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3	->''"...This is one of those concepts that's going to do your head in the longer you think about it, just for reference's sake."''
4	-->--'''The Conductor'''
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6	The first round of ''Roleplay/{{Trustfell}}''.
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8	'''Warning: all spoilers are unmarked.'''
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10	* AccidentalKidnapping: The captives were pulled through a gate by mistake.
11	* AccidentalMisnaming: Forgetting Mustang's recently revealed name, Elise refers to him as "Mr... Horse?" The name catches on with the others as well, especially in narrative text. Dio also has to stop himself from saying "Erina" instead of "Elise."
12	* AlternateSelf: Upon learning that they weren't the first class, some students theorize that alternate versions of themselves were also captured somewhere. Rakka [[WhatMeasureIsANonUnique has a breakdown over it]].
13	* AndTheAdventureContinues: The party goes off with Rick's portal gun in search of their homes.
14	* AntagonistInMourning: The Conductor is ''furious'' when Ashley is killed. It doesn't make him sympathetic, though; his "mourning process" involves executing her killer in a torturous, sadistic manner that calls back to her deepest trauma and lasts for minutes on end.
15	* BilingualBackfire: Of a sort. Asuka sends the Conductor a note in German to see if he can read it. He correctly guesses her intentions and replies in flawless German.
16	* BittersweetEnding: The students are alive and, with enough trial and error using Rick's portal gun, they can find their ways home... but they're very traumatized, their attempt at mercy went poorly, and Father is still out there, with hints given during the final trial that he's going to want revenge once he hears what they've done.
17	* BizarreTasteInFood: One way to tell that it's Envy and not Dio in the kitchen at night is that his idea of a midnight snack is a disaster cobbled together from random items from the fridge.
18	* BloodBath: Pre-emptively banned by [[ObviousRulePatch Rule 17,]] just in case anybody wanted to try.
19	* BrotherSisterIncest: Does not actually occur, but Bakugou calls the Conductor a siscon a couple of times.
20	* BurnBabyBurn: The freed captives toss all the things they no longer want to deal with, including many of their personal files, onto Kimblee's funeral pyre in the end.
21	* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: The survivors, barring Susan and Sol, vote to spare the Conductor for this reason. [[TheFarmerAndTheViper It doesn't work out.]]
22	%%* CastFromLifespan: Kimblee posits that this likely happened to those who didn't have superpowers to lose.
23	* ChristmasMiracle: It's Christmas morning when, suddenly, the sunroom unlocks and the dead are finally able to send their letters to the living.
24	* CrossoverShip: Inevitable with panfandom roleplay. Jean/Weiss and Blue/Yuuri are confirmed canon and a few others are left ambiguous in the end.[[invoked]]
25	* ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping: Rick's Christmas gift to the living is just a roll of TP.
26	* CouldntFindAPen: The sixth case features many messages in both chicken and human blood.
27	* CrossingTheBurntBridge: Asuka and Ashley in the dead world, very slowly and initially just out of necessity. They start to contemplate what went on between them when Asuka tells Ashley how she was sadistically executed for Ashley's murder and eventually repair their relationship when Ashley gets wasted at the bar and Asuka listens to her and helps her back to her room.
28	* CryLaughing: Some of the characters in the end, particularly Undyne when she revives.
29	* CueTheSun: After weeks of no natural light, the survivors finally find a sunroom on the top floor.
30	* DarknessEqualsDeath: Thinking he can kill the shadow, Logan walks the dark hallways without a flashlight or fire. It doesn't exactly go well.
31	%%* DeadAlternateCounterpart: Kimblee likes to keep track of his.
32	* DecapitationRequired: The Conductor remarks that [[GenreSavvy he tends to go for decapitation when he isn't sure how to kill something]]. He puts this to use and turns out to be wrong when this ''doesn't'' kill Dio.
33	* DescriptivelyNamedSpecies: The shadow creature. Justified as that's only what the Participants call him; the Conductor has another name for him.
