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Released in 1999 by Black Isle Studios and set in the Dungeons And Dragons setting Planescape in the Outer Planes, the Role Playing Game Planescape: Torment was applauded for its intense, detailed storyline and script. What starts off looking like a stereotypical amnesia tale drops you and your hero into a very strange world with skilfully interlocking plotlines about your past, complete with a series of helpers who may or may not * know* more than they're letting on. It's like Memento in computer game form, but with better writing and a floating skull friend.
It's also well-* known* for being heavy on the personal interactions and puzzles, while relatively light on the combat - so much so that it's more a highly interactive novel than a game. In many situations, your allies are more useful for the advice they can bring and the clues they can decipher than any capacity as "another warm body to throw at the enemy" (although some of them are pretty hot indeed).
The game makes an effort to subvert or avoid as many RPG tropes and cliches as possible. There will be no Saving The World from yet another tinhead in Scary Impractical Armor. No Cool Swords or armor, for that matter, either. Instead, you have to make do with "equippable" tattoos, earrings and even eyes. Gameplay And Story Segregation is averted as well - Your statistics matter a great deal, and the game plays dramatically differently depending on what you decide to emphasize.
The main character's Healing Factor allows you, among other things, to wield your own arm as a club and wear your own intestines as an armlet. You can bite your fingers off and pluck your eyeballs out in order to replace them with something better (and every time the game describes the process in vivid detail). Death is usually just a minor annoyance that can be often turned to your advantage.
Bottom line: this game is strange. And, by general agreement, quite possibly one of the finest computer role-playing games ever made.
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Cool Sword
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Death Is A Slap On The Wrist
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Dem Bones
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Dungeons And Dragons
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Gameplay And Story Segregation
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Healing Factor
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Horny Devils
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Infernal Retaliation
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Memento
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Planescape
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Baldur's Gate
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Role Playing Game
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Saving The World
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Scary Impractical Armor
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Squick
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Statistically Speaking
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Mind Screw: Suffered by the characters, and possibly by you.
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Crowning Moment Of Awesome: Especially if you have high intelligence, wisdom or charisma.
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Balancing Death's Books: The Nameless One is doing this involuntarily.
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Bold Inflation
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Bold Inflation: The game often makes use of this to emphasize bits of dialogue.
Actually, the game as a whole has a great fondness for this. As well as emphasis through * placing asterisks.*
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Heroic BSOD: A good-aligned Nameless One, upon recalling how the Practical Incarnation caused Deionnara's death.
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Healing Factor: The characteristic power of the protagonist.
Taken to the extreme if you level up his Constitution stat to the max. You practically regenerate health faster than enemies deal damage to you.
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Romance Sidequest: Actually a bit of a subversion as it's not really a sidequest; any female party member who sticks with the Nameless One will fall in love with him by the end. Not that they'll really act on it.
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Relationship Upgrade
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Relationship Upgrade: Almost literally (see below).
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Non Human Sidekick: Morte. And, well, Dak'kon. And Annah. Okay, let's be frank: none of them are human, except Ignus (and considering his current state, he possibly doesn't count). It's the Planes. Deal.
Morte and Vhailor are ex-human, though.
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Stuck Items
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Big Bad
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The Big Bad? Tony Jay.
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Global Currency
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Global Currency: Commons are accepted across multiple planes of existence.
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Armor Piercing Question: The Arc Words.
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Immune To Fate: In the Hive Marketplace, the local gambler refuses to play dice with your character after the first go, because you "have no fortune." Later, in the Clerk's Ward, if the player pays a fortune teller to tell his future, she will tell him that he is one of those rare individuals who have no predetermined fates, and can do as they will. She then gives him a refund.
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Outright Lie: Ah, dialogue options.
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And by extension, Stealth Run, though the Thief Character Class is usually the least played.
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Final Boss Preview: The Transcendent One obliterating Ravel.
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Hell Is War: Sinners are sent to fight in the Blood War when they die.
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Epileptic Trees
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Epileptic Trees: The plot itself can give birth to umpteen, but in-game dialogue mentions an all-time great: that the Lady Of Pain, mysterious and godlike ruler of Sigil, who can banish lawbreakers to endless, eternal mazes (or just kill them by casting a shadow made of thousands of magical blades) for crimes like murder, treason or daring to worship her, is actually six giant squirrels wearing a cloak, a ring of levitation and an illusion spell.
