Mafia: Trials and Tribulations [Thread 1 - DO NOT POST]

End of Day 1 flavor

(contains spoilers for Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations Case 3)

May 19, 3:18 AM
District Court – Courtroom No. 8

As the day drew to a close, the courtroom was still unsure of who to accuse. At last, someone pointed at a man with spiky hair leaning against the wall in the corner of the room. “I think … I think I might have seen him near the stage just before the bomb went off,” she said.

“That doesn’t mean anything!” said the man. “Most of us were near the stage. That’s why we’re here.”

“Yeah, but I think I heard you say something about ‘exploding’ and ‘compromising our opposition,’” she said. “I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but I think that’s a little sketchy.”

The man drew himself up to his full height. “Do you know who I am?” he said. “Why, I’m Phoenix Wright himself! I was the one who exposed all the corruption the speakers were talking about!”

“Phoenix Wright?” said another person. “Like the defense attorney? Surely it should be no trouble to show us your attorney’s badge, right?”

“Of – of course not!” said the man, removing a shiny yellow badge from his pocket. “See?”

He started to shove his badge back into his pocket, but his interlocutor grabbed his wrist. “Let me see that,” he said, forcing the man’s hand open.

He looked at the badge for a few seconds, before turning to the rest of the room. “This is just a piece of painted cardboard!” he said. “I don’t know if this man is a murderer, but he’s definitely a fraud!”

Cries of assent came from the audience. The Judge banged his gavel on his desk. “Well, it sounds like you’ve all agreed that this man is the killer, is that right?” he said. “In that case, do you have anything to say for yourself, Mister, ah, Mister Bright, was it?”

The man looked away. “It’s Tigre – Furio Tigre,” he said. “I guess the jig is up…”

“So you admit you were the one behind this plot?” said the Judge, blinking. “Bailiff! Take this man–”

“One of them,” said Furio Tigre.

Someone in the courtroom gasped. “There are more?”

Furio gave her a withering look. “Of course there are more,” he said. “I don’t care what sort of justice system the police use to handle petty crimes. They’ve always been perfectly willing to back off with the right motivation. But what I do care about is getting the money to repay my debts. When our backers offered me a million dollars to help out with the crime, I couldn’t turn them down.”

“You can’t just murder someone for money!” said another person.

“Not really sure why you’re saying ‘can’t,’” said Furio. “I just did, so clearly I can. And – if I can’t pay that debt off, I’ll die. None of you would do any different, if it was your life on the line.”

The crowd broke out in shouting. Cries of “–he’s right–” and “–consider the circumstances–” met cries of “–no I wouldn’t, not even–” and “–three people dead.” Finally, the Judge put a stop to it, banging his gavel on the desk.

“Well, it doesn’t seem like that was a very clever decision,” said the Judge. “After all, before that, you might have died, and now you’re definitely going to die. Bailiff, take him away!”

Start of Day 2 flavor

May 19, 2:59 PM
District Court - Courtroom No. 8

Sun rose over the courthouse, where everyone had spent the night holed up in separate rooms. Under normal circumstances, everyone would have been escorted back to the Los Angeles Detention Center, but the Detention Center was at limited capacity due to construction, so the courthouse it was.

“Is everyone here?” asked the Judge, as they filed into the courtroom. “I must say, none of you look like you’ve slept very well. You know, sleep is essential to a healthy lifestyle!”

“…We know that, Your Honor,” said one of the people filing in. “It’s kind of difficult to get enough sleep when we’re trapped in a courthouse with no beds while suspected of murder, and at risk of being murdered ourselves.”

“Murdered yourselves?” said the Judge. “Now, why would that happen?”

The person rolled her eyes. “Well, see, sometimes murderers don’t like it when you testify against them. Plus, if they can kill enough people, they can just outvote everyone and make sure they don’t get executed.”

“Oh my!” said the Judge. He began to look around the courtroom. “Is everyone here? Raise your hand if you can’t be here because you were murdered in the night!”

“That’s a stupid way to do it,” said someone else. “Here, I’ll count.” He glanced around the room, muttering under his breath. “…seventeen, eighteen. The Judge, the bailiff, and the sixteen of us.”

“See?” said the Judge. “I told you there was nothing to worry about. Now, you’d all best get started finding the rest of the killers.”

Actions are locked (as of 5 minutes ago).

Night 1 has ended! No one has died in the night. Day 2 begins and will end in 48 hours, at 2022-05-21T20:00:00Z, or earlier if a majority is reached for execution. With 16 players alive, majority is 9.

massping

@Icibalus
@Prophylaxis
@Silviu200530
@Frostwolf103
@Lucky
@Kiiruma
@Marluxion
@Litten
@Apprentice
@Maria-Theresa
@Italy
@Millium
@Wisdom
@ElizaThePsycho
@Atlas
@Leafia

town stomp incoming???

This place really is cursed xD

No one dying is hype though!

@Marluxion
Was it not you who said not worry about Babel not coming back
:thinking:

@Atlas
So were u just planning to break the tie we had a planned, or did u somehow manage to snipe Babel after Prophs unvote

Why are you asking me and not proph

I’ve worked all day and didn’t read most of EoD that I missed and will go to sleep soon but.

Atlas obvious town.
Nice kill on the one I don’t remember who it was or that they played the game. ^^

arete laws dictate submission deadline is at the end of the minute, not start
this fucked me over pretty badly a year or so ago

Also
I probably shouldn’t have voted bc marl’s ability
But we know both him and eliza are probably town and we have his abil charge so

No one dying is bad for me because my self resolve depended on it. I might as well full claim and you’ll see what I was talking about.

Here’s my full claim: I’m Maya Fey, town channeler. My only ability is a passive that treestumps whoever the mafia killed at night. It can only work once and it also puts me in a neighborhood with that person. I didn’t expect no one to die.

mafia’s plan was to probably kill eliza then have babel perform factional and poison to get three free kills

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provided marl is real (likely) we can clear 2 people from poe per day until either he dies or his ability procs

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Yeah, I think Eliza and Marl are both likely town from this too.

Prophs town I don’t need to question him, he killed Babel, and his unvote made sense, while your, “let’s try this” doesn’t make me believe u were paying attention to anything. But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt since u effectively killed Babel along side Proph

Ya that’s boring, and I don’t necessarily trust Marluxion, nor believe his ability is as it says
/Shrug