Web Video / Drawga

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. ^note  Art by Miitoons

DM Caldwell Tanner: "Welcome friends, to the land of Somewherica! A world not unlike our own save for one distinct difference, it's magical as hell! Robot butlers serve tea to wizards, sentient horses drive ride-shaped taxis, and goblin tinkerers code apps for a living. It is a wild and whimsical place, which makes it the perfect setting for a role-playing campaign, with... a creative twist. For you see, friends. Here in this tavern the worlds of art and adventure have collided and become one. And without further delay, let's grab our dice, activate our tablets, and enter the realm of Drawga!"

Drawga is a web series airing on the Drawfee Channel on Youtube. It combines Role-Playing Game mechanics with the art challenges Drawfee has become known for, and has existed in several forms over the years.

The first incarnation of Drawga was released in 2014, hosted by Caldwell Tanner and Nathan Yaffe. Essentially a "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style Gamebook in video format, it tells the tale of a mysterious prisoner who is transported to an After the End wasteland populated by Anthropomorphic Food, eventually coming face to face with the Big Bad responsible for the apocalypse. Each episode ends with a Cliffhanger, and viewers could vote to determine how the story would continue.

The show returned in 2016 with a wildly different format. Taking more inspiration from Dungeons & Dragons, it now features Caldwell Tanner as the DM ^note  which stands for "Drawing Master", in this case , with Julia Lepetit and Jacob Andrews serving as players alongside Nathan Yaffe. This trio portrays the three main members of the adventuring group the Ladies Book Club — Rah'ōxah, Ryjinah and Legzi Shortstakk — who were originally created for a Drawfee Break challenge. The story has our heroines being hired by Francis the Goblin to solve the murder of his business partner Daryl, while the gameplay follows the mold set by Morning Drawfee, with the three artists each making one drawing in every episode.

The Ladies Book Club would go on to star in an eight-part prequel comic miniseries by the same name, and also in the 2019 Drawga Live show at the New York Comic Con.

A third season of Drawga — simply called Drawga: The All-New Season premiered in 2019, in which the now older members of the LBC set out to join a prestigious Adventure Guild to become "Verified Knights." Episodes are now more self-contained, contain live-action "gameshow" segments, and features a Special Guest judge Once an Episode who rates the artists work. However, the season would be Cut Short after only five episodes had been released on Youtube, as CollegeHumor lost its financial support from parent company IAC. The remaining episodes (and uncensored versions of those released) would not be uploaded to Youtube until December 2020-January 2021, sometime after Drawfee had gone on to reinvigorate itself as an independent show. Season Three was then announced to be the last.

The show can be watched on Youtube. For Drawfee's other art challenge-based RPG campaign, see Drawtectives.

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Drawga contains examples of:

Drawga: Season One Tropes

• Best Her to Bed Her: Tamer and Chaster and Gender Inverted. The Player Character kisses Gruyere after defeating him with a Piss-Take Rap.
• Cardboard Prison: The cell where the Player Character was imprisoned counts. Not only were there two portals in it, we don't even know for certain if the door was locked in the first place.
• Eating Contest: The Player Character challenges Martin the Devourer to one as their Final Battle, and actually manages to win. However, beating Martin at his own game means becoming the new Devourer!
• Featureless Protagonist: The Player Character is never given a name, and is only shown on screen at the very end, after his transformation into the new Devourer. Heck, it takes most of the season before we even learn his gender.
• Golem: The goat statue is revealed to be a hibernating golem, or rather a "goatlem."
• Heroic Sacrifice: The Player Character and Gruyere try to atone for the former's murder of Drop by jumping into the Goatlem's mouth and pulling a Taking You with Me. However, they then learn that the Goatlem's stomach is actually the size of a large hall, and that Drop is there, alive but very upset by the way he's been treated.
• Horse of a Different Color: Big Humph, who is described as a cross between an elephant, a jellyfish, an ostrich and an onion. He also has four eyes and is a Talking Animal. Well, sort of...
• Human Sacrifice: The Player Character sacrifices Drop the Beet to the goat statue, opening another portal but also bringing the statue to life. It's later revealed that Drop actually survived the sacrifice, but suffered a Fate Worse than Death.
• In-Universe Factoid Failure: When Nathan draws a goat statue made out of crystalized carrot, Jacob points out that carrots don't harden the way bread does. Nathan then claims that carrots and bread are the same thing.
• Inferred Holocaust: It's eventually revealed that Darryl had dreams about the Onion Dimension and the Devourer threatening it. As the season ends with the coming of the Devourer to Somewherica, this basically implies that the whole galaxy Season One was set in has already been consumed.
• Level Ate: The Player Character is transported to the Onion Dimension after sticking his head in a tote bag full of onions. There, he meets the literal onion knight Gruyere, who challenges him to a rap battle.
• Precursors: The Carrots once lived side-by-side with the Onions, but now their civilization has fallen into ruins, and the Carrots themselves survive only as Revenant Zombies.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: As it turns out, Season 1 was the story of the Player Character becoming the new Big Bad.
• Punny Name: The beatboxing beet is named Drop, making him "Drop the Beet."
• Extremely Short Timespan: Despite being by far the longest Drawga campaign — made over the course of several years — it is still one of the shortest in terms of the actual time passing In-Universe.
• Soul Jar: Gruyere's microphone is revealed to be one, as getting bested by a Worthy Opponent in a rap battle releases the spirit inside.
• Underground City: The Carrots are the "dwarves" of the campaign, living in cities carved into the carrot mountains.
• Year Inside, Hour Outside: Time passes differently in the Goatlem, leading to many a The Chronicles of Narnia Shout-Out. Despite our protagonists entering almost immediately after Drop the Beet, he has already had time to age into an old man, seize control of the local zombie carrots and make himself a fancy tricolon hat.
• You Wake Up in a Room: The campaign starts off with the Player Character waking up in a cell, uncertainty of how they got there.

