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Apprentice Adept

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Apprentice Adept	comment	The Apprentice Adept series is a seven-book fantasy and science fiction series by Piers Anthony. The series takes place on two worlds occupying the same space in two different dimensional planes: Phaze - a Magical Land in Medieval Stasis and more or less ruled by the Adepts, the strongest magic users, each specializing in a separate aspect of magic, and Proton, a barren mining planet of high technology, ruled by the Plutocratic Citizens (who control the immense wealth of the Protonite mines). The worlds are divided by the Curtain, an energy field only visible to those capable of crossing it (i.e. someone whose counterpart on the other side is dead, or who never had one).The first trilogy (Split Infinity, Blue Adept, and Juxtaposition) starred Stile, a Proton serf who, after a mysterious assassination attempt destroyed his career as a race jockey, becomes the central figure in an ancient prophecy to Save Both Worlds from destruction, or ensure said destruction. The first three books, a standalone series in their own right, were originally known as the Split Infinity trilogy, and only lost this title after the four sequel books were added.The second trilogy (Out of Phaze, Robot Adept, and Unicorn Point) featured Bane and Mach, the sons of Stile and Stile's opposite number Blue, and their efforts to keep the previous impending doom from happening all over again.The seventh and final book, Phaze Doubt sees both worlds dealing with an alien invasion, and the Batman Gambit meant to deal with it and prevent future ones.
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Apprentice Adept / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
Apprentice Adept / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: The Moebites are gelatinous masses who eat through their skin in their normal forms. They also have Voluntary Shapeshifting abilities which they can use to look like humans.
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Apprentice Adept / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Apprentice Adept / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: In Split Infinity, the hero, Stile, forces a robot to show him a printout of her program, and they both agree afterwards that it was a form of rape. Annoyingly, though, it's not because of the tone of violation or because the robot didn't want to - it's because Stile got the printout by inserting a cord into an access port (so in other words, because it vaguely resembled sexual intercourse). One of the sections of Unicorn Point's Tournament Arc pitted Tan against Agape in a "Seduction by Proxy" match,note Two volunteer serfs were selected and placed in a social situation where they took turns trying to initiate sex, with the players nudging them along as a voice in their head. Their memories of the game would be wiped afterward. where rape was allowed to "ensure a finish." Tan's proxy ended up raping Agape's proxy. Though the rape was treated with less drama than the fact that the good guys lost.
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Apprentice Adept / int_14c791fb	type	Conflicting Loyalty
Apprentice Adept / int_14c791fb	comment	Becomes the major third act conflict of Phaze Doubt, where Lysander won't turn over the algorithm he's created that will allow the resistance's master plan to succeed. He knows the resistance will enact the plan anyway and without his algorithm, the planet will be destroyed and everyone (native and Hectare alike) will die. But he considers that outcome a faithful execution of his mission (infiltrate and thwart native resistance efforts). However, by this time he's become sympathetic enough to the natives that he suffers from Conflicting Loyalty and agrees to accept a challenge and turn the algorithm over if he loses (which he does).
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Apprentice Adept / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
Apprentice Adept / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: The Translucent Adept in the second trilogy. Mach even more so, due to Honor Before Reason.
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Apprentice Adept / int_17058a90	type	No Biochemical Barriers
Apprentice Adept / int_17058a90	comment	No Biochemical Barriers: Averted. Shapeshifting creatures who can assume human form can have sex with humans and with each other easily, but it takes strong magic to make Half Human Hybrids possible.The Reason...When the female enters her fertile phase, the couple must spend a day mating in each of their different form, one day per form, to make a pregnancy possible. For example: Mach and Fleta took three days (one day each in unicorn, hummingbird and human forms), with Trool the Troll providing Mach with transformation amulets for each form.
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Apprentice Adept / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Apprentice Adept / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: Every fight scene involving Proton serfs, unless they've been dressed up in costumes on a Citizen's orders or are wearing protective gear.
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Apprentice Adept / int_192d04d5	type	Mutually Exclusive Magic
Apprentice Adept / int_192d04d5	comment	Mutually Exclusive Magic: But those rules are pretty much the only thing the various Adepts have in common.
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Apprentice Adept / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
Apprentice Adept / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: Stile with Neysa, Hulk, Rifleman (who also becomes Stile's mentor in the ways of Citizenship) & Clef. After the Hectare's invasion of Phaze/Proton is foiled at the end of Phaze Doubt by the heroes shifting the planet into the magical universe and cutting them off from their main forces, the Hectare who are left stranded on Phaze/Proton quickly give up the fight and join the new society. It was indicated they were somewhat Punch-Clock Villains anyway, just vanguards doing the bidding of more formidable alien races in a larger coalition.
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Apprentice Adept / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
Apprentice Adept / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: The Contrary Citizens/Adverse Adepts threatened Flach and Nepe with harm to their mothers should they go rogue again, something that explicitly violated their agreement with their fathers, Mach and Bane... an agreement which kept the most powerful actor in each world on their side.
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Apprentice Adept / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
Apprentice Adept / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: Green, the Adept of fire.note This is from the second trilogy onward. In the original trilogy, he used gestures and hand signs to make magic.
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Apprentice Adept / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Apprentice Adept / int_1e12b5b7	comment	Lawful Stupid: Piers Anthony's definition of "good." This is subverted whenever the good guys take advantage of Exact Words.
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Apprentice Adept / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Apprentice Adept / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Stile loses a random game (a single pull on a slot machine) in the Tournament to a child with nothing to lose (his parents' tenure was up, so he entered the Tournament on a lark). It meant one more loss and Stile would lose the Tournament and have to leave Proton for good.
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Apprentice Adept / int_1ebfd039	type	Magical Incantation
Apprentice Adept / int_1ebfd039	comment	Magical Incantation: Stile's magic.
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Apprentice Adept / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
Apprentice Adept / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: In Robot Adept, Agape the Moebite alien (in Fleta the unicorn's body) plays matchmaker with Suchevane the vampiress and Trool the troll (the new Red Adept), hence their naming their son Al for "Alien". In Unicorn Point, it's assumed that something similar must have happened with Citizen Red and Suchevane's Proton opposite Batgirl, hence their naming their son Corn for "Unicorn", but Fleta doesn't recall anything like that.
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Apprentice Adept / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
Apprentice Adept / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: A unicorn can take up to three forms - their natural unicorn form and two others of their choosing (usually human for the second form and usually a bird or some sort of predator for the third)note Belle, however, eschewed a human form and chose heron and mountain lion. Similarly, werewolves can voluntarily change between human and wolf forms at will, while vampires have human and bat forms. The original Herd Stallion takes this a step further, and succeeds in mastering a fourth form after Stile persuades him that it would be uniquely helpful in getting them out of their current situation: the cockroach. Moebites from the planet Moeba in Proton's universe can do this as well, and without a set number of forms, as they are giant amoebas capable of reshaping their protoplasm to look human or like virtually anything else. Though, unlike magical shapeshifters, they are limited to forms with the same amount of mass, and it takes them a moment or two to remold from one shape to another whereas Phaze denizens do it instantaneously. When Fleta the unicorn and Agape the Moebite have a "Freaky Friday" Flip, they have an interesting time figuring out each other's modes of shapeshifting.
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Apprentice Adept / int_20e6a6e7	type	It Only Works Once
Apprentice Adept / int_20e6a6e7	comment	It Only Works Once Any specific Adept spell can only be used once per person, then slight variations have to be used. The Oracle will only answer one question per person.
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Apprentice Adept / int_216c045b	type	The Scottish Trope
Apprentice Adept / int_216c045b	comment	The Scottish Trope: Saying "thee" to another person three times in a row (the Triple Thee) is a binding and powerful love-oath in Phaze.
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Apprentice Adept / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
Apprentice Adept / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: There are seven books.
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Apprentice Adept / int_246c9dc5	type	Unknown Rival
Apprentice Adept / int_246c9dc5	comment	Unknown Rival: The Red Adept, who tries repeatedly to kill Stile without showing herself or revealing her identity and motives.