34	* DisappointedByTheMotive:
35	** The culprit (and the victim) of Case 7 get a lot of this, with a number of the survivors shocked that Cabanela would let Sukuyo coerce him into her illogical plan and that her idea of redeeming herself involved trying to get them all killed.
36	** Also Bakugou in the sixth trial, when Rick confesses and kills himself.
37	--->"[[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth They]] died for ''that''...!?"
38	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The age limit is 16 with a maturity clause allowing as young as 14. Later rounds would raise those limits to 18 and 16, respectively.
39	%%* EarthAllAlong: Though really more on an OOC level. After all, none of the characters could fourth-wall ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''.
40	* EatingTheEnemy: The survivors at least consider giving the Conductor's body to Kaneki.
41	* EdibleThemeNaming: Elise continues hers for her livestock by naming one of the chickens Magenbrot.
42	* EndingMemorialService: The final post of Round 1 starts with Jean lighting a funeral pyre for Kimblee.
43	* TheEndOrIsIt: The captives in the end have defeated the Conductor and just want to go home, but the villain could well strike again with someone else.
44	-->'''Susan:''' We've done everything we could, I think. He was right -- we really ''can't'' just storm up and kill God. Maybe some of us could take care of it later, but [[BroughtDownToNormal the way we are now?]] All we can do is go home and try to recover.
45	* ElCidPloy: Twisted when Kimductor insists that his "shadow friend" is alive and unrelated to the dead man found in the ballroom. In this case, the mastermind is pretending his ally is alive, rather than the followers pretending their leader is.
46	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Actually averted for the guy who may as well be the TropeNamer. Everyone uses his actual name.
47	* EyepatchOfPower: Three of them. And they're all dead by the end of week three.
48	* EyeScream: Used in the third case when Ashley, fighting back against Asuka, goes for her eye with scissors. Twisted in that it was the eye Asuka had already lost.
49	%%* FaceMonsterTurn: The backstory of the shadow creature.
50	* FacialHorror: Ashley when she's shot in the head and Asuka when she reveals that she's been stabbed in her empty eye socket.
51	* FaintInShock: Blue faints when she finds the gory second crime scene.
52	* FanDisservice: Rick insists on every excuse to strip in public. Eventually, the Conductor is disgusted enough to start making rules to stop him!
53	* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Mercy was not the correct choice. Invoked by Kimblee in response, just before he tries to kill the survivors.
54	-->"You would spare someone who's never done anything for you – I told you that I received you as a ''mistake''. Why do you think that your survival matters enough to me to send you all back where you came from – why do you think I would bother, when this entire setup was designed to kill you from the start?"
55	* FlamingSword: Susan famously uses one to land the final blow on Kimblee.
56	%%* FoodEnd: Well... for [[ImAHumanitarian Kaneki]], [[ZombieApocalypse it was]]...
57	* ForbiddenChekhovsGun: The flavour text for the "Potion" item outright tells you not to drink it. It's used to revive Logan mid-game (very briefly) and again to bring back all the dead.
58	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
59	** Accidental when contrast is built up between Lisbeth in backstory and Susan in the ending. Lisbeth was working for Kimblee despite her misgivings, tried to stab him in the face, and he killed her. Come the final trial, Susan was going to let Kimblee live despite her misgivings, he ''tries'' to kill her and the others, and she stabs him in the face. Successfully.
60	** Sukuyo, in the aftermath of Logan's ill-fated fight with the shadow, announces, "We need to invest in {{flaming sword}}s to prevent this from ever happening again!" As shown in the round's signature scene, TheCuckoolanderWasRight.
61	* ForgedMessage: There are two: one from Cabanela (actually Dio) and one from Mordecai (actually Rick). Sukuyo's looked suspicious, but she actually did write it.
62	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The "Teen Asshole Squad," composed of the survivor pool's teenagers aside from Blue, who belongs to [[TheMole another]] CastHerd. Bakugou is sanguine, Sol is choleric, Weiss is melancholic, and Jean is phlegmatic.
