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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>An entity created by taking a variably specified number of [[Rats|rats]], for which the consensus number is taken to be [[7a]] (the bad-luck number), and linking them together by tying their tails into a knot. This feat of applied and inventive cruelty to animals, if successfully completed, earns the perpetrator membership of the Inner Circle of the [[Ratcatchers' Guild]] where deep and secret lore is passed on.<br />
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In folklore, linking eight rats together by their tails is reputed to create a psychic link between the eight separate brains, which fall into synch and work together like a powerful organic computer, creating an entity greater than the sum of its parts. <br />
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This has been known to happen [[Book:The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents|once]] on the Disc, when [[Ron Blunkett]] and [[Billy Spears]], the rat-catchers of [[Bad Blintz]], created their Rat King in an idle moment; only for the resultant entity to name itself '''Spider''', and seek to take over all Ratkind, in a psychic explosion of fear and rage and dark violence. <br />
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Only [[Maurice]] and the Rat Clan saved the day, Maurice destroying the Rat King but losing a negotiable number of lives in the process. <br />
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There have been (scientifically unsubstantiated) examples of the [[wikipedia:cryptozoology|cryptozoological]] phenomenon [[wikipedia:Rat_king|rat kings]] on [[Roundworld]] too.<br />
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Also, in the science-fiction serial ''The Ballad of Halo Jones'' (originally run in the comic ''2000AD'', and later released as a graphic novel), in a future interplanetary war, a Rat-King is used as the central processing unit in a supercomputer that works out and applies Planet Earth's military strategy. Halo and her buddies in the army are disgusted to discover their supreme commander really ''is'' a rat - or, in fact, five rats....<br />
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