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Mogworld

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Mogworld	label	Mogworld
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Mogworld	comment	Mogworld is the first published novel from Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, famous for his online Video Game critique series Zero Punctuation. It takes place in the world within a popular fantasy-themed online MMORPG named Mogworld (which is basically World of Warcraft in all but name). There, the Non Player Characters go about their daily lives, unaware that some of the people among them — thought to suffer from a strange syndrome — are Player Characters controlled by beings from another universe: us.The novel tells the story of Jim, a minor character in the game, who dies when an army attacks his magic school only to be resurrected sixty years later by a "rogue necromancer" named Lord Dreadgrave. Now, all he wants is to find a way to die again — preferably for good this time — which is not an easy thing to do, since death seems only to be a temporary state in Mogworld. In his quest, he's accompanied by a pair of other undead (an airheaded girl named Meryl and a self-righteous priest named Thaddeus) and the inept thief Slippery John — whether he likes it or not.Mogworld was announced by The Escapist on 23 October 2009. Thanks to the flood of preorders the novel received, its success also kicked off the branch of Dark Horse Comics known as Dark Horse Books, who went on to publish books based off Penny Arcade, Mass Effect, and The Guild. As Yahtzee said in response to a question on Twitter, Mogworld is the first book published by Dark Horse Books; it was published in fall 2010.Now has an audiobook narrated by Yahtzee himself.
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Mogworld / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Mogworld / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Meryl and Jim are deleted, Thaddeus is incinerated by Barry, and Slippery John and everyone else are deleted after Jim inadvertently resets Mogworld.
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Mogworld / int_13c1fec8	type	Dragon-in-Chief
Mogworld / int_13c1fec8	comment	Dragon-in-Chief: Barry basically is the main antagonist of the story, considering Simon is just an incompetent programmer who has to rely on Barry to actually affect anything regarding change in the game world.
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Mogworld / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Mogworld / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The first major twist, that Jim is a NPC character in a MMORPG, is known to pretty much everyone who followed the news about the book before the launch. The blurb on the back of the book explicitly mentions programmers working out bugs in their AI, so even if one hadn't heard that much about the book before, it's still thoroughly spoiled. It's a real shame, too, as it could have been interesting trying to figure out what the hell was going on. To be fair, it surely wasn't meant to be that huge a twist. Even without reading the news or the back of the book, the truth (broadly speaking) of what's going on is obvious long before any character in the story has a clue.
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Mogworld / int_15fc9fb	type	Our Elves Are Different
Mogworld / int_15fc9fb	comment	Our Elves Are Different: Mr. Wonderful is an unhinged Psycho for Hire
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Mogworld / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Mogworld / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: The devs behind Mogworld just wanted to make groundbreaking NPC's who could interact with the player like real people. They ended up making their AI so advanced that they gained complete sapience. Needless to say, actual living people would not be happy if they found out that the world they lived in was actually a game, and that major concepts like death are completely inconsequential.
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Mogworld / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
Mogworld / int_1bf47ada	comment	The Medic: Meryl, of sorts. She's the only of the group who knows how to reassemble the undead characters back together. When separated, Jim and Thaddeus get stuck with debilitating injuries and have to make due.
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Mogworld / int_1c77ec26	type	The Voice
Mogworld / int_1c77ec26	comment	The Voice: Don, who only ever appears through chat logs with other developers. He shows up in person in Yahtzee's next book.
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Mogworld / int_1e75509c	type	Adventure-Friendly World
Mogworld / int_1e75509c	comment	Adventure-Friendly World: The setting of the game is deliberately designed to have as many factions at cross purposes as possible.
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Mogworld / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Mogworld / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: "Mogworld". "MMOG" world. Not so stealthy, since the In-Universe game reviewer picks up on it and says that it's a rubbish pun.
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Mogworld / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Mogworld / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Mr. Wonderful and his precarious knife spinning habits.
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Mogworld / int_1f80d7be	type	Wild Magic
Mogworld / int_1f80d7be	comment	Wild Magic: Magic is said to have a will of its own, and gets "upset" if a spell is finished by another person if the original caster is incapacitated in some way. It really doesn't like being used by corpses (i.e., the caster is killed midway through, and someone aims their severed forearm at their enemy and finishes the spell. Although that's only for properly dead people; it has no beef with being used by self-aware undead).
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Mogworld / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Mogworld / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: The heroes start out as minions to a rather considerate overlord. They also encounter a town later that pays a local Gnoll tribe to attack them occasionally just to keep visiting adventurers entertained, which grinds to an embarrassed halt when the adventurers back out.
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Mogworld / int_217a1adf	type	I Love the Dead
Mogworld / int_217a1adf	comment	I Love the Dead: Slippery John's "wife" Drylda. Although technically she's still alive, most of the other characters view her as nothing more than a corpse. It straddles a thin line between Dude, She's Like in a Coma and I Love the Dead, if you want to get technical. Most of the other characters don't seem to care which side Drylda falls on - they see it as creepy and very disturbing. Slippery John was also clearly enjoying his time spent as a rabbit in Meryl's dress, despite Meryl being a decades-old corpse. Averted with the zombies themselves. It's pointed out early in the book that they could never have sex with anyone- even sex workers would have to be a tremendous level of desperate. Not to mention one zombie who repeatedly points out that an undead minion has to be in reasonable condition in order to be capable of maintaining an erection.
