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Paraiso Street

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Paraiso Street	label	Paraiso Street
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Paraiso Street	comment	Paraiso Street is a 2019 novel by Evan James Clark. It follows Danny Capistrano, an ex-priest and cartel physicist whose specialty is human trafficking— by smuggling the newly-deceased into Ptiamuzcuaro, the dystopian land of the dead. Cutting portals between worlds is practically the only thing Danny is good at, and after two decades of cartel living, he’s become a jaded alcoholic with no family and only bad relationships. His bad luck culminates when all on the same day he botches a major job, his girlfriend bails, and he’s recalled to the cartel’s headquarters in San Adriano, the border city into death itself. There, he’s given a last chance in the form of troubleshooting one of the cartel’s technological operations, and to that end is paired up with Cali, a mad-science prodigy... who happens to be his long-estranged daughter.Parallel to Danny’s plot are the misadventures of Henshaw and Pagonia, two Ptiamuzcuari exiles and persons of mass destruction who have been contracted as assassins by the cartel. Their mission relies on subtlety and stealth, which proves far more difficult than their usual shtick of unrestrained slaughter. Eventually, their path crosses with Danny’s, resulting in uncovering an interdimensional conspiracy. Along the way are plenty of masked mooks, secret police, detectives trying to survive in a corrupt police force, and one undead eight-foot rabbit.
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Paraiso Street / int_103e0141	type	Dying Clue
Paraiso Street / int_103e0141	comment	Dying Clue: Malik gives one to Henshaw in the wreckage of the Applecore site. Even in his state, he is openly delighted to do so.
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Paraiso Street / int_106f1a77	type	A Form You Are Comfortable With
Paraiso Street / int_106f1a77	comment	A Form You Are Comfortable With: Downplayed. Most of the more alien Ptiamuzcuari natives appear human because being in the living world requires them to bond with a living host, giving them less of a choice in the matter. However, most can alter their hosts to fit their preferred image, as Henshaw does to take on the appearance of a young woman. Averted with Gallows Charlie, whose preferred form is of a monstrous rabbit and has twisted his host as close to that as possible. And then there’s Malik, who may or may not be in his own manifested body.
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Paraiso Street / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
Paraiso Street / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: Espinado, Eisley's direct commander, is a fair, honest cop who allows her to carry on a costly investigation out of respect and trust. At the same time, he's very willing to work with criminals in custody, and even puts aside inter-agency rivalry when faced with a large-scale threat to the city. Eisley believes Espinado to be so fair that the corrupt brass will eventually strip him of rank and put him in a mailroom.
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Paraiso Street / int_116a941b	type	Applied Phlebotinum
Paraiso Street / int_116a941b	comment	Danny's specialty is reconciling metaphysical laws with quantum physics, allowing the creation of Applied Phlebotinum portals.
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Paraiso Street / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
Paraiso Street / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: Danny has absolutely no shame in eyeing women, and repeatedly dwells on memories/fantasies of sex with the ex. This gets him into trouble numerous times, namely when Eisley uses this as a honey-trap to arrest him and when he draws the ire of Bill Netley by running off with Isis.
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Paraiso Street / int_12bd8223	type	Supernatural Light
Paraiso Street / int_12bd8223	comment	Supernatural Light: The Black Lanterns used by the Xolotl create a weaponized version, mimicking the light spectrums in Ptiamuzcuaro. In the living, this can cause instantaneous illness and shock, and its used to devastating effect when the Xolotl use spotlights of it to break up the Vesparez Park rain market. Eisley is subjected to it during her interrogation by the Xolotl though she resists it with only minor effort, suggesting she may possess her own supernatural abilities.
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Paraiso Street / int_13c1fec8	type	Dragon-in-Chief
Paraiso Street / int_13c1fec8	comment	Dragon-in-Chief: The Stained-Glass King is this for the Golden, overseeing Ptiamuzcuari operations in the living world.
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Paraiso Street / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Paraiso Street / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Cali views Danny this way, which he goes out of his way to reinforce. As he says, "I'm a parent... that's what we're for."
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Paraiso Street / int_16364a29	type	Evil Sounds Deep
Paraiso Street / int_16364a29	comment	Evil Sounds Deep: In the case of the Stained-Glass King, it's deep enough to require small caps. This is partially because the SGK has no mouth, but speaks by warping the air itself.
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Paraiso Street / int_19db6967	type	Ancient Evil
Paraiso Street / int_19db6967	comment	Ancient Evil: The Golden, although it is implied that there are evils in the lowest layers of Ptiamuzcuaro even more ancient.
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Paraiso Street / int_19f034ab	type	I Miss Mom
Paraiso Street / int_19f034ab	comment	I Miss Mom: Said word-for-word by Cali when she admits that much of her work was motivated by fear of what would happen to her mother after death. The possibility of her mother being punished by the Xolotl inspired her to develop the Applecore gate for the sake of a sanctuatry city.
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Paraiso Street / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Paraiso Street / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: Wendell engages in this, likely to avoid homophobic suspicion within The Cartel. Then again, his only named girlfriend was Isis.
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Paraiso Street / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Paraiso Street / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Zargoza, the man behind the cartel. Both Bill Netley and Dominic Mizayuko claim he's a figment, created so that men like them can use his legendary power without being challenged. Henshaw, on the other hand, not only insists that Zargoza is real, but that he's also angry.
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Paraiso Street / int_1cd602ef	type	Calling Card
Paraiso Street / int_1cd602ef	comment	Calling Card: Danny finds a numer of crumpled papers in his ransacked apartment, with graffiti-like drawing of the Golden to suggest the rebel dead have been there. He correctly deduces that this is a Zargoza ploy to spur he and Cali to action, which is why he's caught off-guard when the actual rebel dead show up.
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Paraiso Street / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Paraiso Street / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Bill Netley is terrorized, tortured, and contorted into the shape of a giant disemboweled and jawless butterfly before being dropped ninety stories to the sidewalk. The Zargoza cartel is known for this, as well as doling out fates worse than death in the form of botched sendings between worlds. Hideo meets one of these at the hands of Pagonia, turned inside-out and pinned to a wall like an insect. The Xolotl are reported to perform these in order to put individuals firmly within their jurisdiction. One method mentioned is "speed deportation" via a portable mulcher. Fridge Logic here, as this would leave no body for the dead to try to hide/flee in, and completely destroy "stitched" individuals, serving as a punishment for violating the Law of the Golden. The sorcerer Lucciola Vesparez suffered one of these at the hands of the Golden. After defeating her in a duel, the Golden had her dipped alive in molten lead and placed as a statue in a public square.
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Paraiso Street / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Paraiso Street / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Bill Netley loses several fingers when Henshaw accidentally triggers the cutting torch during her interrogation of him. Because the torch is powered by Hellfire, Henshaw informs Bill that even his ghost will lack those digits. The implications of this comparatively minor injury leaves Henshaw disturbed.
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Paraiso Street / int_1fb9864	type	Liminal Being
Paraiso Street / int_1fb9864	comment	Liminal Being: Cali is unknowingly one of these, a living person whose soul has been split into two creatures. Bonding with her own poltergeist leads to...
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Paraiso Street / int_203141e3	type	Cute and Psycho
Paraiso Street / int_203141e3	comment	Cute and Psycho: Henshaw. Her preferred appearance is as a small young woman, considered very cute all around. She's also a mass-murdering vampire and devoted soldier of a tyrannical Dimension Lord.
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Paraiso Street / int_204a1207	type	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
Paraiso Street / int_204a1207	comment	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: Limbo is a space between worlds that is simply empty of everything, including time, and anything placed there exists as if time has stopped. While this doesn't seem scary in itself, Bill Netley admits that in order to pull off the portal hoax, they just stopped retrieving clients from Limbo, a fate that Danny finds horrifying. A straighter example is the Breach, a rip between worlds that looks like a burning crystalline tunnel, moving like both a meat grinder and a contracting intestine. Danny claims that watching it too closely can make one go mad.
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Paraiso Street / int_2059a430	type	The Hedonist
Paraiso Street / int_2059a430	comment	The Hedonist: Danny was one in the past, though the lifestyle eventually destroyed his marriage and relationship with his daughter. In the present, Henshaw throws herself into the physical delights of the living world, which aligns with Danny's statement that a "vampire is all hunger".
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Paraiso Street / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Paraiso Street / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Danny’s entire relationship with Cali depends on this especially since Danny isn’t a particularly good parent, or person for that matter.
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Paraiso Street / int_217a1adf	type	I Love the Dead
Paraiso Street / int_217a1adf	comment	I Love the Dead: Danny mentions that this is a justified problem, in that a person may not be aware that their partner is dead. Gallows Charlie outright states that there would be times when even the dead themselves could forget, which makes the situation highly problematic. Played straight with the medical examiner in Bridgeton Fathoms, who gets more than a little touchy-feely with the scorched corpse of Henshaw. It does not end well for him.
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Paraiso Street / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Paraiso Street / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: Weather Eisley is one of the few unequivocally good characters who appears. She's also rude, arrogant, and not above minor forms of torture.
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Paraiso Street / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Paraiso Street / int_22cf536c	comment	Cali's cartel alias, Katie Canary, implies a pet locked in a cage... or a sacrifice to warn of danger. It also becomes Chekhov's Gun for Eisley, who connects it with the nickname "Bird" given to Cali by Zia. Eisley deduces that Zia had known Cali under that alias, at least for a time, and discovers that they had attended university together, which leads her to Cali's school records and connection with Danny.
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Paraiso Street / int_23015b1f	type	Magnificent Bastard
Paraiso Street / int_23015b1f	comment	Magnificent Bastard: Wendell Graves. Not only does he facilitate Bill Netley's convoluted plan to take over all trade between worlds, but he pulls off a second plan that not only relies on Bill's operations, but also brings in the few human authority figures who can do anything about it AND sets loose Henshaw and Pagonia as wild agents to keep the Xolotl distracted. Unlike Bill's plan, Wendell's actually works perfectly, even after his death due to a back-up Thanatos Gambit.
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Paraiso Street / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
Paraiso Street / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: Malik's motivation in building the massive Applecore gate, even though he knows it will be used for evil purposes. Cali sees to share this view at first, but later admits the science is only the means to very personal end.
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Paraiso Street / int_24e48d72	type	Dirty Harriet
Paraiso Street / int_24e48d72	comment	A variation, when Danny attempts a hook-up with a woman in a bar bathroom, who he assumes is a prostitute. In reality, it's Eisley in Dirty Harriet mode, who uses the opportunity to both search him for weapons and handcuff him to the plumbing.
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Paraiso Street / int_26a1af2f	type	Chance Meeting Between Antagonists
Paraiso Street / int_26a1af2f	comment	Chance Meeting Between Antagonists: Henshaw and Cali literally run into each other during the raid on Vesparez Park's rain market. While Cali barely registers the encounter, Henshaw is dazed by their sudden etheric connection. Later shown to have been subverted as Henshaw and Pagonia had been tracking the white hat Hideo, who had instigated the raid hoping that Cali would be captured.
