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Aselia's eyes light up as she soon, seems to realize the importance of this flaw. "Well if there's a flaw, why don't you tell me what Time Spinner was really doing. Perhaps though, it'd be best to investigate his room. There are things there that might help you." Swift Blitz gets up to follow her, along with Gadget. The three lead the team upstairs to a room. "Are you ready to prove that your investigators? This case is quite clear once you find all the pieces."

"Found...?" Aselia said, soundly a bit confused. She turned to the purple pegasus who simply shrugged. "Nevermore hasn't left. She doesn't leave unless Time needs to send a letter to somepony, which he hasn't done in a while now." Aselia looked Swift Blitz who gave a very puzzled look as well. None of them seemed to know what the defense team was talking about.

The door slowly swings open, however no pony is close to the door. A little lower than a pony's head would be, is a white raven with a long beak it's white feathers look majestic and it's big blue eyes look fairly large. It gives a mighty crow before it moves to the side, revealing a big pegasus. "Hi there!" The stallion says. "My name is Gadget, can I help you?" A female voice seems to answer his question. "Gadget, I think they might be part of the defense team for Time." Gadget moves out of the way and on a chair in the middle of a medium sized, office is a red mare in ruby robes. Next to her is another pegasus with a concerned look on her face. She doesn't speak but looks to the red Unicorn instead. "Please come in, Time said you would arrive here. My name is Aselia."

(Teleport!) There was a large, grey, two story building at the address that Time Spinner gave to the attorneys. There was a sign that read "History in the making" and a sign below it that read "closed" however you can tell that there are three ponies inside, along with some other objects inside. None of them look to happy, and it seems like there is a sense of dread around the building. What wonders await on the inside and how will Aselia be able to help?

( (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ ) "Aselia is a friend of mine from Childhood. I've known her for years, she also has some experience in Law, and...other things. You just need to see her, she can help you." Time Spinner told the trio of defenders.

(Waiting on one of the other two to post before we move on.)

(This is a joke) Once upon a time, there was a band of pirates! A crazy group made from a bunch of users here. There was QuickLime, BrambleRose, Bellosh, Steeleagle, and Dio! There used to be Rosewind, but I think they locked her in a treasure chest with a bunch of really bad cupcakes that imagination made, also he was there too. Finally they all sailed aboard the S.S. Raridash, a ship with a lot of promise and with a lot of evidence to prove that it was a great thing! However the crew members had some very odd quirks. The leader of the crew, Dio, wanted to live forever. Bellosh had an odd fascination with evil, albeit fashionable, hats. QuickLime enjoyed taking these hats from Bellosh and hiding them all over the ship, for him to find three months later. Bramblerose loved to eat Imagination's cupcakes, even though everyone else thought they tasted like worms. Imagination had a back room on the ship that no one else went into. I mean I assume that's where he kept his wood working stuff because at random times in the night you could hear a chainsaw in there, then some screaming, and then silence. Steeleagle believed in spontaneous combustion because unlike those so called "scientists" Steel knew the truth. Anywho the band learned of an ancient relic known as the chest of Rosie wind, a chest full of glorious items so unique and mind blowing, your face would implode upon setting your eyes on it. So obviously the pirates went after it. They ventured all over the land looking for any sign of it, and meeting some interesting fellows. Like a robot-man who only wanted to love, a naughty Gazelle who was queen of a city for a bit, some random guy who told really weird stories, a lady with witch powers, and of course, The duke of cinnia-bon. After searching for so long, they came across a town of talking muffins, who gave them the chest, which they took back to the S.S. Raridash crew. They opened the box and what do they find? Nothing, because the destination wasn't the treasure but the journey, the people the met and helped, that was the trea- just kidding they found Rosewind in the box. They stood around, slightly confused for a second and opened the other treasure chest, and what did they find? Rosewind. So for a matter of three seconds there were two Rosewinds in the world. Then a tsunami came and the Rariddash ship sank. That was the end of the S.S. Raridash, oh and then it exploded and came back as the U.S.S Rarity. Then everyone exploded. The End.

"I don't know anything about the body." Time Spinner said in a passive aggressive tone. His voice cracked and once again it seemed like something flashed around him, but it was too quick to see. It was almost as if it didn't exist and it was simply an illusion that was concocted in your head, yet it also seemed like it was an outside force. What was it?

