Line #12 YMMV/Verum


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
2	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlM5wMr81uQ Rise]], the OP to Otikata's Curse, a killer metal tune that captures the evil of Otikata.
3	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0CQPz1k-pw I Will Be Your Hero]], the OP for The Divine Wind, brings to mind a classic anime opening in all the right ways.
4	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKU6v2H5oe0 A Hero Rises]], the music for the intense clashes, is just as strong and heart-pumping as the clashes themselves.
5	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFfNUjQhn_M Song of the Seven]], a beautiful ballad to accompany the end of the Violet Arc, featuring the voices of many of the players.
6	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J30XM1XJJ-s Tyre, The Mad Wizard]], the titular theme of Tyre, which serves as his boss music.
7	* FanNickname:
8	** The party members of "The Shattered Crowns" (Guy, Scrumpo, Huckleberry, Iron Pipe, and Ikkar) are almost universally referred to as "The Shattered Clowns" by fans, due to their general, lovable incompetence.
9	** The party in "Shrine of Sin" (Kenji, Verp, Akakai, Worgh the Wyrd and Zhan Ren) are called "Shrine of Misses," based on how they've had an unusually high rate of… Well, misses, even against enemies who have the minimal AC at ''10.''
10	* HarsherInHindsight:
11	** During Episode 5 of Otikata's Curse, [[spoiler:after the players learn of the Ruthless trait, Veibae jokingly says she wants to see one of the players die, with Haruka claiming that it's going to be her. Becomes a lot less funny when that's exactly what happens with Haruka's character, River, dying and Vei's character, Nia, as the last fighter standing while the others are unconscious, using a cursed action as a last resort and in grief...]]
12	** With information that has come out showing Arcadum to be a ControlFreak and far more reliant on improvisation than he presented himself as, the switch from "Among the Reeds" to "Servants of the Spire" changes a fair bit, as the Depthar invasion was most likely something that Arcadum was ''trying'' to force rather than an organic consequence of the player's actions [[note]]Nyanners had mentioned that he had neglected to provide her with any information on Zvaigždė even when she asked, so it seems likely that he did the same to Cyr to ensure that he would fail the test on Crowley that was spontaneously forced onto him.[[/note]]. Given that Arcadum had hinted at a FugitiveArc that the players actually showed interest in, only to then use what was effectively a non-lethal RocksFallEveryoneDies to force the players into a more standard and ''far'' more intensive campaign instead, it comes off much less like sociopathic characters getting their rightful comeuppance, and more like a vindictive GM inflicting overly-harsh and petty punishment on the players for daring to overshadow him and take his campaign OffTheRails.
13	** Many things about how he acted towards female players come across as ''a lot'' more uncomfortable after the information of his behind-the-scenes behavior came out.
14	*** All of the sexual humor involving the [=NPCs=] goes from "funny" to "insanely creepy" when accounting for Arcadum's behind-the-scenes sexual harassment of the players that he would perform these scenes with.
15	*** The constant tendency of Babylon to pop up for female players also becomes more unsettling, given that it likely wasn't that they actually found a way to call on him, just that Arcadum wanted him to interact with them.
16	*** The tendency of characters like Clifface Bonechewer and Hokky Kepto, who seem to have been explicitly meant to elicit sympathy from the players, to appear throughout "Death and Debts" and "Steel and Silence," given that the very same kind of tactics were often used by Arcadum on his victims.
17	*** In [[WebVideo/OtikatasCurse "Otikata's Curse"]], the last few episodes had some of the girls drinking during the sessions, which led to a few moments that were kind of amusing. A lot less so when the player clarified later that it wasn't the normal kind that they occasionally did on their own streams, but explicitly to ''calm their nerves enough just to get through the sessions'', due to Arcadum's attitude towards them and tendency to neglect to provide ''any'' helpful information to them before it became absolutely necessary (and sometimes not even then).
18	** In [[WebVideo/OtikatasCurse "Otikata's Curse"]], the battle against the Mistwalker became a lot harsher when some of the players eventually came to talk more openly about what happened afterward; for the sake of brevity, this effectively consisted of Arcadum dismissing their (very deserved) complaints, talking down to them, and leaving them pressured to simply try to look at the bright side rather than be open about how frustrated and out of their depth that they actually felt.
19	* HilariousInHindsight:
20	** During Episode 4 of Shrine of Sin, Tomato jokes about pulling out a smartphone to check the weather. Verp later [[spoiler:''actually'' manages to get his hands on a modern tablet in universe.]]
