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''Mossflower Odyssey III: The Lost Treasure of Captain Blade'' is an AlternateUniverseFic set in Brian Jacques' ''{{Redwall}}'' canon in a future not too far from the books. After the fall of the Pirate King Captain Blade at the paws of Badgerlord Atlas Stormstripe, piracy has officially been slain and progress has begun to push through Mossflower as the seas and different trade routes have grown safer. However, rumors begin spreading of an uncharted island across the sea that Captain Blade left upon a vast treasure, one large enough that pirates from all over have crawled out of their holes and bilges in search of it. Fearful of a pirate resurgence, Atlas decrees to find the treasure first, and snuff out the flame of piracy once and for all.
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''Mossflower Odyssey III: The Lost Treasure of Captain Blade'' is an AlternateUniverseFic set in Brian Jacques' ''{{Redwall}}'' ''{{Literature/Redwall}}'' canon in a future not too far from the books. After the fall of the Pirate King Captain Blade at the paws of Badgerlord Atlas Stormstripe, piracy has officially been slain and progress has begun to push through Mossflower as the seas and different trade routes have grown safer. However, rumors begin spreading of an uncharted island across the sea that Captain Blade left upon a vast treasure, one large enough that pirates from all over have crawled out of their holes and bilges in search of it. Fearful of a pirate resurgence, Atlas decrees to find the treasure first, and snuff out the flame of piracy once and for all.
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''Mossflower Odyssey III'' is a collaborative survivor writing contest written in 2015. Ten authors were accepted to write different characters within the story, one being voted out each week, which eventually leaves the top 3 authors as the winners. This means there are a lot of characters, cast and NPC alike, who are KilledOffForReal. Despite its name, ''Mossflower Odyssey III'' is not a direct sequel to any previous Mossflower Odysseys, but is instead just a new entry.
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''Mossflower Odyssey III'' is a collaborative survivor writing contest written in 2015. Ten authors were accepted to write different characters within the story, one being voted out each week, which eventually leaves the top 3 authors as the winners. This means there are a lot of characters, cast and NPC alike, who are KilledOffForReal. Despite its name, ''Mossflower Odyssey III'' is not a direct sequel to any previous Mossflower Odysseys, but is instead just a new entry. \n As should be obvious, there are spoilers galore, so be warned.
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->''"But there are whispers in the wind, rumors that on an uncharted island across the sea, Captain Blade left behind a treasure the likes of which nobeast has ever seen, one that could make a beast richer than even in their wildest dreams."''
-->--'''The Tagline'''
''Mossflower Odyssey III: The Lost Treasure of Captain Blade'' is an AlternateUniverseFic set in Brian Jacques' ''{{Redwall}}'' canon in a future not too far from the books. After the fall of the Pirate King Captain Blade at the paws of Badgerlord Atlas Stormstripe, piracy has officially been slain and progress has begun to push through Mossflower as the seas and different trade routes have grown safer. However, rumors begin spreading of an uncharted island across the sea that Captain Blade left upon a vast treasure, one large enough that pirates from all over have crawled out of their holes and bilges in search of it. Fearful of a pirate resurgence, Atlas decrees to find the treasure first, and snuff out the flame of piracy once and for all.
''Mossflower Odyssey III'' is a collaborative survivor writing contest written in 2015. Ten authors were accepted to write different characters within the story, one being voted out each week, which eventually leaves the top 3 authors as the winners. This means there are a lot of characters, cast and NPC alike, who are KilledOffForReal. Despite its name, ''Mossflower Odyssey III'' is not a direct sequel to any previous Mossflower Odysseys, but is instead just a new entry.
The contest can be read [[http://redwallsurvivor.com/forums/index.php?board=79.0/ here.]]
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!! This work provides examples of:
*ActionGirl: Ciera Ancora. Julia Burnet.
*ActionDad: Robert Rosequill
*AnyoneCanDie: The defining theme of ROC Survivor Contests. Also, averted with some characters who were voted off, but still survived.
*AntiHero: Atlas is arguably this
*BabiesEverAfter: Robert returns home just in time for the birth of his second child. Chak marries another otter in his epilogue and they have a daughter.
*BatmanGambit: Blade does this to Robert during their confrontation. After a short battle where it's clear Robert's time as a soldier has given him the upper hand, Blade merely tosses his weapon aside, knowing that Robert won't be able to kill an unarmed beast. It works and Blade manages to stall long enough to escape.
