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HatOfPower: The Hat Lords and Ladies are well known for this and their whimsical foppishness. It helps that said hats are conduits of their power and [[SoulJar may contain their soul]]!
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* NiceHat: The Hat Lords and Ladies are well known for this and their whimsical foppishness. It helps that said hats are [[HatOfPower conduits of their power]] and [[SoulJar may contain their soul]]!
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** Universe 3: A DungeonsAndDragons-esque fantasy world where Rita is a dragoness with two lovers living with her. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Represented with gold and umber.]]
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** Universe 3: A DungeonsAndDragons-esque TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons-esque fantasy world where Rita is a dragoness with two lovers living with her. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Represented with gold and umber.]]
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* TheMole: [[spoiler:Carol-1 was secretly helping Barrett-1's assimilation ploy despite being Rita-1's handler and lover.]]
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Meanwhile, a former dancer named Rita muses to her friends about the strange dream she had where she was a cyborg spy sent to kill the dream's version of her friend Barrett. The suicide of his girlfriend Kim not too long ago still fresh on her mind, she decides to go back into the spotlight for one last dance.
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Meanwhile, in an unnamed West Coast US city a former dancer named Rita muses to her friends about the strange dream she had where she was a cyborg spy sent to kill the dream's version of her friend Barrett. The suicide of his girlfriend Kim not too long ago still fresh on her mind, she decides to go back into the spotlight for one last dance.
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* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Barrett-3's]] moment comes after [[spoiler:Kim-3 is thrown into Universe 2 in a magic ritual gone wrong.]]
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* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Barrett-3's]] moment comes after [[spoiler:Kim-3 is thrown into Universe 2 in a magic ritual gone wrong.]] Eventually, [[spoiler:he descends into making another ritual that will cause the world to become one giant collective mind.]]
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* NiceHat: The Hat Lords and Ladies are well known for this and their whimsical foppishness. It helps that said hats are conduits of their power and [[SoulJar may contain their soul]]!
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* NiceHat: The Hat Lords and Ladies are well known for this and their whimsical foppishness. It helps that said hats are [[HatOfPower conduits of their power power]] and [[SoulJar may contain their soul]]!
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* NumerologicalMotif: In set theory, aleph refers to a series of numbers denoting the cardinality/size of infinite sets. [[spoiler:Fittingly, the final chapter--in which an infinity of universes with Ritas converge together--is called Chapter Aleph.]]
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* AnimalMotifs: In addition to Rita's [[MythicalMotif dragon motif]], Barrett is usually associated with [[EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods squids and octopi]].
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* FacelessEye: The Panopticon is a mysterious group of eyes floating in the void between the {{Alternate Universe}}s.
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[[RuleOfThree Meanwhile]], in the [=SkyLands=] a Hat Lady known as Rita travels with her fellow cohots Tom and Gary on a journey towards the Goddess's Head. Along the way, they meet such myriad people as the despotic ruler of a skyland known as Barett and the glass-like boy [[GenderBender Kim]].
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[[RuleOfThree Meanwhile]], in the [=SkyLands=] a Hat Lady known as Rita travels with her fellow cohots Tom and Gary on a journey towards the Goddess's Head. Along the way, they meet such myriad people as Barett, the despotic ruler of a skyland known as Barett New Zendia, and the glass-like boy [[GenderBender Kim]].
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* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Barrett-3's]] moment comes after [[spoiler:Kim-3 is thrown into Universe 2 in a magic ritual gone wrong.]]
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* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Barrett-3's]] moment comes after [[spoiler:Kim-3 is thrown into Universe 2 in a magic ritual gone wrong.]]]]
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''decryption complete\\
execution held\\
resume? (y/n)''
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''decryption complete\\
execution held\\
resume? (y/n)''
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* ShoutOut: The end of chapter 25 contains a reference to ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' as [[spoiler:one of infinitely many universes that contains a Rita]].
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''Decrypting Rita'' is a sci-fi webcomic by Egypt Urnash (aka Margaret Trauth). It stars the title character, a cyborg spy sent to assassinate the head of the Sunrise Foundation, Barrett, while guided by her handler Carol. However, things go awry and she ends up deactivated. Eventually, he hands her off to his subordinate Kim, who locks her up in storage...only for her to break out.
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''Decrypting Rita'' is a sci-fi webcomic by Egypt Urnash (aka Margaret Trauth).Trauth), completed as of October 7, 2015. It stars the title character, a cyborg spy sent to assassinate the head of the Sunrise Foundation, Barrett, while guided by her handler Carol. However, things go awry and she ends up deactivated. Eventually, he hands her off to his subordinate Kim, who locks her up in storage...only for her to break out.
