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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)

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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	comment	Story IndexThe Adventure Zone: Balance is a Dungeon Punk/Science Fantasy themed arc of The Adventure Zone podcast featuring the McElroy Brothers (Justin, Travis, and Griffin) playing Dungeons & Dragons with their father Clint. Griffin is the Dungeon Master while other three play.The campaign follows a fairly typical crew of adventurers traveling FaerÃ»n to find their fortune: the human fighter Magnus Burnsides (Travis), the high elf wizard Taako (Justin), and the dwarven cleric Merle Highchurch (Clint). After working together for some time, they're roped into a job by Merle's cousin to help him transport goods to Phandalin, but he ends up kidnapped by gerblins and taken to an abandoned mine that once belonged to his and Merle's ancestors. They find themselves in a struggle with a drow over the Phoenix Fire Gauntlet, a weapon of world-changing power, and somehow manage to defeat him between their goofs. Even more surprisingly, they are able to safely contain the Gauntlet without falling under its control. This earns them recruitment as agents of the Bureau of Balance, a secret guild formed to retrieve and destroy the Gauntlet and the six other Grand Relics to prevent them from causing more destruction, death, and war than they already have. Magnus, Taako, and Merle can only take themselves so seriously, though...In this same continuity is the adventures of the Hogsbottom Three, a D&D campaign played by the cast of The Flophouse. Stuart Wellington is the DM, with Elliot Kalan playing Scales the Dragonborn bard, Dan McCoy playing Lucian Buttwatcher the high elf druid, and special guest Zhubin Parang playing Tanzer Silverview the human ranger.The series also has an ongoing graphic novel adaptation. Each volume covers one arc of the podcast (with parts of the Lunar Interludes folded in where applicable). The first volume was released in July of 2018, with subsequent books coming out at a rate of one per year.In January 2020 it was announced that the series would receive an animated adaptation on the NBC streaming service Peacock.In November 2021, the series returned for a 3-episode miniseries called "The Zone of Adventure: Imbalance". Set ten years after Story and Song, the miniseries features Aabria Iyengar as the DM and airs on the McElroy Family YouTube channel.Spoilers for The Stolen Century and Story and Song and related spoilers from The Suffering Game should be spoiler-tagged. Everything else is fair game. Reader beware: you're about to enter... the Spoiler Zone!
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_11bc87bc	comment	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: There's a lot of this early on, as one of Griffin's tactics for introducing NPCs before his descriptive genius really blossomed would be to say what celebrity they looked like. For example: Barry Bluejeans is described as looking like Tom Arnold. Yeemick the Gerblin "looks like Common and sounds like Kelsey Grammer." Johann the Sad Bard: "This is what Michael Bolton sounds like when he talks."
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_1207d30	comment	Villain's Dying Grace: During the Story and Song finale, John's death is this. In his featured episode in The Stolen Century, John was stubborn about his vision for the Hunger and insisted he'd become ascendant. Then he has a Heel Realization when the Hunger itself turns on him after starving for the Light of Creation for over a decade. Knowing heâ€™s almost certainly about to die, John brings Merle to Parley to tell him how to defeat the Hunger and save the planar system.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: In the Live Boston Stunt Spectacular, we have an event which is basically Fantasy Wrestlemania, and several participants who are knockoffs of real-life pro wrestlers: Jeff Angel is a perfect copy of John Cena, from his attire to his entrance theme, except that he's an aarakocra. Death Man is a Goth-themed fighter with a black trenchcoat, a rocking entrance theme, and "massive guns," a bit past his prime but still formidable. Hmmm...
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_131ca891	comment	Literal Surveillance Bug: The Scuttle Buddy.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: In the Petals To The Metal arc, after losing the battlewagon race against Hurley and the boys, The Raven has a mental breakdown and drives herself off a cliff. From then on, the Gaia Sash takes complete control over her. After seeing how the relics that they made are being used, everyone in the IPRE crew has some form of this.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_1467a30c	comment	Unexpected Gameplay Change: The Stolen Century is actually played using a modified Powered by the Apocalypse ruleset instead of the usual 5E D&D.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_14a8974a	comment	Love Potion: According to the McElroys, Charming is less about making the target like you and more about making the target be attracted to you. After Taako Charms him, Klarg demands a hug from Magnus which lasts a little too long and begins to rub Magnus's back. Tom Bodett keeps asking for a kiss. Merle uses a Charm ability to basically talk some vines into orgasming.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The Suffering Game is far harsher than the previous arcs. The arcs afterward continue the theme. Also consciously Defied in The Stolen Century: in The The Adventure Zone Zone, the brothers admit that the arc with the crystal originally had a different ending in which they actually destroyed the crystal rather than let it feed The Hunger. After they finished recording, they all individually felt uncomfortable with the ending, feeling that it just felt too dark for the story they'd been creating and just didn't fit the tone. So, they went back and had the characters Take a Third Option instead.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_171f4d57	comment	Dungeon Punk: A fairly light-hearted take. Magitek is everywhere and the Fantasy Kitchen Sink is in full effect.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_18d420b0	comment	It takes several arcs for the players to really solidify their characters' personalities, which results in occasional weirdness like Taako being labeled the bravest one of the group in Moonlighting.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_1a8b9a47	comment	Rule of Fun: All the players admit to fudging their rolls here and there to keep the story moving and interesting, though Travis is by far the most suspect. As the DM, Griffin often flagrantly bends or even disregards the rules of Dungeons & Dragons to help his players pull off goofs and impressive feats. Griffin mentions that some of the stricter fans are critical of the gang straying from the core mechanics, but he believes telling a story with limited time is more important than adhering to the rules.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_1b65eaf3	comment	The Caper: The Live in Nashville! show has Tres Horny Boys and Lup travel back to their home plane to pull of a casino heist with one target in mind: the $15 that Greg Grimaldis owes Lup.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_1c169242	comment	The Order: The Bureau of Balance.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_1c9537cd	comment	The Main Characters Do Everything: Lampshaded. There are seven ancient artifacts that must be collected and destroyed for the safety of the world. Secret magical society with limitless resources and a moon base: zero. Three horny boys: six. The Director of the Bureau of Balance notes this in-universe after the Petals to the Metal arc and decides to reassign all other reclaimers and put the Bureau's full resources behind supporting the party. Later justified: according to the Director, because they made them, the main party are the only people who can resist the thrall of the Grand Relics. Anyone else gets tempted to use them and inevitably corrupted by their power if they do.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_1c96f945	comment	Wrong-Name Outburst: Justin/Taako accidentally says "Travis" instead of "Magnus" during a rant in Murder on the Rockport Limited.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_1dab5333	comment	Total Eclipse of the Plot: In Carnival Chaos The Boys partake in a carnival in celebration of the annual midsummer solstice eclipse. During the eclipse, the Hunger makes its first appearance, foreshadowing the overarching plot to come.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: In Episode 6, seconds before Gundren was going to take off the Phoenix Fire Gauntlet, Kurtze the orc boy shoots him with an arrow to enact revenge. This reignites his rage, and ultimately destroys Phandalin.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: It's a frequent feature, with characters constantly mentioning the format. During the Previously onâ€¦ segment for the finale of Murder on the Rockport Limited:
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_1faf34ad	comment	Prisoner's Dilemma: Each team that enters Wonderland during The Suffering Game is faced with a series of these, where they're paired off with another team and the challenge they'll face in the next room is scaled accordingly (with "cooperate while the other team forsakes" resulting in an extremely tough challenge, while "forsake while the other team cooperates" results in a free pass).
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_203f069d	comment	Tongue-Tied: A variant: those who aren't in tune with the Voidfish hear nothing but static when certain concepts, like the Phoenix Fire Gauntlet a.k.a. Glovey, are mentioned.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_207c3447	comment	Can't Take Anything with You: The Eleventh Hour's "Groundhog Day" Loop presents some difficulties for the boys because it's set in an isolationist town with its own currency (diamonds), and they're limited to what they carried in with them. Magnus and Taako find this out when they take advantage of a bank robbery to abscond with handfuls of diamonds and are disappointed to find that they're gone upon the reset. Istus later performs a Cosmic Retcon when she blesses them with various tools so they'll still have them in the next loop.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_208c4494	comment	The Phoenix Fire Gauntlet, which grants powerful fire magic with a side helping of madness.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_20bf0546	type	Franchise-Driven Retitling
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_20bf0546	comment	Franchise-Driven Retitling: The story was originally known as just The Adventure Zone, since it was the only story arc in the series. As the story's end came into view, they realized that it needed a title to differentiate it from later stories, and named it Balance in TTAZZ 2.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_217e6723	comment	Heroes "R" Us: The Bureau of Balance organizes adventurers to locate and collect terrible magical artifacts that threaten the world.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2196fad8	comment	Signed with a Kiss: Just before she vanished without a trace for over ten years, Lup left a note for her partner Barry that simply read, "Back soon", with a lipstick kiss at the bottom of the paper. The turns out to be very lucky in the epilogue; Barry never got rid of the note, and there were enough trace amounts of Lup's DNA on the paper for her to be magically resurrected after it was discovered she'd been dead and trapped in her lich form for that entire decade.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: Petals to the Metal introduces silverpoint, a plant with a deadly untreatable poison. While it is first introduced as the Gaia Sash's final self defense, silverpoint poison appears later in the same arc when Capt. Captain Bane attempts to poison the protagonists. Much, much later, it is revealed that (much earlier) Lup was stabbed with a weapon covered in silverpoint poison so that there would be no chance to heal the wound.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In Murder on the Rockport Limited, the "pleasure chamber" that offers a limited form of recreational teleportation not only figures into the murder mystery, it also comes in very handy later on when the boys need to find a way to divert a runaway train from crashing to a populated area. In The Crystal Kingdom, Kravitz accuses the boys of dying several times each but never properly passing on; he's there to take them in. This is from dying and being resurrected by the white ring core that powered the IPRE's interplanar ship; events that were mind-wiped using the Voidfish's offspring In The Suffering Game, Magnus landing on "skull" during the third roulette round. Later, when confronting the elves, he's forcibly removed from his body which Edward takes control over.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_234073a4	comment	Your Mind Makes It Real: In the climax of the Live in Austin! show, Taako dunks a basketball into the hoop at the center of Brody's final form, releasing them from the Dream Land they were trapped in. They all wake up in a chamber in the Underdark, where their captor, a mind flayer, proclaims "If you get dunked on in the dream, you get dunked on in real life!" and dies on the spot.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2504772e	comment	Walking Spoiler: Lup, Taako's twin sister.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2536f695	type	Game-Breaker
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2536f695	comment	Game-Breaker: invoked In-universe. Whomever came up with the rules of battlewagons clearly failed to take into account the amount of damage a wizard with the right spells could do to the opposition. Taako takes down three rival wagons with only two spells.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2562da69	type	Great Escape
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2562da69	comment	Great Escape: Averted in The Eleventh Hour. Upon entering Refuge for the first time, the boys are immediately jailed—but given Taako's magical abilities, they can escape pretty much any time they want. They chill in their cell until they decide that there's nothing interesting to discover inside of it, and then they wander on out.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_259d5879	comment	Between the Bureau of Balance's magic gashapon machine that awards a random magical item to each party member after each arc, and their Fantasy Costco that stocks a plethora more goodies for the right price, the boys have amassed a very impressive magical arsenal for adventurers of their level.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2630ef75	type	Emergency Transformation
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2630ef75	comment	Emergency Transformation: Sloane uses the power of the Gaia Sash to transform herself and Hurley into dryads to save the latter from an incurable poison.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Garfield the Deals Warlock was a one-off goof in MBMBAM that developed into a full-fledged character in TAZ Balance. Candlenights, which is the most prominent winter holiday in the TAZ Balance setting, originated as a joke from My Brother, My Brother and Me, wherein it's the brothers' own pan-religious winter holiday. The Caleb Cleveland: Kid Cop series of novels Angus is mentioned liking originate from literary masterpiece Grant Andrews - Kid Cop that Griffin wrote in elementary school, which he has talked about on his old blog and discussed a few times on MBMBAM. One of the alternative planes appearing in The Stolen Century features a dead civilization who lives on by storing their souls and possessing robots, a concept discussed in Travis's (K)Nights campaign. The "Arms Outstretched" music from The Suffering Game takes its name from a quote from a MBMBAM Jumbotron. A listener asked the boys to read her friend's decade-old melodramatic Live Journal post about how seeing Music/Coldplay live was a transcendent experience. The post was later preformed by John Hodgman during a liveshow. Other chaos what ensued can be found here.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Originally, Davenport said "Davenport" quite a lot. It was later changed into PokÃ©mon Speak, with it being the only thing he says. Magnus has a strong tendency to cut off a description of events or list of options by saying "Magnus does X" and proceeds to do exactly that.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_27f10418	type	Impersonating an Officer
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_27f10418	comment	Impersonating an Officer: Taako tries to bluff his way past Sheriff Isaak in The Eleventh Hour by showing him a fake police badge he picked up at the Fantasy Costco. Needless to say, it doesn't work.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_28848c12	type	Life-or-Limb Decision