General Ladies Book Club Tropes

• Audience Participation:
  • While not an outright Gamebook like the first season, Season Two still allowed the audience to vote for which artist did the best drawing. The winner could then pick an item, also submitted by the viewers.
  • Season Three replaced the audience vote with that of a guest judge, but kept the Official Fan-Submitted Content prizes.
  • Drawga Live let the audience help to design a new Player Character, and choose heroes for the Massive Multiplayer Crossover.
• Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • The name Somewherica was created for the Ladies Book Club comics and didn't make it into the main show until 2019, in Episode 12 of Season Two. Similarly, Darkmouth was originally situated in the town of Fantasyville, but Season Three renamed it Citadelphia. (The prequel comic also has the LBC live in Townington Township, though that could easily be a different place, albeit one that's only a short car ride away.)
  • Initial canon was the LBC all met after becoming roommates at Community Adventuring College, but the premise of the prequel comic is Legzi spending time with her friends before college forces them apart (which obviously doesn't happen.)
  • "The Ladies Book Club" was originally a cover-up for Tiffany to hide her and her friends dangerous hobby from her husband Ustess. Later, we see that the gang called themselves that before Tiffany even met Ustess, possibly before the rest of the group even met Tiffany.
• Fictional Counterpart: Too many to list, both in Season Two and Three but Averted with IKEA and Instagram, which are apparently "universal constants."
• Gem-Encrusted: A surprising number of items have gemstones attached to them. They seems to be purely decorative, and have no effect on the actual value of the item.
• Incredibly Short Timespan: Seasons Two and Three are both set over the course of just a couple of days each. Ironically, the prequel comic — despite having perhaps the fastest public release schedule of anything Drawga-related — is the one which covers the longest time In-Universe, being set over the course of three months (discounting flashbacks.)
• Planet Ville: Inverted. Fantasyville is apparently the name of the entire world the series takes place in. At least, when it isn't simply the the name of the local college town, which is sometimes instead named Citadelphia.
• Urban Fantasy: Somewherica — the setting of Season 2 and onward — which combines tropes of a Standard Fantasy Setting with a bit of modern Satire. Armored knights casually coexist with modern spy drones and even futuristic holograms. Basically, it's a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of the present-day Western world.
• World of Weirdness: All of Somewherica. Basically what happens when you combine worldbuilding with mad-libs improv and Surreal Humor.

