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Across Universes is a Forum Roleplay found on TV Tropes. The main story revolves around a group of mercenaries who explore the universe and take on missions from anyone willing to pay them. Unfortunately, they have to deal with each other. Witness their arguments as they attempt to do their jobs, and maybe have a laugh or two along the way. It can be found here, and signups are right here.


 * Abandoned Area: Part of the Stroj arc takes place in an abandoned city. This trope is used to show the devastation on the planet before the colonists arrived, and parts are used backdrop for a fight against the mechanized drones. It's even raining all the time to emphasize this trope.
 * A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Played with during a filler arc. The Amazon Prime drones go on strike because they were offended over the fact they were made to work less.
 * All Just a Dream: The Lucia arc took place in a dream sequence because the GM OOC aborted the arc at the last second. Ges even compared it to one of Asagi's anime. She somehow overheard and got offended by that remark.
 * Alternate Self: Ai and Albert are both the Lone Wanderer, somehow. They even have the same backstory. At one point, they end up having an argument on who deserves the title better. Hastur notes that they have something in common, though. They'll bring about the end of humanity through various means. Albert will do it through pure stupidity. Ai will do it on purpose and replace humanity with a race of androids.
 * Apocalypse How: A growing X-3 class.
 * Badass in Distress:
 * The group had to rescue Einar when he got stranded on Mars. Einar is a Space Marine who fought the forces of Chaos on a daily basis and survived.
 * Six was held captive during the Ringworld arc until the group did what the samurai asked them to do.
 * Bittersweet Ending:
 * Broken Pedestal: During the Ringworld arc, Lisa becomes upset at Japan because her first experience with Japan ends up being an Imperial Japan analogue.
 * Butt Monkey: Longram, Longram, Longram. Despite the fact he's a trained combat engineer of the Enclave, the multiverse doesn't give any mercy to him at all. Near the start of his FIRST appearance, he had a bump into Albert Walker which broke out into a fight, got arrested and jailed, got bailed out by Asagi with a hefty debt with interest, other characters added their debt to his, and during one time Asagi had to sell off EVERY GEAR he had with him  even though Longram paid it all off through a wish. Sucks to be a mook like him.
 * Cain and Abel and Seth: In the Idacra arc, Ges has this type of relationship with the Weissritter Abend and the Alt Eisen Nacht. It is his duty to put a stop to their antics by any means necessary.
 * Call Back: In a game called WAOAA, there was a particularly clusterfucky incident in which the characters involved, proto-Kerberos (we'll call them), got into a direct conflict with Heaven itself. Everyone OOC eventually agreed the situation was FUBAR, so the group all agreed to more or less retcon the incident away by having in-game be basically everyone relevant supposedly vanishing into a mysterious bright light According to Rai, "It was always my personal interpretation that what REALLY happened was that the war got so over the top and clusterfucked, the universe collapsed in upon itself."
 * Catgirl: Sorceress Ael, which was fitting since witches are known to have pet cats.
 * Chick Magnet: When he returned from his bus trip, Omar somehow got the women of the group to fall in love with him. He even got lucky in bed with Lovisia.
 * Computer Virus: In the Stroj arc, the group was handed a virus the colony had coded which is intended to prevent the 'bots in the city from calling on reinforcements and getting the group dogpiled by a literal army of robots with everything that implies, they set out into the city proper to steal the IFF codes off the server. Then use the codes to trick the bots into taking the group to their control center, where the programmers can deactivate them or bend them into serving the group's will as necessary.
 * Console Wars: In the 3G arc, the forces of Lastation and Leanbox are fighting each other because of processing power. According to one of the Sackboy followers, "Lady Noire is insisting that Green-heart stuffs hers."
 * The Corruption: Einar somehow got his mind altered by the Warp when he got stranded on Mars and becomes loyal to Khorne. He even tried to kill his fellow group members.
 * Cosmic Horror Story: Oh, boy...
 * Deadpan Snarker: Longram tends to made some snide comments, especially dealing with the ridiculous and stupid during these bizarre adventures.
