B&M Chronicles

B&M Chronicles was a series of stories and roleplaying sessions that took places on the chatrooms "B&M Tavern", "B&M Castle" and "B&M Outside" chatrooms on F-List. The logs can be read on RPG:B&M Chronicles 1 (2016), RPG:B&M Chronicles 2 (2017 February - 2017 May), RPG:B&M Chronicles 3 (2017 May), RPG:B&M Chronicles 4 (2017 May - 2017 November) and RPG:B&M Chronicles 5 (2018). A Knight and a Maid was a sub-story of the B&M Chronicles, hence the duplicate logs appearing in both A Knight and a Maid and RPG:B&M Chronicles 5.

It is important to note, that the logs are incomplete, since roleplaying was only recorded when Stephanus Tavilrond was online in the room, and even then, some things were curated away. Before the 24th of July, 2017, there was only one chat room: the B&M Tavern. After that date, the tavern was replaced by the B&M Castle, while another room was created: B&M outside.

2016
We are introduced to the tavern from the point of view of Stephanus Tavilrond, who first only has a drink, and then gets introduced to Nerida Talori, Aurhet and Diana the Guardian. Stephanus attempts to - and fails to - woo Diana. After that, they are both introduced to Kester, who turns out to be Nerida's lover. Afterwards, they are introduced to Aetharis, the owner of the tavern, who serves the aforementioned people food and drinks. A temporary character in the person of Queen Artoria Pendragon appears.

While the one recording the logs was not there to witness and log it - hence it being a detail mentioned only - the first plot-important event was when Nerida was bewitched by a succubus, causing her to temporarily lose her mind and consent to having sexual intercourse with Aetharis under the influence of the mind-control spell. This causes Nerida - once with a straight mind - to accuse Aetharis of rape in front of every witness, including Stephanus, Arturia and Kester. It also turned out that under the influence of the mind control spell, Nerida willingly put a slave-collar on her own neck, causing her to become Aetharis's (sex) slave - if anyono other than the master tries to take off the collar, the collar constricts. Despite this, Artoria manages to succesfully cut off the collar - Nerida and Kester escape, not to appear again for the time being.

Some time - weeks? months? - later, Empress Sophia appears, attempting to seduce Stephanus, who is initially receptive of it - however, Sophia gets flustered and leaves when Stephanus refuses to abuse her.

2017
New people are introduced to the tavern: "The Seven Young Goats" (seven goat-women acting as maids) and Sankaku the Demoness. Nothing truly plot-relevant happens for a while, until Kaylin Vash-ti the Dark Elf is introduced, meeting with Stephanus. The tavern appears to be abandoned, so Stephanus and Kaylin help themselves to some booze. Stephanus attempts to woo Kaylin, but fails. The staff is expanded by the fox-girl Naerie, who has a brief fling with Stephanus, who makes use of her services, and develops feelings for her a little. Mary Lenaii, Eira the Cryomancer, Eve Smith and Bryce Shieldbreaker are introduced as well, with Mary's first action getting herself so drunk that she has to vomit. Stephanus tells all of these new people about what has happened so far, with Aetharis being a rather unsavory person who enslaves people by putting collars on them.

Eventually, events drive Stephanus and Mary Lenaii to get married. While initially very loving, their marriage ends when Mary turns into a strange insectoid creature trying to kill everyone, forcing Stephanus to kill her out of self-defense, lest she kill everyone and destroy the tavern. Before that, the couple also witness Byrce constantly flirting with Eve, who constantly tries to run away from him. After Mary's death - who leaves some eggs behind that Stephanus takes to himself - Eve effectively gets her claws on Stephanus, wooing him, at least temporarily - Stephanus did not truly love her, but felt obliged to be with her out of a sense of duty and a desire not to hurt her feelings. After he admitted that - but not before a couple of beddings - the two end up breaking up. Stephanus ends up returning to Naerie (with whom he already had some conversations prior about relationships, such as the short-lived relationship between Stephanus and Eve, as well as Mary), making use of her services once again - when Eve finds out about it, she is jealous about how quickly the knight got over their short-lived relationship and moved on. Nevertheless, the two of them notice Nerida returning to the tavern, and being re-enslaved by Aetharis. It is also revealed, that at one point, Aetharis killed Kester.

