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* TheUnderworld: Downside was a particularly nasty one before the peal got to it. Afterwards, it was relatively nice, with all the torture removed and with the peal working on building the infrastructure for a mass-revival project.
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* TheGodsMustBeLazy: The Administrator is profoundly lazy, and prefers to do as little as possible. She was willing to let the peal basically reconfigure the running of Downside to their liking once they came up with a workable system.
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The two most well-developed roleplays in the set are [[http://belltower.dreamwidth.org/8579.html?style=site Effulgence]] (written by Alicorn and kappa) and [[http://alicornutopia.dreamwidth.org/7441.html?style=site Incandescence]] (written by Aestrix and Alicorn), both of which contain large numbers of [[AlternateUniverse individually-developed worlds]] which have then been [[{{Crossover}} crossed over]] with each other (with Effulgence tending more towards [[FanFic fanfictional]] worlds and Incandescence more towards original ones, although both of them have a mix).
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The two most well-developed roleplays in the set are [[http://belltower.dreamwidth.org/8579.html?style=site Effulgence]] (written by Alicorn and kappa) and [[http://alicornutopia.dreamwidth.org/7441.html?style=site Incandescence]] (written by Aestrix and Alicorn), Alicorn, now ended), both of which contain large numbers of [[AlternateUniverse individually-developed worlds]] which have then been [[{{Crossover}} crossed over]] with each other (with Effulgence tending more towards [[FanFic fanfictional]] worlds and Incandescence more towards original ones, although both of them have a mix).
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The two most well-developed roleplays in the set are [[http://belltower.dreamwidth.org/8579.html?style=site Effulgence]] (written by Alicorn and kappa) and [[http://alicornutopia.dreamwidth.org/7441.html?style=site Incandescence]] (written by Aestrix and Alicorn), both of which contain large numbers of [[AlternateUniverse individually-developed worlds]] which have then been [[{{Crossover}} crossed over]] with each other (with Effulgence tending more towards fanfictional [[FanFic fanfictional]] worlds and Incandescence more towards original ones, although both of them have a mix).
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* BusFullOfInnocents: Among the many people that Flicker has to rescue [[spoiler: she doesn't manage to save them all]]
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* AmicableExes: The BellParents typically divorce early but share their child(ren) without issue.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Lynns have a daughter who dies young.
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* AllTherapistsAreMuggles: Averted by Aether who was studying to be a therapist when she met the peal, and is sticking to her studies because *the peal clearly needs one*.
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* AllTherapistsAreMuggles: Averted by Aether who was studying to be a therapist when she met the peal, and is sticking to her studies because *the "the peal clearly needs one*.one".
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Glowfic is the collective term for various interrelated [[JournalRoleplay Journal Roleplays]] on Dreamwidth, connected through the involvement of [[AlternateSelf alternate versions of the same characters]] (and, in some cases, the same worlds).
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Glowfic is the collective term for various interrelated [[JournalRoleplay Journal Roleplays]] on Dreamwidth, connected through the involvement of [[AlternateSelf alternate versions versions]] [[UniversalAdaptorCast of the same characters]] (and, in some cases, the same worlds).
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* UniversalAdaptorCast: Large portions of the cast in each world are alts of people who have shown up in previous worlds.
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In addition to those two, there are a few less-developed glowfics: [[http://pixiethreads.dreamwidth.org/ Pixiethreads]] (written by Aestrix and kappa), [[http://resplendent-circle.dreamwidth.org/568.html Resplendence]] (written by Aestrix, Alicorn, and kappa), and [[http://alicornutopia.dreamwidth.org/ various things in Alicorn's sandbox]] (written by Alicorn and various other people).
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In addition to those two, there are a few various less-developed glowfics: [[http://pixiethreads.dreamwidth.org/ Pixiethreads]] (written by Aestrix and kappa), [[http://resplendent-circle.dreamwidth.org/568.html Resplendence]] (written by Aestrix, Alicorn, and kappa), and [[http://alicornutopia.dreamwidth.org/ various things in Alicorn's sandbox]] (written by glowfics; Alicorn and various other people).
is maintaining an index of them [[http://alicorn.elcenia.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=191 here]], which is up-to-date as of August 2014.
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It has a [[http://effulgence.wikia.com/wiki/Effulgence_Wiki wiki]] and a [[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yRhuDB40c8cupj0JJ5TMAJinHUDii35UTUzHkWLemQE/edit#gid=0 spreadsheet]] to help keep track of all the characters and worlds. Both of them contain ''large numbers'' of unmarked spoilers, both for the things which have already happened and for the yet-to-be-written sections of the story.
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** Pearl specifically wishes to avoid this to resurrect Shell Bell [[spoiler: thanks to Downside, it doesn't exactly works and she is duplicated, with one remaining in the afterlife]].
