We play through Rogue One, a Star Wars Story! Scott tortures a prisoner! Pitr successfully does an accent! Joz runs a stick along a wall!
Also known as Tiramisu: A Star Wars Story.
Episodes 36-38 and 41-42 of Film Reroll. Based on the 2016 Star Wars movie.
Having seen her mother get shot and her father get captured by the Empire as a young girl, Jyn Erso's life has been nothing but a long series of squabbles with the law. However, after being busted out during a prisoner transference by roguish rebel Cassian Andor and his grudgingly loyal droid companion K-2SO, she is suddenly thrown into the Galactic Civil War between The Empire and the Rebellion, with her father turning out to have been working on a secret military super weapon - the Death Star - for the former. Will our heroes prevail and find the secret plans revealing the weapon's weaknesses? Or will they fall victim to the might of The Empire before they have the chance?
Starring Jocelyn "Joz" Vammer as Jyn Erso, Scott Aiello as Cassian Andor, Kara Straitnote as K-2SO and Paulo Quiros as the Dungeon Master.
Intercepted by From Dusk Till Dawn.
In February 2023, the long-promised sequel started.
Tropes:
- Actually Pretty Funny: "We could use a little hate" being uttered in Part 5 causes Paulo to delightfully remark "This is a fun episode."
- Adapted Out: Baze Malbus never shows up, and is likely Killed Offscreen.
- Anti-Climax Boss: K-2SO manages to kill Bor Gullet with a single shot in the eye.
- Artifact Title: The call sign "Rogue One" is never actually used. For this reason, the players created the alternate title "Tiramisu," which is the name of the ship they actually use in this campaign.
- Ascended Extra: One of the prisoners — now given the name Dulore — from the Imperial prison ship who is saved by Cassian and K-2SO. He is characterised as a drunken womanizer who only joins the Rebels because they pay well.
- Asteroid Thicket: Justified. Cassian and K-2 don't have to avoid proper asteroids, but rather chunks of the planet Jedha, which is currently exploding beneath them.
- As You Know: Lampshaded by K-2SO when Cassian goes through their plan.K-2SO: Would you like to repeat other things we also already know?
- Bad "Bad Acting": Cassian Andor is usually a pretty good actor, capable of fooling most Imperials. His contact Tivik... isn't.Cassian: We've had a little too much to drink. I'll get my ID for you.
Tivik: I consumed it through my mouth. - Bavarian Fire Drill: Cassian manages to infiltrate the Imperial base basically by wearing a officer's uniform and acting like he's already in charge.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: One of Jyn's goals during the campaign is getting reunited with her father, Galen. The Sequel Hook Paulo crafts at the end of the campaign gives Jyn just that... as Director Krennic holds her at gunpoint in order to interrogate Galen.
- Bond One-Liner: When Jyn doesn't drop one when shooting an Elite Stormtrooper in the face, (she says that she simply doesn't have time for such things,) K-2 decides to do it for her.K-2SO: It's been a blast.
- Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": The players make up several Star Wars-esque names for various things. For instance, lizards are referred to as "Scleebo."
- Call-Back:
- In the prologue, Joz once again plays a young girl from a science-fiction movie, fleeing from goverment agents. She even repeats her catchphrases "Goverment!" and "I'm four." (Though she is corrected that her character is actually eight.)
- Kara feels that her character's entrance into the prisoner transport reminds her of something River Song would do. Also, when speculating that Jyn wants to slap Chirrut in the face, she compares her to Amy Pond.
- When Jyn refuses to reveal her real name, Kara suggests that it might be Jeremy.
- The Barrys show up for one scene where they beg Cassian and K-2SO to let them join the mission. They are instead sent to the bar.
- The players agree that George is definitely a Jeff.
- At one point, Dulore is referred to as "DeLorean."
- When Scott starts looking for traps in the Jedi Temple, Kara asks him if he is Indiana Jones. Later, the players suggest sending in "Hans" first to check if the coast is clear.
- In the dungeons, the players bring up the first time Joz took the wrong turn in a maze.
