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But are any of those big story-affecting things beyond (potentially) Neo?

Velvet probably just took the place of someone else doing something... I hesitate to say badass because of how dumb that weapon was, but you get the idea.

NDGO, again, could have been filled in by anything. IIRC, they weren't even present for the Battle of Beacon.

And the bartender was literally just there for us to get a taste of Qrow's drunken cynicism.