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Paraiso Street / int_2745f935	type	Gas Mask Mooks
Paraiso Street / int_2745f935	comment	Gas Mask Mooks: Bill Netley's choice in personal mooks as a display of his power.
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Paraiso Street / int_28b2f93a	type	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
Paraiso Street / int_28b2f93a	comment	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Being conscripted by the Xolotl into the service of the Golden is the greatest fear of the dead, often more than Cessation of Existence. The majority of those taken are sent to the Dark Fields, and forced to harvest crops that are saturated with despair, likely from the same laborers that pick them. Henshaw even refers to the Dark Fields as plantations, and even Gallows Charlie is afraid of them. In some cases, it can become a Fate Worse than Death if the victim is never released, drawing out their suffering for eternity.
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Paraiso Street / int_294df577	type	Dark World
Paraiso Street / int_294df577	comment	Dark World: Ptiamuzcuaro, down to the twisted reflection of the living world that exists at its entrance. It is implied that it wasn’t so dark before the Golden came to power
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Paraiso Street / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Paraiso Street / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Henshaw is attracted to human women (although she herself is only human in form) and it is strongly implied that Wendell is at least bisexual. Both end up unceremoniously shot. Averted with Cali and Zia, though they do not end up together.
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Paraiso Street / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Paraiso Street / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The Stained-Glass King. When woken up, he eats undead abominations and is referred to as a walking nuke. Air-raid sirens sound at his approach and radios broadcast warnings to find shelter and not look into the light.
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Paraiso Street / int_2bc8bdeb	type	Speak of the Devil
Paraiso Street / int_2bc8bdeb	comment	Speak of the Devil: It is an extraordinary taboo to say the Golden's true name. Saying it aloud can terrifying even the speaker to the point of illness.
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Paraiso Street / int_2c7905cf	type	Spikes of Villainy
Paraiso Street / int_2c7905cf	comment	Spikes of Villainy: The Stained-Glass King's body is a crystal and iron shell with very sharp angles and a crown of spikes with monomolecular points.
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Paraiso Street / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Paraiso Street / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: Crystal Cuaride is distilled from the dreams of the dead. The process of creating it is implied to be extremely unpleasant, and its effects include causing the user to rot.
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Paraiso Street / int_2cd69f80	type	Fantastic Noir
Paraiso Street / int_2cd69f80	comment	Fantastic Noir: The plot ultimately boils down to a cops vs criminals noir tale, complete with dogged detectives and crime lords, in a world populated by ghosts, demons, mad scientists, Magitek, vampires, and eldritch abominations.
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Paraiso Street / int_2d50bb66	type	Perp Sweating
Paraiso Street / int_2d50bb66	comment	Perp Sweating: The Xolotl method of this uses a light that causes physical and psychic pain to the living, bordering on Cold-Blooded Torture.
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Paraiso Street / int_2da9bb9b	type	Psychopomp
Paraiso Street / int_2da9bb9b	comment	Psychopomp: The Xolotl are meant to be this, but have since been corrupted to an evil variant.
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Paraiso Street / int_2dc96e6c	type	Police Code for Everything
Paraiso Street / int_2dc96e6c	comment	Police Code for Everything: The San Adriano PD have codes for various supernatural events. Breach events, indicating the arrival of a powerful undead creature or Eldritch Abomination, are coded 371.
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Paraiso Street / int_2e06a5f8	type	Undead Laborers
Paraiso Street / int_2e06a5f8	comment	Undead Laborers: Most of the dead conscripted by the Xolotl become this, working in dark fields far below Ptiamuzcuaro to "harvest black fruit saturated with despair to feed His armies". Even Gallows Charlie calls this a Fate Worse than Death.
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Paraiso Street / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Paraiso Street / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Henshaw is either this or a Depraved Homosexual. Zig-zagged in that she’s also not human and her full preferences are therefore unclear.
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Paraiso Street / int_2f2e3cfe	type	Interrogation by Vandalism
Paraiso Street / int_2f2e3cfe	comment	Interrogation by Vandalism: Henshaw and Pagonia use this on one of the cartel’s minor lackeys by destroying his bosses’ valuable collection of antiquities. Downplayed in that they’re also searching the room and terrorizing information out of the man is a bonus.
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Paraiso Street / int_309c05ec	type	Teleporter Accident
Paraiso Street / int_309c05ec	comment	Teleporter Accident: Kicks off the plot, when one of Danny's clients disappears during teleportation to the Land of the Dead. He soon after finds out that not only is this has occurred with every teleporter on the planet for weeks. Later averted when Bill Netley reveals that the clients are intentionally not being brought out of Limbo space, in order to frame Danny for the Applecore project.
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Paraiso Street / int_30ef2781	type	The City Narrows
Paraiso Street / int_30ef2781	comment	The medical examiner's hidden lab in The City Narrows suggests he was attempting to be one, with his experiments (and own grisly death) likely being the source of a DustWraith.
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Paraiso Street / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Paraiso Street / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The Stained-Glass King, an openly malevolent figure, does not approve of the corruption within the Xolotl, and is implied to punish them with a Fate Worse than Death. Henshaw is unsettled by the Hellfire torch, a weapon capable of destroying souls themselves. This doesn't stop her from trying to use it once.
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Paraiso Street / int_32768814	type	Kick the Son of a Bitch
Paraiso Street / int_32768814	comment	Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Bill Netley, leader of the Zargoza Cartel and orchestrator of every awful thing that happens to the Capistranos, finds himself in the hands of Henshaw and Pagonia. He's tortured, mutilated beyond recognition, and dropped from the top of his 90th story penthouse.
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Paraiso Street / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
Paraiso Street / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: Happens to Bill Netley, from his 90th story penthouse. After the horrific torture he’d experienced, it comes as a Mercy Kill.
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Paraiso Street / int_33987735	type	Disposing of a Body
Paraiso Street / int_33987735	comment	Disposing of a Body: The cartel uses a morgue in The City Narrows to get rid of corpses that might get the attention of the Xolotl. Unfortunately, the medical examiner's sloppy work and tendency to experiment with the corpses leads to the emergence of a Dust Wraith. It doesn't help that one of the bodies meant to be disposed of was Henshaw.
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Paraiso Street / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Paraiso Street / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Cali calls herself exactly that, and she's not wrong. According to her school records, the only course she ever failed was "ethics and procedure". The Zargoza cartel has employed hundreds of similarly mad scientists to facilitate its technological operations.
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Paraiso Street / int_36c94bed	type	Person of Mass Destruction
Paraiso Street / int_36c94bed	comment	Person of Mass Destruction: Pagonia's telekinetic powers get turned up to 11 when he reveals himself to be a bound cacodaemon. Cali herself comes close after bonding with her poltergeist, becoming powerful enough to survive encountering Pagonia in his true form.
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Paraiso Street / int_380bb367	type	Muggle with a Degree in Magic
Paraiso Street / int_380bb367	comment	Muggle with a Degree in Magic: Danny's education as a priest detailed countless aspects of the afterlife and its denizens, including the use of supernatural abilities such as "stitching" or surgical possession. However, the mere mention of him as a "bokor" is one of his Berserk Buttons. It later turns out that Danny did once attempt a ritual to remove and preserve part of Cali's soul, which ended up backfiring and creating a poltergeist.
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Paraiso Street / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Paraiso Street / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Bill's plan relies on Danny get so caught up in fixing the problem with broken portals that he draws enough attention to himself to be blamed for the Applecore project. Likewise, he counts on Cali's idealism to blind her to the purpose of what she's building with the cartel's resources. It works. Wendell counts on Bill's ambition, Eisley's dogged pursuit of the truth, and Henshaw and Pagonia's reckless destructiveness to undo Bill's plan. This also works.
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Paraiso Street / int_39488ea5	type	Mutant Draft Board
Paraiso Street / int_39488ea5	comment	Mutant Draft Board: One of the roles of the Xolotl ministry is to capture the newly dead who manifest special abilities. These unfortunates are then conscripted into the service of the Golden as laborers or soldiers, potentially for eternity.
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Paraiso Street / int_39994bd9	type	Bazaar of the Bizarre
Paraiso Street / int_39994bd9	comment	Bazaar of the Bizarre: The rain markets. They pop up at different areas of the city with almost no notice, utilize fields of artificial mist to keep out the dead, and sell anything from bootlegged rock albums to Phlebotinum-infused tattoos.
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Paraiso Street / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Paraiso Street / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: While reading Danny's rap sheet, Eisley mentions that Danny was previously arrested in nationally-unclaimed waters, which she had never heard of before. Danny also mentions that he was once on a boat which was gnawed on by a Corpsekraken. Danny's reaction to Eisley's statement suggests that these are from the same incident.
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Paraiso Street / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Paraiso Street / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Present in Ptiamuzcuaro, which mimics the technology of the living world but is forbidden access to electricity under the Law of the Golden (specifically because “spark” allows spirits to manifest physically). This allows for things like the golem in the citadel to exist beside steam engines and phosphorescent moss for lighting.
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Paraiso Street / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Paraiso Street / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Bill Netley. He's a manipulative bastard who reward cruelty, encourages infighting, and goes after a former subordinate over a years-old slight. He's also comfortable with klling his own successful employees when it's convenient. Averted (mostly) with the Stained-Glass King, the de facto leader of the Xolotl, who gives his people as much leeway as needed to perform their jobs. Just don't accept bribes, deal with criminals, or violate the Law of the Golden.
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Paraiso Street / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Paraiso Street / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Henshaw and Pagonia's specialty. Any battle they engage in is explosively violent and tend to be very short. Being ordered to not engage in these ends up being a serious handicap that almost breaks them.
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Paraiso Street / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Paraiso Street / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Wendell serves as this to Cali, being a father figure in Danny's place. Even as an adult, she refers to him as her best friend. None of this is lost on Danny, who even sheepishly asks if Wendell ever had an actual relationship with Cali's mother.
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Paraiso Street / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Paraiso Street / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Bill Netley. His plan requires playing the rebel dead against the Xolotl while conspiring with both, securing the secret alliance of a multi-national corporation, and tricking his rival into becoming the fall guy for an interdimensional conspiracy. It very nearly works, and is foiled only by a pair of unknown rivals.
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Paraiso Street / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Paraiso Street / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Danny pulls this on Bill Netley, pointing out that Bill's grand design comes down to nothing more than a petty personal grudge.
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Paraiso Street / int_41d8a845	type	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic
Paraiso Street / int_41d8a845	comment	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: Danny's specialty is reconciling metaphysical laws with quantum physics, allowing the creation of Applied Phlebotinum portals. The mechanics of possession have been examined to the point where “surgical possession” or physically bonding ghosts with bodies is a subject to be studied. While Gallows Charlie’s stitching may still be through supernatural means, Danny proves that with proper study, a human can do it as well, as evidenced by his removal of part of Cali’s soul when she was a child.