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Apprentice Adept / int_2882c8c1	type	Career-Ending Injury
Apprentice Adept / int_2882c8c1	comment	Career-Ending Injury: Stile is employed as a skilled jockey, but during the first novel his knees are shot with a laser. He's no longer able to fully bend them without pain, meaning he can no longer ride competitively. This puts him in a tight spot, as losing employment may see him deported while going under anesthesia fix the damage will leave him vulnerable to assassination. We find out during the second trilogy that Citizen Blue, who inhabits Stile's original body, still has the damaged knees. He considers the bad knees a minor inconvenience and not worth the (admittedly now reduced) risk of surgery.
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Apprentice Adept / int_2d88e42c	type	Gender Bender
Apprentice Adept / int_2d88e42c	comment	Gender Bender: Alternate selves are usually the same gender, but not always, ex. Flach (male human/unicorn crossbreed) and Nepe (female Moebite alien), Sirelmoba (female werewolf) and Troubot (male robot), or Weva (female werewolf/vampire crossbreed) and Beman (male human/robot/Hectare alien crossbreed). Which makes things more interesting once they're Sharing a Body thanks to the Merged Reality and their shared body changes form based on which one is driving at the moment.
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Apprentice Adept / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Apprentice Adept / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Tania in the second trilogy (at first), & a good chunk of Proton's Citizens.
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Apprentice Adept / int_302730a	type	Fusion Dance
Apprentice Adept / int_302730a	comment	Fusion Dance: Happens at the end of Unicorn Point, in a BIG way.
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Apprentice Adept / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Apprentice Adept / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Red Adept only tried to kill Stile because the Oracle said that Stile would destroy her, but Stile only fought her because she struck first. In a more series-wide sense, the Oracle does its best to make sure all its prophecies come true, aided by the fact that it is a magical computer which can therefore work across both frames, and that it has contacts with the self-willed machines, including the Game Computer.
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Apprentice Adept / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Apprentice Adept / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Purple ensuring Brown was treated fairly in Phaze Doubt, as she treated him and Tan fairly as their jailer.
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Apprentice Adept / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Apprentice Adept / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: When the Hectare invade in Phaze Doubt, the protagonist Lysander is a Hectare agent tasked with joining the resistance to figure out their plans and foil them. Subverted in that he falls in love with another resistance member and faces a conflict of honor.
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Apprentice Adept / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Apprentice Adept / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Stile and Blue tend to slip into their native dialects (i.e. modern English and Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe, respectively) when speaking seriously or stressed, while now living in each other's worlds.
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Apprentice Adept / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
Apprentice Adept / int_361a1d26	comment	Anguished Declaration of Love: Mach makes one towards Fleta at the end of Out of Phaze, via the the "Triple Thee". It's powerful enough to break the Shapeshifter Mode Lock enchantment she'd put on herself so that she could commit suicide without her survival instincts kicking in, allowing her to take her hummingbird form.
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Apprentice Adept / int_36754cc7	type	"Freaky Friday" Flip
Apprentice Adept / int_36754cc7	comment	Moebites from the planet Moeba in Proton's universe can do this as well, and without a set number of forms, as they are giant amoebas capable of reshaping their protoplasm to look human or like virtually anything else. Though, unlike magical shapeshifters, they are limited to forms with the same amount of mass, and it takes them a moment or two to remold from one shape to another whereas Phaze denizens do it instantaneously. When Fleta the unicorn and Agape the Moebite have a "Freaky Friday" Flip, they have an interesting time figuring out each other's modes of shapeshifting.
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Apprentice Adept / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Apprentice Adept / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: The Oracle used Red's Adept paranoia against her in order to make sure Stile entered Phaze at the right time. Stile also used such a gambit against her during the climax of Blue Adept: Hypnotizing himself into seeing Red as Lady Blue. His shift in attitude to love and passion freaked out man-hating Red enough to cause her to attack Stile, throwing their dance competition and causing her to wash out of the Tournament. He had another earlier in the book, when he faced an obnoxious Citizen who relied on uncanny luck in a game of backgammon. Said Citizen seemed to have knowledge of Phaze, and was fixated on the idea of sex with non-humans (implying he was fixated on them in their animal forms). Stile kept him too distracted with hints that he had indulged in such relations note He had, in fact, slept with Neysa at that point. But it was in human form., that he didn't notice Stile going to the doubling cube over and over, allowing him overcome the Citizen's massive point advantage to win the game in one fell swoop. He does it again in Juxtaposition: Newly minted Citizen Stile loses a bet to a more seasoned Citizen, who admits he stacked the odds to get the winnote They made a bet over whether or not more men or women would emerge from a corridor in a certain time frame. The Citizen owned property nearby and sent word to his people to send serfs through to tip the scale. Stile then revealed that the secret side bet he'd made with another Citizen note Stile was forced to make the bet in exchange for access to the Citizen's property, which he needed for an important data trace, was that someone would cheat to win the next bet. That win more than made up for the previous loss and bolstered Stile's growing rep as a mover and a shaker. The master plan in Phaze Doubt depends finding the agent the Hectare would send down to try and disrupt said master plan. Lysander (a Hectare brain in an android body) knows they're onto him fairly early, but plays along, since they're trying to win him over to their side. The resistance knows (thanks to prophecies) that Lysander will play an important role in the master plan, but not how. So they just want to keep him on their side until the moment comes, keeping him tantalizingly close enough to the full plan that he doesn't just turn in his handlers and look elsewhere.
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Apprentice Adept / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
Apprentice Adept / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Suchevane the vampire. She's so beautiful that the only ones with the nerve to approach her were ones who wanted her just as a sex object. Adept Trool had too much honor to exert his power on her while she was employed as his housekeeper (cavekeeper?), despite his genuine feelings towards her, figuring that was the only way a literal troll like him could be with one such as she.
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Apprentice Adept / int_3bebfcc0	type	Living Lie Detector
Apprentice Adept / int_3bebfcc0	comment	Living Lie Detector: Unicorns can test the truth of a person's words by spearing them with their horns. If the person spoke truly, they are left unharmed.
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Apprentice Adept / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Apprentice Adept / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Al - a half-vampire who's allergic to blood.
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Apprentice Adept / int_402140eb	type	Why Am I Ticking?
Apprentice Adept / int_402140eb	comment	Why Am I Ticking?: In Blue Adept, Stile is forewarned that the villain will try to force a magic bomb that will destroy him if he returns to Phaze with it. The bomb turns out to be a bullet, which the villain shoots into the hero, who realizes Just In Time what it really is. Subverted in Split Infinity, when Sheen and Stile suddenly realize she might unwittingly have a bomb implanted inside her. Stile's employer has her dismantled and searched, but fortunately the Citizen grants his best jockey's request and has his security crew re-assemble her when they find no bomb.
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Apprentice Adept / int_404caf13	type	Unicorn
Apprentice Adept / int_404caf13	comment	Unicorn: A significant sapient species on Phaze. They are led by the Herd Stallion, are shapeshifters who can each learn to assume two other forms in addition to their natural one, are usually technicolor with "socks" of a different color from the rest of their coat (ex. green with orange socks), and the horn of each can produce sounds in the voice of a different musical instrument, allowing the herd to become a symphony on special occasions.
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Apprentice Adept / int_40d15d7a	type	Spoiler Cover
Apprentice Adept / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: The cover of the original run of Blue Adept depicts Stile confronting the maker of amulets, who's dressed in that Adept's signature color. This not only gives away the fact that Red is the hidden enemy, but it renders the scene where that character appears at the Unilympics disguised as a male fairly pointless.
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Apprentice Adept / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Apprentice Adept / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: In this case, it's an Anti-Villain for the first two-and-a-half books, and indirectly responsible for most of the crap Stile goes through.