*BadassBeard: Chak's braided moustache.
*BigBad: Captain Blade
*BigDamnHeroes: Tooley showing up just in time to save Crue. Ciera's reinforcements arriving from Salamandastron just in time to cut off Blade before he gets there.
*BlatantLies: Blade's story about what happened to Gordon
*BurialAtSea: Fildering's.
*CharacterDevelopment: one of the main objectives in a Redwall Survivor. Averted with Robert's author, whose main objective was to NOT change.
*CharacterNameAlias: Gordon goes by the alias of Scully Craws. No one finds out about his real identity until the epilogues. Vasily is also a false name, and was never revealed in story. Word of God confirms it to be Casso however.
*ColdbloodedTorture: Reedox and Vera are both tortured by Torin. A reluctant Gordon does this to Morton before Murdin finishes the job. Ciera tortures Figgins in her application.
*CompleteMonster: Torin, Dremlak, and Captain Blade all fit this trope.
*CrapsackWorld: For vermin at least, especially with a homicidal badger unable to control his rage at the helm of a massive navy.
*CrazyEnoughToWork: Convince the mongooses to abandon their false god, assault the Dead Rock, free the slaves, and defeat Captain Blade.
*CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Too many to name.
*CurbStompBattle: The battle between the Zephyr and Silver Maiden.
*DoWithHimAsYouWill: Torin's death.
*DeathIsDramatic: Most deaths for important characters fit this trope. Blade's death subverts it because, while his confrontation with Atlas is dramatic, his death is swift.
*DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Chak's mother. Damppaw and Scarcrab.
*DiedInYourArmsTonight: Tooley dies asking Crue to remember him.
*DisposingOfABody: Dremlak did this with several HUNDRED slaves. Chak was not pleased when he found them.
*TheDragon: Dremlak
*DyingAsYourself: Atlas dies having conquered the Bloodwrath.
*EnsembleDarkhorse: Vera, who didn't have a very popular app, but managed to impress the audience with her performance well enough that she received a well-deserved second place.
*EveryoneChasingYou: Blade during the assault on the Dead Rock. Luckily for him, he's crafty enough to easily escape through a hidden tunnel back to his ship.
*WickedWeasel: averted with Tooley, who is one of the most noble members of the cast.
*FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Lots, but Twilbee's death comes to mind.
*FanGirl: Plink to Captain Blade
*FantasyGunControl: The story takes place in a more traditional Redwall setting so guns are unheard of... but that quickly becomes subverted, as the plot twist is that Captain Blade is still alive and has discovered how to create gun powder and cannons so that he can defeat Atlas and the Waverunners with weapons they aren't prepared for.
*FinalBattle: A large scale ship battle between several scores of ships, with the two main ships: the Zephyr and Phantom- blaring cannons at one another. Meanwhile, a team of Waverunners, Robert, and Plink are aboard the Zephyr to confront Blade before he makes it Salamandastron and Hearth.
*FinalGirl: Plink when she finally turns against Captain Blade.
*FriendToAllChildren: Robert.
*FrothyMugsOfWater: averted
*FromBadToWorse: Washed up on an island, then captured by mongooses, then given as offerings to a malevolent god who turns out to be the Big Bad.
*GoodParents: Robert and Violet Rosequill. Mrs. Hagglethrump. Damppaw. Subverted with Rindclaw, who is regrettable for his past abuses that Tooley doesn't even remember.
*Gorn: The room of dead slaves Dremlak shows Chak. Chak's author also put careful detail in describing the tiny pieces of BONE Torin takes out of Reedox's tail after he cuts it off.
*GreatEscape: The slave revolt.
*HappilyMarried: The Rosequills. Dekeft and Laika. Damppaw and her late husband Captain Scarcrab. Hylan and Villian. Arguably the Hagglethrumps. Presumably Chak and Salina too.
*HeelFaceTurn: Rindclaw. Chak. Arguably Ciera, assuming she wasn't already good.
*HeroicSacrifice: Tooley dies saving Crue
*HeroicBSOD. : Robert becomes almost mentally shut down after Plink tells him where Gordon has gone. Crue screams that she's going to kill Shuga after he stabs Tooley.
*HighlyConspicuousUniform: The Waverunners blue and gold uniforms and the neo-pirates bright red sashes. It's even used by Crue as a way to tell the mongooses which beasts are their friends and enemies.
*InSeriesNickname: Rob. Fild. Fred.