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Paraiso Street / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Paraiso Street / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: People who run afoul of Henshaw and Pagonia often gets this. Bill Netley presses directly on Henshaw's Berserk Button and gets this A LOT.
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Paraiso Street / int_432af81e	type	Bantering Baddie Buddies
Paraiso Street / int_432af81e	comment	Bantering Baddie Buddies: Henshaw and Pagonia. They converse about pop culture and enjoy movies and meals after incredibly violent mass murders... or sometimes during. Danny and Wendell were a less murderous version of this when they were colleagues in San Adriano.
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Paraiso Street / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
Paraiso Street / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: Wendell plays this constantly to keep both Danny and Henshaw and Pagonia on track. Luckily, he's such a Magnificent Bastard that he pulls it off each time.
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Paraiso Street / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
Paraiso Street / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: The Stained-Glass King does this to the entirety of the Xolotl, recalling them to Ptiamuzcuaro. Danny suggest what awaits them is far worse than death.
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Paraiso Street / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Paraiso Street / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Danny. It may have been part of a well-intentioned ritual, but the act of drowning3-year-old Cali in the bathtub horrified and traumatized the both of them. Even two decades later, it remains a core factor in his self-loathing.
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Paraiso Street / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Paraiso Street / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Danny. He starts low as a barely-employed criminal who loses his girlfriend on the same day as screwing up a job for The Cartel. The next week piles up the indignities, including being betrayed, shot, beaten, and set-up as a fall-guy for a cross-dimensional criminal operation. All with a catastrophic hangover.
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Paraiso Street / int_481f9c8	type	LegionsOfHell
Paraiso Street / int_481f9c8	comment	Legions of Hell: The soldiers of the Golden, though they have many factions. The least of these are the Xolotl, demonic spirits possessing human hosts, who act as immigration and customs enforcement, as well as a secret police force. There are also numerous unaligned monsters from Ptiamuzcuaro, including the puca Gallows Charlie and Pagonia, an ancient undead godling.
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Paraiso Street / int_4a0f839d	type	Cessation of Existence
Paraiso Street / int_4a0f839d	comment	The “stitched” dead, who are placed into the dead bodies of others. A well-stitched corpse does not rot and maintains all of the usual bodily functions, including breathing, digestion, and sexual ability, to the point where even the occupant may forget they’re dead. The two drawbacks to this are 1) they don’t age, making them easier to spot after a reasonable length of time, and 2) the body is inescapable and any damage done to their shell is done to their spirit as well, so being killed in this form leads to Cessation of Existence. The success of stitching is often reliant on the subject’s age and memory, with the implication that a ghost must be stitched as soon as possible after their death so they will remember the feeling of a working body. They still require time to adjust to avoid being out of sync. It’s also shown that a ghost will be more receptive to a body they’re familiar with, as shown with Rosita, who occupies the body of her sister. Gallows Charlie states that unstitching a spirit from a body is more difficult and far more expensive. His business model relies on stitching the dead at a very low cost, then charging extortion-level prices for the inevitable unstitching.
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Paraiso Street / int_4ab9c868	type	Pretty Little Headshots
Paraiso Street / int_4ab9c868	comment	Pretty Little Headshots: Averted with Henshaw's death, which blows out the entire back of her skull, mulching her brain.
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Paraiso Street / int_4cacfcc3	type	Honey Trap
Paraiso Street / int_4cacfcc3	comment	Honey Trap: A variation, when Danny attempts a hook-up with a woman in a bar bathroom, who he assumes is a prostitute. In reality, it's Eisley in Dirty Harriet mode, who uses the opportunity to both search him for weapons and handcuff him to the plumbing. Danny later suggests they repeat this when Eisley arrests him a second time, and she offers to shoot him. Later still, while she recovers in the hospital, Eisley clarifies that she will never sleep with Danny, forcefully enough that it comes off as a threat.
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Paraiso Street / int_4dd76d13	type	DimensionalTraveller
Paraiso Street / int_4dd76d13	comment	Dimensional Traveller: Anyone passing through the Paraiso Street gate is this, making such travel relatively common. Danny job as a cartel human trafficker is to get people between dimensions through smaller temporary gates, with varying levels of success.
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Paraiso Street / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Paraiso Street / int_4e7c4536	comment	Cali's true nature is hinted at throughout, from poor quality of any photo taken of her to her habit of chanting "invisible" while trying to avoid attention, a supernatural knack that almost always works. The fact that she remained unaware of it for years makes the revelation a wham moment.
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Paraiso Street / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
Paraiso Street / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Inverted with Weather Eisley, who has a large, twisted scar down the side of her face. As a detective, she regularly uses wigs and glasses to hide it during sting operations, but otherwise does nothing to cover it up. Its origin is not directly discussed, but it's implied to be related to immunity to Ptiamuzcuari physical effects. It will later become significantly worse when Eisley loses a large portion of skin from her face during the final battle. This proves to be the least of her concerns.
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Paraiso Street / int_4f23ab52	type	Friend in the Black Market
Paraiso Street / int_4f23ab52	comment	Friend in the Black Market: Zia is Cali's contact in the rain markets, who trades Cali bootlegged concert recordings for limited edition tennis shoes. However, her primary trade is in medications and insulin, which makes sense as she's later revealed to be a paramedic during the day. Wendell functions as this for Cali as well, since Zargoza scientists are kept hidden and are unable to go shopping for themselves.
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Paraiso Street / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Paraiso Street / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Henshaw is the master of this. Not only does she suffer and recover from countless horrible injuries, but she is capable of inflicting them through manipulating the victim's own flesh. One of her favorite acts is to open the victim's chest by spreading their ribs until they pop. After being assaulted by a necrophile medical examiner, she rips the man's lower limbs off, then forces him to push his own hand down his throat up to the elbow. Her crowning achievement is her mutilation of Bill Netley, who she alters into a jawless, disemboweled, distended approximation of a butterfly before dropping him from his skyscraper penthouse. In both Netley and the medical examiner's cases, she keeps them alive and completely aware of what is happening to them. Pagonia also gets in on this during his Roaring Rampage of Revenge, turning Zargoza gangsters inside out before pinning them to walls like insects, and immolating his own body from the inside out, creating a blackened scarecrow-like form with skeletal limbs. Ptiamuzcuari natives have a tendency to do this, as indicated in Danny's story of a specimen that escaped from a holding tank and unrolled its keepers across the walls like paint. Even Cali's torch can cause this, with a beam of concentrated Hellfire summoned from one of Ptiamuzcuaro's hells. When Henshaw inadvertently severs Bill's fingers with it, she notes that even Bill's ghost won't have those. The fact that someone weaponized such a thing disturbs even her. Danny mentions the possibility of a "speed deportation" by the Xolotl, via large mulchers kept in their car trunks. While this seems like a joke at the time, Eisley mentions it as something that the Xolotl actually use. Gallows Charlie's form is that of a towering demonic rabbit, but was created by warping a human body over time to match his preferred shape. Danny implies that the original owner of the body was still inside during that.
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Paraiso Street / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
Paraiso Street / int_50ed1af4	comment	Cacodaemons are said to be the cousins of poltergeists, except rather than being mad from human souls, they’re created from dead gods. Pagonia shows how destructive they can be, and unlike the Dust Wraith, he’s old enough to be collected and intentional about his destruction.
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Paraiso Street / int_525df529	type	Not Using the "Z" Word
Paraiso Street / int_525df529	comment	Not Using the "Z" Word: The most common word for corporeal undead is duppie, but is also considered a minor slur. Gallows Charlie references "island shamblers" and "ribbon-necks" as subtypes.
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Paraiso Street / int_52600ad6	type	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu
Paraiso Street / int_52600ad6	comment	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Happens when Cali touches Pagonia in his cacodaemon form, resulting in heavy burns that will never fully heal.
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Paraiso Street / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Paraiso Street / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Henshaw and Pagonia, due to Blue-and-Orange Morality, are often polite and sympathetic to the people they kill. Henshaw, the more violent of the two, only breaks out her mean persona when confronted by genuine threats.
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Paraiso Street / int_53c8d46	type	The Underworld
Paraiso Street / int_53c8d46	comment	The Underworld: Ptiamuzcuaro, the world to which all souls of the dead travel. It has countless levels and that the dead eventually cross its more hostile terrain to gentler afterlives.
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Paraiso Street / int_53de87e5	type	Willing Channeler
Paraiso Street / int_53de87e5	comment	Willing Channeler: The Xolotl hosts serves as this, allowing the Ptiamuzcuari spirit to use their body. It’s implied that there is significant pay and benefits to this arrangement, though none of the hosts are ever seen without their “rider”.
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Paraiso Street / int_55ca8aa	type	The Mob Boss Is Scarier
Paraiso Street / int_55ca8aa	comment	The Mob Boss Is Scarier: Invoked by Danny during his interrogation at the police station. Eisley turns this around by claiming that Bill Netley will be far more scary if he thinks Danny talked.
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Paraiso Street / int_56b8b4f1	type	Lean and Mean
Paraiso Street / int_56b8b4f1	comment	Lean and Mean: Pagonia is very tall and thin, nearly scarecrow-like. He's also a disguised cacodaemon, capable of destroying entire sections of the city and turning people inside out on a whim.
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Paraiso Street / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
Paraiso Street / int_583ec33e	comment	Snark-to-Snark Combat: Any confrontation between Cali and Eisley becomes this. Wendell and Eisley also get into this during their Mexican Standoff.
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Paraiso Street / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
Paraiso Street / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: Ptiamuzcuaro is this, which then branches out into countless smaller ones. The largest include sky-scrapers and artificial moons, which Danny warns are often unfriendly and will respond negatively to people they don't like.
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Paraiso Street / int_5937a87c	type	No Honor Among Thieves
Paraiso Street / int_5937a87c	comment	No Honor Among Thieves: Used repeatedly, as the cartel members regularly screw each other over to get ahead. This behavior is so normal that no one takes it personally, until Danny and Cali are betrayed by their only true friend in the organization, Wendell.
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Paraiso Street / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Paraiso Street / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Or rather, hopelessly outmatched by their rival agency, the Xolotl. Despite that the human police are supposed to control all matter of law enforcement among the living, the fact that everyone will eventually fall under the Xolotl's jurisdiction (and the process can be sped up through "speed deportation") means the police have little actual power. This is compounded by rampant corruption and connections with organized crime.
Paraiso Street / int_59907e4f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Paraiso Street / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Paraiso Street / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Mizayuko walks away from his meeting with Danny and Cali completely unscathed, intent on reaping his rewards back in the living world. Then the conspiracy with The Cartel is revealed and its remaining enforcers clean house by burning his corporate headquarters with him in it.
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Paraiso Street / int_59fe174d	type	Devil, but No God
Paraiso Street / int_59fe174d	comment	Devil, but No God: Said nearly word-for-word by Danny when asked by he left the priesthood. He manages to hold on to this philosophy even when resuming a priestly role in confronting the Stained-Glass King.
