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Guybrush: Added section about The Watch version of the character (the character's surname is confirmed in the credits)

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Added section about The Watch version of the character (the character's surname is confirmed in the credits)

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	It is possible that she might have had a larger part to play in the Discworld novel [[Book:Scouting for Trolls\|''Scouting for Trolls'']].This short piece (Terry calls it a "squib") appears to be a smaller part of a larger whole, perhaps a preface to it. Alas, ''Scouting For Trolls'' is now fated never to leave the amorphous pool of [[Reader in Invisible Writings\|Invisible Writings]] to which only very specialised Libraries have access, and we can only speculate on how things might have been.		It is possible that she might have had a larger part to play in the Discworld novel [[Book:Scouting for Trolls\|''Scouting for Trolls'']].This short piece (Terry calls it a "squib") appears to be a smaller part of a larger whole, perhaps a preface to it. Alas, ''Scouting For Trolls'' is now fated never to leave the amorphous pool of [[Reader in Invisible Writings\|Invisible Writings]] to which only very specialised Libraries have access, and we can only speculate on how things might have been.

	She is also seen in the {{AGD}} modelling a detachable exploding bustle: the idea is that the wearer is the delivery system who detaches it in the location where it would most benefit the client, primes it, and discreetly withdraws, albeit in a less full dress.		She is also seen in the {{AGD}} modelling a detachable exploding bustle: the idea is that the wearer is the delivery system who detaches it in the location where it would most benefit the client, primes it, and discreetly withdraws, albeit in a less full dress.

	==~~Annotations~~==		== ''The Watch'' ==
			In ''[[TV and Film:The Watch\|The Watch]]'', a young assassin named Alice Band acts as [[Cruces\|Dr Cruces]]' spy and enforcer. She also works as a regular assassin, using her small size to hide in cupboards, vents and suitcases. Her preferred weapons are a garrotte and a pair of curved daggers. Like Dr Cruces, this version of Alice is one of the only assassins not to wear a mask while working - presumably to make the most of her seemingly innocent appearance. She appears in the episodes ''The What?'', ''The Dark in the Dark'' and ''Better to Light a Candle'', and is portrayed by South African actress Jane de Wet.

			== Annotations ==
	Interestingly, her likeness, as sketched by Paul Kidby in ''The Art of Discworld'' and for the relevant diary/yearbook as cited above, has odd echoes of Roundworld computer game icon Lara Croft. Just as Ponder Stibbon's pencil portrait has a strange distorted echo of a wizard called H*y P**r, we are certain that such likenesses are mere co-incidence existing only in the eye of the beholder. Even after taking into account the bit about her hobby being "stealth archaeologist". Odd similarities to the character of [[Laredo Cronk]] in [[Game:Discworld_Noir]] have been pointed out, however. A Stealth Archeologist. With the initials "L.C.". Probably coincidence....		Interestingly, her likeness, as sketched by Paul Kidby in ''The Art of Discworld'' and for the relevant diary/yearbook as cited above, has odd echoes of Roundworld computer game icon Lara Croft. Just as Ponder Stibbon's pencil portrait has a strange distorted echo of a wizard called H*y P**r, we are certain that such likenesses are mere co-incidence existing only in the eye of the beholder. Even after taking into account the bit about her hobby being "stealth archaeologist". Odd similarities to the character of [[Laredo Cronk]] in [[Game:Discworld_Noir]] have been pointed out, however. A Stealth Archeologist. With the initials "L.C.". Probably coincidence....

