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[[AC:Spicy Rat Caper]]
* When Dob's attempt to incapacitate the guard goes wrong, things go south and Prudence ends up using Eldritch Blast on him, resulting in deaths which the party did not want. After his initial anger towards Prudence and Merilwen for using (potentially) lethal force, Dob apologises for losing his temper and appreciates he shouldn't have had a go at them for trying to help.
* Towards the end of their first adventure, Prudence is getting ready to burn down the crypt Channail is using, but advised Corazon, Merilwen and Dob to get back and not get caught in the blast, as she's started to care about them. Considering her usual apathy towards people, this is quite a step forward.

[[AC: A Spot of Bother]]
* Dob mentions over drinks that he had expected Corazón to shoot once the previous adventure was done, and is pleasantly surprised when Corazón says that should stay together. Granted, it's because the pirate is afraid of his old crew coming to murder him, but it's still sweet.
* To celebrate the adventure end, the group decide to stay on the ship and just relax with music and some improvised fireworks.

[[AC: An Orc-Ward Encounter]]
* Their fourth D&D adventure ends with Luke suggesting a song, and he begins to play 'Vengabus' on his ukelele and sing it. Within three words, Ellen is joining in, and by the second line, all five of them are singing it. It's just a lovely moment to see, all five of them having a sing-along together.

[[AC:Quiet Riot]]
* At the end of the fifth D&D adventure, after Merilwen scuttles the crew's chances of having an epic battle with an Owlbear by using her ability to befriend animals to charm it, despite being vocally annoyed Corazón and the others nevertheless agree to neither kill the animal anyway or sell it into slavery despite being tempted to because they know that if they did, Merilwen would never forgive them.
** That Dob is the first person to give up on fighting the Owlbear and side with Merilwen speaks volumes about how much he values Merilwen, and also his good heart in general.

[[AC:Brawl of the Wild]]
* After years searching for one another, Dob reunites with his sister, Suzette. The experience is so genuinely happy that Ellen is in tears.

[[AC:Ship Happens]]
* An out of plot moment to be sure, but at the close of the adventure the OX Crew thanks Johnny and congratulates them on their successful new job with Dicebreaker... by gifting them an Adventurer's Guide straight from Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast signed by ''everyone who makes Dungeons & Dragons.'' Johnny, who is characteristically unflappable, is rendered too touched and stunned for words - even as the others get the crowd hyped and going again, they simply go along with it, trying to process such a grateful gesture.

[[AC:Rolling in the Deep]]
* Combining with [[Funny/{{Oxventure}} Funny]], Prudence's little speech about how she feels really accepted by the group. Admittedly, the thing she feels most gratified that they've come to accept is that she's a murderer, but it still counts, and anyway, this is D&D.
* Even though Prudence willingly tricked Corazón into opening a chest of spiders, she willingly defends him when he gets hit by a grell.

[[AC:Peak Performance]]
* When Dob falls in a pit and badly injures himself when a spike impales him, Egbert jumps in to heal him with pretty much no hesitation.

[[AC:Faire Trial]]
* After a SoBadItsGood pun from Luke regarding renting a horse as being "a la carte", Johnny gives inspiration. Not to cheapen it, but the group has been in incredibly rare form painting the scene. A difficult challenge given that this was the first session the group had to play remotely due to the [=COVID=] crisis, making it very hard to play off each other as they normally do.

[[AC:Elf Hazard]]
* Pretty much everything about Merilwen's parents, making a nice contrast with the rest of the party (who are orphaned, abandoned or otherwise strained with their own parents). Even when banshees are swarming towards the party and the rest of the village flees away, they stay with their daughter and refuse to abandon her despite not being combatants. Finally, she picks a new elf name for herself despite not wanting it, and even though they don't fully like the name they appreciate the effort.
* That Corazón would burn Eroan's house not just out of greed or spite, but because the elder was racist towards Prudence.

[[AC:Watch Out]]
* Throughout the adventure, Johnny is watching Luke DM with a look that commenters described as "proud dad".

[[AC:Unreal Estate]]
* At the end of the adventure, Corazón is understandably angry and bitter upon realising his father tried to buy the house and was completely nonchalant about trying to murder him. The others all try cheering him up by redecorating the house and singing a shanty. Finally, Merilwen offers Corazón a hug, which he seems indifferent towards... until she offers a literal bear hug, which he happily agrees to. It's super adorable.
** Dob even declares them [[TrueCompanions "family of choice"]].

