Brainstorming because this act is a nightmare

We want to convey as much information as we can without getting confusing. It's better to leave out information than to leave everyone confused! We have to be creative with how we do this-- Apollo doesn't need to be in every song! I do like what you've got. Keep trucking!

Yeah!

When I looked over act 2, I tried to eliminate pieces of evidence that could be proven another way, or testimony that didn't do much more than go from point B to point C when we're trying to get from A to D.

I love the idea of taking out the MASON system, mostly because I didn't understand the purpose of it in the first place. Why not just a flashback case like in T&T? So taking it out is great!!

Actually, keeping The MASON system in for the case summary might be good, so we can easily reference what we're missing.
If it's too much work, though, it's fine to just summarize it in a bullet point.

You're doing fantastic. Thank you.

Um um um!!! If I may, I'd like to suggest that for Kristoph's breakdown,
it could be fast-paced, and eerie-sounding

something along the lines of
'this story that you fabricate,
you're saying that i struck him down again?
i'll get you for this,
mister justice'

then some more song like probably quite a bit of song,
and then

'it's nothing but a wonderful tale,
mister justice i sense you will not fail,
but i must admit the story isn't a myth,
i will exalt my revenge
phoenix wriiiiiiiiiight!

this is mostly just brainstorming as said in the thread title,
but we could do something like that to incorporate an overall theme of 'it's just a wonderful tale'
until the last three lines, where he just 'cracks' or something? and the last line would slow down quite a bit

That's a pretty good idea! As in, it'd represent Kristoph's state of mind! Yeah, I like it :D

Literally took the words out of my hands.
This is why you are Kyouya.

Ooh yeah that does sound like a cool title

XD Yeah true.

I think the Gramarye case could be covered in a song with Phoenix and Valant chatting it up in front of Sunshine Coliseum! That would also fix up some of the issues with von Karma's game (or whatever we're calling it).

One of my favorite scenes in the game was Phoenix assigning this case to Apollo. It was tense and awkward and there was pudding and Apollo wanted some. Since this case sort of rides on Phoenix's involvement, I think it's important to have that scene in there.

Drew Studio is critical for facts AND Ema's character development. Pre-trial is critical for facts. Literally all of the facts we are basing the Misham murder on needs to be established in those two songs.

As far as length goes, we need to remove as much as possible from the plot while still having it make sense. However, we absolutely cannot sacrifice quality for quantity. Our focus needs to be on being funny and being emotional, not on covering every little plot detail.

Let's say you have the following details:

A. Drew Misham was drinking coffee
B. The rim of his cup had atroquinine on it
C. The atroquinine is deadly with a super tiny dose and kills in 15 minutes
D. Drew Misham died

We literally just need to get from A to D: Drew Misham had his coffee poisoned. We have to be concise, but it HAS to make sense.

That's why I wanted to remove the locket from Act 1- it's not crucial to the plot and to explain it would add 2-3 minutes to our show. I just wanted to say "This guy got killed. Phoenix had no motive. Orly testified that Phoenix cheated, and that was his motive. Apollo proved Phoenix hadn't cheated. Orly is suspicious. Court break."

I'd like to have a song where Phoenix and Kristoph are talking in the prison, though. And can we please take a moment to acknowledge the fact that Phoenix was an art student and would have been very capable of reproducing that letter he took a picture of?

Maya just agreed with me it must be the end of time

Okay, but that evidence would be presented to the same judge who was fooled by a cardboard badge

i'm sorry was i supposed to disagree-- xD

...that is true tbh so, he could probably get away with it...


and lumos, that is a thing we could consider, since it would take some explaining out of later songs, so we could focus on other things more :3c

im not much of a lyric writer but when i was reading this thread i thought it would be pretty cool if, during kristophs final lines leading up to the famous scream it went kind of like this:

he starts off his verse melodically, and continues singing until the last lines, and it seems like he's going to end on a steady (albeit dramatic, probably) note, but instead, he doesnt- he just screams "WRIIIIIIIIIGHT" and theres no musicality to it at all, maybe the instruments could even fade out to silence just before the scream (or stop abruptly?) and his song ends there on kind of a terrifying mood- like "we bested him and it's over, this is what we've been working to accomplish, but..."