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Shattered Continent
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A Diesel Punk/Fantasy series established in 2014, Shattered Continent takes place on Neue Erde, a nexus point between dimensions and dumping ground of the multiverse. The main supercontinental land mass is shared between two nations, the magic-heavy New Empire in the West, and the highly militarized, tech-heavy Cardenas in the East. Unable to discover a way back off the planet after generations of attempts, they have settled into more pressing affairs, specifically the repulsion of the invasion of extra-dimensional entities that happens once every 20 to 30 years. The last time it happened, around 1995, the combined armies of Neue Erde resorted to using a thermonuclear bomb to crush the final wave of the invasion, killing both nations' top-level commanders and rending a large swath of the Empire, including the capital, completely uninhabitable. As of the year 2017, the two nations have settled into an uneasy peace, with the assorted kingdoms setting their own policy while paying lip-service to the vacant Imperial throne, and Cardenas descending into a level of paranoia that would make Joseph McCarthy flinch.Two works have been released to-date in the setting. The first, Shattered Continent: Caroline's Awakening (available for Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OXA3TP6 ) follows Caroline Carver, a young American woman who finds herself stranded on Neue Erde. Rescued from a demon-worshiping cult by a team of mercenaries on an unrelated inter-kingdom raid, she has to get her bearings fast; her being drawn to Neue Erde wasn't an accident, and the cult's patron demon has plans for her. The second, Office Hours: Tuesday at The Office (posted for free in three parts: http://wp.me/p4wFYm-61 ) follows The Professor, part-time mercenary, history lecturer and Caroline's mentor figure as he tries to take care of business at his day job at the Freistadt Institute. Operative word tries; falsely accused of murdering a well-connected Imperial nobleman, he has to talk down the grieving daughter before she shoots him, figure out who actually killed the man before the situation gets even further out of hand, and invest in a better door lock. | |
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Sure, Let's Go with That | |
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Sure, Let's Go with That: Sparrow becomes convinced that the trap laid by the Professor was staged from the moment she first met Minette, instead of something they kludged together at the last minute. No one corrects her. | |
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Instant Expert | |
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Instant Expert: Within a week of her rescue, Caroline is getting a handle on the local language, swordplay, and shooting. Caroline had a background in multiple languages before arriving on Neue Erde, along with some martial arts training and experience handling blank-firing prop weapons, giving her a head start. Even then, it's several days before she starts trying to talk to anyone who can't speak English, her sword instructor tells her that if she keeps training 4 hours a day she'll be a real threat in about a year, and her firearms instructor gives her an extremely stripped-down curriculum focused on headshots at relatively close range. She also has no idea that she has magical power. | |
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The Slow Path | |
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The Slow Path: Caroline experiences roughly 4 years of missing time after being transformed into a statue, and then loses another half-hour after challenging the party to reproduce the effect. Both times, Agent Rodgers has to live the time the old fashioned way. | |
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Stripperiffic | |
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Stripperiffic: Caroline's starting outfit was designed to look good, and that's about it. Navel-Deep Neckline, bare midriff, combined with opera gloves and short shorts. The only parts that stick around are a belt and a pair of boots, which were just functional items with skulls hot-glued to them. | |
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The Hedonist | |
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The Hedonist: Renard. | |
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Good Is Not Soft | |
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Good Is Not Soft: For all the patience and understanding The Professor extends to Minette, he has no problem suggesting summary execution for Renard after Minette confirms his guilt and Sparrow after she's given up any worthwhile information, or with getting into a shootout with Renard's mercenaries. | |
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Uriah Gambit | |
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Uriah Gambit: The cornerstone of Duke Vogelsang's plan for Minette. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Caroline's gun belt rig includes a large knife. She ends up taking off a few of Leonardo's fingers with it during the climax. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: Sparrow is reduced from a cocky homicidal mercenary to literally kissing Minette's boot and swearing loyalty to her. The Professor thinks she's faking it. | |
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Un-Sorcerer | |
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Un-Sorcerer: Virtually the entire population of Cardenas is completely devoid of any natural magical energy. No spellcasting, no magical weapons, no church healing, no problem using machine guns, night-vision sights and computers. | |
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Deadly Euphemism | |
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Deadly Euphemism: "Processing". The exact procedure isn't described, but it involves electrodes and a generator. | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: The Empire is sitting at roughly a 15th-17th-century native tech level with late 1800s firearms, radios, and other more modern equipment imported from Cardenas. Cardenas maintains a roughly 1970s tech level, with military hardware closer to 1990s/2000s. Both sides profit from the occasional advanced device falling through from another dimension and surviving the landing. | |
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Going Native | |
