Lamentable Nights

Lamentable Nights is a roleplay mass-collaborative fiction writing by a small group of online friends. The setting includes undead, psychics, furries, random monsters, and generally crazy plot.







Page maintained by martia.

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Tropes used in Lamentable Nights include:

• All Part of the Show: Cassius uses this to coverup Jacket's public appearance.
• Ancient Conspiracy
• Butt Monkey: several.
  • Jacket for anything to do with his complexes/phobias (teenage girls, his hat, his jacket, cats, etc.)
  • Martin for Lanette's gavel.
  • Redmist for Hailey.
• City of Adventure: Pebbleton, the Town of Risen Spirits.
• Chewing the Scenery: happens, Jacket does this the most often.
• Combination Attack: Graciel firing a Sophia-powered bullet results in an explosive incendiary shot.
• The Corruption: what almost happens to Jacket before he bonds with Mirto.
  • Played straight with Diesel.
• Crash Into Hello: between Makoto and Sophia. Also between Martin and Sanae. (Lots of S and M pairs here... 'kay, that did not read right.)
• Crowning Moment of Funny
  • Graciel's email reply

To: Redmist, Noco Sue Berry Subject: RE: whdere sdhouldf we3 ,m3eett?@ It was hard to paw in the letters, before he could rewrite the email he has sent it already. Great, now they think I'm a mentally challenged cat. ~_~;

• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming
  • Mirto healing Jacket after he is (accidentally) shot by Cassius

Jacket: ... Hey, princess. Mirto: ... Don't call me that. What is it? Jacket: Thanks.

• Enomena Is A Blight Magnet
• Foreshadowing
• Hammerspace: the panzers' MPUDs.
• Hand Wave
• The Heartless: all of the blights.
• Hidden Elf Village: the Panzer HQ and similar panzer cities.
• Invisible to Normals: ether and strays.
  • Inverted by the highly visible Phantom Jacket.
• Loads and Loads of Characters: becoming this, soon.
• Magic by Any Other Name: we call it Enomena.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: just what the heck is with that dog + lamp post blight?
• Mood Whiplash: happens rather often because of the different writing styles of the rplayers.
• Museum of the Strange and Unusual: Not that anyone knows it, but the Herston Public Museum and Library is actually a store for many ether artefacts.
• Not Quite Dead : The Train blight, at one point. Thankfully, that was soon amended.
• Oh Crap: several characters do this at various times.
• Our Souls Are Different
• Public Domain Character: the NPCs, sort of.
• Rashomon Style: because this is a sort-of-like-RP, with a cast main by different people, the posts read like that.
• Schizo-Tech: the panzers are supposed to be much more technologically advanced, yet their weapons are modelled after existing human ones. It is explained by the panzers being fans of human weapons.
• Ship Tease: Martin and Sanae's rplayer does this to them.
• Shout-Out: nearly every shop that exists in Pebbleton.
  • "You're waiting for a train."
  • Redmist's facepalm.
  • The clock that keeps on running in one of Martin's posts.

08:52:28... 08:52:29... 08:52:30 PM

• • The katamari ball formed by the three strays and Alex.
  • Martin describing Jacket as "Full Metal Jacket".
  • The panzer's moon-gravity technology.
• Supernatural Sensitivity: many of the characters.
• Synchronization: between linked crossers and their strays to a certain extent.
• The Three Faces of Eve: of the initial cast - Sophia (child), Mirto (wife), Hailey (crone). Coincidentally, they are main by the first three creators of the RP.
• Tracking Device: Kayte placed one in the modified MPUD she gave Heisel.
• Two Guys and a Girl: of the inital cast - the three strays (Jacket, Makoto, Sophia). Again, main by the same three rplayers.
• Unreliable Narrator: justified since the characters are main by different people.
• Vampiric Draining: all blights do this to absorb ether.
• World of Ham

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Crossers

• I See Dead People
• Psychic Link: with their linked stray.
• Psychic Powers

Mirto

She was previously bonded with Jacket.

