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** At least the guards of Borthelmoore Keep are prejudiced against Flower and Faunafolk, as well as Celestials.
** Dwarves refer to non-dwarves as "Upsiders" and immediately distrust them.

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** At least the guards of Borthelmoore Keep are prejudiced against Flower and Faunafolk, as well as Celestials.
Celestials. Basically, anyone non-human.
** Elderly Dwarves refer to non-dwarves as "Upsiders" and immediately distrust them.them. Jack illuatrates it by invoking the RacistGrandpa trope.
-> ''"There's your really racist grandparents, your kinda racist parents, and then there's you."''
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* BizarreAlienReproduction: [[PlantPerson Flowerfolk]] mating requires a male and female Flowerfolk, and a bee-person of any sex to be present. Kind of like how real flowers reproduce, except they're hermaphroditic.

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* BizarreAlienReproduction: [[PlantPerson Flowerfolk]] mating requires a male and female Flowerfolk, and a bee-person of any sex to be present. Kind of like how real flowers reproduce, except they're hermaphroditic.flowers are hermaphroditic and use regular bees.
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* Bookends: Season 1 starts and ends with an episode involving Dabarella carrying a statue and hurling it.

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* Bookends: BookEnds: Season 1 starts and ends with an episode involving Dabarella carrying a statue and hurling it.

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* [[Bookends]]: Season 1 starts and ends with an episode involving Dabarella carrying a statue and hurling it.

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* [[Bookends]]: Bookends: Season 1 starts and ends with an episode involving Dabarella carrying a statue and hurling it.



* ExoticExtendedMarriage: For dwarves, it is common to be polyamorous and the most prominent example is the royalty of the kingdom, consisting of a queen who is married to three other dwarves.



** At least the guards of Borthelmoore Keep are prejudiced against flora-and fauna- folk, as well as Celestials.

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** At least the guards of Borthelmoore Keep are prejudiced against flora-and fauna- folk, Flower and Faunafolk, as well as Celestials.



** Mortimer on occasion will be say something horribly racist, usually resulting in offense from the people around him especially Grinderbin.



* OnlyOneName: Grinderbin, unlike all other Flowerfolk shown so far, has no discernable surname.

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* OnlyOneName: Grinderbin, unlike all other Flowerfolk shown so far, has no discernable surname. Even the only other known mushroomfolk, Celia Sporefold, has one.
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* Bookends: Season 1 starts and ends with an episode involving Dabarella carrying a statue and hurling it.

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* Bookends: [[Bookends]]: Season 1 starts and ends with an episode involving Dabarella carrying a statue and hurling it.

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* Party of Representatives: Dabarella is a Faunafolk, Grinderbin is a Florafolk, Sigmar is an Aasimar and Mortimer is a half-elf, half-everything else.

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* Party of Representatives: OnlyOneName: Grinderbin, unlike all other Flowerfolk shown so far, has no discernable surname.
* PartyofRepresentatives:
Dabarella is a Faunafolk, Grinderbin is a Florafolk, Flowerfolk, Sigmar is an Aasimar and Mortimer is a half-elf, half-everything else.
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* Bookends: Season 1 starts and ends with an episode involving Dabarella carrying a statue and hurling it.


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* ChestMonster: Encountered in S2 E3, when Mortimer makes Dabarella open a chest that turns out to be a mimic.
* CostumeEvolution: From Season 1 to Season 2, each of the party members gets an upgrade in their outfit. Dabarella is in armor now, Mortimer gains a cape, Grinderbin replaces his shirt with a scalier one and Sigmar gets [[TooManyBelts too many belts]].


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* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous:
** The ruler of the humans is Queen Beyonce Knowles, appropriately located at Castle Sasha, with nearby disowned keep called Destiny's Keep.
** The twin Aasimar cities are named Vanessula and Hudgens, for Vanessa Hudgens.
* Party of Representatives: Dabarella is a Faunafolk, Grinderbin is a Florafolk, Sigmar is an Aasimar and Mortimer is a half-elf, half-everything else.