*InterspeciesRomance: Many readers and some of the cast wanted Vera and Hylan to become a couple due to their good chemistry together, but Vera's author wanted nothing to do with it, ultimately averting this trope when Hylan became married to another pine marten.
*InspirationalMartyr: Both Blade and Atlas fall into this trope, heck Blade does it twice technically. Minstrel also falls into it when he inspires Chak to mend his ways.
*ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals- Averted. It's sunny during Chak's funeral for his slaves, Daggle's burial, and Tooley's funeral in Crue's epilogue, and merely nighttime when Vera and Gordon set Fildering out to sea.
*InfantImmortality: Blade averts this with his order to terminate Ciera's pregnancy. The baby survives to birth however, but is implied to have died later.
*IsleOfGiantHorrors: ''Mossflower Odyssey III'' takes place on an island inhabited by giant snakes, deadly natives, and is guarded by a Ghost Ship.
*JoinOrDie: After the Fire God scene when Blade reveals himself to still be alive, Atlas realizes that the prisoners he's taken- at least the vermin anyway- will have to join his pirates or be killed. The woodlanders don't have much of a choice however and are taken as slaves.
*KarmaHoudini: All of the pirates working for Blade get off scot free after his death, and are even given the opportunity for better lives. Justified because Swiftpaw has no way of telling which of them were actually pirates and which were just sailors who were subjected to the previous trope, and thus can't deliver justice.
*KnightTemplar: Atlas. Arguably Ciera.
*LastVillainStand: Blade does this to a blind Atlas. He likely would have made it out alive had Swiftpaw not intervened.
*LegacyImmortality: Ciera reveals during the epilogues that due to the nature of pirate legends, it's possible that Captain Blade will never truly die.
*LiteraryAllusionTitle: "Atlas Shrugged," but it was intended as a pun.
*LittleStowaway: Plink. Gordon also counts.
*MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Gordon's death is covered up by Captain Blade. "He just went on a secret mission is all." Plink, naive and trusting as she is, believes it and only begins to doubt when both Robert and Ciera don't.
*MadScientist: Blade.
*MacGuffin: Vera's amulet.
*MagnificentBastard: Captain Blade is an absurdly resourceful and intelligent pirate with a knack for mental manipulation. He not only faked his death at the beginning of the story, but has also used his knowledge of storytelling and rumors to bring thousands of pirates to the Dead Rock in search of treasure, knowing full well this would also lure Badgerlord Atlas and his Waverunners.
*ManOnFire: Twilbee
*MeaningfulName: Atlas is of course named after the Greek Titan, and believes he and the Waverunners alone hold up the world and protect it from destruction. Blade's name is not his real one and is a misnomer, having given it to himself because of his belief that no one respects a beast for their mind, but for their sword. Gordon's alias Scully Craws is a symbol to his adoration of piracy. Julia's last name Burnet, is false, and was given to her as an inside joke between her and Torin for their past work together.
*MissionBriefing: Atlas does this to Swiftpaw in the prologues. Similarly, there's a scene in the epilogues where Drandy Roaringale gives a briefing to a squad of Waverunners and Cyril.
*NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Lord Atlas Stormstripe. Captain Blade.
*NiceHat: Tooley's patchwork cap. It was even defictionalized by Vera's author.
*NightmareFuel: Twilbee's death during the Fire God scene. Plink and Tooley's confrontation with Maurick. Chak finding out where the rest of the slaves in the Dead Rock 'went.' Torin's collection. There are more than that too, but probably too many to name them all.
*NotQuiteDead: Atlas after being blasted by cannons from the Ghost Ship and falling into the sea while wearing full armor. He comes back in week 3 and attacks Ciera. Captain Blade is mentioned in both prologues to have been killed by Atlas. Turns out the blow to Atlas's head Blade dealt him completely ruined his memory, and he only thinks he killed him. Blade comes back in round 4 of the contest, ready to get his revenge.
*NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: After Ciera vouches that he's a pirate to Blade, Gordon is invited to have a meal with him. Of course, Gordon doesn't make it out alive, and has given Blade all of the intelligence on Salamandastron that he could ever want.
*OffWithHisHead: Chak does this to Dremlak.
*OffingTheOffspring: Blade personally ordered one of Scarcrab's pirates to attack Ciera while she was pregnant with their child in an effort to kill it before it was born. It survived.
*OhCrap: When the Fire God takes off his mask and reveals he's Blade.
