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You might not know the name, but you know the work. Hashimoto was the screen writer for Akira Kurosawa. He wrote Throne Of Blood, Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Hidden Fortress, The Bad Sleep Well, and Rashomon.

He died of pneumonia, and we lost a titan of Japanese cinema.

So, say, in the Fallout Wasteland, you'd slap them with a rolled-up checkered suit to draw upon the betrayal and backstabbery of Benny in New Vegas. (Or perhaps pistol-whip them with a 9mm pistol, because Benny's choice of weaponry is the unique 9mm pistol Maria, but that's a little more of a stretch and obviously involves actual weaponry.)

Or in Terraria, you'd pelt them with rotten eggs or bonk them with a Clothier Voodoo Doll or Guide Voodoo Doll, all three of which allow the player character to kill their own NPC allies. (Do they make fics about Terraria? They almost certainly make fics about Terraria...)

Or in Equestria, you could use the goggles of a Shadowbolt, the fictitious group Nightmare Moon used as an (unsuccessful) ploy to get Rainbow Dash to abandon her newfound friends in the pilot.

I love it!

So if you were in Middle-earth, you could chuck an action figure of Saruman at it, drawing on his betrayal. And so on and so forth.

hS

...smacking them over the head with a small bag filled with thirty silver coins or whatever equivalent currency in the fic's canon (say, thirty bottlecaps, or thirty Sickles), as a reference to what Judas got for betraying Christ. But at *that* point, we're back at Christian stuff, and there's not much point in using it over the Bell, Book, and Candle.

But I fear the work that is yet to do cannot be passed to others; it is down to filing and the craft of art.

(Also I'm stubborn as rocks and am danged well going to finish this insane project myself. Oh, the trouble I store up for myself...)

hS

I know I've played around with those on the Wiki, and I have vague memories of maybe suggesting you could do it? Only I can't find any evidence of that, so maybe I also... didn't.

Regardless, Baron Huinesoron is happy to claim credit. It'll help him get over the fact that you finished redecorating before he did. (Look, I'm getting there...!)

hS

I have several agents who aren't permanently assigned to one department, or are Designated Experts. Agent Mortic is unpartnered in WhatThe specifically so he can be paired up with people who need expert help; Agent Huinesoron is the same for DOGA, plus he's Grelvish consultant for SIELU, plus he's in the Geology division of DAS. Heck, there's direct precedent over in the DCPS, where many of the caseworkers are also agents in other departments, and do DCPS work in their free time.

I like it; it's a way to get more variety in PPC stories without doing down the 'they're Floaters so they do everything' (or 'they're Assassins but they do everything anyway') route. Not that I haven't done that too, but it's fun to see things get more diverse out in HQ.

(It also stops the UDoI becoming the DIO take two, which would be... yeah.)

hS

Nooo parentssss no, sorry, that's something else.

Yeah, it's Dark-type. It's not a Dark-type move, it's just... darkness. And the ghosts are just ghosts. ^^

However, you're absolutely right that that's not really what 'Dark' in Pokemon refers to; it apparently comes from the Japanese for 'evil', and it's basically Slytherin-type.

I'm not sure what you'd use as a physical embodiment of sneaky backstabbing. The whole point is that they're not actual weapons, so I'm not keen on the gun version; the 'while its back is turned' version works nicely, but might be tricky to work into an explanation.

As for why Sandra and Freckles got it wrong... well, they had just transferred from the DMS, and I don't think either of them know Pokemon. I mean, they also thought <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/169FF6AOFyOqkrm1VFDRIwUHKWBT4q0ljZJjZvyYi9I/pub">Agent Atlas was a canon character, so they're hardly experts in everything... ;)

hS

I love the description of Los Taelis and things magically floating around and dashing off. Very Hogwarts. ^_^

The one thing that confuses me is the magical signposts based on a design proposed by Huinesoron. What does that refer to? And in this context, what's Headquarters? (This is potentially just me being dense.)

Baron Hieronymus definitely needs better accommodations for when he's staying at Los Taelis. A proper chamber, perhaps. With an office. A nice desk, plenty of quills and ink for all that tedious clerking. {= ) In fact... since I've got a couple of wizards now, what would you say to being promoted to Head Cleric? Seems more fitting for your station.