Drawga: Season Two Tropes

• Actually a Doombot: As it turns out, the "Darryl" Pucconici stabbed was actually the shapeshifter D.E.N.N.I.S, who was more than capable of surviving such injuries.
• A Kind of One: Rango — the eponymous protagonist of the animated film — appears in the Wiley Woods as a whole race of lizards. There are also several Grimaces running around in the same location.
• Apocalyptic Log: Darryl's briefcase turns out to contain one, detailing his studies of The Multiverse.
• Back for the Finale:
  • In the penultimate episode, Rah'ōxah summons Tiffany and — to her surprise — Boxy from the summer camp to aid them in the fight against the Devourer. Darryl then calls for more back-up, bringing in Pugilax, D.E.N.N.I.S, (the rest of) Gregory Hamilton, Paul Blart and his mall cops, and all three of our main characters' dads, all driven there by Buttercup in a hoofer.
  • The season finale even has a cameo from Old Baby Gus, when our champions visit his bar to finally get some drinks.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: In the Season finale, our heroines all end up on an asteroid, and question how the can breathe. The Reality Warper Big Bad explains it as his doing.
• Canon Welding: Many previously unrelated characters from Drawfee are brought in to populate the world of Somewherica.
• Crossover: The Rotten Tomato allows the user to summon a character from any film with less than a 15% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Ryjinah uses it to summon the title character of Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2,^note  Paul Blart: Mall Cop had too high of a rating to qualify. who Rah'ōxah’s boyfriend, Demon Johnny, consumes to make Paul Blart her familiar.
• Dating Catwoman:
  • Ryjinah gives Pugilax a Big Damn Kiss, reasoning that he probably hasn't had One for quite some time. He then developed a fullblown Villainous Crush on Ryjinah, asking her to call or visit him (which she isn't exactly planning to.)
  • Ryjinah does however show quite a bit of interest in D.E.N.N.I.S. once he becomes Jah'ōxoh. The feeling is mutual and they are both disappointed when the others start up the fight again. They do eventually get their date in the next episode, however.
• Dating Sim: Episode 8 is based around this concept, with one of the protagonists agreeing to go on their dream date with D.E.N.N.I.S.
  • Rah'ōxah manages to turn D.E.N.N.I.S. into the Third Wheel om his own date by temporarily giving Demon Johnny a holographic body and going on a date with him.
  • Legzi's date involves putting on a nice dress and eating brunch at a restaurant, with D.E.N.N.I.S. taking the form of a male Ryjinah.
  • Ryjinah — ever the dominant one — puts herself on a throne made of Bones while D.E.N.N.I.S. assumes his Jah'ōxoh form, wearing a skimpy slave outfit and serving her "skull grapes".
• Deadly Game: Pugilax is supposed to run One, with him devouring the souls of the players, but nothing he challenges the LBC to is even remotely dangerous.
• De-power: Rah'ōxah tries to invoke this on D.E.N.N.I.S. by having Demon Johnny suck up his body through a straw. It backfires however when Johnny barfs up his body and some Subway sandwiches which D.E.N.N.I.S. absorbs, becoming even more powerful. ^note  He also tries to absorb some anime =DVDs, but lets them be upon Rah'ōxah's request.
• Didn't Think This Through: At Darryl's lab, the trio all walk through the same door looking for monsters, forcing Francis to stay behind and face any dangers which may exit the other doors. However, Francis turns out to be fully capable of taking them out himself with his gun, and he gives the situation a Hand Wave by saying that he needed some time to himself anyway.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Rah'ōxah and Demon Johnny launch the former out of a catapult, giving her the chance to punch Porfo in the face and knock him unconscious. Sadly, it doesn't take.
• Dream Sequence: Francis has a dream about eating dinner with Darryl, only for a black curtain to fall between them on the table, messing up all the food in the process. This is Foreshadowing The Reveal that Darryl isn't actually dead, just Trapped in Another World.
• Facial Composite Failure: Baby Gus, having mild facial blindness, gives the trio three utterly irreconcilable and ridiculous descriptions of the suspect, who are implied to be based om completely different people.
• Face Doodling: Francis gets "make-up" drawn on his face with a sharpie, and is then covered in blood and taped by a wall by Rah'ōxah and Ryjinah, simply because they were bored. Unfortunately, this makes it easy for Pucconici to kidnap him later.
• Familliar: The second episode has Ryjinah use her sketchcraft ability to summon one, which happens to be... a giant flying piece of lettuce.
• Fan Sequel: Rah'ōxah's play — Paul Blart 3: Tides of War: This Time it's Blartsonal! — is one to Paul Blart: Mall Cop, as well as an Army of Darkness-esque Genre Shift into fantasy.
• Forced Meme: In-Universe, Gasm Hamilton has the LBC create memes for him in exchange of letting them out of his digital realm.
• Forced Sleep: Ryjinah, Tiffany, Jonathan and Bonerecar try to lull the Devourer back to sleep by singing "Go to sleep, interdimensional devourer", an ancient song written for this exact purpose.