63	* FrameUp: Cabanela is the victim of one in case five, where a note in his handwriting was used to lure out the victim, who was also found with holding one of his regains. It turns out the latter was a coincidence.
64	* FullNameBasis: Mordecai to most everyone, and Rick to Dio just to annoy him.
65	* GivingRadioToTheRomans: A RunningGag is the ever-increasing LongList of modern concepts that Logan is urged to bring back to Albion.
66	%%* GoodScarsEvilScars: Subverted and played straight when all the deceased characters are revived via the [[VideoGame/FableII resurrection phials]] that come with this penalty.
67	%%* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Reaver and Youko privately joke about this. It becomes extremely relevant during the first trial.
68	* GreaterScopeVillain: The Conductor's "God." The characters aren't sure what to do in the end, knowing he's still out there.
69	%%* HairContrastDuo: Sol and Luna are a twin variant.
70	* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Inverted and discussed. Ashley tells Dio that she hasn't told anyone about finding his journal. Dio replies that she shouldn't have told him that because, if he were going to kill her over the contents, he'd be more likely to if he knew the secret would die with her.
71	* HavingABlast: The stolen superpower of two students, one of whom [[ThrowDownTheBomblet eventually starts compensating]]. The Conductor has the same ability.
72	* HeroicBSOD:
73	** Logan goes unresponsive at Reaver's execution, where he fears what will happen to his home.
74	** Half the remaining game when Logan is killed by the shadow monster - and they're there to witness it the second time.
75	* HesitationEqualsDishonesty: A few characters start to question Elise in the sixth trial when she suddenly drops the topic she was going after. She's actually just trying not to mention the ghosts in front of the Conductor, since she'd been telling him that the seances were silly and ineffectual and the other students would surely pipe in saying they were real.
76	* HurricaneOfPuns: On the ghosts' end, spectating the final trial [[GotMeDoingIt devolved into this]] for several hundred comments.
77	* IDidntMeanToKillHim: Tabby only meant to kill one person; she wanted Mordecai as a witness so she could be sent to the execution pit, but the wound she gave him was accidentally fatal.
78	* InUniverseCatharsis: ''So many characters'' beat up on or otherwise desecrated Kimblee's corpse.
79	* KickTheMoralityPet: Asuka does this ''deliberately'', enacting a plot to kill her closest friend to break her bonds because she's afraid of what having them will do to her. When she's caught, most of the school turns on her, and she spends a lot of time and development in deadland working through what she's done.
80	* KilledOffForReal: An unnamed chicken and the Conductor.
81	* TheKingslayer: The shadow's treated as a bigger threat after killing Logan.
82	%%* LastMinuteHookup: All the pairings this round are either this or MaybeEverAfter.
83	%%* LivingShadow: The Conductor's "associate." It -- or, rather, ''he'' -- wasn't always that way.
84	* LizardFolk: Mordecai takes a metaphor literally and wonders why the Conductor would be one of these if he said he was human. (He's not ''really'' a lizard.)
85	* LosingYourHead: When Dio's execution beheads him, his still-living head starts attacking, screaming, and hopping around by its thrashing blood vessels.
86	* MaliciousMisnaming: Those who call Kimblee "Kimberly."
87	* MaybeEverAfter: Some pairings, like Morty/Sol or Bakugou/Rakka, are left up in the air as to their future.
88	* MercyKill: What the ghosts' killing Mustang boils down to, though they don't know it at the time.
89	* MistakenForServant: In the opening log, Elise thinks the other captives are her servants.
90	%%* TheMole: Three of them, actually.
91	%%* TheMusicMeister: While a ''person'' doesn't have this ability, a piano does.
92	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Youko, you really shouldn't have asked the Conductor about the ghosts.
93	* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted when Blue asks the Conductor for a communal supply of tampons.
94	* NowOrNeverKiss: Weiss gives one to Jean just before the final investigation.
