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* MadScientist: Nova, most evidently when she concocts a plan to [[spoiler: nullify the resource cost of Raise Dead by having Qill get struck by lightning in the Valley of Storms.]]
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* PleaseWakeUp: Similar to Cam reacting to [[spoiler:Jiǔtóu]]'s death in the Lightfall campaign, Lucius's first reaction to hearing that [[spoiler:Sentry]] has died is to just rationalize it away, saying that it couldn't possibly be true, they're too strong to die.

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* PleaseWakeUp: Similar to Cam reacting to [[spoiler:Jiǔtóu]]'s death in the Lightfall campaign, Lucius's first reaction to hearing that [[spoiler:Sentry]] has died is to just rationalize it away, saying that it couldn't possibly be true, they're too strong to die. He does the same [[spoiler: when Qill is killed, as well.]]
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Once the Lightfall campaign finished, they now play in Mark’s new campaign, “Aerois”.

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Once With the Lightfall campaign finished, they now play in Mark’s new campaign, “Aerois”.
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* CatchPhrase: Aila tends to respond to most threats by announcing "I'm gonna whack it."
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* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: The rest of the party's reaction to Lucius [[spoiler: killing two cows because he had never seen cows before and assumed they were evil.]] They're just as amazed at the lack of knowledge as they are the act.

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* RaceAgainstTheClock: After [[spoiler: Sentry dies]], the party has 10 days to find [[spoiler:somebody with the ability to cast Raise Dead before Sentry is gone forever]].
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* AbortedArc: After the events of "The Purge", [[spoiler: ''everything'' the party had planned and all of their quests are thrown out the window because 1) Sentry was dead and resurrecting her was top priority, and 2) they weren't even on the same continent anymore.]]


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* SayingTooMuch: Out-of-character, Tom has known habit of accidentally reminding Mark about things he forgot to do, errors which more often than not were in the party's favor.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Even in Mark's own notes he sometimes spells names different each time, so it's hard to know the exact spelling of some of the names.
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* {{Necromancer}}: In Kayley's Rest the party meets a [[spoiler: Guardian named Breeze who says he has a way to recharge Guardians and increase their lifespan from the normal 15 years. They agree to help one of their other Guardian friends who is at the very end of his 15 years, and when they arrive at the ritual they find that the source of the energy Breeze was going to recharge with was a HumanSacrifice.]]

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* {{Necromancer}}: In Kayley's Kalie's Rest the party meets a [[spoiler: Guardian named Breeze who says he has a way to recharge Guardians and increase their lifespan from the normal 15 years. They agree to help one of their other Guardian friends who is at the very end of his 15 years, and when they arrive at the ritual they find that the source of the energy Breeze was going to recharge with was a HumanSacrifice.]]



* PlayingWithFire: In Kayley's Rest they encounter a cult who specialize in fire magic.

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* PlayingWithFire: In Kayley's Kalie's Rest they encounter a cult who specialize in fire magic.
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* DisasterDominoes: [[spoiler: Starbane's summoning is the result of a long chain of these for the Party. Their failure to stealthily infiltrate the Abbey means they have to fight a long drawn-out battle to reach the secret tunnel. Because of the long drawn-out battle they get beaten down to the point that one of them is dead and the others are knocked unconscious and captured. Because they were captured, they couldn't stop the Abbottess from activating the portal to Phlegethos. Because they didn't know how else to close the portal to Phlegethos, Valla has to input the code she mysteriously knows to change the portal's destination. That code is the one to Starbane's throne room.]]
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* DarkestHour: Episode 25. [[spoiler:By the halfway point Sentry is dead, and the rest have been captured, reduced to 1 hit point, and are out of spell slots]].

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* DarkestHour: Episode 25.26, "The Purge". [[spoiler:By the halfway point Sentry is dead, and the rest have been captured, reduced to 1 hit point, and are out of spell slots]].
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* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: After Sentry's death, Nova starts acting detached and blames herself for what happened, saying that it was her failure that got Sentry killed. The other three are also affected, but less so, and Lucius even goes out of his way to try and help her stop blaming herself.]]

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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:When they first face Kalus Starbane, he is very polite to them and deliberately spares them as a repayment for having protected his daughter (if unwittingly) so steadfastly, and even gives them the resources to resurrect the recently died Sentry in gratitude.]]