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** [[spoiler:Universe Aleph: A BeautifulVoid mountain of eggs watched over by Kim-Aleph, where Rita is all of the above and more. Here, ColorCodedForYOurConvenience applies more to the characters than the world: Kim-Aleph is green and Rita-Aleph purple.]]
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** [[spoiler:Universe Aleph: A BeautifulVoid mountain of eggs watched over by Kim-Aleph, where Rita is all of the above and more. Here, ColorCodedForYOurConvenience ColorCodedForYourConvenience applies more to the characters than the world: Kim-Aleph is green and Rita-Aleph purple.]]
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* JigsawPuzzlePlot: The comic has four {{alternate universe}}s with semi-overlapping stories told in parallel, some of which are in partial AnachronicOrder, but at least each world is [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience color coded]].
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* AnimalMotif: Rita has dragons, primarily evident with Rita-1 (who dates Carol-1 in a dragon-like chassis) and Rita-3 (who ''is'' a dragoness).
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* MythicalMotifs: Rita has dragons, primarily evident with Rita-1 (who dates Carol-1 in a dragon-like chassis) and Rita-3 (who ''is'' a dragoness).
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[[RuleOfThree Meanwhile]], in the SkyLands a Hat Lady known as Rita travels with her fellow cohots Tom and Gary on a journey towards the Goddess's Head. Along the way, they meet such myriad people as the despotic ruler of a skyland known as Barett and the glass-like boy [[GenderBender Kim]].
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[[RuleOfThree Meanwhile]], in the SkyLands [=SkyLands=] a Hat Lady known as Rita travels with her fellow cohots Tom and Gary on a journey towards the Goddess's Head. Along the way, they meet such myriad people as the despotic ruler of a skyland known as Barett and the glass-like boy [[GenderBender Kim]].
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''Decrypting Rita'' is a sci-fi webcomic by Egypt Urnash (aka Margaret Trauth). It stars the title character, a cyborg spy sent to assassinate the head of the Sunrise Foundation, Barrett, while guided by her handler Carol. However, things go awry and she ends up deactivated. Eventually, he hands her off to his subordinate Kim, who locks her up in storage...only for her to break out.
Meanwhile, a former dancer named Rita muses to her friends about the strange dream she had where she was a cyborg spy sent to kill the dream's version of her friend Barrett. The suicide of his girlfriend Kim not too long ago still fresh on her mind, she decides to go back into the spotlight for one last dance.
Meanwhile, in a world of HighFantasy, the dragoness Rita regales her elven girlfriend Kim her dreams--one where she was a golem of some sort and one where Kim was dead. She prepares for the day with a friendly spar against her dark elf boyfriend Barrett, a worshipper of the spider goddess Lolth. However, the spar is interrupted by a trio of adventurers (Tom the archer, Gary the fighter and Carol the cleric) who aim to slay her. Not one to tolerate such anti-draconian sentiment, she prepares to stand off against the harassers...
[[RuleOfThree Meanwhile]], in the SkyLands a Hat Lady known as Rita travels with her fellow cohots Tom and Gary on a journey towards the Goddess's Head. Along the way, they meet such myriad people as the despotic ruler of a skyland known as Barett and the glass-like boy [[GenderBender Kim]].
As you can probably tell by now, all four stories happen to have the same characters but in different situations and with different relationships. Where it gets interesting is when Rita-1 (the cyborg) catches up with her ex Tom-1. Tom-1 deliberately attempted to shoot Carol-1 to catch Rita's attention and get her to join him on an extremely dangerous maneuver known as "gongoozling inside a gravity well". No sooner does that happen than Rita is suddenly thrust into Rita-3's (the dragoness) place. She only has enough time to assess her situation and disarm the adventurers before reverting back to her universe.
And then the real MindScrew starts.
You can read it [[http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/chapter/01/ here]] on Urnash's site.
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! ''Decrypting Rita'' contains the following tropes:
* AlternateUniverse: Four of them [[spoiler:at minimum, not counting Universe Aleph]]:
** Universe 1: The beginning universe, a ScienceFiction spy thriller where Rita is the fastest cyborg spy alive. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Represented with blue.]]
** Universe 2: A SliceOfLife drama where Rita is a former dancer with plenty of problems on her mind. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Represented with red and yellow.]]
** Universe 3: A DungeonsAndDragons-esque fantasy world where Rita is a dragoness with two lovers living with her. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Represented with gold and umber.]]
** Universe 4: A GaslampFantasy with {{Floating Continent}}s and airships where Rita is a Hat Lady. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Represented with green.]]
