History Characters / Oxventure

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** As horrifying as it was, and as much as she revelled in it, the racist brigands in "Plunder Siege" really had their fate coming after they refused any attempt at diplomacy.
** "Rolling in the Deep" reveals that [[spoiler:she killed Cyrus, the abusive warlock who raised her but mistreated her at every turn]]. This was done partly because "he was in [her] way". Nevertheless, no tears were shed from the Guild about this.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:She freezes Vex alive and then smashes him to pieces upon being convinced that he was the one to disturb her slumber.]] Suffice it to say this was utterly deserved.

* IKnowYourTrueName: Downplayed, but speaking Olive's name is required in order to allow her to do more than simply manipulative wine.

* BadassPreacher: Paladin who breathes fire.

* DropTheHammer: Uses a huge warhammer.

** Prudence has "A Fishmas Carol", "Rolling in the Deep", and "High Moon".

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* HealingPotion: Has access to a large magical chalice that can heal wounds. He gives the brew to Dob after casting Shatter on his crotch. Johnny makes it clear the brew is NOT applied topically. The chalice is destroyed after using it because the item is too overpowered.

* OffTheRails: Frequently happens: [[WordOfGod Though Johnny singles out the beginning of “Bad Chair Day” as the most severe example.]] During the denounement of "Tower Rangers", this was discussed: What was meant to be a homage to ''Film/GameOfDeath'', with a gauntlet of rooms in an ascending tower, [[spoiler:was derailed because Prudence used Spider Climb and several feet of hempen rope to just scale the outside.]]

* AdamWesting: Each of them is based, at least initially, on {{Running Gag}}s from Outside Xbox surrounding each of their actors, taken to the extreme. Prudence and Egbert are the most obvious: Prudence being entirely based around Jane's existing niche on the channel as the resident HeroicComedicSociopath, while Egbert being clueless, obsessed with explosions and barely cognizant of how his abilities work is a self-parody of Mike's infamous stealth game snafus. Others, like Andy playing Corazon as a heavily sarcastic diva or Luke and Ellen (who were at the time much newer to the channel) initially playing their characters as more innocent and happy go lucky, also lean into their actors' familiar gags.

* FiveManBand: As of "A Spot of Bother", their numbers are bolstered to five; while each member has roughly the same amount of influence and decision making in the guild, Corazón is quick to present himself as the face of the guild and take charge as TheLeader. Dob meanwhile is TheLancer to Corazón, often giving opposite ideas to whatever plans Corazón has in mind, especially when it comes to money. Prudence is the group's [[TheSmartGuy Smart Guy]], being the one more educated in magic, while Egbert is TheBigGuy who can be relied upon solving the guild's problems with physical (and often explosive or fiery) force. Lastly, Merilwen is TheHeart who, despite not having a good alignment, serves as the group's emotional support and helps them stay as close to good as possible.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: As fits a D&D party, the Oxventurers are an odd bunch. The five-person party consists of an arrogant pirate, an openly evil Tiefling warlock that serves Cthulhu, a half-Orc bard that keeps making references to the Vengaboys, an elven druid in harmony with nature and a Dragonborn paladin trying to earn atonement with limited luck. This isn't even getting into any GuestStarPartyMember that joins the party for an adventurer.

** Egbert can be seen in contrast with The Order of Keeping it Down. Despite his religious nature, Egbert is relatively fun and fancy free but deadly in a fight, whereas the Order of Keeping it Down are hypocritical zealots who are easily overcome.
** Merilwen's shadow is the hunter Vex from 'Peak Performance'. Both are wilderness survivors who use magic, but Merilwen has a deep respect for the animals and has a rule to never use resources wastefully, whereas Vex appears to hunt for sport and twists animals corpses into puppets for his satisfaction.

** Despite all having their differences, the group are a surprisingly steadfast group of friends and adventurers.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Wheras the other Oxventurers magical abilities are much more innate owing to their respective vocations or faiths, Corazón managed to learn a few spells based only on book learning.

* NeverMyFault: He's all too keen to place all the blame on Merilwen for the "Meat Grinder" episode, even though his grease notably helped them slide into her spikes. Later on though, he does agree that it was mostly the grease.

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Merilwen wasn't keen to let him forget him kicking a chicken in the gang's first adventure in the adventures afterwards, but she lets it go after Quiet Riot.

** Twice in "Quiet Riot", both because of [[MoralityChain Merilwen]]. Firstly, he deliberately tries reining his swearing in because he thinks it will upset her (he only goes back to effing and blinding once she says she doesn't actually mind). Secondly, while he's keen to either kill or enslave [[spoiler:Owlsworth the Owlbear]], he ultimately agrees to relent and let it go somewhere it'll be happy, because he knows he'd just upset Merilwen if he ignored her protests.

* SuperReflexes: Corazón gains the Rogue ability 'Uncanny Dodge' ability in between "Spell Check" and "Out of Order". Indeed, he is able to dodge Jacques Darkfall's rapier stab at point blank range, though he still takes a hit to the shoulder.

* WellDoneSonGuy: He absolutely ''despises'' his father (and with good reason)... or so he claims. "Ship Happens" shows he would, deep down, want his father to love him and "Mind Your Manors" shows that although he resents his father, Corazón would feel complicated if he heard his father passed away.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Discussed in the very first adventure by Andy, Luke and Ellen as a reason she shouldn't be trusted, because she's so ObviouslyEvil. [[AvertedTrope With that said, she doesn't actually betray the group and has grown to like them]].

* BookDumb: His Wisdom and Intelligence aren't great, and at one point he's implied to be illiterate, but Egbert's well-versed on religion and nevertheless has some moments of brilliance, notably opting to have the Watch Commander shout at the top of his lungs in "Quiet Riot"; this deprives the Order of Keeping it Down of some of their leadership, shakes them before the fight and means that the gang have fewer people to fight.
* CatchPhrase: From Mike, who always makes sure to note that all of his Wisdom rolls are "''[N],'' minus one" - because it's funnier that way - rather than just tell the final sum like the others do.

* CompellingVoice: He has a spell called "Command" which allows him to issue a single word command. He uses this to great effect, such as forcing a man with a vow of silence to shout, or for Jacques Darkfall to disrobe.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: In "Silent Knight", it turns out he's had the spell Misty Step (which would allow him to [[FlashStep teleport 30 feet]][[note]]Mechanically speaking, an entire combat round's worth of movement.[[/note]] at any time at the cost of one of his, rarely used, spell slots) for several adventures, but Mike (and presumably him) forgot. This happens again a few episodes later when its revealed he can cast Moonbeam.

* ShortRangeLongRangeWeapon: Egbert has such rotten aim with his bombs that he often gets absurdly close with his targets to use them.

* ThrowTheDogABone: After "Spell Check" sees him suffer the most, "Out of Order" has him ''somewhat'' regain standing in Mistmire and snap out a depressive funk he was in. Similarly, after [[spoiler:being kidnapped by Liliana]], he rescues Shattershield and is given the possibility his banishment might end.

A Wood-Elf druid with an affinity for nature and animals in general. She is particularly fond of cats, and once kept a pet wildcat named Simon before it died; subsequently Merilwen learned how to shapeshift into a wildcat. As a druid, she possesses the ability to communicate with animals and prides herself on loving nature, which she won't stop nagging everyone else about.

* BatmanGambit: In ‘The Spicy Rat Caper’, she tricks a potion vendor into admitting the elixir’s true transformative properties by pretending to drink the elixir and then wild shaping into her Wildcat form, correctly suspecting that the vendor would not be able to deny it if confronted very suddenly. This was so impressive that it earns the first points of inspiration of the campaign.

* MysteriousPast: Merilwen's past as a huntress living in the woods and adopting a wildcat consist of only a small amount of her 99 year history; the nature of her family or her druidic background has so far been left unsaid. Subverted in "Elf Hazard" where we finally see Merilwen's home and meet her family; evidently much of the mystery stems from Merilwen's shyness around her old acquaintances.

** After she executes a bunch of surrendering Egbert clones in "Bad Altitude" to prevent them from reporting to Liliana, the group launched onto this as a new running gag, with many jokes about her supposedly having a lust for killing surrendering or harmless enemies and/or committing war crimes. Initially she tried to push back against it, but occasionally she'll embrace it.

* CharacterisationMarchesOn: In contrast to the later appearing RunningGag of Dob being practically a bermuda triangle for money, Dob states to Arlo Mayweather in the first story that the guild will need half the guild's payment up front, and mentions needing money as his motivation for teaming up with the others.

* GeniusDitz: Dob is incapable of holding money for more than about five minutes without trying to give it away, rarely thinks a plan all the way through, arbitrarily adopts random strangers and generally acts like a loon, but he's also a gifted swordsman, highly acrobatic, a reasonably skilled disguise and special effects artist and remarkably talented at coming up with intrigue and plausible lines of bullshit on the spur of the moment. He also makes a valid point that the Guild doesn't use half the gold it earns.

* HeartbrokenBadass: The loss / disappearance of his sister clearly weighs upon him greatly. Doesn't stop him kicking ass.

** As good as states this as his standard MO in 'Spell Check', when the group are planning on how best to confront Lady Liliana, his plan essentially amounts to "distract her long enough to think of the next part of the plan", because Dob is BornLucky this works out for him.

* LethallyStupid: At his worst, he can delve into ChaoticStupid and the survival rates of [=NPCs=] are likely to drop considerably. The party members are luckier, but still come closer to harm than the do otherwise.

** In "Plan-demonium", he ''isn't'' going (just) for an IndyPloy and tries to think of something substantial, showing he's as desperateas the rest.

* PhraseCatcher: He had the phrase "Don't be a Dob" coined by Merilwen when she was caught in the range of his thunderwave. It caught on enough that Corazón sells [[FunTShirt tunics embroidered with the phrase]], and they are popular enough to be on back order.

** In "Plunder Siege", he decides on the spur of the moment to trick the leader of some obnoxious, aggressive and [[StupidEvil idiotic]] brigands into sharing a flagon of stew, just after said leader had made it clear that if they tried passing through, they'd risk death. Johnny decides that they'll allow it because "[the leader of the brigands] has no idea what you're doing, [[OffTheRails and frankly, neither do I]]". The result is one brigand leader being transformed into a goblin. [[BlatantLies His attempt to convince the brigands that they were secretly infiltrated by goblins, however, doesn't work]].

* ZanyScheme: One of Dob's trademarks is to come up with elaborate and bizarre plans at a moment's notice and suddenly enact them without informing or warning any of the others before it's suddenly happening. To his credit, some of these do work and he's behind some of the group's more masterful ideas. But on the other hand, these plans usually involve injury to himself or his friends, and as "not informing the others" often includes ''Johnny'' many of them never make it past stage one because not even the GM knows what he's trying to do.

* BadassPreacher: A preacher who wields a huge war hammer, loves property destruction and has spells to combat the undead.

* NatureHero: Her weapon of choice are thorn whips, or arrows empowered with thorns.

* WalkingSpoiler: As is obvious, her eventually appearance is treated as a spoiler in her first appearance.

* GutturalGrowler: Johnny uses a deep voice to speak as Dwight, and Dob immediately thinks it makes him sound evil, but he's actually not.

* SilverHasMysticalPowers: Silver is the weakness of a werewolf and so the guild attempts to use that to their advantage. However, [[spoiler:this is hindered because the conflict is with Prudence. She is a werebear, and also weak to silver.]]

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: He [[spoiler:slaughters an innocent paladin named Harris, and tries to get everyone to flee Mistmire regardless of how many might get hurt in the attempt. Dob's slaughter of him is more than justified, even if it's overmuch]].

* CatchPhrase: [[BuffySpeak "I do all the things that make the boat go."]] At first popped up as an attempt to condense all boat tasks into a single roll, and then just became Corazon's favored way of skipping past any scenes of setting sail on the Joyful Damnation after Johnny stopped making them roll for it.