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_28848c12	comment	Life-or-Limb Decision: In The Crystal Kingdom, Merle gets exposed to rapidly-growing crystal, forcing Magnus to chop off his arm to save him. Fortunately, he quickly gets a magical wooden replacement that he can control independently of his body.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_29292e6d	comment	Davenport, not content to stay in one place, sails the world, reveling in the existence of the world they saved.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_295087bf	comment	In The Eleventh Hour, Magnus is given a spear called the Chance Lance by the goddess Istus. When he throws and recalls it, it reverses its path in time back to his hand.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: The live Halloween Special, where the boys are drawn into Dracula's castle as he attempts to recruit them. Other spooks like disco-dancing ghosts and a Frankenstein knight and knave pair make appearances. This is a bit of a zigzag—the episode was released on Halloween, but the episode takes place at the summer solstice (previously established as an occasion to wear costumes in the setting), and the actual live show was in late September.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: In nearly every live episode, Magnus does incredibly dangerous and nigh-suicidal things to accomplish the task at hand because since his death has a canonical explanation, he cannot die before it happens much to Griffin's annoyance.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: A case that was played straight and later averted, notably. Sadly in Petals to the Metal, Hurley and Sloane, two female characters who were all but said to be in a relationship, die at the end of the arc. It should be noted that Dungeon Master Griffin genuinely wasn't aware that this trope was a thing, and promised to do better about it in the future he was informed about it. To Griffin's credit, his example of the trope resulted in one of the more genuinely heartfelt and touching moments in what is a very irreverent podcast at times, thereby averting the common usage of this trope as a means of providing unnecessary Wangst for one half of the doomed pair or their friends/companions. The aversion came later in part two of Story and Song, where it's revealed that they didn't actually die, but were turned into dryads.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: Halfling roommate Robbie stocks the "dankest" potions, including one that resembles Orbitz and which has an effect like a cross between alcohol and salvia.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2cf48b40	type	Ornamental Weapon
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2cf48b40	comment	Ornamental Weapon: This is how Taako intends to use the Flaming Poisoning Raging Sword of Doom after swindling it away from Garfield.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2d7c66d3	type	The Stars Are Going Out
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2d7c66d3	comment	The Stars Are Going Out: During the epilogue to The Eleventh Hour, stars are beginning to blink out of existence. This is due to the thirteenth plane of existence consuming them as it makes for the planar system of the campaign.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2da9bb9b	type	Psychopomp
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2da9bb9b	comment	Barry and Lup strike a deal with the Raven Queen to avoid being hunted for being liches, and become reapers.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2de7bbf1	type	Nominal Hero
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2de7bbf1	comment	Nominal Hero: The "heroes" are in the business of tracking down Artifacts of Doom for two reasons: because they don't want the planet destroyed, and because the pay is pretty good. They'll gleefully lie, cheat, steal, and murder along their way toward saving the world from the latest threat, and everyone else has to put up with it, because their track record at world-saving can't be beat.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2fc21a19	type	Distaff Counterpart
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_2fc21a19	comment	Distaff Counterpart: Subverted with Taako and Lup. Despite being twins who both have pragmatic trickster tendencies, they are by no means interchangeable. Lup eventually proves to be the more confrontational and empathetic of the two. They are also accused of almost completely different sins by the judges in The Stolen Century. Both are charged with Pride, but Lup is uniquely charged with Lust, Gluttony, and Wrath. Taako gets none of those three, instead being accused of Envy and Greed. Justin has admitted to initially fearing that Lup's introduction would just mean that there were now two Taakos running around, but thankfully Lup ended up setting herself apart as her own character.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_31083edb	comment	Logic Bomb: The end goal of the "Stump Hodge Podge" round in The Crystal Kingdom. Paradoxes don't work; what does work is Taako asking him who the party works for. Since the Voidfish denies Hodge Podge knowledge of the Bureau of Balance, he quickly overheats and explodes trying to work it out.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_31e2ad94	type	Kid Detective
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_31e2ad94	comment	Kid Detective: Angus McDonald, the self-described "world's greatest detective," is a pre-pubescent boy.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_32c930e8	type	Eccentric Townsfolk
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_32c930e8	comment	Eccentric Townsfolk: The town of Refuge contained a pretty wild cast of characters, including an old Prophetess/Witch who bakes magic scones and talks like Bjork, an Elemental deputy sheriff whose voice is supplied by a talking bird, and a diamond miner who is inexplicably convinced the boys are Gerblins.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3318a1cb	comment	Magnus sets up a dog training school called Hammer and Tails: A Dog's School in the ruins of Ravensroost. He also gets a Distant Finale where he dies of old age surrounded by his friends, and is reunited with Julia in the Astral Plane.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3502f0ce	type	Someday This Will Come in Handy
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3502f0ce	comment	Someday This Will Come in Handy: Travis establishes from session one that Magnus had an old knife that was owned by his grandfather. It's a pretty random detail that he gets some mockery about. In Story and Song he finally gets to use that knife, to stab an evil rhinoceros's eyes out.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_35b241c0	comment	Merle in disguise on the Rockport Limited. His attempts at a Scottish brogue slides wildly between Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping and incomprehensible mush.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_36c94bed	type	Person of Mass Destruction
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_36c94bed	comment	Person of Mass Destruction: Everyone who gets their hands on a Grand Relic. Episode 39 features Lucretia giving the party a montage of towns and cities just totally annihilated by them, with a combined death toll in the tens of thousands.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: The Flaming Poisoning Raging Sword of Doom, in spades.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3840c533	type	Heist Episode
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3840c533	comment	Heist Episode: The "Live in Nashville" special has the main characters infiltrating a casino to track down and retrieve an enchanted bill. Given that stealth is not generally any of their fortes, it doesn't go very well.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_38b05ae7	type	Poorly Disguised Pilot
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_38b05ae7	comment	Poorly Disguised Pilot: The first episode was released as part of My Brother, My Brother and Me, but there was already plenty of talk about making it an ongoing spinoff if it worked out.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3ab4530c	type	Crisis Crossover
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3ab4530c	comment	Crisis Crossover: Normally very few characters transition between arcs, with only the main cast and Bureau members being recurring. Story and Song sees the return of nearly every named character from every arc thus far as they defend their Planar System from the Hunger, including; Lucas Miller, Upsy (Your Lifting Friend), Merle's family, Klarg, Graham the Juicy Wizard, Jess the Beheader, Hurley and Sloane (as dryads), Kravitz, Legion, Ren, Paloma, Luca and Redmond, June, Roswell (the bird), and Cassidy. A few characters from The Stolen Century also return as the Hunger's thralls, including the Royal Beasts and the Stone Judges.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3adca595	type	Namesake Gag
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3adca595	comment	Namesake Gag: Taako's quest to invent the taco.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3b113b7	comment	Justin for a while decided to play Taako as humorously thick, even describing himself to NPCs as a "simple idiot wizard." He has above-average scores in both Wisdom and Intelligence, ultimately maxing out the latter at 20. As the campaign went on, he gradually transitioned to more of a Genius Ditz and finally a genuinely cunning and intelligent person.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3b20d7f4	type	Runaway Train
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3b20d7f4	comment	Runaway Train: The climax to the Murder on the Rockport Limited arc has the boys trying to stop an out-of-control locomotive before it can collide with a populated city and cause massive destruction. They actually fail to stop it; massive destruction is only avoided by teleporting the speeding train elsewhere.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3b4bd0b4	type	Killer Cop
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3b4bd0b4	comment	Killer Cop: At the end of the Petals to the Metal arc, Captain Captain Bane attempts to poison the party, presumably to steal the Gaia Sash. Sherrif Isaak killed Jack for the Temporal Chalice in The Eleventh Hour. However, his daughter June got to it before he could, and formed the bubble around Refuge.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3b5fcbb7	type	Artifact of Doom
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3b5fcbb7	comment	Invoked in-universe with Taako. Apparently the reason he was able to resist the temptation to claim and use the Artifact of Doom is because he's simply too stupid to be tempted.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Despite the event in question being a Foregone Conclusion, this line from Episode 66 definitely qualifies:
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3c26863b	type	Assist Character
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3c26863b	comment	Assist Character: In the Final Boss fight with John in Story and Song, the Tres Horny Boys are able to summon allies to help them using the Bond Engine on the back of the Starblaster as a portal.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Magic can explain it to some extent, but the setting is somewhat medieval but includes elevators, steam trains, spacecraft, powerful computers, and styrofoam. And despite all that, apparently a safe method of curdling milk to make cheese hasn't been discovered at the beginning of the game.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Klarg the bugbear, according to underling Yeemick the goblin. It's hard to tell if this is accurate, considering that for most of the time we see him he's under the influence of a Charm Person spell that makes him relentlessly friendly. ...That is, until he brutally kills Yeemick with a single blow.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The trio's first encounter with the Raven. She KOs two of our heroes in one attack, and it doesn't get any better from there. The encounters with The Hunger during The Stolen Century invariably ended with the heroes fleeing for their lives.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: It's unlikely that Captain Captain Bane would approve of Lieutenant Hurley getting some out-of-town rubes to steal an important engine part as part of a convoluted plan to bring down The Raven. She's a loose cannon, but dammit, she gets results.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3ec10530	type	Wacky Racing
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3ec10530	comment	Wacky Racing: "Battlewagons," an illegal Blood Sport involving heavily-armed cars wagons powered by Magitek.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Whenever someone lands a poor roll on any observation or knowledge-based check, Griffin will grant them this trait in fiction.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3ef5a484	comment	Final Boss, New Dimension: The finale has the party fighting the avatar of the Hunger inside its own plane of existence.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: In Episode 20, the party is saved from a potential Total Party Kill by a halfling in a karate gi busting in through a window. Said halfling lampshades this in the next episode. In Episode 25, Taako is saved from a mind-controlled leap off the team's battlewagon by a last-second catch from Klarg, who inexplicably appears on a motorcycle. Later discussed by Taako during the fight against Lydia and Edward in The Suffering Game, during which both Merle and Taako are put into a near-death state, mentioning that normally when things get this dire a very competent woman busts through to bail them out.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Most arcs end with the party recovering whatever Grand Relic they were after, but at a great cost. "Here There Be Gerblins", the first arc, basically just sets up the story going forward, as Magnus, Merle, and Taako join the B.O.B. and accept the quest to regain the Relics. Unfortunately, their encounter with the Phoenix Fire Gauntlet resulted in the absolute devastation of Phandalin, killing hundreds of residents, including their partners Barry Bluejeans and Gundren Rockseeker. The severity of this would be emphasized later. "Petals to the Metal" ends with the boys successfully regaining the Gaia Sash, but at the cost of Sloane and Hurley apparently dying together...although it isn't so much of a bittersweet ending in hindsight, as it turns out Sloane and Hurley simply turned into dryads. "The Crystal Kingdom" ends with the Philosopher's Stone being destroyed and the group leaving Kravitz on good terms, and NO-3113 joins the Bureau. Unfortunately, Lucas' mother Maureen remains deceased and he has to go into hiding (at least temporarily) after what he's done. "The Eleventh Hour" ends with Refuge finally being saved and the citizens are able to catch up to the seven-year gap to the rest of the world, and the boys are hailed as heroes. Sadly, Jack was killed by Sheriff Isaak over the Temporal Chalice, leaving June an orphan. While the boys made the right call in refusing the Chalice's offer, the reminders of what they've done and lost weighs heavily on them. "The Suffering Game", or at least the Relic-seeking part of the arc, ends with the Animus Bell recovered and Edward and Lydia being defeated, setting everyone trapped in Wonderland free. The group of adventurers the Tres Horny Boys met going in forgive them for forsaking them in one of Wonderland's games. Quite unfortunately, however, Magnus has lost his body and is now within a mannequin, and the boys have decided to partner with the Red Robe, necessitating that they cut all ties with their B.O.B. companions. "Story and Song" is an undeniably happy ending, as the Hunger is defeated once and for all, and the heroes are finally able to live their happily ever after, complete with a "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue and Carey and Killian's wedding. It's all very heartwarming and well-deserved, with the one caveat being the inevitable death of the human Magnus. Thankfully, for as tear-jerking as it is, he'll die of old age and be reunited with his beloved Julia in the afterlife.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: The place Magnus hails from, Ravensroost, qualifies for this in a rather epic case of Death by Origin Story. In The Stolen Century, we learn this also happened to the original Homeworld of the Starblaster crew, and with it kickstarting the plot, this instance actually fits the trope to a tee.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Heavily subverted numerous times due to the podcast having a cast of Action Girls. The two straight-ish examples are Killian, back in the first arc when she was restrained by the Big Bad's spiderwebs, and Lup in the Umbrastaff, as both are trapped until Taako frees them. Although in Killian's case, it was probably more along the lines of Badass in Distress, as she happened to catch the Distress Ball in that one scene, but kicked ass for the rest of the plot. Maybe she was having an off day? The one true, straight example of the trope is also an inversion: In The Crystal Kingdom, the main characters are sent to go retrieve Lucas, the Bureau's resident (and male) Mad Scientist, to save him from his own experiment Gone Horribly Wrong.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_41c08e5	type	Establishing Series Moment
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_41c08e5	comment	Establishing Series Moment: Nothing sets the tone for the series as much as in episode 1 when Griffin reads the name "Sildar Hallwinter", decides that it's too over-the-top fantasy for his campaign, and renames the character Barry Bluejeans.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: Glovey the Artifact of Doom. Though its real name is far more imposing.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_420081bf	type	Alien Sky
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_420081bf	comment	Alien Sky: There seem to be two moons, though the second is soon revealed to be the Bureau of Balance headquarters in disguise. Similarly, the world that the protagonists originally came from had a purple sky with two suns.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: One of Lucas's abandoned inventions is an educational toy robot named Hodge-Podge which...um, malfunctioned during stress testing...Basically, Hodge-Podge got bored of being a children's toy, and by the time the Tres Horny Boys come across him, he's gladly using the flamethrowers he's taken control of to have some "fun."
