Maybe someone told him how absolutely devastated we all are over here, ripping our shirts and swooning and whatnot, and he took pity on us.

Or it could be eatpraylove reported him and the admins actually acted on it. Alas, we'll never know.

I'm kinda disappointed, actually. I didn't notice this myself (kinda distracted by other things in this thread...), but Phobos told me the deaths of Florestan and Eusabius were pretty much word-for-word identical, and I wanted to see for myself. 'Cause that would be... uh... a cunningly symbolic use of parallelism? Or something?

^_~

~Neshomeh

The only thing he'd proven is that he has the maturity of a three-years-old.

I mean, he didn't technically break any rules. And besides, one of his main sticking points was "you did it without permission". Which is disingenuous, sure, but hey, if he wants to make himself look like a hypocrite, that's his prerogative, and he's not technically breaking any rules.

Also, I refer you to Phobos' post below.

But did you read that author's note? That's one name-drop away from being slander, Nesh! I mean, he intentionally misrepresents the PPC, cries says that it's "bullying" when that misinterprets the whole point of the PPC, and pretends that he never deceived me originally.

I'm sorry, but to me, that kind of slander is, in fact, a form of harassment.

P.S. I actually don't know, though I know that the canon does have chi in it. So even if it was possible, it's likely it wouldn't have too much of a negative effect on him. That, or the fire fist thing was a likely chi attack (the main character himself can transform into a flaming fox with multiple tails, I know that much). I don't know for certain, you'd have to ask someone who's more familiar with Naruto than I.

...a big part of it was just the way he went about it before it got to this point. Honestly, I would be a lot less angry about this whole thing than I am if it weren't for the fact that this is the capstone of some really bad behavior on his part, and if not for the fact that he is still lying about all the things he did. If you want the sparknotes version, you can have that here: http://literarytravesty.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/a-response-to-jedi-qui-gon/

If he had just started with this, I would've been annoyed, but I wouldn't be infuriated. But the fact that this is the capstone of what I mention there... Yeah.

The mission itself goes a bit deeper than you imply. His prose has improved, there are some actual descriptions now, and the plot isn't a parade of complete bat-shit insanity, but that's about all I can say. His characters are still completely uninteresting cardboard cut-outs, they still talk like they're in a Saturday Morning cartoon, his action scenes are still very poorly paced, and in this case there's still no attempt to reconcile the canons. So there was some improvement, but it's not by much.

And anyway, he's still trying to defend this fic by making it so that the PPC never went in and corrected it. That implies that he still believes there was some quality to be had there, no? So therefore, any talk of "improvement" from his end is, to my eyes, him being full of shit.

...given that one of the things that Jedi Qui-Gon conveniently left out to fit his narrative of "oh, I've been horribly wronged by this bully" is that I did, in fact, leave a constructive review for the story. Granted, I did it in character along side Florestan and Eusabius, but still. (And yet somehow, he still messed up their characters by doing away with Eusabius' legendary stoicism and giving Florestan things to say that are way too fancy.)

As Nesh and Doc said, we're not obligated to tell them about fics that have been missioned, and we normally don't.

Well, unless the author of the fic that was mission'd got a new account, contacted you, pretended to be someone else, and then asked about those old fics. In which case, you get this. Looking back, I probably should've known better, but apparently I'm just too trusting and nice that way.

Over a decade of experience has taught us that 99.9% of people get angry and behave like this Jedi Qui-Gon guy if they find out about a sporking, and it doesn't matter when or how. Plus, what's more rude: privately make fun of someone's work, or make fun of someone's work to their face? The latter, of course.

It's far, far better if the authors never know about it.

~Neshomeh

Doing so would be like taunting them, rubbing it in their faces. That leads to hurt feelings and a bad image for our community.

If you want to offer constructive criticism to an author before doing a mission for their fic, that's fine. But don't mention the PPC while doing so, and please, please never tell someone you're using their story for satirical mockery.