~(Baron) Neshomeh

The less manual work I have to do, the more I can get done, so sure! I appreciate things that are both effective and efficient. Harper and Smith team-ups: always a good idea. ^_~

~Neshomeh

For the Pokemon-style exorcism (which uses a piece of canon as a Silph Scope to reveal where you're supposed to aim, and either smoke bombs or thrown Sue-Wraiths to knock out the Sue-Wraith), why are smoke bombs used?

I get the projectile Sue-Wraiths, they're explained as "Ghost-type attacks" and yeah, you're literally attacking a ghost with another ghost, but the smoke bombs are supposed to be... Dark-type? Except Smokescreen (the closest analogous move to a smoke bomb) is a Normal-type move, not a Dark-type move, and it's mainly associated with Fire- and Poison-type Pokemon. The only Dark-types who get Smokescreen as a move are the Greninja line (who get it because ninja) and Spiritomb (who only gets it through breeding).

I personally would suggest a silenced firearm (doesn't matter what type, although you probably want a pistol, not a rifle, for range concerns) instead- the Dark-type are known for sneaking, backstabbing, and striking from the shadows, and an unexpected silenced pistol round in the back of the wraith's head could be viewed as the move Sucker Punch (whose Japanese name translates to "Surprise Attack"). Alternatively, one could instead just capture the spirit when its back is turned without an opening shot, and charge the Wraith while it's in the jar- which again, could be considered such Dark-type moves as Thief, Sucker Punch, or Knock Off.

...Or, you know. Just have a Pokemon on your team with a Dark or Ghost type move.

... you shouldn’t have a team dedicated to that. What would they do all the time? After all, we try to catch errors as soon as possible. Finding something only when the mission’s author is no longer around should be an exception.

I imagine that the Snowdrop wouldn’t have any agents permanently assigned to his department. He would temporarily draft knowledgeable agents from other departments as needed. (Androia and Hieronymus are supposed to be in the Harry Potter Division of the DMS, although I didn’t write any regular missions yet.)

HG

But while rereading "Pick your Poison" to get the context, I may have picked some glitches:

But the truth is, this is isn’t your story, or your world.
"is" shouldn’t be there?

You do not have a daughter—or a wife, for that matter—and have never met anyone else currently standing this room.
Missing word "in"?

And there may be another one in "Because we like you":

He impacted the wall and bounced off onto to the floor.
Either "to" or "onto" should not be there?

I liked Miss MacKinnon’s part best.

HG

For your birthday present, have an Urple Apple Macbook. It's like a normal Macbook except it's wilver with an urple logo.

Gonna be honest, I *like* the idea of a Department of Inaccuracies. The PPC isn't infallible, after all.

Said department would especially help in cases like this, where the author of the mission is unreachable and has probably left the PPC completely, and thus wouldn't be able to edit their own mission.

If I do get Permission (or re-get, since I've forgotten whether I'd achieved Permission before I left- although I'm pretty sure I hadn't) and the UDoI achieves canonicity, I'd definitely join in with a UDoI team. (Although I think it'd need a different name once the U falls off, since the Department of Intelligence also goes by the acronym "DoI")

Happy birthday! Congratulations on becoming an adult!

I shall treasure them always. (And I'll also dress up the aloe to look like Aloe from MLP. Because yes.)

I should not board without coffee.

I'm talking about bootlegs that still try to be in the game world they're ripping off.

Again- if the bootleg says it's Pokemon, in the Pokemon world, and there's canon Pokemon in it, it's not an unoriginal canon, it's trying to 'add onto' an existing canon the same way a fanfic would.

Take an extra d6, to be applied to a roll of your choice.

If we ever become a canonical department, and then find some agents who are sufficiently versed in the Fallout canon, we may do something about it.

The Snowdrop, Unofficial Head of Department, Uncanonical Department of Inaccuracies

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Hi, Hieronymus Graubart here. Welcome back; I remember you.

Officially taking note by PPCing the mission is all we potentially can do to prevent the undead Stu from coming back and complain about not having been slain properly. Unfortunately, the Department of Inaccuracies exists only in the badfic games yet.

Also, I’m currently hosting copies of ShatteredSanity’s missions on my Google account, and I intend to move them to The Lost Tales so that they won’t be lost.

HG, Archivist’s Apprentice

Congratulations! It's your new personal best!

Joking aside, you're officially an adult, according to the US. Enjoy your newfound power and responsibilities. Congrats, dude.