History Roleplay / TheGrandHeist

%% * DifficultySpike: The fight with Lamora's guard was significantly harder than the previous fights

* %% * Time travelling around the city is usually handwaved. No one is really sure about the scale of the city.

* %% * Particularly with Rhen gymnastic battling
%% * AccidentalPublicConfession: Jaima mentions that she already knew about the [[spoiler: tiefling genocide plot]] in the middle of a heated argument with the party, assuming they had figured it out earlier based on her lack of surprise at some of Sorensen's comments.
* %% * Hope lies badly and reveals [[spoiler: she is in bad standing with her church]]

%% * AfterActionPatchUp: After running away from the fire in TD, there were a lot of wounds to heal. Psychologically as well as physically
%% * AerithAndBob: Aletheia, Failarhen, Aster, Arianella, and the relatively normal Jaima and Hope.
%% * AlwaysChaoticEvil: Undead. The drow are rumoured to be this
* %% * Werewolves too (or at least that's what the party assumes)
%% * AmbiguousGender: Vecna, mostly due to conflicting accounts over the years
* %% * In [[spoiler: Theia's confrontation]] Vecna seems to take a unique appearance for everyone that sees them

%% * AnimateDead: Hope uses this to great effect in the final battle, using an army of skeletons to kill Malikos.
%% * ArmiesAreEvil: The party believes that Yale's military is highly involved in [[spoiler: genocide plans against Yale's tieflings]].

%% * AStormIsComing: The ominous clouds and lightning strike at the end of session 7 even worry [[spoiler: the voice in Hope's head]]

%% * BadassBookworm: Magic is a skill that comes from books and study. Calypso has an enormous library.

%% * BagOfHolding: Contains a tree, a large moving painting, lots of supplies, and whatever Rhen sticks in it

%% * BattleAmongstTheFlames: The end of the werewolf fight, after Ari's firebolt misses and sets the tavern on fire

%% * BigFancyHouse: The noble's house that was infiltrated by the party
* %% * Jaima's visit to Ari's house revealed that the Luanzan's also have a nice place
%% * BoltOfDivineRetribution: Inverted. Divine Lightning bolts is striking good people and creating chaos.
%% * CastSpeciation: Enforced. The [=DM=] required each player to choose different classes

* %% * Still continuing with this progress
%% * ChekhovsGun: In session 3, Theia mentions that she has to cancel a date to talk to Rag. In session 6, it turns out that the date was with the daughter of the minor nobleman she was staying with, who kicks her out after she first misses the date and then disappears for three days.

%% * [[HighSchoolAU College AU]]: Where all the characters are everyday Yale students
* %% * Jaima is the partying rugby player who drinks a lot. She did ROTC her freshman year and hated it.
* %% * Ari is a partying sorority legacy student.
* %% * Hope is a student in the divinity school who helps out at Dwight Hall events a lot and should probably go to Yale Health. Voices in your head are not good for mental health.
* %% * Aster is the super enthusiastic freshman on the baseball team.
** %% * He found a stray puppy one day a couple blocks away from Yale and now is trying to hide it from administration and his Froco.
* %% * Bjorn is Aster's beleaguered team captain who recruited Aster to the team.
%% * CulturalPosturing: Lamora does this in spades for the [[spoiler:drow]]. To a lesser extent, elves and humans of Yale seem to do this for their own societies.

* %% * [[spoiler: Hope's vision sequence courtesy of the chaos god Seth takes place in a creepy cathedral.]]
%% * ADayInTheLimelight: Session 6 was formatted as 6 separate events, each one focusing on a separate character

%% * DealWithTheDevil: Twice in the same session. Vecna offers to make Theia a goddess, but she refuses. Hope, on the other hand, agrees to work for Seth if he'll help her find and protect her friends.