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Apprentice Adept / int_4497346d	type	Love Confessor
Apprentice Adept / int_4497346d	comment	Love Confessor: Adept Trool doesn't believe a woman as beautiful as Suchevane would enter a romantic relationship with someone as ugly as he is except out of fear or pity, and refuses to take advantage of her. Suchevane, on the other hand, is so used to being seen as a concubine that she takes Trool's failure to make a move as a lack of interest in someone so far out of his class, power and status-wise. They confess their feelings, separately, to Agape note at the time Freaky Friday Flipped with her Phaze counterpart, Fleta. She, in turn, gets Suchevane to approach Trool in such a way that negates both their objections. Later, they name their son Alien (shortened to Al) in Agape's honor.
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Apprentice Adept / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Apprentice Adept / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: A common problem in Piers Anthony works. Comes up so regularly, the bad guys start to count on it. Becomes the major third act conflict of Phaze Doubt, where Lysander won't turn over the algorithm he's created that will allow the resistance's master plan to succeed. He knows the resistance will enact the plan anyway and without his algorithm, the planet will be destroyed and everyone (native and Hectare alike) will die. But he considers that outcome a faithful execution of his mission (infiltrate and thwart native resistance efforts). However, by this time he's become sympathetic enough to the natives that he suffers from Conflicting Loyalty and agrees to accept a challenge and turn the algorithm over if he loses (which he does).
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Apprentice Adept / int_454e6cf5	type	Hypnotic Eyes
Apprentice Adept / int_454e6cf5	comment	Hypnotic Eyes: The Tan Adept possesses the magic of the Evil Eye, which grants him the power of Mind Control. His two children, a son who becomes the next Tan Adept, and daughter, Tania, also have this power.
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Apprentice Adept / int_4c8a0849	type	Mirror Universe
Apprentice Adept / int_4c8a0849	comment	Phaze to Proton, and vice versa. Not quite a Mirror Universe (because morality isn't usually reversed; most good people's counterparts are also good and most villains' counterparts are also villains), but it otherwise fits the trope: people born on scifi Proton have a counterpart in fantasy Phaze that is as close to identical to them as possible while still being consistent with the genre change. In particular, magical power in Phaze translates as wealth and Game-skill in Proton.
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Apprentice Adept / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
Apprentice Adept / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: The unicorn Neysa is an outcast because of her small size and horse-normal black-with-white-socks coloration. Most unicorns are technicolor (Neysa's older brother, Clip, for instance, is blue with red socks).
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Apprentice Adept / int_4cc0c6f2	type	TruthSerum
Apprentice Adept / int_4cc0c6f2	comment	Truth Serum: When someone swears something's true in Phaze, and they really mean it, a wave of rainbow light radiates from them.
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Apprentice Adept / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
Apprentice Adept / int_4f773434	comment	Wise Beyond Their Years: Flach and Nepe.
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Apprentice Adept / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Apprentice Adept / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: The Purple Adept is the singularly most obnoxious and appalling Adverse Adept, but not as competent as he thinks he is. The same goes for his Proton counterpart, Citizen Purple, and the Tan Adept/Citizen Tan, who often works with Purple.
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Apprentice Adept / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
Apprentice Adept / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: Hulk
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Apprentice Adept / int_511728ae	type	Magic Versus Science
Apprentice Adept / int_511728ae	comment	Magic Versus Science: Magic doesn't work in Proton. Technology more advanced than a horse-and-carriage doesn't work if ported over to Phaze. Stile was able to get around this in the first trilogy by having the Brown Adept animate Sheen the robot as a golem, reviving her after she'd gone inert when she crossed the Curtain to Phaze.
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Apprentice Adept / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Apprentice Adept / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: The Purple Adept and Citizen Purple are quite venal.
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Apprentice Adept / int_5288f02	type	All Your Powers Combined
Apprentice Adept / int_5288f02	comment	All Your Powers Combined: Anyone with the Book of Magic gains the ability to use every school of Phaze magic.
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Apprentice Adept / int_52ecdc65	type	Rhyming Wizardry
Apprentice Adept / int_52ecdc65	comment	Rhyming Wizardry: All of Stiles's spells have to be in rhyming verse. Slightly complicated by the fact that each incantation only works once, ever. It's also suggested that the better the verse, the more effective the spell, but he rarely has time to come up with more than doggerel couplets.
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Apprentice Adept / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Apprentice Adept / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: The Translucent Adept/Citizen Translucent is the de facto leader and spokesman of the Adverse Adepts/Contrary Citizens, and is much more polite and honorable than many of his peers.
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Apprentice Adept / int_54321e11	type	Innocent Fanservice Girl
Apprentice Adept / int_54321e11	comment	Innocent Fanservice Girl: Serfs on Proton are not allowed the privilege of wearing clothing. (There is an exception for safety gear.) This has made them indifferent to nudity and enhanced the appeal of sexy clothing.
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Apprentice Adept / int_54956f54	type	Flat World
Apprentice Adept / int_54956f54	comment	Proton was round and Phaze was flat. When they fuse, the result is an hourglass shape. The pollution that rendered Proton uninhabitable outside the city-domes has been pushed to the other side of the world, and it's now agreed that inside the domes is Proton and outside the domes is Phaze, with merged pairs assuming the form appropriate to where they currently are.
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Apprentice Adept / int_55ec42d7	type	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
Apprentice Adept / int_55ec42d7	comment	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: The dialect of Phaze. In the Merged Reality, this is one way to tell which self is in control at the time, since Proton people speak modern English.
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Apprentice Adept / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Apprentice Adept / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: The virtuoso musician Clef is also a master fencer. When he borrows the Platinum Flute to enter Phaze, he seems helpless... until it transforms into a platinum rapier.
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Apprentice Adept / int_57a91010	type	Green Rocks
Apprentice Adept / int_57a91010	comment	Green Rocks: Phazite, used to power the various spells. Which, when taken to Proton, becomes the energy-bearing Protonite.
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Apprentice Adept / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Apprentice Adept / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Among Phaze unicorns — any of them who have what could be normal horse coloration are looked down upon by other unicorns (who come in all shades of the rainbow).
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Apprentice Adept / int_57c25438	type	Green Thumb
Apprentice Adept / int_57c25438	comment	To sum up: the Blue Adept uses rhymes, the Green Adept uses hand gestures, the Yellow Adept uses potions, the Red Adept uses talismans, the Orange Adept has a Green Thumb, the Purple Adept has power over earthquakes and Dishing Out Dirt, the Translucent Adept has the power of Making a Splash, the Brown Adept animates golems, the Tan Adept has the Evil Eye, the Black Adept uses lines (which come out of his body), and the White Adept draws glyphs.
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Apprentice Adept / int_589661ad	type	Renaissance Man
Apprentice Adept / int_589661ad	comment	Renaissance Man: Stile is this for the Game, having attained proficiency in so many varied branches of competition that he can usually manipulate the Game Grid to find an option which favors him. This is stated to be true for all of the highest level Gamesmen.
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Apprentice Adept / int_58e008c	type	Sharing a Body
Apprentice Adept / int_58e008c	comment	The two worlds are eventually merged into one where both science and magic work at the end of the second-last book, and remain that way from that point on. As the characters are explicitly paired across both worlds (mirror-universe twin kinda thing), each pair merges into one being, and each pair has to time-share their body, which takes the form of whichever of them is in control at the moment. Substantially easier for the heroes than for the villains, since heroes are used to putting the needs of others on par with or ahead of their own, while the villains are initially paralyzed fighting for dominance (though they've gotten over this by the time of the last book). It's also a lot harder on people whose alternate is a different species or sex.
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Apprentice Adept / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Apprentice Adept / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: An aversion happens when Stile and Red get together and compare notes. They realize that someone's been playing games with them, but by that time Red's kicked too many dogs for them to work together. Instead, they agree that whoever's left standing will find out who was yanking their chains.
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Apprentice Adept / int_5a1912af	type	The Hermit
Apprentice Adept / int_5a1912af	comment	The Hermit: The Orange Adept, of the hostile variety.
