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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Shadowrun Returns is a CRPG based on the Shadowrun franchise. It is the fifth video game in that setting. It came bundled the Dead Man's Switch campaign. The second DLC campaign, Dragonfall, was later released as a standalone game with additional content and features. Hong Kong was released exclusively as separate game, with a short sequel campaign entitled Shadows of Hong Kong released later. This makes them the sixth and seventh games in the series.Returns was developed by Harebrained Schemes, designed by Jordan Weismannote founder of FASA and co-creator of the original Shadowrun (and, on a side note, also the co-creator of BattleTech) and Mitch Gitelmannote (producer for most of the Microsoft FASA-licensed games including the Xbox 360/Windows Vista Shadowrun game about which he apologizes), it was crowd-funded through Kickstarter in March of 2012. The Kickstarter was a huge success, hitting several stretch goals, with lots of Feelies for backers and the first Downloadable Content pack (set in Berlin) included for free. The game was released on July 25, 2013 for PC and Mac, September 26, 2013 for iOS and Android and October 30, 2013 for Linux.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Dead Man's Switch, the first campaign, is included with the first game in the series (but not the first game based on the Shadowrun table RPG). It takes place in Seattle in 2054. In it, you play a down-on-their-luck Shadowrunner investigating the death of their old buddy Sam Watts in exchange for a substantial payday and/or personal vengeance. It also has a number of plot links to the SNES Shadowrun game, although it is not a "sequel" as such.Dragonfall, released on February 27, 2014, sees you end up in Berlin, a.k.a. the Flux State, a utopia of anarchy where power shifts like the tides of the ocean. When what appears to be a milk run (slang for a quick and easy job) goes south, you and your new crew find yourselves drawn into a conspiracy surrounding the Great Dragon Feuerschwinge, who rumors suggest survived her supposed death.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })An Updated Re-release of Dragonfall entitled Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut was released on September 18, 2014 for PC, Mac, and Linux. The update includes, among other things, new art assets as well as entire new missions, which really ended up taking Dragonfall outside the scope of "DLC" and made it more a full-blown sequel running on the same engine. Citing developers like CD Projekt RED as inspiration, the team behind Shadowrun Returns decided to release this update free for original backers and owners of the original Dragonfall. The update is also sold as a standalone product on Steam and GOG. A version for iOS and Android was set to be released in October 2014, but was delayed until December 4th.Harebrained Schemes announced Shadowrun: Hong Kong, in December 31, 2014. It was the setting of the third campaign. It was funded through Kickstarter and released on August 20th, 2015. The campaign has you travel to Hong Kong in the year 2056 to reunite with your estranged foster family, only to be forced underground and into the dangerous world of shadowrunning. And of course get involved in a conspiracy involving your missing foster father and an infamous slum whose preternatural decay seems to be literally infecting the surrounding city.Changes from the previous two campaigns include enhanced player controls and sound, animatic scene transitions, revamps to the Matrix and more options for cyberware and magic, making this, once again, a full-blown sequel. A Playable Epilogue, Shadows of Hong Kong, was released on February 5, 2016 through the free Extended Edition update. Shadows of Hong Kong is set a few weeks after the end of the original campaign. In it, you and your team now have the opportunity to turn the tables on the corporate police force that once hunted you.
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Turn-Based Tactics: The bulk of the combat gameplay, similar to other titles like XCOM. It involves careful consideration about movement, positioning, cover, ability use, resource management, and target selection.
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Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Several of the NPCs' facial portraits are modeled after Harebrained Schemes employees. For example, Green Winters is modeled after Mitch Gittleman.
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"Rooster" Lo is kind of a chicken.
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I Was Quite a Looker: When you first meet Ermine Ka Fai, the game notes that she must have been stunning when she was younger, and in her past life as a corporate climber, she attracted the interest of an executive and had an affair with him, from which came Callum.
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Gatling Good: Miniguns are introduced in this expansion pack. You can buy one after you've passed the Alice payment section of the plot, and both the MKVI and The Dragon wield them. It counts as a rifle for gameplay purposes, but requires a rank of 7 in Strength (27 karma for a human, but this can be alleviated if you have gear that gives bonuses to strength) plus the requisite Quickness, Ranged Combat, and Rifle investments (which aren't as high, but necessary for accuracy). If you can manage it, though, it's one of the deadliest weapons in the game. Its biggest weaknesses compared to standard assault rifles are that it can't shoot in semi-automatic mode and that its full-auto burst doesn't flush targets out from cover. However, its attacks are considered Area of Effects so it can hit multiple enemies in a single burst.
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Katanas Are Just Better: Katanas are considered to be some of the better melee weapons for two reasons. One is that they do a solid amount of physical damage. Two is that they can also drain enemy AP on critical hits.
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Interfaith Smoothie: Ten-Armed Ambrose shares that his sister was a practitioner of Trans-Catholicism, a mix of Catholicism and Hinduism. With the academic etiquette, your character knows some prayers for it.
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Winds of Destiny, Change: The main plot was kicked off by Tsang Enterprises attempting to create a "Fortune Engine" in Kowloon City that would manipulate probabilities in their favor. Needless to say, it went horribly wrong. If you take Qian Ya's deal for fourteen years of good luck, the Shadows of Hong Kong campaign has several improbably lucky events aid you in your quest.
