User:Zzo38/GURPS1

Link to first chapter (or use Fossil to download the wiki). Ongoing. A Fossil repository is used to record it. Select "Tickets" to add comments (you must first log in anonymously). This is to record the events of the game, but can also make a story; we can correct it (adding details, moving stuff to/from footnotes, etc) if necessary. This is public domain (both the story and this article about it). (And if you think I am wrong, complain (perhaps with an indented point). If you are sufficiently certain I am wrong, just change it please!) (Once fixed up a bit, and considered good enough to move to main space, you might do so.)

List of tropes:
 * A Dog Named "Dog": The bat is just called "bat". Whether it is due to it is their proper name or not, is not currently known (fix this, perhaps with a spoiler tag, if it becomes known later).
 * Aerith and Bob: They do mix strange names with ordinary ones such as Bob, although this is usually due to because the characters with strange name is monsters characters, so probably it is supposed to be like that, anyways.
 * Alternative Calendar: Sort of. The zero reference is the last leap year on or before the events of the story. However, this is used only in the description of the story itself, not by the characters of the story (which use a calendar which is not described).
 * Maybe it doesn't apply to meta-calendars?
 * Altum Videtur: Chapter IX does have some Latin text. The author translated the English that the inscription on the box is supposed to mean, into Latin.
 * Anachronism Stew: There are leper windows, like some churches actually had in medieval times. But there is also coffee, which they didn't have at the medieval England (and this is mentioned in a footnote).
 * Anonymous Benefactor: Someone gave the spell book to Ziveruskex, since he might need it later for the quest. Well, so he study just a little bit, but is mostly interested in mathematics and other stuff instead.
 * Attack of the Killer Whatever: The evil comb, perhaps.
 * Bookworm: Ziveruskex will read any book (or, at least, will try; some are in obscure hieroglyphics).
 * Cast From Hit Points: Ziveruskex's magic spells (which, he does not use a lot, anyways; he isn't as good at magic as real mages, and regardless of the cost generally prefers to use mundane solutions when possible, but will use magic sometimes). He is not know how to achieve the mana by himself and has none and has to use the "Phyrexian mana" instead. However, sometimes he has mana crystals and can use those to cast spells and need not cast from hit points.
 * Celibate Eccentric Genius: See the next one.
 * Celibate Hero: Ziveruskex. Simply doesn't want to (and that remaining celibate hopefully to be a better philosopher, which seems to be working), rather than for religious reasons. (It is, however, still a vow (but a secret one).)
 * The Conspiracy: When Temple of Worm.
 * The organization itself isn't secret, nor is it so secret that they are bad, but their plans are secret; it was originally only expected they only stole people and tried to force priests to convert.
 * Damsel in Distress: The princess wanders off, and gets in trouble. The main characters at first want to save the princess (since that is what the king asked them to do), but later the situations comes that they try to kill the princess (they believe this to be justified due to the circumstances), and then later again try to save her, but a stone from a collapsing tower kills her, and then whoever was trying to save her don't care anymore. (Kjugobe only intended to save the princess because the king requested it, and didn't have something else to do.)
 * Dressing as the Enemy: When we find guard uniforms in a bedroom, and three of us can wear the uniforms to be disguised as guards (the other four are two monsters, a dwarf, and a man who is slightly too short to be one of the temple guards).
 * Empathic Healer: Ziveruskex once cast a healing spell on someone that took more injury onto himself than that he healed. The case of healing someone with potentially fatal injuries was solved by the use of parallel natural healing; fortunately, the spell worked; if it didn't, it could cause even more problems.
 * Eternal English: Although their English language should not be the same as our current English, they are treated as though it is because the author(s) doesn't know any better.
 * Such things as Caesar ciphers are made using modern language.
 * Other times, the difference between early Old English and early Middle English is handled properly.
 * Everything's Better with Bob: Note also that "bob" is also a slang term for shillings (a kind of old English money).
 * Extra Eyes: Strixan and Ziveruskex (each having five eyes), due to their species.
 * Fake King: In one town, the king started to do bad things, such as ban priests and semi-humans and monsters, setting up guards all over the place (a police state), setting up martial law, and were allegedly going to expand their empire and take over the town where Ziveruskex lives too, killing all of them. Actually the king was a fake;.
 * Familiar: Ziveruskex's magical bat familiar. Not the source of any powers (it is more the other way around); the type of bond is that Ziv can summon the bat (from a magic realm, presumably; also, it isn't always reliable) and that harm to one also affects the other, and they are more intelligent than most bats (but still cannot speak).
 * Fantastic Racism: A man who is neither a passenger nor the driver (nor any kind of authority related to the situation) refuses to let Ziveruskex onto a carriage, because he "doesn't let ugly monsters in this carriage". (It has later been asked by people outside of the story: Do they let beautiful monsters in this carriage?) Later, a fake king hates all semi-humans and monsters, and also priests (even if they are human).
 * Fictional Colour: Strixan and Ziveruskex can see five colours rather than three like human can see. Although such character is fiction, seeing more colours is not really fictional because the spectrum of electromagnetic lights is more than three colours and some animal (and some cameras) can see more than three colours.
 * Flight: Ziveruskex and Strixan can fly. However, they cannot easily carry another humanoid through the air; together they could carry them a short distance though, but it takes too much effort to do it any more.