A popular fan one is that the Nameless One's original incarnation is Zerthimon. Despite the fact that the Nameless One appears as a human male, albeit covered in scars (not only on screen, but characters who bring up the Nameless One's appearance also describe him this way), and the game's creators have outright said that, while they don't * know* who he was, they do * know* who he was not, and he was not Zerthimon.
The guy sending the Symbol of Torment spell? It's the DM.
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The Hero Dies: In this case, several times.
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Not Quite Dead
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Morte and Vhailor are ex-human, though.
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Inexplicable Treasure Chests: Pharod's men did a really lousy job looting the Weeping Stone Catacombs. For that matter, there seem to be an awful lot of treasure chests scattered around the Dead Nations and the Warrens of Thought, where no one has any use for them.
Justified - the Catacombs are a dangerous place, even for a scarred immortal badass, let alone - lowly thugs. All the easily accessible places in the Catacombs have been picked clean. The remaining valuables are usually protected by assorted deathtraps... and littered with the corpses of Pharod's would be looters. The Dead Nations' inhabitants have no need for all the loot due to their extreme isolationism. No such justification for the Warrens of Thought, though.
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Trauma Inn
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Trauma Inn: Played straight with the Nameless One, but other characters are only healed a certain amount based on the quality of the resting place.
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Made From Real Girl Scouts
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Made From Real Girl Scouts: Baby oil, made from real babies.
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Karma Meter: Your alignment changes depending on your actions.
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Immortal Life Is Cheap
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Immortal Life Is Cheap: You can have the Nameless One kill himself to win an argument, to sneak past guards, to escape from traps, or to make money from a bored noble looking to experience a murder.
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Flat Earth Atheist
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Flat Earth Atheist: The Lady of Pain, pretty much a Physical God, bans all worship of herself.
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Power Tattoo
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Power Tattoo: Armor is for sissies. Real men protect themselves with ink.
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Nominal Importance: Almost always played dead straight. You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of characters with a name who have no impact on either the main plot or any sidequests.
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Grievous Harm With A Body
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Grievous Harm With A Body: You get two clubs that are preserved severed arms, one of which used to belong to you.
Also, if you anger the Paranoid Incarnation rather than talking him down, he will tear off his own arm and beat you with it.
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Nakama: Your party.
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu: The game's three bosses are a nigh-omnipotent demon witch, an angel, and a creature that, through thousands of years of accumulated experience, has basically become a Physical God. By the end of the game, you will have defeated at least two of them in combat, and will have the option of Hannibal Lecturing the third into submission.
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Eleventh Hour Superpower: Symbol of Torment.
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If One is to join the faction of the Sensates, he gains access to their private sensorium. Within is a Sensory Stone entitled 'Longing'. In it are Deionarra's experiences, days before her death. And as the Nameless One, you experience both sides of the conversation (it being with the past Incarnation Deionarra loved), and come to *know* its horrow, especially as a good character. It is not so much a Player Punch as the Lady's Shadow of Player Punches. In the same private sensorium, you find a trap from the Paranoid Incarnation and the experience of being tortured by Ravel Puzzlewell with some interactivity. 'Longing' manages to be the worst of the three, by far.
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Thanatos Gambit: The Practical Incarnation specifically designed the Empty Tomb so that only an immortal could get through it. How? Several of the rooms can only be exited by getting struck by lightning and dying.
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Amnesia Danger: As the Nameless One levels up, he actually remembers old skills rather than learns new ones. Without his amnesia, the Nameless One would pretty much be a Physical God.
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Note To Self
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Note To Self: In the format of a tattoo (as well as others).
Those others being an elaborate journal made of your own skin and bone, an even more elaborate dodecahedron-shaped puzzle filled with deadly traps that unfolds into a journal written in a secret language, an entire tomb full of writings by previous incarnations, memories that float to the surface under certain conditions, and instructions scrawled on various surfaces in the Fortress of Regrets.
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Kick The Dog
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Kick The Dog: That's what the Practical Incarnation does in between dog raping sessions.
Well, the dog was in his way. He's just being practical.
And that's not counting an evil-aligned Nameless One.
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Broken Bridge: You can't get out of the Hive until a specific event. When asked about it, Hive dwellers mutter something about "the streets being rearranged again."
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Good Thing You Can Heal
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Good Thing You Can Heal: Many, many instances. At one point, you can even have someone dig out your internal organs and cut them open to look for hidden thingies.