** [[spoiler:Universe Aleph: A BeautifulVoid mountain of eggs watched over by Kim-Aleph, where Rita is all of the above and more. Here, ColorCodedForYOurConvenience applies more to the characters than the world: Kim-Aleph is green and Rita-Aleph purple.]]
* AnachronicOrder[=/=]UnusualChapterNumbers: Starting at around the eleventh chapter (the first instance of "23"), the chapters begin to jump around in both numbering gimmick and time. The first half alone alternates between roman and arabic numerals. Two are even repeated [[spoiler:because their earlier instances have been corrupted, thus obscuring some of the more surprising plot developments in the story]].
* AnimalMotif: Rita has dragons, primarily evident with Rita-1 (who dates Carol-1 in a dragon-like chassis) and Rita-3 (who ''is'' a dragoness).
* AssimilationPlot: What Barrett-1 [[spoiler: and Barrett-3]] are ultimately planning.
* FountainOfYouth: After Rita-4 [[spoiler:re-emerges into her native universe]], she ends up in a body much younger than her previous one. She even gains a new hat to match.
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: Barrett-1's AssimilationPlot works and the resulting HiveMind convinces Rita-1 to join up with them. Rita-2, at the end of her rope, returns home and has one last bong before going to sleep. Meanwhile, Carol-3 and Rita-3 try in vain to stop Barrett-3 from ending the world when Carol suddenly realizes that the world isn't actually doing so. An elderly Rita-4 waves her husbands good-bye as she walks off the plank into the embrace of the Goddess. And then, all those universes--and more--converge as Rita-Aleph awakens, hatching from her egg. She soon finds Kim-Aleph, who greets her cordially. As the two constantly shift between all their forms across all universes, Kim guides Rita to outside the Rookery while assuring her that all her personae will remember a little about her even if it's not much. Finally, we cut back to Rita-1 who seemingly joins the Sunrise HiveMind. Except at the last minute she lets out a confident smile as Barrett-1 and Kim-1 have a collective OhCrap moment. End of story.]]
* InfiniteCanvas: One of the greatest uses of this trope in webcomics, albeit horizontally rather than vertically.
* TheLostLenore: Kim-2 for Barrett-2. [[spoiler:So much that when Kim-3 is thrown into Universe 2 by accident, Barrett-2 is overjoyed at her "return" and begins socializing with her at the expense of Rita-2.]]
* NiceHat: The Hat Lords and Ladies are well known for this and their whimsical foppishness. It helps that said hats are conduits of their power and [[SoulJar may contain their soul]]!
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Two instances regarding Chapters 23 and 14:
** The first iteration of Chapter 23 is corrupted and its checksum fails. All we see is Kim-1, Barrett-1 and another person speaking in unison as they greet Rita-1. Once it is repaired, it reveals that [[spoiler:not only has Barrett's AssimilationPlot begun, it has also taken in Carol. Who was willingly part of the ploy.]]
** Chapter 14 requires two sweeps of repairs before it can be read. The first and second times only show Mattie offering a sort of software to Rita, who voices her concerns. Only on the final iteration do we also find out [[spoiler:it's an upgrade ''and'' the Vespuline hive wants to stop the Sunrise hive as the latter is forcibly taking over solitary minds, something the Vespulines cannot tolerate.]]
* ShoutOut: The end of chapter 25 contains a reference to ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' as [[spoiler:one of infinitely many universes that contains a Rita]].
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Barrett-3's]] moment comes after [[spoiler:Kim-3 is thrown into Universe 2 in a magic ritual gone wrong.]]
Meanwhile, a former dancer named Rita muses to her friends about the strange dream she had where she was a cyborg spy sent to kill the dream's version of her friend Barrett. The suicide of his girlfriend Kim not too long ago still fresh on her mind, she decides to go back into the spotlight for one last dance.
Meanwhile, in a world of HighFantasy, the dragoness Rita regales her elven girlfriend Kim her dreams--one where she was a golem of some sort and one where Kim was dead. She prepares for the day with a friendly spar against her dark elf boyfriend Barrett, a worshipper of the spider goddess Lolth. However, the spar is interrupted by a trio of adventurers (Tom the archer, Gary the fighter and Carol the cleric) who aim to slay her. Not one to tolerate such anti-draconian sentiment, she prepares to stand off against the harassers...
[[RuleOfThree Meanwhile]], in the SkyLands a Hat Lady known as Rita travels with her fellow cohots Tom and Gary on a journey towards the Goddess's Head. Along the way, they meet such myriad people as the despotic ruler of a skyland known as Barett and the glass-like boy [[GenderBender Kim]].