*OptOut: Crue did this after being voted out of the contest. After Blade escapes from the Dead Rock, Crue stays behind. Justified, seeing she's a healer, and many of the mongooses, slaves, and Waverunners, are injured from the battle with Dremlak and Maurick.
*PassingTheTorch: Swiftpaw, after breaking down about not being able to save anyone, does this to Robert.
*PlayfulOtter: averted with Chak.
*PluckyMiddie: Fildering.
*PublicExecution: Dremlak is played straight. Torin, however, gets executed by the public.
*PsychoForHire: Torin.
*RapePillageAndBurn: Atlas says that Blade's pirates did this frequently. Julia Burnet's inside joke of a last name implies she also partook in this a few times.
*LaResistance: The mongoose army and the Waverunners, the former having realized that they were tricked by Blade pretending to be their god into serving him, and the latter captured and enslaved after the events of the fourth week. Round out the party with a healer squirrel, fatherly hedgehog, former slavedriver, and a simple fox cook, and the power of good prevails.
*SavingTheWorld: If Blade wins, it's explicitly said he'll likely have the resources to not only conquer Salamandastron, but also Redwall and the rest of the Western Coast.
*ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Ciera's reaction to Blade's neo-pirates. She runs away during the night, and is only seen again in the epilogues when it's revealed she betrayed Blade and brought the Waverunner reinforcements.
*SequelHook: "Blade will return, and it can be as anybeast."
*SlaveGalley: Chak is the slavedriver.
*SlaveLiberation: Part of the plan to defeat Blade involves first rescuing the slaves he has within the Dead Rock.
*ShoutOut: Before he became a pirate, Captain Blade was raised in an orphanage in Carrigul, a reference to the first Mossflower Odyssey.
*SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Vasily. Minstrel.
*SurvivorGuilt: Robert is remorseful in his epilogue that he survived when younger beasts didn't.
*SwordOverHead: Robert defeats Blade but is unable to kill him.
*TapOnTheHead: Averted with Atlas, who survives both instances, but becomes locked in a perpetual state of Bloodwrath and has frequent bouts of memory loss.
*TearJerker: An audience member has been cited as to having cried reading Tooley's death post.
*ThereAreNoPolice: Averted with the Hearth Marshalls. The Waverunners also act as a sort of policing force.
*ThrowEmToTheWolves: Torin is thrown to his past slaves to be dealt with. He doesn't last long.
*TiredOfRunning: Vera. Averted with Swiftpaw in the epilogues, who is tired of fighting.
*TorchesAndPitchforks: The mongooses after they capture the 'striped demon'
*TrueCompanions: Vera and Hylan. Chak and Reedox. Robert and Plink. Plink and Gordon. Robert and Chak. Crue and Tooley.
*TsunDere: Plink
*VillainousBreakdown: Captain Blade does this when it's clear he's lost
*WhatCouldHaveBeen: Literally the intent behind Tooley's author's "Finishing the Weasel's Tale' thread.
*WhamLine: "Oh, poor Atlas, the world's a beast of a burden isn't it? But don't worry. I can take it off your shoulders."
*WordOfGod: the existence of the forums.
*WouldHurtAChild: Blade. Ciera tortures Figgins for information in her application. Atlas kills Figgins. Julia uses Plink as her own personal shield in her confrontation with Greyjaw.
->''"But there are whispers in the wind, rumors that on an uncharted island across the sea, Captain Blade left behind a treasure the likes of which nobeast has ever seen, one that could make a beast richer than even in their wildest dreams."''
-->--'''The Tagline'''
''Mossflower Odyssey III: The Lost Treasure of Captain Blade'' is an AlternateUniverseFic set in Brian Jacques' ''{{Redwall}}'' canon in a future not too far from the books. After the fall of the Pirate King Captain Blade at the paws of Badgerlord Atlas Stormstripe, piracy has officially been slain and progress has begun to push through Mossflower as the seas and different trade routes have grown safer. However, rumors begin spreading of an uncharted island across the sea that Captain Blade left upon a vast treasure, one large enough that pirates from all over have crawled out of their holes and bilges in search of it. Fearful of a pirate resurgence, Atlas decrees to find the treasure first, and snuff out the flame of piracy once and for all.
