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* AbsenteeActor: Rebecca Jane Walsh, Carly, Jenny and Ava Sharpe were temporarily absent for a few weeks [[RealLifeWritesThePlot due to the author's other commitments]].
* AbsoluteCleavage: Eris's outfit includes this, despite otherwise being considerably more modest than her sister's.
* AbsoluteXenophobe: Oseru's has come to the conclusion that the only way to ensure humanity's survival is to strike first against aliens, both to prevent them from becoming a threat and to ensure humanity has access to all the resources it needs.
* AccentAdaptation: In-universe. Qorisayane from Yoth province get accents vaguely like those of the southern United States when their language is rendered into English. For rural hunters Koyel and Layi, it gravitates toward GoodOlBoy, while a [[BlueBlood Clanwoman]] like Oseru leans more towards SouthernBelle.
* AccentSlipUp:
** Rosalind suppresses her Texas drawl for fear of people figuring out where she's from and going there to [[VanHelsingHateCrimes stalk her]], but does so imperfectly -- she tends to revert when she's not paying close attention to what she says.
** Varla knows BlackSpeech, and when she gets mad, the consonant-heavy accent from it slips into her voice.
* AccidentalKiss: [[SubvertedTrope Almost happened]] when Jann trips over Rosalind's backpack and into a SuggestiveCollision with her. Their faces were one mere inch away from colliding.
* AccidentalPervert: Simultaneous mutual moment between Jann and Rosalind. Suspecting that Rosalind is a revenant, Jann the wizard focuses an eavesdropping spell on Rosalind's heart... which is directly behind her breasts in his line of sight. Meanwhile, Rosalind scratches an itch between her breasts ''right as Jann is staring'' and assumes her action drew his attention there. They both end up blushing awkwardly.
* AccidentalTickleTorture: Because the spaceship is currently an extension of Arilay's body, Shale fiddling with wires in Engineering accidentally tickles Arilay.
* ActuallyNotAVampire:
** Mayatans are telepathic, nocturnal (specifically sedated by enough yellow light), mostly off-white in color, and have unusual (specifically metallic) omnivore teeth. Mequoql and Nyorla [[SniffSniffNom curiously sampled]] blood from slaughtered moufretas, creeping out witnesses in the process. Most Mayatans, including Mequoql and Nyorla, are not vampires. The twins Aynara and Arnaya are the only two Mayatan vampires.
** Akane is exceptionally strong, fast, and durable, drinks blood from time to time, and her fair skin burns easily in sunlight. She's a ''kyuuketsuki'', a type of Oni.
* AffablyEvil: The only immediate sign that [[CorporateSamurai Alice]] [[EvilFeelsGood Winters]] is anything other than an ordinary (if curious) customer is [[DetectEvil magical items]] reacting to her presence.
* AgeGapAlgebra: Arnaya (Mayatan) mentions a mathematical formula for comparing interspecies lifespan and development when she tells Amy (human) that [[IncompatibleOrientation she's too straight]] to date Amy and slightly too old to date any of Amy's peers.
* AgonyBeam: Oseru slams Aynara with a wave of raw pain from [[EldritchAbomination the Eyes and Teeth]]. Aynara [[TakingYouWithMe spreads the misery]] through the [[HellIsThatNoise specialized Mayatan scream]] designed to do just that.
* {{Ahem}}: John Smith, Security Service gets Sarquoql's attention with a loud throat-clearing to [[DefiedTrope interrupt]] Sarquoql's attempt to [[JustTakeThePoster remove posters]] warning the populace of dangerous individuals.
* AliceAllusion: Downplayed by Alice Winters -- she had an old-fashioned dress sense, explores other worlds, and even knows ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' well enough that she could reference it if she had a good enough reason. But the resemblance ends there; Alice is a CorporateSamurai whose eccentricities [[CharacterizationMarchesOn are significantly more restrained than in previous appearances]]. She still can't help taking "Queen of Hearts" as a call-sign and naming her two squads "Carpenter" and "Walrus", though.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Rebecca Jane Walsh is hated in the forest by Mequoql. [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]], as she is liked, if not loved, by the others in the forest.
* TheAllegedCar: Subverted. Julia and Lauren drive a 1993 Land Rover Discovery, a car known in RealLife for poor (but not ''lethal'') reliability, yet for a 26-year-old vehicle, it still seems pretty reliable. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that Lauren is a car enthusiast and chose the vehicle because it's good off-road.
* AlternateSelf:
** Ava Sharpe is '''not''' the one you know from ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' 's ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', she just happens to have the same look, but ''very different'' personality.
** Michelle has ''two'' versions within this universe, and it's a case of AllianceOfAlternates.
** Jenny has one AlternateSelf, who is an ArtificialHuman.
** Rebecca Jane Walsh, ''is'' an AlternateSelf and not the actual one. The "real" Rebecca Jane Walsh has yet to appear, though, in this universe. WordOfGod is that the creator did not like the version he included, so RetGone' d her out of the narrative.
* AlternativeNumberSystem: Many countries of the world of Aria utilize Base 12, which leads to Lily miscalculating a Mayatan's psychic radar range.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins:
** Averted in the case of the Otterbein sisters, who are fraternal twins.
** Averted again with Mayatan fraternal twin sisters Aynara and Arnaya.
* AmbiguousGender: It is nigh impossible to discern Nui's gender from their appearance and voice, and they don't identify with a single gender anyway.
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: While Tovor Zaa is physically male, and not androgynous, Kykzavi tradition dictates that shamans are inherently outside of Kykzavi gender roles. (For their part, they won't be offended by strangers not understanding the implications of their shaman scars.)
* AmusingInjuries: Rosalind's NoodleIncident in the weapons shop leaves her disgruntled with superficial cuts, bruises and a sunburn.
* AntiMagic: The trademark ([[FightsLikeANormal and only]]) power Alice, the Ace of Spades, and Aseyu ul'Valmoth wield, a side effect of their native world's [[MagicIsEvil metaphysical infection]]. It causes quite a bit of consternation and horror, [[CripplingOverspecialization and is of limited use]]. Alice and the Ace of Spades are shrouded in a field; Aseyu, to avoid getting [[CombatPragmatist shot by]] a MageMarksman, keeps her defensive field hidden, at the expense of having to be directly targeted by a spell or having to get her hands on a mage to disrupt them.
* AncestralWeapon: Arnora's sword has been passed down for generations along a direct line of descent. It also is imbued with the souls of all its previous wielders, which can be summoned in the form of a blue glow that greatly enhances the damage dealt by the blade and the skill of the current wielder.
* AndIMustScream: Nyorla's backstory includes ten years locked inside her own unresponsive body. She's still celebrating its end.
* AngryFistShake: Shale shakes her fist at the local who is whacking Arilay with a broom. The local doesn't notice.
* AngstWhatAngst: Contrary to Explorer of Unknowns' assumption, Nyorla is not upset at the prospect of staying a physical child for the rest of her life because Mayatan society knows how to handle such cases with dignity.
* AnimalEyeSpy:
** As part of telepathically "eavesdropping" on minds, Mayatans can look through others' eyes.
** Seenarnha uses this talent to borrow Swanwhite the dragonhorse's eyes and ears, when Swanwhite hears something beyond Seenarnha's hearing.
** Aynara uses a bandit's AngryGuardDog to pick up Mael's scent trail.
** Maequoql and Arnaya telepathically look through the eyes of a flock of birds to confirm that the truck that the spaceship's telescope is looking at is indeed David's truck.
* TheAnticipator: Subverted when Nyorla guesses that the twins Aynara and Arnaya are [[SuperSmoke going to mist]] through the air vents to get back into the kitchen that she just shooed them out of. They don't -- instead they telekinetically yank away her knives while on the other side of the wall.
* AntiRegeneration: Because of at least one HolyHandGrenade, the AmusingInjuries Rosalind acquires offscreen persist until she's back onscreen again and for some time after that.
* AntiVillain: Trine, the Filipino-Norwegian may be a very small-time ConArtist, but she's OnlyInItForTheMoney and makes a HeelFaceTurn, although she was never much of a villain anyway.
* ApatheticCitizens: Mequoql accuses the town citizens of not caring about an artistic performer's spectacle or a missing child.
* AreYouSureYouWantToDoThat: Held at gunpoint, Murquoql responds to Wain's demand to commandeer the WFS Hummingbird thusly:
-->'''Murquoql''': Oh, I ''could'' bring you aboard my spaceship, but she's alive. And she doesn't take kindly to strangers, especially strangers that wave around things that could punch a hole in her hull. Are you sure you want to board her?
* ArousedByTheirVoice: Jen Jara hears Alexa's monstrous voice enhanced with rumbling and blushes at the rumbling undercurrent hitting just the right frequencies to resonate in her skeleton. When Syrni Sandra returns and feels Alexa's rumbling voice for herself, she's reminded of her most recent time ({{ahem}}) ''enjoying'' music with pounding bass in ''Roleplay/CDTSpaceLiner''.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Nui's notice on the bulletin board contains the following:
-->"Relics of advanced ancient technologies! The peculiarities of demonic entities and their effect on magic! Retrieving a powerful artifact from a subterranean society! A relaxing time at the beach!"
* ArtisticLicenseCars: Averted, as the author has ShownTheirWork - there actually was a 1993 Land Rover Discovery commercial vehicle in Ireland, but it was not developed by Land Rover.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Lampshaded when the narration gleefully admits that the dragonhorses' ability to do vertical takeoffs into flight would leave physicists calling foul. Justified by draconic flight magic.
* AskAStupidQuestion: Murquoql snarks at Farrah for asking where a lost kid was last seen, when the information could have easily been obtained by reading the notice right in front of them.
-->'''Murquoql''': The kid's last known location is posted right here, did you not read it?
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: According to Sindar, all fairies have this: an appearance that matches their domain.
-->'''Sindar''': A wood nymph might have leaves for ears. Flower fairies have petals growing out of all sorts of places. Likewise... (holds up his skeletal hands and wiggles his fingers) take a guess as to what my domain is.
* AsYouKnow: Arilay reminds Moquoql (for the readers' benefit) that the gas mask with the small ''el-kor'' patch is a prototype.
* AsymmetricDilemma: Moquoql doesn't turn an imperfect sound-muffling telekinetic bubble of air into a perfect silencing bubble, because then she'd get a telekinetic overextension headache and/or suffocate in an airtight bubble.
* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: When the horse group is ambushed by a pack of d'voreem, most of the herd runs away from the first few attackers.
-->''(Pewter runs away while Thunder fights off the d'voreem)''\\
'''Amaranth:''' Come on Pew... ter... get... back... there... ''(tries in vain to turn her around to join Thunder)''\\
''(Amaranth notices the d'voreem being really noisy and realizes they might be scaring the herd away into an ambush)''\\
'''Amaranth:''' Change of plans. Faster!
* AttackOnOneIsAnAttackOnAll: Mael mind-controlling one member of the Web of Friendship causes the entire Web of Friendship to declare a personal vendetta against him.
* AttemptedRape: Varla boasts about lethally thwarting over ten years' worth of attempts to rape her.
-->'''Nerea''' ''[inferring from the UnprovokedPervertPayback incident]'': Some-one hurt you, did they not?\\
'''Varla''': Ha! They tried, they died, starting right as I entered puberty and continuing for ten long years after puberty finished with me.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Parthenia's mental assessments of dangerous situations she often finds herself in are [[BeigeProse curt]], ''very'' [[HyperAwareness detailed]], and to-the-point. She even goes as far as ''draw flowcharts'' in her mind, which [[FauxHorrific horrifies Iragan to no end]].
* AnAxeToGrind: Ozurr's weapon of choice is a truly massive two-headed battle axe.
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[[folder:B]]
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Out of the Not Chaos Hunters (and their new companions in Web of Friendship and Lily, Bonnie, and Carol), Adam is the youngest, shortest, and the shyest of the group. As the result, the rest of the NCH are very protective of him (to be fair, they're protective to each other, but especially Adam).
* BadBoss: Krakka'a is openly abusive towards Zarokh, verbally and occasionally physically. Zarokh only puts up with it because he believes his god has commanded him to serve Krakka'a.
* BadMoodAsAnExcuse: Unable to help her sister get out of mind control, Nyorla displaces her frustration by slaughtering four unlucky moufretas who get too close.
* BaldWoman: Suela; this is typical for a noblewoman from her culture.
* BandageBabe: Aynara, a furless Mayatan woman, invokes this trope when she covers herself head-to-toe in medical tape.
* BandageMummy: Aynara invokes this trope when she covers herself head-to-toe in medical tape.
* BareYourMidriff: Syrni Sandra adjusts her three-cloth toga to show the marsupial pouch on her belly to Akane.
* TheBaroness: She's a bit younger than it's usual for a Rosa Klebb version of this trope, but Parthenia is ruthless, shows almost complete disregard for human life (though she tries to be [[PragmaticVillainy smart]] about it) and much is given about her unatractiveness.
* BarrierBustingBlow: Wilhelmine is strong enough to drive an icy great sword through a wall to kill the bandit on the opposite side.
* BavarianFireDrill: Chaudhari, a corporate security goon, pretending to be a representative of the town's government. Imperfectly; it doesn't take much from Parthenia to spook him into being unrealistically trusting to avoid a fight he's scared of losing.
* BerserkButton:
** Justin ''really'' does not like being called a pet or a slave.
** Glass objects send the nuckelavee into a blind rage.
** Do not call Bonnie a "bunny girl" or a "bunny". [[InsistentTerminology She's a rabbit girl]].
** Varla hates being the target of flirting.
* TheBerserker: [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Rosalind]] has never entered combat in a lucid state of mind, because she's been led to believe that she can't fight at all without loosening her self-control over her HorrorHunger. Consequently, any memories she has of fighting, no matter how recent, are always a chaotic jumble of sensations saturated with whatever stressful emotion drove her to fight.
* BigBadWannabe: Krakka'a desperately wants to be the BigBad of this story. Shame he's hopelessly outclassed by pretty much ''every other character.'' And as Osiris eventually reveals, he's not even the BigBad of his ''own'' story.
* BigEater:
** Ozurr is capable of putting away a large amount of food in a very short amount of time. He eats an entire loaf of bread in one bite, and later does the same to an entire steak. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as he is literally a giant.
** Nora eats enough for several people at breakfast despite looking like a small, teenage girl. Also [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as she consumes biomass (preferably "food") to fuel her shapeshifting capabilities.
** Arnora proves to be just as much one as Ozurr (appropriate, given that they're of a comparable size), skeletonizing an entire moufreta in a matter of minutes.
** Soryn packs roughly ten pounds' worth of moufreta-onion stir-fry into his roughly sixty-foot-long serpentine body. Apparently mixing warm-blooded and cold-blooded DNA into the same life-form makes for a wonky metabolism.
* BigFriendlyDog:
** Arilay temporarily takes the form of a pudgy Golden Retriever in an attempt to appear more harmless to Valerie, Justin and Vindex.
** Mist's wolf-steed Fog licks a farmer's hand.
* BilingualBonus:
** Mequoql's frantic Latin prayer of "Sanctificetur aquam!" translates to "May the water be sanctified!"
** Varla's exasperated Latin prayer of "Salve me ab fatui nimii!" translates to "Save me from too many idiots!"
* BizarreAlienBiology: Viporises need to breathe volcanic ash on a semiregular basis.
* BizarreAlienPsychology: Shale has a separate brain for processing her emotions that she can temporarily disconnect from her other brain.
* BizarreAlienSenses: Shale's antennae can pick up nearby cold spots and the distant [[EldritchAbomination Howling Void's melody]].
* {{Blackmail}}: Sophia attempts to make Alice let Parthenia, her priestess, and Sa'ad go by threatening to either blabber Alice's secrets out or by [[ShameIfSomethingHappened cursing her to not be able to use any kind of technology for the rest of her life.]] No, the Shattered World gods don't know what "fair play" means, why do you ask?
* BlackEyesOfCrazy:
** As part of her GameFace, Rosalind the FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire has the option of turning her sclerae black.
** Using her xenophobic captors' [[BlackSpeech spellcasting language]] temporarily turns Varla's sclerae black with [[MagicalEyeStreamers equally black tendrils of fog streaming out at the corners]].
* BladeOnAStick: Soryn's MagicStaff can manifest a blade of HardLight on one end.
* BlatantLies: During the fight between Miron and UD Justin, Nui proclaims that they have some skill with necromancy and offers to help ease the situation with his souls. And later, begins to cast a spell that looks like it has some SoulPower. After the fight, when Nyceme asks them about their skills, Nui says that their earlier proclamation was just an act. It's a well-told lie (enough to fool Nyceme), but still blatant.
* BlindedByTheLight: The equivalent of car horns on spaceships are flashing lights. A spaceship parked in a town square accidentally dazzled a few [=NPCs=] who happen to be looking directly at the spaceship when the owner unintentionally hit the button. John Smith, Security Service takes notice.
* BlindingBangs: When briefly pretending to be captured by Amos the bandit (instead of the other way around), Aynara takes her hair out of its ponytail to obscure where she's looking from the other bandit guards.
* BloodBrothers: Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara are not genetically sisters, but in their childhood backstory, they made a blood pact to consider each other as close as sisters.
* BloodSplatteredWarrior: The reason Rosalind was [[CoveredInGunge covered in gore]] when she got teleported into this world was because she dove into a zombie horde and punched, kicked, and stomped them until the melee drenched her from head to toe. Regrettably, there were too many zombies and she was forced to retreat without the human she was trying to rescue.
* BlowYouAway: Lily utilizes air magic to fly. Side effects include knocked off hats and stray pigeons to the face.
* BluntYes: Parthenia's understated reaction when Farrah fairly accuses her of knocking her out, kidnapping her ''and'' having the nerve to ask her to fight for Parthenia after all of this.
* BodyHorror: Leone splits her head open into a toothy maw to consume the remainder of her breakfast.
* BoltOfDivineRetribution: This is how Amaranth, Felicio, and Cormack leave the thread: they are zapped out of existence [[DiabolusExNihilo without warning]]. Amaranth does have a reason for being zapped though: alerting the d'voreem pack to the horses' presence, as pointed out by Flashfoot.
* BondOneLiner: Non-lethal example. After {{groin attack}}ing a [[HornySailors lewd fisherman]] with her sword, Varla quips, "I'd see a rabbi now, if I were you."
* BoobyTrap:
** The Inquisitor spelled her saddlebags to zap anyone attempting to open them. Fiddler finds out about it the hard way.
** She also gave the same treatment to her boots, if Farrah's inner monologue is anything to go by.
* BoringInsult: Syrni Sandra reacts to Alexa's GameFace by calling it boring, in a hare-brained and ultimately ineffective attempt to goad Alexa into a fight. Jen Jara delivers a DopeSlap to Syrni Sandra for saying it.
* BountyHunter: Parthenia is on a government mission to bring pirate Sa'ad to justice. A task she feels she's overqualified for.
* BrainwashResidue: Morpho scans Mequoql's brain and then sends her to Sick Bay for a more thorough scan, to [[DefiedTrope confirm she's freed from Mael's mind-control]]. A mention of this type of brain scan being standard procedure [[ImpliedTrope implies]] that leftover conditioning from mind-control is an occupational hazard in their native story.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Deftly {{averted|trope}} by Sindar when he introduces himself to Wolfe. First he says that he works with animals, then he says he also works with the dead... but he avoids mentioning that he works with dead animals (which he actually does, as he explained to Koyel, Layi, and Vrask earlier).
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: When Justin's demon approaches Nyceme and asks about her getting a new body:
-->'''Nyceme''': Do you have any idea how many [[SssssnakeTalk poisssonsss, pressservativesss]], and [[BloodMagic hemomancccy ssspellsss]] I keep applying to patch [my body] up?
* BreathWeapon: The genetically engineered dragonhorses inherited the dragons' ability to breathe fire.
* BringHimToMe:
** Mind-controlled Mequoql is under orders to bring the Not-Chaos Hunters to Mael.
** A more benevolent example when Seenarnha sends one of her pet dragonhorses to bring back what she thinks is a hostile vampire[[note]]actually a not-quite-so-hostile lamprey merfolk priestess[[/note]] in the jungle.
--->'''Seenarnha''': Plasma, fetch.
* BringMyBrownPants: Rosalind imagines Krakka'a wetting himself in terror while his [[EyePop eyeballs pop out]] and fall into the puddle.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: When Aynara tries to get rid of [[EldritchAbomination the Eyes and Teeth]]'s TeleportInterdiction over the Ghost town, she gets tortured by the Eyes and Teeth to the point of convulsing and foaming at the mouth; she peels off and nearly loses flaps of her skin by barging through a too-narrow door before it finishes opening; she becomes nauseated to the point of vomiting from drinking rotten corpse blood; a BoltOfDivineRetribution zaps her into unconsciousness as it passes through her on its way to the Eyes and Teeth; and she loses an eye, ear and most of her skin to burns from the {{fire|Purifies}} started in the wake of the lightning bolts.
* BroomstickQuarterstaff: Poor Arilay is on the receiving end of a broom-whacking when a local mistakes her for a homunculus.
* BulletDodgesYou: Thanks to her [[MagnetismManipulation electromagnetic]] powers, Parthenia is able to stop the bullets Farrah shot at her mid-flight.
* BulletTime: Rosalind perceives Jann falling onto her in slow-motion. Too bad her half-finished, tangled impulses only make the ensuing SuggestiveCollision worse.
* BuriedInAPileOfCorpses: Downplayed, Nyorla tries to hide from a humongous lanceros wyvern by flattening herself half-beside half-under one of four moufreta corpses that are each a little larger than herself. Pilot 0037 quickly followed suit using a different corpse.
* BurpOfFinality: Time-delayed example due to the perpetrator's table manners: after killing the moufretas that ambushed him, Soryn takes some of their meat to the Purple Fez Tavern to cook into stir-fry and burps after eating at last ten pounds' worth of it.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: The Not-Chaos-Hunters have their mind-controlling arch-enemy Mael out there somewhere plotting against them right now. Due to a [[HaveWeMetYet time travel twist]], their good friend Joseph has no idea who they are. Today is shaping up to be one of the worst days of their lives. The Web of Friendship has their mind-controlling arch-enemy Sarquoql out there somewhere plotting against them right now. Morpho summarized a tale of the time [[TheBadGuyWins Sarquoql managed to win]] and seal away most of the Web members' memories of each other. Recovering from that setback was just another difficult Tuesday for the Web of Friendship.
* ButtBiter: As ''Guardian'' of the herd, one of Thunder's jobs is to motivate individual herd members to move faster by nipping them on the rump.
* ButtSticker: {{Defied|Trope}} by Henry A. Safon II, who scrambles out of the way of Ozurr the giant's DramaticSitDown.
* BuzzingTheDeck: Krakka'a swoops low over Rosalind's mustang herd to send them running for his amusement.
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[[folder:C]]
* CallBack:
** Iragan and Orain start their narration bickering about [[Roleplay/CDTSpaceLiner how they were]] DraggedOffToHell the last time they escaped the Shattered World.
** On seeing and recognising Amy and Maya, Sophia can't resist making a friendly jibe at Kaitlyn regarding the aftermath of [[Roleplay/CDTFrontier the "Moonlight Picnic" in the desert]] and the possibility that Kaitlyn might meet up with Davey, again.
** The 'Not-Chaos-Hunters' are so-named because that's what Teri dubbed them after a vocal argument about team names in [[Roleplay/CDTCapital Capital City]].
** Sophia and Gwion keep calling Henry A. Safon II 'Quickdraw' after their first encounter with him in ''Roleplay/CDTFrontier''.
** Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara entered the story with one empty stinger gland and one full stinger gland each from when they stung each other sparring in ''Roleplay/CDTSpaceLiner''.
* CanaryInACoalMine: To detect stealth and illusions, one kind of sensor the Web of Friendship has is designed with deliberate fragility -- its job is to break dramatically and throw up error messages under any tampering no matter how subtle.
* CannotCrossRunningWater:
** Rosalind trips over underground water pipes, leaps away from automatic flushing toilets, carefully adjusts sink faucets to release water no faster than a drip, and ended up dizzy and disoriented in a river when trying to stop a homunculus from drowning Jann.
** During the briefing, Murquoql learns that the Fiendlord vampire who might be in the rainforest can't cross running water, and she could finish him off by [[WeakenedByTheLight exposing him to sunlight and tossing the resulting ashes]] into a swiftly-moving river.
* CannotSpitItOut: Justified: The men's restroom in a tavern is no place for a polite lady like Rosalind to confess her attraction to a gentleman like Jann.
* CantBelieveISaidThat: Rosalind thoroughly embarrasses herself when she specifies that her idea of stopping herself from acting on the demonic influence was [[KindRestraints getting tied up]].
-->'''Rosalind''' ''(whimpering)'': ''Why'' did I say all that?
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Arilay [[DiscussedTrope explains]] to Morpho why [[StopOrIShootMyself Mequoql raising her claws to her own throat was a bluff]].
-->'''Arilay''': (Mr. White Suit) Mael can't kill Mequoql yet, he still needs her. She knows more about what we're going to do to get her back than he does.
* CantYouReadTheSign: David's truck bears the sign "Property of David Harkness -- steal at your own risk" so when Arnaya finds a thief in the truck, she berates the thief with "Your 'dibs' is invalid -- this is David, the rightful owner of the truck. Did you not read the sign?"
* CaptainObvious:
** Mequoql does not take kindly to Mael pointing out that her attempt at fundraising an expedition for a missing child didn't work.
--->'''Mael''': How unfortunate; it is a worry when a child disappears, is it not? However, I'm not sure performing arts like this will bring you any closer to your goal. I would suggest you take a more... active approach. Like actually looking for them.\\
'''Mequoql''': Gee, thanks, Captain Obvious!
** {{Discussed}} by Syrni Sandra when pointing out why stinging a shriver to paralyze the shriver doesn't paralyze the shriver's digestive swarm.
--->'''Syrni Sandra''': At the risk of sounding like Captain Obvious, their digestive swarms exist independently of their circulation system...
** Nerea points out that Lerna bit Varla. Varla, who is already singing a healing spell, rolls her eyes in exasperated LampshadeHanging.
** Joseph makes an obvious observation on where Arnaya's paranoia of bug bites comes from.
--->'''Joseph''': Sounds like you guys make a lot of enemies. Or maybe you've just got really bad luck with bugs.\\
'''Arnaya''': Of course we have a lot of enemies, Captain Obvious. Didn't you hear what I said about how I lost count of the necromancers? What's worse is they are far from the only kinds of enemies we face.
** Arnaya thinks John Richman's suggestion of how to tactically use her telepathy is both obvious and belated.
--->'''John''': You can read minds, right? I, uh, am guessing you can, though I don't know if Nick and the others are that good...myself included. Anyway, this could help with communication. Maybe. Unless you have any other plans.\\
'''Arnaya''': Did it seriously take you that long to figure out telepathy's tactical usefulness and what I was already doing, Captain Obvious?
* CarnivoreConfusion: On their home moon, Viporises regularly eat the alien equivalent to quetzalcoatlus, so when Jen Jara the Viporis meets Krakka'a the quetzalcoatlus, her first impression is that he's the largest prey she's ever seen. His sapience and speech comes as a surprise to her, and her stomach continues to growl at him even after she establishes that she can hold a conversation with him.
* CastingAShadow: Rather unsurprisingly, Justin or more accurately his demon is associated with power over darkness- allowing, among other things, the power to manifest the demon as a shadowy sword and create mindless constructs.
* CatchAndReturn: Done with bullets, by Parthenia. She stops the bullets shot by Farrah mid-flight and returns them back at her, [[ShockAndAwe with interest]].
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Played with: Once Syrni Sandra picks her hiding place during a game of hide and seek, she takes a moment to deal with the consequences of forgetting to take her heat control pill. She tries to [[DefiedTrope defy]] being interrupted by ''not'' starting ADateWithRosiePalms while awake, which would be too obvious, and instead sneaks a quick nap to start an EroticDream. She [[DidntSeeThatComing didn't count on]] Akane finding her faster than Alexa could -- Akane finds Syrni Sandra still [[IWasHavingSuchANiceDream dreaming]].
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: The gate guards point out the moufretas stalking Soryn, sound the alarm, and rush to his aid. By the time backup arrives, the guards shot two and speared one, and Soryn killed the rest and is in the act of constricting the last one in his [[SnakePeople serpentine coils]].
* CeilingCling:
** When startled by an automatic flushing toilet, Rosalind [[SurpriseJump jumps high enough]] to cling to the ceiling. {{Justified|Trope}} as an instinctive use of her vampiric powers.
** Aynara clings to first the ceiling of the clock tower, then the underside of the spiral staircase, as she stalks the bandit she threatened into carrying a message to either Black Morgan or Mael, whichever one is in charge of the bandits by the time she finds them.
* CentrifugalFarce: While sparring, Morpho hoists Carol by the ankle and starts spinning her, but she gets loose and goes flying into a tree.
* ChainLightning: The first thing Parthenia does upon encountering Chaudhari's men is to mark every one of them with a slightly negative electric potential. Dominic, seeing the electrical and magical hazard warnings on his helmet's display, instantly realizes [[ImpliedTrope what does this imply]].
* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: After blurting out her embarrassing idea, Rosalind desperately changes the subject to the unexpected lack of hostility from her confession of being a vampire.
* ChaseScene: A hysterical local [[BroomstickQuarterstaff wielding a broom]] mistakes Arilay for a homunculus and starts chasing her around the town square.
* ChasingAButterfly: Mind-controlled Mequoql attempts to {{invoke|dTrope}} this by making firefly lights for the Not-Chaos Hunters to chase all the way to Mael, but the Not-Chaos Hunters are [[SubvertedTrope too suspicious to follow]] the pretty lights.
* ChastityDagger: Varla has a chastity dagger with an [[LoyalPhlebotinum ownership bond]] reinforcing her already considerable grip on it. The sheath for it is in VictoriasSecretCompartment. Unfortunately for those around her, she protects her chastity with ''[[BerserkButton too much]]'' aggression.
* ChefOfIron: Implied for Nyorla levitating multiple knives in a synchronized swarm to skin and butcher three moufreta corpses, and then pulling the knives into a defensive formation and scolding the twins Aynara and Arnaya for sneaking up on her.
-->'''Nyorla''': Don't you [[WhatAnIdiot know better]] than to [[DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat sneak up]] on a chef wielding [[KnifeNut this many knives]] in the kitchen?!
* ChekhovsGunman: Sarquoql, mind-controlling arch-nemesis of the Web of Friendship, is first introduced as an innocuous bodyguard under the alias of Ren 4.
* ChillOfUndeath:
** As a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire, Rosalind is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesotherm mesothermic]]. Most of her body (except for hot spots in her brain and belly) stays at air temperature unless she deliberately takes steps to warm herself up.
** Same is true of [[OurLichesAreDifferent Nyceme]]. However, when Kaitlyn's thermovision detects no body heat in her, she concludes that she is simply cold-blooded, due to being [[SnakePeople part snake]].[[note]]Disproved by Saen, a living lamia who is warm-blooded... hand-waved as that she must simply be a different type of lamia.[[/note]]
** Miron's lower-than-usual body temperature was a clue as to his partially undead nature.
* ChimneyEntry: Aynara lands on the roof of the building that Arilay is in, and speeds up the rendezvous by turning into SuperSmoke so she can fit down the chimney.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome:
** The Web of Friendship was founded to collect {{thrill seeker}}s who wouldn't enjoy a peaceful life, but would rather fight tooth and claw to give others a peaceful life.
** Maequoql is supposed to be giving Arilay heads-up warnings on what she picks up via PsychicRadar. Instead, she gets distracted by a stranger (Pilot 0037 Jack) getting knocked out by a wyvern, and dashes off to sick bay to retrieve a first-aid kit for him.
** When David wonders why Varla rescued him from quicksand despite him offending her, Maequoql says it's because heroism is deeply imprinted into Varla's reflexes.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] in the case of Allison, as [[OnlyInItForTheMoney she needed money]] back in her home universe. She wasn't as integral to the plot as when she first started out, so it became an EnforcedTrope.
* ClassifiedInformation: The experimental technology on-board Pilot 0037's Panzerfaust, as well as details pertaining to the Mark III Panzerfaust's computer.
* ClippedWingAngel: The avatar of [[EldritchAbomination the Eyes and Teeth]], compared to Oseru herself. Lashing out with BlackMagic and raw animal strength [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter isn't as reliably lethal]] as a [[MageMarksman magically]] [[HomingProjectile guided]] and [[DepletedPhlebotinumShells empowered]] high-caliber round.
* ClockworkPrediction: After Nyorla throws Aynara and Arnaya out of the kitchen, she tries to predict how and when they'll retaliate. She's wrong about what they did, but her countdown to the timing is still accurate.
* ClothingDamage: Soryn's shirt [[RealityEnsues and the skin underneath]] gets shredded by biting and clawing moufretas.
* ClueEvidenceAndASmokingGun: After her first conclusion jumping upon hearing a sonic boom, Syrni Sandra backtracks and tries again to be more thorough about reasoning who boomed and why. A clue is that Jen Jara is the only source of sonic booms that Syrni Sandra ''knows'' is in earshot. Evidence is that Viporises (like Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara are) have safety features that prevent them from making accidental sonic booms. The inference is that, assuming that was indeed Jen Jara booming, she did that on purpose. Another clue is that Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara are participating in a game of hide and seek. More evidence is that [[WithCatlikeTread obviously, sonic booming is the opposite of being sneaky]]. Another inference is that either the seeker needs a hint or the game is over. The "smoking gun" is Syrni Sandra asking Jen Jara over the comm-chips what happened and Jen Jara answering that she boomed because somebody interrupted the game of hide and seek and picked a fight.
* ColdIron:
** This is the reason why Sindar (a fairy) insists on the barkeep at the restaurant serving his ale in a non-metal glass.
** One of many tools in Seenarnha's cursebreaking arsenal is cold iron tongs, for handling magical items (or snakes) that shouldn't be touched with bare hands.
* ConfusionFu: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Arilay when she tells Morpho to "do something unexpected" to rescue Mequoql from Mael's mind control.
* ContinuityNod:
** Moquoql retrieves the false zipper she abandoned in Sick Bay several pages ago.
** On Page 31, Nyorla teaches Pilot 0037 what a tumor is by pointing out one on a slain moufreta's tongue. On Page 40, Nyorla's sister Moquoql eats that tongue raw in front of Pilot 0037.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Invoked by the spell Varla uses to gather high amounts of heat and channel it through her own heat-tolerant body -- she specifically constructs the spell to insulate the heat to her own body except for whatever she aims the heat at.
* CoolCar: Julia and Lauren's 1993 Land Rover Discovery SUV commercial vehicle conversion, which was popular in The Republic of Ireland in the 1990s.
* CooldownHug: Inverted twice when Amy of the Not-Chaos-Hunters went around hugging Valerie, Justin, and his demon. Valerie freezes up in terror at being abruptly hugged, even internally screaming to be let go. Justin's demon, however, was initially calm- Before breaking out into uncontrollable laughter and spasms directly because of the hug.
* CoolGun: Cormack wants to find a legendary musket that shoots FantasticFireworks and magic-infused bullets.
* CoolSword:
** Justin's demon amusingly enough, who becomes a sword made of darkness bound together by flames when Justin wills it.
** One of Lieutenant Wilhelmine's weapons that she can manifest is Zorn, an icy great sword with anti-wyvern and anti-dragon attributes.
* CorneredRattlesnake: Horses usually flee from threats, but when they're boxed in at the bottom of a canyon and surrounded by predators, the mustang members of the herd have very little emotional problem with turning violent to fight their way out.
* TheCorruption:
** [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Rosalind]] feels the energy that Unchained Devil Justin emits as something ''calling'' her to go DrunkOnTheDarkSide.
** The Eyes and Teeth has a tendency to drive its users insane -- making them [[AlmightyIdiot more like itself]].
** Aria's Chaos element can mutate its users' minds and bodies.
* CountryMatters: Parthenia drops a c-bomb on Chaudhari. Non-verbally, of course, since that would unnecessarily escalate the situation in the Town Square.
* CoupDeGrace: When four juvenile moufreta leap off a cliff and splat in front of the herd of mustangs, four mustangs [[MakeSureHesDead personally ensure the moufretas' deaths]] by rearing up and slamming their forehooves down on the exposed {{neck|Snap}} vertebrae.
* CoveredInGunge:
** Rosalind gets teleported into the world while covered head-to-toe in {{plague zombie}} gore.
** Arnora's...enthusiastic dispatching of a homunculus that attacks her causes its innards to splatter everywhere. She comments internally that she'll probably have to burn her clothes. The rest of the campsite where this happens is only spared this fate by Morpho quickly forming a barricade around them.
* CoveredInMud:
** Mayatans tend to roll in mud for cheap camouflage.
** Nyorla smears mud into her mostly off-white fur for camouflage in the Sun-Dry Sea.
** Aynara, trying to impersonate Mequoql under mind control, uses [[BandageBabe medical tape]] (from the spaceship) and mud (from a disused well in Ghost Town) to obscure her spots that don't look a thing like Mequoql's spots.
* CoveredInScars:
** Carol has numerous scars accumulated from getting into fights most of her life.
** Tovor Zaa's face and torso are covered in symmetrical, ritually applied scars.
** Jann of Grimmsford was sliced open to have warding runes carved onto any and every bone that was big enough. He still has the incision scars hidden under his clothes.
* CowerPower:
** Faced with an imminent interrogation regarding her identity as a vampire, Rosalind hides behind Jann.
** Spooked by the sudden pursuit of a demonic entity, Mequoql cowers next to a hastily sanctified fire hydrant gushing an improvised fountain of holy water.
** Sindar has a tendency to do this. First he flees from UD Justin into a house plant (which he [[WalkingWasteland promptly kills]]), and then later he is spooked by Varg's presence and hides behind the window frame of Chitara's wagon.
** Rosalind, under the mistaken impression that Nyceme exited the wagon to [[VanHelsingHateCrimes kill her]], runs to hide behind Ozurr while screaming "[[RapidFireNo Nonononononono!]] Don't let her get me!"
* CrazyPrepared: Moquoql has no particular concrete reason to pack a fire extinguisher in the fix-it kit she puts together for Pilot 0037's crashed Panzerfaust, but she packs a fire extinguisher just in case anyway, and finds out she has to use it to extinguish the flaming after-effects of a magazine detonation.
* CrimeAfterCrime: Discussed and averted when Sarquoql decides not to snatch Soryn out from under S.H.I.E.L.D.'s noses.
-->'''Sarquoql''' ''[telepathically]'': Well, so much for recruiting Soryn today. If we take him with us now while the gumshoes are watching, we'd have to mind-control anybody who protests, and then mind-control everybody sent to retrieve them, and then everybody sent to retrieve ''them''... I've been in that snowball situation lots of times and it only worked once. The rest of the time, I ended up gift-wrapped for the scientists to use in their despair drug experiments.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Soryn's healing spells either work exclusively on him or are for [[PowerPerversionPotential aiding and abetting BDSM]]. So his spells are useless when he tries and fails to save the artificial human Jenny's life.
* CrossMeltingAura: Inni warns Murquoql about a vampire lord who can poison holy magic.
* CruelMercy: Instead of killing the moufretas that tried to eat her on the spot, Murquoql lodges rocks into their [[NoseShove noses]] and throats, which cripples their respiration without immediately stopping it.
* CurbStompBattle:
** The albino lanceros thrashed Pilot 0037's Panzerfaust Mark III, a SpiderTank,in less than two minutes and as many attacks.
** Parthenia quickly and without much effort incapacitates Farrah near the Notice Board.
** A pack of D'voreem versus a dragonhorse genetically engineered as a FriendlySniper: the D'voreem are all felled by PrettyLittleHeadshots before they can ambush Swanwhite and her proteges.
* CurbStompCushion: Mequoql's mental shields didn't stand a chance against Mael's initial mind-capturing assault, but they last for just the split-second she needs to send out a DistressCall.
* CurseCutShort:
** Varla's GroinAttack interrupts a [[HornySailors randy fisherman]] saying "Suck my d--"
** A bandit in the Ghost town was KilledMidSentence after being startled by Wilhelmine.
%%* CuteIndignantGirlStance: Valerie [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15194176290A98089200&page=3#67 pose]].
* CutenessProximity:
