I Have Many Names: The God of Chaos, who introduces himself as Bob, has a new name every time he is mentioned in dialog or narration. Without him, Boxxy would have been killed by the much more cautious adventurers who came after him and none of the rest of the story would have even happened. Everyone Has Standards: For all her depravity and obsessive hedonism, she finds the idea of having sex with her own demonic mother to be unnerving and personally repulsive. While invoking the spell Inferno, Xera the 'Witch s chant is almost identical to the lyrics of Slaughter Your World , Richard the Warlock's Villain Song in Looking for Group''.

The Hero: Bernard is described as the first human to reach the rank of Hero in a century, along with being a source of hope for the Empire.Even Teresa, the Goddess of the Hammer didn't manage to kill the creature because it hid inside its own storage, ignoring the massive damage and pain it would suffer to do so. of the prologue, for all of a few minutes, before his carelessness gets him unceremoniously devoured by a Chest Monster. The only excuse that left me reading was the fact that she was given great power, and as sincere an apology as one could give under the circumstances, including the improvement in behavior towards her. Every time he is addressed, whether by a character speaking of him or in narration, his name, gender, and even title change without warning. Awesomeness by Analysis: Keira's fight against Bernard Samson, where she dissects the massive flaws in his fighting style and equipment while outclassing him in their battle.

The Unpronounceable: The vast majority of demons have names that look like someone threw up alphabet soup onto a piece of paper. Master of None: While there's very little Boxxy CANNOT do, it recognizes that there are few situations in which it can make use of more than one of its many talents at the same time.Combat Tentacles: In its mimic form, Boxxy uses them mainly to hold the various swords and daggers it claims as weapons. One of its prize possessions, a Masterwork-quality mithril rapier named Feathersting, gets a Shininess rating of 11 out of 10. Kora: All that potential for lewdness, perversity and all around carnal depravity - wasted on a creature with absolutely no sex drive. During a heated battle, a warlock named Arakawa Shinji recognizes Boxxy and tries to introduce himself in a Large Ham manner and talk to Boxxy. A hero was raiding a low level dungeon on his own, expecting some not too dangerous monsters to help him level up.

When Boxxy gets its second core, it finds out that this was only possible because the God of Chaos overrode a bunch of safeties; normally cores will never absorb more mana than they can safely hold. A Day in the Limelight: This being a series with an omniscient narrator, sometimes characters other than the protagonist get the spotlight for a while. When the stalker says that she is in love with Boxxy, Xera thinks that Drea might be mistaking love and hunger, something normal for her race (stalkers represent the sin of gluttony).

Mine: There were a lot of great and funny moments, not the smallest being Boxxy’s agoraphobia, or his quick dubbing of lich as “ nasty” due to her horrible flavor. Keira breaks in tears as she explains how horrible her powers and god are and how she never asked for it. Kick the Dog: His wrongful conviction of Fizzy, a gnome that was repeatedly mind-controlled into teaching Boxxy Artificer skills, just so he can force her to make war machines for the Empire for however long the country needs her talents. Arch-Nemesis: Nagnamor has a fixation on seeing Boxxy suffer for the way Boxxy had (unwittingly) made him its plaything. It Amused Me: Its entire motivation is to witness the most improbable and unlikely events possible, as Percival finds these to be the most interesting.