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''Adventure is Nigh'' is an ActualPlay WebVideo series by the folks at Website/TheEscapist. Season 1 is subtitled "The Jade Homunculus" while season 2 is titled "In Search of a Platinum Heart".

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''Adventure is Nigh'' is an ActualPlay WebVideo series by the folks at Website/TheEscapist. Season 1 is subtitled "The Jade Homunculus" while season 2 is titled "The Platinum Heart" (nee "In Search of a Platinum Heart".
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* FantasticRacism: At least the guards of Borthelmoore Keep are prejudiced against flora-and fauna- folk, as well as Celestials.

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* FantasticRacism: FantasticRacism:
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At least the guards of Borthelmoore Keep are prejudiced against flora-and fauna- folk, as well as Celestials.Celestials.
** Dwarves refer to non-dwarves as "Upsiders" and immediately distrust them.


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* GiantEnemyCrab: A battle with such a crustacean takes up the entirety of S2 E5; "The Battle of Piss-Off Bridge.".
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* PointyEars: Mortimer's family tree is such a mess that it all averages out to a regular guy with pointed ears.
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* ActionGirl: Dabarella.


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* AwesomeMcCoolname: One NPC is named "Domino Fantastic."


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** The Fence's true name is "Jeremy Nagginwife."
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''Adventure is Nigh'' is an ActualPlay WebVideo series by the folks at Website/TheEscapist. Season 1 is subtitled "The Jade Homunculus" while season 2 is titled "The Platinum Heart".

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''Adventure is Nigh'' is an ActualPlay WebVideo series by the folks at Website/TheEscapist. Season 1 is subtitled "The Jade Homunculus" while season 2 is titled "The "In Search of a Platinum Heart".

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* HufflepuffHouse: The Faunafolk and Elf factions exist (Dabarella and Mortimer evidence their existance), but have little bearing on the central conflict.

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* HufflepuffHouse: The Faunafolk and Elf factions exist (Dabarella and Mortimer evidence their existance), but have little bearing on the central conflict. Although an adventuring party of centaurs is met at a couple points in season 1.
* LieDetector: Mortimer's Magic Item is a Stone of Detect Truth, a rock that turns green when someone tellsthe truth, and red when someone lies. Like a real "lie detector," it's not 100% accurate.
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** One NPC is a guy cursed into the form of a shovel.

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** One NPC is a guy cursed into the form of a shovel.shovel, but it's ambiguous weather he's still consious.
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The series can be found [[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAbMhAYRuCUjVHYKrFs03yA1muKEcv62e here]].

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The series can be found [[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAbMhAYRuCUjVHYKrFs03yA1muKEcv62e com/playlist?list=PLtNxlNddx1nGHl8TyyUzJzXUjo9mAzAmC here]].
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''Adventure is Nigh'' is an ActualPlay WebVideo by the folks at Website/TheEscapist. Season 1 is subtitled "The Jade Homunculus" while season 2 is titled "The Platinum Heart".

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''Adventure is Nigh'' is an ActualPlay WebVideo series by the folks at Website/TheEscapist. Season 1 is subtitled "The Jade Homunculus" while season 2 is titled "The Platinum Heart".
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* DurableDeathtrap: The first obstacpe the party has to overcome is a hallway full of spinning blade traps, in a dungeon that's indeterminately old.

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* DurableDeathtrap: The first obstacpe obstacle the party has to overcome is a hallway full of spinning blade traps, in a dungeon that's indeterminately old.
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* DurableDeathtrap: The first obstacpe the party has to overcome is a hallway full of spinning blade traps, in a dungeon that's indeterminately long.

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* DurableDeathtrap: The first obstacpe the party has to overcome is a hallway full of spinning blade traps, in a dungeon that's indeterminately long.old.
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* FantasticRacism: At least the guards of the Forest Keep are prejudiced against flora-and fauna- folk, as well as Celestials.