** At first, Moquoql stared fascinated at a feathered cat-like critter, while still participating in an intelligent conversation. As Felian approached and sniffed Murquoql, she started cooing {{baby talk}} at it and giving it ear scritchies.
** Jobe Pearson is distracted from catching a bus to his farm when he goes to pet Mist's wolf-steed.
* {{Cyberpunk}}:
** "Alpha"/Sophia is a cyborg that favours classic punk rock style - green mohawk, leopard-pattern cropped hair, numerous piercings and tattoos, silver studs and chains... Comes from a PostCyberpunk universe.
** Oseru's native world has only theorized about artificial thinking machines, but she's from a PortalFantasy that connects to a cyberpunk Earth. She was absolutely horrified when she saw the other side for herself.
* CyborgHelmsman: Arilay the cyborg pilots the Web of Friendship Scouter Hummingbird by [[SpaceshipGirl making it an extension of her body]].
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* DamnYouMuscleMemory:
** When Maequoql turns off the ArtificialGravity, the Mayatan sisters instinctively try to glide before consciously switching over to the rather different movement skill needed for zero-gravity maneuvers.
** Exhausted, sleep-deprived Parthenia unintentionally removes Rosalind's note about the missing mustang herd when a gust of wind tears it off the notice board and her training kicks in, catching it.
* DamselInDistress: Mind-controlled by Mael and pursued by demonic Vindex, Mequoql is not having a good morning.
* DareToBeBadass: After the Not-Chaos-Hunters [[MassOhCrap panic]] over news of an approaching giantess, Morpho is not amused. He accuses them of [[ForgotAboutHisPowers forgetting their advantages]] and tells them to get a grip and act like they're as dangerous as their gems and paralytic orbs make them.
* DarkActionGirl: Parthenia the Keraunos, the ruthless government special agent, [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] Farrah in their confrontation near the Notice Board.
* TheDarknessGazesBack: Discussed when Sarquoql describes the perils of looking a [[TheGreys Sleutrienn]] in the eye -- Sleutrienn eyes are large and black, and according to his description, under the right conditions an EldritchAbomination can be seen looking out of the Sleutrienn's eyes.
-->'''Sarquoql''': Have you ever looked into a Sleutrienn's eyes? Don't. If you're lucky, their eyes will just look like large wet orbs of polished obsidian. If you're not lucky, then behind the reflection, their eyes are pits of infinite blackness, and if you look too far you'll see the Howling Void staring back at you on the other side of the chasm.
* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Oseru aq'Xueral dyes her hair, naturally black, a vibrant blood red shade that's traditional among the noblewomen of her region.
* DaywalkingVampire: Rosalind the vampire has been walking around in the sun almost all day with no ill effect. So far, the one time she got a sunburn was due to a side effect of a [[NoodleIncident string of accidents in the weapons shop]], and that sunburn quickly healed once the AntiRegeneration side effect wore off.
* DeadlyGaze: One of Nyceme's abilities. Her gaze can kill if she really puts her mind to it; if she doesn't put ''as'' much mind to it, it just paralyzes the victim. Good thing the one fellow PC she uses it on is an [[NoSell incorporeal demon]].
* DeathIsCheap: Michelle can keep coming BackFromTheDead.
* DefenceMechanismSuperpower: Rosalind the FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire underestimates her usefulness in combat because she doesn't operate with her vampiric powers at full capacity unless she's [[TheBerserker not lucid]].
* DefensiveWhat:
** Nyorla mentions that she's still learning how to skin critters, Pilot 0037 gives her an incredulous look, which spurs Nyorla's defensive rant.
--->'''Nyorla''': What? Skinning for leather is a ''much'' different skill from, say, for example, [[ItMakesSenseInContext harvesting skin tumors]]. Everyone on my planet knows how to do ''that''. Do ''you'' know how to harvest skin tumors? How would you like it if I gawped and pointed at you for not knowing how to harvest skin tumors?
** David takes issue with Arnaya investigating his truck without him, but she doesn't think she was "without him" because he was still in telepathic range.
--->'''David''': This running-off-without-a-word-thing is not going to work. There are a lot of toes around here to be stepped on. This is ''my'' truck, we're after ''my'' quarry, ''we''--you and me--need an open line of communication.\\
'''Arnaya''' ''[telepathically]'': What? We ''do'' have an open line of communication. I overheard you thinking that I should investigate, so I investigated. It's not ''my'' fault that speech is slow and you decided to waste time saying what you were thinking.
* DefiantCaptive:
** Sa'ad will not let Parthenia break his spirit despite being chained, shackled and [[WhatADrag dragged on the ground face-first]]. Nor will he pass an opportunity at insulting his captor or making escape attempts. It's implied he's been doing this ''for several days''.
** Parthenia herself demonstrates a [[DownplayedTrope subdued]] version of this when confronted by the Carpenter squad. Sure, she will cooperate, but only to a certain point, and only as long as Chaudhari's group continues [[BavarianFireDrill keeping appearances]].
** Rather impressively, if stupidly, Sa'ad continues to tell his captors to fuck off even when being in [[HumanoidAbomination John Smith's]] custody. For the record, even Parthenia and ''Alice'' were intimidated by his mere presence.
** Mequoql has multiple instances of this while under Mael's mind-control:
*** She finds out the hard way that her mental shields are too weak to do more than dent the mind-control, so she patiently bides her time waiting for more favorable circumstances to resume FightingFromTheInside. Mequoql put up a mental fight three times before getting freed.
*** During the initial capture, Mequoql tries to resist, but instead gets a CurbStompCushion.
*** When she's given the (in her opinion, [[TooDumbToLive suicidally stupid]]) order to leave her holy water sanctuary while there's still a demon present, she puts a dent in the mind-control so she can stay put and tell the demon to go away first.
*** Her [[IntrinsicVow vow]] to get the other side of the story from the Not-Chaos Hunters loosens Mael's control enough for Mequoql to call for help in breaking free the rest of the way.
* DeliberateInjuryGambit:
** Plasma downplays this as a deliberate vulnerable positioning gambit. She's been ordered to bring a lamprey priestess back to Seenarnha, but the lamprey priestess is considering fleeing. Plasma sizes up the lamprey priestess as a predator, then rears up and deliberately falls onto her back in an attempt to get the lamprey priestess to chase her instead.
** Varla purposefully overpowers her NeckSnap to crack her own arm bones to ensure she has more than enough force to break the vertebrae she's aiming at. [[GoodThingYouCanHeal She knows her healing song will undo all the consequences.]]
** Aynara takes Haydn's punch to her face so she can deploy a touch-based spell on him.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance:
** When confronted with a person behaving in a childish manner, Pearl - originally from 1920s Earth - thinks that corporal punishment would be a suitable solution.
** Oseru is a representative of the Qorisayane Empire's Moon Hawks and the Clans; both antagonistic, reactionary forces in her native work. A woman raised in a violent honor culture, she kills without hesitation or remorse, and is counter-productively obsessed with not looking "weak".
%%* DelinquentHair: Farrah combines this look with TomboyishPonytail.
* DeliriousMisidentification: Maequoql (alien) urges a (human) bandit drained by a vampire to go to sleep. The bandit, with not enough blood to sustain his agitation, answers "Yes, mommy," before fainting.
* DemonicPossession:
** To those who don't understand what is actually going on, Unchained Devil Justin would seem like a straight example. In actuality it would be more of an [[InvertedTrope inversion]], as ''Justin'' forced his demon to fuse with him. There's also how neither personality is truly in control, and instead an artificial third persona is the one acting in their stead.
** Iragan and Orain, incorporeal entities as they are, can "embrace the mind" of an individual whose actions they want to narrate, but [[DownplayedTrope they can't control their body or influence their actions in any way.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Downplayed example: Most horses would have left a booby-trapped saddlebag alone after the first zap. Fiddler tried three times to get into the booby-trapped saddlebags -- not because she was stupid, but because she wanted to find out if the zapping was a coincidence or a pattern.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Angus gets nearly three paragraphs worth of backstory...before being killed and eaten in his introductory post.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud:
** Rosalind blurts out that she had her own idea of countering the demonic influence, and embarrasses herself further when asked to elaborate on what that idea was.
** Jen Jara reacts to Alexa's GameFace by thinking of a line of poetry and then realizing she murmured it.
* DidntSeeThatComing:
** During a game of hide and seek, Alexa starts as the seeker, and Syrni Sandra (as well as a few other characters) go to hide. Syrni Sandra picks her hiding place, guesses how much time it would take for Alexa to find her, and uses that time to sneak in a quick EroticDream in her hiding place. Syrni Sandra didn't anticipate Akane a) forgoing hiding to investigate Syrni Sandra's hiding spot and b) arriving faster than Alexa could -- so [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Akane finds Syrni Sandra]] still [[IWasHavingSuchANiceDream dreaming]].
** Soryn has plans to seduce Jenny, but he didn't expect her to get high and laughing off of her own drugged chocolates. Surprised and amused, [[XanatosSpeedChess he rolls with it]], using the excuse of steadying her to slip his arm around her waist.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Mequoql did not anticipate the probability of her telepathic JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} prank on Carol being misinterpreted as a crush. Given that ''Never Gonna Give You Up'' is a love song, the consequence should have occurred to Mequoql ''before'' she picked that specific song to play.
* DirtyMindReading: As part of his mind-control, Sarquoql alters Ellya-Salaen's mental shields to leak her thoughts to him. When Ellya-Salaenl learns that Nora can shapeshift, she starts imagining [[PowerPerversionPotential lewd uses]], which prompts Sarquoql to say "Get your mind out of the gutter..."
* DisapprovingLook: Rosalind (FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire) [[SubvertedTrope nearly]] glares at Ozurr (SecretKeeper) for his RevealingCoverup, but she reminds herself that it's not his fault that Nyceme and Sindar's magic either busted the secret already or is about to bust it in the next few seconds.
* DisasterDominoes: [[NoodleIncident Offscreen]] in the weapons shop, Rosalind suffered through a string of accidents that spiraled out of control.
* DissonantSerenity: Nyorla is entirely too calm about being shot at.
* DistractedByTheSexy:
** Rosalind is distracted from panicking as she [[SecurityCling clings to Jann]] and gets a faceful of [[SmellsSexy his scent]] at point-blank range.
** Zelena had ambitions of finding some artifacts to take back to her homeworld, but then she [[EatingTheEyeCandy ogles]] Soryn and decides she might as well have a quick fling with him at the same time.
* DistressCall: When Mael puts Mequoql under mind control, her psychic shields last just long enough for her to alert the entire Web of Friendship before she succumbs.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Arnaya does not like cherry flavor, she thinks it tastes like a halfhearted knockoff of Camelian heartfruit.
* DoesThatSoundLikeFunToYou: Arnaya's telepathy registers a "cord" leading away from the carnivorous blob and deeper into the ocean. She surmises there's a greater intelligence controlling the blob and asks Nerea if [[OutOfTheFryingPan honking off that intelligence by terminating the blob]] sounds like fun to her.
* DoesntLikeGuns: Murquoql is a fanatic for a lot of different types of weapons. Guns, however, aren't one of those types.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Arilay deliberately phrases her description of the sudden appearance of a stranger in her ship to obliquely reference rape.
-->'''Arilay''': Excuse me, stranger who just teleported onto this spaceship. This is the pilot Arilay speaking. In case you didn't know, I am a cyborg and [[SpaceshipGirl the WFS Hummingbird is an extension of my body]]. As such, it is bad manners to enter the body of a fair maiden with neither warning nor permission. I'll forgive you this time, but please try to avoid doing it again. Thank you.
* DogPileOfDoom: Adam's white blood cells dogpile the microscopic piece of spinel injected into him. Acne removal nanobots from the Web of Friendship are directed to join the dogpile.
* DontLookAtMe: Arilay doesn't want people watching when she swaps out her eyeballs. Justified, as she's accidentally grossed out witnessing strangers with that action before.
* DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat:
** Nyorla scolds the twins Aynara and Arnaya for startling her while she's levitating multiple knives in a synchronized swarm in the kitchen.
--->'''Nyorla''': Don't you [[WhatAnIdiot know better]] than to sneak up on a {{chef|OfIron}} wielding [[KnifeNut this many knives]] in the kitchen?!
** Mael teleports Sarquoql to him. Spooked by the unexpected teleport, Sarquoql panics and draws his taser, then belatedly realizes he didn't just get teleported into the Web of Friendship spaceship.
--->'''Sarquoql''': Who are you? What do you want? And how dare you spook a guy with an unexpected teleport?
** Michelle's teleporting arrival in the Forest is too close to Mequoql, who bares her claws and teeth in a combat stance.
--->'''Mequoql''': Watch where you teleport, I nearly tore your throat out in surprise!
** Teleporting via gemstone, Nick tries to barge onto the Web of Friendship's spaceship. Because it was already on RedAlert and didn't expect him, the automatic defenses on the spaceship's teleporter pad ejected him.
--->'''Arnaya''': You suddenly barged onto a spaceship that was already in RedAlert. What did you expect would happen, [[SarcasmMode a welcome wagon with flowers]]? The automatic defenses nearly mistook you for [[MindControl Mael]]. You were lucky to be ejected instead of gunned down where you stood.
* DontTouchItYouIdiot: Oseru uses a dead bandit's heart and her {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s to get an EldritchAbomination to intercept incoming teleports. Later, another bandit's dog comes across the heart and smells something ''[[EvilDetectingDog wrong]]'' with it. Based on telepathically eavesdropping on what the dog smelled, Aynara guesses it's a bad idea to mess with the heart. Later she does just that in an attempt to get rid of the TeleportInterdiction and [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu gets brutally injured in the process]], confirming her suspicions.
* DontYouDarePityMe:
** Parthenia rather bluntly [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs tells Brimoda to keep up the formalities]] when the latter expresses concern for the former's state of health.
** Oseru reacts poorly at first to Mael's offered help, though ultimately downplayed. As a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Qorisayane]] [[BlueBlood Clanswoman]], she does not like people from outsider her Clan -- even allies -- treating her as weak in any way, but she realizes that Mael couldn't have fully understood the implications of his actions.
* DopeSlap:
** '''Lead Mare''' Flashfoot whaps the back of Amaranth's head with her muzzle after Amaranth made enough noise to cause a bunch of predators to show up.
** Maequoql uses her telekinesis to lightly bounce a pebble off the back of Nasur's head after he accuses her of either being a hallucination or trying to toy with his hopes.
--->'''Maequoql''' ''[via telepathy]'': Excuse me sir, but that was no way to talk to the lady whose hands are on the controls of the [[TractorBeam machine]] holding the carnivorous blob back from entering this building.
** Mequoql slaps the back of Morpho's head after he fails to stop [[OpenMouthInsertFoot inserting his foot in his mouth]] over the subject of the Not-Chaos-Hunters' inexperience with giants.
** When Alexa shows off her GameFace, Syrni Sandra starts goading Alexa by calling her GameFace boring. Jen Jara shows her disapproval by aiming a slap at the back of Syrni Sandra's head and saying "Be nice!" But Syrni Sandra uses her SuperReflexes to [[DefiedTrope deflect the slap]].
** When Aynara is drinking out of a bandit's arm and she tries to talk with her mouth full, incidentally creeping out Cynthia and Diantha, Shale makes the ASL sign for "melon" and taps Aynara's forehead with it.
* DoubleTake:
** In the Sun-Dry Sea, Nyorla gives a surprised second look at the coral on the boulder she uses as cover.
** When Finn mistakenly points at Varg (a haugr) when he guesses who's the vampire, [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Rosalind]] does a double take upon realizing she's not the one being pointed at.
** Soryn the snake man flicks out his serpentine tongue for one purpose, [[DelayedReaction takes a few seconds to realize]] his vomeronasal organ detected drugs, and flicks his tongue out again to confirm his finding.
** Nyorla's power sees no signs of life in Arnaya and Amy, so she does a surprised second look before realizing they're illusions and Arnaya is hiding Amy elsewhere in the room.
* DoubleTap: Standard procedure for Oseru (and Moon Hawks in general) is to put an extra round through the brains of anyone they down.
* DramaticIrony: Arnora trips over a set of wheel ruts, but decides not to think about it, as she needs to find Ozurr. She then sets off to where Mequoql had told her Ozurr was, unaware that the wheel ruts were left by the truck Ozurr was riding on, traveling in the other direction.
* DramaticSitDown: Once Ozurr the giant realizes he's [[NotInKansasAnymore not in Hromstgard anymore]], he sits down, ''hard'', with an audible "THUD!" He nearly squashes Henry A. Safon II who scrambles out of the way.
* DrawAggro:
** When a D'voreem targets a limping RedShirt gelding, '''Guardian''' Thunder makes a pest of himself by viciously biting the D'voreem.
** Mind-controlled Mequoql attempts to distract Morpho from tackling Mael by smashing a rock into Morpho's eye. [[NoSell Morpho ignores the smashed rock.]]
** Syrni Sandra [[IShallTauntYou taunts]] and {{teleport spam}}s, trying to keep the shrivers' digestive swarms busy chasing her while Jen Jara tries to sneak up behind the shrivers so she can sting one. After that, they switch roles and do it again for the other shriver.
** Jen Jara tries to get Krakka'a's attention off of Cody by getting between them and responding to Krakka'a's rudeness with more rudeness.
* DreadfulMusician: Naiolo is not very good at the harp, mostly because he is still learning how to play the insturment.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Discussed when Mequoql accuses Morpho of being too harsh on the Not-Chaos-Hunters in his DareToBeBadass speech.
* DudeNotFunny: Maequoql doesn't think it's funny for Arilay to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything implicitly compare]] a stranger unexpectedly entering her spaceship to the act of rape.
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[[folder:E]]
* EarWorm:
** {{Discussed|Trope}} when Shale JustForFun/{{rickroll}}s Justin. She does so to demonstrate that a catchy tune being that much more contagious is one of the lesser downsides of telepathy in its various forms.
** Mequoql gets the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waa2ucfgVgQ Never Split the Party]]" stuck in her head after the Not-Chaos Hunters assert their inseparability one too many times.
** A staple of Mayatan mischief involves [[InvokedTrope invoking this trope]], telepathically playing a catchy song in someone else's mind.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: Zelena had ambitions of finding some artifacts to take back to her homeworld, but got {{distracted by|TheSexy}} Soryn. He notices her watching him and signals that he likes the attention.
* EffortlessAmazonianLift: Aynara displays her vampiric strength by quickly scooping up a bandit she stunned and sprinting with him down a flight of stairs to a turning point in the staircase.
* ElectronicEyes: Arilay the cyborg owns a wide variety of interchangeable electronic eyeballs to replace her missing organic ones.
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: When Murquoql finds the Woman in Room 444 to discuss the matter of the missing child, [[ExposedExtraterrestrials Murquoql's nudity]] is noticed, but prominently ''not'' discussed.
* EmotionEater: Varla is from a [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent sub-species of mermaid]] that can use lust to harvest magical energy, though the process requires an investment of seduction and magical energy to kickstart it. Varla's willingness to use that talent of hers has been irreversibly soured by her DarkAndTroubledPast, and she prefers digesting her own rage instead.
* EmotionlessGirl: Despite her humanoid appearance, many mortal emotions just don't apply to Tecia. She was made to serve the Laws of Death, and emotions would be a hindrance to the dispassionate application of those Laws. A stand-out exception is the fanatical anger she feels against those who defy those Laws.
* EmptyPilesOfClothing: Aynara discards her coat of mud and medical tape by turning into SuperSmoke when a bunch of mind-controlled bandits aim FiveRoundsRapid at her.
* EnemyMine: Under ordinary circumstances, Aynara would start a MookHorrorShow on Black Morgan and his bandit gang. But when hunting Mael the mind-controller, Aynara arranges for one of Black Morgan's minions to warn Black Morgan about a probable imminent usurpation.
* EntertaininglyWrong:
** The horses don't understand what a teleport is, so they call the resulting flash and bang Sabertooth Lightning. Furthermore, they assume Rosalind got eaten by it when they notice she's missing.
** Saen and Nyceme are lamia, but Sarquoql's only experience with {{snake people}} is via the genetically engineered Soryn, whose genetic-vat-grown sibling-equivalents all died in the vats. So when Sarquoql learns through the archaeologist's {{Psychometry}} vision that Nyceme is a lich, Sarquoql imagines that Saen and Nyceme were reanimated by a [[ILoveTheDead necrophile]] necromancer and grosses himself out. For the record, neither Saen nor Nyceme were grown in vats like Soryn was.
* EntropyAndChaosMagic: The Eyes and Teeth is [[MadeOfMagic made of the stuff]], and the Moon Hawks that channel it wield it by extension. Maelys notes that it could have interesting effects when [[YinYangBomb combined with nenro]], which is used to ''decrease'' entropy.
* EquippableAlly: Justin can, seemingly at will, cause his demon to take on the form of a sword he can wield.
* EroticDream: Once Syrni Sandra picks her hiding place during a game of hide and seek, she takes a moment to deal with the consequences of forgetting to take her heat control pill by sneaking in a quick nap and dreaming. Predictably, the dream is about the sex she's craving.
* EstablishingCharacterMusic: Varla the mermaid's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introductory post]] comes with a link to ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsfIw7ZkEyc Take a Hint]]'' as she reacts with hostility to HornySailors who deliberately got in her way while making lewd comments and [[WolfWhistle whistles]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Sarquoql, a mind-controlling villain, pooh-poohs [[TheseTropesShouldWatchTheirLanguage cuss words]].
** Soryn is a PunchClockVillain genetically engineered for seduction, but he draws the line at children. Whether on or off the clock, he will drop what he's doing to go make sure that even strangers' kids are safe. For example, Soryn saw a green van with a chocolate logo, thought that it looked [[DownplayedTrope ambiguously]] like a [[MistakenForPedophile pedophile's tool]], and decided to investigate.
** Mael, another mind-controlling villain, does not use his ability to go messing with peoples' sexualities.
* EverybodyHatesHades: Sindar is not exactly well-liked compared to the rest of TheFairFolk, owing to his decay-related powers and dominion over the dead.
* EveryScarHasAStory: Jann of Grimmsford was sliced open to have warding runes carved onto any and every bone that was big enough. He still has the surgical incision scars.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Rosalind states that she's accustomed to darned near everyone trying to kill her back home.
* EvilDetectingDog: More like EldritchAbomination-detecting dog: Oseru uses a dead bandit's heart and her {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s to get an EldritchAbomination to intercept incoming teleports. Later, another bandit's dog comes across the heart and smells something ''wrong'' with it. Based on telepathically eavesdropping on what the dog smelled, Aynara guesses it's a [[DontTouchItYouIdiot bad idea to mess with the heart]]. She turns out to be right when she [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu goes through a torturous ordeal trying to stop the abomination from intercepting incoming teleports]].
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The first time Ozurr hears about an "airship", he was only familiar with ships that traveled along the surface of the water, so he wonders if an airship is what it sounded like: a ship that travels in the air.
* ExactWords: Morpho, on Mequoql's orders, is planning to prevent Henry from using potentially unsafe magic gems to wish himself home. Morpho says "I'll help you look for the gem that Carol threw" but [[FalseReassurance deliberately doesn't say his help ends once the gem is actually found]].
* ExorcistHead: Justified as part of Morpho the robot's shapeshifting ability. He is oblivious to how creepy he looks whenever he twists his head further than biological capacity to see what's going on behind him.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap:
** Rosalind starts optimistically thinking about how her newfound friends will help her find her missing herd of horses... until she realizes the horses would run away from Ozurr the giant. Well, fiddlesticks.
** Varla explains that a side effect of her crystallized heart is the loss of certain specific emotions, which puts a handicap on her social skills. Hearing herself speak on that subject makes her realize she's just been rude to David, by having NoSympathy for him freaking out over her healing cantrip.
** Unit 09, aka Novia, produces a plug so she can be plugged into a machine to help fix the Panzerfaust. Moquoql has gathered ''multiple'' machines to fix the Panzerfaust with. As she tries to choose which machine to plug Novia into, she realizes that no matter which one she plugs Novia into, the others will be missing out on Novia as a guide. But as the engineer, Moquoql is responsible for coordinating all the machines, and she's got a communication microchip in her head that counts as a machine. When she realizes she'll have to poke a hole through her flesh all the way down to her skull in order to plug Novia into her communcation microchip, Moquoql groans, "Oh, ThisIsGonnaSuck."
* ExposedExtraterrestrials: {{Justified|Trope}} for Mayatan aliens, who prefer to keep their gliding membranes free from the constraints of clothes.
* ExpositionBeam: Maequoql's telepathy, over the span of a few seconds, informs her four younger sisters of everything that's been going on while they were asleep.
* ExpospeakGag:
** Nui calls the gadget on their right arm a "solar-lunar-powered electromagic projector". In other words, a {{magitek}} gun.
** Moquoql tries to censor the fact that there's diamond in the SpheroidDropship hull by calling it "carbon arranged into its sturdiest molecular formation".
* {{Expy}}:
** Cormack is a very obvious one of [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]]. Boisterous elfin boy who carries a sword and shield, collects odd items, and has a FairyCompanion... sound familiar?
** Farrah's appearance and general demeanor (the latter -- as far as the her limited characterization in the original allows us to tell) is based on the Hellion from ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon''.
** John Smith, Security Service has a lot of common with his namesake from ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' trilogy.
* ExtraEyes: Arilay can zig-zag this trope, she owns multiple pairs of ElectronicEyes and switches which ones she uses according to the situation. For example, while disguised as a pile of dirt, Arilay brings out multiple pairs of ElectronicEyes disguised as rocks to see in a lot of different directions around herself at once. When she switches to a dog disguise, she puts the previous eyeballs away and switches to a single pair built and colored appropriately.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Arilay's digestive tract was replaced with an [[MatterReplicator atomic manipulator]] that can use even mundane poisons and radioactive materials as fuel.
* EyeAmWatchingYou:
** Ozurr and Krakka'a exchange gestures, pointing first at their own eyes and then at each other, as the truck drives off.
** Shale's equivalent gesture, used to forestall the unspoken mischief that fellow Web members Aynara and Arnaya were planning on her, substitutes waggling her antennae (a different sensory organ) and pointing them at the twins.
* EyePop: Rosalind {{imagines|pot}} Krakka'a [[BringMyBrownPants wetting himself in terror]] while his eyeballs pop out and fall into the puddle.
* EyeScream:
** Mind-controlled Mequoql smashes a pointy rock into Morpho's mechanical eyeball. There's a SickeningCrunch... as the [[DefiedTrope force-fielded]] eyeball [[SubvertedTrope shatters the rock instead]].
** Played straight when Soryn kills most of the moufretas attacking him by shoving a blade of HardLight through their eyes and into their brains. Before he gets the chance to summon the aforementioned blade on one end of his staff, first he pokes a moufreta in the eye with the other end of his staff, blinding that eye.
** Aynara [[HealingFactor temporarily]] loses an eye to a fire.
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[[folder:F]]
* FaceNodAction: When Morpho arrives to assist Moquoql with freeing her sister from mind control, they face each other, nod simultaneously, and Moquoql moves into position to teleport Morpho down to the planet's surface.
* {{Facepalm}}:
** When Arilay acts like a disobedient dog begging for Cynthia and Moobly's biscuits, Shale facepalms at Arilay's antics twice.
** Mark's reaction to Farrah's little introductory speech near the notice board that embarrasses pretty much everyone.
** Mequoql facepalms when Nick, in a bad mood, verbally lashes out at a poor innocent hiker who did nothing to deserve it.
** Mequoql [[GoryDiscretionShot censors Morpho dismembering a moufreta corpse]] with a curtain of green light, then lowers her forehead into her palm as she realizes it won't stop the sounds.
* FaceFault: Aynara overrides the TranslatorMicrobes for TeasingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier at Haydn. Arilay (who knows the language) hears Aynara's "DoYouWantToCopulate" shout, and falls flat on her face when she turns to gawk at Aynara. Justified because Arilay stepped in a pothole and tripped.
* FacePlant: Mequoql falls face-first into the ground after her mind-controlled sister [[PressurePoint pinches the back of her neck]].
* FailedASpotCheck:
** Rosalind fails to notice the door sign and the urinals that indicate she entered the men's restroom by mistake.
** The ''entire town'' somehow fails to notice an adult ''Deinosuchus'' walking around until he stops to talk to somebody.
** A group of HornySailors fail to notice Varla's sword because they're [[DistractedByTheSexy too busy ogling her breasts]].
** Zarokh fails to feel that Saen's healing spell fixed the wound on his head until Rosalind points it out to him.
* FailedDramaticExit: Wain loses his temper at the Web of Friendship and storms into the twisty turny corridors, only to sheepishly return and ask where the exit is.
* {{Fainting}}:
** Rosalind faints, loses her grip on the horse she was riding bareback, and falls off, which separates her from her herd of horses. %%The reason she faints is Emotional and Exhaustion overlapping, that hasn't been revealed in-story yet.
** Parthenia finally loses consciousness when her lack of proper sleep catches up to her after the battle with the d'voreem.
* FalseReassurance: Morpho, on Mequoql's orders, is planning to prevent Henry from using potentially unsafe magic gems to wish himself home. He uses ExactWords to promise to help Henry ''look for'' the magic gem that Carol threw, but deliberately doesn't say his help ends once the gem is actually found.
* {{Familiar}}: Valerie and Justin have this type of bond, with Justin dressed like a fanciful butler. The two of them seem capable of sensing what the other does and feeling their emotions, though Valerie is also fully capable of moderating how much information is sent via their bond. Valerie also verbally assumed Nyceme is Sindar's master, though he didn't react to her doing so.
* FamousFamousFictional: Inverted when Sarquoql in disguise lists novelists who use the ideas of game theory in their works. He lists some alien (i.e. fictional in RealLife) authors before concluding the list with Creator/JaneAusten.
* FantasticallyIndifferent:
** [[InvokedTrope Played up]] by Alice after the mess with Unchained Demon Justin. She's selling items to allow [[{{Muggles}} mundies]] to protect themselves from magical attack. She maintains an air of cool detachment to demonstrate experience in these matters, and by extension, that the defenses she sells are thoroughly field-tested.
--->[Alice] turned up beside [Wolfe] and struck up a conversation in a casual voice -- like witnessing the unholy lovechild of H.R. Giger and H.P. Lovecraft's laudanum-fueled union was an everyday occurrence for her. And from what she said, it seemed it was.
** Upon seeing a self-proclaimed deity spontaneously create a feathery cat-like creature, Maequoql and Moquoql blink in astonishment, then glance at each other and {{shrug|Take}}.
* FantasticArousal: Viporises are living seismic detectors, with their bones and exoskeletal leg plates set up to resonate with incoming bass and infrasound. Infrasound is what alerts them to natural disasters and is not this trope, while bass resonates in a different way that can feel pleasurable, depending on exactly how sensitive the individual Viporis is. Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara are [[IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn inadvertently]] {{aroused|ByTheirVoice}} when Alexa switches from her human voice to her monstrous voice with a rumbling undercurrent in an attempt to scare Akane.
* FantasticRacism: In a sense. Maya, already not a fan of Valarie for calling her injuries icky, also isn't a fan of her familar, calling Justin a "slave." Neither Valarie or Justin approve.
* FascinatingEyebrow:
** Maequoql stares befuddled with her eyebrows tilted at the unexpected stranger on Arilay's spaceship.
** Mequoql briefly twiches an eyebrow up in surprise when her telepathic JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} prank on Carol is misinterpreted as a crush.
** Soryn notices an invisible being leaving subtle footprints and raises an eyebrow.
** John Smith, Security Service arches an eyebrow when he sees the mind-controlled archaeologist set off [[BlindedByTheLight spaceship lights that dazzle]] a handful of his civilians.
* FastballSpecial: Carol throws Bonnie in an attempt to have the latter use a close-range healing spell on a tree-bound Mequoql. Too bad Morpho got in the way.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Mael seems like a polite man...but as Henry Bensen and the second traveler quickly find out (though already suspected), he's actually far more dangerous and sadistic.
* FauxFlame: Mequoql and the tropical Mayatan twins copying her power are capable of using light to simulate the appearance of fire.
* FearlessUndead:
** Being undead has made Nyceme all too keen on rushing right into situations many mortals would fear. First she responds to an "unchained devil" summoning dangerous things by rushing right up to him and challenging him, and/or taking notes on said dangerous things. Later, when she discovers that a group she encounters contains a vampire, she insists on being the one to greet them, and is unfazed by the weapons they draw (due to, ironically, said vampire being [[AvertedTrope spooked by her presence]]). Nyceme is even puzzled by Rosalind's reaction, since [[GenreSavvy she knows herself that undead typically do not experience fear]].
** Tecia is an angel of death, not an undead, but she's a similar case. She does not ''feel'' fear in the same way a human does. She is capable of knowing, intellectually, when FearIsTheAppropriateResponse, but the actual sensation is entirely alien to her.
* FeedItWithFire: Varla knows how to use her captors' spellcasting language and her own species' spellcasting songs as {{Improvised Lightning Rod}}s, which she puts to good use when Sallara's hunters start a storm and send in additional lightning trying to fry Varla.
* FeeFiFauxPas:
** {{Defied|Trope}} by Rosalind. Despite her curiosity, she refuses to ask Ozurr the giant whether he eats his prey raw and bloody or discards the blood, cooks the body, and then eats it. She doesn't know whether such a question is offensive, but she assumes it is because that assumption is safer than assuming otherwise.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} and {{lampshaded|Trope}} by Rosalind when Jann starts rolling up his sleeve to [[ScarSurvey show her the scars on his arm]] -- for a brief moment before Jann spoke, Rosalind was confused on what he was doing and nearly jumped to the conclusion that he was about to donate his blood to her, when that wasn't his intention at all. When Rosalind is (coincidentally) corrected, she notes that it's a good thing she had her hand over her mouth to stop herself from acting on the mistaken assumption.
** Rosalind herself is on the receiving end of a straight example. Ozurr casually mentions having betrayed his own father, who has been implied (out of Rosalind's hearing) to be a real piece of work and not somebody deserving of loyalty. Unfortunately, betrayal turns out to be a ''massive'' sore spot for Rosalind.
--->'''Ozurr''' ''(quietly to himself, after Rosalind launches into a rant and then runs off)'': And I'm an asshole.
* FeelNoPain: Downplayed in Varla's case, thanks to her TrainingFromHell she can feel pain but she doesn't care about it.
* FellAsleepStandingUp: As natives of a volcanic DeathWorld, Viporises can sleep on their feet in case of volcanic interruption. Syrni Sandra takes a nap in a bell tower while standing balanced on the large bell's support beam during a game of hide and seek.
* FightingFromTheInside: Mequoql tries and fails to resist the initial assault that puts her under mind-control. The second time she fights is when she's ordered to leave her holy water sanctuary while there's still a demon present, she doesn't feel safe enough to do so. Instead, she puts a dent in the mind control so she can stay put and try to talk the demon into leaving. The third time, her [[IntrinsicVow vow]] to get the other side of the story from the Not-Chaos Hunters loosens Mael's control enough for Mequoql to call for help in breaking free the rest of the way.
* FightsLikeANormal: Oseru [[EmpoweredBadassNormal was an elite soldier before obtaining her magical powers]], and still prefers to trust in her [[MageMarksman assault rifle]] [[TheMusketeer and]] [[MagicKnight sword]], using her magic to enhancer her potent martial abilities.
* FigureItOutYourself: Nyorla is bound by an intergalactic clause, "Any civilization that had already achieved interplanetary travel or teleportation could not teach any civilization that had yet to figure either out."
* FingerPokeOfDoom:
** During Morpho's DareToBeBadass speech to the Not-Chaos-Hunters, he [[DownplayedTrope holds back]] most of his [[TheStrengthOfTenMen ten-man-equivalent strength]] when forcefully poking Nick in the chest.
** Varla knows how to use a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commotio_cordis well-timed finger poke to stop someone's heart]]. She's not guaranteed to get the timing right each time, but she can up the odds by tuning into the target heart's rhythm.
* FingerWag: Parthenia gets a disapproving finger wag from John Smith, Security Service, for fighting in his town. [[GettingTheBoot And then he teleports her out]].
* FishOutOfWater: Rosalind is seeking to [[DefiedTrope defy this trope]] by updating her wilderness survival skills to this strange new world as fast as possible. Too bad she's still a FishOutOfWater within civilization, where [[CannotCrossRunningWater plumbing infrastructure causes problems for her]].
* FiveRoundsRapid: Mael orders a small group of bandits to kill Aynara. The first thing they try is pumping a volley of bullets into her, but she turns into SuperSmoke.
* FlashStep: One of the manifestations of a Viporis's SuperReflexes is the ability to go from a crouch in the middle of a corridor to standing with their backs to the wall at a speed that nearly breaks the sound barrier.
* FlatCharacter: John Smith, Security Service. {{Lampshaded}}, by himself, no less:
-->'''Parthenia:''' What are you?\\
'''John Smith:''' I've already told you what I am. I am John Smith, Security Service. Pleasure doing business with you.
* FlatWhat:
** It's flat 'How', but the spirit of the trope is there. Farrah had some trouble composing a coherent response to seeing a fully grown ''Deinosuchus'' that talks.
** Pilot 0037 has two instances of this in response to Unit 09 telling him that they're not on Aria anymore.
** Unit 09 gives one upon finding out that Pilot 0037 does not know how to read.
** Arnora's initial response to hearing that Hromstgard (her homeland) is nowhere to be found.
* FlippingTheBird:
** Farrah rather subtly shows Mark her middle finger when the latter in the same manner implied that she needs to take a bath.
** Carol flipped off Bonnie after the latter snarked about the former's response to everything.
** Horses don't have fingers, so their equivalent of flipping the bird is flipping their muzzle forward and up.
* FlourishCapeInFrontOfFace: Overwhelmed by Nyceme's perfume, [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Rosalind]] shields her nose and mouth in her elbow and briefly muses on what the pose would look like if she had a cape.
* ForebodingFleeingFlock: During the mind-control debacle, [[HellIsThatNoise a Mayatan scream of agony]] spooks a bunch of locals into fleeing past the Not-Chaos Hunters, alerting them that there's something fishy going on.
* ForgivenButNotForgotten: The Web of Friendship forgives Wain for pointing a gun at Murquoql, but they'll be watching him closely in case he tries a stunt like that again.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Discussed when Morpho accuses the Not-Chaos-Hunters of failing to remember their gems and paralytic orbs after news of an approaching giantess [[MassOhCrap sends them into a panic]].
* ForgotICouldntSwim: Four juvenile moufreta leap off a cliff trying to fly and intercept Iolana, forgetting that they're too young to fly. [[TooDumbToLive They splat.]]
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith:
** Arilay thinks that Valerie, Justin and Vindex are misanthropes, so she initially takes the form of a [[BigFriendlyDog pudgy golden retriever]] to interact with them, before eventually getting busted and shapeshifting into her usual human simulation.
** It is clear to anyone who's passed at least a second in his company that John Smith's appearance of a very unremarkable human is not his true form.
* FowlMouthedParrot: In this case, a '''raven''' - the raven that followed the ''Mad Bastards'' and their companions has picked up a few "choice words" - such as 'never-fuckin'-more' - and has even 'weaponised' them: using a shout of "fuckit!" to startle someone into dropping some food.
* FreakOut: Discussed and implied when Rosalind says that she "wasn't exactly sane enough to communicate" during the [[NoodleIncident offscreen incident]] in the weapons shop.