%% * DeityOfHumanOrigin: Hercules. Significant to Bjorn and Aster. Bjorn tells Aster that he admires Hercules because he made many mortal mistakes and still ascended to godhood
%% * DemBones: The party has killed lots of skellies at this point

%% * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Jaima attempts to punch the image of Seth. Sadly incorporeal, but she still get the title "God Puncher"

* %% * Admittedly, the GM had not balanced things that well in previous encounters.
%% * DivideAndConquer: Theia's promised freedom if Rag gave a speech. This then caused half of Lamora's army to turn on eachother.

%% * DoYouWantToHaggle: Ari haggles for a room in the inn. Believing that Ari is a rich city girl, the innkeeper gives a very high starting price. Being a rich city girl, Ari accepts it.

%% * EternalEnglish: Subverted. Much to Theia's frustration. The Undercommon used and one Theia speaks is slightly different
* %% * [[spoiler: Lamora remarked that Theia's pronunciation was "worse than a child's"]]
%% * EveryoneIsBi: Half the party. The other half [[ObliviousToLove hasn't made mention of romance either way]]
* %% * Although in spite of the trope names, this may actually fall somewhere between this trope and CastFullOfGay. Half of the party is bi, and their sexualities seem to be a non-issue, but it's unclear whether bisexuality is the norm in this world or whether it's just common among the party.
%% * FailedASpotCheck: Despite studying the Arcane, Theia and Ari both have a hard time identifying magical artifacts

%% * FantasticRacism: Everyone hated the drow who also hated everyone else

* %% * Dol Arrah
* %% * Tiamut
* %% * Bahamut
* %% * Arwan
* %% * Hercules
* %% * Seth
* %% * Moradin
* %% * Balinor
* %% * Vecna

* %% * [[spoiler: Hope freaks out in the Hall of Whispers, and asks if anyone else knows the voice]]
* %% * [[spoiler: Hope also has asked Aster if he 'talks' with Hercules and the method he uses to cast magic]]

%% * TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: There are some thick guards in Yale City.

%% * GreatOffscreenWar: Quite a few. Between the drow and Yale founders, between Yale and other nations, between the followers of Dol Arrah and dragonborn

* %% * Session 7, when Jaima visited Ari, they had quite the row. Thankfully, it seemed both learned from it

%% * HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: PlayedStraight. Nobody in the party wears something that covers their face.
* %% * Using a dragon scale, Aster makes a helmet which he proudly shows Bjorn

* %% * They are not technically illegal, merely frowned upon.
* %% * Except Vecna. Vecna worship is illegal.
* %% * And nobody likes Seth or Tiamat.

* %% * The color changing ring

%% * KillerGameMaster: PlayedForLaughs. DM laughs maniacally [[spoiler: and uncontrollably, with their complete lack of a poker face]] when talking about upcoming plot points
* %% * Averted, however, in that the DM has also said that they don't want to kill the [=PCs.=]
** %% * Psychological trauma is not off the table, however.

* %% * Very literally, the two manage to agree on making Trish the crown
%% * LandOfOneCity: Yale is an independent city-state, as are many of the surrounding cities.
%% * LastOfHerKind: [[spoiler: High Priestess Lamora, a drow cleric, seems to be one of the few drow left]]
%% * LeakingCanOfEvil: The Orb of Vecna doesn't seem good. [[spoiler:It tries to make Theia and Rhen hold onto it.]]
* %% * [[spoiler: It corrupts Theia into diving the labyrinth and talking with Vecna]]

* %% * [[spoiler: the orb of Vecna lures Theia and Rhen into a chamber with Lamora outside. Subverted as it seemed Lamora didn't know they were there]]

* %% * Bjorn isn't looking too good as of session 7.

* %% * Jaima's Greataxe of the War Leader

* %% * Ari's weasel familiar Percy

* %% * Hope revisits both the rooms of Harkness Tower and the ruins of the Bronze Rat Tavern
* %% * Theia and Rhen revisit the labyrinth, including the Hall of Whispers visited in session 2.