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Mogworld / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Mogworld / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Already has shades of this following The Infusion, due to stagnation. Simon trying to manipulate it just makes it way, way worse. Averted at the end when the programmers redesign the game to accommodate the NPCs and not the players.
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Mogworld / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Mogworld / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Jim.
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Mogworld / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Mogworld / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Simon apparently thinks he's a shit-hot genius programmer who's the only one with a clue. He's an egoistical, narcissistic jerkass who screws up the entire game beyond belief.
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Mogworld / int_29a39f6	type	Easter Egg
Mogworld / int_29a39f6	comment	Easter Egg: At one point the book contains a fragment of a YouTube URL. The link works, and it's part of Yahtzee's Let's Play for Flashback. Appropriately, it's a clip of two Non Player Characters killing one another.
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Mogworld / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
Mogworld / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Jim leans this way sometimes. Slippery John turns out to be one as well.
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Mogworld / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Mogworld / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Mr. Wonderful, who does things like randomly chop off his hand in the middle of an interrogation when Jim angers him and starts prodding at the wound with a knife until he dies from blood loss. Then, upon reviving, he comes back in, and eats his own corpse, and admits he’s angry about the Infusion because it means all the people he kills come back to life.
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Mogworld / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Mogworld / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Toward the end of the book Slippery John turns out to be a cunning and manipulative thief who acted like a bumbling doofus so he wouldn't be targeted by the angels, Thaddeus is revealed to have previously been an absurdly badass priest when he was alive, and Meryl turns out to be just as suicidal as Jim upon realizing her homeland had been taken over, and that her former countrymen had no urge to rise up against their conquerors. Jim lampshades this himself after seeing Thaddeus dispose of two pursuers with a powerful spell. Using his toes to cast it. He realizes that since he never bothered with talking to Thaddeus or learning about him, he had no idea what kind of priest he was in life, or how strong his magic was.
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Mogworld / int_302730a	type	Fusion Dance
Mogworld / int_302730a	comment	Fusion Dance: What causes NPC's to come down with the Syndrome is a player merging their spectator avatar with an adventurer.
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Mogworld / int_33ca811a	type	Game-Breaking Bug
Mogworld / int_33ca811a	comment	Game-Breaking Bug: Jim (and presumably Thaddeus and Meryl as well, though the story does not really use them in this regard) is this, because he's a result of the AI procedures doing something that the developers did not expect. When he interacts with control connections to the real world, only accessible in what is to him the spirit realm, he corrupts them. This ends up screwing up a player's access to his character, and later it allows Jim to reset the world after Si-Mon took it over..
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Mogworld / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Mogworld / int_34dd5f3	comment	La Résistance: The Magical Resistance.
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Mogworld / int_34f5d1da	type	Procedural Generation
Mogworld / int_34f5d1da	comment	Procedural Generation: How the world and all in it was created, apart from direct developer manipulation. Apparently the NPC procedures were so complex that they developed sentience.
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Mogworld / int_366dfa01	type	Silly Reason for War
Mogworld / int_366dfa01	comment	Silly Reason for War: Jim's homeland was in a recurring series of wars with it's neighbor because the kings were still bitter over minor disagreements when they were roommates in college. Before that one of them had a blood-purity obsessed nationalist movement which fails to gain much traction; mostly because all of the local kingdoms are decedents of the same tribe and have identical cultures.
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Mogworld / int_37fcf16	type	Death Is Cheap
Mogworld / int_37fcf16	comment	Death Is Cheap: And how cheap it is! Anyone who dies, for any reason, finds themselves instantly brought back to life at the nearest church, where they are provided with a bathrobe and must run back to their corpse to get back whatever items they were wearing. Incidentally, this has the side effect of various churches vying with each other for the best (read: most deadly) locations. It's also led to some horrifying new vices (one of the more mild ones is intentionally taking a fatal overdose of your drug of choice for example), and suicide addiction is starting to be a problem in the cities.
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Mogworld / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Mogworld / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Anything against Barry. Points to Thaddeus for both scaring him, knocking him around and actually lasting more than 30 seconds against his concentrated ultimate attack.
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Mogworld / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Mogworld / int_420c50b7	comment	The blurb on the back of the book explicitly mentions programmers working out bugs in their AI, so even if one hadn't heard that much about the book before, it's still thoroughly spoiled. It's a real shame, too, as it could have been interesting trying to figure out what the hell was going on. To be fair, it surely wasn't meant to be that huge a twist. Even without reading the news or the back of the book, the truth (broadly speaking) of what's going on is obvious long before any character in the story has a clue.
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Mogworld / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
Mogworld / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: In the first part of the book the Magic Resistance sends wave after wave of mercenaries to seize Dreadgrave's secrets. He mentions several times that he's perfectly willing to just sell it to them, but has no way to contact them directly.
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Mogworld / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
Mogworld / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: The King of Lolede attempts this. Absolutely no one is fooled, because he doesn't disguise his voice, still wears his crown under his hood, and later carries the King's Sword around.
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Mogworld / int_45398e01	type	Psycho Knife Nut
Mogworld / int_45398e01	comment	Psycho Knife Nut: Mr. Wonderful is never seen without twirling around a butterfly knife. He even uses them on himself when he doesn't have an excuse to use it on somebody else, to the point where he chops off his own hand when he was particularly emotional.