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Apprentice Adept / int_5b0eaf89	type	Upgrade Artifact
Apprentice Adept / int_5b0eaf89	comment	Upgrade Artifact: The Book of Magic and the Platinum Flute. The Book lets anyone who possesses it cast magic spells at an Adept's power level (it let a troll with no inherent magic become the new Red Adept). The Flute enhances the innate magic of anyone who holds it (allowing Stile to use his magic within the Anti-Magic influence of a unicorn circle). Anyone who can actually play the damn thing gains Adept-level magic. A master musician? Becomes stronger than all the other Adepts put together.
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Apprentice Adept / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Apprentice Adept / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Hulk. This, and the death of the equally innocent Bluette, led Stile into a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
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Apprentice Adept / int_61cd6e2b	type	Color-Coded Wizardry
Apprentice Adept / int_61cd6e2b	comment	Color-Coded Wizardry: The wizards, called Adepts, each pick a color, which matches their personality & type of magic.
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Apprentice Adept / int_6369571f	type	Never the Selves Shall Meet
Apprentice Adept / int_6369571f	comment	Never the Selves Shall Meet: During the first trilogy, only people whose counterpart is dead (or who never had one, such as offworlders) can cross the Curtain from one world to the other. Stile is able to cross it because his counterpart, the Blue Adept, has recently been assassinated (Blue's spirit is still hanging around, though, and is resurrected in an artificial body on Proton at the end of the trilogy, while Stile remains on Phaze). In the second trilogy, with the Curtain gone, the only way to get to the other world is by "Freaky Friday" Flip, with the events of the trilogy being kicked off by Mach and Bane doing this accidentally. This ceases to be an issue when the Merged Reality comes about, since everyone now shares a body with their alternate self.
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Apprentice Adept / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Apprentice Adept / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Stile, at least in Proton.
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Apprentice Adept / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Apprentice Adept / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Stile's other self, Blue, though we don't know it until much later.
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Apprentice Adept / int_6532850f	type	Her Heart Will Go On
Apprentice Adept / int_6532850f	comment	Her Heart Will Go On: Subverted. A prophecy foretells that Lady Blue will give birth to Stile's child, so he puts off romancing her until after the big battle to ensure his safety, since logically he can't die before they conceive without invalidating the prophecy. Then double subverted when Stile learns Lady Blue has conceived before the true final battle, removing that particular piece of You Can't Fight Fate.
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Apprentice Adept / int_661d7909	type	Maligned Mixed Marriage
Apprentice Adept / int_661d7909	comment	Maligned Mixed Marriage: Both Mach and Fleta (robot from Proton and unicorn from Phaze) and their counterparts Bane and Agape (human from Phaze and Moebite from Proton) suffer from this at first.
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Apprentice Adept / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Apprentice Adept / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Aside from Anthony's usual coercive and/or underage sexual dilemmas and an almost-entire planet of naked people (on Proton, only Citizens are allowed to wear clothing, and adorning the body with clothes is seen as exotic and interesting the same way nudity is on Phaze or Earth), Split Infinity really gushes on about horses, which the author adores and raises.
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Apprentice Adept / int_69c864de	type	Deliberate Under-Performance
Apprentice Adept / int_69c864de	comment	Deliberate Under-Performance: Stile is careful to avoid performing too well in the Game, in order to avoid reaching the top five places on the ladder which would automatically enter him into the citizenship tournament. This is implied to be standard practice for top Gamesmen, who prefer not to enter while they have tenure left, as (with rare exceptions) a loss before the money rounds means instant loss of tenure and deportation.
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Apprentice Adept / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Apprentice Adept / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: The most powerful oath possible in Phaze is a profession of love, capable of breaking enchantments and binding people together forever.
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Apprentice Adept / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Apprentice Adept / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: In a world where losing a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors can mean getting booted off the planet, everything that could possibly be included in the Great Game is treated as Serious Business. Also, oaths on Phaze (which are magically enforced as an inherent property of the world itself).
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Apprentice Adept / int_6b4763f	type	Morph Weapon
Apprentice Adept / int_6b4763f	comment	Morph Weapon: The Platinum Flute.
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Apprentice Adept / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Apprentice Adept / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Hulk, which was a Shout-Out. Mach and his mother Sheen (both from "machine"). Suchevane the vampiress's counterpart is a human woman named Batgirl. Agape named herself after the Ancient Greek word for the concept of love after coming to Proton from Moeba and taking on a human form, since she was there to investigate that particular emotion.
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Apprentice Adept / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
Apprentice Adept / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: Phazian magic has some very specific rules. For example, each magic user can only use any given specific spell once in their life (or in the case of the Evil Eye, only once in the user's life on any given person), though they can get around this by using minor variations. Mutually Exclusive Magic: But those rules are pretty much the only thing the various Adepts have in common. Subverted by Mach, the Robot Adept, whose ability with the Book of Magic is bound by virtually no rules, and in fact explicitly breaks several pre-existing rules (such as the impossibility of crossbreeding). To be fair, the Book of Magic is described as the nuclear age of magic whereas the normal Adept magic is like cavemen using tools. The biggest rule is the one-use rule. The Blue Adept needs a different rhyme for each new spell. The Tan Adept can only use the Evil Eye once on a given person (ex. if Tan has already used it to compel someone to tell the truth, he cannot later use it on that same person as a love spell or to make them commit Psychic-Assisted Suicide - but could still call in his sister to do that). The Yellow Adept has a different appearance each time she takes a youth potion, etc. Even the Book of Magic adheres to this, but its wielder can use spells that are just a little bit different to reproduce the same effects with a little imagination, and another wielder can still use a spell that someone else has. To sum up: the Blue Adept uses rhymes, the Green Adept uses hand gestures, the Yellow Adept uses potions, the Red Adept uses talismans, the Orange Adept has a Green Thumb, the Purple Adept has power over earthquakes and Dishing Out Dirt, the Translucent Adept has the power of Making a Splash, the Brown Adept animates golems, the Tan Adept has the Evil Eye, the Black Adept uses lines (which come out of his body), and the White Adept draws glyphs.
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Apprentice Adept / int_6edd96b8	type	Making a Splash
Apprentice Adept / int_6edd96b8	comment	Making a Splash: Translucent, the Adept of water.
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Apprentice Adept / int_70377a97	type	Transforming Conforming
Apprentice Adept / int_70377a97	comment	Transforming Conforming: Transformation spells work this way. Stile shows a character the spell to turn into a bee and then has to recite the reversal spell in "bee buzz" to turn back into a human.
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Apprentice Adept / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Apprentice Adept / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Stile uses other people's Oracle prophecies to ensure his own survival. This is made worse by the fact each person only gets one. Serrilyan, who was prophesied to die after seeing the Sidhe three times. Clef then proceeds to pipe her soul to Heaven, despite her belief she didn't belong there.
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Apprentice Adept / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Apprentice Adept / int_7286e96d	comment	Thought to be impossible. But no one thought to check the Book of Magic for cross-species fertility spells. Once they do, along come Flach (human father/unicorn mother) and Al (vampire mother/troll father). By the last book, we have Heinz Hybrids like Weva (werewolf/vampire, thus human/bat/wolf) and her alternate self Beman (human/robot/Hectare alien).
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Apprentice Adept / int_73418f96	type	Psychic-Assisted Suicide
Apprentice Adept / int_73418f96	comment	The biggest rule is the one-use rule. The Blue Adept needs a different rhyme for each new spell. The Tan Adept can only use the Evil Eye once on a given person (ex. if Tan has already used it to compel someone to tell the truth, he cannot later use it on that same person as a love spell or to make them commit Psychic-Assisted Suicide - but could still call in his sister to do that). The Yellow Adept has a different appearance each time she takes a youth potion, etc. Even the Book of Magic adheres to this, but its wielder can use spells that are just a little bit different to reproduce the same effects with a little imagination, and another wielder can still use a spell that someone else has.
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Apprentice Adept / int_767f84ea	type	Does Not Like Men
Apprentice Adept / int_767f84ea	comment	Does Not Like Men: The first trilogy's Red Adept.