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_42995bec	type	Spell Book
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_42995bec	comment	Spell Book: Taako's is apparently an Uncle John's Bathroom Reader with notes on spells and ideas for the taco scribbled in the margins.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4378c556	type	Loose Canon
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4378c556	comment	Loose Canon: The live shows are subject to this, taking place during ambiguous times between main story arcs. The Live in San Diego! show's place in the timeline is difficult to determine. The explanation with the fewest Plot Holes is that it takes place after Story and Song. To explain, Taako and Magnus possess the Umbra Staff and the Flaming Poisoning Raging Sword of Doom respectively. In the main story, Magnus didn't receive the sword until Reunion Tour, and Taako broke the Umbra Staff to free Lup the same day during Story and Song. This inconsistency, however, can be explained by them being inside of a simulation during the episode, and thus any equipment they possessed was simply the result of the simulation. The exceptions to this are the Live Boston Stunt Spectacular and LA Podfest shows, which have been referenced in the main story.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_43a1cb5	type	Ninja Looting
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_43a1cb5	comment	Ninja Looting: Near-literal example: Taako rolls a Stealth check to see if he can get the magical boots off of Merle's dead cousin on the sly. Later, Magnus distracts Merle so that Taako can lift a small fortune in Gold Pieces off another dead cousin, which he pockets rather than share it with the party.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_44f6517d	type	Beach Episode
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_44f6517d	comment	The third episode of The Stolen Century also qualifies, seeing as it's a Beach Episode where the crew spends some time hanging out in a tropical paradise and enjoying each other's company for a whole year, without the looming threat of an apocalypse.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: Justin originally plays Taako as being competent, but fairly stupid. As the series continues, Taako is instead a very cunning character who comes up with several ruses on the spot. To a much, much smaller degree, there's a one-off joke in the beginning about Taako maybe being distracted by Killian webbed up in the cave, whereas Justin would later confirm Taako to be gay.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_47fa30cf	type	Emotion Eater
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_47fa30cf	comment	Emotion Eater: Whatever sustains Wonderland in The Suffering Game, Magnus and Taako quickly hypothesize that it feeds off negativity expressed by the "contestants." It helps sustain the "Vogue Elves"' lichdom, allowing them to stay sane at the expense of everyone who visits.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_48d87e94	type	Planet of Steves
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_48d87e94	comment	Planet of Steves: Apparently the town of Rockport is populated exclusively by Tom Bodetts. And they do leave the light on for ya...
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_48f94fc1	type	The Elevator from Ipanema
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_48f94fc1	comment	And nearly every time they enter one, Travis starts humming "The Girl from Ipanema".
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: Lucretia, The Director of the Bureau of Balance, an organization seeking to protect the world from the immeasurable harm the Grand Relics can do. It's later revealed that she's collecting the Grand Relics to oppose The Hunger, the force that's been destroying planes of existence for over one hundred years.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4b5817c1	type	Truth Serums
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4b5817c1	comment	When Merle and John talk during their parlay sessions, Merle calls it their "Truth Zone", which foreshadows Merle's extensive usage of the Zone of Truth spell.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4b96273c	type	Monty Haul
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4b96273c	comment	Monty Haul: In the first arc, Griffin leaves a small fortune in Gold Pieces and a useful pair of magical boots lying on conveniently pre-dead dwarves, just waiting to be picked up. If only Merle weren't such a prude about looting the dead.... Between the Bureau of Balance's magic gashapon machine that awards a random magical item to each party member after each arc, and their Fantasy Costco that stocks a plethora more goodies for the right price, the boys have amassed a very impressive magical arsenal for adventurers of their level.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4ca7e11a	type	Artifact Collection Agency
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4ca7e11a	comment	Artifact Collection Agency: The Bureau of Balance combines this with a side of medieval Men in Black. They collect and (ostensibly) dispose of magical artifacts too powerful to be allowed to exist.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4cc0c6f2	type	TruthSerum
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4cc0c6f2	comment	Truth Serum: Merle gets a lot of mileage out of the Zone of Truth spell, which makes it impossible for anyone affected to lie.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4dfc538d	type	The All-Solving Hammer
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4dfc538d	comment	The All-Solving Hammer: Merle gets a lot of mileage out of the Zone of Truth spell throughout the series, from simple information to other character's intentions. In the Boston live show, it literally ends up saving the day, as it got Klarg to be honest about his feelings and defeat the Monster of the Week, which could only be defeated by honesty.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The first plot arc ends with an entire city being wiped out by an Artifact of Doom.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In Chapter Ten of The Crystal Kingdom, The Reveal that something is up with the boys: At the end of the second episode of The Eleventh Hour, right after everyone dies, Griffin chooses to reveal what the actual situation is: In the "epilogue" to The Eleventh Hour. "Because in Wonderland, there is no healing." It came as such a shock to the players that Clint thought Griffin was lying. After the Animus Bell is rung, Mangus suddenly collapses to the ground, before getting up and start saying how Wonderland wasn't really that bad. Except, Griffin is the one speaking as Magnus... The finale to The Suffering Game has one that doubles as a serious revelation and a joke. Griffin drops one nonchalantly near the end of Episode 59: Also from the end of 59, Lucretia revealing the identity of the final Red Robe: From the end of Episode 61: "She thinks of her friends, and prays for sunrise." It confirms that the guardian robot was, in fact, Troth, Justin's character from The Adventure Zone: Nights. Despite the event in question being a Foregone Conclusion, this line from Episode 66 definitely qualifies: The end of Episode 66, as the final arc begins: Even after the big final battle, one is dropped in the winding down finale. A more comedic, but no less shocking one, and one that hit Griffin as hard as it hit the audience, as he realizes that Justin is about to swindle the Flaming Poisoning Raging Sword of Doom right out from under him.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first arc loosely follows an adventure from the Dungeons & Dragons 5e starter kit and takes place in a fairly Standard Fantasy Setting with a pretty straight medieval level of technology and references to classic D&D locales like the city of Neverwinter. Once Griffin starts inventing more of the world, the plot becomes completely original, and all kinds of Schizo-Magitek (flying saucers, secret moon bases, luxury passenger trains with resident wizards who can whisk you off to remote pleasure chambers to pass the time on your journey) and general weirdness (a city full of Tom Bodetts) starts cropping up. The episode summaries tend to follow a format of a brief description of the episode, followed by specific highlights of what Merle, Taako and Magnus did in said episode - often in a way that's misleading or not immediately obvious. This is only the case for the first Lunar Interlude onwards; in Here There Be Gerblins, a different format is followed. Background music and sound effects didn't begin appearing until over twenty episodes in, a little over halfway through Petals to the Metal. Up until then, it was just the group talking with the theme music playing at the beginning, end, and interlude. It takes several arcs for the players to really solidify their characters' personalities, which results in occasional weirdness like Taako being labeled the bravest one of the group in Moonlighting. For his first few appearances, Davenport actually had a fairly wide vocabulary. It wasn't until later where it was retconned that he could only say his name due to the Voidfish's interference. For the series as a whole, Balance is the only story in the show with a main theme not composed by Griffin.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_4fa637b0	comment	Surprisingly Creepy Moment: Carnival Chaos features Tres Horny Boys having fun at the Midsummer Solstice festival during the first part. Then comes the Eclipse watching and, though we don't know it at the time, the first appearance of the Hunger.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Edward intends to give one of these during The Suffering Game, with "bad luck" just before expelling Magnus's soul from his body with the Animus Bell. But thanks to Merle and Taako, the "mortem" part doesn't quite take.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Taako actually manages to deliver one unconscious.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_524904cd	type	Pensieve Flashback
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_524904cd	comment	Pensieve Flashback: How the Temporal Chalice's flashbacks work.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: John, the source and avatar of the Hunger, which consumes entire realities is pleasant and polite, even playing chess with Merle, and enjoying their conversations. He also kills Merle repeatedly, and his goal is to eat all of reality so he can undo the laws of the universe.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_53c37f0c	type	Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_53c37f0c	comment	Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!: Merle's interactions with John in The Stolen Century are built on this trope.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_56264acd	type	The So-Called Coward
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_56264acd	comment	The So-Called Coward: In a sense; the party (especially Taako) relentlessly mock Jenkins for conserving spell slots instead of expending them to make his job easier, when he was probably saving them for later since he turns out to be the villain of the arc. Not that it stops them from making fun of him.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: The Great Switcheroo! cross-promotion with the Flophouse podcast features the hosts of the Flophouse as another party of adventurers in the same universe. They somehow manage to be more bumbling and more competent than our regular heroes at the same time.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_5874eb12	type	Organic Technology
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_5874eb12	comment	Organic Technology: The Millers created a mascot for their line of elevators called Upsy, Your Lifting Friend. Horrifyingly, despite being an elevator, his inside is fleshy, not unlike a mouth or stomach.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_5a5de5ca	comment	Boss Rush: Called out by name in the fifth episode of The Suffering Game, where the party is forced to fight mannequin-construct duplicates of major fights from every arc thus far. It gets cut off early when the Red Robe manages to summon a door, allowing the boys to escape.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_5a7c8147	type	Rollercoaster Mine
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_5a7c8147	comment	Rollercoaster Mine: The climax of The Eleventh Hour has Tres Horny Boys and Roswell racing down mineshafts while pursued by a colossal purple worm.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Magnus is afraid of spiders; the Starter Villain is spider-themed.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: Davenport. He's spent basically his entire life preparing to be the pilot for the IPRE's mission, and come the final battle, he's once again manning the Starblaster through the Hunger's forces.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_5df38617	type	Spacetime Eater
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_5df38617	comment	Spacetime Eater: After being unable to find the Light of Creation for ten years, the Hunger loses its desire to grow beyond death, seeking only to consume other planes of existence.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_5eff8cf	type	High School AU
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_5eff8cf	comment	High School AU: An extremely rare canon example—the Live in Austin! show takes Tres Horny Boys into a collective Dream Land where they and their friends are students at Neverwinter High.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_60ea2a89	type	Starter Villain
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_60ea2a89	comment	Starter Villain: The Black Spider, aka Magic Brian, is a low-level wizard who initially seems to be an overarching villain, but who turns out to be a really small fry in the grand scheme of things.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6141b228	type	Full-Boar Action
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6141b228	comment	Full-Boar Action: One of the Battlewagon racers was a chariot pulled by an armored boar larger than Hurley's Battlewagon.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_617806ca	type	The Loonie
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_617806ca	comment	The Loonie: Justin has decided that Taako's mission in life is to invent the taco and name it after himself. Considering that the setting of the game has yet to discover concepts such as grinding meat, processing dairy into cheese, or growing corn for food, it looks to be a significant challenge. This gets especially hilarious once you consider that the taco quest was set up at the beginning when they were still attempting to make the setting full High Fantasy, at which point having no concept of cultured dairy products or ground meat would have been a big stretch but not entirely impossible, but the campaign pretty quickly diverges from that once things like the moon base and Fantasy Costco start showing up. Hell, Taako even had his own cooking show for a while.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_627264e0	comment	Ninja Looter Taako actually objects to stealing some gold they find in a lockbox in a ruined bank. Apparently he makes a distinction between looting a fallen enemy (or unsuspecting ally) and straight-up bank robbery. Merle only responds with a Death Glare.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6320eced	comment	Gameplay and Story Segregation: Griffin often doesn't bother to make rolls for NPC actions, simply describing what they're doing, even when it involves laying waste to minor enemies. Justin for a while decided to play Taako as humorously thick, even describing himself to NPCs as a "simple idiot wizard." He has above-average scores in both Wisdom and Intelligence, ultimately maxing out the latter at 20. As the campaign went on, he gradually transitioned to more of a Genius Ditz and finally a genuinely cunning and intelligent person. Robbie's "dank" Orbitz-looking potion is supposedly similar to salvia, but in gameplay it seems much closer to a strong dose of alcohol. The party are all supposedly Good-aligned, but some of the shenanigans they get up to, like copious amounts of murder and theft, would make even the most Chaotic of Chaotic Goodniks think twice.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: In Here There Be Gerblins, Tres Horny Boys and Killian hide in the well at the center of town to avoid Gundren's glassing of Phandalin. Come Story and Song, Taako turns the obsidian circle into sapphire to create a portal to the Astral Plane. However, for gemstone portals to work, they must be perfectly circular, with no imperfections. The well should've still been there, but was nowhere to be found. In The Crystal Kingdom, Taako briefly disguises as Lucas while Noelle isn't looking to convince her to open the door to his private quarters. The next episode, he's out of disguise, with no explanation as to where "Lucas" went. When Merle's arm crystalizes, the null suit around his arm crystalizes too, even though the entire point of the suit is to be resistant to the crystal's transmutative properties. Taako sold his Gustmaster 5000 in Internal Affairs, but later gave it to Ren at the end of The Eleventh Hour.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: The name of The Suffering Game, where the PCs have to sacrifice things at every turn to either progress or keep each other alive. Ultimately, Cam does this as well, sacrificing his life in order to heal Merle.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_649b0880	type	Background Magic Field
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_649b0880	comment	Background Magic Field: In addition to the standard Dungeons & Dragons magic field, there also exist Bonds, the invisible force that connect all things in existence together, ranging from physical, to emotional. Bonds extend between planes of existence, and when a plane is severed from those Bonds, it begins to decay. Magic users that rely on a divine source, such as clerics, lose their power, and the world begins to fade to grayscale. If starved of bonds for too long, the plane degenerates into ash.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_66755d29	comment	Pan and Istus both return in the New Orleans Live Show, and Clint McElroy wanders by on the Celestial Plane. Edward and Lydia, who were killed in The Suffering Game, are the show's twist villains.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_68f95429	type	That's No Moon
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_68f95429	comment	That's No Moon: The headquarters for the Bureau of Balance is disguised from the underside to look like a second moon. The Big Bad of the campaign initially seemed to be a massless void of eyes in the sky, only for it to turn out to be a very sentient and very hungry plane of existence.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6a61050e	type	The Only One
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6a61050e	comment	The Only One: The boys are the only reclaimers who have actually ever managed to...reclaim anything. Which makes sense, once you learn that they were three of the seven people that created the relics.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: How Hurley manages to save Sloane. They end up turning themselves into a tree together. Taako lampshades this by asking up front if the seventh Grand Relic was love the whole time. As it turns out, the power of strong emotions (including love) does exist. Certain unexplainable magical phenomena that the party has witnessed like Hurley healing Sloane of an incurable poison are due to the fact that strong emotion is an energy unto itself like light, heat, and magic that can affect the physical and arcane worlds. The lich elves that run Wonderland are using this to sustain themselves and keep from descending into insanity by siphoning off the misery and suffering of those around them. Barry and Lup's love for each other and the rest of the IPRE sustains their lich forms. And the Starblaster's bond engine allows Tres Horny Boys to summon loved ones to help defeat Final John in their final battle against the Hunger.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The finale to The Suffering Game has one that doubles as a serious revelation and a joke.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Early in episode 68, Taako claims "I have magic powers." before doing a Suicidal "Gotcha!" off the edge of the Bureau headquarters, leaving his compatriots to wonder if it was meant to be some big reveal. At the end of the episode, Joaquin says the same, which qualifies as genuinely meaningful due to him being the only person in his entire plane with access to magic.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6c724697	type	Sudden Game Interface
