in a given situation. I still wish lip balm would be by lipstick, because it all goes on your lips. Not lip balm in between cough drops and painkillers or vitamins, in a seemingly random aisle of the pharmacy. That all being said, Ace Attorney is normally a good game franchise for me. It gets me to think a little differently, try to connect dots made by someone else. When it gets me immeasurably angry though, is that the game is structured for one flow of thought and one flow only.

I must have clicked on dearly departed Valerie Hawthornes Crime Photo of her stuffed in a trunk 27 times before finally looking it up to see what the game wanted. It was not difficult - in wet/rainy/soggy/foggy/muddy conditions, the victim was pushed forward and stabbed in the back. This means that the front of her jacket would be wet and/or muddy. In the photo, I was seeing a bone-dry car, on bone-dry ground, with no condensation on any of the plexiglass [rear window or tail lights], a victim with dry hair missing an as-yet-unmentioned hat as shown in the Witness Photo. I was like HELLO?!?! THIS PHOTO IS CONTRADICTION PERSONIFIED. But apparently clicking on the front of her coat was what we wanted. I had to look it up.

The other thing? The scarf is clearly documented, by Valerie herself, to be white. This may come up later but I am VERY DONE today. In the Court Record, Idk if anyone wants to fight me on this, but that is a blue scarf. I dont know if we just got creative with our presentation of the COLOR WHITE, but that is not a white scarf. It is a blue scarf. Might become relevant later.

I dont understand why I can balance cases with a jillion pieces of evidence, but I cant handle the very beginning of a case where I have two photos, a post-it note, the last will and testament of the victims great-great-grandmother, a hair pin, and the defendants unspent nickel.

We will be returning to this case. If what I know about Dahlia Hawthorne is still true, then this aint gonna end well and Im not sure why we decided to revisit this in a prequel. Painful.

[read in a cheerful voice:] See you tomorrow!

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Llarian posted...

Blonde Beard Judge [a different judge!]

he's in 3-2 briefly!
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The scarf is rrrrrroooyyalllll blue!!

SeabassDebeste posted... he's in 3-2 briefly!

I'm not sure how I feel about this.

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Why, Mr. Edgeworth...I'm not sure I like you wagging your finger at me as though I were some hoser!

Might be the single greatest line in the series.

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Case 3-4 - Turnabout Beginnings

Characters Ive met:
DAHLIA HAWTHORNE CONFIRMED
Blonde beard judge was part of Luke Atmeys trial-next-door, yes.

Entertaining typo of the day:
Neighboorhood

All righty. The scarf is not white. Melissa Foster is Dahlia Hawthorne confirmed. She tripped up by saying the scarf was white, which she would have only known had she been privy to the info in the note left behind by Valerie Hawthorne, as visibility was low during the actual event.

We learn that 5 years ago, Dahlia was kidnapped by her tutor, Mr Fawles, and after a diamond valued at 2 million USD was exchanged for her safe return, she fell from the bridge along with the diamond in her backpack. Neither her body, nor the diamond, was ever recovered.

Present day, uncovered through Mias clever cross examination, we use the timer on Dahlias camera to poorly stage a meeting between Mr Fawles and Valerie Hawthorne.

Unfortunately, theres a 30 minute time gap in which Mr Fawles visits a local shrine to recover Dahlias deadly bottle necklace - giving Dahlia plenty of time to silence her own sister.

Mr Fawles testimony is full of holes and obvious lies, hes just trying to do a last-ditch effort to cover for his beloved Dahlia. In a shocking turn of events, he drinks the contents of the necklace and straight up dies on the stand. Like, bleeding from the mouth, slumps where he stands. Mia is understandably taken aback. Mr Armando crushes his coffee cup with a single bare hand, making himself bleed. You know, because we needed more blood.

Barring any other weird courtroom flashbacks, its comforting to know that the next time I see Miles Edgeworth, he will not be aping any weird Von Karma mannerisms the way he did constantly when he was 20.

Speaking of young, I checked everyones ages on the Court Record. Troubling doesnt even begin to cover it.
https://i.imgur.com/URymbik.jpg?1
https://i.imgur.com/pfD5ReS.gif
https://i.imgur.com/O5RrWpp.gif
Currently, Dahlia Hawthorne is 19. Defendant Mr Fawles is now 25. That means that 5 years ago, when Dahlia was 14, Mr Fawles was 20. And it is stated they were in a relationship together. Victim Valerie Hawthorne was in on the kidnapping plot, and the three participants wanted to split the diamonds worth of 2 million USD between them.

