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As much as the motto for the FPS is, "If it moves, shoot it," the motto for the Adventure Game and Role-Playing Game is, "When it's dead, loot it." or "Take everything that isn't nailed down or too heavy, and anything that can be pried loose is not considered nailed down." (The latter advice appeared in the general strategy section of Infocom's manuals.) When gaming began, and pretty much every game was Dungeon Crawling, this made sense. The hero was typically at least tangentially a treasure hunter, so looting ancient caverns and crypts was part of the job description. When games started to move into different modern settings, though, the need to MacGyver up a solution to a puzzle from found items remained, and thus it stayed necessary to pick up everything you could find, especially since absolutely essential items were Permanently Missable unless you grabbed them while you still could. In populated environments, this makes the hero come off as a bit of a kleptomaniac. It doesn't help when the games, in an attempt to encourage the player to explore and Talk to Everyone, hides useful items here and there all over the towns and caves. Fortunately, hardly anyone ever notices. In fact, as you wander around the world, particularly in RPGs, you will repeatedly just waltz uninvited into every house in the town, smash the breakable items and loot it right before the owner's eyes, and simply be told "There are many guards in the castle." Be careful, though. You might just find something untoward... See also Ninja Looting, Sticky Fingers, and Video Game Stealing. Contrast Shoplift and Die. |
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And again, in Shin Megami Tensei IV, as demons no longer drop macca nilly-willy, you may be forced to sink pretty low to drum up some cash, up to assaulting other humans, "fundraising" mid-battle, or even binding enemy demons and mugging them. Some demons are disgusted with Flynn's cavalier attitude and sheer greed. | |
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Shin Megami Tensei if... plays a nasty variant. In the World of Greed, the room just before the boss is littered with treasure boxes. However, the boss' strength is linked to your own greed. Ignore the boxes and the boss will be a diminutive fox you can step on. Take everything and you'll find yourself facing a titanic Eldritch Abomination. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess does try to break Link's habit of taking anything that isn't nailed down and guarded by Hyrule's entire army. You can walk up to the stand selling apples and take one, but Link will say he sees better looking apples at another stand and put the one he has back. If you go to the other stand he'll say the other ones look better, so you'll never actually get an apple. Of course he still destroys every pot and loots every treasure chest he can get his hands on. | |
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In the old Déjà Vu (1985) games, you could literally pick up everything that wasn't nailed down too hard. Books? Check. Flowerpot with dead flower? Sure. Board nailed over a window? Just yank it loose and stick it in your coat, it might come in handy. Since there were quite a few items you actually needed to win, but you don't know which ones the first time, you tended to pick up literally everything, just in case. | |
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Jesse Cox is notorious for doing this during otherwise straightforward RPGs. In short, if the facility to loot objects exists, he will exploit it constantly — much to the frustration of his fanbase. As an example, the designers of Bioshock Infinite littered the bodies of your fallen enemies with low-strength restoratives for your health and salts. These objects also appear commonly in the world design — since you have no inventory, they have to be offered almost constantly. Eating a few such items will restore you to full health. Jesse, however, tracks down and devours every last food item one by one. While already at full health and salts. In areas he might need to backtrack through later. While recording an action Let's Play. | |
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Played completely straight throughout the Nancy Drew series, and then lampshaded in the 29th game, The Silent Spy: The 16th game subverts this. Players can pick up Lou's snowshoes, but when they try to leave the room he'll show up and ask what they're doing. Nancy does eventually obtain showshoes, but she must do so legitimately- and Lou's pair is just a Red Herring with no relation to the plot at all. |
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The STALKER series. If it's in a stash, take it. If it's on a corpse, take it. If it's on the ground, take it. If someone's holding it, shoot them dead, then take it. You'll need it. Most of the best weaponry (the unique gear that typically far surpasses anything else you'll find) is usually being held by someone, and getting it usually involves a question of just how much of an utter bastard you're willing to be to get better gear. | |
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In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 the player can get a medal for checking out enough empty trash cans just to see if there was something inside them. | |
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In Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove, you need to break into several buildings as you search for the missing students. However, at one point you crack open a safe containing a key (which you need) and a stack of cash. Clicking on the cash will cause the game to scold you. | |
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In Dungeons & Dragons Online, you now can steal from bookshelves, dead adventurers, mushrooms, cabinets, and the standard breakables. You get bonus XP for breaking crates and barrels. A good strategy for cash strapped new players is *Smash everything in sight*. Along with getting a Vandal XP bonus, smashed crates and barrels often hide potions, money, and ranged ammunition or throwing weapons. |
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In the town Louran in Terranigma you can give a man the advice to take his money with him, when he dies, then rob his grave when the town turns out to be a zombie town. | |
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Might and Magic: The games have items stashed in all manner of chests, crates, boxes, sewer drains, and corpse-pockets. It's all lootable. There's only one time, in the 4th game, when an NPC will stop you from looting his chest. If you persist, he spawns as a monster and very likely kills you. Of course, all chests are booby trapped, with very few exceptions, so you're encouraged to have a character in your party with the Disarm skill. Many chests in certain dungeons will summon its guardians when opened. (If an important chest seems poorly guarded, it's almost a given.) In the seventh game, the chests are very heavily trapped in the area around and in Stone City, and a few are empty. One has loads of treasure in it, but it teleports you to an island in the center of the area with a horde of magogs and gargoyles. This Trope is encouraged in the tenth game of the franchise, where the PCs are Raiders, a shady cross between adventurers, treasure hunters, and thieves. The second part of the Raiders' code says that treasure is treasure, and that a Raider should take it without concern for its purpose or where it came from. If you can't use it, take it anyway; you can sell it to someone who can. |
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Fantasy Quest takes this to near-deconstruction levels. As with many adventure games, you take anything not nailed down. Newspapers reveal that the world's inhabitants interpret this as a crime spree and start exchanging tips for safeguarding their homes. ("Does your house have a door? Can you lock it?") | |
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Randal's Monday: Lampshaded, as Randal actually is a kleptomaniac. | |
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The Rising of the Shield Hero has Naofumi Iwatani do this due to his Legendary Shield being a Morph Weapon that is able to unlock additional forms and new abilities based on whatever item he absorbs into the Shields' emerald: be it parts from similar Monsters (Orange Balloon, Yellow Balloon, and Red Balloon Shields), different parts from the same Monster (Chimera Meat, Leather, Bone, and Viper Shields all from the Chimera Wave Boss Monster), or even from normal everyday items (Pickaxe Shield from a broken Pick Axe, Book Shield from a compounding book, and Sharpening Shield from a Whetstone). Naofumi even manages to master the beneficial abilities of certain shields by having them equipped before falling asleep in order to gain Uptime with them and fully master their unlocked abilities as an active passive even when the respective Shields' not equipped (Such as maxing out proficiency with the Bioplant and Mandoragora Shields to use their Plant Analysis and Plant Modification abilities to allow him to modify plant seeds to accelerate plant growth and increase nutritional values in order to help out a starving village.) Arguably all Legendary Weapons have this ability hardwired into them to allow for their wielders to be Kleptomaniacs, but unfortunately the other Three Heroes are too set in their ways to understand this. Ren preferring to only use the monster parts as crafting materials and his sword as a Crafting Table and instead grinds out the proficiency of certain Swords to max only to invest the accumulated points into his newest unlocked Sword to raise its power and never touch the older sword ever again: not bothering to utilize Uptime with weaker Sword variants to increase his proficiency in their passive beneficial skills that he could use. Itsuki preferring to only use the acquired materials as Experience Points to put into his Point Build System for his Job Class and only takes in new Bows he finds based on the weapons' overall rarity through Weapon Copy, leaving him unwilling to touch lesser bows or materials that could be used to unlock more unique abilities for his Bow. Motoyasu is arguably the closest to a Kleptomaniac of the three due to his method of empowering the baseline stats of an existing Spear variant to maximum based on the quality of materials that the Spear absorbs and how compatible that material is with the Spear in-question through a process of trial-and-error, however this means that he only goes for highest-quality materials instead of more commonplace ones that could offer unique traits when unlocked and refined. |
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Deconstructed in Deponia—Rufus feels justified in taking anything that will aid his schemes because he's extremely self-centered (though later on he gets more valid reasons). His neighbors resent him for it, and at one point it lands him in jail. | |
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In Spongebob Squarepants Battle For Bikini Bottom and The Movie, you can randomly destroy items like chairs, and tables for absolutely no reason at all. Actually, destroying some stuff rewards you with socks or golden spatulas, the MacGuffins of the games. Weirdly, when smashing a TV while Mermaid Man is watching, you are granted a sock. | |
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In Goodbye! I'm Being Reincarnated!, when Yuuya tries to loot Lucielle's lingerie drawer, she acts offended at first but then decides he is the "Great Hero of Legend" after all, believing that it's standard operating procedure for heroes to enter houses unannounced and steal and break everything that isn't nailed down. | |
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The "take everything that isn't nailed down" comment is parodied in the text adventure game Thy Dungeonman, in which there's a flask in a room which IS nailed down, and if you forcefully attempt to take it, the game tells you it was a load-bearing flask, and the dungeon collapses on you. | |
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Solatorobo normally allows Red to poke about unmolested anywhere he likes, including at an orphanage. However, searching Vanille's bed will result in him finding some underwear, and his sister Chocolat telling him to not stare at it. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts II, Goofy mentions "Adventuring Rule #8 - check every corner of a new place!" | |
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Unlike its predecessor, there are no more items that are actually attended by an NPC in Jagged Alliance: Back in Action, so you can loot everything. The text description for an item called 'Family Heirloom' found in a locked house reads "A bunch of valuables that was obviously hidden with the purpose of you finding it so you can sell it and raise some money for the good cause." | |
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In Tales of Monkey Island this is lampshaded by Guybrush asking someone if he can take an empty bucket. She asks him what he's going to do with it, and he says he doesn't know. She asks him why he would want to take it, then, and his response is "Because it's there, I guess." | |
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In the remakes of Dragon Quest III, one of the personality determining tests involves the hero getting arrested when they're caught stealing a purse of coins from a house. Ironically, in this instance, you were actually asked to go inside and pick it up, and can point out the supposed 'owner' who asked you during the trial. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, shockingly valuable items such as fancy weapons and chests full of rupees can be found in spots where civilians were obviously having them stored, yet Link can loot them nonetheless. It's at least justified at the Stables, where the managers say that they leave useful items laying nearby for travelers. A recurring method of discovering hidden Koroks involves placing an item in an empty offering bowl which is usually located with several others containing the item that needs to be offered, usually an apple. It's petty, but there's nothing stopping Link from taking the rest of the offered goods once he's been granted the Korok Seed. |
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Lampshaded in the fourth Daymare Town game, where one of the first areas in the game is a cave where someone lived. After you rummage through a cardboard box and leave, the owner suddenly comes back and calls you out on going into her house uninvited. | |
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Also averted in the sequel, where if you get caught breaking and entering, stealing, or hacking, the guards and/or other NPC's will turn hostile. | |
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Breath of Fire IV subverts this; while you can still swipe things out of drawers, it causes you to lose "Game Points", which are vital for the main character's Dragon forms. | |
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In Secret of Evermore, a woman in the first village you reach says you should take everything from the gourds and pots in all the huts, since you'll probably end up helping them in the long run, and several families in Ivor Tower outright offer their goods to you since they figure you'll need it on your adventure. There is exactly one chest in the entire game you are not supposed to loot. If you wait, the owner will later thank you for it, teach you the otherwise unobtainable Lance formula, sell you alchemic ingredients from there on out, and even give you the stuff in the chests! This is the only time this happens in the game and, while one of the people in the house says their brother hates it when people touch his stuff, if you go for the loot before talking to him you'll get no feedback whatsoever that you missed anything. |
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Fallout: Equestria: Calamity can hardly resist the urge to scavenge every single container he comes across. Everyone in his posse lampshades it at least once, including himself. This isn't that different from how many people play the Fallout games. While Calamity represents the "keep everything just in case you need it later" mindset of players, Littlepip represents the "open every lock and loot everything in sight" mindset. It's repeatedly lampshaded that she's apparently the only pony in the Wasteland with any lockpicking skills whatsoever. |
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In Glory of Heracles (DS) stealing lowers your Luck, as the game helpfully informs you. There's no Luck Stat in the status, but it very well may be hidden. | |
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Thief from 8-Bit Theater does this early on in the series just to prove a point about his character (as if it wasn't obvious.) | |
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Ashley Robbins of the Another Code games is no stranger to snatching up whatever she thinks she could use. It's passable in the first game, as the place she's investigating has been abandoned for fifty years, though D does comment at least once how weird her habit is. In the second game, with more people to interact with, she does at least pay for stuff (on her dad's credit) and ask permission first. | |