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Apprentice Adept / int_768ae1c9	type	Les Collaborateurs
Apprentice Adept / int_768ae1c9	comment	Les Collaborateurs: In Phaze Doubt, many Phaze/Proton citizens support the new Hectare regime to save their skins or profit, most notably Tan and Purple.
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Apprentice Adept / int_7b8f5f07	type	Charm Person
Apprentice Adept / int_7b8f5f07	comment	Charm Person: Stile does this to himself in the climax of Blue Adept, putting himself into a trance that made him think he was with Lady Blue, instead of Red.
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Apprentice Adept / int_7c897aaa	type	Psychic Link
Apprentice Adept / int_7c897aaa	comment	Psychic Link: Mach and Bane, Flach and Nepe (Stile and Blue presumably can do the same but choose not to find out).
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Apprentice Adept / int_7e8a9164	type	Hybrid Power
Apprentice Adept / int_7e8a9164	comment	Hybrid Power: Flach's dual heritage - human magic potential and a unicorn's innate shapeshifting magic - give him Voluntary Shapeshifting abilities above and beyond any other unicorns. We see him having mastered a bat and a wolf form to blend in among vampires and werewolves (along with his natural human and unicorn forms) before he was five years old.
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Apprentice Adept / int_7efe2c19	type	Portmanteau
Apprentice Adept / int_7efe2c19	comment	Portmanteau: Flach and Nepe's names are derived from the names of their parents (Flach from Mach and Fleta, Nepe from Bane and Agape). Weva's name is derived from Werewolf and Vampire, while her counterpart Beman's name is derived from BEM (a popular nickname for the Hectare arrived at by abbreviating "Bug-Eyed Monster") and Android.
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Apprentice Adept / int_81f909f2	type	Dishing Out Dirt
Apprentice Adept / int_81f909f2	comment	Dishing Out Dirt: Purple, the geomancer Adept.
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Apprentice Adept / int_830ceec9	type	Inevitable Tournament
Apprentice Adept / int_830ceec9	comment	Inevitable Tournament: Nearly every major conflict between characters is settled, once and for all, via Proton's Great Game (or by playing a variant of it, in Phaze).
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Apprentice Adept / int_8430699a	type	Alternate Universe
Apprentice Adept / int_8430699a	comment	Alternate Universe: Phaze to Proton, and vice versa. Not quite a Mirror Universe (because morality isn't usually reversed; most good people's counterparts are also good and most villains' counterparts are also villains), but it otherwise fits the trope: people born on scifi Proton have a counterpart in fantasy Phaze that is as close to identical to them as possible while still being consistent with the genre change. In particular, magical power in Phaze translates as wealth and Game-skill in Proton. In an unusual variation, it's possible for someone whose Alternate Self has died to get a new counterpart if someone else on the other side begins to parallel their role, like with Lady Blue and Sheen (married to Stile/Citizen Blue, mother of Bane/Mach) after Lady Blue's original Proton counterpart Bluette died, at least in the post-Curtain books. The paralleling only comes into effect with people living on Proton, even though there are other inhabited planets (by human colonists from Earth like those on Proton, or by aliens) in Proton's universe, but it can happen to offworlders who are there long enough (such as Agape the Moebite becoming the counterpart of Fleta the unicorn via being the respective love interests of Bane and Mach, who were born counterparts).
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Apprentice Adept / int_85cc4dbc	type	Sex as Rite-of-Passage
Apprentice Adept / int_85cc4dbc	comment	Sex as Rite-of-Passage: A werewolf gains adult status only after a ritual First Mating. They usually don't end up with their First Mating partner long-term, however.
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Apprentice Adept / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Apprentice Adept / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Yellow mentions a Gray Adept in passing early on, but this individual is never referenced again.
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Apprentice Adept / int_8712e4c9	type	Story-Breaker Power
Apprentice Adept / int_8712e4c9	comment	Story-Breaker Power: Mach has no limits on his powers as the Robot Adept. He's kept in check solely by Honor Before Reason; while he personally supports Team Stile, he's agreed to play by the rules that the Adverse Adepts set instead of simply blasting them off the map by force majeure.
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Apprentice Adept / int_8984e5d1	type	Commonality Connection
Apprentice Adept / int_8984e5d1	comment	Commonality Connection: One of the things bringing Stile and Neysa together is that they're both smaller than average.
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Apprentice Adept / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Apprentice Adept / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Lysander in Phaze Doubt, though in actual deeds, he comes across as a Minion with an F in Evil.
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Apprentice Adept / int_8ca9bf12	type	Sex Equals Love
Apprentice Adept / int_8ca9bf12	comment	Sex Equals Love: Fleta falls fully in love with Mach after he makes love to her "[his] way" (lovemaking rather than just a quick rut).
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Apprentice Adept / int_8d87f9e6	type	The Olympics
Apprentice Adept / int_8d87f9e6	comment	The Olympics: The unicorns of Phaze have a series of competitive games called the Unilympics, with unicorn-relevant events like musical duets (every unicorn's horn produces the sound of a specific instrument), which Stile participates in at one point. It's mentioned that there are also Werelympics and Vamplympics.
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Apprentice Adept / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
Apprentice Adept / int_8e0ceaf5	comment	Finger in the Mail: The villains kidnap Clip, one of the protagonist's unicorn allies, and send him Clip's horn as proof. Clip is rescued, and the protagonist uses his magic to reattach the horn.
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Apprentice Adept / int_8e971de4	type	Tournament Arc
Apprentice Adept / int_8e971de4	comment	Tournament Arc: Most of Blue Adept and part of Juxtaposition involves Stile's journey through the Great Game.
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Apprentice Adept / int_94eb5311	type	Geometric Magic
Apprentice Adept / int_94eb5311	comment	Geometric Magic: White, the Adept of runes and sigils.
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Apprentice Adept / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Apprentice Adept / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: In Stile's duel with the Herd Stallion in Blue Adept, Stile uses the Platinum Flute's power to ensure a fair fight between them, rather than using the power of the Flute to curb stomp the Stallion (humiliating him and making things even worse for Neyssa) or fight him without magic (resulting in Stile's stomping/humiliation).
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Apprentice Adept / int_95e7be81	type	Rich Boredom
Apprentice Adept / int_95e7be81	comment	Rich Boredom: It's revealed in Juxtaposition that much of the Citizen class uses gambling as a major source of entertainment. From a spontaneous game of "Rock, Paper, Scissors" to betting on whether more men or women emerge from a corridor, nothing is too petty to drop massive amounts of money on (though safeguards are in place so no Citizen can go broke on a bet). Stile himself was a major source of entertainment, as new Citizens generally took a year or two to learn the ropes before mingling with the established Citizens. Stile jumping in to the deep end and making waves from the start was enough of a novelty that Citizens far above his rank, wealth and status-wise, were willing to play along, just to see what happened next.
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Apprentice Adept / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Apprentice Adept / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: In Split Infinity Sheen reviews details of the Games and Stile's career — to Stile himself; he naturally quips "Thank you for the information." (The sarcasm goes over her head.)
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Apprentice Adept / int_99a12edd	type	Cyborg
Apprentice Adept / int_99a12edd	comment	Cyborg: Proton has robots, cyborgs and androids. Cyborgs are defined as a human brain in a robot body, and androids are defined as a robot brain in a lab-grown human body. Fully inorganic robots that look human, like Mach and Sheen, are still called robots and not androids.
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Apprentice Adept / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Apprentice Adept / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Clip (from exiled male in Juxtaposition to Herd Stallion in Out of Phaze)
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Apprentice Adept / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Apprentice Adept / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The unicorns, werewolves and other shifters on Phaze; the self-aware machines, androids and cyborgs on Proton.
