YMMV / What Happened In Oregon

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Fairly common. A number of characters who have been only sparsely referenced in canon have achieved a surprising degree of popularity among the players. Newcomers to the RP may be confused by frequent references to Earl Greyback, the Tennessee Sibyl, and Mobius, queen of Calamityville.
• Nightmare Fuel: The RP is rife with nightmare fuel, but there are several outstanding examples, such as...
  • Koschei's method of blackmail. In one definitive and especially nightmarish example, he slits a toddler's throat, heals her, and then threatens to withdraw his healing power and let the child bleed to death unless the family does as he wishes.
  • Nighthound's "Domestication". His victims are enslaved to his will and forced to do whatever he pleases, but they are fully conscious as they carry out his despicable orders. To top it off, the Hounds generally aren't gifted Nighthound's healing factor, so they are forced to experience excruciating pain when their bodies are torn apart, without being able to stop.
  • The horror vanillas experience upon seeing their friends, neighbors, and family transformed into mindless Warriors of Light, extensions of Lightwards' delusional mind. This is especially poignant when the new Warriors are turned against their former associates. In one horrendous situation, a family's beloved dog was resurrected and made to rip out his owners' throats.
  • The plight of The Panda's pandas. These were once thinking, living human beings. Against their will, their flesh and mind were warped to the Panda's desires.
  • Timeport's tendency to use his teleportation directly against his enemies' bodies. In one situation, he teleported his hand inside someone's chest, then teleported back out, taking the man's heart with him.
  • The time BusDriver shoved a pebble down someone's mouth and transformed it into a bus, crushing the hapless man.
  • Nighthound in general. He is depraved, perverted, and sadistic beyond human comprehension.
  • Altermind's ability to cause illusions of enormous pain that feel all too real.
  • Iconoclast in general, but especially his ghouls.
  • Refill's ability to overfill the veins/arteries of his victims with blood, causing them to pop.
  • Saccharine's amiable cannibalism.
  • Much, much more.
• No Yay: Every scene between Nighthound and Ray is full of this. Red/Nighthound, though the, er, feelings are mutual, is also made of No Yay.
• Woobie: It's easier to name a vanilla character who isn't a Woobie to some extent, though Ray deserves a special mention here. A minor Epic, whose atrocities were mostly limited to harassing street vendors, became a Woobie in her very first appearance. That was when she met Nighthound.