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Mogworld / int_468d28be	type	Million Mook March
Mogworld / int_468d28be	comment	Million Mook March: Barry's massive army in Lolede.
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Mogworld / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Mogworld / int_469e3e2f	comment	Not so stealthy, since the In-Universe game reviewer picks up on it and says that it's a rubbish pun.
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Mogworld / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Mogworld / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: If any of the main characters is going to suffer some sort of humiliation or injury, it’s going to be either Jim and Slippery John. At the end of the novel, Jim graduates into a full-on Cosmic Plaything, and Slippery John is revealed to have deliberately cultivated this image to protect himself from the angels. Barry starts out as one. Then Simon/Si-Mon gets his hands on him, and it’s all downhill from there.
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Mogworld / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Mogworld / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: The King of Lolede has heard of the idea of kings going around in disguise, but clearly doesn't quite get the concept. He just throws a hooded robe over his normal regalia, without changing his voice at all or removing his symbols of office.
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Mogworld / int_4b220918	type	Godhood Seeker
Mogworld / int_4b220918	comment	Godhood Seeker: Simon's ego leads him to try to make himself into "Lord Si-Mon", the god of Mogworld.
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Mogworld / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Mogworld / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Meryl, two times, in fact. The first time is the realization that Jim was right about their homeland's citizens' having neither the pride nor the revolutionary fervour to rise up against their conquerors, and the second is the revelation that Jim sold out the Magic Resistance.
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Mogworld / int_4d1b485d	type	Dedication
Mogworld / int_4d1b485d	comment	Dedication: To Blizzard Entertainment, for the 3 months of my life I will never get back.
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Mogworld / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Mogworld / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Barry, after becoming Simon's figurehead. Also Simon, from what we see of him.
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Mogworld / int_4fff0dfe	type	Sarcasm-Blind
Mogworld / int_4fff0dfe	comment	Sarcasm-Blind: Bowg.
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Mogworld / int_504333fe	type	A God I Am Not
Mogworld / int_504333fe	comment	A God I Am Not: Dub and the other devs. While Dub refers to himself as a god while explaining things to Jim, Slippery John and Thaddeus, it's only because it's the easiest way to explain things without confusing them.
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Mogworld / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Mogworld / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: This is a world where no one can die, and many of its jaded inhabitants have started to get really creative with it.
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Mogworld / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Mogworld / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Slippery John just so happens to carry magical crampons for scaling Mount Murdercruel. Leads into his Crouching Moron moment (see below).
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Mogworld / int_51ed5fb9	type	Straw Hypocrite
Mogworld / int_51ed5fb9	comment	Straw Hypocrite: Averted with Thaddeus. At first he absolutely hates and dismisses the other zombies for being monsters and abominations. When it finally hits him that he's a zombie just like the others, he decides that he needs to die just as much as the others and joins Jim's quest for permanent death.
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Mogworld / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Mogworld / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The book starts with Jim being killed in front on his magic school. It ends with the re-incarnated Jim finding himself in the same situation, only this time he decides Screw This, I'm Outta Here and leaves.
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Mogworld / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Mogworld / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Baron Civious has been cultivating a image of being a cool Evil Overlord with a booming voice, but behind the scenes, he is more of a Dark Is Not Evil guy who spends most of his time bickering with his wife and, thanks to his recent dethroning, being the leader of La Résistance. Lord Dreadgrave also falls under this trope. He resurrects the dead as sentient zombies to serve as his minions in his evil doom fortress. However, he pays them fairly, listens to their feedback, and strives to make their working conditions more comfortable. In short, he is a model employer. Even the residents of the nearby villages welcome his weekly plundering raids because it keeps their construction industries in business, and seem to get along well with Dreadgrave's minions.
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Mogworld / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Mogworld / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Barry becomes this to Simon, being the one put in charge of spreading Simon's "gospel" (i.e. subjugating Mogworld into worshipping Simon like a god).
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Mogworld / int_54ec2f0c	type	Not Completely Useless
Mogworld / int_54ec2f0c	comment	Not Completely Useless: The Bunnymorph spell is considered by most in universe to be useless, except for comedic value. It ends up saving Jim from Barry by canceling out his spell, turning Barry into a bunny, and then disorienting Barry after it wears off, buying Jim a crucial few moments.
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Mogworld / int_54fb42f0	type	Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress
Mogworld / int_54fb42f0	comment	Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress:
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Mogworld / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Mogworld / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Odd case. Baron Civious seemed to be evil in the past and possibly still is now (his continuing experiments involving vivisection, and the legion of tortured souls of the damned in his battle aura basically scream "Yes"), but at the time of the story he's definitely working on the side of good by trying to get rid of the Adventurer's Guild and stop the Infusion. Earlier in the book, Lord Dreadgrave is well-regarded by both his undead minions and the townsfolk he constantly raids.
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Mogworld / int_5914d5dd	type	Slippy-Slidey Ice World
Mogworld / int_5914d5dd	comment	Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Mount Murdercruel
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Mogworld / int_5a22609e	type	Creator Thumbprint
Mogworld / int_5a22609e	comment	Creator Thumbprint: The Audiobook downright feels like a slower and really long Zero Punctuation episode. The different "voices" he gives each character are the same as ones he uses in his reviews. By that same vein, the review of the finished version of Mogworld in the end will sound very familiar. Yahtzee's talent for bizarre metaphors and similes is on full display.