• Badass Bookworm
• Barrier Maiden
• Hot-Blooded: can be so at times, surprisingly.
• Only One Name
• Only Sane Woman
• Power Nullifier: one way to use her ability.
• Tsundere: Mirto and Jacket to each other, Type A.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: dogs.

Randall Kayne

• Deadpan Snarker
• Energy Ball
• Keet: sometimes.
• Punny Name: R. Kayne and K. Aios, main by the same rplayer. Arcane Chaos.

Martin Chang

His linked stray is Sophia.

• Berserk Button: mocking Martin's competence, or lack of.
• Cluster F-Bomb
• Conveniently Orphaned: though he is already an adult.
• Non-Action Guy

Redmist

The Hikikomori.

• Adult Child: when he is alone, yes.
• Conveniently Orphaned
• Knowledge Broker: one of the two characters created specifically for this purpose.
• Last-Name Basis: both himself and to others.
• Loners Are Freaks
• Memetic Badass: amongst some of the rplayers, he is the Batman.
• Not Good with People
• The Stoic: Redmist invokes this when he is with others.
• Technopath: his abilities.
  • Neural Implanting: enables him to control certain machines with his mind.
• Unreliable Expositor

Sanae Fujiwara

Her linked stray is Makoto.

• Dandere
• Naive Everygirl
• Naive Newcomer: more so than the other crossers.
• Older Than They Look
• Visual Effects of Awesome: the bonding pact she had with Makoto was a comparatively extravagant ceremony.

Lilia Auen

An experienced crosser. Her linked stray is Leuel.

• Action Girl
• Cool Big Sis/Team Mom
• Sweet Tooth
• Yamato Nadeshiko: as much as a skilled crosser could be, anyway.

Lanette Hindfell

Hero-wannabee.

• Badass in Distress: recently, she's like this.
• Big Damn Heroes: tries at this, but gets sadly subverted each time.
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Dojikko
• Drop the Hammer: her infamous gavel.
• Genki Girl
• The Ingenue
• Large Ham: SHADOW BUSTER LANETTE!
• The President's Daughter: the "princess" of the Hindfell family.

Heisel Warren

His linked stray is Diesel.

• Nice Hat
• Chekhov's Gunman
• Mr. Exposition: to both Randall and Redmist.
• The Woobie

Strays

• Amplifier Artifact: Crossers become stronger when bonded with a stray.
• Dead to Begin With
• Ghost Amnesia: all of the strays. It is their main motivation in life undeath, really.
• Our Ghosts Are Different
• Psychic Link: with their linked crosser.

Jacket

He was previously bonded with Mirto.

• Boisterous Bruiser
• Chew Toy: Jacket's rplayer admits to enjoying doing this to him.
• Cool Mask: it is his face.
  • Expressive Mask: averted, as, it is not a mask, but his face.
• The Dulcinea Effect: for Tethys.
• Fearless Fool: Jacket.
• Fun Size: 10.5cm Mini-Jacket.
  • Incredible Shrinking Man
• Hot-Blooded
• Keet
• Large Ham: PHANTOM JACKET OF PEBBLETON
• Knight Templar Big Brother: to Sophia.
• Made of Iron: very literally. Subverted in that he receives physical damage very easily.
• The Mario
• Nice Hat: has a complex for his. Lampshaded by Sophia.
• Oops I Did It Again: Jacket is constantly mistaken for a blight.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: everytime Jacket's ham level maxes.
• Tsundere: Mirto and Jacket to each other, Type A.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: cats.

Sophia

Used to be called Oriole. Her linked crosser is Martin Chang.

• Beware the Nice Ones: Sophia really raises the temperature when she is upset.
• Blue Eyes
• Big Brother Instinct: Sophia seems to induce this in most male characters, especially Makoto and Jacket.
• Cheerful Child
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Cute Ghost Girl
• The Ditz
• Legal Jailbait: possibly the oldest stray so far, and also the youngest-looking one.
• Moe: the main source of it.
• Mighty Glacier: has the highest offensive power amongst all the strays, but terrible eyesight and movement speed.
• My God, What Have I Done?: after she causes the etherplosion which launches Jacket into the middle of a crowd of humans.
• The Empath: Sophia is able to hear the internal monologues of others.
  • Detect Evil: is able to tell stray from blight.
• Tastes Like Diabetes
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: crowds of people.