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* HumanoidAbomination: The Administrator might not be this, but she certainly gives the vibe.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Cypress was this to Prime and Spring, alternate version of himself and Cypress' wife.
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** The [[BonusMaterial sandboxes]] in which she gets summoned to some world or another imply that she retains most if not all of her powers even when forcibly removed from Downside by some means.
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In addition to those two, there are a few less-developed glowfics: [[http://pixiethreads.dreamwidth.org/ Pixiethreads]] (written by Aextrix and kappa), [[http://resplendent-circle.dreamwidth.org/568.html Resplendence]] (written by Aextrix, Alicorn, and kappa), and [[http://alicornutopia.dreamwidth.org/ various things in Alicorn's sandbox]] (written by Alicorn and various other people).
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In addition to those two, there are a few less-developed glowfics: [[http://pixiethreads.dreamwidth.org/ Pixiethreads]] (written by Aextrix Aestrix and kappa), [[http://resplendent-circle.dreamwidth.org/568.html Resplendence]] (written by Aextrix, Aestrix, Alicorn, and kappa), and [[http://alicornutopia.dreamwidth.org/ various things in Alicorn's sandbox]] (written by Alicorn and various other people).
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Glowfic is the collective term for various interrelated [[JournalRoleplay Journal Roleplays]] on Dreamwidth, connected through the involvement of [[AlternateSelf alternate versions of the same characters]] (and, in some cases, the same worlds).
The two most well-developed roleplays in the set are [[http://belltower.dreamwidth.org/8579.html?style=site Effulgence]] (written by Alicorn and kappa) and [[http://alicornutopia.dreamwidth.org/7441.html?style=site Incandescence]] (written by Aestrix and Alicorn), both of which contain large numbers of [[AlternateUniverse individually-developed worlds]] which have then been [[{{Crossover}} crossed over]] with each other (with Effulgence tending more towards fanfictional worlds and Incandescence more towards original ones, although both of them have a mix).
In addition to those two, there are a few less-developed glowfics: [[http://pixiethreads.dreamwidth.org/ Pixiethreads]] (written by Aextrix and kappa), [[http://resplendent-circle.dreamwidth.org/568.html Resplendence]] (written by Aextrix, Alicorn, and kappa), and [[http://alicornutopia.dreamwidth.org/ various things in Alicorn's sandbox]] (written by Alicorn and various other people).
The vast majority of glowfic-related discussion takes place on [[http://alicorn.elcenia.com/board/index.php Alicorn's forum]].
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!! These roleplays contain examples of:
* AbusiveParents: A large fraction of the Jokers have them, although it's not strictly universal to the template.
* TheAgeless: Anyone who's torching-enabled in Effulgence and anyone who's had either Ice's immortality spell or her resurrection spell cast on them in Incandescence has their apparent age start trending towards early-twenties levels, and then just stay there.
* AgonyBeam: Stella designed one for the dual functions of producing coins and entertaining Alice, and its use spread through the rest of the peal.
** Brilliance's creators installed him with one, too, although it only works on him and was put there with much less friendly intent.
* AHellOfATime: Hell is, according to Revelation, pretty comfy.
--> '''Ice:''' Hell is really comfy, huh?
--> '''Revelation:''' The lakes of fire are not and have never been intended to contain people.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike: Played straight with Bell homeworlds, which tend to be Earth-like even when they're not Earth, but generally averted when they look for ''other'' planets.
* AlternateSelf: A core part of the premise.
* AmnesiacLover: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by [[spoiler:Shell]]. By the time she found Milliways, the only thing she could remember about her old life was that "[[MadnessMantra somebody loved me once]]".
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Natariem has Cricket kidnapped, and threatens to kill him (and thereby unmake Katydid) unless she [[ArrangedMarriage marries Rain]]. And he makes it look like the threat [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe came from Rain himself]].
* BrotherSisterIncest: Sometimes happens between Tonies and Sherlocks, depending on what their familial relationship actually ''is''.
* CameBackWrong: When Ice resurrected Cypress, he came back without his magic, which instead persisted as a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]]. His magic couldn't be reattached with him still alive, either, so he had to be killed ''again'' in order to be resurrected properly.
* ClosedCircle: Beast's castle was one for anyone who could find it at all; until the curse was lifted, the forest worked as a MobileMaze, turning anyone who tried to leave back around towards the castle.
* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] with Stella and Shell Bell's mind-reading powers; Stella went through a bunch of thought while designing hers, specifically for the sake of ensuring a coherent output, and Shell Bell copied Stella's version.
* CrapsackWorld: A bunch of them. Atlantis, Downside, and the Sunny worldfamily are just terrible in general before Bell intervention, and Materia's anti-causality makes it extremely hard to ''improve'' in significant ways.
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: By the time Ice and Cypress go to Pantheon, Spring is dead of old age.