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Paraiso Street / int_5a4d64c3	type	Only One Afterlife
Paraiso Street / int_5a4d64c3	comment	Only One Afterlife: Ptiamuzcuaro is said to be the sole destination of the dead, though it also contains a multitude of smaller heavens and hells. The Law of the Golden even states that Ptiamuzcuaro is the only way into death.
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Paraiso Street / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Paraiso Street / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Bill Netley is on the receiving end of one of these. However, having been subjected to extreme Body Horror, it likely comes as a relief.
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Paraiso Street / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Paraiso Street / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: The Xolotl tribunals are implied to be this. Bill Netley counts on it in setting up Danny.
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Paraiso Street / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
Paraiso Street / int_5db59a03	comment	Brown Note: Entering Ptiamuzcuaro as a living person is this, combined with shades of Go Mad from the Revelation. This is due to said living person becoming no longer real on their own, but a part of Ptiamuzcuaro's manifestation.
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Paraiso Street / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
Paraiso Street / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Cali pulls one off by bleaching her hair and showing up at the police station, claiming to be Danny's panicked administrative assistant. Eisley sees through it easily, but since Eisley has not shared information on her operations or even why she arrested Danny in a sting, Cali's gambit is just enough to get Danny released. Cali later admits it shouldn't have worked, but Eisley's own loner cop tendencies made holding Danny longer impossible.
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Paraiso Street / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Paraiso Street / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Henshaw and Pagonia genuinely care for each other, skirting the line between Platonic Life-Partners and a romantic friendship. While not strictly evil, Danny is unapologetically corrupt, but cares deeply for his daughter. Dominic Mizayuko is willing to ally with The Cartel, but also genuinely cares about his nephew, Hideo.
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Paraiso Street / int_6552b710	type	The Syndicate
Paraiso Street / int_6552b710	comment	The Syndicate: Zargoza crosses this with The Cartel.
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Paraiso Street / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
Paraiso Street / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: Pagonia undergoes this in destroying his body to unleash his power as a cacodaemon. Completely averted with Henshaw, who is Killed Mid-Sentence in a random, accidental shooting.
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Paraiso Street / int_6926506	type	Revenant Zombie
Paraiso Street / int_6926506	comment	The dead who remain in their natural bodies become revenant zombies, and decay at a normal rate. There are still advantages to this form, particularly if the dead person has gained supernatural abilities and are now able to use them easily.
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Paraiso Street / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Paraiso Street / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Many. Henshaw Krake's last name is a singular form of "kraken", indicating her non-human origins. Similarly, a high-profile trafficker of the dead is named Wendell Graves. Bill Netley's name reflects his own affinity for complex, web-like plots intended to ensnare victims, particularly Danny. Danny Capistrano’s last name is a Shout-Out to the Mission San Juan Capistrano, best known as for a yearly mass migration of cliff swallows from Argentina to California. This in turn reflects Danny on-and-off faith and his eventual return to priesthood. Cali's cartel alias, Katie Canary, implies a pet locked in a cage... or a sacrifice to warn of danger. It also becomes Chekhov's Gun for Eisley, who connects it with the nickname "Bird" given to Cali by Zia. Eisley deduces that Zia had known Cali under that alias, at least for a time, and discovers that they had attended university together, which leads her to Cali's school records and connection with Danny.
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Paraiso Street / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
Paraiso Street / int_6d7bc0f	comment	Fake Band: Cali maintains a music collection with bands like Marsiebelle, Ursa Invincible, Paper Tropic, and the Expedition. The music Danny overhears is described as a "violently zombified samba." Henshaw is also a fan of the Expedition, specifically because she admires the quality of their screaming.
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Paraiso Street / int_6f572188	type	Another Dimension
Paraiso Street / int_6f572188	comment	Another Dimension: Ptiamuzcuaro, the land of the dead accessible via the Paraiso Street gateway.
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Paraiso Street / int_703b3699	type	Came Back Strong
Paraiso Street / int_703b3699	comment	Came Back Strong: The dead often have greater strength, no longer being bound by the physical laws of the living world. Cali herself gains enormous strength when bonded with the poltergeist of her 3-year-old self.
Paraiso Street / int_703b3699	featureApplicability	1.0
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Paraiso Street / int_7064ec04	type	Cassette Futurism
Paraiso Street / int_7064ec04	comment	Cassette Futurism: The living world is a low fantasy setting, aged up to roughly 1991 AD. The cassette tape vs vinyl war is going strong (with the implication that CDs are about to crush both), pagers and analogue answering machines are the norm, and computer terminals remain boxy, bulky affairs.
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Paraiso Street / int_70c06a09	type	The Undead
Paraiso Street / int_70c06a09	comment	The Undead: All over the place, being as that there exists a physical passage between the worlds of the living and the dead. Many of the human dead in hiding are either residing in stolen bodies or attached to their own rotting corpses.
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Paraiso Street / int_71d1ee83	type	Coat, Hat, Mask
Paraiso Street / int_71d1ee83	comment	Coat, Hat, Mask: the standard uniform of Xolotl agents. Xolotl shock troopers upgrade to full Gas Mask Long Coat.
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Paraiso Street / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
Paraiso Street / int_7216b31d	comment	Calacas: Ever-present, as Ptiamuzcuaro is based predominantly on Mesoamerican mythology. Symbolic versions are everywhere on Havisham Island, the location of the gate between worlds, while "living" versions are seen once Danny and Cali cross over. Danny notes that the dead often look how they think they ought to, but are unable to hide their bones, so savvier souls adopt patterns and dress that show them off, resulting in the traditional calaca image. These modifications also become more extreme the deeper one goes into the land of the dead.
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Paraiso Street / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Paraiso Street / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: The Stained-Glass King is this. Threats too powerful to be fought by the Xolotl are led to him to be devoured. Pagonia's Thanatos Gambit relies on creating enough damage that the Stained-Glass King will come to him.
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Paraiso Street / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Paraiso Street / int_7317b97d	comment	Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Pagonia. He has no interest in the Xolotl vs Zargoza conflict, or even human problem in general. His only concern is returning to Ptiamuzcuaro as quickly as possible where he can relax. However, the death of Henshaw sends him into a rage that reveals his true nature as an undead deity and begins a Roaring Rampage of Revenge that destroys a huge section of the city.
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Paraiso Street / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
Paraiso Street / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: The Stained-Glass King is a literal example. He’s the representative of a demonic Dimension Lord, but is also dedicated to the Law and looks down heavily on corruption among its enforcers. He’s even willing to negotiate with humans to ensure stability between both worlds.
Paraiso Street / int_7360a6b6	featureApplicability	1.0
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Paraiso Street / int_74828aea	type	Killer Rabbit
Paraiso Street / int_74828aea	comment	Killer Rabbit: Gallows Charlie. As a puca, his natural form resembles an eight-foot rabbit with fangs, bloody pools for eyes, and spidery hands and feet. Danny notes that this might be the closest to his natural shape that Charlie can assume in the living world, and that his true form might very well be worse.
Paraiso Street / int_74828aea	featureApplicability	1.0
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Paraiso Street / int_76cde6e	type	Better the Devil You Know
Paraiso Street / int_76cde6e	comment	Better the Devil You Know: As much as Eisley hates the corrupt system she works in, she would rather keep the status quo than risk a full-scale awakening of the Stained-Glass King (and by extension, the wrath of the Golden). Her pursuit of Cali and the other Zargoza scientists comes from the possibility that their meddling might cause just that.
Paraiso Street / int_76cde6e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Paraiso Street / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
Paraiso Street / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: Henshaw and Pagonia's friendship began as this, with the former, a psychotic vampire spirit, in awe of the latter, a forgotten, undead god.
Paraiso Street / int_77538ed4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Paraiso Street / int_7997029e	type	No One Sees the Boss
Paraiso Street / int_7997029e	comment	No One Sees the Boss: Used with Zargoza, the head of the cartel who resides in a citadel in Ptiamuzcuaro. Or rather, that's what cartel members are told, and Bill Netley and Mizayuko are simply using Zargoza's name to give orders. Both claim that Zargoza himself is a figment and that the cartel has always operated that way. Henshaw later informs Bill that Zargoza is both real and more than a little angry at his disloyal lieutenants.
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Paraiso Street / int_7ac1f1e5	type	Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist
Paraiso Street / int_7ac1f1e5	comment	Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: Weather Eisley is an honest cop in an otherwise corrupt department, attempting to enforce the laws that keep San Adriano from full occupation. Her primary quarry is a legitimate Mad Scientist working for a brutal criminal cartel... who happens to be the protagonist.
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Paraiso Street / int_7c48b272	type	Summon Bigger Fish
Paraiso Street / int_7c48b272	comment	Summon Bigger Fish: A villainous example. The standard response to large scale threats is to awaken the Stain-Glass King, the high priest of the Golden. This is shown in the Dust Wraith attack, when the Xolotl agents drive the wraith to the King's cathedral-mausoleum, where it is devoured in full view of anyone capable of looking at it without being blinded or sickened. This becomes part of Pagonia's Thanatos Gambit, where he intentionally causes enough destruction to summon the King to the mainland, where it would destroy the city.
Paraiso Street / int_7c48b272	featureApplicability	1.0
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Paraiso Street / int_7d5d32db	type	The Disembodied
Paraiso Street / int_7d5d32db	comment	The Disembodied: It is implied that the dead immediately become this, although some manage to cling to their former bodies. Pieces of the disembodied can also break off to form wraiths and poltergeists.
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Paraiso Street / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Paraiso Street / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Danny, who is in serious withdrawals throughout the majority of the action. The ending implies that he might be on a real path to recovery.
Paraiso Street / int_7eebe99c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Paraiso Street / int_803e3201	type	Satanic Archetype
Paraiso Street / int_803e3201	comment	Satanic Archetype: The Golden. A despotic Dimension Lord who rules not one but numerous hells (and heavens for that matter). Danny outright refers to him as the devil.
Paraiso Street / int_803e3201	featureApplicability	1.0
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Paraiso Street / int_8071d6ed	type	Alcoholic Parent
Paraiso Street / int_8071d6ed	comment	Alcoholic Parent: Danny to a T. One of Cali's methods of getting back at him is finding ways to make his hangovers worse.
Paraiso Street / int_8071d6ed	featureApplicability	1.0
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Paraiso Street / int_80874b5d	type	Mechanical Abomination
Paraiso Street / int_80874b5d	comment	Mechanical Abomination: Cali is made to fight a machine-like golem as part of Link's interrogation. In normal circumstances, this would be a drawn-out execution, as the thing is completely unstoppable. The only thing that saves Cali is a Hellfire-powered cutting torch.
Paraiso Street / int_80874b5d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Paraiso Street / int_80cd1f62	type	God of Evil
Paraiso Street / int_80cd1f62	comment	God of Evil: The Golden is likely this. Given his abandoned altar, Pagonia may have been a minor one.
