Twintown
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[]{#brainstorm}Brainstorm {#brainstorm-1}
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Uptown elves
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Night market orks
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Orks are about faaamily
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Elves are capitalists
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Noir as shit, think L.A. Confidential
- Except the ork is the complete opposite of a loose cannon, leans much further into relaxed but uptight territory
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Ork explains how even something as simple as eating something leaves a million pieces of evidence
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Ork is in homicide, he doesn’t give a shit about drug possession
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Ork is incredibly good at changing up his personality if he needs to, for example, get information from someone over the phone
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Mayor speaks like a creepy plastic politician (think like howard hamlin or the mayor of baltimore from We Own This City)
- Is on the good side nonetheless and works with Ork and Elf
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Ork is stoic
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Ork and Elf need a greeting that evolves over time, like a dumb quote prior or something
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Elf keeps fingering The Bureau and believing they’re behind it, Ork insists that as corrupt as they are, they’re not THAT corrupt
- Ork turns out to be completely right, with one or two exceptions
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“Twintown needs The Bureau that it deserves” “Twintown has The Bureau it deserves”
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“Police Agents are bound by the code, this isn’t the wild east anymore”
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“Did you hear about that council member who disappeared?” “Not my jurisdiction”
- Council member hasn’t been kidnapped, isn’t dead, is hiding out with something tangentially related to investigation that gets found out by Ork and Elf
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“Dude, do you ever smile?” “No, now help me move this body”
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Ork and Elf keep trying to get an audience with the mayor throughout the story and failing much to their increased frustration
- Eventually they get in and the mayor has no idea the shitstorm that’s happening out there, much like the Earth Nation king from Avatar
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Elf as Ork’s in to not just the elven world but the elven criminal underworld
- As much as Elf knows, anyway
- “Elves aren’t a fucking monolith, we don’t all feel the same way about it”
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Ork is a woman but ork men and women look, talk, and act identical
- “How do you tell each other apart?” “We do”
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Ork only has whiskey glasses for drinking, which Elf correctly points out is really sad
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“Buddy, you’ve got ‘flight risk’ written all over you”
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Elf is only allowed out with Ork, Ork hangs with Elf in prison
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“Maybe it was the perfect crime” “There is no perfect crime” “What do you mean?” “Tell me how you would have killed him” (explains, ork gives evidence he left behind)
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Crime combines the murder, low level elven gangs, fencing illegal goods, and departmental corruption
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Ork goes to the elven police department for their help, can’t trust own department
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Killer is trying up loose ends, need to race to save someone
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Maybe have the world combine principal case detectives and prosecution lawyers to have a cool trial
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Maybe maybe even have the trial be a separate story as a sequel
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The case setup, the trial, the aftermath?
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Prosecution suspected of criminal interference, but no as it turns out
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Need to get their arguments straight
- Person had the means to kill
- Person has the capability to kill
- Person has history of violence
- Person can be tied directly to murder
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The system is as follows:
- A prosecutor is chosen by the state and the defence by the defendant
- They both choose a judge they agree on
- There is no jury, even in a criminal case, as the judge is the final arbiter
- Proceeds as normal in a argumentative common law style trial with arguments being put forth
- However, the judge may interject and ask relevant questions
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Orks don’t have prints, as they are covered in fur
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Police questioning takes the form of a regular 3rd person omniscient POV in the described scene with italic interjections of dialogue by the investigator and the suspect
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“So, what do I call you? Sir? Ma’am? Something else? I can never tell with you orks.” “Detective is fine.”
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Union problems are central to the world and it’s conflict
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Elf gets arrested for impersonating someone? (Tangentially related to murder)
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Intersperse excerpts from the legal system between chapters/parts
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There aren’t really police officers (besides detectives) as most policing is in the hands of community support officers like mental health units and the like
Outline 1
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Outline 2 {#outline-2-1}
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An Ork Interrogates an Elf
- “Mhm,” He said, lighting his taboo pipe.
- “I’m an ork detective, so this elf shit usally doesn’t fall under my jurisdiction. However, this appears to be related to some city-wide cartel related business.”
- “I hope you don’t think I’m calling you ‘detective’” “You’re not from TwinTown, are you?” “ElfHolme”
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Heading to the scene of the crime and questioning a witness
- Questioning the witness shows off the ork’s skills in getting info out of people cleverly