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The short story "Literature/DeathDustAndOtherInconveniences" is set after the events of the novel, Nessy and her friends trying to deal with a literal Shadow of Death in Margle's Castle.
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: While not all magic-users are as vile as Margle, they all tend to have weird fixations or other eccentricities that border on toxic, implying that magic has this effect on those who wield it.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Bethany the banshee, since she can't manifest to chat with others unless she foretells disaster first, opts to classify over-salted soup or a bruised shin as sufficiently disastrous.
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* BalefulPolymorph: Most of the castle's inhabitants are victims of this effect.
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* ForcedTransformation: Most of the castle's inhabitants are victims of some transformation or another.
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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: In the afterlife, Margle's spirit [[KickTheDog kicks poor Nessy's]] with no provocation whatsoever. Nessy finally snaps and bites the hell out of his ankle, and since he's dead that wound will never heal.]]
* GeniusLoci: The castle has developed something of a soul, unfortunately [[spoiler: it's split.]]
* HiveMind: The demon sealed in The Purple Room was forced into the form of a swarm of fireflies. She likes talking to herself.
* PurgatoryAndLimbo: Margle's [[spoiler: auto-resurrection spell and the castle trying to prevent it cause his spirit to be stuck in an empty version of the castle with nobody else but the castle's spirit for company. During her temporary death Nessy joins them briefly, but after the resurrection spell is used on her Margle is implied to be stuck there forever.]]
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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: In the afterlife, Margle's spirit [[KickTheDog kicks poor Nessy's]] with no provocation whatsoever. Nessy finally snaps and bites the hell out of his ankle.]]
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* TheDogBitesBack: ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: Nessy has a monster living under her cot, she reads him stories before bed. Though she hasn't seen anything but his three grey eyes, [[spoiler: In the afterlife, Margle's spirit [[KickTheDog kicks poor Nessy's]] with no provocation whatsoever. Nessy finally snaps and bites the hell until he comes out of his ankle.to help close The Door At The End Of The Hall.]]
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* OralFixation: Dodger the weasel has a habit of sticking things (such as the chalk and gems needed for a ritual spell) in her mouth, and apparently had the same habit as a human thief. Though she's careful not to swallow, after her father choked on a ruby.
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* EmpathicWeapon: The Sword in the Cabbage can talk, and has learned a few things in its career as a Weapon of Heroes.
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* HouseFey:
** Gnick the Silver Gnome, in exchange for a bit of bread, a glass of wine, and a bed of straw he is obligated to polish all the weapons in Margle's armory. Unfortunately there's so many weapons in the armory that his work is never done and his pay has spoiled uncollected.
** By acting as a housekeeper, Nessy has slightly more in common with the old Germanic kobolds than most modern fantasy kobolds do, though she doesn't have many "fey" traits.
** Gnick the Silver Gnome, in exchange for a bit of bread, a glass of wine, and a bed of straw he is obligated to polish all the weapons in Margle's armory. Unfortunately there's so many weapons in the armory that his work is never done and his pay has spoiled uncollected.
** By acting as a housekeeper, Nessy has slightly more in common with the old Germanic kobolds than most modern fantasy kobolds do, though she doesn't have many "fey" traits.
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* OurKoboldsAreDifferent: Nessy is a doglike version.
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* DeathByIrony: Margle was going to feed Nessy to a nurgax for failing to polish the linoleum to his satisfaction, only to slip on the polished floor and wind up nurgax chow himself.
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* LeastRhymableWord: Echo was cursed for using Margle’s name as a rhyme for “gargle.”
* LivingDrawing: Margle trapped his royal enemies in paintings, he’s got a whole hallway of them.
* LivingDrawing: Margle trapped his royal enemies in paintings, he’s got a whole hallway of them.
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A fantasy novel by A. Lee Martinez about a castle belonging to an evil wizard, which is inhabited by the victims of his many curses and the housekeeper that keeps everything working. When the wizard unexpectedly dies, Nessy the kobold finds herself obliged to seek cures for the cursed, avert a growing series of calamities, and prevent a frightening sorceress from laying claim to or destroying everything in the castle. Which is ''very'' difficult to do, in the little time Nessy can spare from her housekeeping duties.
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A fantasy novel by A. Lee Martinez Creator/ALeeMartinez about a castle belonging to an evil wizard, which is inhabited by the victims of his many curses and the housekeeper that keeps everything working. When the wizard unexpectedly dies, Nessy the kobold finds herself obliged to seek cures for the cursed, avert a growing series of calamities, and prevent a frightening sorceress from laying claim to or destroying everything in the castle. Which is ''very'' difficult to do, in the little time Nessy can spare from her housekeeping duties.
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* ZombieAdvocate: Nessy insists on taking steps to stop the hellhound's rampage, even though it poses no danger to the castle's ''living'' inhabitants, only the undead ones. Justified because many of the ghosts and animated corpses are her friends, and even the ones that are evil or actively hostile to her are still her charges.
