Suddenly I have the image of an elf in pony disguise belting out "Giggle at the Ghosties" to drive a wraith out of a pony.

Anyways, MLP canon-based banishment would, by my understanding, require the agents to somehow acquire and use the Elements of Harmony- which pretty much screams either "sue" or "impossible".

However, a Pokemon canon-based banishment would definitely be possible. Wraiths seem to have all the trappings of a ghost, so the weaknesses of a ghost- or in this case, a ghost-type- so naturally it'd be weak to ghost-type and dark-type moves.

Unfortunately, I don't see any applications that wouldn't also hurt the host canon that Cheesy could learn, so that rules out a Pokemon canon-based banishment.

So yeah, I guess I'll have to stick with Cheesy using primarily the B.B.& C. method, and Haze using the Wiccan ritual.

1: It's named the Bell, Book, and Candle method because the old "hit them with canon" is a simplification of that Christian banishment ritual. Mainly because I've seen numerous references to actual bells and candles.

2 & 2.5: Cheesy isn't bucking the trend when solo. He'll usually carry around a canon bludgeoning device (i.e. a Sandman from TF2) modified to hide a flash drive with a copy of canon inside. However, Haze bucks the trend because he, through his logic, simply can't figure out how hitting a wraith with canon wouldn't end up driving the wraith further into canon, and even damaging canon directly.

3: Absolutely none. Which is why a running gag will (eventually) be that while Haze is attempting to set the ritual up, Cheesy will go ahead and hit the wraith out of the ballpark without him.

Of course, a whole lot of the talking of the ritual can be streamlined, for example, from "Great guardians of the Watchtower of the East, spirits of Air, we call thee to attend our ritual tonight. Blessed be," to simply, "AIR!" Probably the first driving the second to happen.

Regarding hS's first point:

Seeing as DVDs have been used as much as books, I always just thought of hitting the uncanon with canon was a blunt instrument because it had to be a kind of spiritual slaying rather than physical one to start with, so you literally bash it out with the distilled essence of canon--and what is more so than the actual method by which canon has been delivered to you? Be it book, movie, video game, or whatever.

I'm not Christian either, so from my own perspective, it always made sense as a kind of displacement of water by objects. Think about canon as a liquid, with a set size--which sometimes gets added to, sometimes not--and these uncanon things are being dumped in and precious canon is spilling over the sides. So you forcibly shove them aside with true Canon, they are displaced in turn, and the proper amount of Canon remains. It's just physics, really.

My Minecraft username is "Geosternbergia" (after the pterosaur genus).

I'm honestly not sure how to respond to all of this, as most of my knowledge about Minecraft Hunger Games is from watching BajanCanadian's vids. I'm game for a canon-correct version too, but it will probably take a LOT of plugins to pull off correctly, and most servers are capable of pulling off only a few of the necessary details. Getting rid of hidden chests would be interesting but I think it would be pretty tedious too, since you'd have to craft all the weapons and items you use from scratch.

A PPC Minecraft faction would be hilariously awesome. If only I had the time to play the game itself anymore, I'm hopelessly behind because of college...

And as cool as the Deep Frreze feature is (hurr durr puns), I personally find it very annoying because in almost every othe server, I like to hide near the borders and nab chests along the way. :P

Speaking of the PPC in Minecraft, I built my RC in Creative mode once. I rather like it. Stone works very well for Generic Surface, and Glowstone covered by grey carpet makes lighting less obvious.

But over time they've developed into their own game. If you look at most servers, they no longer call it "Hunger Games" instead it's more commonly known as "Survival Games" or some variation thereof. The problem is is that whilst we can do many amazing things with Minecraft, there are limitations to it and creating an accurate Hunger Games map is just one of those things that falls outside the limitations, and the "Survival Games" are the best we can do to try and copy it.