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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: While it's entirely in-character for Strong Bad to go around randomly stealing his neighbors' possessions, the game still occasionally lampshades this trope. | |
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Enforced in In Pursuit of Greed - your playable characters are all raiders, mercenaries and thieves who enjoys looting and killing for wealth, with your motto being "If it's moving around, kill it. If it's not nailed down, steal it". | |
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Blood Ravens in Dawn of War II "[release] from the chapter's vaults" heaps of gear clearly marked as belonging to other chapters. For the most part, they were thought lost by the original chapter and/or "recovered" by the Blood Ravens under vague circumstances. For the least part... | |
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In Baldur's Gate II, the designers acknowledged this and restored the Kleptomaniac Hero to glory. Except when pickpocketing and stealing from shopkeepers, almost any item could be taken again with impunity by a good thief, even if the owner was around to see you pinch it. | |
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Parodied in Phantasy Star IV, where searching cabinets in most houses caused the main character to remark "It's not nice to open cupboards in other people's houses without their permission!" or something similar. A similar remark would appear in Animal Crossing as one of the randomly generated lines you get upon opening a neighbor's drawers or cabinets. |
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Huey and to a lesser extent Calamity of No Evil seem to have a streak of kleptomania, the former stealing the cast's scarecrows, and the latter "borrowing" (and never returning) many a thing on occasion. | |
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Cycles Upon Cycles: Shepard (of Mass Effect), comes from his enhancements as a Spectre (the StarCraft II variety), which usually results in a few eccentricities. Most of the time he doesn't even realize he's doing it, though he does get the occasional urge for more blatant thieving. | |
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In Vampires Dawn looting every drawer in every house you find doesn't even lower your humanity score; it counts as a found secret. | |
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Lampshaded in Anachronox, where the player's party can break into a room. Once inside, an NPC will assume that they are there to steal everything he owns, and tells them to go ahead and that he won't report them. | |
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Tales of Vesperia hangs a lampshade on this a few times. Firstly, in one of the hotel rooms in Capua Nor, you can inspect a drawer and receive the following caption: "You found 500 Gald! ...Let's put it back..." Of course, the fact that there are several knights in the room watching you may explain this restraint. Then, in Dahngrest, you can inspect the toilet in one of the prison cells. Your character responds "Found an Apple Gel in the toilet. No way am I picking that up!" |
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Godot (from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations) shares this trait; he thinks the "safest place for crucial evidence" is his pocket. | |
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Hopkins FBI requires the protagonist, an FBI agent investigating a serial killer, to commit theft to catch him. For some reason, one place he must steal from is his fiancée's apartment. He must also recover $20 of stolen money from a group of bank robbers and spend it on cinema tickets. | |
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In Shining the Holy Ark, at the first village you can search one of the houses where you find 1 coin under a bed. If you talk to the NPC in the house they say that you shouldn't be taking stuff from peoples houses but seeing as you went to so much trouble getting that 1 coin you can keep it because you clearly need it more. | |
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Oblivion: Contains a large number of items that can be stolen and sold for money. However, stolen items can only be sold to special "fence" NPCs (how a shopkeeper can suspect that an item is stolen when you got from a little shack in the middle of the forest at the other side of the world is another matter entirely), and if an NPC sees you stealing an item he will call the guards, who will try to arrest you. Additionally, the game world contains great amounts of "clutter" — items which may have theoretical value to the NPCs who own and use them but have no resale value, so that the protagonist cannot make money from looting them. This fact spawned several user-made modifications, which "corrected" this mistake. The game tries to make stealing in shops harder than in Morrowind by making shopkeepers walk around in order to keep you in sight at all times. Note the word used is walk - not run; the shopkeepers are all very slow, so the player can just time thefts carefully and the shopkeeper will be none the wiser. This can in fact be exploited in larger shops with staircases or other natural barriers - you can lead the merchant away from their items to a spot where they can't see take them, then run back quickly and steal it all. The items are also often kept in close proximity to the shopkeeper's main shelf, so that there's no way in which you can steal them without getting noticed. However, merely hitting said objects with an arrow will launch them away, so you can just get them somewhere the shopkeeper can't see, then quickly run there and steal everything before he can walk in visual range. Or just come in when the shop keep is asleep/away... like a real thief. The Thieves Guild encourages (and sort of forces) you to be this. The only way to advance in rank and get more quests is to prove your worth as a thief by fencing a certain amount of gold worth of stolen stuff. Unless you like taking risks (or have access to accessories to give you 100% Chameleon) you won't be finding many high-value items, so you'll make most of your cash by grabbing any "owned" item of value that isn't nailed down. |
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The Witcher: Played absolutely straight — the first thing you usually do upon entering a house is hold ALT to highlight any interactive objects and then run around stealing the owner's food, clothes, valuables and books before talking to them. | |
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Mogworld, a book focusing on NPCs in an MMORPG, lampshades this. Turns out local villagers are not very fond of adventurers, and among their long list of complaints against them is this. | |
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During the peaceful segments of BioShock Infinite, you can go through shops, and certain items (mostly cash registers, and one time a rare shotgun) are highlighted in red. Taken them is considered stealing and will set the local cops on you. However, the majority of the time, even before the place goes to Heck, you can grab anything with impunity. Including stuff that's nailed down and/or on fire. | |
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Freakin Gensokyo: Brad stuffs his Bag of Holding with stolen clothes and furniture, and is showing no signs of tiring. | |
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They attempted to justify it in Final Fantasy VII : Crisis Core by saying that all those treasure chests contained Shinra Property, so as a SOLDIER, it is your job to take them back. A small mission in Crisis Core made Zack get the keys from monsters he accidently set loose (It Makes Sense in Context) and he can take all the loot in the prison cells. There is the option to check the toilets, but Zack refuses, saying "no way is he going to check there". |
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Played with in World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria. Groundskeeper Wu asks players to bring him several rattan switches; they grow around the area, but a nearby merchant has already collected several. If you take the ones Yao the Collector has, he will get angry and threaten you; after taking the last one, Yao just laughs and commends you on your skill, doing nothing to stop you. Every NPC has a loot table, except for children. If you are a rogue, you can pick any NPC's pocket while in stealth: at the risk of them noticing your presence (thus breaking you out of stealth). Most just have a few coins on them, but occasionally they have other random things (which might or might not be useful, or worth money). Bookshelves will often contain books (usually with interesting, or just hilarious text), and desks will often have letters or maps on them or in drawers. Many NPCs have chests. It is always worth checking to see whether they are open. Even if they aren't open, a rogue or an engineer can try to pick the lock. Pretty much every chest can be opened and looted. Be careful though, some are trapped. |
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Lampshaded in Golden Sun, where two actual thieves said that the townsfolk were asking for it because they'd left their doors wide open. Also parodied with a lady's silk negligee. Which Isaac apparently tries to steal. Used in a sad way in The Lost Age: when looking through the tidalwave-hit coastal city of Alhafra, you can find the local NPCs raiding pots for loose change so they can buy dinner for their families. |
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Kyle Hyde in Hotel Dusk: Room 215 certainly takes some things he shouldn't with him (like a crowbar from a toolbox that isn't his). Other times he might just look at stuff. There is a point in the game where carrying stuff that doesn't belong to you will result in a Game Over screen. | |
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A small mission in Crisis Core made Zack get the keys from monsters he accidently set loose (It Makes Sense in Context) and he can take all the loot in the prison cells. There is the option to check the toilets, but Zack refuses, saying "no way is he going to check there". | |
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The World Is Your Weapon: While most RPG heroes can loot items from houses, Weaco can loot everything in the houses, including the houses themselves! She can also pick up objects anywhere in general, though some objects cannot be picked up until she clears dungeons. Fortunately for the player, NPCs will not be angered if all their stuff is taken, though in some rare cases, their dialogue will change. | |
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Parodied in EarthBound (1994), where the heroes can get items out of... well, trashcans. Yes, even food items. The game also lets you steal from a self-service food cart, but not without a fight. Also lampshaded in EarthBound. Cookies are healing items; a character sitting in a room full of gift-wrapped boxes informs you that he made cookies for everybody. Take the cookies from the boxes and he asks, reasonably enough, "How could you?" There's also an NPC in Summers who talks about how weird it is that people "on important adventures" break into people's houses and check their furniture for valuables. The Mother 2 manga mocks gamers who walk around pressing A in front of everything on this page◊. (The third panel shows Ness trying to "Check" the drawer, with the text "No problem here" on the bottom, imitating the game's verbage.) Mother 3 goes as far as placing presents out in the open that... fart. If you're lucky they might play some new music or launch some fireworks. It also subverts this on two occasions, but both with the same item. In Chapters 2 and 3, one of the Tazmily Village residents is given a big bag of money by Fassad, which he then puts in the well. You can then walk up to the well and take it...only for the game to tell you that you put it right back. Justified in that at that particular part of the game, in Chapter 2, you live in a society where money is pretty much nonexistent, and in Chapter 3, you're being controlled by Fassad who would probably shock you into next Tuesday if you took it before he was ready. |
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Encouraged in the video game-like sections of Homestuck, even though you usually don't have an inventory. Occasionally explanations are offered: | |
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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge makes a subtle joke about this: one island has a wanted poster for your character listing a variety of thefts (and other misdemeanors) performed by Guybrush as the game progresses. A certain book in the library also contains the definition of a kleptomaniac, eliciting a "Hmm..." from Guybrush and at the end of the game a possible answer to a question is "I stole a bunch of stuff and caused two huge explosions." | |
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Exemplified in Blue Dragon, where you can go through entire towns and dungeons, looting the contents of every set piece you find, as well as the occasional chest. Worse yet, there is an NPC who rewards you based on the amount of times you fail to find anything in set pieces. Why did I find 10 Gold in a cooked fish? Why is there 100 exp in a medical machine that doesn't work anymore? Why is it that in a game of magic, bat people, and shadow monsters, my suspension of disbelief is shattered by finding 2 Skill Points in a flower pot!? |
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In Knights of the Old Republic you can loot and steal to your hearts content without garnering any Dark Side Points, but while robbing an occupied apartment on Taris the family there will beg you not to hurt anybody and tell you to just take whatever you want. There is, however, one subversion in the game: If you attempt to open any of the wicker baskets in the Sand People Enclave (Any of them) the tribe will turn on you and attack you for stealing from them. In the sequel, The Sith Lords, robbing an apartment on Citadel Station will cause its owner to appear and berate you for looting his apartment, leaving you to either kill him or leave and apologise. However, even after the apology he does not ask for his stuff back. In fact, the Expanded Universe actually considers one of these moments (from The Sith Lords) as canon. The Jedi Exile can pick up Nihilus's mask, which he drops after being defeated. Thanks to that, Nihilus's spirit in the mask is able to survive and carry on Grand Theft Me much later on. |
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In the sequel, Dishonored 2, this trope continues to be played straight as you can outright loot... your own possessions (technically), as you embezzle royal vaults early in the game while leaving Dunwall. Justified, however — Corvo, for example, outright states that he needs all the cash he can get to bootstrap retaking the throne. Emily is the Empress so when playing as her it's literally her own choice to take whatever she wants. | |
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One chapter of his Final Fantasy X review ends with him looting an apparently endless supply of potions from a chest (one at a time). The next video starts with him still doing this, and he now has a long white beard and wonders why Tidus doesn't just take the whole chest. Later on he turns this into Hypocritical Humor by suggesting that the characters loot the bodies of some disaster victims, pointing out that Tidus apparently has no problem stealing from the living. | |
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The Overlord (2012) LN has an innkeeper remind guests that other people's rooms are off-limits. Perfectly redundant for normal people, but this is a world with a strong resemblance to an MMO, with all the Protagonist-Centered Morality that implies. | |
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PAYDAY 2 - There's a heist named Four Stores in PAYDAY 2 that consists entirely of swiping small valuables such as cash from registers in order to prove a point to a client's competitor. There are usually a few small safes the players can drill if they're so inclined, but it's usually better to just grab the bare minimum and run. | |
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Skyrim: Tries to correct the problem of the walking shopkeepers: now they'll run everywhere to keep you in their sight. This problem can be fixed by... putting a bucket on their heads. Remember, if line-of-sight is obstructed they won't notice missing items, and apparently NPCs in Skyrim are perfectly OK with strangers adorning them with large, heavy items. Skyrim's Thieves Guild also has several different mission types for thieves to complete. Some jobs involve stealing specific items, while some, like "bedlam" jobs, involve just grabbing anything you can steal without getting caught, to remind everyone in the land that the Guild is still around and is not to be messed with. It also makes the player's kleptomaniac tendencies a Justified Trope. The player is Dragonborn, you see, a mortal born with the soul of a dragon. Paarthurnax explains that this not only grants you access to the dragons' Thu'um, but it also makes you prone to draconic personality flaws, like wanting to fight over anything and being driven to dominate - and, apparently, also kinda making you want to gather your own Dragon Hoard. In this case, it could be said all gamers are Dragonborn: killing every monster you come across, completing every quest you come across (including and especially ones that will give you perks like land ownership in return), and taking all the stuff you come across are practically ingrained in gamer culture from the time one can hold a controller. Even if the player completely abstains from the Thieves Guild questlines, or even stealing items in general, much of the Last Dragonborn's income from dungeon crawling amounts to grave robbing. Speaking of dungeon crawling and grave robbing, there's all of one random sidequest where you get called out for this if you loot an ancient burial mound while the mound's owner is right there. An option you can pick to defuse the situation is to reason it's payment for helping him out, since a few ancient knick-knacks and bags of gold is small potatoes to the problem you're helping with (A necromancer trying to raise the man's entire ancestral line), which he begrudgingly accepts. |
