Line #69 Podcast/Doomsayers


1	->''"...and fear not the Doomsayers."''
2	-->-- '''George's {{Catchphrase}}, signing off on each episode'''
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4	''[[http://www.doomsayers.podbean.com Doomsayers]]'' is a UK-based ActualPlay Podcast for ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'', currently focused around ''The Enemy Within'' campaign, starring George (the podcast operator and GM), Callum (currently playing Ebenezer Gütte), Sez (currently playing Seraphina Esmerelda Honeycakes), Steve (currently playing Nornghal Varrskrati) and Tish (currently playing Stör Sumpfläufer).
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6	!! This podcast provides examples of:
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8	* TheAlcoholic: Josef's [[NeverGetsDrunk cheerful heavy drinking]] is contrasted with [[spoiler: Gottri's]] status as a pitiful drunken tramp.
9	* [[LondonGangster Altdorf Gangster]]: Ebenezer.
10	* AmbiguousGender: Stör. Characters variably refer to Stör with male, female and neuter pronouns, and terms of address: "mate", "love", "sir", "mein Herr", "meine Frau", "madam", "lad"; Stör answers to them all.
11	** Exaggerated when it's revealed that even Stör's uncle isn't sure about their gender.
12	* AmbiguouslyBi: Stör gets upset when a handsome young man leaves their sight, but also agrees to take part in a joust on the promise of pretty girls.
13	* {{Angrish}}: Ebenezer gives grumbled, half-strangled rants when he's annoyed.
14	* AnnoyingArrows: Nornghal gets skewered with a crossbow bolt, but owing to his [[MadeOfIron ridiculously high toughness]] he can basically ignore it.
15	* AntiHero: Every main character, with the exception of Stör, is either morally shady or a straight-up criminal. The opening episode's description describes them as a [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits "motley band of misfits, hustlers and thugs"]].
16	* AppealToForce: Franz calmly tells the characters they can keep his secrets, or be beaten up and drowned in a sewer. Ebenezer promptly agrees.
17	* AttentionWhore: A huge chunk of the plot revolves around Ebenezer's desire for recognition and acclaim.
18	* BarBrawl: These frequently occur; justified in that this is a violent world with constant alcohol consumption. An occasional brawl is seen as a bit of fun as long as nobody draws steel.
19	* BawdySong: Most Imperial songs seem to be this. People gather around buskers to clap in time and "shout out the last rude word of each stanza".
20	* BecomingTheMask: Ebenezer believes that if he maintains the pretense of nobility long enough, he might as well be a noble himself.
21	-->'''Ebenezer''': How do you think the nobles got enobbled ''[sic]'' in the first place?...You just have to, you know, fake it till you make it.
22	* BerserkButton: Don't mess with Ebenezer's plans. Justified, in that he spends almost every waking hour plotting to improve his lot.
23	* BigEater: Seraphina, who stands 3'11", eats and drinks more than the average human.
24	* TheBigGuy: Stör.
25	* BigStupidDooDooHead: A furious Stör calls Nornghal a "horrible little Dwarf".
26	* BonusMaterial: Episode 9.5, featuring Ebenezer and Seraphina at a business dinner.
27	* BookSmart: Seraphina, the only member of the party who can read fluently, possesses three Lore skills, three intellectual Trade skills, and [[{{Omniglot}} speaks several langages]].
28	* BountyHunter: The party get chased by one.
29	%%* BrattyHalfPint: Guilielmus [[PunnyName von Saponatheim]].
30	* [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents British Accents]]: Some of the various accents of the Empire are represented by these: working Altdorfers and other town bred Reiklanders speak with Cockney accents, country Reiklanders with neutral "Estuary English" accents, Middenheimers with gruff North London accents, Averlanders with Welsh accents, Stirlanders with Gloucestershire accents, Hochlanders with Scottish accents, Mootland Halflings with thick West Country accents, and so on and so on.
31	* TheBrute:
32	** Fat Gunther and Dugbog.
33	** Rein and Rein.
