History Podcast / Jemjammer

* LoadBearingBoss: [[spoiler: Castle Kronos begins collapsing as soon as he dies.]]

* PunchClockVillain: Pretty much all the bosses in Castle Kronos are trapped against their will and incredibly bored, so they're happy to give the party as much help as their curses allow. several have started dating each other.

* PunchClockVillain: Pretty much all the bosses in Castle are trapped against their will and incredibly bored, so they're happy to give the party as much help as their curses allow. several have started dating each other.

* SpaceWhale: The Kestrel encounters a pod of these, called Kindori, in "Into the Void". There are also the Sarphardin, flying serpents who are natural Spelljammers and can be hired to tow a ship to port if it wrecks while in Wildspace. [[spoiler: They're also friends of the Star Wardens, and one of them (Syrica) often helps Kieran stop members of the World Eater cult]].

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Navarres was investigating something called "the World Eater" and its associated cult, who are responsible for the attack on Stormhaven.

'''Greyson:''' One name. [[spoiler: Estallar Navarres.]]

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: [[spoiler: Ethla]] originated as a martyr who fell while defending a fishing village from a tyrant, but was worshipped by their followers in death and ascended to godhood. The fishing village would become [[spoiler: Stormhaven]], and the site of their death became their first temple.

* ChekhovsGunman: During Grak's arc he mentions his lady-love, the lovely Lady Lapluma. Turns out she owns the house that the party raids to recover Blackjammer's sword.

** Cabalspace is lit from the inside by glowing lizards crawling along the inside of the sphere.

* CastFullOfGay: Cacophony is a lesbian, Jyll is bi (as are her main love interests Lachlan and Max), Aelfgifu figured something out about herself while trapped in the faewild, and Artie...is a fish. For that matter, the only non-queer main castmember has been Vicki.

[[caption-width-right:350:Clockwise from top: Cacophony, Jylliana, Arturos, and [=Æ=]lfgifu. Official art by [[http://doodlesfromthebird.tumblr.com/ Canary witch]], with charcters designed by [[http://vriosart.tumblr.com/ Rio]].]]

Our story begins after a strange and fantastic series of falling stars land in the wilderness surrounding the coastal city of Stormhaven. Three part-time adventurers--the boisterous elven bard Cacophony (Maq), the no-nonsense aasimar cleric Jylliana (Annie), and the stoic human ranger [=Æ=]lfgifu (Vicki initially, with Alexi filling in later)--come across a disheveled woman trying to reach one of the landing sites. As they help her they discover the stars are actually ships that sail beyond the limits of their planet, and soon they are embroiled in a cosmic adventure. Later on they're joined by feisty pirate triton Artie (Rio), and together the party encounters all manner of ancient monsters, political intrigue, and sexy book clubs.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Clockwise from top: Cacophony, Jylliana, and [=Æ=]lfgifu. Official art by [[http://doodlesfromthebird.tumblr.com/ Canary witch]], with charcters designed by [[http://vriosart.tumblr.com/ Rio]].]]

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* MythologyGag: Kit through Thazita declares that one day all the [[https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Wilden Wilden]] disappeared, reflecting their removal between 4th and 5th Edition D&D.

* MoodRingEyes: Cacophony can change her eye colour at will, including giving herself heterochromia.

* WallMaster: The party encounter one in episode 7 in the form of a rug monster that tries to eat Cacophony.

* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Cacophony pronounces Alana's name differently every time she says it. (Ala''na'', A''la''na, ''E''lana, etc).

* AlienSky: The sky in Brinkspace is inhabited by very few stars. The only notable one is the red giant that Harena orbits, which is in the process of being slowly sucked into a black hole. Vesper has no sky, because instead of being a planet like in other spheres it's a concave bubble inside a sphere almost completely filled with stone.

* BlackComedy: When asked if she eats food, Vali (a plant person) replies that she could probably eat the crew members if thet die and start to decompose. Wyn's reply is just "neat!"

* BoomHeadshot: In "Starfall", Alana's gun disintegrates one of the the giant spiders in a single shot.