* FreudianThreat: Krakka'a, after his threat to eat the truck riders' organs one at a time doesn't have the desired results, announces his intention to start with Ozurr's "tes-" before he's cut off by Ozurr grabbing him by the throat.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Rosalind is a vampire who prefers pacifistic ways of getting blood. She tries to keep the fact that she's a vampire a secret, but Jann of Grimmsford figured out enough for her to confess to him. Later at brunch, she entrusted her secret to Ozurr and Varg as well.
* FromBadToWorse: A homunculus attacks Varla. Ten seconds after a significant amount of blood is spilled, sharks show up. Fortunately, Varla is able to use the sharks to her advantage by getting them to eat the homunculus first, and then fleeing before they get the chance to eat her.
* FunetikAksent: Finn, Teri ('...a gnarled speech came from one, distorted and oafish but an important word came through the quagmire...' - @/{{Slysheen}}) and any of the "Kiwis" (Kris, Sophia, Kaitlyn, Gwion and Wolfe).
* FuroScene: Farrah provides one. She soaks in the 'tub, checking out [[ScarSurvey the scars on her body]], old and new, all while getting [[FanDisservice unpleasant flashbacks to her past]].
* FusionDance: By condensing his demon into a sword and impaling himself, Justin & his demon can combine together into a dark-haired form. Though rather peculiarly, their combined form's personality acts noticeably different from their individual personalities.
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[[folder:G]]
* TheGadfly: Farrah's teasing way of talking, at least according to herself. Others might say that she's simply a rude person.
* GameFace: Rosalind alters her appearance to look scarier and [[YouWontLikeHowITaste more unappetizing]] to Krakka'a and Zarokh when they aggressively get in the way of the truck. She combines [[BlackEyesOfCrazy black sclerae]] and [[SupernaturalGoldEyes glowing yellow irises]] with [[UndeathlyPallor undeathly almost-white gray flesh]], and her skeleton becomes visible through her flesh with the black inverse of a glow.
* GemHeart: Varla's heart was crystallized, extracted from her chest, cloned and replaced in her backstory. Now her original amethyst-rendered heart is a personal PowerCrystal, among a few other functions.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan:
** Varla [[SubvertedTrope nearly]] slaps David when he panics over her healing cantrip twisting his insides.
** Whisper, a domestic horse, panics at the sight of fire. Fiddler, second-in-command of the feral herd and already familiar with fire, bumps and shoves Whisper to the nearest source of water instead of letting Whisper run off in a stupid direction blind with panic.
* GetItOverWith: Rosalind snaps under the stress of trying and failing to hide her vampirism from everyone around Chitara's wagon.
-->'''Rosalind''' ''[shouting]'': Oh, what's the use? I can't hide it from Nyceme, let's just get it over with! I'm the vampire! If anyone [[VanHelsingHateCrimes has a problem with that]], say it to my face!
* GettingTheBoot: Parthenia is forcibly teleported out of town when John Smith, Security Service, catches her fighting in it after he told her not to.
* GetOut: Nyorla throws the vampiric Mayatan twins Aynara and Arnaya out of the kitchen for [[DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat startling her]].
-->'''Nyorla''': Argh! Get Out! Out! Out! Out! Shoo! Shoo! Begone, vultures!
* GetYourMindOutOfTheGutter: Certain characters have had to silently tell themselves to stop thinking in the gutter, and one had to be told by someone else:
** After Rosalind embarrasses herself outlining her idea of KindRestraints in case of her potential vampiric feeding frenzy, Jann is involuntarily reminded of a certain... ''creative'' lady from the less reputable parts of Brightcliff that he'd once known.
--->'''Jann''' ''[thinking to himself]'': That is clearly ''not'' the sort of thing [Rosalind is] referring to, you buffoon!
** After Rosalind described her GameFace as "unappetizing", Jann is distracted by her choice of words...
--->'''Jann''' ''[thinking to himself]'': Good gods... keep your mind out of the gutter.
** After seeing a ''tsukumogami'' lantern with a long tongue, Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara think of what a long tongue could do, blush, and have to haul their minds out of the gutter.
** When Nora mentions she can shapeshift, Ellya-Salaenl is distracted by imagining [[PowerPerversionPotential lewd uses]]. Sarquoql, [[DirtyMindReading telepathically overhearing]], sighs "Get your mind out of the gutter..."
* TheGhost: Emperess Asatura III of Qorisa is aware of this world and quite interested in its potential, but [[StrongEmpireShriveledEmperor is in no condition to visit it personally]]. In her stead, Oseru and Ethani carry out her will.
* GilliganCut: Once she's informed of Sophia starting to bargain with Alice, Partenia hopes her superiors will not tell that the Technocracy is a slave-owning society. Cue Sophia doing the exact opposite of that.
* GirlInABox: What Unit 09 and other Computational Units actually are; cloned Silver Witches crammed into boxes to be hooked up to one of the Balamar Empire's various war machines.
* GladHesOnOurSide: Matiu witnesses Morpho engulf and dissect a moufreta corpse with quick and brutal efficiency, and is glad that Morpho's on their side and not the enemy's.
* GlamourFailure:
** John Smith has done a rather poor job of passing himself for an ordinary human. For one, his shadow sometimes points at the wrong direction.
** Defied by Sarquoql, whose draconic disguise is powered by Mael's magical spinel. Sarquoql keeps his distance from Aseyu and her AntiMagic so that it doesn't make his disguise fall apart.
* GonnaNeedMoreX: Maya presents Henry with a baseball bat ("three feet of aluminum fury"), then Mequoql remarks there's a giantess approaching. Henry asks Maya, "Uh... Got anything bigger?"
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: Parthenia's pale gray gaze, full of murderous intent.
* GoodGunsBadGuns:
** {{Averted|Trope}} by the ''Mad Bastards'', who all carry Eastern Bloc AKM variants (even Pearl and Aubrey carry copies of them).
** {{ZigZagged|Trope}} with Jane Westinghouse, antiquarian, who is armed with a Walther P38 and an M1911.
* GoodNewsBadNews: Good news, the 'CanaryInACoalMine' sensor in the medical pod did what it was supposed to do when it broke. Bad news, that means that something in Adam's neck is tampering with the rest of the sensors of the medical pod in a suspicious effort to not be detected, and now Adam and his friends, old and new, have to figure out who arranged to inject it into Adam and why.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Justin, in his fused "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Unchained Devil]]" form, has three scars diagonally across his face that are an unnatural white color.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Ethani smokes a pipe when waiting for the rest of her group to finish talking and get on the bus. Neutral, in her case; indicating both [[DeliberateValuesDissonance a culture where tobacco use is more prevalent]] and Ethani's expectation that she'll die a soldier's death long before the tobacco has a significant effect on her.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: The biggest reason why Varla is so cavalier about snapping other peoples' necks is because she knows her healing song can reverse it with no lasting physical effects.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Invoked InUniverse when Mequoql conjures a curtain of green light to shield the butchering site from the rest of the camp.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Rosalind minces an oath when she's surprised by an automatic flushing toilet.
--> '''Rosalind''': ACK! Gol-durnit!
* GottaGetYourHeadTogether: Rosalind clutches the sides of her head while in the throes of her HeroicBSOD.
* GreekChorus: Iragan and Orain, while independent characters on their own right, serve only as the narrators of the Parthenia and Sa'ad's story, occasionally [[LampshadeHanging commenting on them]]
* GreenAroundTheGills: {{Discussed|Trope}} when Rosalind runs off to the restroom to barf up the mutton that, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent as a vampire]], she can no longer digest.
-->'''Waitress''': Was it just me, or did the poor dear look green around the gills to you?
* TheGreys: Shale's skin is gray and her eyes are large and all-black, but she has pseudo-hair, fluffy white antennae, and (instead of humanoid legs) a gastropod.
* GroinAttack: Varla's EstablishingCharacterMoment has her react to a group of HornySailors by landing a light laceration on one of their groins with her sword.
* GrowlingGut: Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara happen to be hungry when they encounter Krakka'a, who is the oversized sapient talking counterpart to the animals they prey on at their home planet. The result is their stomachs growling at him despite their principles to avoid SapientEatSapient.
* GunsAreUseless: With their telepathy for [[SpiderSense pre]]-[[GunKata dodging]] and telekinesis for [[NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont quick]] [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets sabotage]], Mayatans in general hold the opinion that guns are too easily countered to be worth using.
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[[folder:H]]
* HadToBeSharp: The justification for why the Ace of Spades is so preternaturally able to [[OffscreenTeleportation vanish between posts]] despite being [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower theoretically normal]] and knows what nanites smell like. He grew up in a hunter-gatherer tribe that ekes a living in the remains of {{Abusive Precursor|s}} {{Eldritch Starship}}s.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Rosalind worries about accidentally provoking Ozurr the giant into chopping her in half with his axe.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Moquoql has a limited ability to tap into cartoon physics. One way she can do so is making folds and pockets in space in order to teleport small objects, but she can only transfer one small object at a time and has to wait a while before trying again, otherwise she gets telekinetic-overextension headaches.
* HammerspaceHair: {{Downplayed|Trope}} when Shale briefly holds a single sheet of paper in her pseudo-hair.
* AHandfulForAnEye: After crunching a rock against Morpho's eye [[NoSell didn't work]], mind-controlled Mequoql flings mud instead, blinding Morpho much more effectively.
* HandGagging: Trying to stop Mequoql from screaming out her [[PsychicGlimpseOfDeath death-witnessing]]-induced headache, Morpho holds out his morphing metal for Mequoql to bite down on.
* HandsOffMyFluffy: Cynthia and Diantha have some bad memories of dragons, so when they see the Web of Friendship's dragonhorses, they defensively draw their weapons, exciting the dragonhorses. While Blackthorn's rider holds the dragonhorses back, Arilay gets in the way and points out the saddles to Cynthia and Diantha.
* HanlonsRazor: Moquoql and Nyorla are easily EnragedByIdiocy, especially the kind of idiocy described in the corollary to Hanlon's Razor known as Grey's Law: ''Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.'' So when they hear that Pilot 0037 was never taught to read and yet his superior officers expected him to read a user manual, Moquoql and Nyorla become outraged at how Pilot 0037 was set up for failure.
* HardHead: Downplayed for realism. Compared to horse skulls, genetically engineered dragonhorses have thicker and slightly domed foreheads. It ''reduces'' the risk of [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard self-inflicted brain damage]] from [[UseYourHead head-butting]], but the risk isn't ''completely'' eliminated.
* HarpingOnAboutHarpies : Chitara and Naiolo's species is known as 'harpid'. They are flightless and can be male or female.
* HeadDesk: Aynara overrides the TranslatorMicrobes for TeasingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier at Haydn. Shale (who knows the language) hears Aynara's "DoYouWantToCopulate" shout, and drops her forehead down to her {{hoverboard}} scooter's dashboard.
* HealingFactor:
** Rosalind's regeneration recovers from the [[NoodleIncident weapons shop incident]] JustInTime for a confrontation with Krakka'a and Zarokh.
** Arnaya slices her own cheek open with her claws to demonstrate that she doesn't need Amy's moonstones.
* HeldGaze: Rosalind nearly loses herself in Jann's yellow eyes.
* HellishHorse:
** The nuckelavee, full stop. A grotesque, skinless fusion of horse and rider who hates humanity with a passion.
** If horses could be {{Uncanny Valley Girl}}s, then Iolana has definitely taken a form of one. A smaller-than-average unnaturally yellow horse with nonsensical body language who smiles like a human, showing MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily.
* HellIsThatNoise: A Mayatan scream of agony consists of their double set of vocal cords resonating in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(acoustics) binaural beats]] coupled with instinctively sending out an EmotionBomb of fear.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Aseyu inspires attraction in both Mist and Soryn, [[TheTease and flirtatiously teases the former for it]].
* HelpMistakenForAttack: When Chitara's wagon approaches the group containing Rosalind, Jann, Varg, Ozurr, and Zarokh, it is Nyceme who decides to (peacefully) interact with them first. She does so because she knows Rosalind is a vampire, so sending someone who doesn't have living blood to talk with her seems like a safe bet, just in case the vampire is hostile. Unfortunately, Rosalind mistakes Nyceme's "then [[SssssnakeTalk obviousssly thisss isss]] a job for me" as a statement of intent to kill her.
* HeroicBSOD: Seeing a giant was scary enough, but when Rosalind first sensed Jann the wizard's magic, she was convinced that she was about to die.
* HeroicWillpower: When demonic energy radiates from a fight and starts affecting Rosalind, instead of going DrunkOnTheDarkSide, she claps one hand over her mouth and uses the other hand to anchor herself to a banister.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Sorta. When setting out on her bike with Aubrey and Finn, Pearl reminisces about touring Europe with her friend '[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Cottle Marjorie]]' and wonders what ''she'' would make of this new adventure.
* HitAndRunTactics: Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara figure out how to {{teleport|Spam}} in, hit a shriver, and teleport out again to stay one step ahead of the shriver's digestive swarms.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard:
** {{Defied|Trope}} by Moquoql, who wises up and puts on a gas mask so she doesn't fall victim to her own chloroform packets.
** Pilot 0037 starts flashing back to being surrounded by cloaked figures all wielding painsticks and striking him. Nyorla's telepathic interruption consists of curling her simulated body around his and manipulating the mindscape so that as each painstick strikes her, ''it rebounds with enough force to strike its wielder''.
* HoldYourHippogriffs: There is the dismissive saying "''c'est la vie''" (meaning "that's life"). When Nyceme, a lich, uses that saying while speaking to Pearl, it's "''c'est la non-vie''" ("that's unlife").
* HolyBurnsEvil:
** Arilay's aborted plan to "deal with" Unchained Demon Justin included sanctifying a fire hydrant and aiming the resulting holy water at him. Arilay doesn't go through with it, as her plan is interrupted by Valerie regaining control and forcing Unchained Demon Justin to defuse.
** Spooked by Vindex, Mequoql hastily sanctifies a fire hydrant and makes an improvised fountain of holy water as a shield. Vindex warns that he'd go berserk with pain if he tried to reach into it.
** Holy magic is one of the few hard counters to Chaos magic on Aria.
* HolyHandGrenade: Rosalind mentions holy hand grenades as one of the NoodleImplements that [[AntiRegeneration prevented]] her AmusingInjuries from healing right off the bat and contributed to her getting [[PersonaNonGrata banned from the weapons shop]].
* HornySailors: Varla the mermaid's presence at the harbor causes a randy group of fishermen to make lewd comments and [[WolfWhistle whistles]].
* HoverBoard: Shale has a hoverboard that is powered by wing-shaped solar panels. She doesn't use it often, preferring to keep her gastropod muscles fit, but makes an exception to avoid delaying Valerie any further than already happened and also because a mind-controller is on the loose.
* HowManyFingers: Parthenia flashes a light in Farrah's eyes to check if she has serious brain damage after getting knocked out. By herself, no less.
* HowMuchDidYouHear: First Rosalind embarrasses herself, then desperately changes the subject to ask why Jann hasn't tried to kill her like most of everyone else who found out she was a vampire. Ozurr and Varg show up, prompting Rosalind to ask how much of that they heard.
* HumanFurnitureIsAPainInTheTail: A seat in a very bumpy truck is not comfortable for [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15194176290A98089200&page=28#comment-694 Bonnie's bunny tail]].
%%* HumanoidAbomination: John Smith the "walking contradiction", as Orain describes him.
* {{Humanshifting}}:
** Rebecca Jane Walsh is capable of changing her face and gender-bending, apparently in response to otherwise-fatal injuries.
** Soryn is genetically engineered for {{shapeshifting seduc|er}}tion, but his shapeshifting is limited -- he can't alter his serpentine length or become anything other than a [[SnakePeople snake man]].
* HurlItIntoTheSun: {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{averted|Trope}} when Murquoql mentions portals to the sun. Amelia is eager at the thought of hurling the Fiendlord into the sun, but Murquoql clarifies that's not what the portals are for. The portals are too sealed-up to throw anybody through, they just make [[ThePowerOfTheSun super-sunlight flashlights]].
* HyperAwareness: Parthenia's quite perceptive for supposedly an exhausted sleep-deprived person. She keeps in mind not only the position and the relative strength of her opposition, but her surroundings and her place in the society she's visiting, which can affect the outcome of the confrontation. Constantly registers the events going on around her with no direct relation to her. Still, her awareness is not superhuman: Ace of Spades was able to [[StealthHiBye sneak up on her]] without much effort.
* HypnoticEyes:
** Mael's power (in actuality it's the gem that's powering him) is to look at someone in the eye and brainwash them into obeying his command. He ''nearly'' succeeds with Henry Bensen, until the second traveler quickly intervenes and throws him off.
** Likewise, Sarquoql the Mayatan's mind-control telepathic specialty is dependant on eye contact to be initiated. The eye contact limit is considered a disability by Mayatan standards of telepathic performance.
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[[folder:I]]
* IAmNotAGun: Varla resents her former captors turning her into a living sex weapon.
* IAmNotMyFather: The reason Ozurr decides to investigate Rosalind's sudden appearance is because abandoning someone in the middle of nowhere to die sounds like something his father would do, and he refuses to be like him.
* IAmXSonOfY: Downplayed, since she doesn't the matronym usually included in her culture, but Aseyu introduces herself as "Aseyu ul'Valmoth vash'Suela Keyaris". (Aseyu from Valmoth, follower of Suela, the Jeweler.)
* ICanExplain: After getting caught in the act of trying and failing to capture Mael, Moquoql dashes off leaving Morpho behind to explain everything.
-->'''Morpho''': Okay, I can explain everything. ''[pointing to mind-controlled Mequoql]'' AFTER we free her.
* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn:
** Varla didn't intend to turn Lerna on when she was trying to accumulate seductive bonuses for hacking into Mael's mind-control of John Richman.
** Alexa tries to scare Akane by enhancing her voice with a rumbling growl. The rumble accidentally {{arouse|dByTheirVoice}}s Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara, who are Viporises and thus are ({{ahem}}) ''sensitive'' to bass.
%%* IDontThinkThatsSuchAGoodIdea: Rosalind is very reluctant to handle a weapon.
* IGaveMyWord: Mael gave Mequoql a story about the Not-Chaos Hunters being runaway teens. Mequoql privately made a vow to get the other side of the story from the Not-Chaos Hunters, but then she was put under mind-control and [[BringHimToMe ordered to bring them to Mael]]. This vow [[IntrinsicVow prompts her a couple of times]] to start FightingFromTheInside.
* IKissYourHand: Soryn's default greeting includes attempting to kiss the hands of the ladies he meets. {{Defied}} by Caroline, who yanks her hand out of Soryn's grasp, and by Michelle, who uses downward pressure on Soryn's hand to turn the attempt into ''just'' a handshake.
* IKnewThereWasSomethingAboutYou: When Thunder gets his hoof stuck in between two logs, the accident alone initiates the usual equine paranoia about Sabertooth logs[[note]]mundane logs that merely trap horses' hooves by sheer accident of position are dangerous enough to be regarded as Sabertooth[[/note]]. When Fiddler sniffs his trapped hoof, she smells sawdust and non-equine flesh, which strikes her as odd, no mundane Sabertooth log would smell like that, so the log might be even more Sabertooth. Sure enough, one of the logs was replaced by a homunculus, which tries and fails to KillAndReplace Thunder. As the herd escapes across the river, Thunder and Fiddler triumphantly note that the log was indeed Sabertooth as they suspected.
* INeedAFreakingDrink:
** Overwhelmed by the sight of teleporting people, a genetically engineered snake man wizard, and hovering robots asking who's got a spaceship blocking a hyperlane, Caroline becomes unsure of whether or not she's in the Simulacra and wanders into the Purple Fez Tavern for a drink.
** Mael the mind-controller is used to being the [[AlwaysABiggerFish bigger fish]] to the Not-Chaos-Hunters. When Sarquoql's description of the Web of Friendship paints enough of a picture of the Web being the bigger fish to Mael, Mael orders his mind-controlled minion to pour him a rosé.
* IWasHavingSuchANiceDream: Downplayed when Akane finds Syrni Sandra's hiding spot -- Syrni Sandra was already starting to wake up from the ({{ahem}}) climax of her EroticDream, sensing Akane's presence causes Syrni Sandra to wake up faster.
* IfIHadANickel: If Varla had a clam for every time she heard "I meant it as a compliment," she could open her own clam chowder restaurant.
* IfIWantedYouDead:
** Arnaya corrects Nerea's misconception that she's completely immortal by saying that if Varla wanted Arnaya dead, Varla would have run her sword through Arnaya's heart instead of stunning it with a FingerPokeOfDoom.
** Arnaya doesn't need Nerea's [[MakingASplash hydrokinetic]] help terminating the carnivorous blob. Arnaya could make the spaceship's TractorBeam either drop the blob to splatter on rocks or lift it out of the atmosphere until it [[ExplosiveDecompression bursts]], but she [[OutOfTheFryingPan has a reason]] to refrain (aside from the Web of Friendship's ThouShaltNotKill policy).
** Varla points out on incapacitated Arnaya's behalf that if Arnaya wanted David dead, she would have bitten into his carotid artery instead of into his neck muscle where the blood flows slowly and clots easily.
* IfOnlyYouKnew: David gratefully calls Varla a jewel, with no way of knowing her heart got crystallized and replaced. She has the crystal hidden within her hair.
* ImNotDoingThatAgain:
** [[RuleOfThree Three times]], Fiddler attempted to open the Inquisitor's saddlebags. [[RuleOfThree Three times]], she was thwarted with an electric shock. After the third time, she gives up and nurses her sore muzzle.
** After what happened [[CharacterDevelopmentThread/SpaceLiner the last time]], Ira and Ora smother any attempts at freeing them [[FourthWall from where they are]] before Murquoql even thinks of doing it.
* ImOkay:
** Mequoql is knocked out of a tree and falls onto the fresh corpse of a moufreta that broke its neck falling out of the same tree. Fortunately, she was able to twist midair, slow her fall with her gliding membranes, and land flat on her back.
--->'''Mequoql''': I'm okay! Well, mostly okay.
** Arnaya does a silent version of this trope when she waits to dispell the transparency on her chest until everyone has gotten a chance to see for themselves that her heart is beating again after Varla's FingerPokeOfDoom temporarily [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commotio_cordis stopped it]].
** Jen Jara nearly gets a degloving injury ([[StrippedToTheBone or worse]]) from a shriver's digestive swarm. After teleporting into the spaceship's decontamination shower and frantically rinsing off her abraded skin, she reports with relief, "I'm fine."
* IaijutsuPractitioner: In one smooth motion, Varla draws her sword, leaves a shallow cut on a [[HornySailors lewd fisherman]]'s {{groin|Attack}}, and sheaths her sword again.
* IgnoringBySinging: Discussed when Aynara the telepath states "You think loudly enough to where I'd have to do the equivalent of sticking my fingers in my ears and yelling 'la la la la la'."
* ImagineSpot:
** Rosalind imagines Krakka'a [[BringMyBrownPants wetting himself in terror]] while his [[EyeTake eyeballs pop out]] and fall into the puddle.
** Sarquoql grosses himself out when he imagines a [[ILoveTheDead necrophile]] necromancer turning Nyceme into a lich.
* ImminentDangerClue: Varla notices what seems to be an octopus charging at her for no good reason, she's instantly suspicious. It turns out to be a homunculus trying to KillAndReplace her.
* ImmortalityHurts: Just because Arnaya can survive [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commotio_cordis Commotio Cordis]] and restart her heart doesn't mean it doesn't hurt.
* ImmortalLifeIsCheap:
** Varla picks Arnaya's heart to stop because she knows Arnaya can restart it as long as it's intact.
** Nerea isn't aghast at Varla breaking Lerna's neck because Lerna is immortal.
* ImpairmentShot: While nauseated and running to the bathroom to throw up, Rosalind's vision is described as blurred, with black fog dancing at the edges.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Seenarnha muses that Lectri the dragonhorse's aim with her BreathWeapon is terrible enough to probably set the rainforest on fire, but this has yet to be demonstrated.
* ImplausibleDeniability: If anyone asks, Soryn plans to claim that he just slipped his arm around Jenny's waist to help steady her after she ate her own drugged chocolate, but it's pretty obvious from his shameless flirting that that's not the only reason he's doing so.
* ImpliedDeathThreat: In his anger at the fact that his thrall (John) was freed too soon before at least ''one'' of the Web Of Friendship was dead or the NCH captured, he tells Varla, under no uncertain terms, that if she wants to see tomorrow, she'll have to sleep with one eye opened.
* ImprovisedLightningRod: Varla uses the magic she was born with and the magic she learned in tandem to sap energy from lightning bolts and mark targets for them to hit.
* {{Incoming}}:
** After a loitering helicopter-sized jellyfish gives away Nyorla and Pilot 0037's location to the Lanceros wyvern, Nyorla is alerted via spaceship satellite image and relays the warning to Pilot 0037.
--->'''Nyorla''': Wyvern incoming, hide!
** Moquoql deadpans "Incoming" right before Aynara barrels through Sick Bay on her way to the transporter room.
** Aynara leaves Haydn and Wilhelmina behind at the scene of the ruckus that she deliberately caused while entering Ghost Town, but at least she telepathically warns them about the bandits she baited into closing in on the ruckus's location.
* InconvenientItch: Horses have a limited capacity to scratch their own itches, so they usually buddy up and scratch each other's itches.
* IndifferentBeauty: Varla is aware that her baseline appearance synergizes well with the seductive things she can do with her magic, but her attitude zig-zags this trope. She's sworn off taking advantage of it... unless she's hacking someone else's mind control.
* InHarmsWay: Parthenia has a minor existential crisis once she's temporarily relieved of her position.
-->'''Parthenia (thinking)''': ''[Perishing in the wilderness while looking for her horse is] better than living even a moment without a purpose.''
* InherentlyFunnyWords: Maequoql giggles at the word "burgled".
* InhumanEmotion: Sleutrienn brains are physically organized to not let emotions affect the rest of their bodies without filtering them through conscious decisions first. Sleutrienns can even physically disconnect the secondary brain that lets them feel emotions.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Mayatan aliens have no need for clothes. Mayatans can [[NippleAndDimed hide their naughty bits behind skin folds]], clothes interfere with their gliding membranes, and most Mayatans have some type of fur that covers their bodies. In order to disguise their fur and extra skin as clothes and thus dodge around other cultures' nudity taboo, the Mayatans attach false zippers to their fronts.
* InstantSoprano: One of the HornySailors ScreamsLikeALittleGirl in the wake of Varla's sword leaving a shallow cut on his {{groin|Attack}}.
* InsufferableGenius: Sophia will not pass an opportunity to let you ''know'' that she's TheOmniscient goddess of Knowledge. Obnoxiously so.
* InsultToRocks:
-->'''Carol''': Moufretas are dumb as bricks...\\
'''Bonnie''': That would be insulting the bricks.
* InThatOrder:
** The mustangs plan to get Krakka'a off their tails while he's distracted by ''first'' getting far enough away to get out of sight, ''then'' changing directions.
** As an engineer, Moquoql knows that linking a bio-nenro sapper, a bio-to-generic nenro converter, and a nenro battery in any order but that will only lead to failure.
* IntrinsicVow: When Mael first told Mequoql about the Not-Chaos Hunters and fed her a story about them being runaway teens, Mequoql silently vowed to get the other side of the story from the Not-Chaos Hunters. Then Mael mind-controlled Mequoql and ordered her to [[BringHimToMe bring them to him]]. After [[ZigZaggedTrope a couple of unsuccessful attempts and some much-needed help]], Mequoql finally busts free of Mael's mind-control orders so she can try to fulfill her vow.
* IronicEcho: Smith greets Alice Winters using the exact same phrasing her goon, Chaudhari's used when he was apprehending Parthenia on Alice's orders. Sadly (or thankfully), the irony is lost on her.
* IsThatAThreat: Murquoql is met with unexpected hostility from a crashed stranger.
-->'''Wain''': Listen to me carefully. I'm packing heat. So if you try anything, you're gonna wish you hadn't. If you have any way off this planet, you'll bring it to me so that I get outta here. Do I make myself perfectly clear?\\
'''Murquoql''' ''[raising her hands in surrender]'': Whoa, buddy, it should be obvious I'm ''already'' trying to help. Are you threatening me?
* ItIsDehumanizing:
** Seems to be what Justin's demon calls people who he even ''assumes'' were going to lethally harm Valerie.
** Parthenia asks "''What'' are you?" from John Smith, Security Service at the end of her interrogation. Smith [[{{Lampshaded}} points out]] that "what" is used for inanimate objects, slightly scolds the Inquisitor for it, and [[IAmAMonster immediately uses it himself]] when answering [[IAmWhatIAm what he is]].
** [[TranslationConvention Approximately]] how Oseru speaks of Aynara; she deeply mistrusts non-human entities after a run of unpleasant encounters with such, and uses the pronouns and verb conjugations Qorisayane uses for animals when speaking of them.
* ItIsNotYourTime: Nao Ranay Nokt Mayatans have a talent and duty to undo premature deaths for individuals scheduled by the CelestialBureaucracy to die in a specific time and place.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY:
** Cormack's last name is pronounced tih-NOO-il-uh, not TIN-yoo-wile, as he will have you know.
** The hotel clerk mishears 'Ó Brádaigh' as 'O'Grady' and assumes Anglicised spelling of the name. Wolfe delights in correcting him. The clerk then lampshades the spelling of Wolfe's name (in which the 'E' is silent).
* ItsALongStory: Murquoql doesn't mention the concepts of the FourthWall and narrators because they would take too long to explain when there's a missing kid to find.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Zing's first clue that D'voreem are approaching is the ambient sounds of the jungle quieting.
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: Arnaya tries to telekinetically steal bullets from one of Mael's mind-control victims while his attention is focused on asking Varla where the Not-Chaos-Hunters are.
* IWarnedYou:
** Rosalind tried to warn her traveling companion that she doesn't do well around weapons, but one DisasterDominoes NoodleIncident later, she ends up [[PersonaNonGrata banned from the weapons shop]] and saddled with AmusingInjuries.
--->'''Rosalind''' [''SuddenlyShouting'']: Varg, I ''warned'' ya that weapons and I don't mix!
** Wain insists on boarding a potentially hostile spaceship. When he gets trapped behind a force field, Murquoql sighs...
--->'''Murquoql''': Buddy, I tried to warn you this would happen if you threatened your way on board.
** A bug bites Adam on board the Web of Friendship's spaceship, drawing Arnaya's suspicion because a) bugs don't survive long on board the spaceship due to the cleaning nanobots and b) too many of the Web's previous experiences with bug bites involved necromancers weaponizing them with zombie germs. Adam and his friends dismiss Arnaya's concerns. A few minutes later, Arnaya notices Adam's thoughts are shielded from her telepathy and the shields are way beyond human capacity, so she telepathically reports this to his friends, ending her alert with "I warned you that bug did something fishy to him!"
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* JawDrop:
** Ozurr's reaction to seeing Justin's Unchained Devil summon giant pillars of shadow, flame, and random appendages. He doesn't realize he's doing it until the steak he's eating falls out of his mouth.
** Maequoql stares befuddled with her jaw hanging open at the unexpected stranger on Arilay's spaceship.
* {{Jerkass}}: Sa'ad is consistently verbally abusive towards his peers. It's sort of understandable when the abuse is aimed at Parthenia, who's often mistreating her prisoner (though not all mistreatment is unprovoked), but when he hurls insults at Chaudhari and his group, who are attempting to ''free'' him? [[WhatAnIdiot Not so much.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Parthenia notes to herself that while Sa'ad's remark about how the situation was unfolding at the Town Square served only to taunt Chaudhari, it was also strikingly accurate: the SWAT team leader was too cooperative for the amount of information she presented to him, and she remained suspicious of him as a result of this remark.
** Henry A. Safon II [[TheseTropesShouldWatchTheirLanguage cusses]] Ozurr out for nearly accidentally [[DramaticSitDown sitting]] on him. Poor Ozurr was overwhelmed with realizing he was [[NotInKansasAnymore a long way from home]] and didn't quite deserve all those cuss words, but then again, Ozurr is a giant among comparatively small people and he could have seriously hurt Henry.
* TheJinx: Sa'ad's curse manifests itself this way. According to Parthenia, it's nonlethal, its range is about thirty feet, it makes no more than three accidents per day, one less accident each time Sa'ad hurts himself deliberately.
* JustKeepDriving: Just before Rosalind exits the moving truck to [[WallCrawl return]] to the [[OutsideRide roof]], she [[InvokedTrope preemptively tells Varg]] that the stunt is not worth stopping the truck for.
* JustTakeThePoster:
** Parthenia catches Rosalind's note about her missing mustang herd mid-flight when a gust of wind tears it off and has no intention of putting it back on the board.
** When Sarquoql tries to remove specific posters that warn the public of dangerous individuals, John Smith, Security Service [[DefiedTrope stops him and hands him copies instead]].
* KarmicTrickster: Aynara and Arnaya eavesdrop on Wain lying that he has experience with breaking curses. Between their instinctive urge to challenge cursebreakers and their concern that such a lie would endanger Murquoql's life, the twins decide to curse [[StealthPun Wain's pants with an illusion of fire]].
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown:
** The [[CurbStompBattle "battle"]] between Parthenia and Farrah near the Notice Board ends with the former knocking out the latter with a punch. ''After'' Farrah was already incapacitated by Parthenia's electric attack.
** Defied by Moquoql, who signals the spaceship to teleport her away before mind-controlled Mequoql can repeat the telekinetic PressurePoint pinch that incapacitated Moquoql.
* KillAndReplace: Homunculi standard procedure is to destroy whatever they imitate. They prefer to imitate humanoids, but they will take any living species they can in a pinch, and if all else fails, they will destroy and imitate an inanimate object.
* KilledMidSentence: {{Defied}}: A deadly mirage attempts to rip apart Syrni Sandra in mid-sentence when she walks into it, but her SuperReflexes enable her to teleport out JustInTime, losing nothing more than a chunk of chitin from her exoskeletal leg. Her talking is still interrupted.
* KillingIntent:
** Nyorla's PsychicRadar alerts her to Pilot 0037's intent to shoot her a split second before he reaches for his gun.
** Both Chaudhari and Farrah notice Parthenia's lack of concern for human life in their respective confrontations.
* KindaBusyHere: Arilay can't split her attention between a conversation on board her spaceship and keeping her eye on a demon.
* KindRestraints: {{Discussed|Trope}} by Rosalind, who mentions that the protective amulet Jann gave her was a better idea than tying her up to stop her from acting on the demonic influence.
* KissOfLife: Discussed when Varla accuses David of fetishizing rescue breaths.
* KissOfTheVampire: While Aynara's first bite on a bandit's bruising arm was [[VampireBitesSuck too painful]] to count, by the time she bites his other (also bruising) arm, the drugs she injected through her fangs the first time have started to affect him, so he observes, "Whoa, suddenly this bite doesn't feel so bad!"
* KlatchianCoffee:
** An exasperated local teenager name-drops Klatchian coffee, implying that an overdose of it is responsible for the teen's mother making a spectacle of herself (via [[MadnessMantra screaming]] and [[ChaseScene chasing]] and [[BroomstickQuarterstaff broom-whacking]] Arilay).
--->'''Teen''': Mooom! Did you drink twelve cups of KlatchianCoffee ''[[OhNoNotAgain again]]''?
** Under its pleasantly floral scent and taste, Suela's High Yothic tea is ''powerful'' stuff.
* KnifeNut: Implied for Nyorla levitating multiple knives in a synchronized swarm to skin and butcher three moufreta corpses, and then pulling the knives into a defensive formation and scolding the twins Aynara and Arnaya for sneaking up on her.
-->'''Nyorla''': Don't you [[WhatAnIdiot know better]] than to [[DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat sneak up]] on a {{chef|OfIron}} wielding this many knives in the kitchen?!
* KnowWhenToFoldEm:
** Stripped of her powers, taken by surprise by the Ace of Spades and facing her imminent death, Parthenia decides that it's not worth to be bullheaded about letting Alice's men interrogate Sa'ad if it means she'll live to fight another day.
** Alice, for her part, has a ''theoretical'' plan to immunize herself to the wrath of a god, and possibly even [[KillTheGod send said god to join the rest of Qorisa's dead gods]]... but swallows her pride and agrees to Sophia's terms rather than gamble on mere theory.
* KubrickStare: Nyorla keeps her head lowered and glares as she slaughters four moufretas.
* KungFuWizard:
** Soryn's first fight with a group of moufreta highlights the use of his [[SnakePeople serpentine coils]] alongside his MagicStaff with a {{blade|OnAStick}} of HardLight.
** As per her culture's traditions, Oseru started learning martial arts about as soon as she could walk. Learning magic didn't make her forget it.
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* LamePunReaction: When Murquoql figures out the connection between Wain claiming to have experience with curses and the immediate illusion of fire on his pants, she sarcastically quips "''Very funny''" at the instigators of the illusion.
* LateToThePunchline: It takes Parthenia pretty long time to realize Farrah was making fun of her with her "Nice footwear" comment. To be fair, the Inquisitor couldn't think straight due to her SleepDeprivation.
* LaughingMad: In the wake of a tense confrontation with Krakka'a, Rosalind can't control her TensionCuttingLaughter which is described as sounding [[DownplayedTrope slightly]] unhinged.
* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: Varg suggests splitting the group of four, sending [[UnresolvedSexualTension Jann and Rosalind]] to get food at The Purple Fez Tavern while Varg and Ozurr go elsewhere to sell a D'voreem carcass.
* LetsGetOutOfHere:
** Rosalind wants to get out of the men's restroom.
--->'''Rosalind''': Okay, I'm ready to get outta here, but I don't want nosy nellies and gabby gossips seein' me exit the wrong restroom, so we gotta plan a stealthy exit.
** Once Syrni Sandra is satisfied that the shrivers are hostile, she thinks "Let's scram" over the comm line.
** The Panzerfaust was wrecked in wyvern territory, and Moquoql would rather fix it outside of wyvern territory, so once she has a spaceship's drop pod equipped with a {{tractor beam}} she says "All aboard! Let's tow this wreck out of here before something else happens to interrupt."
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Rosalind does not want to speak of the time she threw up in the men's restroom.
* LightEmUp:
** Mequoql's telekinetic specialty is generating light. She prefers to use it inoffensively in entertainment, but when TheGlovesComeOff, she can use her power to try thwarting ShadowWalker characters or characters capable of CastingAShadow. Or she could use her power to imitate at least one WillOTheWisp, at least one BlindingCameraFlash, or [[FauxFlame fire]].
** This is Cynthia's aether affinity; as such, she primarily uses a variety of lasers and HardLight in combat.
* LimpAndLivid: When Nyorla stands up to slaughter some moufretas, she doesn't straighten up completely because she's taking out her frustrations at being stuck where she can't help her big sister get out of mind control.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: The Rebecca Jane Walsh seen here is '''not''' the original, but instead a fragment of her personality from when she hit something that caused her to split into multiple versions of her personality. Although [[NoodleIncident never explained how in the text]], WordOfGod is that the ''real'' Rebecca Jane Walsh will appear and this is not the "real" one.
* LivingCrashpad:
** Inverted with a dead crashpad, Mequoql falls out of a tree and lands on the fresh corpse of a moufreta that just broke its neck falling out of the same tree.
** Played straight when Nasur falls down a trapdoor and yanks an unconscious Joseph along with him. Joseph lands on top of Nasur.
** A moufreta bites a horse's hind leg, the horse rears and accidentally falls over backwards onto the moufreta.
* LivingMacGuffin: Sa'ad has at least two independent parties wanting to get a hold of him. Or, more precisely, of the information he possesses. His [[{{Jerkass}} abrasively toxic]] personality and [[TheJinx the nature]] of his curse makes it hard for anyone to deal with (or even just ''approach'') him willingly.
%%* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: A large cast exists, but there's also a OneShotCharacter or two.
* LoopholeAbuse: The Web of Friendship has a "ThouShaltNotKill" policy. The Web members also have a habit of getting a guest to "do the honors" when they feel that someone (e.g. a fiendish vampire) needs to be killed.
* LosingYourHead: The D'voreem that attacked Amaranth is puzzled by why she can't do anything more than move her eyes and panics as she succumbs to oxygen deprivation while her body lies some distance away.