* %% * Hercules is mostly unchanged from his [[Myth/ClassicalMythology greek incarnation]]

* %% * Also the party's condo as of session 6
* %% * After becoming homeless, Theia buys an apartment. She invites Hope and Rhen to live there as well

* %% * Aster glows when he is imbued with the power of Hercules.

* %% * She does not buy food. She convinced the tavern owner long ago that she could bring in more money by playing music, in return for free food.

* %% * [[spoiler: The enemies have been undead (not intelligent beings) and werewolves (rather angry beings)]]
* %% * Mostly averted by the party as well, partially because the non-caster grunts were standing in front of the casters and easier to hit first.

* %% * [[spoiler: The sacred weapon of Hope's goddess is a halberd.]]
* %% * [[spoiler: The sacred "weapon" of Seth, on the other hand, is poison.]]

* %% * TopGod: Dol Arrah
* %% * GodOfEvil: Vecna/Tiamat
* %% * BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: Arwan
* %% * GodOfGood: The ascended human Hercules
* %% * [[NatureSpirit Nature God]]: Balinor
* %% * WarGod: Bahamut
* %% * [[TricksterArchetype Trickster God]]: Seth

* %% * Hasn't been abused....yet

* %% * They do steal a boat, but ultimately, the title of the campaign is a bit of a misnomer.

