Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Literature / TheButchersMasquerade

Go To

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* ProperlyParanoid: The Hunters are reasonably concerned about Carl, and can you blame them? Vrah finds a way to summon Emberus so that she can get the town guards to worship him and thus prevent Carl from staging another attack on Zockau. A number of Hunters do likewise.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* OnThree: Carl tells Donut he'll put in her nipple ring on three. We cut away after "one". A few chapters later, she still hasn't forgiven him for not doing it on three.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* VillainousIncest: Honestly, exactly what you would expect from these Syndicate fucks. [[spoiler:Circe sponsored the god Diawat so she could fuck her own daughter to cure her of Enthusiastic Double Gonorrhea]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* TookALevelInJerkass: In contrast to the thinking [=NPCs=], who Carl pities, he's far more willing to torture and casually kill the Hunters, because they ''chose'' to be here, whereas the [=NPCs=] are slaves like himself. This is despite the fact that he recognizes that many of them are low level employees of great powers who don't themselves necessarily have that much choice in the matter, since they live in [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Universe]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: "I’m supposed to be teleported off to some random place. What’re the odds that ‘random’ means right into your lap?"
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* HeroicSacrifice: Miriam is caught in a trap. During a fight with a reverse vampire and vampire hunter named Viscount Fog, there was a sort of {{counterspell}} cascade that left Pony and the vampire hunter both paralyzed and with only one hit point. Fog died at nightfall, and Miriam was stuck because Pony had been holding her when he was paralyzed and she couldn't extricate herself without risking him dying. Worse, the debuff cascade had caused Pony's Ring of Divine Suffering to fire, giving Miriam (the only Crawler or Hunter in range) the Mark, so he'd never be able to heal until she was dead. On top of that, she's now the source of the vampire infection running rampant through the Hunting Grounds and her death is the only way to stop it by disinfecting all of the infected animals and players (the plan had to transfer the curse to Fog and then kill him, solving the problem). With no other option, Miriam asks Carl to kill her in order to save Pony.
-->'''Carl:''' Miriam, I am not going to kill you. But I will stand watch with you. I’ll keep you safe and Prepotente safe until the sun rises.


Added DiffLines:

* LikeASonToMe: Prepotente was one of Miriam's goats before he got a Legendary Biscuit that turned him intelligent, like happened to Donut. Her affection for him has only grown stronger in the Dungeon.
-->“My beautiful boy,” Miriam whispered as she turned to dust. “My beautiful boy.”
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* StealthPun: Big Tina's backstory is that she was once an Ursine girl who was cursed for learning to dance. A "dancing bear" is an expression referring to something that's amazing, but not for being good. "It's not amazing how well the bear dances, but that it dances at all."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: After Carl stabs the shitty reporter in the neck with the magic pen, the room is flooded with gnoll security guards. When Carl says, "Come on, you have to admit, that was pretty awesome.", one of the guards bursts into laughter and has to be shushed.


Added DiffLines:

* BullyingADragon: Smooth move, Naga reporter guy. Threaten notoriously non-compliant Crawler Carl while he's sitting inches away from you holding a magic wand.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* FixingTheGame: The gnoll security guard who vets Carl for his Comic-Con appearance asks him to throw the drawing contest for his granddaughter, in return for some favors. Carl asks the other judges, who don't give a shit, and they oblige.

to:

* FixingTheGame: The gnoll security guard who vets Carl for his Comic-Con first Crawl-Con appearance asks him to throw the drawing contest for his granddaughter, in return for some favors. Carl asks the other judges, who don't give a shit, and they oblige.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* FixingTheGame: The gnoll security guard who vets Carl for his Comic-Con appearance asks him to throw the drawing contest for his granddaughter, in return for some favors. Carl asks the other judges, who don't give a shit, and they oblige.


Added DiffLines:

* NiceToTheWaiter: Carl decides to throw the drawing contest to a guard's granddaughter, because 1) he doesn't give a shit about the cruel galaxy and their appreciation of the monstrous games and 2) hey, maybe it'll help. Given that his second appearance sees him drugged by the mercs who guide him to the stage so he'll go way off book, he's not wrong.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* MortonsFork: Without really intending to do so, Carl forced the male Mantis, Edict, into a nightmare scenario. Carl knew that Vahl, as a future brood queen, would opt to pass on the Enthusiastic Double Gonorrhea to Edict rather than remove her genitalia, so offered the man a choice: we'll protect you in exchange for all your gear (he was the Hive's merchant). Unfortunately, the gear was already contracted out and giving it to Carl would destroy Edict's family, so he passed it along to a contact immediately, leaving him nothing to bargain with. The alternative, mating with Vahl, would ''also'' destroy his family, because Mantis matings are carefully contracted and it would be seen as a disgusting betrayal for him to mate with Vahl. [[DrivenToSuicide So he]] [[TakeAThirdOption takes a third option.]]

to:

* MortonsFork: Without really intending to do so, Carl forced the male Mantis, Edict, into a nightmare scenario. Carl knew that Vahl, as a future brood queen, would opt to pass on [[spoiler:pass the Enthusiastic Double Gonorrhea on]] to Edict rather than remove her genitalia, so offered the man a choice: we'll protect you in exchange for all your gear (he was the Hive's merchant). Unfortunately, the gear was already contracted out and giving it to Carl would destroy Edict's family, so he passed it along to a contact immediately, leaving him nothing to bargain with. The alternative, mating with Vahl, would ''also'' destroy his family, because Mantis matings are carefully contracted and it would be seen as a disgusting betrayal for him to mate with Vahl. [[DrivenToSuicide So he]] [[TakeAThirdOption takes a third option.]]


Added DiffLines:

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Carl wins the confrontation with ''two'' sets of Hunters who all want him dead, in which he's thrown into the situation with no ability to prepare himself, and gives Vahl [[spoiler:Enthusiastic Double Gonorrhea then removes her ability to remove it...]] A lot of Hunters decide they don't much want to try and trap Carl that way again.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* MortonsFork: Without really intending to do so, Carl forced the male Mantis, Edict, into a nightmare scenario. Carl knew that Vahl, as a future brood queen, would opt to pass on the Enthusiastic Double Gonorrhea to Edict rather than remove her genitalia, so offered the man a choice: we'll protect you in exchange for all your gear (he was the Hive's merchant). Unfortunately, the gear was already contracted out and giving it to Carl would destroy Edict's family, so he passed it along to a contact immediately, leaving him nothing to bargain with. The alternative, mating with Vahl, would ''also'' destroy his family, because Mantis matings are carefully contracted and it would be seen as a disgusting betrayal for him to mate with Vahl. [[DrivenToSuicide So he]] [[TakeAThirdOption takes a third option.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* WhamLine: "I certainly would never have smuggled all those Valtay secret agent guys to Zev and the Borant Emancipation Front if I’d known this was going to happen."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* InternalReveal: We learned Beatrice was alive in the epilogue of ''Gate of the Feral Gods''. Here, Carl and Donut learn it from Odette.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* HypocriticalHumor: Carl tells Katia to be careful about gathering former Daughters to her party and the Guild. She points out that he's the one setting up a base of operations a few miles away from Hunter central.

Showing 15 edit(s) of 20

Top