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1	''The Gamers Live'' is a stage show recorded live at [=GenCon=] 2012, part of the series ''Franchise/TheGamers.'' It seems to be set between ''Film/TheGamersDorknessRising'' and ''Film/TheGamersHandsOfFate.'' Lodge, Gary, Leo, and Cass are playing a side campaign, as Joanna is busy at a tech rehearsal. Guided by suggestions from the audience, they send their characters on a quest for the Vorpal Blender of Mordor. The action switches between the game table and the [[DeepImmersionGaming in-game world]], as it does in the movies.
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3	The party for the night's game:
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5	* Cass: Klepty Snatch'n'grab, human rogue
6	* Gary: Samson, human fighter
7	* Leo: several characters created with audience input.
8	** Brutar, dwarf wizard
9	** Wiejyoudothat (pronounced "Why'd you do that?"), gnome alchemist
10	** Carl, Borg gunslinger
11	** Bob, half-ogre cavalier on a pony
12	*** The pony's name is Rainbow Sparkle
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14	[[DescendedCreator Writer Matt Vancil]] reprises his role as Mitch (Lodge's housemate) and also appears as various characters in-game.
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16	Further live shows, with slightly different casts, have been performed at every [=GenCon=] since.
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18	!!The show provides examples of following tropes:
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20	* ArtifactOfDoom: The Vorpal Blender of Mordor.
21	-->'''Lodge:''' It's really powerful, and it's obviously evil, and you need to cast it back into the [=KitchenAid=] factory that made it.
22	* AudienceParticipation: Audience members give suggestions and also come onstage to fill in for characters in the game world.
23	* CriticalFailure: Gary rolls a one during the goblin fight. Lodge tells him the result is that he manages to throw his sword and pull a hernia.
24	* DenOfIniquity: Crazy Isolde's brothel. With waffles.
25	* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Lodge tells the group about the Vorpal Blender of Mordor, Cass says it sounds like it makes really terrible margaritas. Gary responds, "Really good head-margaritas, though." Later, when the blender is finally found, Gary (as Samson) yells, "Sweet! I'm making some head-margaritas." [[spoiler:The guardian statue animates immediately afterward. Samson defeats it by jamming the blender over its head and pressing "puree."]]
26	* FourthWallObserver: For the early part of the show, Lodge is the only member of the cast who regularly interacts with the audience. The other characters occasionally ask about the strange noises in his house (applause) or wonder why he's talking to himself when he addresses the audience. As the show progresses, they move closer to NoFourthWall, commenting on costumes worn by audience members, etc.
27	* GirlScoutsAreEvil: They're actually goblins in disguise.
28	* {{Improv}}: The whole show.
29	* IntercontinuityCrossover: [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg]] showing up in Lodge's fantasy world.
30	* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Klepty attempts to speak to the goblins in their native language. According to Gary's translations, he actually says, "Wow, aren't my pants shiny?" and "It itches down there."
31	* PunnyName: Lots.
32	** Cass plays a rogue named Klepty Snatch'n'grab.
33	-->'''Gary:''' Oh right, he's from Lower Larcenia, isn't he?
34	-->'''Cass:''' That's right. In Takethatsomethingfromia. Northern region.
35	** The game opens in a tavern in the town of Questsnear--named, as the bartender helpfully explains, for its proximity to quests.
36	** Leo's second character, Wiejyoudothat.
37	* {{Sizeshifter}}: Crazy Isolde, thanks to an "enlarge self" spell.
38	* SoleSurvivor: After a near-{{Total Party Kill}}, the only character left standing is [[spoiler:Samson.]]
39	* TakeThat: The group has switched to playing TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} since ''Dorkness Rising.'' At one point, unimpressed by Lodge's [=GMing=], Gary snorts, "If you're not even going to ''try,'' we'll play TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons."
40	* TheQuest: Finding and destroying the Vorpal Blender of Mordor. [[spoiler:In the end, Samson decides to sell it to their world's BigBad instead of destroying it.]]
41	* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: It goes with all the punny names.
42	** Lodge's reaction to hearing the name of Cass's character.
43	-->'''Lodge:''' You're playing a rogue named "Klepty Snatch'n'grab"? That's the name his parents gave him?
44	** When Gary hears the name of Questsnear, he turns to Lodge and asks if he's "just making this shit up."
45	** Lodge reacts with a disbelieving ''"Really?"'' after an audience member suggests the name Wiejyoudothat.
46	* WrittenInAbsence: Joanna is busy at tech rehearsal and can't game that night.
47	* YouAllMeetInAnInn: Justified in that they're playing a one-shot side adventure and don't have a lot of time, so they don't want to do an elaborate set-up.

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