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6c724697	comment	Sudden Game Interface: In the Live in San Diego! show, the Tres Horny Boys suddenly see a Life Meter with three hearts and a life counter in the upper corners of their vision, as well as a chat feed in the bottom left. Justified, as they were inside of a simulation.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6c75e0e4	type	Beware the Silly Ones
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6c75e0e4	comment	Beware the Silly Ones: Taako is a Cloud Cuckoo Lander with a short attention span and a completely skewed view of reality. He's also an immensely powerful wizard with an extensive arsenal of spells and an artifact that magnifies his powers to godlike levels. Underestimate him at your own peril.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6e8a4791	type	Heroic Comedic Sociopath
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6e8a4791	comment	Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Our good-aligned Paragons of Justice murder a low-level gangster who commits no serious crimes that the audience is privy to and then throw his body off a cliff rather than use up a healing spell to avoid, y'know. Murder. In their defense, they did want to heal him, but since Travis described Magnus's attack as "cleft him in twain", Griffin made them deal with the consequences.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6f572188	type	Another Dimension
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_6f572188	comment	Another Dimension: All of existence is a seemingly infinite series of planar systems, each consisting of twelve distinct planes of existence. They are arranged in an orbit consisting of three concentric rings, six planes on the outside, four planes on the inside, and two stacked planes in the middle. Going outside-in, we have: The Outer Elemental Planes of Water, Earth, Fire, Air, Light, and Darkness. The Intermediate Planes: the Celestial Plane, the Astral Plane, the Plane of Magic, and the Plane of Thought. The Inner Planes: the Ethereal Plane, and the Prime Material Plane.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7160b097	type	Dawn of an Era
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7160b097	comment	Other epilogues include Carey and Killian getting married, Lucas founding the Academy of Arcane Sciences, the people of Refuge hitting another diamond vein, Sloane and Hurley returning to a life of racing, and the people of the world banding together to rebuild anew.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_737394ab	type	Iconic Item
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_737394ab	comment	Iconic Item: The Tres Horny Boys each have one: Magnus has Railsplitter, a battleaxe shaped like a lumber-axe, with the ability to fell a tree with a single swing. Merle has the Extreme Teen Bible, his holy symbol, used to preach the good word of Pan to the youth of FaerÃ»n. He also gains the Soulwood Arm, a prosthetic arm made of living wood to replace the one he lost in The Crystal Kingdom. Taako has the Umbra Staff, a wand disguised as an umbrella, with the ability to absorb the magical power of defeated wizards.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: Or rather, Once More with Particular Attention to the Actual Cost of Your Actions; in the penultimate episode of The Eleventh Hour, the Temporal Chalice, in a bid to get them to use it, offers them the chance to prevent their destruction of Phandalin by not letting Kurtze the Orc Boy out of his cage. When they refuse, probably out of spite, the Chalice then shows them exactly what the citizens of Phandalin were doing right as the town got immolated and glassed; a hedge wizard was practicing his spells, bar patrons (and the girl who we now know as the robot Noelle) were hiding from the Phoenix Fire Gauntlet-consumed Gundren, Barry Bluejeans was trying to talk his former partner down, etc., all of which was followed by a blinding flash of fire. In the finale of The Stolen Century, certain clips of Lucretia interacting with the boys (welcoming them to the Bureau, eating Taako's macaroon, and at the spa day with Merle) are replayed. They serve as exposition or are Played for Laughs the first time around; after the reveal that she's been friends with them for decades, and erased their memories of her in order to preserve their happiness and try to rectify what they'd done to the world, it's rather heartbreaking.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_73f7b5a5	type	Total Party Kill
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_73f7b5a5	comment	In Episode 20, the party is saved from a potential Total Party Kill by a halfling in a karate gi busting in through a window. Said halfling lampshades this in the next episode.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Zig-Zagged. The McElroys encourage the audience to depict the characters however we want, but that leaves only one character with a canon race, and that's the dark-skinned Lucretia.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_74abf030	type	Summon to Hand
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_74abf030	comment	Summon to Hand: Jess the Beheader possesses a "soulbound" axe that can be summoned to her location, similar to the "Weapon Bond" ability of the Eldritch Knight sub-class. In The Eleventh Hour, Magnus is given a spear called the Chance Lance by the goddess Istus. When he throws and recalls it, it reverses its path in time back to his hand.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_74c9cf33	type	Two Girls to a Team
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_74c9cf33	comment	Two Girls to a Team: The seven-member IPRE crew consisted of five men, Magnus, Merle, Taako, Barry, and Davenport, and two women, Lucretia and Lup.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_762b9223	comment	In the finale of The Stolen Century, certain clips of Lucretia interacting with the boys (welcoming them to the Bureau, eating Taako's macaroon, and at the spa day with Merle) are replayed. They serve as exposition or are Played for Laughs the first time around; after the reveal that she's been friends with them for decades, and erased their memories of her in order to preserve their happiness and try to rectify what they'd done to the world, it's rather heartbreaking.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_77586b1c	type	Spirit World
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_77586b1c	comment	The Inner Planes: the Ethereal Plane, and the Prime Material Plane.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7b4cb802	type	Bodyguard Betrayal
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7b4cb802	comment	Bodyguard Betrayal: In a flashback, we learn this is what happened to Lup via Sirus Rockseeker who was helping hide the Phoenix Fire Gauntlet.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Merle's final question to John, the avatar of the Hunger shakes him to the core, making him lose his composure for the first time. It's an armor-piercing question out-of-universe, too:
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7b8f5f07	type	Charm Person
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7b8f5f07	comment	Charm Person: Taako uses this to turn a hostile bugbear named Klarg to the party's side. Klarg turns incredibly friendly and offers them a valuable hostage, a gift of gold, and tea.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7bc8c453	type	Origins Episode
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7bc8c453	comment	Origins Episode: The penultimate episode of The Eleventh Hour acts as this, exploring the characters' previously unknown backgrounds.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7c46c734	type	Common Tongue
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7c46c734	comment	Common Tongue: A literal example, as Dungeons & Dragons uses "Common" as the basic language for all characters to use. Subverted as the few times non-Common languages are used, someone in the party knows that language.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7c61a2d4	comment	Shmuck Bait: Subverted during The Crystal Kingdom. The room with the suspiciously sounding name 'Hugbears' that Lucas doesn't want you to go into? Actually full of nice bugbears that just happened to be created unethically using brain altering chips. (It probably doesn't hurt that Merle healed one of them before they woke up).
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: The party cuts a deal with a hostile goblin to murder his Bad Boss in exchange for a hostage. As soon as they're out of the goblin's earshot, they resolve to see if they can cut a better deal with his boss. Magnus and Taako also aren't above surreptitiously looting the corpses of Merle's family members behind his back.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7c9933de	type	Laughably Evil
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7c9933de	comment	Laughably Evil: Quite a few of the villains, but especially Magic Brian, the villain of the Here There Be Gerblins arc, who has a ridiculous accent (similar to Taako's) and is ultimately disposed of by Magnus simply kicking him off of a ledge after he utterly fails to disguise his voice when he tries to pull a Spot the Imposter with Gundren.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7cdfe326	type	Cosmic Retcon
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7cdfe326	comment	Cosmic Retcon: Refuge's time loop in The Eleventh Hour completely resets its inhabitants every hour, including their possessions. Istus, a goddess of fate, wants the boys to break the loop and blesses them with powerful artifacts, but immediately realizes that they'll vanish in a few seconds, so she rewrites time so that the boys walked into town with them.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7d0d26e1	comment	The Day of Reckoning: Everything builds up to the day the Hunger attacks the home plane.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7e851477	type	Balancing Death's Books
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7e851477	comment	Balancing Death's Books: Discussed by THB in The Crystal Kingdom, when they offer to kill some people so Kravitz can reap their souls instead of collecting their bounty. Ultimately a subversion when Mr. Nice Death himself empathically insists that that's not how it works.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_7fd142ef	comment	Shared Universe: Because of the nature of the IPRE traveling between realities in The Stolen Century, they come across a version of the TAZ Nights universe, set in the far future, after a plague wiped out most people living there.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_807ceed9	type	Outlaw Couple
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_807ceed9	comment	Outlaw Couple: Sloane and Hurley.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: Episode 7, taking place immediately after the party's final confrontation with the Phoenix Fire Gauntlet, is largely exposition and comic relief with no combat or conflict to speak of. All but the last Lunar Interlude serve as one, providing light-hearted moonbase hijinks in between plot arcs. The third episode of The Stolen Century also qualifies, seeing as it's a Beach Episode where the crew spends some time hanging out in a tropical paradise and enjoying each other's company for a whole year, without the looming threat of an apocalypse.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: According to John, its avatar, the Hunger believes that all life is pointless and horrible, and that as a result it must be destroyed.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8124e7a6	type	Sudden Downer Ending
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8124e7a6	comment	Sudden Downer Ending: Here There Be Gerblins is lighthearted and silly right up until Phandalin is destroyed, killing countless innocent people.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_813e694d	type	Continuity Cavalcade
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_813e694d	comment	Continuity Cavalcade: Episode 68, Story and Song - Finale, Part Two was full of Continuity Nods, Brick Jokes, Running Gags, and returning characters.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_817693fa	comment	Combined Energy Attack: Used to defeat the final boss: the metaphysical bonds between the trio take visible form and combine within Taako's spell to form a coherent beam of light which destroys the avatar of the Hunger.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_82a4fadc	comment	Our Liches Are Different: Rather than a phylactery, liches bind their souls to their magical essence, however most of the time, they go insane. Liches can be stabilized by rooting themselves with emotions they feel for others, such as people they love. The liches in Wonderland learned how to feed off of other people's emotions, namely misery.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Magnus and Taako, respectively. From the beginning, Magnus's motto is "Magnus rushes in," and Travis consistently plays him as someone who prefers prompt action to careful planning. Taako, on the other hand, later establishes that his motto is "Taako's good out here," and many of his most effective moments are due to action that is clever and not very risky.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Several examples throughout the life of the series. Ruby, the dog belonging to Gundren Rockseeker, was recovered in episode 2 and brought with the boys, then promptly forgotten. At the finale of Murder on the Rockport Express, Taako retrieved both a magic compass that pointed to valuable (and possibly magical) objects, as well as Jenkin's portal wand. Both items were immediately forgotten, along with a briefcase Taako also found in the safe and was never even opened for curiosity's sake.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_86ba007a	type	Bad Powers, Good People
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_86ba007a	comment	Bad Powers, Good People: Kravitz is literally the Grim Reaper - with the skeletal form and scythe-y powers that entails - but he's actually a pretty nice guy. Also applies to Barry and Lup, two Necromancers/Liches who are firmly on the side of Good.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: What the Red Robe showed the three, and what Maureen saw beyond the cosmoscope, destroying her mind and killing her: a vast black cloud seemingly consuming the universe.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Basically Jenkins's entire character revolves around being self-aware of this trope, to the point of having a mental breakdown (both in and out of character). Dungeon Master Griffin calls this trope out by name a few times, as he struggles to make different NPCs sound unique. Merle in disguise on the Rockport Limited. His attempts at a Scottish brogue slides wildly between Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping and incomprehensible mush.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: The crew of the Starblaster. While they originally just set out to be explorers of the wider universe, they ended up becoming the core driving force against the Hunger, a plane-consuming entity, and manage to pull off a cat-and-mouse chase with it for a hundred years before a final battle.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_895ec17	type	Only in It for the Money
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_895ec17	comment	Only in It for the Money: The Tres Horny Boys start out like this.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Brian, Jenkins, and Marvey (the last member of the Hammerheads) return for a rematch in The Crystal Kingdom as ghost-possessed robots.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: The one-shot live shows are absolutely zany due to taking place outside of or after the Myth Arc. This allows Griffin use more outlandish settings like a computer game or a high school; on the other hand, he's also forced to go along with wacky character choices and even looser rule interpretations than usual. As the Boys relentlessly point out, they can't die, and time constraints with the venue typically force Griffin to keep moving the story along instead of disputing the Boys' decisions.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Julia qualifies for this, as we only learn about her in Magnus's flashback. Before the events of Story and Song, Lup qualifies for this, as The Stolen Century is a flashback arc, and she's dead at the start of canon.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8b67aba7	comment	Cerebus Retcon There's a brief moment where Davenport is handed a Grand Relic, and there's some tension over whether it'll affect him. Fortunately, he just says "Davenport!" and hands the relic over to be destroyed. The only people who can resist the thrall of the Grand Relics are the ones who created them. Similarly, Davenport's inability to speak other than his own name is originally just a gag, until it's explained to be a result of severe mental confusion from having most of his memory erased. When it turns out Klaarg's hilarious and inexplicable susceptibility to Charm Person from the very first arc is actually explicable after all. It's The result of a secret experiment in which Lucas Miller preformed involuntary brain surgery on a family of Bugbears to make them into polite and docile slaves.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The Live Boston Stunt Spectacular and MaxFunCon East Live shows take place sometime after The Crystal Kingdom, and before The Suffering Game, but were released to the public during the latter. The Live in Austin! show takes place some time after The Eleventh Hour, given references to the Chance Lance. Though it could possibly take place after Story and Song, which would explain how the mind flayer who kidnapped them would know who they were, since their story was broadcast to everyone in the planar system.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8c55e307	type	Ultimate Job Security
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8c55e307	comment	Ultimate Job Security: The party gets up to antics that would get anyone else tossed out on their rear, being rude to VIPs and superiors, trigger-happy to the point of murderousness, and liable to loot anything that isn't nailed down. The thing is, their track record when it comes to hunting down and safely disposing of Artifacts of Doom is six to everyone else's zilcho. It helps that they've been friends with the boss for a century, and they're the only living beings capable of resisting the thrall of the Grand Relics.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8ca20b69	type	Out-of-Character Moment
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8ca20b69	comment	Out-of-Character Moment: In the second episode of The Suffering Game, due in part to the specific losses the boys had to accept to continue without penalty, Taako leads the way into the next room, Magnus follows behind him, and Merle says he's "good out here."