• Gone Horribly Right: Ryjinah summons the unintentional ghost truck from Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing... only to realize that — being completely intangible — it can't actually do anything except distract the villain.
• HappilyMarried Engaged: The Dybird apparently has a partner, as Rekha Shankar interprets their ring as a gift from a loved one.
• Hell Is That Noise: The weird squeaks Porfo makes as he arrives through the portal.
• Holodeck: Darryl's lab contains a smaller one, which D.E.N.N.I.S. uses to create three distinct settings for his dates with each member of the Ladies Book Club.
• Ignore the Fanservice: Gus is completely unaffected by Legzi and Ryjinah's attempt at seducing him into giving them free drinks, being way to old/young for them.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Rah'ōxah is ecstatic to meet the famous ring fighter/body builder Hurt Reynolds also known as The Hurt Locker. She even snaps a picture of them having a faux arm wrestling contest before getting some leads out of him.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Once the whole adventure is over, Legzi suggests this, and the others agree. (On a meta level, this may have been a way to avoid Continuity Lock-Out for future viewers.)
• Mon: Rebecca Estus Horrible Snails, which are actual homonculi snails which can fight each other for real after you collect them. Basically, they combine the in- and out-of-universe nature of such creature.
• Nap-Inducing Speak: Legzi tries to invoke this trope by holding a boring lecture for the Devourer about the importance of sleep, hoping it will actually make him fall asleep. Sadly, while it does work om Francis, the Devourer is really intrigued by the lecture and looks on with great interest.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Hollace Quert receives one from the mall cops after his capture.
• No Man Should Have This Power: Darryl and Francis come to feel this way about their portal technology. The last scene of the campaign is them blowing it up.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Rah'ōxah finally kills the Pear Bears by punching the wall so hard that the ceiling caves in on them... and also buries several golden treasure chests under the rubble.
• Off-into-the-Distance Ending: While not the end of the story, Slimeless Kyle, Beelzemon and Walreign all walk away together at the end of Episode 13 to mark the start of their newfound friendship.
• The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Francis tries to access Darryl's old computer with a series of these (all submitted by fans) without much success. The actual password turns out to be "guest."
• Poor Man's Substitute: Parodied. As they couldn't get Laura Dern to do the recap for Mall Crawl - DRAWGA #11, they instead got "Dora Learn", who strangely enough sounds exactly like DM Caldwell Tanner...
• The Power of Friendship:
  • Pugilax is ultimately "defeated" by our heroines befriending him, after which he just gives them their ticket willingly.
  • In fact, Francis hires them in an attempt at invoking this trope. Darryl's machine needs three perfectly linked souls to function, and a trio of True Companions fit that Bill perfectly.
  • And as it turns out this is also how the Big Bad is dealt with.
• Severely Specialized Store: The Busty Butler, which only sells butler suits. It's owned by a man named Gerard Butler, who gives Ryjinah some information about Hollace Quert, the culprit the LBC is chasing.
• Sequel Hook: Somewhat frustratingly, the season ends with an epilogue Cliffhanger designed not to go anywhere, as the team wanted any follow-ups to be self-contained.
• Shout-Out: Legzi and the newly leg-gifted Pugilax dance to "Wrecking Mace" by Miley Siren. For that reference, DM Caldwell Tanner removes Nathan's poisoning and gives him more than full health.
• Stealth Sequel:
  • For most of the season, it seems to be a completely new campaign, unconnected to Season One. Then we get the Wham Episode that is Episode 13, where it's revealed that Darryl was aware of The Multiverse, had seen the Onion Dimension in his dreams, and was working to stop the Devourers.
  • As the season ends with Porfo floating towards a planet implied to be Earth, it could actually be a stealth prequel to the rest of the Drawfee universe.
• Summon Magic: Ryjinah uses the IG Ndive to summon the driver — complete with his glitchy, intangible truck — from Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing — the worst reviewed game she could find on Meta Critic,
• Take Your Time: Parodied in Dawn of D.E.N.N.I.S. where we get to see the Ladies Book Club look through their bags for useful special items while D.E.N.N.I.S. waits confused in the background.
• Totem Pole Trench: Baby Gus claims to have encountered one of these during the Baby Wars.
• We Need a Distraction: In Episode 4, our heroines distract Martin Threeman, the three heads of security, by pretending to be actors and putting on a three-act show while Francis takes him out from the back.
• Wendigo: Wendigo is a briefly-mentioned Wendy's analogue which apparently serves people meat.
• The World Is Just Awesome: The final challenge our protagonists face in the Season is trying to convince the Omnicidal Maniac villain that the world is worth saving.
• You All Meet in an Inn: While the Ladies Book Club all know each other from the start, the story still starts with them meeting up at the local inn. This is also where they first encounter their quest-giver, Francis the Goblin.