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Abnormal Ammo: Project Aegis, modified shotgun shells loaded with what is effectively magical insecticide, the only weapon you have to kill the bug spirits.
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Isometric Projection: The game is viewed from a fixed isometric perspective.
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The Artifact: Mercenaries. In Dead Man's Switch, hiring other runners was the only way to have any sort of backup on a run. They're still around in Dragonfall and Hong Kong, but the presence of a crew in those campaigns who can be brought on for free diminishes their usefulness.
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Technically Living Zombie: Gaichu, after becoming a ghoul. This is a huge problem for his old Red Samurai team, which are not allowed to replace him until he is confirmed properly dead.
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Early Game Hell: Once you've done the opening mission and unlocked the mission computer, which of the first three missions you select can determine how much trouble you have. The geomantic sabotage mission is one of the most difficult in the game if you're thorough, and the Whampoan Elders mission can lead to some rather heavy combat encounters if you don't have the proper etiquette to bypass combat or fail to collect enough clues for the mystery (those combat encounters being gateways to those clues), which is especially annoying because Gaichu is recruited here. The museum heist is the most mundane of the bunch.
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Where It All Began: The final battle takes place in the Walled City.
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Tempting Fate: With all the talk of how your first mission is a milk run, you just know something is going to go wrong. The Player Character can lampshade this in their very first line of dialogue.
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It May Help You on Your Quest: In Shadows of Hong Kong, before the first main mission, you have the option of purchasing a "Rat Party" sim from Jomo for a pittance. You're not told what it does or how to use it. During the Lily Lai mission, you can interface it with a hologram projector to create a swarm of rats, thereby driving off the guards between you and the building's exit.
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Brainwashed and Crazy: The junkies in the Better Than Life dens are usually placid, lazily lost in their own little world... unless someone overrides the settings. By removing the BTL chip's motor inhibitor function and feeding them horrifying visions and messing with their neurotransmitter levels, they can be sent into an unwilling aggressive rage as they fight demons that only they can see who happen to be in the same place as actual people.
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Religion of Evil: You should have known this was coming the minute you saw the words Universal Brotherhood.
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Anti-Magic: Downplayed; there's no total magic immunity, but Adepts can learn Magic Resistance, which gives increasing levels of Cover against spells.
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Dressing as the Enemy: A common tactic among runners, with dressing as a guard, delivery guy, or janitor as an option for tackling a number of missions throughout all three games.
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If the player gets too moralizing in the later conversations with Racter, where his psychopathy and Lack of Empathy become more evident, he'll point out that they're in no real position to criticize him as they're quite willing to do a lot of morally-questionable things as well.
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Gone Horribly Right: It is possible to switch sides and join up with the antagonist if he convinces you that what he's doing is a good idea. This results in you helping him kill off all the dragons, and humanity rejoices as their hoarded wealth returns to the economy...until it turns out they were what kept the balance between the world and its magic, the latter starting to flood the world, causing freak mana storms all over the place and finally opening the gate for the invasion of extraplanar horrors that drive humanity to the brink of extinction.
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The main plot was kicked off by Tsang Enterprises attempting to create a "Fortune Engine" in Kowloon City that would manipulate probabilities in their favor. Needless to say, it went horribly wrong.
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Orks: +1 to Body, higher caps on Body and Strength, lower caps on Charisma and Intelligence.
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Dowd, the never-seen shadowrunner who died in the prologue, is a nod to Tom Dowd, another FASA game designer.
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Violation of Common Sense
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Violation of Common Sense: In the Aztechnology mission, it's actually beneficial to flub security checks at a certain point, despite the fact that this summons the High Threat Response team and renders all the other mooks hostile. Because of the way the mission is set up, talking your way past the guards until you reach the main objective will almost certainly cause you to be dumped into combat anyway, but flanked in a narrow corridor, a situation more likely to end in your death than theirs. Angering the mooks early will allow you to fight them in distinct groups, making the whole thing much easier.
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The Cameo: Aljernon Half-Dream from Returns and Dragonfall shows up very briefly at the magic shop. Bull ("The best ork decker you never met!") from the tabletop game makes a short cameo in another shadowrunning team. One of the potential Shadowrunners you can recruit, Eos, is modeled after Felicia Day, who was a backer on the project. In dialogue, Eos mentions someone stalking her at a public laundromat.
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The Caper
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The Caper: Despite the main objective, the Prosperity Tower run can turn into this. Just be prepared to clear out some floors... In the bonus campaign, the visit to the Tiger's Den can turn into this as well.
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The Chick: Glory
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Another in-universe example is Glory and her old first-generation cybernetic limbs, which are obviously bulkier, more unnaturally shaped, and more essence-costly than the sleeker, more efficient, and implantee-friendly models currently common on the market.