 * Dead Person Impersonation: In the Lucia arc, the Mambai took the skin of their victims. These victims are mostly likely those townsfolk, and the Mambai wore them as disguises. It seems their old practices haven't died in the past 4,000 years they've been gone. Basically, the townsfolk are not to be trusted by the group.
 * Deal with the Devil: Argus signs a deal with a text parser in order to get another chance at life. All she has to do is "Bring the star of rebellion to the sacred realm, and then snuff it out."
 * Defeating the Undefeatable: The group managed to beat Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes during the Virtual Reality arc. To put this in perspective, Gilgamesh is a mythical hero tougher than most Servants. They won because they teamed up and because of their Servant powers.
 * Deus Est Machina: The AI on Suzu's homeworld can reshape the terrain and control the weather. They are worshiped on Suzu's world, which means that most computer programs are considered kami by Suzu's people.
 * Dimensional Traveler: There are plenty and the group are most notable.
 * Distracted by the Sexy: To free Einar from the corruption of Khorne, the group created a gigantic projection of a nude Asmodeus. In this case, Asmodeus is a kitsune gynoid with a lot of fan service.
 * The Dog Was the Mastermind: Sorceress Ael, the sorceress behind the manipulation of Galbadia's president, used psychic powers to disguise herself as his pet cat.
 * Doppleganger Attack: Lisa in her Hassan-i-Sabbah form. After the arc, got that ability as a reward.
 * Double Entendre: After the Moon Cell arc, Merlin has a tendency of possessing Turax and making him say highly suggestive things.
 * Dressing as the Enemy: In the Ohm arc, The group successfully obtained the robes of drunken Magic Supremacy Group members and accidentally became double-agents.
 * Earth Is the Center of the Universe: Many of the worlds that various group members hail from tend to be a variant of Earth in some way.
 * The End of the World as We Know It:
 * Epic Fail: During the time skip, Longram was assigned to troubleshoot somebody's computer and managed to somehow knock out the entire station's electrical grid for 12 minutes. Nobody knows what happened, and Longram isn't talking, no matter what anyone threatens or coerces him with.
 * Expy: According to Imca, "Mizore is basically [OAAIRT] Imuka whole sale. Suzu may be a refinement, but Mizore is essentially her perfectly without you know having been in [the OAAIRT FG thread]. This is why room Imuka never fucking went back to her dad despite being essentially royalty. Hell the dragon's skull on the wall was a bit of a callout to that."
 * Fantastic Caste System: Suzu's world has an outdated caste system based on feudal Japan: The nobles are at the top, followed by the mages, peasants, and the burakumin at the bottom. In reality, the hierarchy is the following: mages, bushi, nobles, peasants, and burakumin. According to Ren, "[The Emperor] doesn't want to argue with the people who shoot fire from their finger tips.... not us since we directly serve them."
 * Fantastic Foxes:
 * Ao is a Kitsune who can switch between human and fox form. Taking damage in fox in her form is more grevious because it's her real form. She can manipulate blue flames and knows a deadly form of bestial martial ars.
 * Asmodeus is a flirtatious fox synthetic made by demons. She somehow managed to bag Einar, an Ultramarine, onto her side.
 * Suzu is a synthetic fox made by Precursors. She's a good tech wiz and can wield a sword pretty well.
 * Fetch Quest: During their time on Daecel, the group had to retrieve the Leather of Wealth, the Rod of Opening, and the Slate of Wisdom from the Trial of Mages.
 * Fighting Spirit: Zachary Stardust is a stand user, someone who can create a manifestation of his mental fortitude and inner strength. However, a stand is generally only visible to other stand users or those touched by the supernatural. His stand is known as Champaigne Stardust, which has the ability of accelerated speed.
 * Flashback Nightmare: After each arc, Oliver receives a USB Stick containing memories from his past before he got turned into a robot.
 * A Form You Are Comfortable With: In order to fit in, Hastur's human avatar had to incorporate many of popular culture's beliefs of The King In Yellow, not in the least part a certain animoo franchise.
