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* ObsoleteOccupation: Alice meets a chimney sweeper who complains he had to spend the last eighteen years training mountain climbers - not a single working chimney is left on Earth.

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* ObsoleteOccupation: Alice meets a chimney sweeper who complains he had to spend the last eighteen years training mountain climbers - -- not a single working chimney is left on Earth.
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* TheCaptain: The captain of the ''Aristotle'' is a courageous and responsible man, [[spoiler:so much that the laziness elixir doesn't have any effect on him because he always needs to do his job and knows it]],

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* TheCaptain: The captain of the ''Aristotle'' is a courageous and responsible man, [[spoiler:so much that the laziness elixir doesn't have any effect on him because he always needs to do his job and knows it]],it]].
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* WidowMistreatment: In ''The Foreign Princess'', Queen Stepmother Isabella is the young widow of the current king's father. Since she is technically a relation, she has to live in the royal palace and the king has to allow it. However, due to her kind and generous nature, she is TheFriendNobodyLikes in the eyes of the DecadentCourt and TokenGoodTeammate in the eyes of the commons. She has many enemies at court and has to constantly use diplomacy and extreme caution to avoid getting killed off.
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* ObsoleteOccupation: Alice meets a chimney sweeper who complains he had to spend the last eighteen years training mountain climbers - not a single working chimney is left on Earth.
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* AlienLunch: When Pashka (dressed up as an alien) states he liked some human food, someone remarks his species would have had real digestion problems with that. The guy hurries to state that his stomach is prosthetic.

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* AlienLunch: AliensLoveHumanFood: When Pashka (dressed up as an alien) states he liked some human food, someone remarks his species would have had real digestion problems with that. The guy hurries to state that his stomach is prosthetic.
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* HybridizationPlot: One of the chapters in the RandomEventsPlot first part focuses on Pashka trying to create a mosquito/goose hybrid so that mosquitoes would become migratory. His attempt results in a ferocious goose-sized mosquito which tries to attack the children and animals at the research station and [[spoiler:is killed by Heracles before anyone can learn if it inherited the migratory instinct from geese]].

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* LivingMoodRing: Brastaks' eyes reflect their temper. Blue seem to be the best, orange-eyed ones are the worst.



* MoodRingEyes: Brastaks' eyes reflect their temper. Blue seem to be the best, orange-eyed ones are the worst.
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* ShotAtDawn: [[spoiler:Alice, along with Rrrr and other members of LaResistance on pirate-occupied Brastak]], is captured and ordered to be shot at dawn. [[spoiler:However, they escape during the night]].

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* ElectiveBrokenLanguage: Pashka in his Pilageyan disguise speaks Cosmolingua [[YouNoTakeCandle terribly]]. It's not actually necessary for the disguise, since many Pilageyans know it perfectly, but he thinks it good fun.
-->'''Pashka''': Hey! We are will die of hunger, and you guilty!



--->'''Rat''': Right, nobody ever steals on purpose.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Pashka in his Pilageyan disguise speaks Cosmolingua terribly. It's not actually necessary for the disguise, since many Pilageyans know it perfectly, but he thinks it good fun.
-->'''Pashka''': Hey! We are will die of hunger, and you guilty!

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--->'''Rat''': Right, nobody ever steals on purpose. \n* YouNoTakeCandle: Pashka in his Pilageyan disguise speaks Cosmolingua terribly. It's not actually necessary for the disguise, since many Pilageyans know it perfectly, but he thinks it good fun. \n-->'''Pashka''': Hey! We are will die of hunger, and you guilty!

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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Pashka is astonished that the obviously adult Rat has a gorgeous young mother. [[spoiler:Then her young face is revealed to be a mask]].

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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Pashka is astonished that the obviously adult Rat has a gorgeous young mother. [[spoiler:Then Then her young face is revealed to be a mask]].mask.


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* TheCaptain: The captain of the ''Aristotle'' is a courageous and responsible man, [[spoiler:so much that the laziness elixir doesn't have any effect on him because he always needs to do his job and knows it]],


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* KidnappedDoctor: The pirates plan to take [[spoiler:the doctor of the ''Aristotle'']] along with them so that he would treat the Pirate Queen's radiculitis.


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* LoopholeAbuse: Doctors swear to do no harm to anyone's health, so aboard the ''Aristotle'', the ship's doctor [[spoiler:sprays the pirates with laziness-inducing elixir]]. It has no side effects ''and'' doesn't work on any really responsible, determined person. After all, it's not the doctor's fault that there are no such people among the pirates.
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* PinkMeansFeminine: When Rat takes Alice's shape, it's complete with a pink dress and a [[FlowersOfFemininity a wreath on the head]]. Pashka notes to himself it would have been a wonderful disguise, save for the fact that ActionGirl Alice has never, ever owned, let alone worn, a pink dress.