Paraiso Street / int_80cd1f62	featureApplicability	1.0
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Paraiso Street / int_82a51bc7	type	Bad Moon Rising
Paraiso Street / int_82a51bc7	comment	Bad Moon Rising: Ptiaumzcuaro has one of these, which is called a "gift" from the Golden for the dead who missed the real moon. Given the obviously false and unsettling nature of it, it serves more as a reminder of the Golden's absolute power over the dead.
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Paraiso Street / int_82d2715f	type	Magitek
Paraiso Street / int_82d2715f	comment	Magitek: While leaning harder on the 'tek', much of the highest technology in San Adriano relies upon materials mined from Ptiamuzcuaro. Ptiamuzcuari steel, a room-temperature super conductor, has plentiful applications in engineering because it does not follow the traditional laws of physics. In a smaller example, Cali's cutting torch uses a technologically-created warp to contain a beam of Hellfire.
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Paraiso Street / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
Paraiso Street / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: Several, as Ptiamuzcuari creatures tend to alter the shape of their host. This includes Gallows Charlie, an eight-foot humanoid rabbit with spider-leg fingers and toes. On a larger scale, the Stained-Glass King is a roughly human-shaped tear in reality who moves by creating space-time warps where his joints would be.
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Paraiso Street / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Paraiso Street / int_859ec5d8	comment	Danny also describes vampires as too alien to exist in the living world, requiring them to be stitched into a living host body. Henshaw alters her hijacked body to appear as a small young woman, but it is stated that this is just the form she prefers rather than her natural shape, which more likely falls between The Fair Folk and Humanoid Abomination.
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Paraiso Street / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Paraiso Street / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Danny's suicidal stare-down of the Stained-Glass King, perhaps the second most powerful creature in existence, is full of these. Justified in that he's stalling for time and has accepted imminent, agonizing death.
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Paraiso Street / int_86ba007a	type	Bad Powers, Good People
Paraiso Street / int_86ba007a	comment	Bad Powers, Good People: Downplayed with Cali, who is both idealistic and fine with using completely amoral means to achieve her ends. Danny calls her out for her use of unholy Hellfire as a casual tool, and she later bonds with a destructive, tortured poltergeist to survive facing Pagonia.
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Paraiso Street / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Paraiso Street / int_8774fb47	comment	To top this off, the Golden, an Eldritch Abomination Dimension Lord, holds the title of the Lord of Vampires.
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Paraiso Street / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
Paraiso Street / int_89b8822f	comment	The Breach is a massive hole torn between realities by the Golden, and appears as a glowing crystalline tunnel through which a physical bridge has been built. It also moves in different ways depending on the viewer and watching it too long can make one Go Mad from the Revelation.
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Paraiso Street / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Paraiso Street / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: The Shark, Danny's classic Fireapple-Red convertible and one of his most prized possessions. He loses it early on when the cartel confiscates all his belongings as punishment for a failed job.
Paraiso Street / int_8a295a46	featureApplicability	1.0
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Paraiso Street / int_8b04eac7	type	Body Snatcher
Paraiso Street / int_8b04eac7	comment	Body Snatcher: The Xolotl are a voluntary form of this, in which native Ptiamuzcuari spirits inhabit the bodies of living hosts. Danny refers to them as the "willing possessed" and the implication is that the living host gains significant security in a dangerous world. This can also work against them, however, as shown when a powerful agent is called only by the host's name, creating a temporary break between the host and the spirit, causing the agent to panic.
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Paraiso Street / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
Paraiso Street / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: As the dead exist in both corporeal and non-corporeal states, there are numerous types of zombie (although they’re more likely given the slightly offensive name of “duppie”.) The dead who remain in their natural bodies become revenant zombies, and decay at a normal rate. There are still advantages to this form, particularly if the dead person has gained supernatural abilities and are now able to use them easily. The “stitched” dead, who are placed into the dead bodies of others. A well-stitched corpse does not rot and maintains all of the usual bodily functions, including breathing, digestion, and sexual ability, to the point where even the occupant may forget they’re dead. The two drawbacks to this are 1) they don’t age, making them easier to spot after a reasonable length of time, and 2) the body is inescapable and any damage done to their shell is done to their spirit as well, so being killed in this form leads to Cessation of Existence. The success of stitching is often reliant on the subject’s age and memory, with the implication that a ghost must be stitched as soon as possible after their death so they will remember the feeling of a working body. They still require time to adjust to avoid being out of sync. It’s also shown that a ghost will be more receptive to a body they’re familiar with, as shown with Rosita, who occupies the body of her sister. Gallows Charlie states that unstitching a spirit from a body is more difficult and far more expensive. His business model relies on stitching the dead at a very low cost, then charging extortion-level prices for the inevitable unstitching. Charlie also dismissively mentions two subtypes: island shamblers and ribbon-necks.
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Paraiso Street / int_8dea4592	type	Prayer Is a Last Resort
Paraiso Street / int_8dea4592	comment	Prayer Is a Last Resort: Danny resorts to prayer as he prepares to confront the Stained-Glass King. It's still inverted as he claims he's simply talking to himself to gather the strength for the confrontation, and the higher power he invokes is simply the emptiness of the universe.
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Paraiso Street / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Paraiso Street / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: The novel's opening line: "Danny Capistrano had a favorite word, and that word was motherfucker."
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Paraiso Street / int_901046d2	type	The Informant
Paraiso Street / int_901046d2	comment	The Informant: Wendell is those for both the police and Henshaw and Pagonia's faction in the underworld, doling out information via drops and automated phone messages. It ultimately gets him shot in the face, but being a Chessmaster, his death results in a final leak to the police, revealing everything about the Zargoza cartel to Detective Eisley.
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Paraiso Street / int_902f084f	type	Undead Abomination
Paraiso Street / int_902f084f	comment	Taken up a level with the Dust Wraith, which is effectively a colony of poltergeists. They’re created where the dead have gone mad with terror and pain, such as battlefields or serial killer dens, and can not only attack the living but assimilate them. The appearancce of one in San Adriano merits awakening the Stained-Glass King.
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Paraiso Street / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
Paraiso Street / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: Quite common in San Adriano, as bonding with living hosts is one of the ways Ptiamuzcuari spirits can exist in the living world. The entire Xolotl ministry is made up of voluntary hosts and their "riders".
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Paraiso Street / int_93489cfd	type	Botanical Abomination
Paraiso Street / int_93489cfd	comment	Botanical Abomination: Cali theorizes that the peacock-hued palms imported from Ptiamuzcuaro are actually these– supernatural entities who just prefer the shape of trees.
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Paraiso Street / int_94421e20	type	Showing Off the New Body
Paraiso Street / int_94421e20	comment	Showing Off the New Body: Henshaw alters her form to suit the situation, including adopting a glamorous look when infiltrating a corporate resort. Subverted in that Pagonia not only isn’t interest in the changes, but worries that Henshaw might be enjoying herself as a human too much.
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Paraiso Street / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Paraiso Street / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Bill Netley is a charming, cajoling guy who offers Danny a drink and congratulates Cali on her accomplishments. Once Danny realizes Bill is merely making it personal as revenge for stealing his former girlfriend, Bill breaks out the threats, beatings, execution of subordinates, and blasphemy that scares everyone in the room.
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Paraiso Street / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Paraiso Street / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Bill Netley. He not only orchestrates a plan to build numerous Cartel-controlled alternate gates to Ptiamuzcuaro, but manipulates the police, a mega-corporation, and the Xolotl all to make it look like Danny Capistrano's fault.
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Paraiso Street / int_997392ec	type	Killer Teddy Bear
Paraiso Street / int_997392ec	comment	Killer Teddy Bear: A literal version is trapped in the music box Cali opens, serving as a soul jar for a poltergeist. When Cali later attempts to bond with the poltergeist, the bear grows fangs and bites her.
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Paraiso Street / int_99fa6bc0	type	Because I'm Good At It
Paraiso Street / int_99fa6bc0	comment	Because I'm Good At It: Danny's motivation for continuing working for the Zargoza cartel. After being a cartel engineer for so long, he lacks any other skill set, and serving as a smuggler of the dead is the only thing in his life that he isn't a wild failure at.
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Paraiso Street / int_9a1fe522	type	Attractive Zombie
Paraiso Street / int_9a1fe522	comment	Attractive Zombie: Discussed by Danny and Gallows Charlie, then shown with Rosita, a ghost stitched into the corpse of her sister. Danny notes that Rosita would be quite attractive if he had an interest in dead things, and it is heavily implied that Charlie regularly sleeps with his clientele.
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Paraiso Street / int_9ae0ead1	type	Villains Out Shopping
Paraiso Street / int_9ae0ead1	comment	Villains Out Shopping: a literal example when Henshaw and Pagonia go to a boutique store for a new wardrobe. Pagonia is concerned that Henshaw enjoys the experience too much. They’re also shown eating take-out pizza in the park and attempting to order room service.
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Paraiso Street / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Paraiso Street / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The Golden. His servants are the primary antagonists, but he never appears in person. Bill Netley claims that this is because the Golden is dead. He's wrong.
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Paraiso Street / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
Paraiso Street / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: Ptiamuzcuaro, land of the dead. While the upper layers resemble a twisted version of the living world, it becomes more alien the deeper one travels.
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Paraiso Street / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Paraiso Street / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Several examples: The first gunshot Henshaw experiences does an enormous amount of damage compared to most of her injuries, explained in that she hadn't expected it and wasn't able to respond. Danny also explains to Cali that the only way to kill a vampire is to surprise it before it can regenerate. Henshaw is ultimately killed by a stray bullet from a street away, which blows out the back of her head. Early on, Danny tells a story about being attacked by a poltergeist, describing both its ability to instantly bond with whatever it touches and its extraordinary level of violence. This later comes into play when Cali bonds with her own poltergeist, cut from her when she was a child, and becomes powerful enough to challenge Pagonia. Gallows Charlie hints at Cali’s true nature when he refers to her as a pincushion. His inability to hypnotize her further indicates that she’s not entirely living.” Cali find the rain markets to be extremely uncomfortable, which she blames on a sense of xenophobia that surrounds them. It’s actually because she’s unknowingly a Liminal Being, and the mist shield is intended to repel her. On a more mundane note, Cali compares the experience to drowning in the “ghost of a swimming pool”. It is later revealed that Danny intentionally drowned her in a bathtub when she was a child, as part of a ritual to extract a piece of her soul. During the attack on the Vesparez Park rain market, Henshaw is dazed after running into Cali. Henshaw sense’s Cali’s unnatural state, but is unable to identify what she is. Fitting since Cali is neither fully alive nor dead . Cali's true nature is hinted at throughout, from poor quality of any photo taken of her to her habit of chanting "invisible" while trying to avoid attention, a supernatural knack that almost always works. The fact that she remained unaware of it for years makes the revelation a wham moment.
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Paraiso Street / int_9dd84122	type	Occult Detective
Paraiso Street / int_9dd84122	comment	Occult Detective: Eisley is not supposed to be one of these, due to the strict jurisdictional divide between the mortal police and the Xolotl, who have authority over supernatural matters. She nonetheless knows a great deal about the dead, enough that she's able to resist torture by Xolotl agents that involves being exposed to Ptiamuzcuari light. It's implied that she learned this skill in childhood.
