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* [=~It's Personal~=]: For all of the things that Rocket Red has done, the reason why Sam hates her so much is that she "violated" the ''Sparrowhawk''.

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* [=~It's Personal~=]: ItsPersonal: For all of the things that Rocket Red has done, the reason why Sam hates her so much is that she "violated" the ''Sparrowhawk''.



* [=~No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You To Dine~=]: After Sarah gets captured on Thule, Dr. Bernhardt treats her to a private dinner where he tries to romance her. After several minutes of this, Sarah just punches him.

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* [=~No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You To Dine~=]: NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: After Sarah gets captured on Thule, Dr. Bernhardt treats her to a private dinner where he tries to romance her. After several minutes of this, Sarah just punches him.
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''The Spirit Centurions and the Way of Air''



''The Spirit Centurions and the Dark Heart of Angkor''

''The Spirit Centurions and the Way of Air''
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''Major Sam Gears and the Flock of Sky Knights''

''The Spirit Centurions and the Fall of Atlantis''

The Spirit Centurions in . . . ''Der Blitzmann's Blitz!''



''The Spirit Centurions and the Pryce of Beauty''

''The Spirit Centurions and the Battle for Chicago''



''The Spirit Centurions and the Dark Heart of Angkor''

''The Spirit Centurions and the Way of Air''



''The Spirit Centurions and the Rise of Atlantis''

The Spirit Centurions in . . . ''Endgame''

The Spirit Centurions in . . . ''Daemones Finem''



''The Spirit Centurions and the Last '''CENSORED'''''

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''The Spirit Centurions and the Last '''CENSORED'''''
Fall of Atlantis''
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* MemeticMutation: BERNHARDT!!!
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* BigBadEnsemble: The Society of Gemsetters, Ordo Corvi, the Black Hand, the GRU, Dr. Bernhardt, Der Blitzmann, the South Side Gang, the Nazis, Gorilla Khan, and the Children of the Night all operate independently of each other. We think. So far.

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* BigBadEnsemble: The Society of Gemsetters, Ordo Corvi, the Black Hand, the GRU, Dr. Bernhardt, Der Blitzmann, the South Side Gang, the Nazis, Haast, al-Malik, Alistair Bentham, Tia Negra, Agent Morpheus, Garrison Grayson, Al Capone, General Wulf, Gorilla Khan, Doctor Methuselah, Boss Lee, and the Children of the Night Weaver all operate more or less independently of each other. We think. So far.



* ColdBloodedTorture: The Nazis try some on Anton, but he's been tortured so many times before that he's able to escape before Der Bltizmann inflicts too much harm.

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* ColdBloodedTorture: The Nazis try some on Anton, but he's been tortured so many times before that he's able to escape before Der Bltizmann Blitzmann inflicts too much harm.
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** Also the Gigglers
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* ArchangelMichael: He appeared to Dr. Ekk in a dream is responsible for him wielding a holy sword. [[UnreliableExpositor Maybe.]]
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* FingerPokeOfDoom

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* FingerPokeOfDoomFingerPokeOfDoom: How Anton disables Der Blitzmann while being tortured.
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* FingerPokeOfDoom
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* DramaticShattering: General Wulf's glass of wine when Anton disables Bernhardt in the middle of a torture session.

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* DramaticShattering: General Wulf's glass of wine when Anton disables Bernhardt Der Blitzmann in the middle of a torture session.
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Ah cmon, we aren\'t gonna start dividing all the Alice characters in fiction into those which are a reference to Lewis Carroll and those that aren\'t.


* GoAskAlice: Subverted, Sam's sister Alice seems to be a normal girl so far.
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[[caption-width-right:300:The full lineup of the team. Top Row: [[AcePilot Sam]], [[LeParkour Drake]], and [[DumbMuscle Samson]]. Bottom Row: [[ConsummateLiar Jack]], [[GentlemanAdventurer Dana]], [[{{Socialite}} Millie]], [[MadScientist Anton]], [[{{GMPC}} Ivan]], and [[TriggerHappy Sarah]].

