History Podcast / Jemjammer

* ArcherArchetype: [=Æ=]lfgifu is more closed off than the other women in the party, and she's a ranger.

* HumungousHeadedHammer: Jylliana wields a large hammer in battle.

* DropTheHammer: Jylliana wields a large hammer in battle.

%%zce* BedsheetGhost: Mr. Hurst gets dressed as one when transported to Castle Kronos.

%%* CoolStarship: The Kestrel, the ship that brought Alanna and her crew to this planet.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The elfven community that Cacophony hails from is described as "aggressively midwestern".

%%* FirstKiss: Aelfgifu's is with a [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Corpse Flower]]. She fails a constitution saving throw and faints into Mr. Hurst's arms.

%%* GhostShip: Episode 5, "Ghost Ship", has one manned by animate skeletons.

%%* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Cacophony gets these when she's possessed in episode 18. Jylliana gets them after she [[spoiler: learns to activate Radiant Soul, her Aasimar racial ability.]]

%%* HatePlague: Blackjammer's Sword can cause one when it's wielded without proper protection.

%%* HawaiianShirtedTourist: Grak is wearing one in their first appearance. It's their only article of clothing.

%%* HedgeMaze: There's one found behind Wyn's door in the personal dreamscape from Taphos. It's a replica of a real one owned by the Noblewoman she defeated in her origin story.

--->'''Cacophony:''' If we were to put things in numbers, I would be at eleven out of twenty five!\\

--->'''Jylliana:''' If I had a sheet in front of me that listed all my attributes I don’t think I'd be the smartest one.

--->'''Annie''': You magnificent bitch! You did the ''Film/{{Hook}}'' thing!

--->'''Maq''': [[Theatre/{{Hamilton}} He's not throwing away his shot!]]\\

--->'''Jyll:''' Look for clothing first, ''then'' we can do a [[Series/TheCarolBurnettShow Carol Burnett makeover]].

--->'''Kit:''' [[https://twitter.com/inferiorwit/status/997987873142988801 I did check in with Annie as to whether it was okay to repeatedly throw spiders in her face. She said yes, because her arachnophobia is at a level where it makes for funny radio but isn't, like, traumatizing.]]

--->'''Aelfgifu:''' What were the names of the elves that delivered me to you?\\

--->'''Greyson:''' [[spoiler: Rat to Death Spider. Estalar Nevaris inbound. Don't let the Captain survive.]]

* DontTryThisAtHome: When demonstrating her higher-level abilities to a group of Ethlan acolytes, Jyll uses them on Lachlan because they trust each other and they're of similar levels. As such, she is adamant that they don't do anything like this on their own time until they're similarly trained as they are. It works, helpfully because he "simple demonstration" of swinging a hammer accidentally unleashed a Divine Smite and exploded a training dummy she was using.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The elfven community that Cacophony hails form is described as "aggressively midwestern".

* FirstKiss: Aelfgifu's is with a [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Corpse Flower]]. She fails a constitution saving throw and faints into Mr. Hurst's arms.

* FlatWorld: Taphos is a flat disc balanced precariously on the back of a gigantic bull, which itself is standing on the inside of the sphere when they enter. Whenever the bull adjusts it's footing it causes Earthquakes on the disc.

* FragileSpeedster: The Kestrel is a ship version. It's very fast, and can occasionally hold its own against weaker opponents thanks to it's skilled crew, but Captain Bondar stresses that in ship-to-ship combat it can only take a single hit, ''maybe'' two before it goes down.

* GhostShip: Episode 5, "Ghost Ship", has one manned by animate skeletons.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Cacophony gets these when she's possessed in episode 18. Jylliana gets them after she [[spoiler: learns to activate Radiant Soul, her Aasimar racial ability.]]

* HatePlague: Blackjammer's Sword can cause one when it's wielded without proper protection.

* HawaiianShirtedTourist: Grak is wearing one in their first appearance. It's their only article of clothing.

* HedgeMaze: There's one found behind Wyn's door in the personal dreamscape from Taphos. It's a replica of a real one owned by the Noblewoman she defeated in her origin story.

** Thazita casually tells Jylliana that she thinks all gods are selfish and more trouble than there worth, and doesn't even notice Jyll becoming angry when she refers to worshippers of Ethla as a "cult", or shares theories that all deities are actually facades put on by extraplanar beings.

-->'''Cacophony:''' If we were to put things in numbers, I would be at eleven out of twenty five!\\

-->'''Jylliana:''' If I had a sheet in front of me that listed all my attributes I don’t think I'd be the smartest one.

** fter several heartwarming and tearjerking moments regarding Aelfgifu saying goodbye to her father and finding out more about her origins, Artie barges into the room and declares that he's finished digging the grave.