* LovesMeNot: Iolana is introduced this way - sitting on top of a stone pillar, plucking a daisy's petals away. Since she's a spirit of Chaos, the usual binary choice guessing game quickly degrades into [[BreadEggsMilkSquick something else entirely]].
* LowClearance: A large bell in a Necropolis church's bell tower swings low enough to where it would have hit Syrni Sandra's head if she hadn't ducked.
* LoyalPhlebotinum: Varla's ownership bond with her sword and ChastityDagger prevents them from accidentally falling out of their sheaths, and reinforces her already strong grip when she unsheaths them.
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* MadnessMantra:
** Rosalind has a brief one in the throes of her HeroicBSOD
--->'''Rosalind''': I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die...
** A [[BroomstickQuarterstaff broom-wielding]] local who saw Arilay shapeshifting mistakes her for a homunculus and starts chasing and pummeling Arilay while screaming,
--->'''Hysterical Local''': Homunculus! Homunculus! Homunculus! Homunculus!
** Bodyguard Ren 4 is shocked by Aynara's sudden but polite interest in the archaeologist he's guarding. When Aynara leaves with a sample of the archaeologist's blood, the bodyguard mutters "Why, why, why, why, why?" This makes more sense once it's revealed that he's actually Sarquoql (Aynara's arch-nemesis) in disguise, and he didn't expect his foes to be here.
* MageMarksman: Most of the bandits Oseru killed were slain by bullets to the head. And because of this trope, Aseyu (who comes from the same country as Oseru) tries to keep her AntiMagic hidden; after all, it doesn't make her bulletproof.
* MagicalBarefooter: Iolana the shapeshifting High Spirit of Chaos does not wear shoes (or any other kind of footwear) in her default form.
* MagicalEyeStreamers: Using her xenophobic captors' [[BlackSpeech spellcasting language]] temporarily turns Varla's sclerae {{black|EyesOfCrazy}} with equally black tendrils of fog streaming out at the corners.
* MagicalIncantation: To summon spears to stab Shale, Wilhelmine tries to say "Manifest Macht", but Shale interrupts the verbal spell with a [[TalkToTheFist fist to Wilhelmine's vocal cords]].
* MagicByAnyOtherName: The energy that Miss Desperado's characters call "nenro"[[note]]derived from the word "negentropy", the antonym of "entropy"[[/note]] performs the same narrative role as magic in a universe that's primarily a SciFiKitchenSink and secondarily a FantasyKitchenSink.
* MagicKnight: Parthenia seems to be quite the powerful [[ShockAndAwe lightning mage]], and is physically strong enough to drag on a chain a grown, not exactly frail man across the ground with her one arm "without visible effort".
* MagicStaff: Soryn has an ironwood staff topped with an obsidian tetrahedron held in place with a slightly fancy silver mesh. His first spell use in the world is manifesting a {{blade|OnAStick}} of HardLight on the obsidian focus to deal with a moufreta ambush. Since then he's also cast a spell to refrigerate chocolate, healing spells, and a cleaning spell.
* MagnetismManipulation: Parthenia's primary powers. [[ShockAndAwe Electromagnetism]], to be precise.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Varla cracks her own arm bones in a DeliberateInjuryGambit and barely acknowledges the pain. She has healing spells, but only takes partial advantage of them despite multiple opportunities to get the healing over with.
* MakeSureHesDead: When four juvenile moufreta leap off a cliff and splat in front of the herd of mustangs, four mustangs personally ensure the moufretas' deaths by rearing up and [[CoupDeGrace slamming their forehooves down]] on the exposed {{neck|Snap}} vertebrae.
* MakeThemRot: One of Sindar's abilities, first demonstrated when he makes a piece of paper on the bulletin board shrivel up and disintegrate. He also explains to Layi, Koyel, and Vrask that he helps corpses decompose; perhaps this is how he does it.
* MakeWayForThePrincess: Equine hierarchy is indicated by who yields ground to whom. The '''Guardian''' stallion and '''Lead Mare''' can walk through the herd and have everyone else get out of their way.
* MakingASplash: Abyssal Empress Nerea has a plethora of water spells at her disposal, as befitting of a merfolk. This comes in handy when fishing an anthropomorphic otter out of quicksand.
* MamaBear: Arilay does not take kindly to Wain pointing a gun at [[AMotherToHerMen her crew member]]. She isolates him on the teleporter pad with a force field and doesn't let him out until he apologizes.
* ManInTheMachine: Arilay is missing her limbs, external flesh, lower jaw, lungs and digestive system. Her remaining internal organs are in a life-support suit, with [[MatterReplicator atomic manipulators]] replacing her lungs and digestive system.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: At least when it comes to the way they behave themselves and their personal hygiene. Farrah is the loud, brash, rude and ThePigPen to Mark's polite, cultured and well-groomed (as far as his current condition would allow). Being rather heavily armed is what they have in common.
* MassOhCrap:
** The Not-Chaos-Hunters panic over news of an approaching giantess. Morpho is not amused.
** Invoked by Aynara when she starts telepathically drawing sentry bandits' attention to a building on fire as a [[WeNeedADistraction distraction]] from Arilay's planned entry to the Ghost Town. The sentries notice the fire and promptly sound the fire alarm.
* MatterReplicator: Arilay's digestive tract was replaced with an atomic manipulator.
* MeaningfulName:
** Parthenia the Keraunos - roughly translates "The Thunderbolt Virgin" from Greek.
** Rosalind Lumina Eisenberg: She is named after the Rosalind from ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'' (both Rosalinds were driven out of their homes); Lumina is Latin for "light," referencing Rosalind being a {{friendly|NeighborhoodVampire}} DaywalkingVampire; and Eisenberg is a German surname translating to "iron mountain," referencing how centuries of surviving VanHelsingHateCrimes ''[[AvertedTrope hasn't]]'' [[NeverBeHurtAgain obliterated her courage and ability to extend trust]].
** Angus [=McRedshirt=]. Honestly, was anybody surprised when [[RedShirt he didn't survive his introductory post?]]
** Nerea: her name is taken from one of the Nereids, sea nymphs of Greek Mythology. Fairly appropriate, considering she's a merfolk with divine heritage, and ruler of the seas around Abyssia.
** Jobe Pearson the pigplant farmer shares a first name with the Biblical Jobe who suffered misfortune. Jobe Pearson is suffering from the misfortune of two persistent pigplant boars wrecking his livelihood.
* MechanicalLifeforms: Morpho is a sentient almost-robot whose brain was constructed using Mayatan soul-compatible technology. The process of getting a soul into the mechanism has not been explained in the thread due to irrelevance, but rest assured it's innocuous.
* MenacingStroll: Snarling, LimpAndLivid with a KubrickStare, Nyorla moves no faster than a walk as she goes up to each {{psychic strangle}}d moufreta so she can bleed them out.
* TheMenInBlack:
** The Ace of Spades styles himself after this. Simple suit, shows up and vanishes as he pleases, utterly ruthless. The only aesthetic difference from the model is his [[BraidsOfBarbarism unusual hairdo]], a holdover from [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy his previous lifestyle]].
** This might as well be Parthenia's official title. In a way it is, since she's an Inquisitor, a ruthless government agent whose top priority is to keep her State's secrets safe. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking She's also clad in black armor]].
** And, ultimately, the Hub Town's GuardianEntity takes form of a one.
* MetaphoricallyTrue: Krakka'a tells Akane that a group of humanoids tried to kill him just because he was in their way. What he neglects to mention is that he was only in their way because he put himself there so he could threaten to kill them if they didn't turn around and leave, and that their "attempts to kill him" were intimidation displays intended to convince him to back off, which ''could'' have killed him had they followed through.
* MilhollandRelationshipMoment: {{Invoked}} by Jann of Grimmsford. Suspecting that Rosalind is some kind of revenant, he preemptively reassures her that her secret probably isn't as big a cause for concern as she thinks it is, before confronting her with the evidence. When Rosalind confesses that she's a vampire, Jann immediately reminds himself not to panic.
* MindControlEyes: Under Mael's mind-control, Mequoql's eyes turn silver to match his.
* MindControlMusic: Felicio's specialty. When threatened by some d'voreem, he plays/sings a song that compels them to have a dance party instead.
* MindOverManners: Murquoql explains why, despite being a telepath, she doesn't know what the missing kid looks like.
-->'''Murquoql''': I don't even know if the kid is a 'he' yet, and it would be rude to grab the information from the mother's mind without introducing myself in person first.
* MissingChild: One of the quests that used to be available was searching for a child missing in the jungle. Unfortunately, the author who started the story arc disappeared from the thread before the quest was finished, so without that author's guidance, the story arc had a DiabolusExMachina ending in the form of a deadly mirage getting the child.
* MissingManFormation: Three dragonhorses fly single file with the third trailing further behind the first two, to represent that they'd failed to find a missing kid before the missing kid was killed by a deadly mirage.
* MissingStepsPlan: Rook's plan to save Pewter from a D'voreem is as follows:
** Step 1: Roar a challenge to the D'voreem
** Step 2: ???[[note]]His plan gets derailed at this point when [[OffWithHisHead the D'voreem gets decapitated]] before Rook can attack.[[/note]]
** Step 3: Pewter regards Rook as a hero[[note]]Predictably, this step fails because of what happened at step 2.[[/note]]
* MistakenForDog: Inverted. Arilay disguises herself as a dog, but a local who saw her shapeshifting mistakes her for a homunculus.
* MistakenForPedophile: Downplayed when Soryn sees a green van with a chocolate logo. Instead of immediately jumping to the conclusion that it's a pedophile's tool, he recognizes that the bad first impression is merely an ambiguous possibility.
* MixedAncestry: Trine is Norwegian and of Filipino descent.
* TheModestOrgasm: Justified because Syrni Sandra is asleep, thus her movements and vocalizations are shut off -- the only audible clue that she's having an EroticDream is her erratic breathing patterns.
* MomentKiller:
** Rosalind and Jann were about to share an innocent cuddle when suddenly two enormous predators big enough to eat Rosalind's missing horses pass by the truck.
** Later, Varg accidentally sabotages her own attempt to play matchmaker when she ThinksLikeARomanceNovel out loud, more specifically referencing penny dreadfuls with demon ladies, with no clue that Rosalind the ReligiousVampire would resent being compared, even tangentially, to a [[HornyDevils succubus]].
--->'''Varg''' ''[to Jann]'': You're not gonna say that she 'looks good for her age' or something? Like in those penny dreadfuls with the demon ladies?\\
''[Rosalind tries not to burst into tears]''
* MoodWhiplash: First a tense stand-off, with Krakka'a and Zarokh on one side and Ozurr, Varg, Jann, and Rosalind on the other, ends with Krakka'a swearing WeWillMeetAgain. Rosalind doesn't take the threat of revenge seriously, and gets tangled in a SuggestiveCollision with Jann while getting back in the truck. The mood set by that collision is, in turn, abruptly replaced with Rosalind feeling guilty for her part in how and when it happened, as well as leaving Ozurr the only one on lookout.
* MorphicResonance: Iolana has few limitations on her shapeshifting ability, but any form she changes into must contain a small round sapphire.
* MortonsFork: Aynara and Arnaya whip up an excuse to mess with Wain from afar. He's claimed to have experience breaking curses. If he had been telling the truth, then Aynara and Arnaya would have interpreted that as a challenge. But since he lied, Aynara and Arnaya are engaging in KarmicTrickster behavior to make sure that lie doesn't endanger Murquoql's life.
* AMotherToHerMen: Arilay, leader of the Web of Friendship, has all the protective instincts of a MamaBear when her crew is threatened.
* MotorMouth:
** Nui likes to be very wordy in their speech, so they speak quickly to make up for it.
** Nyorla rapidly summarizes the hazards of hiking to town from the Sun-Dry Sea.
--->'''Nyorla''': Are we two kids just gonna walk all the way through the wyvern-infested desert, across a bridge that might or might not be properly maintained and spans a long drop into a narrow channel of ocean, and then through some sort of wasteland with questionable water and who knows what kind of weird and hostile creatures until we finally find a concrete trench that'll take us close to town but still be tiring to clamber out of?
* MuggingTheMonster:
** Krakka'a stops to harass a truck full of what he thinks are puny mammals. He gets a [[OurOrcsAreDifferent haugr]] with a gun, a wizard with [[ShockAndAwe lightning bolts]], a giant with an axe, and (not readily apparent) a vampire with [[WallCrawl tactile surface-anchoring powers]] all aiming at his face and telling him to let them pass in peace.
** He does it again later when he grabs Akane by the neck and tries to threaten her, not realizing that Akane is a super-strong Oni capable of suplexing a creature five times her size.
* MundaneSolution:
** Mequoql's {{psychic glimpse of death}} is about to drive her into screaming an {{emotion bomb}} of mortal terror, which nobody wants to hear. Morpho, a shapeshifting robot, uses HandGagging on Mequoql. Too bad Bonnie was thrown right where he stood to do so.
** A MagicalIncantation is vulnerable to interruption via [[TalkToTheFist punch to the vocal cords]].
* MushroomMan: Sindar is one - his hair is even described as being the gills of a mushroom cap on his head. Even his ''clothing'' is made of mushroom parts.
* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: {{Defied}} by the D'voreem who perceive the strange sensations and urges caused by Felicio's MindControlMusic as a threat and flee rather than risk falling under its power. It at least has the desired result of stopping the attack.
* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat: Rosalind's vampiric perception of bloodflow make her ''acutely aware'' of Jann's arousal in the wake of a SuggestiveCollision with him.
* MySkullRunnethOver: Murquoql, and Aynara copying Murquoql's weapon analysis power, suffer from the problem of instantly forgetting part or all of the readout of anything that has too much potential use as a weapon and thus produces too much data.
** Murquoql scans Tecia sa Valdela, but by the time Murquoql learns that Tecia sa Valdela is planning VanHelsingHateCrimes against Aynara and Arnaya, Murquoql forgot that Tecia sa Valdela can break technology and relearns it the hard way.
** Aynara wonders why multiple factions are scrambling to claim the [=HeDGe=], which is at the time in the hands of Black Morgan's bandit gang, so she tries scanning it with Murquoql's copied power. Its function of granting godlike powers produced way too much data, Aynara's hair stands on end in alarm, and all that's left once the avalanche of data leaks out as fast as it crashed in is that there must be a good reason why the scan left Aynara's hair still tingling from standing on end.
* MysticalPlague: Zombies in the Web of Friendship's native story are caused by {{necromancer}}s manipulating enchantments on germs.
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[[folder:N]]
* NeckSnap:
** How Krakka'a kills Angus [=McRedshirt=].
** Soryn seizes a moufreta by its neck with his tail, lifts the moufreta up and whiplashes it.
** When Mael drugs Lerna with nightmare hallucinogen, Lerna lashes out and bites Varla's arm. In turn, this triggers Varla's anti-vampire reflex. Hopped up on too much adrenaline, Varla aims an overpowered blow at Lerna's neck, breaking Lerna's vertebrae and cracking Varla's arm bones. Varla knows her healing song can reverse it with no lasting physical effects.
** When four juvenile moufreta leap off a cliff and splat in front of the herd of mustangs, four mustangs [[MakeSureHesDead personally ensure the moufretas' deaths]] by rearing up and [[CoupDeGrace slamming their forehooves down]] on the exposed neck vertebrae.
* NervesOfSteel:
** Confronted with Chaudhari's group, Parthenia keeps a cool head through the whole encounter ... until the Ace of Spades takes her by surprise and strips her of all advantages, [[SubvertedTrope prompting her to visibly shake from the stress]] ... for about two seconds, after which she quickly regains her composure [[DoubleSubverted and continues to taunt her opponents all the way through the conversation.]]
** When Pilot 0037 shoots at and misses Nyorla, her reaction is a NonchalantDodge and a [[DissonantSerenity dissonantly calm]], laconic declaration of her intent to heal.
** Held at Wain's gunpoint, Murquoql scoffs "{{Point that somewhere else}}!" and telekinetically shoves down on the gun's muzzle.
* NestedOwnership: {{Discussed|Trope}} by Valerie.
-->'''Valerie''': [Vindex] isn't my familiar, though, Justin is. I guess you could consider Vindex to be my Justin's familiar?
* NeverGrewUp: Nyorla has not gone through puberty despite being old enough to do so.
* NeverSplitTheParty:
** Sticking together in a herd governs the horses' way of life.
** Subverted when Rosalind thinks about objecting to Varg's suggestion to split the party, but then Rosalind reminds herself she's not among horses anymore and agrees to the idea.
** The members of the Not-Chaos Hunters do not split away from each other.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Bonnie has twice assisted in allowing Mael to get away from being apprehended. The first time she mistook the robot Morpho for a potentially dangerous metal slime, the second time was by accident when she landed on Mael and Moquoql.
* TheNicknamer:
** Farrah rarely addresses the people by their given name. So far, Mark is 'Fingers' and Murquoql is 'Murkle'. She needs to get more creative once she meets the other Mayatan siblings.
** Carol has shades of this, as she calls Lily 'Lils', and Bonnie '[[BerserkButton Bunny]]'.
* NoDeadBodyPoops: {{Averted}}. The headless body of a D'voreem loses the contents of its bowels as the muscles relax.
* NoManShouldHaveThisPower: Alice's response to the [=HeDGe=], which would theoretically grant omnipotence. Downplayed -- it's not a moral objection, she's just confident in her organization's status and considers removing a wildcard that might be a trap safer than trusting it.
* NonchalantDodge: Nyorla casually but quickly twists sideways to present a narrower target when Pilot 0037 tries (and fails) to shoot her.
* NonHumansLackAttributes: Downplayed for the nonhumans who can hide their naughty bits in body cavities -- the attributes are there, just concealed by default.
** Mayatans, regardless of whether they have fur or not, can fold their elastic skin over their naughty bits.
** [[SnakePeople Soryn has a reptilian genital sheath.]] He's glad his genetic engineers kept that feature on him, so he doesn't have to worry about getting arrested for flashing after suffering ClothingDamage.
* NonindicativeName: "Dead Gods" from Oseru and Aseyu's world are neither dead (though they're ''severely'' weakened compared to [[SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology their original capabilities]]) nor gods (though [[MechanicalAbomination the difference is academic for most]]).
* NoNonsenseNemesis: Dominic Chaudhari thinks Parthenia is this:
--> '''Narration:''' ...Dominic, taking the measure of her, recognized she was no fool. She'd not make the same mistake twice. If anything, she was more likely to escalate the second round in response — even if she went to stun the first time, she'd stop fucking around and try to kill them the second. ... [[KillingIntent She had no fear of going lethal.]]
* NonSequiturThud: Maequoql (alien) urges a (human) bandit drained by a vampire to go to sleep. The bandit, with not enough blood to sustain his agitation, answers "Yes, mommy," before fainting.
* NonVerbalMiscommunication: Rabbits, hares and skvaders drum their hind foot on the ground to alert others of their kind to predators. When a skvader hanging out on a domesticated horse's back tries to warn the horse about incoming moufreta, his drumming on the horse's rump is initially mistaken for a signal to move forward.
* NoodleIncident: Arilay's backstory of how she lost body parts and became a cyborg is one big unexplained incident.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: The horses assume that Rosalind got eaten by Sabertooth Lightning once they notice she's missing from the herd. They're EntertaininglyWrong.
* NoSell:
** Morpho gets a rock launched at his eye. Not only does the rock shatter against the force-fielded mechanical eyeball, it doesn't even distract him like it was supposed to.
** Alice tries shielding the devices she carries on her from Sophia's reach using AntiMagic field when the latter contacted her at the hotel. Considering Technology is Sophia's main domain of power (Iragan even explicitly states that [[IAmTheTrope Sophia is Technology]]), it goes as well as you'd expect.
* NoseShove: Murquoql shoves pea-sized rocks up some moufretas' noses to drive them off.
* NoSocialSkills: Tecia sa Valdela is used to dealing with dead souls heading to judgment -- who, in her world, are generally in a state closer to a waking dream than the awareness the living take for granted -- and the Bureaucracy of the Dead, where rank and knowledge of the Laws are the only thing needed to get ahead. This leaves her blunt and prone to needless SpockSpeak.
* NoSuchThingAsAlienPopCulture: Aliens from the Jewel Galaxy are hinted to have pop culture, averting this trope.
** Nyorla sings a Mayatan {{playground song}} about tasty recipes for organ meats.
** Sarquoql lists three alien novelists (Lynn Derra, Zirconi, and Sharnetu) alongside the human novelist Jane Austen when trying to give examples of [[http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/chwe/austen/ who understands game theory]] in the way his archenemies understand it.
* NoSympathy: When Krakka'a tells a sobstory about how a human stole his eggs and his territory, Jen Jara feels skepticism instead of sympathy because she saw a shifty look in Krakka'a's eyes right before he said so.
* NoTimeToExplain:
** Morpho has no time to explain himself to Bonnie while (A.) Lily is aiming a gun at him and (B.) Mael is making a getaway with mind-controlled Mequoql. Morpho [[TacticalWithdrawal retreats to the spaceship via teleport]] to continue the pursuit.
** When Syrni Sandra is trying to stop Jen Jara from blundering into the same deadly mirage that she'd just blundered into and teleported out of, Syrni Sandra forgoes saying what happened to her in favor of commanding Jen Jara to move away from where it happened. Only once Jen Jara has backed away and returned to Syrni Sandra's side does Syrni Sandra show Jen Jara the wound left by the deadly mirage trying to vivisect her.
* NotInFrontOfTheKid: Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara try to hide the signs that they are in heat from Cody, who is a child, because they don't want to run afoul of the StrangerDanger taboo that would probably get them in trouble if they tried to explain to Cody [[TheTalk what being in heat means and why that would make them act oddly]].
* NotInKansasAnymore: This realization tends to afflict characters who didn't make their way to the Adventure world on purpose.
** In the aftermath of waking up from a barely-remembered teleport, Rosalind figured out just from the strange landscape and the position of the sun that she was a long way from home. After a few conversations with Varg, Jann and Ozurr about different worlds, she's concluded that she's been teleported out of her version of Earth altogether.
** When [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15194176290A98089200&page=10#243 Ozurr sees]] harpies behaving in ways they don't do in his world, he realizes he's not in Hromstgard anymore.
** [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15194176290A98089200&page=26#comment-628 Henry suspects he and Joseph aren't in Washington anymore.]] He gets a confirmation of that suspicion from an [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15194176290A98089200&page=34#comment-832 alien who arrived via spaceship]].
** Nui often finds themself reminding themself of this when they encounter physical and cultural differences from their home planet--like the stronger-than-used-to sunlight and (relative) lack of cultural taboos against necromancy.
* NotSoStoic: Nui acts much like TheSpock on the outside, exhibiting a logical thought process and not expressing much emotion. However, a session of touch telepathy with Shale reveals some profound panic and fear lurking beneath the surface. It also briefly shows itself when James indirectly mentions Justin's prior outburst; ''something'' in what he says prompts Nui to come to Valerie's defense and present an uncharacteristically emotional argument about it.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Arnora Bluesword's DynamicEntry screaming "DIE!" was not directed at the scared Not-Chaos Hunters, she was screaming at the homunculus that tried to KillAndReplace her.
* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Mayatans can telekinetically invoke this trope, which contributes a lot to their attitude of GunsAreUseless.
* NoWarpingZone: Discussed when Gar May says that the orbiting Web of Friendship Scouter Hummingbird spaceship is in the way of a hyper-lane, leading Murquoql and Arilay to wonder what in the name of sanity is a hyper-lane doing so close to orbital traffic. Moquoql further asks "Aren't there minimum safe distances designated in the traffic laws?" before Gar May says that she was mostly joking.
* NowYouTellMe:
** Varla doesn't mention her healing cantrip until ''after'' David's aches and pains complicate an improvised bath.
** Pilot 0037 and Unit 09 don't mention Unit 09's user manual until ''after'' Moquoql the Mayatan engineer is already up to her elbows in trying to fix Unit 09.
** Rebecca only tells Mequoql that the purported possession preventative was made by a homeopathist, and thus it is useless, ''after'' she said the recipe was important and caused Mequoql to yell at her for not fetching the recipe.
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* ObliviousToHints: Morpho doesn't realize Mequoql is trying to hint that he should shut up until she {{dope slap}}s him.
* OddNameOut: A series of Mayatan siblings are named (from oldest to youngest): Sarquoql, Maequoql, Mequoql, Moquoql, Murquoql... and Nyorla.
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: As natives of a volcanic DeathWorld, Viporises have opportunistic sleep patterns. They can sleep standing up [[SleepsWithBothEyesOpen with their eyes open]] almost anywhere.
* OffWithHisHead: Amaranth does this to a d'voreem that chases after her and her horse, lopping its head clean off with her scythe.
* OffhandBackhand: Syrni Sandra casually deflects Jen Jara's DopeSlap with a blur of movement, barely even turning to look.
* OffscreenTeleportation: The Ace of Spades had a tendency to vanish in between posts and appear [[StealthHiBye with a greeting]] rather than a narrated entrance.
* OhCrap:
** Mark Tanzer, near the Notice Board, when he and Parthenia recognize each other.
** Farrah, in the same scene as the above, when she realizes Parthenia is ImmuneToBullets.
** And Farrah again, in the forest, once Parthenia reveals who she is. Meaning that Farrah was shooting at a government agent.
** Sarquoql thinks his identity is safely hidden in his spacesuit... until John Smith, Security Service calls him by name. Sarquoql is alarmed.
* OhCrapSmile: Arilay, a shapeshifting cyborg trying to minimize her UncannyValley appearance, swaps one of her normal-looking mechanical eyeballs for one that can echolocate in Mark Tanzer's smoke bomb. When the smoke dissipates, she realizes her eyes are now mismatched and [[RevealingCoverup awkwardly covers]] the new eyeball with one nanobot pseudo-flesh hand, nervously grinning and hoping no one notices her mismatched eyes.
* OhMyGods:
** Iragan's "Merciful Ether" used as a stand-in for "Merciful God", since the Shattered World he's from doesn't have a concept of Abrahamic God.
** Bonnie has "For the love of Odessa", Odessa being one of the many deities of Aria.
** Qorisayane reference the "Dead Gods"; a nickname for Qorisa's native AbusivePrecursors. It's [[SpeakOfTheDevil not by proper name]].
* OhNoNotAgain:
** When a BoltOfDivineRetribution teleports Amaranth, Felicio and Pewter away, the remaining horses run away from Sabertooth Lightning for the second time, thinking "Not again! Not again!"
** HornySailors are closing in on Varla the mermaid in her introductory post, she rolls her eyes and name-drops this trope before reacting explosively.
** Aynara already telepathically witnessed Haydn set one building on fire in a fight with bandits, so when he gets the idea to explode the Ghost Town's city hall in another fight with bandits, Aynara skedaddles out of city hall, dismayed that Haydn would go for the overkill option ''again''.
* OlderThanSheLooks: Nyorla has not gone through puberty despite being old enough to do so.
* OneSteveLimit:
** There are two Sophias: one is part of a group from a future version of Earth, accompanying the ''Mad Bastards''; one is a [[MeaningfulName knowledge incarnate]].
** There are two Henrys: Henry A. Safon II and Henry Bensen.
* OnlyOneName:
** Farrah. Just Farrah.
** Nui's "full name" is Sarenuika... which is still just one name.
** Non-noble Qorisayane like Aseyu, Koyel, and Layi don't have family names, just a ([[OverlyLongName potentially long]]) [[IAmXSonOfY list of titles]]. Explicitly pointed out by Aseyu, to avoid any misunderstandings with people used to LastNameBasis.
* OnlyTheKnowledgableMayPass: Varla stops Arnaya the vampire's bloodthirsty attack on David by sticking her sword through Arnaya's lungs, deliberately missing the heart. Most of the witnesses freak out and think Varla is trying to kill Arnaya, thus provoking Varla's contempt, but when Claire recognizes the violence as necessary and the strike as non-lethal to vampires, Varla finds new respect for Claire and quizzes her to see if she can understand to the point of recognizing Varla's violent TalkingThroughTechnique. Claire's half-wrong answer reduces Varla's respect for Claire.
-->'''Claire''': A wound like that would be child's play to a vampire lord... Sometimes, when dealing with someone's inner demons, ya gotta be a little rough.
-->'''Varla''': Claire, you understand the need to get rough. If you can understand the art of it as far as I suspect you can, you should be able to translate for the rest of the group what the placement of my sword is telling Arnaya.
-->'''Claire''': I'm going to guess your sword is telling her to calm down and not bite David. Correct me if I'm wrong.
-->'''Varla''' ''[disappointed]'': You got the 'don't bite David' part right, but that's too obvious to miss. You got the other half of the message completely wrong. If I wanted her to calm down, I would have skewered one or more of her limbs. I want her to hunt, this is me telling her that she went after the wrong target.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: You know the collective exhaustion of the mustang herd is more profound than the previous incidents when Fiddler is too tired to be curious.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot:
** Rosalind accidentally calls Jann and his magic scary. She immediately apologizes.
** Ozurr's first question after Rosalind says she can't fight without loosening control on her vampiric instincts was not phrased as well as he wanted.
--->'''Narration''': She didn't seem to be lying...but if his encounters with the Fae had taught him anything, it was that just because someone wasn't lying, that didn't mean what they were saying was true. The trick was to bring it up in a tactful way.\\
'''Ozurr''': At the risk of sounding patronizing, have you... tried?\\
'''Narration''': Or, he could take his foot and shove it firmly into his mouth.
** Chitara does this when going on one of her usual rants about the threat witches pose to society during the wagon trip. The catch is that there are two witches standing right next to her. One of them was even one of her customers, which is ironic because her wares were meant to ''defend'' against witches.
** Morpho is vocally incredulous that the Not-Chaos-Hunters would freak out over what they've been through.
** After Rosalind reveals her age of almost two centuries, Varg ThinksLikeARomanceNovel out loud, more specifically referencing penny dreadfuls with demon ladies, with no clue that Rosalind the ReligiousVampire would resent being compared, even tangentially, to a [[HornyDevils succubus]].
--->'''Varg''' ''[to Jann]'': You're not gonna say that she 'looks good for her age' or something? Like in those penny dreadfuls with the demon ladies?\\
''[Rosalind tries not to burst into tears]''
* OperationBlank:
** During her short-lived communication with Mael, Varla mentally assigns her idea the name Operation Discredit Sarquoql In Case He Shows Up.
** When [[EnragedByIdiocy outraged by]] the [[HanlonsRazor malicious and/or idiodic setup]] of how Pilot 0037 was never taught to read and yet his superior officers expected him to read a user manual, Moquoql mentions how she thinks Pilot 0037's CrapsackWorld is begging for Operation Grey Hanlon.
* OrbitalBombardment: (Discussed?) Maequoql, up in Arilay's spaceship, reasons that as long as nobody drives any wyverns towards town, she won't have to open fire on the wyverns.
* OrphanedPunchline: Though the general context can be inferred, Oseru is seen finishing up an anecdote with her saying that she put a chambered round into somebody's spleen [[TalkToTheFist rather than let them finish their sentence]]. [[BlackComedy She considers it a droll anecdote]].
%%* OrwellianRetcon: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]]. Alternate!Jenny-Texas's interactions are changed.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Lampshaded by Aseyu. As a GuileHero from a low-magic world, she's an unremarkable fighter with only enough AntiMagic to keep telepaths from reading her cards or [[CurbStompBattle snapping her neck]]. She admits that she's "already doomed to be overshadowed" by the other memebers of the boar hunting party when inviting [[EmpoweredBadassNormal Ethani]] to join.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent:
** In her natural form, Tecia sa Valdela is an unnaturally tall, pale, and slender [[WingedHumanoid humanoid with wings]] formed from [[YinYangBomb intermingled light and shadow]] with a NightmareFace to boot. Being thoroughly LawfulNeutral, she covers both DarkIsNotEvil and LightIsNotGood.
** Gabriel's patron and the entity that injured are both {{Angelic Abomination}}s. His patron is on humanity's side, [[GoodIsNotNice though it's not a conversationalist]]; the other is a straight case of LightIsNotGood.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: So far, three types of wyvern have shown up in the thread: the raptorial juvenile moufreta, who have a tendency to drop like flies; the unknown stinger-tailed wyvern slain by the Sun Dried Sea trio; and the rather large one-horned lanceros, who ripped a steampunk spider mech a new one. Discussed by Cormack and Lily, with the latter stating that wyverns are very much different from dragons.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent:
** This trope comes up during the discussion between Sindar, Layi, Koyel, and Vrask. Layi and Koyel have trouble distinguishing a fairy from a spirit, as where they are from they are more or less the same thing. So they're confused when Sindar, a clearly corporeal being, describes himself as a fairy. Sindar himself explains that fairies in his world represent an aspect of nature with powers to match that aspect.
** It resurfaces when Sindar converses with Chitara en route to the necropolis. Both agree that fairies are nature spirits, but in Sindar's world, they take on physical characteristics of their "domain", something Chitara has never heard of. Chitara's fairies are also more tricky and malevolent and are perceived as threats.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: Nyceme seems like a pretty classic example - performed a ritual of some sort to become one, and transferred her soul to her scepter. While her body is more or less intact, it appears to be deteriorating (while not outright rotting, due to measures she takes to prevent that), which Wolfe even mistakes for mere aging.
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: Different universes have different rules for the interactions of AntiMagic and souls -- if souls are even known and quantified -- that cause some people to react ''very'' negatively to the former, fearing, with some justification, being rendered TheSoulless by it.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent:
** Nearly causes some drama between Rosalind and Ozurr. In Rosalind's universe, vampirism is caused by a virus, which means anyone can become one. In Ozurr's, it's caused by a soul being corrupted, which means only the truly, unrepentantly evil can become one. Fortunately, she's able to explain the difference before he does something stupid.
** This subject is brought up when Chitara's wagon approaches Rosalind's group. The vampires Sindar and Nyceme are used to don't have souls at all, and so the two are surprised and intrigued by Rosalind having one. As well as not being harmed by sunlight. Nyceme even compares her to the "true vampires" brought up in an earlier discussion with Vindex.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Discussed by Jean when she asks for clarification as to what Ulf meant by "part-time werewolf".
-->'''Jean''': A werewolf, eh? What do you mean by that, exactly? There are many that go by that name, you know.
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: First Rosalind hears normal chattering inside Chitara's wagon but doesn't hear the words clearly enough to know what they're saying. Then she hears whispering that sounds conspiratorial to her ears, again without hearing the words clearly. Then what she ''does'' hear clearly is Nyceme saying, "Then obviousssly thisss isss a job for me," and then the scary-looking snake lady exits the wagon. Given Rosalind's previous experience with surviving VanHelsingHateCrimes, she concludes it's happening again and panics. But Nyceme just wants to have a friendly chat about undeathly magic.
* OutOfTheFryingPan:
** Sarquoql arrived at this planet in disguise to get away from the swarm of {{bounty hunter}}s chasing him, only to find out that the Web of Friendship is swarming all over the planet.
** Discussed when Arnaya infers that there's a greater intelligence controlling the blob. She surmises terminating the blob would honk off that intelligence and calls the hypothetical situation a pan-to-fire jump.
* OutsideRide: Rosalind uses her [[WallCrawl vampiric anchoring powers]] to hang on to the roof of the truck for a talk with Ozurr.
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* PainPoweredLeap: {{Invoked}} by Thunder when Stomper and Wheezer didn't jump quite high enough to make it out of The Scar. Thunder [[ButtBiter nipped Stomper on the rump]], causing Stomper to squeal and successfully jump out of The Scar. Meanwhile, Wheezer scrambled up the slope [[DefiedTrope before Thunder got the chance to nip his rump too]].
* PaintingTheMedium:
** '''[[green:ALL OF OSIRIS' DIALOGUE IS RENDERED LIKE THIS, WITHOUT QUOTATION MARKS.]]'''
** Varla knows BlackSpeech. When she gets mad enough for its consonant-heavy accent to leak into her voice, the first stage of intensity is represented by the text turning purple, the next stage of intensity bolds the consonants of emphasized words, and the third stage of intensity bolds the consonants of all her words. When she overrides the planet's translator field to speak the language, it's red text on a black highlight.
* PaintItBlack: Justin's hair turns black when he fuses with his demon, though there's also bit of a SkunkStripe.
* PassThePopcorn:
** When RedAlert is sounded over Mequoql getting mind-controlled, Explorer of Unknowns appears on the planet's surface with a bucket of popcorn to watch the chaos.
** Sarquoql, playing the role of bodyguard, acts aggressive towards Mael to add authenticity to his alias. The archaeologist opens up a bag of star-nuts to snack on while watching her bodyguard bristle at her hitchhiking guest.
--->'''Archaeologist''': [[SorryImGay Dude, I'm a le]]-uuuhhh... I mean, welcome aboard.\\
'''Sarquoql''': Hands off, buster.\\
'''Mael''': I'm not going to steal her away from you...\\
'''Sarquoql''': Good.\\
'''Mael''': ...but you may have already lost, my friend.\\
'''Sarquoql''': And what is ''that'' supposed to mean?\\
''[Archaeologist snacks on star-nuts]''
* PersonalityPowers: Lightning is deadly most of the time, practically impossible to block or dodge and can deal enormous collateral damage. A fitting weapon for a pragmatic, ruthless government agent with zero concern for human life, such as Parthenia.
* PersonaNonGrata: [[NoodleIncident Whatever happened in the weapons shop]] drove the owner to ban Rosalind from the store.
* PervertedDrooling: Downplayed while Arnaya watched Varla free Nick's mind-controlled uncle. Arnaya drooled [[DownplayedTrope only a few drops]] which the breeze from the sea quickly dried, and lust was one of two reasons she was drooling. The other reason was Arnaya's [[HorrorHunger bloodthirst]].
* PervertedSniffing: The young stallion Rook tries to sniff under the tail of the visiting mare Pewter.
* ThePhilosopher: Suela and Tovol spend their time arguing about philosophy. Downplayed; they're both relatively young (mid-twenties) and self-taught, and while Suela will become a famous thinker and philosopher eventually, at this point in her life she's only reached the basic implications of her thought experiments.
* PieInTheFace: Discussed when Morpho the MechanicalLifeform compares the act of electrocuting him to the act of throwing a pie in someone's face. Electricity is robot food, after all...
* PinchMe: Thinking that she might be dreaming or in the Simulacra, Caroline looks twice at the bulletin board to see if an advertisement changed while she was looking away. Then she presses the pointy end of a nail against herself. Soryn notices and points out that he and at least one other person has felt pain in dreams before, so one of her dream tests is faulty.
* PivotalWakeup: As the last move after an UnnecessaryCombatRoll and other athletics that get her from point A to point B on dry land, Varla the mermaid demonstrates the strength of her core muscles by going from flat on her back to upright without using her arms.
* PlagueZombie: Rosalind's warning indicates the kind of zombies that [[CoveredInGunge covered her in gore]] prior to her arrival.
-->'''Rosalind''': I just need some decontamination, this gunk is loaded with zombie germs, dangerous to humans.
* PlaygroundSong: Mayatans have a playground song about creative recipes for various organs. Nyorla sings it while preparing moufreta corpses for lunch, knives dissecting them in time with the beat.
* PlayingWithFire: Lieutenant Brandt's magical forte; he is ''very'' enthusiastic about lighting things on fire.
* PleaseGetOffMe: Played straight and then immediately twisted. Varla is on the receiving end of an unexpected hug from Lerna. At first she puts up with it and politely asks Lerna to get off, but the instant Nerea uses the word "molesting" to describe the hug, Varla's BerserkButton is pressed, so she reiterates the request as a roared command while drawing her ChastityDagger and violently lashing out at Lerna.
* PointThatSomewhereElse: When held at gunpoint, Murquoql scoffs and name-drops the trope while telekinetically pushing the gun's muzzle down.
* PokeInTheThirdEye:
** Farrah attempts to do it the most mundane way imaginable: invite Murquoql to read her mind then [[YouAreFat make fun of her weight]] mentally. needless to say, the Mayatan is left unimpressed.
** John Smith (Security Service) tolerates passive Mayatan telepathy that only registers his presence, but if they switch to active probing, he gives them a headache along with the simple words, "I am John Smith, Security Service."
* PopculturalOsmosisFailure: Nora, Leone and James have no idea what a 'smurf' is, so Gwion's joke falls somewhat flat, forcing the latter to [[DontExplainTheJoke explain]].