* DeathIsCheap: In Effulgence, after the peal [[spoiler:takes control of Downside]], they can resurrect anyone whose world doesn't have its own afterlife.
* DimensionalTraveler: ''Extremely'' common in Effulgence once [[InterdimensionalTravelDevice Jane]] made interdimensional travel easy. Somewhat less common in Incandescence, but it's increasing as their PortalNetwork expands.
* DimensionLord: The Administrator of Downside is one, with magic able to NoSell even high-level wishcoins. Amariah also became one while fixing Alethia's afterlife, since it was easier to make a new dimension where she had complete control than it was to fix the old one.
* DoorstopBaby: Katie and Astrid.
* DrivenToSuicide: Chelise, after she alienates both Beast and Rose and spends ''days'' trying (and failing) to leave the ClosedCircle of Beast's castle, hangs herself.
* EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: Not necessarily ''within'' a given universe, but across the multiverse, Earth is more common than any other planet in Effulgence by a pretty large margin.
* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: Libby and Aelise both took this mentality, given the massive destructive potential of their worlds' magic. In Libby's case, it led her to perform some unethical spying and kidnapping, but not much more than that. [[WellIntentionedExtremist Aelise]], though, ended up building an [[OneWorldOrder empire]] on [[HumanResources dead babies]] and [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood mind control]], figuring that everyone being forced to love each other was preferable to everyone dying.
* FakingTheDead: Shell Bell and Tab both pulled it off in order to avoid drawing unwanted attention from their respective local governments while they worked with LaResistance.
** Cenozoia's Charlie also had his death faked as part of Butterfly's plan to de-Yeerk him.
* {{Familiar}}: Having a familiar is necessary to become a spellbinder in Hex.
* FourthWallObserver: Glass, to a very limited degree. She's not aware that the world is fictional, but her aura lets her see authorial intent (or, as she refers to it, metacausality). As a result, she's the peal's go-to member for determining how safe a world is, as well as the only one who's made progress in figuring out what's up with all the recurring templates.
* FusionDance: Shell Bell re-merges with Shell, after they figure out a merger protocol which doesn't leave Shell's trauma too close to the surface.
** Juliet also does a merger. Unlike Shell Bell, she actually split herself for the specific purpose of re-merging afterwards, in order to gain a copy of the memories she ''would'' have had of [[ArtificialHuman Soph]] if not for her mental opacity.
* GoodbyeCruelWorld: "[[TearJerker I didn't want much.]]"
* HappilyAdopted: Harley, who was kidnapped from his AbusiveParents and raised by Elspeth instead.
* HappilyMarried: A bunch of Bells with their respective love interests.
* HomosexualReproduction: Glass and Kanim work together to make a spell to pull it off.
* HumanMomNonhumanDad: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by the Bell template attractors; in any case where one of her parents is non-human, it's overwhelmingly likely to be Renée rather than Charlie.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Shell Bell is generally straight, but managed to make an exception for Pearl by emulating how she felt while under the influence of a LovePotion.
* IHateYouVampireDad: When Sunny Sherlocks get turned, the first thing they do is to kill everyone involved in turning them.
* ImmortalitySeeker: Figuring out how to distribute immortality is one of the most common projects for pre-pealing Bells to work on, when their worlds' magic systems support it.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Pearl starts being attracted to Shell Bell after watching her [[PlayingWithFire burn down a train station]].
* InnBetweenTheWorlds: Milliways.
* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: Jane is a sentient one, once she learns to imitate Sue's freecasting.
* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Certain templates end up meeting each other far more consistently than makes sense with just plain causality. Along with the fact that templates are a thing at all, this was one of the first major bits of [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality metacausality]] the peals became aware of.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Revelation. Not that it actually stopped the masquerade from [[TheUnmasquedWorld breaking down anyway]].
* KissOfTheVampire: Juliet is a fan.
* LivingBattery: Aelise recruits Harley as one, since his [[ResurrectiveImmortality torching]] makes him an infinite source of LifeEnergy.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Mass distribution of immortality tends to be one of the major Bell projects, and very few people have complained so far.
* LivingLieDetector: Part of the standard Bell powerset in Effulgence.
* LoveHungry: Chelseas tend to be this, and also tend to get magic capable of forcing people to love them.
* MakeAWish: Wishcoins allow their users to make wishes come true in what basically amounts to BenevolentGenie fashion. Smaller coins are limited to smaller wishes, and there are some things ''no'' coins can do (such as beating an ingot power), but they're still extremely versatile.
* MarriageBeforeRomance: Katydid and Rain, thanks to [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse the]] [[ArrangedMarriage gigantic]] [[PoorCommunicationKills mess]] that was their initial marriage.
* MassTeleportation: Once she becomes a mint, Shell Bell teleports the entire Capitol to the moon.