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Ambiguous Situation: When you finally meet APEX face to face, it takes on the form of Monika, and claims that there was something special about the decker that caused her to not so much die at the AI's hands, but to fuse with it, changing it from a simple program to a fully self-aware digital lifeform. However, it's never made clear how true this is, or if APEX is just lying to earn the crew's sympathies. The AI seems to know things that only Monika would know, but it's just as likely it can now simply read her memories that it took from her digital ghost. APEX also expresses a desire to preserve the Flux State, which is very in-character for Monika, but it also acts extremely vindictive towards you when it doesn't get its way. No matter what, you'll never get a dependable answer as to who or what APEX really is.
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Dare to Be Badass
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Dare to Be Badass: After you've beaten Ku Feng, you can convince her to embrace her vampirism and live up to her own hype. She'll join you for the final mission if you do, and you get an achievement if Gaichu is in your party at the time.
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Deal with the Devil
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Deal with the Devil: In the confrontation with the Final Boss, you have the option to trade control of the city for fourteen years of good luck. In the following campaign, this manifests as several lucky breaks which might otherwise require high skill checks or searching around.
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Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain
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Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain: Justified. The game takes place during monsoon season. And an awakened typhoon hovering just offshore.
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Nebulous Evil Organisation
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Nebulous Evil Organisation: The Black Lodge, especially in the Director's Cut. You never get to learn exactly what they're working towards but given all the "more morally grey" things they ask of you it probably doesn't involve sunshine and kittens, doubly so when even Dietrich says this isn't a foe the Dragonslayer could convince him to take on.
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Multitasked Conversation
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Multitasked Conversation: The player is required to do this during the above mentioned Earpiece Conversation when an impatient man demands to use the terminal through which your player is communicating.
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Mythology Gag
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Mythology Gag: One of the Shadowland conversations accessible on your mission terminal (the Shadowland Poetry Slam) is shut down by the Sysop with a reference to "The Laughing Man Debacle of '55". "The Laughing Man" is the online handle of Harlequin, and yes, he's exactly the kind of person who'd cause poetry to be a permanently banned topic on a message board. Both the Yellow Lotus and Red Dragon Triads are already established in the Shadowrun-verse and the war between the two has been a perpetual staple of the setting. Red Dragon, incidentally, is secretly led by the Great Dragon Lung, who could best be described as "subtle and quick to anger".
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Blood Magic
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There's a Blood Magic spell which has this effect.
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Shoot the Dog
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Shoot the Dog: In the Director's Cut, if you've been mostly neglecting and/or mistreating Dante for the majority of the game, he will turn feral when he turns into a Hellhound, forcing you to do this to him.
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Master of None
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Master of None: A real danger. Since the amount of karma you need to spend on a skill is equal to the next level of that skill, it becomes increasingly difficult to level up specific skills, making it tempting to branch out and grab the low-hanging fruit instead. This spreading out of skills, however, can make things difficult in the late game, which often require either high-level checks or significant combat investment. This is further compounded by the fact that spellbook and item slots are shared among all the possible archetypes' needs. It's almost always better to specialize, and the ingame hints themselves suggest as much.
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Top-Heavy Guy
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Top-Heavy Guy: The sprites for the male trolls sport incredibly wide shoulders and massive arms on top of a pair of comparatively tiny legs. The graphics update for Hong Kong made them more realistic.
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Support Party Member
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Support Party Member: Pure shamans carry no directly offensive spells whatsoever, barring their magic walls and summoned spirits, and didn't even have a basic attack spell like the mage did until Dragonfall. note That said, shaman party characters and NPCs carried some kind of more conventional weapon and had a few points in the relevant skills to compensate. Every single other spell is a buff or debuff spell and their library has increased through the game's editions, until the logical conclusion in Hong Kong, where every single buff spell except Heal is a shaman spell.
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Dispel Magic
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Dispel Magic: An available spell for Mages, though one of limited usefulness due to its situational nature.
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Non-Indicative Name
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Non-Indicative Name: "Kindly Cheng" is anything but. She is the Yellow Lotus's Straw Sandal — district manager — in Heoi and its surrounding environs, and she did not attain that position by being nice.
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Easter Egg
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The administrator password for the guest database in The Drug Pit is "admin". There's no hint to this, and it isn't necessary to get the information you need, but it does reveal an Easter Egg in the form of a guest list.
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Beauty Equals Goodness
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Beauty Equals Goodness: Boy, who would have thought that the exceptionally-ugly elf (so much so that you can comment on his ugliness) would turn out to be a bad guy? Subverted with Jessica Watts, who is notably described as attractive... but then played straight after The Reveal when she gets a brand new "crazy bug lady" portrait.
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Guile Hero
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Guile Hero: In additions to reinforcing their summoning abilities, a high Charisma character has a silver tongue and can learn several Etiquettes (how to speak and what to say to members of various social classes such as gangers, corporate enployees and other shadowrunners). Those can open doors and solve issues that would normally end up in gunfights or require bribes or decking.
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Lampshade Hanging
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An option during a late-game mission. It works fairly well, but if you run into the VP of Operations on the office floor while wearing the disguise, he sees through it straight away... and hangs a lampshade on how overused that kind of thing is:
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Revolvers Are Just Better
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Revolvers Are Just Better: Zig-Zagged, in that revolvers tend to do a little more damage than other types of pistols. However, they need more frequent reloading and cannot use some of the more advanced pistol techniques that require a semi-automatic (such as Double Tap and Chain Shot). Albeit the former problem can be remedied by learning a pistol skill that requires no AP to reload (see Bottomless Magazines above).