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8e1aef2d	type	Reference Overdosed
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8e1aef2d	comment	Reference Overdosed: Both the players and the characters make constant pop culture references. Whether or not the references the characters make are understood in-universe varies according to Rule of Funny.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The end of Petals to the Metal counts. The deaths of Hurley and Sloane really signify a change in the tone of the show, and the reveal of the red robe kicks off the main plot in a big way. The end of The Suffering Game. Magnus loses his body, it's revealed that he (and possibly Taako and Merle by extension) is originally from another planet if not another universe, the party cuts off contact with the Bureau of Balance to join up with the Red Robe that's been helping them... and said Red Robe is revealed to be none other than Barry Bluejeans from the first arc. Lunar Interlude V: Reunion Tour - Part Two. The Tres Horny Boys break into Lucretia's private quarters and drink the baby Voidfish's ichor, restoring their memories and prompting The Reveal that they â€” along with Lucretia, Barry, Lup, and Davenport â€” were the Red Robes, and they all traveled together for a hundred years before coming to FaerÃ»n and creating the Grand Relics.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8e81e57f	type	Voice with an Internet Connection
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8e81e57f	comment	Voice with an Internet Connection: Well, Voice with Access to the Combined Knowledge of Bureau of Balance, anyway. After the Petals to the Metal arc, Kid Detective Angus McDonald joins the Bureau to feed the boys intel through their Stones of Farspeech (basically fantasy Bluetooth headsets).
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8f9f71a8	type	Crazy Enough to Work
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_8f9f71a8	comment	Crazy Enough to Work: A lot of Taako's plans are like this. Given what we know about the dangers of becoming a lich, Lup and Barry's decision to become liches definitely qualifies.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_901dbf9a	type	Cliff Hanger
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_901dbf9a	comment	Cliffhanger: Episodes like to end on these. For example, at the end of Episode 20, Merle and Taako are near-death, and Magnus has no healing abilities.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: After the "Vogue Elves" have sustained their undeath for untold years by feeding off the pain and misery of others, Lydia dies of despair when Edward is defeated.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Nearly every live show features the return of fan-favorite NPCs, much to the crowd's pleasure and often the boys' (slight) annoyance.note For instance, in one show the crowd erupted into cheers just at the mention of Angus, and Travis shouted "That motherfucker's more popular than we are!" While some, namely Angus, Lucretia, Kravitz, Barry and Lup, Carey, Killian, and Davenport have been around for the whole series, others come back after very long breaks. Jess the Beheader, from Murder on the Rockport Limited, returns in the Boston Live Stunt Spectacular to have the Boys help her solve another murder. Maarv, Little Jerry, and Jerreeeeee from Petals to the Metal and Ren from The Eleventh Hour make a return at Neverwinter High. Robbie and Leon the Artficer, both unseen since before The Suffering Game, return in the San Diego Live Show as viewers of the Boys' attempt at Lucas Miller's simulation (himself unseen since The Crystal Kingdom and Story and Song). Greg Grimaldis, who took Lup's $15 on her home plane is the villain in the Nashville Live Show. Clint uses Planar Ally to summon Gundren Rockseeker (who died in the very first arc, Here There Be Gerblins) in the Candlenights show in Tacoma. Sloane and Hurley from Petals to the Metal (and Story and Song) return in the Dallas Live Show with a business proposition for the Boys. Garfield the Deals Warlock returns after hurriedly leaving the moonbase in Reunion Tour (and briefly returning in Story and Song) to hire the Boys to help him solve some arsons. A whole multitude of characters return in the Candlenights 2018 show - Dracula, from the previous liveshow, is now working at the Bureau of Benevolence, Klarg and Cassidy (whose last non-cameo appearances were in the Boston Stunt Spectacular and The Eleventh Hour, respectively, although they both appeared in Story and Song) are some of the customers vying for the Jeff Angel toy at a Fantasy Costco owned by Garfield the Deals Warlock, and Jeff Angel himself returns as a freshly-minted Heel after not showing up since the Boston Stunt Spectacular. Pan and Istus both return in the New Orleans Live Show, and Clint McElroy wanders by on the Celestial Plane. Edward and Lydia, who were killed in The Suffering Game, are the show's twist villains.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: A whole cavalcade of characters return to help battle the hunger, from Hurley and Sloane to the entire town of Refuge to Lucas to freaking Upsy Your Lifting Friend. Too many to list here. All of whom get badass moments befitting the end to a years-long campaign.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_9438e550	comment	The Big Damn Kiss: In Episode 68, after rescuing him from being trapped in the Astral Plane and reuniting with him for the first time in "way too long," during the Balance Arc's finale, Taako kisses Kravitz.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_95265081	comment	Leeroy Jenkins: Justin jokes that the show should be renamed "Magnus Rushes In."
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_955f0c47	type	GottaKillEmAll
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_955f0c47	comment	Gotta Kill 'Em All: The party has to find and destroy all seven Grand Relics.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil / Bait the Dog: Unlike the somewhat goofy methods of persuasion the other Artifacts Of Doom employ and incredibly destructive nature, the Temporal Chalice is polite and even sympathetic to the trauma of the heroes, presenting itself as just a tool who wants a master who will do good for once. Then she spitefully taunts them with the consequences of Phandalin.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: There is in fact a reason Garfield was growing a new Magnus body, but Griffin has decided that it's way more hilarious and creepy to never have it explained and has vowed to take it to his grave.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_970c790a	comment	The Big Bad of the campaign initially seemed to be a massless void of eyes in the sky, only for it to turn out to be a very sentient and very hungry plane of existence.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_975a5be8	comment	Merle founds Merle's Extreme Teen Adventures, an Adventure Guild for teens, in hopes to train them to be the next generation of adventurers, and also to spend more time with his children. He's also made governor (or, rather, earl) of the beach town of Bottlenose Cove by Lord Artemis Sterling.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_97d0ab1d	type	Damager, Healer, Tank
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_97d0ab1d	comment	Damager, Healer, Tank: The players consciously base the party on this structure, with Taako the Damager, Merle the Healer, and Magnus the Tank. Not that they always play exactly to type. In fact, it's a minor running joke that Merle neglects his healing duties, and his signature spell ends up being "Zone of Truth".
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_98ce3773	type	Cerebus Rollercoaster
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_98ce3773	comment	Cerebus Rollercoaster: The series goes through a sort of fractal Cerebus Syndrome, with each individual arc starting out extremely light and only getting into the darker or more dramatic stuff as time goes by, until...
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_99a7aa94	comment	Seven Deadly Sins: After being captured by some mysterious figures, the three main characters are judged by which of the seven deadly sins they committed. Magnus is accused of Wrath and Pride for his extreme violence to evil-doers and thoughtless assurance in his abilities. Magnus defiantly praises those traits of his, shortly before getting petrified for a burst of anger. Merle is accused of Envy and Sloth for his resentment of his Pannite brothers and his refusal to do anything about his communal misery. He admits guilt, although he gets cut off while trying to justify his Lust for flora. Taako is accused of Envy, Sloth, and Greed. Unusually, Greed here does not mean an inordinate desire for wealth, but just desire in general. Taako impresses the judges by questioning how this modified definition of Greed is incompatible with the inordinate sorrow of Sloth, gaining two experience points.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_9c6da41b	type	Spot the Imposter
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_9c6da41b	comment	Spot the Imposter: After being defeated, Brian disguises himself as Gundren Rockseeker. The party figures it out easily, since he does nothing to disguise his voice. After five seconds of trying to Handwave the vocal confusion, Magnus kicks him off a ledge.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: While talking with the director in an early arc, Magnus questions whether the Grand Relics could be used for good. Travis follows this up with an OOC goof that he's setting up a classic betrayal to happen at some point in the future. As time passes, Magnus is the first of the THB to receive evidence of the truth about the Relics and the Red Robes. And indeed, his suspicions promptly lead him to infiltrate the Bureau of Balance's brig. And then, he is the first of the THB to take the chance on trusting lich-Barry. An accidental, in-character one. The nullsuit colors that Magnus, Taako, and Merle pick out near the beginning of the Crystal Kingdom arc were Burgundy, Burnt Umber, and Cinnamon, in an attempt to be amusingly difficult. All of these are shades of red.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_9d3f4777	type	My Nayme Is
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_9d3f4777	comment	There have also been four Jerrys over the course of the show. A gerblin in Here There Be Gerblins, two Hammerhead ruffians named "Regular Jerreeeeee" and "Lil' Jerry" in Petals to the Metal, and a bank guard in The Eleventh Hour. Guest host Stuart Wellington added a fifth one in tribute to the Hammerheads with Goldcliff's Councillor Jerry, who also had the Hammerheads' distinctive "Joe Pesci" accent.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_9d9a875f	comment	The party are all supposedly Good-aligned, but some of the shenanigans they get up to, like copious amounts of murder and theft, would make even the most Chaotic of Chaotic Goodniks think twice.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a025d2f7	type	Physical Heaven
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a025d2f7	comment	The Intermediate Planes: the Celestial Plane, the Astral Plane, the Plane of Magic, and the Plane of Thought.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a0f61fe2	type	Power-Up Letdown
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a0f61fe2	comment	Power-Up Letdown: Magnus decides to buy a Mystery Bag at the local Fantasy Costco. Instead of a useful magical item, it contains a magical goldfish that has no other abilities than being a goldfish that can survive without being fed.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a1c5e0cc	type	Trigger Phrase
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a1c5e0cc	comment	Trigger Phrase: In The Eleventh Hour, Roswell is revealed to have one—namely, "Junebug."