* FauxAffablyEvil: The party encounter so many people like this they give the phenomena of them getting duped a nickname based on the first such encounter: Getting [[spoiler:[[PersonAsVerb Brookstoned]].]]

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* FauxAffablyEvil: The party encounter so many people like this they give the phenomena of them getting duped a nickname based on the first such encounter: Getting [[spoiler:[[PersonAsVerb "[[spoiler:[[PersonAsVerb Brookstoned]].]]]]"



* GuestStarPartyMember: In a twist from how it happened in the first campaign, the first new player character to join the party was played by one of the regular players, [[spoiler: Rhiannon specifically, because Sentry had been killed and the others given a quest to resurrect her, so she wouldn't have to just sit out the intervening sessions.]]



* {{Necromancer}}: In Kayley's Rest the party meets a [[spoiler: Guardian named Breeze who says he has a way to recharge Guardians and increase their lifespan from the normal 15 years. They agree to help one of their other Guardian friends who is at the very end of his 15 years, and when they arrive at the ritual they find that the source of the energy Breeze was going to recharge with was a HumanSacrifice.]]



* PleaseWakeUp: Similar to Cam reacting to [[spoiler:Jiǔtóu]]'s death in the Lightfall campaign, Lucius's first reaction to hearing that [[spoiler:Sentry]] has died is to just rationalize it away, saying that it couldn't possibly be true.

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* PleaseWakeUp: Similar to Cam reacting to [[spoiler:Jiǔtóu]]'s death in the Lightfall campaign, Lucius's first reaction to hearing that [[spoiler:Sentry]] has died is to just rationalize it away, saying that it couldn't possibly be true.true, they're too strong to die.
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** TheHeart: Sentry. As a paladin she is the team's other healer. [[spoiler: Even if she's the one hit by BigGuyFatalitySyndrome]]

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** TheHeart: Sentry. As a paladin she is the team's other healer. [[spoiler: Even if she's [[LosingTheTeamSpirit And the one hit by BigGuyFatalitySyndrome]]Party starts to fall apart after she dies]].]]
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* AllThereInTheManual: Mark's "Behind the Screen" streams provide a lot of extra information on the stuff the party encounters. It's also the only place to learn how to [[SpellMyNameWithAnS spell almost all of the names]].

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Mark also has a show on his own Twitch channel called "Behind the Screen", where he answers viewer questions about his worldbuilding and dungeon mastering for the campaign. His players are very explicitly forbidden from watching lest they learn something they aren't supposed to know yet.



Kim has [[=GMed=]] a couple of one off episodes set in the same world but on the opposite side of the continent with different characters two of which have been played by Katie and Matt.

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Kim has [[=GMed=]] [=GMed=] a couple of one off episodes set in the same world but on the opposite side of the continent with different characters two of which have been played by Katie and Matt.
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* DarkestHour: Episode 25. [[spoiler:By the end of it Sentry is dead, and the rest have been captured, reduced to 1 hit point, and are out of spell slots]].

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* DarkestHour: Episode 25. [[spoiler:By the end of it halfway point Sentry is dead, and the rest have been captured, reduced to 1 hit point, and are out of spell slots]].

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: [[spoiler:When Sentry died, Rhiannon was hit pretty hard and had to walk off the stream to take care of herself. After coming back, and seeing the rest of the party get given a chance to resurrect her, she very quickly cheers up as she realizes that this means they have to haul her 300-pound lifeless body around until they bring her back to life]].



* DarkestHour: Episode 25. [[spoiler:By the end of it Sentry is dead, and the rest have been captured, reduced to 1 hit point, and are out of spell slots]].



* FauxAffablyEvil: The party encounter so many people like this they give the phenomena of them getting duped a nickname based on the first such encounter: Getting [[spoiler:[[PersonAsVerb Brookstoned]] ]]

