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The story begins with a waitress working at the Fair Harvest Inn, named Anna, goes missing after her employer Albert Fiskerne sent her down to retrieve more supplies from the cellar. After she didn't return, Albert went down to fetch her and found that she's disappeared altogether and the only clue is a large hole in the cellar wall that hadn't been there before. So the innkeeper calls on Luther Vandermoor, a local guardsman, for assistance. So he hires a [[Action Girl|woman mercenary]] by the name of Valerin to properly investigate the disappearance. From there, [[It Got Worse|things get worse]]. Much, ''much'' worse.
What entails is a story of conspiracy, sorcery, kidnapping, arson, and likely [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|a fair amount of jaywalking]]. Before long, weird monsters and other abominations stalk the underbelly of this world with the [[Big Bad]] just waiting to be able to unleash chaos all across the land.
''Demon's Due'' is an anthology with an overarcing story that each chapter progresses in some way. What fits it into that format is that each chapter has a different female protagonist that ventures forth and tries to solve the rash of strange activity happening in the locale. The stories cover their struggles in their respective expeditions.
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** [[Chained to A Bed]]
** [[Unwilling Suspension]]
* [[Card
* [[Cliff Hanger]]: Every chapter (and I ''do'' mean '''EVERY''' chapter) ends on one of these.
* [[Crapsack World]]: Sure, the setting might feel like a nicer end Medieval Europe setting, but it has a ''very'' dark underbelly that you'd just do well to steer clear of, {{spoiler|especially if you happen to be a woman}}.
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* [[Genre Blind]]: At one point, cute wolf girl Deirdre decides to crawl into the big hole in the Fair Harvest's cellar wall, alone and without telling anyone where she was going. Do we really need to put a spoiler tag on the fact that did it not end well for her?
* [[Griping About Gremlins]]: Sure, they might not have planes to disassemble, but they are a very prominent presence in this story, all the same. They're the primary henchmen of the big bad. They make their first appearance in ''Rats in the Cellar {{spoiler|when they gang up on Valerin, tie her up and strip her naked save for her boots}}.
* [[Half
* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Luther, though he's not off to a great start if he wants to be the hero...
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: {{spoiler|Does being stripped, caged, and being treated like an animal count?}}
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* [[Knife Nut]]: Callista
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Enough so that the cast needs to rotate from chapter to chapter to give everyone some focus, with new characters being introduced almost every chapter.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Luther. Just Luther. {{spoiler|The man has single-handedly managed to send five women and a whole battelion of men off to their dooms thus far.}}
* [[Nipple and Dimed]]: Most of the nudity in this series is (unsurprisingly) female. The author is not conservative about what he shows.
* [[The Nudifier]]: Runemotes. Small willow wisp like creatures that will burn away a patch of clothing each time they swoop in and strike a victim. They tend to work as a swarm, quickly overwhelming their prey.
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