Located [[http://community.livejournal.com/secondcityrpg here]]. Second City RPG is a multifandom RP based on Jim Butcher's ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''.

Characters have arrived in Chicago's seemingly deserted downtown Loop for reasons unknown. For all intents and purposes, it looks exactly like Chicago, sounds like Chicago, and has the city's [[UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} famous winds]]. In fact, it might as well be Chicago...well, that's if you don't count the vampires, fallen angels, hobgoblins, faeries, and other supernatural creatures running around, making life quite interesting for everyone.

On the surface, it seems like a typical day for a certain wizard detective. But something old and powerful may be playing games just behind the curtain...

!! This game provides examples of:
* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts - Utterly subverted. For some reason, the shopkeepers will happily give you whatever goods you want or need for absolutely free.
** InfiniteSupplies - The stores never seem to run out of stock, either.
* AllThereInTheManual - While the historical logs and letters aren’t crucial to the plot, reading them helps with the explanation of some characters and events later in the game.
* AlternateUniverse - And how.
* ApocalypseHow - The details about this are still obscure, but it sounds like someone's attempting a Class Z...
* ArtifactOfDoom - Friendly word of advice: If you happen to find an ancient silver Roman coin lying around, do NOT pick it up unless you feel like letting a FallenAngel move into your head.
* AscendedFanboy - Newly-minted ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan Sora got to battle a phage that took the form of Darth Vader. He was thrilled.
* BadassBookworm - Given this is a Dresden Files game, several characters use wits as a primary stat for not dying. Harry Dresden, Thomas Raith, Sam Winchester, Linkara, and Clare Edwards spending a lot of time figuring out what the hell is going on.
* BadassLongcoat - Harry Dresden owned perhaps the ultimate one until canon events. The game currently has John Taylor, John Ross and Vin after losing her cloak regularly sporting them. Probably a few other examples as well.
* BadassNormal - The cast has a ton of them.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy - The letters and biweekly mod-written logs show that Creator/HGWells, UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein, Anastasia Romanov, Anna Pavlova, Coco Chanel, Creator/JRRTolkien, Creator/CSLewis, [[UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt Teddy Roosevelt]], and a bunch of other historical figures were very knowledgeable about the supernatural and "Chicago" itself.
* BelligerentSexualTension - Thomas and Elaine, which eventually leads to coma by sex...for Thomas
* BewareTheNiceOne - Many.
* ABoyAndHisX - In this case ponies...with Terra.
* BreakTheCutie - Drop a bunch of unsuspecting ponies into a dark urban fantasy setting and see what happens. Unless you're Pinkie Pie.
* BroughtDownToNormal - Following the Big Damn Attack, the fog closes in overhead and short-circuits everyone's powers.
* ChangedMyJumper - Averted. Characters who get sent to various places and times in order to “liberate” something for the Postman will have their clothing instantly replaced with entirely new outfits that fit the setting.
* ChekhovsGunman - James "Jamie" Kent/the archangel Raphael, Titania, Lysander
* TheChessmaster - Morgana, Merlin.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome - Everyone ever.
* CityOfAdventure
* CoolCar - Thomas has one, thanks to [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Winry’s]] tinkering.
* CurbStompBattle - Everyone against the Skinwalker. Then the Skinwalker against the Postman.
* DespairEventHorizon - Trapped in a city with no apparent escape, the remaining folks get to see first hand the city crumbled into destruction.
* DramaticThunder - The storms constantly plaguing the city.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt
* EvenTheGuysWantHim - Stupid sexy Thomas.
* EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture - The “Eggplant Elite” phones are blatant iPhone {{Expies}}.
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles - The influx of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic ponies]] (and Alice) has added a healthy dose of sparkly creatures to Chicago.
* TheFaceless - The Postman.
** As of the reveal, not anymore - the Post Office consists of Harry Houdini, Harry Blackstone Sr., and David Copperfield
* TheFairFolk
* FakingTheDead - Houdini and Blackstone to the rest of the world
* FantasyKitchenSink
* TheFashionista - Alice, Fiona, and Rarity
* FetchQuest - A few of these have been done as player-run plots. The trip into Undertown comes to mind.
* FountainOfYouth - Axel was cursed and ended up being de-aged to fifteen for several weeks.
* FromBadToWorse - The destruction of the Chicago Cultural Center was just the beginning.
* FutureMeScaresMe: Isa is ''terrified'' of becoming Saix. Clare's not fond of how Fiona's described Clare's future boyfriend.
* FunctionalMagic
