Line #9 Literature/RunningWithRats

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1	''[[https://runningwithrats.com/ Running with Rats]]'' is a {{Web Serial\|Novel}} DieselPunk fantasy story about an escaped slave named Alix [[MonochromaticEyes Black-Eyes]] working with a band of rebels called the Rat Runners and figuring out who she is. It updates twice a month (second and fourth Fridays).
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4	!!This story provides examples of:
5	* AbsurdAltitude: [[https://runningwithratsblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/07/the-aeronauts-dream-pt-9/ One of the dreams]] features a maze of FloatingPlatforms connected by [[RopeBridge rickety bridges]] in an endless sky with [[EvilTowerOfOminousness the Committee of Progress Building]] towering over the center.
6	* AppliedPhlebotinum: Lio is a valuable substance harvested from [[DreamLand the dreams of humans]] that can be used to make [[{{Magitek}} tools]] or clothes ... or people.
7	* BlackTieInfiltration: In Arc Two, the Rat Runners infiltrate a benefit party.
8	* DreamLand: The Rat Runners harvest lio by traveling through dream lands to find and grab it.
9	* EvilTowerOfOminousness: It's not clear that it functions this way in the physical city (the building is apparently only about four stories tall), but the Committee of Progress Building functions thus in [[https://runningwithratsblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/07/the-aeronauts-dream-pt-9/ one of the dreams that the Runners have to infiltrate.]]
10	* FantasticRacism: Thoughtforms - people made out of lio - are generally [[BornIntoSlavery created to be slaves]] and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman assumed to lack any 'real' feelings]]. As you can imagine, [[ColdBloodedTorture they are not treated well.]]
11	* {{Magitek}}: Among the uses of lio is creating technological items like {{ray gun}}s.
12	* MonochromaticEyes: Alix's eyes are uniformly black.
13	* SlaveLiberation: One of the goals of the Rat Runners.
14	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: It's revealed early on that [[spoiler:Alix]] is a shapeshifter.
15	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Unsurprisingly, given that the thoughtforms are held as slaves, they are claimed to lack real emotions as well.

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