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In the Metal Gear series Snake/Raiden can pick up dead bodies and drop them to shake out items, ammo, and sometimes weapons. In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Snake can also hold somebody up by aiming at their back without being noticed and proceeding to frisk them. Snake comments on feeling like a graverobber in the first Solid game. | |
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided plays things similarly to its predecessor. Hacking in front of armed NPCs is still a no-no, but for the most part, unless the player is already in a hostile area they can pick up anything around them with at most a grumble from nearby witnesses. The player can pretty much openly wander around Task Force 29 headquarters hacking computers and stealing anything not nailed down. However, this behavior will eventually attract the attention of the agency's resident white hat hacker, who will call them out on it. Oddly, one of the two arms dealers in Prague does not have their weapon cache designated as a hostile area. This means as long as the dealer and his bodyguards/goons don't see the player actually breaking into the room, they are free to take whatever they want in full view of everyone - they can even turn around and sell the arms dealer his own inventory! Try to take any of the credit chips scattered around the apartment, however... |
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In Fallout: New Vegas, one possible way to handle blundering into a standoff is to say you're just there to loot a room, in which case a thug will tell you to carry on. The Old World Blues encourages kleptomania with the special crafting stations in the Sink, the player's base of operations during the adventure. Various AI NPCs there will convert specific kinds of junk into useful items or crafting components, making empty bottles, burned books or toasters worth looting. |
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Lampshaded in Eternal Sonata, after attempting to take from yet another barrel Polka says: | |
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Nodwick: The adventuring party fits this description. They'll loot anything from a dungeon, including the statuary. This is not appreciated by their poor henchman Nodwick, who invariably has to schlep several tons of worthless junk back home. (In this reality, henchmen have Super-Strength, but only when lifting things that their employers designate as "loot".) | |
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Undertale normally averts this by not allowing the player to pick up any object that isn't a healing food item, weapon, armor or the occasional key, and many residences cannot be entered by the player at all. However, in a Genocide Run, you can enter shops whose keepers have fled, and the normal "Buy" and "Sell" options will be replaced with "Take" and "Steal." One note tries to dissuade you from just taking their stuff, but even having that option available means you've already committed more serious crimes. | |
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Fortnite is about as bad as this as Terraria listed below. You can explicitly break into people's houses, search their beds, shelves and appliances for items or traps, break said appliances down for resources, and then tear the whole house down to its foundations... Then dig up the foundation, too. But then again, 90% of the world population is gone and you are running one of the only safehouses, atleast in the co-op mode. You can do much of the same in Battle Royale, but the closing storm and the fact that other players can find you by the trail of disappearing buildings do put a damper on things. |
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Beast from the Uncanny X-Men is developing into quite the thief as he's taken to helping himself to a Battle Trophy or two, such as the 2nd Silver Samurai's katana, and also he'll steal interesting pieces of technology. Thieving X-Men like Gambit and Fantomex get a kick out of stealing anything that's not nailed down and in some comics, Domino will take the time to loot enemy locations for money and valuable items. | |
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Red Dead Redemption allows you to loot dead bodies for money. In fact, one side mission has you chasing down a bandit for stealing from the general store in Armadillo: if you choose to kill him, you search the man's body and return the stolen money to the owner. Also, you may open chests and drawers pretty much anywhere they're present (yielding you money and ammo), but if you do so outside of your safe houses, you get a wanted level for stealing, no matter if someone saw you or not. | |
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Epic Battle Fantasy 3, being an Affectionate Parody of RPGs, naturally lampshades this when Natalie gets annoyed at how Matt and Lance steal everything that's not nailed down. Eventually, she gives up trying, and 4 takes this trope to its logical extreme; they are making a living as common bandits. Naturally, newcomer Anna gets annoyed with the others' kleptomania as well. | |
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The Mother 2 manga mocks gamers who walk around pressing A in front of everything on this page◊. (The third panel shows Ness trying to "Check" the drawer, with the text "No problem here" on the bottom, imitating the game's verbage.) | |
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Spoony sometimes makes fun of this in games, such as during his review of Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh — in which the main character is an office worker. | |
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In the Glory of Heracles series your party members will reprimand you if you try to steal stuff from people's homes. Choosing to steal anyway will lead to punishment, with severity depending on the game. | |
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Dave Lister from Red Dwarf has a tendency to steal things. In his backstory, he has stolen cars and the contents of an entire hotel room and during the series proper, he's stolen Rimmer's shirt, a bottle of champagne from his future self, and Adolf Hitler's briefcase. | |
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In Fable, you'll be arrested if you pick up an item belonging to someone else. Since shopkeepers display their items on counters, accidentally picking one up instead of interacting with the owner happens annoyingly often. You'll have to go into stealth mode to try and satisfy your kleptomania. Getting the shopkeepers drunk helps with the shoplifting process. Owning the shop does too. |
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If Josh from Let's Game It Out can steal in games, expect it to be amusing. Especially in Hydroneer where he consistently figures out ways to shoplift despite the developers adding patches to prevent this, to the point when they add an in-game "Wanted!" Poster for him. | |
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Pokémon Tarnished Gold is a Creepypasta about a copy of Pokémon Gold where the rival, Silver is now the protagonist. Since Silver already did canonically steal his Starter Mon, he is depicted as one of these, with him gaining most key items by stealing them, often after a Hopeless Boss Fight. | |
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Silent Hill does this as well. Survival Horror Rule: If it ain't pre-rendered, it's important. Good thing the protagonists have a Hyperspace Arsenal (bar a few glaring exceptions). Parodied in the third game: You can find an item in a toilet, but Heather (understandably) refuses to touch it. |
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In Dragon Age: Origins, it's more prevalent if you're a rogue, but there are still plenty of chests and dead bodies to loot. It's mostly played straight, but you're occasionally called on it. If you fail a pickpocketing save you may be confronted by the authorities, and the mad hermit in the forest will attack if you try to steal from him. And if you steal in Haven the town turns hostile. Bonus points for picking the locked chest in the estate of Arl Eamon (a nobleman you're staying with) while he silently watches. In the Mage Origin, you can take a black magic staff from the repository. You can admit to taking it or lying about it when asked by First Enchanter, and if you admit it, you can give it back or insist on keeping it. Lampshaded in both of the sequels. In Dragon Age II, while this is still the case, an encounter with a former companion of the Warden namely Zevran has them encourage you to finish looting the bodies before initiating the cutscene, and in Dragon Age: Inquisition Sera snarks that Grey Wardens were mostly "an excuse for your stuff to go missing". |
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Wain in Lufia: The Legend Returns can waltz into shops through the back door and take anything in the chests behind the counter. Oh, and he can take an engagement ring from a person he just watched die during their wedding! | |
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In Dragon Quest, the guard of the royal treasury says, "A real hero wouldn't steal." But he doesn't do anything to stop you. | |
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Slayers is an Affectionate Parody of RPGs and the protagonist Lina Inverse did this often. Although she said it didn't belong to the bandits she stole from in the first place, later she mentions feeling an itch to attack bandits and steal the loot. | |
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Parodied in the third game: You can find an item in a toilet, but Heather (understandably) refuses to touch it. | |
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In Breath of Fire III, if Nina is in the party and Rei tries to search her room in the castle, she stops him demanding to know why he thinks he is allowed to do so. His response is, "You know I am a thief". (In fact, the main character has this excuse as well, since he was also raised by thieves.) This is especially notable as the game allows the characters to search every single shelf, bookshelf, wardrobe, cabinet, shipping crate and trunk in the entire game, often yielding small amounts of cash and early-game items. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: In the Living City campaign, gold was in such short supply at one point that some players began cutting locks out of doors, in order to sell them for extra money. The trope is discouraged, however, in the third edition sourcebook Oriental Adventures, which includes an honor system that penalizes those who steal from the dead. The original Tomb of Horrors had adamant and mythril doors, to prevent you from trying to break them down. Enterprising players realized that if they could pry these doors off their hinges, they could sell them for an amazing sum. The remake, therefore, goes into great detail to explain that the doors are just magically hardened to be as strong as adamant and mythril, but are actually made of ordinary cheap metals. Dragonlance attempted to avert this with the Kender. When creating the setting, they realized that they had to have room for a Good race that specialized in the Thief class, but if a race (like halflings) was composed of career thieves, then why would the other Good races let them be around? Their solution was to create a race that had no concept of ownership, and stole things for fidgeting or fun without any malicious intent. Ironically, this created one of the most loathed races ever, because while a halfling will steal from enemies out of practicality, a kender will steal from anyone for no reason, and while the Kender might mean no harm by their thieving behavior, a player could easily use their tendencies as an excuse to act like a Jerkass toward their party members. Add in the fact that said characters also try to cause as much trouble as possible (because the character is "bored"), and are near useless in diplomatic and puzzle-solving situations, and they have the reputation of being the most annoying character concepts for other players at the table to have to deal with. Players who want to create Kenders often forget that the original authors wrote their Kender character to be tolerated by the other members of his group by author fiat; no such guarantee is in play for the other players at the table. Half-kender is in the spot of having a worse in-universe reputation, but being better off in terms of not being disruptive at the table — they get the kender finger-filching curiosity, but the human ability to recognise the concept of ownership and a longer attention span. The end effect is a race regarded as "stealth kender" (acting like kender, but not looking like one so you know to protect your things), but in reality more likely to resist the urge to just pick up things, and if they don't significantly more likely to remember where they picked it up and put it back. |
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Vow of Nudity: Since Haara doesn't wear clothes, she's often forced to loot useful items from buildings, vehicles, or campsites when the situation calls for something she can't craft with her woodworking proficiency. She also frequently must steal a dropped weapon when her current one gets confiscated or destroyed. | |
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Lampshaded in a dialogue choice in Fallout 2: | |
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In Fallout 3, stealing anything "owned" by another character will make you lose karma points (unless said owners are slavers, in which case you aren't punished), and if the owner catches you doing it, they'll take back what you stole. Do it enough and they'll attack you. Then their neighbors will also call you out for it. Thankfully, balancing out the karma loss is as easy as giving drinking water to beggars until you're considered a good guy again. | |
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...But in Fallout 4, total kleptomania is back with a vengeance. Everything in the Commonwealth can be broken down for scrap and used to build weapon mods or settlements, so after clearing a site of raiders or mutants, you'll probably find yourself returning to collect every last broken telephone, clipboard or toy car. Granted, some materials (like wood and steel) are so ubiquitous you'll ignore them before long to focus on the rarer stuff. The games even has a feature where you'll select which base components to search for, and any object made of them it specially marked. Your companions will lampshade your kleptomania, and you can even come across enemy NPCs marveling over some nutcase they ran into who collected desk fans. | |
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Prisoner of Ice stars a Lieutenant in the British Royal Navy investigating a Lovecraftian mystery involving ice-covered crates and an insane man who's babbling nonsense. Apparently, this requires the Lieutenant to repeatedly commit theft in his own base. | |
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Breath of Fire In the original Breath Of Fire, there was a chest in Auria that, when opened, caused the homeowner to call the cops on you. You could never take the contents. Another woman in the same town asks, "What are you doing in my house?" when you talk to her. It's presented as a town of rich people, which might explain why everyone's so touchy about you touching their stuff. In Breath of Fire III, if Nina is in the party and Rei tries to search her room in the castle, she stops him demanding to know why he thinks he is allowed to do so. His response is, "You know I am a thief". (In fact, the main character has this excuse as well, since he was also raised by thieves.) This is especially notable as the game allows the characters to search every single shelf, bookshelf, wardrobe, cabinet, shipping crate and trunk in the entire game, often yielding small amounts of cash and early-game items. Breath of Fire IV subverts this; while you can still swipe things out of drawers, it causes you to lose "Game Points", which are vital for the main character's Dragon forms. |