* %% * Hope's wild laughter isn't a good sign

* AbsenceOfEvidence: Hope claims this was all that was between her and a worse punishment than banishment
* AcceptableBreaksFromReality
** Time travelling around the city is usually handwaved. No one is really sure about the scale of the city.
* AcquittedTooLate: Asteria seems to strongly believe that Hope is innocent, but unless she can convince the rest of the church...
* ActionGirl: With a party of 5 women, this trope applies to varying degrees, but Rhen probably fits it the most
** Particularly with Rhen gymnastic battling
* AccidentalPublicConfession: Jaima mentions that she already knew about the [[spoiler: tiefling genocide plot]] in the middle of a heated argument with the party, assuming they had figured it out earlier based on her lack of surprise at some of Sorensen's comments.
** Hope lies badly and reveals [[spoiler: she is in bad standing with her church]]
* AdjectiveAnimalAlehouse: The Bronze Rat Tavern
* AfterActionPatchUp: After running away from the fire in TD, there were a lot of wounds to heal. Psychologically as well as physically
* AerithAndBob: Aletheia, Failarhen, Aster, Arianella, and the relatively normal Jaima and Hope.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Undead. The drow are rumoured to be this
** Werewolves too (or at least that's what the party assumes)
* AmbiguousGender: Vecna, mostly due to conflicting accounts over the years
** In [[spoiler: Theia's confrontation]] Vecna seems to take a unique appearance for everyone that sees them
* AncientEvil: The drow gathered some creepy stuff.
* AndThisIsFor: Jaima dedicates her attacks on Malikos to Hope.
* AnimateDead: Hope uses this to great effect in the final battle, using an army of skeletons to kill Malikos.
* ArmiesAreEvil: The party believes that Yale's military is highly involved in [[spoiler: genocide plans against Yale's tieflings]].
* AristocratsAreEvil: [[spoiler: The owner of Ari's debt is at least not nice]]
* ArtifactOfDoom: Orb of Vecna
* AStormIsComing: The ominous clouds and lightning strike at the end of session 7 even worry [[spoiler: the voice in Hope's head]]
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: The campaign ended with Tris's coronation.
* BadassBookworm: Magic is a skill that comes from books and study. Calypso has an enormous library.
* TheBadGuysAreCops: While not bad, the city's guard can be quite sketchy at times.
* BagOfHolding: Contains a tree, a large moving painting, lots of supplies, and whatever Rhen sticks in it
* BadGuyBar: The Bronze Rat Tavern, meeting place of the Dragon Skulls
* BattleAmongstTheFlames: The end of the werewolf fight, after Ari's firebolt misses and sets the tavern on fire
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Justified. Theia can use magic to gussy up the other party members
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Theia seems very skeptical of Vecna's offerings
* BeneathTheEarth: The drow city that Yale is built on top of
* BerserkButton: For the whole party, but particularly Aster: Don't hurt Puppy.
* BigFancyHouse: The noble's house that was infiltrated by the party
** Jaima's visit to Ari's house revealed that the Luanzan's also have a nice place
* BoltOfDivineRetribution: Inverted. Divine Lightning bolts is striking good people and creating chaos.
* CastSpeciation: Enforced. The [=DM=] required each player to choose different classes
* CerebusSyndrome: Gradually growing darker and darker
** Still continuing with this progress
* ChekhovsGun: In session 3, Theia mentions that she has to cancel a date to talk to Rag. In session 6, it turns out that the date was with the daughter of the minor nobleman she was staying with, who kicks her out after she first misses the date and then disappears for three days.
* CloudCuckoolander: Rhen can be serious when she wants to, but this is her default state
* [[spoiler:TheCuckoolanderWasRight]]: Rhen thought she saw an extinct Drow. [[spoiler:And she was right]]
* CityGuards
* CityNoir