* MentalWorld: The mindscapes used by Enchanters.
* MobileMaze: The Witchwood in Rêverie was one until Beast's curse was broken. It ensured that most people wouldn't find his castle, but that anyone romantically compatible with him would both find it and get turned around whenever they tried to leave it.
* TheMultiverse: One of the major plot points in both Effulgence and Incandescence.
* NarniaTime: Worlds have their time synced up for as long as there's some sort of information-transfer going on between them, but whenever there isn't (for instance, [[spoiler:both times Jane breaks]]), they start getting massively desynced, with the time-passage ranging from a few minutes to a few decades before the connection is reestablished.
* TheNeedless: The standard Bell powerset in Effulgence includes no longer needing to [[TheSleepless sleep]] or [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace breathe]].
* NotAMorningPerson: Adarins in general can't really do much of anything before they have their tea in the morning.
* NukeEm: [[spoiler: Coin's method of choice for assassinating Shell Bell. It actually ''worked'', too, although she was brought BackFromTheDead quickly enough that she could convincingly claim to have survived it.]]
* OneWorldOrder: Gift has a single world government and no wars, thanks to [[LoveHungry Chelsa]] [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood brainwashing everyone]].
* OnlyOneName: Pretty common among Jokers.
* PenalColony: Shell Bell and Pattern each make one, although they're relatively nice by the standards of the trope. In Shell Bell's case, she just [[MassTeleportation teleports the Capitol and everyone in it]] to the moon, and adds an extra wing later to house [[spoiler: her would-be assassins]]. Pattern, meanwhile, terraforms Ganymede to be livable and puts Bane and all his co-conspirators there, occasionally adding some amenities to the place.
* PeoplePuppets: Torturers in Downside are able to take complete control of a single person's body at a time, although they can't control Contractors and get unreliable results when they try to control other Torturers.
* PhlebotinumRebel: Brilliance. He was created to serve as a planet-destroying weapon, and eventually one of his creators forgot to lock down his power output while [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing him]], so he blasted their planet in half, left, and did his best to ''not'' blow up any more planets.
* PhotographicMemory: Tends to be one of the first enhancements Bells give themselves when they become mints.
* PlayingWithFire: Shell Bell gets a wand of pyrokinesis in Milliways, and uses it during her rebellion to disrupt the Capitol's infrastructure. She later passes it on to Juliet, who uses it to intimidate vampires.
* {{Polyamory}}: Extremely common, since so many templates have a preference for it.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Katydid and Rain managed to go for ''months'' after [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse their]] [[ArrangedMarriage wedding]] before having a long enough conversation to realize that something fishy was going on.
* PortalCrossroadWorld: Pantheon seems to be shaping up to become this in Incandescence.
* PortalDoor: [[InnBetweenTheWorlds Milliways]] sometimes "possesses" doors, turning them into portals leading to the bar. And when opened from inside the bar, its door will typically serve as a portal to the homeworld of whoever opened it, although it can be forced to open to somewhere else given the right magic.
* PortalNetwork: The peal in Incandescence is building one, and use it as their primary means of interdimensional travel.
* PoweredArmor: Aegis wore a powered exoskeleton to counteract her otherwise-life-threatening levels of [[TheKlutz clumsiness.]] It did its job very well; with it on, she could move extremely precisely, to the point where she could SequenceBreak the [[UnwinnableByDesign Giant's Drink]] challenge.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Aelise's Gift allows her to extract LifeEnergy from people, then use the stored energy to extend people's lifespans. Before [[ResurrectiveImmortality Harley]] appeared, her two main sources of energy were [[HealingFactor Luhan]] (who regenerated) and [[WouldHurtAChild miscellaneous babies]] (who... didn't, although Chelsa ensured that nobody minded).
* RealityWarper: The Administrator. It's a bit ambiguous how much of her power is usable anywhere and how much is specific to Downside, but it's mostly a moot point, since she never voluntarily leaves Downside anyway.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Anyone who can torch has it. Conveniently, being torching-enabled also limits how much people will visibly age, even if they ''don't'' die regularly.
* ScienceFantasy: Pretty inevitable when you bring all those worlds into contact. In the case of Daevinity, it's actually pretty applicable even within a ''single'' world.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: T'Mir made a whole career of this, working as a surveyor for the opportunities it gives her to subtly violate the [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]] by giving away warp-drive technology to planets which didn't already have it.
* ScrewYourself: Pretty much the default response if multiple Jokers end up in a room together.
** Zevs also have an active interest in screwing themselves, to the point where Turtle talked Prime into scrying for another male version of himself specifically because he wanted to do it too.
* ShedTheFamilyName: Done by just about every Joker who had a family name in the first place.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Jokers, sometimes.