 * Footnote Fever: Notes about the story/game, clarifications, recursive footnotes, a footnote deliberately left unreferenced, Microsoft ("Where do you want to go today?"), comments, strange comments, references to other television shows, footnotes with something irrelevant to the context, music notes, etymology, spelling, anachronism, physics, the "Jabberwocky" poem, strangely numbered footnotes, etc.
 * Four-Fingered Hands: Ziveruskex and Strixan, although the human characters have five fingers.
 * Good with Numbers: Ziveruskex.
 * GURPS: The game system we are using.
 * Humans Are Ugly: Ziveruskex does not like to watch humans eating and finds it ugly.
 * Instant Sedation: Strixan and Ziveruskex can spit poison that can cause the target to sleep (normally for a few minutes at most). Can be used for defense, or make it easier to eat their blood when they are not running away or fighting back, or for both purposes.
 * Or, in one case, used on an ally in order to break a spell.
 * Join or Die: Temple of Worm did so to the priests they have stolen from Temple of Sun.
 * Keep the Reward: In chapter XL, there is a lesser form of this. Due to saving the world, the king offers money and a magic item for each of us. Kjugobe requests nothing. Ziv dosen't want a magic item; he wants a (non-magical) book instead (which he later intends to return, after making a copy). Ziv is not really that interested in a reward; he just likes to read a book.
 * Last-Name Basis: Iuckqlwviv Kjugobe.
 * Locked Door: They turn the wood door into metal so that you can't break it.
 * Magic Wand: Bob has one, but its effects are unpredictable. Once it turned himself invisible (while attempting to use it on a rock), once it turned a beast into a rabbit, once it caused money to fall out of his ears (while trying to use the wand to attack someone), etc.
 * Morphic Resonance: Invoked by external tampering. Ziveruskex.
 * Mushroom Man: There are talking mushrooms in chapter XIX.
 * No Title (at least for now)
 * Non-Idle Rich: Bob, who is rich but still goes on the same quest with those he has hired.
 * Non-Mammalian Hair: Ziveruskex and Strixan are not mammals and do not have hair. Nevertheless, the king ordered them to get a haircut anyways.
 * Old British Money: This is the money used in the story.
 * Once For Yes, Twice For No: Because a bat cannot talk, this is asked of them once.
 * Pay Evil Unto Evil: Someone stole goats from a woman. When they are stolen back, those who take them back steal wheelbarrows from the original thief too. (However, this is because we need the wheelbarrows to carry the goats back.) Stealing wheelbarrows is done again a later time, and for a similar reason, but this time Ziv told the armourer to return the wheelbarrow.
 * Place Worse Than Death: The Sun Town. The people who live there like it (and are unaware of any other place), but at one o'clock everyone falls asleep and won't wake up until 12:00 the next day. You cannot escape by walking (regardless of what direction you go, you end up in the same place), flying (there is some sort of heavy gravity in the sky which makes it too difficult to fly), or teleportation (the teleportation will succeed, but you will just end up in the same place, just as though you walk the same distance).
 * Plot Coupon: The gold bracelet with a ruby. Maybe.
 * Religion of Evil: The Temple of Worm.
 * Save This Person, Save the World: At one point they have to save a timeline and save the princess. The two are actually independent tasks, although the way things are set up, both things are done together; thet method of doing so ends up with both. Or, so it might seem at first...actually, it is more complicated:
 * Shown Their Work: At least in some cases.
 * Smart People Know Latin: Ziveruskex (but only to read/write; he does not know how to actually speak Latin). (Ziv knows Greek as well, again only to read/write and not speech).
 * Spell Book: Ziv's spell book not only has the spells written in it, but he is not a mage, only the book is a mage, so he need to hold the book in order to cast spells from it.
 * Technical Pacifist: Ziveruskex refuses to use sufficiently harmful attacks on living horrific monsters (especially if sapient).
 * True Companions: Ziveruskex and Strixan, probably; and perhaps to a lesser degree, also Bob.
 * Ugly Hero, Good-Looking Villain: Sometimes (although who considers someone else "ugly" can also differ).
 * Weapon of Choice: Bob uses sword and dagger. Domag uses sword. Strixan uses whip, crossbow, breath attack, and bite. Ziveruskex uses shield (to bash as well as defend), breath attack, claws, and bite. Dritz uses two swords. Kjugobe uses a quarterstaff (exchanged for a magic quarterstaff for the duration of a quest; eventually it is exchanged back), tentacles, and psychic blast. Erik Sharphammer uses a axe that is retained even after it is thrown.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: In chapter XXIV when Ziveruskex and Strixan spit poison at a man and eat all of his blood and take his medallion (and refuse to take his money or any of his other possessions), and Galan asks, what did he do to deserve that? Ziv explains, but Galan thinks this philosophy is strange.
 * With a Friend and a Stranger: At first, that is what happened. Ziveruskex came in and Bob (an employer, and they are strangers to each other), and then Strixan arrives soon afterward (Ziv's friend).
 * Wreathed in Flames: Ziveruskex inadvertently acquires such a power, but cannot use it all the time, and eventually it will run out. Anyways, anything you carry/wear will be burned when you activate this power.
 * You Are Too Late: Reversed; the bad guy is too late because the heroes can fly and block the chimney, it takes the other guys much too longer to correct the problem; during this time we can go inside and look around and move things. Type II. Afterward when we try to block the chimney again, we find the chimney is now guarded.
 * Ziveruskex likes mathematics, writes mathematics in his books, and invented calculus in medieval times. (Shown only a little bit so far in the story, but it will be shown some more later perhaps.)