* CityOfAdventure: Yale City
* TheCityVsTheCountry: Some tensions between the city dwelling party and the country folk of the town
* ClearTheirName: The party wants to help Hope clear hers
* [[HighSchoolAU College AU]]: Where all the characters are everyday Yale students
** Jaima is the partying rugby player who drinks a lot. She did ROTC her freshman year and hated it.
** Ari is a partying sorority legacy student.
** Hope is a student in the divinity school who helps out at Dwight Hall events a lot and should probably go to Yale Health. Voices in your head are not good for mental health.
** Aster is the super enthusiastic freshman on the baseball team.
*** He found a stray puppy one day a couple blocks away from Yale and now is trying to hide it from administration and his Froco.
** Bjorn is Aster's beleaguered team captain who recruited Aster to the team.
* CulturalPosturing: Lamora does this in spades for the [[spoiler:drow]]. To a lesser extent, elves and humans of Yale seem to do this for their own societies.
* CurbStompBattle: Aster completely destroys the displacer beast in the vault
* CreepyCathedral: While not an elaborate Cathedral, the church in the town is certainly creepy
** [[spoiler: Hope's vision sequence courtesy of the chaos god Seth takes place in a creepy cathedral.]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: Session 6 was formatted as 6 separate events, each one focusing on a separate character
* [[spoiler: DancePartyEnding]]: [[spoiler: The story ends with the party dancing and enjoying the feast
* DealWithTheDevil: Twice in the same session. Vecna offers to make Theia a goddess, but she refuses. Hope, on the other hand, agrees to work for Seth if he'll help her find and protect her friends.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Calypso is happy to be friends after a game of riddles
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Hercules. Significant to Bjorn and Aster. Bjorn tells Aster that he admires Hercules because he made many mortal mistakes and still ascended to godhood
* DemBones: The party has killed lots of skellies at this point
* DemonSlaying: Aster destroys the demon inside of Bjorn
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Jaima attempts to punch the image of Seth. Sadly incorporeal, but she still get the title "God Puncher"
* DifficultySpike: The fight with Lamora's guard was significantly harder than the previous fights
** Admittedly, the GM had not balanced things that well in previous encounters.
* DivideAndConquer: Theia's promised freedom if Rag gave a speech. This then caused half of Lamora's army to turn on eachother.
* DoingResearch: Ari or Theia are the ones doing book research
* DoYouWantToHaggle: Ari haggles for a room in the inn. Believing that Ari is a rich city girl, the innkeeper gives a very high starting price. Being a rich city girl, Ari accepts it.
* DramaticIrony: Cue [=DM=] cackling frequently
* [[spoiler: EarnYourHappyEnding]]: After a lot of pain and suffering
* EasingIntoTheAdventure: The first session compared to the others
* ElvesVsDwarves
* EternalEnglish: Subverted. Much to Theia's frustration. The Undercommon used and one Theia speaks is slightly different
** [[spoiler: Lamora remarked that Theia's pronunciation was "worse than a child's"]]
* EveryoneIsBi: Half the party. The other half [[ObliviousToLove hasn't made mention of romance either way]]
** Although in spite of the trope names, this may actually fall somewhere between this trope and CastFullOfGay. Half of the party is bi, and their sexualities seem to be a non-issue, but it's unclear whether bisexuality is the norm in this world or whether it's just common among the party.
* FailedASpotCheck: Despite studying the Arcane, Theia and Ari both have a hard time identifying magical artifacts
* FantasticGhetto: The TD sector, mostly populated by Tieflings
* FantasticLightSource: Ari casts Light on her ring and gives it to Percy to light up Harkness
* FantasticRacism: Everyone hated the drow who also hated everyone else