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Apprentice Adept / int_9cf37b5e	type	New Body, Old Abilities
Apprentice Adept / int_9cf37b5e	comment	New Body, Old Abilities: We see variants with Mach and Bane: Mach retains his robot brain's logic and processing power while in Bane's body, allowing him to work out and process spells and spell combinations far faster and effectively than Bane could. Bane, on the other hand, has his more abstract human mind in Mach's body, allowing him to use Mach's machine nature in more creative ways than Mach (like using Mach's modular components to hack systems and create sensor decoys).
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Apprentice Adept / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Apprentice Adept / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Juxtaposition, Stile's final round in the tournament involved a poetry contest, which mandated the use of several randomly chosen words. Each of the words turned out to reference events of the battles to come. Later, when he learns the true nature of the Game Computer (i.e. that it's self-willed), Stile suspects the words were anything but random.
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Apprentice Adept / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Apprentice Adept / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: The vampires of Phaze are not undead at all; they are fully living were-creatures who change between human and bat forms at will (with no in-between), and have to drink blood every so often to keep their shifting powers active. They reproduce biologically and do not infect people they bite.
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Apprentice Adept / int_a19135a6	type	Mind Control
Apprentice Adept / int_a19135a6	comment	Mind Control: See Hypnotic Eyes, above.
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Apprentice Adept / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Apprentice Adept / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Thought to be impossible. But no one thought to check the Book of Magic for cross-species fertility spells. Once they do, along come Flach (human father/unicorn mother) and Al (vampire mother/troll father). By the last book, we have Heinz Hybrids like Weva (werewolf/vampire, thus human/bat/wolf) and her alternate self Beman (human/robot/Hectare alien). The fact that these are usually impossible without magical intervention means that humans, vampires, werewolves and unicorns (all capable of assuming human form) often indulge in a deal of sexual experimentation with each other in their youth, since unwanted pregnancy won't be an issue, which is seen as a harmless and expected "sowing of oats" phase. Actual marriage between species, on the other hand, was fairly taboo until Mach and Fleta paved the way.
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Apprentice Adept / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
Apprentice Adept / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: Many Proton Serfs will do anything they can to stay on Proton rather than be sent offworld.note Justified in that as long as they're employed, in their free time they have access to free food and housing, plus the Great Game for entertainment. Plus sex between serfs is basically there for the asking.
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Apprentice Adept / int_a588c1cf	type	Cool Horse
Apprentice Adept / int_a588c1cf	comment	Cool Horse: The book strongly features unicorns, which are portrayed very favorably.
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Apprentice Adept / int_a63fd70f	type	The Promise
Apprentice Adept / int_a63fd70f	comment	The Promise: Several, made via oaths or the Splash of Truth.
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Apprentice Adept / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Apprentice Adept / int_a6cda066	comment	Serrilyan, who was prophesied to die after seeing the Sidhe three times. Clef then proceeds to pipe her soul to Heaven, despite her belief she didn't belong there.
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Apprentice Adept / int_a7beb2c5	type	Non-Human Head
Apprentice Adept / int_a7beb2c5	comment	Non-Human Head: One of the tribes of Phaze are the Animal Heads, who live near Orange's territory.
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Apprentice Adept / int_aabdf2c6	type	Tyke-Bomb
Apprentice Adept / int_aabdf2c6	comment	Tyke Bomb: Flach and Nepe
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Apprentice Adept / int_aae246fd	type	Technician/Performer Team-Up
Apprentice Adept / int_aae246fd	comment	Technician/Performer Team-Up: In one key round of the Tourney (a game in which serfs on the planet Proton can try to win Citizenship), the hero Stile (the Performer) is matched up against another competitor, Clef (the Technician) in a duel of musical performance; Clef wins for technical proficiency but Stile wins for audience engagement. Unusually, they are then assigned by the planetary Computer (the referee) to perform a duet together before a panel of judges. While the panel is being assembled, Stile explains to Clef what Clef's technical brilliance lacked; Clef then promptly picks up Stile's knack of audience engagement during the duet and outplays him. However, to his own surprise, Stile wins the Tourney round anyway, despite Clef getting the votes of both the audience and the Computer as the better player — because the judges evaluated the performance on cooperative expertise rather than individual ability, and since Clef improved more than Stile did, the judges consider Stile to have contributed more to the overall performance.
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Apprentice Adept / int_ab7a377	type	Trial by Ordeal
Apprentice Adept / int_ab7a377	comment	Trial by Ordeal: Unicorns have the power to detect when a person has spoken falsely — by putting their horn through the person's chest. If they were honest, they are unharmed.
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Apprentice Adept / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Apprentice Adept / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: One Adept can resist the magic of another, even if caught off-guard. But they can allow the spell to take holdnote It adds a layer of mystery to Adept Blue's death, when Stile realizes Blue should've been able to fight off Red's booby trap., and they can only fight off one Adept at a time.note In Juxtaposition, Stile gets ambushed by Adept Tan, and while he's resisting Tan's Evil Eye, Green turns him into a frog. Thanks to Sheen and the Book of Magic, he gets better.
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Apprentice Adept / int_ad0413db	type	Attractiveness Isolation
Apprentice Adept / int_ad0413db	comment	Attractiveness Isolation: Suchevane - see So Beautiful, It's a Curse.
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Apprentice Adept / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
Apprentice Adept / int_b2279346	comment	Retcon: The third-generation protagonists got their nature and power level changed radically between when they were background and major characters.
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Apprentice Adept / int_b2e9c33f	type	Magical Accessory
Apprentice Adept / int_b2e9c33f	comment	Magical Accessory: The talismans of the Red Adept - anything from a simple charmed trinket to an Artifact of Doom.
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Apprentice Adept / int_b351349c	type	Flowery Elizabethan English
Apprentice Adept / int_b351349c	comment	Flowery Elizabethan English: Standard dialect of Phaze.
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Apprentice Adept / int_b38b6147	type	Science Fantasy
Apprentice Adept / int_b38b6147	comment	Science Fantasy: Aliens, robots and space travel are real, and so are unicorns, fairies and dragons. Most of the time they're real in different dimensions, but the dimensions become one near the end of the series and started off as one in the first place hundreds of years ago.
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Apprentice Adept / int_b4ed2f29	type	The Man Behind the Curtain
Apprentice Adept / int_b4ed2f29	comment	The Man Behind the Curtain: Brown in her first appearance, where she hides behind a golem made to look like her predecessor, an older man who has recently passed away. Being only a young girl bereft of her mentor, and with most of the other Adepts being ruthless and power-hungry Evil Sorcerers, she is naturally wary of visitors.
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Apprentice Adept / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Apprentice Adept / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Rifleman, from Juxtaposition.
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Apprentice Adept / int_b63019a5	type	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn
Apprentice Adept / int_b63019a5	comment	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn: Phaze Tania. Although she doesn't end up with Bane, her love for him makes her change her character completely, over several years, condensed into a couple of paragraphs. For example, she used to enjoy torturing frogs, and now she doesn't. The same thing happens with Proton Tania from working with Mach, though she gets less focus.
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Apprentice Adept / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Apprentice Adept / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: In Blue Adept, before Stile intervenes on her behalf, Neysa is left with the choice of answering the Herd Stallion's summons for breeding season (leaving her oath friend Stile without her help on his quest) or defying the summons and sticking with Stile (and risking going from "outcast" to "exile" and giving up any chance of a foal of her own).
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Apprentice Adept / int_bc103f8b	comment	Subverted by Mach, the Robot Adept, whose ability with the Book of Magic is bound by virtually no rules, and in fact explicitly breaks several pre-existing rules (such as the impossibility of crossbreeding). To be fair, the Book of Magic is described as the nuclear age of magic whereas the normal Adept magic is like cavemen using tools.
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Apprentice Adept / int_c0935922	type	Dragon Rider
Apprentice Adept / int_c0935922	comment	Dragon Rider: One chapter in one of the books features the POV character ending up in a game of dragon combat as part of the Great Game. Narration makes it clear that the dragon (a cyborg dragon with some animal's brain installed, since this was on Proton rather than Phaze, where there are real dragons) is not amused to be carrying a passenger.