''Mossflower Odyssey III'' is a collaborative survivor writing contest written in 2015. Ten authors were accepted to write different characters within the story, one being voted out each week, which eventually leaves the top 3 authors as the winners. This means there are a lot of characters, cast and NPC alike, who are KilledOffForReal. Despite its name, ''Mossflower Odyssey III'' is not a direct sequel to any previous Mossflower Odysseys, but is instead just a new entry.
The contest can be read [[http://redwallsurvivor.com/forums/index.php?board=79.0/ here.]]
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!! This work provides examples of:
*ActionGirl: Ciera Ancora. Julia Burnet.
*ActionDad: Robert Rosequill
*AnyoneCanDie: The defining theme of ROC Survivor Contests. Also, averted with some characters who were voted off, but still survived.
*AntiHero: Atlas is arguably this
*BabiesEverAfter: Robert returns home just in time for the birth of his second child. Chak marries another otter in his epilogue and they have a daughter.
*BatmanGambit: Blade does this to Robert during their confrontation. After a short battle where it's clear Robert's time as a soldier has given him the upper hand, Blade merely tosses his weapon aside, knowing that Robert won't be able to kill an unarmed beast. It works and Blade manages to stall long enough to escape.
*BadassBeard: Chak's braided moustache.
*BigBad: Captain Blade
*BigDamnHeroes: Tooley showing up just in time to save Crue. Ciera's reinforcements arriving from Salamandastron just in time to cut off Blade before he gets there.
*BlatantLies: Blade's story about what happened to Gordon
*BurialAtSea: Fildering's.
*CharacterDevelopment: one of the main objectives in a Redwall Survivor. Averted with Robert's author, whose main objective was to NOT change.
*CharacterNameAlias: Gordon goes by the alias of Scully Craws. No one finds out about his real identity until the epilogues. Vasily is also a false name, and was never revealed in story. Word of God confirms it to be Casso however.
*ColdbloodedTorture: Reedox and Vera are both tortured by Torin. A reluctant Gordon does this to Morton before Murdin finishes the job. Ciera tortures Figgins in her application.
*CompleteMonster: Torin, Dremlak, and Captain Blade all fit this trope.
*CrapsackWorld: For vermin at least, especially with a homicidal badger unable to control his rage at the helm of a massive navy.
*CrazyEnoughToWork: Convince the mongooses to abandon their false god, assault the Dead Rock, free the slaves, and defeat Captain Blade.
*CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Too many to name.
*CurbStompBattle: The battle between the Zephyr and Silver Maiden.
*DoWithHimAsYouWill: Torin's death.
*DeathIsDramatic: Most deaths for important characters fit this trope. Blade's death subverts it because, while his confrontation with Atlas is dramatic, his death is swift.
*DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Chak's mother. Damppaw and Scarcrab.
*DiedInYourArmsTonight: Tooley dies asking Crue to remember him.
*DisposingOfABody: Dremlak did this with several HUNDRED slaves. Chak was not pleased when he found them.
*TheDragon: Dremlak
*DyingAsYourself: Atlas dies having conquered the Bloodwrath.
*EnsembleDarkhorse: Vera, who didn't have a very popular app, but managed to impress the audience with her performance well enough that she received a well-deserved second place.
*EveryoneChasingYou: Blade during the assault on the Dead Rock. Luckily for him, he's crafty enough to easily escape through a hidden tunnel back to his ship.
*WickedWeasel: averted with Tooley, who is one of the most noble members of the cast.
*FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Lots, but Twilbee's death comes to mind.
*FanGirl: Plink to Captain Blade
*FantasyGunControl: The story takes place in a more traditional Redwall setting so guns are unheard of... but that quickly becomes subverted, as the plot twist is that Captain Blade is still alive and has discovered how to create gun powder and cannons so that he can defeat Atlas and the Waverunners with weapons they aren't prepared for.
*FinalBattle: A large scale ship battle between several scores of ships, with the two main ships: the Zephyr and Phantom- blaring cannons at one another. Meanwhile, a team of Waverunners, Robert, and Plink are aboard the Zephyr to confront Blade before he makes it Salamandastron and Hearth.
*FinalGirl: Plink when she finally turns against Captain Blade.
*FriendToAllChildren: Robert.
*FrothyMugsOfWater: averted
*FromBadToWorse: Washed up on an island, then captured by mongooses, then given as offerings to a malevolent god who turns out to be the Big Bad.
*GoodParents: Robert and Violet Rosequill. Mrs. Hagglethrump. Damppaw. Subverted with Rindclaw, who is regrettable for his past abuses that Tooley doesn't even remember.
