Cowboy Grak 5: Yet Another Fistful of Obols
is a fanfic of Worth the Candle by gazemaize. After the dastardly villain Jimopur Steal shoots dead the shire-reeve in cold blood, can Cowboy Grakheel Leadboots still protect the town from his thieving ways?
Cowboy Grak 5 provides examples of:
- Continuation Fic: Of a sort. It's set in the utopia crafted by Juniper at the end of Worth the Candle, and deals mostly with the characters adjusting to their new reality.
- Decoy Protagonist: The name, summary and first few paragraphs of the story set the scene for what seems like an Alternate Universe Fic centered on a version Grak. After a few paragraphs and a Proscenium Reveal, the story turns out to be about Fenn and Solace primarily.
- Footnote Fever: The text is ostensibly written by the Narrator, the in-universe figure in the DM's pantheon responsible for penning Worth the Candle itself. He generously inserts these when he thinks Fenn is misrepresenting events in her mind.
- Not Big Enough for the Two of Us: Cowboy Grak exaggerates his canon counterpart's dry cadence and aversion to the adversative conjunction, so the stock phrase comes out a bit differently when he speaks it.This town is large. It is not adequate to contain us both. Your crimes are numerous.
- Proscenium Reveal: The whole Cowboy Grak scenario quickly turns out to be a simulation run by Fenn, and Grak himself is a simulacrum. The actual plot is bookended by the Cowboy Grak simulation but is otherwise unrelated.
- Showdown at High Noon: The story begins with a Cold Open in this exact scenario.
- Speedrunning: This turns out to be what Solace has been up to in the heavens.
