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CASE 001 ♞ [VIDEO]

( The feed flickers on to a young man sitting at a table in the apartments in all of his courtroom finery. While he very much looks as though he's done his best to make himself as presentable as possible, there's no disguising the bags under his eyes. This is very much a man who has not had very a good night's sleep in a long time. )

Good morning. For those who I've not met before, my name is Miles Edgeworth. I was a prosecuting attorney from Los Angeles, California, in the United States of America on the planet Earth.

( Truly, what has his life come to that he has to make that clarification! )

I have been reflecting on the events that have occurred since our arrival on this planet, particularly during the festival. ( The plants had been bizarre and all, but he hadn't overly involved himself with them, having found other people more suited to what he has decided to consider extreme weeding. )

While I understand that the natives of this world might be more accustomed to free intimate contact between strangers, I consider it downright criminal that our food and drink at the festival might have been laced with substances that affect our behaviour without our knowledge or consent. If anyone suspects they may have consumed some of the contaminated items, I would be most interested in talking with you further.

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Oh I wore some. Standing in line for food has never been so exciting.

[She says that last bit with a somewhat sardonic grin and a huff of breath.]

And here I thought you would be first in line to try suspicious food of suspect origins.

( He can match that sarcasm, Ms. Pond Water Lady! )

Did you receive any unwanted attentions after wearing the aforementioned lip gloss?

I figured I would let other people have the honor this time around. I can't hog all the glory.

[She's clearly amused. And even more so as her smirk falls to a more serious look, though she hides it well as she replies.]

I guess. He was kind of cute though.

Just because he was 'kind of cute' doesn't mean you should have to put up with his affections. Were you warned of the side-effects beforehand?

[There's a soft huff of breath from the woman. She can't help it, what he's saying is right and completely appropriate and yet somehow it just makes her want to prod him more.

She's been hanging around Neil too long, clearly. So sobers up some just to try to act somewhat like the adult she is.]

No. I wouldn't have put it on if I was.

So it is as I suspected. They are trying to trick people into intimate contact.

( But who are 'they'? He is not yet certain. )

Or it's a part of their culture they don't think they need to explain to us because they're not used to visitors like us. Remember Occam's razor.

[One should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed.]

If that is truly the case, then we will inform then that it requires explanation.

That's fair. It's only right if we're expected to adapt to their culture that they take parts of ours into consideration.

Precisely. ( He smiles, but on Edgeworth's face, it's more of a smirk. )

In any case, thank you for your contribution.

What are you going to do with all of these contributions?

Collate them and present them to an authority who is capable of adapting our experiences in our place to better suit us.

Not a bad idea really. Maybe they can set up some sort of relations office where Moonblessed work with the local government and leaders.

Let us hope they are amenable to such an idea.

If they expect any sort of help from us, they're going to have to learn how to be. Ideally that's how it would work anyhow. Realistically? It's up in the air, I'd say.

I'm joining the Lunar Scientia though so I can help out some on those fronts hopefully.

Ah, the Lunar Scientia? ( A pause. ) Yes, you would do well there. ( She certainly has ... the scientific spirit. )

Do they have entry requirements?

[Edgeworth, forever stuck on one issue. He really is a lawyer, huh.]

Not really. Anyone can join it seems but you can't really lay hands on anything confidential or even that interesting until you take an aptitude test.

( He truly is. )

What do these aptitude tests entail?

I'm not exactly sure yet. I'm still studying before I even attempt the first one. I had to take a test like this for work at home and I'd rather go into this fully prepared. I'll probably end up taking classes at the Academy too.

I do know they start you out at something like an intern level as far as I can understand. Fellow is the basic rank, then Docents.

It does make sense that there would be some sort of ranked progression. Do you know what material the test covers yet?

( How else would one be able to study? Which also reminds him to ask... )

What was your career back home, anyway?

It's a basic aptitude test. So far I think it mostly covers the very basics of this world - Chroma, how the Lunar Scientia are the main political wing, the Moon Knights. Nothing that in-depth.

[And without missing a beat.]

I work as a senior memory traversal agent for the Sigmund Corporation.

[... Ah.]

Have you heard of the Sigmund Corporation?

( She was a what now. )

No, I can't say that I have.

( A beat, and he's not sure if he's going to regret asking this, but he must know... )

What does a senior memory transversal agent do?

[Ahem. Onto the classroom spiel that every promising young agent hears as an introduction. Sort of, changes are pretty obvious.]

In my world -- I guess you could call it that -- we have technology that allows others to see and interact with a person's memories through the use of a machine. The memories are rendered in an interactive simulation that can be fully programmable and changeable. Sight, touch, taste, sound and smell are all rendered if those options are enabled anyhow.

In this way memories can be changed. Or rather the digital versions the machine renders can be changed. These changed memories can then be implanted into the person the memories originate from. The machine can even generate new memories completely with assistance and guidance from the person themselves.

[Those are the bare bones basics. She pauses a moment considering how far she needs to go. Might as well dive right in, even if she can pretty well predict what problems he's going to have with all of this.]

Unfortunately the technology is flawed. If a person regains consciousness for a significant amount of time after receiving these memories, the conflict between their original memories and these newly created ones will cause brain damage. However it's proven very useful in assisting dying patients by allowing them the chance to fulfill a final wish they may have before their death.

I work alongside my partner in fulfilling these wishes. My role as a traversal agent is to work backward from the most recent memory to the patient's oldest memory that can be accessed through the process of following memory links - items, sighs or sounds that connect one memory to another. From there we find what changes need to be made to help the client fulfill their wish, send the impulse through and then let the patient and the machine create the patient's new memories.

[...]

Sorry, that's a bit of an information dump.

[She feels like some NPC in a game now.]

( While he wasn't necessarily expecting such a detailed answer, Edgeworth is grateful for it nonetheless, even if he's not sure what to make of it. Who knew the universe was so full of possibilities? )

I suppose such technology can support the dying to have a peaceful passing, so long as it doesn't fall in the wrong hands.

( That works as a response, he supposes! )

That being said, being able to explore people's memories like that must have been quite fascinating. What was it like?

[If she's got to explain this, she's doing it once. He's not familiar with it in the way a client's family might be simply through commercials on television or hearing others discuss relatives who have used the service.

That's a new question though and Eva can't help but quirk an amused smile.]

Weird. Sometimes, that is. A lot of what people may remember is made up of what was important to them at the time or the kind of mental world they lived in. It's completely possible to go from wandering in a forest to it suddenly merging with a school, things like that.

Edited 2019-04-08 20:25 (UTC)

CASE 001 ♞ [VIDEO]

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