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In the first chapter of the first scenario of Shining Force III, your party's stay in the floating city of Saraband goes somewhat sour and you're forced to take refuge in the nearby village of Balsamo. Upon entering the house next to the inn, Synbios is immediately confronted by one of the residents who is sick to the back teeth of troops letting themselves in, searching and making a mess, but curiously makes no mention of them taking anything (though it could be implied). She does, however, back down and let Synbios do as he likes because he's "kind of cute", as long as he promises "not to make a mess"... allowing Synbios to read their books, and liberate the residents of 5 gold coins from the adjacent shelf. | |
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The Borderlands series has chests/safes/boxes/lockers you can open and loot the ammo/gun(s)/money stored inside. Then there's the ammo in the refrigerators, mailboxes, washing machines...and toilets (giving a new meaning to the term "ammo dump"!)... Lampshaded by the New Haven resident standing outside the gun shop, who complains that his gun is missing, and notes, "Seems like a lot of things have gone missing lately. Makes you wonder." In fact, Claptrap's New Robot Revolution happens because the Vault Hunters' constant looting and selling have ruined Pandora's economy, thus leading Hyperion to hire the Interplanetary Ninja Assassin Claptrap to take care of the problem. |
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Resident Evil is literally built around this trope. In this series, a key has the exact same potential for unlocking a new area as, say, a bag of fertilizer, but it can be justified since many games happen during a Zombie Apocalypse, and you can argue that during one, taking things scattered around is not really stealing, and some games take place in seemingly abandoned locations. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: In The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, a Wind Tribe lady tells you she has so many Kinstones she wishes somebody would take some, explaining why you can go through her house, at least. Doesn't explain how you got away with all the thieving and vandalism you will have inevitably done already though... The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess does try to break Link's habit of taking anything that isn't nailed down and guarded by Hyrule's entire army. You can walk up to the stand selling apples and take one, but Link will say he sees better looking apples at another stand and put the one he has back. If you go to the other stand he'll say the other ones look better, so you'll never actually get an apple. Of course he still destroys every pot and loots every treasure chest he can get his hands on. Subverted in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. When you enter the house of a wealthy man on Windfall Island you are confronted with a row of beautiful expensive vases that even sparkle! However, if you smash one, not only do you not find an item hidden within, you are also chastised by the owner of the vases and warned to not break any more. If you do, not only do you not get any rupees, you are forced to pay a fee relative to the number of vases you destroyed. If you wreck all his jars and you have no money to pay, he'll be more upset that he has to pay to replace the vases with his own money. When it comes to Link, it's best if you just act like nothing happened...◊ In The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening it is possible to steal from the shopkeeper near the starting location by making him look away and then run out. However the game immediately reminds you that stealing is bad and you should feel guilty now. If you go into the shop again, the shopkeeper will kill you with a Death Ray - also, everyone in the village will call you thief from now on. Additionally, if you try going through things in people's houses, Marin will call you out on it, asking if you always look in other people's drawers. The very first puzzle in The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass requires you to break into and rob the treasure vault of the kindly old man who just took you in, thus gaining an item necessary for you to travel north and kill wildlife in order to reach the town to the east. Why? Because it's better than waiting for a Broken Bridge to be fixed. In fact, when you make it to the town, the bridge is already fixed. Nice going. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword tries to break this habit as well. You can open the cabinet in your Knight Academy dorm room for a free blue Rupee, but opening other people's cabinets rewards you with the message "You really shouldn't look through other people's things..."note If you look in Zelda's cabinet late in the game, there is a heart piece. But this is long after all the other times you get scolded for looking in people's cabinets. Since the surface has been going through an apocalypse for a few thousand years at this point in the timeline, there are no houses to vandalize, but you can break the pots in an ancient temple holding something very, very important and plot-related (protip: one of them always contains a fairy). There are hardly any pots in the residential quarters of Skyloft. Even sitting in other people's chairs gets you called out (Gortram scolds you for sitting in his chair, Fi says that you really should find that thing you were looking for before you take a rest). Most notably, breaking the chandelier with the heart piece on it in the Lumpy Pumpkin gets you a hilarious facial expression from the owner, a good talking-to, and unpaid work until you pay the thing off. There is an actual canon justification for the kleptomania, however, from Minish Cap. Link isn't actually stealing anything other than the pots themselves; there are tiny gnomes invisible to adults that hide money, useful items, and treasure under grass and bushes, in pots, and in chests for heroes to find, including pots, chests, and bushes belonging to other people. Not in all cases, however, as with the woman who hides rupees behind a Concealing Canvas safe in A Link to the Past. In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, shockingly valuable items such as fancy weapons and chests full of rupees can be found in spots where civilians were obviously having them stored, yet Link can loot them nonetheless. It's at least justified at the Stables, where the managers say that they leave useful items laying nearby for travelers. A recurring method of discovering hidden Koroks involves placing an item in an empty offering bowl which is usually located with several others containing the item that needs to be offered, usually an apple. It's petty, but there's nothing stopping Link from taking the rest of the offered goods once he's been granted the Korok Seed. |
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Mass Effect does this in a bigger way than most: once you look inside a container, it is literally impossible to exit the container interface without looting everything inside. Curious players that look inside other people's things are forced to steal everything! Naturally, no one ever cares, but given the roleplay-centric emphasis of the game, it's rather surprising to run into such an immersion-breaker. People also never seem to mind if you hack their computers or FIRE YOUR GUNS WILDLY IN THE AIR. Granted, Spectres aren't held responsible by the law, but still, you'd expect some citizens to have a reaction to you stealing their stuff, or get scared of the mad man firing guns randomly into crowded areas (sadly you can't shoot anybody that isn't a hostile). It gets very, very odd in the sequel, which has streamlined the loot system to involve only credits, medigel, metals, and research plans. Lootable safes, PDAs, and computers containing credits are everywhere, and the game mechanic that rewards taking the time to hack them open continues to be at odds with immersion. In one of the first planets, you enter a quarantine zone with a lot of empty apartments. Most players loot everything in sight. At one point you can even convince some refugees that you are here to rescue them, then hack their safe while they watch silently. Then you come across some other looters, who you can chastise for being despicable looters. You then proceed to a medical clinic set up for the plague victims. A background character comments on the despicable looters and their despicableness. You can then proceed to swipe valuable metals and medigel from the clinic, all without anyone batting an eyelid. A lampshade hanging is all but expected but never occurs. Perhaps the writers meant to keep this bit of Hypocritical Humor deliciously subtle. You also never get called out for scavenging credits from a ship belonging to the poorest race in the galaxy, even by a member of said race who has to be on that mission, although given that without your involvement they'd be blowing it out of the sky to protect the rest of the Flotilla, maybe they just feel it's fair payment for services rendered. And sometimes it's just strange, period. One mission involves exploring ancient ruins of a long-abandoned Quarian colony. In one room you find an "ancient wall safe"—which has, yes, credits in it. It gets parodied later on though, when you run into Conrad Verner. Mass Effect 2: Research activities require mining planets and collecting the metals necessary to buy upgrades, which you do by scanning planets and firing off probes—regardless of whether the worlds are colonized or who actually owns the mining rights. Though since Cerberus are terrorists involved in everything from torturing autistic men to control the Geth, to genocide of aliens, why would they worry about a piddly little thing like that? Parodied in the Kasumi DLC, where part of her loyalty quest involves searching through a room for DNA samples. You can look through the couch; you don't find DNA, but you do find a credit chit. Worth one credit. Shepard pockets it anyway. Continues into Mass Effect 3, although thoughtfully, if you miss some of the items you can pilfer, you can buy most of them at the Spectre terminal later. Since you get an XP payout for grabbing medigel when your stockpiles are full, you actually level up faster by robbing the first-aid kits in areas under heavy attack! On one occasion, you do run into a krogan who chews you out for taking his shotgun, but he decides to loan it to you, then thoughtfully bites it in the next cutscene. And eventually parodied in the Citadel DLC, where, while fighting through the hijacked Normandy, you can "Salvage" the favorite coffee cup of one of your own security guards for three credits. |
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Continues into Mass Effect 3, although thoughtfully, if you miss some of the items you can pilfer, you can buy most of them at the Spectre terminal later. Since you get an XP payout for grabbing medigel when your stockpiles are full, you actually level up faster by robbing the first-aid kits in areas under heavy attack! On one occasion, you do run into a krogan who chews you out for taking his shotgun, but he decides to loan it to you, then thoughtfully bites it in the next cutscene. And eventually parodied in the Citadel DLC, where, while fighting through the hijacked Normandy, you can "Salvage" the favorite coffee cup of one of your own security guards for three credits. |
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In Mega Man Star Force, Geo frequently pilfers battle cards, computer backgrounds, and the like from random items around the place, including the houses of his closest friends. Also, some releases swap the Game-Breaker Blank Cards with money, including the ones hidden in Bud's and Zack's bedrooms, leading to a situation where Geo is basically stealing $20 bills from them. | |
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Eldin in Lufia: The Ruins of Lore can find a hefty chunk of change hidden in a naughty book. He can also find three bags of money in some bushes. Bushes...that are right next to three graves. | |
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In BioShock, the player's character at one point can eat a candy bar on a table next to a Little Sister, in Tenebaum's safe house. The Little Sister says "That's mine!" in a quiet, indignant voice. If you eat the other candy bar on the table, she loudly says "Hey!" You can also loot just about any dead body (including what is presumably the corpse of your own mother) and their weapons, as well as any container, from crates, suitcases, handbags, cabinets, shelves, safes, cash registers... makes you wonder exactly what memories your character had "tattooed into his mind" when he was administered the mental programming plasmid. At one point in Haphaestus, Andrew Ryan will mock you for wandering around his city, breaking and looting. |
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Horse Tales Emerald Valley Ranch, for the sake of verisimilitude, has gardens and neatly tied woodpiles in NPCs' yards. However, it doesn't have the NPCs react in any way when you take their stuff (and doing so is more-or-less required to start your own farms, because there are no shops). This is justified in the case of blueprints, however- the local craftswoman is an eccentric sort who explicitly gives you permission to take the blueprints she's stored in chests everywhere, because she won't be able to find them again and you will make good use of them. | |
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The Perils of Akumos: After stealing just about everything you see, you really shouldn't be surprised once a shady cabal approach you to join their illegal dealings. | |
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Calamity can hardly resist the urge to scavenge every single container he comes across. Everyone in his posse lampshades it at least once, including himself. This isn't that different from how many people play the Fallout games. | |
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In The Sims 3, a sim with the Kleptomaniac trait will steal anything they can get their hands on. There's even a lifetime wish for 50,000 simoleons worth of stolen goods. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening it is possible to steal from the shopkeeper near the starting location by making him look away and then run out. However the game immediately reminds you that stealing is bad and you should feel guilty now. If you go into the shop again, the shopkeeper will kill you with a Death Ray - also, everyone in the village will call you thief from now on. Additionally, if you try going through things in people's houses, Marin will call you out on it, asking if you always look in other people's drawers. | |
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Justified in Skeleton Knight in Another World. The protagonist, while raiding the stronghold of a rich slave-trader, comes accross his gold reserves (read: a huge pallet of gold boullion). He pilfers the whole thing so the slaver can't pay any of his minions or hire mercenaries. | |
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In Infocom's Trinity, you actually have to steal a gnomon off a sundial in the middle of a crowded Kensington Gardens. | |
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Appears more or less constantly in Neverwinter Nights; occasionally they have characters who will tell you you can take whatever you want, but just as often someone will be sitting there talking quite amiably with the man/elf/gnome/whatever who just klepto'd everything he owned that could fit handily in a Bag of Holding. In the expansion Hordes of the Underdark, stealing items in certain areas results in an alignment shift towards Chaotic, which depending on your class choices can range from harmless to absolutely devastating. (For example, you can only level in paladin and monk classes if you are lawful.) In the sequel you can pick pocket very good items from various characters who show no concern if they catch you. |
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Kazuma from KonoSuba might be one of these as one of the first skills he learnt upon being reincarnated was "Steal" which he has used to pluck flying cabbages from the sky, acquire a Dullahan's head in the middle of a battle and grab the underwear from women. | |
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Magical Circle Guru-Guru: The "hero" actually introduces another character who wants to be a hero to the idea of stealing herbs from homes, which backfires on the second character. This anime plays with other tropes, including a scene at the end where the characters defeat everything except the final boss, then leave without fighting him. The manga does defeat the final boss, in a much longer story. The "hero" (male protagonist) obtained the title "Hero/Brave" from the king using an ancient artifact to determine who will be the hero to find the GuruGuru Mage and defeats the revived Big Bad, and thought that the title is his job, but later in the story, when the protagonists have to do a job test, the person giving the test states that "Hero" is not a job, but a title, and guess what, the hero's job is "Thief". |
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RuneScape: There's a house in inhabited by an old man who will scold PCs for breaking and entering, then kick them out before they get the chance to do any looting. There's a thieving SKILL, but it doesn't help in that case, and for example, trying to steal from a stall while the owner of said stall is right in front of you will only result in him screaming for guards, and you have to wait before you can sell what you stole. It's a great skill to have in general, though, and can be used to crack safes, pick locks, and unlock many non-violent alternatives in a few chests... which almost invariably leads to the player stealing everything in sight. |