[[AC:Silent Knight]]
* Surprisingly, the Guild find themselves back in Inkwater, and in contrast to many towns and cities they've been back to before, they find out they're heroes to the town for liberating them over two years ago, with a festival celebrating their victory.
** The team is genuinely wowed by how much the town appreciates their actions. Of particular note, when Johnny is describing how the town have memorialized Merilwen's Meat Grinder (as a slide down a hill into a tickle pit), Ellen gets a gigantic grin on her face and covers her mouth with both hands.
* Despite several close calls, not a ''single'' Inkwater citizen is killed, and the Guild remain heroes in the town.

[[AC:Sail of the Century]]
* Rust-on-the-Harbour returns, surprisingly in Liliana's employ as a mercenary. As soon as he finds out that he's been hired to kill his friends, the Guild, he agrees to hold a duel to see if he'll defect. When he loses, he willingly sides with them against Liliana.
* The Guild are themselves happy to see Rust, even if he was working for Liliana.

[[AC:High Moon]]
* Egbert's access to ''moonbeam'' and ''speak with animals'' has given both him and Corazón a ton of ammunition for {{Troll}}ing Merilwen, which they've been using relentlessly. Then the time comes for Prudence to reveal that she's a werebear...and instead of going down the same route, the ChaoticEvil warlock tries to handle it with as much delicacy as possible and spares Merilwen's feelings to the best of her ability. It really shows how close the two are.
* Corazón sneaks out to tail Prudence when a strange woman named Jamila wants to speak with her since he's concerned for her safety. Once he finds it's on the up-and-up, Corazón simply sneaks back to give Prudence her privacy.
* That Jamila and Frankie have been in a relationship for a year despite the latter being a werebear.
* Although the werebears in the town are perfectly happy with their status as werebears, they are happy to help cure Prudence if that's what she wishes. She eventually sticks with it, but is grateful for the offer all the same.

[[AC:Monky Business]]
* Realizing that the gnome Brigid is sort of on the outs with her guild and having a rough time, Corazón makes her a bacon breakfast sandwich and Egbert offers her a pamphlet. Despite the fact that her guild are rivals.
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''For moments from the Oxventures, see {{Heartwarming.Oxventure}}''
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* During an Among Us stream Luke and Eurogamers Ian Higton decided, after being killed off early twice, that they would team up as “Space Buddies”, agreeing no matter what happened if they were imposters or crewmates they would stick together and if one of them were the imposter and had to kill the other, that would be okay. They then spent two rounds where they were both crewmates adorably going round together watching out for each other and being alive at the end of the game.
** In a later round, which also doubles as being hilariously funny, when Ian was the imposter he killed Andy in front of Luke (choosing not to kill Luke). Feeling conflicted Luke reported the murder to the group but did not at any moment mention the fact he saw Ian kill Andy refusing to turn on his buddy but instead covering for him. Even when the group (especially Eurogamer’s Aoife Wilson) started grilling Luke incorrectly suspecting he might be an imposter he still didn’t turn on his Space Buddy.
** Unfortunately, when Aoife and Luke were standing too close to each other in the next phase of the game Ian accidently killed Luke when he meant to kill Aoife. Ian’s face after realising he killed his Space Buddy showed the guilt he felt and Luke’s face seemed to show acceptance almost straight away that it was an accident and wasn’t angry with Ian. Despite the betrayal and everyone working out Ian was the imposter pretty quickly in the discussion that followed, Luke hid his face during the discussion phase because he didn’t want his face to bias anyone’s decision on Ian and then after Ian was unsurprisingly voted out, Luke offered to become “Ghost Buddies” which Ian accepted and they still followed each other round. After the game ended Luke and Ian confessed to the group their side of the story and they both confirmed they were never planning to turn on each other.
* Also during Among Us streams, other players such as Luke, Jane and Eurogamer’s Aoife Wilson have on numerous occasions trusted Ellen to also be a crewmate despite having no real reason to believe so, they seem to just use their instinct and gut feeling that Ellen is a good person.
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* "Showdown of the Week" has a Friendship phase in which Ellen has to guess what Luke answered when he was asked "What is Ellen's best quality?" Ellen guesses it was her laughter, because he mentioned it's so frequent that it makes him look funnier than he is. While this is true, he also said it was because her laughter is the best way to describe her joyful nature, and the world should emulate it.

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* "Showdown of the Week" has a Friendship phase in which styled like ''Series/TheNewlywedGame'': Luke was asked a question and Ellen has to guess what Luke answered when he his answer was asked to: "What is Ellen's best quality?" Ellen guesses it was her laughter, because he mentioned it's so frequent that it makes him look funnier than he is. While this is true, he also said it was because her laughter is the best way to describe her joyful nature, and the world should emulate it.



* Outside Xtra's let's play of Link's Awakening with Producer John is full of this. With one commenter claiming (correctly) that it feels like a Dad showing off his favourite game to his two kids.