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Going Native: Caroline is afraid this will happen if she accepts the Scholar offer of sanctuary. Agent Rodgers jumped straight into this trope feet-first. | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Damsel in Distress: Caroline's abduction sends a pair of FBI Agents racing off into the desert to save her. Rushing off without proper backup, they fail to properly stop the ritual. Further on, Caroline works to avoid becoming this, undergoing a crash training program on swords and firearms, contributing to the final battle. | |
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NotUsingTheZedWord | |
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Not Using the Zed Word: The cultists. Undead, varying levels of coordination and sentience, hungry for human flesh and reliably killed by headshots, but never called the Zed Word. | |
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Pretty Little Headshots | |
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Pretty Little Headshots: Averted during the final confrontation. A huge mess is made, and one of the targets survives. His depth perception, on the other hand... | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: And the name that got signed on the line for this pistol is Renard. Renard, Duke von Vogelsang. Minette's uncle. "Fuck." | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: A lot of it in the final shootout. Seth ends up with an eyeball dangling out of it's socket, and Sparrow suffers a sub-dermal hemotoma. "Ever had a bruise so bad it swelled up? Imagine that happening inside your skull." | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
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Crazy-Prepared: The Professor's desk contains a set of foot levers that can be tripped without alerting the person on the other side. One of them alerts Frankie to contact him. The other fires a 12 gauge shotgun into the chair in front of him. Additionally, the room contains an assortment of weapons, body armor, and useful supplies. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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Fantastic Racism: Half-demons. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
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Sequel Hook: Caroline commits herself to finding her way home, refusing the easy out of sanctuary with Cardenas. Meanwhile, the Eichstadt Government found out about the raid at the start of the book, and is already lodging a formal complaint. | |
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday | |
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Discussed by The Professor and Minette, when the former tries to convince the latter to give him more details so he can figure out if he really did shoot her father. | |
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Like a Duck Takes to Water | |
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Like a Duck Takes to Water: Back on Earth, Agent Rodgers was a borderline rogue agent looking down the barrel of serious charges for his overzealous actions. On Neue Erde, he's a respected educator and part-time mercenary with a good social circle, a virtual license to kill, and a killer LP collection. | |
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Fantasy Gun Control | |
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Fantasy Gun Control: Averted. Magic interferes with higher-end technology, but the breechloading rifle has still displaced spear and bow as the chief arm of the Empire's military. | |
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Private Military Contractors | |
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Private Military Contractors: Both the Duke and Baron have a large number of them, and The Professor dabbles in the trade in his off hours. Minette's entourage is a pack of them in the Duke's employ, and The Professor accepts payment to smoke them out. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: If Minette somehow escaped the Institute after shooting The Professor, Sparrow planned to drag her off and torment her to this point. | |
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Fiction 500 | |
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Fiction500: Henri Vogelsang worked his way up from petty nobility to being able to buy a better title, secure land holdings across the Empire, and prop up his brother's horribly mismanaged ducal holdings. | |
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Out-of-Character Alert | |
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Out-of-Character Alert/ Trust Password: Frankie knows something is up if The Professor calls her "Francesca". | |
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Balkanize Me | |
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Balkanize Me: Since the death of the Emperor, attempts to put someone new on the throne have been gridlocked by political maneuvering, leaving many of the subordinate Kingdoms on their own in terms of defense and foreign relations. | |
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Impoverished Patrician | |
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Impoverished Patrician: If not for Henri's market savvy, Minette's family would have ended up as this when his older brother Renard inherited the lion's share of their father's estate. Renard is bordering on this trope, with his taste for parties and private armies outstripping his income, leading to Henri's death. | |
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Developing Doomed Characters | |
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Developing Doomed Characters: The prologue follows the FBI's effort to intervene in Caroline's abduction, while also introducing her roommate. The roommate is never mentioned again, and The Professor informs Caroline that the Agents encountered a dragon shortly after arriving. He left out the part about one of them surviving. | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Captain and The Professor. | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality: Most of the protagonists are Combat Pragmatists at best, engage in Cold-Blooded Torture, War for Fun and Profit and other bad behavior. If not for the fact that the villains are worse, they would be the bad guys. | |
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Walking Techbane | |
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Walking Techbane: Rampant in the Empire, as a result of how magic and technology interact, with mages being especially bad about it; Cardenas' Air Fleet is outfitted with Faraday Cage-equipped containment areas for transporting Imperial citizens without frying any of the hardware. | |
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Spreading Disaster Map Graphic | |
