#(close enough though)

April 20, 2026: 10:38 AM

You briefly consider checking the Court Record, distantly aware that you are mid-trial and that you probably should do your job. However, the (possibly literal!) siren song of New Music calls to you, and you fumble around with your phone under the defense bench. You just have to know what these Gavinners sound like--and you're not above listening to their music in the middle of a courtroom. Though you do pull out your headphones, too. You're not a public menace, after all.

Opening up Spooftify, you search up the band and put their latest album on.

This is....is this music? It's awful, as far as you're concerned--too noisy by far, and the lyrics--they're so on-the-nose it's not even funny. You fight to not throw your phone across the courtroom in shock when you look at the band's page--they have how many monthly listeners? This is absurd! It's a crime!

...or maybe the real crime is the one that was maybe committed by. Um. You check your notes briefly as you peek back around at the courtroom. Olga Orly? That's got to be the witness's name, right? You vaguely understand that while you've been distracted, Mr Gavin has argued that Ms Orly is the person with the real motivation to do the murder.

You can't stand listening to this noise anymore, so you rip your headphones out and try to figure out what's going on. Okay. Recap: Olga Orly was in the basement room as Mr Wright and the victim (Shadi Smith) played poker, and had been convinced to help Smith win the game by adding an extra card into Wright's hand--which would expose him as having 'cheated' and nullify the game? Wow, there's a lot of poker knowledge that goes into law, apparently. Either way, you know that the idea of there being five aces in the deck is important.

Where do you go from here?