Makoto

Used to be called M, which is short for Mad Hooder. His linked crosser is Sanae Fujiwara.

• Casting a Shadow: glowy shadows, in fact.
• Closet Geek: he really likes watching cartoons.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Fragile Speedster: has little to no combat ability, but is really good at getting away.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Makoto is quite the Jerkass to everyone, but has a soft spot for Sophia.
• Mr. Exposition: to Martin, Alex, and Sanae.
• One-Letter Name: his old name, M, an abbreviation of Mad Hooder.
• Only Sane Man: despite his old name, Makoto, who is main by the same rplayer as the other only sane woman, is this.

Threads

• Improbable Accessory Effect: due to the different intentions behind the different items Threads puts on.
• Kleptomaniac Hero
• Mega Manning: his powers enable him to do this.
  • Use Item: and how his does it.

Leuel

Used to be called Lazarus. Her linked crosser is Lilia Auen.

• Cloudcuckoolander
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
• Dropped a Bridget On Him: to Jacket, with Thanks for the Mammary.
• The Faceless: there is no face under that bear head. Or maybe there is.
• Kids Are Cruel: not Leuel herself, but her previous crossers.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: hasn't happened yet, but can be expected.
• Shock and Awe: Leuel's powers.
  • Psycho Electro: subverted. Leuel isn't that psycho, she is just extremely paranoid.
  • Ride the Lightning: can use electricity to great enhance her speed.

Lucifer

• Consummate Liar
• Faux Affably Evil
• Manipulative Bastard
• Names to Run Away From

Diesel

His linked stray is Heisel Warren.

• Afterlife Express
• Alas, Poor Villain: The Train.
• The Corruption

Panzers

• Fusion Dance: a ritual done to all infant panzers, complete with a Mental Fusion of their humans minds and the animal instincts.
• Petting Zoo People
• Talking Animal: some of them, in their animal transformation.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: the panzer ears and tails at times, though justified by the fact that wearing animal ears is considered a fashion style.

Graciel Flay

Cat panzer.

• Cat Boy
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: prime example of this.
• The Ditz
• Nice Guy
• Right-Hand-Cat: seems to be this to Noco.
• Sempai-Kohai: is senpai to the newbie Cassius.
• Sniper Rifle: Graciel's Weapon of Choice.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: is blue to Cassius' red.

Hailey Geminesca

The resident bitch. Raven panzer. Was previously a scientist.

• Badass Bookworm
• Berserk Button: calling Hailey anything that implies that she is old.
• BFG
• Christmas Cake
• Deus Ex Machina: Hailey is turning into a walking one. Granted, she is the most intellectually-competent and combat-capable one of the mains.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: with Noco.
• Hot Scientist: though, no one is interested in her, no thanks to her personality.
• Knowledge Broker: one of the two characters created specifically for this purpose.
• The Nicknamer: with usually not-so-nice nicknames.
• Troll

Cassius

Dog (norwegian buhund) panzer.

• Adult Child
• Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Cool Gun: has a pair of them.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
• The Ditz
• Dual-Wielding: with his two Eagles.
• Fear of Thunder: Cassius has astraphobia.
• Good Is Dumb: Cassius' train of thought, just read them.
• Hot-Blooded
• Keet
• Large Ham
• My God, What Have I Done?: when he realises that he nearly killed two innocent strays.
• The Nose Knows: he is a dog after all.
• Only One Name
• The Pollyanna
• Sempai-Kohai: has this relationship with Graciel.
• Trauma-Induced Amnesia
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: is red to Graciel's blue.

Palmarr Berry

Bengal tiger panzer. Married to Noco Sue.