* PrematurelyMarkedGrave: While investigating the catacombs of Castle Kronos, the party find some inscribed with their own names. Aelfgifu's is patrially misspelled and then scratched out, [[spoiler: and they do contain facsimiles of their own corpses]].
* ProperlyParanoid: After her encounter with the carpet in the Catacombs, she doesn't trust any of them. When the first room in Castle Kronos has one, she correctly predicts that it's a trap as well. She has the same opinion on suit's of armour, but so far they haven't come after her a second time.

-->'''Aelfgifu''': I! ''*slash*'' Have had! ''*slash*'' Enough of you! ''*stabs her through the head*''

-->'''Annie''': You magnificent bitch! You did the ''Film/{{Hook}}'' thing!

-->'''Maq''': [[Theatre/{{Hamilton}} He's not throwing away his shot!]]\\

'''Annie''': ''*deep sigh*''

-->'''Jyll:''' Look for clothing first, ''then'' we can do a [[Series/TheCarolBurnettShow Carol Burnett makeover]].

* TakeOverTheWorld: In the backstory the Vodoni Empire tried to conquer the universe under Emperor Vulkaren's rule. They've calmed down since then, but the royal family and it's associates still try to get a hold of powerful artifacts in the hopes that they can jumpstart the conquest again.

* UglyCute: The party encounters a [[https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Flail_snail flail snail]] and are immediately enraptured by it because it's just calmly wandering around the room like a roomba. When Mr. Hurst approaches it, it gets spooked and hides in it's shell, eliciting a chrous of "aww"s from the group.

* VaguenessIsComing: The World Eater has this vibe for many of it's early appearances.

-->'''Kit:''' [[https://twitter.com/inferiorwit/status/997987873142988801 I did check in with Annie as to whether it was okay to repeatedly throw spiders in her face. She said yes, because her arachnophobia is at a level where it makes for funny radio but isn't, like, traumatizing.]]

* WhamLine: When casting Speak With Dead on Aelfgifu's adoptive father Greyson.
-->'''Aelfgifu:''' What were the names of the elves that delivered me to you?\\

-->'''Greyson:''' [[spoiler: Rat to Death Spider. Estalar Nevaris inbound. Don't let the Captain survive.]]

* WrongContextMagic: The Ring of Flying that Aelfgifu looted from Krynn has unwanted side effects when taken out of it's sphere of origin, something the gods there are notably capricious about. [[spoiler: It causes her to blink in between her own reality and the Feywild]].
* YearInsideHourOutside: Time works differently in the Feywild, with events over there occurring faster than those on the normal plane.

* TwoDSpace: Lampshaded in episode 85. Artie and Aelfgifu want to attack a suspicious ship they've spotted, but Captain Bondar points out that in order to be in range they'd have to land directly beside it, opening themselves up to attack as well. The two tell her they should just go sideways, but Bondar counters that doing so would cause the other ship to orient it's own gravity plane on them and cause everyone to slide off the ship.
-->'''Annie:''' Delightful, ''Spelljammer'' has it's own reason for stupid gravity.

* ActionGirl: All of the party, naturally.

-->'''Thazita:'''''*reading*'' "Here lies the bastard son of a king, who bound himself to unspeakable darkness to seize that that which he believed was his. Fallen priest entombed alive, his name and being erased forever. We pray this is enough to halt [[spoiler: his World Eater's descent upon Harena]]. Only you know if we succeeded."

* BedsheetGhost: Mr. Hurst gets dressed as one when transported to Castle Kronos.

* BlackComedy: When asked if she eats food, Veli (a plant person) replies that she could probably eat the crew members if thet die and start to decompose. Wyn's reply is just "neat!"

* CastFromLifespan: Lifejammer helms can give a spelljammer a ''lot'' more power than normal methods, at the cost of basiclaly torturing the pilot to death (unless they're extremely powerful, like a [[spoiler: Starheart]]).

* CelestialBody: The constellates are beings hundreds of miles wide and made of light that live in Wyldspace, and are seen as constellations from planets. [[spoiler: Jylliana sees the Serpent Constellation from the deck of the Kestrel, and it looks back at her]].
** There are also Starhearts who, thanks to a twist of fate involving being born in wildspace, have a portal to the Plane of Radiance where there heart would be.
* ChekhovsGun: The Ethlan artifacts stored in the Broken Palace on Port Meridian include include a horn. Later the crew gets a prophecy via Legend Lore stating [[spoiler: "The world of Meridian broke, but the will of the Ethlans did not. Find the horn and it will open the way to Ysgard".]]

* ChestMonster: One of the bosses the party fights in Castle Kronos is a treasure golem, a whirlwind of gold coins and jewels that can form it's parts into fists.

* CoolStarship: The Kestrel, the ship that brought Alanna and her crew to this planet.

