The Toxic Turnabout

> *Mystery. Murder. Assassins. Beanix. Get ready for the experience of a lifetime. Tabletop roleplay meets detective fiction in this thrilling season of Ace Attorney Dungeons and Dragons, an adaptation of the classic RPG to a modern setting (less dungeons, less dragons, but lots of mystery and death).*
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## Creative Team

### Art by

Cottonscrambles (player character art), Jane Bird (graphics), Midjourney

### Game Master(s)

Jane Bird

The Toxic Turnabout is the debut campaign of *Ace Attorney Dungeons and Dragons*, and the main campaign of Season 1. It takes place before Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, during Phoenix Wright's disbarment, in October of 2021. The plot follows an unlikely group of individuals with careers in law, who work to unravel a mystery that begins one night when an employee is found dead at the Borscht Bowl Club, but spirals into much more than they expect.

## Cast

### Player Characters:

* Max as Miles Edgeworth
* Joy Bird as Viper Hypnalis
* LesMistress as Connie V. Icheon
* Samuel (The Monoworth) as Dick Gumshoe
* Fruitbat as Calisto Yew

## Plot

The Toxic Turnabout begins with the murder of Ronan Hyde in the Borscht Bowl Club, where Kylie Badgai is arrested for his murder. However, the party also finds other incriminating evidence on the location, more and more threads begin to unravel, as they try to escape mysterious pursuers, and avoid attacks from the criminal circles they have unknowingly stepped a little too close to.

### Session 1

Session 1 of The Toxic Turnabout is a narrative session, and the debut of the series. It begins with a brief scene of each character living their normal life. This "rolodex" style of narration is characteristic of The Toxic Turnabout, although it is used occasionally in other campaigns. Conflict immediately ensues when Calisto Yew shows up at the Prosecutor's Office a free woman, and bumps into Miles Edgeworth, Connie V. Icheon, and Dick Gumshoe; the conflict comes to a head when she is found that evening on a crime scene, with a music box she stole from Connie.

### Session 2

Session 2 is an investigation session, which is spent looking at the crime scene.

A new device, belonging to Connie Icheon, is introduced: the Auto-Topsy, which performs an automatic autopsy of the cadaver by a simple prick of it's finger. A small, but deadly, amount of snake venom is found in his blood, although it is not the thing that killed him. According to papers found in the office he died in, the business being run out of this office was a money laundering scheme, through a stationary company called Pennan, Inc. Calisto Yew is patted down, and her weapons are removed from her (although her gun was not fired), along with a music box belonging to Connie Icheon. Connie is offended by the theft of something so trivial, but Yew admits she did it on orders from the people who bailed her out of jail. Edgeworth also receives an email confirming that Calisto Yew has, indeed, been legally freed.

## Development

As the first-ever AA DnD campaign, The Toxic Turnabout was somewhat experimental in nature. Sessions were run in D&D platform Roll20, unlike later campaigns that were hosted in Discord due primarily to Wi-fi / lag issues.

### Process

Players for Ace Attorney Dungeons and Dragons were gathered on Reddit, through a series of posts / Google Forms. Most of The Toxic Turnabout was written alone by Jane, with occasional reference with players for narrative scenes, and much writing was done between sessions, which were spaced two weeks apart.