just this once, everybody lives!

[sageprincess]

Characters: Everyone.
Setting: Anywhere.
Format: Party style.
Summary: Post-Ex Machina catch-all mingle.
Warnings: See individual threads.

[After a long, drawn out battle, the infiltration team returns to the residential portion of the Tower, weary, battered... but victorious. Some catching up is in order.]

Comments

[frilliance]

[Edgeworth has also learned this lesson the hard way. After all, plenty of innocent people got convicted because the prosecutor used to be warped by his own feelings and taken in by lies. It's not that emotions are necessarily bad but when he's investigating or fighting in court, Edgeworth tries to keep his own feelings in check so they don't distort the truth.

And Edgeworth is trying to do the same in this tower - keep his emotions in a little box so he can find the truth. Finding the truth via emotions is more Phoenix Wright's thing. Will he have time to dwell on his emotions and the friends he has lost? Maybe, if they get out of here, but that is far from a priority. In other words, Edgeworth is a weird human being.

Edgeworth takes another sip of tea.]

Fight to the bitter end.....in whatever way I can. [Because like hell he's going to give up at this point.]

[oathshackledbird]

Obviously...

[Diarmuid finishes off his tea and sets the cup off to the side.]

I don't think any of us are going to give up this close to the end. What I was asking about is if you happened to have any ideas on our next steps. Lots of people are throwing ideas around, but most of us are fighters and we tend to think in the same ways. You aren't a fighter, though, so there is a chance you might think of something we would not.

[frilliance]

I will need...full updates on what has been happening downstairs first. In fact.....that was why I came here anyway. [Edgeworth likes to be all fully organised and know all the details possible without missing a beat before making a conclusion. It's how he works in court, after all.]

[oathshackledbird]

Well, I can't give you full details since I wasn't one of those who went down, but I can tell you what I have heard so far.

[Diarmuid settles onto a nearby chair and begins to relay what he has been told.]

By some miracle everyone made it back alive. That is a big thing considering how these infiltrations usually go. However, the fight was far from an easy one. After deactivating his computers for a short time, they tried talking to Riki, only to have him attack them as soon as they turned their back on him. Obviously, whatever trust that was placed in him was misplaced.

[frilliance]

So Riki is definitely our enemy...[He does not seem surprised by this. He takes a sip of tea.] What I would like to know....is what he was trying to accomplish with the recharge in January. [And that bit worries him.]

[oathshackledbird]

You aren't the only one who wants to know that, believe me. That is one of the main questions that they wanted to get answered. Of course, Riki gave them no real answers, but there is hope analyzing what he was doing with the machine might tell us what he wouldn't.

[Of course, that is a lot of mights and maybes, but what else can they do?]

[frilliance]

Indeed.......[And another sip. Wow, he really is tired...].......the whole thing does make me feel uneasy, though....however, we cannot run away from the truth...

[oathshackledbird]

No, we really don't have the time to run away from the truth. Not anymore. We have to act quickly and decisively. After all, there is still Ruana to deal with and she is even more of a threat than Riki is.

[Though, hopefully, Zo might be able to help with that.]