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User Unfriendly	comment	User Unfriendly is a 1991 young adult novel by Vivian Vande Velde, the first of three books concerning a fictional company, Rasmussem Enterprises, that produces Virtual Reality role-playing games (the Inside a Computer System variety) in the near future. The novel is narrated by Arvin Rizalli, who with a group of friends is playing a pirated copy of a Rasmussem game set in a medieval fantasy world. Unfortunately, the lack of company technicians monitoring the game proves a bigger problem for them than they anticipated, especially when they realize they need to quit before the end but are unable to, putting pressure on them to win the game as quickly as possible.The book was followed by two others set in the same universe, Heir Apparent (2002) and Deadly Pink (2012). All three books function as standalone works, and Vande Velde has said they can be read in any order.
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User Unfriendly / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
User Unfriendly / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Arvin feels this way about his mother being in the game with him and all his friends. He gradually gets over it as the game progresses, especially after he realizes his mother's health is in jeopardy.
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User Unfriendly / int_1a303edf	type	Our Orcs Are Different
User Unfriendly / int_1a303edf	comment	Our Orcs Are Different: The orcs in the game are stupid, smelly, and cowardly—though Common Tongue-speaking—creatures who can see in the dark.
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User Unfriendly / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
User Unfriendly / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The crystal they find at the troll statue turns out to be the missing piece on Dorindaâ€™s magical staff. The troll boots end up saving Robinâ€™s life when heâ€™s about to be pulled into deadly quicksand, and he says the magic word just in time to be transported back to the troll statue. The key Nocona receives from a dragon after he requests â€œwhatever weâ€™ll need to complete our questâ€� later enables them to enter the castle where Dorinda is staying. The magic rope Feordin receives from the dragon helps them trek across the desert with the horses being magically levitated above the burning sand. The gauntlets of power Marian receives from the dragon enable her to separate the prison bars to rescue her friends.
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User Unfriendly / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
User Unfriendly / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Nocona is a Native American, which doesn't fit the medieval European setting of the game. That's how Arvin immediately knows Nocona is a player and not an NPC, as players can choose to be a character from any time or place.
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User Unfriendly / int_25f088b8	type	Holodeck Malfunction
User Unfriendly / int_25f088b8	comment	Holodeck Malfunction: Well, a virtual reality, but similar enough.
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User Unfriendly / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
User Unfriendly / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The entire game takes only an hour in the real world, though time is compressed in the Rasmussem machine so that the players experience it as five days.
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User Unfriendly / int_2c5f1cdb	type	Bottomless Bladder
User Unfriendly / int_2c5f1cdb	comment	Bottomless Bladder: Averted in one scene where Arvin/Harek looks for a place in the woods to urinate, only to be knocked unconscious by attackers. It's apparent that the players possess full bodily functions within the simulated world of the game. But the issue of players having "nature calls" within the game is never addressed again, which is a little curious given there are several scenes where multiple players are packed in a cave or prison cell together for lengthy periods of time, where it would be difficult to get much privacy for relieving themselves.
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User Unfriendly / int_37daf5c5	comment	Not a Game: Marian uses this phrase when first airing her suspicion that there may be real-life ramifications to whatâ€™s happening.
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User Unfriendly / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
User Unfriendly / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The players win the game with Arvin being the one who bests the Big Bad at the end, and they do it in time to save his mother from a potentially fatal aneurysm. Unfortunately, their theft becomes public and the game is confiscated from Shelton before any of them find out their scores; Dominic is refusing to speak with Arvin due to their fight during the game, and their friendship may be irreparably damaged; Cleveland's parents aren't letting him socialize with the group anymore; and overall Arvin reports that the group is more or less broken up. Giannine, though, wins a date with Arvin by beating him in a card game.
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User Unfriendly / int_4156b553	type	Copy Protection
User Unfriendly / int_4156b553	comment	Copy Protection: The protagonists are playing a pirated copy of a Virtual Reality RPG Rasmussem. Unfortunately for them, discussing the game in front of an NPC initiates an infinite loop in the relevant AI which can only be terminated by customer service representatives, who unfortunately are absent due to the game being played illegally.
