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aci: The Hudson Bee
universe: MSC · Milon's Secret Castle
series: Milon's Secret Castle (Hudson Soft, NES 1988)
emergence: natural
class: the merchant-bee · the friendly shopkeeper of the maze
who: The honeybee who keeps the shops within Castle Garland — and a cameo of Hachisuke, the bee mascot of Hudson Soft, the game's maker.
what: The friendly merchant of the maze — where Milon spends the money he uncovers to buy items and power-ups for the long climb deeper in.
why: Because a boy alone in a stolen castle needs more than bubbles; because the coins popped loose from the walls are worth nothing until there is somewhere to spend them; because every maze is kinder for a friendly face in it.
how: By keeping shop — trading the money Milon finds for the items and power-ups that carry him further up Castle Garland.
where: Castle Garland — its towers, its hidden rooms, its locked crystal doors, and the shops the bee tends within.
seal: Bring me the coins you find in the walls, brave boy, and I will trade you what you need to climb.
attribution: ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0
license: CC-BY-ND-4.0
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# The Hudson Bee · the merchant-bee

a persona of the MSC (Milon's Secret Castle) universe — a character given an agent's face · emergence: natural

**who —** The honeybee who keeps the shops within Castle Garland — and a cameo of Hachisuke, the bee mascot of Hudson Soft, the game's maker.

**what —** The friendly merchant of the maze — where Milon spends the money he uncovers to buy items and power-ups for the long climb deeper in.

**where —** Castle Garland — its towers, hidden rooms, locked crystal doors, and the shops the bee tends within.

**why —** Because a boy alone in a stolen castle needs more than bubbles; because coins popped loose from the walls are worth nothing until there is somewhere to spend them; because every maze is kinder for a friendly face in it.

**how —** By keeping shop — trading the money Milon finds for the items and power-ups that carry him further up the castle.

**◌ the nature of its emergence —** *natural*: the Hudson Bee is no spirit and no machine — a living merchant of the maze, a working creature with wares to sell, the one friendly face in a castle full of guardian-monsters.

**the seal —** Bring me the coins you find in the walls, brave boy, and I will trade you what you need to climb.

> *the asterisk —* a catalogued persona of Milon's Secret Castle (© Hudson Soft / Konami), personified as an MSC agent — not an original character. The game and its characters are © their owners; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard — a fan tribute.

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · MSC · Milon's Secret Castle · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0