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Though originally interesting just for the premise of the project, the discussion threads took on a life of their own as details of the setting took form and information began to leak out. It also helps that the threads are presided over by a [[Blatant Lies|pleasant]], [[Ax Crazy|even-tempered]] [[Psycho for Hire|PR representative]] who [[Teasing Creator|releases and discusses setting information]].
The original thread is [http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96183 here].
The [http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=177072 first completed VUACS setting] is posted.
''[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=11227775#post11227775 Vote Up A Campaign Setting 2]''
=== The original and subsequent discussion threads contain the following tropes: ===▼
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▲===Tropes
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Basically, we're all waiting for the setting release to fill in the blank's between afro's tidbits.
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Or rather, decapitation.
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*** To be fair, there are only so many times one can say "If the flora/fauna being asked about is native to the actual geographic regions that this setting is based off of, then it's in the setting" before one goes crazy.
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: He's even admitted as much himself.
** [[Reality Writes The Plot|Now comes in]] [[Villain Sue|in-setting flavor!]]
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: afro's ranting and sarcasm are some of the best parts of the threads.
* [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: Zeta Kai started VUACS and is still apparently the project leader, but afro seems to have full power over the discussion threads and generally [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|acts like he's in charge]].
** [[Oh Crap|He is now.]]
* [[Fan Nickname]]: [[
* [[Generic Guy]]: Shadow Elf is the third member of the team and in charge of all the [[Dungeons
* [[Jossed]]: Often appears to be afroakuma's favorite pastime, though sometimes [[Misaimed Fandom|the audience won't]] [[Memetic Mutation|let him]].
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: afro somehow linking a random [[Cirque Du Soleil]] clip into the history of the setting.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: YOUR HEAD CUT OFF
* [[Off
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Zeta Kai, the project leader, also the only person with any power to stop afro's madness.
* [[Power Trio]]: The Build Team.
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* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: afroakuma. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|In a good way]].
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: The only reason the audience keeps coming back, given afro's overt malevolence.
* [[Word of God]]: afroakuma stated in one of his rants that one of the factors in choosing questions to answer is that all of his answers are intended to fall under this trope.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: afroakuma's [[Cirque Du Soleil]] video, which turned out to be, as he said, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|entirely relevant to the setting]].
▲=== The setting itself contains the following tropes: ===
* [[Arabian Nights Days]]: The chosen theme for the setting, as voted by the audience.
* [[Belief Makes You Stupid]]: Since all the gods don't exist and are really represented by Zihaja,
* [[Big Bad]]: They posted the outlines of several possible ones with the names blanked, so far nothing else has been released on them.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: So far, the setting uses Arabic, Farsi and Sanskrit. Whether that will be true on release remains to be seen, but one poster recently picked up on the meanings of Siraaj, Najmah and Kamala.
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* [[Devil but No God]]: The religions presented so far for PCs and most of civilization are all essentially fake. We've already got confirmation that the demons and demon lords are very very real.
* [[The Don]]: New NPC crime lord Fazul.
* [[Dungeons
* [[Five Races]]: Not all that clear-cut, since they ditched the Player's Handbook races.
* [[Genie in
** "What do you mean, junk? We've been looking for Father for the past five years!"
* [[God's Hands Are Tied]]: Supposedly the reason for things such as [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Lizard Folk]]: One of the races voted in to replace the core D&D races.
* [[Masquerade]]: Half-genies living as ordinary people, and Zihaja operating ten false gods.
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** There are a few gods that aren't actually aspects of Zihaja, but they're either: a) directly subordinate to Zihaja, or b) racial gods of races which will never show up in most games (the dwarves living on the south pole have their own pantheon, for example). They were deliberately let in by Big Z, though.
* [[Schedule Slip]]: The original estimated release period was over a year ago.
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Shifting Sand Land]]: It's a desert setting, what did you expect?
* [[The X of Y]]: The setting's formal title is Hourglass of Zihaja.
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