Our Little Adventure is a fantasy webcomic created by Daniel Landolt. It's based on a Dungeons And Dragons campaign set in an original world, using the 3.X edition rules. A young bard named Julie has a dream where she learns she can save the world by finding a pendant which will lead her to the Magicant, a powerful artifact that grants unlimited wishes. She is joined by her fighter husband Lenny on this quest and very shortly after meets her sisterAngelika as well as rogue she's travelling with. Using information from "The Palm Tree Ghost" she eventually learns how to use the pendant and goes on a quest to collect the pieces of this Magicant artifact. Of course certain events complicate matters, like an evil spirit Julie accidentally released as well as having to deal with an evil empire and followers of a crazy religion.The comic was inspired by The Order of the Stick's humor and style, but doesn't tell the story with stick figures. The characters are heavily symbolistic in appearance and appear a cross between stick people, paper characters, and noodle people. The comic doesn't take itself too seriously, heavy with parody and cliché of RPG as well as D&D campaigns. The fourth wall is notoriously weak in spots, and there are some pop culture references here and there.The comic has been running since Christmas day, 2009 and updated about twice a week on average (including the hiatus). The comic updates every three days, sometimes more often if the creator isn't busy. There are two places the comic can be seen, the first being an official websiteand the second being rogonandi's deviantART account. There is an entry for it on The Webcomic List. It's also got its own group on Facebook where people who like it can get news about it and such, such as updates.It's now got a Character Sheet.
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0% Approval Rating: A story arc in the "second book" has Brian attempting to subject Thomas Stratus to this by ruining his name using magical disguising and premeditated mass murder. This is because Stratus didn't join the empire, and because he learned too much of the invasion plan.
Adventure Towns: The first being the little village where they picked up Pauline, and then they went to Everwood, a huge city where they met new NPC friends and Julie picked up the Magicant Pendant. They went back to Huckleton to catch a ferry to North Manjulias. They passed through Starlight Point and went through the Rosoro Underground to reach Llanadario, a 'gateway city'. Now its vaguely established they're heading toward Autumnson.
All There in the Manual: On the official website there is information on characters, the cosmology and there are planar diagrams. Reader beware, spoilers everywhere...and Brian even lampshades that at the top of the page.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: After Angelo breaks Umbria's petrification spell she immediately jumps to the conclusion that Angelo wants to punish her. The first three things she mention are pretty legit reasons for punishment, but the one knocking Angelo's uniform choice was probably the one that got Angelo so annoyed with her.
Art Evolution: The characters and backgrounds look much better than when the comic started. Lenny lampshades this in the comic's 100th page. Lampshaded again when the comic gets another background graphic upgrade in this comic.
Brian seems to be the "good cop" of the two. He's friendly and charming and enjoys non-villainous hobbies like hot chocolate and lounging around. But he can still be quite the moral bankrupt, especially when bowing to his husband's wishes.
Angelo, the leader of "Angelo's Kids" seen in this comic here. He seems to be a more traditional evil overlord, but is still extremely attentive to his husband's happiness. Woe betide any who make Brian unhappy.
Also "Thog Parody", an orc barbarian Jason fought in his backstory comic.
Chest Monster: The group fight one in the Rosoro Underground Highway.
The Chosen One: Julie. The pendent only reacts to her. Revealed to be played with as it turns out Julie was the third person The Palm Tree Ghost chose to do this quest. She wouldn't talk about what happened in regard to the first two.
Umbria: You guys are gonna make me faceplam every other minute, aren't you?
Fantastic Racism: The Souballo Empire is infamous for their hatred of Elves. Brian and Angelo like to make fun of Dwarves too, but at least they're not actively hunted and battled like Elves are.
Some Elves also have less than charitable feelings towards humans, though their dislike is more understandable due to the Empire's brutality.
Angelo, with one glove and short sleeve, a boot longer than the other, and differently-colored metamagic rods. Which also makes the fact he's an Ambidextrous Sprite quite obvious.
Quite a few of Angelo's Kids copy their Beautiful Worship.
