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* [[Trojan Horse|Tsortean Horse]]: [[Doubly Subverted]]. The Ephebians build a wooden horse and leave it outside the Tsortean city gates. The Tsorteans bring the horse inside their walls...except they saw right through the ruse, and when night falls, they're wide awake and waiting outside the horse to ambush whoever comes out...''except'' the horse was only a distraction so that the Ephebians could sneak in a different way.

* [[Under New Management]]: Hell has recently come under new management, so the traditional punishments get scrapped in favor of mind-numbing eternal boredom.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Eric's parrot, who constantly substitutes the catchall ~~metasyntactic~~ ~~variable~~ "wossname" for random words, along with, to a lesser extent, "Polly want a biscuit,", described in the narration as being in the same tone that a human would say "Err...".

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Eric's parrot, who constantly substitutes the catchall [[Metasyntactic Variable]] "wossname" for random words, along with, to a lesser extent, "Polly want a biscuit,", described in the narration as being in the same tone that a human would say "Err...".

* [[We Have Reserves]]: The usual attitude of the Ephebian and Tsortean generals - Lavaeolus is considered a bit of a cheater because he actually tries to win battles without huge casualties, instead of using a...

* [[Zerg Rush]]: "The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."