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User Unfriendly / int_42002878	type	I Am X, Son of Y
User Unfriendly / int_42002878	comment	I Am X, Son of Y: Dwarves introduce themselves this way. Feordin Macewielder calls himself son of Feordan Sturdyaxe, grandson of Feordane Boldheart, etc.
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User Unfriendly / int_463b32b8	type	Save the Princess
User Unfriendly / int_463b32b8	comment	Save the Princess: The main quest of the game the heroes play is to rescue a princess, Dorinda, after she goes missing and a member of her Royal Guard is found slain by orc arrows. The princess actually turns out to be the Big Bad in the end.
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User Unfriendly / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
User Unfriendly / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Arvin sees himself as one throughout the game, though it's mostly due to an inferiority complex and oversensitivity to the other players' criticisms, combined with his being on edge due to his mother's medical emergency. After the game is over, he's surprised when Giannine describes him as having been one of the more impressive players in the group.
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User Unfriendly / int_4daeb0b9	type	Situational Sword
User Unfriendly / int_4daeb0b9	comment	Situational Sword: The player characters find a sword that glows in the presence of orcs. Since the players have artificially inflated their combat stats, the sword turns out to be more trouble than it's worth.
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User Unfriendly / int_5281d5b1	type	Our Dwarves Are All the Same
User Unfriendly / int_5281d5b1	comment	Our Dwarves Are All the Same: The game has dwarves that have really long introductions about themselves, mainly with a long list of I Am X, Son of Y variations.
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User Unfriendly / int_5c758f0	type	Faux Flame
User Unfriendly / int_5c758f0	comment	Faux Flame: Cornelius uses an illusion spell to scare the townsfolk into believing there's a fire-breathing dragon (as a distraction so the party can steal some horses). Soon the buildings and some NPCs are apparently being engulfed by the dragon's flames, and it causes mass panic in the town even though no one's being truly harmed. Cornelius uses another illusion spell to create a fake torch while in the orc cave. It not only isn't a real fire, but doesn't even really illuminate the cave, just helps the group make out just enough details on the cave's walls to make their trek a little easier. It has one advantage over a real torch, though, which is that it can be submerged in water without being extinguished.
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User Unfriendly / int_5eb8a669	type	"Angry Black Man" Stereotype
User Unfriendly / int_5eb8a669	comment	"Angry Black Man" Stereotype: Feordin is perpetually grumpy. It isn't clear whether this reflects the personality of the player, Cleveland, or if it's merely a conditioned trait of his character in the game—and in the context of the game, it seems more a dwarf stereotype than a black stereotype.
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User Unfriendly / int_60e2ec3e	type	Artificial Intelligence
User Unfriendly / int_60e2ec3e	comment	Artificial Intelligence: Especially from the perspective of when the book was first published (1991), the NPCs display a highly sophisticated ability to interact with the human players in a natural-seeming way. They engage in naturalistic conversation, pick up subtle cues in body language, adapt to unexpected narrative shifts from the players' choicesnote most of the time: see Artistic License below for one notable exception, and show apparent understanding of new concepts as they arise.
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User Unfriendly / int_68107ace	type	Always Introduces Themselves
User Unfriendly / int_68107ace	comment	Always Introduces Themselves: Feordin feels compelled to recite his full name and a long list of his ancestors at every opportunity, even when no one asked.
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User Unfriendly / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
User Unfriendly / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Wolstan is a werewolf.
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User Unfriendly / int_6f619fab	type	Let's Split Up, Gang!
User Unfriendly / int_6f619fab	comment	Let's Split Up, Gang!: Early on the players decide to split into two groups to save time while exploring different parts of the realm. They eventually rejoin one another.
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User Unfriendly / int_6fd268f0	type	Win to Exit
User Unfriendly / int_6fd268f0	comment	Win to Exit: A partial example. The game will inevitably end after a five-day period (which only takes an hour in the outside world), regardless of whether they win or not. However, winning enables them to quit before the five days are up, which becomes important once they realize one of the players is having a potentially life-threatening medical emergency.
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User Unfriendly / int_70f1c7b6	type	Eating Solves Everything
User Unfriendly / int_70f1c7b6	comment	Eating Solves Everything: The main character swallows a MacGuffin in order to prevent the villain from getting her hands on it.