95	* ObviousRulePatch: The Conductor adds more and more rules to the list to cut the captives off whenever they start to actually pose a threat to him, may well accidentally blow the place up, or are just getting annoying.
96	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Sol and Bakugou realize that there's something wrong at the seventh trial when Cabanela, who'd always refrained from judging the killers, calls this one "[[YouMonster a real monster]]."
97	* OriginalGeneration: Lisbeth and the chickens, but ''not'' the Conductor.
98	* OpenSaysMe: A rule is made against this when the locked doors appear. Dio kicks down a couple of doors in the epilogue.
99	%%* OurSoulsAreDifferent: Part of a lot of characters' canons and the way they got to Anime Germany.
100	* DreamRealityCheck: Undyne pinches herself to prove that she and the other dead really did revive and she's not dreaming it up.
101	* OutOfCharacterAlert: Envy tries to avert this by not getting into conversations and shapeshifting less popular people. Still, when Beedrill is secretly watching, the Pokémon finds it weird that "Dio" would take anything from the fridge; the real Dio, after all, "eats like a Golbat" (i.e. drinking blood).
102	* PassingNotesInClass: The group tends to pass notes during meetings, either because they suspect the Conductor to be listening in or because they don't trust the whole group. Susan compares it to passing notes in elementary school.
103	* PeekABooCorpse: Blue runs into body after body when she thinks she might be safe this week.
104	* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: The Conductor is a smarmy, self-serving self-described gentleman, and even the sweet and polite members of the survivor pool become worn out, [[NotSoAboveItAll start acting improperly]], and more often than not end up screaming, ignoring him, and/or dropping F-bombs in public.
105	%%* PoorCommunicationKills: Stated by name as Logan regrets his life choices.
106	* PrecisionFStrike: Sukuyo calling Morty's murderer an SOB when she's usually so sweet and polite.
107	* ProfaneLastWords: Did we really expect anything else from Rick?
108	* RagnarokProofing: Graceside survived the apocalypse outside its doors. Foreshadowed in case 6, where it's noted that the place seems to be built to withstand a bombing.
109	%%* RedemptionEqualsDeath: By arranging her own murder, Sukuyo tries to invoke this.
110	* RedHerringMole: Near the end of the game, the Conductor is fed up with TheMole and outs her identity to the group... sort of; he puts ''three'' options out there and tells the Participants that one of them was working for him and they should figure out which one isn't the red herring. Of course, it's not that simple. Unknown to the rest of the group or to each other, Sukuyo, Elise, and Blue were ''all'' the Conductor's moles.
111	* ResurrectiveImmortality: Logan displays this when the shadow counterattacks, but only once. It turns out to ''not'' be an ability of his, but an effect of a potion.
112	* RewatchBonus: In week one, Logan is paranoid that ghosts are responsible for leaving coins for the students in their bedrooms while they sleep. [[{{Foreshadowing}} That's exactly what it was]].
113	* RightHandAttackDog: The Participants at first assume that the shadow is this, but it turns out to be sentient and not a pet; the Conductor treats it more like a coworker.
114	%%* RulesLawyer: Weiss tries to be one. The Conductor won't have any of it.
115	* SecurityCling: Some of the younger students cling onto Logan out of worry when he shows up in the dead realm.
116	* SeriesFauxnale: Endgame, since the series was going to be one round and extended to six. That's also why the game ended up with multiple game communities and mod journals.
117	* ShipToShipCombat: When Ashley and Asuka are reading the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' series. Ashley ships canon and Asuka ships Harmony. They even get into a screaming match over it in the middle of the final trial![[invoked]]
118	* ShoeSlap: Sol gets so worked up that she chucks both of her shoes at Cabanela from across the room.
119	* SmoochOfVictory: Blue and Yuuri, after the latter is revived post-Final Trial.
120	* SoWhatDoWeDoNow: The Participants largely do want to keep things from getting worse after they've dealt with the Conductor, but have no way to do so, and return hopelessly to their lives.