The Ladies Book Club Comic Tropes

• Has its own page here.

Drawga Live Tropes

• Anachronic Order: Drawga Live is set before Season 3 but after the Season 2 finale, was made after both, and premiered before either of them were released.
• Buy Them Off: Professor Crunch eventually covers up his actions by giving all of his students passing grades. Ryjinah and Rah'ōxah — who weren't actually part of the class — instead get to look into his Previorb.
• Camp Unsafe Isn't Safe Anymore: Tim's class seems to have been an accident waiting to happen even before the monster started eating his students. Granted, it's not stated that anyone actually has been hurt until now, and Crunch is worried that the incident might get him fired.
• Crystal Ball: The Previorb, which shows both the future and the past... and is basically an excuse to present Drawga trailers to the con audience.
• Getting Eaten Is Harmless: Tim's students — including Legzi — have nearly all been eaten by the DPJ, but since its midsection is just a garbage truck, they are fine and the campaign ends with their rescue.
• Hybrid Monster: The Dum Pup Gita is a dancing, fluffy garbage truck with the heads of a strutting pupper and a rippling Vegeta.
• Threatening Shark: Rah'ōxah swims out into the sea hoping to be attacked by a shark so she can punch it. She manages to successfully lure one in by shouting "I'm a seal."
• Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: Our protagonists use the Crossbower — a device which can call upon great heroes — to summon Gambit, Quailman, Ms. Frizzle, Waluigi, Sans Undertale, Conan the Barbarian, Treebeard, Scooby-Doo, "My Dad"^note  Carina takes this to mean her actual dad , Saitama, Avatar Aang, Han Solo, Ash Ketchum, Spheal ^note  the Drawfee version, of course , and Mabel Pines to aid them in their fight against the Dum Pup Gita. The crux is that the artists only have 30 seconds to draw each character. None of them actually get to fight, they're just there as a distract while Rah'ōxah punches the creature, causing it to immediately exploderade.
• Warp Whistle: Having graduated, Rah'ōxah and Ryjinah have unlocked the ability to fast travel, which is actually referred to as such.

