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* ChekhovsSkill: Inverted; The Beast has [[EpicFail the strange inability to win at Guitar Hero (he is ludicrously bad at merely setting up a game controller)]], even though he's a PhysicalGod trying to win his prey in a supernaturally-enforced challenge. This gets used in the climax to con [[spoiler:The True Rapture; in another supernaturally-enforced challenge with the universe up for grabs, she picks The Beast as her champion and believes she can simply use her powers on The Beast to utterly humiliate Jordan at his own Guitar Hero game. They lose, Rapture cancelled]].
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* ChekhovsSkill: Inverted; The Beast has [[EpicFail the strange inability to win at Guitar Hero (he is ludicrously bad at merely setting up a game controller)]], even though he's a PhysicalGod trying to win his prey in a supernaturally-enforced challenge. This gets used in the climax to con [[spoiler:The True Rapture; in another supernaturally-enforced challenge with the universe up for grabs, she picks The Beast as her champion and believes she can simply use her powers on The Beast to utterly humiliate Jordan at his own Guitar Hero game. They lose, Rapture cancelled]].
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'''''The Cockroach Metamorphosis''''' is the second novel written by [[Tropers/DJay32 [=DJay32=] ]]-- the sequel to ''[[Blog/TheRaptureLogs OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING]]'', making it the second story in the Rapture cycle. It's a story with multiple narrators and multiple styles: Eric Taylor, blind by eldritch means, keeps a book of names as he comes to terms with the fact that he's a god now (his style being traditional prose). Jordan Dooling, arbitrarily chosen one for the apocalypse that had devastated the world so long ago, keeps a journal as he wrestles with the inferno of the human mind (his style being the experimental poetic prose established by the previous story).. Building in the background of these mostly separate narratives, larger and larger threats come the universe's way: From Lovecraftian monsters to beings who exist outside the Totality of existence and perhaps even to Rapture itself. The story is a part of Franchise/TheFearMythos.

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'''''The ''The Cockroach Metamorphosis''''' Metamorphosis'' is the second novel written by [[Tropers/DJay32 [=DJay32=] ]]-- the sequel to ''[[Blog/TheRaptureLogs OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING]]'', making it the second story in the Rapture cycle. It's a story with multiple narrators and multiple styles: Eric Taylor, blind by eldritch means, keeps a book of names as he comes to terms with the fact that he's a god now (his style being traditional prose). Jordan Dooling, arbitrarily chosen one for the apocalypse that had devastated the world so long ago, keeps a journal as he wrestles with the inferno of the human mind (his style being the experimental poetic prose established by the previous story).. Building in the background of these mostly separate narratives, larger and larger threats come the universe's way: From Lovecraftian monsters to beings who exist outside the Totality of existence and perhaps even to Rapture itself. The story is a part of Franchise/TheFearMythos.
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'''''The Cockroach Metamorphosis''''' is the second novel written by [[Tropers/DJay32 [=DJay32=] ]]-- the sequel to ''[[Blog/TheRaptureLogs OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING]]'', making it the second story in the Rapture cycle. It's a story with multiple narrators and multiple styles: Eric Taylor, blind by eldritch means, keeps a book of names as he comes to terms with the fact that he's a god now (his style being traditional prose). Jordan Dooling, arbitrarily chosen one for the apocalypse that had devastated the world so long ago, keeps a journal as he wrestles with the inferno of the human mind (his style being the experimental poetic prose established by the previous story).. Building in the background of these mostly separate narratives, larger and larger threats come the universe's way: From Lovecraftian monsters to beings who exist outside the Totality of existence and perhaps even to Rapture itself. The story is a part of TheFearMythos.

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'''''The Cockroach Metamorphosis''''' is the second novel written by [[Tropers/DJay32 [=DJay32=] ]]-- the sequel to ''[[Blog/TheRaptureLogs OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING]]'', making it the second story in the Rapture cycle. It's a story with multiple narrators and multiple styles: Eric Taylor, blind by eldritch means, keeps a book of names as he comes to terms with the fact that he's a god now (his style being traditional prose). Jordan Dooling, arbitrarily chosen one for the apocalypse that had devastated the world so long ago, keeps a journal as he wrestles with the inferno of the human mind (his style being the experimental poetic prose established by the previous story).. Building in the background of these mostly separate narratives, larger and larger threats come the universe's way: From Lovecraftian monsters to beings who exist outside the Totality of existence and perhaps even to Rapture itself. The story is a part of TheFearMythos.
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''The Cockroach Metamorphosis'' can be found [[http://blindrapture.tumblr.com/abon here.]] So far, its's not shaping up to be nearly as long as its predecessor, though it's certainly getting as much quality art [[http://blindrapture.tumblr.com/addendum which can be found here if you scroll down and look for "Abon art."]]