- When Jyn briefly believes herself to be back home with her mother again, Kara Strait starts humming "Somewhere over the rainbow." Later, the players sing "We're off to see the barracks..."
- When the players ask for a communications expert, they're afraid that they're going to get Jeff. Fortunately they roll better than that.
- Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Kara Strait criticizes Batman (1989), asking how the Joker could possibly be playing a professionally recorded song about himself. Actually, while it does fit The Joker's general personality, the song Partyman is careful to never outright mention him by name. (As is his other song, Trust.) The closest it gets is mentioning his signature colors "(black and) white, red and green," which could just be a coincidence In-Universe. (The song was written specifically for the movie, though. And the music video does have Prince Cosplaying as the Joker while singing it.)
- Creepy Souvenir: For whatever reason, as Logan is mourning Zeta's death, Jyn decides to cut off a lock of Zeta's hair to give to him.
- Death by Adaptation: Chirrut Îmwe, Bodhi Rook, Baze Malbus and Dulore are all killed during when Jedha City is blown up by the Death Star. Original Character Kybran Panda also dies during the same attack.
- Demoted to Extra: Chirrut Îmwe now only shows up once as a random blind man Jyn verbally harasses and possibly considers slapping. Unsurprisingly, he's not interested in teaming up with her after that. Our heroes never even learn his name.
- Descending Ceiling: One of the traps underneath the temple are a pair of walls falling down from the roof. It manages to both separate Jyn from the rest of the group and injure K-2SO.
- Didn't See That Coming: Jyn putting the kyber crystal in her mouth almost derails the end of Part 3, as everyone else at the table proceeds to lose their shit. Kara even outright declares the following:Kara: (ecstatic) You guys... You guys... Every day is a gift! Every d- I mean, you think- you think you know what's gonna happen next... And, oh my god!
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Logan cradles the body of Zeta (his fiancee, as we later find out) after she's shot to death. (He ends up dying himself later during the same mission.)
- Disney Death:
- At first, it seems as though Dulore has been killed by Deadly Gas in the tunnels under the Jedi Temple, but it turns out that he's still breathing, if only just.
- Cassian is shot unconscious during the Final Battle, but is shown to be still alive by the end of the campaign.
- Dual Wielding: Cassian does this during the Final Battle. Somewhat Deconstructed in that he only hits his targets with one of the guns, and that this leads to him getting shot unconscious because he didn't focus on defending himself.
- Fan Boy / Fangirl: The players spend several minutes gushing over Adam Driver, despite the fact that his character doesn't even appear in this movie.
- Fan Sequel: Sort of. Twitter user big belly Wong
made a fake Wookiepedia artcle about Steve, the rebel pilot who saves K-2SO at the end, (represented by a photo of Scott Aiello,) detailing his extensive backstory and further adventures (which were suspiciously similar to those of Dharus.)Steve was a privateer associated with the Alliance to Restore the Republic. A human, he was known for his early life as a pirate in a region of space known as the Leisure Corridor, slowly racking up a high bounty for his life. His most notable achievement was the Theft of the Death Star Plans, in which he managed to pilot the Tiramisu to and then from the Imperial planet Scarif.Later in life, a bounty hunter managed to capture Steve, but, as he was a valuable partner of the Alliance, a Rebel team rescued him. Steve then returned to his pirate activities, increasing his area of influence as well as the fleet under his command.He was also known to post in illegal publications Cynabar's Droid Datalog and Gundark's Gear Datalog about his favorite technologies. - Friendly Fire:
- K-2SO is almost shot by Rebels outside of the Jedi Temple, forcing Cassian to blow his cover and light the fuse of a small battle in the streets.
- Tragically, this is how Zeta dies. The shot which killed her is fired from Cassian's gun in the heat of battle.
- The Ghost: Bodhi Rook has been reduced to this. He's mentioned several times, (as "the pilot,") but he never joins our heroes and is implied to have been Killed Offscreen. It is possible that he is one of Saw's prisoners, but in that case, the story gives him no individual focus.
- Heroic Sacrifice: George agrees to let himself get blown up by K-2's thermal detonator to slow the enemy down.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Invoked by DM Paulo Quiros, who deliberately gives the Stormtroopers terrible aim.