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Since Knights of the Dinner Table is about a group of tabletop RPG players that embody almost all gaming tropes, this trope is par for the course. It's probably best captured in one of the early strips, "Five Green Towels", in which the group has their first adventure since acquiring a Bag of Holding and strip the dungeon of everything — including the furniture, soiled handkerchiefs and toenail clippings. | |
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In Final Fantasy IX, The Hero is a thief, so he's naturally kleptomaniac. A notable example however goes to Vivi, a child Black Mage who can spend his intoduction chapter looting multiple stuff from other people's gardens, shelves, beds, displays, and even their chimneys. This includes the infamous "Grandma's Savings", amounting to a measly 9 gil. Nobody minds you stealing from the old lady, and you're never punished, not even by Granny herself who is standing across you at the time. | |
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The Adventure Zone: Balance's Tres Horny Boys are almost always up to steal whatever they can. Notably, Taako loots Merle's dead cousin's corpse for shoes while Magnus distracts Merle. | |
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Journey to Chaos: The Dragon's Lair Mercenary company has codified this trope. Rule number 6 is "not all that glitters is gold but it could still be worth a lot of money" and number 7 follows "so grab it (gold) whenever you can". | |
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Pretty much all of the Hitman games have Agent 47 be this when collecting items. Most of the items you collect are, of course, used for knocking people out or killing them, but the later games do let you pick up intel and certain objects to help further your goals. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword tries to break this habit as well. You can open the cabinet in your Knight Academy dorm room for a free blue Rupee, but opening other people's cabinets rewards you with the message "You really shouldn't look through other people's things..."note If you look in Zelda's cabinet late in the game, there is a heart piece. But this is long after all the other times you get scolded for looking in people's cabinets. Since the surface has been going through an apocalypse for a few thousand years at this point in the timeline, there are no houses to vandalize, but you can break the pots in an ancient temple holding something very, very important and plot-related (protip: one of them always contains a fairy). There are hardly any pots in the residential quarters of Skyloft. Even sitting in other people's chairs gets you called out (Gortram scolds you for sitting in his chair, Fi says that you really should find that thing you were looking for before you take a rest). Most notably, breaking the chandelier with the heart piece on it in the Lumpy Pumpkin gets you a hilarious facial expression from the owner, a good talking-to, and unpaid work until you pay the thing off. | |
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Dragon Quest Builders: You can take everything, including the kitchen sink. Furniture, plants, decorations, ovens, forges, the contents of treasure chests and the chests themselves... You can even take the doors and windows from buildings, hell you can take the entire building, from floor to roof!(After breaking it down into parts, that is.) | |
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John in So You Aren't As Human As You Thought You Were steals lab equipment from his university, and Tupperware from IKEA, among other things. | |
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Parodied in College Saga. In his dorm room, the hero acquires items "Roommate's Car Key", "Roommate's Passport" and "Roommate's Credit Card". And then the roommate attacks the party for being thieves. | |
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Lampshaded in the first Discworld CD ROM game. Rincewind needs to help himself to virtually everything that can be moved in every location he visits as most of them will prove useful later on. If you speak to Nobby the City Watchman at the gate during Act I, he mentions there's been a few strange thefts around town recently. | |
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With a single exception in Dragon Quest IV. Rummaging through a dresser leads to you being framed and imprisoned. Just that one dresser though, as you can spend the rest of the game raiding people's private property. | |
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Leads to a bit of Fridge Hilarity in Dragon Quest IX which introduced cabinets, pots, dressers and chests that respawn. Someone's replacing everything you stole and you just keep coming back for more. Truly the Celestrian is king of Kleptomaniac Heroes. | |
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In Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King, most houses have a treasure chest ripe for the taking, and no one cares if you make off with all of it. Grandpa actually lampshades this by saying that the hero "loves taking things that don't belong to her!" | |
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In Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura it is very very rewarding to play as a thief. Once you get your skills high enough, everything is yours for the taking. That shop is selling magickal weapons at cutthroat prices? Wait until it's dark, turn on prowling, break in, lockpick the shop's chest and its entire inventory is yours for the taking. If they're silly enough to leave their gold in there you can take that too. Oh and shops change inventory with each passing day. So you can keep doing this again and again to basically get infinite potions/scrolls/whatever you want for free. Handily enough this applies to their gold as well. You'll be disgustingly rich in no time. Pickpocket is also great. Don't want to be someone's errand boy? With a high level you can literally steal the clothes(and weapons and jewelry and boots and...) off of someone without them noticing. This applies to their unique and powerful equipment and quest relevant items. | |
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The very first puzzle in The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass requires you to break into and rob the treasure vault of the kindly old man who just took you in, thus gaining an item necessary for you to travel north and kill wildlife in order to reach the town to the east. Why? Because it's better than waiting for a Broken Bridge to be fixed. In fact, when you make it to the town, the bridge is already fixed. Nice going. | |
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Knight Bewitched: While the party opens chests regardless of who the owner might be, Uno goes a step further when he reveals that he stole Halonia's legendary Sylvans sword shortly after Alduin and the king arrested Ruth. | |
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The Elder Scrolls Daggerfall: Has a few interesting takes on this trope. Most houses are locked, with doors that can be picked or bashed in (the former sometimes attracts guards, the latter always does). In both locked and unlocked buildings, one might find untended piles of random loot on the floor (which can be taken without consequence), and crates (which can be broken into, but raise a "This is a crime, are you sure you want to?" prompt on attempting). Daggerfall plays with this trope in shops, where "Steal" is an option next to "Buy". If the low success rate on such thefts isn't to your liking, it is also possible to break in after the shop closes, to clear off the shelves like any other inventory. Or, for no risk at all, it's possible to loiter inside a shop until after it closes and loot to your heart's content. Morrowind: Despite some measures (like alert shopkeepers and guards being posted in some higher-value shops) being put into place, this is still pretty much encouraged by the game itself. (Which is especially true for those in the actual Thieves' Guild.) Unlike later games in the series, all merchants will buy stolen goods (unless you stole it from THEM, in which case they will recognize it as theirs.) The items will be marked as stolen, so they will be confiscated by guards if you are caught. However, dropping the stolen items on the ground before the guard gets to you will prevent them from being confiscated. Simply pick them back up after you've paid your bounty and you're good to go. Unfortunately, a quirk of the game engine discourages stealing stuff that isn't unique or gold (which doesn't count for this): instead of marking a specific instance of an item as stolen, it marks the base item as stolen — in other words, steal a Grand Soul Gem, and all Grand Soul Gems you acquire are regarded as stolen. Luckily, if you avoid run-ins with the law (or, as mentioned above, drop your stolen items before talking to the guards,) this is largely a non-issue unless you attempt to sell the stolen items back to the person you stole them from. The Census and Excise office where you start the game has a built-in area out of sight where the player will acquire their first weapon, lockpicks, food, beverages, light source, and book. Even better, until you are officially released by the Captain and given your orders, you will not get a bounty for anything you steal in plain sight of the guards. Simply pick up anything you wish to steal and then set it on the ground before the guard gets to you. He'll reprimand you for stealing it, but there are no other consequences. Simply pick the stolen item back up when you're done and it's yours! You can acquire a very valuable Limeware Platter and a key to the Seyda Neen warehouse, which contains even more stuff to steal, with this method. It's entirely possible that the only merchant in town won't have enough gold to buy it all from you, necessitating some bartering. An early Balmora Mages Guild quest will have Ajira call the resident enchanter Galbedeir down to the bottom floor so you can switch out one of her soul gems with a fake. This leaves every other soul gem (including one filled grand soul gem worth 60,000 gold) completely unguarded. The only draw back to stealing them is that Galbedeir will recognize ALL soul gems as stolen after that point, so you will no longer be able to use her enchanting service. The very first Ald-Ruhn Thieves Guild quest will have you stealing an item from the neighboring Mages Guild. All of the mages inside will clear out, leaving only one inept guard who is easily killed by even the lowest leveled players. The mages will stay gone until you complete the quest, so feel free to loot the entire place from top to bottom, making several trips if you have to. With the Telekinesis spell (or potion or enchanted item), it's possible to hide behind any object or wall and steal everything off a shop's shelves, and the shopkeeper won't mind as long as he doesn't see you - despite the items vanishing into thin air right in front of his eyes and you being the only other person in the shop. Oblivion: Contains a large number of items that can be stolen and sold for money. However, stolen items can only be sold to special "fence" NPCs (how a shopkeeper can suspect that an item is stolen when you got from a little shack in the middle of the forest at the other side of the world is another matter entirely), and if an NPC sees you stealing an item he will call the guards, who will try to arrest you. Additionally, the game world contains great amounts of "clutter" — items which may have theoretical value to the NPCs who own and use them but have no resale value, so that the protagonist cannot make money from looting them. This fact spawned several user-made modifications, which "corrected" this mistake. The game tries to make stealing in shops harder than in Morrowind by making shopkeepers walk around in order to keep you in sight at all times. Note the word used is walk - not run; the shopkeepers are all very slow, so the player can just time thefts carefully and the shopkeeper will be none the wiser. This can in fact be exploited in larger shops with staircases or other natural barriers - you can lead the merchant away from their items to a spot where they can't see take them, then run back quickly and steal it all. The items are also often kept in close proximity to the shopkeeper's main shelf, so that there's no way in which you can steal them without getting noticed. However, merely hitting said objects with an arrow will launch them away, so you can just get them somewhere the shopkeeper can't see, then quickly run there and steal everything before he can walk in visual range. Or just come in when the shop keep is asleep/away... like a real thief. The Thieves Guild encourages (and sort of forces) you to be this. The only way to advance in rank and get more quests is to prove your worth as a thief by fencing a certain amount of gold worth of stolen stuff. Unless you like taking risks (or have access to accessories to give you 100% Chameleon) you won't be finding many high-value items, so you'll make most of your cash by grabbing any "owned" item of value that isn't nailed down. Skyrim: Tries to correct the problem of the walking shopkeepers: now they'll run everywhere to keep you in their sight. This problem can be fixed by... putting a bucket on their heads. Remember, if line-of-sight is obstructed they won't notice missing items, and apparently NPCs in Skyrim are perfectly OK with strangers adorning them with large, heavy items. Skyrim's Thieves Guild also has several different mission types for thieves to complete. Some jobs involve stealing specific items, while some, like "bedlam" jobs, involve just grabbing anything you can steal without getting caught, to remind everyone in the land that the Guild is still around and is not to be messed with. It also makes the player's kleptomaniac tendencies a Justified Trope. The player is Dragonborn, you see, a mortal born with the soul of a dragon. Paarthurnax explains that this not only grants you access to the dragons' Thu'um, but it also makes you prone to draconic personality flaws, like wanting to fight over anything and being driven to dominate - and, apparently, also kinda making you want to gather your own Dragon Hoard. In this case, it could be said all gamers are Dragonborn: killing every monster you come across, completing every quest you come across (including and especially ones that will give you perks like land ownership in return), and taking all the stuff you come across are practically ingrained in gamer culture from the time one can hold a controller. Even if the player completely abstains from the Thieves Guild questlines, or even stealing items in general, much of the Last Dragonborn's income from dungeon crawling amounts to grave robbing. Speaking of dungeon crawling and grave robbing, there's all of one random sidequest where you get called out for this if you loot an ancient burial mound while the mound's owner is right there. An option you can pick to defuse the situation is to reason it's payment for helping him out, since a few ancient knick-knacks and bags of gold is small potatoes to the problem you're helping with (A necromancer trying to raise the man's entire ancestral line), which he begrudgingly accepts. |
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In Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous outside of occasional plot-points, it's assumed the player will steal everything not nailed down without anyone objecting. This dissonance is made apparent early in both games. In the first discussion is held over whether to take gold from their ally's armory, but none is required over whether it's right to solve a statue puzzle to open up and loot their secret treasure vault. In the second the player is encouraged to call someone out for robbing a corpse that they are most likely either about to or have already looted themselves without comment. | |
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The Pokémon video games practically require the main character to take whatever they can find. Sometimes it has to be taken to move forwards in the plot. A quite odd example comes from the item Leftovers. This incredibly rare item makes your Pokémon recover a certain percentage of its HP every turn. How do you find it? By searching in a trash can. Or where a Snorlax was sitting. Ewwwww... At least later generations put the focus less on stealing, but random NPCs tend to be strangely generous to someone who just barged into their house, and anything outside of houses is still fair game. In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 the player can get a medal for checking out enough empty trash cans just to see if there was something inside them. |
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Mother 3 goes as far as placing presents out in the open that... fart. If you're lucky they might play some new music or launch some fireworks. It also subverts this on two occasions, but both with the same item. In Chapters 2 and 3, one of the Tazmily Village residents is given a big bag of money by Fassad, which he then puts in the well. You can then walk up to the well and take it...only for the game to tell you that you put it right back. Justified in that at that particular part of the game, in Chapter 2, you live in a society where money is pretty much nonexistent, and in Chapter 3, you're being controlled by Fassad who would probably shock you into next Tuesday if you took it before he was ready. |
