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3 | ->''There's no room for heroes in the Void.'' |
4 | -->-- '''Kasby Bellwood, pilot''' |
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6 | Starting in 2008, Tropers/SunshineDuk ran an online roleplay for a group of his friends. The initial group of six players spiralled uncontrollably over the course of eight months to include two dozen drop-in drop-out players, divided into numerous groups, all part of the same sprawling saga. The game was played out over AIM, and of course Duk saved all the chatlogs. |
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8 | Obviously, when the game finished, everyone wanted to know everything that had happened--any one person had been privy to at most a quarter of the full storyline. So Duk decided to take the logs and tidy them up, editing them together into a coherent novel-style narrative. Two years later, he's finally almost done. |
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10 | The ongoing story can be found at http://thehopesaga.blogspot.com |
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13 | !!This series provides examples of: |
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15 | * ActionSurvivor: Pretty much everyone in the Void is one, by necessity. |
16 | * AirborneAircraftCarrier: The Roost. |
17 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Seth Quinn is surrounded by ladies. |
18 | * AlwaysChaoticEvil: How demons get viewed. The reality... is that there are very very occasional very slight exceptions. |
19 | * AntiHero: All of the Talons. They're really just in it for themselves, and wind up being helpful mostly by accident. |
20 | * AnyoneCanDie: And if you like them, probably will. Especially as you get closer to the Finale. |
21 | * ApocalypticLog: Daniel Bellwood's journal. |
22 | * BadassBookworm: Again, most folk in the Void, courtesy of being adventure scientists who fight demons. |
23 | * BadassNormal: By the end, Kasby is the only one who doesn't have any special powers. He still kicks ass and takes names. |
24 | * BadassLongcoat: Seth is very fond of his. |
25 | * BattleCouple: Taken to extremes by Kasby and Jaz, who don't stop making out to kill a demon. |
26 | * BigBad: The Devourer. |
27 | * BladeBelowTheShoulder: [[spoiler:Devoured Jaz has a crystal blade instead of a right hand.]] |
28 | * BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler:Magic.]] |
29 | * CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Jaz. Oh dear.]] |
30 | * CoolAirship: It took the cast ten sessions to build it. You bet your ass the ''Quinn'' is one. |
31 | * CombatTentacles: The Devourer Larvae use these. |
32 | * ConvectionSchmonvection: Being fireproof comes packaged with Giraffe's pyromancy. |
33 | * CunningLinguist: Owl, though only for written languages. |
34 | * DeadpanSnarker: Giraffe and Reno, for their respective groups. |
35 | * TheDragon: Magid for the Devourer. |
36 | * EldritchAbomination: The Devourer borders on this. |
37 | * EverythingTryingToKillYou: A fact of life in the Void. Any animals are escaped angry demons. The ground itself will stab you if you dig wrong. |
38 | * FeatheredFiend / CreepyCrows: Torrential Black, Chun's demon, is a giant four-winged crow. |
39 | * FullContactMagic: Giraffe is the purest example. |
40 | * GrandFinale: And how. Five guest [=GMs.=] |
41 | * HeroicSacrifice: By the dozens. |
42 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: _____ Hope. |
43 | * JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: The entirety of Bloodred Hope. |
44 | * LivingShadow: Three separate instances! Umbra, Kiara's demon; the creature in the bottom of the mineshaft; and of course the ever-mysterious Shadows. |
45 | * {{Magitek}}: Most machinery is powered by demon-charged crystals. Guns that shoot magic are fairly common. |
46 | * MacGuffin: The box, whatever it is. It's clearly important! |
47 | * TheMedic: Chun, for the Talons. Complete with gratuitous amputation. |
48 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Spider let the Devourer out in the first place. |
49 | * ObstructiveBureaucrat: Coordinator Ammon, much to Kasby's frustration. |
50 | * OurDemonsAreDifferent: Anything (or anyone) with magic qualifies as one. They tend to be strange, not remotely humanoid creatures that are angry and full of power. |
51 | * PlayingWithFire: Giraffe is a pyromancer. You do the math. |
52 | * PhotographicMemory: Owl has natural eidetic memory, hence her original job as a rememorist. |
53 | * RankScalesWithAsskicking: Mercuria Barret, Inner Council Security Secretary. Old woman, complete badass. |
54 | * RedBaron: Cyclops. His real name is [[spoiler:never revealed.]] |
55 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Played with. The entire crew of the Quinn has red eyes, due to their powers. |
56 | * SavingTheWorld: It takes them a while to realize that's what they're doing, though. |
57 | * SceneryGorn: Sorry, did you like that city? |
58 | * ScavengerWorld: It's not that no one knows how to make stuff anymore--quite the opposite, they're all scientists. They just don't have the facilities or factories to make things. |
59 | * SchizoTech: Guns that shoot magic. Airships. Swords. Very occasional computers. Power plants. |
60 | * SeriousBusiness: Goat takes sandwich-making very seriously. Don't get between him and a loaf of bread. |
61 | * SealedEvilInACan: The demons, as well as specifically the Devourer. |
62 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Kasby starts out at the idealistic end. Doesn't stay there. (Goat does, though!) |
63 | * SteamPunk: Elements of the aesthetic tend to show up, but most everything is powered by magic rather than steam. |
64 | * StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Dr. Emerson tries to pull this on Skunk and Owl. It doesn't end well. |
65 | * {{Synchronization}}: Between the Talons and their demons. |
66 | * TouchedByVorlons: The crew gain their powers from direct exposure to the Devourers. |
67 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Goat and sandwiches, obviously, but Skunk's love of dried mushrooms also gets mentioned on numerous occasions. |
68 | * TraumaCongaLine: Kasby, for the entire story. As the story opens, he's the sole survivor of the memepocalypse that wiped out his city. Things go downhill from there. |
69 | * TrueCompanions: The Talons. Despite Kasby's best efforts, the crew of the ''Quinn'' never remotely becomes this, though. |
70 | * WhamEpisode: The end of the Rising Hope arc. |
71 | * WhatTheHellHero: Spider to Seth, after the Talons casually murder Sector One's perimeter guards. |
72 | * WorldOfBadass: Kind of a requirement to survive in the Void. |
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