 * For Science!: Baru enjoys experimenting by asking two fundamental questions: "What happens if I mix these?" and "How hard can I blow this up?" What she lacks in upper body strength and lifting capabilities, she makes up by being really, really good at running away from lab accidents very fast. Not that she has to most of the time, as she is mostly immune to fire. She even graduated top of her class at Tiefling University. In no small part because 85% of her class fell victim to various kinds of tragic explosives-related accidents over the years, putting Baru at the top by default (and warping the bell curve heavily in her favor, too).
 * Fusion Dance: During the Virtual Reality arc, group members fuse with the spirits of fallen historical and mythological figures.
 * From Nobody to Nightmare:
 * Gentle Giant: As giants, Hathor and Lisa are considerably stronger than a normal human. However, their enormous size frequently causes problems and necessitates the use of their pendants to shrink them down to human size. As a result, they can mingle with humans and befriend them pretty easily.
 * Godzilla Threshold: To stop the threat against Moon Cell in the Virtual Reality arc, the group had to reassemble Ea and summon Gilgamesh. Unfortunately, Gilgamesh was pissed at the group and proclaimed that he will punish the group for dirtying his precious Noble Phantasm with their filthy mongrel hands.
 * The Good King: The Skoisaun king wanted the war to end, but hardliners in the military placed him under house arrest and claimed they were simply following his decree.
 * Greater Scope Villain:
 * Greed: According to Chuck, "There are two things that Lovisia firmly believes in: That Power equals Money, and that Money equals Power". That is why she is constantly searching for ways to become more powerful and acquire more wealth, which in turn leads to more power again. After her first plan to become obscenely rich (a promising start-up enterprise about a smartphone app that helps brokering deals for mortals who want to sell their soul to a demon) failed due to some fine-print she didn't notice in a contract she signed, Lovisia instead tried her hand at adventuring and found that her extraordinary physical strength made it surprisingly easy to acquire money through mercenary work and quests. Turns out questgivers are surprisingly willing to increase the promised payment if you are an 8-foot tall demon woman with a greatclub. Her greed even got her to get a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, so she could keep better track of the money coming in and out of the group's operations.
 * Gundamjack: In the Huckebein arc, the group was hired by The Black Charisma to steal the Huckebein prototype before Zeon forces abuse it.
 * Half-Human Hybrid
 * Having both dragon and giant heritage makes Euryabe super-humanly powerful and durable. She is also immune to fire, and can fly using her wings.
 * Lovisia is a Tiefling. She is able to tap into the blood of her demonic ancestors, not only giving her access to some minor demonic magic but also allowing her to receive a significant boost to her physical capabilities and size when she rages.
 * Cath is half fish-person, making her more attuned to the seas and letting her use water-themed magic.
 * Headbutting Heroes: While the group can agree they must stand together to face challenges and form friendships, some just don't get along too well for certain reasons.
 * Albert and Longram despise each other due to a fighting a war in post-nuclear Washingston DC as opposing factions. However, this heated relations improved thanks to Catherine advising Longram to bury the hatchet.
 * Heroic Sacrifice: During one of the fights against the Skoisaun military, Audrick holds them off in order for the group to escape.
 * Homeworld Evacuation:
 * Hub City:
 * Terminus Station was a massive space station filled with a cosmopolitan population from all walks of life.
 * It was later rebuilt in the form of Centerpoint Station. It's more roomy, but less personalized.
 * Identity Amnesia: No Name doesn't remember his name until the Virtual Reality arc. When the others fused with the spirits of the past, he got his memories of his name back because an alternate version of himself was apparently a hero from a time long past.
 * Inside a Computer System: While the group was in cryogenic storage for their journey to a safer galaxy, the ship places them in a virtual MMORPG. While they experience a week of time in the RPG, 500 years will pass in real-time.
 * Inverted Trope:
 * Bruce is an anthropomorphic wolf who turns into a human on the new moon, making him an inversion of the usual werewolf trope.