"Ever since she was a hatchling, she's always been able to find her way back to me. It was a bit odd for her to be out so late. I knew I'd find her somewhere, she's smart enough to stay close, but when I couldn't see her, I thought there might have been a problem. Nevermore's a frost raven, she's white so I should be able to see her in the dark easily but not once did I see anything. There was a sense of dread in the air. Anyhow, near the end I did find her but then I found myself face to face with...her." He said with a shudder. He was talking about the dead body near the end. "There's a fairly large building on Trotter road, it should say 'History in the making' that's my home, you can't miss it."

Time Spinner stops cold. For a second something flashes, there was something around him for sure. Whatever it was no pony can see it anymore. Time Spinner is rigid, his eyes drop to floor, and in a low and stern voice he says. "No." He doesn't seem like he will talk about that any further. "If your done asking questions, I can direct you to my house. You can find Aselia there." Questions: Did you know the victim? [Locked] Who is Aselia? Why did you get accused? Other questions (Anything you think might be important.)

"Let's see if I can answer those questions. Aselia should be at my house, she's staying with my little sister. She's just my friend, and no she isn't why I was around the crime scene, I was looking for my pet Raven, Nevermore." Time Spinner said with a rather annoyed expression on his face. He must have been asked these questions already when he was first questioned by the police. (A little late for it but still, here's your first piece of evidence.)

Time Spinner looks around. "Only to find my friend, Aselia, once your done here. She can help you." (Ooc: Welcome to question mode! Basically you can ask Time a bunch of questions, I suggest 2-3 and then leave another option open, you can ask as many questions as you want, but this mode is actually meant for something you don't have yet.) Questions: Did you know the victim? Who is Aselia? Why did you get accused? Other questions (Anything you think might be important.) (Remember: This is a giant puzzle, you'll get different answers to different things when you have the right pieces of evidence or information.)

(Winter, I know who 'she' is but no one else does. At least not yet.) Time rolled his eyes and huffed. "Might as well, if I have to take my chance between you or court banishment, might as well put up with you." He looked surprised as the hooded pony sat down, he could tell that she was indeed a she, mostly by the clothing but he couldn't tell who she was, or if she had seen her before. "So, there's going to be three ponies on my case? Well, that seems weird. Though I guess it is stated in Equestrian law that if the court decides it, there can be multiple defense attorneys." He gave another sigh. (We're about to being Questioning mode, so get ready.)

Time Spinner scrunched his nose, and glared at the Stallion. Time Spinner was not amused, he despised being talked down to, even if...if he was being held for murder. He looked up to the mare, who he seemed to be a bit...well Time Spinner didn't know what word to use. After studying her as much as he could, he coud not get a good signal from the mare. He turned his attention back to the Stallion. "I don't like being told what to do, and if you don't want to be here, you might as well leave." He didn't want somepony who only wanted money or was doing this for other reasons to represent him. He wanted a lawyer who believed he was innocent, it would help his case if he had that. The unicorn sighed. "Ask your questions."

(Uh, Dashie, we are currently in the detention center, which is kind of like a jail.) Time Spinner eyed the stallion who walked into the room, studying him as if a test were about to come up. He opened his mouth to speak, but stopped and kept looking. After some more looking over Time Spinner finally spoke. "Yes, I am Time Spinner." He sighed heavily. He didn't even know why they locked him up, just that some mare had been killed but that was all he knew, or perhaps all he was letting on.

So dash as always? XD

" *pant* *pant* No...NO! I can't get caught! I-I just can't go to prison! Th-there has to be something I can do. L-let's see...I just...I need...what am I going to do?" -The murderer (OOC: Welcome to Time for a Turnabout, this is my first picture rp, you'll be put through the pheonix wright gameplay styles of court mode, where you have to prove Time Spinner did not commit the crime, and investigate mode, where you have to find evidence throughout locations that are relative to the crime scene. Anyway, let's start.) On May 5, 2013, a young lady by the name of Pick-a-lily was murdered. No one had called the police until 3:35 AM the person who called was another mare by the name of Sky wisher. When the police arrived, one stallion was found nearby, he was perfectly conscious and sane, his name was Time Spinner. Time Spinner was taken to the canterlot detention center, where he awaits the trial, which will begin on May 7, 2013. The date today is May 6th. Time Spinner does not yet have a lawyer for him, but that's very surprising. There aren't many lawyers in Equestria and not many will take murder cases. This is why many detectives can take the case as a sub-lawyers, however this also means that more than one prosecutor can be on the case as well. Time Spinner sits all alone in the detention center, he's told that he has a visitor but no pony has arrived so far.