21	** Those who followed the "[[WebVideo/SteelAndSilence Steel and Silence]]" group might find it amusing in "Among the Reeds" when Machio asks the same question that [=ProjektMelody=]/Terryn had at one point: [[HeelRealization "Are we the baddies?"]] The Steel and Silence party are more chaotic than anything, but in the case of Machio's party, they ''[[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist most definitely]]'' are.
22	** When the party of [[WebVideo/SteelAndSilence "Death and Debts"]], which was comprised of {{Virtual YouTuber}}s, mostly from WebVideo/VShojo, is brought to Camp Last Stand, they are informed about the Star Maidens, basically Verum's version of {{Magical Girl}}s, and a few people suggest making the party into Star Maidens, though nothing comes of it. Later in "WebVideo/OtikatasCurse," Lucine Lavendel, who is played by Nyanners, another [=VTuber=] from [=VShojo=], would become the first player character to actually attain this status.
23	** The antics of "Among the Reeds"/"Servants of the Spire" were already funny before, but after the information on Arcadum came out, along with his ControlFreak nature and {{Railroading}} tendencies being made far more well-known, the fact that they were undoubtedly pissing Arcadum off to no end the whole time makes them ''far'' more amusing.
24	* MemeticMutation:
25	** TOPS [[note]]Any mention or appearance of the TOPS inspires chanting of their name from the chat.[[/note]]
26	** "I love the moon."
27	*** "I no longer love the moon."
28	** 7 [[note]]Seven is a ''big'' ArcNumber in Verum, and thus any mention or roll of seven immediately sparks the attention of most of the chat.[[/note]]
29	** [[MemeticLoser lolmonk]] [[note]]The Shrine of Sin group have amazingly poor luck with their rolls in combat, but Kenji typically gets dealt with the worst hand. Being made the "goblin" of the group, checking for traps [[spoiler:and destroying a pillar that blasted him back for his troubles whereas Akakai and Verp dealt with their own ones and both came out unscathed in the final battle]] doesn’t help. The meme also extends to basically any other time a monk misses an attack roll.[[/note]]
30	** Crowley stonks [[note]]Crowley, while present in the Violet Arc, was relatively minor compared to the likes of Babylon or Wode. This changed in Chapter 1 of the Glies Arc, where, by ''sheer coincidence'', three different campaigns had players make clerics of Crowley (Kouki in "Ink and Blood," Aisu in "A Storm Approaches," and Eli in "Among the Reeds"), hugely increasing his impact on that part of the story. The resurgence of the Depthar in Glies didn't help.[[/note]]
31	** 17.8% [[note]]This is based on a particularly infamous quote from one of the conversations that came out showing how manipulative and abusive to people Arcadum could be off-stream, where he claimed that he had calculated that 17.8% of the people that he ran D&D for continued to be his friends afterwards.[[/note]]
32	* NightmareFuel: Arcadum is a big fan of horror and he makes good use of it in his games.
33	** In Kalkatesh, there was the Violet, a threat that could not only erase a character completely, it would remove any memories other people had of that person. Even worse is any players who had more than one character as through their connection, one of them dying to the Violet will eliminate ALL of them…
34	** In Giles, there is the Mist, where when it appears, people are under threat of many disturbing and powerful creatures that can only be found residing in the Mist, ready to maim anyone they find inside it. Many sessions involving them typically have the players try to sneak a way, encountering many monsters along the way, if not hearing them, out of sight but definitely somewhere closeby.
35	** Pretty much anytime he screeches as a monster. They are typically very loud and primal.
36	* OvershadowedByControversy: The series, its various campaigns, and Arcadum himself are nowadays entirely discussed with regards to the many behind-the-scenes horror stories that popped up around August 2021, documenting a history Arcadum being chronically abusive and highly manipulative towards his players and fellow creators, including sexually harassing around 20 female participants. With just about ''everyone'' who formerly collaborated him -- players, artists, composers, business partners, etc. -- verifying his bad behavior and disowning him, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor making it next-to-impossible for the series to continue]], it's just as unlikely that he will ever shed the bad press.
37	* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Lemondrop from "Pride of the Nightwolf." He gained some ire from both the campaign's players and fans due to not bothering to help the party in combat and constantly trying to come on to a grieving widower who obviously wanted nothing to do with him. However, some opinions turned around when his reasoning for his pacifism is revealed, he finds a way to make himself useful, and directly stands up to his brother and the Eclipse. This results in a fair few dismayed reactions when [[spoiler:[[WebVideo/OtikatasCurse Mei]] receives a contract to assassinate him]].

Context YMMV / Verum