- Insane Troll Logic: While Jyn still walking down the hallway in the Jedi Temple while holding her kyber crystal, Kara asks if she knows what a kyber crystal is. And after (with help from Paulo) working out the significance of it, Joz decides that, if it's supposedly a "living crystal", her immediate course of action would be putting it in her mouth.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: The first thing Jyn does upon reaching Saw's hideout is asking if there is a bar. (There isn't.)
- Laser Hallway: The gang reaches two hallways protected by "laser tripwires" they carefully have to step over. This convinces Cassian that the wall inbetween them is a Real Fake Door. He is wrong, so he ends up running straight into the wall.
- Living Statue: Jyn meets one of these beneath the Temple. She gets past it by bowing before it and giving it a lock of her hair.
- Lost in Character: Downplayed: Cassian and Jyn wind up getting into an argument over bringing Nick Hopha with them into the Jedi Temple, with Cassian wanting to be rid of him, despite Jyn insisting he stay with on the grounds that she doesn't want to run the risk of him betraying them once separated. When Jyn decides to steal some priest robes in order to disguise Nick, Scott decides to stop the scene in order to ask Joz why she's bothering with this... except Joz was unaware that they were breaking character.Scott: (exasperated) I have no idea why we're doing this, why are we doing this?Jyn: Because I'm not taking my eyes off that crazy person.Scott: I-I was gonna leave someone with him-Jyn: Did you- did you listen to the credits that are on the head of person that he wants, this guy's clearly connected.Scott: (unsure) Yeah, but we're paying him money-Jyn: (cuts "Cassian" off) Yeah, so, liability, and he's not gonna take your money if he can get money from somebody else for your head. Look, the Rebel Alliance, it's real cute and all, but you don't understand how this actually works. You are a dead man, he knows who you are, you told him-Scott: (sudden realization; talks over Joz) Are we in- I'm- I'm actually totally out of character right now. (devolves into chuckles)Kara: Yeah... There's a... a dissonance here between who's in-character and out of character right now...
- Lotus-Eater Machine: In the dungeons, Jyn starts to hallucinate; seeing her home planet, hearing her mother call for her and almost getting herself impaled on a spike. It is implied that this is a deliberate defense mechanism built into the Temple.
- Messianic Archetype: Joz considers Jyn Erzo to be one, because she was put in a prison ship together with two other inmates, just like Jesus was crucified along with two other enemies of the state.
- Mistaken for Spies: Invoked. The gang trick several Imperials into joining their side by claiming that they are the ones fighting off Rebel spies.
- Mondegreen Gag: Joz initially mishears "miners" as "minors," making her wonder why there are a bunch of underage drinkers in the caves.
- Mood Whiplash:
- Due to a beautiful moment of unintentional timing, right as Jyn decides to put the kyber crystal in her mouth towards the end of Part 3, Paulo decides to announce the players have seven hours to get off the planet.
- Unlike in the movie, Jyn has enough time to watch the full video Galen had recorded for Saw and herself. As such, Paulo reveals that it quickly devolves into Galen having a full-on emotional breakdown.
- Mugged for Disguise: Cassian and Jyn shoot a priest and steal his robes. Later in the adventure, they take a page from the movie and steal Imperial uniforms from the inspection party that boards their ship.
- Narration Echo: During the prologue, young Jyn spends a lot of time asking what's going on, which largely involves repeating everything the narrator says as a question.
- Never My Fault: The players (in particular Joz) become very annoyed with Paulo over the fact that the hallway Jyn took to reach Saw Gerrera's hideout took five hours to walk down, prompting Paulo to point out that they didn't need to have Jyn actually walk all that way, and could've easily cut ahead.
- Noodle Incident: We never find out why a seemingly random old priest is the target of an assassination.
- Not What It Looks Like:
- When Cassian is interrogating Dulore, he asks K-2SO to put his hands on his head and squeeze if he doesn't start answering questions, something the droid brushes off in a disinterested manner. As such, when K-2SO's act in the interrogation is to be a Grammar Nazinote , Scott just assumed Kara ignored his "good cop, bad cop" idea outright. As such, when he decides Cassian's just gonna punch him in the face, K-2SO calmly mentions he could've waited for him to move his hands out of the way first, confirming Kara was doing that plan; K-2SO was just multitasking.
