Twintown

1. []{#brainstorm}Brainstorm {#brainstorm-1}

• Uptown elves

• Night market orks

• Orks are about faaamily

• Elves are capitalists

• 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

• Ork explains how even something as simple as eating something leaves a million pieces of evidence

• Ork is in homicide, he doesn’t give a shit about drug possession

• Ork is incredibly good at changing up his personality if he needs to, for example, get information from someone over the phone

• 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

• Ork is stoic

• Ork and Elf need a greeting that evolves over time, like a dumb quote prior or something

• 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

• “Twintown needs The Bureau that it deserves” “Twintown has The Bureau it deserves”

• “Police Agents are bound by the code, this isn’t the wild east anymore”

• “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

• “Dude, do you ever smile?” “No, now help me move this body”

• 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

• 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”

• Ork is a woman but ork men and women look, talk, and act identical

  • “How do you tell each other apart?” “We do”

• Ork only has whiskey glasses for drinking, which Elf correctly points out is really sad

• “Buddy, you’ve got ‘flight risk’ written all over you”

• Elf is only allowed out with Ork, Ork hangs with Elf in prison

• “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)

• Crime combines the murder, low level elven gangs, fencing illegal goods, and departmental corruption

• Ork goes to the elven police department for their help, can’t trust own department

• Killer is trying up loose ends, need to race to save someone

• Maybe have the world combine principal case detectives and prosecution lawyers to have a cool trial

  • Maybe maybe even have the trial be a separate story as a sequel

  • The case setup, the trial, the aftermath?

  • Prosecution suspected of criminal interference, but no as it turns out

  • Need to get their arguments straight

    1. Person had the means to kill
    2. Person has the capability to kill
    3. Person has history of violence
    4. Person can be tied directly to murder

  • 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

• Orks don’t have prints, as they are covered in fur

• 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

• “So, what do I call you? Sir? Ma’am? Something else? I can never tell with you orks.” “Detective is fine.”

• Union problems are central to the world and it’s conflict

• Elf gets arrested for impersonating someone? (Tangentially related to murder)

• Intersperse excerpts from the legal system between chapters/parts

• 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

1. Outline 2 {#outline-2-1}

• 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”

• 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