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Atelier Annie actually inverts this trope. Your friends will drop by your workshop to chat and request things of you, and many of them visit by breaking in while you're out or busy and often raid your pantry for snacks in the process. Kyle is the greatest B&E offender, while Beaux holds the food-stealing crown. | |
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In the sequel you can pick pocket very good items from various characters who show no concern if they catch you. | |
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Averted in Planescape: Torment. NPCs will be confused and offended when you casually walk into their house with your armored entourage, and will attack you if they see you swiping their stuff. Some of them even put traps on their various containers to prevent. Seems a bit paranoid, though the apparent lack of door locks to their houses might explain it. Also you cannot sell stolen goods. At all. Even if they were stolen on another plan of existence, every shop-owner in the universe will somehow tell and refuse to accept them. That leaves you with the option to sell them gear obtained otherwise, then steal it back to make it trully yours. | |
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Subverted in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. When you enter the house of a wealthy man on Windfall Island you are confronted with a row of beautiful expensive vases that even sparkle! However, if you smash one, not only do you not find an item hidden within, you are also chastised by the owner of the vases and warned to not break any more. If you do, not only do you not get any rupees, you are forced to pay a fee relative to the number of vases you destroyed. If you wreck all his jars and you have no money to pay, he'll be more upset that he has to pay to replace the vases with his own money. When it comes to Link, it's best if you just act like nothing happened...◊ | |
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In Nox, the character is generally able to destroy and loot anything that's possible to destroy or loot, even in friendly towns and cities. In fact, in one room, the character walks in and a woman says something to the effect of "What are you doing in my house?" But if the character opens a chest, he can take a few hundred gold, and she just stands there. | |
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One particularly nasty treasure chest in the second half of the Sega CD RPG Vay, affectionately named the "Gold Vortex" by translators, will suck away all of the gold you've earned if you're foolish enough to open it. Naturally, it looks like all of the other chests in town, which usually hide good stuff. Guide Dang It!! And the NPC standing right next to the chest specifically tells you not to open it, making it also an example of Schmuck Bait. And if you talk to him after opening it, he scolds you for not listening. |
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In In Strange Woods, the writer/reporter Brett Ryback brushes into this when he takes and opens a private letter from Howl, the subject of his investigation, to Sandra when the latter tells him not to. | |
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Jess is a literal example in Jurassic Park: The Game. She was spending her weekend on the island with her father after committing shoplifting. Throughout the story, she kept on stealing things from other characters, including a pair of binoculars from Hammond, a pack of cigarettes from Dr. Sorkin, and the can of shaving cream containing the dinosaur embryos from Yoder. | |
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Played straight in Chrono Cross. Though there is one instance where this behavior is Lamp Shaded by Karsh, who scolds the player if they try to loot the chest in his room while he's sitting right there. He'll let you loot it, but only after pestering him a lot. The same thing happens on Zoah's room. However, no matter how many times you try, he will not let you open it. Coming back to the mansion and you still can't open it. You must have Zoah on your party in order to open this box because it has his level 7 tech. |
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The Killing Box: Corporal Dawson and the survivors of his unit are fairly plucky characters who are fine with forming a truce with the Union to fight the zombies, but Dawson sheepishly reveals that they looted the bank and several homes in a nearby town. | |
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In Magi-Nation, hero Tony Jones at one point expresses his dissatisfaction that "I go through all the trouble to break into strangers' houses, but there's never anything good inside! Inconsiderate strangers!" | |
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All the Final Fantasy games, although Final Fantasy VII acknowledges this with a gag wherein a homeowner becomes annoyed that Cid has just taken one of the potions in his cabinet. Also in Final Fantasy VII if you don't steal something from a little boy that is sleeping in his bed (you're going to hell for even thinking about it) he gives you something better the next day. Also in Final Fantasy VII: "Hey! Don't come barging into my house and be opening up my freezer! Didn't your mother ever teach you that?" Final Fantasy VIII has a similar scene where an old man berates Squall for stealing his life savings. This is actually a bad thing gameplay-wise, as his house also happens to have a clean-running faucet that functions as an unlimited, free full-heal for your party. If you take his money, he no longer lets you use it. It's worth noting that in the first game, you can take items from Matoya's cave before she gets her crystal eye back. In other words, you're robbing the blind. They attempted to justify it in Final Fantasy VII : Crisis Core by saying that all those treasure chests contained Shinra Property, so as a SOLDIER, it is your job to take them back. A small mission in Crisis Core made Zack get the keys from monsters he accidently set loose (It Makes Sense in Context) and he can take all the loot in the prison cells. There is the option to check the toilets, but Zack refuses, saying "no way is he going to check there". In Final Fantasy IX, The Hero is a thief, so he's naturally kleptomaniac. A notable example however goes to Vivi, a child Black Mage who can spend his intoduction chapter looting multiple stuff from other people's gardens, shelves, beds, displays, and even their chimneys. This includes the infamous "Grandma's Savings", amounting to a measly 9 gil. Nobody minds you stealing from the old lady, and you're never punished, not even by Granny herself who is standing across you at the time. |
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Holy Umbrella gives the player free rein to search people's houses for money and items to take. | |
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Mass Effect 2: Research activities require mining planets and collecting the metals necessary to buy upgrades, which you do by scanning planets and firing off probes—regardless of whether the worlds are colonized or who actually owns the mining rights. Though since Cerberus are terrorists involved in everything from torturing autistic men to control the Geth, to genocide of aliens, why would they worry about a piddly little thing like that? | |
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Spiderweb Software's Geneforge uses a similar system to Avernum. | |
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The eponymous character of Sarab loots his kill in an MMORPG. | |
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Darkest Dungeon has the entire in-game economy built on claiming stuff from dead enemies, treasure chests, random objects in corridors and so on. Of course, as the rightful Heir to the Darkest Estate, most of what your heroes are finding is probably yours to begin with, and the only reason you didn't have it already was because of the thing where your Ancestor woke up Cthulhu and left the entire place a twisted nightmare landscape. You can also have Heroes with the actual Kleptomania trait; it's considered possibly the worst in the game, because Heroes afflicted with Kleptomania 1) make the loot vanish without trace and you're never getting it back, and 2) don't even wait to use inventory items, leading to them continually being bled, blighted, diseased, stressed, afflicted with new and more annoying quirks, maimed or otherwise inconvenienced by whatever it was they stupidly stuck their head into while checking for anything shiny. Notably, Reynauld, one of the starting heroes, always has this Quirk, meaning many players invest in the Sanitarium early to have it "corrected" out of him if they want to use him in any serious manner. | |
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In case 2-4 (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All) Edgeworth manages to grab a life-sized stuffed bear. It doesn't disappear from the room, sure, but the game actually says, "Stuffed bear snatched up by Edgeworth", leading to the hilarious mental image of him wrestling it out the door while Phoenix just stands there and gapes. | |
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The Steep Path Ahead: Luise and Saito pretty much get all their gear this way. Either from the dead they find lying around (though they'll at least bury them) or robbing the people who attack them (usually after a Forced Sleep spell). | |
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Naturally, appears in Adventurers! The homeowner's lack of objection is justified: | |
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The first Simon the Sorcerer game had tons of items you'd accumulate, most of which were used maybe once, and then stayed in your inventory instead of being lost. There are two times in the game where you (thankfully) lose your possessions though, and the assorted crap forms a HUGE pile. | |
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Lampshaded in Lost Odyssey: Innkeepers kindly inform you that everything in their inn is complimentary and you're welcome to take anything you find, despite the fact that you can pull down hundreds of gold, which is several times what it costs to stay there. One wonders how they stay in business. Similarly, in one cozy family home that you stomp into, the mother of the household tells you to keep anything you find stuck in the pots or bookshelves, because her kids like to stash "weird stuff" around. In this context, "weird stuff" means piles of gold coins and useful potions. |
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Morrowind: Despite some measures (like alert shopkeepers and guards being posted in some higher-value shops) being put into place, this is still pretty much encouraged by the game itself. (Which is especially true for those in the actual Thieves' Guild.) Unlike later games in the series, all merchants will buy stolen goods (unless you stole it from THEM, in which case they will recognize it as theirs.) The items will be marked as stolen, so they will be confiscated by guards if you are caught. However, dropping the stolen items on the ground before the guard gets to you will prevent them from being confiscated. Simply pick them back up after you've paid your bounty and you're good to go. Unfortunately, a quirk of the game engine discourages stealing stuff that isn't unique or gold (which doesn't count for this): instead of marking a specific instance of an item as stolen, it marks the base item as stolen — in other words, steal a Grand Soul Gem, and all Grand Soul Gems you acquire are regarded as stolen. Luckily, if you avoid run-ins with the law (or, as mentioned above, drop your stolen items before talking to the guards,) this is largely a non-issue unless you attempt to sell the stolen items back to the person you stole them from. The Census and Excise office where you start the game has a built-in area out of sight where the player will acquire their first weapon, lockpicks, food, beverages, light source, and book. Even better, until you are officially released by the Captain and given your orders, you will not get a bounty for anything you steal in plain sight of the guards. Simply pick up anything you wish to steal and then set it on the ground before the guard gets to you. He'll reprimand you for stealing it, but there are no other consequences. Simply pick the stolen item back up when you're done and it's yours! You can acquire a very valuable Limeware Platter and a key to the Seyda Neen warehouse, which contains even more stuff to steal, with this method. It's entirely possible that the only merchant in town won't have enough gold to buy it all from you, necessitating some bartering. An early Balmora Mages Guild quest will have Ajira call the resident enchanter Galbedeir down to the bottom floor so you can switch out one of her soul gems with a fake. This leaves every other soul gem (including one filled grand soul gem worth 60,000 gold) completely unguarded. The only draw back to stealing them is that Galbedeir will recognize ALL soul gems as stolen after that point, so you will no longer be able to use her enchanting service. The very first Ald-Ruhn Thieves Guild quest will have you stealing an item from the neighboring Mages Guild. All of the mages inside will clear out, leaving only one inept guard who is easily killed by even the lowest leveled players. The mages will stay gone until you complete the quest, so feel free to loot the entire place from top to bottom, making several trips if you have to. With the Telekinesis spell (or potion or enchanted item), it's possible to hide behind any object or wall and steal everything off a shop's shelves, and the shopkeeper won't mind as long as he doesn't see you - despite the items vanishing into thin air right in front of his eyes and you being the only other person in the shop. |
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The Bard from The Bard's Tale insists that he is not this trope, but that he takes items for safekeeping against others of this trope. The narrator doesn't buy it. | |
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In the original Breath Of Fire, there was a chest in Auria that, when opened, caused the homeowner to call the cops on you. You could never take the contents. Another woman in the same town asks, "What are you doing in my house?" when you talk to her. It's presented as a town of rich people, which might explain why everyone's so touchy about you touching their stuff. |
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Averted in Return to Zork, which, unlike the rest of the Zork series, expressly punishes the one act of theft you can commit: taking Pugney's bra box before he says you can have it will cause the Guardian to appear and wipe your inventory to render the game unwinnable. | |
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In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the player character is the head of security for his company. You can run around breaking into offices and stealing all manner of things, but you'll start receiving e-mails concerning the break-ins and eventually realize that you've created a huge web of paranoia and nobody suspects you because you're the head of security who they trust to find the culprit. In fact, they trust you so much they send you the codes to their own offices - making it even easier for you to pick them clean. After you visit the police station, you'll eventually run into a few cops freaking out about the same thing. They're more worried some gangbanger knows where their families live. Aside from that, the game seems to expect you to steal absolutely everything from everyone at all times. note The Karma Meter is apparently solely tied with how many people you kill and all it does is flavor a few lines of the game's ending monologue. Basically, if you're allowed to be standing where you are, you have unlimited rights to anything you can get your hands on short of attacking and hacking. At one point you are in a ruthless mob boss' lair and he has a Laser Rifle lying next to him. You can "borrow" the weapon while he is staring right at you and he doesn't even bat an eye. It makes logical sense that he might lend it to you for your next task, but there's no dialog or anything. It might as well be yours. |
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Nott from Campaign 2 of Critical Role is extremely fond of stealing things like buttons, jewelry, and other valuables. Fearne in the third campaign did this while not even being a Rogue initially! It apparently runs in the family, as her own mother tried to rob her while Fearne was doing the same. |
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In Divine Divinity, you can take anything that isn't nailed down, and a few things that are, but more often then not the owner of the house or tavern (alive or otherwise) will refuse to help you, beat you up and take back what you stole (sometimes with the rest of your money), and occasionally will keep attacking you until one of you is dead. | |
