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Date: 2016-03-17 07:27 am (UTC)In books after the first, do the on-screen opponents escalate their power level to match? Because in Going North the setting was certainly presented as existentially threatening, but the actual plot had little tension over the outcome; the reason the opponent caused any causualties at all was because the good guys were trying to play down just how much firepower on staff.