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Apprentice Adept / int_c26e2b1	type	New Powers as the Plot Demands
Apprentice Adept / int_c26e2b1	comment	New Powers as the Plot Demands: Shades of this trope apply to the unicorns, which seem to pull out a new magical knack every time their mission is in jeopardy in the first three books. Need a disguise for a companion on short notice? Eh, they can share their "socks" with people. None of the Stallion's three forms are suited to the job? Hey, why not whip up an (unprecedented) fourth?
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Apprentice Adept / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Apprentice Adept / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The concept of "Oath Friends".
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Apprentice Adept / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Apprentice Adept / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Rifleman after Juxtaposition.
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Apprentice Adept / int_c3fbac64	comment	He had another earlier in the book, when he faced an obnoxious Citizen who relied on uncanny luck in a game of backgammon. Said Citizen seemed to have knowledge of Phaze, and was fixated on the idea of sex with non-humans (implying he was fixated on them in their animal forms). Stile kept him too distracted with hints that he had indulged in such relations note He had, in fact, slept with Neysa at that point. But it was in human form., that he didn't notice Stile going to the doubling cube over and over, allowing him overcome the Citizen's massive point advantage to win the game in one fell swoop.
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Apprentice Adept / int_c64b67f7	type	DungeonMaster
Apprentice Adept / int_c64b67f7	comment	In a more series-wide sense, the Oracle does its best to make sure all its prophecies come true, aided by the fact that it is a magical computer which can therefore work across both frames, and that it has contacts with the self-willed machines, including the Game Computer.
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Apprentice Adept / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Apprentice Adept / int_c75df49a	comment	Hulk, which was a Shout-Out.
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Apprentice Adept / int_c928d01d	type	Magic Music
Apprentice Adept / int_c928d01d	comment	Magic Music: Stile's magic must be invoked via rhyme and is strengthened by the use of music. Clef's ability with the Platinum Flute allows him to do something that none of the other Adepts can: manipulate the Curtain that separates Proton and Phase.
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Apprentice Adept / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Apprentice Adept / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given, Only Known by Their Nickname: The real/birth names of most of the human cast are never revealed. Many serfs on Proton go by nicknames that are either self-given or given to them by their Citizen employers, and may change them if they manage to become Citizens. Also, serfs are required by Proton law to call Citizens "Sir", unless given explicit permission for other forms of address. Similarly, the Adepts in Phaze adopt their titles as their names: the Yellow Adept is called "Yellow", the Red Adept is called "Red", the Green Adept and his wife are "Green" and "Lady Green", and so on. Even Stile's counterpart is only ever referred to as "Blue", both as the Blue Adept and when he ultimately switches lives with Stile as Citizen Blue, and his widow who marries Stile is only ever referred to as "Lady Blue"; even when she tells Stile the story of how she met Blue as an ordinary village girl, she does not mention her original name.
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Apprentice Adept / int_ccb97ff2	type	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
Apprentice Adept / int_ccb97ff2	comment	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: In Blue Adept, Stile intentionally uses these to harass White, as the non-rhyme caused his spells to immediately fizzle out. Though that effect is immediately spoiled by White revealing that Adept powers negate each other, one-on-one, so his full-power spells would have done little more damage.
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Apprentice Adept / int_d087a0b6	type	Sex by Proxy
Apprentice Adept / int_d087a0b6	comment	Sex by Proxy: Agape and Citizen Tan's "Seduction by Proxy" Great Game match.
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Apprentice Adept / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Apprentice Adept / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Tan and Purple's Starscream-like power grab (after their side had basically won) gave the good guys the opening to play their trump card.
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Apprentice Adept / int_d3beb0de	type	Precocious Crush
Apprentice Adept / int_d3beb0de	comment	Precocious Crush: Brown, towards Stile.
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Apprentice Adept / int_d7d6ed9a	type	Fictional Sport
Apprentice Adept / int_d7d6ed9a	comment	Fictional Sport: Proton's options in the Game include some very bizarre possibilities, although it's mostly Real Life games or variants of them that Stile winds up playing. The Dust Slide from Split Infinity is an exception: essentially a waterslide race with multiple channels, using near-frictionless particles in lieu of water. The fifth book names some magical games, one of which (Transformation Chase) is played out during Mach and Bane's contest. The Game Computer takes the inspiration to create Proton equivalents when it learns of them.
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Apprentice Adept / int_d842e380	type	Love Redeems
Apprentice Adept / int_d842e380	comment	Love Redeems: Tania's Heelâ€“Face Turn begins when she falls in love with Bane while assigned to work with him to locate Flach/Nepe by the Adverse Adepts, finding herself acting in a good person way like he would want instead of a bad person way, even though she knows he'd never reciprocate her feelings.
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Apprentice Adept / int_d8e1b5a3	type	Soul Jar
Apprentice Adept / int_d8e1b5a3	comment	Soul Jar: Stile's harmonica, which contains the soul of the original Blue Adept.
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Apprentice Adept / int_d91d0365	type	The Magic Goes Away
Apprentice Adept / int_d91d0365	comment	The Magic Goes Away: In the backstory, this happened on Earth a long time ago. With the rise of humanity, the various magical creatures like unicorns, harpies and so on fled the planet in a magical ship called the Coracle, settling Phaze. After human colonists in the far future finally settled there as well and called it Proton, the magical Curtain was erected, dividing one world into two.
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Apprentice Adept / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Apprentice Adept / int_da8c447e	comment	Unobtainium: Phazite/Protonite, the all-important power source of both worlds.
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Apprentice Adept / int_dadd37e	type	Rejecting the Consolation Prize
Apprentice Adept / int_dadd37e	comment	Rejecting the Consolation Prize: Clef implies he's going to pass on the special prize of a year's tenure after losing his Tourney match to Stile, saying that with the lessons he learned from Stile, his music could let him live like a Citizen.
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Apprentice Adept / int_dc5b65e3	type	Make Games, Not War
Apprentice Adept / int_dc5b65e3	comment	Make Games, Not War: The Great Game, where disputes between the Citizens are settled by wagering on games that are played by serfs. As serfs are considered quite valuable, and care is taken not to endanger them unduly, this is one of the few non-Blood Sport examples of this trope.
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Apprentice Adept / int_dd3272bb	type	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
Apprentice Adept / int_dd3272bb	comment	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Tan's Evil Eye grants absolute mind control; nifty, but other Adepts with more versatile powers can create spells to duplicate the effectnote although they need a new spell each time; see It Only Works Once in addition to the many, many other things they're capable of doing.
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Apprentice Adept / int_e0207930	type	Humans Are Special
Apprentice Adept / int_e0207930	comment	Humans Are Special: Most species on Phaze have some level of innate magic. However, only humans have the sheer power needed to become an Adept. A nonhuman with the Book of Magic becomes functionally somewhat stronger than a human Adept, with an Adept's mastery over a branch of magic (hence Trool, a troll, becoming the new Red Adept and master of talismans after being appointed caretaker of the Book); a human with the Book has unlimited power. Subverted somewhat when Sheen in the first trilogy and Mach in the second trilogy get access to the Book; it turns out robots are even better at making use of it to its full potential because of their ability to memorize large amounts of information at once.
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Apprentice Adept / int_e4900915	type	Ridiculously Human Robots
Apprentice Adept / int_e4900915	comment	Ridiculously Human Robots: Intentionally so.
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Apprentice Adept / int_e69004a6	type	There Can Be Only One
Apprentice Adept / int_e69004a6	comment	There Can Be Only One: Established Adepts (read: any adept who isn't Stile or one of his allies) tend to protect their positions by wiping out anyone who shows any real power within their specialty. The Tourney itself, although non-Citizens who lose are deported from Proton rather than killed.
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Apprentice Adept / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
Apprentice Adept / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: Several characters choose their names from events and objects of personal importance (Stile, Rifleman, Clef). Werewolf naming has four stages: first syllable given at birth, second when pups are made official pack members (around age 6), third after a first successful solo hunt, and fourth after First Mating (traditionally taking their partner's first syllable as their last). A werewolf isn't considered a full adult until they gain the fourth syllable.