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Squick
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Squick: The game gets really vivid and detailed in describing what happens when you pluck out your own eyeball and replace it with a magical prosthetic. Or when you bite off your own finger and use your Healing Factor to graft another to the stump. Or when you ask a woman who prepares dead bodies to cut you open and rummage around in your guts for magical items left by previous incarnations. Also, two words: "baby oil."
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Battle Royale With Cheese
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Light Is Not Good
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Light Is Not (Always) Good
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High Class Call Girl
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High Class Call Girl: Getting a prostitute in Clerk's Ward is probably one of the most expensive fades to black in an RPG.
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World Of Cardboard Speech
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World Of Cardboard Speech: You get a few of these opened up to you if you confront the Transcendent One with the right stats or under the right circumstances, some of them very satisfying and all of them leading to the enemy being talked to death in some form or another.
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What Could Have Been
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What Could Have Been: Looking at the pitches and design documents for Last Rites (the game's original name) and seeing just how much stuff didn't make it into the final product can be downright depressing.
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RP Gs Equal Combat
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RPGs Equal Combat: Largely avoided, although some areas are populated with trash mobs.
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No Man Of Woman Born
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No Man Of Woman Born: The subject of one of Yves' tales.
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Multiple Endings
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Multiple Endings: Really, none of them are happy, but the finality the "best" ending gives you is very satisfying.
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Optional Party Member
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Optional Party Member: All of them are technically optional, but Ignus, Vhailor, and Nodrom are the most standard examples of this.
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Cool Gate
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Cool Gate: Sigil is called "The City of Doors" for a reason - every single arch or similarly limited passageway is a portal to somewhere - provided you hold the proper key.
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Character Alignment
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Character Alignment: Being that this is based on Dungeons And Dragons, it's not surprising.
True Neutral: As a blank slate, your character starts off this way and will have this adjusted based on player actions. Thankfully in this case the concept of alignment-change penalties was ignored.
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Eat The Dog
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Eat The Dog: According to the merchant who sells you one, Lim-Lims make pretty good eating in a pinch.
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Four Temperament Ensemble
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Four Temperament Ensemble: The Nameless One and his three most important incarnations.
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Crowning Moment Of Funny
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Crowning Moment Of Funny: Morte and hookers. And female zombies. And Annah. Well, just... Morte.
The entire scene where Morte first equips Ingress' Teeth. You have to see it to believe it (this requires some game tweaking, see Guide Dang It below).
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Being Evil Sucks
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And played straight, in a strange way: The choices themselves generally do not fall under the genre. The simple fact of being evil in the first place does. The game offers little to no benefit for it. In the short and long term, being good will typically be the best course of action for a self-centered, greedy character.
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Fighter Mage Thief
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Fighter Mage Thief: These are the three character classes the Nameless One can become.
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Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming
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Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming: Playing as a good character nets you a lot of these. Especially the "best" ending.
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It Was With You All Along
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It Was With You All Along: In several ways. You find at the end of the game that the portal to the final area is located in the place that you woke up in at the start of the game, and that you had the means to get there from the start, just not the knowledge. The Bronze Sphere you find for Pharod is a container of the memories of your first life. And so on....
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Arc Number
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Arc Number: The Rule Of Three.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly
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Gods Need Prayer Badly: It's mentioned that gods have been killed simply by people forgetting about them.
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Shout Out
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Shout Out: "Trias, have you forgotten the name of your father?"
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The Pretender
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The Nameless one is Jarod, people!
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Video Game Cruelty Potential
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Videogame Cruelty Potential: One of the most epic examples in gaming. No random violence played for laughs here, this game will make you be cruel, Kick-The-Dog-And-Then-Rape-It style. Some of the genuinely horrible things you can do to people just through dialogue are guaranteed to make you hate yourself. Unless you're just as Evil, of course. Special mention goes to the ability to squeeze every last drop of soul-crushing goodness out of a situation set up long before the game even started: The Practical Incarnation engineered a sequence of events that ultimately led to a githzerai swearing a life debt to him - only to have the gith find out later that The Nameless One is immortal, and he's pretty much signed himself into slavery of his own free will (essentially a living hell for a githzerai). You're free to remind him of this every chance you get.
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Gameplay Ally Immortality
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Even the deaths of your party members don't amount to much, however, as you can gain the ability to resurrect them up to three times a day at the very beginning of the game.
