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3 | ''Trapped in the Bird Cage'' is an ActualPlay show hosted by Holly Conrad and set in more-or-less the same universe as ''WebVideo/DiceCameraAction''. It is set 25 years before ''DCA'' and in the [[TabletopGame/{{Planescape}} City of Sigil]], which is almost literally the center of the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' multiverse. |
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5 | It starts with four complete strangers being sucked out of their universes and into a closet within a tea room run by an old lady wereraven called Crone, who then sets the newly-formed Crowbar Crew to various tasks which she says are necessary to save Sigil. |
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7 | The players are: |
8 | * Holly Conrad: GM and Crone |
9 | * Anna Prosser Robinson: Wilhemina, more often called Wil, a human thief and major kleptomaniac. |
10 | * Jimmy Whetzel: Saturn, a human bard with a love for the triangle. |
11 | * Chad Quandt: Reader, a [[TabletopGame/{{Eberron}} Warforged]] investigative rogue, looking for whoever killed his creator. |
12 | * Hadeel al-Massari: Nejma, an elven wizard and former circus performer with pyromaniacal tendencies. |
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15 | !!''Trapped in the Birdcage'' contains examples of: |
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17 | %%* ActionFashionista: Both Wil and [[CampGay Saturn]]. |
18 | * AllGaysArePromiscuous: If you are an attractive male, Saturn ''will'' hit on you or at least give you the eye. |
19 | %%* BigBad: "Us". |
20 | %%* BigGood: Crone, Mother, and Maiden, a triumvirate of wereravens. |
21 | * TheCameo: [[spoiler:A ten-year-old Strix]] (from ''Dice, Camera, Action!'') shows up in Episode Six, working at a bakery that's been taking in Blood War refugees. |
22 | %%* CampGay: Saturn. |
23 | %%* CityOfAdventure: Sigil, of course |
24 | %%* CoolOldLady: Crone. |
25 | * EveryoneHasStandards: When the team goes to the doughnut shop staffed by children, all of them but [[TokenEvilTeammate Wil]] worry that the children there are being exploited. [[spoiler: They're refugees of the Blood War, willing working there to make ends meet.]] |
26 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: Wil, in what Anna calls "a rare outburst of genuine emotion", is genuinely grateful after Reader saves Wil's life, both hugging and kissing him. |
27 | %%* HiveMind: "Us", [[spoiler: a collective of cranium rats]]. |
28 | %%* {{Jerkass}}: Yox, an ooze mephit (played by Holly's husband) who is Crone's familiar. |
29 | * NeverMyFault: Nejma always has an excuse, usually flimsy, as to why it wasn't her who set that thing on fire. |
30 | * PlayingWithFire: Nejma favorite spells are fire related and she's not at all careful as to what she uses them on. |
31 | * RagtagBunchOfMisfits: By design. GM Holly made the players all design their characters with no knowledge of what the others were making, which is why there's two rogues and no fighter type instead of a balanced party. The characters never even met each other until winding up in a dark closet together. |
32 | * StickyFingers: Wilhemina will basically grab anything that's not nailed down. And if it is, just give her a few minutes with her crowbar and it won't be. %% Also Saturn to a lesser extent. |
33 | * TheMedic: Saturn, by virtue of being the only member of the party with healing spells. |
34 | * TokenEvilTeammate: She's not evil in the murderous sense, but Will is clearly the team member who cares least for anyone but herself. When they visit the bakery [[spoiler:where Strix lives]], she's the only one who cares nothing about the children there. |
35 | %%* TokenGoodTeammate: Reader. None of the others are actually ''evil'', but all have a definite disregard for the law. |
36 | %%* WretchedHive: Not ''all' of Sigil is this but much of it is and, being adventurers, the crew spends a lot of time in the less savory parts of town by necessity. |
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