* MoodWhiplash: After several heartwarming and tearjerking moments regarding Aelfgifu saying goodbye to her father and finding out more about her origins, Artie barges into the room and declares that he's finished digging the grave.

*** For that matter, Jylliana's Space Fun Helmet goes "wee-woo". And everyone forgets about it until she has to use it.

[[caption-width-right:350:Clockwise from top: Cacophony, Jylliana, Arturos, and [=Æ=]lfgifu (with Breadsticks). Official art by [[http://doodlesfromthebird.tumblr.com/ Canary witch]], with charcters designed by [[http://vriosart.tumblr.com/ Rio]].]]

''Jemjammer'' is an ActualPlay podcast set in the ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'' setting of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. The game is [=DMed=] by Kit Walker, and the players are Mackenzie "Maq" Weaver, Annie Craton, Kit's mom Vicki, Rio, and Alexi Peppers. The podcast launched in 2018 after three of the ladies put their ''WesternAnimation/JemAndTheHolograms'' fancast ''The Jem Jam'' on hiatus due completing the animated series and comics.

Our story begins after a strange and fantastic series of falling stars land in the wilderness surrounding the coastal city of Stormhaven. Three part-time adventurers--the boisterous elven bard Cacophony (Maq), the no-nonsense aasimar cleric Jylliana (Annie), and the stoic human ranger [=Æ=]lfgifu (Vicki initially, with Alexi taking over later)--come across a disheveled woman trying to reach one of the landing sites. As they help her they discover the stars are actually ships that sail beyond the limits of their planet, and soon they are embroiled in a cosmic adventure. Later on they're joined by feisty pirate triton Artie (Rio) and bookish orc druid Lachlan (Anna), and together the party encounters all manner of ancient monsters, political intrigue, and sexy book clubs.

* AbnormalAmmo: At one point the party is able to obtain a revolver that can be loaded with and fire gemstones (aka a gem jammer).

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Mathilde the Medusa has a [[https://media-waterdeep.cursecdn.com/avatars/thumbnails/0/355/1000/1000/636252778125099430.jpeg Gorgon]] that acts exactly like a big loveable dog.

* CallARabbitASmeerp: When Artie sees the Neogi Death Spider ship, the only point of reference he has for it prompts him to call it a "land crab".

* CrossoverShip: Tuatha lusts over Lachlan during ''The Fallen Jammer''.

* FirstKiss: Aelfgifu's is with a [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Corpse Flower]]. She fails a constituion saving throw and faints into Mr. Hurst's arms.

* ForceFieldDoor: Cacophony improvises one by casting Tiny Hut in the entrance of a tunnel, since only her allies can move and attack through it.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Cacophony gets these when she's possessed in episode 18.

** When the party is ambushed whilst guarding the Kestrel, Cacophony bluffs that the group are searching for a [[Literature/ChroniclesOfNarnia white hart]] to become queens of the land.

* BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind: What the Dream Dungeon from episodes 100-106 actually was. [[spoiler: A Night Hag infested Tuatha of Krynn's dreams to devour her magic. In an attempt to save her, the god Mishakael drew the ''Jemjammer'' party into Tuatha's dreams to defend her. The trials and dungeon were the two of them fighting for dominance in the dreamscape, and once the trials were completed the party could fight the Hag directly]].

* NonHumanUndead: The boss fight in Episode 90 includes the party fighting a minotaur skeleton.

* NoOntologicalInertia: After Sister T'karis is taken out, all her copies and her Draconian army disintegrate painfully or explode.

-->'''Jylliana''': At least it wasn't me this time.

* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: While fighting the giant spiders in episode 1.
-->'''Jylliana:''' Leave the convent, they said. Go to Stormhaven, they said. ''Travel the world'', they said. Nobody ever said anything about the giant spiders. You can't ''convert'' the giant spiders! You just have to ''deal'' with them!

* NotGoodWithPeople: [=Æ=]lfgifu was raised predominantly in the wilderness and isn't used to other people, preferring the company of animals. She's certainly tried to associate with others, but she still finds her companions quite bewildering.

* TriangRelations: The party discovers that a saucy love triangle has developed amongst some of the bosses in Castle Kronos. Mathilde used to date the Blood Queen, but they had a bad breakup. The Forgemaster has a crush on Mathilde, but she's two floors above him while the Blood Queen is between them. Blood Queen keeps intercepting the invitations Forgemaster sends to Mathilde thinking that Mathilde will return his affections, which is possible because she's upset that she only gets things from him and not correspondence. All this is laid out by Grail the Ghost, who also mentions that the low number of sentient beings trapped within the castle means at some point, [[LoveDodecahedron every combination]] is going to happen.
** The next episode solves it by the party hand delivering an invitation to Mathilde and finding out that the Blood Queen has made herself a Skull King.