 * According to Raidou the 21st, "The setting is one of the main reasons I chose to play Omar in the fashion I did. Part of it was turning around the obvious expectations. I felt like a lot of characters who were career soldiers (not all of them disclaimer here) were meatheads off the battlefield, but super erudite 'All According to Keikaku Doori' when on it. So I put it on the reverse: Someone who was incredibly learned and calm when not on the job, but shows just why he has the position he does when it's go time."
 * Jerkass: The Yukimura clan elder is the biggest jerk on Suzu's world. In Imca's words, "Mages are Jackasses + Sexes not being equal = There is going to be problems dealing with them." Sparty even said, "Old Man Yukimura holds [the group] in active disdain. It's not that he hates [them]. It's that he doesn't even fucking care. He could order [them] all shot and then go to bed and forget about it the next day. Those are the worst kinds of jackasses. Not the ones who hate you, the ones who don't even give a shit about you other than what you can do for them."
 * Killer Rabbit: Cuddles looks like a cute Bewear gijinka, but don't underestimate her. Her grapples can break a person's spine.
 * Last of His Kind: Andrew Longram is the last surviving member of his world's version of the Enclave and to a certain extent, the last of the Old World Americans.
 * Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Gespenst has to fight Norio during the Ringworld arc as one of Norio's requests.
 * Making a Splash:
 * Catherine has the power of Hydrokinesis, which, depending on how much she focuses, she can create some pretty powerful constructs near a large body of water, but she's left open. She's also quite nimble, at the least, swimming quite a bit. Can also breathe underwater.
 * On Daecel, the group met aliens who dress up in cloaks and are made out of water vapor. Their leader is called The Big Moist and he's big enough that his throne is a drinking pool.
 * The Man Behind the Man: In the Ohm arc, Vudan Arms gave the MSG the supplies to take on the world. Vudan Arms stopped after the group stopped the attack on Loswell Foundation. Cami, the representative of Vudan Arms, even went on a rant on how Lyle is the most incompetent person she had the misfortune of meeting.
 * Mask of Power: Most of Rostam's power comes from his War Mask, a special mask infused with the power of an Efreeti. If the mask were removed, he would lose the connection to the Efreeti until Rostam equips the mask. Dangerous things can happened if it were destroyed somehow.
 * Massive Multiplayer Crossover: The main premise with some Original Generation to boot.
 * The Medic: Reverend David Alberts is a medic with weapons that can heal people. He comes with syringes, healing grenades and a self-sterilizing scalpel. If he's forced into combat, he can fire a Beretta 92 9mm pistol and a HMTech-401 Assault Rifle. He's even turned into a White Mage during a section in the 3E arc.
 * Mirror Universe: The basis for an ANSCD arc. The players play evil versions of the characters they usually play in the normal RP. They have to escape from a ruined world.
 * The Multiverse: The multiverse the group's in is as vast and infinite as ever.
 * My God, What Have I Done?:
 * New Old West: Middle of Nowhere is a western-themed town, complete with saloon and train station. What makes Middle of Nowhere unique is that it takes place on a desert planet.
 * Non-Action Big Bad: Cami and Vudan were behind the events in the Ohm arc, but Cami surrendered after encountering the group during the raid on their base. Vudan refused the offer and was shot in the face by Noble Six.
 * No Respect Guy Andrew Longram, one of the resident engineers of the group. Even though he's one of the few folks with a stable mindset among the cast of wierdos, his comrades ([especially Asagi]) berate Longram and treat him like an idiot or a liability at the very worst. Most of it stems from being from a very xenophobic faction and Longram's jerk tendencies. To further the metaphorical ball breaking, he owed Asagi a heavy debt to pay off his bailout from jail which arbitrary rises to Asagi's whims.
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: For a while, Barbara the Paladin pretended that she was clueless with technology in order to disguise the fact she's originally from modern society.
 * OC Stand In: Barbara is based on the Avatar from the Ultima series. Ai and Albert are both based on the Lone Wanderer from Fallout 3.
