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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Fires Of The Earth
** [[spoiler: Abbess Eglantyne the Wracked.]]


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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Fires Of The Earth
** [[spoiler: Abbess Eglantyne the Wracked.]]
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* {{Calvinball}}: ''The Lenentine Cards'' is magic realist take on this.

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* Main/Calvinball: ''The Lenentine Cards'' is magic realist take on this.

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* {{Calvinball:}} ''The Lenentine Cards'' is magic realist take on this.

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* Calvinball: ''The Lenentine Cards'' is magic realist take on this.

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* CreepyChild: The child game avatars of ''The Pentintytär Arcade'', particularly when one ''just floats in the air behind the other, saying nothing.''
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: In ''The Pentintytär Arcade,'' a possible explanation for either Viekko, Sisko, or both.]]
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* EvilInc: Sovatik: the corporation behind the disaster in the ''Killswitch'' game.
** Karvina Corporation seemingly averts this trope in the stories. However, this [[http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaGagLhwYHkSD1XROnwcElA unfinished YouTube series]] based on ''Killswitch'' seems to have been setting them up as the BigBad.

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** The Wilsons; the CoDragons of ''What Happened To Agent Smith.''

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** The Wilsons; the CoDragons of ''What Happened To Agent Smith.Small.''


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* BittersweetEnding: Agent Small and her ex-husband Agent Thin are finally reunited, but it is implied their lives will be no better than before. Making matters worse, [[spoiler: it's not even the real Agent Thin at all, just the latest in a series of [[ExpendableClone expendable clones.]]]]


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* DepravedHomosexual: When describing ''What Happened To Agent Small?'' The Archivist specifically mentions the gay relationship of villains Thomas A Wilson and Thomas F. Wilson when referring to the game's heavy sexual content, implying that they were this.
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** The Wilsons; the [[CoDragons]] of ''What Happened To Agent Smith.''

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** The Wilsons; the [[CoDragons]] CoDragons of ''What Happened To Agent Smith.''
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** The Wilsons; the [[CoDragon Co-Dragons]] of ''What Happened To Agent Smith.''

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* AxCrazy: The mining machines of ''Killswitch'' following their being given life by The Fires Of The Earth.


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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Fires Of The Earth
** [[spoiler: Abbess Eglantyne the Wracked.]]
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* AnticlimaxBoss: Agent Mire of ''What Happened To Agent Small?'' Although if the player has already used the card required to kill him, he is [[PuzzleBoss effectively unbeatable.]]
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: ''WhatHappenedToAgentSmall?'' both subverts this and mentions the [[SuperMarioBros1 trope namer]] by name.

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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: ''WhatHappenedToAgentSmall?'' ''What Happened To Agent Small?'' both subverts this and mentions the [[SuperMarioBros1 trope namer]] by name.
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* OldShame: The Archivist insists that ''What Happened To Agent Small?'' is this for Karvina Corporation, although she acknowledges it as a narrative marvel just the same.

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* OldShame: The Archivist insists that ''What Happened To Agent Small?'' is this for Karvina Corporation, although she acknowledges it as a narrative marvel just the same.same.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: ''WhatHappenedToAgentSmall?'' both subverts this and mentions the [[SuperMarioBros1 trope namer]] by name.

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* BlingualBonus: The Finnish game titles of in ''The Pentintytär Arcade'' explain their metaplot.

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* BlingualBonus: BilingualBonus: The Finnish game titles of in ''The Pentintytär Arcade'' explain their metaplot.



* LateArrivalSpoiler: ''Invisible Games'' takes care to avert this, filling the final entry, (which is typically the first page that new visitors will see,) with covered spoiler text.

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* LateArrivalSpoiler: ''Invisible Games'' takes care to avert this, filling the final entry, (which is typically the first page that new visitors will see,) with covered spoiler text.text.
* OldShame: The Archivist insists that ''What Happened To Agent Small?'' is this for Karvina Corporation, although she acknowledges it as a narrative marvel just the same.
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** In ''The Pentintytär Arcade'' [[spoiler: Torvald]] is so unhinged by the experience he [[spoiler: spends years tracking down and collecting the individual games just so he can sit naked in the middle of them, clutching a gun and calling out Irja's name.]]

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** In ''The Pentintytär Arcade'' [[spoiler: Torvald]] is so unhinged by the experience he [[spoiler: he spends years tracking down and collecting the individual games just so he can sit naked in the middle of them, clutching a gun and calling out Irja's name.]]
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** In ''The Pentintytär Arcade'' [[spoiler: Torvald]] is so unhinged by the experience he [[spends years tracking down and collecting the individual games just so he can sit naked in the middle of them, clutching a gun and calling out Irja's name.]]