* TheSnarkKnight: '''Prime'''.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: One of the default modes of conversation that Bells and Adarins tend to slip into with each other.
* SuperpowerLottery: Stella won it very thoroughly when she became a mint; minting's combination of versatility and scalability makes it one of the strongest resources Effulgence's peal has.
* SuperpowerRussianRoulette: Going into [[WildMagic a magic]] on Tayane can have positive effects on people if they're lucky, but it's far more likely to transform them in some undesirable fashion, with the likelihood going up the longer they stay there.
* {{Terraform}}: Stella does it with Mars, and it eventually becomes a recurring fashion within the peal, with Juliet and Pattern each doing it with a different planet.
* TheoryOfNarrativeCausality: A lot of the metacausality Glass can see basically boils down to this, although it doesn't do so in an obvious enough fashion for anyone to notice in-universe.
* TortureTechnician: The Torturers in Downside.
* TranquilFury: Shell Bell's second response to learning that [[spoiler:Coin had her assassinated]].
-->"You're very glad you failed," says Shell Bell in a voice that might be quite pleasant under other circumstances. "It's the best possible outcome. If you had not failed, Sherlock would most likely have killed you with her bare hands. I, on the other hand, am just going to put you and everyone who helped you on [[PenalColony the moon]]. In fact, let's all go there right now."
* TrulySingleParent: Pretty common among Tonies.
* TheUnmasquedWorld: Daevinity, thanks to Revelation's work.
** Phaeton, too; unlike Sunshine, where the ExtraStrengthMasquerade is in full effect, Phaeton's residents actually caught on to the existence of vampires at some point, leading to some pretty major social changes.
* TheUnderworld: Downside was a particularly nasty one before the peal got to it. Afterwards, it was relatively nice, with all the torture removed and with the peal working on building the infrastructure for a mass-revival project.
* UpgradeArtifact: Wishcoins can be used to give people permanent nonmagical skills (in the case of pentagons) and permanent magical abilities (in the case of hexes).
* VegetarianVampire: Sunshine and Phaeton's Sherlocks weren't vegetarian by default, but they switched to it without any fuss after meeting their respective Bells.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Libby and Aelise both developed shades of this when faced with the risk of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Libby was relatively tame about it, just doing some spying and kidnapping, but Aelise [[OneWorldOrder took over the world]] with the help of [[LoveHungry Chelsa Dawning]] in order to [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans end war]] [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood by making everyone love each other]].
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: [[VancianMagic Spellbinders]]' spells recharge every midnight. Normally it's not particularly dramatic, but the time Katydid and Rain were [[spoiler: trapped under a ruined building without their spells]], the wait for midnight was a pretty big deal.
* WhichMe: Mostly [[AvertedTrope averted]] thanks to the use of disambiguating nicknames, but played hilariously when Savir meets Adams and has no idea how to refer to his wife in plural.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Libby and Stella got into a round of it after Stella started talking to Lazarus. It didn't get played to its conclusion, though, since Libby's conversation with Elspeth convinced her to ''help'' Stella instead.
* YoungConqueror: Bells tend to become this when their local government is a negative influence on society and can't be reformed from within the system.
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The two most well-developed roleplays in the set are [[http://belltower.dreamwidth.org/8579.html?style=site Effulgence]] (written by Alicorn and kappa) and [[http://alicornutopia.dreamwidth.org/7441.html?style=site Incandescence]] (written by Aestrix and Alicorn), both of which contain large numbers of [[AlternateUniverse individually-developed worlds]] which have then been [[{{Crossover}} crossed over]] with each other (with Effulgence tending more towards fanfictional worlds and Incandescence more towards original ones, although both of them have a mix).
In addition to those two, there are a few less-developed glowfics: [[http://pixiethreads.dreamwidth.org/ Pixiethreads]] (written by Aextrix and kappa), [[http://resplendent-circle.dreamwidth.org/568.html Resplendence]] (written by Aextrix, Alicorn, and kappa), and [[http://alicornutopia.dreamwidth.org/ various things in Alicorn's sandbox]] (written by Alicorn and various other people).
The vast majority of glowfic-related discussion takes place on [[http://alicorn.elcenia.com/board/index.php Alicorn's forum]].
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!! These roleplays contain examples of:
* AbusiveParents: A large fraction of the Jokers have them, although it's not strictly universal to the template.
* TheAgeless: Anyone who's torching-enabled in Effulgence and anyone who's had either Ice's immortality spell or her resurrection spell cast on them in Incandescence has their apparent age start trending towards early-twenties levels, and then just stay there.
* AgonyBeam: Stella designed one for the dual functions of producing coins and entertaining Alice, and its use spread through the rest of the peal.
** Brilliance's creators installed him with one, too, although it only works on him and was put there with much less friendly intent.
* AHellOfATime: Hell is, according to Revelation, pretty comfy.