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* FauxAffablyEvil: The party encounter so many people like this they give the phenomena of them getting duped a nickname based on the first such encounter: Getting [[spoiler:[[PersonAsVerb Brookstoned]] Brookstoned]].]]
* FiveManBand: After their first two dozen episodes the party dynamic has worked itself out as such:
** TheLeader: Qill, reluctantly. He can inspire and heal the rest of the team when they need it.
** TheLancer: Lucius. His Daddy's Boy personality and inattentiveness stands as sharp contrast to Qill's world-weary wisdom and sharp focus.
** TheSmartGuy: Nova. A very well-read arcanist and technologist.
** TheBigGuy: Aila. A barbarian with a [[DropTheHammer big hammer]].
** TheHeart: Sentry. As a paladin she is the team's other healer. [[spoiler: Even if she's the one hit by BigGuyFatalitySyndrome]]
** SixthRanger: Valla. She occasionally joins the group for a fight or two before they force her to sit back so she doesn't get hurt.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When [[spoiler:Sentry has died and the rest of the party considers bargaining with an Archdemon to get her back, Rhiannon can be seen shaking her head and emphatically mouthing ''No'' over and over again, unacknowledged by the other players.
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* InopportuneVoiceCracking: Kim intentionally makes her voice crack whenever Nova is the most stressed out or scared.


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* PleaseWakeUp: Similar to Cam reacting to [[spoiler:Jiǔtóu]]'s death in the Lightfall campaign, Lucius's first reaction to hearing that [[spoiler:Sentry]] has died is to just rationalize it away, saying that it couldn't possibly be true.

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!!High Rollers !!The Lightfall Campaign contains examples of:of:

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* DeathByLookingUp: In the Aerois Campaign, the party manage kill ''four'' people this way at once, when they drop a church bell on top of some cultists.



* PersonAsVerb: In the Aerois campaign, after their first such experience, the party starts call being tricked by people pretending to be nice to them "getting [[spoiler:Brookstoned]]".



** Episode 14: Katie was absent during this episode, and it was covered by saying Elora was off to get help for the group. While Trott returned, his character was supposedly still practicing his performance, so he played a temporary character: a Broken Sky recruit named Wald. In Episode 15, [[spoiler:it was revealed that "Wald" was in fact Cam all along, simply disguised.]]

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** Episode 14: Katie was absent during this episode, and it was covered by saying Elora was off to get help for the group. While Trott returned, his character was supposedly still practicing his performance, so he played a temporary character: a Broken Sky recruit named Wald. In Episode 15, [[spoiler:it was revealed that "Wald" was in fact Cam all along, simply disguised.]]]]

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!!The Aerois Campaign contains examples of:

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* AintTooProudToBeg: When faced with the prospect of [[spoiler:an Archdevil invading the world]], the party skips straight to attempting to bargain with him, until they realise they can stop his plan.
* DealWithTheDevil: After [[spoiler: Sentry]] died, only a few hours later they were faced with an imfamous maker of deals: [[spoiler: An Archdevil. However, the deal he proposes was just ''not'' worth it, so they close the portal he was going to come through, throwing away their chance... until the portal opens again and presents them with another equally powerful creature: [[BiggerBad Kalus Starbane]]. As it turns out, they've been protecting his daughter for the last few weeks, so he was grateful, and gives them a chance to bring Sentry back, but they have to work for it.]]
* DeathByLookingUp: The party manage to kill ''four'' people this way at once, when they drop a church bell on top of some cultists.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The party encounter so many people like this they give the phenomena of them getting duped a nickname based on the first such encounter: Getting [[spoiler:[[PersonAsVerb Brookstoned]] ]]
* {{Golem}}: One of Mark's new homebrew races is the Guardians, a race of very advanced Golems created to be soldiers, workers, and servants. The technology to make them has been lost, and they are designed to only live 15 years, though long-term hibernation does pause their countdown. When they reach the end of their time, they either just shut off, never to turn back on again, or [[FaceMonsterTurn go feral]]. Player character Sentry is an even more advanced version, designed to be a Royal Guard in an ancient city.
* IdenticalStranger: As it turns out, Lucius looks exactly identical to [[spoiler:an ancient prince from another world, who an elf from Aerois fell in love with and went crazy trying to physically meet.]]
* TheNeedless: Guardians don't need to eat or drink, but they can if they want to. They do however require intermittent rest periods, just as often as a human would need sleep.
* PersonAsVerb: After their first such experience, the party starts to call being tricked by [[FauxAffablyEvil people pretending to be nice to them]] "getting [[spoiler:Brookstoned]]".
* PlayingWithFire: In Kayley's Rest they encounter a cult who specialize in fire magic.
* TagalongKid: Valla is this for the party, as a TeenGenius who wants to be an ActionGirl. She's very resourceful, deceptively powerful, extra stealthy, and at one point the party admits that she may be smarter than any of them. They struggle pretty hard to balance her being a useful part of the team with her being safe.
* WhamLine: At the end of a quest to stop a crazy fire cult [[spoiler: from unwittingly summoning a army of demons from one of the Nine Hells, they manage to get to the portal they were going to come through, distract the Archdevil while they stall for time, and then Valla punches in a seemingly random code to change the portal's co-ordinates, closing the portal. Woohoo, day saved! [[OhCrap And then the portal opens again, to a new location]]. It's a dark room, lit by points of light that glitter like stars. [[WhamShot At the far end of the room is a man, sitting on a throne. The party instantly recognise him]]: [[BiggerBad Kalus Starbane]]. He gets up, surprised, and walks through the portal, seeing Valla standing in front of the portal controls, and says to her:]]
--> "[[spoiler:Valla, my daughter...]]"