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''The Cockroach Metamorphosis'' can be found [[http://blindrapture.tumblr.com/abon here.]] So far, its's it's not shaping up to be nearly as long as its predecessor, though it's certainly getting as much quality art [[http://blindrapture.tumblr.com/addendum which can be found here if you scroll down and look for "Abon art."]]
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''The Cockroach Metamorphosis'' can be found [[http://blindrapture.tumblr.com/abon here.]] So far, its's not shaping up to be nearly as long as its predecessor, though it's certainly getting as much quality art [[[[http://blindrapture.tumblr.com/addendum which can be found here if you scroll down and look for "Abon art."]]

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''The Cockroach Metamorphosis'' can be found [[http://blindrapture.tumblr.com/abon here.]] So far, its's not shaping up to be nearly as long as its predecessor, though it's certainly getting as much quality art [[[[http://blindrapture.[[http://blindrapture.tumblr.com/addendum which can be found here if you scroll down and look for "Abon art."]]
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->''I live in a world with empty eye sockets. Countries grope for light switches, assisted by no one. Nature calls this “politics.” I call it “aftermath.” Then again, I’ve been called much worse. I carry, in my hands, a book larger than life itself. A god handed it to me as a sort of graduation present. We’ve passed the final exams and now it’s time to leap blindly into the real world.''
->'''''did you miss me'''''
--> -- The respective opening lines.

'''''The Cockroach Metamorphosis''''' is the second novel written by [[Tropers/DJay32 [=DJay32=] ]]-- the sequel to ''[[Blog/TheRaptureLogs OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING]]'', making it the second story in the Rapture cycle. It's a story with multiple narrators and multiple styles: Eric Taylor, blind by eldritch means, keeps a book of names as he comes to terms with the fact that he's a god now (his style being traditional prose). Jordan Dooling, arbitrarily chosen one for the apocalypse that had devastated the world so long ago, keeps a journal as he wrestles with the inferno of the human mind (his style being the experimental poetic prose established by the previous story).. Building in the background of these mostly separate narratives, larger and larger threats come the universe's way: From Lovecraftian monsters to beings who exist outside the Totality of existence and perhaps even to Rapture itself. The story is a part of TheFearMythos.

''The Cockroach Metamorphosis'' can be found [[http://blindrapture.tumblr.com/abon here.]] So far, its's not shaping up to be nearly as long as its predecessor, though it's certainly getting as much quality art [[[[http://blindrapture.tumblr.com/addendum which can be found here if you scroll down and look for "Abon art."]]

->''A duck flew by. I sighed and resumed my long walk home.''

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!!Tropes present in the story include:

* AlternateHistory: A present-day in a world where an apocalypse hit us in 2011, scaring gods out of hiding and getting people used to strange things like spidercats and Legsteps.
* ArcWords:
** "did you miss me" appears at the start of certain Jordan logs. Whose handwriting it is and what it refers to, who can say?
** Towards the end of Part 2, characters start frequently mentioning the "Members of Parliament," and always in very serious contexts.
* AuthorAvatar: Jordan is [=DJay=], a caricatured [=DJay=] who learns to deal with his mental problems brought on by trauma.
* BearsAreBadNews: Nyarlathotep likes to appear as a bear. The first time he appears as one in the story, he and Eric have a ferocious battle.
* DownTheRabbitHole: Eric escapes into the past to get away from the depressing present. Jordan escapes into his own mind.
* EldritchLocation: Tons of them. The Utnapishtim (an ethereal speakeasy where the present-day gods gather for their things), Ukhu Pacha (a forsaken universe said to be the origin of the myth of an underworld), the night-thoughts of Azathoth (demented creatures littering a landscape of desert, mountain, and dream), and sure to be many more.
* EnemyMine: Eric and Nyarlathotep are mid-fight when suddenly they realize [[spoiler:they're both standing in a sleeping Rapture and might risk waking it up.]] They immediately become best friends hoping to get the hell out of there.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The Sempiternity cannot die. They sure can suffer, though, only for their wounds to heal completely after a while. They just want to die.
* IHaveManyNames: All the characters are known by at least two monikers, many of them getting more than several. There's a reason this story was originally titled ''A Book of Names''.
** For that matter, the story itself has many names. It could be referred to as ''A Book of Names'', ''PUT THE SUN DOWN'', ''A Book of Names or PUT THE SUN DOWN'' as a double-title, ''The Cockroach Metamorphosis'', or just "the Rapture sequel."
* OhCrap: The moment Eric and Nyarlathotep saw those two blue eyes looking their way...
* ShoutOut: So far, there's been blatant shout-outs to Lovecraft, Fear Mythos concepts, classic mythological epics, and even to James Joyce.
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