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Spreading Disaster Map Graphic: Beatrix and The Professor come across a discarded one in the lower levels of an abandoned military base, which was used to track the progress of fallout after the Konigsberg bombing. | |
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One-Hour Work Week | |
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One-Hour Work Week: Averted; The Professor's maintenance of proper office hours is what gives Minette her window to launch her attach, and he needs to make sure his classes are covered before he runs off to shake down Minette's entourage. | |
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Leeroy Jenkins | |
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Leeroy Jenkins: Minette's plan to shoot The Professor is deeply flawed on multiple levels because her uncle wants her to die while executing it. | |
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Girl Friday | |
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Girl Friday: Frankie the teaching assistant. She coordinates the security response to Minette's intrusion, comforts the young woman after The Captain scares her half to death, covers for The Professor in class while he tries to sort out the mystery and delivers the near-damning evidence that Renard killed Henri. She insists she's just following a pre-established plan, but The Professor doesn't hesitate to express appreciation for her level-headed application of said plans. | |
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The Consigliere | |
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The Consigliere: The Professor and The Captain effectively become this to Minette as she prepares to take the fight to her uncle and clean house in her own organization. | |
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Killed Mid-Sentence | |
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Killed Mid-Sentence: Both Leonardo and Maximilian. The latter even gets asked "mind if I stop you there?" before catching two to the face. | |
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Poison and Cure Gambit | |
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Poison and Cure Gambit: Sparrow suffers a traumatic head injury during the final fight, and Minette obstructs medical treatment until Sparrow kisses her boot and swears fealty. | |
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Eye Scream | |
| Shattered Continent / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream: Seth gets one of his eyes knocked out of his head with a 38 caliber bullet, and then crushed with a thrown revolver. | |
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Half-Human Hybrid | |
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Half-Human Hybrid: Half-demons. The outcome can vary pretty wildly; of the two seen so far there have been a reasonably normal looking young woman with red eyes, square pupils and opaque skin, and a mercenary with insect features, vestigial wings and an extra set of arms | |
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Alternate History | |
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Alternate History: The dominant land power is an alternate Imperial Germany formed from dimensional refugees and armed with magic. They share space with a nation founded by stranded Americans whose last known president was Curtis Le May. | |
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Spell My Name with a "The" | |
| Shattered Continent / int_aa8d0ef0 | comment |
Spell My Name with a "The": Common among Cardenas personnel out in The Empire, especially high ranking officers and operatives; The Captain, The Professor, The Artificer, and so-on. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
| Shattered Continent / int_acecb17d | comment |
Chekhov's Skill: Caroline's firearms practice consists of shooting at targets no wider than 12 inches. During the night attack, the opposing force consists almost entirely of cultists who need a bullet to the head to take down. | |
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AxeCrazy | |
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Axe-Crazy: Sparrow. The Professor, a trained FBI agent, speculates that she's a high-functioning sociopath. | |
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The Multiverse | |
| Shattered Continent / int_b9e8ad28 | comment |
The Multiverse: Neue Erde is a nexus point between multiple dimensions. | |
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Clear My Name | |
| Shattered Continent / int_bc3cb7ff | comment |
Clear My Name: The Professor needs to figure out who actually killed Henri von Vogelsang. In the short term, so his daughter Minette won't shoot him. In the long term, to keep a vital trade pipeline between Cardenas and the Empire open. | |
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Berserk Button | |
| Shattered Continent / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: The Captain doesn't take kindly to people trying to kill her husband. | |
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Of Corset Hurts | |
| Shattered Continent / int_be795a6c | comment |
Of Corset Hurts: Beatrix's dresses are custom fitted, giving Caroline this problem when she borrows one. | |
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Xanatos Gambit | |
| Shattered Continent / int_c32ff031 | comment |
Xanatos Gambit: Renard's plan for Minette should have been a sure thing. Either Minette dies during the assault, escapes with her "retainers" who then dispose of her, or gets handed over to his custody after the Institute captures her. The Professor asking questions before shooting screws the whole thing. | |
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Boom, Headshot! | |
| Shattered Continent / int_c3585f4a | comment |
Boom, Headshot!: One of the few sure-fire ways to deal with a cultist, and Cardenas standard military practice when dealing with things that go bump in the night. | |
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Simple, yet Opulent | |
| Shattered Continent / int_c3cb84e2 | comment |
Simple, yet Opulent: Minette's mourning garb is flat black, highly subdued, and hand made by professionals out of top shelf material. She also recognizes the Professor's matte gray target pistol as being tricked out to the point where it's more expensive than the extra-fancy pistol she walked in with. | |
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The Dulcinea Effect | |
| Shattered Continent / int_c6538cc6 | comment |