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Mogworld / int_5b6e57e	type	Required Secondary Powers
Mogworld / int_5b6e57e	comment	Required Secondary Powers: Jim mentions that more powerful spells are required to have secondary magics built into them that prevent the spell from harming the caster.
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Mogworld / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Mogworld / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: James is terrified of gnolls.
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Mogworld / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Mogworld / int_5c1d5030	comment	Grew Beyond Their Programming: The NPCs were so complex, that they eventually became self-aware.
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Mogworld / int_5d19d2ba	type	God Mode
Mogworld / int_5d19d2ba	comment	God Mode: An In-Universe example: Barry is empowered by Simon in order to work as his agent in Mogworld. His regular priest powers are upgraded to godlike levels, and he gains ludicrous amounts of health and mana to match. Baron Civious, a late-game boss NPC, isn't even a challenge to him.
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Mogworld / int_5e7c0ab7	type	Kleptomaniac Hero
Mogworld / int_5e7c0ab7	comment	Kleptomaniac Hero: Lampshaded. Turns out local villagers are not very fond of adventurers, and among their long list of complaints against them is their tendency to just outright take things that don't belong to them.
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Mogworld / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Mogworld / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Jim.
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Mogworld / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Mogworld / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Mr. Wonderful, at the top of Mount Murdercruel when he sees the Nexus and Jim tells them he can end the Infusion. Although how much of a Heel–Face Turn this was will vary when you consider that he only wants the Infusion to end so he can enjoy murdering people again.
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Mogworld / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
Mogworld / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: "Slippery John is a fatheaded, useless berk." "Oh, come on. He's not useless."
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Mogworld / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Mogworld / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Barry becomes totally unhinged after Simon gets his hands on him.
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Mogworld / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
Mogworld / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: Thaddeus manages to go out in an equal fight with Barry.
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Mogworld / int_673b2da6	type	Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!
Mogworld / int_673b2da6	comment	Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: The programmers end up doing this with Mogworld.
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Mogworld / int_6926506	type	Revenant Zombie
Mogworld / int_6926506	comment	Revenant Zombie: Lord Dreadgrave manages to work around the Undeath Always Ends aspect. However, his permanent zombies also have free will and their own true souls jammed into their nasty old corpses.
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Mogworld / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Mogworld / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: It's a bit on-the-nose to have a necromancer with the name "Dreadgrave."
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Mogworld / int_70c06a09	type	The Undead
Mogworld / int_70c06a09	comment	The Undead: Jim, Meryl, and Thaddeus, or Lord Dreadgrave's Undead Minions to be more precise.
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Mogworld / int_75987da9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Mogworld / int_75987da9	comment	Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits: A ditz, an Inept Mage with a death-wish, a holier-than-thou priest and a terrible rogue.
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Mogworld / int_76d6c3df	type	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place
Mogworld / int_76d6c3df	comment	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Mount Murdercruel, the Malevolands (now Fortune Valley), Greydoom Valley (formerly Goodsoil County).
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Mogworld / int_7b4240c8	type	Your Little Dismissive Diminutive
Mogworld / int_7b4240c8	comment	Your Little Dismissive Diminutive: Mr. Wonderful often calls the group "my little [x]" with x being a word or phrase vaguely appropriate for the situation. When Meryl lampshaded it, he switches it up with "my tiny [x]," "my diminutive [x]" and so forth, to the point where in one scene he has an open thesaurus on his desk during an interrogation.
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Mogworld / int_801d8721	type	Oxymoronic Being
Mogworld / int_801d8721	comment	Oxymoronic Being: Thaddeus is a zombie preist of a God of Good.
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Mogworld / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Mogworld / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Mogworld stands for "Massive Online Game World."
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Mogworld / int_8426d2ac	type	Inherently Funny Words
Mogworld / int_8426d2ac	comment	Inherently Funny Words: Some of the names are this especially in the audiobook. Hearing Yathzee call a town "yawnbore" just doesn't get old.
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Mogworld / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Mogworld / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Dreadgrave. Barry's attempt to rile up the local townsfolk into burning the remains of the horde is hindered by their genuine fondness for both the horde and Dreadgrave, as they had incorporated the regular pillaging into their community entertainment, while the various wandering adventurers and mercenaries caused more chaos than they were worth.
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Mogworld / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
Mogworld / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: "The Truth" - that their entire existence happens to be a video game - has different effects depending on who hears it, with some becoming oddly placid, and others going into a murderous rage. Some like Meryl become depressed and seek deletion.
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Mogworld / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Mogworld / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: A surprisingly dark one of the conventions of MMORPGs, and video games in general. What were originally Non Player Characters became living, sentient beings, driven mad by the painful cycle of murder and plunder. Real thinking entities unable to escape a wretched existence, without the escape of death as an option. Entire lives ruined, all for a game.
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Mogworld / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
Mogworld / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: Artificial Zombie: Since the whole thing takes place in a hyper-realistic video game. Revenant Zombie: Lord Dreadgrave manages to work around the Undeath Always Ends aspect. However, his permanent zombies also have free will and their own true souls jammed into their nasty old corpses. Voodoo Zombie: Regular zombies are corpses brought back to life temporarily as slaves for necromancer-class characters.
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Mogworld / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
Mogworld / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: Slippery John thinks Slippery John is this.
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Mogworld / int_8cb259f4	type	Overshadowed by Awesome
Mogworld / int_8cb259f4	comment	Overshadowed by Awesome: I'm sure Baron Civious would have been more useful if he wasn't fighting someone with Game-Breaker powers.