(I just want to say this: I have no idea why Gadget is here, but it's totally legitimate, not inappropriate in the slightest.) Gadget...or should I say contraption, was glad to finally have a chance to lay down, he put his things down on near an empty bed in the muscial room. He had no idea how he did it, but he managed to get into Girlscon. Gadget was a Stallion, A STALLION, dressed in drag and make up, to look like a mare. After the refusal of his brother's help, Gadget and Swift Blitz managed to find an odd earth pony who was very skilled in make up, with a brush, and wig, and powder puff, and some really gooey substance that felt like mashed potatoes, Gadget looked like a mare, one just a little older than he was, perhaps the same age as his brother. The convention was tons of fun, he didn't know why mares hadn't shared this with the Stallions, but perhaps that was part of the fun. There was women all over the place! Not once did you see a male for miles in Ponyville. Gadget was so glad to be able to rest for a bit, but even in his sleep he would still have to be extra careful. He noticed the other mares in the room, and felt, extremely content in his presence. Gadget...er Contraption, was going to find out the secret of Girlscon! Of course maybe he'd find other things too. He enjoyed sweets, and there was a lot of sweet mares here, but he couldn't think that right now. He was a Mare, not a Stallion. He got into his bed, wearing an odd looking night gown, and went to sleep. Or at least he tried to sleep. Octavia had barged into the room, carrying a cello case with her. "WHOO HOO, THAT WAS A BLAST. She said which was very out of character for her. Octavia had always been prim and proper, acting like a lady almost always. Though it could soon be figured out what the reason was, Octavia reeked of a bitter, fruity scent, one that could easily be identified as Alcohol. The mare was clearly drunk. "COME ON! WHAT ARE YOU GIRLS DOING? YOU SHOULD GET OUT THERE!"