34	* BuffySpeak: All the characters are subject to this: Ebenezer because he's trying to explain concepts he doesn't understand, Nornghal and Stör because they can't find the right words, and Seraphina because she's trying to speak as fast as she thinks.
35	* ButtMonkey: Everyone, depending on the episode.
36	* ClandestineChemist: Seraphina, an apothecary, is heavily implied (and on occasion outright stated) to make most of her income by [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal dealing drugs and peddling poison]].
37	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Nornghal and Stör both fill this role sometimes.
38	* ClusterFBomb: Every single member of the podcast does this from time to time.
39	* CombatMedic: Seraphina fights capably and is the main party healer.
40	* ContentWarnings: George issues one at the start of each episode, warning of [[{{Gorn}} violence]], [[FantasticRacism discrimination]], and [[ObligatorySwearing bad language]].
41	* CoolBoat: The ''Berebeli'', Josef's super-sized river barge full of wine.
42	* CountryMatters: [[ObligatorySwearing Nobody is shy about using foul language]].
43	* CoveredInGunge: Characters end up soaked in mud, [[VomitIndiscretionShot vomit]], raw sewage and other unpleasantness almost every session.
44	-->'''Random Altdorf woman''': Look out below!
45	-->'''Seraphina''': It's piss, isn't it?
46	--> ''[[[TheDungAges The woman tosses the contents of a chamberpot out of the window]], drenching the characters.]''
47	* CrapsackWorld: Nearly everyone is immoral or amoral, and nearly everything is difficult, dangerous and physically unpleasant.
48	* CultureClash: Between ''everyone''.
49	* DepravedBisexual:
50	-->'''Tish'''''[explaining Stör's sexual orientation]'': I'm looking for a very particular woman, but absolutely any man.
51	-->'''George''': This is pansexuality in the sense that if you're a man, you can literally look like a pan.
52	--> '''Steve''': Or like you've been hit with one.
53	* TheDeterminator:
54	** Everyone will go through whatever's required for their characters' motivations.
55	** Out of universe, towards the last part of the first season, George is audibly very ill but records anyway.
56	* TheDragon:
57	** Dugbog, to the Boss.
58	** Rein and Rein, to Franz.
59	* DumpStat: All the charaters have their own.
60	* TheDungAges: Emphasis on the dung.
61	* EmergencyWeapon: Seraphina and Ebenezer both use crossbows as their primary weapons, but also each carry a club and two daggers in case of emergency.
62	* FakeAristocrat: Ebenezer.
63	* FantasticDrug: "Pipe-weed" is readily available for sale, while tobacco is a rare and expensive luxury.
64	* FantasticRacism:
65	** People automatically assume that Seraphina is a thief as she's a Halfling.
66	** Reiklanders apparently like to beat up Elves for fun.
67	** Deconstructed by Gottri, who claims that he's being discriminated against for being a Dwarf, whereas as a matter of fact he brings all his misfortune upon himself.
68	%%* FatBastard: Fat Gunther.
69	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Characters are mentioned who appear in later episodes.
70	* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Ebenezer is the Optimist, Seraphina is the Cynic, Nornghal is the Realist and Stör is Conflicted.
71	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Ebenezer is sanguine, Nornghal is choleric, Seraphina is phlegmatic and Stör is melancholic.
72	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: After the UK, the primary audiences for the podcast are Australia and Central Europe.
73	* GetRichQuickScheme: Everyone is fond of these; a big one kick-starts the plot.
74	* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Played with when Seraphina loots a purple-dyed suede jerkin from a [[spoiler: cultist]] who was tailing the group. She thinks it looks "well smart", but in actuality it fits her like a tabard, and Seraphina's anything but graceful.
75	* GroinAttack: The party's first kill.
76	-->'''Sez''': What a way to die.
77	-->'''Steve''': Clubbed in the nuts.
78	* GratuitousGerman: Technically gratuitous ''Reikspiel'', but German words crop up on a ridiculously frequent basis.
79	* GuileHero: Ebenezer likes to think of himself like this.
