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* AndIMustScream: the trickster gets this treatment. He's turned into a blob of featureless flesh and buried [[spoiler: beneath the tree so the roots start digging deeply into his body. He can't scream aloud, but his psychic screams start reaching out to those living nearby.]]
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* AndIMustScream: the trickster gets this treatment. He's is turned into a blob of featureless flesh and buried [[spoiler: beneath the tree so the roots start digging deeply into his body. He can't scream aloud, but his psychic screams start reaching out to those living nearby.]]
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* CameBackWrong
* DarkWorld: and when it starts to bleed over into the real world...
* DeathTropes: most of them
* DemonicPossession
* DownerEnding: what were you expecting?
* EldritchAbomination: God. Arguably the trickster to some extent.
* DarkWorld: and when it starts to bleed over into the real world...
* DeathTropes: most of them
* DemonicPossession
* DownerEnding: what were you expecting?
* EldritchAbomination: God. Arguably the trickster to some extent.
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* OneLastSmoke
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: everyone within a certain distance of the tree with a certain mindset anyway.
* PsychicNosebleed: Winston gets one after each dream. They get steadily worse as the plot progresses.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: everyone within a certain distance of the tree with a certain mindset anyway.
* PsychicNosebleed: Winston gets one after each dream. They get steadily worse as the plot progresses.
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* YourMindMakesItReal
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A current work by Tropers/{{Polymphus}}. Part [[FilmNoir Noir]], part {{Black Comedy}}, part {{Urban Fantasy}} and all together very deeply disturbed. It goes a little something like this;
In an ambiguously grey city at an ambiguous point in the late 20th century, there's a tree. Every few weeks, like clockwork, someone will hang themselves from the tree, with little or no provocation. The story follows Winston Stein, a barista who's decided to go looking for answers after his girlfriend becomes the tree's latest victim.
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* AndIMustScream: the trickster gets this treatment. He's turned into a blob of featureless flesh and buried [[spoiler: beneath the tree so the roots start digging deeply into his body. He can't scream aloud, but his psychic screams start reaching out to those living nearby.]]
* ArcWords: "Burn the World [[spoiler:tree]]."
* CameBackWrong
* DarkWorld: and when it starts to bleed over into the real world...
* DeathTropes: most of them
* DemonicPossession
* DownerEnding: what were you expecting?
* EldritchAbomination: God. Arguably the trickster to some extent.
* GodIsEvil: God, who's willing to imprison someone in a pillar of flesh for the crime of trying to bring hope to humanity. Anyone who tries to end the punishment ends up meeting the same fate.
* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: lampshaded.
-->''It was raining. There's an old Greek superstition about it raining whenever someone dies. Didn't stop it feeling rather trite though.''
* KillItWithFire
-->''It ends with fire. It doesn't start so romantically.''
* OneLastSmoke
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: everyone within a certain distance of the tree with a certain mindset anyway.
* PsychicNosebleed: Winston gets one after each dream. They get steadily worse as the plot progresses.
* PrecisionFStrike: the ScrewDestiny moment.
--> '''Winston''': "Fate? Fuck that."
* ScrewDestiny
* StartsWithASuicide: Sarah's hung herself just as the story begins.
* SuicideIsPainless: played straight, but justified.
* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: dozens of suicides in the same place, over a fairly short period of time? Coincidence. Clearly.
* YourMindMakesItReal
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In an ambiguously grey city at an ambiguous point in the late 20th century, there's a tree. Every few weeks, like clockwork, someone will hang themselves from the tree, with little or no provocation. The story follows Winston Stein, a barista who's decided to go looking for answers after his girlfriend becomes the tree's latest victim.
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* AndIMustScream: the trickster gets this treatment. He's turned into a blob of featureless flesh and buried [[spoiler: beneath the tree so the roots start digging deeply into his body. He can't scream aloud, but his psychic screams start reaching out to those living nearby.]]
* ArcWords: "Burn the World [[spoiler:tree]]."
* CameBackWrong
* DarkWorld: and when it starts to bleed over into the real world...
* DeathTropes: most of them
* DemonicPossession
* DownerEnding: what were you expecting?
* EldritchAbomination: God. Arguably the trickster to some extent.
* GodIsEvil: God, who's willing to imprison someone in a pillar of flesh for the crime of trying to bring hope to humanity. Anyone who tries to end the punishment ends up meeting the same fate.
* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: lampshaded.
-->''It was raining. There's an old Greek superstition about it raining whenever someone dies. Didn't stop it feeling rather trite though.''
* KillItWithFire
-->''It ends with fire. It doesn't start so romantically.''
* OneLastSmoke
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: everyone within a certain distance of the tree with a certain mindset anyway.
* PsychicNosebleed: Winston gets one after each dream. They get steadily worse as the plot progresses.
* PrecisionFStrike: the ScrewDestiny moment.
--> '''Winston''': "Fate? Fuck that."
* ScrewDestiny
* StartsWithASuicide: Sarah's hung herself just as the story begins.
* SuicideIsPainless: played straight, but justified.
* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: dozens of suicides in the same place, over a fairly short period of time? Coincidence. Clearly.
* YourMindMakesItReal
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