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* PinkMeansFeminine: When Rat takes Alice's shape, it's complete with a pink dress and a [[FlowersOfFemininity a wreath on the head]]. Pashka notes to himself it would have been a wonderful disguise, save for the fact that ActionGirl Alice has never, ever owned, let alone worn, a pink dress.
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* UglyAllAlong: The Pirate Queen seems to be a gorgeous young woman with a lovely smile and a silvery voice, an AbsurdlyYouthfulMother to an adult son. Pashka, who knows firsthand she is a pirate leader and can't be trusted, develops a huge crush on her. In the very last chapter she removes her mask and is revealed to be so ugly that the sight shocks Alice out of her drug-induced stupor.
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* ShoehornedAcronym: It's mentioned that the first name suggested for Penelope's capital city was an acronym combined of the names of the planets that took part in building it: ZPPPKRSTFKUG. Of course, it was immediately rejected.
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The first part, ''The New Labors of Heracles'', is a RandomEventsPlot about the goings-on at the research station, the second, ''A Foreign Princess'', describes Alice and Pashka's adventures in what may or may not be a MedievalStasis parallel world, the third, ''The Holidays on Penelope'', is about the children's adventures in the unexplored [[spoiler:or not so unexplored]] jungles of the planet Penelope, and in the fourth, ''The Jewelry Box of the Pirate's Mother'', Alice and Pashka have to save a planet that's been taken over by SpacePirates.

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The first part, ''The New Labors of Heracles'', is a RandomEventsPlot about the goings-on at the research station, the second, ''A Foreign Princess'', describes Alice and Pashka's adventures in what may or may not be a MedievalStasis parallel world, the third, ''The Holidays on Penelope'', is about the children's adventures in the unexplored [[spoiler:or not so unexplored]] jungles of the planet Penelope, and in the fourth, ''The Jewelry Box of the Pirate's Mother'', Alice and Pashka have to save a planet that's been taken over by SpacePirates.
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* ISurrenderSuckers: Aboard the ''Aristotle'', Rat fakes a tearful surrender and tells the crew to lock him up. [[spoiler:Then he turns into a cockroach, escapes from the cabin where he is kept, and releases the rest of the pirates from the shrinking box in plain view of everyone around]].
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* HumansThroughAlienEyes: [[spoiler:Penelope is upset when one person causes a mess with its biosphere]] - and has problems understanding that other people may disagree with what he does.
* GaiasVengeance: [[spoiler:If you try to hunt or mine while on Penelope... prepare for storms and earthquakes coming your way.]]
* GeniusLoci: [[spoiler:Penelope turns out to be one. [[ParadisePlanet No predators, no storms, no mosquitoes]]... as it says, "I'm organised the way which is convenient to me".]]

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* HumansThroughAlienEyes: [[spoiler:Penelope is upset when one person causes a mess with its her biosphere]] - and has problems understanding that other people may disagree with what he does.
* GaiasVengeance: [[spoiler:If you try to hunt or mine while on Penelope... Penelope]]... prepare for storms and earthquakes coming your way.]]
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* GeniusLoci: [[spoiler:Penelope turns out to be one.one]]. [[ParadisePlanet No predators, no storms, no mosquitoes]]... as it (revealed to be a she) says, "I'm organised the way which is it’s convenient to for me".]]



* HumanPopsicle: Alice finds an alien one in a crashed spaceship.

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* HumanPopsicle: Alice finds an alien one in a crashed spaceship. As it turns out when he is revived, he came to Earth to take it over.



* ItCanThink: When Penelopian fauna starts addressing people.
* LaResistance: Rrrr and his compatriots on pirate-occupied Brastak.

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* ItCanThink: When Penelopian fauna starts [[spoiler:Penelopian animals]] start addressing people.
people. As it turns out, all of them are [[spoiler:manifestations of the planet's brain]].
* LaResistance: Rrrr and his compatriots start guerrilla warfare on pirate-occupied Brastak.



* ParadisePlanet: Penelope is one, [[spoiler:unless you make it angry.]]

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* ParadisePlanet: Penelope is one, [[spoiler:unless you make it angry.]]angry]]. There are no predators, the climate is wonderful and the landscapes are breathtaking.



* ShrinkRay: The fourth part features such a container, stolen from a {{Precursors}}' base.

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* ShrinkRay: The fourth part features such a container, container that shrinks anyone who gets inside it, stolen from a {{Precursors}}' base.base. [[spoiler:The pirates use it to conquer Brastak and later to hijack the ''Aristotle'']].

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