121	* StalkerShrine: Sol discovers what she calls a "stalker room," wallpapered with photos of the Participants, especially the ones Envy impersonated or considered impersonating.
122	* TeamPet: A whole flock of chickens, including Hibiki's favourite, fluffy mascot Dorika.
123	* TortureAlwaysWorks: The real reason Kimblee knows so much about his captives.
124	* TrashCanBonfire: Sukuyo lights one in the aftermath of Logan's death. She clings to it the whole night in fear of the shadow monster.
125	* TrickBomb: Tabby starts making flashbangs, which she and others use to fight the shadow monster. They quickly get banned from the courtroom.
126	* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: While this isn't actually what happened, Blue and Bakugou theorize that the body last found in the ballroom -- actually Mustang -- could be the Conductor, attacked by his "shadow friend."
127	* TwoDunIt: The Conductor tells Rick that it's possible for two culprits to win by getting away with the same murder. Rick then plans to convince Morty to kill someone with him. However, Morty is killed before he can.
128	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: After running into corpse after corpse, Blue's reactions go from screaming to hiding behind other people to eventually just calling out "hey, there's another dead guy!"
129	* UptownGirl: Refined heiress Weiss and common soldier Jean become an item.
130	* ValentinesDayEpisode: Because mixed-up memories and being in a murdercan make it hard to tell the date (not to mention her canon's season-based calendar), Elise declares that it must be Valentine's Day on ''December'' 14th. She proceeds to give chocolate cookies to the entire remaining male cast, including the Conductor![[labelnote:*]]She left a plate of them on the mailbox.[[/labelnote]]
131	* ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer: Trying to spare the mastermind instead of kill him almost bad-ended the game.
132	* WasOnceAMan: The Shadow/Mustang, who was human before being experimented on.
133	* WeakenedByTheLight: Not just Dio; the shadow monster too, and not just to sunlight.
134	* WelcomeBackTraitor: To Blue and Elise after the mole reveal. After the Conductor had betrayed them for protecting the ghosts, the other captives found it practical, plus Blue had intended to play the Conductor from the start and Elise had already had a change of heart and quit.
135	* WhamEpisode: The final trial, by far, when everybody finds out just where they are and who's behind it all.
136	* WhamLine: The Conductor's in the seventh trial.
137	-->"Did you really think I would be stupid enough to rely on the word of one person?"
138	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: It's stated outright that chickens don't have souls, but Pokémon do.
139	* WhatMeasureIsANonUnique: Rakka wonders this when her fellow captives throw around the theory that they might not be the only versions of themselves out there or even the only ones to come to Graceside, which isn't proven in Round 1 itself, but the premise of Round 6 cements it.
140	* WouldHurtAChild: Many of the killers are adults, and their victims defenceless children. It reaches such a noticeable degree that Bakugou starts to comment on it.
141	* WrongNameOutburst:
142	** During the sixth trial Youko and Bakugou briefly squabble, leading to this exchange:
143	--->"'''NO STEAK FOR A MONTH, KATSUKI.'''"\
144	"I CAN MAKE MY OWN STEAK NOW ANYWAY, MOM!!"
145	** After being revived, Rakka tearfully calls Susan "Mom."
146	* YouMonster: Hibiki says this to Asuka, with the backing of most and the judgment of others, for killing her own friend. Cabanela admonishes her for it, but later says it himself, about himself.
147	* YourMagicsNoGoodHere: Kimblee admits that he actually doesn't ''know'' why everyone was BroughtDownToNormal and the "fee paid to the Gate" theory is only a theory, with this being his secondary hypothesis.
148	* YourSoulIsMine: Thanks to the [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} backgrounds of]] [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure several of]] [[{{Manga/Tactics}} the deceased]], their theories lead them to this conclusion. They were wrong, and [[AccidentalKidnapping the truth]] [[ForTheEvulz was much]] [[ItAmusedMe simpler.]]

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