The ending makes this case something of a bridge to what I can only assume is even more drama in 3-5.

See you tomorrow!

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I'm pretty sure Dahlia was emotionally manipulating him the entire time. He's clearly not all there.

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yeah, I'm of the mindset that nothing happened there

The thing that surprises me most about the case is that Terry Fawles was a tutor for Dahlia Hawthorne. Like, what was he able to instruct her on?

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how'd you like 3-4 overall?
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3-4 overall was fun aside from my own bad day at the outset. Playing as Mia is always exciting, and I was able to figure out a fair amount of this on my own without bashing my head against the wall. It's fascinating to see Mia deal with an unstable defendant, a dopey judge, a smug and flirty senior coworker, a BABYPROSECUTOR, an earnest baby detective, a deceptive femme fatale, all during her first case and trying to be as confident as possible in what she's learned and trying to hone her existing skills.

I am very interested to learn more about the Diego Armando and Godot connection, if we get to know more. I have to say, I was waiting the entire time for Mr Armando to just be like "I'm going to take my coffee and ask Miss Foster a few questions during the recess" so I could yell "BUT YOU'RE GONNA DIE" at the 3DS.

Interesting to note that Mr Fawles was probably one of the most unstable seeming defendants we've had so far. Maximillion Galactica might have cried off his false eyelashes, Ron DeLite didn't want our help, there was the twist with Matt Engarde, but at least none of them tried to chew on a 20lb iron ball and alternated moments of calm with unnerving screaming.

3-4 was short and sweet. I would rank it higher than most of the intro cases, but I think its overall significance is yet to be seen.

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One thing I do like about this case is that when Fawles drinks the poison, Edgeworth demands that the trial be stopped immediately. That moment has stuck with me because we see that, even during his Demon Prosecutor phase, Edgeworth wasn't completely irredeemable. It also makes for a contrast to when Phoenix tries to swallow the poison in 3-1 and Payne simply gloats that he's about to win the case.

3-4 and by extension 3-5 are the only genuinely frightening cases in the series. Not like in a horror way or anything, but it feels like there are genuine stakes in these cases and that people are actually in danger.

Case 3-5 - Bridge to the Turnabout

Characters Ive met:
Sister Bikini
Sister Iris
Elise Deauxnim
Laurice Deauxnim/Larry Butz

Pearl has signed Maya up for a super special awesome spiritual training course in the mountains in February, right around that same suspicious suspension bridge where the events of the last case took place. Pearl gets to meet Elise Deauxnim, her favorite picture book author, there. We meet two nuns named Bikini and Iris - and Iris looks suspiciously like Dahlia Hawthorne with a different hair color and an accommodating, kind personality.

Larry Butz is on the scene and is learning the art of picture books from his new mentor, Elise Deauxnim - hes taken on the funky alias Laurice Deauxnim to show his devotion to his new life. After two seconds talking to him about this new life, his obsession with Sister Iris reveals that the Butz isnt so different after all.

I like the way that this particular case let you warm up to the idea - the beginning cutscene does show you that someone dies, but the story itself takes a little while to get going. Sometimes I feel like were thrown in before we even care who were dealing with - this isnt the case here.

Maya goes across the bridge to the training place, and through many errors, is abandoned there and the suspension bridge is burnt out. Elise Deauxnim has been killed, Pearl is missing, and our eyewitness is Sister Bikini. Phoenix tried to run across the bridge to be with Maya and got hospitalized for his troubles. Larry Butz calls the only person he can count on to help in this time of need - Miles Edgeworth.

We then continue by playing as Mr Edgeworth in a fun turn of events, complete with inner monologuing [Edgeworth does seem to keep more to himself than Phoenix often blurts out]. Gumshoe is overjoyed, and lets be real - so am I to finally see the guy smile! Gumshoes sprite just keeps grinning - he tells you hes tired and hungry all the time, he has to deal with salary cuts, etc. But the important thing is that Mr Edgeworth is here and thats just the best part of the day.

Mr Edgeworth does have a bit of catching up to do - he receives the Magatama from Phoenix at the hospital, and misremembers the items it reveals as Psycholocks. I dont know why I found this so funny, but I did. Probably because Miles is typically so exacting in his details. Phoenix probably mumbled and it didnt sound like our dear blue suit was in good shape in the first place, after that fall.