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* Outside Xtra's let's play of Link's Awakening with Producer John Jon is full of this. With one commenter claiming (correctly) that it feels like a Dad showing off his favourite favorite game to his two kids.
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* Egbert's access to ''moonbeam'' and ''speak with animals'' has given both him and Corazón a ton of ammunition for {{Troll}}ing Merilwen, which they've been using relentlessly. Then the time comes for Prudence to reveal that she's a werebear...and instead of going down the same route, the ChaoticEvil warlock tries to handle it with as much delicacy as possible and spares Merilwen's feelings to the best of her ability. It really shows how close the two are.
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* The [[https://youtu.be/uAapI9zwWsU?t=623 group hug]] at the end of the "8 Achievements That Took Serious Planning: Commenter Edition" video. It's PlayedForLaughs, but still very sweet.
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** The team is genuinely wowed by how much the town appreciates their actions. Of particular note, when Johnny is describing how the town have memorialized Merilwen's Meat Grinder (as a slide down a hill into a tickle pit), Ellen gets a gigantic grin on her face and covers her mouth with both hands.
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[[AC:Monky Business]]
* Realizing that the gnome Brigid is sort of on the outs with her guild and having a rough time, Corazón makes her a bacon breakfast sandwich and Egbert offers her a pamphlet. Despite the fact that her guild are rivals.
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* An out of plot moment to be sure, but at the close of the adventure the OX Crew thanks Johnny and congratulates him on his successful new job with Dicebreaker... by gifting him an Adventurer's Guide straight from Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast signed by ''everyone who makes Dungeons & Dragons.'' Johnny, who is characteristically unflappable, is rendered too touched and stunned for words - even as the others get the crowd hyped and going again, he simply goes along with it, trying to process such a grateful gesture.

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* An out of plot moment to be sure, but at the close of the adventure the OX Crew thanks Johnny and congratulates him them on his their successful new job with Dicebreaker... by gifting him them an Adventurer's Guide straight from Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast signed by ''everyone who makes Dungeons & Dragons.'' Johnny, who is characteristically unflappable, is rendered too touched and stunned for words - even as the others get the crowd hyped and going again, he they simply goes go along with it, trying to process such a grateful gesture.

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[[AC:Brawl of the Wild]]
* After years searching for one another, Dob reunites with his sister, Suzette. The experience is so genuinely happy that Ellen is in tears.



* An out of plot moment to be sure, but at the close of the adventure the OX Crew thanks Johnny and congratulates him on his successful new Youtube series... by gifting him an Adventurer's Guide straight from Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast signed by ''everyone who makes Dungeons & Dragons.'' Johnny, who is characteristically unflappable, is rendered too touched and stunned for words - even as the others get the crowd hyped and going again, he simply goes along with it, trying to process such a grateful gesture.

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* An out of plot moment to be sure, but at the close of the adventure the OX Crew thanks Johnny and congratulates him on his successful new Youtube series...job with Dicebreaker... by gifting him an Adventurer's Guide straight from Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast signed by ''everyone who makes Dungeons & Dragons.'' Johnny, who is characteristically unflappable, is rendered too touched and stunned for words - even as the others get the crowd hyped and going again, he simply goes along with it, trying to process such a grateful gesture.




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* Even though Prudence willingly tricked Corazón into opening a chest of spiders, she willingly defends him when he gets hit by a grell.

[[AC:Peak Performance]]
* When Dob falls in a pit and badly injures himself when a spike impales him, Egbert jumps in to heal him with pretty much no hesitation.



[[AC: Elf Hazard]]
* Pretty much everything about Merilwen's parents, making a nice contrast with the rest of the party (who are orphaned, abandoned or otherwise strained with their own parents). Even when banshees are swarming towards the party and the rest of the village flees away, they stay with their daughter and refuse to abandon her despite not being combatants.

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[[AC: Elf [[AC:Elf Hazard]]
* Pretty much everything about Merilwen's parents, making a nice contrast with the rest of the party (who are orphaned, abandoned or otherwise strained with their own parents). Even when banshees are swarming towards the party and the rest of the village flees away, they stay with their daughter and refuse to abandon her despite not being combatants. Finally, she picks a new elf name for herself despite not wanting it, and even though they don't fully like the name they appreciate the effort.



* Corazón sneaks out to tail Prudence when a strange woman named Jamila wants to speak with her since he's concerned for her safety. Once he finds its on the up-and-up, Corazón simply sneaks back to give Prudence her privacy.