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Paraiso Street / int_9dfd7154	type	Fridge Logic
Paraiso Street / int_9dfd7154	comment	Fridge Logic strengthens Cali’s case, however, since the Stained-Glass King is the representative for the Law of the Golden, he may not have had the ability to simply ignore the law in this case. While he still could have issued judgement on the rest of the city, likely killing Cali in the process, her pointing out a clear flaw in the law that could be exploited makes him reconsider the situation.
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Paraiso Street / int_9e2c893	type	Black Magic
Paraiso Street / int_9e2c893	comment	Black Magic: Danny considers "bokor" or witch doctor a more-than-grave insult, because of the implication of being a black magic user. While he has no particular objection to black magic itself, or even a true belief in it, just saying the word may be enough to draw the attention of the Golden's servants. After appraising San Adriano's crimes, the Stained-Glass King himself begins by accusing the entire populace of this and thus needing to be purged.
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Paraiso Street / int_9e9ab805	type	Soft-Spoken Sadist
Paraiso Street / int_9e9ab805	comment	Softspoken Sadist: Mizayuko maintains a calm, cheery demeanor while threatening Danny's life. Even Danny admits the man has serious gravitas.
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Paraiso Street / int_9ea58038	type	Kill the Host Body
Paraiso Street / int_9ea58038	comment	Kill the Host Body: A major drawback of "stitching" also called "surgical possession", in which a spirit is grafted into either a living or dead host. Unlike a natural death, in which a spirit simply leaves the body, a stitched spirit is stuck and takes the same damage as the host. This ends up being what kills both Henshaw, killed by a stray bullet before she could consciously heal from it, and Pagonia, who partially destroys his own body out of pure fiery rage and allows Cali to rip the rest apart, dissipating him entirely. Averted with the dead Xolotl, who are not permanently stitched and will abandon a host body if they feel overpowered.
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Paraiso Street / int_9f2ca67b	type	Gaydar
Paraiso Street / int_9f2ca67b	comment	Gaydar: completely averted with Danny. Cali mocks him for it when Danny asks if Wendell ever had a relationship with Cali’s mother, though it is partially justified in this situation, since Wendell is also The Beard. Played fully straight when Danny asks Cali early on if she has a boyfriend.
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Paraiso Street / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Paraiso Street / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: Henshaw is outright stated to be a vampire, though is never shown drinking blood or being injured by sunlight. She does have an enormous appetite, is capable of hypnosis and minor possession, has an instantaneous healing factor, and is able to identify a fellow vampire just by reading the psychic impressions on his removed fangs. The last attribute comes into play during the Coda, where Rosita retrieves Henshaw's fangs to sell on the black market. Danny also describes vampires as too alien to exist in the living world, requiring them to be stitched into a living host body. Henshaw alters her hijacked body to appear as a small young woman, but it is stated that this is just the form she prefers rather than her natural shape, which more likely falls between The Fair Folk and Humanoid Abomination. To top this off, the Golden, an Eldritch Abomination Dimension Lord, holds the title of the Lord of Vampires.
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Paraiso Street / int_a19135a6	type	Mind Control
Paraiso Street / int_a19135a6	comment	Mind Control: Gallows Charlie is capable of this, but proves to be unable to get into Cali's head due to her nature as a Liminal Being. Averted with Henshaw, who is able to override the body of anyone she touches and can communicate by directly stimulating the eardrum to give commands, but cannot actually control the victim’s thoughts.
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Paraiso Street / int_a1fedb67	type	Parental Obliviousness
Paraiso Street / int_a1fedb67	comment	Parental Obliviousness: Danny runs on this around Cali, making mistake after mistake. Justified in that he’s not only been absent for most of her life, but purposefully blocked out memories of their early time together.
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Paraiso Street / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Paraiso Street / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: Henshaw is in the middle of drunkenly repeating Pagonia's planetary-destruction philosophy when she's caught by a stray bullet that kills her instantly.
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Paraiso Street / int_a2739df0	type	Fedora of Asskicking
Paraiso Street / int_a2739df0	comment	Fedora of Asskicking/Hat of Authority: The superfino fedoras worn by the White Hats are ridiculously expensive and a sign of rank within the cartel.
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Paraiso Street / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Paraiso Street / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Espinado plays this role for Eisley, and is a generally Reasonable Authority Figure. His anger and impatience with Eisley’s Cowboy Cop antics are totally justifiable.
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Paraiso Street / int_a4d1cbfe	type	EvilScheme
Paraiso Street / int_a4d1cbfe	comment	Evil Scheme: Bill Netley creates an elaborate scheme to develop forbidden technology, reveal it to the world via a staged accident, pin it on a scientist patsy, then wait for the Ptiamuzcuari bureaucrats to see the sense in actually using it, legitimizing the secret gates already being built. And it would have worked if he hadn't attempted to pin it on Danny out of spite. Danny himself is outraged upon realizing this whole thing boils down to a shipping hustle.
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Paraiso Street / int_a5e2d3fc	type	Mutilation Interrogation
Paraiso Street / int_a5e2d3fc	comment	Mutilation Interrogation: Bill Netley gets one of these from Henshaw and Pagonia, which quickly devolves into pure Cold-Blooded Torture when he manages to piss off Henshaw.
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Paraiso Street / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Paraiso Street / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Part of Henshaw's knack, which allows her to immediately regrow the body she's wearing. Averted later on, when she's killed accidentally by a stray bullet that she never saw coming.
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Paraiso Street / int_aac2244a	type	EvilVsEvil
Paraiso Street / int_aac2244a	comment	Evil vs. Evil: The brutal, extremely violent Zargoza Cartel vs the corrupt, monstrous Xolotl, who police the entrance into the land of the dead.
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Paraiso Street / int_ac5054d4	type	Wound That Will Not Heal
Paraiso Street / int_ac5054d4	comment	Wound That Will Not Heal: The burns on Cali's hand from touching Pagonia in his cacodaemon form will never completely heal. This fittingly reflects that her chosen weapon deals that exact kind of damage.
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Paraiso Street / int_ac5afbd8	type	Hellfire
Paraiso Street / int_ac5afbd8	comment	Hellfire: Cali's torch is powered by this. Danny is shocked at the idea of using something capable of killing ghosts as a tool, and even Henshaw is unsettled by it.
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Paraiso Street / int_ac5b526d	type	Hellgate
Paraiso Street / int_ac5b526d	comment	Hellgate: The Paraiso Street gate is this. The structures were built atop the Breach, a hole ripped between dimensions by the passing of the Golden.
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Paraiso Street / int_acf43080	type	Wicked Pretentious
Paraiso Street / int_acf43080	comment	Wicked Pretentious: Bill Netley lives in a skyscraper penthouse, surrounded by the finest, most expensive comforts possible, but proves to be little more than a thug who managed to claw his way up the cartel ladder. Danny even remarks, upon seeing a massive grand piano in the penthouse, that Bill can't even play piano.
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Paraiso Street / int_add14bc2	type	Orcus on His Throne
Paraiso Street / int_add14bc2	comment	Orcus on His Throne: The Golden has not been seen for centuries, working solely through proxies. This has led some, like Bill Netley, to believe he is actually dead. His chief enforcer, the Stained-Glass King, disagrees. The possibility that that Golden might someday return to the land of the living is largely considered to be The End of the World as We Know It.
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Paraiso Street / int_ae2b8366	type	Possessing a Dead Body
Paraiso Street / int_ae2b8366	comment	Possessing a Dead Body: Stitched humans are this, being inserted so seamlessly into a new corpse that they assume all of the bodily functions and don't even rot (they also don't age, giving them away eventually). Averted for the Ptiamuzcuari in the living world, who require living hosts. Danny's early client, Davidson, also shows that the dead can attempt to remain in their own bodies, but they do eventually rot and become zombie-like revenants.
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Paraiso Street / int_af5f2180	type	Avenging the Villain
Paraiso Street / int_af5f2180	comment	Avenging the Villain: The motive for Pagonia's Roaring Rampage of Revenge. After Henshaw's death, Pagonia decides the temptations of the living are to blame and sets out to wipe out as many humans as possible in a catastrophic Thanatos Gambit.
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Paraiso Street / int_b04aa260	type	NothingAfterDeath
Paraiso Street / int_b04aa260	comment	Nothing After Death: What happens to souls that are "dissipated" or destroyed by supernatural means. In many cases, this is considered a better outcome than enslavement to the Golden.
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Paraiso Street / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Paraiso Street / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Said by Gallows Charlie to describe the fate of conscripts in the Dark Fields under Ptiamuzcuaro, being forced to work for decades or even centuries without rest. This is considered even worse than having one's soul dissipated. On the more scientific end, it is mentioned that portal sendings that go wrong may end up causing this, with the subject scattered across infinite dimensional planes, potentially still conscious forever. The cartel even retains a few physicists who know how to do this intentionally to remove rivals... or witnesses.
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Paraiso Street / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Paraiso Street / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Exploited by Cali during her encounter with the Stained-Glass King. Having bonded with her poltergeist, she has supernatural undead abilities, but also never stopped being a living person, meaning he does not fall under his direct authority. Downplayed in that he simply could have overlooked it, or treated it as Loophole Abuse had she not immediately agreed to go along with his judgement.
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Paraiso Street / int_b39b810e	type	Fiery Coverup
Paraiso Street / int_b39b810e	comment	Fiery Cover Up: Inverted with Project Applecore, which is destroyed in a violent explosion specifically to draw attention to its illegal experiments and make the technology developed there public knowledge, unable to be covered up by the Xolotl. Henshaw notes that the agents sent to make it look like a reactor meltdown did a terrible job, leaving behind evidence that should have otherwise been destroyed and creating fire damage facing the wrong direction.
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Paraiso Street / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
Paraiso Street / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: Ptiamuzcuaro is made of these. The dead version of Del Espejo contains bridges that turn sideways, leaning skyscrapers that go from concave to convex depending on their mood, and streets that loop back upon themselves. The Breach also counts, being a rip between realities that appears as a gargantuan crystalline tunnel where the laws of physics break down.
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Paraiso Street / int_b4dcdf5b	type	Antagonist in Mourning
Paraiso Street / int_b4dcdf5b	comment	Antagonist in Mourning: Pagonia falls into this hard after the death of Henshaw. It then triggers his Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
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Paraiso Street / int_b5fb096b	type	People Puppets
Paraiso Street / int_b5fb096b	comment	People Puppets: Henshaw is able to override a person’s control over their own body, so long as she’s making physical contact with them. In some cases, this might involve simply holding on and giving orders by stimulating their eardrums. In most cases, she makes the bodies do things they’re not meant to, such as spread apart ribs until their chests pop. More extreme examples go into pure Body Horror, as her transformation of Bill Netley into a grotesque human butterfly.