Drawga: Season Three Tropes

• A Good Name for a Ska Band: In Episode Nine, Jacob is given the task to illustrate the sentence "trombone epiphany is a revelation." The players all agree that Trombone Epiphany was the ska band their characters performed together in back in their somophore year.
• Another Dimension: The current crises kicked off with numerous rifts to other dimensions opening up. The most notable ones are the disturbingly fleshy dimension visited by Legzi as part of a sidequest, the inverted dimension accessed through QuestLy, and the Realm of Corruption, which serves as the stage for the final battle.
• Ambiguous Syntax: The Bodegonaur masquerades as a 99 cents chicken store, but it never clarifies just how much chicken you get for that price. This is a deliberate trick by the mimic, which hopes to lure people in specifically to ask that question. It turns out that the store actually is filled with tons of real chicken, which our heroines collect and stuff into Demon Johnny.
• And the Adventure Continues: Played With. Episode Five ends with the Ladies Book Club entering QuestLy University to take their final test before becoming verified knights. This was meant as a straightforward Cliffhanger, but then the show seemed to be Cut Short... until it was Un-Cancelled months later, making it more of a Sequel Hook.
• Anthropomorphic Food: Ryjinah creates a golem out of lettuce to reach Jessica, who has gotten stuck in the world's largest tree.
• Automatic Crossbow: Ludvig and Allon use crossbows which can be made up to fifteen times more deadly by cocking them multiple times. They don't actually make gun noises, though. The wielder has to provide those by themself.
• Back from the Dead: Both Ludvig and Renault come back to life in the finale after the timeline is rebooted. The Movie Knight Boys are also back. Though they were apparently Not Quite Dead to begin with.
• Beast Man: While preparing to fight the Ice Dragon, Rah'ōxah takes a bite out of the Fursonapple, forgetting that it would transform her into an antropomorphic animal, which turns out to be a fox. As awesome as the name "Rox the Fox" sounds, it leaves her incapable of punching anyone, and — as far as she's concerned — pretty useless as a result.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Subverted with the Bugway, the Somewherican Subway equivalent. It is a huge bug, but the characters don't think of it as creepy and gladly ride on it.
• Big Fancy House: Ludvig Windersall's house is so large that it has indoor cars, and separate rooms dedicated to serving salad and sandwiches.
• Bindle Stick: CatGoddess gave one to her adoptive son Parker, hoping that he would take the hint and just leave.
• Breather Episode: The eighth epidode was meant to be this. It's mostly comedic in tone, features Crankenshaft — a friendly, helpful Guest-Star Party Member — only puts our protagonists against some easily killed monsters, and also comes inbetween two encounters with the Big Bad.
• Brick Joke: At the start of the second episode, it's said that there's a drone festival going on (to explain why there's a "drone gnome" — and later a "bone drone gnome" — outside the window.) Later, the problem of the episode is revealed to have been caused by said drones.
• Calling Your Attacks: Apparently, yoga only works of you actually yell out the word "yoga" while doing it.
• Cat Up a Tree: The second quest our heroines undertake is saving three cats who've accidentally flown up into Yggdrasil with the help of drones!
• Clothes Make the Superman: Having been caught in a net, Rah'ōxah and Ryjinah are forced to design the "Tactical Pihs Pants for Women", with "Pihs Fins" and "Pihs Flight", and multiple pockets.
• Combining Mecha: The Megalegaryrox, piloted by our three protagonists.
• Cool Boat:
  • Ludvig's jet skis, which our protagonists unfortunately never get to use. Legzi and Ryjinah do get a chance to ride a jet ski at the Beast Coast, but it quickly becomes collatoral damage in an ensuing fight.
  • The Movie Knight Boys have a speed boat, which they use to save the Ladies Book Club from a sea monster at the Beast Coast.
• Cool Car:
  • Allon Pihs supposedly invented a car powered by literal dreams.
  • Our protagonists also have to design and build the car they drive in to Porfopolis, following Crankenshaft's instructions.
    • Ryjinah builds the front of the car, which has a cow catcher/snow plow, a letter box (on the outside) an umbrella and — in order to distract attacking monsters — a 99 cent chicken-sign.
    • Legzi builds the torso of the car, which is propelled not by an engine, but by four NOS tanks. ^note  However, this only works of Vin Diesel has sex on the car roof first, with just about any actress. (Plus an additional one for when Crankenshaft wants to get high.) It's also held together by ropes, and has a singing "Big Mouth Gollie" — a female golem with a fish tail — up on display to further keep monsters at a distance.
    • Rah'ōxah builds the rear of the car, which included a pair of ice skates, some cans on strings, and a lamb showed halfway into the back. She also adds a hula dancing Saint Peter figurine on the dashboard, as Crankenshaft is very religious.
• Crowded-Cast Shot: The season ends with one, showing all the (surviving) major characters throwing a big party together.
• Cute Owl: Pepples, who lives in the Yggdrasil tree and apparently has a relationship with none other than the trickster god Loki.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Ryjinah uses the "god pen" to switch places with DM Caldwell Tanner during the second part of her invention drawing challenge. This implies that Allon Pihs briefly had the Creator God himself trapped in a simple hole in the ground.
  • In the last episode, our heroines manage to kill the eldrich demon Allhands using — essentially — a mix of Heroic Willpower and The Power of Friendship. Before that, Rah'ōxah was holding her own against him in a fistfight, which is quite an accomplishment given that he's basically made of fists. True, he was getting the upper hand, but just being able to walk away from such a fight is impressive enough.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Oofelia points out that some monsters do have blue eyes, even if their deeds are less likely to be reported. One gets the sense that she's not just talking about fantasy creatures.
  • Dude, Where's My Reward?: Played With. Low-level QuestLy associated are paid not in money but in experience, but since this is a Role-Playing Game, experience actually is a valid currency.
• Eating Machine: The Megalegaryrox mech is powered by alcohol, and considered a party robot as a result.
• Evil, Inc.: The Bodegonaur is a store which is also a literal monster. The players go on to say that all business are monsters, in a way.
• Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: Dyllip's wizard career isn't going so well, so they have taken to removing crowns from the heads of long-dead kings in alternate hell dimensions.
• Fictional Counterpart: City Delphia — the site of Darkmouth University and QuestLy's headquarters, among other things — is clearly named after Philadelphia.
• Fusion Dance: The gymnasium at QuestLy is full of People bouncing on balls meant for core training. They eventually undergo a "convergence", fusing together into a single, giant bouncing ball.
  QUAIN: Human beings are beautiful creatures.
  Ryjinah: That's not normal, QUAIN! I don't know what's going on in this room!
• Gotta Catch Them All: Episode Six has our heroines going around QuestLy hunting ingredienses for a sleeping potion which is required to enter the inverted dimension.
• Hand Wave: Nobody really knows how the Dybird can see or eat, and the Monster Book is just filled with shrugging emojis. Both it and our protagonists speculate that the creature might eat through the butt.
• Hidden Elf Village: Downplayed with the Elfendale Estates, which are not "hidden" as much as just highly exclusive. Demonic beings are also generally not welcome. Tiefling bone mage Ryjinah is a very rare exception, thanks to her QuestLy membership.
• High-Altitude Interrogation: The LBC interrogate Ludvig in this manner, using the Megalegaryrox mech to hold him outside his office window.
• Human Ladder: Ryjinah wants to form one with Rah'ōxah and Legzi for the final confrontation, but instead she ends up having to carry Legzi and her pony Parker while Rah'ōxah throws them at the Big Bad. It works.
• Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Allon Pihs and Ludvig reveal mid-party that they are going to hunt their guests for sport with crossbows, arguing that only those who could survive that would be badass enough to become verified adventures.
• I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Monster Valley, a location on The Beast Coast where Ludvig sends our heroines as an apology for nearly getting them killed.