Edgeworth hasnt heard of Godot - I seem to recall some throwaway line about Godot being specifically recommended by Edgeworth. So thats curious. You have to talk to a number of people to try to get the truth of the matter - we also collect a variety of compliments on how nice we look and how were a handsome boy.

We reluctantly agree to stand on the other side of the courtroom and be Sister Iriss defense.

More to come tomorrow as we continue to investigate!

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I was confused by Edgeworth not knowing Godot too... until I realized it was said by Atmey who is a blowhard who can't help but inflate everything to needlessly dramatic proportions

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investigating as edgeworth might be my favorite single segment of AA3
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NFUN posted...

I was confused by Edgeworth not knowing Godot too... until I realized it was said by Atmey who is a blowhard who can't help but inflate everything to needlessly dramatic proportions

come to think of it I think I did this too

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Yeah, nobody realizes Atmey is lying until that moment, but in hindsight, of course he is. Why would he know that in the first place?

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When exactly did Atmey say that?
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Team Rocket Elite posted...

When exactly did Atmey say that?

When he tells you about Godot at the end of the first investigation day, Atmey says that Godot has no equal in the prosecutor's office. Phoenix objects by saying Edgeworth is the best, and then Atmey says that Edgeworth personally acknowledged him as the best prosecutor domestically when he went abroad.

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Case 3-5 - Bridge to the Turnabout

At the end of Turnabout Goodbyes 1-4, youre clearly supposed to show Maya the DL-6 bullet evidence that helped us win the case. She snagged it from the evidence room, and you want to remind her that shes important, even if she doesnt feel like it. Ever since I screwed up by showing Maya a photo of Misty Fey that was in the Court Record, its been a running gag.

There was a scroll of Misty Fey over at the Inner Temple across the now-burnt-out bridge. So this time around, its Hey, you know what might make you feel better? Training in the bitter cold in this weird building that has a portrait of your missing-and-likely-dead-mom!

We continue playing as Edgeworth, poking around every corner of this place, leaving no stone or snowflake unturned.

I love the interaction between Edgeworth and Gumshoe here - its hinted at in a variety of different cases, but here I get to see it in action. Gumshoe talks way too much, shares anecdotes that are tangentially relevant at best, and spends the rest of the time just beaming. I guess since smiles are free, hes indulging. We get more clues about how all this salary-slashing has affected our intrepid detective. Gumshoe, seeing candles on the altar inside the temple, shares that he likes candlelight and near the end of each month, he likes to light a few and relax at night. Miles cuts through this farce, asking if our dear detective can pay his electricity bill.

Im presenting everything under the sun in the Court Record to Gumshoe, trying to glean relevant or entertaining insights. I give him the Magatama - and HE BITES IT. He thought it was CANDY. Gumshoe is hungry, and Im deceased. XD

Some disagreement persists between Sisters Iris and Bikinis version of last nights events. Bikini insists Iris was at the Inner Temple supervising Mystic Mayas training, Iris says she was so frightened that she didnt even leave her room.

We find a blackmail letter addressed to Iris, and we use it to break the first of 2 Psycholocks, as Miles calls them. For some reason, Iris doesnt want someone finding out whatever dark secret it happens to be - but either its no one currently in my Court Record, or I havent discussed something with someone somewhere first in order to get stuff unlocked.

We resume our investigations tomorrow! See you then!

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Llarian posted...

Miles cuts through this farce, asking if our dear detective can pay his electricity bill.

love this!
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It should be pretty obvious whom Iris wouldn't want to know!

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Case 3-5 - Bridge to the Turnabout

Oooh, as Gumshoe is so fond of pointing out during this investigation, the plot thickens!

Its true, it was very easy to break the 2nd Psycholock, because I had seen characters like Phoenix/Maya/Pearl often enough in Profiles to grow blind to their presence. Sister Iris definitely didnt want Phoenix to find out her secret.

We hunt down Laurice Deauxnim/Larry Butz in his heavenly hovel down at Heavenly Hall, a sad little shack off to the side near the suspension bridge. Its covered in garish party decor and illustrations of Larry himself and Sister Iris. Its just a bizarre sight to behold. Gumshoe, bless him, is terrible at hiding and watching Larry from afar. He cant resist the urge to stand up, point at Larry, and bellow Objection! I really wish they had recorded that one line in Gumshoes voice, just for me.

