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  • Actor Allusion: The inn on Vennin Island is named the Toad in the Hole, which was one of the possible tavern names floated by The Unexpectables, of which Zito is a player. He reuses the name in the Kobold one-shot, and then again in for an inn in Rite post-Fall, joking that it's a chain, even one that extends through dimensions.
    • When Skrung losses an arm Eloy suggests getting an artificial one that has the same functions as Guts's. Ben was the person who abridged Berserk.
  • Enforced Method Acting: Lani told only Zito that he was planning to retire Wake, leaving his co-players as stunned by the event as the viewers.
  • What Could Have Been: Chapter 2, episode 15 ends on a literal cliffhanger as Eloy is knocked off a bridge by a catapulted troglodyte. In preparation for a possible character death, Ben wrote up a replacement: the very trog that killed Eloy, having made a pact with the magical item Eloy was carrying and becoming a hexblade warlock, and decided to side with the party because they seemed stronger than his own kin.
    • Glorriosa and Yawrugrik were both designed to be recruitable, under the right circumstances. However, a combination of their late introductions, and both of them having homebound responsibilities, led the crew to believe it was best if they stayed. Fast forward to the final chapter, however, Yawrugrik and his mount does join the party for the final battle, albeit the rear guard. Glorriosa, however, was no longer given a second chance to be recruitable, being the last of her kind (for a while) after a blarghest attack, sending a "child" of the Collective One that she'd been caring for in her stead.
    • When Zito was making Nedra, she was gonna be a Goliath, before settling on Tiefling. Her Glabrezu form was also intended to go off during the fight with Barabus, and had Wake not had his character development moment with her, he wouldn't have kept her around.
    • If the crew had recruited Nedra first, then they wouldn't have been able to recruit Onslow, due to his fear of her.
    • Originally, Zito planned for Calliope to be the Big Bad of the Venon Island Arc, secretly being the Wendigo.
    • Kirran was originally going to be the guest DM of the May 29th session, but he came down with an illness so Lani took over and ran the Project Omega one-shot.
    • In Chapter 3 Episode 5, the circumstance of Gulfurr's death all came down to random chance. Zito had Lani roll a d4 to determine which member of the crew would be with him: the options were Skrung, Onslow, Risf, and Gulfurr. Then Zito rolled a Natural 1 when determining the severity of Gulfurr's injuries, which resulted in his having died some time while Wake was unconscious.
      • A few episodes later, the group finds out that as a consequence of this, Yeldin's soul left the Mimic ship since Gulfurr was his last surviving descendant and therefore his final tie to the mortal world. This forced the One-ders to scuttle the ship, which was replaced by a vorpal ship donated by Lieutenant Gore. Obviously, this has some severe implications and none of it would have happened if Gulfurr had survived.
      • This event also had a bigger consequence: Wake going on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge over Gulfurr's death was seemingly the last straw that risked destabilizing his alignment and and lead to his leaving the crew in order to get himself in order. Which leads one to wonder, had Gulfurr lived, would Lani still have retired Wake in favor of Dagon? And beyond that, if the entire original party had been together at the time, would Zito still have "reset" the campaign by killing off the active party and having the players roll up new characters, or would he have found another way?
    • Due to Ben's sudden departure, massive rewrites were made to account for it. The end result was the crew failing their mission and the ivory tower collapsing in an explosion, killing everyone in the city and unleashing fiends and monsters throughout the world. The focus is then shifted back to Wake as he and two new characters (Morgan Strong and Chromagil) go on a quest to save the world. This meant that almost every plotline aside from the overarching goal to save the world from the Onrush got dropped without any resolution, like Ezra's quest to confront his father.
    • In the final chapter, Wake's gift from the fey is an orb that would allow him to perform a True Resurrection at the cost of his own soul. It seemed like he was going to use it to bring back one of his fallen friends, but after Brian gave Morgan's epilogue where he willingly accepted his long-delayed death, Lani had Wake reconsider the idea (though he was tempted when he confirmed that Calliope was killed in the Fall). In the end Wake never uses the orb, passing it on to Nedra as his final gift before he dies peacefully in bed, reunited with his friends in the afterlife.
  • Word of God: Within the story itself, it's not known exactly what precipitated the Fall of Iburkal, or how fared the party who were trying to prevent it. Wake in particular maintains a tense optimism that they somehow survived. Out of universe, however, Zito has said categorically that as far as he's concerned, everyone who was in the area, hero, villain or NPC, is super dead. Surprisingly did not include Scaffy, Ezra's Crawling Claw item, which was later recovered by Wake.

Foolproof

  • What Could Have Been:
    • At the end of Episode 2, Zito tells the party that he intended for Patty to have been killed by the hostile Running Gags in the storeroom. However, because the party went to that room before Patty went there, they drew the attention of the Running Gags first, and were able to kill them before they could kill Patty.
    • The wrap-up following the final session has Zito reveal some different paths they could have taken, such as learning about Zap and Mitzy's secret relationship, Danny actually being a Mock, and fighting Ford as the final boss if they had dealt with the Girallon in the movie world. He also states that there was only a 10% chance for the party to get an Everybody Lives ending, and is both befuddled and impressed that they pulled it off.

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