ER:Captain Kitaura
From The Heretic Knowledge Vault
An important NPC in the Errant Road free-form on-line role-playing game. Needless to say, he doesn't exist in the Poe-verse.
Captain Kentauro Kitaura, to give him his full name, is a high mucky-muck in the Tsuirakuan Department of Homeland Security, which functions as a combined police force, military, intelligence service, etc., in the city of Kiyoka and probably beyond. He specifically commands the "Public Safety Division" of the department in Kiyoka, which appears to be a police-like function. He enters the story quite early, as the crew at the Veracian mission are trying to figure out what happened to clobber the mission's back wall, and also why the Tsuirakuans don't seem to care about it. Young battlemage Corporal Kristi Yugawa has been sent by Kitaura to retrieve the fried remains of a certain Private Ryono, who met a particularly messy end when the wall came down. (In fact, he wasn't killed by the wall, but rather through lethally inept operation of his Yuuki staff against Grope, who'd been almost accidentally passing overhead during the chaos at the mission.) She invokes his name when Argus and Brother Farley meet her outside the mission, in an encounter that turns out to be eventful for all concerned.
Kitaura is a decidedly unpleasant fellow, with all of the personal warmth of a department-store mannequin and, at least according to rumors passed on by Kristi, a long-standing grudge against Veracians for iniquities dating back to the Mage/Priest Wars. He doesn't like Tsuirakuan exile Argus any better than he likes the Veracians, and finding Argus in cahoots with the people at the mission causes Kitaura to launch a late-night visitor to Argus' hotel room to try to intimidate him into knocking it off. However, this turns out badly (painfully though not fatally so) for the muscle, who discovers that Argus may be a down-and-outer with health issues and a drinking problem now, but he's still a complete badass when it comes to magic.
Later on, however, the worm turns slightly, as the mysterious disappearance of Father Egbert during a seemingly routine warp gate operation creates all manner of uproar (not to mention months' worth of game interactions) and serious loss of face for the Tsuirakuans. Kitaura becomes considerably more conciliatory in his interactions with the mission in an attempt to find out just what happened, and tolerates dealing with the barbarians and the traitor until the mystery of the gate's apparent malfunction is resolved. He was last seen gating into Saus with Argus and Brother Miguel from the mission, although he's known to have returned to Kiyoka in the meantime.
An important point is that he's gay, which renders him immune to certain attempts at information gathering by Argus and Sister Rose.