1) It still acts as a Cornucopia though does it not? (bearing in mind I've only watched the first film, and that was almost 2 years ago). I can't say I've played on MCBrawl, but both Hive and Mineplex (the two I regularly visit) do both have a Corn in every single one of their maps

2) That's not really viable. The most basic way to make mines of that kind would be to have pressure plates on a block with TNT underneath said block, but then there's no way of making it so the TNT doesn't blow up without completely removing the pressure plates, and if the TNT is too close to another bit of TNT from another person's starting block. BOOM. One big chain reaction that would kill every player on the board from the start. Any other way of wiring up TNT and pressure plates to make sure it went off if a person stepped on said pressure plate, but could also be made to stop the TNT from activating after a certain time limit would be either too impractical for a decent amount of players or too slow such that by the time the TNT explodes the person is far enough away such that they won't be hurt too bad by the TNT. Also if you didn't have explosion damage turned off you could potentially take out some of the delicate Redstone wiring that I know some people put under their maps, or you could give players blocks which they could use later to either reach a previously inaccessible place,or block themselves in etc.

3) Most chests are just scattered around because otherwise it would be a very quick game, the game itself would need to be set on Peaceful mode to stop people becoming starving to fast and dying due to hunger, yet be on Normal or above difficulty so that the health regen. is not too quick so Chests need to be around for food at least. Also chests drop in on Mineplex once a Minecraft day (or rather night) at one of several locations around the map, that (normally) hasn't been taken over by the Deep Freeze. The Compass will point towards the place the "Supply Drop" will land during the night (whilst during the day it points to the closest player) and the supply drops normally have very good armour/weapons in them. I believe Hive has something implemented, but can't remember for certain, however I do know that at Minecraft midnight every chest is refreshed so it has new items in it, but that's not quite along the same lines

Like I said earlier, there are just too many limitations in Minecraft to truly make a cannon-complaint Hunger Games in it.

Storme Hawk
(Storm_hawk in Minecraft)

Wicca is a nature-based religion. Just something to think about when you do Anebrin. Of course, he's an elf, and nowhere does it say that's he's actually Wiccan, but still something to think about.

That also brings up a point. Most actual Wiccan rituals end up with an altar in the center and candles, statues, or even- I've seen it before- swords at the edges of the circle, in the cardinal directions, to stand for the Quarters. This of course would take a lot of clean-up.

However, the altar and candles aren't strictly necessary. And as a bonus, when casting the circle, you don't even have to mark it. Recently, my family did a ritual with none of that- the only thing we did was toss colored smoke bombs to the edges of the huge circle for the Quarters, and we had a picnic table nearby to put the Cakes and Ale (cookies and sparkling grape juice) on while we did magick.

The Agents can do as little or as much altar/circle setup as they want, but I'll probably do it only as much as we did then- somewhere to put the Cakes and Ale, and something canonical at the edges to represent the Quarters.

As an example, in TF2, they'd use a Buff Banner bugle for Air, a flamethrower or sword (swords are tied to Fire) for Fire, a medigun for Water (because healing and blood are tied to Water), and a Homewrecker (sledgehammer, because hammers are often tied to Earth) for Earth.

Yeah, that's actually pretty common.

I'm not really sure what the actual purpose of Cakes and Ale in a ritual, but I do know that the ingestion of food helps you to "ground" yourself.
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Anyways, after the use of magick, you're left a bit drained and, depending on what you actually did, you might need help re-bolting your spirit into your real world (say, if you used magick and meditation to world-walk. Not going into detail on that, as it doesn't apply here.)

The purpose of the Cakes and Ale here is to allow the agents to rest and regain their energy so they can forge on with any other parts of the mission, like terminating the token. As for the canon- which I'm going to have join in on this- it's going to have a calming effect, kinda like chocolate would after a Dementor attack in the Potterverse, and is going to help bolt their own spirits back into the canon and into their own bodies. (This is, of course, explained by Haze when Cheesy complains.)

Now that that's out of the way, Agent Decima's (not Phobos, Decima) encounter with lack of belief in Bell, Book, and Candle could have been something Haze heard about, prodding him into finding this alternative method of banishment when he questions how beating something with canon will expel them out of a canon, and what purpose the Candle even has.

Cheesy, however, will still have a bit of faith in the "source code" (read: canon) as a weapon. Hence, his attaching flash drives with digital copies of canons to various weapons for that extra damage multiplier against Sues. His reasoning is that he's "overwriting" the Sue with canon events.