Line #75 Literature/FantasyTravelsLarry


1	Fantasy: Travels - Larry is the first book of the series [[Literature/FantasyTravels Fantasy: Travels]]. The book starts with Larry - that was... unexpected - a young librarian who wanted some time off his work in the register room before he goes [[AxCrazy insane]]. However, in the eve of a long holiday, he provokes an accident in the register room where he finds a blank book that transports him to another world - or [[{{InsistentTerminology}} plane of existance]] as the narrator calls it.
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3	Yet, it was not a complete accident since there are a group of elders observing his movements and were responsible for his transport. Eventually Larry wakes up in Feralis, where he meets the Guardian of said book and, Volpi, a shy fox who ends helping him. After spending some time working there and knowing the plane inhabitants, he saves Volpi from a failed experiment and is dragged again to another plane.
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5	Next stop is in Omir and then Galway, where they help to solve a problem involving coma patients and malign spirits. Thanks to this, the innocent swordswoman Ailith join their ranks and they are dragged to Illura. There they find Lykke, the mage and end up captured by the fairies. Managing to escape they are dragged - thanks to the elders' spells - to other random planes until they arrive in Latalie where the party is forced to split up.
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7	In the meanwhile the elders have a argument [[{{NeverSayDie}} that ends quite badly]] and provokes some split up as well.
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14	!!This book provides examples of:
15	%%* AntiHero: Larry - Type 3
16	%%* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:The main hero and three of the five elders suffered from this.]]
17	%%* BadassLongCoat: Larry invokes this trope.
18	* BerserkButton: Everyone in the book appears to have one. Yet, Larry's low tolerance for stupidity is what appears the most.
19	%%* {{BFS}}: Ailith's sword
20	%%* BreakTheCutie: By the end of the book.
21	* ChildProdigy: Volpi counts as this since he built a biplane aircraft, alone.
22	* ChekhovsGun: Larry managed to [[spoiler: kidnap princess Sybila and escape from the trial]] because he still had the knife mister Schubert gave him. Also, Larry's disproportional legs saved him from [[spoiler: a death in a battle he would never win]]
23	%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The narrator and some of the elders. Especially Alten after the "mushroom soup"
24	* CunningLikeAFox: Subverted - Volpi is so shy that he needs to build a lot of courage just to not stutter.
25	* TheCutie: Volpi. Also, this is what saved him during his judgement.
26	--> '''Tipstaff''': The defendant, Renard Volpi, is accused of invading the fairy country with his friend Larry Heiber.\
27	'''Liekki''': Tipstaff?\
28	'''Tipstaff''': Yes, milady?\
29	'''Liekki''': Please, add that he's also being accused of being extremely cute.
30	* DealWithTheDevil: At the end of the book [[spoiler: Larry signs a contract to be able to use magic, which made him AxCrazy]]
31	* DirtyOldMan: During a scene where Sybila and Larry are taking a bath, the narrator interrupts the story just to tell us that the elders are drooling.
32	* GreatBigBookOfEverything: Larry's and Alten's book count as this, if one is to put all the information he/she wants on it.
33	* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Played with. When Larry and Volpi where arrested, Larry asked for their spare clothes since the duo was soaked. Adler thought it was a trick and gave Larry the wrong set of clothes. It happened that Larry was betting on this trope and got his clothes with the knife mister Schubert gave him, which allowed him to [[spoiler:threaten the princess life and escape his judgement]].
34	* HumansAreBastards: Lampshaded. The narrator tells that Temple Haud system - {{Utopia}} of healers - could work in our plane, however it would take an insurmountable amount of time, just like "Temple Haud" took to form itself.
35	* LemonyNarrator: So much that he interrupts a battle scene to ask if ''you'' ate his pancakes. Yet, to be fair, he also asks you if you want anything to drink or eat during some passages of the story.
36	* LongLived: Although never revealed how much they lived, it's implied that the elders are there for a long time.
37	* SeaMonster: Although it swims on rocks, the giant moray counts as it.
38	* SelfDeprecation: The narrator says that one of his lame puns are beyond forgiveness.
39	* SkilledButNaive: Ailith is implied to be this, since [[spoiler:she was recently born from a ghost witch and a sword spirit]]
40	* ShoutOut: To many works, but the first most noticeable goes to {{VideoGame/Portal}}:
41	-->'''Larry''': "Calm down, Larry. The cake doesn't exist. It is a lie..."
42	* SpoofAesop: After they've offered to bring a delinquent to justice, Larry's company endures hours of march just to arrive with him and discover it was an elaborated joke. The narrator then gives us this: "Moral of this story, do not visit Bipon in the plane of Serif. Bipon is the region not the village, only to clarify, but the region is known to have more villages like this one. Full of jerks that want to prank people with good will."
43	* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Senyvas has no grasp of basic syntax.
44	* StrongerThanTheyLook: The elders are implied to be this, especially when Elder [[spoiler:vaporizes castle Hemir in its fullness]] with one of his spells. Also, when he transformed "The Sand Sea" in Ormelid into a paramo when he was younger.
45	* TheFairFolk: In judge Liekki's words:
46	-->'''Larry''': Why is this thing with fairies and kidnapping? Why in this country even an outlander like me must kidnap someone?\
47	'''Liekki''':You could say it's a fairy way of life.
48	%%* TakeOurWordForIt: The narrator does this.
49	%%* TrueCompanions: Conversed. Volpi says that they are already a family.
50	* UnusualChapterNumbers: The book starts with chapter '''"?"''' goes on a sequence of '''"I; I.1; II; II.1"''' and so on. Eventually finishes with '''"?.?"''' and if you're counting the author's rant, it ends with '''"Time Paradox"'''
51	* WalkingTheEarth: Despite being dragged from location to location, it's implied that Larry wants to do this.

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