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	Here's an interesting piece of ephemera. Alice Band didn't start out as a Discworld character. She originated in a short story he wrote a decade or more before Discworld existed, 'The Great Egg-Dancing Championship'. Alice Band was the sister of Fred Band (Egg-Dancing Champion of Blackbury) and the girlfriend of Jem Stronginthearm (Egg-Dancing Champion of Umbridge), who faced each other in the overall championship for Egg-Dancing (A sport in which you try to dance among eggs while blindfolded. Dancers are scored by the quality of the dance and penalized for how many eggs got cracked). Jem won the match when Fred admitted that his father had swapped out his eggs for fakes that wouldn't break. This story appears as part of the ''[[Book:Dragons At Crumbling Castle\|Dragons At Crumbling Castle]]'' selection of early Pratchett writings. Evidently the name was recycled later. Thanks to FanFiction writer and reviewer ''bissek'' for pointing this out!		Here's an interesting piece of ephemera. Alice Band didn't start out as a Discworld character. She originated in a short story he wrote a decade or more before Discworld existed, 'The Great Egg-Dancing Championship'. Alice Band was the sister of Fred Band (Egg-Dancing Champion of Blackbury) and the girlfriend of Jem Stronginthearm (Egg-Dancing Champion of Umbridge), who faced each other in the overall championship for Egg-Dancing (A sport in which you try to dance among eggs while blindfolded. Dancers are scored by the quality of the dance and penalized for how many eggs got cracked). Jem won the match when Fred admitted that his father had swapped out his eggs for fakes that wouldn't break. This story appears as part of the ''[[Book:Dragons At Crumbling Castle\|Dragons At Crumbling Castle]]'' selection of early Pratchett writings. Evidently the name was recycled later. Thanks to FanFiction writer and reviewer ''bissek'' for pointing this out!

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	The Alice Band[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nahVVs1Q3cc] are a girl-group from Canada who, among other things, did a cover version of that most Discworldian anthem, "Don't Fear The Reaper" . Was this the route that suggested a character name for a lady Assassin?		The Alice Band[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nahVVs1Q3cc] are a girl-group from Canada who, among other things, did a cover version of that most Discworldian anthem, "Don't Fear The Reaper" . Was this the route that suggested a character name for a lady Assassin?

	[[Image:Alice as Lara ~~jpg~~.JPG]]		[[Image:Alice as Lara.JPG]]

	Here's an interesting piece of ephemera. Alice Band didn't start out as a Discworld character. She originated in a short story he wrote a decade or more before Discworld existed, 'The Great Egg-Dancing Championship'. Alice Band was the sister of Fred Band (Egg-Dancing Champion of Blackbury) and the girlfriend of Jem Stronginthearm (Egg-Dancing Champion of Umbridge), who faced each other in the overall championship for Egg-Dancing (A sport in which you try to dance among eggs while blindfolded. Dancers are scored by the quality of the dance and penalized for how many eggs got cracked). Jem won the match when Fred admitted that his father had swapped out his eggs for fakes that wouldn't break. This story appears as part of the ''[[Book:Dragons At Crumbling Castle\|Dragons At Crumbling Castle]]'' selection of early Pratchett writings. Evidently the name was recycled later. Thanks to FanFiction writer and reviewer ''bissek'' for pointing this out!		Here's an interesting piece of ephemera. Alice Band didn't start out as a Discworld character. She originated in a short story he wrote a decade or more before Discworld existed, 'The Great Egg-Dancing Championship'. Alice Band was the sister of Fred Band (Egg-Dancing Champion of Blackbury) and the girlfriend of Jem Stronginthearm (Egg-Dancing Champion of Umbridge), who faced each other in the overall championship for Egg-Dancing (A sport in which you try to dance among eggs while blindfolded. Dancers are scored by the quality of the dance and penalized for how many eggs got cracked). Jem won the match when Fred admitted that his father had swapped out his eggs for fakes that wouldn't break. This story appears as part of the ''[[Book:Dragons At Crumbling Castle\|Dragons At Crumbling Castle]]'' selection of early Pratchett writings. Evidently the name was recycled later. Thanks to FanFiction writer and reviewer ''bissek'' for pointing this out!

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	First mentioned in the [[Book:Discworld's Assassins' Guild Diary 2000\|Assassins' Guild Diary]], Miss Alice Band is a younger member of the teaching faculty at the Assassins' School, employed to expand the female teachership at a time when Guild membership was becoming more genuinely co-educational and new Houses ([[Scorpion House]], [[Raven House]], [[Black Widow House]], and [[Tump House]]) were being established to absorb an influx of female pupils. In fact, she is House Mistress of Tump House, and therefore stands ''in loco parentis'' to her pupils, over and above being teacher to them.		First mentioned in the [[Book:Discworld's Assassins' Guild Diary 2000\|Assassins' Guild Diary]], '''Miss Alice Band''' is a younger member of the teaching faculty at the Assassins' School, employed to expand the female teachership at a time when Guild membership was becoming more genuinely co-educational and new Houses ([[Scorpion House]], [[Raven House]], [[Black Widow House]], and [[Tump House]]) were being established to absorb an influx of female pupils. In fact, she is House Mistress of Tump House, and therefore stands ''in loco parentis'' to her pupils, over and above being teacher to them.
	She teaches Traps, Locks and Climbing at the Guild, and is also a "stealth archaeologist". In {{NW}} she sent trainee assassin [[Jocasta Wiggs]] on a very humbling training mission to target [[Sam Vimes]] after deciding that Ms Wiggs was an overconfident pupil.		She teaches Traps, Locks and Climbing at the Guild, and is also a "stealth archaeologist". In {{NW}} she sent trainee assassin [[Jocasta Wiggs]] on a very humbling training mission to target [[Sam Vimes]] after deciding that Ms Wiggs was an overconfident pupil.