* CoolStarship: The Kestrel, the ship that brought Alana and her crew to this planet.

* GiantSpider: The first monsters the group encounter is a trio of giant spiders. This is just a taste of the neogi, giant ''alien'' spiders that can control minds and breed by having their young burst from their corpses. The party has to fight them after they attack Alana's ship.

** During the ''Fallen Gods'' crossover, the two parties find Sister Takaris, a cleric to Mishakael who began to go mad when the gods of Krynn (including her own) disappeared. It doesn't help when she shows up on Lunitari worshipping a new god: the World Eater.

* JumpedAtTheCall: Cacophony is eager to be hired by Alana to find the fallen stars.

* MaliciousMisnaming: Captain Ridian refers to ''The Kestrel'' as "''The Pigeon''".

* NoodleIncident: Cacophony, [=Æ=]lfgifu, and Jylliana have had a few adventures before the story proper starts, on account of the players having adventures with the characters as well. One such mission mentioned to Alana involved stopping a murderous scarecrow rampaging through town.
* NoOntologicalInertia: After Sister Takaris is taken out, all her copies and her Draconian army disintegrate painfully or explode.

* OfferedTheCrown: Rydian was first in line to become the next High Captain, but then his father named someone outside of his bloodline his new blood heir. So Ridian killed them both.

* PunctuatedPounding: How Aelfgifu kills Takaris.

** When Captain Ridian starts to go up the stairs, then turns to a footman and says "where's the carpet?" Then the footman stomps on the stairs and the stairs flip around to reveal a red carpet surface. In real life, Annie slams on her table.

** While the party in on Harena, a desert world filled with ruins, Kit refers to Emrick and his men as "[[Film/TheMummy1999 Beni and the horses]]".

* StuffBlowingUp: Emrick, one of the other adventurers on Harena, has a bunch of dynamite with him in order to blast his way into tombs and loot them. Thazita, who's worried about preserving historical integrity, and the party, who don't trust him to not blow everyone else up as well, are very concerned whenever he suggests using them. Or owning them, for that matter.

* TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe: Alana is this to the giant spiders from the first episode, since she has a gun that can disintegrate them. They're not sure how to react to that after it happens.

* UnexpectedSuccessor: Rydian was first in line to become the next High Captain, but then his father named someone outside of his bloodline his new blood heir. So Ridian killed them both.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Jylliana is afraid of spiders, which is a concern when the first encounter the group faces is a group of giant spiders. And gets even worse when she finds out the creatures that attacked Alana's ship are neogi, who are giant, ''mind-controlling'' spiders.

* YouOweMe: A lot of information exchange works like this in Port providence. Xilwin sought out the reason behind Aelfgifu's disappearances, and in return indebted herself to the proprietor of Club Gehenna. Upon informing Captain Bondar of this situation, she's greeted by a loud "You did '''what'''?!"

* ApocalypticLog: The party find one in a tomb on Harena, which explains how the system became known as "the Dead Sphere".

* BoobyTrap: The tomb the party investigate on Harena is, as one episode title aptly states, "Trapped to Hell and Back".

* PyrrhicVictory: The entire Harena system died because of one of these. [[spoiler: They tried to seal away a bastard prince who was summoning the World Eater and they ''may'' have succeeded (since the world still exists, though in a terrible state]]. Aelfgifu puts it best.

* SealedEvilInACan: The main tomb in Harena houses [[spoiler: a bastard prince who was also a priest of the World Eater, and evidently summoned it to the sphere and nearly destroyed it before he was entombed alive and his identity wiped out]]. In episode 49, the party see a hairline fracture in the wall keeping him sealed. [[spoiler: And decide the best course of action is just blast the wall open and defeat him now]].

* SpaceWhale: The Kestrel encounters a pod of these, called Kindori, in "Into the Void".

* RhymesOnADime: While stuck in Castle Kronos, Artie gets cursed to only speak in rhyme.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Mathilde the Medusa has a [[https://media-waterdeep.cursecdn.com/avatars/thumbnails/0/355/1000/1000/636252778125099430.jpeg Gorgon]] that acts exctly like a big loveable dog.