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** In ''The Pentintytär Arcade'' [[spoiler: Torvald]] is so unhinged by the experience he [[spends [[spoiler: spends years tracking down and collecting the individual games just so he can sit naked in the middle of them, clutching a gun and calling out Irja's name.]]

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* [[TheChessmaster The Clockmaster:]] Afanasy Rumyantsev
* [[CoolOldGuy Cool Old Lady:]] Aemelia Brightshaupt

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* [[TheChessmaster The Clockmaster:]] Afanasy Rumyantsev
Rumyantsev.
* [[CoolOldGuy Cool Old Lady:]] Aemelia BrightshauptBrightshaupt.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Irja Pentintytär .]]



* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: The blog's penultimate entry is [[LostEpisode missing,]] replaced only by an ominous "Access Denied" message. The final entry then seems to be the Archivist speaking in first person, relating her personal quest to find a game she watched her mother play as a little girl: a game which [[DeathSeeker only the dying are allowed to play...]]]]

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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: The blog's penultimate entry is [[LostEpisode missing,]] replaced only by an ominous "Access Denied" message. The final entry then seems to be the Archivist speaking in first person, relating her personal quest to find a game she watched her mother play as a little girl: a game which [[DeathSeeker only the dying are allowed to play...]]]]]]]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: In ''Killswitch,'' the heavily-implied fate of [[spoiler: Yamamoto Ryuichi.]]
** In ''The Pentintytär Arcade'' [[spoiler: Torvald]] is so unhinged by the experience he [[spends years tracking down and collecting the individual games just so he can sit naked in the middle of them, clutching a gun and calling out Irja's name.]]
*LateArrivalSpoiler: ''Invisible Games'' takes care to avert this, filling the final entry, (which is typically the first page that new visitors will see,) with covered spoiler text.
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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: The blog's penultimate entry is [[LostEpisode missing,]] replaced only by an ominous "Access Denied" message. The final entry then seems to be the Archivist speaking in first person, relating her personal quest to find a game she watched her mother play as a little girl: a game which [[Deathseeker only the dying are allowed to play...]]]]

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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: The blog's penultimate entry is [[LostEpisode missing,]] replaced only by an ominous "Access Denied" message. The final entry then seems to be the Archivist speaking in first person, relating her personal quest to find a game she watched her mother play as a little girl: a game which [[Deathseeker [[DeathSeeker only the dying are allowed to play...]]]]
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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: The blog's penultimate entry is [[LostEpisode missing,]] replaced only by an ominous "Access Denied" message. The final entry then seems to be the Archivist speaking in first person, relating her personal quest to find a game she watched her mother play as a little girl: a game which [Deathseeker only the dying are allowed to play...]]]]

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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: The blog's penultimate entry is [[LostEpisode missing,]] replaced only by an ominous "Access Denied" message. The final entry then seems to be the Archivist speaking in first person, relating her personal quest to find a game she watched her mother play as a little girl: a game which [Deathseeker [[Deathseeker only the dying are allowed to play...]]]]
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* ActionSurvivor: Porto, one of the in-game protagonists of ''Killswitch.'' She wakes up injured and unarmed in a mine filled with monsters and it only gets worse for her from there.



* BlingualBonus: The Finnish game titles of in ''The Pentintytär Arcade'' explain their metaplot.



* GadgeteerGenius: Just about all of the game creators mentioned by name.

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* GadgeteerGenius: Just about all of the game creators mentioned by name.name.
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: The blog's penultimate entry is [[LostEpisode missing,]] replaced only by an ominous "Access Denied" message. The final entry then seems to be the Archivist speaking in first person, relating her personal quest to find a game she watched her mother play as a little girl: a game which [Deathseeker only the dying are allowed to play...]]]]
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* [[AngstySurvivingTwin:]] Irja Pentintytär. ''And then some.''
* [[ApocalypticLog:]] Simultaneously averted and fulfilled with [[spoiler: Yamamoto Ryuichi.]] He only manages one entry, but it's a doozy.
* [[CoolOldGuy Cool Old Lady:]] Aemelia Brightshaupt

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* [[AngstySurvivingTwin:]] AngstySurvivingTwin: Irja Pentintytär. ''And then some.''
* [[ApocalypticLog:]] ApocalypticLog: Simultaneously averted and fulfilled with [[spoiler: Yamamoto Ryuichi.]] He only manages one entry, but it's a doozy.
* [[CoolOldGuy Cool Old Lady:]] Aemelia BrightshauptBrightshaupt
* GadgeteerGenius: Just about all of the game creators mentioned by name.