* Catchphrase: From Mike, who always makes sure to note that all of his Wisdom rolls are "''[N],'' minus one" - because it's funnier that way - rather than just tell the final sum like the others do.

For {{trope}}s relating to their ''TabletopGame/BladesInTheDark'' campaign, go to ''Characters/OxventureBladesInTheDark''. For characters in ''One-Shot Wonders'', go to ''Characters/OxventureOneShotWonders''.

* OverprotectiveDad: Big sister, but Suzette's the first to describe the guild as being enabling of Dob's poor decision making.

* OverprotectiveDad: He seems to treat Prudence like she's a favourite daughter who, in his concerned eyes, appears to have fallen in with a bit of a bad crowd who are leading her astray a bit. The joke, of course, being the flipped morality meaning that they're "leading her astray" by getting her involved in good deeds and helping people.

* ZanyScheme: One of Dob's trademarks is to come up with elaborate and bizarre plans at a moment's notice and suddenly enact whem without informing or warning any of the others before it's suddenly happening. To his credit, some of these do work and he's behind some of the group's more masterful ideas. But on the other hand, these plans usually involve injury to himself or his friends, and as "not informing the others" often includes ''Johnny'' many of them never make it past stage one because not even the GM knows what he's trying to do.

* ResurrectionSickness: Of sorts, in his weakened state, the Oxventurers are able to kill him fairly easily by [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid impaling him on the ship's bow.]]

* BadassBaritone: Johnny gives him a deep voice, fitting for a veteran policeman.

* WhipItGood: Her weapon is a riding crop.

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[[folder: Notable Episodic Allies & Neutral Characters]]

!!Arlo Mayweather
--> '''Race:''' Human

A man of wealth living in the city of Castor Falls, he becomes The Oxventurers Guild's first QuestGiver after his son goes missing.

* CassandraTruth: The Oxventurers suspect that the rat residing in Mr Mayweather's house is important to the disappearance of his son, but are not believed.
* FirstNameBasis: Despite being a man of high status, insists the Oxventurers call him by his first name, which they make liberal use of.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though disappointed by his son, he does clearly care for him as shown by his hiring adventurers. While he initially reacts with anger when the Guild tries to tell him the (bizarre) truth, once they show him proof he relents, apologises and gives them a generous reward.
* ParentsAsPeople: He clearly loves his son, but is disappointed by him nonetheless.
* QuestGiver: For "The Spicy Rat Caper".

!!Flannery

-->'''Race:''' Human

Appearing in "Quiet Riot", Flannery is a jester under the employ of [[PunnyName Lady Fyengeh]] that gets sent by his mistress to join the party in exploring the town of Inkwater. Corazón takes an instant dislike to him, and it's apparent he's not entirely right in the head.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Flannery is, as Mike puts it, "always on". He's easily distracted, is hyperactive and seems to be almost perpetually unaware of his surroundings.
* CloudCuckoolander: He keeps doing flamboyant mimes and dances, completely oblivious to the increasingly gore-strewn atrocities he finds himself party to. He is, in Mike's words, "always on". At one point, he wears a scarf made out of small intestines.
* EldritchAbomination: Dob claims he is one.
* TheLoad: Flannery is next-to-useless in combat and doesn't actually partake in it. He does, however, prove surprisingly capable when helping the team infiltrate the Order's headquarters.
* MonsterClown: Subverted. Andy automatically assumes that he's this, but at worst he turns out to have no situational awareness.
* NonActionGuy: His attempts to help in combat don't work and he just lands on his arse. This is a case of him being good at gymnastics, but just not really being a fighter.
* ThePollyanna: Perpetually jolly, even when it's completely inappropriate.
* QuestGiver: Along with Lady Fyengeh, he serves as this for "Quiet Riot".
* ShoutOut: He's a jester found by the roadside with a broken vehicle, not too dissimilar from Cicero from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''; this may explain why Andy, in a moment of WrongGenreSavvy, mistakes him for an enemy and proposes shooting him on sight. Unlike Cicero, Flannery's mostly benevolent, but the guild thinks he's very annoying.
* VorpalPillow: [[spoiler:After hours of cavorting with Dob and Merilwen, when he falls asleep, the two question using one of these on him.]]
* SitcomArchNemesis: Corazón dislikes him the ''instant'' he sees him and even jokingly (?) proposes shooting him within a few seconds of coming to this conclusion.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Lady Fyengeh.