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* PersonAsVerb: In the Aerois campaign, after their first such experience, the party starts call being tricked by people pretending to be nice to them "getting [[spoiler:Brookstoned]]".
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* Chris as Lucious Elenasto, a high elf [[LightEmUp arcane chromat]].

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* Chris as Lucious Lucius Virion Elluin Elenasto, a high elf [[LightEmUp arcane chromat]].
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* 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]].

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* 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]].pleased.
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-->'''Kim:''' You literally just desecrated the girl who was killed by the mace, which is the reason why the queen is angry and now you've just like smashed her bones up even more! [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Why didn't you just pee on it as well?!]] Jesus!

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-->'''Kim:''' You literally just desecrated the girl who was killed by the mace, which is the reason why the queen is angry and now you've just like smashed her bones up even more! [[CrowningMomentOfFunny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Why didn't you just pee on it as well?!]] Jesus!
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* PutThemOutOfMyMisery: [[spoiler: This is eventually revealed to be the motivation of the BigBad of the Broken Sky, Princess Felliana. During the lightfall she was impaled by a Dawn Shard and ''lived'', and has lived the entire time since in constant agony because the Dawn Shard couldn't be removed without killing her.]]

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* PutThemOutOfMyMisery: PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: [[spoiler: This is eventually revealed to be the motivation of the BigBad of the Broken Sky, Princess Felliana. During the lightfall she was impaled by a Dawn Shard and ''lived'', and has lived the entire time since in constant agony because the Dawn Shard couldn't be removed without killing her.]]
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* PutThemOutOfMyMisery: [[spoiler: This is eventually revealed to be the motivation of the BigBad of the Broken Sky, Princess Felliana. During the lightfall she was impaled by a Dawn Shard and ''lived'', and has lived the entire time since in constant agony because the Dawn Shard couldn't be removed without killing her.]]

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* Matthew Tofollo as Trellimar Aleath, a drow warlock. (Matt had left but has returned for now)

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* Matthew Tofollo as Trellimar Aleath, a drow warlock. (Matt had eventually left the show, occasionally returning for cameos, but has returned for now)he was officially replaced by...)



The group's members have varying expertise when it comes to Dungeons and Dragons. Both Mark and Trott play regularly in their own time, while Katie is very familiar with it thanks to WebVideo/CriticalRole, but hadn't played the game herself prior to the series. Kim, Matt, and Tom are essentially newcomers to the whole thing.

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For the second (Aerois) campaign:

* Chris as Lucious Elenasto, a high elf [[LightEmUp arcane chromat]].
* Kim as Nova V'Ger, an air genasi warlock.
* Katie as Aila, a wild elf barbarian.
* Tom as Qillek Ad Khollar, an aarakocra bard/cleric multiclass.
* Rhiannon Gower as Sentry, a guardian paladin.

The group's members have varying expertise when it comes to Dungeons and Dragons. Both Mark and Trott play regularly in their own time, while Katie is very familiar with it thanks to WebVideo/CriticalRole, but hadn't played the game herself prior to the series. Kim, Matt, Tom, and Tom are Rhiannon were all essentially newcomers to the whole thing.
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** Reynard was ''originally'' just a guest party member, filling in the fourth player slot after Matt left, but for various reasons (among them being that Tom was always available to play), he became the permanent fourth party member.
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Kim has [[=GMed=]] a couple of one off episodes set in the same world but on the opposite side of the continent with different characters two of which have been played by Katie and Matt.
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* Matthew Tofollo as Trellimar Aleath, a drow warlock. (Matt has since left the show, being replaced by...)

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* Matthew Tofollo as Trellimar Aleath, a drow warlock. (Matt has since had left the show, being replaced by...)but has returned for now)

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