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* Corazón sneaks out to tail Prudence when a strange woman named Jamila wants to speak with her since he's concerned for her safety. Once he finds its it's on the up-and-up, Corazón simply sneaks back to give Prudence her privacy. privacy.
* That Jamila and Frankie have been in a relationship for a year despite the latter being a werebear.
* Although the werebears in the town are perfectly happy with their status as werebears, they are happy to help cure Prudence if that's what she wishes. She eventually sticks with it, but is grateful for the offer all the same.
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* In "Ellen's Souls Academy", an invader named Charlotte shows up in the Duke's Archives to give some unexpected help, moving a staircase for Ellen and leaving multiple gifts. Both Ellen and Luke are very appreciative, and Ellen wears the witch hat Charlotte gave her for the rest of the stream.
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[[AC:High Moon]]
* Corazón sneaks out to tail Prudence when a strange woman named Jamila wants to speak with her since he's concerned for her safety. Once he finds its on the up-and-up, Corazón simply sneaks back to give Prudence her privacy.
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[[AC:Silent Knight]]
* Surprisingly, the Guild find themselves back in Inkwater, and in contrast to many towns and cities they've been back to before, they find out they're heroes to the town for liberating them over two years ago, with a festival celebrating their victory.
* Despite several close calls, not a ''single'' Inkwater citizen is killed, and the Guild remain heroes in the town.

[[AC:Sail of the Century]]
* Rust-on-the-Harbour returns, surprisingly in Liliana's employ as a mercenary. As soon as he finds out that he's been hired to kill his friends, the Guild, he agrees to hold a duel to see if he'll defect. When he loses, he willingly sides with them against Liliana.
* The Guild are themselves happy to see Rust, even if he was working for Liliana.
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* That Corazón would break into Eroan's house not just out of greed or spite, but because the elder was racist towards Prudence.

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* That Corazón would break into burn Eroan's house not just out of greed or spite, but because the elder was racist towards Prudence.
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** Dob even declares them [[TrueCompanions "family of choice"]].

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[[AC: A Spot of Bother]]
* Dob mentions over drinks that he had expected Corazón to shoot once the previous adventure was done, and is pleasantly surprised when Corazón says that should stay together. Granted, it's because the pirate is afraid of his old crew coming to murder him, but it's still sweet.
* To celebrate the adventure end, the group decide to stay on the ship and just relax with music and some improvised fireworks.



* Pretty much everything about Merilwen's parents, making a nice contrast with the rest of the party. Even when banshees are swarming towards the party and the rest of the village flees away, they stay with their daughter and refuse to abandon her despite not being combatants.
* That Corazón would break into Erowin's house not just out of greed or spite, but because the elder was racist towards Prudence.

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* Pretty much everything about Merilwen's parents, making a nice contrast with the rest of the party.party (who are orphaned, abandoned or otherwise strained with their own parents). Even when banshees are swarming towards the party and the rest of the village flees away, they stay with their daughter and refuse to abandon her despite not being combatants.
* That Corazón would break into Erowin's Eroan's house not just out of greed or spite, but because the elder was racist towards Prudence.


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[[AC:Unreal Estate]]
* At the end of the adventure, Corazón is understandably angry and bitter upon realising his father tried to buy the house and was completely nonchalant about trying to murder him. The others all try cheering him up by redecorating the house and singing a shanty. Finally, Merilwen offers Corazón a hug, which he seems indifferent towards... until she offers a literal bear hug, which he happily agrees to. It's super adorable.

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* Outside Xtra's let's play of Link's Awakening with Producer John is full of this. With one commenter claiming (correctly) that it feels like a Dad showing off his favourite game to his two kids.


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* Outside Xtra's let's play of Link's Awakening with Producer John is full of this. With one commenter claiming (correctly) that it feels like a Dad showing off his favourite game to his two kids.
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* During a livestream in June 2019, Producer Jon took apart Ellen's old Game Boy and modded it for her as a gift after noticing his MrFixIt tendencies.
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* After a SoBadItsGood pun from Luke regarding renting a horse as being "a la carte", Johnny gives inspiration. Not to cheapen it, but the group has been in incredibly rare form painting the scene incresibly, especially since this particular Oxventure was done remotely and they couldn't play off each other as well as a result.

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* After a SoBadItsGood pun from Luke regarding renting a horse as being "a la carte", Johnny gives inspiration. Not to cheapen it, but the group has been in incredibly rare form painting the scene incresibly, especially since scene. A difficult challenge given that this particular Oxventure was done the first session the group had to play remotely and they couldn't due to the [=COVID=] crisis, making it very hard to play off each other as well as a result.
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[[AC:Watch Out]]
* Throughout the adventure, Johnny is watching Luke DM with a look that commenters described as "proud dad".



[[AC:Watch Out]]
* Throughout the adventure, Johnny is watching Luke DM with a look that commenters described as "proud dad".

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