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[[caption-width-right:300:The full lineup of the team. Top Row: [[AcePilot Sam]], [[LeParkour Drake]], and [[DumbMuscle Samson]]. Bottom Row: [[ConsummateLiar Jack]], [[GentlemanAdventurer Dana]], [[{{Socialite}} Millie]], [[MadScientist Anton]], [[{{GMPC}} Ivan]], and [[TriggerHappy Sarah]].
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[[caption-width-right:300:The original lineup of the team. Top Row: Sam and Samson. Bottom Row: Ivan, Sarah, Jack, Millie, and Anton.]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:The original full lineup of the team. Top Row: Sam [[AcePilot Sam]], [[LeParkour Drake]], and Samson. [[DumbMuscle Samson]]. Bottom Row: Ivan, Sarah, Jack, Millie, [[ConsummateLiar Jack]], [[GentlemanAdventurer Dana]], [[{{Socialite}} Millie]], [[MadScientist Anton]], [[{{GMPC}} Ivan]], and Anton.]]
[[TriggerHappy Sarah]].
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* NonHumanSidekick: Korak has two: a parrot and a gorilla



* TermsOfEndangerment: Being called "darling" is enough to make one's skin crawl. Being called "darling" by Dr. Bernhardt is far worse.

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* TermsOfEndangerment: Being called "darling" by Dr. Bernhardt is enough to make one's skin crawl. Being called "darling" by Dr. Bernhardt is far worse.crawl.


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* WackyWaysideTribe: The entire middle third of ''The Spirit Centurions and the Fallen Eagle'' between burying General Gray (Golden Eagle) and getting to the base where Gorilla Khan took Colonel Malthus (Black Eagle), including one actual wayside tribe (the Lacertilians). WordOfGod is that everything will be relevant later.
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* TermsOfEndangerment: Being called "darling" is enough to make one's skin crawl

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* TermsOfEndangerment: Being called "darling" is enough to make one's skin crawlcrawl. Being called "darling" by Dr. Bernhardt is far worse.
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The Spirit of Centurions in . . . ''For the Right Pryce''


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* AnachronicOrder: Due to scheduling complications, the second half of ''The Spirit Centurions and the Caverns of Thule'' was played after the first half of ''The Spirit Centurions and the Fallen Eagle'', which (aside from the prologue) takes place immediately after. This was followed by ''For the Right Pryce'', which takes place after ''The Spirit Centurions and the Fallen Eagle'', the second half of which was played the night after.


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* SimultaneousArcs: ''The Spirit Centurions and the Secrets of Atlantis'' and the second part of ''The Revenge of the Grey King''.
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* LoveTriangle: Brandon, Sam, and Samson. Possibly Max, Millie, and Ian (and by extension, Millie, Ian, and Lilith) if the Weaver is to be believed.


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* RealitySubtext: The reason for Anton's hero-worship for Dr. Tesla, as well as the HoYay between Ivan and Anton.
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* OneSteveLimit:
** There are two Alistairs in the backstory, though the less important one[[hottip:*:to the main characters--the more important one to the setting as a whole]] appeared in-game to die before the more important one became a recurring character.
** The more important Henry made his first in-game appearance in a room with the less important Henry (who had appeared once before), which caused confusion when @/{{Ironeye}} didn't use their last names before the players pointed out the issue.
** There are either two or three characters named Alan, depending on whether or not Bernhardt's mutant Alan is the previously appearing security chief, the Great War pilot from the backstory, or a new character entirely.
** Al Capone has two high-ranking underlings named Frank and one occasional ally named Frankie (all {{Historical Domain Character}}s).
** Jack Courrier has connections to two characters named John in his backstory, one of whom died before the game began. The other has made a single appearance in a subplot that features a Johnny working behind the scenes on the other side.
** The two Sams are a female main character and a HistoricalDomainCharacter in a bit role.
** There are two characters named Charles, though one died in the backstory and the other goes by "Dean".
** There are two Michaels, though one is an angel and hasn't appeared in-game (and my only be a hallucination, while the other died in his first appearance). There's also a Mikhail, who is generally referred to as "Black Mask" because he's always in disguise.
** There are two Yakovs, both {{Historical Domain Character}}s, who even share a patronymic: Mikhaylovich. Fortunately for everyone trying to keep track, one died in the backstory and the other hasn't yet appeared on-camera.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Over 100 named characters appear, with another dozen or so relevant in the backstory or doing things off-screen.