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User Unfriendly / int_7203552b	type	Not Disabled In VR
User Unfriendly / int_7203552b	comment	Not Disabled in VR: Cornelius's player, Shelton, has cerebral palsy and is confined to a wheelchair in the real world.
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User Unfriendly / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
User Unfriendly / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Arvin correctly guesses that Feordin is his friend Cleveland due to the game character being black, seemingly implying that Cleveland is the only black player in the group. Also, Arvin's comment that Nocona "looked like a native American Indian" suggests not only that Nocona's player Dominic isn't Native American, but that none of the other characters in either the game or the outside world are.
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User Unfriendly / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
User Unfriendly / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Throughout the game Arvin and Giannine are constantly trying to outmatch each other. Arvin thinks it's due to the game's conditioning, as their characters are elves from rival clans. Some time after the game is over, Giannine asks him out on a date, effectively admitting her attraction to him, though given that he first turns her down and only agrees to go out with her after she beats him in a card game, it's not clear the feelings are reciprocated.
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User Unfriendly / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
User Unfriendly / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: In-Universe. Dorinda has named her pet chipmunk that is actually the High Mage transformed Chipmunk. Arvin comments, â€œClever name.â€� The sarcasm is lost on Dorinda.
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User Unfriendly / int_8a7e27b5	type	Stab the Scorpion
User Unfriendly / int_8a7e27b5	comment	Stab the Scorpion: At one point, Nocona, who was previously bitten by a werewolf, swings his knife at Thea. This causes Arvin to think Nocona has succumbed to lycanthropy and turned evil. However, it turns out Nocona was actually stabbing at a goblin behind Thea.
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User Unfriendly / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
User Unfriendly / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: No one in Arvin's party, not even the one adult, considered that a pirated copy of immersive VR may have long-term complications for anyone involved. They beat the game just as Arvin's mother is about to succumb to a fatal aneurysm.
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User Unfriendly / int_9136471a	type	Our Goblins Are Different
User Unfriendly / int_9136471a	comment	Our Goblins Are Different: The goblins all have lumpy, Play-Doh-like faces and the players have a hard time telling the genders apart.
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User Unfriendly / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
User Unfriendly / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Arvin sees his mother this way when she ferociously battles a sea monster to save her son; he can scarcely believe itâ€™s the same woman who always seems so timid in the outside world.
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User Unfriendly / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
User Unfriendly / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Early on Nocona gets shot in the leg by an arrow. The wound heals quickly, a sign that the game doesn't allow players' injuries to languish. Not only is this an early clue that Arvin's mom's headache (which isn't going away) isn't part of the game, it foreshadows Nocona's werewolf bite later on, which he hides by telling the group it's a sprained ankle, an excuse that looks increasingly suspect because they know game injuries aren't normally supposed to last that long.
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User Unfriendly / int_a0cf200f	type	Digital Piracy Is Evil
User Unfriendly / int_a0cf200f	comment	Digital Piracy Is Evil: The entire plot is set off because the protagonists acquire an illegal copy of the game, and inadvertently trap themselves inside it because the game can only be terminated prematurely by a customer service rep.
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User Unfriendly / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
User Unfriendly / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: The game only takes an hour in the outside world, but the players experience it as five days.
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User Unfriendly / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
User Unfriendly / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Dorinda paralyzes most of the players as she plans to turn them into a painting from which she can suck their Life Energy.
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User Unfriendly / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
User Unfriendly / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: After they finish the game, the players are too preoccupied with getting Arvin's mother to the hospital to check their final scores. Later, the game is confiscated so they never find out. They do know, however, that Arvin was the one who bested the Big Bad at the end. In any case, Arvin is relieved his mother is going to be okay, so the loss of game information doesnâ€™t bother him much.
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User Unfriendly / int_afd71b8a	type	Inside a Computer System
User Unfriendly / int_afd71b8a	comment	Inside a Computer System: In the version of VR presented in these novels, users are unconscious and in REM sleep, with the game world being essentially a computer-generated Shared Dream. The danger is that users can't exit the game prematurely without outside help.
