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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.]
* [[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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