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Over 100 named characters appear, with another dozen or so relevant in the backstory or doing things off-screen. Over a third of the cast appears on a somewhat regular basis.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharactersLoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Over 100 named characters appear, with another dozen or so relevant in the backstory or doing things off-screen.
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* EveryoneIsASuspect: The murders at the Ziggenheim Symposium begin with one of the front-runners dying, making every one of the entrants a suspect, as well as the members of the Council (for political reasons), and the backers of the entrants. The only [=NPCs=] without an obvious motive are Dr. Nicola Tesla, the hired security, and the hotel staff.



* KillHimAlready: While pretending to change behind a screen as Alan watches, Sarah retrieves a gun hidden in her cleavage. Rather than shoot Alan through the screen or the moment she comes around the screen, she instead walks out and keeps the gun trained on him as they have a brief chat. This gives Alan time to charge her and pin her to the wall with only a leg wound to show for it.



* MacGuffin: In most of the novels. Examples include an annotated copy of "Faust", the notes of Max Gentle, an Atlantean tablet, Jack's statue...thing, Te-Kas's ring, and Aura's Breath (a weather control device).

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* LockedRoomMystery: The murder of Dr. Knichte. The only plausible solutions are Dr. Knichte killing himself and arranging it to look like a poorly-faked suicide or someone climbing down a sheer wall in a snowstorm, breaking into the room, closing the window, then throwing Dr. Knichte out the closed window. The cheat was Grayson's AppliedPhlebotinum.
* MacGuffin: In most of the novels. Examples include an annotated copy of "Faust", the notes of Max Gentle, an Atlantean tablet, Jack's statue...statue . . . thing, Te-Kas's ring, and Aura's Breath (a weather control device).


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* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Really Dr. Grayson? There was no better way to get revenge on the entire scientific community than rigging a competition by killing everyone who had a chance?


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* RedHerring: During the Ziggenheim Symposium murder case, only one of various feuds and petty rivalries was actually relevant to the murder. Additionally, Dr. Methuselah was a full RedHerring suspect.
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* AGlassOfChianti: General Wulf enjoys a glass of red wine when observing torture sessions.



* BaddieFlattery: Bernhardt genuinely does think highly of Sarah, which only makes him creepier



* ColdBloodedTorture: The Nazis try some on Anton, but he's been tortured so many times before that he's able to escape before Der Bltizmann inflicts too much harm.



* CoolAirship: ''New Atlantis''

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* CoolAirship: ''New Atlantis''Atlantis'', the Nazi armored zeppelins



* DramaticShattering: General Wulf's glass of wine when Anton disables Bernhardt in the middle of a torture session.
* DropWhatYouAreDoing: The cause of the DramaticShattering above.



* ElectricTorture: Of course this is Der Bltizmann's torture technique of choice! In particular, he has all sorts of dangerous-looking toys hanging on arms from the ceiling that can be used to electrocute people in different ways.



* FromMyOwnPersonalGarden: When Bernhardt has dinner prepared for Sarah on Thule, he claims the vegetables in the soup were all grown on Thule itself.



* GildedCage: Bernhardt's plan for Sarah before she punches him in the face; she even lampshades it earlier by name
* GoGoEnslavement: Bernhardt orders Alan to put Sarah in a dress for dinner; in a twist, Alan allows Sarah to reject the slinky, scarlet dress, but then forces her to wear a lacy, pink dress that would look appropriate on a doll.
* HarmlessElectrocution: Der Blitzmann's suit explosively overloading didn't cause anyone permanent harm. Beyond that, Anton was able to take several minutes of dedicated electrical torture without any serious damage.



* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Bernhardt is attracted to Sarah and wants her to love him, which leads to him setting up all sorts of unsettling situations. On the other hand, he intentionally acts like a gentleman once the pieces are in place, even acknowledging that he could have his way with her if he were that kind of man. This doesn't stop him from ordering Alan to strip Sarah out of her clothes and put her in a dress, though.



* NominalImportance: In full effect, according to WordOfGod. In some cases (Wagner, Finney), characters have been given names retroactively because they got promoted in importance.

