History Webcomic / RustyAndCo

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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Besides common skin-tones for humans and close-to-human races (dwarves tend to be darker and elves paler), many other coloration are possibles for other races (derros are blue, Y.T. the lamia and the siren are green, Schmetts the fairy is light purple...) or even for technically human characters, from various magic effects (like Malevolus who is purple-skinned, or Dorilys who's green).

-->'''Calamitus:''' Do you think mundane '''matter''' could best '''my''' formidable necromantic '''powers'''? I have '''transcended''' the limits of mere '''flesh''' and '''blood'''...and I will '''shatter''' your '''bodies''' and '''dance''' upon your '''entrails'''!

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: {{Inverted|Trope}}. All the female coprotagonists eventually happen to end up bloody, some from serious injuries.

** Level 11 reveals [[Spoiler:that a giant ooze called Oozanka inhabits the whole of Princess's castle, using it as a shell.]]

* SharkMan: In Level 10, "Speakeasies & Sea Monsters", the Black Market is populated by various fish-men, [[https://rustyandco.com/comic/level-10-17/ including Hortzak, the shark-man bartender of the Lone Shark tavern,]] and dynamite guy.[[note]]Anti-Madeline buys her dynamite from him.[[/note]]

** And right afterward, as a swordfish-man questions her, Stabs warns him to not get too nosy... because its pointy bill almost took out an eye.

* RPGMechanicsverse: The setting itself is TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons based. While the characters aren't shown to strictly follow the rules (like taking turns), they are confirmed to be taking {{Character Level}}s.

* {{Slapstick}}: Since most human(oid) characters of the comic are female, they are naturally the subject of plenty slapstick. Presti especially, in Level 6, to TheChewToy level. The male characters are hardly spared, of course, as Mimic and the Doogan brothers can attest.

** In Level 8, the "8-bit 8-ball" is quickly identified as an artifact. What does it do? Artifacting, Dirk muses. Indeed, the comic's picture all around is getting low-resolution, as in an 8-bit picture. Which in computer parlance is called... [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/artifacting artifacting.]]

* MooksAteMyEquipment:
** The {{Status Effect|s}} "Acid" destroys a random piece of equipment unless the target gets an AntiDebuff or ends the combat before the start of their second turn. It can be inflicted as a [[StatusInflictionAttack special attack]] by a few monsters, including the Festering Blob.
** [[ChestMonster Mimics]] and a rare few other monsters have a special attack that threatens to destroy a random item the target is carrying. It's appropriately called "Chomp".

** At the beginning of Level 11, [[https://rustyandco.com/comic/level-11-5/ Prestige asks if someone can conjure up a bagel]]. [[https://rustyandco.com/comic/level-11-76/ At the end,]] [[spoiler:Oozanka delivers (although Presti isn't too pleased by that...).

* BrownBagMask: Presumably due to previous legal issues, the illithid mafia wear these in all subsequent appearances.

* DameWithACase: Chapter 10 shifts the story genre into Noir, with Mimic playing the role of the hardboiled detective. His client is a woman who identifies herself as Tarta Moon-Shiner. Being genre savy Mimic expects things to go badly and refuses to help. Eventually she manages to guilt him into going along.

--> Boy, getting killed there would've been ''really'' [also underlined] ironic!

* DoubleMeaningTitle: Level 11 is titled "Castle Life". It is quite straightforward at the beginning, showing the lives of the inhabitants of the Princess's castle. It gets a double meaning, however, once [[spoiler:the whole castle comes to life as a golem]].

* SssssnakeTalk: Y.T. mixes this with a Texan accent.

* BareYourMidriff: Princess' first outfit, and the Pixie Chicks'.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Since most human(oid) characters of the comic are female, they are naturally the subject of plenty slapstick. Presti especially, in Level 6, to TheChewToy level. The male characters are hardly spared, of course, as Mimic and the Doogan brothers can attest.

-->'''Melevolus:''' This armor is '''single occupancy!'''