Filler Strips: Arguably the entire Freedom Shrine Dungeon arc.
Flat World: the plane of Manjulias (the world in this comic) is flat.
Follow the Leader: Originally it looked like an Order of the Stick(ish) comic, and the creator has said that the comic was inspired by it. The comic itself isn't a stick figure comic, and through a gradual change in style, the trope is averting itself by the character designs getting further and further away from The Order of the Stick and the backgrounds being much more detailed.
Played straight with Pauline, who tells Julie not to raise her.
Played ultimately straight with Eva who was crushed into a bloody cube, and soulbound into a gem.
Knight in Shining Armor: Our rogue, after tricking a wizard into identifying scrolls, actually lets her have the one she needs for free; this is her reaction.
Angelika: How did you get special colored text in your speech balloon like that?
Metagame: Julie sometimes has the tendency to use the table top variant of it as one of her bardic powers. Up until recently it's been Hand Waved, but this time she gets punished for it by getting swatted by the Assassin Vine they were fighting immediately after revealing its game resistances.
Mind-Control Eyes: Characters acting under the influence of enchantments have eyes that usually glow yellowish green.
The trio Julie needs to talk to in order to get item she needs are a fantasy take on the original American Idol judges.
When Angelo showed his cronies a picture of what Julie might look like, he showed a picture of Idina Menzel. Trevoricus and Jason even lampshade this by talking about some of the works they saw with Idina in them.
Noblewoman's Laugh: Toby and Johnathan, two of Angelo's Kids, are male examples of this.
Our Elves Are Better: Elves have larger eyes, as opposed to humans which are smaller dots. Elves also have long ears and hair in all colors of the rainbow, including blue. And see Theme Naming.
Our Gnomes Are Weirder: Gnomes have the cone hats but they also have yellow skin and have pointy tails.
Rocky: ...I said your sister dresses like a ho but that doesn't mean you should start pimping her out. Norveg: I beat you to that joke when Julie donned the hat in the store.
RPG Mechanics Verse: Lampshaded by many characters, and Umbria's plan to train her orchestra hinges on taking advantage of this trope.
Sealed Evil in a Can: The demon released from the black magic wand. She calls herself Umbria. Her real name is revealed to be "Zaedalkaah".
She Cleans Up Nicely: Pauline looks much better in a dress and without all the scars. Too bad she's dead.
Shoot the Medic First: Averted during a battle between Julie's group and Kayla's group. Kayla is an imperial cleric and spent the battle healing and empowering her groupmates. Rocky complained about Julie telling him (and probably Angelika too) not to attack Kayla. The trope is even lampshaded in that comic's title.
Rocky:(next page) This wouldn't take nearly as long if someone would let us take out the healer! Kayla: I thank her for that.
Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The whole Eva story arc. Eva failed to find and destroy Umbria/Zaedalkaah, and ended up having A Fate Worse Than Death at the hands of Angelo. This whole mess is all due to Eva not backing down to someone clearly more powerful than her.
Splash Panel: Seems to be a developing trend whenever Julie's group gets to another city, or Brian and Angelo's castle is shown.
Spock Speak: Joyelle the Erinyes. She even has a different font in her speech bubbles to reflect it. And she scolds her underling for daring to use contractions.
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The sun explodes at the end of every day. Night falls rather quickly. The sun and moon can both talk as well. The characters sometimes comment about this as well.
What the Hell, Hero?: Stratus gives a rather low-key version of this to Pauline in the afterlife, telling her that she should have gone back when Julie tried to raise her. Her dead family wouldn't have waited that long for her due to the way time works in the afterlife, and Julie's group could use a competent melee fighter. He caps it off with a reminder that, unlike him, she is of Good alignment.
World Shapes: As seen in this comic, Our Little Adventure's world, Manjulias, is a flat, rectangular plate.
Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Lenny asks Julie to hit Angelika for him and complains about the inherent double standard.
You're Insane!: Stratus rejects his former student Brian's offer to join him by telling him that his plan is insane and will cause the deaths of countless innocent people.
and the second being rogonandi's deviantART account. There is an entry for it on The Webcomic List
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