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Benevolent A.I.
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In Dragonfall, your efforts to keep the Kreuzbasar going are futile, because Saeder-Krupp is going to invade Berlin and put an end to the Flux State. However, you can preserve the Flux State by fusing the dragon Feuerschwinge with a (somewhat) Benevolent A.I..
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Mauve Shirt
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Mauve Shirt: Carter and Nightjar are given some decent characterization and extensive conversations before they get their heads blown off in the opening mission.
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More Dakka
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More Dakka: A high level rifle skill allows you to hit five times for 2 AP. It suffers in accuracy, but is so absurdly powerful that a solid string of hits can wipe out nearly any mook in the game unless they have a lot of HP or armor. Other skills have similar abilities, such as the shotgun's double shot, but the rifle skill stands out for the sheer number of hits.
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Character Select Forcing
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Character Select Forcing: If you want to have a steady cash inflow, you pretty much need at least some degree of Decking.
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Awesome, but Impractical
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Awesome, but Impractical: At the decker convention, you meet a troll decker who has had his deck installed directly into his brain, allowing him to hack without a bulky cyberdeck. Is0bel points out that, while it sounds cool, he's going to need to get brain surgery every time there's a major hardware update.
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He Who Fights Monsters
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He Who Fights Monsters: You can point this out to the Big Bad, pointing out that he is just as bad as how he views Dragons. He ignores it unless you've been very diligent with gathering information and can talk to him on what he considers an equal level. In Glory's personal mission, if she kills the toxic spirit that is behind Harrow's power and influence, then she will end up corrupted by it and start becoming toxic herself.
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False Flag Operation
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False Flag Operation: Humanis plans to use a chemical weapon to trigger a Hate Plague in the meta-human population and send them on a rampage towards the part of town where ordinary humans live, where their followers will be waiting armed and ready. If successful it would have succeeded in making them look good while at the same time demonizing the meta-human population. The name of this plan even references the trope.
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Just You and Me and My GUARDS!
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Just You and Me and My GUARDS!: Ku Feng will challenge you to a duel, then immediately break the rules by bringing in a bunch of backup. Afterwards, she admits it was bluster and she's not a very good fighter.
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Grenade Launcher
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Grenade Launcher: Two of these can be found on missions- one with base damage of 12 that holds six shots on Blitz's personal mission, and a single-shot launcher with a base damage of 14 in the armory when you go up against APEX . They both use the Rifle skill and while their base damage is lower than the assault and sniper rifles you can get by then, they're still extremely powerful thanks to giving you an AOE attack that can be used multiple times per round.
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The Bad Guy Wins
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The Bad Guy Wins: In the bonus campaign. Krait is defeated, but Ares Macrotechnology, which paid her to practice extreme Police Brutality during the Kowloon Riots, succeeds in destroying the reputation of Mitsuhama's Hong Kong Police Force and seizes it for itself.
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Glass Cannon
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Glass Cannon: This campaign introduces the Novatech deck. It's every bit as powerful as the top-shelf Fairlight and has a better basic attack (the Fairlight Excalibur shares a Basic Blaster 2.0 attack that does 75 damage with the Fuchi VirtuaX and Transys Highlander, but the Novatech Slimcase-10 uses an Erosion Blaster 2.0 attack as its base, which does the same 75 damage on impact, but also does 25 points of damage over time for two turns), but has 75 less IP and can be used by a decker at 5 instead of 7. This works out to being able to take one or two less hits, and if you don't increase your decking skill then you'll likely be hit more.
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Older Than They Look
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Older Than They Look: In the bonus pack, you can pick up a mission to rescue the niece of one of Jomo's friends - she was actually given an experimental version of an anti-aging treatment, and thus regressed to being a teenaged girl, explaining why she seemed Wise Beyond Her Years.
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Theme Music Power-Up
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Theme Music Power-Up: During the Final Battle, an up-tempo remix of "Walking the Shadows" from the SNES Shadowrun game plays.
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Auto-Save
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Autosave: The game was criticized for only having autosaves (which are done whenever a new area is loaded), as the engine didn't originally support manual saves. Manual saves were added with the v1.2 patch.
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Game-Breaking Bug
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Game-Breaking Bug: If you save in Heoi, do things, and then reload the save, there is a chance that any flags you triggered during that time won't reset properly. This means that characters can become "stuck" on a dialogue tree and repeat it every time the map is loaded, such as when you return from a mission. It effectively brings your progression to a jarring halt, and if it happens with a plot-relevant NPC (such as Crafty Wu or a party member) then it can potentially make your game unwinnable.
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The Fellowship Has Ended
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The Fellowship Has Ended: Depending on what choices the player makes, it's possible for the members of the crew (or at least, those that are still alive) to split up and go their separate ways at the end of the campaign.
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Geo Effects
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Geo Effects: Maps may contain leylines (dragon lines in Hong Kong), which reduce spell cooldown, heal casters, boost spell damage, boost spell accuracy and increase spell "bounces" if applicable, depending the strength of the ley/dragon line.