"It was a busy night in ponyville, foals went door-to-door getting candy from folks, many ponies held events that other ponies would go to and enjoy, and there was a nice peace in the air. Yet...something didn't feel right. As I walked along, loving my visit from my friend, Aselia, I found that there was some masked tension in the air, and after joining what I believed to be Princess Twilight Sparkles' haunted house, I learned the horrifying truth, I was right. The Changelings had invaded the city of Ponyville, capturing many of it's citizens and parading around as them. They tricked us into doing horrible things, I was forced to partake in an illusion where my emotions would become sweets for the changelings to enjoy. I was forced to fight against my own friends, in order to live, and it took the power of many ponies, including my own will and wits, to survive. The scars will never heal, and I don't know when the nightmare's will stop, but I thank Celestia that my family, and I survived. If I had lost my brother or my sister...I fear to even think what I might do." -The diary of Time Spinner. You know what nightmare night shows is that somehow we can all get together and roleplay in a happy and joyful setting with no violence at all, and then the roleplay team can show up, take that happiness, beat it with sticks, and throw it off a cliff. Then they give us changelings and tell us to have fun. Which I did, by the way. Nightmare Night, at least to me, was a success and I loved every minute of it. There are things that could use a bit of tweaking here or there but perfect is over rated and I think the problems it does have are charming. Events like these are the reason I want to be on the event staff, it looked like so much fun to make and sponsor. So we'll start with the good, because it's the longest. Having a story like this, that affect threads all around is probably my favorite here. The fact that changelings drop upon us and causes the entire focus of the roleplay to change is very nice. I think it helps to the story that none of us knew so it was easier to convey feelings of surprise this way. However I do know that some users wished they could have used a notice that this was going to happen and that's fine. Maybe it would have helped to give a bit of notice. I for one think that the surprise was very nice, I loved not getting to know about this. The combat in the threads were very good to me. Not only did I like the way my characters fought back, but they were well written and it seemed like my characters could really work in there situations. I want to give an example just for show. Time Spinner was in Twilight's Terror Time. There we were put under an illusion to fight each other and feed the changeling with our emotions. Many characters went ahead with this, but Time Spinner didn't. See, Time is a thinker, he's not strong, he's not magically gifted, and he's not sneaky. This thread allowed the revised Time Spinner to do a lot of good. Since Time Spinner is a historian, he has to know as much as he can about everything. Luckily he knows about magic. Right when tentacles started to attack him, he learned that this was an illusion and he was able to fight back, not with strength but with intelligence. Eventually he even gave up on everything and started meditating to stop feeding the changeling because he didn't want to feed her anymore. It's things like these that really make characters I use to feel useful throughout the whole rp. However there were problems with Combat, and I'm going to explain those later. Now something that is similar to the story but I still loved is the connection. We were all connected due to the fact that we were in ponyville and that was interesting. Something that I wanted to see, that I hope perhaps the event staff will look into is the crossroads effect. For an example we're going to use obstacle course and terror time. So let's say in Obstacle course the cave took us down below ponyville and as we kept going we find ourselves directly under Twilight's house. Since the ponies are in Twilight's basement the two groups are very close but they don't ever cross each other's paths. Instead something that one does could cause something else to happen in the other. For example one of the ponies in the cave screams because they get scared. The scream gets loud enough that even the ponies upstairs hear it and because of this they each think they hear someone in their nightmare, so they have to react to it. This would cause interesting changes to the RP, so I think it might be a good suggestion. I loved how each thread was similar and yet different. The changelings did things that were similar to what the mane six would do, but they still acted out a bit, this made somethings noticeably different that anyone who has met the mane 6 before would think is odd. The only one who I think didn't act strange was rainbow dash. Minus the changeling cavern there was nothing that seemed different about her and I almost thought that when the changelings hit, Dashie would help us fight them off. Twilight was different since she threw us into the nightmare. Fluttershy acted different, not only with participating in Nightmare Night but also because she acted odd towards the cage of "Animals." Rarity gave some pretty odd remarks during the fashion show, and Applejack seemed really weird during her hayride. The only ones who seemed normal for their characters were Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow dash, but I didn't read all of Pinkie Pie's thread (Sorry Rosie.) so I don't know if she did act strange. (For her anyway.) The costumes for each character were pretty cool, and seemed to match their personality, this includes OC's. However some didn't match them on purpose and that did add to the charm of the event. I also enjoyed the crossing of Canterlot Chronicles and World of Equestria. Especially since Aselia was a really good character to play in this situation. I certainly enjoyed this version of the cross between RP types then the last one. I would love to see more of this. I could go on but due to the sake of this post, I'm just going to move on to some of the bads, but I only find two I am well aware that there was an OP problem that occurred. Now this can be a problem. I have seen countless times on all three of my roleplay sites. Now the only thing we can actually do to fix it is tell the person god-modding that they are doing that. Its helped with me, and its helped with others I've seen. A way to help prevent it is by writing down a set of skills that they can use, that goes along with their lore. However this can be a bit of a problem because sometimes you don't know if a power is too powerful. I'm getting side-tracked though. Combat could use an improvement and in fact a few ideas crossed my mind, such as using a dice roller. However most of my ideas were either too difficult to use, weren't possible, or were too complicated for me, and I don't want to suggest something I don't know how to use. I also found a problem with combat. Now we're going to use my four characters that really did things in the event, those being Time Spinner, Aselia, Octavia, and Gadget. The girls were the easy ones: Aselia was built with combat in mind, and because of this she didn't have that much difficulty to do battle. So she was already done. Octavia's costume was a book that was basically a ponified version of assassin's creed, so most of her weapons were bows and her own hooves. Though she didn't get into much combat. Then there were the guys: Time Spinner was easy, because he wasn't really in combat. He was placed in an illusion where all he had to was get slapped with a fish. (By the way, that needs to be a thing from now on.) Gadget was the one with the most difficulty, his wing was injured during the RP so he couldn't do anything with flight, he wasn't a unicorn so he could use magic, and he wasn't really a strength character. In his Canterlot Chronicles app he will be using his gadgets as weapons, but for this RP I found it to be a bit of rubbish for him to do that. (Huh, never used a British word before.) Most of his combat in the RP was moving things, including a knocked out Flash Sentry, a crowbar, and a cage. Now maybe others found other problems but this review is from my experiences and I didn't find many problems in my adventures. (Well none from others, I probably caused a bunch of problems at the start with my two characters in a thread a first and my misreading of some of the other posts.) So then, we come down with tons of really good things in this event and a few bad. Now like I said, I really like Nightmare Night, it was fun, creative, interesting, and very nicely done. I made me want to be on the event team and I tip my hat to you all. (Whoever you all are.) Now then, it needs a bit of work, but its far from being bad, really far off. So now, with everything that I can come up with, with all of my experiences laid on the table, and almost all of the roleplays finished, I give the Canterlot event: Nightmare Night 2013, my reviewer rating of 9/10. I can't wait to see more from you guys. This has been Neo Reviews, thanks for reading.

The final fantasy reference or the phoenix wright reference?