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* [[Like Reality Unless Noted]]: The world is very clearly 1970s Earth -- except for the immortal elfin children and the intelligent rodents each maintaining their own civilizations in the cracks and crevices of human civilization. |
* [[Like Reality Unless Noted]]: The world is very clearly 1970s Earth -- except for the immortal elfin children and the intelligent rodents each maintaining their own civilizations in the cracks and crevices of human civilization. |
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* [[A MacGuffin Full of Money]]: The Rumbles' box of money which Spiff secretly charges Knocker with retrieving (under the guise of being a "historian" documenting the Great Rumble Hunt). The only reason the Hunt is launched (instead of a massive [[Zerg Rush]] of Borribles against the Rumbles) is so Spiff can send someone in to retrieve the treasure. The existence of the treasure drives the ending of the first book and much of the plot of the second; and an event that would never have occurred had the Hunt not been launched is responsible for the rest of book two's plot and all of book three. |
* [[A MacGuffin Full of Money]]: The Rumbles' box of money which Spiff secretly charges Knocker with retrieving (under the guise of being a "historian" documenting the Great Rumble Hunt). The only reason the Hunt is launched (instead of a massive [[Zerg Rush]] of Borribles against the Rumbles) is so Spiff can send someone in to retrieve the treasure. The existence of the treasure drives the ending of the first book and much of the plot of the second; and an event that would never have occurred had the Hunt not been launched is responsible for the rest of book two's plot and all of book three. |
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* [[The Magnificent]]: "Burnthand", the name Chalotte gives to Knocker at the end of the first book. |
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: A cultural trope for Borribles -- all Borrible names refer to their personal histories and refer to specific deeds they've performed or adventures they've had. |
* [[Meaningful Name]]: A cultural trope for Borribles -- all Borrible names refer to their personal histories and refer to specific deeds they've performed or adventures they've had. |
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** The heroes of the books are a special case even among Borribles: they were each provisionally given a name ''before'' earning it -- the name of their target on the Rumble High Command. When they succeeded in killing their target, the name would become theirs permanently. |
** The heroes of the books are a special case even among Borribles: they were each provisionally given a name ''before'' earning it -- the name of their target on the Rumble High Command. When they succeeded in killing their target, the name would become theirs permanently. |
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