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* NominalImportance: In full effect, according to WordOfGod. In some cases (Wagner, Finney), Finney, Alan the security chief), characters have been given names retroactively because they got promoted in importance.importance.
* [=~No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You To Dine~=]: After Sarah gets captured on Thule, Dr. Bernhardt treats her to a private dinner where he tries to romance her. After several minutes of this, Sarah just punches him.



* PlayingWithSyringes: Bernhardt likes injecting mental patients with serums to make them into monsters.



* PsychoSerum: Bernhardt's mutant serum, which turns (almost) everyone injected with it into subservient mutant monsters.



* StupidJetpackHitler: The Nazis have a fleet of armored zeppelins, mutation gas grenades, and Tesla cannons, among other things.
* SuperSerum: What Bernhardt uses to create his mutants; so far, only one of them (Nazi Alan) has retained human intelligence, but Bernhardt has also managed to make a weaponized gas version.



* TermsOfEndangerment: Being called "darling" is enough to make one's skin crawl



* ThoseWackyNazis

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* ThoseWackyNazisThoseWackyNazis: Primarily the {{Mook}} and cultured (General Wulf) varieties, though non-stereotyped Nazis also appear


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* WickedCultured: General Wulf is polite and elegant, dresses well, enjoys fine wine, and is disgusted by his less-restrained allies (Bernhard and Blitzmann). He also gets off on the screams of torture victims.


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* YouGotSpunk: Used by both Dr. Bernhardt and Alan with regards to Sarah
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* ActionGirl: Lilith



* AntiHero: Lilith and Valentin Popov

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* AntiHero: Lilith and Valentin Popov



* DysfunctionJunction: Due to their mentors dying or disappearing, all of the main characters have a somewhat dark backstory, and only Drake has a backstory that doesn't get any worse than that. Sarah, Ivan, and Anton even have persistant psychological issues as a bonus.

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* DysfunctionJunction: Due to their mentors dying or disappearing, all of the main characters have a somewhat dark backstory, and only Drake has a backstory that doesn't get any worse than that. Sarah, Ivan, and Anton even have persistant persistent psychological issues as a bonus.



* JigsawPuzzlePlot: There's something going on involving Atlantis, a magical statue, secret scientific research, a government conspiracy, the Nazis, the Russian Civil War, a zeppelin-flying millionaire's pet projects, Chicago gangs, four assassinations, three master thieves, two holy relics, and a partridge in a pair tree. It's just that no one knows exactly what that is.

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* JigsawPuzzlePlot: There's something going on involving Atlantis, a magical statue, an army of gorillas, secret scientific research, a government conspiracy, the Nazis, the Russian Civil War, a zeppelin-flying millionaire's pet projects, Chicago gangs, four assassinations, three master thieves, two holy relics, and a partridge in a pair tree. It's just that no one knows exactly what that is.


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* KudzuPlot: How did Grayson learn how to create the grey men? What is the Time of Nightmares? What does Gorilla Khan want with a copy of "On the Trail of the Lost Continent"? Why were the people who stole Aura's Breath dressed as Savio Bianchi's security even though they spoke Russian and worked Walter and Vicky? Why does everyone want the annotated copy of "Faust" so much? Why did the factions in Chicago react the way they did to Gorilla Khan's agents stealing a secret government weapon? What is Dr. Bianchi's secret project? Why are multiple people using the Black Mask identity? Which member of the Black Hand is Marius Chevalier's sister? Why is Tausret so loyal to the Weaver? How did Garrison Grayson transfer his consciousness from grey man to grey man? Why did Dr. Methuselah force the Spirit Centurions to learn more about their destinies? What item in Te-Kas' desk did Black Mask want so badly that he was willing to stage a breakout to get it? Where are the Nazis going to attack? What's with the new faction of bird-men? (That's just an example of one still-unanswered question from each novel, with most of them having many more.)
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* DysfunctionJunction: Due to their mentors dying or disappearing, all of the main characters have a somewhat dark backstory, and only Drake has a backstory that doesn't get any worse than that. Sarah, Ivan, and Anton even have persistant psychological issues as a bonus.



* {{Socialite}}: Millie
* SpoiledSweet: Millie
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* AbsenteeActor: Due to his player's computer issues, Jack Courrier has been absent since ''Sarah the Singed and the Lost Library'' with no in-universe explanation given.