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	Here's an interesting piece of ephemera. Alice Band didn't start out as a Discworld character. She originated in a short story he wrote a decade or more before Discworld existed, 'The Great Egg-Dancing Championship'. Alice Band was the sister of Fred Band (Egg-Dancing Champion of Blackbury) and the girlfriend of Jem Stronginthearm (Egg-Dancing Champion of Umbridge), who faced each other in the overall championship for Egg-Dancing (A sport in which you try to dance among eggs while blindfolded. Dancers are scored by the quality of the dance and penalized for how many eggs got cracked). Jem won the match when Fred admitted that his father had swapped out his eggs for fakes that wouldn't break. This story appears as part of the ''Dragons ~~at Cumbling~~ Castle'' selection of early Pratchett writings. Evidently the name was recycled later. Thanks to FanFiction writer and reviewer ''bissek'' for pointing this out!		Here's an interesting piece of ephemera. Alice Band didn't start out as a Discworld character. She originated in a short story he wrote a decade or more before Discworld existed, 'The Great Egg-Dancing Championship'. Alice Band was the sister of Fred Band (Egg-Dancing Champion of Blackbury) and the girlfriend of Jem Stronginthearm (Egg-Dancing Champion of Umbridge), who faced each other in the overall championship for Egg-Dancing (A sport in which you try to dance among eggs while blindfolded. Dancers are scored by the quality of the dance and penalized for how many eggs got cracked). Jem won the match when Fred admitted that his father had swapped out his eggs for fakes that wouldn't break. This story appears as part of the ''[[Book:Dragons At Crumbling Castle\|Dragons At Crumbling Castle]]'' selection of early Pratchett writings. Evidently the name was recycled later. Thanks to FanFiction writer and reviewer ''bissek'' for pointing this out!

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Annotations: Probably coincidence.... tidying

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	==Annotations==		==Annotations==

	Interestingly, her likeness, as sketched by Paul Kidby in ''The Art of Discworld'' and for the relevant diary/yearbook as cited above, has odd echoes of Roundworld computer game icon Lara Croft. Just as Ponder Stibbon's pencil portrait has a strange distorted echo of a wizard called H*y P**r, we are certain that such likenesses are mere co-incidence existing only in the eye of the beholder. Even after taking into account the bit about her hobby being "stealth archaeologist". Odd similarities to the character of Laredo Cronk in [[Game:Discworld_Noir]] have been pointed out, however. A Stealth ~~archeologist~~. With the initials "L.C.". Probably coincidence....		Interestingly, her likeness, as sketched by Paul Kidby in ''The Art of Discworld'' and for the relevant diary/yearbook as cited above, has odd echoes of Roundworld computer game icon Lara Croft. Just as Ponder Stibbon's pencil portrait has a strange distorted echo of a wizard called H*y P**r, we are certain that such likenesses are mere co-incidence existing only in the eye of the beholder. Even after taking into account the bit about her hobby being "stealth archaeologist". Odd similarities to the character of [[Laredo Cronk]] in [[Game:Discworld_Noir]] have been pointed out, however. A Stealth Archeologist. With the initials "L.C.". Probably coincidence....

	An '''''Alice Band''''' is also a hairstyling method involving use of a wide hair-band to push the hair back high off the forehead. It is best seen on depictions of		An '''''Alice Band''''' is also a hairstyling method involving use of a wide hair-band to push the hair back high off the forehead. It is best seen on depictions of

AgProv: /* Annotations */ Probably coincidence....

