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[mightiswright]

[ the video turns on to show Phoenix looking off at something off screen for a moment almost pensively before looking dead on at the camera with a small smile. ]

I've found myself dealt a hand of cards I'm not sure how to play. ...What makes a hero? Someone who champions the weak... or maybe even just someone who helps as much as they can? Is it the intent, or is it the ability?

[ he pauses for a moment to let that hang up in the air for a minute before chuckling. ] I don't suppose there's some kind of school where we can learn all about Superhero 101, like using superpowers responsibly, for example. Or maybe to compare techniques for rescuing cats out of trees. [ ha ha ha. ]

I suppose I should introduce myself. My name is Phoenix Wright, piano player, and now official superhero. My resume is certainly receiving a long-awaited upgrade, though not exactly the way I expected. [ he has a small chuckle at that, because he can think of so many people more suited to being a bona fide superhero than him. ]

I'm curious about the state of law and law enforcement in this city. If you'll humour me, I'd appreciate anyone involved with the law here to speak up. Or contact me privately.

Oh, and one final thing. Residents of house #25 or anyone nearby. I've contained the fire, but need some help putting it out. [ this is accompanied by a relaxed smile that is wholly inappropriate for his words. what fire, you ask? well, let no one say Phoenix Wright doesn't so much enter a world as crash into it. ]

[ OOC NOTE: text in blue brackets represents Phoenix's own inner narrative, or basically his thoughts! ]

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[mightiswright]

[ excuse him while he laughs at his own joke. ]

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[boobwindow]

[ She doesn't laugh. In fact, she doesn't sound too impressed by the joke. ]

I'm not sure what's funny about good men and women disappearing.

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[mightiswright]

About as funny as them bringing in people from different worlds completely to replace them.

[ which is to say, not at all. ]

Can I take that to mean they never found out what happened?

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[boobwindow]

If they did, I wasn't around for it.

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[mightiswright]

Because 'everything went to hell'? Or because you found yourself here?

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[boobwindow]

Because it was before my time. I hadn't even been in the City a year before that world died.

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[mightiswright]

[ how does a world just die? ]

How were you able to escape then?

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[boobwindow]

[ She sighs. ]

The Porter from that universe apparently saved us by sending us here.

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[mightiswright]

Hmm. It seems a bit coincidental for there to be two worlds so similar, both with Porters.

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[boobwindow]

What are you thinking?

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[mightiswright]

At the moment, I'm just speculating.

There must be a reason why the Porter from the other universe sent you here, to a world nearly identical to its own. Otherwise, why not return all of you back to where you came from?

( I'm sure there's a connection. I just don't know what. )

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[boobwindow]

Maybe because there's nothing left.

She did have a thing for heroes, too.

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[mightiswright]

[ he doesn't like the sound of that, but presses on the other matter first. ]

'She'?

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[boobwindow]

The Porter.

Or as she was called: Lachesis.

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[mightiswright]

[ the Porter had a name. that's... new. ]

You were able to talk to her?

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[boobwindow]

Nnnnnot really. Couldn't even get close to her without consequences.

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[mightiswright]

Another similarity with our current situation then.

I wonder what it would take to get access to it. [ brief pause. ] ...I wonder if this one is a 'her' or a 'him'.

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[boobwindow]

Its gender is the least of my concerns.

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[mightiswright]

That might hurts its feelings. It's sentient, you know.

[ said with a slight grin, as if she weren't the one who just told him that. ]

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[mightiswright]

More importantly, I'm curious how similar this Porter is to that one. And that includes what gender it goes by.

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[boobwindow]

You could try asking personnel who work in the labs.

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[mightiswright]

That's an idea. Though I'm not sure how willing they would be to tell us about something kept under government supervision.

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[boobwindow]

Well, they apparently don't know much about this machine either.

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[mightiswright]

You'd think it just magically came into existence and started popping out people from other worlds, from how little everyone claims to know about it.

[ said with a sardonic smile. ]

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[boobwindow]

Someone must have built it, but that's also a possibility. Stranger things have likely happened.