A combination of our detailed investigating and Edgeworths literal steely gaze makes Larry spill the beans. This was one of the easiest Psyche Lock sessions, I was able to finish it all in one go. He wasnt at Hazakura Temple, instead he was at Heavenly Hall, and he had written the weird blackmail letter we found earlier that was threatening Sister Iris. Larrys one-sided vision of romance has struck again - the secret he referred to was clearly the secret love affair that hadnt yet happened between himself and Sister Iris. If I could roll my eyes any further back in my head, you could call me the Undertaker.

We start to question Larry a bit further, and 5 Psycholocks appear! Miles comes to the conclusion that if we want more out of him, well just have to drag him to the witness stand. End scene.

Should be an interesting time with the prosecution in court.

Well continue with the case tomorrow!

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It's only the 2nd time Phoenix's profile has been in the Court Record!

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edgeworth's reactions to larry's second set of psycholocks so good
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Case 3-5 - Bridge to the Turnabout

Courtroom time! Franziska von Karma has shown up as the prosecution for this case - guess Godot wasnt interested after he heard Miles was taking over for Phoenix. We also have a very Canadian judge, eh? Whats that aboot?

Mr Edgeworth immediately begins to grill Sister Bikini on the events that night - her testimony is full of weird contradictions, timeline problems, and other issues [but traumatic memory is like that, right folks?]. Having been through the Court Record a few times, I was able to point them out easily. So now its just a matter of dealing with SSSSSSIBLING RIVALRY. Franziska is pretty sure shes going to get a perfect case here, and Miles is dead set on helping her understand that perfection just isnt a thing, much less a thing to strive for. He has really grown since his travel abroad, huh?

We find that the Shichishito [7-branched sword] cannot have been the murder weapon Sister Bikini claims it was, buried up to the hilt in Mystic Elises body. Bikini admits she did not see the moment that Elise was stabbed, only that she saw Iris remove the sword from Elises body smoothly. As stabbing anyone up to the hilt with the Shichishito is near impossible for anyone, much less Iris, and the 7 branches would cause a problem for any smooth removal, Edgeworth stands against these statements. The sword itself is only bloodied nearest the tip anyway, not all the way up the blades as testified.

The game does make an important point here - deep puncture wounds such as those made by swords, daggers, arrows, stakes, railroad spikes, a chopstick, or even your ballpoint pen bleed the most after the item is removed. For some reason, entertainment over the years has been a big fan of quick item removal in a puncture wound situation and that is quite possibly the worst thing you could do unless under medical supervision. Even anime Durarara!! had a character wisely comment to themselves I better take this out later, once I get some superglue after being stabbed in the hand with a pen. Immediate removal is death. Be extremely cautious of doing so IRL.

The image of Sister Bikini on those little stack of milk crates is still making me laugh. Well continue with her bizarre testimony tomorrow.

See you then!

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Case 3-5 - Bridge to the Turnabout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_QLzthSkfM
Ode to Franziska, as always.

Sister Bikinis utterly confusing testimony, including a slow understanding that snowmobile engines are warm after being used and therefore melt snow, was painful enough. We then entertain several rounds of testimony with Larry Butz/Laurice Deauxnim. He obviously lies about why he was out at Heavenly Hall, what he was doing there, etc. We cut through a lot of that and manage to get some of the real story.

Larry waited to meet with Iris at Heavenly Hall, but kept walking out to the foot of Dusky Bridge just in case she lost her way. She didnt come at 10:00PM as agreed upon, so Larry elected to take a brief nap. He was roused by a brilliant flash of lightning.

This bolt of lightning, of course, sets the Dusky Bridge on fire, and Larrys artistic spirit is overtaken. He must sketch this burning bridge - and he does in a most colorful fashion, including a flying body of Iris. Larry insists that Iris flew over the bridge since he saw her nun hood. As we know, she was not wearing her hood as she gave it to Phoenix. Larry still insists this is what he witnessed, but no one in the courtroom is convinced. Im somewhat impressed by Larrys persistence here - hes totally undeterred by the variety of Edgeworth/von Karma insults being flung his way. He may be stupid, but he thinks he knows what he saw. Now its up to the rest of us to figure out the deets.

