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[Dsarker]

I'm okay with a fast forward.

[Telgin]

Edit: Does anypony else want to take over Isos for this. I'd like it to be someone who's been around awhile, sorry compound. I can do it if no one else will step up, but I'd rather let someone else do it.

I wouldn't really feel comfortable taking over Isos and probably don't have time anyway.

I'd say that it should go to Khenal or you.

[Dsarker]

If Khenal does, who's going to play Khenal when he gets examined?

[KingStrongbeard]

Two hours pass and the ponies pile back into the meeting hall. Charity speaks, "The meeting to decide the fate of Friesden is now back in session."

"Isos, the floor is yours. Please make your case."

(Any volunteers, or should I?)

[compoundoverkillcornbread]

Also, compound, like I ALREADY SAID, I'm going to let the open forum part of the trial run for at least one full day real time so more players have an opportunity to post regardless of time zones and schedules. So if you need to leave tonight, you should be able to post your part tomorrow.

((haha, I know, no hury here...I'm just placing holders in case I need to leave soon...))

[Dsarker]

Friesden whispers to Khenal, and gets a small nod in return. She smiles.

[compoundoverkillcornbread]

I'd like it to be someone who's been around awhile, sorry compound.

((No prob! Strongbeard, maybe you should take Isos.))

[Telgin]

Dsarker has a point.  Guess Isos is yours KingStrongbeard.

Falcata rises to attention as the trial resumes.  She is very eager to hear what else Friesden has to say for herself.

[KingStrongbeard]

(Okay, I'm going to take up Isos. This will probably be a wall of text, give me some time to type.)

[compoundoverkillcornbread]

(Okay, I'm going to take up Isos. This will probably be a wall of text, give me some time to type.)

((Haha, go ahead! I always love a reading challenge!))

((In the words of Loud Whispers...))

I'm put off by the large walls of text... But it is a great read nonetheless. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!!

[KingStrongbeard]

Isos steps forward, “Ladies and gentlecolts of Glitterglen, my first piece of evidence is Friesden's Diary.” She holds the book aloft.

“In the beginning of the book, we find the writings of a clearly manic pony.”

She shares a few of the journal entries with the audience. (I will not repeat them here, you may go back and look at them yourself.)

“However,” Isos continues, “as the book progresses, the writing begin to take a different tone. It is as if two ponies are trying to write in the same space.”

She again reads the insane book entries to the audience.

“It is clear that the pony who wrote this book was unhinged, and capable of the crime of murder. One might say to this, that it was mearly a temporary condition, one which she is clearly over now. As she sits here calming defending her crimes. However, I have prepared evidence that she is mearly adapt at hiding the madness within.”

(I'm going to put words in Thunder's mouth now. I hope that's okay with the owner as they haven't joined in any Role Playing other than journal entries and I will attempt to stick to that character as best I can.)

“Thundersplinter please come up here.” Gestures Isos into the crowd.

Thundersplinter walks up and sits next to Isos.

“You and Friesden where both members of the founding 7 of Glitterglen, correct?”-Isos
“That is correct.”-Thunder
“How would you describe your relationship with Friesden before she was arrested.”-Isos
“I thought of her as a friend she had a few quirks but I never would have suspected her of murder.”-Thunder
“What sorts of things did you do together before she was arrested?”-Isos
“Well when we were last together, we where working on a recipe with Ironya for hoof polish.” -Thunder
“And she seemed fine then? Normal?”-Isos
“Yes, she seemed just like any other pony.” -Thunder

“Could any of you who knew her before say different? No, you could not.”-Isos

“You see ladies and gentlecolts, I see only two possibilities at this point. ONE Friesden's diary is a lie to make her seem more mad then she was, so as to play it off as temporary insanity, in the case she was caught or TWO she is somehow able to mask her inner madness, with a veneer of calm normality. Regardless which is the case, she is not safe to let go free.

[compoundoverkillcornbread]

Cornbread, unable to keep her mouth shut any longer, yells, "I agree!"

[compoundoverkillcornbread]

Otik glares at her disapprovingly. Cornbread slowly shrinks back, embaressed by her sudden loud outburst.

[Telgin]

A curious series of emotions wash over Falcata as she listens to the captain's statements.  The contents of Friesden's diary were... unsettling to hear.

If Friesden had committed murder, Falcata knew already she was a heartless sociopath.  The diary however, as the captain said herself, proved without doubt to Falcata that Friesden was either hopelessly insane or diabolically sinister in her motives and was intelligent enough to feign such insanity.

Her eyes narrow as she looks over the pony chained before her.  She would never allow Friesden to go free again.  But it wasn't her place to make such a judgement.

She reflexively reaches for her weapon as somepony shouts a confirmation to the captain's assertion, but halts at the lack of any physical outburst.  She would do well to keep her eyes on that pony.  At least she was a unicorn and nopony would have seen her magically reach for it.  It wouldn't do at all for her to start a scene needlessly.

[Dsarker]

"Fillies and gentlecolts. My learned associate here claims two things. The first is permanent insanity. If this was so, then how would I be able to hide it? If this insanity is such that it caused me to kill a pony and was permanent, why wouldn't I have killed many other ponies in the rest of the time prior to the killing, and in the time after the killing but prior to its discovery? And what about after I was released? Would not then my insanity have caused me to kill? But, no, don't bother to think about that. For my learned associate has said it, and she is indeed learned! She would have already have thought about this, but would have put it from her mind. She has clearly already thought this out, and merely thinks that we do not have the learning to understand why. For she is a learned pony. And anyway, she has another option she gives us. The murder was calculated, but it was hidden in the insanity. My learned associate clearly knows that this would mean that my alleged killing of Carrot would be a silly thing for somepony who had successfuly hidden prior crimes, and merely discounts it. So should we all, fillies, gentlecolts. For she is learned, and she would have already seen that this would be counterproductive, but there is another motive. She merely does not feel the need to present it to you, but you can be assured she has it. For she is a learned pony, and she would not forget such things."