* GentlemanThief - [[Series/WhiteCollar Neal Caffrey]] defines this trope.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan - Linkara does this to Terra when Terra continually angsts about his destiny/past.
* GroundhogDayLoop - an event that occurs during the quest for the Holy Grail.
* TheGroup - Scathing called the "post office" by Linkara when he found out there was more than one postman.
* GuileHero - Plenty, the most notable is Clare making Morgana swear on her power... shame she didn't word it well enough to protect everyone.
* HarmfulToMinors - Kyoko's life, also Chicago.
* IGaveMyWord - The Mothers of Summer and Winter made a promise to help the group find the eleventh pillar. How helpful they were depends on how much you can trust a faerie's word.
* IntergenerationalFriendship - Isa and Axel... sort of. Time travel has a habit of making friendships complicated.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha - Franky, Mechakara
* JerkAss - Kincaid, Kyoko, Jayne, Hellboy, Dean, Deadpool...
* KilledOffForReal - Only one so far, considering the canon source of the game: Neal Caffrey, killed in a blood ritual.
* KissOfDeath - Elaine to Thomas.
* KnightInShiningArmor - Galahad, so much.
* LaResistance - The nameless group of people from the 20th century working to create Chicago - commonly called a "brotherhood"
* LittleMissBadass - Kyoko, Toph when she was around.
* MacguffinDeliveryService - All the hard work everyone did to retrieve the artifacts goes to waste when Morgana ends up trashing the Chicago Cultural Center, destroying the Statue of David and taking three of the articacts (Tyrfing, Pandora's box, and the Four Chinese Guardians) with her.
** Everything is Criss Angel's fault.
* MerlinAndNimue - Hinted by the triumvirate of wizards that this is why the worlds are currently in distress. And thus outright proven by both appearing in game.
* MrExposition - David Copperfield, since Houdini and Blackstone are less than forthcoming with details.
* MrFanservice - Chicago's home to a bunch of fine-looking guys.
* TheMultiverse
* Nakama - The Alliance throughout the 20th century.
* NightmareSequence - Current plot in game. They are getting progressively worse since the Skinwalker incident.
* OddFriendship - Terra and Linkara. Terra and Rarity. Kitten and Thomas. It's a panfandom game what do you expect?
* OhGreatASnarkIndex - DRESDEN. FILES. GAME. Honestly, chances are most of that index counts. It would be simpler to list who can't Snark than list every snarker in the game and how they snark.
* OlderThanTheyLook - Ebenezar, Katherine, Alice, Thomas, Adell, Rozalin, Aurora, Kyoko...
* OminousFog / FogOfDoom - Serves to keep everyone corralled within the city. Nobody knows what exactly it’s hiding, and so far, nobody’s been eager to find out the hard way.
* OntologicalMystery
* OnlyTheWorthyMayPass - Stupid Grail.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent - Local vamps from the Dresden Files (three kinds, Red, White, and Black court), and the non-local Twilight (Alice Cullen) and Wizards of Waverly Place (Juliet)
* PluckyGirl - Clare, Kairi.
* PowerLimiter - Any supernatural abilities the characters possess get handicapped in some way upon arrival.
* PowerTrio - Houdini (Superego), Blackstone (Ego), Copperfield (Id)
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits
* RealityWarper - Houdini
* RefusalOfTheCall - More like "TELL US MORE AND WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO REFUSE, DAMN IT"
* SchizoTech - Advanced technology simply doesn’t work here. In fact, nothing that was produced after the 1950’s or so seems to function properly. The sole exception is the special phone each character receives upon arrival.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere - Hellboy's reaction to the trio's reveal.
* SealedEvilInACan - It backfired.
* ShipperOnDeck - Alice.
* AStormIsComing
* StuffBlowingUp - Dude, it's the freakin' Dresden Files. Harry lives for this and now finds himself in the company of people who do the same. Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Soldier's Field, and Millennium Park are the only things to be permanently down.
* TheGMIsACheatingBastard - You expected anything less?
* TookALevelInBadass - Clare Edwards
* TooManyBelts - The Franchise/KingdomHearts cast were designed by Nomura.
** Yet the cast is mostly from ''Birth by Sleep'', which don't have many belts at all. Go figure.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour - ...Everyone under the age of 20 as far as Charity Carpenter is concerned. However Robin and Kyoko probably take the cake for this place. Especially Kyoko.
* VaguenessIsComing - It is.
* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption - She-Hulk, understandably. Deadpool as well since he showed up. Kyoko loves violent solutions.
* WrittenSoundEffect and UnsoundEffect - Knives Chau (seventeen years old)
* YearInsideHourOutside - How faux!Chicago initially worked until the group arrives in real Chicago and are informed by Copperfield that for two weeks, the two cities had been running on simultaneous times.
* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb - We love you too, Eb.
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