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* GuestStarPartyMember: In Episode 7, Lieutenant Torwyn of the Spire of Eternal Autumn joins the party to help them vanquish the orcs threatening her spire.

** In Episode 5, the group confronts the hag who's been terrorizing the village of Tallfield. Jiǔtóu appears to settle on trading Cam for Tallfield's safety, but just as she prepares to hand him over, she whispers "trust me" in his ear. The hag catches on to this and prepares to cast a magical spell, but Jiǔtóu shoves Cam forwards, causing him to collide with the hag and interrupt her spell. The episode cuts off there, though it's likely that the move destroyed any pretense of peaceful negotiation.

* FantasticRacism: Trell's species, the Drow, has a rather bad reputation, having only recently moved to the surface (they initially lived underground, until the Lightfall). Jiǔtóu also gets hit with this occasionally. Cam is always quick to come to their defense, however.

* HouseRules: The campaign is played according to the D&D 5th Edition's rules, albeit with some slight variations here and there: dark vision is swapped out for low-light vision, and dice damage is doubled for critical hits, instead of requiring two dice rolls. Drows' allergy to sunlight is also mostly ignored for practicality, since one of the main characters is a Drow and would thus be disadvantaged on a majority of his actions.

* NoSell: Jiǔtóu triggers a fire trap while exploring a hidden vault, but since she's a Tiefling, she is pretty much fire-resistant. At most, her clothing gets a bit singed.

** Mark rolling low whenever a monster goes to hit Jiǔtóu, allowing her to dodge most attacks.

* RunningGag: Cam almost vomitting every time Elora transforms.

* HouseRules: The campaign is played according to the D&D 5th Edition's rules, albeit with some slight variations here and there: dark vision is swapped out for low-light vision, and simply doubling one dice roll where normally two dice rolls are required.

** Jiǔtóu also steps onto one in the vault of an abandoned manor. It's a fire trap. She's a Tiefling. It has little effect.

* FluffyTamer: Jiǔtóu tries to be this in Episode 5, but [[FluffyTheTerrible Smiles]] the Death Dog refuses to play nice. Her efforts are pretty much destroyed when Trellimar decides to fire a crossbow bolt into the monster's neck, causing Smiles to attack them both. Jiǔtóu is {{Understatement|not pleased}}.

* {{Animorphism}}: After levelling up in Episode 2, Elora gains the Wild Shape ability, allowing her to transform into a dire wolf.

* BladeOnAStick: Jiǔtóu's WeaponOfChoice is a guandao.

* DealWithTheDevil: Trellimar is implied to have made one of these to survive an attack on his home, the Underdark.
* DeathGlare: Jiǔtóu is well-versed in these. Cam is almost always on the receiving end.

* GroinAttack: Cam is fond of executing these on monsters... even if they don't always appear to have genitals.
* HappilyAdopted: Having been abandoned as a baby, Cam was adopted by the Bucklands, a travelling troupe of entertainers, and "loves them to bits".
* HornedHumanoid: Jiǔtóu, due to her ancient ancestors having made pacts with demons for power.

* KnifeNut: As a knife thrower, Cam carries several daggers on his person.
* LastNameBasis: Since she finds Cam's behaviour aggravating, Jiǔtóu tells him to call her by her surname.
* LovableCoward: Cam, especially in Episode 1. This is in part due to Trott scoring low on the initiative rolls.
* MadeASlave: Part of Jiǔtóu's {{Backstory}}. After witnessing her parents' deaths at the hands of the Dragonborn, she was captured and forced to labor under a particularly cruel taskmaster. She eventually escaped, worked through the trauma and is now dead set on liberating as many tieflings as she can.
* TheNicknamer: Cam's showing shades of this. He comes up with "Tommy" for Tomas, the caravan master, and "G Unit" for Gulthia, a dryad. Hilariously, the former refuses, but the latter graciously accepts, even if she is somewhat puzzled by it.

* PrehensileTail: In Episode 1, Jiǔtóu makes use of her tail to retrieve her guandao and mostly succeeds, disregarding some cuts.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: According to Katie's character sheet, Elora is 113 years old, but looks like she's in her twenties.

* SimpleStaff: Elora's WeaponOfChoice. Due to her low strength stat, it's actually not very useful as a blunt weapon, though she can cast Shillelagh to have the damage output be determined by her wisdom stat instead.

* WrittenInAbsence: Since Trott was in the United States at the time to attend PAX South, Cam mysteriously disappears during Episode 3 (a cardboard cutout of Trott occupies his position at the table). It's explained at the beginning of Episode 4 that Cam got distracted by a pretty (married) woman and attempted to put the moves on her, to no effect.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Elora, who has bluish-purple hair.

* CliffHanger: Episode 1 ends with the group encountering the ghost of the elven queen Ayandris, who, upon seeing Jiǔtóu display the circlet of the queen's daughter as a sort of peace offering, shrieks at them, calling them "murderers".

* HappilyAdopted: Having been abandoned as a baby, Cam was adopted by the Bucklands, a travelling troupe of entertainers, and "loves them to bits". Although his reason for leaving them and travelling to Talis'val is still unknown, Trott's manner of phrasing indicates it likely wasn't because of bad blood.

* SimpleStaff: Elora's WeaponOfChoice. Due to her low strength stat, it's actually not very useful as a blunt weapon, though she can cast Shillelagh to have the damage output be determined by her wisdow stat instead.

* VitriolicBestBuds: The group seems to be developing into a version of this as they continue spending time with each other; Jiǔtóu, Trellimar and Elora bond over their mutual exasperation of Cam, who remains largely unfazed and cheery, though he too can snipe back at times.

* AbsenteeActor: Since Trott was in the United States at the time to attend PAX South, Cam mysteriously disappears during Episode 3. The players place a cardboard cut-out of Trott to occupy his position at the table.