* PopCulturedBadass: Wolfe straddles this and CulturedBadass. Teri also qualifies. ''The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God'', Lewis Carroll, Monty Python and much more; neither can seem to resist peppering their dialogue with poems, quotes and cultural references.
* PottyDance: Arilay fakes a canine potty dance as an excuse to go outside and see what Mequoql (who has just succumbed to mind control) is up to.
* PowderGag: Invoked and exploited as a firefighting technique -- Moquoql summons a drop pod pumping itself full of carbon dioxide and nanobots. When it zooms over to dump its contents onto the Panzerfaust on fire, the nanobots billow like a ludicrous amount of dust until they collide with and reinforce Moquoql's telekinetic fire-smothering barriers.
* PowerCopying:
** Nui does this during the fight between Justin and Miron. When Justin conjures a [[CastingAShadow wall of black fire]] in front of him, Nui runs to the side of the wall, absorbs some of its power into their shield, and then shoots that energy out of their arm gadget to create a similar wall on Justin's other side.
** Arnaya was able to copy Mequoql's telekinetic [[LightEmUp light-generating]] specialty because Arnaya had previously [[ThePowerOfBlood consumed some of Mequoql's blood]] in their backstory.
* PowerCrystal: What The Not-Chaos-Hunters use for travel and to power up their weapons (specifically Moonstones). It's also what Mael uses to brainwash his victims (specifically Amethyst).
* ThePowerOfBlood: Aynara and Arnaya, tropical Mayatan twins, can [[PowerCopying copy other Mayatans' telepathic or telekinetic specialties]] after sampling their blood.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: The Web of Friendship has ''very'' carefully developed flashlights that use portals to the sun instead of lightbulbs.
* PragmaticVillainy: The Inquisitor refuses to start a fight with Dominic's men at the town square on the grounds that bystanders could be hurt. Not because hurting innocent civilians is wrong, but because doing so would result in [[ShoutOut "Political shitstorm"]] for the State she represents. Not to mention that Sa'ad, her prisoner, could escape in the ensuing chaos.
* ThePratfall: Morpho's entrance on the planet below has him falling four feet from the air onto his metal posterior before deforming into a comically squashed heap.
-->'''Morpho''' ''[deadpan]'': Error, category pratfall. How embarrassing.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Morpho moved to Mael mere minutes after Mael mind-controlled Mequoql, feigning friendliness. Upon seeing Mael's immediate suspicion, Morpho has one last thing to say before dropping the act:
-->'''Morpho''' ''[about to tackle Mael]'': I am a friend, and I am here to give you a hug.
* PredatorTurnedProtector: Rosalind, a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire, earned the trust of a herd of mustang horses and integrated herself as their protector. Too bad she got separated from them upon arrival into the Adventure world.
* PrehensileHair: One of Leone's powers, and the reason her hair's so [[RapunzelHair so ridiculously long]] to begin with.
* PressurePoint: If you pinch the back of a Mayatan's neck hard enough, the Mayatan will collapse in agony, temporarily unable to move or use psychic powers.
* PretendToBeBrainwashed: Aynara copies Mequoql's memories and LightEmUp power, then [[BandageBabe covers herself in medical tape]] to HandWave her lack of fur, for the purpose of pretending to be Mequoql under Mael's mind-control.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Downplayed when Swanwhite shoots her BreathWeapon firebolts into the heads of a pack of D'voreem -- there's no blood splattered because the holes going through their eye sockets and into their brains are cauterized, and cauterization looks a little grosser than unexplained lack of gore.
* {{Pride}}: While Parthenia tries to radiate an aura of superiority and some of her remarks hint at her high opinion of herself, her thoughts reveal that she's quite aware of this trait of hers, recognizes it as a flaw and does her best not to let it cloud her judgement. Exemplified by this piece of inner monologue as she goes through the possible scenarios when faced with the option of complying with Chaudhari's demands:
--> ''[My] feelings hurt. Can live with that.''
* PrimalStance: While Arnaya the Mayatan vampire twin supervises Varla's attempt to free a guy from mind-control, she perches on top of a boulder in a predator's ready-to-pounce crouch.
* ProjectileKiss: Varla can't seduce Arnaya directly due to IncompatibleOrientation on both ends[[note]]Arnaya is straight and Varla is artificially asexual[[/note]], but Varla can activate Arnaya's memory of Soryn's seduction and make it into a hallucination. Varla aims the spell at Arnaya by blowing a kiss.
* PromptingNudge: Aynara is impatient to get to Black Morgan. As soon as the bandit patrol delaying her is gone, she bares her claws and pokes her hostages into moving faster.
* ProperlyParanoid: When Nerea and Sallara speculate that Sallara's hunters gave up after one skirmish, Varla remembers her own hunters' persistence and disagrees. She discusses the trope by saying "If I was ever foolish enough to assume that enemies give up just like that, I would be either back in captivity or dead."
* PstandardPsychicPstance:
** Maequoql, a Mayatan long-range telepath, is introduced while meditating with her fingertips on her temples.
** Later her younger sister Mequoql tries to use her LightEmUp powers to create a massless mirror. Since she hasn't practiced it before, she theatrically places her fingers to her forehead as a convenient social signal that she wouldn't appreciate people disrupting her concentration.
* PsychicGlimpseOfDeath: Mayatans who witness death can't block out dying thoughts. The experience gives them a headache, which worsens if they themselves were the ones who caused the death. Nyorla temporarily cripples herself with pain by killing four moufretas in a row.
* PsychicNosebleed: {{Discussed|Trope}}. Maequoql expects a nosebleed as the least of the possible symptoms she could get from scanning the mind of an EldritchAbomination. She uses her lack of nosebleed as proof that the grotesque meat-puppet Justin summoned is not an EldritchAbomination.
* PsychicRadar: All Mayatans have a psychic radar. Maequoql is a long-range specialist Mayatan whose range extends to cover an entire planet from a position in geosynchronous orbit.
* PsychicStrangle:
** Mayatans use telekinetic nooses with emphasis on squeezing certain anatomy parts depending on what they want to accomplish -- one variation squeezes the windpipe, another variation squeezes the carotid artery and jugular vein, and a third variety reserved for threatening sentient beings squeezes muscles uncomfortably close to the windpipe and major blood vessels.
** Nyorla telekinetically seizes four moufretas by their necks and squeezes their windpipes until they can't vocalize. The strangling isn't what finishes them off, Nyorla uses her claws to puncture major blood vessels in their necks and bleed them out.
** Aynara uses a downplayed nonlethal telekinetic pressure on a bandit's neck muscles when threatening him into carrying a message to Black Morgan or Mael, whichever one is in charge of the bandits by the time she finds them.
** Later, to knock out a bunch of mind-controlled bandits shooting FiveRoundsRapid at her, Aynara uses telekinesis to squeeze their carotid arteries, putting a sleeper hold on them. She has to constantly monitor and adjust the pressure she's using to keep them unconscious instead of killing them, so she [[VampiricDraining drinks]] them into hypovolemic shock one by one to free up her telekinesis.
** Aynara uses the same telekinetic blood choke when capturing Haydn to stop him from throwing explosions around.
* PsychologicalProjection: In the aftermath of driving off a homunculus, while Rosalind is still reining in her HorrorHunger, Varg makes a reference to alcoholic drinks and Rosalind [[DefiedTrope scolds herself out of]] making the mistake of thinking Varg was referring to blood.
-->'''Varg''': Pretty decent job by all of you. Drinks are on me tonight. Well, all our supplies are already paid for, but you get the idea...\\
'''Rosalind''' ''[aloud]'': Aw gee, thanks, I'm glad I could help.\\
'''Rosalind''' ''[thinking to herself]'': Varg was ''clearly'' referring to ''alcohol'' drinks, you numbskull!
* PunchClockVillain: Ava Sharpe is ''technically'' this due to her job as an investigator, although she [[NiceGirl isn't actually villainous in terms of motivation]].
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: When Lerna is bitten and drugged by an enemy's mechanical spider, Varla barks an order, "Tourniquet! On her tail! NOW!"
* PunctuatedPounding: When Aynara is drinking out of a bandit's arm and she tries to talk with her mouth full, Shale {{dope slap}}s her forehead with the ASL sign for "melon" twice, each contact bearing one word of the reminder "Table! Manners!" via TouchTelepathy
* PunnyName: Amelia Blackwood, the Woman in Room 444, has a mother named Inni who has the power to grant wishes. Inni is also a DJ at a karaoke bar. DJ Inni, in other words.
* PunyEarthlings: Aynara the Mayatan vampire dismissively refers to the bandits in the Ghost Town as squishy humans.
* PuppyDogEyes:
** Rosalind briefly flashes a puppy-dog pout at Jann in an attempt to encourage his silence just before asking Ozurr and Varg how much they heard of her embarrassing herself.
** Arilay shamelessly exploits her [[BigFriendlyDog golden retriever]] disguise while begging for one of Cynthia and Moobly's biscuits.
* PutTheirHeadsTogether: Soryn interrupts the two moufretas biting his shirt and skin by bashing their heads together.
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* QuicksandSucks: [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15194176290A98089200&page=32#comment-796 A crisis on the Wasteland coastline]] -- a large creature emerges from the sand and leaves a mud pit behind where it was lying. Poor David falls in and sinks all the way up to his snout, so Varla, Lerna and Nerea rush over to get him out, leading to a RescueIntroduction.
* QuizzicalTilt: Maequoql stares befuddled with her head tilted at the unexpected stranger (Explorer of Unknowns) appearing on Arilay's spaceship.
* RageBreakingPoint: After dealing with Vindex, then finding out Not Chaos Hunters's worst enemy had somehow arrived to hunt them down, THEN running into Moufretas, and finally Eris vanishing without a trace within seconds of meeting them, Nick ''snaps'' and rants about the whole day. He also decides to rant at Jackson, also being sick of his constant attacks on him for the past three threads.
%%* RageJudo: After Farrah expressed being uncomfortable around telepaths, Murquoql (a telepath) called attention to Orain who was "embracing" Farrah's mind.
* RagsToRiches: Alice Winters -- DragonInChief of an NGOSuperpower -- says that genetically, she's just "standard-issue Midwestern white trash" when explaining that a DNA sample won't reveal anything about her AntiMagic EnlightenmentSuperpowers.
* RapidFireNameGuessing: In the Forest, Farrah has trouble remembering ''Mad Bastards''' name. Which she learned mere ''seconds'' ago.
* RapidFireNo: Rosalind, under the mistaken impression that Nyceme exited the wagon to [[VanHelsingHateCrimes kill her]], runs to [[CowerPower hide behind Ozurr]] while screaming "Nonononononono! Don't let her get me!"
* ARareSentence: Downplayed in-universe, Murquoql (who has SeenItAll) considers the phrase "humanoid lamprey" to be the only rare part of the sentence "Swanwhite was OK, she was playing Roger Dodge-em in the fog while figuring out how to rescue a humanoid lamprey from a human who smelled like drugs and alcohol."
* RavenHairIvorySkin: If dark purple hair counts as close enough for the aesthetic, then Varla the mermaid's ivory skin drawing attention to her AmazonianBeauty muscles complete the qualification.
* ReactiveContinuousScream: Downplayed. When Fiddler first gets her nose zapped by the booby trap on Whisper's saddlebags, she squeals in surprise and pain, startling Whisper who also squeals. Fortunately, Fiddler doesn't start a squealing cycle past that.
* RealityEnsues:
** Mequoql flies an unrealistic bird simulacrum towards a wild raven. They don't become instant friends. The raven is initially spooked by the simulacrum, so the raven flies a short distance away, watches the specter closely, and starts planning potential escape routes.
--->'''Narration''': Well, Mequoql had just creeped out the raven. What did she expect would happen, anyway? She wasn't an animal trainer.
** Soryn's shirt ''and the skin underneath'' gets shredded by biting and clawing moufretas, making a realistic consequence to go along with ClothingDamage.
** A RearingHorse too panicked to control himself loses his balance and falls.
** Floors don't have face wells like massage tables do. When Akane offers to massage Syrni Sandra's back, Syrni Sandra can't get comfortable lying face-down on the floor.
* RearingHorse: Startled and in pain, Angel the gelding reacts to a moufreta biting his hind leg by rearing. RealityEnsues when he loses his balance and falls over backwards.
* RebelRelaxation: Murquoql props her back and one foot against the edge of the bulletin board.
* RedAlert: Mequoql's last-ditch {{distress call}} before succumbing to mind control triggers a klaxon on the WFS Hummingbird. The Web of Friendship members on board jump to their feet and make themselves useful -- Maequoql locks her {{psychic radar}} on the perpetrator to track him while Moquoql grabs a bag of tools and runs for the transporter room.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Black-haired Parthenia is clad in black leather armor with red hooded coat over it. While it's too early to call her outright Evil yet, she's shown enough of her character not to be unambiguously Good.
* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: Varla is offended at David flirting at her while she's rescuing him from quicksand, and [[DiscussedTrope hints that]] she could have quit the rescue if it weren't for Nerea and Lerna witnessing and joining in the rescue.
* ReligiousVampire:
** HolyIsNotSafe for the TerrorHero Mayatan vampire twins, but they ignore the aches to pray anyway.
** Rosalind got her faith from spending her formative years in North America's Bible Belt, she hasn't let go of her faith despite becoming a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire. It shows when she overhears Ozurr and Varg discussing their worlds' deities and her first knee-jerk thought is that she's surrounded by heathens.
* RescueIntroduction: Varla introduces herself to Lerna and Nerea while they team up to free David, who is up to his ears in {{quicksand|Sucks}}. As soon as David is out of the quicksand, the ladies introduce themselves to him.
* RestrainingBolt:
** Cynthia's eyepatch and gauntlet serve as these, to mask and control her Silver Witch magic.
** Unit 09 had [[AntiMagic arctic calibreum]] components embedded in joints to prevent her from regrowing her limbs and to make her more manageable for the Balamar Empire.
%%* {{Retcon}}: Done twice, due to [[RealLifeWritesThePlot real life issues]] affecting the plot. But in a case of Administrivia/TropesAreTools, it was [[JustifiedTrope justified]].
* RetGone: Rebecca Jane Walsh fades out of existence after Michelle decides to use her time manipulation powers to make her disappear, upon realizing it's not the "real" Rebecca.
* RevealingCoverup:
** Rosalind is trying to keep her identity as a vampire a secret. Ozurr is one of her {{Secret Keeper}}s, but when Finn mistakenly points at Varg (a haugr) when he guesses who's the vampire, Ozurr bursts out laughing and says he can't explain what's so funny. Rosalind realizes she can't shush her {{Secret Keeper}}s without drawing ''more'' attention to the fact that there's a reason for shushing them.
** Arilay tries to hide her echolocating eyeball behind her hand, but between her conspicuous hand position and [[OhCrapSmile nervous grin]], it's clear she's hiding her eye.
* ReversePsychology: After establishing that he hates Krakka'a and has no desire to help him, Osiris tricks him into walking into a trap by telling him to go the other way.
* RiddleForTheAges: The results of the AntiMagic Alice and the Ace of Spades use is pretty well explained, it's a mobile magical dead zone that is generated by [[EnlightenmentSuperpowers intense mental training]]. ''Why'' it works, and how its interacts with the soul of the user (especially given there's no proof souls exist in their native universe at all beyond being metaphors for consciousness and the self) are questions that will never get answered.
* ARiddleWrappedInAMysteryInsideAnEnigma: Orain, when describing Farrah's appearance:
--> ...her tanned skin is smudged with dirt wrapped around obscene tattoos over the afterthoughts of yesterday's fight...
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Nora attepts this by shapeshifting into a cuttlefish. It works on Cynthia, not so much on Leone.
* RightForTheWrongReasons:
** Upon hearing that Justin has been Valerie's familiar for ten years, Wolfe concludes she must be [[OlderThanTheyLook older]] than she looks. Whilst correct, Justin being Valerie's familiar doesn't really guarantee anything.
** Ozurr thinks Rosalind can't digest raw mutton because it's raw. Really, Rosalind can't digest raw mutton because it's too solid for her vampiric stomach to handle, and cooked mutton would have been worse.
** During the interrupted game of hide and seek, Syrni Sandra hears Jen Jara's underground sonic boom in the distance and wonders who or what made that sound. When Akane makes a guess and then mentions encountering moving angel statues, Syrni Sandra makes her own guess that Jen Jara made a sonic boom in reaction to also encountering the statues. Syrni Sandra is correct that Jen Jara was the one responsible for the sonic boom, but incorrect about the reason why -- Jen Jara was blasting Krakka'a's eardrums.
* RoadApples: When tracking down missing horses, it's reasonable to look for hoofprints and manure. Manure has already been left behind at the beach where the smaller river meets the sea and along the riverbanks leading up to the forest.
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: The sight of a homunculus trying to drown Jann in a river drives Rosalind into a [[TheBerserker berserk]] hissing biting stomping frenzy. Despite [[CannotCrossRunningWater her issues with running water]], she stays put in the river to try and pull Jann out of the homunculus's grip. Ozurr gets in on the action too, roaring and swinging his axe to chop off the homunculus's grasping tentacle.
%%* RomanticismVersusEnlightenment, despite possible surface resemblances, doesn't apply to Suela and Tovor's disagreement. Tovor's own beliefs are as cynical about old stories as new.
* RuleOfThree:
** It took three electric shocks from a BoobyTrap for Fiddler to cease her attempts to open the Inquisitor's saddlebags.
** The skvader explores three different caves for the herd of mustang horses to hide from Krakka'a in before picking the shallowest one with the widest entrance. He goes in and out of that cave three times before the most curious horse, Fiddler, accompanies him inside. Fiddler goes in and out of the cave three times before '''Lead Mare''' Flashfoot decides it's safe enough for the entire herd to go inside. In real life, horses shun caves and it takes multiple months of patient training to get a horse willing to enter a cave, but the story of overcoming that reluctance was compressed to move the plot along without tedium.
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[[folder:S]]
* SapientEatSapient: Discussed when Krakka'a and Jen Jara argue over who's higher than whom on the food chain.
* ScarSurvey:
** {{Invoked}} by Jann of Grimmsford, who rolls up his sleeve to show Rosalind where he was cut open to have warding runes carved onto his bones.
** Farrah provides a self-inflicted RareFemaleExample, checking herself out for new scars while [[FuroScene soaking in the bathtub]].
* SchmuckBait: Arilay offers Wain three choices to get off her orbiting spaceship: the teleporter pad, the escape pods, and the [[ThrownOutTheAirlock airlock]]. Wain wisely does ''not'' choose the airlock.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: One of the HornySailors is reduced to [[InstantSoprano screaming in soprano]] after Varla's GroinAttack on him.
* ScrewTheRulesTheyBrokeThemFirst: Void Maidens are supposed to be the astronauts/ambassadors of the Viporis species. But when Krakka'a aggressively calls Jen Jara an insect, she disregards her diplomatic training and calls him oversized talking prey.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** The herd of horses take off into the distance, spooked by the flash and bang of the teleport, which they call Sabertooth Lightning.
** When Justin and the demon fuse, the "Not-Chaos-Hunters" promptly decide to get out of dodge.
** Similarly, Chitara decides to skip town after witnessing the worst that Justin can offer.
** Iragan's general reaction after [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead witnessing Parthenia's thought patterns.]]
** Zarokh is initially willing to stick around and let the Not-Chaos-Hunters lead him to the Coast of Chills. Then, Cormack suddenly vanishes in a bolt of lightning, at which point Zarokh decides vague directions are sufficient and high-tails it out of there.
** Mark ''immediately'' tries to flee when Parthenia recognizes him.
** After Haydn's UnwantedRescue, his nuclear spell is the LastStraw sending Aynara fleeing without telling him what's going on.
** Rebecca Jane Walsh ''will'' do this, but it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as she has [[HeroOfAnotherStory another crisis to solve]].
* SecondFaceSmoke: In Rosalind's backstory, back when she was still human, a suitor blew a smoke ring at her face. She didn't react well, coughing hard enough to vomit on his shoes. To her everlasting relief, her reaction was correctly interpreted as a rejection.
* SecurityCling:
** Rosalind [[CowerPower hides behind Jann]] and clings to his arm to gather the courage she needs to confess to Varg and Ozurr that she's a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire.
** Rosalind clings to Jann as a nervous reflex when sizing up Chitara's wagon and concluding the group might turn hostile if they were to find out that she's a vampire.
* SeenItAll:
** A demon picks a fight outside the hotel, and summons pillars of random body parts. A waitress on the other side of town square sighs...
--->'''Waitress''': Third time this week. Some people just have no manners.
** Mayatans come from a galaxy rich in supernatural happenings, so the powers of a self-proclaimed deity are not entirely astonishing to them.
--->'''Moquoql''': We come from a galaxy rich in supernatural happenings, you can surprise and impress us, but we usually won't stay flabbergasted for long.
* SelectiveGravity: Maequoql turns off the ArtificialGravity in a vast majority of the Web of Friendship spaceship. Niches with potted plants keep pockets of artificial gravity on, as floating clumps of soil everywhere would not be fun.
* SelfDuplication: John Smith, Security Service can appear in multiple places at once.
* SelfMutilationDemonstration: Arnaya shoots herself in the gliding membrane, both to teach Nasur about friendly fire and to show off her own accelerated healing. But when Amy interrupts with her healing moonstones before Arnaya is done suppressing her own healing, Arnaya resorts to clawing open her own cheek to show off how fast she can heal without the moonstones.
* SelfSurgery: Moquoql sterilizes one of the claws in her fingertips so she can poke a hole through her flesh to the outside surface of her skull, where there's an access wire to her communication microchip that she can plug Novia into. Since it's a relatively small and shallow cut, the trope is downplayed.
* SemanticSuperpower: Murquoql's psychic specialty is weapon analysis. With enough creativity, anything can be used as an ImprovisedWeapon.
* SeriouslyScruffy: The more Mequoql's plans to hide her trail from Mael in the forest get interrupted, the more her ponytail frazzles from stress.
* ShadowWalker: Inni warns Murquoql about a vampire lord who can warp from shadow to shadow.
* ShamefulStrip: Implied by Parthenia's inner monologue that this happened to Sa'ad once she caught him. Orain offers pragmatic reasons for that. [[YouKeepTellingYourselfThat Iragan tells her to keep them for herself.]]
-->'''Parthenia (thinking)''': ''Go on, Sa'ad ... Tell him you're a slave. For me. I know there are [[SlaveBrand no spots on your person]] that could prove such claim.''
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Aseyu ul'Valmoth's culture has nudity taboos. She does not.
* ShapeshiftingHealsWounds: When Aynara [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu loses an eye, her ears, and lots of skin to a fire that happened while she was fighting to remove]] an EldritchAbomination's TeleportInterdiction, she turns into SuperSmoke and back to redistribute her mass, reforming her eye, ears and skin at the cost of losing weight from elsewhere in her body.
* SharedUnusualTrait: The Otterbein twins have two for the price of one; they inherited their human mother's heterochromia, and inherited their miri [[HasTwoMommies mother]]'s snowflake-shaped iris in one eye.
* ShareTheMalePain: Varla just has to [[GroinAttack lacerate]] one lewd fisherman's groin to get all the HornySailors shielding their own groins.
* {{Shapeshifting}}
** Arilay's external nanobots cover her life-support suit to provide a normal-looking appearance. So far, Arilay has disguised herself as a pile of dirt and a [[BigFriendlyDog pudgy golden retriever]].
** Nora has this as her ability, which she has demonstrated turning her arm into a tentacle and back again, and fully changing into a cutesy pink cuttlefish.
** Ava Sharpe can do this, of a sort, via HolographicDisguise means, but hers is limited to a selection of pre-configured disguises.
* ShoutOut:
** Once Justin, Valerie's "slave", fuses with his demon and starts fighting Miron, Nyceme calls him "[[Manga/BlackButler one]] ''[[Manga/BlackButler hell]]'' [[Manga/BlackButler of a butler]]".
** The Web of Friendship's shadow-avoidance protocols are called [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary Vashta]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Nerada]] Protocols.
** Alice and Wolfe independently think to compare the former's AntiMagic [[EnlightenmentSuperpowers training]] to the training of [[Literature/{{Dune}} Mentats]].
** After Moquoql passes Maequoql an item via a {{Hammerspace}} pocket into VictoriasSecretCompartment, their telepathic conversation is similar to another conversation between [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Eddie and Roger Rabbit]].
--->'''Maequoql''': Couldn't you have done that some other way?\\
'''Moquoql''': Not while tapping into cartoon physics. Any other way wouldn't have been nearly as funny.
** Upon realizing it couldn't see, Unit 09 utilized one the Dalek's stock phrases:
--->'''Unit 09''': My vision is impaired! I cannot see!
** The full epithet of Zarokh's patron god, Sobek, contains the phrase [[{{Music/Nile}} "He Who Is In the Water."]]
** Explaining what "[[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure Abigail protocols]]" are, a Western Amalgamated agent name-drops "[[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 exterminatus]]".
** After being startled by a statue of a weeping angel, Krakka'a chides himself for being frightened of statuary, and sarcastically asks himself if he thinks it's going to start [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink moving when he's not looking.]]
** Arnaya says that one of the disadvantages of fighting mind-controlled strangers instead of fighting mind-controlled friends and family is that when all is said and done, strangers might [[UngratefulBastard try to sue you]] over [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike rescues they don't like]], which is what happened in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''.
** Regarding her assumption that AliensAreBastards, Oseru says humanity and any alien they encounter will be "two apex predators in a [[Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem dark]] [[http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/lovesick-cyborg/2015/10/31/chinas-dark-forest-answer-to-star-wars-optimism/#.XLZ3HaR7lhE forest]], doing all we can to survive." (She's never read the ''Remembrance of Earth's Past'' herself, but understands game theory well enough, and shares enough of Liu's priors, to come to approximately the same conclusions.)
** After Krakka'a falls for Osiris' ReversePsychology and walks off towards a trap, Osiris deadpans [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Stop. Don't. Come back.]]
** Upon seeing Alexa's GameFace, Jen Jara murmurs a couple of lines from ''[[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger The Tyger]]''.
--->'''Jen Jara''': What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?
** When Jenny the artificial human gorges herself on drugged chocolate, then abruptly drops dead, Soryn twists a line from ''Film/WhenHarryMetSally'' and thinks, "I'll ''not'' have what she's having."
** After Fiddler removes a stone stuck in Whisper's horseshoe, she rinses out her mouth in the tiny brook because she does not want to taste everywhere that Whisper has been, just like Remy from ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' doesn't want to taste everywhere his own paws have been.
** Aseyu's UnusualEuphemism for her ShamelessFanserviceGirl tendencies, "sartorial minimalist", is borrowed (though not intentionally by Aseyu, [[TranslationConvention who is]] [[TranslatorMicrobes speaking Qorisayane]]) from Eb of ''VideoGame/{{Tyranny}}''.
** When Ellya-Salaenl points out her spaceship to Nora, she adds, "What, did you think I walked here?" paraphrasing a line from ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' when Jumba showed Stitch his spaceship.
** As someone with a giant serpentine body from the humanoid waist down, Soryn can support the weight of multiple riders. He got the idea to offer by reading the part of ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'' where Jon-Tom was trying to summon a ride and wound up with a giant snake.
** Soryn carries a towel, following the recommendation of ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.
** Nyorla's encounter with the [[AgentPeacock extremely]] [[CampStraight fabulous]] Gabriel Kardos has her, [[CallBack like her fellow Web of Friendship members]], thinking of [[Film/{{Labyrinth}} labyrinths]].
* ShownTheirWork: The 1993 Land Rover Discovery commercial vehicle from the Republic of Ireland refers to an independent conversion developed in 1991 as [[LoopholeAbuse a means of reduced VAT]]. [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/128691640@N04/35446952012 Actual picture here]].
* ShrugTake: Upon seeing a self-proclaimed deity spontaneously create a feathery cat-like creature, Maequoql and Moquoql blink in astonishment, then [[FantasticallyIndifferent glance at each other]] and shrug.
* ShuttingUpNow:
** Maequoql ends her telepathic conversation with Arilay upon being told that her idea to distract the Ace of Spades with a hallucination sounded like something her evil brother Sarquoql would do.
** After Mequoql {{dope slap}}s Morpho, he [[ObliviousToHints finally]] realizes he's been [[OpenMouthInsertFoot sticking his foot in his mouth]] and shuts up. [[SubvertedTrope It doesn't last long.]]
* SickeningCrunch:
** The crunch of a high-speed projectile rock isn't sickening in and of itself, but in the context of smashing into a mechanical ''[[EyeScream eyeball]]''...
** When Jamie is spooked by Sindar's presence and falls, she sounds one of these when her wing is broken. There are similar crunches when she gets back up.
** Morpho is oblivious to how creepy he sounds when he's snapping moufreta bones in the process of butchering a corpse.
* SilentSnarker: Maya is deaf and mute and speaks through ASL. She's also the biggest smart ass in the NCH group and almost everything she signs is a snarky comment. If not that, she expresses her dissaproval through her face.
* ASimplePlan: Jann's plan to get Rosalind out of the men's room without anybody seeing her is: he exits first, waits until the coast is clear, then signals her. Simple, [[TemptingFate right]]? WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong Fate is tempted, [[SubvertedTrope but the plan goes smoothly enough]].
* SinisterScrapingSound: Morpho is oblivious to how creepy he sounds when he's using his morphing metal to scrape flesh off a moufreta's bones.
* SinisterScythe:
** Amaranth wields one; it goes well with her Grim Reaper disguise when out on the road.
** Inanna carries a particularly nasty looking one that's bigger than she is.
** Akane's weapon of choice is the Japanese variant of the sickle, the kama. One that also happens to be a [[AnimateInanimateObject tsukumogami]]. That can ''fly''.
* SirSwearsALot: Almost every other word coming from Sa'ad's mouth is a profanity of some sort. When it isn't, it's a ''setup'' for a string of obscenities.
* SkewedPriorities: Discussed InUniverse when Aynara expresses incredulity at Haydn and Wilhelmine launching an extermination mission against bandits when there's a mind-controller and an EldritchAbomination on the loose.
-->'''Aynara''' ''[telepathically]'': Bandits? There's a mind-controller and an EldritchAbomination on the loose here and you're going after those [[PunyEarthlings squishy human]] bandits who rely on their [[GunsAreUseless useless guns]] too much?
* SlasherSmile: After hearing Mael's voice over a confiscated earpiece, Varla gets a nasty grin as she thinks of how to discredit Sarquoql in Mael's eyes.
* TheSleepless: Rosalind hasn't needed any sleep in years. She hasn't elaborated why, but it probably has something to do with her vampirism.
* SleepsWithBothEyesOpen:
** Mayatans have transparent eyelids to play with this trope -- they sleep with their eyes technically closed, but they can still see almost as well as if their eyes were open.
** As natives of a volcanic DeathWorld, Viporises have opportunistic sleep patterns. Closing their eyes to sleep is beneficial but optional, as they still blink in their sleep.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Wain Fallwen thinks he's an excellent bounty hunter. In reality, he's mediocre at best.
* SmellsSexy: Rosalind is {{distracted|ByTheSexy}} from panicking when she [[SecurityCling clings to Jann]] and gets a faceful of his scent at point-blank range.
* SmokeOut:
** Mark Tanzer exits the thread by deploying a smoke bomb and vanishing.
** Varla taps into the heat generated by the spaceship's engines and the planet's mantle to vaporize rain into steam long enough to pull her protectees into a cave.
** Swanwhite mixes steam from her own {{breath|Weapon}} into the mist already in the Rainforest as she backs away from Henry A. Safon II and his gun.
* SmugSnake: Krakka'a. Let's see...openly abusive to his subordinates? Check. Disdain to the point of anger towards those who are weaker than him? Check. Visibly terrified by those who are stronger than him? Check.
* SnakePeople:
** Saen is a living lamia, Nyceme is an undead lamia lich, and Soryn is a genetically engineered snake man who can't properly be called a lamia because none of his DNA is from that species -- instead he was reverse-engineered to look like one via LegoGenetics from multiple other species.
** Zelena is one of these, but takes on human form as AFormYouAreComfortableWith.
* SneezeCut:
** Moquoql mentions Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara, who at the time of posting were in a different character development thread, and then they simultaneously sneeze.
--->'''Moquoql''' ''([[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15194176290A98089200&page=21#524 in the Adventure thread]])'': Huh, so ''that's'' where Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara [[ChaseFight chased each other]] to.\\
'''Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara''' ''([[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14880519240A25174400&page=30#750 in the Space Liner thread]])'': Achoo!
** Both It Came From The Sea and Unit 09 sneeze (or make strange noises in Unit 09's case) after being mentioned in Bonnie's [[TemptingFate fate tempting]] rant of strange things to encounter.
** Rosalind hopes aloud that either the mustangs were smart enough to repurpose helicopter evasion techniques to evade Krakka'a or Krakka'a didn't bump into them. Miles away, hiding in the Ridge after an encounter with Krakka'a, Lead Mare Flashfoot wakes up with a sneeze from a pre-night-sneaking nap.
** Moquoql in the Sun-Dry Sea wishes aloud for Seenarnha or Kynn Derra's presence to help her extinguish the flaming wreckage of the Panzerfaust. In the Rainforest, Seenarnha sneezes.
** When Nora in the hotel complains "Urgh... I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse..." one of the horses in the canyon sneezes twice.
* SniffSniffNom: Mequoql and Nyorla got the idea to sample blood from slaughtered moufretas and guess at whether or not vampires would like that blood.
* SoMuchForStealth:
** Name-dropped by Arilay when the Ace of Spades correctly identifies the sand in her disguise as nanobots.
** Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara spy on a couple of shrivers. After witnessing their egregious violence against a jellyfish, Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara try to sneak away, only for Syrni Sandra to crunch a patch of gravel under her foot.
--->'''Syrni Sandra:''' Oops.\\
'''Jen Jara:''' Busted.
** Arnaya tries to muffle the noises made by the truck reclamation group, but thanks to Nasur leaving Arnaya's telekinetic bubble, a thief (not the same thief they were after) notices them anyway.
** A pack of D'voreem sneak up on Zing, but they decide not to ambush him after he notices them and growls at them.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: In the wake of a SuggestiveCollision with Jann landing on top of Rosalind, her fangs involuntarily extend in counterpart to his involuntary reaction.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Parthenia's [[BeigeProse mental assessment of the situation]] she found herself in in the Town Square devolves into this.
* SorryImGay: The archaeologist doesn't know whether or not Mael was flirting, so just in case, she starts to say "Dude, I'm a lesbian" but she's interrupted before she can finish the last word.
* SourceMusic: The arrival of a fleet of motorcycles to the sound of Wagner's ''Ride of the Valkyries''.
* SouthernBelle: Rosalind is a polite FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire with a [[AccentSlipUp fluctuating]] Texas drawl. Her thoughts sometimes take note of Miss Manners, Emily Post, or simply that something is or isn't ladylike.
* SpaceElves: Nui is a ''literal'' Space Elf - has the ears and everything. Or at least looks like one. Their race is quite familiar and adept with magic, and are also a ProudScholarRace.
* SpaceshipGirl: Arilay the cyborg remotely pilotes the WFS Hummingbird and feels it as part of her body.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Twice, Bonnie ruined the Web of Friendship's plans to capture Mael. First Bonnie mistook Morpho for a slime and cast an adrenaline surge on Mael. Later, Bonnie fell on top of Moquoql, knocking the chloroform rag off of Mael's face.
-->'''Morpho''' ''[first incident]'': Do you mind? I'm trying to apprehend a mind-controller here! Now look what you've done!\\
'''Moquoql''' ''[second incident]'': Get off me you spanner he's gonna get away!
* SpareAMessenger: By driving off moufretas instead of killing them, Murquoql recognizes the (slight) possibility that they'll warn other moufretas not to mess with Mayatans.
* TheSpeechless: Shale has no vocal cords.
* SpeedSex: Justified for Viporises, who on their DeathWorld home moon need to hurry up and conceive before [[MomentKiller volcanic interruption]]. Syrni Sandra {{exploit|edTrope}}s that feature of her species to sneak in a quick nap and {{erotic dream}} while hiding during a game of hide and seek.
* SpellBook:
** Nyceme has one, with many different kinds of pages haphazardly arranged in what better resembles a binder.
** Soryn doesn't have every spell that his staff is capable of memorized, he's had to look up a cleaning spell in the staff's user manual.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Parthenia the Keraunos.
* SpiderSense:Mayatans can tell where somebody is pointing their gun by reading their minds.
** Nyorla's PsychicRadar lets her know exactly where Pilot 0037 aims his gun, even as his aim is thrown off by slipping in the mud.
** When Aynara turns into SuperSmoke, she can still get her communication microchip out of the way of bandits' FiveRoundsRapid and Haydn's series of explosions.
* SpikesOfDoom: When Nyceme tosses her scepter, it lands upright and forms a protective cage made of poisonous, life-draining spikes. It even exudes an aura that makes this doom-inducing property obvious to those who are near it.
* SpitOutAShoe: A few minutes after eating Angus, Krakka'a coughs up a shoe.
* SquashedFlat:
** Rosalind worries about accidentally provoking Ozurr the giant into squashing her flat.
** {{Defied|Trope}} by Henry A. Safon II, who scrambles out of the way of Ozurr the giant's DramaticSitDown.
** One of the moufreta corpses ends up being crushed underfoot by the landing albino lanceros.
* {{Squick}}: InUniverse, Sarquoql grosses himself out when he imagines a [[ILoveTheDead necrophile]] necromancer turning Nyceme into a lich.
* SssssnakeTalk: Half-woman-half-snake Nyceme speaks this way, complete with forked tongue flicking out. Saen also does it [[PlayedForLaughs as a parody]] [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall of this stereotype]]. It even applies to the latter's ''[[UpToEleven writing]]''.
* StageWhisper: Arilay initially addresses the Ace of Spades in a harsh whisper.
* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Plasma the dragonhorse grabs the lamprey priestess by the upper arms, but the lamprey priestess keeps fighting.
* StealthHiBye:
** The Ace of Spades had a tendency to vanish in between posts and appear with a greeting rather than a narrated entrance.
** Aynara and Arnaya are capable of sneaking off of Arilay's spaceship even when she's got security cameras all over the interior.
* StealthInsult: Farrah makes fun of Parthenia upon seeing her combat boots, saying "Nice footwear, there. Pity your kids will get bullied for them" - a reference for the famous "Your mother wears combat boots" insult.
* StealthPun: Aynara and Arnaya's retribution for Wain lying is putting an illusion of fire on his pants...
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: The name Sarenuika means "death needle". Not only does Nui have some skill with necromancy, but they spell they almost use fire at UD Justin has an incantation with "needle of death" right in it.
* StopOrIShootMyself: While under Mael's mind control, Mequoql baits Morpho to stop wrestling Mael and chase her instead by bringing her claws up to her own throat. It works because she doesn't communicate any demands, leading Morpho to assume that she was suiciding with no ifs ands or buts.
* StrangerDanger: {{Discussed|Trope}} by Syrni Sandra, who remarks that she's still adjusting to other species' cultures being possessive over who is allowed to parent which kids. She still doesn't quite understand that taboo, but she knows just enough to not want to run afoul of it, which is why a) she didn't hug Cody when she wanted to and b) she hid the signs that she was in heat from Cody to avoid giving him TheTalk.
* StressVomit:
** {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Rosalind would have eventually barfed up the mutton that, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent as a vampire]], she can no longer digest, but the stress of almost blurting out her secret is the LastStraw for Rosalind's stomach.
** Downplayed again when, ill-timed with the nauseating after-effects of using the Not-Chaos-Hunters' MakeAWish gems for the first time, Mequoql hears the bad news that her sister is in the metaphorical crosshairs of a {{psychopomp}}. She projectile-vomits raw moufreta liver.
* {{Stripperific}}:
** Akane's outfit. The bulk of her outfit is essentially two three-inch wide strips of leather.
** Varla the mermaid wears only a sports bra, two metal arm bands, and a sword belt. And she wonders why she gets catcalled.
** Pointedly averted, [[CharacterizationMarchesOn in contract to previous portrayals]], by Aseyu. [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl She quite enjoys being naked]], but failure to cover up in [[DeathWorld the jungles of Qorisa]] [[RealityEnsues can have consequences ranging from embarassing to lethal]], so her hunting outfit is BoringButPractical.
%%** Inanna's choice of outfit.
* StrippingSnag: Soryn loses his shirt in a moufreta ambush when they shred and pull it off trying to damage the skin underneath.
* SuddenlyShouting: Rosalind starts her vague summary of the NoodleIncident by briefly yelling at Varg over the noise of the truck.
-->'''Jann''': You and Varg seemed in a bit of a hurry when we left...\\
'''Rosalind''': Ah, yes, well... [''SuddenlyShouting''] Varg, I ''[[IWarnedYou warned]]'' ya that weapons and I don't mix!
* SuggestiveCollision: When getting into the truck, Rosalind is already seated. Jann tries to scoot by her and trips over her backpack. She tries to catch him as he falls onto her. Their chests touch, their faces are an inch away from an AccidentalKiss, her hands end up on his ribcage, and his hands end up on her shoulders instead of the backrest behind her. And then Rosalind tries and fails to roll Jann off of her, causing [[ThanksForTheMammary one of his hands to slip down from her shoulder]]...
* SummonToHand:
** Moquoql telekinetically summons a grab bag to her hand when RedAlert starts.
** Murquoql telekinetically summons a fire extinguisher to her hand before realizing the flames on Wain's pants are [[FauxFlame fake]].
* SupernaturalGoldEyes
** Jann of Grimmsford is a wizard with yellow eyes.
** As part of her GameFace, Rosalind the FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire has the option of turning her brown irises yellow.
* SuperReflexes: The Viporises Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara have accelerated reflexes.
** Syrni Sandra reacts JustInTime to teleport out of a deadly mirage that would have otherwise [[KilledMidSentence ripped her apart in mid-sentence]].
** Jen Jara attempts to DopeSlap Syrni Sandra at mundane speed, but from their perspective, the slap is a PainfullySlowProjectile, making it easy for Syrni Sandra to deflect.
** In the time it takes for Akane to ''prepare to'' teleport behind Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara, they FlashStep to put their backs against the wall.
* SuperSmoke: Nyorla knows Aynara and Arnaya can turn into mist and transport themselves through the spaceship's air vents, but they don't do so then. Later, Aynara turns into mist multiple times to get out of a fire, go down a chimney, and dodge bullets and explosions. Arnaya tries to turn into mist to get out of Arilay grabbing her with a {{tractor beam}}, but Arilay calibrated the tractor beam to be able to hold onto air, cutting off Arnaya's escape route that way.
* SuplexFinisher: Akane's opening move when Krakka'a decided to become hostile towards her.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Varla gets increasingly exasperated as: the Not-Chaos-Hunters fail to follow through with their idea to distract and incapacitate Arnaya; David and some other witnesses think Arnaya was trying to kill him even though she bit the side of his neck instead of his carotid artery; nobody understood why, out of all the places Varla could have stabbed her sword, she chose to impale the bottom of Arnaya's lungs; and Claire brushes off Varla's warning that demons are professional liars by saying that one demon can't be a professional liar because that demon is a hunter, causing Varla to correct that one can be a hunter and a professional liar simultaneously. Varla's Latin prayer of "Salve me ab fatui nimii!" translates to "Save me from too many idiots!"
* SureLetsGoWithThat: A bandit patrol encountering Aynara and her three bandit hostages assume the captivity goes the other way around and that Black Morgan will soon have his way with her. Aynara telepathically threatens the hostages to play along with the misunderstanding until the patrol leaves.
* SurpriseJump: When startled by an automatic flushing toilet, Rosalind jumps high enough to [[CeilingCling cling to the ceiling]]. {{Justified|Trope}} as an instinctive use of her vampiric powers.
* SurvivalMantra: Rosalind has to tell herself what ''not'' to do in a SuggestiveCollision and repeat it a few times to keep herself from doing it.
-->'''Rosalind''' ''[thinking]'': Don't panic don't bite don't kiss don't panic don't bite don't kiss don't panic don't bite don't kiss...
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[[folder:T]]
* TacticalWithdrawal:
** Moquoql, overwhelmed with a PressurePoint attack, signals the spaceship to teleport her up and out of telekinetic range before her mind-controlled sister can [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown repeat the pinch]].
** Morpho uses the spaceship's teleporter to retreat and keep pursuing Mael, instead of sticking around where Lily might [[BoomHeadshot shoot his head]].
** Black Morgan the bandit leader hears a rumor[[note]]started by Aynara who was trying to guess the next move of a mind-controller[[/note]] of someone with silver eyes coming to usurp his position in the gang. Between that, the fatalities of his underlings, and the rampant property damage (at least one building is on fire and City Hall got exploded) beginning in Ghost Town, Black Morgan decides to evacuate his gang out of Ghost Town.
* TailfinWalking: Averted for Varla the mermaid's "standing" posture. She lays her fins flat on the ground, coils her tail once and puts her weight on the coil.
* TakeMeToYourLeader: Said by Parthenia with more professional phrasing than it's usual for this trope to Dominic.
* TakingTheFightOutside: Exaggerated: After Parthenia attacks and knocks out Farrah in the middle of town square, John Smith [[FingerWag shakes a disapproving finger]] at Parthenia and [[GettingTheBoot teleports them both out of town]].
* TheTalk:
** Played with. Valerie doesn't ask Arilay to explain generally where babies come from, Valerie wants to know how Arilay specifically can make a baby while being part machine. Arilay obligingly explains how she can work around her missing uterus if she wanted to make a baby.
** Defied by Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara (Void Maiden Viporises), who are acutely aware that they are strangers to Cody (who is a human child) and not on their home world, thus the StrangerDanger taboo is in place, so it wouldn't be appropriate to explain to him about Viporis reproduction and why they're acting odd, so they [[NotInFrontOfTheKid do their best to hide the signs that they are in heat]] in order to avoid awkward questions.
* TalkToTheFist: Shale's MundaneSolution for interrupting Wilhelmine's MagicalIncantation is to punch her in the vocal cords and make her cough.
* TapOnTheHead:
** Parthenia knocks Farrah out with a punch to the jaw in the fight near the Notice Board. In a touch of realism, she [[HowManyFingers checks if she inflicted any serious damage afterwards]].
** Discussed and defied by the Void Maiden Viporises. Syrni Sandra suggests kicking the shrivers in the head hard enough to knock them out. Jen Jara vetoes it and suggests chloroform instead.
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Under mind-control, Mequoql telekinetically [[PressurePoint pinches the back of her sister's neck]]. A few minutes after recovering, her sister returns the favor.
* TastesLikeChicken: Juvenile moufreta tastes like bland, off-texture chicken.
* TaughtByExperience: In her backstory, Arilay found out the hard way (in the FairFolk realms) that just because her digestive tract was replaced with an [[MatterReplicator atomic manipulator]] does '''not''' mean she's immune to cursed food.
* TeasingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Aynara deliberately overrides the setting's TranslatorMicrobes to shout a [[DoYouWantToCopulate sexual solicitation]] at Haydn without him understanding right away.
* TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter: Arilay's clothes are just more of the same nanobots simulating her external flesh.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Farrah and Parthenia are forced to work together to survive in the forest they were expelled to after their fight near the Notice Board.
* TeleportationRescue: Nyorla and Pilot 0037 hide from the lanceros. When the spaceship's tractor beam fails to scare away the lanceros, the lanceros nearly steps on Nyorla and Pilot 0037. So the spaceship's teleporter pad summons the children and their possessions on board.
* TeleportSpam: Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara rapidly teleport in zig-zags to evade the shrivers' digestive swarms.
* TemptingFate:
** Nyceme thinks that Miron is doing this when he dismisses the possibility of there being undead in the necropolis.
--->'''Nyceme:''' "[[SssssnakeTalk Famousss]] [[GenreSavvy lassst]] [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall wordsss.]]"
** Ozurr the Frost Giant kept thinking that hoofbeats meant a nuckelavee was nearby. One washed up on the Coast of Chills not long after.
** Maequoql muses that as long as nobody drives any wyverns towards town, the WFS Hummingbird won't have to unleash an OrbitalBombardment on the wyverns.
* TensionCuttingLaughter: In the wake of a tense confrontation with Krakka'a, Rosalind's post-adrenaline crash catches up with her and she starts uncontrollably giggling at ToiletHumor that she otherwise wouldn't have approved of as a ProperLady.
* ThanksForTheMammary: When Rosalind tries to get out of a SuggestiveCollision with Jann, she makes it worse by accidentally causing one of his hands to slip down from her shoulder.
* ThatsGottaHurt:
** When Rosalind hears a tale of Jann the wizard getting dosed with witchbane, she winces in sympathy as she surmises, "Ooh, if witchbane is anything like what wolfsbane does to werewolves, that can't have been pleasant!"
** After Wain Fallwen crash-lands his little one-person spaceship next to the hotel, Arilay and Murquoql pipe up with commentary.
--->'''Arilay''': Ooh, that left a dent.\\
'''Murquoql''': Yowch, that didn't look like fun. Do you need a doctor?
** Soryn winces in sympathy when witnessing a car crash into an outside wall of the Purple Fez Tavern.
** When Fiddler finds a stone caught in Whisper's horseshoe, Fiddler infers that his pain is worse than her own experiences stepping on painful stones.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: There is an artifact in the Ghost Town that Alice would like destroyed. She arranges for an ''entire artillery battery'' to do the deed from Mount Bifrons, intending for them to just turn the place into a crater field and sort through the rubble after. The man actually in charge of the battery, Aaruselijair, is fortunately more restrained.
* TheyJustDontGetIt: Morpho the shapeshifting robot doesn't understand how his actions (e.g. [[ExorcistHead twisting his head too far]] or dismembering a moufreta corpse in under a minute) can spook witnessing strangers or acquaintances.
* ThinkingOutLoud: Arilay wonders out loud how much of TheTalk Valerie already understands.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck:
** When Rosalind sees Ozurr and Varg staring expectantly at her, she knows she's about to get interrogated about her identity as a vampire. In Rosalind's backstory, [[VanHelsingHateCrimes previous interrogations on that subject didn't end well for her]].
** The Not-Chaos Hunters realized they fled town without camping gear.
--->'''Amy''': This is gonna suck, isn't it?
** Said by the Nuckelavee when confronted by a group of cats sent by the Fairy Queen.
** Parthenia's reaction when John Smith teleports her away from the city after her battle with Farrah.
** Moquoql is telepathically sharing Unit 09's pain as she removes anti-magic plates from Unit 09's shoulders and hips. When Moquoql gets to the hips, she realizes she can't take her weight off of where the shared pain will manifest.
** [[SpaceshipGirl Arilay's]] spaceship sensors are glitching from Mael's spinel-gem-based stealth. Arilay thinks that either [[Franchise/TheSlendermanMythos Slenderman]] exists in this reality or someone/something else is tampering with the sensors from afar. Neither scenario is going to be pleasant.
** When Moquoql [[ExplainExplainOhCrap explains her way into the realization]] that the most efficient machine to plug Novia into is the communication microchip under Moquoql's skull, she deadpans, "...oh, this is gonna suck," before resignedly doing the SelfSurgery cut to expose the outside surface of her skull where there's an access wire to the comm-chip.
* ThisIsNoTimeToPanic:
** Arilay's poster warns the populace of bored vampiric Mayatan prankster twins on the loose, but also emphasizes they're generally friendly and the best course of action is to try not to panic.
** The Not-Chaos Hunters panic when Mequoql reports that a giantess (Arnora Bluesword) is heading towards the campsite. Morpho yells at them to get a grip and name-drops this trope, then he and Mequoql keep calling for calm as Arnora bursts in in an alarming fashion while fighting a homunculus.
* ThouShaltNotKill: {{Discussed|Trope}} by the Web of Friendship. The organization and [[EvenEvilHasStandards their archnemesis Sarquoql]] adhere to nonlethal tactics, but Morpho points out that they can't assume Mael holds that standard.
* ThoughtControlledPower: The gems the NCH uses to power their weapons and travel. It's also used for healing, start fires, or, to their ''own'' surpise, transform people (in Joesph's case, lizard to a human). Unfortunately, first time usage involves sickness, dehydration, and passing out. Only for the first time use.
* ThreateningMediator: When Sallara gets jumpy over Lerna's appearance, Varla levels her sword between them both and demands a full explanation ''before'' a fight breaks out, threatening to side against whoever attacks first.
* ThreateningShark: A bunch of sharks show up really fast after Varla spills enough of the homunculus's blood. Fortunately, Varla is able to use the sharks to her advantage by getting them to eat the homunculus first, and then fleeing before they get the chance to eat her.
* ThreeTwoOne:
** Nyorla guesses Aynara and Arnaya's return to the kitchen and tries to count down to it, '''[[SubvertedTrope but]]''' that's not what they did.
** In response to the Panzerfaust being on fire, Moquoql summons an escape pod pumping itself full of carbon dioxide and nanobots. Once she sees it's close enough, she holds her breath and counts down the last three seconds to a PowderGag.
* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: One half of a MortonsFork that Aynara and Arnaya use as an excuse to mess with Wain from afar. He's claimed to have experience breaking curses. If he had been telling the truth, then Aynara and Arnaya would have interpreted that as a challenge.
* TimeTravel: Both versions of Michelle have this ability, although whether it is the same sort of ability as ''Series/DoctorWho'' is not made clear.
* TimTaylorTechnology: Maequoql's increasing power to the tractor beam is justified as operating within designed parameters. Maequoql's first use of the tractor beam used a fraction of the power it was designed to work with, so when she needed a stronger beam the second time, she used a larger fraction of power.
* TongueTrauma: When Mequoql gets tired of keeping a D'voreem pack out of the campsite, she telekinetically drags them by their tongues into the campsite.
* TooDumbToLive:
** {{Discussed|Trope}} when Varla accuses David of having no sense of self preservation. The accusation was prompted by him flirting at her with the risk of [[RefuseToRescueTheDisliked offending her into quitting his rescue]] from quicksand.
--->'''David''': Never in my life have I known the kiss of a guardian angel.\\
'''Varla''': Why you--! Have you no sense of self-preservation, saying such brazen things while trapped with no defense against offended slapping? I am far from angelic, and you're lucky there are witnesses. Don't make me regret this [rescue].
** Four juvenile moufreta leap off a cliff trying to fly and intercept Iolana, [[ForgotICouldntSwim forgetting that they're too young to fly]]. They splat.
* TooFastToStop: The drop pod summoned for firefighting arrives too fast to snap into hover position over the Panzerfaust, so it dumps its firefighting contents midflight and lithobrakes once it's past the Panzerfaust.
* TookALevelInCynic: Rosalind's backstory, which she mentions in a bitter rant, has her undergo this. After altruistically rescuing people from zombies only to be backstabbed when they find out that she is a vampire, Rosalind is understandably wary about letting people know.
%%* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Michelle has this as an effect of her TimeTravel DimensionalTraveler powers.
* TouchOfDeath: Sindar has this, which could overlap with WalkingWasteland because it's involuntary. First demonstrated when he becomes frightened of the fiery pillars Justin summons during his duel with Miron and goes to hide in a house plant in the hotel lobby... only to kill it in two seconds. It's also why he refuses to shake hands when introducing himself, but has no problem touching Nyceme, who is undead.
* TouchTelepathy: Shale's telepathic capabilities are ''strictly'' limited to skin-to-skin contact. This is a product of Sleutrienn [[BizarreAlienBiology biology]] and [[BizarreAlienPsychology psychology]], namely a nervous system which is just a little bit eldritch. Not even Maequoql, whose PsychicRadar covers the entire planet, can read Shale's mind or send Shale telepathic messages.
* TranquilFury: Parthenia spends the entirety of her fight with Farrah and Mark (the latter being the first person she met in the thread she actively ''wants'' to kill) calmly and efficiently ''brutalizing'' her opposition, without raising her voice even once. The only giveaway of the volcanic rage seething underneath her calm exterior is the curt and intense "''You...''" she gives to Mark Tanzer at the start of the fight.
* TranslationConvention: Normally implicit, but the occasional [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis translation note]] is provided for Oseru, when nuances of something she'd be saying in [[{{Conlang}} Qorisayane]] doesn't ''quite'' match up to the English.
* TranslationYes: The Viporis interjection "Kat-chi-atz!" translates to "ThatsGottaHurt, that CouldHaveBeenMessy, you're UnluckilyLucky!"
* TraumaButton: When Ozurr mentions betraying his father, Rosalind is reminded of all the times she's been betrayed by those she rescued from zombies. This kicks off Rosalind's bitter rant.
* TriggerHappy: The first thing Pilot 0037 does upon waking up to see a stranger standing over him is to shoot at the stranger.
* TroubledFetalPosition
** When Rosalind is sitting on the sand describing how she hates being left with uncertain memories in the wake of [[TheBerserker fighting berserk]], she curls up and clutches her legs to her chest.
** Pilot 0037 enters one when the ''WFS Hummingbird'''s interior reminds him of a restricted area he accidentally wandered into when he became a pilot.
* TurnInYourBadge: Curator Brimoda temporarily relieves Parthenia of her position in order to not overexert her after an exhausting mission. Parthenia does not take it well.
* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: Last Gabriel Kardos checked in an RP taking place in real-world 2020, the year was 2014.
* TwistedKneeCollapse: In the throes of her HeroicBSOD, Rosalind's legs give out from under her and collapse into an awkward W shape.
* TwitchyEye: A side effect of Mael battering down Mequoql's mental shields is Mequoql's eye twitching for the duration of the assault. Her eye twitches again when she [[IGaveMyWord remembers her vow]].
* TwoOutOfThreeAintBad: Varla pessimistically predicts that her reflexive breaking of Lerna's neck will horrify the witnesses. When Sallara is aghast and Nerea isn't, Varla muses that one out of two is better than usual.
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[[folder:U]]
* UncannyValley: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Rosalind the vampire holding herself more still than any human could achieve.
* UndeathlyPallor:
** As part of her GameFace, Rosalind the FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire has the option of turning the skin between her freckles an off-white shade of gray.
** Whereas Nyceme the lich always has this, (un)naturally.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} by Nui; their skin is described as pale bluish-gray, yet they are alive. Sort of. It's unclear whether this skin tone is normal for a [[SpaceElves sunestre]], or whether it has to do with Nui's soul being loosened from their body and partially tethered to their arm gadget.
* UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway: Downplayed with a small ''el-kor'' field designed to shield a Mayatan's back of the neck from being telekinetically [[PressurePoint pinched]]. ''El-kor'' fields on that small of a scale have already been lab tested, but under better circumstances, they would have been lab tested some more before their first field test.
* UninhibitedMusclePower: [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Rosalind]]'s SuperStrength is [[DefenceMechanismSuperpower only used in an emergency]], when she has enough blood to fuel her body [[HealingFactor regenerating]] as fast as it [[ExplosiveOverclocking tears itself apart under the influence of adrenaline]].
* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: Varla shows off AwesomeButImpractical somersaults to quickly get from point A to point B on dry land. The somersaults may be quick, but they're impractical as they leave her open to attack.
* UnprovokedPervertPayback: Varla mistakes Lerna platonically hugging her for a sexual action when Nerea uses the archaic non-sexual definition of "molesting" to refer to Lerna's hug. Varla draws her ChastityDagger and holds it against Lerna's throat for most of the duration of the ensuing exposition.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Despite her fearful first impression of Jann the wizard, Rosalind started crushing on him when he lent her his coat to warm her up. She doesn't do anything about this because she's too busy worrying about potential VanHelsingHateCrimes targeting her.
%%**(insert Jann's perspective here)
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Joseph comes off as one to those he meets. The Not Chaos Hunters have met Joseph before, Mayatans have pretty much seen it all, and LizardFolk are native to Aria.
* UnwantedRescue: Upon seeing a bandit and his attack dog attacking Aynara, Haydn explodes the dog and threatens the bandit, and things spiral out of control from there. Aynara is aggravated -- her plan to deplete the bandit's bullets, capture him and intimidate him into delivering a message to Black Morgan was derailed and now she has to start over with a different {{Mook}}.
* UseYourHead: Plasma the dragonhorse rams her forehead into the lamprey priestess's head in an attempt to get the lamprey priestess to stop chewing her leg.
* UterineReplicator: Arilay mentions an artificial womb as one of two ways she could grow a baby despite missing her biological uterus. The other way is to have a surrogate mother volunteer.
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[[folder:V]]
* VagueAge: Arilay, a cyborg in a life-support can, has yet to reveal her age. So far the only clues are: Arilay has mentioned her childhood [[SuspiciouslySpecificTense in the past tense]]. Valerie asked how Arilay could [[TheTalk make a baby]] while being part machine, and Arilay mentioned that she has functioning ovaries while explaining.
* VainSorceress: Nyceme is one. As a lich, her body is on the constant verge of rotting, so she's scrambling to find ways to preserve her body better. When she first spots Saen, another [[SnakePeople lamia]] (albeit a living one), she is envious of her body.
* VampireBitesSuck: Aynara biting down on a bandit's already bruised arm is painful enough to make him wail "ARGH WHY?!" at least the first time around.
* VampiresAreRich: Inverted for Rosalind. Between her nomadic lifestyle, the ZombieApocalypse back at her home, and the unexpected teleport into a world where she doesn't know the local currency, she has to resort to barter.
* VampireVords: Parodied when Arnaya pranks Amy by pretending she's about to exsanguinate her. The witnesses are not amused.
-->'''Arnaya''': Ahaha, I vant to suck your blood! Just kidding!\\
'''Marie''': It ''wasn't'' funny.
* VanHelsingHateCrimes:
** Rosalind's bitter rant reveals that in her backstory, she's survived multiple back-stabs both [[InTheBack literal]] and metaphorical, all of which happened soon after each time she revealed herself as a vampire, leaving her paranoid that history is about to repeat itself.
** Always a threat when Tecia is around; she instinctively loathes the undead, and will seek to send their souls to their rightful place in the Land of the Dead on sight.
* VeinOVision: As a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire, Rosalind is prone to seeing people's blood vessels when she's emotionally compromised.
** One of the side effects of [[TheCorruption demonic energy radiating into Rosalind]] is having a clear view of Jann's blood vessels. It [[SubvertedTrope nearly]] causes her to [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint miss the point]] of why he was rolling up his sleeve.
** Later, in the wake of a SuggestiveCollision, Rosalind's extended senses kick in again and make her [[TooMuchInformation uncomfortably aware]] of [[MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat just exactly where Jann's blood is being redistributed]]...
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: Genetically engineered dragonhorses have four legs and two wings.
* VerticalKidnapping: Defied when Carol dodges Morpho's attempt to yank her up into the tree he was in.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment:
** {{Invoked|Trope}} by Moquoql, who passed a fake zipper to her sister Maequoql by folding it into {{Hammerspace}} and making the opening for it in between Maequoql's breasts.
** Later, Murquoql stores rolled-up papers in between her breasts, holding them in place with the skin flap stretched over her chest. She notes the arrangement is slightly uncomfortable.
** Varla the mermaid has a ChastityDagger sheathed and hidden in her sports bra.
* VictoryThroughIntimidation:
** After Krakka'a aggressively got in the way of a truck, the four riders decide to counter-intimidate: Ozurr reveals his full height and battleaxe; Jann summons a thundercloud and makes lightning zap the ground in front of Krakka'a; Varg draws her gun; and Rosalind reveals her vampiric GameFace and hisses. Krakka'a begrudgingly gets out of their way, but [[WeWillMeetAgain swears vengeance]].
** Parthenia's confrontation with the Western Amalgamated goons is a mutually escalating version of this. It ends in a draw, when both sides' superiors (Sophia the Incarnation of Knowledge and Alice Winters, respectively) come to a consensus.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Judging from what's been shown, 'Best Buds' may be stretching it, but Mark and Farrah's dynamic is this. The latter's more blunt and the former's more sophisticated in their snarking.
* VoiceForTheVoiceless:
** Upon seeing Shale having trouble communicating with a lich, Arilay steps in with a radio keyed to Shale's microchip.
** Because Maya is deaf AND mute, Amy is pretty much her translator, as she's the only one in the group who can understand ASL.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Iolana is able to change her form at will.
* VomitDiscretionShot: InUniverse, when Joseph has to puke, he runs away from witnesses and into the bushes.
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[[folder:W-X]]
* WakeUpFighting: {{Exaggerated}} with Parthenia, if Farrah is [[InformedAbility to be believed]]. She kicked, and tried to claw Farrah's thoat out while in deep sleep after spending about a week awake when the latter was trying to put her up on a horse. Farrah's words have some grain of truth to them: when Jean tried to wake the Inquisitor up, the latter reflexively grabbed her by the arm.
* WakingUpElsewhere: The first thing Farrah sees waking up after the fight at the notice board is the sky partially covered with the tops of the trees. She realizes that's not the place she was knocked out at only after Parthenia points out that to her.
* WalkInChimeIn: Seenarnha rides a dragonhorse into a forest clearing and seamlessly answers a question asked to Mequoql. Justified because Seenarnha and Mequoql are both telepaths and Seenarnha read Mequoql's mind for an update on what was going on as she approached.
* WalkingArmory: [[MageMarksman In addition to their magic]], Moon Hawks like Oseru and Ethani carry a large assault rifle, a sword, three hidden knives, a hold-out pistol, and plenty of ammo for both firearms. [[CrazyPrepared Moon Hawks never rely on just one tool]].
* WantedPoster: There's a poster on the bulletin board that reads: WANTED! Dead or Alive! Black Morgan, a bandit, robber and murderer! Armed and dangerous! Last seen near the Ghost Town with his band! Bring him or the proof of his demise to the City Hall for the reward.
* WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere: Usually, Rosalind has more than enough [[HeroicWillpower self-control]] to ignore her HorrorHunger. But [[TheCorruption demonic energy]] radiating from a nearby battle forcibly reminds Rosalind of this and tempts her to unleash her wild side.
* WatchWhereYoureGoing: Whisper, the domesticated horse who met a herd of mustangs, [[NonVerbalMiscommunication misinterprets]] the skvader's warning drumming foot on his rump as a signal to move forward, and as a result he nearly collides with one of the mustangs in the herd he joined.
* WeakenedByTheLight:
** During the briefing, Murquoql learns that the Fiendlord vampire who might be in the rainforest would turn into ashes if exposed to sunlight, but in order to finish him off, the ashes need to be tossed into [[CannotCrossRunningWater a river]].
** Due to having rather fair skin, Akane sunburns rather easily.
* WeaponStomp: While sparring with Carol, Morpho separates her from her halberd and steps on it, not wanting her to use it so soon after she was flung against a tree trunk.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Web of Friendship and the Not-Chaos-Hunters are ''trying'' to coordinate in their efforts to stop Mael, but quite a few of the Web members keep pushing Nick's HairTriggerTemper button.
* WeNeedADistraction:
** As part of the rescue plan to free Mequoql from Mael's mind control, Morpho was sent to distract Mael long enough for Moquoql to set up an ambush. Morpho's first attempt at a distraction? ThePratfall entrance.
** Arilay guesses there's bandits watching all possible entrances into the Ghost Town, so she asks Arnaya, who's already inside, to distract the sentries long enough for Arilay, Shale and company to get inside. Arnaya decides to use her telepathy to nudge the sentries' attention to a burning building that Haydn set on fire earlier.
* WeWillMeetAgain: After Krakka'a [[MuggingTheMonster picks the wrong truck to stop]], he begrudgingly gets out of the way while swearing vengeance.
-->'''Krakka'a''': But this isn't over. You'll find I'm not one to just let insults go unanswered.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** InUniverse, Rosalind thinks it's not very smart for a snake lady to poke and annoy a giant gator. For context, Saen is trying to cast a touch-based healing spell on Zarokh, a deinosuchus, but she didn't explain herself and he took offense to being touched by a stranger.
** Lampshaded by Nyorla when she gets startled while levitating multiple knives in a synchronized swarm.
--->'''Nyorla''': Don't you know better than to [[DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat sneak up]] on a {{chef|OfIron}} wielding [[KnifeNut this many knives]] in the kitchen?!
** InUniverse, Mequoql thinks it's not very smart for someone with no parachute or innate means of fall control[[note]]e.g. flying or teleporting[[/note]] to use an easily-yanked-away magic gemstone to teleport two kilometers up off the ground.
* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: Defied by Moquoql -- she asks Unit 09 what would happen if she uninstalled anti-magic plates and ''listens to the answer'' before taking them off of Unit 09.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Bandits in the Ghost Town who encounter the Web of Friendship survive and often get [[NominalImportance names]], thanks to the Web's ThouShaltNotKill policy. Those who pose an even potential inconvenience to Oseru and Mael, or Wilhelmine and Haydn, are either butchered or mind controlled.
* WhatWereYouThinking: Varla berates Lerna for impulsively swatting a mechanical drugging spider with her bare tail instead of with a rock.
-->'''Varla''': Did you not hear me say that the thing that bit you was teleported? Obviously that means somebody with a vendetta sent it to drug one of us, and you swatted it with your bare tail? What in the whole wide realm between geyser and iceberg were you thinking?! Next time, use a rock or something to swat mysteriously teleported creepy crawlies! Understand?
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Varla implies that she could have [[RefuseToRescueTheDisliked aborted David's rescue from quicksand out of offense at his flirting]] if it weren't for Nerea and Lerna witnessing and joining in the rescue.
-->'''Varla''': I am far from angelic, and you're lucky there are witnesses. Don't make me regret this [rescue].
* WhatsAnXLikeYouDoingInAYLikeThis: When Jen Jara is not satisfied with Krakka'a's rather irrelevant sob-story answer to Alexa's question of "So, what brings a fellow like you to these parts?" Jen Jara takes it upon herself to specify, "What's an oversized prey like you doing in a cramped place like this where you can't fly away from predators like me?"
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
** Naiolo does not like crows or ravens at all. In contrast, his travelling companion, Chiatara, loves them.
** Krakka'a is terrified of humans. Not that he would ever admit it.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Aynara is searching for Mael using a bandit's sniper rifle. Why doesn't the TerrorHero just shoot the mind-controlling villain? She can't just shoot him because of three Watsonian reasons: the Web of Friendship's "ThouShaltNotKill" policy, the PsychicGlimpseOfDeath headache she would get from doing so, and the uncertain possibility that deaths in the Ghost Town might alert or fuel some EldritchAbomination. The Doylist reason is the usual "because then the story would be much shorter".
* WhyIsntItAttacking: [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Rosalind]] is puzzled by Nyceme's lack of [[VanHelsingHateCrimes hostility]].
* WillOTheWisp: Mequoql was inspired by will-o-wisps when she attempted to lure the Not-Chaos Hunters to Mael using dancing firefly lights. Later, after that tactic fails, Mequoql implicitly blames her lights on will-o-wisps, which is not a plausible thing to insinuate while standing in a town's shopping district.
* WolfWhistle:
** Varla the mermaid's presence at the harbor causes a randy group of fishermen to make lewd comments and whistles.
** Sarquoql's interest in Soryn is more tactical than carnal, but he knows the best way to get Soryn's attention is by flirting, so Sarquoql uses a telepathic hallucination of a flirty whistle on Soryn in an attempt to arrange a meeting. It doesn't work, because Soryn can't tell for certain where that particular whistle is coming from.
* WoodenStake:
** The Fiendlord vampire who might be in the rainforest can NoSell wooden stakes.
** [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Rosalind]] has a pair of scars -- one on her chest and one on her back -- connected through her body from where a wooden stake narrowly missed her heart.
* WordSchmord:
** Varla scoffs at the threat of a water elemental ("Elemental schmelemental"), convinced that the geological amount of heat she's magically gathered is enough to flash-boil it with the summoners inside.
--->'''Varla''': If you dare to send that tidal wave with intent to hurt us, I will return the sentiment and make it boil with deadly heat akin to geysers!\\
''[the "tidal wave" reveals itself to be a water elemental]''\\
'''Sallara''': An elemental. T-That's an elemental! A big one.\\
'''Varla''': Elemental schmelemental, my warning still applies to it.
** Aynara considers "bandits schmandits" to be annoying snacks, even though they're numerous and armed with rocket launchers.
* WouldHurtAChild: The too-numerous-to-name AttemptedRape perpetrators in Varla's backstory qualify -- Varla started lethally thwarting attempts to rape her simultaneously with her puberty starting.
* WouldNotShootACivilian: While she won't actively ''shoot'' per se, but Parthenia [[AvertedTrope doesn't mind innocent bystanders being hurt]] in her potential fight at the Town Square.
* WoundedGazelleGambit:
** Sa'ad ''attempts'' it after getting a particularly strong electric shock from Parthenia. It doesn't work. The second time, anyway.
** Pewter employs this during the d'voreem attack. When she and Amaranth break away from the herd, a d'voreem chases after them. Amaranth has Pewter feign exhaustion so that the d'voreem can gain on them and get within striking distance of her scythe.
* WreathedInFlames: Certain dragonhorses (the ones with scales instead of fur) can set themselves on fire when they're not carrying cargo or passengers.
* WrongContextMagic: Nui points out that magic in Alice's world may be this, rationalizing that a sentient cosmic force of some sort hijacked magic, appearing to give it a malevolent will of its own. After pointing out that in their world (and implying Cynthia's as well), [[MagicAIsMagicA magic is a neutral force that can be bent to one's will]]. Alice realizes it too, when she notices that her antimagic field does not quite obliterate magic here as it does back home.
* WrongForTheRightReasons: In the realm of the unconscious, Aynara manipulates the dreamscape to set her own illusory body on fire. She unexpectedly feels burning pain, and thinks the illusory flames affected more of her senses than she wanted them to. Unfortunately, she blamed the wrong flames. The illusory flames aren't the ones burning her, the flames surrounding her real unconscious body are burning her.
* WrongGenreSavvy: The Web of Friendship is pretty close to TheFederation from ''Franchise/StarTrek'', and the Adventure as a whole is pretty optimistic about the potential for interspecies diplomacy and cooperation, [[EqualOpportunityEvil villains included]]. Oseru, however, has only encountered {{cyberpunk}} TranshumanTreachery, [[AIIsACrapshoot murderous AIs]], and the mad remnants of AbusivePrecursors in her native work, so her operating assumption is that AliensAreBastards.
* WrongInsultOffence: Mequoql cracks a joke using this trope as its base.
-->'''Carol''': I'd say cat got your tongue, but you're not exactly a cat...\\
'''Mequoql''': ''[pretending to be snooty]'' If you're going to be racist, at least do it right and call me a sugar glider. ''[giggles]'' Just kidding!
* WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: Soryn bought a bargain-bin map, took a wrong turn, got lost, and [[HandWave somehow]] wound up in the Adventure world.
* WronskiFeint: Arilay gets rid of the hysterical broom-wielder chasing her by causing the crazy local to smack into the restaurant wall.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Soryn [[DidntSeeThatComing didn't expect]] Jenny to get high and laughing off of drugged chocolates, but he quickly figures out how to roll with it in his plan to seduce her. He uses the excuse of steadying her to slip his arm around her waist.
* {{Xenofiction}}: Story arcs written from the viewpoint of...
** a herd of mustangs mysteriously transported into the setting and separated from their humanoid friend and protector,
** a Terra Novan Common Raven (descended from Terran Common Ravens) that followed a group of humans it associates with easy meals to the location,
** and a [[PrecisionFStrike fuckin']] ''Nuckelavee''!
** and now a pack of D'voreem...
** [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15194176290A98089200&page=17#418 a murder of crows]]
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[[folder:Y-Z]]
* YouAllMeetInAnInn: {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{Deconstructed|trope}} in Cormack and Nyceme's opening post at the Solstice Cafe:
-->"They say that the grandest adventures start with a [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits random group of outcasts]] forming in a tavern. But who goes to a tavern at 9 in the morning anymore? What is this, some [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy cliched medieval fantasy setting]]?"
* YouAndWhatArmy: When Zarokh demands that everybody get away from Krakka'a, Jen Jara is unimpressed and doesn't think he can stop her, so she rubs it in by teleporting closer to Krakka'a and saying "You and what army?" He shows his teeth as his army.
* YouAnsweredYourOwnQuestion: Henry wonders how to return gems with MakeAWish power. Mequoql points out that Henry could wish the gems back to their owners.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Alice Winters has had ''[[NoodleIncident issues]]'' with the police in her youth, and reacts negatively to John Smith as a result. The LawEnforcementInc she commands is ''at least'' as bad as the worst sort of police force, [[MoralMyopia but they're her people, so she's fine with whatever they do]].
* YouCanSeeThatRight: In response to witnessing two vehicles appear out of nowhere, Carol says to Lily, "Okay... I did not eat the mushrooms. I take it you can see those weird trucks, too, Lils."
* YouDoNotWantToKnow:
** Rosalind cautions Ozurr and Varg that they do not want to know what happened after Rosalind ran to the restrooms, especially not at the brunch table.
** Arilay cautions Valerie, Cynthia and Moobly that they do not want to know what kinds of germs and cleaning residues got all over the biscuits Cynthia dropped on the floor.
** This is Leone's standard response to anyone inquiring about where her powers came from.
* YouExclamation: Parthenia utters "You..." to Mark Tanzer with barely contained fury when they bump into each other near the Notice Board.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: When [[INeedAFreakingDrink Mael needs a freaking drink]], Sarquoql (who regards alcohol as a weapon) is verbally incredulous that Mael would drink his own weapon.
* YouJustRuinedTheShot: In an attempt to get the Ace of Spades to leave her alone, Arilay bluffs that she's a xenobiologist doing a research film that just got interrupted by the Ace of Spades. Really she's just hiding and spying until she's sure its safe for her crew members to join her on the surface of the planet.
* YourHeadAsplode: {{Downplayed|Trope}} - Thunder's defensive kick cracks the skull of an attacking D'voreem and kills it outright but without excessive gore.
* YourLittleDismissiveDiminutive: Sophia's speech patterns is peppered with those.
* YourMom: Layi yells the classic Qorisayane curse, "piss on your mother's grave!", to annoy and distract the wyvern.
* YouShallNotPass: Murquoql arranges her dragonhorses Blackthorn, Zip and Zing to stand in Sarquoql and Tecia sa Valdela's way with their wings spread, as she makes it clear she won't let them assassinate her friends Aynara and Arnaya.
* YouSquared: Bonnie and Morpho's second encounter consisted of pointing at each other and shouting "You again!"
* YouWatchTooMuchX: Mael counter-accuses Explorer of Unknowns of watching too many movies after she accuses him of mind-controlling Mequoql for perverted reasons.
* YouWontLikeHowITaste: Rosalind takes nonverbal steps to look unappetizing to Krakka'a and Zarokh by using [[UndeathlyPallor undeathly pale gray skin]] and showing off her skeleton in the black inverse of a glow as part of her GameFace.
* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: Murquoql doesn't mention the FourthWall or narrators because it would make her sound like a {{cloudcuckoolander}}.
* ZombieApocalypse: Rosalind's homeland has succumbed to a nasty zombie outbreak.
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* BigFriendlyDog: Arilay temporarily takes the form of a pudgy Golden Retriever.