* FantasyGunControl
* FantasyKitchenSink: Hercules, Bahamut, a Sphinx, a minotaur
* FantasyPantheon: Nine gods are currently known
** Dol Arrah
** Tiamut
** Bahamut
** Arwan
** Hercules
** Seth
** Moradin
** Balinor
** Vecna
* FantasyWorldMap: [[http://imgur.com/X91tPyq Found Here]]
* FarmBoy: Aster wrestles with some farm boys in the town. He wins obviously
* FeedTheMole: Sorensen sends Caemian false info through the party
* FetchQuest
* FictionalDocument: Outlining the political history of Yale
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In spades
** [[spoiler: Hope freaks out in the Hall of Whispers, and asks if anyone else knows the voice]]
** [[spoiler: Hope also has asked Aster if he 'talks' with Hercules and the method he uses to cast magic]]
* FriendlyFireproof: While the party members haven't been burned by Ari's magic. [[spoiler: The buildings around her haven't been so lucky]]
* FriendshipDenial: It varies from person to person, but some of the party members are reluctant to call other party members their friends
* FromBadToWorse
* GameMaster: Akitcougar writes and runs the campaign for the players
* GovernmentConspiracy
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: There are some thick guards in Yale City.

* GreatOffscreenWar: Quite a few. Between the drow and Yale founders, between Yale and other nations, between the followers of Dol Arrah and dragonborn
* HauntedCastle: The ancient and undead filled Harkness tower has elements of this
* {{Hammerspace}}: Justfied with the BagOfHolding
* HeadbuttingHeroes: Jaima and Ari (though they do have occasional moments of bonding).
** Session 7, when Jaima visited Ari, they had quite the row. Thankfully, it seemed both learned from it
* HealingPotion
* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: PlayedStraight. Nobody in the party wears something that covers their face.
** Using a dragon scale, Aster makes a helmet which he proudly shows Bjorn
* HeroInsurance
* HeroesLoveDogs: Puppy!
* HighFantasy
* TheHighwayman: Party fought off highway bandits
* HolyHandGrenade: Undead run fast from Hope and Aster
* IdleRich: Many nobles in Yale City seem content to enjoy their life of wealth
* IllegalReligion: Most everything besides the worship of Dol Arrah in the city
** They are not technically illegal, merely frowned upon.
** Except Vecna. Vecna worship is illegal.
** And nobody likes Seth or Tiamat.
* ImprovisedLightningRod: Hope's summoned metal blade makes Ari's Lightning more effective in hitting Lamora.
* InescapableAmbush: The Dragon Skulls were waiting for the party at the entrance to a dungeon
* INeverToldYouMyName: Sorensen somehow knows Theia's name
* InnateNightVision: Much of the party has dark vision
* InnBetweenTheWorlds: Mundane. The tiny inn in the town metaphorically separates the party from the bustle the city and the fantastic and mysterious forest.
* ItsPersonal: Hope wants to stop the Dragon Skulls (specifically Malikos) because of their part in her sister's death.
* JigsawPuzzlePlot: So many unanswered mysteries
* JokeItem
** The color changing ring
* JusticeWillPrevail: One of Aster's most important beliefs
* KillerGameMaster: PlayedForLaughs. DM laughs maniacally [[spoiler: and uncontrollably, with their complete lack of a poker face]] when talking about upcoming plot points
** Averted, however, in that the DM has also said that they don't want to kill the [=PCs.=]
*** Psychological trauma is not off the table, however.
* KingmakerScenario: The two spymasters can't defeat each other and need outside help from lowly sources
** Very literally, the two manage to agree on making Trish the crown
* LandOfOneCity: Yale is an independent city-state, as are many of the surrounding cities.
* LastOfHerKind: [[spoiler: High Priestess Lamora, a drow cleric, seems to be one of the few drow left]]
* LeakingCanOfEvil: The Orb of Vecna doesn't seem good. [[spoiler:It tries to make Theia and Rhen hold onto it.]]
** [[spoiler: It corrupts Theia into diving the labyrinth and talking with Vecna]]
* LethalJokeItem: Theia's patchwork robe came in handy when fleeing the battle with Lamora
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards
%%* LockedDoor: The true Big Bad
* LukeYouAreMyFather: Caemian discovers [[spoiler: Theia is his daughter]] near the end of the story and only has it fully confirmed at the coronation.
* LuredIntoATrap
** [[spoiler: the orb of Vecna lures Theia and Rhen into a chamber with Lamora outside. Subverted as it seemed Lamora didn't know they were there]]

* MagicalAccessory: Hope's Necklace, Theia's Ring, Ari's Necklace
* MagicalLibrary: Calypso's Library
* MagicIsMental
* MaliciousMisnaming: Sorensen asks for Theia's last name but continues to call her Barnes.
* MasterRace: The drow think highly of themselves. High elves also think highly of themselves.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: The cleric who took Hope in died under mysterious circumstances.
** Bjorn isn't looking too good as of session 7.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Hope claims that she was banished with no evidence
* MundaneUtility: Theia uses her prestidigitation spell to clean up Hope and do Rhen's hair
* NamedWeapon: Many
** Jaima's Greataxe of the War Leader
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ari tries to defend herself with fire magic and ends up burning down a shanty town
* NoIndoorVoice: Jaima. The problem is compounded with a voice amplifying axe
* NonHumanSidekick: A surprisingly loyal dog Puppy.
** Ari's weasel familiar Percy
* NotHelpingYourCase: The party comments that Hope's fleeing of Asteria would just make her more suspicious
* NotSoExtinct: [[spoiler: The drow]]

* OffWithHisHead: Jaima's killing blow on [[spoiler: Lamora]]
* OneTimeDungeon: Very much avoided.
** Hope revisits both the rooms of Harkness Tower and the ruins of the Bronze Rat Tavern
** Theia and Rhen revisit the labyrinth, including the Hall of Whispers visited in session 2.

** Hercules is mostly unchanged from his [[Myth/ClassicalMythology greek incarnation]]
* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: The party fought the bones of a large minotaur in Harkness Tower
* PlayerHeadquarters: Mufasa Tavern and Harkness Tower
** Also the party's condo as of session 6
** After becoming homeless, Theia buys an apartment. She invites Hope and Rhen to live there as well
* PlayerParty: Party of Six

* PowerGlows: Rag's glowy sword. As Ari says, "I would generally rather avoid people with glowy red swords."
** Aster glows when he is imbued with the power of Hercules.
* PressurePlate
* TheQuest: Get the Macguffin. Fight the bad guys. Save the city
* QuestGiver: The researcher who sends the party to Harkness