80	* HeroesPreferSwords: Ebenezer starts off with a club. As soon as he can, he exchanges it for a just-as-effective but higher status sword.
81	* HouseboatHero: Uncle Josef.
82	* IdiotBall: Passed between the characters at blinding speed.
83	* IllKillYou: Ebenezer calmly informs Stör that he'll slit her throat if he doesn't receive a fair cut of the party purse.
84	* ImprovisedWeapon: Boathooks, crowbars, bottles and buckets have all been used to impressive effect.
85	** Burning diapers, not so much.
86	* IntoxicationEnsues & AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Stör, Nornghal and Josef's drinking competition.
87	* IronButtmonkey: Nornghal suffers the most wounds and other negative consequences from the party's adventures, but doesn't slow down.
88	* ItsAllAboutMe: Ebenezer's motivations revolve almost entirely around self-preservation and self-betterment.
89	* [[JackOfAllStats Johann-of-All-Stats]]: Seraphina, who not only has a wide range of intellectual, social and dexterity skills but is also surprisingly tough and effective in combat.
90	* LetsSplitUpGang: The party tends to disintegrate into splinter groups on a frequent basis, because while they're well aware that they are better off together than apart, they [[VitriolicBestBuds get on each other's nerves]].
91	* LovableRogue:
92	** Franz, though he has a very nasty streak as well.
93	** Ebenezer thinks of himself like this, though the others don't much agree.
94	* MeaningfulName:
95	** Stör Sumpfläufer: Strong Swamprunner.
96	** Nornghal Varrskrati: Barrenskull Seascavenger.
97	* MockMillionaire: Ebenezer tries.
98	* MotorMouth: An InformedAttribute of Seraphina's - it's established that she speaks very quickly, as Halflings tend to do in-universe, but this is deliberately downplayed for the purposes of intelligibility during the recordings.
99	* NearMissGroinAttack: In a wrestling match, Nornghal tries to kick his opponent in the nads.
100	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Everyone's reaction when they realise Dugbog's absence has resulted in the Boss's death and Ebenezer's subsequent servitude.
101	* {{Nephewism}}: Seraphina was raised by her uncle Theophilius, while Stör was raised by an extended network of relatives including their [[TheAlcoholic Uncle Josef]].
102	* NiceGuy: Stör.
103	* NobodyPoops: Averted. Averted so much.
104	* NoBudget: An ongoing source of humour. The podcast is released on a small scale, without funding, using equipment and software already owned by the members. George handles all aspects of editing and disseminating the podcast in his free time.
105	* NoSocialSkills: Fellowship is Nornghal's DumpStat. Steve plays him as abrupt, unsubtle and asocial rather than vile, but he has a hard time getting people to heed or like him.
106	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Ebenezer regards Nornghal as a complete and utter moron, which allows Nornghal to cheat him on more than one occasion.
107	* ObligatorySwearing: In this [[CrapsackWorld rough-and-tough world]], people don't sugar-coat things.
108	** This doesn't quite justify things for the members of the podcast rather than the characters they play, all of whom are amazingly foul-mouthed from time to time.
109	* OnlySaneMan: Shared between Seraphina and Ebenezer. Seraphina's the most rational; Ebenezer's the smartest.
110	* OverlyLongGag: The title of the seventh episode.
111	* PassionateSportsGirl: In Middenheim, Seraphina fell in love with the sport of Middenball - essentially [[RugbyisSlaughter hyper-violent rugby]].
112	* TheParanoiac: Ebenezer. Entirely justified.
113	&&* {{Pirate}}: Nornghal's Career.
114	* PrecisionFStrike: A specialty of Steve.
115	* PreviouslyOn: Each episode begins with a recap of the previous episode from one of the players, in character.
116	* ProducePelting: A Dwarf who makes friends with Nornghal is subject to this while [[StockPunishment sitting in the stocks]].
117	* PunnyName: This is ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay''. What did you expect?
118	-->'''George''':...and the von Saponatheim family.
119	-->'''Tish''': [[SarcasmMode Very good.]]