* BloodBrothers: Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara are not genetically sisters, but in their childhood backstory, they made a pact to consider each other sisters.

* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: When Aynara tries to get rid of [[EldritchAbomination the Eyes and Teeth]]'s TeleportInterdiction over the Ghost town, she gets tortured by the Eyes and Teeth to the point of convulsing and foaming at the mouth; she peels off and nearly loses flaps of her skin by barging through a too-narrow door before it finishes opening; she becomes nauseated to the point of vomiting from drinking rotten corpse blood; a BoltOfDivineRetribution zaps her into unconsciousness as it passes through her on its way to the Eyes and Teeth; and she's burned by the {{fire|Cleanses}} started in the wake of the lightning bolts.

* BuzzingTheDeck: Krakka'a buzzes Rosalind's mustang herd.

* CutenessProximity: At first, Moquoql stared fascinated at a feathered cat-like critter, while still participating in an intelligent conversation. As Felian approached and sniffed Murquoql, she started cooing {{baby talk}} at it and giving it ear scritchies.

* DaywalkingVampire: Rosalind the vampire has been walking around in the sun with no ill effect. So far, the one time she got a sunburn was due to a side effect of a [[NoodleIncident string of accidents in the weapons shop]].

* GetYourMindOutOfTheGutter: When Nora mentions she can shapeshift, Ellya-Salaenl is distracted by imagining [[PowerPerversionPotential lewd uses]]. Sarquoql, [[DirtyMindReading telepathically overhearing]], sighs "Get your mind out of the gutter..."