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Paraiso Street / int_b6844837	type	Evil Is Bigger
Paraiso Street / int_b6844837	comment	Evil Is Bigger: The Xolotl agents as a rule are at the upper end of human height, and Gallows Charlie has warped his own body to be over eight feet tall. The Stained-Glass King himself is easily twice as tall as a normal person.
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Paraiso Street / int_b8dde2	type	Evil Overlord
Paraiso Street / int_b8dde2	comment	Evil Overlord: The Golden, the master of Ptiamuzcuaro, land of the dead. In the world of the living, his proxy the Stained-Glass King serves as this.
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Paraiso Street / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
Paraiso Street / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: Bill Netley in the last sixty seconds of his life. Not only does Henshaw transform him into what she thinks of as a "flappy bug thing", but she physically warps his flesh to do it. He is aware and feels every bit of it.
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Paraiso Street / int_bb03c099	type	Cool Gate
Paraiso Street / int_bb03c099	comment	The Breach itself inspired the Zargoza cartel to develop technological methods for making portals. Danny's trade involves sending clients through Limbo with mobile portal makers, while Cali’s project is the construction of the massive Applecore reactor, large enought to move a city.
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Paraiso Street / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Paraiso Street / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Threatening Danny's daughter is not a good idea. Telling Henshaw that Zargoza doesn't exist is also not a good idea. Suggesting the Stained-Glass King sleeps on the job is REALLY not a good idea.
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Paraiso Street / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
Paraiso Street / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Isis appears to appreciate Henshaw’s nervous interest in her, but this might also be because she’s used to it. Cali also offhandedly mentions previous flings, but feels her first true romantic connection with Zia.
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Paraiso Street / int_bd5e8cd9	type	Urban Fantasy
Paraiso Street / int_bd5e8cd9	comment	Urban Fantasy: San Adriano is a modern, technologically advanced city that borders a very literal land of the dead, with significant traffic between them. Ghosts, vampires, demons, werewolves, poltergeists, and undead border patrol are ordinary sights, while the state of the fabric of reality itself is included in the weather reports.
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Paraiso Street / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
Paraiso Street / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: During Danny's attempt to slow the Stained-Glass King, he resorts to a number of profane boasts, culminating obscene name-calling. it goes as well as expected.
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Paraiso Street / int_bf88aeec	type	Death-Activated Superpower
Paraiso Street / int_bf88aeec	comment	Death-Activated Superpower: Occurs for many of the dead, including the ability to control temperature or use telekinesis. Unfortunately, this gets them conscripted into the service of the Golden.
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Paraiso Street / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Paraiso Street / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Averted for the most part. Henshaw and Pagonia are rarely unfriendly even to the people they're killing, and the Stained-Glass King remains serious and even-minded while preparing to purge all of San Adriano. Bill Netley manages to gloat over Danny, but this is turned against him in short order when Henshaw and Pagonia arrive.
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Paraiso Street / int_c2676b00	type	Jurisdiction Friction
Paraiso Street / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: Exists between the living police and the Xolotl. As the Xolotl are far more powerful, this leads to a sense of Police Are Useless and inspires plenty of dirty cops.
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Paraiso Street / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Paraiso Street / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: What finally takes out Henshaw, albeit from a stray bullet that takes out the back of her skull.
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Paraiso Street / int_c4eff1b7	type	Sorcerous Overlord
Paraiso Street / int_c4eff1b7	comment	Sorcerous Overlord: The Golden appears to be this, having dueled with the powerful sorcerer Lucciola Vesparez at the gates of Ptiamuzcuaro. Suffice it to say the Golden won handily.
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Paraiso Street / int_c5a2d75f	type	In Love with the Gangster's Girl
Paraiso Street / int_c5a2d75f	comment	In Love with the Gangster's Girl: Danny had this with Isis, the girlfriend of his cartel boss, Bill Netley. Danny even convinced her to leave Bill for him, which resulted in Bill making Danny the subject of a personal vendetta.
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Paraiso Street / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Paraiso Street / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Cali's favorite band of sneakers are called Star Roads. Among Cali's musical collection is an album by Ursa Invincible, a real-life indie metal band. Bill Netley conspires with corporate powers in a massively convoluted plan to build... a freeway. Henshaw and Pagonia are introduced in a diner, having breakfast and talking philosophy while surrounded by a major crime scene.
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Paraiso Street / int_c81b2a53	type	Wowing Cthulhu
Paraiso Street / int_c81b2a53	comment	Wowing Cthulhu: Cali manages to impress the Stained-Glass King out of sheer audacity and her single-handed defeat of a cacodaemon. As a result, he is willing to speak earnestly with her, de-escalating a situation that otherwise might have destroyed the city.
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Paraiso Street / int_c81e2bba	type	Necromancer
Paraiso Street / int_c81e2bba	comment	Necromancer: Gallows Charlie serves as one for hire, specifically for putting the dead in new bodies. He also describes himself as a Bokor and claims that Danny is one as well, since he traffics in dead souls. Danny takes serious offence to this. The medical examiner's hidden lab in The City Narrows suggests he was attempting to be one, with his experiments (and own grisly death) likely being the source of a DustWraith.
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Paraiso Street / int_c92cf19a	type	Undead Child
Paraiso Street / int_c92cf19a	comment	Undead Child: Cali's poltergeist is this, an undead shade of a terrified 3-year-old. It's also thoroughly insane and incredibly dangerous.
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Paraiso Street / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Paraiso Street / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Ptiamuzcuari natives can lean this way, as they are literally from a world where reality is entirely malleable and death isn't a thing. Henshaw's playful psychopathy and lack of verbal filter put her at the top of the list.
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Paraiso Street / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Paraiso Street / int_cbe687ab	comment	Dominic Mizayuko is willing to ally with The Cartel, but also genuinely cares about his nephew, Hideo.
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Paraiso Street / int_ce767e6f	type	Co-Dragons
Paraiso Street / int_ce767e6f	comment	Co-Dragons: Wendell and Hideo are this for Bill Netley, overseeing the Applecore project and running the cartel's connection with the Xolotl. Their levels of loyalty vary, but Wendell is by far the more competent.
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Paraiso Street / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Paraiso Street / int_ceec4df5	comment	Pagonia also gets in on this during his Roaring Rampage of Revenge, turning Zargoza gangsters inside out before pinning them to walls like insects, and immolating his own body from the inside out, creating a blackened scarecrow-like form with skeletal limbs. Ptiamuzcuari natives have a tendency to do this, as indicated in Danny's story of a specimen that escaped from a holding tank and unrolled its keepers across the walls like paint.
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Paraiso Street / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
Paraiso Street / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: Danny became one of these upon leaving the priesthood, fully accepting the nature of the afterlife and all its denizens while denying the existence of any benevolent higher power to explain it. He holds on to this view even when reverting to Badass Preacher mode, declaring the Stained-Glass King and his master to be lesser than the infinite empty universe.
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Paraiso Street / int_cf35af47	type	Gunpoint Banter
Paraiso Street / int_cf35af47	comment	Gunpoint Banter: Wendell and Eisley get into this during their Mexican Standoff, during which he offers to end the stalemate by taking her to dinner. Eisley admits to herself that in other circumstances, she might have taken him up on the offer. His clear respect for her here also foreshadows his Thanatos Gambit of sending her all the information on the Cartel’s dealings via recorded message.
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Paraiso Street / int_cf7b362	type	Horror Hunger
Paraiso Street / int_cf7b362	comment	Horror Hunger: Zig-zagged with Henshaw, who is perfectly able and willing to eat humans (or other, worse things) if necessary, but greatly prefers junk food. As a vampire, her nature dictates that she MUST keep eating to survive.
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Paraiso Street / int_d00e73dc	type	Badass Longcoat
Paraiso Street / int_d00e73dc	comment	Badass Long Coat: The Xolotl wear these as part of their secret police uniform. Not only do they add to the menacing aesthetic, but they're dark enough to blend into shadows, allowing agents to be nearly invisible in low light.
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Paraiso Street / int_d201ed4b	type	It's Okay If It's You
Paraiso Street / int_d201ed4b	comment	It's Okay If It's You: Possibly the case with Henshaw’s love for Pagonia, despite that the former otherwise only shows interest in women.
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Paraiso Street / int_d51553de	type	Our Wormholes Are Different
Paraiso Street / int_d51553de	comment	Our Wormholes Are Different: The Breach is a massive hole torn between realities by the Golden, and appears as a glowing crystalline tunnel through which a physical bridge has been built. It also moves in different ways depending on the viewer and watching it too long can make one Go Mad from the Revelation. The Breach itself inspired the Zargoza cartel to develop technological methods for making portals. Danny's trade involves sending clients through Limbo with mobile portal makers, while Cali’s project is the construction of the massive Applecore reactor, large enought to move a city.
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Paraiso Street / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
Paraiso Street / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It: A legitimate fear for most of the living, as the Golden is perfectly capable of this, although Bill Netley claims this is a hoax and the Golden is dead.
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Paraiso Street / int_d8e1b5a3	type	Soul Jar
Paraiso Street / int_d8e1b5a3	comment	Soul Jar: The teddy bear locked in Cali's old music box. It contains a portion of Cali's soul which Danny cut away when she was a child, intending to create a 'back up' but accidentally creating a poltergeist. This becomes Chekhov's Gun when Cali releases the poltergeist and bonds with it, using its powers to survive confronting Pagonia.
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Paraiso Street / int_d9d8fd35	type	Battle Butler
Paraiso Street / int_d9d8fd35	comment	Battle Butler: Henry, Cali's personal driver, is shown to be ex-Special Forces. Danny notes this is common among minders for high-ranking cartel personnel.
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Paraiso Street / int_db0ffe92	type	Follow in My Footsteps
Paraiso Street / int_db0ffe92	comment	Follow in My Footsteps: Cali did this for Danny. Unlike scenarios based upon admiration, Cali did this out of spite, insisting on becoming a better criminal physicist than her father.
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Paraiso Street / int_db88b941	type	Malevolent Masked Men
Paraiso Street / int_db88b941	comment	Malevolent Masked Men: The Xolotl wear plague-doctor style masks with beak-like extensions. While this serves to protect the agent and bolster their intimidation factor, its unspoken purpose is to hide how much the possessing spirit has warped the host's body. In some cases, the transformation is so severe that the masks become unremovable.
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Paraiso Street / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
Paraiso Street / int_dbb414ed	comment	Hand Wave: Danny does this in-universe when explaining the mobile portals to Davidson at the beginning. Justified in that attempting to explain insanely complex [[Magitek]] would only make Davidson more nervous and crank up his Power Incontinence.
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Paraiso Street / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Paraiso Street / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Eisley's commander, Denzel Espinado, is one of these, allowing her to pursue her investigation rather than demote her. The Stained-Glass King ends up being one of these as well, as he is not only upset by the blatant corruption of the Xolotl, but willingly negotiates with Cali to rectify the situation.
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Paraiso Street / int_de00f63b	type	Gas Mask, Longcoat
Paraiso Street / int_de00f63b	comment	Gas Mask Long Coat: The more powerful Xolotl shock trooper wear an adapted uniform that makes their gas masks more obvious. Which leads to...