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We Could Have Avoided All This
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We Could Have Avoided All This: Thanks a lot, Paranoid Incarnation. Also, Morte. Not to mention that the portal to the Fortress of Regrets is right where you wake up, and Morte and Dak'kon both knew that. Not the key, though. At least you can complain about it to your companions and the Planes in general.
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Dungeon Punk
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Dungeon Punk
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Puff Of Logic
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Puff Of Logic
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Hyperspace Arsenal
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Hyperspace Arsenal: Just how exactly is Morte able to carry anything at all?
He probably stores everything inside of his head. He is essentially a floating cabinet that talks too much.
Then there's Ignus, carrying around scrolls and other flammable items despite being constantly enveloped in searing flames.
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Genius Loci
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Genius Loci: Several.
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Guide Dang It
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Guide Dang It: Installing the game on a recent computer can feel like this. This guide on a modern PST installation, which shows what mods should be used ("mods" in this case being necessities like fixpacks and screen resolution mods, not game-changers), contains nine steps until playing the game, most of them with multiple substeps. It doesn't help that the current production of the game by Atari, an extremely cheap package consisting of a single DVD in a plastic case and nothing else, is actually an outdated version of the game while the previous runs were up-to-date.
To say nothing of the actual game mechanics, particularly the degree to which your statistics affect your dialogue options, even early on in the game.
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Fridge Horror
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So is it murder by mistake, from the enemy's perspective, every time you let yourself die in combat? Or perhaps an intention on your part?
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: The word "torment" appears pretty frequently.
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Hannibal Lecture
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Hannibal Lecture: Delivered by Ravel Puzzlewell... and in some cases, you.
Guilt-tripping people into helping you even when they have every rational reason to hate you (I'm looking at you, Deionarra) is just one of the many fun features of this lovely game.
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Platonic Prostitution
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Platonic Prostitution: Parodied hilariously by Fall-from-Grace's brothel, where no sex is offered under any circumstances. Only intellectual stimulation allowed on the premises, please.
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Videogame Caring Potential
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Videogame Caring Potential: The Nameless One's party, and other NP Cs in the gameworld if you do Sidequests.
Cares-For-Trees is a particularily notable one. He wants you to care about his trees. Not do anything with them, just be generally interested in their well-being. Persuade enough of your party to go along with it, and the trees will flourish. You get no reward besides some XP and a warm fuzzy feeling.
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Statistically Speaking
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Statistically Speaking: Exception.
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Snowball Lie
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Snowball Lie: Ah, dialogue options... Also, Adahn. Technically speaking, he's a dialogue option as well.
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We Buy Anything
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We Buy Anything: Mostly played straight. There are certain merchants who only buy and sell one sort of thing (for example, spices, fish, or dishware). They are, of course, important to various sidequests.
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Level Up At Intimacy 5
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Level Up At Intimacy 5: Kissing Annah gives her some minor fire resistance.
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Planet Heck
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Bonus Level Of Hell: You get to visit at least two different versions, actually... although neither is the final area.
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Bonus Dungeon
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Bonus Dungeon: Several. There's the Warrens of Thought, Undersigil, the Rubikon Dungeon Construct, and the Player's Maze.
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Logic Bomb
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Logic Bomb: If your charisma is high enough, you can convince Vhailor to finally pass on with one of these. It's also one of the many ways you can defeat the Transcendent One.
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Anticlimax Boss
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Anticlimax Boss: After reaching the Fortress of Regrets, opening the Bronze Sphere, and discovering both your true name and the source of your torment, thereby achieving emotional catharsis, you get to fight the Big Bad. While you can defeat him with words if you have high enough wisdom, intelligence, or charisma, or if you get the Blade of the Immortal, he isn't all that impressive of an enemy in physical combat either.
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Shaming The Mob
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Shaming The Mob: The best way to handle the situation in Carceri.
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An Adventurer Is You
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An Adventurer Is You
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Beast And Beauty
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Beast And Beauty: Played with via the Nameless One's romantic possibilities, who are, respectively, a tiefling (demon-blooded) and a succubus. And subverted with the Nameless One and Ravel Puzzlewell, which is more like Beast And Beast.
Played straight with the Nameless One and Deionarra (although the incarnation Deionarra fell in love with felt nothing for her and coldly led her to her death, just because he expected she would be more useful to him as a ghost.)