** Aynara gets rid of the extensive burns on her skin, eye and ears by turning into SuperSmoke and reforming with lost weight.

* IAmNotAGun: Varla resents her captors turning her into a living sex weapon.

* MagicStaff: Soryn has an ironwood staff topped with an obsidian tetrahedron held in place with a slightly fancy silver mesh. His first spell use in the world is manifesting a {{blade|OnAStick}} of HardLight on the obsidian focus to deal with a moufreta ambush. Since then he's also cast a spell to refrigerate chocolate.

* MissingManFormation: Three dragonhorses fly with the third trailing further behind the first two, to represent that they'd failed to find a missing kid before the missing kid was killed by a deadly mirage.

* MundaneSolution: Mequoql's {{psychic glimpse of death}} is about to drive her into screaming an {{emotion bomb}} of mortal terror, which nobody wants to hear. Morpho, a shapeshifting robot, uses HandGagging on Mequoql. Too bad Bonnie was thrown right where he stood to do so.

* OnlyTheKnowledgeableMayPass: Varla stops Arnaya the vampire's bloodthirsty attack on David by sticking her sword through Arnaya's lungs, deliberately missing the heart. Most of the witnesses freak out and think Varla is trying to kill Arnaya, thus provoking Varla's contempt, but when Claire recognizes the violence as necessary and the strike as non-lethal to vampires, Varla finds new respect for Claire and quizzes her to see if she can understand to the point of recognizing Varla's violent TalkingThroughTechnique. Claire's half-wrong answer reduces Varla's respect for Claire.

** As someone with a giant serpentine body from the humanoid waist down, Soryn can support the weight of multiple riders. He got the idea to offer by reading the part of ''Literature/Spellsinger'' where Jon-Tom was trying to summon a ride and wound up with a giant snake.

* SpellBook: Nyceme has one, with many different kinds of pages haphazardly arranged in what better resembles a binder.

* SpiderSense: Nyorla's PsychicRadar lets her know exactly where Pilot 0037 aims his gun, even as his aim is thrown off by slipping in the mud.

* SuperSmoke: Nyorla knows Aynara and Arnaya can turn into mist and transport themselves through the spaceship's air vents, but this ability has yet to be demonstrated.

** Black Morgan the bandit leader hears a rumor[[note]]started by Aynara who was trying to guess the next move of a mind-controller[[/note]] of someone with silver eyes coming to usurp his position in the gang. Between that, the fatalities of his underlings, and the rampant property damage (so far one building is on fire and City Hall got exploded) beginning in Ghost Town, Black Morgan decides to evacuate his gang out of Ghost Town.

* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Web of Friendship and the Not-Chaos-Hunters are ''trying'' to coordinate in their efforts to stop Mael, but Morpho and Arnaya keep pushing Nick's HairTriggerTemper button.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: In her natural form, Tecia sa Valdela is an unnaturally tall, pale, and slender [[WingedHumanoid humanoid with wings]] formed from [[YinYangBomb intermingled light and shadow]] with a NightmareFace to boot. Being thoroughly LawfulNeutral, she covers both DarkIsNotEvil and LightIsNotGood.

* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: Last Gabriel Kardos checked in an RP taking place in 2020, the year was 2014.