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* FantasticRacism: At least the guards of the Forest Borthelmoore Keep are prejudiced against flora-and fauna- folk, as well as Celestials.
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* AnimateInanimateObject:
** The party fights a haunted bed, and later, a haunted stove.
** One NPC is a guy cursed into the form of a shovel.
* ArmorIsUseless: The last guard of the Forest Keep is shotgunned to death by a haunted bed breaking its footboard to shoot splinters through his chest, despite wearing plate armor.


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* HufflepuffHouse: The Faunafolk and Elf factions exist (Dabarella and Mortimer evidence their existance), but have little bearing on the central conflict.
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* BoxedCrook: The party wakes up in the back of a paddy wagon, and is shortly told they have to raid a dungeon as punishment. We're never told what they did, but it's implied (by Mortimer's hangover) that drunken shennanegans were involved.

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* FantasticRacism: At least the guards of the Forest Keep are prejudiced against flora-and fauna- folk, as well as Celestials.



* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Word-for-word, Mortimer's first words of the campaign.

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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Word-for-word, Mortimer's first words of the campaign.campaign are "Oh, God, what was I drinking last night?"
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* DurableDeathtrap: The first obstacpe the party has to overcome is a hallway full of spinning blade traps, in a dungeon that's indeterminately long.
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* BizarreAlienReproduction: [[PlantPerson Flowerfolk]] mating requires a male and female Flowerfolk, and a bee-person of any sex to be present. Kind of like how real flowers reproduce, except they're hermaphroditic.
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* Hosted and DM'ed by Jack Packard.

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* Hosted and DM'ed by Jack Packard.
Packard as DM and show host.

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Adventure is Nigh is an ActualPlay WebVideo by the folks at The Escapist. Season one is subtitled "The Jade Homunculus;" season two is titled "The Platinum Heart."

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Adventure ''Adventure is Nigh Nigh'' is an ActualPlay WebVideo by the folks at The Escapist. Website/TheEscapist. Season one 1 is subtitled "The Jade Homunculus;" Homunculus" while season two 2 is titled "The Platinum Heart."

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The party must track down the titular Jade Homunculus after it was stolen by a flower man with the amusingly inappropriate name of "Daugherty Cornhole." As of season two, their goal has shifted to slaying the Worm-God, King Fuzzyhug, and stealing his platinum heart The videos have character interactions animated in ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'''s art style.

Find it [[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAbMhAYRuCUjVHYKrFs03yA1muKEcv62e here]].

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The party must track down the titular Jade Homunculus after it was stolen by a flower man with the amusingly inappropriate name of "Daugherty Cornhole." As of season two, 2, their goal has shifted to slaying the Worm-God, King Fuzzyhug, and stealing his platinum heart heart. The videos have character interactions animated in ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'''s art style.

Find it The series can be found [[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAbMhAYRuCUjVHYKrFs03yA1muKEcv62e here]].



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* YouAllMeetInACell: The party wakes up in the back of a paddy wagon, [[BoxedCrook being driven to a Dungeon they've been sentenced to loot for one of the local nobles]].

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* YouAllMeetInACell: The party wakes up in the back of a paddy wagon, [[BoxedCrook being driven to a Dungeon they've been sentenced to loot for one of the local nobles]].nobles]].
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Find it [[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAbMhAYRuCUjVHYKrFs03yA1muKEcv62e here]].
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* HeinzHybrid: Mortimer is "a mix of genetics" and referred to as a "half-elf" to save time. He doesn't mind being called a "mutt" to his face either. According to the season 1 recap, Yahtzee figures there has to be people in D&D whose grandparents were parings of several different kinds of {{Half Human Hybrid}}s.