!!Lady Fyengeh

The head of a travelling troupe of performers, she is the QuestGiver for "Quiet Riot", she sends the team into Inkwater to see what the hell's going on.

* FamedInStory: In a historical sort of way: Lady Fyengeh was a head of a traveling show and might have been successful at it, but centuries in the future, she is the star of an opera about her marriage to a page-boy.
* ProperLady: In all of her interactions, she epitomizes grace and poise. She's quite happy to let the energetic Flannery go with the group, accepts the fact that the gold plating on her wheels was taken by the guild, but she considers it an acceptable form of payment. She is dressed in a beautiful dancer's outfit and centuries in the future, an opera is dedicated to her and the men who desire her hand in marriage.
* PunnyName: As it turns out, her name ''Fyengeh'' (pronounced "fee-yen-ger"), and the coach''bus'', gives the crew the [[spoiler:"Fyengehbus", or "Vengabus"]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She realizes that the team have melted the gold off her wheels, but decides that the team have earned it as their reward since she's better off regardless.
* QuestGiver: For "Quiet Riot".

!!Owlsworth
--> '''Race:''' Owlbear

An owlbear imprisoned in Inkwater that wakes up during "Quiet Riot".

* DumbMuscle: As an owlbear, he's ferociously strong, but is dumb enough to have a wisdom modifier of minus four.
* FinalBoss: Was ''supposed'' to be this, but Merilwen has other ideas.

!!Duke Kabayo

The Duke of Redcastle, who holds "All Crim's Night" every year to train his guards up. He's technically the ArcVillain for "Plunder Siege", as the crew decide to enter the contest.

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!!Lasers and Feelings

[[folder:The ''Raptor's'' Crew]]

Tropes relating to the crew of the ship in general:

* AdaptationalNameChange: Their names change from their "normal" ones to Corazón de Estrella, Mer-Ilwen, Stardob MD, Pru d'Enzia, and Egbot.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: The only one not hit by this is Corazón, who remains a human.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: They're possibly ''more'' dysfunctional than the regular crew were to start out.

!!Stardob M.D

-->'''Race:''' Unknown

The medical officer for the ''Raptor''.

* TheAlcoholic: He drinks ''way'' too much for his own good.
* WorstAid: His medical performance would be better if he wasn't constantly drinking.

!!Corazón de Estrella

-->'''Race:''' Human

The first mate of the ''Raptor''.

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: The only member of the crew ''[[AvertedTrope not]]'' hit by this, as he remains a human.
* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler:He takes over as the captain once Captain Binbag is blown up.]]

!!Egbot

-->'''Race:''' Robot

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: From Dragonborn to robot.
* DoAnythingRobot: He possesses a ridiculous amount of sensors and gadgets, some of them installed in really weird places.

!!Mer-Ilwen
-->'''Race:''' Alien

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: From Wood Elf to an alien.

!!Pru d'Enzia

-->'''Race:''' Alien

The Chief of Security for the ''Raptor''.

* FreudianExcuse: Abandoned as a child, then subject to FantasticRacism and a cruel mentor, which caused Prudence to rebel against said mentor and make a blood pact with Cthulhu. This goes some way to explain how she's NotGoodWithPeople.

* BadButt: Despite being the group's TokenEvilTeammate, her other niche as the OnlySaneMan means she's occasionally fairly tame in how evil she chooses to be, as Prudence is perfectly willing to do virtuous things if its the most pragmatic means of fixing whatever problem the party is in - occasionally even being the main advocate for it when the rest of the party is getting especially chaotic, and is fine with limiting her darker impulses to PayEvilUntoEvil.