The Dulcinea Effect: Averted; The FBI goes charging off into the desert to rescue Caroline because it's their job and time is of the essence, and the mercenaries were at Leonardo's hideout on unrelated business. And Rodgers/The Professor sees getting Caroline getting home as his final unfinished business with the Bureau. | |
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Decadent Court | |
| Shattered Continent / int_c9790040 | comment |
Decadent Court: The Duke's parties include such deadly spectacles as making teams of peasants fight it out on boats on an artificial lake. Funding these events has nearly bankrupted the Duke. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
| Shattered Continent / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Baron Vogelsang got up to some shady business. But he was still a classy guy compared to his competitors. | |
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CorruptCop | |
| Shattered Continent / int_cd70c3dc | comment |
Corrupt Cop: Eichstadt law enforcement is described as "notoriously cheap" when it comes to bribery. Renard slipped them an unknown sum of cash to overlook the facts of Henri's murder. The Institute's security forces are there to protect the Institute first and foremost, turning a blind eye to Sparrow's treatment. | |
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Taken for Granite | |
| Shattered Continent / int_d08049db | comment |
Taken for Granite: Common enough that it's part of the standard curriculum at Beatrix's school. Happens to Caroline twice, and is suggested as a way to hide from her enemies. | |
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WouldNotHurtAChild | |
| Shattered Continent / int_d57b732d | comment |
Would Not Hurt A Child: The Professor likes children. It bites him in the ass when the only witnesses to their illegal raid are a couple of kids out for a ride. | |
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Rabid Cop | |
| Shattered Continent / int_d6519b1b | comment |
Rabid Cop: The Captain briefly plays this towards Minette. Less because she wants information, and more because she just found out about Minette's failed assassination attempt on her husband. | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
| Shattered Continent / int_d7b34c31 | comment |
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Cardenas personnel dealing with outsiders only give a rank, title or codename. They take it very seriously. | |
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Idle Rich | |
| Shattered Continent / int_deea2fb5 | comment |
Idle Rich: Played straight by the Duke Vogelsang, who spends his time on expensive debauchery. Averted by the Baron and Minette, whose lifestyles are entirely funded by hard goods trading and resource speculation. | |
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Translation Convention | |
| Shattered Continent / int_e11b003d | comment |
Translation Convention: The chief language of the Empire is a mash-up of multiple root language, but is translated to English when heard from the point of view of a character that knows it. Caroline doesn't have it at first, giving broad interpretations of what she's hearing derived chiefly from tone and posture. She can, however, translate magic into Esperanto with nearly zero practice, while the Professor still hears it as gibberish after years of exposure. | |
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Mama Bear | |
| Shattered Continent / int_e13156e1 | comment |
Mama Bear/Papa Wolf: The Captain and the Professor are both protective of Beatrix, to the point of violence. | |
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To the Pain | |
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To the Pain: The Captain holds Minette up at gunpoint, and gives her a very vivid description of handing her over to the authorities after inflicting irreparable brain damage on her. Later, Sparrow gets a terse but accurate description of what a sub-dermal hemotoma could be doing to her. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
| Shattered Continent / int_e563bf09 | comment |
Insistent Terminology: The Professor isn't a serial killer. He's a mass murderer. | |
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Shoot the Mage First | |
| Shattered Continent / int_e8bf967 | comment |
Shoot the Mage First: Tonis gets his head pulped with a sub-machine gun before he even knows what's happening. | |
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Cool Airship | |
| Shattered Continent / int_e9d6eff8 | comment |
Cool Airship: The backbone of Cardenas military logistics; the large area of the continent puts their range to good use. While peacetime has put an increased emphasis on their cargo capacity, they still carry a compliment of air-to-ground artillery. | |
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Ditch the Bodyguards | |
| Shattered Continent / int_ea1c4fb2 | comment |
Ditch the Bodyguards: Critical to Minette's plan to kill The Professor. She pulls it off. But they voluntarily let themselves get 'ditched' because it was critical to Renard's plan. | |
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Decapitated Army | |
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Decapitated Army: Averted during the last demonic invasion. The thermonuclear bombing on Königsberg killed the Emperor, the Commanding General of Cardenas, and the head of the Demonic Host. While it marked the end of major combat operations, all three factions survived. | |
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Expospeak Gag | |
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Expospeak Gag: The Professor's wagon contains "mechanically initiated, chemically driven linear mass accelerators" and "prompt overpressure generation and ferrous material distribution devices", because it would be rude to tell a border guard that you were hauling firearms and hand grenades through his checkpoint. | |
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Enforced Technology Levels | |
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Enforced Technology Levels: Enforced by a combination of how magic interacts with physical laws and treaty. | |
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You Killed My Father | |
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You Killed My Father: The whole reason Minette showed up at the Institute. | |
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Forever War | |
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Forever War: Taken cumulatively, the demonic invasions. Roughly one a generation, as far back as any written history on Neue Erde can remember, with no signs of stopping or slowing. | |
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