120	* RagsToRiches: As the party travel and gain money, their living standards and clothing improve.
121	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The party is openly described as this.
122	* RealTime: An out-of-universe example. Typically, ActualPlay podcast episodes last between one or two hours. Minus cuts for breaks [[NoBudget and recording issues]], each ''Doomsayers'' episode is as long as the session it was recorded from, meaning that episode length varies quite dramatically, currently between just shy of two hours and ''well over four hours''.
123	* RedOniBlueOni:
124	** Stör's sensible, quiet use of force versus Nornghal's particular love of violence.
125	** Ebenezer's hyperactive, greedy, law-breaking nature and [[StreetSmart street-smarts]] versus Seraphina's calm steadiness, preparedness, fondness for taking calculated risks, and [[BookSmart book-learning]].
126	* RousingSpeech: Ebenezer tries to make these to "inspire" the party to do what he wants.
127	* SanityBall: Generally held by Seraphina (the most rational member of the group) or Stör (the most morally upright), although Ebenezer (the most intuitive) and Nornghal (the most determined) all catch hold of it sometimes.
128	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Ebenezer likes to try this.
129	* SetSwordsToStun: A troop of Roadwardens break up a brawl by wading through a tavern hitting people with the flats of their swords at random.
130	* SheCleansUpNicely: When the characters manage to clean up, shave, and acquire new clothes at the end of a long journey, they're all impressed at how good they look.
131	* ShoutOut:
132	** Callum gets a double one: to ''Ebeneezer Goode'' by The [[Literature/TheEyeOfArgon Shamen]], and to Literature/AChristmasCarol, given his character's [[TheScrooge stingy, penny-pinching, money-grubbing attitude]].
133	** To Stuart Hogg, Exeter Chiefs and Scotland fullback, during a [[RugbyIsSlaughter vicious game of Middenball]].
134	** To Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin, with Crusher's finishing move.
135	** To Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses, when [[PunnyName Dirk "Delberz" Trötte]] arrives.
136	** To Film/AKnightsTale, with the title of the sixth episode: "It's Called a Lance, Hello?".
137	** To [[Gorillaz]], when a fortune-teller informs Stör and Nornghal that "you don't see with your eyes, you perceive with your mind".
138	* SlippingAMickey: The party [[spoiler: deal with Gottri]] like this.
139	%%* TheSmartGuy: Seraphina.
140	* SophisticatedAsHell:
141	** In-universe, Seraphina has the largest vocabulary of any character, and curses like a sailor.
142	** Out of universe, all five members have broad vocabularies and swear a lot.
143	* SpeechImpediment: George speaks with a mild but noticeable lisp.
144	* StreetUrchin: Ebenezer was raised like this; the Boss is one of these, and the streets are full of them.
145	* TheStoner: Seraphina makes full use of her species' ability to get high on tobacco.
146	* TeamMom: Seraphina and Stör share this duty.
147	* TheDogBitesBack: Fed up of Ebenezer's rudeness and self-centredness, Stör shoves him. Stör's much bigger and stronger than Ebenezer, so the shove causes him to fall over, breaking his ribs. Stör [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone totally breaks down]].
148	* TheTeetotaler: While it's almost impossible to avoid alcohol entirely in the Old World, Ebenezer keeps his drinking to the bare minimum.
149	* UncoolUndies: Stör apparently wears long johns.
150	* VerbalTic:
151	** "At this/that point," from George, when something occurs that breaks the flow of an in-character action or conversation. The other players occasionally use this too.
152	** "Okay," with an upward inflection from George, as play changes topic or scene.
153	** "Right," from Ebenezer.
154	* VomitIndiscretionShot: Nobles in the Empire apparently like to puke on commoners.
155	* WhiteCollarCrime: Ebenezer is a big fan of fraud, long cons, and peddling stolen property.
156	* WithFriendsLikeThese: The other party members frequently complain that while Ebenezer claims to be trying to make them all rich, all he's managed to do so far is to cost them money and endanger their lives.
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