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Money For Nothing
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Money For Nothing: Not to the extent of the other IE games, but you will be able to end up with more money than you need fairly quickly.
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Path Of Inspiration
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Path Of Inspiration: The teachings of Zerthimon. Or so Dak'kon seems to think until you set him straight.
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Cult Classic: Essentially doomed to this, given that about seven months after this game came out, a sequel to a much simpler and more popular game came out.
It didn't help that combat, Diablo II's bread and butter, tended to feel like an afterthought in this game.
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Fetch Quest: Optional and... otherwise.
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Loss Of Identity
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Moral Event Horizon: There's a chance it will be crossed in the story's narrative. You have several opportunities to cross it yourself. Some past incarnations (Especially the Practical Incarnation, and apparently your first incarnation) crossed it already.
Your first incarnation did not merely cross the horizon. He ran past it screaming, scissors in hand, baby entrails dripping from his open mouth, dead puppy wrapped uncomfortably around his genitalia, and killing everything in his in his path in such horrible ways that they envy the dead puppy. The first incarnation was not a nice person. A thousand lifetimes of saintly penance would not be enough to make up for your first incarnation. He's the Good-aligned incarnation. And he's the one warning you.
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Improbable Weapon User: You can equip yourself with such improbable weapons as a fingernail, a sharpened set of antlers, or a severed arm. Your own severed arm!
Vhailor and Annah have the most likely weapons, with an axe and exotic punch daggers, respectively. Dak'kon has a sword made of a material that is shaped by his will, Ignus naturally flings fireballs, Fall-From-Grace's mere touch can inflict scratch damage while her kiss does a little better, Nordom has two spirits that have conveniently taken up the shape of crossbows, and Morte can not only masticate foes to death, but also summon mobs of skulls to bulldoze them later in the game. You can find magical teeth for Morte, too. Living magical teeth that can evolve and be talked to.
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Pacifist Run: There are exactly two characters in the game that you have to kill. Good luck finding them!
The very first zombie and a Curst prison guard, both need to be killed for a key they carry. You do need to defeat some of the game's "bosses," but that doesn't mean you have to kill them.
And by extension, Stealth Run, though the Thief Character Class is usually the least played.
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Dysfunction Junction: Every character you can recruit has psychological issues, be they serious or no. Sometimes you helped make them that way.
Justified by the fact that your character wears a magic symbol on his body that attracts tormented people. And also, yeah, often you helped make them that way.
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Lights Off Their Eyes
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Warrior Therapist: A Nameless One with sufficiently high stats in Willpower and Intelligence. If you concentrate on leveling up those two stats, by the game's midpoint, you can teach Dak'kon a thing or two about the religious relic he's been studying for decades. Keep leveling, and by the end of the game, you can Hannibal Lecture the Big Bad into giving up without a fight.
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Solo Character Run
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Solo Character Run: It can be done, though it deprives the game of many of its best parts.
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Eternal Equinox: Justified, in that Sigil has no sun, moon, or stars, and night becomes day and back again literally by magic.
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Stop Poking Me
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Stop Poking Me
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Stripperiffic: Annah's outfit◊.
Which is downright Puritan compared to the clothing worn by female Upper-Class Townspeople◊. Oh, and the Lower-Class◊ ones too.
And played straight, in a strange way: The choices themselves generally do not fall under the genre. The simple fact of being evil in the first place does. The game offers little to no benefit for it. In the short and long term, being good will typically be the best course of action for a self-centered, greedy character.
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Laser Guided Amnesia: Type 1... sorta. Basically, the Nameless One "starts a new game" with the player.
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Monster Compendium: One function of the journal.
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Morte tells the story of one of the Nameless One's incarnations who plays out the "that was your first wish" joke.
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Non Standard Game Over: Since you're immortal and can't get a "standard" game over, there are only a few ways to screw up:
Become permanently bound to one place.
Piss off someone very powerful: "You've tested your immortality against the wrong person."
Die in a place where your resurrection doesn't work. There's only one such place in the game and it's instantly recognizable.
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Mad Oracle: In the Hive, you meet a babbling lunatic who is the local representative of the Xaositects, a faction dedicated to utter chaos. If you question him, all of his answers will be (mostly) nonsense, unless you ask him about your journal. He will then have some sort of a fit and tell that you have multiple journals, and give you accurate descriptions of where they are.
