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1	The Trifle MMBC, or ''A Mere Trifle of a Bachelorette Challenge'', is the third successful attempt at a [[Fanfic/MurderMysteryBacheloretChallenges Murder Mystery Bachelorette Challenge]]. It's also the first to be produced by tosimornottosim, who would later become one of the more consistent and well-known contributors to the genre. It can be read from the beginning [[http://tosimornottosim.tumblr.com/tagged/a-mere-trifle-of-a-bachelorette-challenge/chrono here]].
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7	# Azure Slate - fire
8	# Violet Frostplum - being stuffed in the fridge
9	# Maizey Citrine - Philosopher's Stone misfire
10	# Lithodora - falling off a rock-climbing stand
11	# Beryl Star-Jinx - drowning
12	# Flame Almond - electrocution
13	# Mirage Bliss - buried alive in a Box of Danger
14	# Nevada Riesling - jellybean fluid syringe to the neck
15	# Baxtor Rose, murderer - taken by the Grim Reaper
16	# Sloe Cyanide, winner
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19	!! This MMBC provides examples of:
20	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This story was written before a lot of the tropes of the MMBC were established, and the author herself was in the early days of writing proper stories (having only written a bachelorette challenge before that wasn't plot-heavy). Trifle MMBC therefore can be considered less coherent than later stories of its kind. The murderer's motive is less clear and complex; Blueberry's illness is handled with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer and seems to come out of nowhere. Later MMBCs by the author would handle the genre better.
21	* HereditaryCurse: Almost everyone in the Trifle family has met some kind of tragic fate. The BC was originally intended as Blueberry Honey's attempt to break it.
22	* MurderBallad: While taking care of the last victim, the killer sings a refrain from Jill Tracy's ''The Fine Art of Poisoning''.
23	* PhonyPsychic: Sloe Cyanide oscillates between this and NotSoPhonyPsychic, depending on the day.
24	* SecretlyDying: Blueberry herself.

Context Recap / TrifleMMBC