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Apprentice Adept / int_e7640efc	type	Accidental Rhyme
Apprentice Adept / int_e7640efc	comment	Accidental Rhyme: Stile discovers that he has magical abilities in Phaze after realizing that he keeps speaking in rhymes, which allows him to cast spells.
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Apprentice Adept / int_e7dfebe8	type	I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!
Apprentice Adept / int_e7dfebe8	comment	I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: The version of Tania in Proton doesn't have her Phaze counterpart's Hypnotic Eyes, so when she desperately needs to convince a man to do something at a plot-critical moment, she tries the closest thing she can think of: flashing her breasts. It works.
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Apprentice Adept / int_ea74a7bf	type	Merged Reality
Apprentice Adept / int_ea74a7bf	comment	Merged Reality: The two worlds are eventually merged into one where both science and magic work at the end of the second-last book, and remain that way from that point on. As the characters are explicitly paired across both worlds (mirror-universe twin kinda thing), each pair merges into one being, and each pair has to time-share their body, which takes the form of whichever of them is in control at the moment. Substantially easier for the heroes than for the villains, since heroes are used to putting the needs of others on par with or ahead of their own, while the villains are initially paralyzed fighting for dominance (though they've gotten over this by the time of the last book). It's also a lot harder on people whose alternate is a different species or sex. Proton was round and Phaze was flat. When they fuse, the result is an hourglass shape. The pollution that rendered Proton uninhabitable outside the city-domes has been pushed to the other side of the world, and it's now agreed that inside the domes is Proton and outside the domes is Phaze, with merged pairs assuming the form appropriate to where they currently are. Gets even more complex at the end of the last book when the merged planet is moved from the scientific universe where it ended up originally to the magical one in order to prevent more invasions like the Hectare (since the characters note that if there are other inhabited planets in the magical universe, they haven't bothered Phaze/Proton up to this point), gets tilted differently, and all the alternate selves now manifest each other's bodies when they're in control instead of their own. And also swap physical natures, if they were different. For example, one pair that were originally a cyborg (which in this series means a human brain in a robot body) woman and a flesh-and-blood harpy, are now a flesh-and-blood woman and a cyborg harpy.
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Apprentice Adept / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
Apprentice Adept / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Merle, Yellow (while she's using one of her youth potions).
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Apprentice Adept / int_ebab0a5b	type	Best Her to Bed Her
Apprentice Adept / int_ebab0a5b	comment	Best Her to Bed Her: Brown (though it's only a crush), Merle, Neysa, Tania.
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Apprentice Adept / int_ef3d1b57	type	Technician Versus Performer
Apprentice Adept / int_ef3d1b57	comment	Technician Versus Performer: Stile (Performer) versus various other Technicians, most notably the musician Clef.
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Apprentice Adept / int_f03b3825	type	PunchClockVillains
Apprentice Adept / int_f03b3825	comment	After the Hectare's invasion of Phaze/Proton is foiled at the end of Phaze Doubt by the heroes shifting the planet into the magical universe and cutting them off from their main forces, the Hectare who are left stranded on Phaze/Proton quickly give up the fight and join the new society. It was indicated they were somewhat Punch-Clock Villains anyway, just vanguards doing the bidding of more formidable alien races in a larger coalition.
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Apprentice Adept / int_f217cdab	type	Great Big Book of Everything
Apprentice Adept / int_f217cdab	comment	Great Big Book of Everything: The Book of Magic, which is Phaze's counterpart to Proton's supercomputer the Oracle. They spend most of the first trilogy in each other's worlds, having been swapped long ago to limit their power.
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Apprentice Adept / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
Apprentice Adept / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: Phazian werewolves can change at will between human and wolf forms, and like vampires they have no in-between form and reproduce solely by having offspring with each other, not by infecting anyone.
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Apprentice Adept / int_f9636192	type	Prophecies Are Always Right
Apprentice Adept / int_f9636192	comment	Prophecies Are Always Right / Prophetic Fallacy: In Juxtaposition, Stile was told he would be betrayed by "a young-seeming woman" and concludes it already happened, when Merle turned him in to the Citizen coalition. It turns out, however, that the true traitor was Brown...except in a Double Subversion, not only did she not know she was a traitor (she accidentally cast the spell wrong to switch the cardinal directions, thereby reversing everything—though considering her crush, this may not have been accidental after all), but the betrayal actually ended up helping Stile in the end—since it allowed Stile to stay in Phaze by reversing where his spirit lay, putting it in the golem's body and Blue's in Stile's. This last was another Prophetic Fallacy—everyone assumed "Blue must leave Phaze forever" meant Stile since he had taken up the mantle of the Adept after his death. But once Blue's spirit was taken out of its Soul Jar and put in a golem body, he was the one who had to leave Phaze, and did.
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Apprentice Adept / int_fb17af62	type	Rhymes on a Dime
Apprentice Adept / int_fb17af62	comment	Rhymes on a Dime: How Stile's magic works.
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Apprentice Adept / int_fceae121	type	Alternate Self
Apprentice Adept / int_fceae121	comment	In an unusual variation, it's possible for someone whose Alternate Self has died to get a new counterpart if someone else on the other side begins to parallel their role, like with Lady Blue and Sheen (married to Stile/Citizen Blue, mother of Bane/Mach) after Lady Blue's original Proton counterpart Bluette died, at least in the post-Curtain books. The paralleling only comes into effect with people living on Proton, even though there are other inhabited planets (by human colonists from Earth like those on Proton, or by aliens) in Proton's universe, but it can happen to offworlders who are there long enough (such as Agape the Moebite becoming the counterpart of Fleta the unicorn via being the respective love interests of Bane and Mach, who were born counterparts).
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Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Dishing Out Dirt / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Does Not Like Men / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Domed Hometown / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Down to the Last Play / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Elemental Ignorance / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Finger in the Mail / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Future Food Is Artificial / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Garden of Evil / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Healing Hands / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Her Heart Will Go On / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Hybrid Power / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	I Am Not Weasel / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Incredibly Conspicuous Drag / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Inevitable Tournament / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Infinity -1 Sword / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Infinity +1 Sword / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	It Only Works Once / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Karmic Jackpot / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	King of Games / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Les Collaborateurs / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Level-Up at Intimacy 5 / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Magic Music / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Magic Versus Science / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Magically-Binding Contract / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Make Games, Not War / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Making a Splash / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Morph Weapon / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Muggle Born of Mages / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Muscle Angst / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Mutually Exclusive Magic / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Never the Selves Shall Meet / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	New Child Left Behind / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	No-Sell / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	One Judge to Rule Them All / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Our Nudity Is Different / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Out with a Bang / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Painful Rhyme / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Parental Marriage Veto / int_7013cf88
PiersAnthony	seeAlso	Apprentice Adept
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Platonic Life-Partners / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Prophecy Armor / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Prophetic Fallacy / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Psychic Link / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Rape and Switch / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Rejecting the Consolation Prize / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Rewrite / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Robot Republic / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Robot Wizard / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Robotic Spouse / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Save Both Worlds / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Science Fantasy / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Sex as Rite-of-Passage / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Sex by Proxy / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Sex Equals Love / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Sexbot / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Sexual Extortion / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Sharing a Body / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Slime Girl / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	So Beautiful, It's a Curse / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Solid Gold Poop / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Sorcerous Overlord / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Soul Jar / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Tan Lines / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Technician/Performer Team-Up / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Technician Versus Performer / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	The Game Never Stopped / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	The Hedonist / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	The Missus and the Ex / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	The Oath-Breaker / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	The Scottish Trope / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Tournament Arc / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Transforming Conforming / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Trial by Ordeal / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Twice Shy / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Unicorn / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Vain Sorceress / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Wainscot Society / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	We Have to Get the Bullet Out! / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway? / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Why Am I Ticking? / int_7013cf88
Apprentice Adept	hasFeature	Upgrade Artifact / int_7013cf88

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