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Mogworld / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
Mogworld / int_8cb844c6	comment	Slippery John's role as Mr. Exposition despite otherwise being rather useless makes more sense once Jim realizes he's faking being an idiot to avoid the Syndrome.
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Mogworld / int_8f37b	type	Medieval Stasis
Mogworld / int_8f37b	comment	Medieval Stasis: Jim cites this as the main reason he doesn't see any appeal in sticking around. Even before the Infusion locked everything down, the world was so culturally stagnant that he was dead for sixty years and didn't miss anything he thinks is important.
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Mogworld / int_905a9ca0	type	Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration
Mogworld / int_905a9ca0	comment	Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration: Jim and friends are either type I or II. They can "repair" their bodies, but not heal them.
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Mogworld / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
Mogworld / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: Since everybody gets new bodies right after they die (well, almost everybody. Jim, being undead, doesn't.), mortal wounds don't even faze people anymore.
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Mogworld / int_91f9b1ad	type	Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom
Mogworld / int_91f9b1ad	comment	Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom: Thaddeus Praise-His-Name Godsbotherer III, Jim's hecueva frienemy.
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Mogworld / int_934eb07f	type	Resurrective Immortality
Mogworld / int_934eb07f	comment	Resurrective Immortality: Everyone in Mogworld. Except for Glitch!Undead, because they don't get a new body. Just their increasingly decrepit old ones. Regardless, everyone hates it.
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Mogworld / int_940b3c0	type	Irrelevant Sidequest
Mogworld / int_940b3c0	comment	Irrelevant Sidequest: Jim sets one of these up by accident when a random adventurer mistakes him for a quest giver and he gives them a "give Jim 50 gold" quest just to get rid of them. When the other adventurers find out that he gave a relatively large amount of XP for such a simple job (having chosen a number at random) he gets reverse-mugged by every adventurer in town. This comes back to bite him pretty quickly, since he doesn't have a license.
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Mogworld / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Mogworld / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: "...you're obviously as stupid as you look, sound, act and are."
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Mogworld / int_949221ec	type	Evil is Cool
Mogworld / int_949221ec	comment	Baron Civious has been cultivating a image of being a cool Evil Overlord with a booming voice, but behind the scenes, he is more of a Dark Is Not Evil guy who spends most of his time bickering with his wife and, thanks to his recent dethroning, being the leader of La Résistance.
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Mogworld / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Mogworld / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Mr. Wonderful. It's when he starts hacking off his own limbs and eating his own corpse that he really starts to grow on you.
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Mogworld / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Mogworld / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Simon, in his Mogworld persona as 'Lord Si-Mon'.
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Mogworld / int_978937d6	type	Brand X
Mogworld / int_978937d6	comment	Brand X: the Mogworld game is basically World of Warcraft with the name changed.
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Mogworld / int_999d9288	type	Perky Female Minion
Mogworld / int_999d9288	comment	Perky Female Minion: Meryl, one of Dreadgrave's first risen minions until his deletion. She remains upbeat and chipper throughout the story, and even manages to bounce back without much difficulty when the the current of events briefly made her angry and depressed.
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Mogworld / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Mogworld / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Thaddeus, specifically after his arms get ripped off by Barry.
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Mogworld / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Mogworld / int_9bfbf9f3	comment	Chainmail Bikini / Stripperiffic: Warriors in Mogworld of both genders favor "armor" that shows an absurd amount of skin. They have an unwritten honor code / gentleman's agreement not to actually hit any of the revealed areas. This runs into the Logical Weakness in a scene where a bunch of adventurers get into a fight with some villagers, who promptly ignore it and massacre them.
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Mogworld / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Mogworld / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Jim and game developer William Williams discuss this near the end, just before William complies with Jim's wish and deletes him. As a result, William feels very depressed afterwards, and feels compelled to posthumously reward Jim with a new, better life in the revised Mogworld.
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Mogworld / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Mogworld / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Jim describes climbing the stairs of his crypt as a newly-risen zombie as being akin to climbing Mount Murdercruel. Guess where Jim has to go in the final act of the story? Slippery John's role as Mr. Exposition despite otherwise being rather useless makes more sense once Jim realizes he's faking being an idiot to avoid the Syndrome.
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Mogworld / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
Mogworld / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: Lord Dreadgrave inadvertently raises a zombie horde with free will. He's able to retain their service by offering them a surprisingly thorough array of perks, including room and board and a monthly musical performance. Jim repeatedly mentions what an attentive and generally gracious employer Dreadgrave is until he's offed early in the novel.
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Mogworld / int_a3556278	type	Jail Bake
Mogworld / int_a3556278	comment	Jail Bake: Jim gets slipped a scone and a croissant with the key to his cell inside each.
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Mogworld / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
Mogworld / int_a60f7120	comment	Physical God: Barry, thanks to Simon.
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Mogworld / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Mogworld / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: This is how Slippery John evades being taken by the Syndrome. Probably.
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Mogworld / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Mogworld / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Jim is afraid having his body destroyed will lead to this, as he would be a sentient pile of ash unable to move or communicate with the world. And indeed it does. Fortunately, he and Thaddeus are permanently deleted before too long.