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Annotations: Probably coincidence....

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	==Annotations==		==Annotations==

	Interestingly, her likeness, as sketched by Paul Kidby in ''The Art of Discworld'' and for the relevant diary/yearbook as cited above, has odd echoes of Roundworld computer game icon Lara Croft. Just as Ponder Stibbon's pencil portrait has a strange distorted echo of a wizard called H*y P**r, we are certain that such likenesses are mere co-incidence existing only in the eye of the beholder. Even after taking into account the bit about her hobby being "stealth archaeologist".		Interestingly, her likeness, as sketched by Paul Kidby in ''The Art of Discworld'' and for the relevant diary/yearbook as cited above, has odd echoes of Roundworld computer game icon Lara Croft. Just as Ponder Stibbon's pencil portrait has a strange distorted echo of a wizard called H*y P**r, we are certain that such likenesses are mere co-incidence existing only in the eye of the beholder. Even after taking into account the bit about her hobby being "stealth archaeologist". Odd similarities to the character of Laredo Cronk in [[Game:Discworld_Noir]] have been pointed out, however. A Stealth archeologist. With the initials "L.C.". Probably coincidence....

	An '''''Alice Band''''' is also a hairstyling method involving use of a wide hair-band to push the hair back high off the forehead. It is best seen on depictions of		An '''''Alice Band''''' is also a hairstyling method involving use of a wide hair-band to push the hair back high off the forehead. It is best seen on depictions of

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	It is possible that she might have had a larger part to play in the Discworld novel [[Book:Scouting for Trolls\|''Scouting for Trolls'']].This short piece (Terry calls it a "squib") appears to be a smaller part of a larger whole, perhaps a preface to it. Alas, ''Scouting For Trolls'' is now fated never to leave the amorphous pool of [[Reader in Invisible Writings\|Invisible Writings]] to which only very specialised Libraries have access, and we can only speculate on how things might have been.		It is possible that she might have had a larger part to play in the Discworld novel [[Book:Scouting for Trolls\|''Scouting for Trolls'']].This short piece (Terry calls it a "squib") appears to be a smaller part of a larger whole, perhaps a preface to it. Alas, ''Scouting For Trolls'' is now fated never to leave the amorphous pool of [[Reader in Invisible Writings\|Invisible Writings]] to which only very specialised Libraries have access, and we can only speculate on how things might have been.

			She is also seen in the {{AGD}} modelling a detachable exploding bustle: the idea is that the wearer is the delivery system who detaches it in the location where it would most benefit the client, primes it, and discreetly withdraws, albeit in a less full dress.

	==Annotations==		==Annotations==

AgProv: Origins of Alice Band in the Pratchett canon.

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Origins of Alice Band in the Pratchett canon.

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	[[Image:Alice as Lara jpg.JPG]]		[[Image:Alice as Lara jpg.JPG]]

			Here's an interesting piece of ephemera. Alice Band didn't start out as a Discworld character. She originated in a short story he wrote a decade or more before Discworld existed, 'The Great Egg-Dancing Championship'. Alice Band was the sister of Fred Band (Egg-Dancing Champion of Blackbury) and the girlfriend of Jem Stronginthearm (Egg-Dancing Champion of Umbridge), who faced each other in the overall championship for Egg-Dancing (A sport in which you try to dance among eggs while blindfolded. Dancers are scored by the quality of the dance and penalized for how many eggs got cracked). Jem won the match when Fred admitted that his father had swapped out his eggs for fakes that wouldn't break. This story appears as part of the ''Dragons at Cumbling Castle'' selection of early Pratchett writings. Evidently the name was recycled later. Thanks to FanFiction writer and reviewer ''bissek'' for pointing this out!

