History Literature / Vurt

Now also a [[http://www.ravendeskgames.com/vurt-the-tabletop-roleplaying-game/ roleplaying game]] based on Monte Cook's TabletopGame/CypherSystem.

Now also a [[http://www.ravendeskgames.com/vurt-the-tabletop-roleplaying-game/ roleplaying game]] based on Monte Cook's Cypher System.

* FiveRaces: Humans, dogs, cyborgs, vurt creatures and shadow. Along with five possible two-way hybrids, five three-way mixes, five four-way combinations, and one theoretical combination of all five races. This is genetically implausible, but so is the fact that human/dog is a viable pairing--just go with it.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Scribble and Desdemona.
* [[spoiler: DealWithTheDevil]]

* EternalSexualFreedom
* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex

* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The Game Cat.

* MagicalLand: Where Vurt takes you.

* NewWeird
* NightmareFuel: The whole “Skull Shit” scene. The Curious House.

* ShoutOut: Octave Mirbeau's ''The Torture Garden''.

* YourMindMakesItReal: Yellow feathers.

"Vurt" tells the story of Scribble and his "gang", the Stash Riders, as they search for his missing sister/lover Desdemona.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Scribble brings Desdemona back into the real world, but must stay with Game Cat and become his apprentice and (as is hinted) his successor.]]
* BrotherSisterIncest: Scribble and Desdemona

* DrugsAreGood Moreover, they are the most popular form of entertainment.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Bridget, Das Uberdog, Dingo Tush, Lucinda are examples.

* PoliceBrutality: The novel opens with the cop burning a homeless man’s dog alive. Tristan gets severly beaten by cops during and after his detention, then dies in custody.

Now also a [[http://www.ravendeskgames.com/vurt-the-tabletop-roleplaying-game/ roleplaying game]] based on Creator/MonteCook's Cypher System.

* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The Game Cat

* MagicalLand: Where Vurt takes you

* TarotMotifs: Suze gives Scribble the symbolic {{Fool}} card.

* FiveRaces: Along with five possible two-way hybrids, five three-way mixes, five four-way combinations, and one theoretical combination of all five races. This is genetically implausible, but so is the fact that human/dog is a viable pairing--just go with it.

* {{AbusiveParents}} The father of Scribble and Desdemona. He of all things is the worst nightmare that haunts both of them in the Curious House and attacks them with a razor blade.

* Ambiguous Robots: It is a shock for Scribble to find out that Barney wasn't completely a human.

* Fantastic Racism: "Pure is poor, kill the pure!"

* Half-HumanHybrid: Bridget, Das Uberdog, Dingo Tush, Lucinda are examples.

''Vurt,'' written by Jeff Noon, tells the story of Scribble and his "gang", the Stash Riders, as they search for his missing sister/lover Desdemona. The novel is set in an alternate version of Manchester, England, in which society has been shaped by Vurt, a hallucinogenic drug/shared alternate reality, which one accesses by sucking on colour-coded feathers.

* ShoutOut: Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden

''Vurt'' tells the story of Scribble and his "gang", the Stash Riders, as they search for his missing sister/lover Desdemona. The novel is set in an alternate version of Manchester, England, in which society has been shaped by Vurt, a hallucinogenic drug/shared alternate reality, which one accesses by sucking on colour-coded feathers.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Scribble brings Desdemona back into the real world, but must stay with Game Cat and become his apprentice]] and (as is hinted) his successor.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Scribble brings Desdemona back into the real world, but must stay with Game Cat and become his apprentice and (as is hinted) his successor.]]

* BrotherSisterIncest: Scribble and Desdemona.
* MagicalLand: Where Vurt takes you.

Vurt tells the story of Scribble and his "gang", the Stash Riders, as they search for his missing sister/lover Desdemona. The novel is set in an alternate version of Manchester, England, in which society has been shaped by Vurt, a hallucinogenic drug/shared alternate reality, accessed by sucking on colour-coded feathers.

BrotherSisterIncest: Scribble and Desdemona.

{{Telepathy}}: Bridget and other shadowgirls are capable of mind reading and writing.

MentalFusion: One time, Scribble can feel Suze inside his body, touching [[RagingStiffie all]] his body parts.

MagicalLand: Where Vurt takes you.

-> ''Sometimes it feels that the whole world is smeared with Vaz.''

Vurt tells the story of Scribble and his "gang", the Stash Riders, as they search for his missing sister/lover Desdemona. The novel is set in an alternate version of Manchester, England, in which society has been shaped by Vurt, a hallucinogenic drug/shared alternate reality, accessed by sucking on colour-coded feathers.

!!This book provides examples of:

BrotherSisterIncest: Scribble and Desdemona.

{{Telepathy}}: Bridget and other shadowgirls are capable of mind reading and writing.

MentalFusion: One time, Scribble can feel Suze inside his body, touching [[RagingStiffie all]] his body parts.

MagicalLand: Where Vurt takes you.