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  • Anticlimax Boss: The Waffle Crew had some lucky rolls while facing Strahd.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Bag of Nails due to his insane fight with Klauth the Red Dragon, where he takes Klauth's fire breath point blank, steals the Acquisitions Incorporated airship after all of its interns die, lives to chase Klauth into the sunset with 4 HP. Which is even more impressive considering the Waffle Crew's track record
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • The case of the relationship between Diath and Strix, due to the real-life drama between Jared, his ex-wife Heidi, and Holly. For many it has made the whole dynamic between them incredibly uncomfortable.
    • Diath's habit of hiding unpleasant things he has done and knows from his friends to manage their perceptions of him definitely becomes a lot more uncomfortable to see following the drama.
  • Ho Yay: A lot of people ship Paultin and Diath, particularly after Diath's soul piggybacks in Paultin's body ("You were inside me.")
    • The Diath/Falkon ship is strong, too.
    • Jared was apparently all for Paultin hooking up with Escher.
  • Jerkass Woobie: Strix in spades. As the series progresses it becomes obvious that her rude and sometimes outright mean behavior stems from having been abandoned as a child and growing up in a Wretched Hive.
  • Les Yay: A lot of people ship Evelyn and Strix.
    • Less than with Dee but Evelyn also seemed very fond of Ireena.
    • According to Strix at least Evelyn hits on Miranda shortly after the crew meet her and they definitely have the makings of a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship at least until Miranda's Faceā€“Heel Turn
    • Miranda and Gwyneth. Evelyn was openly jealous of Gwyneth but happy for them.
  • Moment of Awesome: The fight with Klauth, especially Bag of Nails living through the whole thing to hunt down Klauth
  • Shipping: Pretty much any combination of the main 4 characters in the campaign is not an unheard of ship, with smaller ships with side characters not being unheard of either, this is mainly due to how odd and off the wall the characters can be, and how they interact with each other. In particular, the ships of Diath/Strix, Diath/Paultin, and Evelyn/Strix are particularly popular among the fanbase, with plenty of fanart for all of them, especially the former.
  • Shocking Moments:
    • Episode 52 as a whole is pretty big on this with things such as, the Waffle Crew bringing out Kaharik to expose the king's adviser of treason and conspiring with the giants. The Dwarfish king actually being a Doppelganger quite literally. The fact he expects to be assassinated in 3 days. Evelyn having to sacrifice herself to save Strix and Diath from death. Paultin, as a raven, saving Evelyn from black tendrils with a natural 20 when in what was presumably the after life. Evelyn's body, and Paultin disappearing into thin air with an unconscious/dead Van Richten and Diath, Strix, and Jasper being both confused and distressed. A humanoid twig monster giving Paultin a decrepit, shriveled, black hand. And the ending where Evelyn wakes up as a construct in resemblances to her in the dwarfish workshop she sent Simon to get repaired with Paultin unconscious on the floor in his raven costume. With the next session being an extra week away after said episode.
    • Episode 86 decided to have a go. Simon says his first words after being given a functioning mouth by the Raven Queen (at the cost of his dart-spewing abilities), Evelyn dies in combat with a legendary monster (from the upcoming Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes) and looks to have joined the many souls captured as fodder for the Soul Monger (season 3's Big Bad). After the religious equivalent of a pep talk from a well-known follower of Lathander, Evelyn takes the place of another soul being taken and turns into a sun as she is devoured, apparently hurting the Soul Monger badly and lifting a Death Curse placed on her former party members. Also, Paultin cusses out Lathander.

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