* AntiHero: Jack, Anton, Dana, Lilith, and Valentin Popov

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* MonumentalDestruction: Big Ben.
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* ActionGirl: Sam, Sarah, and Lilith
* {{Adorkable}}: Max Gentle . . . at least in Millie's eyes.

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* ActionGirl: Sam, Sarah, and Lilith
* {{Adorkable}}: Max Gentle . . . at least in Millie's eyes.
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* AntiHero: Jack, Sarah, Anton, Dana, Lilith, and Valentin Popov

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* AntiHero: Jack, Sarah, Anton, Dana, Lilith, and Valentin Popov



* BerserkButton Don't even ''think'' of going near the ''Sparrowhawk'', much less touch it, without Sam's permission.



* CombatMedic: Dr. Ekk, a doctor by trade, is fairly competent with a sword.
* CompanionCube: The ''Sparrowhawk'', obviously.



* {{Cult}}: The Children of the Night



* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Sarah, Drake
* DirtyCommunists: One of Millie's aspects is Those Dirty Commies.

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* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Sarah, Drake
* DirtyCommunists: One of Millie's aspects is Those Dirty Commies.DirtyCommunists



* {{GMPC}}: Dr. Ivan Alexandrovich Ekk, who was originally created to give Ironeye someone to play when he handed off [=GMing=] duties after the first few sessions. That quite clearly never happened due to Ironeye's plot-weaving, leaving Ekk as a canonical party member without a player to control him. Since Dr. Ekk was intended to be a NonActionGuy in the first place until he got more character development, he is used entirely for the purposes of exposition and providing medical care, if he shows up for a story in the first place. The few times he has had more to do, he has quickly become TheLoad.
* HairOfGold: Millie
* TheHeart: Millie



* KillItWithFire: Sarah likes to burn things. A lot.



* LatinLover: Dr. Savio Bianchi



* NonActionGuy: Dr. Ekk, despite wielding the best known weapon in the setting, doesn't have the personality or training of an action hero: he just wants to run his medical clinic, but can't help jumping in to fight evil or save his friends. This works out well, since his temporary role as {{GMPC}} quickly became permanent when the role of GameMaster wasn't passed off.



* OverprotectiveDad: Ferdinand Diamond...or so his employees assume.
* PerpetualFrowner: Sarah when not insane

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* OverprotectiveDad: Ferdinand Diamond...Diamond . . . or so his employees assume.
* PerpetualFrowner: Sarah when not insane
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* PsychoElectro: Der Blitzmann



* ReversePolarity: One of Anton's tactics



* TechnoBabble: Particularly from Anton



* {{Tomboy}}: Sam



* TriggerHappy: It's one of Sarah's aspects!



* WrenchWench: Sam
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: The Children of the Night are multi-ethnic.



* {{Flashback}}: The story of how Sam got the ''Sparrowhawk''



* TheMafia: Cosa Nostra, though it sits in the background. The mafia-aligned South Side Gang of Chicago, to a lesser extend.

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* TheMafia: Cosa Nostra, though it sits in the background. The mafia-aligned South Side Gang of Chicago, to a lesser extend.extent.
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* {{GMPC}}: Dr. Ivan Alexandrovich Ekk, who was originally created to give Ironeye someone to play when he handed off [=GMing=] duties after the first few sessions. That quite clearly never happened due to Ironeye's plot-weaving, leaving Ekk as a canonical party member without a player to control him. Since Dr. Ekk was intended to be a NonActionGuy in the first place until he got more character development, he is used entirely for the purposes of exposition and providing medical care, if he shows up for a story in the first place. The few times he has had more to do, he has quickly become TheLoad.


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* NonActionGuy: Dr. Ekk, despite wielding the best known weapon in the setting, doesn't have the personality or training of an action hero: he just wants to run his medical clinic, but can't help jumping in to fight evil or save his friends. This works out well, since his temporary role as {{GMPC}} quickly became permanent when the role of GameMaster wasn't passed off.
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[[caption-width-right:300:The team. Top Row: Sam and Samson. Bottom Row: Ivan, Sarah, Jack, Millie, and Anton.]]

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