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a431b0e6	type	The Butler Did It
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a431b0e6	comment	The Butler Did It: In "Murder on the Rockport Limited" Jenkins, the Wizard Assistant, is murdered by the Rockport Slayer. However, he is later revealed as the Rockport Slayer, and that he killed and swapped clothes with the engineer.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: Most of Griffin's arc titles are plain punny, but The Eleventh Hour arc qualifies for this, as the events take place at 11 AM and it's shortly before things go to shit.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Director Lucretia of the Bureau of Balance. While she enjoys the adventurers' antics, she's constantly trying to get them to stay on point and boots them out of her office immediately after giving them their assignment. Captain Captainnote his first name Bane is this for the city of Goldcliff, heading up the police constabulary response to the Raven's assault on the city bank.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: The gate guard for the Hammerheads's base was a man named Barbara.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a588c1cf	type	Cool Horse
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a588c1cf	comment	Cool Horse: Taako can summon a glorious talking, spectral, possibly unkillable unicorn named Garyl.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a5e02e9e	type	Infinity +1 Sword
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a5e02e9e	comment	Infinity +1 Sword: The Flaming Poisoning Raging Sword of Doom, dealing an extra 20 damage per swing, and costs a whopping 60,000Gp.note According to the Player's Handbook, you could buy two whole taverns for that much money. Taako ends up conning Garfield out of it for only 2,400Gp on his part.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: Especially in the earlier episodes, though present throughout. Tres Horny Boys will never turn down a chance to goof if they see an opportunity, even if it causes problems with Griffin's characters; the introduction of Jenkins is a noteworthy example.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a60f7120	comment	Physical God: Our heroes have met several: Istus, the lady of fate, is met in one of her churches in The Eleventh Hour. The Four Judges are godlike entities in the form of giant statues, who rule the world of Cycle 65 in The Stolen Century. They appear again, corrupted by The Hunger, in Story and Song. In the Live Boston Stunt Spectacular show, They prevent Garagos, the forgotten god of war, from being summoned from his imprisonment, but not before his 5 hands appear, and destroy the arena. Merle finally meets Pan face-to-face in episode two of Story and Song.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Angus McDonald is introduced as a bit player in the second arc; he proved popular enough with the players and the audience to be brought back in the fourth arc as the team's Voice with an Internet Connection. At the end of The Suffering Game, the red robe who has been stalking (and, throughout much of The Suffering Game, supporting) the party for almost thirty episodes is revealed to be Barry Bluejeans, a character who seemingly died in the destruction of the town of Phandalin in the podcast's very first arc some fifty episodes earlier.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Merle is staunchly against looting the corpses of his cousins. Magnus and Taako aren't nearly so fastidious.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a73c667a	type	Captivity Harmonica
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_a73c667a	comment	Captivity Harmonica: When the Boys are put in jail in Refuge, Magnus pulls out and starts playing a harmonica that Travis says he didn't have before.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: The Live in Austin! show brings us Brody, who wears obnoxious neon clothing and is never seen without his skateboard. He turns out to be the avatar of the mind flayer who captured them and put them in the high school dreamscape.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_aaf863b	type	Edible Theme Naming
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_aaf863b	comment	Edible Theme Naming: Implied with regards to Taako's family â€” his grandfather's name is "Tostada," and his twin sister, "Lup," was originally intended to have the full name "Chalupa." This has since been retconned due to problematic implications for anyone imagining the twins as Latino.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_ab6e01e	type	Clean Cut
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_ab6e01e	comment	Clean Cut: Magnus occasionally does this. On one occasion, he cleaves an NPC in twain...then seems surprised when Griffin won't let him do it non-lethally.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: At the end of The Suffering Game, Lydia dies of despair when Edward is killed; in her final moments, she drops her illusory form in favor of her true black robes, and, at a loss for words, simply screams. John might be the source and avatar of the Hunger, but watching him get subsumed by it is more than a little tragic. His actual death, watching the sunset with Merle before fading away, only makes him more sympathetic.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: Magnus delivers one at the end of The Suffering Game that cuts off the Animus Bell's We Can Rule Together speech almost as soon as it starts.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: In the first episode, Travis kept trying to find a use for his Vehicle Handling proficiency, but the task at hand (driving a one-horse cart down a smooth path at a reasonable pace in broad daylight) was easy enough that no proficiency was needed. 22 episodes later, he finally uses it to impress a group of motorhead gangsters by helping them soup up their battlewagon. And a full 67 episodes after it was established, Travis pulls this off again by using his unused Animal Handling proficiency to ride a Hunger-infused rhino.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_ad1db87c	comment	The Four Judges of Cycle 65, giant, 20-story-tall statues, have been corrupted by the Hunger, and are now walking across FaerÃ»n towards the BoB Moon Base.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_af11866	type	Wizarding School
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_af11866	comment	Taako teams up with Ren to found a Wizarding School named Taako's Amazing School of Magic.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_af3ea0e3	comment	A whole multitude of characters return in the Candlenights 2018 show - Dracula, from the previous liveshow, is now working at the Bureau of Benevolence, Klarg and Cassidy (whose last non-cameo appearances were in the Boston Stunt Spectacular and The Eleventh Hour, respectively, although they both appeared in Story and Song) are some of the customers vying for the Jeff Angel toy at a Fantasy Costco owned by Garfield the Deals Warlock, and Jeff Angel himself returns as a freshly-minted Heel after not showing up since the Boston Stunt Spectacular.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_aff29d6f	type	Beauty, Brains and Brawn
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_aff29d6f	comment	Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Taako (a beautiful elf wizard who takes great pride in his looks), Merle (the cleric with a green thumb), and Magnus (a rough-and-tough fighter with the catchphrase "Magnus rushes in!") respectively. Especially true for the first arc or so, when Justin was still playing Taako as a complete idiot.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Griffin: "You've solved my [blank] puzzle!" Typically said at the end of a plot arc ("You've solved my train puzzle!"), or sarcastically when the players use brute force to solve a problem or expend a lot of podcast time goofing on something that's not meant to be an obstacle at all. "Magnus rushes in" and "Taako's good out here" serve as in-character examples. "Uh, I'm Taako? Y'know, from TV?" "I cast Zone of Truth!" Saying "Hail and well met!" when greeting someone.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b1cfd9e5	type	The Big Race
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b1cfd9e5	comment	The Big Race: Magnus, Taako, and Merle take part in a Mad-Max style one in the Petals to Metal arc with the help of Hurley.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Griffin sneaks a few into his series recap in The The Adventure Zone Zone, making it official continuity that Davenport can only say his own name and Garfield is the only employee of Fantasy Costco. The players also have this as their now-developed back stories occasionally conflict with things they've said in the past.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b38b6147	type	Science Fantasy
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b38b6147	comment	Science Fantasy: Magic, wizards, Artifacts of Doom, liches, robots, aliens, interdimensional space travel, and Costco.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b3fc9d55	type	An Ass-Kicking Christmas
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b3fc9d55	comment	An Asskicking Christmas: All of The Crystal Kingdom takes place on Candlenights. The first episode starts off with a Candlenights party, but by the second episode Candlenights is more or less forgotten. Only until the last episode of the arc (which was in May) are the characters reminded that it's still Candlenights. The Candlenights in Tacoma! liveshow, where Merle becomes Santa and the three have to enter a dangerous ice dungeon to give presents to a sad, lonely ogre boy living there.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b486877f	type	Squick
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b486877f	comment	The Gaia Sash, an enchanted belt that grants the wielder power over nature. It attempts to tempt Merle with the ability to fuck any vine he wants. Merle resists, saying he doesn't need anyone's help to do that. invoked
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b4c406a6	comment	Death by Despair: Lydia, after her brother Edward is killed.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b506c9ff	type	Hide Your Lesbians
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b506c9ff	comment	Hide Your Lesbians: Hurley and Sloane's romance is limited to subtext in the actual story, even though Word of Gay confirms that they're a couple. Averted with later same-gender couples like Carey and Killian, who are explicitly shown to be dating. Further averted when the story ends with Carey and Killian's wedding.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b588a9b6	comment	Too Dumb to Fool: Invoked in-universe with Taako. Apparently the reason he was able to resist the temptation to claim and use the Artifact of Doom is because he's simply too stupid to be tempted. It happens again with the artifact from the second arc; it tries to tempt him with "anything he can imagine," but his imagination is so bad it doesn't make a difference. Ultimately subverted when the real reason the boys can resist the Relics—the fact that they made them—is revealed.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Okay, Kurtze, this horrifically racist dwarf wreathed in unholy flames is on a rampage through the countryside, but the nice guys who rescued you from slavery seem to be talking him down. Do you, A.) get away from all this madness as fast as orcishly possible, or B.) shoot a crossbow at it?
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b5ac90ac	type	"Groundhog Day" Loop
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b5ac90ac	comment	"Groundhog Day" Loop: The central conceit of The Eleventh Hour, evidently induced by the Grand Relic of the arc. The party "arrives" at 11 each morning; at high noon, something tears the town apart, killing everyone; then they end up back in a white void for a short while before starting the morning from scratch.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b5b4e3dd	type	Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b5b4e3dd	comment	Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter: Merle mostly, but they all experience it at least once an episode. Usually due to Dungeon Master Griffin's Accidental Innuendo.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: In episode 5, Justin complains that no one else does character voices. As soon as Clint obliges, he complains about that until Clint stops. (Justin's Taako voice sounds like an exaggerated Emo Phillips.)
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b72923df	type	The Final Temptation
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b72923df	comment	The Temporal Chalice, which can manipulate the flow of time and even create barriers out of time. Instead of an outright villainous Final Temptation, it speaks directly to the heroes about undoing their Greatest Failures.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The very end of Story and Song details what each of the heroes have done in the year since the titular Day of Story and Song. Taako teams up with Ren to found a Wizarding School named Taako's Amazing School of Magic. Merle founds Merle's Extreme Teen Adventures, an Adventure Guild for teens, in hopes to train them to be the next generation of adventurers, and also to spend more time with his children. He's also made governor (or, rather, earl) of the beach town of Bottlenose Cove by Lord Artemis Sterling. Magnus sets up a dog training school called Hammer and Tails: A Dog's School in the ruins of Ravensroost. He also gets a Distant Finale where he dies of old age surrounded by his friends, and is reunited with Julia in the Astral Plane. Barry and Lup strike a deal with the Raven Queen to avoid being hunted for being liches, and become reapers. Lucretia renames the Bureau of Balance to the Bureau of Benevolence, and changes its goal to helping those ravaged by the Hunger's attack to recover. Davenport, not content to stay in one place, sails the world, reveling in the existence of the world they saved. Other epilogues include Carey and Killian getting married, Lucas founding the Academy of Arcane Sciences, the people of Refuge hitting another diamond vein, Sloane and Hurley returning to a life of racing, and the people of the world banding together to rebuild anew.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b81191d7	type	Amnesiac Protagonist Catalyst
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b81191d7	comment	Amnesiac Protagonist Catalyst: One of the major turning points is when we learn Taako, Magnus, and Merle all have huge gaps in their memories—Kravitz has record of them each dying multiple times, there's just static where years' worth of memories should be, and Magnus discovers he's a Red Robe, but none of them have any idea what the explanation for this is. It's eventually reveled that the three of them, along with Davenport, Lucretia, Barry, and Taako's sister Lup—whom he'd also completely forgotten the existence of—are all originally from another dimension, and spent a full century being chased by the Hunger, staying in each dimension for one year before it caught up to them again. After they settled on the dimension where the main story takes place, Lucretia wound up wiping her friends' memories for what she saw as the greater good, as part of a plan to defeat the Hunger for good. Except her actions and the events of the campaign have directly led to it finding them again after ten years of successfully hiding. Mass "Oh, Crap!" ensues.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b89d9f13	type	Assimilation Plot
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b89d9f13	comment	Assimilation Plot: The Hunger's original goal was to absorb planes of existence into itself, in order to combat the crushing weight of eternity.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Character names include Magnus, Gundren, Yeemick, Klarg, Brian, and Barry Bluejeans. The spectrum is weighted towards Bob, since NPCs are for the most part named after real people. Lampshaded when Justin mocks Griffin for naming the party's new Halfling roommate "Robbie", and invoked when Griffin changed several of the "Aeriths" to "Bobs" during the first arc, which drew heavily from Lost Mine of Phandelver: Sildar Hallwinter became Barry Bluejeans; Big Bad Nezznar was renamed Magic Brian.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_bab7fceb	type	Incredible Shrinking Man
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_bab7fceb	comment	Incredible Shrinking Man: One of Lucas's elevators does this, allowing those who enter to view a diorama as if it were actual size.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_bacf8e98	type	Preserve Your Gays
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_bacf8e98	comment	Preserve Your Gays: After Griffin caught a lot of flack for invoking Bury Your Gays with Hurley and Sloane, all other LGBT characters in the show became essentially unkillable. And with Story and Song revealing that Hurley and Sloane didn't actually die, the survival rate for LGBT characters in the series is actually 100%.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_badfee0b	type	Ominous Obsidian Ooze
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_badfee0b	comment	Ominous Obsidian Ooze: The Hunger, an evil sentient plane of existence, is described as tar-like with the coloring of black opal.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_bc103f8b	comment	The Live in Austin! show takes place some time after The Eleventh Hour, given references to the Chance Lance. Though it could possibly take place after Story and Song, which would explain how the mind flayer who kidnapped them would know who they were, since their story was broadcast to everyone in the planar system.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_bc80725e	type	Wedding Finale
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_bc80725e	comment	Wedding Finale: The campaign concludes with Carey and Killian's wedding, officiated by Merle.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_bcc2f921	type	An Adventurer Is You
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_bcc2f921	comment	An Adventurer Is You: Magnus, with his heavy armor and shield, acts as the Tank and consistently puts himself in the front of the formation. Merle is the Healer as well as casting defensive buffs. Taako is the DPS caster in addition to support magic.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_bd9a2438	type	Exploding Fish Tanks
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_bd9a2438	comment	Exploding Fish Tanks: Magnus busts the Voidfish's tank to take down part of the Hunger. It's a good thing the Voidfish doesn't need it.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_bff2cac8	type	Parasitic Immortality
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_bff2cac8	comment	Parasitic Immortality: The Animus Bell grants this ability, allowing the holder to rip someone's soul from their body and take it over. It turns out to have been created by Barry, a necromancer who also lived forever this way, albeit non-maliciously. As a lich, when he dies, his spirit lingers on, and he found a way to clone and recreate his own body over and over again, so every time he dies, he can just grow a new body and, effectively, possess himself. This breaks virtually every arcane law regarding death and mortality, but Barry is a well-meaning person who doesn't want to hurt anybody, and is horrified by the way people have torn each other to shreds to get the Bell.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c1080483	type	The Roleplayer
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c1080483	comment	The Role Player: All three players occasionally making suboptimal decisions that are in line with their characters. For example, Travis plays Magnus as an impulsive man of action who will leap into situations without thinking, Clint plays Merle as a bit irreverent, usually trying to keep up with Magus as he rushes in, and Justin plays Taako as disinterested in combat, usually hanging back and waiting for things to play out, or be dragged in by the other two. Perhaps best exemplified by the Flaming Poisoning Raging Sword of Doom, which is so ridiculously overpowered that it would trivialize most combats... but remains deliberately unused until it would have the most dramatic impact.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Magnus and Taako slip into this routine while interrogating Graham (aka The Juicy Wizard)...with Merle as a bonus "Maternal Cop". Later, Merle and Magnus go into this when interrogating Lucas, with Taako acting as "Guy who's here to pay a parking ticket".