*Gorn: The room of dead slaves Dremlak shows Chak. Chak's author also put careful detail in describing the tiny pieces of BONE Torin takes out of Reedox's tail after he cuts it off.
*GreatEscape: The slave revolt.
*HappilyMarried: The Rosequills. Dekeft and Laika. Damppaw and her late husband Captain Scarcrab. Hylan and Villian. Arguably the Hagglethrumps. Presumably Chak and Salina too.
*HeelFaceTurn: Rindclaw. Chak. Arguably Ciera, assuming she wasn't already good.
*HeroicSacrifice: Tooley dies saving Crue
*HeroicBSOD. : Robert becomes almost mentally shut down after Plink tells him where Gordon has gone. Crue screams that she's going to kill Shuga after he stabs Tooley.
*HighlyConspicuousUniform: The Waverunners blue and gold uniforms and the neo-pirates bright red sashes. It's even used by Crue as a way to tell the mongooses which beasts are their friends and enemies.
*InSeriesNickname: Rob. Fild. Fred.
*InterspeciesRomance: Many readers and some of the cast wanted Vera and Hylan to become a couple due to their good chemistry together, but Vera's author wanted nothing to do with it, ultimately averting this trope when Hylan became married to another pine marten.
*InspirationalMartyr: Both Blade and Atlas fall into this trope, heck Blade does it twice technically. Minstrel also falls into it when he inspires Chak to mend his ways.
*ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals- Averted. It's sunny during Chak's funeral for his slaves, Daggle's burial, and Tooley's funeral in Crue's epilogue, and merely nighttime when Vera and Gordon set Fildering out to sea.
*InfantImmortality: Blade averts this with his order to terminate Ciera's pregnancy. The baby survives to birth however, but is implied to have died later.
*IsleOfGiantHorrors: ''Mossflower Odyssey III'' takes place on an island inhabited by giant snakes, deadly natives, and is guarded by a Ghost Ship.
*JoinOrDie: After the Fire God scene when Blade reveals himself to still be alive, Atlas realizes that the prisoners he's taken- at least the vermin anyway- will have to join his pirates or be killed. The woodlanders don't have much of a choice however and are taken as slaves.
*KarmaHoudini: All of the pirates working for Blade get off scot free after his death, and are even given the opportunity for better lives. Justified because Swiftpaw has no way of telling which of them were actually pirates and which were just sailors who were subjected to the previous trope, and thus can't deliver justice.
*KnightTemplar: Atlas. Arguably Ciera.
*LastVillainStand: Blade does this to a blind Atlas. He likely would have made it out alive had Swiftpaw not intervened.
*LegacyImmortality: Ciera reveals during the epilogues that due to the nature of pirate legends, it's possible that Captain Blade will never truly die.
*LiteraryAllusionTitle: "Atlas Shrugged," but it was intended as a pun.
*LittleStowaway: Plink. Gordon also counts.
*MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Gordon's death is covered up by Captain Blade. "He just went on a secret mission is all." Plink, naive and trusting as she is, believes it and only begins to doubt when both Robert and Ciera don't.
*MadScientist: Blade.
*MacGuffin: Vera's amulet.
*MagnificentBastard: Captain Blade is an absurdly resourceful and intelligent pirate with a knack for mental manipulation. He not only faked his death at the beginning of the story, but has also used his knowledge of storytelling and rumors to bring thousands of pirates to the Dead Rock in search of treasure, knowing full well this would also lure Badgerlord Atlas and his Waverunners.
*ManOnFire: Twilbee
*MeaningfulName: Atlas is of course named after the Greek Titan, and believes he and the Waverunners alone hold up the world and protect it from destruction. Blade's name is not his real one and is a misnomer, having given it to himself because of his belief that no one respects a beast for their mind, but for their sword. Gordon's alias Scully Craws is a symbol to his adoration of piracy. Julia's last name Burnet, is false, and was given to her as an inside joke between her and Torin for their past work together.
*MissionBriefing: Atlas does this to Swiftpaw in the prologues. Similarly, there's a scene in the epilogues where Drandy Roaringale gives a briefing to a squad of Waverunners and Cyril.
*NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Lord Atlas Stormstripe. Captain Blade.
*NiceHat: Tooley's patchwork cap. It was even defictionalized by Vera's author.