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Noodle Incident: The first incarnation's crime. It's never revealed what it is, but a thousand lifetimes of saintly penance wouldn't even begin to make up for it.
So is it murder by mistake, from the enemy's perspective, every time you let yourself die in combat? Or perhaps an intention on your part?
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Secret Character: Three. Nordom and Vhailor are hard to find. Ignus is hard to get.
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Crapsack World: Curst, so crapsack that the whole city gets dragged into Carceri, a hellish prison plane. You then have the chance to make things a little better.
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Rule Of Three: As valid as physical laws in the Planes.
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Redemption Equals Death
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Redemption Equals Death: This trope is the reason why the Nameless One is attempting to die for real.
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Brutal Honesty: Ah, dialogue options.
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Power Equals Rarity
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Power Equals Rarity: All of the most powerful weapons in the game are unique, and many are made specially for your character.
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Hey Its That Voice:
The Nameless one is Jarod, people!
And Morte is Yakko Warner.
And Annah is voiced by none other than Sheena Easton, using her own natural accent.
Dak'kon used to be Walter freakin' Skinner!
Fall-From-Grace's voice actress is the incredibly prolific Jennifer Hale.
Nordom is voiced by Homer Simpson.
The Big Bad? Tony Jay.
Vhailor is Keith David.
Trias is voiced by The Next Generation's Q, John de Lancie.
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Death Is A Slap On The Wrist: An understatement. A valid tactic in battle against a superior opponent is to keep wading in, bashing him a bit, dying, and coming back for more. Every time you resurrect, you come back with full health, while your opponent is still left with whatever damage you've dealt him. Eventually, you win. Note that this only applies to the main character. His fellow party members will be Killed Off For Real if they try it.
This is the premise of the entire game. There are only about four mandatory fights in the entire game. Dialogue is in many cases intentionally more dangerous than combat in this game.
Even the deaths of your party members don't amount to much, however, as you can gain the ability to resurrect them up to three times a day at the very beginning of the game.
There are several ways to permanently die in the game or otherwise be incapable of completing the quest, as well.
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Horny Devils
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Horny Devils: Fall-From-Grace is about as much of a subversion of this trope as one gets.
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Preorder Bonus
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Pre Order Bonus: Pre-orders from Interplay would come with the novel for free.
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Give Me Back My Wallet
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Give Me Back My Wallet: Possible with a high enough dexterity.
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Chekhov's Armoury
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Chekhov's Armoury: If you are prompted, either in dialogue or in narration, to pick up an item, do not lose that item. No, not even the prybar you were prompted to get to pull out the bolts on the skeleton. You will need it later. There will be a test.
Above all, for the love of all that is good and holy, do NOT just leave the sphere lying with Pharod's corpse. It is not as useless as it seems. Go back, pick it up and keep it until the bitter end.
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Elite Tweak
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G Rated Sex
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G Rated Sex: Harlots refer to sex with euphemisms, and the most romantic thing that can be done with a Love Interest is kissing.
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Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits
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Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits: Your party. You can potentially recruit, in addition to the amnesiac immortal you start with: a floating snarky skull who doubles as Mr Exposition, an old githzerai zerth with a sword shaped by thought, a brash tiefling thief, an agnostic celibate succubus cleric, a fire sorcerer whose body is a gateway to the Elemental Plane of Fire, a cubic robot gone rogue, and a suit of armor possessed by the restless spirit of a dead Knight Templar.
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Author Appeal
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Author Appeal: Sigil, City of Doors and Giant, Shapely, Voluptuous Breasts.
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Driving Question: The identity and history of the Nameless One. Also the aforementioned Arc Words.
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Relationship Values
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Relationship Values: Everyone on your team has an adjustable opinion of you.
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Nice Job Breaking It Hero
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: All those people who were slaughtered when Curst slid into Carceri? Your fault. Say, maybe you should have asked yourself why the angel with his wings burned off was magically imprisoned beneath a town populated entirely by traitors.
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Immortality
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Immortality: A toss up between Types III and IV - you sort of "fall into darkness," but then get better.
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Recurring Riff
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Recurring Riff: Several of the game's songs use the same basic melody.
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One Letter Name
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One Letter Name: O. As a member of the Divine Alphabet though, his name is actually quite important.
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Magikarp Power
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Magikarp Power: The Missile of Patience is a puny first level spell that deals minimal damage to a single enemy. Then, as your mage reaches level 11, it summons a Glowing Repeating Ballista of Doom. The Blade of the Immortal also works in a similar, but plot-related manner.