As you can probably tell by now, all four stories happen to have the same characters but in different situations and with different relationships. Where it gets interesting is when Rita-1 (the cyborg) catches up with her ex Tom-1. Tom-1 deliberately attempted to shoot Carol-1 to catch Rita's attention and get her to join him on an extremely dangerous maneuver known as "gongoozling inside a gravity well". No sooner does that happen than Rita is suddenly thrust into Rita-3's (the dragoness) place. She only has enough time to assess her situation and disarm the adventurers before reverting back to her universe.
And then the real MindScrew starts.
You can read it [[http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/chapter/01/ here]] on Urnash's site.
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! ''Decrypting Rita'' contains the following tropes:
* AlternateUniverse: Four of them [[spoiler:at minimum, not counting Universe Aleph]]:
** Universe 1: The beginning universe, a ScienceFiction spy thriller where Rita is the fastest cyborg spy alive. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Represented with blue.]]
** Universe 2: A SliceOfLife drama where Rita is a former dancer with plenty of problems on her mind. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Represented with red and yellow.]]
** Universe 3: A DungeonsAndDragons-esque fantasy world where Rita is a dragoness with two lovers living with her. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Represented with gold and umber.]]
** Universe 4: A GaslampFantasy with {{Floating Continent}}s and airships where Rita is a Hat Lady. [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Represented with green.]]
** [[spoiler:Universe Aleph: A BeautifulVoid mountain of eggs watched over by Kim-Aleph, where Rita is all of the above and more. Here, ColorCodedForYOurConvenience applies more to the characters than the world: Kim-Aleph is green and Rita-Aleph purple.]]
* AnachronicOrder[=/=]UnusualChapterNumbers: Starting at around the eleventh chapter (the first instance of "23"), the chapters begin to jump around in both numbering gimmick and time. The first half alone alternates between roman and arabic numerals. Two are even repeated [[spoiler:because their earlier instances have been corrupted, thus obscuring some of the more surprising plot developments in the story]].
* AnimalMotif: Rita has dragons, primarily evident with Rita-1 (who dates Carol-1 in a dragon-like chassis) and Rita-3 (who ''is'' a dragoness).
* AssimilationPlot: What Barrett-1 [[spoiler: and Barrett-3]] are ultimately planning.
* FountainOfYouth: After Rita-4 [[spoiler:re-emerges into her native universe]], she ends up in a body much younger than her previous one. She even gains a new hat to match.
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: Barrett-1's AssimilationPlot works and the resulting HiveMind convinces Rita-1 to join up with them. Rita-2, at the end of her rope, returns home and has one last bong before going to sleep. Meanwhile, Carol-3 and Rita-3 try in vain to stop Barrett-3 from ending the world when Carol suddenly realizes that the world isn't actually doing so. An elderly Rita-4 waves her husbands good-bye as she walks off the plank into the embrace of the Goddess. And then, all those universes--and more--converge as Rita-Aleph awakens, hatching from her egg. She soon finds Kim-Aleph, who greets her cordially. As the two constantly shift between all their forms across all universes, Kim guides Rita to outside the Rookery while assuring her that all her personae will remember a little about her even if it's not much. Finally, we cut back to Rita-1 who seemingly joins the Sunrise HiveMind. Except at the last minute she lets out a confident smile as Barrett-1 and Kim-1 have a collective OhCrap moment. End of story.]]
* InfiniteCanvas: One of the greatest uses of this trope in webcomics, albeit horizontally rather than vertically.
* TheLostLenore: Kim-2 for Barrett-2. [[spoiler:So much that when Kim-3 is thrown into Universe 2 by accident, Barrett-2 is overjoyed at her "return" and begins socializing with her at the expense of Rita-2.]]
* NiceHat: The Hat Lords and Ladies are well known for this and their whimsical foppishness. It helps that said hats are conduits of their power and [[SoulJar may contain their soul]]!
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Two instances regarding Chapters 23 and 14:
** The first iteration of Chapter 23 is corrupted and its checksum fails. All we see is Kim-1, Barrett-1 and another person speaking in unison as they greet Rita-1. Once it is repaired, it reveals that [[spoiler:not only has Barrett's AssimilationPlot begun, it has also taken in Carol. Who was willingly part of the ploy.]]
** Chapter 14 requires two sweeps of repairs before it can be read. The first and second times only show Mattie offering a sort of software to Rita, who voices her concerns. Only on the final iteration do we also find out [[spoiler:it's an upgrade ''and'' the Vespuline hive wants to stop the Sunrise hive as the latter is forcibly taking over solitary minds, something the Vespulines cannot tolerate.]]
* ShoutOut: The end of chapter 25 contains a reference to ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' as [[spoiler:one of infinitely many universes that contains a Rita]].
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Barrett-3's]] moment comes after [[spoiler:Kim-3 is thrown into Universe 2 in a magic ritual gone wrong.]]