 * Otaku: Lisa is an American assassin obsessed with Japan to the point where she dresses like a ninja. However, the Ringworld Arc tests her patience as she gets to see a version of feudal Japan, warts and all.
 * Our Dragons Are Different: The group in the Mirror Universe arc had to deal with a three-headed dragon who specialized in the elements of hydrogen, oxygen and radium. It was an scientific experiment left behind to guard something important.
 * Our Werewolves Are Different: On one of their early missions, the group had to deal with an invasion of bishonen werewolf cultists who were weak to head trauma and gold.
 * Perpetual Poverty: There's one thing that will never, ever change about the group. They will always be in poverty.
 * Political Correctness Gone Mad: The Amazon Prime CEO wants to respect the rights of his workers, but he goes overboard and offends his drones by making them work less.
 * Power of the Storm: Hathor uses arcane magic associated with the weather. Her control over this is limited, and cannot be used to do more than create small clouds or create water droplets. It has the potential to become significantly more powerful with time and practice, however.
 * Precursor Killers:
 * Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: During the Ohm arc, Lyle revealed he was dumped by Cath in the past. He's so petty, he attempted to stage a robbery at the Loswell Foundation just to get back at her. Unfortunately, he doesn't have the power to do so and has to rely on his henchmen in the MSG, who don't even show him an ounce of respect. He even got pissed off when Asagi placed a sign with the word "HA" on it formed into crude art of Cath holding hands with Longram.
 * Put on a Bus: Sandra disappeared from this RP after her player didn't take the criticism given to her well.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Alternate is a man with two personalities. Alternate A's the red oni because he's kind of an ass. He's also not very patient with his other half, Alternate 1. He also has physical-oriented powers like super strength and shark-like teeth that grow back pretty quickly. Alternate 1's the blue oni because he wants to be nice and polite to everyone. He specializes in abilities requiring the mind, such as knowing how living beings work (be it human or xeno) and performing delicate surgery with ease.
 * Religious Bruiser: The other reason why Rai choose to play Omar was to see "if it was possible to portray [a soldier] with a religious bent to it in a more positive manner, and [he] didn't feel like using the catholic analogue for Infinity's setting."
 * Ret-Gone: The Infinity Cylinder is a legendary weapon. According to Evan, building it would require the manpower and intelligence of an entire planet. According to the legend, it's basically a temporal and quantum weapon. It doesn't destroy or unmake a target. It simply erases the concept of the target's existence. If it were built, plans on using it on the  to prevent it from
 * Riddling Sphinx: The group met Jahrimo, a sphinx guarding the Slate of Wisdom. In an inversion of the usual trope, Jahrimo wants to hear jokes and stories from the group. Naomi got the Slate of Wisdom by telling a nice Feghoot to him.
 * Ridiculously Human Robot: Suzu can get drunk, eat, and breathe like a normal human because of the nanotechnology powering her.
 * Ring World Planet: Suzu hails from a run-down ring world maintained by a station-keeping AI that is worshiped like a goddess.
 * Shape Shifter: In the Idacra arc, the group had to deal with the Einst. Some of the Einst successfully changed into members of the group, causing paranoia for a while.
 * Single Biome Planet:
 * Nowhere is a desert-themed planet. The only ice that could be found is directly at the poles.
 * Cryogen and Pyrogen is a binary planet system. Cryogen is a planet completely covered in ice. There's even an ancient laboratory underneath the ice sheet. According to Imca, "[Pyrogen and Cryogren] are [part of a] terraforming experiment. All the heat from the two goes to Pyrogen like a giant refrigerator. Ever stuck your hand behind a fridge?"
 * Daecel is a jungle planet. It is so humid that the colonists there have to live in domes. They still have to use fans to bring in cool, dry air and expel the bad air. When the group enters a dome, the colonists ask them to close the door to avoid the spread of humidity into the building. In fact the MacGuffin needed for the colonists is an orb regulating the humidity level.
 * Spin-Off: Across Universes is an action-oriented spinoff of We Are Our Avatars. Across Universes places a hardline on character powerlevels, and thus the characters have to get more creative when coming up with solutions. It also forces the character sheets to be more creative.