• A Father to His Men
• Badass
• Cool Shades
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: this is Graciel's superior. What else do you think?
• Hot Dad: of a 5-year-old daughter.
• Knight Templar
• Large Ham/No Indoor Voice
• Shock and Awe: Taser knuckles duster! How cool is that.
• Shout-Out: to the father and son in Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum, Palmer and Barry.

Noco Sue Berry

Dog (english sheepdog) panzer.

• Heterosexual Life Partners: with Hailey.
• Hot Mom: of a 5-year-old daughter.
• Shipper on Deck: for Hailey and Redmist. (Why...?)
• Shout-Out: to two dogs named Noko and Ludo Shubarie

Kayte Aios/Kate Herston

Peregrin falcon panzer.

• Emotionless Woman
• Not Good with People
• Older Than They Look: Kayte Aios/Kate Herston is 5216 years old.
• Punny Name: R. Kayne and K. Aios, created by the same rplayer. Arcane Chaos. Get it?
• The Quiet One

PISCES

Tethys and Noa Blue

Siamese fighting fish panzer twin divas.

• Idol Singers
• Meaningful Name: a pair of fishes? Yup.
• You Gotta Have Colorful Hair

Benzene

• Evil Is Hammy
• Evil Laugh
• Mad Scientist
  • Robot Master
• Mecha-Mooks: Benzene's "weapon" of choice.

Cyanate

• Evil Is Hammy: so much, yes.
• Exploding Knives Nut: exploding daggers, his Weapon of Choice.
• Mad Bomber
• Mind Control Device: has one for Feradine.

Reapers

• Nature Spirit

Lisken'Pell

• Blade on a Stick
• Man in White
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Bel'Tagus

• The Stoic

Others

Feradine

• An Ice Person
• Brainwashed and Crazy: how he was forced to become a stray-blight.
• The Corruption

Hyder

• Ambiguous Gender
• Emotionless Child
• Fusion Dance: with Oriole. Includes some form of Psychic Link.
• Gray Eyes
• Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: so much, that it causes even Cyanate to behave.

Lin

• Dandere
• Girl Friday

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Tropes that occur in the Meta include:

• Art Shift: when the characters are portrayed by different illustrators with their own style.
• Back Tracking: due to all of the writers' different timezones and computer habits, and the need to cover missing exposition between posts, this has to be done.
• Bold Inflation: used by the writers sometimes for emphasis on words.
• Art Shift: when the characters are portrayed by different illustrators with their own style.
• Color Coded for Your Convenience: how the writers show who is saying what in their posts.
• Crack Pairings
  • OTP: Hailey and Redmist. It's almost official. Also an Unequal Pairing.
  • Sophia's reverse-Harem!
  • There's Redmist and his computers.
  • Ho Yay: So much from the two Graciel and Cassius posts.
  • Jacket and his one-sided crush for Tethys.
• Creator Thumbprint: the rplayers have their own distinct writing and characterization styles
  • Jacket, Hailey & Cyanate's
    • Large Ham
    • Ham and Cheese
    • World of Ham
    • Ham-to-Ham Combat
    • ... you get the idea.
  • Oriole, Redmist, Lilia and Hyder's
    • Moe
    • Stoics
    • Cloudcuckooland
    • Rule of Cool: occasionally.
  • Mirto, M, Lazarus and Benzene's
    • World of Snark
    • Lampshade Hanging: goes hand-in-hand with her snarking.
  • Randall and Threads'
    • Novel: possibly the only rplayer's whose posts read like an actual prose.
  • Martin and Sanae's
    • Soap Opera
    • Shipping
  • Graciel and Alkane's
    • Lighter and Softer
  • Cassius'
    • Heroic Self-Deprecation
    • Cloudcuckooland: occasionally.
• High School AU
• Most Writers Are Male: currently, 5 males and 2 females.
• Walls of Text: some rplayers are extremely guilty of this.
• Wish Fulfillment: all of the player characters are either
  • Author Avatar
  • Escapist Character
  • or related to some other form of wish fulfillment. (Whether they deny it or not.)
• Write Who You Know: Why there are more male mains then female mains.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: nearly every one of the rplayers do this. (In fact, this is encouraged!)