History Podcast / Fandible

* OffWithHisHead: Whipping Tom, after [[BadAss Moira]] [[ActionGirl Clayton]] slashes his head off.

* DrugsAreGood: Lucas Charam, Daniel's character in the [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Supernatural]] game session, ''Paint The Town Dead'', enjoys chain smoking doobies. His addiction is not quite [[TheStoner so bad that he's unable to function normally]], but his self-prescribed medicinal ganja lands the team in hot water occasionally - for example, when he starts hotboxing in the Haverford city morgue, with the locals cops waiting outside. He hates the [[RonaldReagan Reagan]] era's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Abuse_Resistance_Education D.A.R.E program]], because he thinks the acronym stands for "Drugs Are Really Expensive".

* [[spoiler: EveryBodyDidIt: Zig-zagged; most people were connected with two murders. In Billy's story of Buried Memories, the plot revolves around four unconnected people seeing incredibly weird things in a retreat and being unable to sleep. Turns out, they aren't as unconnected as it seems. It ends up being a murder plot where two lesbian lovers had their entire lives ruined by these four people; Miranda, the NPC sister of Daniel's character did a delivery he was supposed to do but didn't while drunk. When Miranda was coming back, David's character, a drunkard actor, ran her over, and was too wasted to do anything. When she finally got help, Jesus' character, a doctor, froze up during the surgery due to PTSD, costing Miranda valuable time and causing her to die when the replacement doctor was too late. The other lesbian lover, an NPC named Cynthia, was broken by Miranda's death, and tried to find a way to help herself survive. She ended up working under Angela's character, a business woman with medical anger problems who was aspiring to become CEO, a promotion not too far off. However, Angela's character overworked Cynthia and ended up exploding and throwing a coffee mug at her, which, combined with the recent passing of Miranda, drove her over the edge and caused her to commit suicide.]]

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Stevens and Rubia, a very dependable pair of [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] who inexplicably keep appearing, whenever the [[GameMaster GM]] is stumped for a name or two.

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* [[CrusadingWidower Crusading Widow]]: Moira Clayton ''née'' Hepburn, Angela's undead-butt-kickin' undertaker from [[TabletopGame/{{UnhallowedMetropolis}} Unhallowed Metropolis]], is a rare exception to this trope's [[AlwaysMale predominantly masculine slant]].

* TimeTravel: During the [[TabletopGame/{{RogueTrader}} Rogue Trader]] episode [[http://www.fandible.com/rogue-trader-ep-17-ascended-evil-part-1-of-2/ Ascended Evil]], the crew of the ''Shadow Labyrinth'' accidentally travelled through time due to a mishap in [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} the Warp]]. This led to several sharp remarks, such as Quantos pondering (upon their return to their own timeline) that, since they were back in their own present day, and that time was [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} the grim darkness of the far future]], this must mean that they had, in fact, gone [[Film/{{BackToTheFuture}} Back to the Future]]. When people mentioned their reluctance to risk further temporal peccadilloes, Billy [[Film/{{BackToTheFuture}} asked if they were chicken]]. Oh, and during their time warp, they picked up an [[Characters/{{Warhammer40000Eldar}} Eldar Farseer]], and since Jésus [[spoiler:needed to come up with a name on the spot]] is amazingly clever, he named the Eldar Tanniyen. (Presumably, his full name must have been [[Film/{{BackToTheFuture}} Biff Tanniyen]].)

* ImplaccableMan: Glory Hog, the alien motorbike driving zombie rocker from Rotted Capes. In the first episode alone, he survived an explosion, chased the PCs through the sewers, survived a water tank falling on him from a ten story building, and just wouldn't stop chasing them.

* RagTagBunchOfMisfits: In most Billyverse games, but due to the episodic nature and well defined characters in The Shambling, the PCs end up being a lot like this. A stunt double, a rich kid, a petty God loving thief, a construction worker, and a Romanian circus animal tamer and his monkey have never looked so close.

Podcast/{{Fandible}} is an Actual Play [[RolePlayingGame roleplaying]] podcast.

* TheAgeless: Alexander [[ScottishEnglish McIntyre]], a 200 year old alchemist, played by Jesus in the [[TabletopGame/{{TheDresdenFiles}} Dresden Files RPG]] Christmas Special.