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Paraiso Street / int_df1cea7e	type	Evil Tainted the Place
Paraiso Street / int_df1cea7e	comment	Evil Tainted the Place: Places of extreme violence or blasphemous acts can sour an area, making it more likely to create wraiths. One such place is a morgue where the medical examiner had been experimenting on the dead, as well as indulging in I Love the Dead. This results in the Dust Wraith attack, though Henshaw's presence may have been what set it over the edge.
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Paraiso Street / int_e16fb8ca	type	Hero Killer
Paraiso Street / int_e16fb8ca	comment	Hero Killer: The Golden was this upon arriving in the living world, dueling with Lucciola Vesparez, San Adriano's patron sorcerer. After defeating her, the Golden dipped her alive in molten lead and put the resulting statue atop a huge fountain in a public square.
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Paraiso Street / int_e2ef7c20	type	No Man of Woman Born
Paraiso Street / int_e2ef7c20	comment	No Man of Woman Born: Exploited by Cali during her encounter with the Stained-Glass King. Having bonded with her poltergeist, she has supernatural undead abilities, but also never stopped being a living person, meaning he does not fall under his direct authority. Downplayed in that he simply could have overlooked it, or treated it as Loophole Abuse had she not immediately agreed to go along with his judgement. Fridge Logic strengthens Cali’s case, however, since the Stained-Glass King is the representative for the Law of the Golden, he may not have had the ability to simply ignore the law in this case. While he still could have issued judgement on the rest of the city, likely killing Cali in the process, her pointing out a clear flaw in the law that could be exploited makes him reconsider the situation.
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Paraiso Street / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
Paraiso Street / int_e52a0cac	comment	He Who Must Not Be Seen: The Golden has not appeared for centuries, leading some to believe he's actually dead. A slightly lesser example is the Stained-Glass King, who only emerges from his cathedral-mausoleum to eat eldritch abominations. This is considered a mercy, as even looking at the Stained-Glass King is physically and psychically painful.
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Paraiso Street / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Paraiso Street / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: The White Hats, named after their expensive headgear, are the lieutenants of the Zargoza cartel. On a far greater scale, the Stained-Glass King is made of Supernatural Light contained in a glass and iron shell.
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Paraiso Street / int_e6d0f579	type	Transformation of the Possessed
Paraiso Street / int_e6d0f579	comment	Transformation of the Possessed: Common among those possessed by Ptiamuzcuari spirits, reflecting the preferred shape of the possessor. This can be minor, such as the human form Henshaw displays, to extreme, like the demonic rabbit form taken by Gallows Charlie. It is implied the Xolotl try to avoid this, but prolonged connection between the possessor and host is unavoidable, making their Plague Doctor masks necessary to hide the damage.
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Paraiso Street / int_e7f9c214	type	Barred from the Afterlife
Paraiso Street / int_e7f9c214	comment	Barred from the Afterlife: Downplayed. The dead are in fact required by law to arrange passage to Ptiamuzcuaro within a reasonable time frame. The danger comes from the Xolotl, who can conscript any soul they want into an interminably long "half-a-hell". In a more literal example, the physical passage into Ptiamuzcuaro is heavily guarded to keep only the proper flow of imports and exports moving.
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Paraiso Street / int_e8b0f099	type	Dark Is Evil
Paraiso Street / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil: The Xolotl run on this, with their black suits and masks intended to crank up their intimidation factor. Inverted with the Stained-Glass King, who generates light on the entirety of the spectrum.
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Paraiso Street / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Paraiso Street / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Pagonia expresses little interest in good or evil, in contrast with Henshaw, who understands both very well and just doesn't care. This is later explained by the reveal that Pagonia is an undead minor deity of a culture so ancient that not even the Ptiamuzcuari remember them.
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Paraiso Street / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Paraiso Street / int_eb04f8d5	comment	Fascist, but Inefficient: The Ptiamuzcuari bureaucrats, and especially the Xolotl, who are for more interested in keeping personal power than serving the Law of the Golden.
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Paraiso Street / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Paraiso Street / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: The San Adriano PD is full of these, although possibly not as many as Eisley claims. Averted with both Espinado and Durant, both of whom are loyal and dependable. On the side of the dead, the Xolotl seem to be an entire organization of corrupt cops.
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Paraiso Street / int_ecc8b108	type	Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!
Paraiso Street / int_ecc8b108	comment	Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: Danny's initial outlook on life as a Zargoza agent, and the driving force behind him abandoning priesthood. Later subverted, as that same lifestyle has taken a toll over two decades, leaving him broke, divorced, and estranged from his daughter.
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Paraiso Street / int_eec329f5	type	Lesser of Two Evils
Paraiso Street / int_eec329f5	comment	Lesser of Two Evils: For Cali, serving the Zargoza cartel is better than going along with the despotic rule of the Xolotl. For Eisley, the opposite is true and going along with the Xolotl is better than incurring the wrath of the Stained-Glass King and potentially the Golden.
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Paraiso Street / int_efe63dcf	type	Creepy Cathedral
Paraiso Street / int_efe63dcf	comment	Creepy Cathedral: The dwelling of the Stained-Glass King on Havisham island is described as a cathedral-mausoleum. Its walls are decorated with faces which are meant to look awed but Danny thinks appear to be screaming.
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Paraiso Street / int_f1919d5b	type	Being Evil Sucks
Paraiso Street / int_f1919d5b	comment	Being Evil Sucks: Danny firmly believes this, having lost everything good in his life because of his criminal and adulterous behavior, but considers himself beyond redemption even as he prays for his daughter's life. He does get better.
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Paraiso Street / int_f3b590a	type	Vengeful Ghost
Paraiso Street / int_f3b590a	comment	Vengeful Ghost: Poltergeists are these, having broken away from a soul during a traumatic death. They’re incredibly dangerous and are able to bond with nearby objects to attack the living. Taken up a level with the Dust Wraith, which is effectively a colony of poltergeists. They’re created where the dead have gone mad with terror and pain, such as battlefields or serial killer dens, and can not only attack the living but assimilate them. The appearancce of one in San Adriano merits awakening the Stained-Glass King. Cacodaemons are said to be the cousins of poltergeists, except rather than being mad from human souls, they’re created from dead gods. Pagonia shows how destructive they can be, and unlike the Dust Wraith, he’s old enough to be collected and intentional about his destruction.
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Paraiso Street / int_f497afb6	type	Dimension Lord
Paraiso Street / int_f497afb6	comment	Dimension Lord: The Golden is this in Ptiamuzcuaro, and theoretically for the living world as well, though he merely demands tributes from the latter rather than full subservience.
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Paraiso Street / int_f612d2d	type	Ignored Vital News Reports
Paraiso Street / int_f612d2d	comment	Ignored Vital News Reports: a downplayed but important example: every time Danny hears a weather report, the Breach Indicator Index becomes slightly worse. It’s white noise to the characters, but leads up to the appearance of the Dust Wraith.
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Paraiso Street / int_f627b434	type	Platonic Life-Partners
Paraiso Street / int_f627b434	comment	Platonic Life-Partners: Played to the extreme with Henshaw and Pagonia. Henshaw openly loves Pagonia, but laughs at the idea that he might be her boyfriend, and Pagonia shares both sentiments. Justified in that not only are they not human, but they are radically different species.
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Paraiso Street / int_f7887c47	type	Born Detective
Paraiso Street / int_f7887c47	comment	Born Detective: Weather Eisley takes Sherlock scanning to an insane level, and is able to go back through her own photographic memory as if reliving a recording. This makes her both effective and unpopular among those she deems lazy, being everyone else.
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Paraiso Street / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
Paraiso Street / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: While Danny only identifies Malik as a Ptiamuzcuari native, Henshaw refers to him specifically as a "loup". However, by that time he has been tortured well beyond his ability to regenerate, so his true form is never revealed.
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Paraiso Street / int_f8cddfb2	type	Laser Blade
Paraiso Street / int_f8cddfb2	comment	Laser Blade: While technically a cutting tool, Cali's torch is a beam of white-hot Hellfire contained in a miniature space-time warp. Not only can it cut through anything physical, it's also capable of destroying ghostly ethers. Even Henshaw is disturbed by it, claiming that only a maniac would create such a thing.
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Paraiso Street / int_f909b185	type	Lesbian Vampire
Paraiso Street / int_f909b185	comment	Lesbian Vampire: Downplayed. Henshaw is predominantly attracted to women, and she definitely is a vampire, but these two qualities aren’t particularly related.
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Paraiso Street / int_fc33ff16	type	One-Winged Angel
Paraiso Street / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: After Henshaw's death, Pagonia shatters his human body to become a cacodaemon, his natural form that is mostly an amorphous etheric shroud capable of melting concrete by ripping apart its molecules. However, he remains partially attached to the ruined human shell, enough that Cali is able to kill him by destroying what's left.
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Paraiso Street / int_fd7267dd	type	Master of Disguise
Paraiso Street / int_fd7267dd	comment	Master of Disguise: Eisley regularly uses make-up, wigs, and glasses in her sting operations, disguising herself once as a prostitute and later as the corpse of an overdose victim. Justified in that these items cover up her otherwise distinctive facial scar that would otherwise make her quite recognizable.
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Paraiso Street / int_fd86da63	type	Crisis of Faith
Paraiso Street / int_fd86da63	comment	Crisis of Faith: Danny suffered one of these when he was younger, culminating with him leaving the priesthood and signing on with the Zargoza cartel. He experiences flashes of it upon seeing the widespread suffering in San Adriano's ghettos, and finally makes peace with his faith during his last stand against the Stained-Glass King.
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Paraiso Street / int_fdf22cfd	type	Evil Is Hammy
Paraiso Street / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: Bill Netley happily explains in Evil Plan in dramatic style, and later attempts a major Badass Boast of his power, claiming it to be greater than the Golden. Danny points out that the bluster is merely an act to cover his small-time thug origins.
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Paraiso Street / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
Paraiso Street / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Bill Netley, the leader of a vast section of the Zargoza cartel, goes out of his way to pin all his misdeeds on Danny simply because Danny stole his girlfriend. This majorly comes back to bite him when his need to taunt Danny leads Henshaw and Pagonis right to him.
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Paraiso Street / int_fea42091	type	Badass Preacher
Paraiso Street / int_fea42091	comment	Badass Preacher: Danny was implied to be one before he fell in with Zargoza. He returns to it when he uses his priestly rites to stare down the Stained-Glass King.
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Paraiso Street / int_ff16efbf	type	Heroes Want Redheads
Paraiso Street / int_ff16efbf	comment	Heroes Want Redheads: While Danny is not particularly heroic, his affair with redhead Isis is a major plot element. To be fair, everyone else wants Isis, too.
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Paraiso Street / int_ffc3ced9	type	Voodoo Zombie
Paraiso Street / int_ffc3ced9	comment	Charlie also dismissively mentions two subtypes: island shamblers and ribbon-necks.
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