Will form coherent comment when I can.

I don't... actually think I've seen an in media res mission start before. Huh. It works really well here, so well done?

"I have a small nose" - oh you poor deformed monstrosity how will you bear it.

It's really fascinating to watch Derik and his completely lopsided worldview nevertheless craft a consistent response to the badfic.

"She may, technically, have sounded like an angel, but only because some angels were mind-bending horrors." ^_^

"the stunt with Fellrazer in Beleriand" - [hides face in shame]

The perfectly-played Python reference shortly thereafter appeals to me immensely.

One catch: Derik says “It’s an insult! An insult to everything that makes Erik’s story tragic and poignant!”, but you earlier established "the Phantom of the Opera (Erik, though Derik never referred to him by the name they’d once shared)"

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Y'know, in my head I'm really articulate and can write excellent reviews; but in practice I just devolve into random stream-of-consciousness notes. Huh.

hS

This is more of a general observation of all your recent stories, rather than this one in particular, but you do a really good job of fitting as many jokes and references into each mission as you can, but you also do it in very few words, such that it doesn't turn into tangents that distract from the action and make the timing between agent banter and fic narration feel fuzzy. Your footnote section helps this, since it allows for deeper explanation of things without slowing the narrative down. I'm trying to say you're just really smart about how you pick what words and jokes to use. My favorite in this one was Gall assuming the "Red Death" was the dragon species from her home world, and reacting accordingly. It makes perfect sense for Gall to make that assumption, but her reaction stays realistic without taking too long. (As for me, I was gunning for the agents to drop Erika into Prince Prospero's party, but I guess that would have been less satisfying for Spoiler.

And speaking of the spoiler, Spoiler

Ah, only in the PPC could the question of whether Wrackspurts exist become such a practical topic. If they are indeed real, the PPC is probably quite overrun with them by now, after so many decades of Harry Potter missions getting looted. So at least the violin is in good company? If it's infested. If Wrackspurts are real. >_>

—doctorlit, Wrackspurt agnostic

P.S. It's embarrassing, because I don't usually think in memes, but on reading the line, "Dumbledore, who’d started a roll-call of students participating in the costume contest, reached Erika’s name, and the doors flew open on cue," all i could hear was ♪SomeBODy once told me . . .♪

(Apologies if I come off as a bit nonsensical. I just finished my project that my teacher also literally pushed the due date back on. Two minutes after I had finished it. Oh well, free extra credit.)

Very good, as usually. The cool CSS trick kinda fudged with me a little bit (the words went out of the box a little, but I fixed it by turning the phone sideways) but I liked the story, as always.

I was kinda missing your work a little bit enough to reread the mission over "Bloody Raining Night" hehe so I'm glad there was a new mission that I can reread to death.

But yay!

kA, who needs to learn to stop writing missions while their other mission still needs beta-ing.

I missed seeing these two in action. Great stuff as always, and I left you some kudos over on AO3. :) Gall's blunt abrasiveness and telling Derik to pull his head out of his butt seemed like the sort of pep talk he needed to get him through his crisis of identity. chef's kiss

(I can't help but note the similarity between Ix getting possessed by an inner wolf and the [spoiler] that happened here—which IIRC Derik did hear about in another Halloween RP—so now I'm just kind of quietly amused at yet another mirror instance between them, considering he and Ix have had a few tumultuous interactions before.)

And yes, I did go back and look for the little clues. Loved it. :)

This is my first time reading a mission with these two, but I'm already quite invested in them. I picked up their dynamic enough that now I want Derik to be okay! And Gall to get all the shiny things!