--> '''Ice:''' Hell is really comfy, huh?
--> '''Revelation:''' The lakes of fire are not and have never been intended to contain people.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike: Played straight with Bell homeworlds, which tend to be Earth-like even when they're not Earth, but generally averted when they look for ''other'' planets.
* AlternateSelf: A core part of the premise.
* AmnesiacLover: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by [[spoiler:Shell]]. By the time she found Milliways, the only thing she could remember about her old life was that "[[MadnessMantra somebody loved me once]]".
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Natariem has Cricket kidnapped, and threatens to kill him (and thereby unmake Katydid) unless she [[ArrangedMarriage marries Rain]]. And he makes it look like the threat [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe came from Rain himself]].
* BrotherSisterIncest: Sometimes happens between Tonies and Sherlocks, depending on what their familial relationship actually ''is''.
* CameBackWrong: When Ice resurrected Cypress, he came back without his magic, which instead persisted as a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]]. His magic couldn't be reattached with him still alive, either, so he had to be killed ''again'' in order to be resurrected properly.
* ClosedCircle: Beast's castle was one for anyone who could find it at all; until the curse was lifted, the forest worked as a MobileMaze, turning anyone who tried to leave back around towards the castle.
* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] with Stella and Shell Bell's mind-reading powers; Stella went through a bunch of thought while designing hers, specifically for the sake of ensuring a coherent output, and Shell Bell copied Stella's version.
* CrapsackWorld: A bunch of them. Atlantis, Downside, and the Sunny worldfamily are just terrible in general before Bell intervention, and Materia's anti-causality makes it extremely hard to ''improve'' in significant ways.
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: By the time Ice and Cypress go to Pantheon, Spring is dead of old age.
* DeathIsCheap: In Effulgence, after the peal [[spoiler:takes control of Downside]], they can resurrect anyone whose world doesn't have its own afterlife.
* DimensionalTraveler: ''Extremely'' common in Effulgence once [[InterdimensionalTravelDevice Jane]] made interdimensional travel easy. Somewhat less common in Incandescence, but it's increasing as their PortalNetwork expands.
* DimensionLord: The Administrator of Downside is one, with magic able to NoSell even high-level wishcoins. Amariah also became one while fixing Alethia's afterlife, since it was easier to make a new dimension where she had complete control than it was to fix the old one.
* DoorstopBaby: Katie and Astrid.
* DrivenToSuicide: Chelise, after she alienates both Beast and Rose and spends ''days'' trying (and failing) to leave the ClosedCircle of Beast's castle, hangs herself.
* EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: Not necessarily ''within'' a given universe, but across the multiverse, Earth is more common than any other planet in Effulgence by a pretty large margin.
* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: Libby and Aelise both took this mentality, given the massive destructive potential of their worlds' magic. In Libby's case, it led her to perform some unethical spying and kidnapping, but not much more than that. [[WellIntentionedExtremist Aelise]], though, ended up building an [[OneWorldOrder empire]] on [[HumanResources dead babies]] and [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood mind control]], figuring that everyone being forced to love each other was preferable to everyone dying.
* FakingTheDead: Shell Bell and Tab both pulled it off in order to avoid drawing unwanted attention from their respective local governments while they worked with LaResistance.
** Cenozoia's Charlie also had his death faked as part of Butterfly's plan to de-Yeerk him.
* {{Familiar}}: Having a familiar is necessary to become a spellbinder in Hex.
* FourthWallObserver: Glass, to a very limited degree. She's not aware that the world is fictional, but her aura lets her see authorial intent (or, as she refers to it, metacausality). As a result, she's the peal's go-to member for determining how safe a world is, as well as the only one who's made progress in figuring out what's up with all the recurring templates.
* FusionDance: Shell Bell re-merges with Shell, after they figure out a merger protocol which doesn't leave Shell's trauma too close to the surface.
** Juliet also does a merger. Unlike Shell Bell, she actually split herself for the specific purpose of re-merging afterwards, in order to gain a copy of the memories she ''would'' have had of [[ArtificialHuman Soph]] if not for her mental opacity.
* GoodbyeCruelWorld: "[[TearJerker I didn't want much.]]"
* HappilyAdopted: Harley, who was kidnapped from his AbusiveParents and raised by Elspeth instead.
* HappilyMarried: A bunch of Bells with their respective love interests.
* HomosexualReproduction: Glass and Kanim work together to make a spell to pull it off.
* HumanMomNonhumanDad: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by the Bell template attractors; in any case where one of her parents is non-human, it's overwhelmingly likely to be Renée rather than Charlie.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Shell Bell is generally straight, but managed to make an exception for Pearl by emulating how she felt while under the influence of a LovePotion.
* IHateYouVampireDad: When Sunny Sherlocks get turned, the first thing they do is to kill everyone involved in turning them.