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Mogworld / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Mogworld / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Slippery John, specifically revealed at Mount Murdercruel where Jim figures out he's only Obfuscating Stupidity to avoid getting the Syndrome. Also the pompous, sermonizing, holier-than-thou and rather dim-seeming priest Thaddeus eventually reveals himself to be the legendary high priest of his religion - and an EXTREMELY powerful magic user.
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Mogworld / int_aa55cd25	type	Brawn Hilda
Mogworld / int_aa55cd25	comment	Brawn Hilda: Cap'n Scar has shades of this.
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Mogworld / int_aa9fcfed	type	Embarrassing Middle Name
Mogworld / int_aa9fcfed	comment	Embarrassing Last Name: Jim's full name, James Rufus Bottomroach. Mrs. Civious' maiden name (seen by Jim through Drylda's eyes, but never mentioned) is also apparently painfully embarrassing.
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Mogworld / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Mogworld / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: On going over all the changes to the game since the earlier build the story takes place in, especially adding NPC permadeath instead of respawning, the reviewer in the epilogue wonders what the developers have against NPCs.
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Mogworld / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Mogworld / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Happens several times to Jim. By the halfway point of the novel, he stops being surprised at situations just happening to suddenly turn against him. A particularly memorable one was Barry realizing Thaddeus was a particularly powerful priest in life. "Holy balls, I did my thesis on you!" Dreadgrave gets a smaller one when he realizes that the members of his undead army have free will; he hadn't noticed that his zombies had free will earlier because Meryl was so biddable.
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Mogworld / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Mogworld / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Jim, who at one point claims in narration that actually being dead makes you even better at it. Also Don, the programmer overseeing the Mogworld project and Mr. Bowg, who is also The Stoic.
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Mogworld / int_af11866	type	Wizarding School
Mogworld / int_af11866	comment	Wizarding School: Where Jim is studying as a second year student at the beginning of the story. Notably, it was only founded recently, and is primarily a purely vocational school rather than a research focused one.
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Mogworld / int_af739531	type	Inept Mage
Mogworld / int_af739531	comment	Inept Mage: Jim. Granted it's because he only completed one year of magic training before he died... the first time.
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Mogworld / int_affd30b0	type	Stupid Evil
Mogworld / int_affd30b0	comment	Stupid Evil: Simon was never going to keep control past when his boss comes back from vacation.
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Mogworld / int_b15b6a35	type	Cosmic Plaything
Mogworld / int_b15b6a35	comment	If any of the main characters is going to suffer some sort of humiliation or injury, it’s going to be either Jim and Slippery John. At the end of the novel, Jim graduates into a full-on Cosmic Plaything, and Slippery John is revealed to have deliberately cultivated this image to protect himself from the angels.
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Mogworld / int_b89ed08a	type	Obvious Rule Patch
Mogworld / int_b89ed08a	comment	Obvious Rule Patch: The targets of a Bunny spell are invulnerable. According to Jim this is because otherwise they would be instantly killed by the caster and nobody would ever buy any other spells.
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Mogworld / int_b8dde2	type	Evil Overlord
Mogworld / int_b8dde2	comment	Evil Overlord: Baron Civious is supposed be one, but he got dethroned when he refused to bend-the-knee to the policies of the Adventurer's Guild. Also Si-Mon and Jim, in the SECOND ending to the book. Also Lord Dreadgrave, who seems to look up to Civious, what with the posters of him in his office.
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Mogworld / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
Mogworld / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: Jim's Bunnymorph spell turns people into rabbits.
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Mogworld / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Mogworld / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: We get names like Jim, Meryl, and Barry, mixed with names such as Drylda, Bowg, Mr. Wonderful, Thaddeus Praise-His-Name Godbotherer III.
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Mogworld / int_ba33bad5	type	I'm Not a Hero, I'm...
Mogworld / int_ba33bad5	comment	I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: Jim would rather be a protagonist.
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Mogworld / int_ba557643	type	Terms of Endangerment
Mogworld / int_ba557643	comment	Terms of Endangerment: An integral part of Mr. Wonderful's persona.
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Mogworld / int_bb9e6960	type	Non-Player Character
Mogworld / int_bb9e6960	comment	Non-Player Character: Jim and his "friends" are these.
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Mogworld / int_be192f18	type	Yes-Man
Mogworld / int_be192f18	comment	Yes-Man: The term "lickspittle" is used to describe Barry by Thaddeus.
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Mogworld / int_c03fec8b	type	Non-Standard Game Over
Mogworld / int_c03fec8b	comment	Non-Standard Game Over: Slippery John mentions this when he first brings up the fact that he died. This is a reference to the resurrections of the player characters in an actual MMORPG. Jim considers getting tossed in jail for the next few decades a close second to actually dying like he wanted.
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Mogworld / int_c45beb12	type	Academy of Adventure
Mogworld / int_c45beb12	comment	Academy of Adventure: Jim's magic school, which even he admits is sort of on the level of a community college rather than one of the major magic schools. The fighter schools are probably closer.
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Mogworld / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Mogworld / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Thaddeus' entire worldview is based around his religion, so the moment he's resurrected he is convinced that the Lord resurrected him to continue his holy work while everyone else is a demon possessing a corpse.
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Mogworld / int_c7575bab	type	ElvesVsDwarves
Mogworld / int_c7575bab	comment	Elves vs. Dwarves: Averted, as Mr. Wonderful (an Elf) and Bowg (a Dwarf) are partners. Then played straight when Mr. Wonderful kills Bowg to help Jim and Thaddeus get to the Nexus.