Prior to the murder of Elise Deauxnim, the crystal amethyst sphere on her staff had fallen off near the foot of Dusky Bridge. Larry found it there, half in the snow. This, along with the snowless condition of Elises body, is leading us to believe that is the true place of the murder, not, as previously thought, Hazakura Temples courtyard. The infamous snowmobile is suspected to have been used to transport the body quickly from the location of the incident to the aforementioned courtyard.

The judge reaches the conclusion that more investigation is needed to answer existing questions, so he sets a new court date and sends us off to dig for clues as best we can.

See you tomorrow!

Larry, describing the flash of lightning, reminded me so much of this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmmEVXG1jy4

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I love this case

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Case 3-5 - Bridge to the Turnabout

Phoenix is poking around and talking to everyone he can find, while still suffering a headache and clearly recovering from his injuries. Were investigating and reviewing the info that was covered in the courtroom yesterday, while still searching for even more info.

Sister Bikini has 5 Psyche Locks, but I figured we should poke around a bit more first. Maya is still stuck over in the Inner Temple, and if anyone is over there with her, they are trapped as well. Pearly is still missing, too, which makes me quite troubled. Wouldnt it be humorous if we found her and she had been channeling Mia this whole time? That would certainly save her most of the trauma.

Anyway, didnt get too far today but plan to do more tomorrow. See you then!

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been reading this case, just haven't wanted to comment yet!
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TOMBOLOOOOOOOO

Is wifebolo your wife if so gj

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oh man shake hi yep >:D

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very late to the party but tag

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Case 3-5 - Bridge to the Turnabout

Just kidding, we didnt save Pearl [or me!] any trauma. We run into Franziska and Gumshoe, Franziska has to accompany me over to the Inner Temple once the bridge gets repaired.

Gumshoe has repaired the bridge and we hurry over there. Pearl is safe and sound, we send her back over the bridge while we investigate. Theres a single trick lock on the door, Godot is there slinging insults and telling me hes seen death and I should know what I did etc. etc. HERE TO KILL ANOTHER FEY, HUH?! And were all stunned by both his statements and his hurried exit.

Someone else was slinging gravy, because its gooped all over the Misty Fey scroll. Maya is supposedly still in the cavern, but we cant get to it because of the trick lock. It looks just like a Psyche Lock. WEIRD.

We investigate the Garden at Gumshoes behest and we find a small red Kurain charm, which matches a cord around Elises neck. Maya is written in Elises blood on a lamp post, along with a spatter of blood near it, and a precise rectangular shape around the lamp is free of snow. This is getting curiouser and curiouser. Were informed that only Iris can open the trick lock inside, so Edgeworth is bringing her from Detention. We return to Hazakura Temple, where we aim to question Sister Bikini.

Sister Bikinis 5 Psyche Locks come all undone as we present both the red Kurain charm and the gravy-slathered scroll to her. She explains that Elise Deauxnims true identity is that of Misty Fey, Master of the Kurain Channeling Technique. I am super depressed. I had no idea. Mayas mom was RIGHT THERE, and now shes gone. Im just stunned. Yall werent kidding about the intense gravity of this case.

Then, to make matters worse, an earthquake happens. We rush to the Main Gate, where we find a dazed Edgeworth and no Iris. Edgeworth bemoans his weakness, having blacked out as soon as the earthquake started rumbling. He proposes a manhunt to cover the mountain and put out an APB for Iris. We know better - she has to be in the Inner Temple.

We arrive at the Inner Temple, but instead of a single trick lock, there are now five. Iris says she cant open them, Edgeworth is feeling groggy, Sister Bikini told us before we crossed over that she suspects the Cavern could have collapsed in on itself. Franziska offers to stay with Iris and figure out the locks, she orders Edgeworth to go and rest.

Well have to see whats on our plates tomorrow. This was heavy! See you then!


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i'm kinda surprised people don't catch on right away that elise deauxnim was misty fey. bunch of feys congregating, finale case, suspiciously mysterious and nice, plus we've seen misty's photo before <_<
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She looks nothing like that photo!

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Need to show the photo to Maya more so she can confirm

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Maya can't even recognize her!

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then clearly we haven't shown her the photo enough!

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Probably because she looks older in the DL-6 photo than she does in 3-5!

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SeabassDebeste posted...

i'm kinda surprised people don't catch on right away that elise deauxnim was misty fey.

Yeah, I was onto that immediately. And one other detail that comes up later.

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