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* ZombieAdvocate: Nessy insists on taking steps to stop the hellhound's rampage, even though it poses no danger to the castle's ''living'' inhabitants, only the undead ones. Justified because many of the ghosts and animated corpses are her friends, and even the ones that are evil or actively hostile to her are still her charges.charges.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Morton the Mouse and Olivia the Owl. The fact that they're both transformed people probably helps.
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** The last-minute rescue by [[spoiler: the emerged monster under Nessy's bed]] has a close parallel in ''Discworld/ReaperMan''.
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** The last-minute rescue by [[spoiler: the emerged monster under Nessy's bed]] has a close parallel in ''Discworld/ReaperMan''.''Literature/ReaperMan''.
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* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: The Sword In The Cabbage, which can only be drawn forth from whatever encasing object its previous wielder drove it into, upon death, by an equally-worthy warrior. The last such wielder didn't realize that he was sticking it into a ''cabbage'' instead of a stone or tree until it was too late....
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Surprisingly, given Margle's tendency to just curse his enemies, he actually averted this in the case of the Blue Paladin, a warrior too powerful to be left alive.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Surprisingly, given Margle's tendency to just curse his enemies, he actually averted this in the case of the Blue Paladin, a warrior too powerful to be left alive.alive.
* ZombieAdvocate: Nessy insists on taking steps to stop the hellhound's rampage, even though it poses no danger to the castle's ''living'' inhabitants, only the undead ones. Justified because many of the ghosts and animated corpses are her friends, and even the ones that are evil or actively hostile to her are still her charges.
* ZombieAdvocate: Nessy insists on taking steps to stop the hellhound's rampage, even though it poses no danger to the castle's ''living'' inhabitants, only the undead ones. Justified because many of the ghosts and animated corpses are her friends, and even the ones that are evil or actively hostile to her are still her charges.
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* CreatureOfHabit: Nessy at the start, until one catastrophe after another oblige her to adjust her routine.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Nessy makes a deal with the demon sealed in The Purple Room for information about how to dispatch the hellhound stalking the halls. All she asks for is a single lump of coal. [[spoiler: Which is all she needs to make her escape.]]
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* DealWithTheDevil: Nessy makes a deal with the demon sealed in The Purple Room for information about how to dispatch the hellhound stalking the halls. All she the demon asks for in exchange is a single lump of coal. [[spoiler: Which is all she needs to make her escape.]]
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** The last-minute rescue by [[spoiler: the emerged monster under Nessy's bed]] has a close parallel in ''Discworld/ReaperMan''.
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* PurpleIsPowerful: The demon in the Purple Room is the most powerful of the castle's cursed inhabitants/prisoners.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Margle, speculating about what terrible fate might await him in Hell, wonders if he might be butchered and eaten alive, alternately frozen and roasted while being fed upon by beasts, or ... be sat on by a big smelly creature while being subjected to off-key folk music.
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* TheCassandra: A talking flea correctly deduces much of what's really going on, but its voice is far too soft for any of the larger curse-transformed castle residents to notice its comments.
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* TheCassandra: A talking flea gnat correctly deduces much of what's really going on, but its voice is far too soft for any of the larger curse-transformed castle residents to notice its comments.
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* TheCrocIsTicking: The Vampire King is cursed so that chimes ring with his every movement, thus making it impossible for him to sneak up on a victim. He's reduced to licking blood from Walter, the bleeding wall. [[spoiler: After the hellhound devours the Vampire King, ''it'' acquires the same curse, and the vampire's ghost retains it after the hound's demise.]]
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* KillerRabbit: One of Murgle's monstrous creations that Nessy displays to Tiama is a deadly saber-toothed ''koala''.
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* IncrediblyLamePun: Not only did Margle turn his mother (Ivy) into a clump of vines, but he'd previously changed her into a nag, a cow, a shrew, a harpy, and an old bitch before he got tired of this trope.
* KillerRabbit: One ofMurgle's Margle's monstrous creations that Nessy displays to Tiama is a deadly saber-toothed ''koala''.
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* DisappearedDad: Margle's own mother is one of the cursed, but there's no sign of his father. Ivy mentions raising her boys alone, but it's not stated if their father is dead or just absent.
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* TheCassandra: A talking flea correctly deduces much of what's really going on, but its voice is far too soft for any of the larger curse-transformed castle residents to notice its comments.
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* KillerRabbit: One of Murgle's monstrous creations that Nessy displays to Tiana is a deadly saber-toothed ''koala''.
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* KillerRabbit: One of Murgle's monstrous creations that Nessy displays to Tiana Tiama is a deadly saber-toothed ''koala''.
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* NoOntologicalInertia: Margle's transformed enemies expect his death to restore them to their original shapes, and are outraged when this trope is subverted.
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* NoOntologicalInertia: Margle's transformed enemies expect his death to restore them to their original shapes, and are outraged when this trope is subverted. Yazpib explains that this trope ''does'' come into effect with inexperienced mages (who don't know how to extend a curse past their own lifespan) and arrogant ones (who don't believe they'll ever be killed, so don't bother).
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* KillerRabbit: One of Murgle's monstrous creations that Nessy displays to Tiana is a deadly saber-toothed ''koala''.
