History Webcomic / Weregeek

* WeHaveBeenResearchingPhlebotinumForYears: The series begins with Mark drooling at a look on dice and being chased by {{The Hunter}}s. He is saved by Joel and the others, who explain to him that he is a weregeek, just like themselves, which is why he was being hunted. It is much later explained that [[spoiler:Joel, in fact, is the leader of LaResistance hunting the Hunters and he knows much more about them than he tells anyone]].

* WelcomedToTheMasquerade: The story starts with Mark being chased by {{The Hunter}}s, before stumbling into a vampire coven meeting where he receives his welcome to TheMasquerade... by being turned into a vampire himself. Then it turns out, that it's all just DeepImmersionGaming: the hunters are just regular bullies, and the vampires are a bunch of geeks {{LARP}}ing ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade''. Still, TheMasquerade takes place IRL, as well, as the geeks have to hide their {{geek}}dom from NormalPeople, and Mark (a repressed geek himself) is welcomed to the geek subcultures for real this time.

Mark once was just an [[TheEveryman ordinary guy]] with an office job and a blonde girlfriend. Except that every once in a while he had a strange urge to hang in front of a tabletop RPG store and stare at its wares pointlessly... Then one day, after a run in with the local [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire coven]] and {{The Hunter}}s, he discovered a mind-blowing truth: there is a secret society out there, TheMasquerade... [-OF {{GEEK}}S!-] And he is [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster one of them]], "a human by day and a geek by night"...

* XanatosGambit: This is how Joel captures [[spoiler:TheHunter [[http://www.weregeek.com/2010/01/27/ here]]: either the Hunter grabs his hand, putting himself into Joel's power, or he falls into the net below. The second part worked.]]

* TheHunter: There's a whole organization of them here. They hunt geeks though what they do to them or their background has not yet been elaborated.

* GenreSavvy: Joel has been showing this.

*** Even more recently, the latest portion of the Vampire LARP had two deaths of PCs -- [[spoilers: Joel's Demetrius and Dustin's Matthews.]]

* ClosetGeek: Mark. ''He'' knows about his nerdiness, but hides it from his co-workers and girlfriend for fear of being laughed at. He eventually stopped hiding it from his girlfriend [[spoiler:and it factored into their later break-up]].

* UnwatedAssistance: [[InvokedTrope Abbie's PC Twitch]] (we mentioned ComedicSociopathy already, right?):

* StopHelpingMe: [[InvokedTrope Abbie's PC Twitch]] (we mentioned ComedicSociopathy already, right?):
-->'''Twitch:''' ''(to Aeon)'' [[http://www.weregeek.com/2008/03/28/ ...you're wearing body armor, right?]]\\
[...]\\
'''Author:''' [[http://www.weregeek.com/2008/03/31/ At least she remembered to say sorry]]... Remember chummers -- when you "accidentally" blow up your teammates, always apologize afterwards. It's good Shadowrunning etiquette.

* FanGirl: Abbie

* StockSoundEffect: In the D&D game, when guards are falling down a magically-greased staircase, one of them uses the Wilhelm Scream.

* TakeThat: When Abbie and Sarah provide ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' and ''Literature/GabrielsInferno'' as examples of fanfiction writers who went pro, Sarah responds: "I meant a ''good'' pro writer."

* TakeThat: When Abbie and Sarah provide ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey and ''GabrielsInferno'' as examples of fanfiction writers who went pro, Sarah responds: "I meant a ''good'' pro writer."

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Played with. Dustin's brother Bruce certainly 'believes' this is the case between the two of them. Since he is thinks it's childish for Dustin to still have geeky hobbies at his age. Dustin however is quick to point out him he works hard and has a girlfriend.

* PetitePride: Right after Katie and Sarah are busy complaining about how expensive it is having to buy custom bras so they fit, they glare scathingly at Abbie who says she can just pick up from the rack at Walmart for a fraction of the cost.

** For October, the Halloween story forced on a [[WerewolfTheApocalypse Werewolf]] LARP.