Trivia / Verum

• Colbert Bump:
  • Steven Serge/Ster played a crucial role in expanding Verum's audience, helping Arcadum with certain behind the scenes stuff (like teaching him how to edit videos and his wife Ashley/Ashlelang providing artwork for several characters), and more importantly, uploading a highlight video regarding Big Pipe almost wiping the party to his channel at the beginning of 2021. "The Fireball Incident" has over two-hundred-thousand views, with a significant chunk of those viewers going on to watch Arcadum's content on a consistent basis.
  • The presence of any particularly large streamer/content creator usually causes a large uptick in Verum's viewership, as they have a habit of hosting Arcadum's Twitch channel whenever they're playing with him. Ludwig Ahgren, Charlie White, Jeremy Wang/Disguised Toast, and Thomas/Sykkuno are some such examples, with each of them having over ten-thousand viewers at any given time.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: The revelations regarding Arcadum's abusive behind-the-scenes behavior completely obliterated both his career and Verum as a whole. Every player, every artist, every composer, every business partnership, everyone, bailed on him after the information got out, and without those people, it's completely impossible for Arcadum's show to continue - after all, it's a little hard to host a tabletop show if nobody wants to play with you.
• Schedule Slip: A misfortune many DnD players know of, occasionally sessions will be missed and have to be rescheduled. For a few standout examples:
  • A number of sessions of "Steel and Silence" had to be missed, resulting in Arcadum having to skip through some story hooks in order to get the party through the final boss in time to prepare for "The End Game".
  • A number of sessions of "Lost at Sea" were missed. In this case, they were mostly able to make up for it by extending the final two sessions, though they still had to skip through a section of the final area and get right to the Final Boss.
  • The beginning of "Servants of the Spire" was slated to be on July 14 2021, but had to get pushed back twice. The first session finally happened on July 28, 2021, and even went ahead despite Willneff being unable to attend just so they could finally get the campaign underway.
  • The campaign that arguably stands out most, however, is The Final Toll, which was originally scheduled to debut on June 21st 2021, got pushed back to July 5th, and the second session had to be delayed nearly a month to August 2nd.
• Troubled Production: Arcadum was... difficult to work with, to say the least.
  • Nearly 20 of the female players who worked on the show had a myriad of horror stories to tell about Arcadum - he would often manipulate them into letting their guard down by making himself seem utterly pitiful, condition them to accept his abuse, and sexually harass them (with Folkona recounting an incident of outright assault). If they didn't play ball, he would kick them out of any future projects.
  • Much of the art team was heavily abused, being forced to make pieces on short notice without any payment. Notably, they were not asked in advance about making a Verum animated series when Arcadum announced the project - they learned about it at the same time as everybody else, and were bewildered by the impossible promise.
  • Arcadum staunchly refused to let the players decide the epilogues for their characters following "Endgame", instead writing them himself in defiance of the players' wishes (and in some cases, making them act totally out-of-character).
  • The players of "Otikata's Curse" were apparently constantly stressed out by how Arcadum was running the campaign, as he would frequently act condescending towards them and refuse to help them in a way that could make their experience with the game less painful.
• What Could Have Been: Otikata's Curse was originally slated to have a sixth PC, played by Hime Hajime, a member of VShojo like Nyanners, Froot, and Veibae. However, she currently resides in Japan, adding another distinct time zone to work around on top of Froot and Veibae's Europe and everyone else's North America. Plus, strict noise regulations at her apartment made it highly risky for her to attempt streaming very late night/early morning like she would've had to. Thus, she had to turn it down. Hime's own explanation is here.

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