The current story arc concerns a small group of paranormal students as they struggle through the day-to-day rigours of college life, from dormitory hijinx, studying for exams, getting to class on time, starting bar brawls, fighting monsters, dealing with spontaneous mutations, disarming nuclear reactors...Wait. Something's wrong with this picture...
Tropes to be found in this game include...
- Crazy-Prepared: Quantum always wears a hazmat suit and brings multiple jetpacks everywhere. This quality is taken up to eleven during the tournament.
- Discard and Draw: while it's not clear whether Sullen Frog has lost his original powers since being mutated by Jinxed, he certainly hasn't been using them in favour of his new, froggy abilities...
- Hammerspace: Sullen Frog's pants. great place to store a machete without hindering movement!
- I Call It "Vera": Sullen Frog refers to his machete as "Mr. Meaty".
- I Need You Stronger: the Dean says this verbatim to Keybreak after the protagonists' first encounter with him.
- Knight of Cerebus: This thread started out as a lighthearted, somewhat normal depiction of University life. Enter the Dean...
- The Reveal the Dean's real name is Simon Charles McPeterson.