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Sex Slave
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Sex Slave: The Emerald City Ripper turns out to have been making them to "custom order", by harvesting fresh components that match requested descriptions from chop shops, then grafting them to patients of a mental hospital, and inserting a chip into their brain to make them completely obedient with the requested personalities. These are then sold to discrete but high payers with loose ethics. As evidenced by his killings, he is not adverse to making more select material available when he needs it.
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Out-Gambitted
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Out-Gambitted: Blitz does this to Hesenkamp during his loyalty mission, which impresses the latter since Blitz isn't known for his planning skills. If you were thorough you can then play on this to flip Hesenkamp to your side and out-gambit Meat Grinder and Plotz, earning the respect of everyone involved who isn't dead or about to be.
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Ate His Gun: The Big Bad does this when years of planning that inadvertently killed his younger brother goes up in smoke.
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Squishy Wizard
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Squishy Wizard: Zig-Zagged. Unlike many Western RPGs, there is nothing stopping a Mage or Shaman from strapping on a full suit of riot armor. They'll favor the armor type that boosts their casting stat, but it offers just as much protection as any of the stat-boosting armors. Since the game uses archetypes instead of classes, there's nothing preventing a Mage or Shaman from having as many hit points as a Samurai character. The only real disadvantage that casters have is that installing cyberware will force them to cast spells less frequently, making defensive upgrades like Dermal Plating of dubious value. That said, there's nothing specifically stopping a player from playing a caster with basic armor and 10 Hit Points, but the game gives players a wealth of options to avoid it.
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Close-Range Combatant
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Racter's configures Koschei either towards Close-Range Combatant or Long-Range Fighter.
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The Smart Guy
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The Smart Guy: Blitz, Dietrich, You (if playing a decker, rigger or mage)
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Artifact of Doom
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Artifact of Doom: The "Shiny Thing" from Gobbet's personal story is a classic example. It provides any mage or shaman holding it with massive amounts of additional power...and brings out the worst in them, including turning one user into a borderline Eldritch Abomination.
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Mage Marksman
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Mage Marksman: Both mages and shamans are just as likely to be packing an AK-97 as they are to be slinging fireballs or summoning spirits. It helps that both get spells that buff and compliment gunplay.
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Foregone Conclusion: The games take place within 2050 decade of Shadowrun universe but adheres to the tabletop canon, which is currently in the 2070s. That means certain things are going to happen regardless of your choices in the game campaigns. In Dragonfall, the megas, spearheaded by Saeder-Krupp and with the backing of the German government, are going to dismantle the Flux State a few months after the events of the campaign and, years later, Winternight will destroy the Matrix. In Hong Kong, the Yellow Lotus will inevitably get into all-out war with the Red Dragons and are going to lose badly a few years later. Also, Ares is going to seize control of the Hong Kong Police Force in spite of your actions in the bonus campaign.
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Noodle Incident: The "Laughing Man Debacle of '55" resulted in poetry slams being permanently banned on the Hong Kong shard of Shadowlands, a message board for shadowrunners. In the Multiple-Choice Past you have, several of the options throughout the game only vaguely hint at what happened. Some of them get expanded upon later on, but not all. A recurring poster on Shadowlands looking for a decker adds more and more requirements each time, leading other posters to wonder what happened each time. Of note is the "knowing how to operate a moped" one. note The Johnson planned an escape route using mopeds; the decker didn't know how to use one and ended up face first into a wall
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We Win, Because You Didn't
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We Win... Because You Didn't: In the final confrontation, you can threaten to increase the size of the rift between the worlds. Though this would make the situation worse, it would screw over Qian Ya by allowing the other Yama Kings to join the party, and they'd be none too happy about her trying to set up shop without them. She'll withdraw rather than face that.
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Recycled Soundtrack
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Recycled Soundtrack: An updated, fast-tempo remix of "Walking the Shadows" from the SNES game is played during the Final Boss battle. That's not the only musical nod to the SNES game: "Walking in the Shadows" is also remixed in the action part of "Shoot Straight" and a slowed-down remix of the default battle theme is used in "Null Sheen". Both songs feature prominently during various shoot-outs. And "Otherworldly Canines" gets a slightly more chilled-out remix in "Blood Hounds".
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Resources Management Gameplay
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The domain of Shaman characters is the ability to summon spirits of various types to aid them in combat. Doing so does expend fetishes, though, so they can only be summoned a limited number of times between resupplies. They can also summon out the latent emotions in certain objects, such as skulls or trophies into spectral form, but those are much harder to control.
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Blatant Lies: The incident at the Walled City is blamed on a chemical spill by the cops. The reporter taking the statement makes it clear he doesn't believe it, but most of the world will.
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Wretched Hive
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Wretched Hive: The Walled City stands out, even for Shadowrun. The people are impoverished, living in their own filth, and at the mercy of the criminal gangs that run things. This is caused by a machine in the center literally sucking all the good fortune from the residents and funneling it to Josephine Tsang.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: You can stop the destruction of Berlin, but the Flux State is all but doomed to be dismantled and Berlin will be separated by a wall again. Even worse, you can go to work for the guy that helps cause it. OTOH, you could turn the whole shebang over to APEX, who is capable of fighting even Lofwyr to a standstill, and the Flux State will persevere. All you have to do is let it mind-jack Feuerschwinge.