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c2393191	comment	Exaggerated in the Live in San Diego! show, which takes place in a simulated replica of the Tomb, said to be based on an old game that Lucas played.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c26e2b1	type	New Powers as the Plot Demands
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c26e2b1	comment	New Powers as the Plot Demands: DM Griffin suspects Clint of making up new powers for his cleric when they're convenient. He's occasionally right.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c2c9748c	type	Standard Fantasy Setting
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c2c9748c	comment	The first arc loosely follows an adventure from the Dungeons & Dragons 5e starter kit and takes place in a fairly Standard Fantasy Setting with a pretty straight medieval level of technology and references to classic D&D locales like the city of Neverwinter. Once Griffin starts inventing more of the world, the plot becomes completely original, and all kinds of Schizo-Magitek (flying saucers, secret moon bases, luxury passenger trains with resident wizards who can whisk you off to remote pleasure chambers to pass the time on your journey) and general weirdness (a city full of Tom Bodetts) starts cropping up.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c34a1799	type	Kaiju
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c34a1799	comment	Kaiju: The Purple Worm from The Eleventh Hour is far, far, far larger than a normal purple worm found in dungeons and dragons. This worm was described has having a mouth 200 feet in diameter! If scaled proportionally, this worm is 3,200 feet long, 40 times larger than a standard purple worm! The Four Judges of Cycle 65, giant, 20-story-tall statues, have been corrupted by the Hunger, and are now walking across FaerÃ»n towards the BoB Moon Base.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c48dfa35	type	"With Our Swords" Scene
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c48dfa35	comment	"With Our Swords" Scene: Taako swindles the Flaming Poisoning Raging Sword of Doom from a shopkeeper, but his player, Justin, refuses to use it or give it to anyone else because the item was acknowledged In-Universe as a Game-Breaker. Only in the final arc did he relent and give it to the group's fighter, who used it to great effect in fighting the multiverse-chomping monster.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me: The Animus Bell has this power, by forcibly removing a body's soul and allowing another to possess it. The liches who run Wonderland take advantage of this to send out their victims with claims of finding great treasure, thus luring in more adventurers for them to torment.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c62aee4c	type	From Zero to Hero
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c62aee4c	comment	From Zero to Hero: The Director started off as the record-maker of the IPE, writing down everything the other more active members were doing. It was only through the Stolen Century that she became the proactive, decisive leader she would become.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c6339c44	type	Famous, Famous, Fictional
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c6339c44	comment	Famous, Famous, Fictional: When the laws that govern reality are brought up, expect three to be listed: The Laws of Physics, Thermodynamics, and Arcane Interactions.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c64b67f7	type	DungeonMaster
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c64b67f7	comment	Dungeon Master Griffin calls this trope out by name a few times, as he struggles to make different NPCs sound unique.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c75e6cba	type	Shout-Out
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c75e6cba	comment	Shoutout: Wonderland as a whole is very similar to the Tomb of Horrors campaign by Gary Gygax, even being referenced by name. Adventurers are lured into a dungeon with promises of riches, only to find that it's a trap made to sustain the lich(es) that reside there. Exaggerated in the Live in San Diego! show, which takes place in a simulated replica of the Tomb, said to be based on an old game that Lucas played. Justin named a character Sazed as a shout out to the character of the same name from Mistborn. Griffin says that the Live in Austin! episode was basically intended as one long shout-out to Persona. The magical basketball game from the Austin show was one long shout-out to Space Jam. The plot of the Live Boston Stunt Spectacular was set at a thinly-veiled (not veiled at all) WWE expy. All in all, Griffin's not shy about drawing inspiration from other sources. Arcs have included The Fast and the Furious-esque racing sequences, a Groundhog Dayâ€“Western mash up, and a murder mystery set on a train.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c7b5445c	type	Cool Starship
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c7b5445c	comment	Cool Starship: The Starblaster, a silver ship designed by the IPRE to travel between planes of existence, powered by the Bond Engine, which creates power from the emotional connections of the people around it.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c8552b9a	type	Elemental Plane
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_c8552b9a	comment	The Outer Elemental Planes of Water, Earth, Fire, Air, Light, and Darkness.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: While earlier bonus episodes taking place outside the story make sense, as back then there were fewer characters and events to keep straight, later ones sometimes create some serious plot holes. For example, in the San Diego Live Show, Lucas, who disappeared after the end of The Crystal Kingdom, creates a virtual reality dungeon for the Bureau of Balance members to play through. The episode clearly takes place after The Crystal Kingdom, with references to the Chance Lance and even the Flaming Poisoning Raging Sword of Doom, but also before Story and Song when Lucas comes back, because of the fact the Bureau of Balance still exists. How could Lucas have done this whole training thing without the Director knowing? Magnus, Taako, and Merle would've been caught in their lie, since they told the Director that Lucas was dead. The answer is Griffin just forgot.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: The series gradually begins getting darker and more serious as it progresses, putting more emphasis on the plot and less on goofing around. While the jokes never go away completely, the series remains lighthearted overall, and it has an almost-entirely happy ending, it's very noticeable how much sillier the early arcs could be compared to the later ones.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: The primary way Taako gets ideas that will eventually result in the taco.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: The four divine judge statues in the Stolen Century arc examine the party's deeds, finding so many crimes that the pronouncements run over each other and are almost impossible to distinguish. As a result of their findings, the judges take immediate action and kill all of the present protagonists, even though it it supposed to be a preliminary hearing, not a trial, let alone an execution.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_d46e1d62	type	Philosopher's Stone
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_d46e1d62	comment	The Philosopher's Stone, which can transmute any material into anything else. Stopping the process is another matter entirely.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_d4c98786	type	Writing Around Trademarks
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_d4c98786	comment	Writing Around Trademarks: Due to not having the appropriate legal arrangements, the Comic-Book Adaptation changes several names that were pulled directly from Dungeons & Dragons. Klarg, for instance, is renamed "G'nash", while Neverwinter is "Eversummer".
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: The Voidfish is a being that subsists by eating information. This can be done by simply tossing it a piece of paper with writing on it, and afterward whatever was written will be removed from the collective memory of most planes of reality, with its name and any relevant details being impossible to understand—speakers will simply sound like static. The Voidfish's power isn't perfect—for example, there will still be physical signs of an erased person's existence, which allowed Angus to piece together the Bureau's existence. Anyone who drinks the Voidfish's ichor also becomes immune to the erasure.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_d813c00a	type	RPG Mechanics 'Verse
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_d813c00a	comment	RPG Mechanics 'Verse: Generally Averted, however spell slots have been mentioned by name by the characters several times.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_d83f3588	type	Depending on the Artist
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_d83f3588	comment	Depending on the Artist: Fanart is prone to this, as Griffin's descriptions of characters aren't that specific and the boys encourage varying depictions. However, it also shows up in official sources. For instance, in the podcast art (see page image), Magnus is bald and beardless with thick sideburns; in the animated trailer he is beardless with sideburns and a man-bun; and in the Comic-Book Adaptation, he has hair, sideburns, and a beard.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Coming face to face with a crab monster on the Rockport Limited while they're all unarmed, Taako decides to run for it. When Clint protests, Justin launches into a hilarious rant:
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Because your home plane's been destroyed by the Hunger.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: In The Eleventh Hour, Griffin states that Refuge is seven years out of step with the rest of the world, but Ren said that she moved to Refuge about two years after seeing a showing of Sizzle It Up with Taako, which was only six years ago, meaning Refuge should only be four years out of step. She also says that she feels like she recognizes Magnus, which implies she lived in Refuge when he brought Jack, June, and the Temporal Chalice to town. This however is impossible, as that was around ten years ago, and she would still be living in the Underdark. It's possible that she never actually met him, but is subconsciously comparing him to the red-robed statue of him in town.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_daba19f1	type	Portal Cut
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_daba19f1	comment	Portal Cut: How Jenkins murders the engineer, Hudson, aboard the Rockport Express.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: At least one major example every plot arc, with the exception of The Eleventh Hour (which is a more exploration-heavy arc). The first has Killian, a crossbow-wielding orc packing the ability to animate golems. The second has Jess, a pit fighter with an axe. The third has two: Hurley, a constabulary lieutenant with a black belt in ass-kicking, and Sloane, the apparent villain of the arc who Curb-Stomps our heroes in her first appearance. The fourth arc has Killian return with her teammate, Carey Fangbattle, a Dragonborn Rogue and sister of Jeremy "Scales" Fangbattle. The sixth has Antonia, an elven mercenary, and Lup, who manages to kill 50% of the big bad duo despite being stuck in an umbrella for the whole arc. The seventh has Lup, and Lucretia ascends to this after episode 65. Taako lampshades this when he says "There must be a competent woman who can bail us out".
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple Carey and Killian are both incredibly talented fighters in the Bureau, and show of their teamwork skills in the Grand Finale as the Hunger attacks the base. Towards the end of the story, Barry and Lup, who both take full advantage of their Lich powers to obliterate the Hunger's forces. They're so amazing at mowing them down that Taako, who was planning to join Lup in the fight, turns right back around with a "Looks like they can handle it."
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: In Murder on the Rockport Limited, the victim has been beheaded and be-handed in a locked train car on a train where all passengers are required to surrender their weapons upon boarding. Jess, a powerful warrior with no alibi and a super-sharp, summonable soulbound ax that can't be separated from her would seem to be a prime suspect. There was also Graham the Juicy Wizard, who was found at the scene of the crime and had a possible motivation, with Jenkins haven taken the job Graham tried out for. In the end, it turns out the decapitation was accomplished by Portal Cut by another character.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_dcaa8b35	type	Locked Room Mystery
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_dcaa8b35	comment	Locked Room Mystery: The centerpiece of the Murder on the Rockport Limited arc, in which the victim is beheaded and be-handed in a locked train car aboard a train which requires all passengers to surrender their weapons upon boarding.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Barry Bluejeans, after being presumed dead since episode 4, is revealed in episode 58 to have been the Red Robe who's been following the party around the whole time.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e0c00a95	comment	Absurdly Sharp Blade: The Flaming Poisoning Raging Sword of Doom is hilariously OP, to the point that in one of the live shows, Davenport manages to cleave through multiple Kraken tentacles just by holding it still while they sail past.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e0e3579a	type	Fungus Humongous
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e0e3579a	comment	Fungus Humongous: The second world we see the Starblaster crew visit is blanketed with a glowing, toxic mushroom forest, inhabited by fungus people.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e0ecc959	type	Changed My Mind, Kid
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e0ecc959	comment	Changed My Mind, Kid: In the final battle of The Suffering Game, Cam returns to sacrifice his life in order to heal Merle.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e268e2	type	The Clan
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e268e2	comment	The Clan: The Rockseekers are a large and prosperous dwarven family, giving Merle New Cousins as the Plot Demands in early episodes.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: Refuge is a town trapped in a time bubble, and the boys can't get out until they figure out what went wrong.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: The Stolen Century, being a Whole Session Flashback, is chock full of these, such as: In Episode 64, Merle invents and masters the art of "Interpretative Jazz Dancing". All the way back in Episode 1, Clint makes an offhanded joke that Merle is a great dancer. Magnus's first woodcarving is done with the old knife that he got from his grandfather, the knife being a starter trinket mentioned in Episode 1. When Merle and John talk during their parlay sessions, Merle calls it their "Truth Zone", which foreshadows Merle's extensive usage of the Zone of Truth spell.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e528c7b4	type	And Mission Control Rejoiced
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e528c7b4	comment	And Mission Control Rejoiced: Apparently the Bureau of Balance had all gotten together to watch the Battle Wagon Race in Petals to the Metal. In Live in San Diego!, members of the Bureau are watching the boys complete Lucas's simulation and commenting on it through a group chat. Given how badly they were doing at the simulation, however, it was less "And Mission Control Rejoiced" and more "And Mission Control Made Fun of Magnus For Getting Eaten by a Fish"
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e545e190	comment	Nerf: Dungeon Master Griffin quietly lowered Magnus's ability scores between episodes to bring him in line with the other two party members.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e58e0124	type	PokÃ©mon Speak
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e58e0124	comment	Originally, Davenport said "Davenport" quite a lot. It was later changed into PokÃ©mon Speak, with it being the only thing he says.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e6558beb	type	Artistic License â€“ Space
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e6558beb	comment	Artistic License â€“ Space: A total solar eclipse occurs every midsummer solstice over FaerÃ»n. The annual eclipse is somewhat justified, since it's a Constructed World.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: The specialty of the Voidfish, who erases people's memories of everything it eats to Cosmic Retcon levels. Those memories can be restored by drinking its... fluids.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e7c33c6a	type	True Sight
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e7c33c6a	comment	The Oculus Lens, which claims to grant True Sight and ultimate knowledge. In actuality it allows the user to render anything they can think of or create with illusiory magic into reality.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e7fd5cdc	type	Brain Bleach
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e7fd5cdc	comment	Brain Bleach: During the Petals to the Metal arc, Merle attempts a Charm Person spell on some monstrous vines by dirty-talking them...which completely freaks Justin out. Mainly because, you know, it's his Dad doing it. By the end of it all of Clint's sons want to kill themselves after Merle basically makes the vines suffer The Immodest Orgasm.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_e83f211c	comment	After the Animus Bell is rung, Mangus suddenly collapses to the ground, before getting up and start saying how Wonderland wasn't really that bad. Except, Griffin is the one speaking as Magnus...
