cliches - chrisman/skookums-and-dragons GitHub Wiki
A collection of running gags and recurring themes.
Buldrick has a thing for ball bearings.
Buldrick has a preoccupation with sexually assaulting prisoners, strangers, anybody really with his collection of ball bearings.
He's never actually done this, and his intent to do so is rarely clear because he never has the opportunity to explain what he's doing whenever he menacingly rolls the balls around in his hand or asks people if they "like ball bearings", and his would-be victims (and his friends) often just end up confused and/or weirded out.
Dug "Doorbane" Hammerhound has a thing for doors.
Contrary to rumor, he doesn't just smash doors. In fact, he is as much of a Door Whisperer as he is the Doorbane, employing a variety of ways to interact with doors including touching (feeling for heat and drafts), listening, and whispering through keyholes.
Though, the number of doors he has hammered to pieces is ultimately unknowable.
He has recently demonstrated the ability to simply intimidate doors into opening on their own.
Ducky is good at landing punches, but her strength is so pitiful that her melee attacks, sometimes by definition and sometimes through bad rolls, do zero damage.
Her unarmed strike, for example, does zero damage. She has used this feeble attack as a psychological weapon while interrogating prisoners.
To date, attempts to attack with her Spooky Staff have also delivered zero damage after hitting opponents.
Buldrick has a thing for faces.
Struck with inspiration by Fisty's magical Mask of Many Faces, Buldrick decided to fashion himself an actual Mask of Several (Severed) Faces. A leathery mask stitched together from the numerous faces of his many victims to add to his gruesome visage and which he can wear into battle to strike fear into his foes.
Subject of The Intervention, during which Ducky offered/demanded to take over face harvesting from Buldrick so that it could be done respectfully and--due to her medical background--hopefully more efficiently.
Tumutch has a thing with necromancy.
He sees undeath as an unnatural abomination and often makes snap decisions to destroy it, or signs of it, when he sees it or hears of it. For example:
Hiro has a thing for dragons.
Hiro insists that he's an actual dragon and should be worshiped as such.
This usually results in dismissal or mockey, to which Hiro either takes offense, or which he completely ignores.
Instances of getting no respect:
This turned out to be entirely unfair, however, after he revealed himself as an actual real life dragon.
The fabled Candle of the Deep which will burn underwater and never burn down.
Awarded to the fledgling group in pre-episode A by
the Candlemaker. Well, kind of extorted from the Candlemaker in exchange for
freeing him.
It looks like a poop 💩
There are four of them: