History Literature / Reamde

* TooDumbToLive: Wallace, the self styled cyber-criminal who [[spoiler: has his lap top set up so it will auto run whatever arbitrary .exe that happens to be on any USB stick plugged into it.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fate of [[spoiler:Jake the helicopter pilot]] is never revealed.

-->"Because we are hackers," Csongor said, "and they have seen the movies."

'''REAMDE''' is a novel by NealStephenson in which the worlds of international crime and {{Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game}}s intersect.

* TakeThat: Skeletor is repeatedly described as a terrible writer, but his books and video game text is eaten up by the masses. Sheesh, people must have horrible taste, huh?

* RunningGag: Richard's Wikipedia entry. It really overblows the money laundering.

'''REAMDE''' is a novel by NealStephenson in which the worlds of international crime and {{Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game}}s intersect. Richard Forthrast, a former marijuana smuggler, has founded the world's most successful MMORPG, ''T'Rain'', which is built around the concept of allowing players to make real currency exchanges within the game's virtual world. Recently, a virus called REAMDE has infected millions of players in ''T'Rain'', holding their computer files for a ransom of game currency.

* BadassFamily: The Forthrasts, a family of millionaire gunrunners, survivalists and war heroes.

* BadassFamily: The Forthrasts.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Zula notes that two of the terrorists are either gay lovers or have a ridiculously close friendship for two men.

* Introdump: Used in the snippet of writing we see of Skraelin, which is constantly explaining who and what the characters are and what's going on, even though it's supposedly in the middle of the story. Skraelin is supposed to be a bad writer, but it's probably not a parody of the trope. Skrealin's reader wouldn't need that information to know what's going on, but readers of ''Readme'' don't have any context, so they ''do''.
* KarmaHoudini: Marlon, who steals $2 million from ''T'Rain'' players, keeps it, and never suffers any ill affects for the rest of the story. [[spoiler: Sokolov]] assists in [[spoiler: Wallace's death]], but still gets a happy ending. Other criminal characters also get away with it.

* KarmaHoudini: Marlon, who steals $2 million from ''T'Rain'' players, keeps it, and never suffers any ill affects for the rest of the story.

** The hack writer Devin Skraelin is nicknamed [[HeMan Skeletor]] when he loses weight.

'''REAMDE''' is a novel by NealStephenson in which the worlds of international crime and {{Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game}}s intersect. Richard Forthrast, a former marijuana smuggler, has founded the world's most successful MMORPG, ''T'Rain'', which is built around the concept of allowing players to make real-world currency exchanges within the game's virtual world. Recently, a virus called REAMDE has infected millions of players in ''T'Rain'', holding their computer files for a ransom of game currency.

* TheMafiya: Ivanov. The rest of his crew are either local American thugs or Sokolov, who's a mercenary. It's implied that Igor calls some of Ivanov's compariots, but they never show up.

A new computer virus ('REAMDE') has emerged which encrypts its victims' home directories. In order to get them back, one has to enter the virtual world of ''T'Rain'', an MMORPG founded by [[DraftDodging draft-dodger]] and former drug-runner Richard "Dodge" Forthrast, and leave a ransom of gold at such-and-such coordinates.

Enter Zula Forthrast, Richard's twice-orphaned adopted niece. Richard, discovering that she has a major in geology and a minor in computer science, offers her a job programming magma simulations for T'Rain. Zula and her boyfriend, Peter, head to British Columbia to meet with Richard and discuss specifics. There, Peter, a security consultant by trade, sells a list of stolen credit card numbers to Wallace, a mysterious Scottish-Canadian accountant.

Later, Zula and Peter find out that REAMDE has infected Wallace's laptop, rendering the single remaining copy of the list inaccessible. Furthermore, Wallace was working for a [[TheMafiya Mafiya]] man named Ivanov, and he's very unhappy about the situation...