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: Defied. In Story and Song, the boys wake up onboard the Rockport Limited following their final battle with John, and Griffin states that he hadn't realized that it would sound like he was invoking this trope until it was too late.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Lieutenant Hurley is not above indulging in illegal Blood Sports after hours. She's also remarkably blasÃ© about the amount of murder the party commits while working for her.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_eb4086e3	type	Big Creepy-Crawlies
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_eb4086e3	comment	Big Creepy-Crawlies: Well, relatively, anyway — during The Crystal Kingdom, Magnus and Merle end up fighting a cockroach while shrunk. It was originally going to be three cockroaches, but two of them were serendipitously stomped on beforehand. Played Straight later in the arc, when they fight giant tardigrades in the lab's anti-gravity chamber. Exaggerated with the sandworms in The Eleventh Hour, where the babies are the size of the tardigrades and the adults are tens of miles long.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: There's a handful of jokes and references that originate from MBMBAM, such as Garfield the Deals Warlock and Candlenights.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The party goes out of their way to rescue an enslaved orc boy named Kurtze. Guess who shows up at exactly the wrong moment and shoots a crossbow at the Person of Mass Destruction the party had just about talked down?
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_eba4e300	type	Honorary Uncle
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_eba4e300	comment	Honorary Uncle: How Merle's kids, Mavis and Mookie, come to see the rest of the IPRE in the epilogue.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted with Brian and his pet spider Bryan—and both also have the epithet "The Black Spider". Since they still sound identical, Brian winds up going by "Magic Brian" to avoid confusing the players. There have also been four Jerrys over the course of the show. A gerblin in Here There Be Gerblins, two Hammerhead ruffians named "Regular Jerreeeeee" and "Lil' Jerry" in Petals to the Metal, and a bank guard in The Eleventh Hour. Guest host Stuart Wellington added a fifth one in tribute to the Hammerheads with Goldcliff's Councillor Jerry, who also had the Hammerheads' distinctive "Joe Pesci" accent. Taken to its extreme with there being two bugbears named Jamie Green. One is Klarg's mother and Lucas's gardener, and the other is a reporter on the IPRE's homeworld.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_ee7c1a1f	comment	In Live in San Diego!, members of the Bureau are watching the boys complete Lucas's simulation and commenting on it through a group chat. Given how badly they were doing at the simulation, however, it was less "And Mission Control Rejoiced" and more "And Mission Control Made Fun of Magnus For Getting Eaten by a Fish"
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_eea06f9a	comment	Artistic License â€“ Cars: Petals to the Metal takes a lot of liberty with automobiles, with giant cars that weigh less than half a ton and other such nonsense. Lampshaded by Griffin,
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_eeb2c175	comment	Eat Dirt, Cheap: Magnus swallows the Philosopher's Stone. It seemed like a good idea (to him, and no one else) at the time.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_eece5183	comment	Have You Seen My God?: Toward the end of The Suffering Game, Pan stops responding to Merle's prayers, and shortly after that Kravitz loses contact with the Raven Queen. This is because when The Hunger invades a planar system, it severs the metaphysical Bonds connecting the planes together.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Yeemick the goblin has a vendetta against Klarg the bugbear, who he claims is a Bad Boss, and blackmails the party into trying to kill him. His plan lasts exactly long enough for the party to tell Klarg, who kills him in a spectacular fashion.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_f22249e	comment	Body of Bodies: The larger enemies in the Boss Rush mentioned below are constructed of many mannequins clumped together.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_f27ec906	comment	Identical Stranger: Played for Laughs when the party meets Brian, the Black Spider, who is an elf wizard that has Taako's bizarre faux German/Emo Phillips inflection. He even counters Taako's Magic Missile attack with a more powerful Magic Missile attack. This voice leads to Brian's quick death when he tries to pull a Spot the Imposter later on.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_f2d29e14	comment	Evil Brit: Played with in the beginning of the arc when Kravitz is first introduced, but subverted after The Crystal Kingdom ends: Turns out Kravitz isn't evil, just goth, and he's not even actually British.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_f62cc38a	comment	Stone Wall: Magnus has the Protection Fighter specialty, which trades some offensive capability for the ability to better defend adjacent party members. This is only relative, though, and reversible depending on the circumstances; if he decides to cast aside his shield and wield his battleaxe two-handed, he is fully capable of laying down the hurt.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Magnus and Julia in the Distant Finale.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_f66dfb4b	comment	His Name Really Is "Barkeep": The captain of the Goldcliff Militia is named "Captain Bane".
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_f6919c77	comment	Voices Are Mental: Averted. When Magnus's body is possessed by the lich Edward, he speaks with his normal voice (as imitated by Griffin). And when the trio have their bodies swapped in the MaxFunCon East show, they attempt to imitate each other's character voices.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_f722f635	comment	Great Offscreen War: The Relic Wars, a global conflict fought over immensely powerful magical artifacts called the Grand Relics nearly destroyed the world a decade back, but nobody remembers it, thanks to Laser-Guided Amnesia.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_f8604a3c	comment	The Darkness Gazes Back: In Carnival Chaos, for the first time in the story, the boys see eyes in the sky staring down at the world. This is the first hint at the existence of The Hunger.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Jenkins, specifically by killing the Engineer and switching clothes with him.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_f9e16ef	comment	The one true, straight example of the trope is also an inversion: In The Crystal Kingdom, the main characters are sent to go retrieve Lucas, the Bureau's resident (and male) Mad Scientist, to save him from his own experiment Gone Horribly Wrong.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: In general Elevators have appeared in almost every one of their adventures to date. And nearly every time they enter one, Travis starts humming "The Girl from Ipanema". Griffin's ambigiously-ironic vore fetish, carried over from My Brother, My Brother and Me and CoolGames Inc.. Justin ragging on Clint and Travis, but mostly Clint, when they don't do their character voices. "You've solved my X puzzle!" All three sons suffer from anxiety to some degree, so they're pushing themselves to the brink at live events. Many live shows feature the boys having the house lights up to greet the audience, then quickly requesting the lights go down in a joking panic so they can pretend they're not on stage being watched by thousands of people. Magnus Magnus removing arms from the robots he fights and collecting them. "Magnus rushes in" Taako "Taako's good out here" Merle Merle casting Zone of Truth, usually at the most inappropriate times. Everybody constantly doubting Merle's healing abilities.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_faf5732b	comment	I Call It "Vera": Merle has named his warhammer "Smusher", and his hand-axe "Lil' Choppy".
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_fb111d49	comment	Sequence Breaking: Griffin references a long-sounding sequence in a castle that the party manages to skip by figuring out how to use an enchanted map and getting pointed straight to Wave Echo Cave. Unlike many instances of this trope, it is not advantageous, since it puts their level-2 characters in an area recommended for characters of level 4 to 5.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_fb2136ec	comment	Big, Thin, Short Trio: Canonically, Merle, being a dwarf, is short, Magnus, being the team tank, is big, and Taako is described as being "a very slight man".
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_fc07d409	comment	Hopeless Boss Fight: When the boys first encounter Sloane, she wipes the floor with them in just over a round, but they're rescued by a timely appearance by Hurley, who convinces Sloane to leave. Travis jokingly suggests this of the final boss after seeing how tough it is, getting quickly shot down by Griffin. Then it turns out to be the case; only after the party is rendered unconscious does Griffin introduce the bond mechanic which allows them to summon outside help, starting with a group heal.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: The avatar of the Hunger does this, initially looking like a twisted version of John, then taking on a more monstrous form after the first is killed.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: When Lucas "took in" the bugbear family, he gave them names based on their jobs. Klarg was "Daniel Butler" (butler), his father is "Aaron Styles" (stylist/barber), his mother is "Jamie Green" (gardener), his grandfather is "John Cook" (chef), and his sister is "Christie Killgore", since they couldn't think of a good name for a maintenance worker.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_fdb6b8ad	comment	The Magnificent: Magnus is occasionally called "The Hammer," despite wielding a battleaxe. It actually comes from his former profession as one half of a carpenter and blacksmith duo with his mentor Steven. Their shop was called "The Hammer and Tongs", with Magnus as the Hammer and Steven as the Tongs.
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The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Flying Seafood Special / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Foregone Conclusion / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Forgot About His Powers / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Friend to All Living Things / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Friendship Denial / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	From Zero to Hero / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Gayngst / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Gender-Blender Name / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Given Name Reveal / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Giver of Lame Names / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Go Mad from the Revelation / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	God Guise / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Good Cop/Bad Cop / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Grand Theft Me / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Great Offscreen War / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	"Groundhog Day" Loop / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Guest-Star Party Member / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Handicapped Badass / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Haunted Technology / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Have You Seen My God? / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Heist Episode / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Hero of Another Story / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Hero-Worshipper / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Heroes Love Dogs / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Heroes "R" Us / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Hidden in Plain Sight / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	High School AU / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Holding Back the Phlebotinum / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Honorary Uncle / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Hot-Blooded Sideburns / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Humanoid Abomination / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	I Call It "Vera" / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Iconic Item / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Iconic Outfit / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Ignored Epiphany / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Imagination-Based Superpower / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Immortality Immorality / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Impersonating an Officer / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Implied Death Threat / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Incredible Shrinking Man / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Indy Ploy / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Inferiority Superiority Complex / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Infinity +1 Sword / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Innocent Bigot / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Interspecies Romance / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Iron Woobie / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Jerkass Has a Point / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Karmic Death / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Killed Offscreen / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Killer Cop / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Kleptomaniac Hero / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	LGBT Representation in Media / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	LOL, 69 / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Lack of Empathy / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Laser-Guided Amnesia / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Laser-Guided Karma / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Laughably Evil / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Leeroy Jenkins / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Let Them Die Happy / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Life-or-Limb Decision / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Literal Surveillance Bug / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Living Statue / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Locked Room Mystery / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Logic Bomb / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Lovable Coward / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	MacGuffin Delivery Service / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Made Myself Sad / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Magnus Means Mage / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Married to the Job / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Meaningful Echo / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Mic Drop / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Mini-Mecha / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Mission Control / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Morality Chain Beyond the Grave / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Mouth of Sauron / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Mr. Exposition / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Multi-Melee Master / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	My Greatest Failure / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Named Weapons / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Narrator All Along / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Non-Action Guy / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Note to Self / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Octopoid Aliens / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Offerings to the Gods / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Official Couple / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Official Fan-Submitted Content / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Older Than They Look / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Ominous Obsidian Ooze / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Omnicidal Maniac / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Once More, with Clarity / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	One-Man Industrial Revolution / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Only in It for the Money / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Only One Name / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Opportunistic Bastard / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Organic Technology / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Origins Episode / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Ornamental Weapon / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Our Gnomes Are Weirder / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Our Liches Are Different / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Out-of-Clothes Experience / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Overly Long Gag / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Pals with Jesus / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Parasitic Immortality / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Pensieve Flashback / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Person of Mass Destruction / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Physical God / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Planet of Steves / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Plot Armor / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Podcast / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	PokÃ©mon Speak / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	[Popular Saying], But... / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Posthumous Character / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Pre-Mortem One-Liner / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Prisoner's Dilemma / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Psychic-Assisted Suicide / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Purely Aesthetic Era / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Rail-Car Separation / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Recruit the Muggles / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Red Herring / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Retconjuration / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Revive Kills Zombie / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Robot Names / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Rollercoaster Mine / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Romantic Wingman / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Runaway Train / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Sarcasm Failure / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Scatterbrained Senior / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Schizo Tech / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Science Fantasy / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Sealed Badass in a Can / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Secret Diary / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Secret-Keeper / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Self-Deprecation / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Self-Disposing Villain / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Sequence Breaking / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Servile Snarker / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Siblings in Crime / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Signed with a Kiss / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers! / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	So Proud of You / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Spheroid Dropship / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Spot the Imposter / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Starter Villain / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Stay with Me Until I Die / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Stealing the Credit / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Stopped Caring / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Straw Nihilist / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Sudden Game Interface / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Summon to Hand / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Supernatural Team / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Surprisingly Sudden Death / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Take a Third Option / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Take That, Critics! / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Taken for Granite / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Taking You with Me / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Talking Lightbulb / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Tempting Fate / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	That's No Moon / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The All-Solving Hammer / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Anti-Nihilist / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Big Damn Kiss / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Big Guy / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Big Race / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Dog Was the Mastermind / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Eeyore / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Grim Reaper / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Hecate Sisters / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Lost Lenore / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Main Characters Do Everything / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Mourning After / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Only One / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Power of Love / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Roleplayer / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Stars Are Going Out / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Starscream / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Stoner / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	The Worf Effect / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Thriller on the Express / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Together in Death / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Tom the Dark Lord / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Tomato in the Mirror / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Too Dumb to Fool / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Too Dumb to Live / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Trademark Favorite Food / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Tranquil Fury / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Transflormation / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Transhuman Abomination / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Trigger Phrase / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Triumphant Reprise / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	True Companions / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Truly Single Parent / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Two Girls to a Team / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Un-person / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Villain's Dying Grace / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Voice of the Legion / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Voice with an Internet Connection / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Wake-Up Call Boss / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Walking Armory / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	We Hardly Knew Ye / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Weapon of Mass Destruction / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Weird West / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Wham Line / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	When the Clock Strikes Twelve / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	When Trees Attack / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	White Sheep / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Who Wants to Live Forever? / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Whole Episode Flashback / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Wire Dilemma / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Worth Living For / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Wrecked Weapon / int_86e51bb5
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Writing Around Trademarks / int_86e51bb5

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