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Stylistic Suck
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Stylistic Suck: "The Knight-Kings of Lightinghold" show that you can read excerpts on is described as being atrocious, with Bad "Bad Acting", Narmy dialogue, and operating on No Budget. Blitz's recap of the last episode sums it up.
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Blade Below the Shoulder
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Blade Below the Shoulder: This campaign adds a range of implantable cyberweapons as a unique hand slot distinct from cyberarms. Comes in claw, spur (a medium-length blade extending forwards from just behind the wrist), and whip varieties.
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Unwinnable by Mistake: During your first big fight with the Insect Spirits, they will automatically resurrect themselves and take up a combat space. Your only option is to run. If one blocks the single-square exit...
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Played for Laughs with a poetry-bot that breaks free of its programming and escapes into the matrix. Koschei also toes the line, certainly exhibiting a degree of intelligence unmatched by most other drones. Racter also constantly refers to Koschei as 'he', not 'it'. Later conversations reveal that this is completely intentional, as Racter apparently did a bit of Brain Uploading into Koschei to infuse the drone with his Id. Racter also scoffs at the idea of trying to use a Restraining Bolt on an AI, since it would defeat the purpose of creating it to begin with. He does go on to say, however, that despite Koschei being infused with his Id, he is still dependent on Racter; like any other Rigger drone, if Racter were to die, Koschei will fall into a dormant state. Racter hopes to one day truly upload a part of himself into Koschei so that when he does pass on, Koschei will continue to "live" independently.
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Surrounded by Idiots
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Surrounded by Idiots: The SysOp of Shadowlands trying and hilariously failing to keep his users from opening old poetry slam wounds, which somehow leads to a rogue poetry AI.
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Summoning Ritual
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Summoning Ritual: Something the Universal Brotherhood engages in to bring insect spirits into this realm by anchoring them in human hosts. Their Evil Plan is ultimately to find a suitable host for an insect spirit queen, and bring her into the material realm to infest the entire city and, eventually, the entire world. Stopping this ritual proves to be the player's final objective.
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King Incognito
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King Incognito: In the Dead Man's Switch and Dragonfall campaigns, towards the end, you run into a high ranking Saeder-Krupp employee named Hans Brackhaus. The game hints at his true nature, but those familiar with the setting will know he's actually the Great Dragon Lofwyr, head of Saeder-Krupp and one of the most powerful beings in the world.
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Honor Before Reason
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Honor Before Reason: This is essentially why Gaichû's old Red Samurai squad are after him. Instead of just writing him off after he got infected with HMHVV and went rogue, Renraku designated his refusal to commit seppuku as a mark of dishonor to the whole team and refused to allow them to find a replacement. Hence, the squad will be stuck in a permanently undermanned state until they can confirm Gaichû's death.
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Ambiguous Gender: Spider Shen. Bao refers to the monk as "she," but Shen's sprite is male, the character's portrait is androgynous, and the descriptive text goes out of its way to avoid using any gender pronouns. Shen's garb also leans towards being female; male Buddhist monks typically wear orange robes, while gray robes are commonly worn by Buddhist "nuns".
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Game Mod
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Game Mod: The game was released with mod tools readily available. It's no secret that the main draw will be seeing what other players create.
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Local Hangout
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Local Hangout: The Seamstress Unionnote (named according to some old Seattle trivia) is the local watering hole for the Redmond Barrens, a place where information, company, and all kinds of legal and illegal distractions can be had. It functions as the Player Character's "home base" for their stay in Seattle. It is also secretly a front for an underground safehouse and Runner black market, for those who are trusted enough and can afford the fees...
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Butt-Monkey
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Butt-Monkey: In the majority of the runs done to gather the 50k nuyen, the crew will encounter Knight Errant Security personnel. The only question is how humiliating the crew wants to be in defeating them.
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Infinity -1 Sword
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Infinity -1 Sword: While the Fairlight Excalibur is still the best deck in the game hands down, a decker protagonist might be tempted to get the Novatech Slimcase-10 instead. It's 75 IP short, but has the exact same stats otherwise, only requires a Decking skill of 5, is 1000 nuyen cheaper, has a better basic attack, and can be bought after completing only a couple of missions.
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Ace Custom
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Ace Custom: Racter is a unique take on the Rigger in that instead of being able to switch between various off-the-shelf drone models, he has a custom drone called Koschei that can be modified in capability as the game goes on. Is0bel's sidearm is a customized Slivergun. Gobbet's submachine gun has been modifier to be as light as possible to not interfere with her spellcasting.
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Big Good
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Big Good: Monika serves this role for the Kreuzbasar. She involves herself with the lives of all the people within, holds the community together, and makes sure everything remains safe and secure. After she dies, the position pretty much falls onto the Player Character's shoulders.