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A similar remark would appear in Animal Crossing as one of the randomly generated lines you get upon opening a neighbor's drawers or cabinets. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Blood Ravens Chapter of Space Marines are memetically this. This stems from their original appearances in the Dawn of War video games, where the Blood Ravens can equip relics that are explicitly other Chapters' property, including Primarch relics and Adeptus Custodes gear, with vaguely suspicious explanations for having them in their armory. To hear the fans tell it, the Blood Ravens steal every useful bit of equipment they can find, even things that should be downright impossible to steal (the ammunition from enemy weapons, entire armored divisions, the Blackstone Fortresses, Abaddon's arms, the lost Primarchs, Bjorn the Fell-Handed...). | |
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Lampshaded in The Trail Of Anguish: | |
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Most members of the Yogscast, such as Simon Lane, Lewis Brindley and Hannah Rutherford, all have a habit of stealing items and loot even when it might not be the best idea. The only exception in the group would appear to be Duncan Jones, who is more focused during his and Hannah's playthrough of Resident Evil 5. | |
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The original Tomb of Horrors had adamant and mythril doors, to prevent you from trying to break them down. Enterprising players realized that if they could pry these doors off their hinges, they could sell them for an amazing sum. The remake, therefore, goes into great detail to explain that the doors are just magically hardened to be as strong as adamant and mythril, but are actually made of ordinary cheap metals. | |
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Chrono Trigger doesn't stop you from picking up Marle's pendant before talking to her or eating an old man's lunch right off the table (which you probably will do without thinking twice about it if you're grinding for Silver Points), but these actions come back to haunt you as points against your character when you are put on trial for "kidnapping" Marle. | |
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In Minecraft, the correct reaction to seeing valuable resources on the other side of a lava lake isn't A: build a path above it or B: Cool it down and walk across, it's C: Cool the lava down and mine it for obsidian, then climb over to the other valuable resource. In a more traditional sense, villages often have a "blacksmith chest" with some useful items you can steal with no consequences, and if the town has a library you'll probably want to smash all their bookshelves to get books for enchanting. You can also steal their crops, though digging up all of them for yourself is generally considered bad form. | |
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10tons's Jydge features a character that's a cross between Judge Dredd and RoboCop. The Jydge will self-destruct if it accidentally kills an innocent. However the "Jydge" program can always use extra funds, so your law enforcement cyborg is allowed to "confiscate" money from slain criminals and "their" loot boxes (hmm...funny how criminals have loot boxes all over the mansion of their wealthy hostages). The Jydge can also hack public ATMs and once you hack some money from that, you can blow the ATM up for even more cash. Additionally the Jydge can help itself to collectible items found in hidden corners of Edynburg. | |
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It's worth noting that in the first game, you can take items from Matoya's cave before she gets her crystal eye back. In other words, you're robbing the blind. | |
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In Deus Ex, while thieving (and tampering with peoples' computers, etc) wouldn't actually make friendlies go hostile, it would earn you a lot of dirty looks and irritated remarks. The only places in the game where this isn't true is Paris, where breaking into a house while the police or civilians are there to see you will invoke the wrath of the police and alert the MJ12 troops in the area. Using lock picks in front of certain people, such as the MJ12 troops in Versalife during your first visit will cause them to attack you. Lampshaded in one instance. As you bust into a locked hotel room, Icarus contacts you and suggests you "observe your motivations for breaking the arbitrary laws of the current government". Averted in its mod, The Nameless Mod; stealing in front of NPCs will cause them to sound alarms or attack you. Also averted in the sequel, where if you get caught breaking and entering, stealing, or hacking, the guards and/or other NPC's will turn hostile. |
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Terraria: Found a shrine made of golden bricks containing a treasure chest inside a jungle? You can take the treasure inside the chest, then use your pickaxe to take the chest itself, then use said pickaxe to dismantle the shrine, and take that too. Hell, if you're determined enough and have enough inventory space (and you probably do, especially if you have the Piggy Bank), you can dig up entire biomes and plop them down somewhere else. Advanced players do this to make farming for certain materials easier. So yeah, go ahead and take the whole damn jungle while you're at it! |
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The old Monkey Island games literally force you to pick up everything you can find because it will become useful later, often as part of some complicated crazy scheme that requires using several items in concert... the challenge is figuring out how. Fortunately, our hero Guybrush has unlimited carrying space in his trouser pockets or under his jacket. There's even room for the live monkey and the 10' extensible banana plucker. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge makes a subtle joke about this: one island has a wanted poster for your character listing a variety of thefts (and other misdemeanors) performed by Guybrush as the game progresses. A certain book in the library also contains the definition of a kleptomaniac, eliciting a "Hmm..." from Guybrush and at the end of the game a possible answer to a question is "I stole a bunch of stuff and caused two huge explosions." In Guybrush's case this is an actual rule, not simply something he does for problem-solving. According to Guybrush in the narrative walk-through of the third game, the Pirate Handbook officially states that "pirates by principle have to steal everything that isn't nailed down (and if you can find a way to remove the nails and steal it, do so)." At one point in the third game, you actually do get to remove the nails from something, but you can't steal it anyway. The nails themselves come in handy, though. In Tales of Monkey Island this is lampshaded by Guybrush asking someone if he can take an empty bucket. She asks him what he's going to do with it, and he says he doesn't know. She asks him why he would want to take it, then, and his response is "Because it's there, I guess." |
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The Spoony Experiment: Spoony sometimes makes fun of this in games, such as during his review of Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh — in which the main character is an office worker. One chapter of his Final Fantasy X review ends with him looting an apparently endless supply of potions from a chest (one at a time). The next video starts with him still doing this, and he now has a long white beard and wonders why Tidus doesn't just take the whole chest. Later on he turns this into Hypocritical Humor by suggesting that the characters loot the bodies of some disaster victims, pointing out that Tidus apparently has no problem stealing from the living. |
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The Gothic series has a simple rule. If you weren't seen or the item in question is not in an area where anyone has claimed ownership (like a dungeon), if you take it, it's yours. However, if you are seen, you will get your ass kicked by the aggrieved party and almost certainly every guard in the area. The Gothic series certainly allows The Hero to act on his thieving tendencies, but the owner of the house will hear the rummaging and come running in (no matter how far away he or she initially was) and attack if you refuse to stand down. The fact that every NPC in the vicinity - including those you have to avoid killing - chips in is an extra deterrent. However, if too many things around the town disappear, the guards will take notice and give you a warning. If stuff keeps disappearing despite the warning, prepare to fight the entire town. Dead people or hostile people during a siege no longer own anything and their possessions are up for grabs. |
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Ace Attorney Trilogy: Phoenix will snatch up anything that looks like it might help him in his court cases (and a few things that seemingly don't). Apparently, this does not count as theft by the law system in their world. A lot of these things are even things that would be too big to fit in Phoenix's pockets. It's possible that a lot of these are just pictures of the evidence, but... This is parodied in the first game in case 3, when Maya grabs a copy of a map for Global Studios and Wendy Oldbag demands 50 cents for the map. Phoenix ignores her. Maya also steals a vital poster in the second game, and the key card later in 1-3 - it's Lampshaded at that point: "Let's steal it!" "Borrow. You mean borrow." Ema also persuades Phoenix to steal evidence, except that stealing stuff while Ema's around is scientific. Based on a comment by Wright in game 3 case 2, this has gotten Phoenix some bad karma, seeing as how he is one of the series's Butt Monkeys. Godot (from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations) shares this trait; he thinks the "safest place for crucial evidence" is his pocket. As does Edgeworth; his satchel is the safest place he knows. Godot is present when Edgeworth says this line chronologically prior to Godot's use, meaning that Godot probably stole the trope, and line, from Edgeworth. In case 2-4 (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All) Edgeworth manages to grab a life-sized stuffed bear. It doesn't disappear from the room, sure, but the game actually says, "Stuffed bear snatched up by Edgeworth", leading to the hilarious mental image of him wrestling it out the door while Phoenix just stands there and gapes. This is actually acknowledged in 1-5, when you have to present the evidence hidden in Gant's safe. He even says that he's going to press charges, so Phoenix learns his lesson. It's doubtful that this went very far, considering how that trial went, though... Averted in the Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth series, as whenever Edgeworth finds something, he will often jot it down in his organizer rather than take it, possibly because some of the pieces of evidence are part of crime scenes. Lampshaded in the Miles Edgeworth Case Files manga. Franziska asks Edgeworth for the criminal record of a defendant she's prosecuting. Edgeworth suggests that she could just have taken it, but she says she "would never imitate the foolishness of a certain sham defense lawyer". |
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In Guybrush's case this is an actual rule, not simply something he does for problem-solving. According to Guybrush in the narrative walk-through of the third game, the Pirate Handbook officially states that "pirates by principle have to steal everything that isn't nailed down (and if you can find a way to remove the nails and steal it, do so)." At one point in the third game, you actually do get to remove the nails from something, but you can't steal it anyway. The nails themselves come in handy, though. | |
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In Icewind Dale a high enough lock pick skill reveals a note in Hrothgar's chest. It's a note warning you that the town treats theft as Serious Business. Not that he minds you taking the few other things in his room. In Icewind Dale II it's quite hilariously lampshaded; in the final dungeon if you happen to be carrying around dead bodies (there are some that can be put in your inventory) you can intimidate a late game boss by showing them to him. You need, point of fact, a dead woman, a dead man, and a dead cat. The boss will (rightfully so) consider you to be utterly deranged and let you pass without incident. The cat is also used in an early conversation near the start of the game: He's wrong about that last part, of course: you can take this subplot further and eventually get some XP for your cat carcass carrying. In addition, there's a short early side-quest that rewards you for stealing from an unconscious NPC. The catch? The item you steal is a note to your party, explaining that the NPC is a seer and predicted you would steal from them. They're not angry about it in the least, because they also happen to need your help. |
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Done in Dishonored, where you can take nearly anything and it is converted into money which is spent on various goodies from NPCs. Almost necessary for a pacifism run as you need to buy a LOT of sleep bolts. Even funnier when you consider the size of some things, most notably paintings being almost twice the size of you. Taken to a hilarious extreme in one of the first missions, when your target is taking the captain of the guard to show him the portrait he had done, and it's gone (if you went to that room in advance). Or when in the mansion of one of the richest families in Dunwall, people see you stealing and comment that they take everything they can find since they figure it won't be missed. In the sequel, Dishonored 2, this trope continues to be played straight as you can outright loot... your own possessions (technically), as you embezzle royal vaults early in the game while leaving Dunwall. Justified, however — Corvo, for example, outright states that he needs all the cash he can get to bootstrap retaking the throne. Emily is the Empress so when playing as her it's literally her own choice to take whatever she wants. |
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Averted in its mod, The Nameless Mod; stealing in front of NPCs will cause them to sound alarms or attack you. | |
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Games in the Exile series by Spiderweb Software (and their remakes by the same company, the Avernum series) allow you to pick up virtually everything, but some items are labeled as "not yours". Taking these items hurts your reputation and can instantly make the town's guards hostile to you even if you're not seen. (The guards also have a special stat that instantly makes them three times more dangerous when they're hostile to YOU than when they're defending townsfolk from monsters!) Except in Avernum where you can safely pick up the stuff after overriding the warning if no non-hostile NPC is in line of sight. After a while players learn to reflexively close doors they've gone through out of habit, on the off-chance there may be any useful "not yours" items they want. | |
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In Lost Pig, the custodian of the Place Underground has several grumpy things to say about earlier encounters with the type, and the Last Lousy Point is awarded for not acting like one, and putting stuff back how it was when you're done with it. | |
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Taken to ridiculous extremes in the Lufia series, where only Maxim couldn't descend into outright grave-robbing: The Hero of Lufia & The Fortress of Doom can loot stuff from people's homes. This includes stealing one of Lufia's dresses. It's also possible to "obtain" a sword from Guy's Weapon Tombstone right after he dies! Wain in Lufia: The Legend Returns can waltz into shops through the back door and take anything in the chests behind the counter. Oh, and he can take an engagement ring from a person he just watched die during their wedding! Eldin in Lufia: The Ruins of Lore can find a hefty chunk of change hidden in a naughty book. He can also find three bags of money in some bushes. Bushes...that are right next to three graves. |
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In Ōkami you can set off bombs in people's houses to get food or coins from the ensuing wreckage. Since this game evolved from Zelda, it's expected. | |
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By Ultima IX: Ascension, kleptomania had essentially become the Avatar's ninth virtue. You could take anything in front of its owner and never suffer any consequences. At all. Ever. You could even sell a shopkeeper his own goods back to him after stealing it right in front of him. | |
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In Assassin's Creed II, Ezio can empty the pockets of an entire crowd by just walking through them. However, this will increase the Notoriety Meter, which will cause guards to be more vigilant. There is even an Achievement/Trophy for pickpocketing called, would you believe, "Kleptomaniac" Also, looting dead or stunned enemies will result in disapproving murmurs from the crowd and, possibly, hostility from the guards. Then again, the guards will become suspicious of you if you just happen to be in the vicinity, even if you're not the one responsible for the bodies. Carrying an entire arsenal may have something to do with it. In Assassin's Creed III Haytham shows disgust at the idea of looting dead bodies when one of his men suggests the idea. Which is made extremely funny when the player is making him loot said dead body as he is saying this. |