 * Spiritual Successor: To We Are Our Adventuring Avatars. Imca, founder of this RP, wanted to properly experience the fun of We Are Our Adventuring Avatars without all of the baggage that came from that game.
 * Square Race, Round Class:
 * Turax is a magician who happens to be a Krogan. Krogans are known for their Blood Knight tendencies and their Super Toughness. The typical Krogan would probably go for a physical-oriented class if they happen to get stranded on a medieval planet. Then again, Turax believes that knowledge of arts is an excellent source of power, which also extends to spellcasting. During the Virtual Reality arc, he even gets the powers of Merlin.
 * Lisa is a giant who's obsessed with ninja to the point where she becomes one herself. It would be more fitting if she picked a more tanky class. She even got the powers of one of the Hassan-i-Sabbah.
 * Status Quo Is God: . In other words, they were back in poverty.
 * Time Skip: After the Villain arc, the RP went back to the group a month after the job in the Stroj arc. The group had a fair amount of odd jobs, but they paid very little. Some even costed the group money. There was a time when the group tried to catch a shoplifter, but Oliver got too excited and Stimmed into him so hard that he ended up body surfing him past two intersections. They had to spend money paying for his medical care, as if they don't already spend enough for their selves. There was also the time they had to rescue a regular cat from a space vent.
 * Trapped in Another World: Before becoming a paladin on the world of Sosaria, Barbara was just a regular girl from the good part of Los Angeles. For a time, she pretended that she didn't understand more advanced technology.
 * Trapped in TV Land: Asagi gets trapped in a video game spoofing many video games in pop culture, and it's up to the group to save her before it's too late.
 * Treacherous Quest-Giver:
 * As it turns out,
 * According to Momonga,
 * Traintop Battle: One of their first missions on Nowhere involve protecting precious water from bandits with partial success, another would be recusing a NOD leader from the same train filled with Mecha-Mooks.
 * Unskilled but Strong: Cuddles is a considerable unarmed fighter. While she lacks the finesse and agility of trained martial artists, she makes up for it with ridiculously high physical strength and stamina, the latter in particular stemming from the sheer fluffiness of her people. Hitting Cuddles is not unlike hitting a pillow: You'll have to put in some serious force before you can to any lasting harm to her, otherwise she'll just bounce back as if nothing happened.
 * Uriah Gambit: When the AU group arrives to respond to the signal on Idacra, immediately tries to get them all out of their hair. First, they sent Quartz and the other spart char up north where colonists lost a group of scouts. Next, they send Oliver, Suzu and longram out to sea in a known hostile environment with eldritch creatures. They sent Asagi, Lisa, and Sandra into a hot zone where they first meet Nacht. And they expected those bandits to definitely murder the shit out of the others. They also didn't like Haken and Audrick, so  planned Operation Bug-Hunt in hopes of getting rid of them.
 * Visual Pun: The race of water vapor spirits on Daecel are literally air-headed.
 * Wave Motion Gun: In the Stroj arc, the group got called over to a planet because Centerpoint knew there was supposed to be an Ark there but they haven't heard back yet. Turns out the Ark crashed, because there's a lot of orbital laser cannons around the planet shooting at anything that gets near, and the Serenity almost crashed before being forced to land. It turns out the orbital lasers are part of a planetary defense network with machine soldiers on the ground that was created to repel... something that passed through and killed the previous civilization that lived there.
 * Wham! Episode: After the group gets 50 tons of gold (Page 1445),
 * Witch Species: Sorceress Ael turns Asagi into a sorceress by passing her powers on.
 * Wrong Genre Savvy: Asagi thinks she's a video game protagonist. However, this is actually a Forum RP.
 * Worthy Opponent: In the Ringworld arc, Gespenst finds that Norio is a worthy adversary. As a part of the group's plan, Norio and Ges even agree to let Ges get "captured" by Norio
 * You All Meet in An Inn: The group met at a train station in a town called Middle of Nowhere.