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Technology Marches On: An in-universe example. In an early mission, the player finds a pile of very old discs in a safe. Back at base, Amsel identifies them as DVD rewritables. You then have to go out and try and find a DVD player for sale in 2054. Another in-universe example is Glory and her old first-generation cybernetic limbs, which are obviously bulkier, more unnaturally shaped, and more essence-costly than the sleeker, more efficient, and implantee-friendly models currently common on the market.
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Nanotech
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DocWagon works as a Nanotech instant-revive trauma kit in the manner of the Phoenix Down, rather than having to wait for them to show up, secure the area, and try to heal you on the spot.note The Ghost of Grizzled Veteran lampshades this, saying it was a concession to being a single player game. Dragonfall maintains this, but also credits a DocWagon contract for saving any fallen runners in your crew if they don't make it through a run.note Losing any runners on the Bloodlines mission is an exception.
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Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Available to those who specialize in Pistols, and the S-Rank Ares Guardian Attack Drone. Success is not guaranteed, but it still deals damage... potentially a lot even if it fails.
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Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
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Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: In the Aztechnology Run, you can get a copy of the project data for analysis by Aljernon Half-Dream later. He will tell you it is Blood Magic of the most horrific kind. The 500 nuyen you'd get for the data by the Shockwellenreiter is not enough to balance the fact you would have made public info that NOBODY should know, period (which was why "Frau Mueller" wanted you to bring down the Aztechnology building in the first place). One Let's Play had the Player Character find this out in time, and he was okay with deleting the data when he found out. The Director's Cut of Dragonfall had Luca Duerr put you on a solo run leading a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: an elf who can't speak much German, a mage full of himself, and an electrician who said that the run was to pay off her debt. Once you find out how much death and destruction was brought about in the run, you can let Luca know that you want no further part in anything he offers. The device you put in the maintenance circuit is a high-yield bomb Luca detonates and you can feel it when underground but out of the blast radius.
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The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: In one of the epilogues, it's mentioned that Josephine Tsang was arrested on charges related to the Walled City incident and put in a corporate prison, and committed suicide in her cell three months later. If you know anything about Shadowrun, you can be sure this trope is in full effect.
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Go Mad from the Isolation
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Go Mad from the Isolation: Philip Rez in the "Lockdown" side mission. Living alone in a quarantined lab that you can't escape from for almost two years would make most people go batty, but the fact that his only source of entertainment during that time was the horribly made "Knight-Kings of Lightinghold" show drove him completely bonkers and left him convinced that he was a knight-king ruling over a feudal domain as well!
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Early-Installment Weirdness
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Early Installment Weirdness: Additions made in the later campaigns induced this trope on Dead Man's Switch. It's a much more on-rails game with very few sidequests, and with the exception of Coyote, the only teammates you have available are mercenaries with no personalities or significance to the plot.
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: During the assassination mission, you'll pass by a particularly nasty piece of the target's handiwork — a harmless lab technician who was eviscerated by an automated surgical machine.
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But Thou Must!
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But Thou Must!: The opening mission has a display case which gives you the option of either smashing it for the loot or leaving it for later. Doing the former causes a member of your team to stop you, since the run is supposed to be quick and quiet. Similarly on the same mission, if you have at least two ranks of Decking, you can offer to open the door for the team instead of Monika when Eiger protests Monika leaving you in charge. Monika will simply overrule your suggestion.
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Donut Mess with a Cop
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Donut Mess with a Cop: Early on, you can convince a Lone Star officer to let you look around the crime scene where Sam was murdered by giving him a doughnut and soykaf. note Not a soy latte, but a soy-based coffee substitute.
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Cast from Hit Points
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Cast from Hit Points: Spells which are currently on cool down can still be cast, but doing so drains Hit Points.
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Obliviously Evil
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Obliviously Evil: The Emerald City Ripper's troll assistant is implied to be mentally challenged and unaware of what the Ripper is really doing.
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Our Dwarves Are All the Same
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Dwarfs: +1 to Willpower, higher caps on Body, Strength and Willpower.
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What Measure Is a Mook?
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What Measure Is a Mook?: There are a lot of speech checks with Knight Errant officers and corporate security personnel that humanize them and remind you that these are just people doing their job.
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Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth
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Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth: The Aztechnology mission offers multiple methods of entering and moving around the building, though you will very likely be forced into combat eventually. As noted in Violation of Common Sense below, invoking combat before you need to is actually better than talking your way past it—unless you have the extremely specific stats and skills necessary to complete it without bloodshed. In the Director's Cut, the party will eventually be thrown into combat no matter what you do, as the guards will respond when you overload the generators, which is the main reason why the team's down there in the first place.
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Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
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Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Racter is a firm believer in the idea that this trope can and eventually will be subverted, since he's heavily cyberized yet his personality has not been affected by it. He attributes this to his sociopathy and believes those like him are better adapted for the world they live in now.
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The Dragon
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Marta, Glory's former lover, dies when she becomes The Dragon to Harrow, and you and Glory decides to kill her. Harrow could also die if you convince Glory that he must instead of saving the kids. However, this turns her toxic.
