[Video, un: alwayswright]

[servesyouwright]

[ First, there's Phoenix's face. He's standing in one of the hallways of the station, so it's all pretty plain. He smiles, waves once, and gets straight to the point: ]

I have a very important question for you.

[ And the camera cuts to show a corner of the hallway instead, where an innocent stepladder is standing. ]

What do you call this object?

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video; y.mikotoba

[softshoes]

['Important' gets him to pause his boring first aid supply restock duties, but then... all that Phoenix shows is a stepladder? Yujin makes a perplexed face before replying--]

It's a stepladder, Mr. Wright.

Do... do you call it something else?

[servesyouwright]

Knew I could count on you to be sensible, Mr. Mikotoba.

[ He ... does not explain further. ]

voice; un: romanoff

[deaddrop]

Is this a trick question...?

[servesyouwright]

Nope! I just want to know.

video | un: S.H.

[astudyinviolet]

[ Don't mind the mess of papers with strange writing everywhere behind him. That's just the usual state of a Sherlock's room. Be more concerned at the expression of confused dread on his face. ]

... Is this some some kind of reference from the future?

[ Is this another "rock band" thing? ]

[servesyouwright]

Huh? No, not really. Unless-- I mean, I don't know when these were invented.

[ Is this guy actually from before the time of stepladders? ]

Text; un: 苣屋

[dispassioned]

梯子

[servesyouwright]

Yeah, you know what, touché.

text; un: naruhodo

[locumstudentesquire]

Now, hold on... What he's showing in the video CLEARLY folds in half in the middle? Don't tell me that in the future no one says キャタツ anymore...

video; un: toxicodendron

[greenpower]

A step stool.

[servesyouwright]

[ He didn't see that coming. ]

I'm-- I'm sorry, a step stool? What part of that is a stool?

voice; un: naruhodo

[locumstudentesquire]

[Listening in, listening in, aaaaaaannnnnd...]

...Sorry, but did you just say you've been debating this topic with someone for a decade?

[NOT THAT HE'S JUDGING OR ANYTHING... MUCH...]

[softshoes]

Haven't you been debating the topic of shovels with Susato since the year before last?

[servesyouwright]

More or less, yeah. I mean, for a few years now we haven't been able to see each other so there have been less opportunities to run into ladders, but yes.

[ Man, he misses her. ]

video; un: geraniums

[rootlessly]

...A ladder?

[Listen, if it's Important™, he's gotta answer! This is a very serious answer. But he is also mildly confused? Is this a trick question somehow.]

[servesyouwright]

[ N O

2 for stepladder, 2 for ladder, 1 for ... step stool?? This is the worst. ]

Just a ladder?

accidental(???) audio

[coordination]

[ Yzak logs onto the network. ]

What the hell is all of this stupid shit?

[ Yzak logs off of the network. ]

audio;

[locumstudentesquire]

[speaking to no one in particular:]

He's been so hostile ever since the divorce...

text « un: red

[reneger]

footstool

( it's a step ladder. he's just here to make it worse. )

[servesyouwright]

Come on, be serious.

audio, un: strange

[rehandle]

[ Having been through the absolute rollercoaster that is this post, it's just about time for him to chime in with a: ]

A stepladder is a type of ladder. Either would be accurate.

[ He also does not care. He is absolutely here exclusively to give the pot a stir. ]

[servesyouwright]

That's just a copout.

[ COWARD. ]

un: Ambus

[legalcy]

[Minimus sees everything going on and decides what will put an end to all this.

An official definition.]

stepladder: (noun) a ladder that has broad flat steps and two pairs of legs connected by a hinge at the top and that opens at the bottom to become freestanding.

Source: “Stepladder." Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

[servesyouwright]

You have access to the dictionary?

Video.

[groupiedrifter]

[He LITERALLY comes in late with Starbucks. In his hand and everything.]

Oh, that's a Leap Ladder.

You use it to elbow people from a higher jumping position.

[softshoes]

Now you're all just being silly.

Voice, and oh so deadpan.

[onesingletruth]

[Voice because he is facepalming and pinching the bridge of his nose.]

Wright, we both know that is a ladder.

[servesyouwright]

[ Wait, really? ]

Edgeworth ... You can't be serious.

text ↪ un: torontonian

[hallowing]

are we doing g-rated answers only or

[servesyouwright]

Yes??? Why is this even a question?