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* HeinzHybrid: Mortimer is "a mix of genetics" and referred to as a "half-elf" to save time. He doesn't mind being called a "mutt" to his face either. According to the season 1 recap, Yahtzee figures there has to be people in D&D ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons D&D]]'' whose grandparents ancestors were multiple parings of several different kinds of {{Half Human Hybrid}}s.

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* Jesse Galena as Grinderbin, a [[MushroomMan Myconid]] Artificer who wants to open a discount-magical-items shop. Hosted and DM'ed by Jack Packard, the party must track down the titular Jade Homunculus after it was stolen by a flower man with the amusingly inappropriate name of "Daugherty Cornhole." The videos have character interactions animated in ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'''s art style.

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* Jesse Galena as Grinderbin, a [[MushroomMan Myconid]] Artificer who wants to open a discount-magical-items shop.
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Hosted and DM'ed by Jack Packard, the Packard.

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party must track down the titular Jade Homunculus after it was stolen by a flower man with the amusingly inappropriate name of "Daugherty Cornhole." As of season two, their goal has shifted to slaying the Worm-God, King Fuzzyhug, and stealing his platinum heart The videos have character interactions animated in ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'''s art style.


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* FluffyTheTerrible: The primary antagonist of season two is a huge, wormlike EldritchAbomination called "King Fuzzyhug."


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* RunningGag: In season 1, every second NPC was named "Jeremy." Even [[spoiler: the minor god trapped in the Jade Homunculus]].


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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Word-for-word, Mortimer's first words of the campaign.
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Adventure is Nigh is an ActualPlay WebVideo by the folks at The Escapist. Season one is subtitled "The Jade Homunculus;" season two is titled "The Platinum Heart."
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* [[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee Croshaw]] as an elf-dominant HeinzHybrid (called a "half-elf" entirely to save time) GentlemanThief (Rogue/Bard) named Mortimer Rafflesworth Everton-Smythe.
* KC Nuasu as Sigmar Iceblood, a JerkWithAHeartOfGold Asimaar Ranger/Wizard who left his betrothed (it was an arranged marriage) standing at the altar when he discovered that she was in love with his sister.
* Amy Campbell as Dabarella Yeetster, a hulking-yet-adorable [[CatFolk Tabaxi]] Fighter who aspires to be a chef.
* Jesse Galena as Grinderbin, a [[MushroomMan Myconid]] Artificer who wants to open a discount-magical-items shop. Hosted and DM'ed by Jack Packard, the party must track down the titular Jade Homunculus after it was stolen by a flower man with the amusingly inappropriate name of "Daugherty Cornhole." The videos have character interactions animated in ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'''s art style.
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* HeinzHybrid: Mortimer is "a mix of genetics" and referred to as a "half-elf" to save time. He doesn't mind being called a "mutt" to his face either. According to the season 1 recap, Yahtzee figures there has to be people in D&D whose grandparents were parings of several different kinds of {{Half Human Hybrid}}s.
* SpellBook: Part of Dabarella's backstory is that she read a necromancer's spellbook after mistaking it for a cookbook. She was looking for cookie recipies.
* UnfortunateNames:
** An NPC the party [[YouAllMeetInACell meets when they wake up in the back of a paddy wagon]] is a goblin named "Jeremy [=GoodSex=]." He turns out to be an, er, adult entertainer later, and they guess it to have been his "pornstar name."
** The primary antagonist of season 1 is a Flowerfolk rogue by the name of "Daugherty (pronounced "dafferty") Cornhole."
** A River Siren who tries to seduce and eat Sigmar is named "Anus Quiver" (pronounced exactly how you think it is), presumably because her mother hated her.
* UnscaledMerfolk: River Sirens are elven women with technicolor hair from the waist up, and freshwater octopi below that. It's stated that their horriffic main jaws reside at the center of their tentacle cluster.
* YouAllMeetInACell: The party wakes up in the back of a paddy wagon, [[BoxedCrook being driven to a Dungeon they've been sentenced to loot for one of the local nobles]].

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