* ReadTheFinePrint: Theia is very concerned about knowing the details before signing a contract with Vecna
* ReligionOfEvil: While not strictly evil, the followers of Vecna don't seem to be good either
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Lamora seems eager to blast Rag with lightning for abondoning her
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Malikos was teared limb from limb by a skeleton army controlled by Hope.
* RooftopConfrontation: Between Rag and Rhen
* ARoundOfDrinksForTheHouse: Theia buys food in Mufasa tavern for everyone
** She does not buy food. She convinced the tavern owner long ago that she could bring in more money by playing music, in return for free food.
* RoyalInbreeding: Apparently abundant. Possibly disqualifying a few obscure heirs
* RunningGag: Many

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: Orb of Vecna is reported to have the power to summon gods]]
* ScrewYouElves: Many other races are frustrated at the social status of elves
* SheIsTheKing: King is a gender-neutral title in Yale.
* ShipTease: Ari asks Jaima to dance at the coronation. Lampshaded.
* ShockAndAwe: A few sources. Ari's preferred form attack becomes Lightning Bolt (after she gets over her love of fire), and Rhen's ring imbues her sword with lightning in the final battle.
* ShootTheMageFirst: Averted. Many of the enemies lack basic strategy
** [[spoiler: The enemies have been undead (not intelligent beings) and werewolves (rather angry beings)]]
** Mostly averted by the party as well, partially because the non-caster grunts were standing in front of the casters and easier to hit first.
* TheSimpleLifeIsSimple: The members of the village beneath Inryan have a simple life
* SkippableBoss: Many bosses can be talked through instead of punched
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: Hope summons a spiritual [[spoiler: shortsword dripping with poison]] during the confrontation with Lamora
** [[spoiler: The sacred weapon of Hope's goddess is a halberd.]]
** [[spoiler: The sacred "weapon" of Seth, on the other hand, is poison.]]
* StealthPun: Favourite of the DM.

* StockGods: Unavoidable with the Dnd alignment system
** TopGod: Dol Arrah
** GodOfEvil: Vecna/Tiamat
** BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: Arwan
** GodOfGood: The ascended human Hercules
** [[NatureSpirit Nature God]]: Balinor
** WarGod: Bahamut
** [[TricksterArchetype Trickster God]]: Seth
* SuccessionCrisis: The king had no heir.
* SummoningRitual: [[spoiler: The purpose of the Orb of Vecna]]
* TalkingIsAFreeAction
** Hasn't been abused....yet
* TalkingWeapon: Aster collected a snarky axe
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The more idealistic team members often struggle to work with the more pragmatic team members and vice versa.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Three people to the room. Hope and Theia took the floor. They used it to sneak out on various nights.
* TitleDrop: Averted. The party is given a chance to Heist into a mansion, but they decide to go around back instead
** They do steal a boat, but ultimately, the title of the campaign is a bit of a misnomer.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Many!
* TrueCompanions: The party is rapidly becoming friends after Theia reveals her secret.
* TurnUndead: Becomes a bit of a TearJerker when used against a horde of skeletons fronted by Hope's sister.
* TwoHeadedCoin: The party finds a magical one in the Labyrinth
* UrbanSegregation: Yale is divided into many sectors, the biggest being Old Yale
* TheWallsAreClosingIn: One of the traps in Harkness Tower
* WhiteAndGreyMorality: The party is more or less filled with good people, but the antagonist vary in their evilness
* WizardingSchool: The competing schools of Pierson and Davenport. Ari attended the Davenport School of Magic.
* WorldBuilding: Quite Extensively

* UrbanSegregation: Yale City is divided into many different sectors

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Implied with the Orb of Vecna
** Hope's wild laughter isn't a good sign
* WretchedHive: Some parts of TD. On account of all the poverty and lack of government law enforcement
* YouAllMeetInAnInn: Mufasa Tavern
* YouAreNotAlone: After telling the party of her predicament with the church, they vow to help