  Rah'ōxah: I love vacation.

• Ironic Echo: "I'm with Parker" starts out as the slogan of a political movement (possibly with Fantastic Racism views) Parker the Cat has no interest in. However, after he undergoes a proper Heel–Face Turn, the Ladies Book Club are proud to state that yes, they are with Parker.
• Just Shoot Him: Legzi tries to simply shoot the demonic Evil Overlord Big Bad dead, only for him to steal the gun and try to shoot her. Imperial Stormtrooper M Arksmanship Academy is very much in effect.
• * Little Bit Beastly: Rah'ōxah's fursonapple basically transforms her into an outright Talking Animal with some humanoid traits, but the spell gradually wears off, making her more anthropomorphized. By the end of the episode she's almost back to normal, the only holdovers being a pair of pointier-than-normal ears and a tail.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: Allhands gives our heroines Fake Memories and traps them in illusionary worlds, seperated from each other, in order for their souls to "mature". They all manage to escape after noticing A Glitch in the Matrix.
  • Rah'ōxah's "perfect world" involves her having punched every monster in the world out of existance, gone to jail for a bit after punching a person, and currently working at her father's library, which she barely manages. She escapes after seeing book titles which remind her of her friends (quite an achievement, given her reading difficulties.)
  • Ryjinah is a famous Instagram star, [[Celebrity erfaren but she lives all by herself and her image is entirely dictated by her personal stylists]]. She escapes it by cutting her long, luscious hair.
  • Legzi has gotten her "Eggsi Shortstakk" up and running (and yes, they do serve both cat food and sprinkles) but, like Ryjinah, she has no friends outside of work. She decides to go for a walk and breaks out of her illusion after seeing and entering a "real" 99 cents chicken store.
  • Turns out their familiars also ended up in these. Parker the Pony spent a very boring lifetime as a bottle opener (again), Parker the Cat started in a baseball musical none of his friends ever came to see, and Bones McGee became a (human) professional gambler who found himself put in Cement Shoes by The Mafia.
• Lyrical Dissonance: In-Universe, the song Beast Coast Living is a soulful ballad with a pop beat. Nathan then mentions that he loves those types of songs.
• Nobody Poops: Subverted in the sixth episode, where our protagonists realize that they've gone about two days without doing their business, and end up utterly destroying a QuestLy bathroom.
• Our Centaurs Are Different: The first quest is given out by Legné247, a buff centaur.
• Our Dragons Are Different: The city of Porfopolis has literally been frozen by an ice dragon, which has contributed to the crash of the hero market.
• Our Giants Are Bigger: The "bus" in Citydelphia is actually a giant named Buzz who carries passengers around the city in his hand.
• Our Monsters Are Different:
  • The monsters at the Beast Coast who captured Oofelia's family certainly count.
    • Hamagon, who took her mother, is a giant, slithering ham with teeth and eyes all over.
    • The Bodegonaur, which took her father, is a mimic disguised as a Two-Faced ^note  one of them sassy, the other trashy convenience store.
    • The Dybird, which took her older twin sister, is an ostrich with a pigeon body for a head.
  • Our heroines also run into (and over) four strange creatures on their way to Porfopolis, all of whom carry chicken bags and have the look of a disappointed mother.
    • Caldwell's monster is basically a cross between a T-Rex and a Cephalothorax.
    • Nathan draws a horned Yeti-esque beast.
    • Jacob — inspired by the claim that there were cows in the area — created the Swordcow, which Ally/Crankenshaft describes as a "meat-flavored jelly bean." It turns out to be the Token Good Teammate of the bunch, survives the encounter with the LBC's new car, and gives them some helpful directions.
    • Julia essentially depicts a big, feathery ball with a face and sharp teeth. Yes, this monster is itself a chicken bag.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: As it turns out, Legzi's Anti-Demon Juice is actually lethal to elves, too. Thus, it ends up causing the death of the young Ludvig, altering the timeline so that Allon Pihs becomes C.E.O. of QuestLy instead. He quickly turns out to be even more vile than his predecessor.
• Putting the Band Back Together: In the penultimate episode, the LBC decide to bring back thier old ska band... right after establishing the existance of said band in the first place.
• Robot Buddy: Ryjinah designs One for Allon Pihs, which doubles as a name-changer machine, which in turn works as a ramp for a name-changer drone.
• Rube Goldberg Device: Legzi builds one to help John lift weights, somehow without him noticing.
• Rule of Funny: Caldwell tends to prioritise humour over strictly observing game mechanics, as evidenced by this exchange when questioning whether the usage of an ability would require Caldwell to wear a blindfold:

