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  • A gigantic floating white masque telling the party what the main quest is.
  • Raubritters say some unintentionally hilarious things, such as "Let us reason together" (not like you have a choice, as you're surrounded by a bunch of heavily armed thugs on their turf), "Slay me these idiots!", or when they chicken out and their lieutenant kills them and takes over.
  • Social interactions have some funny moments.
    • One involves scaring off guards by pretending to be Ax-Crazy; one of your party calls dibs on their boots while another complains about how messy last time was, causing the guards to run away screaming, while another involves you tricking them into a case of Mistaken Identity.
    • Another has you try to scare off bandits with a display of weapons skill and you drop your weapon in a slapstick way.
    • When you encounter an evil friar, if you call upon a saint he will admit his true purpose is to extort you, and his followers get so angry they start beating him as you leave.
  • The penances assigned by a priest in a satanic hamlet:
    To simulate the passion of our Lord, you must slowly kill a small animal. Then you must recite ten prayers backwards! Finally, in celebration of your remission of sin, you must drink so much sacramental wine that you fall unconscious. I can provide the wine.
  • Some saints work in unusual ways.
    • When you call Saint Bathildis to help you get out of prison, she appears as a mysterious nun who walks around the dungeon bribing guards with your money.
    • When a devil claims the soul of a character for crossing a bridge he built, you can summon a patron saint of lawyers and philosophy as your legal counsel. The saint admits he's going to lose the legal dispute, but it will take a century, by which time the heroes will already be in Heaven. Or Hell, making the question moot. If a sufficiently educated character seems to be winning the legal dispute with a devil, the devil Rage Quits and demands a trial by combat.

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