Hints and tips:
...The respective quests of the Man in Black and Maeve look more like McGuffins at this point than story arcs, just a way of keeping them moving in the game....
...“Every decision you take will be life or death,” intones wounded Will as he sends Jaden on a foray deep into digitised-beast land to find a life-saving McGuffin fallen from the spaceship’s tail....
...(What a gift to fiction-writers that poor old man was, inspiring figures as disparate as MR James, Somerset Maugham and Jake Arnott.)...
...Pretty Persuasion – no relation to the Jane Austen novel which becomes an important McGuffin in Half-Light – begins promisingly....
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