*NightmareFuel: Twilbee's death during the Fire God scene. Plink and Tooley's confrontation with Maurick. Chak finding out where the rest of the slaves in the Dead Rock 'went.' Torin's collection. There are more than that too, but probably too many to name them all.
*NotQuiteDead: Atlas after being blasted by cannons from the Ghost Ship and falling into the sea while wearing full armor. He comes back in week 3 and attacks Ciera. Captain Blade is mentioned in both prologues to have been killed by Atlas. Turns out the blow to Atlas's head Blade dealt him completely ruined his memory, and he only thinks he killed him. Blade comes back in round 4 of the contest, ready to get his revenge.
*NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: After Ciera vouches that he's a pirate to Blade, Gordon is invited to have a meal with him. Of course, Gordon doesn't make it out alive, and has given Blade all of the intelligence on Salamandastron that he could ever want.
*OffWithHisHead: Chak does this to Dremlak.
*OffingTheOffspring: Blade personally ordered one of Scarcrab's pirates to attack Ciera while she was pregnant with their child in an effort to kill it before it was born. It survived.
*OhCrap: When the Fire God takes off his mask and reveals he's Blade.
*OptOut: Crue did this after being voted out of the contest. After Blade escapes from the Dead Rock, Crue stays behind. Justified, seeing she's a healer, and many of the mongooses, slaves, and Waverunners, are injured from the battle with Dremlak and Maurick.
*PassingTheTorch: Swiftpaw, after breaking down about not being able to save anyone, does this to Robert.
*PlayfulOtter: averted with Chak.
*PluckyMiddie: Fildering.
*PublicExecution: Dremlak is played straight. Torin, however, gets executed by the public.
*PsychoForHire: Torin.
*RapePillageAndBurn: Atlas says that Blade's pirates did this frequently. Julia Burnet's inside joke of a last name implies she also partook in this a few times.
*LaResistance: The mongoose army and the Waverunners, the former having realized that they were tricked by Blade pretending to be their god into serving him, and the latter captured and enslaved after the events of the fourth week. Round out the party with a healer squirrel, fatherly hedgehog, former slavedriver, and a simple fox cook, and the power of good prevails.
*SavingTheWorld: If Blade wins, it's explicitly said he'll likely have the resources to not only conquer Salamandastron, but also Redwall and the rest of the Western Coast.
*ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Ciera's reaction to Blade's neo-pirates. She runs away during the night, and is only seen again in the epilogues when it's revealed she betrayed Blade and brought the Waverunner reinforcements.
*SequelHook: "Blade will return, and it can be as anybeast."
*SlaveGalley: Chak is the slavedriver.
*SlaveLiberation: Part of the plan to defeat Blade involves first rescuing the slaves he has within the Dead Rock.
*ShoutOut: Before he became a pirate, Captain Blade was raised in an orphanage in Carrigul, a reference to the first Mossflower Odyssey.
*SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Vasily. Minstrel.
*SurvivorGuilt: Robert is remorseful in his epilogue that he survived when younger beasts didn't.
*SwordOverHead: Robert defeats Blade but is unable to kill him.
*TapOnTheHead: Averted with Atlas, who survives both instances, but becomes locked in a perpetual state of Bloodwrath and has frequent bouts of memory loss.
*TearJerker: An audience member has been cited as to having cried reading Tooley's death post.
*ThereAreNoPolice: Averted with the Hearth Marshalls. The Waverunners also act as a sort of policing force.
*ThrowEmToTheWolves: Torin is thrown to his past slaves to be dealt with. He doesn't last long.
*TiredOfRunning: Vera. Averted with Swiftpaw in the epilogues, who is tired of fighting.
*TorchesAndPitchforks: The mongooses after they capture the 'striped demon'
*TrueCompanions: Vera and Hylan. Chak and Reedox. Robert and Plink. Plink and Gordon. Robert and Chak. Crue and Tooley.
*TsunDere: Plink
*VillainousBreakdown: Captain Blade does this when it's clear he's lost
*WhatCouldHaveBeen: Literally the intent behind Tooley's author's "Finishing the Weasel's Tale' thread.
*WhamLine: "Oh, poor Atlas, the world's a beast of a burden isn't it? But don't worry. I can take it off your shoulders."
*WordOfGod: the existence of the forums.
*WouldHurtAChild: Blade. Ciera tortures Figgins for information in her application. Atlas kills Figgins. Julia uses Plink as her own personal shield in her confrontation with Greyjaw.