After this, Naerie disappears without a trace (the character's player left F-List),, while Stephanus has a brief fling with Eve's draconic grandmother Aeralis, and then with an elven girl named Luna (Elven Huntress), then with a Dark Elf named Inarra.

2018
With the exception of the whole Knight and Maid romantic plotline between Stephanus and Melyssa, nothing of note happened in 2018.

Tropes

 * : With the exception of Mary and Naerie, Aetharis has sex with pretty much every female character, regardless of their species even.
 * : Literally every character (major or minor) who previously debuted in 2016 and 2017 - with the notable exceptions of Aetharis and Stephanus - were notably and "inexplicably" (see Aborted Arc below) absent in 2018. Nerida, Eve, Eira, Byrce, Naerie, etc. Their disappearence largely coincided with.
 *  / / : By the very nature of it - being an old chat room where people roleplayed, new people appearing and old people  all the time - there were a lot of only loosely connected plots (with continuity not always guaranteed), hundreds of unresolved plotlines, etc.
 * - except Kester and Mary Lenaii, who got killed. For the rest, either their players stopped visiting the room, or left the website altogether. The fates of Aetharis, Stephanus, Nerida, Eve, Byrce, Eira, Naerie, Melyssa and all the others are all left to the reader's imagination.
 * : the Byrce-Eve pairing was this to the Stephanus-Mary pairing, while it lasted.
 * : The whole roleplaying session had no consistent tone. Sometimes, it was comedic and romantic, with light-hearted jokes and casual sex for fun - other times, it was completely serious, exploring dark themes like slavery, murder and rape.
 * : Stephanus the Knight with the prostitutes Naerie and Melyssa.
 *  / : The last major character, Melyssa, debuted in 2018.
 *  / : What Aetharis puts onto his new slaves, like Nerida and Eira. Though technically, it doesn't explode - instead, it constricts, choking the wearer's when anyone other than the slave master Aetharis tries to remove it.
 * : What Aetharis does to pretty much every woman other than Mary, Naerie and Melyssa.
 * : Naerie and Melyssa both qualify. Especially Naerie.
 * : Stephanus and Byrce were humans - their respective lovers, Mary and Eve were... complicated. Mary was some sort of part-human part-everything-else chimera (but with a human upper body), while Eve was some sort of human-dragon hybrid, who normally took on a human shape, but could shapeshift into a dragon at times. Stephanus also has romantic and sexual encounters with the Naerie, the Elf Luna and the Dark Elf Inarra, before finally settling with a fellow human in the person of Melyssa.
 * : Pretty much all characters in the story..
 * : Any woman that Aetharis puts the collar onto.
 * : Stephanus and Mary were this, while their relationship lasted.
 * : It was common for people to appear for only one roleplaying session, then disappear.
 * With the exceptions of Aetharis, Stephanus, Nerida, Byrce, Eve, Mary, Kester, Naerie, Eira and Melyssa, pretty much everyone in the story qualifies for the trope, by virtue of what was said above.
 * : Nerida and Kester.
 * : Nerida eventually comes back...
 * : ... Kester on the other hand does not. He is killed "offscreen". (technically, he was killed when the log-recorder wasn't present, hence his death being "offscreen")
 * : A common mistake commited by Stephanus.
 * : Played with, simultaneously averted and played straight. Namely, Eve and Stephanus are the ones who are constantly desperate for love and have one failed relationship after another.
 * : At least from Stephanus's point of view - the whole story basically ends with him and Melyssa becoming a couple.
 * : Stephanus kills his first wife Mary out of self-defense after she into a giant insect-like creature threatening to destroy the B&M Tavern.