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ABRAXAS MODS ([personal profile] abraxasmods) wrote in [community profile] abraxaslogs2021-08-08 10:54 pm

INTRO LOG #2

Intro Log #2
It has been two months now since the initial group of summonings first took place. Castle Thorne, or at least the part above ground, is buzzing with a vibrant air of hope following the 'success' at the Singularity. Eager smiles and excited chattering are to be found in nearly every corner of the castle and surrounding town. The honored guests may find grateful looks turned their way more often than not. A new and brighter day seems to be dawning on the kingdom.

In the dungeons it's a different story entirely. The mood is somber and uneasy. The prisoner taken for trial has yet to return, and no word has come regarding her or her fate. There has been no mention of any further trials as of yet and guards seem to have little patience for unruly behavior or even conversation. Some seem to not even look at or acknowledge the prisoners at all.

[ Feel free to continue threads from the TDM here or start your own! As cell and room assignments will be short-lived due to this month's event, you're free to assume whichever cellmates and roommates you like instead of officially signing up as long as there are ICly no more than four people in a cell or room at once. ]

iobject: (Please don't stand so close)

Phoenix Wright | Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney | The Lovers

[personal profile] iobject 2021-08-09 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Smoke Break

Phoenix is... not really dealing with the whole Horizon thing well. After waking back up in the 'real world' and remembering everything he forgot, it was hard not to think of the fact that this world seemed to be able to take his memories on a whim. It was also hard to not think of the fact that... well. He's been gone for two months. Two months his daughter is wondering where he's gone. And he's not any closer to coming home. Maybe he'll never be.

He's managed to maintain his sobriety, which is a herculean feat itself, but he's broken down on tobacco. He's somehow rustled up a pack of cigarettes from the servants, something all the way from the 'Free Cities', wherever that is.

So now he stands outside of the castle in some isolated spot overlooking the rest of the town, smoking with a grim expression on his face. An ash tray sits by him, perched on top of a stone fence, and it's clear he's already gone through most of the pack. It's just taking the edge off, he tells himself. He wishes he had somewhere to truly be private, somewhere he didn't feel so exposed.

Bird break

Phoenix is minding his own damn business, trying to read through these legal books and write up notes on them, when he just imagines idly how nice it'd be to be a bird without a care. And then with little in the way of transition, he's a blue jay.

He's a fucking blue jay.

He has no idea how to turn back, so he panics, and now there is a screeching bright blue bird flying through the castle, looking a little drunk because it clearly doesn't know how to fly. Don't mind it while it continually screeches and slams into walls and people's faces.

Cell Visit

Phoenix has had a weird day, but it's time to visit the new... clients, he guesses? More innocent people in the dungeon means more people he is going to try to get out of there.

So he comes down with a basket full of treats from upstairs, going from cell to cell to get to know everyone there. As he comes to this one, he smiles and waves. "Hey. I'm Phoenix Wright." He offers his basket, which smells pretty darn good. "Are you hungry?"
gruesome: (Grue - can't count the fingers.)

Birb!

[personal profile] gruesome 2021-08-13 07:59 am (UTC)(link)
Some's just on his way back to the baths when there's a commotion coming his way in the corridor, and he just dodges in time not to get a... is it a bat? in his eyes, jumping up to cling to the top of a doorway in startlement.

But he's pretty sure it's going to hurt itself if it continues like that, or... or actually, maybe it already has, from the way it flies. Dropping to the floor again, he follows the bird, and when he's close, tries to carefully net it with his ridiculous spread of hands.
iobject: (Why do I have the worst clients)

[personal profile] iobject 2021-08-18 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Holy shit what is that it climbs on the goddamn walls

This is it this is how he dies he is a bird and he's going to be eaten by a giant spider monster goodbye cruel world he has no idea how he's going to explain this to Mia when he meets her in the afterlife--

Phoenix flops on the floor, squawking and flapping in distress, but he can't really get off the ground before the creature picks him up.
gruesome: (Grue - Eager)

[personal profile] gruesome 2021-08-24 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
He is exquisitely gently in picking this not-a-bat up - the bats back home are so fragile - and holds it carefully in two cupped hands, just firmly enough to not let it hurt itself, making soft noises with his lower mouth.

"Soft, soft. You don't belong in here."
iobject: (Sad look over the shoulder)

[personal profile] iobject 2021-08-27 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
This is how he dies. He's going to be eaten as a bird. Phoenix does not have the strength to break this creature's grip, so he flops over, hanging limp while his head spins for a way to get out of this.

The creature's cooing at him like he's a cute sick animal. Which... okay, he might be a cute sick animal. Does this mean he's not going to die? He hopes so. He chirps, his little legs scrabbling for purchase on the creature's wrists, like it's somehow possible for him to work his way out of the grip.
gruesome: (Grue - soft smile)

[personal profile] gruesome 2021-09-01 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
He shifts his hands, so the not-bat's feet are supported, but keeps a hand over it to keep it from flapping, thinking of where to go.

"I'll take you... to the out," he says, not sure of the word for what's beyond the castle.
iobject: (Why do I have the worst clients)

[personal profile] iobject 2021-09-07 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
It's starting to occur to Phoenix that he's not actually about to be eaten. 'I'll take you to the out' sounds an awful lot like 'I'll take you outside'. Which is exactly the kind of thing he'd do too if he found a sick-seeming bird in a castle.

So he just relaxes in the creature's hand. Is this his life now? He should find Kay. She knows how to turn back. How does it work? Does he just think really hard about being a human again and--

And then he turns into a fully grown man with a pop and a yelp of surprise, right in the creature's hands.
gruesome: (G - Running)

[personal profile] gruesome 2021-09-07 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
As large as Some is, he's a spindly thing, and he immediately drop-throws the suddenly-a-human with a sharp yelp, dropping down to all eight as he scrambles backwards. And again, halfway up the wall.

"Glowing stones, what in the all-dark are you?!"
souille: (014)

Cell visit

[personal profile] souille 2021-08-14 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Abigail watches him approach, unable to stop her stomach from growling at the smell coming from his basket. She's not sure whether to trust him, though, or whether this is a ruse to poison her and avoid the need for the execution that Eponine had described to her in such detail.

"Thanks, but I'm okay."
iobject: (Uneasiness)

[personal profile] iobject 2021-08-18 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Really?" He's clearly surprised. He's not sure anyone's rejected his food on any of his visits. But he rolls with it, shrugging. "Suit yourself. The offer stays open."

He puts the basket down near her cell, near enough that she can reach for it without asking him to push it towards her, and he leans on the bars.

"What's your name? I'm Phoenix Wright," he says. He gets that not everyone understands what defense attorneys are, so he likes to ease into introducing himself first and then explaining why he's here.
souille: (049)

[personal profile] souille 2021-08-18 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
She keeps back from the bars, still not wanting to trust anyone in this place, but feeling a little more at ease that he's neither forcing the issue nor leaving her to starve.

"Abigail," she replies, not wanting to give her full name out of the dread that someone here will be from her own world and recognise her name from the news, for all the wrong reasons.
iobject: (Smiling at the kids)

[personal profile] iobject 2021-08-18 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay, Abigail." He gives her a warm smile that reaches his eyes. "It's nice to meet you."

And he does mean it. He likes meeting new people. Especially people with big eyes who need help getting out of a jail cell--but that's his hero complex talking.

"I'm a defense attorney. Do you have those in your world?"
souille: (015)

[personal profile] souille 2021-08-27 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
It's clear in her expression how surreal it is to be asked about something so mundane in her own world, but then with the people she's met here so far she might well be in the minority who'd actually answer his question in the affirmative.

"Yeah, we have lawyers. I'm not sure the people in charge here care much about due process, though."
iobject: (Breeeeaaathe)

[personal profile] iobject 2021-08-28 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, they have lawyers. That's good. It saves him needing to explain that much.

"They do care, mostly. Unfortunately, we're dealing with one of the few people in the kingdom who doesn't have to care about due process."

He crosses his arms, his voice serious but not dire. He never shows fear or helplessness in front of a client if he can help it. Half of his job is keeping their spirits up, after all.

"Ambrose can decide if you stay in here or if you leave. Luckily, he can be talked around. I've managed it in the past."
souille: (031)

[personal profile] souille 2021-08-28 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"He's already decided for me." She looks resigned to her fate, turning around so he can see the Hanged Man crudely embroidered on the back of her prison tunic. "It means he's going to hang me."

At least, that's what Eponine had told her.
iobject: (Eyeroll)

[personal profile] iobject 2021-08-29 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Phoenix frowns, his brow creasing. "What? No, that's not what that means. Who told you that?"

He doesn't wait for an answer before tugging the neckline of his silk tunic, straightening it so it shows off a the stylized heart of the Lovers embroidered at his breast.

"It's your Arcana. Think of it like your star sign, but somehow connected to magic around here." And also real, but Phoenix won't say that quite so bluntly. "I'm the Lovers, and you're the Hanged Man. People with the Hanged Man Arcana are usually outsiders wherever they were from."
souille: (005)

[personal profile] souille 2021-08-29 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Abigail stares at him, utterly confused. She'd felt as though she'd done nothing but wait for her impending execution, and she'd actually begun to accept it as her fate. Now she's not sure whether she's being lied to now, or if she had been before, but either way she feels like an idiot.

"Are you seriously telling me I could have got out of here this whole time?"
iobject: (Sheepish smile)

[personal profile] iobject 2021-09-07 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, not exactly." Phoenix gently pushes the basket of food closer to her, encouraging her to take something. "But I do mean that the situation isn't nearly as hopeless as you think it is. I've already been able to convince them to let a few people out."
souille: (025)

[personal profile] souille 2021-09-09 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"How did you manage that?" She sounds sceptical, not of his abilities in general but that he'd be able to help her. She's still sure that the reason she's been put in here is that she was guilty of crimes in her own world.
iobject: (Uneasiness)

[personal profile] iobject 2021-09-23 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
"I talked to Ambrose, and convinced him that my client wasn't a threat." He crosses his arms, cocking his head. "He puts people down here because for some reason, he's convinced you're more likely to hurt Thorne than the people he has upstairs. But that's just a prediction on his part. If someone upstairs vouches for you and convinces him to give you a chance, then he'll let you out."
souille: (021)

[personal profile] souille 2021-09-23 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Wait, hold up." Immediately, Abigail has far more questions. "I thought they put me in here because I did something wrong. But this is like a Minority Report thing? They think I'm a danger to them?"