Line #13 Webcomic/IngressAdventuringCompany


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ingress_toivo.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:Toivo Kissa, the wizard professor protagonist prone to adventure and disaster in equal measure.]]
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4	''[[http://ingress-comic.com// Ingress Adventuring Company ]]'' is a fantasy adventure webcomic written by Kay Rossbach. The comic is about a wizard professor named Toivo Kissa, who runs a one-man adventuring party. He is joined by a rotating cast of characters, including his irritable daughter, Rosemary, and the intimidating secretary, Jessica. Each chapter is episodic and follows a monster of the week format.
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8	!! ''Ingress Adventuring Company'' contains examples of:
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10	* ActionDad: Toivo balances his adventures with parenting his teenage daughter Rosemary.
11	* AnimatingArtifact: Enfyn’s Heart is said to bring people back from the dead, but [[spoiler: according to Toivo it attaches a soul to a corpse like a puppet, so they’re not actually alive.]]
12	* AnimeHair: Toivo has an orange streak in his hair and the secretary Jessica has two-toned hair.
13	* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Rosemary's mom has yet to be mentioned in the comic.
14	* AmicableExes: [[spoiler:Toivo and Aidan]] have been revealed to have shared a romantic relationship in the past, but still get along.
15	* BanOnMagic: Certain kinds of magic, like BloodMagic, are highly illegal.
16	* CarryingACake: In Chapter 2, Toivo uses a cake as a weapon against a demon, essentially destroying it for Professor Leon’s anniversary celebration.
17	* ChekhovsGun: Multiple through the comic.
18	** In Chapter 3, both the rain buckets that are littered throughout Toivo’s house and the boxes of wands laying around in the [[spoiler: ghost room.]] Both are later [[spoiler: used to defeat the big bad ghost that appears.]]
19	** Chapter 4, Enfyn’s Heart is the obvious one. It’s shown prominently at the beginning of the chapter, then used at the end to [[spoiler: bring back a mysterious figure from the dead.]]
20	* DeadGuyPuppet: Derik takes this to an extreme by [[spoiler: creating a whole new body out of the villagers of Enkester to puppet around.]]
21	* DungeonBasedEconomy: The titular company seems to run off of this trope.
22	* EveryScarHasAStory: Derik and Toivo share matching scars on the backs of their hands, both in the shapes of magic circles.
23	* ExperiencedProtagonist: Toivo is shown to be well-versed at magic when the comic begins.
24	* FaceYourFears: In Chapter 3, Toivo is forced to open the closet to finally face [[spoiler: the literal ghosts of those relationships that he unconsciously conjured up as a means of not dealing with the pain of rejection.]]
25	* HolyHandGrenade: [[https://www.ingress-comic.com/comic/chapter-3-19/ Aidan conjures holy water]] with his cleric abilities to [[spoiler: dispatch the large attacking spirit in Chapter 3.]]
26	* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Toivo looks like he’s in his twenties, and has been for a while.
27	* InevitablyBrokenRule: Twice in Chapter 4, both by Spicer after Toivo tells her to not get in trouble. She ignores him, to varying degrees of success.
28	* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler: Toivo and Aidan]] shared a relationship in the past but due to humans and elves aging differently, one looks much older than the other now.
29	* MedievalEuropeanFantasy: Ingress Adventuring Company takes place in a standard fantasy setting.
30	* {{Necromancer}}: On his first appearance, Derik brings someone back from the dead.
31	* NonIndicativeName: One of Toivo's customers is a little surprised that despite it being described as a "company", implying multiple people, Toivo is the only person who actually seems to be hired.
32	* OlderThanTheyLook: Toivo. Looks to be in his mid-twenties or so, but in actuality has a teenaged daughter and is “almost 70.”
33	* OurElvesAreDifferent: Toivo is an elf, and his youthful looks and affinity with magic may be related to this.
34	* OurGhostsAreDifferent: In Chapter 3, Tovio and Rosemary's house is haunted, causing Tovio to call Aidan, an old friend, to help deal with it. [[spoiler: It turns out that the ghosts are the ghosts of Tovio's ''relationships'', unconsciously called up by the wizardy SerialRomeo to not have to deal with the pain of rejection]].
35	* PointyEars: Toivo and Rosemary have elvish pointy ears.
36	* PossessingADeadBody: In chapter 4, [[spoiler: Derik uses Enfyn’s Heart to place a soul into a body he made from a bunch of the local villagers.]]
37	* PsychoExGirlfriend: The spirit that Toivo, Aidan, and Rosemary find [[https://www.ingress-comic.com/comic/chapter-3-15/ in Chapter 3]] appears to be malevolent in a way that the other ghosts are not, [[spoiler: indicating they did not part on good terms]].
38	* RobeAndWizardHat: Toivo's adventuring gear consists of a traditional robe and wizard hat.
39	* RolePlayingGameVerse: Elves, Dwarves, magic, and adventuring parties.
40	* SassySecretary: Jessica is Toivo's deadpan secretary, and [[https://www.ingress-comic.com/comic/chapter-2-14/ seems more devoted to keeping people out of Toivo's business than letting people see him.]]
41	* SerialRomeo: According to Rosemary, her father has a tendency to fall for people rather easily, along with [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter a bad sense of judging their character]]. Apparently, he falls in love ''so'' easily that [[spoiler: he's got an entire ''room'' full of the literal ghosts of those relationships that he unconsciously conjured up as a means of not dealing with the pain of rejection.]]
42	* ShelteredAristocrat: Robert Wagonthorpe doesn't seem to understand that he's being escorted through a dangerous dungeon until it's too late.
43	* ShoulderSizedDragon: Rocky, Toivo’s familiar, is this.
44	* WizardClassic: Toivo, minus a beard.
45	* WizardingSchool: Where Toivo works when he’s not traipsing off on magical adventures.
46	* WorkingWithTheEx: With all of his exes, Toivo inevitably has to work with a few of them. Most notably: [[spoiler: Aidan, who is the local healer and needs to patch Toivo up]] more often than not.
47	* WorthlessTreasureTwist: In Chapter 1, Robert Wagonthorpe's quest for his family's emerald turns sour when [[spoiler: [[https://www.ingress-comic.com/comic/chapter-1-21/ the emerald is a magical trap that turns him into a crystal monster when he tries to retrieve it]]]]. After fighting it off, [[spoiler: Toivo Kissa shatters the emerald irrecoverably with a magic bolt]], making the whole quest moot and forcing Robert into a career as a janitor to pay off his family's bad investments in reusable toilet paper.

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