* ImmortalitySeeker: Figuring out how to distribute immortality is one of the most common projects for pre-pealing Bells to work on, when their worlds' magic systems support it.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Pearl starts being attracted to Shell Bell after watching her [[PlayingWithFire burn down a train station]].
* InnBetweenTheWorlds: Milliways.
* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: Jane is a sentient one, once she learns to imitate Sue's freecasting.
* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Certain templates end up meeting each other far more consistently than makes sense with just plain causality. Along with the fact that templates are a thing at all, this was one of the first major bits of [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality metacausality]] the peals became aware of.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Revelation. Not that it actually stopped the masquerade from [[TheUnmasquedWorld breaking down anyway]].
* KissOfTheVampire: Juliet is a fan.
* LivingBattery: Aelise recruits Harley as one, since his [[ResurrectiveImmortality torching]] makes him an infinite source of LifeEnergy.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Mass distribution of immortality tends to be one of the major Bell projects, and very few people have complained so far.
* LivingLieDetector: Part of the standard Bell powerset in Effulgence.
* LoveHungry: Chelseas tend to be this, and also tend to get magic capable of forcing people to love them.
* MakeAWish: Wishcoins allow their users to make wishes come true in what basically amounts to BenevolentGenie fashion. Smaller coins are limited to smaller wishes, and there are some things ''no'' coins can do (such as beating an ingot power), but they're still extremely versatile.
* MarriageBeforeRomance: Katydid and Rain, thanks to [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse the]] [[ArrangedMarriage gigantic]] [[PoorCommunicationKills mess]] that was their initial marriage.
* MassTeleportation: Once she becomes a mint, Shell Bell teleports the entire Capitol to the moon.
* MentalWorld: The mindscapes used by Enchanters.
* MobileMaze: The Witchwood in Rêverie was one until Beast's curse was broken. It ensured that most people wouldn't find his castle, but that anyone romantically compatible with him would both find it and get turned around whenever they tried to leave it.
* TheMultiverse: One of the major plot points in both Effulgence and Incandescence.
* NarniaTime: Worlds have their time synced up for as long as there's some sort of information-transfer going on between them, but whenever there isn't (for instance, [[spoiler:both times Jane breaks]]), they start getting massively desynced, with the time-passage ranging from a few minutes to a few decades before the connection is reestablished.
* TheNeedless: The standard Bell powerset in Effulgence includes no longer needing to [[TheSleepless sleep]] or [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace breathe]].
* NotAMorningPerson: Adarins in general can't really do much of anything before they have their tea in the morning.
* NukeEm: [[spoiler: Coin's method of choice for assassinating Shell Bell. It actually ''worked'', too, although she was brought BackFromTheDead quickly enough that she could convincingly claim to have survived it.]]
* OneWorldOrder: Gift has a single world government and no wars, thanks to [[LoveHungry Chelsa]] [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood brainwashing everyone]].
* OnlyOneName: Pretty common among Jokers.
* PenalColony: Shell Bell and Pattern each make one, although they're relatively nice by the standards of the trope. In Shell Bell's case, she just [[MassTeleportation teleports the Capitol and everyone in it]] to the moon, and adds an extra wing later to house [[spoiler: her would-be assassins]]. Pattern, meanwhile, terraforms Ganymede to be livable and puts Bane and all his co-conspirators there, occasionally adding some amenities to the place.
* PeoplePuppets: Torturers in Downside are able to take complete control of a single person's body at a time, although they can't control Contractors and get unreliable results when they try to control other Torturers.
* PhlebotinumRebel: Brilliance. He was created to serve as a planet-destroying weapon, and eventually one of his creators forgot to lock down his power output while [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing him]], so he blasted their planet in half, left, and did his best to ''not'' blow up any more planets.
* PhotographicMemory: Tends to be one of the first enhancements Bells give themselves when they become mints.
* PlayingWithFire: Shell Bell gets a wand of pyrokinesis in Milliways, and uses it during her rebellion to disrupt the Capitol's infrastructure. She later passes it on to Juliet, who uses it to intimidate vampires.
* {{Polyamory}}: Extremely common, since so many templates have a preference for it.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Katydid and Rain managed to go for ''months'' after [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse their]] [[ArrangedMarriage wedding]] before having a long enough conversation to realize that something fishy was going on.
* PortalCrossroadWorld: Pantheon seems to be shaping up to become this in Incandescence.
* PortalDoor: [[InnBetweenTheWorlds Milliways]] sometimes "possesses" doors, turning them into portals leading to the bar. And when opened from inside the bar, its door will typically serve as a portal to the homeworld of whoever opened it, although it can be forced to open to somewhere else given the right magic.
* PortalNetwork: The peal in Incandescence is building one, and use it as their primary means of interdimensional travel.