- Scott's first attempt at having Cassian give his condolences to Logan after Zeta's death (which Scott caused due to a bad roll) gives the accidental implication that Cassian intentionally killed hernote :Cassian: (to Logan) Left-tenant, I hope you- I hope you don't think that I did that on purpose...Kara: (near-hysterics) Can you imagine if he did?! (as Cassian) "If I can't have her, no one can!"
- Original Character:
- Most of the named rebel soldiers are created especially for the campaign, including Logan, Melshy and George.
- On Jedha we also meet Cassian's alcoholic contact Kybran Panda and Nick Hopha, a Bounty Hunter the team briefly join forces with.
- The team picks up a whole military squad on Yavin 4. Among them is Zeta Filenko, a female communications expert. She ends up being the first Rebel to die during the mission.
- On Scarif, we have Captain Henrikka; a tall, muscular, tough-as-nails Imperial officer with a Rugged Scar, another female captain who gets killed by K-2SO, and various other Imperials, such as the Tech Support.
- Playing Possum: Jyn does this to avoid Krennic and his men after becoming the Sole Survivor of the Final Battle who hasn't left the room yet. It works... at least for a while.
- Public Secret Message: After managing to sneak close enough to her father before going back to her hiding place, Jyn manages to make the noise of a frog, something Galen notices, as it's too early for them to come out. As such, it's implied he knows she's okay.
- Race Against the Clock: The third episode adds a seven hour timer to the game, ticking down to the destruction of the Holy City by the Death Star. Something our protagonists are blissfully unaware of until the very end. Fortunately, they manage to get off the planet at the last moment.
- A Rare Sentence: After Logan snaps following the death of Zeta, Kara wonders if he should still be taking part in the plan, only for Joz to counter that Logan now has "the hatred" and needs to keep going, causing Scott to make the following observation:Cassian: Well, we need- We could use a little hate, I think he'll be alright.Paulo: (gleeful) "We could use a little hate"...Kara: "A Star Wars Story"...
- Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: George actually says "wink wink" instead of actually winking. (K-2SO does the same thing, though this is somewhat justified, as he can't blink.)
- Recognition Failure: Jyn does not recognize Krennic when they meet again on Scarif.
- Sequel Hook: Paulo decides to tack one on at the end of the campaign on the off chance they do a sequel campaign: Much like at the end of the movie, Princess Leia receives the Death Star plans... while at the same time, Jyn finds herself seated in front of her father, Galen, with Director Krennic shoving a gun into her head to get information out of Galen.
- Shout-Out:
- When the term "space juice" is misheard as Space Jews, a reference to History of the World Part I is made.
- "The power of the force compels you."
- After complaining about the fact that the name of the planet "Jedha" sounds almost exactly like the word "jedi," the players also call out J. R. R. Tolkien for doing the same thing with the villains Sauron and Saruman.
"One Rogue to rule them all..."- Jyn at one point paraphrases Arnold Schwarzenegger from Predator, complete with the appropriate accent.
Jyn Erso: GET TO DA TEMPLE!- When Cassian gets it into his head that he can run straight through a wall, Joz brings up Platform Nine and Three Quarters.
- References to the Saw movies whenever Saw Gererra is mentioned are a Running Gag.
- Kara feels that her interpretation of K-2SO gradually turns more and more into Marvin the Paranoid Android, and expresses interest in actually playing said character in a future campaign.
- When DM Paulo Quiros says that Cassian's group sees something in the sky, Kara asks if it's Superman.
- When the Stormtroopers loose track of our heroes in the desert, they say "We ain't found shit!"
- When the players discuss K-2SO's upgrades, they ask if they can get Long Fall Boots and Portal Guns too.
- "You see this 'S' on my shirt, it stands for 'Hate'."
- "Monorail? I'm going to learn... monorail?"
