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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:While trying to get Matt out of the store, Amy finds a piece of company literature in the break room that has been damaged by water so thoroughly that the only parts she can make out are the words "work makes you free". People might be more familiar with the German version of the phrase: [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Arbeit Macht Frei]].]]
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* PackagedAsOtherMedium: The book is put together to resemble a furniture catalog.
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* PackagedAsOtherMedium: The book is put together to resemble a furniture catalog.catalog, complete with ads for ORSK in the front [[spoiler:and coupons for the Baby Store in the back]].
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Played with. Some of Orsk's furniture has vaguely Swedish[=/=]Scandinavian-sounding names, but many of the names are obscure or antiquated words from a variety of languages, dirty jokes, or literary references.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Worth possesses Carl and forces him to slit his own throat as a sacrifice]].
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Warden Worth possesses Carl and forces him to slit his own throat as a sacrifice]].
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Basil. He may be an irritant to Amy with his frequent pestering and parroting of the Orsk employee handbook, he's genuinely trying to do a good job as manager and when the ghosts come out, he makes his employees' safety his top priority. His employee evaluations also reveal that he cuts Trinity slack on her paranormal obsession because she's good at her job, he doesn't crack down on Matt for arguing with him about personal grooming because it's not worth haranguing an otherwise good employee, he recommends Ruth Anne for a promotion and raise due to her dedicated service, and he thinks that Amy has managerial potential despite her lousy attitude and wants to personally coach her so she can pass the exam necessary to be promoted.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Basil. He may be an irritant to Amy with his frequent pestering and parroting of the Orsk employee handbook, but he's genuinely trying to do a good job as manager and when the ghosts come out, he makes his employees' safety his top priority. His employee evaluations also reveal that he cuts Trinity slack on her paranormal obsession because she's good at her job, he doesn't crack down on Matt for arguing with him about personal grooming because it's not worth haranguing an otherwise good employee, he recommends Ruth Anne for a promotion and raise due to her dedicated service, and he thinks that Amy has managerial potential despite her lousy attitude and wants to personally coach her so she can pass the exam necessary to be promoted.
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** One of the furniture pieces is named [[Literature/HardTimes Gradgrind]] after the facts-and-profit obsessed Mr. Gradgrind of Creator/CharlesDickens' ''Literature/HardTimes''.
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* AgentScully: Meanwhile, Matt insists that all the weird goings-on in the store can be put down to its labyrinthine design and unusually strong EM fields from the lighting grid or a geomagnetic field. He is, of course, proven wrong.
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* AgentScully: Meanwhile, Matt insists that all the weird goings-on in the store can be put down to its labyrinthine design and unusually strong EM fields electromagnetism from the lighting grid or a geomagnetic field. He is, of course, proven wrong.
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* FireForgedFriends: Amy and Basil. He comes back for her when she's being torture by the Warden and vice versa. She also refuses to abandon Trinity and Matt.
* Foreshadowing: Near the beginning of the story, Amy dourly muses that having to constantly check the store's inventory numbers is "the kind of repetitive labor that killed your soul", and sees a news broadcast that shows prisoners being marched endlessly around the yard in a circle. Matt even directly compares Orsk to the Cuyahoga Panopticon, the prison over which it was built. As it turns out, [[spoiler: the Panopticon's warden, Josiah Worth, was a psychopath who believed that endless, repetitive toil would "cure" his inmates by breaking their minds and wills, and he's all too eager to test his theories on Amy and the other Orsk employees.]]
* Foreshadowing: Near the beginning of the story, Amy dourly muses that having to constantly check the store's inventory numbers is "the kind of repetitive labor that killed your soul", and sees a news broadcast that shows prisoners being marched endlessly around the yard in a circle. Matt even directly compares Orsk to the Cuyahoga Panopticon, the prison over which it was built. As it turns out, [[spoiler: the Panopticon's warden, Josiah Worth, was a psychopath who believed that endless, repetitive toil would "cure" his inmates by breaking their minds and wills, and he's all too eager to test his theories on Amy and the other Orsk employees.]]
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* FireForgedFriends: Amy and Basil. He comes back for her when she's being torture tortured by the Warden and vice versa. She also refuses to abandon Trinity and Matt.
*Foreshadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}: Near the beginning of the story, Amy dourly muses that having to constantly check the store's inventory numbers is "the kind of repetitive labor that killed your soul", and sees a news broadcast that shows prisoners being marched endlessly around the yard in a circle. Matt even directly compares Orsk to the Cuyahoga Panopticon, the prison over which it was built. As it turns out, [[spoiler: the Panopticon's warden, Josiah Worth, was a psychopath who believed that endless, pointless, repetitive toil would "cure" his inmates by breaking their minds and wills, and he's all too eager to test his theories on Amy and the other Orsk employees.]]
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* GenkiGirl: Trinity's default mode is cheerful, energetic, upbeat, and gossipy.
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* IronicEcho: Early on, Amy wishes to get promoted out of working as a floor manager and into services, her reasoning being that "a sit down job was better than a standing one." [[spoiler:Much later, as Amy is attacked by Warden Worth and starts to succumb to the darkness from being strapped to the sensory deprivation chair, she notes that she's finally gotten the sit-down job she wanted. This becomes the crux of her CharacterDevelopment, realizing that she can't just sit and hide away from her problems forever, and decides to stand up and do something to help her friends.]]
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* IronicEcho: Early on, Amy wishes to get she could be promoted out of working as a floor manager and into services, her reasoning being that "a sit down job was better than a standing one." [[spoiler:Much later, as Amy is attacked by Warden Worth and starts to succumb to the darkness from being strapped to the sensory deprivation chair, she notes that she's finally gotten the sit-down job she wanted. This becomes the crux of her CharacterDevelopment, realizing that she can't just sit and hide away from her problems forever, and decides to stand up and do something to help her friends.]]
* NonconformistDyedHair: Trinity's hair is dyed in rainbow colors, apparently as part of her rebellion against her "super-Christian" parents.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Basil. He may be an irritant to Amy with his frequent pestering and parroting of the Orsk employee handbook, he's genuinely trying to do a good job as manager and when the ghosts come out, he makes his employees' safety his top priority. His employee evaluations also reveal that he cuts Trinity slack on her ghost obsession because she's good at her job, he doesn't crack down on Matt for arguing with him about personal grooming because it's not worth haranguing an otherwise good employee, he recommends Ruth Anne for a promotion and raise due to her dedicated service, and he thinks that Amy has management potential despite her lousy attitude and wants to personally coach her so she can pass the exam necessary to be promoted.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Basil. He may be an irritant to Amy with his frequent pestering and parroting of the Orsk employee handbook, he's genuinely trying to do a good job as manager and when the ghosts come out, he makes his employees' safety his top priority. His employee evaluations also reveal that he cuts Trinity slack on her ghost paranormal obsession because she's good at her job, he doesn't crack down on Matt for arguing with him about personal grooming because it's not worth haranguing an otherwise good employee, he recommends Ruth Anne for a promotion and raise due to her dedicated service, and he thinks that Amy has management managerial potential despite her lousy attitude and wants to personally coach her so she can pass the exam necessary to be promoted.
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* RoomFullOfCrazy: All the walls of the women's bathroom are suddenly covered in graffiti consisting of the Panopticon inmates' names and the ever-increasing length of their sentences, helpfully illustrated in a two-page spread.
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* RoomFullOfCrazy: All As a sign that things are starting to deteriorate, all the walls of the women's bathroom are suddenly covered in graffiti consisting of the Panopticon inmates' names names, religious ramblings, and the ever-increasing length of their sentences, helpfully illustrated in a two-page spread.
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* UnholyGround: [[spoiler:The Cuyahoga Orsk was built over the remains of a prison, the Cuyahoga Panopticon, where Warden Josiah Worth tortured the inmates in a twisted attempt to "cure them of their sins." When he learned that the prison was going to be shut down, he drowned all 318 inmates rather than let them be taken from him. Because of this, the Warden and his "penitents" now haunt the store. When the store is destroyed in Amy and Basil's escape and is replaced with a baby-needs store, that store becomes the new haunting ground.]]
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* UnholyGround: [[spoiler:The [[spoiler: The Cuyahoga Orsk was built over the remains of a prison, the Cuyahoga Panopticon, where Warden Josiah Worth tortured the inmates in a twisted attempt to "cure them of their sins." When he learned that the prison was going to be shut down, he drowned all 318 inmates rather than let them be taken from him. Because of this, the Warden and his "penitents" now haunt the store. When the store is destroyed in Amy and Basil's escape and is replaced with a baby-needs store, that store becomes the new haunting ground.]]