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The Reveal
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The Reveal: Sometimes coupled with Wham Episodes. The game uses The Reveal often and well.
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Adaptation Decay: The official novelization. Unlike many others (like the horrible, Baldurs Gate novelization), its problems are due to having been based off of an early draft of the game script. Thus, many of the characters and events are completely different to how they turn out in the game. Among others, Dak'kon is following the Nameless One (whom he, personally, calls "Hra'ka'lothanek", which is Githzerai for "He Who Seeks His Heart") due to having originally been ordered to do so by his superiors higher up in the Believers of the Source faction, Fall-From-Grace doesn't join the party, Annah sacrifices herself to destroy (at least temporarily) the shadows pursuing the Nameless One, and Fhjull Forked-Tongue is revealed to have been behind everything.
There is a fan-made "novelisation" (actually just the text from the game with a small amount of add-in text to make it read like a book) found here. The non-linear nature of the game itself, however, does mean that any possible novelisation will only be true to one particular playthrough.
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Back From The Dead
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Back From The Dead: Constantly.
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Evil Tower Of Ominousness: The Fortress of Regrets.
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Interesting the spell effects are "explained," considering the setting.
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False Reassurance: Ah, dialogue options.
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No Name Given
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No Name Given: Literally.
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Get A Load Of That Square
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Get A Load Of That Square: A group of thugs in Clerk's Ward can be called out on their poor grasp of Sigil's slang.
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Kleptomaniac Hero
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Kleptomaniac Hero: Just as you'd expect, the Nameless One's quest of identity is an excellent opportunity to collect all sorts of things. Several quests involve simply having the right thing in your inventory to solve.
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Hidden Villain
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Noob Cave
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Noob Cave: The Mortuary. Subverted in that, if you work at it, you can get out without killing anyone (at least, anyone who isn't already dead). And, all that business with portals and keys aside, you can walk straight out the front door just by speaking civilly to a few people.
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Wax On Wax Off
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Wax On Wax Off: The training required to become a mage. Lampshaded: your mentor is bemused when part of your aptitude from previous lives returns, as she was looking forward to having someone to do menial tasks for her for months. She's lying, though, considering how she's an aspect of Ravel.
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Hitch Hiker Heroes
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Hitchhiker Heroes: Justified, most party members are bound to the Nameless One in some way.
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Talk To Everyone
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Talk To Everyone: Played straight and lampshaded by an elderly woman.
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Schmuck Bait
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Schmuck Bait: A box found in the Hive and the throne of the Silent King.
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Names To Run Away From Really Fast
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Names To Run Away From Really Fast: The Lady of Pain.
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Hurting Hero
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Hurting Hero: All of the protagonists are drawn together under "the Symbol of Torment" by their respective personal failures and anguish.
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Real Time With Pause
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Real Time With Pause
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Informed Equipment
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Informed Equipment: Putting a new outfit on Annah or Fall-From-Grace will not change their appearances. Also, it seems that using your intestines as an arm band is completely unnoticeable.
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Dressing As The Enemy
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Dressing As The Enemy: One of the methods of escaping the mortuary is to disguise as a zombie.
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The Power Of Love
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The Power Of Love: The Practical Incarnation deliberately invoked this when he let Deionnara die, knowing that her love for him would bind her as a ghost and allow him to use her as a spy on the Negative Material Plane.
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Visual Novel
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Visual Novel: Although not in the traditional sense of the genre, the vast amount of dialogue (describing the look and feel of the place) and the fact that it is heavily on the storytelling side of the Gameplay And Story Segregation makes this one of the most brain-wreaking fantasy novels of the nineties that just happened to be released as a computer game.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Almost every character (especially NP Cs) in the game. Many characters either have names that allude to their most prominent characteristic (e.g., Morte [who's undead] and Ignus [who's on fire]) or have names that are more like their job descriptions (e.g. Mourns-for-Trees and Death-of-Names).
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The Maze
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The Maze: Three of them, although two are Bonus Dungeons. They are: Ravel's Maze (the mandatory-for-the-plot-to-proceed one), the Rubikon Dungeon Construct (which can only be accessed by purchasing the Modron Cube Toy from the Curiosity Shoppe and unlocking it), and the Player's Maze (to which the Nameless One will be sentenced if he pisses off the Lady of Pain once too often).