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[[CoolOldGuy Cool Old Lady:]] Aemelia Brightshaupt

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[[CoolOldGuy *[[AngstySurvivingTwin:]] Irja Pentintytär. ''And then some.''
*[[ApocalypticLog:]] Simultaneously averted and fulfilled with [[spoiler: Yamamoto Ryuichi.]] He only manages one entry, but it's a doozy.
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''Invisible Games'' is a fiction blog that was active from October - December of 2007. It consists of a serious of surreal - and sometimes quite disturbing - tales of mysterious games and their even more mysterious creators. ''Invisible Games'' is perhaps most noteworthy for being the home of the infamous video game urban legend ''Killswitch.'' The blog's author is identified only as "The Archivist" and no clues are provided regarding her identity beyond the fact that she is female. The page contains a tiny link to the web page of fantasy author [[Creator CatherynneMValente}} but Valente has not confirmed whether she is in fact the author.

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''Invisible Games'' is a fiction blog that was active from October - December of 2007. It consists of a serious of surreal - and sometimes quite disturbing - tales of mysterious games and their even more mysterious creators. ''Invisible Games'' is perhaps most noteworthy for being the home of the infamous video game urban legend ''Killswitch.'' The blog's author is identified only as "The Archivist" and no clues are provided regarding her identity beyond the fact that she is female. The page contains a tiny link to the web page of fantasy author [[Creator CatherynneMValente}} Creator/CatherynneMValente but Valente has not confirmed whether she is in fact the author.
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''Invisible Games'' is a fiction blog that was active from October - December of 2007. It consists of a serious of surreal - and sometimes quite disturbing - tales of mysterious games and their even more mysterious creators. ''Invisible Games'' is perhaps most noteworthy for being the home of the infamous video game urban legend ''Killswitch.'' The blog's author is identified only as "The Archivist" and no clues are provided regarding her identity beyond the fact that she is female. The page contains a tiny link to the web page of fantasy author {{CatherynneMValente}} but Valente has not confirmed whether she is in fact the author.

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''Invisible Games'' is a fiction blog that was active from October - December of 2007. It consists of a serious of surreal - and sometimes quite disturbing - tales of mysterious games and their even more mysterious creators. ''Invisible Games'' is perhaps most noteworthy for being the home of the infamous video game urban legend ''Killswitch.'' The blog's author is identified only as "The Archivist" and no clues are provided regarding her identity beyond the fact that she is female. The page contains a tiny link to the web page of fantasy author {{CatherynneMValente}} [[Creator CatherynneMValente}} but Valente has not confirmed whether she is in fact the author.
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''Invisible Games'' is a fiction blog that was active from October - December of 2007. It consists of a serious of surreal - and sometimes quite disturbing - tales of mysterious games and their even more mysterious creators. ''Invisible Games'' is perhaps most noteworthy for being the home of the infamous video game urban legend ''Killswitch.'' The blog's author is identified only as "The Archivist" and no clues are provided regarding her identity beyond the fact that she is female. The page contains a tiny link to the web page of fantasy author [[CatherynneMValente]] but Valente has not confirmed whether she is in fact the author.

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''Invisible Games'' is a fiction blog that was active from October - December of 2007. It consists of a serious of surreal - and sometimes quite disturbing - tales of mysterious games and their even more mysterious creators. ''Invisible Games'' is perhaps most noteworthy for being the home of the infamous video game urban legend ''Killswitch.'' The blog's author is identified only as "The Archivist" and no clues are provided regarding her identity beyond the fact that she is female. The page contains a tiny link to the web page of fantasy author [[CatherynneMValente]] {{CatherynneMValente}} but Valente has not confirmed whether she is in fact the author.
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''Invisible Games'' is a fiction blog that was active from October - December of 2007. It consists of a serious of surreal - and sometimes quite disturbing - tales of mysterious games and their even more mysterious creators. ''Invisible Games'' is perhaps most noteworthy for being the home of the infamous video game urban legend ''Killswitch.'' The blog's author is identified only as "The Archivist" and no clues are provided regarding her identity beyond the fact that she is female. The page contains a tiny link to the web page of fantasy author [[CatherynneMValente]] but Valente has not confirmed whether she is in fact the author.

The first tale in the ''Invisible Games'' sequence, ''Brightshaupt Devices'', can be found [[http://invisiblegames.net/?p=9 here.]]
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