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In Ravensword: Shadowlands, you can steal plates and pitchers from NPCs' houses, and break into a handful of houses. | |
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Diablo III lampshades this: if Leah is in your party and you enter her room at the inn, she will react uncomfortably. She'll be downright appalled if you read her journal, which is an absurdly oversized book sitting on her desk. (Journals and correspondence can often be found on corpses and among people's possessions, and contain material which, while not usually indispensable to gameplay, usually deepens the plot. Also, there are achievements based on reading enough of them.) She'll also object if you take her into Cain's house while he isn't home. Further lampshaded in Reaper of Souls, where you can find a reformed member the coven you spent much of the base game fighting against. He needs help accessing a store room of ill-gotten gains amassed by the coven that was accomplished by good old-fashioned grave robbing and corpse defiling; "Things you would never do", in his own words. |
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The shepherd in Oedipus in my Inventory will even steal from the throne room while the queen is talking to him. | |
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Lampshaded in Ad Verbum, where the protagonist's task is to help clear out a house that's due for demolition. The intro has you being told that you've been chosen on the basis of your previous adventure game experience, and explicitly instructed to grab everything that isn't nailed down. | |
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During a funeral in Cosmic Fantasy 2, you can walk up to the coffin and take the heirloom sword meant to be buried with the guy. While his family is standing right there. They don't notice. | |
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Don't be silly. In Ultima VII: The Black Gate, Iolo was the thief. | |
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In The Darkside Detective, McQueen frequently has to make off with other people's belongings to solve puzzles. He takes a pragmatic attitude to this, although he disapproves of Dooley's suggestions on the subject of making off with stuff that isn't needed for a puzzle but might be worth some money. | |
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The game Sacred follows this trope - you can open any container in any area with no consequences. Add in the fact that the contents' value increases as your level does and can be further boosted by certain abilities and items that increase your chance of finding more valuable loot you can end up with a barrel inside a peasant's hovel containing hundreds or thousands of gold pieces or a valuable magic item worth thousands. When you factor in quest rewards can include magic items as well, finding a farmer's sheep can result in being given XP, 2000 gold pieces and a magic sword as a common result - never mind the ludicrous nature of that. | |
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All of the Dragon Quest games. In Dragon Quest, the guard of the royal treasury says, "A real hero wouldn't steal." But he doesn't do anything to stop you. In the remakes of Dragon Quest III, one of the personality determining tests involves the hero getting arrested when they're caught stealing a purse of coins from a house. Ironically, in this instance, you were actually asked to go inside and pick it up, and can point out the supposed 'owner' who asked you during the trial. With a single exception in Dragon Quest IV. Rummaging through a dresser leads to you being framed and imprisoned. Just that one dresser though, as you can spend the rest of the game raiding people's private property. Leads to a bit of Fridge Hilarity in Dragon Quest IX which introduced cabinets, pots, dressers and chests that respawn. Someone's replacing everything you stole and you just keep coming back for more. Truly the Celestrian is king of Kleptomaniac Heroes. Dragon Quest Builders: You can take everything, including the kitchen sink. Furniture, plants, decorations, ovens, forges, the contents of treasure chests and the chests themselves... You can even take the doors and windows from buildings, hell you can take the entire building, from floor to roof!(After breaking it down into parts, that is.) |
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In The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, a Wind Tribe lady tells you she has so many Kinstones she wishes somebody would take some, explaining why you can go through her house, at least. Doesn't explain how you got away with all the thieving and vandalism you will have inevitably done already though... | |
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Dead Island: If it's not nailed down, grab it! Deodorant, soap, nails, rags, Floater meat, doesn't matter. Just pick it up and put it into your modding bag. Spiritual Sequel Dying Light continued this necessary tactic, as well as a heroic version of this trope; by killing and stealing from the gang members that are hogging all of the airdropped relief packages, you can give them to the survivors that desperately need them. Unfortunately, you get orders to destroy the first zombification-slowing medicine crates that you find in the game. You do not find any more. |
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Though not an aspect of gameplay, Marisa Kirisame is well known for stealing things from others, using her short lifespan compared to those around her as an excuse: she reasons that they can always take their things back once she's dead, which shouldn't take too long from their point of view... Did we mention that she steals stuff in order to uncover the secrets of eternal life, meaning that not even her previous "excuse" is actually valid if she gets what she wants? | |
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In the early Ultima games, NPCs would attack or call the guards if you took things from their homes while they were in the same room; it was possible to sneak in after they'd gone to bed to burgle unnoticed. In the later games, the hero, having become the focal point of Britannian religion and being bound to uphold the principles of good moral character, will be chided and possibly abandoned by his own party if he attempts to steal, though in Ultima VII: The Black Gate it is possible to do so unpunished through a flaw in the game engine. Don't be silly. In Ultima VII: The Black Gate, Iolo was the thief. The guards summoned were easily the toughest enemies in the game, too. Which raises the question, why wasn't Lord British sending them off to save the world instead of you? By Ultima IX: Ascension, kleptomania had essentially become the Avatar's ninth virtue. You could take anything in front of its owner and never suffer any consequences. At all. Ever. You could even sell a shopkeeper his own goods back to him after stealing it right in front of him. Lampshaded in Ultima VII Part II: Serpent Isle when, during a (rigged) trial, one of the prosecutors cites the Avatar's habit of going through people's stuff as suspicious activity. To be fair, it is pretty weird. |
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Commented on in Quest 64—one nobleman in Limelin notes that the houses of noblemen are filled with treasures and other valuables, making it difficult to clean. Naturally, this being an RPG, you can head right upstairs and help yourself to them. | |
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In Honkai: Star Rail, the Trailblazer has a fixation on opening every single treasure chest they can get their hands on. In one sidequest, they're explicitly vexed and angry when told not to rummage through other people's things. When they try again on the same chest, now moved to a different location, they're on the verge of tears when they have to restrain themselves from prying it open. Even trash cans look like chests to them, as the Trailblazer can't help but dig their hands in to pull out any remotely interesting scraps they can find. | |
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Okiku, Star Apprentice: Referenced when Okiku tries to enter locked houses: | |
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Lone Wolf: Maybe he's not as bad as some video-game heroes, but still, Lone Wolf always has the option to thoroughly check for loot wherever he goes. It's part of the Inventory Management Puzzle, as many items, precious or not, won't come into play and just waste space in the backpack. Nonetheless, if you want to drag along that heavy bag of silver nuggets or that ingot of platinum for the rest of the adventure, you can! The Kai monastery can always need some rebuilding/refitting, after all. | |
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Looting everything you possibly can is usually a given in the System Shock and BioShock games, as most of their settings have been abandoned after a big disaster, save for the warped and confused mutants still roaming the place. BioShock Infinite, however, goes off the deep end, as you still get to loot everything in sight, but it's during the disaster, and some of the items and their locations can come off as disturbing. Like the chance to take a banana from a trash can, or finding (we are not making this up) fresh-from-the-oven baked potatoes in a toilet. Naturally, fanart has made fun of this fact, among many others. | |
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Daggerfall: Has a few interesting takes on this trope. Most houses are locked, with doors that can be picked or bashed in (the former sometimes attracts guards, the latter always does). In both locked and unlocked buildings, one might find untended piles of random loot on the floor (which can be taken without consequence), and crates (which can be broken into, but raise a "This is a crime, are you sure you want to?" prompt on attempting). Daggerfall plays with this trope in shops, where "Steal" is an option next to "Buy". If the low success rate on such thefts isn't to your liking, it is also possible to break in after the shop closes, to clear off the shelves like any other inventory. Or, for no risk at all, it's possible to loiter inside a shop until after it closes and loot to your heart's content. |
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Final Fantasy VIII has a similar scene where an old man berates Squall for stealing his life savings. This is actually a bad thing gameplay-wise, as his house also happens to have a clean-running faucet that functions as an unlimited, free full-heal for your party. If you take his money, he no longer lets you use it. | |
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In Jade Empire you can loot all you like, though on at least one occasion an NPC will call you out on stealing his stuff while he was away. You can choose whether you want to return the money to him or not. | |
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Namechecked in Zero Punctuation's review of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, as one of the symptoms of adventure game heroes. | |
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Baldur's Gate. Some items were free for the taking, and others (marked in red) would cause the guards to be summoned if any NPC (this literally meant "any NPC" — a lone cat qualified as a witness) observed you taking them and you failed your thieving rolls. This was particularly annoying because there was little consistency to it; if you really wanted to take anything that could be taken, a lot of reloads were in order. You could overcome this by knocking the entire household unconscious with unarmed attacks. You could then loot to your hearts content, and even come back later and the recovered inhabitants wouldn't show any signs of remembering you beating them unconscious and them waking up with all their valuables stolen- Easy Amnesia perhaps. In Baldur's Gate II, the designers acknowledged this and restored the Kleptomaniac Hero to glory. Except when pickpocketing and stealing from shopkeepers, almost any item could be taken again with impunity by a good thief, even if the owner was around to see you pinch it. |
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The protagonists of Jönssonligan: Jakten på Mjölner are a gang of con men and actual thieves, so this is a given. Harry may lampshade this when picking up a pair of scissors, stating that he doesn't have any use for them only to verbally shrug and take them anyway. While most of the items you pick up do get used for the gang's signature comedic heists, your bag will contain quite a few items that never got used by the end.note If you investigate a cash register, the leader of the gang will refuse to steal the money, though. | |
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Played with in Zork: Grand Inquisitor, where one of the puzzles involves getting your hands on a six-pack of canned mead, which is protected by the burglar alarm at a store. To get the mead, you have to turn up the volume on a nearby propaganda-spouting speaker until it drowns out the burglar alarm. | |
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PAYDAY: The Heist - You're a professional bank robber. In addition to the main quest, your character can grab money and gems that are found in reasonable places - bank offices, unorganized narcotics labs, fancy jewel cases, and Franz-Jaegar safes. In the sequel, there's an entire mission dedicated to stealing small loot from bank's safe deposit boxes. | |
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In Assassin's Creed III Haytham shows disgust at the idea of looting dead bodies when one of his men suggests the idea. Which is made extremely funny when the player is making him loot said dead body as he is saying this. | |
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Dream tries to loot everything useful he can from the villages he finds in Minecraft Manhunt, if he finds a village. Any other world-generated building which has useful items works as well. | |
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Summoner 2 has a particularly interesting example in Mas Raldo's basement. "We mustn't steal from Mas Raldo. Unless we have to," Maia says, as she (you) looks at one set of crates. Then she opens a chest. Guess you had to. It is a quest item, to be fair, but you don't know that yet. | |
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Dragonlance attempted to avert this with the Kender. When creating the setting, they realized that they had to have room for a Good race that specialized in the Thief class, but if a race (like halflings) was composed of career thieves, then why would the other Good races let them be around? Their solution was to create a race that had no concept of ownership, and stole things for fidgeting or fun without any malicious intent. Ironically, this created one of the most loathed races ever, because while a halfling will steal from enemies out of practicality, a kender will steal from anyone for no reason, and while the Kender might mean no harm by their thieving behavior, a player could easily use their tendencies as an excuse to act like a Jerkass toward their party members. Add in the fact that said characters also try to cause as much trouble as possible (because the character is "bored"), and are near useless in diplomatic and puzzle-solving situations, and they have the reputation of being the most annoying character concepts for other players at the table to have to deal with. Players who want to create Kenders often forget that the original authors wrote their Kender character to be tolerated by the other members of his group by author fiat; no such guarantee is in play for the other players at the table. | |
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Mortal Kombat: Deception allows you to walk into people's huts, open their treasure chests, and abscond with the goodies. You can also beat up most townspeople with little repercussions. In fact, the only crime the game will ever punish you for is staying out past curfew in orderrealm. | |
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In Glory of Heracles III, if you have any party members alongside you while stealing, you'll lose Trust, which determines how often companions will heed your orders in battles. | |
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Knight Eternal: Dylan can steal an ether from his aunts Ruth and Gwen's house, but if he does so, Ruth and Gwen will chew him out for it. | |
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Averted in the Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth series, as whenever Edgeworth finds something, he will often jot it down in his organizer rather than take it, possibly because some of the pieces of evidence are part of crime scenes. | |
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Fighting Fantasy pretty much runs on this trope. You will find all sorts of seemingly useless knickknacks that you wouldn't have any reason to take with you. Take them anyway, as many of them often prove to be exactly what you need at any given moment. | |
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Lampshaded in Ultima VII Part II: Serpent Isle when, during a (rigged) trial, one of the prosecutors cites the Avatar's habit of going through people's stuff as suspicious activity. To be fair, it is pretty weird. | |
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