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User Unfriendly / int_b575a2b1	comment	Cold Iron: In the game, elves are injured by the touch of iron. Two of the players, Arvin and Giannine, are playing as elven characters and have this vulnerability.
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User Unfriendly / int_b582f140	type	Prejudice Aesop
User Unfriendly / int_b582f140	comment	Prejudice Aesop: Arvin/Harek repeatedly makes sexist assumptions about Marian—thinking of her as "bossy," with "dippy girl's reasoning." He's forced to rethink those assumptions when he learns the real-life player is Noah, and not Dawn Marie as he had assumed.
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User Unfriendly / int_b6ec7566	type	Twofer Token Minority
User Unfriendly / int_b6ec7566	comment	Twofer Token Minority: In the game, Feordin is black and a dwarf. His player in the outside world, Cleveland, is also black, though not described as having dwarfism.
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User Unfriendly / int_bbd9b10a	type	Phantom-Zone Picture
User Unfriendly / int_bbd9b10a	comment	Phantom-Zone Picture: The villain uses magic to trap victims inside of portraits and drain their Life Energy.
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User Unfriendly / int_bfec296b	type	Ghost Memory
User Unfriendly / int_bfec296b	comment	Ghost Memory: The players all possess artificially implanted memories relating to their characters in the game, including biographical details, specific skills, and overall knowledge of the world they're in.
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User Unfriendly / int_c13c9e38	type	Tomato Surprise
User Unfriendly / int_c13c9e38	comment	Tomato Surprise: Shelton has cerebral palsy and is confined to a wheelchair. The main characters know it the whole time, but it isnâ€™t mentioned explicitly until the final chapter after the game ends and they return to the real world. It is merely hinted at in the opening chapter when it notes that Shelton is "parked" in front of the computer.
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User Unfriendly / int_c3f6e68	comment	Dem Bones: One of the enemies the heroes face is a giant rat skeleton.
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User Unfriendly / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
User Unfriendly / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The sword that glows in the presence of Orcs is a reference to the sword Sting, from The Lord of the Rings, that does the same.
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User Unfriendly / int_c7cd6c3c	comment	Cross Player: Everyone in the main character's party is a real-life friend of his, but he doesn't know which person is behind which character. He thinks he has it all figured out early on, but his assumption that the character's sex must match the player's turns out to be wrong.
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User Unfriendly / int_c8498840	comment	Delightful Dragon: When the group temporarily splits up, the half that doesn't include Arvin encounters one of these, much to Arvin's disappointment. He's especially frustrated because they got stuff from it by solving riddles, and Arvin considers himself skilled at riddles.
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User Unfriendly / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: When they come upon signs that say "Beware of Sand Hands," Robin thinks the warning is too ridiculous to take seriously, and ends up getting himself dragged down into the sand by the "hands" as a direct result of his impudently flouting the warning.
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User Unfriendly / int_d57f4a99	comment	The Nothing After Death: Death within the game is experienced by a player as a "cool gray gauziness" for the remainder of time left in the game.
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User Unfriendly / int_e43b42ea	comment	Cornelius uses an illusion spell to scare the townsfolk into believing there's a fire-breathing dragon (as a distraction so the party can steal some horses). Soon the buildings and some NPCs are apparently being engulfed by the dragon's flames, and it causes mass panic in the town even though no one's being truly harmed.
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User Unfriendly / int_f1dcfb69	comment	Unconventional Food Usage: The miller uses overbaked bread as doorstops. The party is so famished they convince the miller to sell it to them as food, though they need to soak it in water before they can eat it.
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User Unfriendly / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: After Abbot Simon becomes nonfunctional due to a software bug early in the game, practically every NPC the players run into tells them they'd be better off if they had a cleric with them, much to the players' increasing annoyance because they're unable to explain to the NPCs why they lost their cleric, and they know it isn't even their fault. Whenever Feordin introduces himself, he always feels compelled to recite a long list of his ancestors. It's mentioned early on that dwarves have been known to kill people who try to interrupt them when going through this routine, so everyone is forced to sit through it whenever he starts. The final payoff comes when the High Mage quickly cuts Feordin off and tells him "Nobody cares"—presumably because he's too powerful a magician to be afraid of Feordin retaliating.
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