  Jacob: Is that legal, can we do that?

  Jacob: Here's the question: is that funny?

• Scary Stinging Swarm: Legzi's hand gets swollen from bee stings in the second episode, which is represented by Nathan being forced to draw wearing a boxing glove.
• Self-Imposed Challenge:
  • As helping Paul the weight-lifting orc ghost becomes harder the angrier he gets, Jacob has to draw wearing an armweight, and Julia has to draw with two!
  • The traps at the grounds of Ludvig's manor are all about this.
    • Ryjinah is trapped in a dark hole, forcing Jacob (and later Caldwell) to draw blindfolded.
    • Rah'ōxah gets stuck in a net with Ryjinah, forcing Julia to draw while reaching for the screen from behind Jacob.
    • Legzi is shot in her dominant hand, forcing Nathan to draw with his non-dominant one. However, he uses the occasionally to bring out "Midas' Other Hand", an item which has the same effect while also awarding one skill point, which the other players reluctantly allow.
• Sigil Spam: Legzi exploits Al Pihs' love of this by inventing a drone, which flies around and puts stickers of his face on just about anything and anyone, allowing him to claim retroactive copyright and ownership of them. Then she dresses it in the Tactical Pihs Pants for Women and turns it into a name changer, giving the drone itself two Al faces.
• Special Guest: Each episode features a guest judge who gets to rank the artists drawings. They are always dressed in a Black Cloak and treated as a personification of the Youtube algorithm. Some of them also portray major Non Player Characters within the story itself.
• Suddenly Always Knew That: As late as in the penultimate episode, it is suddenly established that our heroines had a ska band ever since their somophore year. Somewhat Justified in that their original career tanked. It's eventually explained that they quit halfway through their first gig, as people had negative reactions to Ryjinah reanimating corpses and making them dance at a funeral!
• Take Your Time: Legzi decides to go home and take a shower to get rid of the ghostly ecto crust before taking on CatGodess99's quest. After all, if her kittens can't get out of that tree, they won't be going anywhere.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Allon letting Ryjinah use her newly designed drone to fly out of his trap could count. Unfortunately, she gets stuck in a net with Rah'ōxah immediately afterwards.
• Time-Passes Montage: The third episode has this premise, with each LBC member just doing stuff to pass the time.
  • Legzi goes through a rift into a demonic Genius Loki dimension to find a Ring of Power, which was used as a wedding ring in a barbarian marriage.
  • Rah'ōxah helps Dyllip's grandmother Dyllis carry her groceries.
  • Ryjinah gets called in to liven up a dead party (which turns out to be filled with ghosts.) She accomplishes this by hitting herself with the Flail of Inhibriation and going wild on the dance floor.
• Timey-Wimey Ball: Legzi summons a young Ludvig and injects his blood with "Anti-Demon Juice" — activated by the addition of water — in an attempt at destroying the demon Allhands. ^note  Said demon has taken much of Ludvig's blood, and just gotten drenched by a geyser. However, the juice ends up killing Ludvig instead, changing history for the worse.
• Unbreakable Bones: Ryjinah turns her bones into metal for the final battle.
• Unexplained Recovery: Legzi is shot through the hand by a crossbows bolt, but one sticker-repurposed-as-band-aid later and she's fine.
• "What Do They Fear?" Episode: In the haunted gym, the Ladies Book Club are confronted by visions of their greatest fears.
  • Legzi sees an amalgamation of all her failures as a rogue.
  • Ryjinah sees an old White-Dwarf Starlet version of herself.
  • Rah'ōxah sees her dad holding a sign saying "You're doing great... NOT!" (When it returns two episodes later, she instead sees Ryjinah, Legzi and Parker holding signs saying "We're doing great... alone."

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