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[[File:VampireCourt.jpg|frame|Welcome to [[The Masquerade]], Mark.]]

 

 

Mark once was just an [[The Everyman|ordinary guy]] with an office job and a blonde girlfriend. Except that every once in a while he had a strange urge to hang in front of a tabletop RPG store and stare at its wares pointlessly... Then one day, after a run in with the local [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire coven]] and [[The Hunter|The Hunters]], he discovered a mind-blowing truth: there is a secret society out there, [[The Masquerade]]... <small>OF [[Geek|GEEKS]]!</small> And he is [[Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?|one of them]], "a human by day and a geek by night"...

 

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** Or make a [http://www.weregeek.com/2007/05/09/ crime and travesty] of Lord of the Rings in front of Sarah.

** Likewise it would be ''very'' foolish to tell Sarah that fantasy is just for guys.

* [[Brainwashed]]: Captured geeks are apparently killed, or brainwashed into regular people, removing any enjoyment from the unique and conforming to be another average joe.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Parodied [http://www.weregeek.com/2007/12/17/ here].

* [[Calvin Ball]]: You can see an embryonic version of it when the geeks attempt an ordinary card game. [http://www.weregeek.com/2010/09/17/ Go fish!]

* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Justified with Joel, who gives people only enough information to protect themselves. [http://www.weregeek.com/2009/08/12/ This is because he's the group's dungeon master]; it's a habit.

* [[Cargo Ship]]: [[In-Universe]] between Dustin's D&D game paladin and his armor.

* [[Collector of the Strange]]: Joel collects unopened soda pop.

* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: Joel's habit of messing with people's brains, Abbie's antics, sometimes Dustin vs. Abbie pillow-fighting. Let alone [[PC|PCs]].

* [[Dungeonmaster's Girlfriend]]: Mark's girlfriend tries to join the geeks for a game night. She's not a geek, but doesn't mind that Mark is one.

** However, a point of potential drama is that while she knows he's a geek, she doesn't know how bad he's got it. Specifically, he hasn't told her about the whole "weregeeks and hunters" bit.

* [[Face Palm]]: Demonstrated [http://www.weregeek.com/2010/08/30/ here] in combination with [[Unsound Effect]].

* [[Fan Girl]]: Abbie

** This really gives more the impression that 'this' is what happens to the [[Jerk Jocks]] who waste high school picking on geeks.

** It's so bad that one hunter leader chewed out his subordinate for even hinting that he saw a comic book movie.

* [[MacGyvering]]: Abbie's [[Shadowrun]] character Twitch is a [http://www.weregeek.com/2007/07/06/ Techno Wizard], and manages to combine this with [http://www.weregeek.com/2007/07/04/ blatant] [[Pyromaniac]] streak into one piece of [[Comedic Sociopathy]].

* [[Machine Monotone]]:

* [[The Masquerade]]: Geeks hide themselves within the society, acting as if they were ordinary students and office workers, to avoid the Hunters' attention.

* [[Non-Malicious Monster]]: The geeks really, yeah they's turn into sinister looking shadowy figures if presented with a first edition Han Solo figure, but outside of an intense game of D&D they have yet to be seen attacking people or acting with any sort of malicious intent.

** The only time you see them get violent is when they are being attacked by hunters.

* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: The Hunters. Well, the Delta Team, at least. It starts showing [http://www.weregeek.com/2010/01/04/ here] when they start developing actual personalities and stop being regular old [[Mooks]].

* [[Reference Overdosed]]

** Under 3.5 and 4, a Half-Orc (+2 Strength mod) with 20 STR is perfectly realistic under the point-buy system. Munchkinny, sure, but legitimate.

* [[Running Gag]]: "TEN POUNDS OF POCKY!"

* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]: Sarah and Abbie's discussion of ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' is rather telling.

* [[You All Meet in An Inn]]: [http://www.weregeek.com/2007/12/07/ This].

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: This is how Joel captures {{spoiler|[[The Hunter]] [http://www.weregeek.com/2010/01/27/ here]: either the Hunter grabs his hand, putting himself into Joel's power, or he falls into the net below. The second part worked.}}

* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Mark runs into a horde of "zombies" after a vampire game session ({{spoiler|who are discovered to be normal people doing a charity "zombie run" on Halloween}}) and the gang later reenacts it with a zombie movie game.

 

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