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[[File:Kaspall-pg209-panel1_4897.png|frame|The Captain (center) and Lieutenant de Montfort (left) question a witness.]]
''[[Kaspall]]'' is a [[Fantasy]] [[Mystery Fiction|murder mystery]] [[Web Comic]] written and drawn by Lucy Lyall that started in 2005.
Within this comic, "Kaspall" is the name of the unusual city in which the story takes place. This city is remarkable for two things:
* First, the [[Cool Gate|network of gates]] leading into and out of [[Recursive Reality|a world formed entirely of places thought about and imagined by the people of this world]], called the Skein.
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These facts are, of course, connected.
We recommend [https://web.archive.org/web/20130323211739/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg1.html starting at the beginning.]
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* [[Alt Text]]: Starting in Scene 20, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110306081841/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg228.html pg. 228.]▼
▲* [[Alt Text]]: Starting in Scene 20, [http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg228.html pg. 228.]
* [[Anti-Magic]]: And being in a no magic zone makes people ill or at the very least, queasy.
* [[Art Evolution]]: Less so than in many webcomics, but quite visible between, say, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100808173155/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg10.html Scene 1] and [http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg326.html Scene 28]{{Dead link}}.
* [[Bad Liar]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110308213533/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg111.html Professor Jaiva is merely] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110306091550/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg112.html bad at lying] -- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110305022731/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg288.html Avril is full-out] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110305022759/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg289.html this trope.]
* [[Bonus Material]]: The [https://web.archive.org/web/20120419013209/http://kaspall.xepher.net/miscbox.html Misc. Box.]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Hazel, the landlady, and Sam Goldborne, her least favorite tenant.
* [[Doomed Moral Victor]]: {{spoiler|[http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg307.html Beatrice Ulfor]}} sees herself as one.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The Captain. The only thing that hints at as much as her ''gender'' is half a not-telephone conversation between [https://web.archive.org/web/20110306081916/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg39.html Hazel and Avril].
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Apparently many worlds had this problem, judging by [https://web.archive.org/web/20110305022807/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg261.html Sam's reaction to the idea of a human-only one.]
{{quote|'''Sam''': I can just imagine. Everyone equal. No-one looking ''down'' on you all the time. You could just be satisfied, you know? [[Entertainingly Wrong|It must have been amazing.]]
'''Alex''': [[Sure, Let's Go with That|Oh. Um. ...yes.]]
'''[[Alt Text]]''': [[Ask a Stupid Question|Yes. It's just like that. Also, sometimes it rains free money and kittens - though it's best to stay indoors when that happens.]] }}
* [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20120107120815/http://kaspall.xepher.net/miscbox/qs.html Character Q&A.]
* [[Funny Background Event]]: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110306081856/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg247.html All]'' kinds of licenses.
** Also [https://web.archive.org/web/20110305022828/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg274.html the signage at the hospital.]
* [[Gods Need Prayer Badly]]: Not gods, but stories -- in the Skein, those tales which are widely remembered and retold exist strongly, and those which are less recalled more weakly.
* [[Have You Told Anyone Else?]]: Unusually, the one person they told was [https://web.archive.org/web/20110305022858/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg284.html the entirely trustworthy police lieutenant.] Who thinks they're all idiots for ''not'' telling anyone.
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Sam Gouldborne, [http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg339.html to the astonishment of people who know of him as "the jerk who never pays his rent"]{{Dead link}} -- although as a [[Non-Action Guy]] [[Burger Fool|Cafe Pot-wash]] he can't actually accomplish much more than getting himself beat up.
* [[Lions and Tigers and Humans, Oh My!]]: Kaspall takes place in a world that's mostly populated by anthropomorphic characters, but humans (and other species) frequently get transported there by accident and have to try to integrate into its society.
* [[Medium Awareness]]: {{spoiler|[http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg196.html Sir Haydon realizes he's fictional.]}}
* [[Nonverbal Miscommunication]]: Discussed [https://web.archive.org/web/20110308205419/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg238.html here], with some [[Alt Text]] lampshading.
* [[Not So Stoic]]: The Captain is pretty much unfazed by everything that occurs -- right up to [http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg316.html the point in Scene 26]{{Dead link}} where {{spoiler|she discovers the Ulfor have started kidnapping people by the dozen right off the streets}}.
* [[Oh My Gods]]: "Circle!" and "God's shape!", [https://web.archive.org/web/20120107120815/http://kaspall.xepher.net/miscbox/qs.html#circle as explained here.]
* [[Petting Zoo People]]: A major fraction of the Kaspall population, including most of the main characters.
* [[Playing Possum]]: {{spoiler|The Captain}} [http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg298.html resorts to this]{{Dead link}} to see how {{spoiler|Avril}} reacts.
* [[Recursive Reality]]: The Skein.
* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: {{spoiler|The original Joseph Haydon}} was {{spoiler|Katherine Ulfor's husband}}.
* [[Scare'Em Straight]]: The purpose of [https://web.archive.org/web/20110306091654/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg212.html the story of the Veritarc.]
* [[Spanner in the Works]]: More than one:
** Sam, doing his job as Alex's guide -- {{spoiler|when Hazel only forged his signature on the paperwork [http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg252.html because she didn't want a stranger hanging around the house].}}
** The OWR, which {{spoiler|[http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg305.html handed a dangerous artifact back to Alex] rather than [http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg306.html put it in their safe] because they had no clue about it.}}
* [[Story Within a Story]]: The Skein is composed of the stories thought about by the inhabitants of Kaspall. {{spoiler|[http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg249.html Jaiva suggests that stories within the Skein might reach a point where they could dream stories themselves.]}}
* [[Tempting Fate]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110306082453/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg237.html Sam, reassuring Alex], as noted by the [[Alt Text]].
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: Many, many characters -- the OWR is specifically tasked to help these people deal with being displaced to the city Kaspall.
* [[Webcomic Time]]: Noted in the [[Alt Text]] of [https://web.archive.org/web/20110305022629/http://kaspall.xepher.net/archive/pg266.html this page.]
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