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Mogworld / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Mogworld / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Both to Zero Punctuation and World of Warcraft. Some of the people who work at Loincloth Entertainment are named Mason (Silent Hill), Sunderland (Silent Hill 2), and Townshend (Silent Hill 4). One of the towns is called Cronenburg. Also, Thaddeus' ultimate attack spell, the Level 47 Cunning Argument ("for the rapid conversion of heathens") is apparently a reference to a once-mentioned Omnian character from the Discworld, 'Smite-the-unbeliever-with-cunning-arguments'. Near the beginning of the book, Jim expresses regret about the magic school he attends not being a castle, which was almost certainly a jab at Hogwarts. In one scene, Dub begins to wax philosophical about whether the NPCs might really be alive or not. Don berates him for watching too much Star Trek, as it makes him talk like Picard. Dub corrects him by pointing out that the idea was actually from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Since Jim dies quite often, Yahtzee often precedes his deaths with "And that was the nth time I died". William Williams' name and his screen name "Double Bill" are likely a reference to the ZP episode of The Saboteur, in which the addendum asks whether William Grover-Williams, the real-life inspiration for main character Sean Devlin, liked to be known as "Double Bill".
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Mogworld / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Mogworld / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: The 'Deleters', true to their name, are the only beings in Mogworld capable of doing this. Lord Dreadgrave is one of the first to suffer this.
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Mogworld / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Mogworld / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: The last third of the book is far darker with what came before it. Meryl is deleted by Si-Mon, Mogworld is reset to the beginning of time by Jim, essentially destroying it, Thaddeus is incinerated by Barry, and Jim crosses the Despair Event Horizon.
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Mogworld / int_d1ceb951	type	Holier Than Thou
Mogworld / int_d1ceb951	comment	Holier Than Thou: The religious figures who appear in the story all have varying degrees of nastiness. Thaddeus the zombified priest is a delusional prat who constantly insults his fellow zombies, an early Youth Group from a different religion (the Enlightened Church of the Earth Mother) destroys a rival church to steal its business and Barry the Vicar is an unlikeable Smug Snake who starts abusing his God Mode powers the second he gets them, and gleefully tries to take over the world in the name of Si-Mon. Thaddeus does redeem himself toward the end when he realizes he's just as much of an abomination as the others and stops talking down to Jim, instead offering decent spiritual advice. He also turns out to secretly be a badass around the same time, to the point that he's the only character able to briefly go toe-to-toe with Barry.
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Mogworld / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
Mogworld / int_d57f4a99	comment	The Nothing After Death: Played with. The first time Jim dies, he gets visions of a beautiful, perfect afterlife where he's perfectly content with everything, which is abruptly ended when he's resurrected as a zombie. When he asks Dub if he could be sent back to that afterlife after he's deleted, Dub outright tells him that it was (probably) the AI equivalent of a pre-death hallucination, since the developers never programmed an afterlife, to which Jim responds, "Thank God for that." Even so, Don suggests that Jim, as a conscious being, could have a sort of an afterlife by invoking the Quantum Suicide theory. Of course, considering that he's asking Dub this question soon after Jim has reset the world, and his being the only remaining living being in it causes him to think that that in doing so he's personally murdered everything in Mogworld in the process, he may have suspected that he was headed for a different afterlife entirely; perhaps one a bit heavier on the fire and brimstone.
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Mogworld / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Mogworld / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Jim is acerbic and sarcastic, Thaddeus is condescending and insulting. Merryl is upbeat enough to put up with both.
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Mogworld / int_d87ba943	type	Combat Sadomasochist
Mogworld / int_d87ba943	comment	Combat Sadomasochist: Mr. Wonderful, even out of combat, who will randomly severely injure or inadvertently kill himself when angered. And then he will eat his won corpse.
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Mogworld / int_d8fad039	type	Weird Currency
Mogworld / int_d8fad039	comment	Weird Currency: James mentions bartering with turnips a couple times.
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Mogworld / int_d9c4365c	type	Reset Button
Mogworld / int_d9c4365c	comment	Reset Button: Jim introducing his corrupt code into the Nexus causes this, but not in the context of time - The Mogworld game is sent back to an extremely early pre-alpha build, embodied by a featureless, lifeless wasteland. After Si'Mon is defeated (and Simon fired from Loincloth), the other programmers work to restore Mogworld properly. In honor of Jim, they go through various alternate builds for his benefit - redesigning him as a barbarian hero, followed by a powerful necromancer - before playing the trope straight and simply giving him a world where his death at St. Gordon's Magical Collage never happened.
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Mogworld / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Mogworld / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The THIRD ending to the book.
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Mogworld / int_da3043c5	type	Fake Ultimate Hero
Mogworld / int_da3043c5	comment	Fake Ultimate Hero: Baron Civious, not necessarily because he's weak, he's just weak compared to Barry.
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Mogworld / int_db94aee5	type	Artificial Zombie
Mogworld / int_db94aee5	comment	Artificial Zombie: Since the whole thing takes place in a hyper-realistic video game.
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Mogworld / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Mogworld / int_dc3b74bc	comment	Pointy-Haired Boss: From what little we see of Brian Garret, CEO of Loincloth Entertainment, he appears both to be very pompous and quite ignorant of his workers' problems. Completely averted with Lord Dreadgrave. Despite being a necromancer with a doom fortress and an army of undead minions he is shown to be an excellent boss. He follows through on his promises, is attentive to the needs and wishes of his undead minions and most importantly, he remembers your name.