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	Her first speaking part in the canon occurs in ''The Minutes of the Meeting To Form The Proposed [[Ankh-Morpork Scouting (and possibly Urban Survival) Federation‎\|Ankh-Morpork Federation of Scouts]]''. (This is a short piece published in {{BS}}. In this we learn that Miss Band is part of a select group called together to establish, sponsor and give practical guidance to Scouting. She is the [[Assassins' Guild]] representative on this project, and gives her opinion that young student Assassins are already pretty much up to speed in many of the desired skills and character attributes. Lord Vetinari observed that he would be grateful if certain Assassin skills were toned down somewhat while in the scout hut, as the underlying intention is to steer young people ''away'' from lethal weaponry. Miss Band is also wholly in favour of Scouting being inclusive of girls, who may well need a different sort of Guidance.		Her first speaking part in the canon occurs in ''The Minutes of the Meeting To Form The Proposed [[Ankh-Morpork Scouting (and possibly Urban Survival) Federation‎\|Ankh-Morpork Federation of Scouts]]''. (This is a short piece published in {{BS}}. In this we learn that Miss Band is part of a select group called together to establish, sponsor and give practical guidance to Scouting. She is the [[Assassins' Guild]] representative on this project, and gives her opinion that young student Assassins are already pretty much up to speed in many of the desired skills and character attributes. Lord Vetinari observed that he would be grateful if certain Assassin skills were toned down somewhat while in the scout hut, as the underlying intention is to steer young people ''away'' from lethal weaponry. Miss Band is also wholly in favour of Scouting being inclusive of girls, who may well need a different sort of Guidance.

	It is possible that she might have had a larger part to play in the Discworld novel [[Book:Scouting for Trolls\|''Scouting for Trolls'']].This short piece (Terry calls it a "squib") appears to be a smaller part of a larger whole, perhaps a preface to it. Alas, ''Scouting For Trolls'' is now fated never to leave the amorphous pool of [[Invisible Writings]] to which only very specialised Libraries have access, and we can only speculate on how things might have been.		It is possible that she might have had a larger part to play in the Discworld novel [[Book:Scouting for Trolls\|''Scouting for Trolls'']].This short piece (Terry calls it a "squib") appears to be a smaller part of a larger whole, perhaps a preface to it. Alas, ''Scouting For Trolls'' is now fated never to leave the amorphous pool of [[Reader in Invisible Writings\|Invisible Writings]] to which only very specialised Libraries have access, and we can only speculate on how things might have been.

	==Annotations==		==Annotations==

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	Her first speaking part in the canon occurs in ''The Minutes of the Meeting To Form The Proposed [[Ankh-Morpork Scouting (and possibly Urban Survival) Federation‎\|Ankh-Morpork Federation of Scouts]]''. (This is a short piece published in {{BS}}. In this we learn that Miss Band is part of a select group called together to establish, sponsor and give practical guidance to Scouting. She is the [[Assassins' Guild]] representative on this project, and gives her opinion that young student Assassins are already pretty much up to speed in many of the desired skills and character attributes. Lord Vetinari observed that he would be grateful if certain Assassin skills were toned down somewhat while in the scout hut, as the underlying intention is to steer young people ''away'' from lethal weaponry. Miss Band is also wholly in favour of Scouting being inclusive of girls, who may well need a different sort of Guidance.		Her first speaking part in the canon occurs in ''The Minutes of the Meeting To Form The Proposed [[Ankh-Morpork Scouting (and possibly Urban Survival) Federation‎\|Ankh-Morpork Federation of Scouts]]''. (This is a short piece published in {{BS}}. In this we learn that Miss Band is part of a select group called together to establish, sponsor and give practical guidance to Scouting. She is the [[Assassins' Guild]] representative on this project, and gives her opinion that young student Assassins are already pretty much up to speed in many of the desired skills and character attributes. Lord Vetinari observed that he would be grateful if certain Assassin skills were toned down somewhat while in the scout hut, as the underlying intention is to steer young people ''away'' from lethal weaponry. Miss Band is also wholly in favour of Scouting being inclusive of girls, who may well need a different sort of Guidance.

	It is possible that she ~~may~~ have a larger part to play in the Discworld novel [[Book:Scouting for Trolls\|''Scouting for Trolls'']]~~, if this is ever written: this~~ short piece (Terry calls it a "squib") appears to be a smaller part of a larger whole, perhaps a preface to it.		It is possible that she might have had a larger part to play in the Discworld novel [[Book:Scouting for Trolls\|''Scouting for Trolls'']].This short piece (Terry calls it a "squib") appears to be a smaller part of a larger whole, perhaps a preface to it. Alas, ''Scouting For Trolls'' is now fated never to leave the amorphous pool of [[Invisible Writings]] to which only very specialised Libraries have access, and we can only speculate on how things might have been.

	==Annotations==		==Annotations==