* PoweredArmor: Aegis wore a powered exoskeleton to counteract her otherwise-life-threatening levels of [[TheKlutz clumsiness.]] It did its job very well; with it on, she could move extremely precisely, to the point where she could SequenceBreak the [[UnwinnableByDesign Giant's Drink]] challenge.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Aelise's Gift allows her to extract LifeEnergy from people, then use the stored energy to extend people's lifespans. Before [[ResurrectiveImmortality Harley]] appeared, her two main sources of energy were [[HealingFactor Luhan]] (who regenerated) and [[WouldHurtAChild miscellaneous babies]] (who... didn't, although Chelsa ensured that nobody minded).
* RealityWarper: The Administrator. It's a bit ambiguous how much of her power is usable anywhere and how much is specific to Downside, but it's mostly a moot point, since she never voluntarily leaves Downside anyway.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Anyone who can torch has it. Conveniently, being torching-enabled also limits how much people will visibly age, even if they ''don't'' die regularly.
* ScienceFantasy: Pretty inevitable when you bring all those worlds into contact. In the case of Daevinity, it's actually pretty applicable even within a ''single'' world.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: T'Mir made a whole career of this, working as a surveyor for the opportunities it gives her to subtly violate the [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]] by giving away warp-drive technology to planets which didn't already have it.
* ScrewYourself: Pretty much the default response if multiple Jokers end up in a room together.
** Zevs also have an active interest in screwing themselves, to the point where Turtle talked Prime into scrying for another male version of himself specifically because he wanted to do it too.
* ShedTheFamilyName: Done by just about every Joker who had a family name in the first place.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Jokers, sometimes.
* TheSnarkKnight: '''Prime'''.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: One of the default modes of conversation that Bells and Adarins tend to slip into with each other.
* SuperpowerLottery: Stella won it very thoroughly when she became a mint; minting's combination of versatility and scalability makes it one of the strongest resources Effulgence's peal has.
* SuperpowerRussianRoulette: Going into [[WildMagic a magic]] on Tayane can have positive effects on people if they're lucky, but it's far more likely to transform them in some undesirable fashion, with the likelihood going up the longer they stay there.
* {{Terraform}}: Stella does it with Mars, and it eventually becomes a recurring fashion within the peal, with Juliet and Pattern each doing it with a different planet.
* TheoryOfNarrativeCausality: A lot of the metacausality Glass can see basically boils down to this, although it doesn't do so in an obvious enough fashion for anyone to notice in-universe.
* TortureTechnician: The Torturers in Downside.
* TranquilFury: Shell Bell's second response to learning that [[spoiler:Coin had her assassinated]].
-->"You're very glad you failed," says Shell Bell in a voice that might be quite pleasant under other circumstances. "It's the best possible outcome. If you had not failed, Sherlock would most likely have killed you with her bare hands. I, on the other hand, am just going to put you and everyone who helped you on [[PenalColony the moon]]. In fact, let's all go there right now."
* TrulySingleParent: Pretty common among Tonies.
* TheUnmasquedWorld: Daevinity, thanks to Revelation's work.
** Phaeton, too; unlike Sunshine, where the ExtraStrengthMasquerade is in full effect, Phaeton's residents actually caught on to the existence of vampires at some point, leading to some pretty major social changes.
* TheUnderworld: Downside was a particularly nasty one before the peal got to it. Afterwards, it was relatively nice, with all the torture removed and with the peal working on building the infrastructure for a mass-revival project.
* UpgradeArtifact: Wishcoins can be used to give people permanent nonmagical skills (in the case of pentagons) and permanent magical abilities (in the case of hexes).
* VegetarianVampire: Sunshine and Phaeton's Sherlocks weren't vegetarian by default, but they switched to it without any fuss after meeting their respective Bells.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Libby and Aelise both developed shades of this when faced with the risk of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Libby was relatively tame about it, just doing some spying and kidnapping, but Aelise [[OneWorldOrder took over the world]] with the help of [[LoveHungry Chelsa Dawning]] in order to [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans end war]] [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood by making everyone love each other]].
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: [[VancianMagic Spellbinders]]' spells recharge every midnight. Normally it's not particularly dramatic, but the time Katydid and Rain were [[spoiler: trapped under a ruined building without their spells]], the wait for midnight was a pretty big deal.
* WhichMe: Mostly [[AvertedTrope averted]] thanks to the use of disambiguating nicknames, but played hilariously when Savir meets Adams and has no idea how to refer to his wife in plural.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Libby and Stella got into a round of it after Stella started talking to Lazarus. It didn't get played to its conclusion, though, since Libby's conversation with Elspeth convinced her to ''help'' Stella instead.
* YoungConqueror: Bells tend to become this when their local government is a negative influence on society and can't be reformed from within the system.
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