- The "squat" female captain the gang meets upon entering the Imperial base is compared to both Roz (incorrectly referred to as "Marge," the name of one of her assistants) from Monsters, Inc. and Topaz from Thor: Ragnarok.
- When K-2SO kicks back a grenade thrown at him. Kara says that she's "bending it like Beckham."
- When K-2SO sends up the flare to inform the Rebels that it's time for them to begin their attack, he sings "Baby, you're a firework!"
- Small Role, Big Impact: Scott ranting about a logical problem with the plan of getting the Death Star plans off of Scarifnote gives birth to the character "Steve", who (despite originally intending to be a one-off joke character in the tail-end of Part 4) winds up being the guy to help get K-2SO away from the base and be able to transmit the plans at all.Scott: (in a comedic dumb voice) "How we gonna get the stuff out once we got it- hey, hey, hey, boss, excuse me, um, Cassian? Uh, once we get the info on the Death Star, uh... how do we get off the planet?"Kara: Get back to the kitchen, Steve.Steve: No, I was just asking-Kara: STEVE!
- Spared by the Adaptation:
- K-2SO leaves Scarif alive (along with Original Character Steve) carrying the Death Star plans on their ship.
- The epilogue also shows that Jyn Erso, Galen Erso and Cassian Andor are still alive, having been captured by Director Krennic, himself an example of this trope.
- Suspicious Video-Game Generosity: Right after invading the base on Scarif, the gang finds a room filled with weapons and explosives.
- Sweet Polly Oliver: When the gang infiltrate the base disguised as Imperials, Jyn tries to hide her sex - to the extent of screaming "I'M A PRETTY BOY!" when forced to remove her helmet - as the players come to the (inaccurate) conclusion that there probably are no female Stormtroopers at this point. note
- Take Me to Your Leader: When asked by Saw's partisans to identify herself, Jyn simply tells them that she wishes to see Saw Gerrera. It ends up getting her captured. Fortunately, Saw has said that he wants to interrogate all of his prisoners personally...
- Tap on the Head:
- This is how the Imperial Tech Support is taken out, as the players agree that he seems to be a Punch-Clock Villain.
- Subverted earlier. K-2SO tries to do this to the first Imperial captain they encounter at the base, but doesn't lose her consciousnesses. Then he hits her harder, and proceeds to knock her entire head off.
- The Teetotaler: George is this, but Cassian urges him to pretend otherwise when visiting a bar on Jedha.
- That's No Moon: The players simply can't resist quoting this famous line word-for-word when the Death Star shows up.
- This Is Gonna Suck: During the prologue, when Joz decides that Little Jyn's gonna disregard her mother's orders and sneak back towards the house to investigate what's going on, the others become convinced Jyn's about to get captured, and completely derail the movie. So naturally, Jyn manages to completely evade the Stormtroopers without them noticing.
- Torture Always Works: Cassian tortures one of the other prisoners from the prison transport to find out who he is.
- Tuckerization:
- Logan, one of Cassian's Rebel allies, is named after one of the Patreon backers of the show, as is Kybran Panda, believe it or not.
- Parodied with George, who the players claim was named after their (supposedly) most profilic Patreon supporter, George Lucas. In Episode Four, they even say that George looks like his namesake except younger and more buff.
- Voice Clip Song: Invoked. The players mention that it would be awesome if their fans made one based around the "bang bang bang" Running Gag. They complied.
- Wham Line: After Jyn puts the kyber crystal in her mouth towards the end of Part 3, Paulo announces a new gameplay mechanic:Paulo: (bemused) Alright, so, what I was gonna do before we put- started putting things in our mouth is, uh... (more serious) I will say right now... A mechanic, which is coming into play: T. Minus. Seven. Hours.Kara: You are a garbage man.Joz: Seven hours...?
- When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Jyn's solution to most problems seems to be shooting them, with... varying results.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Dulore apparently believes that he and Jyn are the stars of a romantic comedy and that their encounter at the bar (where Jyn threatened him) was actually a Meet Cute.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Cassian tells Dulore this after he brings the team to Nick, though he doesn't kill him. Instead he simply tells Nick where he can find his payment, as agreed.