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The Mole
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The Mole: The Anarchists love this trope.
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Your first incarnation did not merely cross the horizon. He ran past it screaming, scissors in hand, baby entrails dripping from his open mouth, dead puppy wrapped uncomfortably around his genitalia, and killing everything in his in his path in such horrible ways that they envy the dead puppy. The first incarnation was not a nice person. A thousand lifetimes of saintly penance would not be enough to make up for your first incarnation. He's the Good-aligned incarnation. And he's the one warning you.
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Waking Up At The Morgue
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Waking Up At The Morgue: Frequently, especially if you're not a good player.
"How many times must this fool die?"
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Powered By A Forsaken Child
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Powered By A Forsaken Child: The Nameless One is immortal because every time he dies and returns to life, someone else dies instead and becomes an undead shadow.
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Identity Amnesia
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Identity Amnesia: The Nameless One.
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In Game Novel
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In Game Novel: The Circle of Zerthimon.
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Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
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Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
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I Cannot Self Terminate
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I Cannot Self Terminate: A gith in the lower ward who is suffering requests to be put out of her misery.
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Beyond The Impossible
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Taken to the extreme if you level up his Constitution stat to the max. You practically regenerate health faster than enemies deal damage to you.
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One Stat To Rule Them All
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One Stat To Rule Them All: Wisdom is God. Almost literally.
Oddly enough, due to the fact the Nameless One can only be a Fighter, Rogue, or Mage, Wisdom is the only stat besides Charisma that will never have any significant use in combat. Given that combat is not a strong focus of the game, it doesn't take away from the fact that Wisdom is the most important stat in the game.
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The Un Reveal
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The Un Reveal: The character finds out his name, you don't.
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Were you a good guy? Sorry, but you still have to burn in hell for all eternity. Thanks, First Incarnation!
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Fetish Fuel
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Fetish Fuel: Fall-From-Grace. Her voice and the fact that she's a chaste succubus.
Annah: Redhead Cute Monster Girl with extremely sexy voice, even sexier accent, and an even sexier figure, (barely) dressed in a slashed, low-cut leather bathing suit/corset thingy...
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Your Mileage May Vary
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Your Mileage May Vary: Ask a fan of PS:T to make a list of the reasons why they like PS:T. Ask someone who didn't enjoy PS:T to make a list of reasons why they didn't like it. Odds are, the two lists will be very similar.
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One Scene Wonder
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One Scene Wonder: This game has more than a few, among them the following: Ravel Puzzlewell, Fhjull Fork-Tongue, meeting the Incarnations, and, of course, The Transcendent One.
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The Necrocracy
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The Necrocracy: The Dead Nations.
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Arbitrary Headcount Limit
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Arbitrary Headcount Limit: You can only have six members of your party. There is no in-game explanation for why this is so. If you wish to recruit someone else, you will have to leave one of the people you brought with you behind. This is especially frustrating with Vhailor and (possibly) Nordom: if you leave someone behind in the locations where you meet them, you will never see them again.
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I Don't Like The Sound Of That Place
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I Don't Like The Sound Of That Place: The Fortress of Regrets. In keeping with the setting, the name is literal: the place is actually built from the regrets of all the Nameless One's past incarnations.
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Informal Eulogy
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Informal Eulogy: Part members give these when another party member dies.
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Deconstructor Fleet
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Deconstructor Fleet: Many RPG tropes are turned on their head.
Deconstruction: The Planescape setting itself is a deconstruction of roleplaying game worlds, specifically D&D, specifically AD&D 2nd Edition. It takes what are arguably the worst aspects of the edition (such as the somewhat skewed take on the struggle between order and chaos in Moorcock's Elric novels), follows them to their natural conclusions, and thereby constructs a remarkably interesting world that provides superb backdrop for stories like that of Torment.
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Impossibly Delicious Food
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Impossibly Delicious Food: A sensory stone tells of a wine that people would do literally anything for.
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This Loser Is You
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"How many times must this fool die?"
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Quest For Identity
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Quest For Identity
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Diabolus Ex Machina
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Diabolus Ex Machina: Justified - it's the Symbol of Torment that you're wearing until the endgame.
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Everything's Deader With Zombies
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Everything's Deader With Zombies: Most zombies are non-hostile and some are even communicative.
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Cutscene Incompetence
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Cutscene Incompetence: How Morte gets captured in the Lower Ward.
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True Neutral