[Anguirel]

I must say, Kitanna's death scene was one of the most...disturbing I've ever read. Mindlessness. Urgh. Certainly, penguins that fester kill far worse than wolves.

Now that the phantom is a proven innocent, I have a cunning plan. phantom me hearty, be as utterly patronising, superior and irritating as possible. Then maybe the two remaining recreant scum won't be able to resist temptation, will kill you next Night and grant Lalaith another dream. Hmph. Maybe not.

More seriously, I have a good deal of conduct to explain last night. The question that seems to be being posed most widely is: what was the point of that first vote for Eonwe?

Well, I said it was shoddy at the time. Both Enca and Naria were admittedly as quiet or quieter than Eonwe, so my stated reasoning of Eonwe's silence was bilge. I can only plead the following facts-

1. I was in a great hurry. It was developing into rather a tricky evening. Ergo I had little time for analysis.

2. At that point I actually wanted to accuse Kitanna, but felt doing so without devoting time to building a proper case would be a cop-out. Eonwe was my back up. (Of course, I ended up voting for Kitanna on pretty dodgy evidence anyway, in the event, due to mistaken hype about the deadline.)

3. I was pretty sure Enca would turn up and contribute later, while Eonwe-who I know as a veteran deadline-dodger-might well have already said his peace. And as for Naria, to be honest I'd forgotten she was playing...though as it turned out she certainly made the final moments rather more dramatic...

So, yes, last night was a total mess, probably the greatest disgrace I've mired myself in since the Shamville days. What did I say about Boromir again?

"Given the extreme frailty of the evidence against him, it's quite odd that he's bothering to defend himself at all."

At the time I thought it was rather a bon mot. Doh.

I think, however, that my suspicions of Diamond may not be quite so wildly misguided. More on that anon.