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Mogworld / int_dd6ffbdc	type	Hell Is War
Mogworld / int_dd6ffbdc	comment	Hell Is War: Mogworld seems to be increasingly heading this way near the start of the book, with perpetual (in some cases, weekly) battles being the norm. Slightly subverted in that some enjoy it as sport, and others (especially the Adventurer's Guild) enjoy the business it brings.
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Mogworld / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Mogworld / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Several people cross it after being told the Truth, such as Meryl. Jim crosses it after learning the Truth and that Dub tricked him into resetting Mogworld.
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Mogworld / int_e16fb8ca	type	Hero Killer
Mogworld / int_e16fb8ca	comment	Hero Killer: Jim's career as an undead minion mostly involved the use of the Rat Pit, where captured adventurers would be slowly and painfully devoured by, well, rats. All indications are that he was rather good at it and enjoyed his work. From a narrative perspective, Barry kills the King of Lolede, as well as Baron Civious and his wife, when he invades the city. Though they'll eventually respawn, they're never seen again in the story proper.
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Mogworld / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Mogworld / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Barry went from a barely-respected vicar to The Chosen One of an evil programmer-god.
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Mogworld / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Mogworld / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Meryl is the only thing keeping Jim together, in more ways than one.
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Mogworld / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Mogworld / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Barry's holy powers granted by Si-Mon.
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Mogworld / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Mogworld / int_e563bf09	comment	"Actually it's a trebuchet."
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Mogworld / int_e75223e1	type	Running Both Sides
Mogworld / int_e75223e1	comment	Running Both Sides: Although most of the adventurers themselves are unaware of this, the vast majority of the monsters and quest villains work for the Adventurer's guild, making the entire adventuring industry a massive scam.
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Mogworld / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Mogworld / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words/Language of Magic: The way magic works in Mogworld. For example, the spell for "Fireball" is Arcanus Inferus Telechus. However, you don't have to say those words immediately after each other, or even say all three if you're knocked out, and someone else says the rest for you. This loophole allows Jim to discretely cast spells by saying words that sound like the spell words, disguised as normal conversation.
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Mogworld / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
Mogworld / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Not Jim, as it's made pretty clear from the start he's not too pleased being wrenched back from the dead. The rest of the world is like this to a greater or lesser extent, as for the past fifteen years since "The Infusion", no-one can die, or even age. They just respawn at the nearest church. Taken to an extreme as Jim starts to get towards the end of his quest. They spot flyers for ways to commit suicide, and people who offer ways of mutilating yourself. After all, you'll only respawn if you die - so why not? Jim considers it a little unsettling when he thinks about it.
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Mogworld / int_eb2ede7b	type	Everyone Is Satan in Hell
Mogworld / int_eb2ede7b	comment	Everyone Is Satan in Hell: In-Universe: The priest, Thaddeus, to the point where Jim gets...irritated.
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Mogworld / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Mogworld / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Simon is an incredibly arrogant hotshot who believes himself to be a genius programmer when in reality he's an incompetent screw-up. Then he finds out that the NPC's of Mogworld are sapient and descends into full-blown megalomania.
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Mogworld / int_eeb4a5eb	type	Anti-Climax
Mogworld / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	Anti-Climax: Not actually the real Climax, but when Baron Civious and Barry are face to face, each summoning up their Auras of Light and Dark respectively and the general feeling is brought up, that the entire world could just as well be ending right now, Barry just pulverizes Civious with a single gesture.
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Mogworld / int_f005700f	type	Conspicuous Consumption
Mogworld / int_f005700f	comment	Conspicuous Consumption: When Jim puts out the quest "Lend Me Fifty Talans" so he can buy new clothes, he gets fifty talans from every adventurer in town. He decides to get ornate silk robes, a wizard hat, and fancy shoes, all trimmed with "Elfweave", a magical substance that looks like gold but is about three times the price.
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Mogworld / int_f1e68523	type	The Not-Love Interest
Mogworld / int_f1e68523	comment	The Not-Love Interest: Meryl for Jim, though it's not without plenty of Ship Tease.
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Mogworld / int_f3cbaf48	type	Misapplied Phlebotinum
Mogworld / int_f3cbaf48	comment	Misapplied Phlebotinum: As the epilog ruthlessly lampshades, the developers used groundbreaking Procedural Generation technology to create the world... and then guided its development into an utterly generic Standard Fantasy Setting.
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Mogworld / int_f5333f3b	type	Extraordinary World, Ordinary Problems
Mogworld / int_f5333f3b	comment	Extraordinary World, Ordinary Problems: This is a Running Gag with the magic system. Because there is so much obvious danger from unhinged or incompetent magic users, the first year of magic school consists almost entirely of psychological tests and for a lot of spells the hard part is getting through all of the safety training and licensing you need before anyone would willingly teach it to you. There are a few references to the magic industry being almost shattered by expensive lawsuits before they instituted these standards.
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Mogworld / int_f5c505db	type	The Cracker
Mogworld / int_f5c505db	comment	The Cracker: Simon Townshend, a corrupt developer who uses Mogworld as his personal digital playground and is using it as a way to hack into the company payrolls and steal money.
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Mogworld / int_f604f64b	type	Dude, She's Like in a Coma
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