* SnakeOilSalesman: Alexander [[ScottishEnglish McIntyre]], a 200 year old alchemist, played by Jesus in the [[TabletopGame/{{TheDresdenFiles}} Dresden Files RPG]] Christmas Special.

* [[spoiler: EveryBodyDidIt: Zig-zagged; most people were connected with two murders. In Billy's story of Buried Memories, the plot revolves around four unconnected people seeing incredibly weird things in a retreat and being unable to sleep. Turns out, they aren't as unconnected as it seems. It ends up being a murder plot where two lesbian lovers had their entire lives ruined by these four people; Miranda, the NPC sister of Jesus' character did a delivery he was supposed to do but didn't while drunk. When Miranda was coming back, David's character, a drunkard actor, ran her over, and was too wasted to do anything. When she finally got help, Daniel's character, a doctor, froze up during the surgery due to PTSD, costing Miranda valuable time and causing her to die when the replacement doctor was too late. The other lesbian lover, an NPC named Cynthia, was broken by Miranda's death, and tried to find a way to help herself survive. She ended up working under Angela's character, a business woman with medical anger problems who was aspiring to become CEO, a promotion not too far off. However, Angela's character overworked Cynthia and ended up exploding and throwing a coffee mug at her, which, combined with the recent passing of Miranda, drove her over the edge and caused her to commit suicide.]]

** Stored Gods is FULL of this trope. Characters from previous stories show up, and the entire auction covers goods from Founder's Heights. [[spoiler: It may as well be called Congealed Happiness 2: Not only does the Ink Monster show up again to kill people, his minion of choice is April Bwire from Pure Wax, who met her at the end after the wax monster fiasco, and they even run into Frances, one of the main three characters from Congealed Happiness. The story makes a point to mention previous stories at least once; Peggy mentions His Holy Light University by name, the story takes place in the same state camp HoneyBranch was, etc.]]

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Whipping Tom, after [[BadAss Moira Clayton]] slashes his head off.

** A plant creature creature that, like the ink monster, feeds off humans, but does so...by abducting drivers, putting them on Pseudo life support, and having them relive a single day over and over again. The weird part? The day it chooses to relive is ''incredibly'' stereotypically eighties, and its methods of killing people who go off its script include: Having copies of the people kill each other, having the camp counselors quarantine campers faking sickness by ''blowing them up with propane,'' dumping oysters in peoples heads, and [[BearsAreBadNews having people run at bears playing music at the highest volume.]]

** A plant creature creature that, like the ink monster, feeds off humans, but does so...by abducting drivers, putting them on Pseudo life support, and having them relive a single day over and over again. The weird part? The day it chooses to relive is ''incredibly'' stereotypically eighties, and its methods of killing people who go off its script include:
1: Having copies of the people kill each other.
2: Having the camp counselors quarantine campers faking sickness by ''blowing them up with propane.''
3: Dumping oysters in people's heads.
4: And [[BearsAreBadNews having people run at bears playing music at the highest volume.]]

** Stored Gods is FULL of this trope. Characters from previous stories show up, and the entire auction covers goods from Founder's Heights.

* [[spoiler EveryBodyDidIt: Zig-zagged; most people were connected with two murders. In Billy's story of Buried Memories, the plot revolves around four unconnected people seeing incredibly weird things in a retreat and being unable to sleep. Turns out, they aren't as unconnected as it seems. It ends up being a murder plot where two lesbian lovers had their entire lives ruined by these four people; Miranda, the NPC sister of Jesus' character did a delivery he was supposed to do but didn't while drunk. When Miranda was coming back, David's character, a drunkard actor, ran her over, and was too wasted to do anything. When she finally got help, Daniel's character, a doctor, froze up during the surgery due to PTSD, costing Miranda valuable time and causing her to die when the replacement doctor was too late. The other lesbian lover, an NPC named Cynthia, was broken by Miranda's death, and tried to find a way to help herself survive. She ended up working under Angela's character, a business woman with medical anger problems who was aspiring to become CEO, a promotion not too far off. However, Angela's character overworked Cynthia and ended up exploding and throwing a coffee mug at her, which, combined with the recent passing of Miranda, drove her over the edge and caused her to commit suicide.]]