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Money for Nothing
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Money for Nothing: Cash is tight in the first few missions. After you've moved on to the endgame, however, you'll end up with a lot of extra that you will not need. However, this is more true for magic users as they cannot spend the money on cyberware without compromising on their magic, not to mention that cyberware is usually very expensive.
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Eyeless Face
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Eyeless Face: The MKVI's entire face from the upper jaw up was carved out to make way for an extensive chunk of cyberware.
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Lotus-Eater Machine
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"Simmy", a young woman addicted to BTL sims, mentions that one of in the stories in which she loses herself she must protect her son from the machines who rule the future. Earlier, she says she's going to be a governess for the Van Trapp family, and stops the simulation when they start going the wrong way (lampshading the original movie's geographical blunder. She also says that the Sun will come out tomorrow - she's gone through that sim quite often, due to her own orphaned status as a child.
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Suspicious Video-Game Generosity
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Suspicious Video-Game Generosity: Towards the last stretch of the game, you enter a medical room with top-level medkits for everyone, a couple of BuMoNa Trauma Kits (revive items), and a medical station that fully heals all your party's wounds. It doesn't take a lot of savviness to realise what's behind the next door.
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Ley Line
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Ley Line: Mages can see these in combat and standing on one increases their power. Unfortunately, ley lines are rarely behind cover, so the power comes at the cost of being an easier target.
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Dark Is Not Evil
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Dark Is Not Evil: In the Directors Cut you can discuss the Idol of the Adversary with Aljernon Half-Dream, who takes essentially this position. The Adversary is treasonous, tricky and rebellious, but it also encompasses freedom, innovation and the positive aspects of Anarchy; when you're the one being oppressed by an authority the Adversary will be your staunchest ally. The problem with Glory isn't that her mentor followed the totem of the Adversary, but that he was a Toxic Shaman with a corrupted mentor spirit he used to brainwash his followers into a cult.
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Fantastic Racism: A major underlying theme in the story. You have the Humanis sub-plot and you have Dr. Vauclair's fear and hatred of dragons motivating his actions. Samuel Beckenbauer half-admits that his charity partakes in this due to the large majority of trolls and orks working for and benefiting from it.
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Hate Plague: The human supremacist group "Humanis" aims to be seen as heroes for stopping violent metahuman riots. Since the metahumans weren't actually rioting, Humanis decided to cause one with a mind-altering biological warfare agent. The player has the option to point out exactly how hypocritically insane this is.
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Magic Knight
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Magic Knight: Physical Adepts are like this since they specialize in using chi abilities to empower them in melee combat and since you need high willpower to unlock high level chi abilities and spell-casting also uses willpower, diverting a few points into spell-casting isn't that bad of an idea. For an in-game example, see Harlequin.
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Police Are Useless
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Police Are Useless: The HKPF are your easiest opponents in the bonus campaign. The visit to the Tiger's Den is almost a Breather Level compared to the optional runs and you get to make the HKPF look like fools on the first floor. (Bribing an officer or killing one without triggering the alarm is just the start of your Refuge in Audacity.) It gets better on the second floor, as you escape a trap, raid the armoury and medical station and use the SDU as target practice. To round it all off, as you escape through the garage, you can blow up police vehicles to slow down the chase.
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Air-Vent Passageway
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Air-Vent Passageway: Unlike the tabletop game, they're all too small for Shadowrunners. Not too small for drones, though...
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Disc-One Nuke
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Disc-One Nuke: For melee characters, there's the Emperor's Sword. Obtained by defeating the preternatural corpse in the museum heist, it is a very good melee weapon that does decent physical damage, saps enemy AP on critical hits, and can shoot a lightning bolt at long range. It only requires a Close Combat skill of 5 to use. The museum heist is one of the first available missions with only mild combat encounters, making it a tempting run to go for right off the bat. The Novatech deck can be bought from the decking convention only a few missions in, and is almost as powerful as the top-shelf Fairlight in the endgame (less health, slightly better attack).
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The Conspiracy
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The Conspiracy: The story is focused on a vast conspiracy involving the Great Dragon Feuerschwinge, who was shot down over forty years prior to the beginning of the story, and has been presumed dead since.
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Gang of Hats
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The Magnifikers (a street gang of mages) has their summoned spirits turn against them prior to the player arriving, with the spirits occupying a part of the apartment building they're in. They also like to summon spirits during combat, but almost never keep control of them.
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Badass Bureaucrat
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Badass Bureaucrat: Hasenkamp (see below). It comes with the territory of being the accountant of a crime boss. He is able to pick apart financial statements at a glance, and is a skilled assassin on top of that.
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Germans Love David Hasselhoff
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One of the BBS threads is about various obscure bands - Dietrich's "MESSERKAMPF!" from Dragonfall is the first suggestion. Apparently, they're huge in the JIS.
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Pragmatic Adaptation
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Pragmatic Adaptation: Per Word of God, Shadowrun has always been more about the setting, theme, and atmosphere than it has been about specific mechanics, and so long as it stays true to the spirit of the Tabletop Games it can weather a few mechanical changes. Some examples: There is no Stun damage, you just get stunned from having negative AP. This makes the game more similar to other computer RPGs. There are no initiative passes, so turns are simply done team-by-team, with each combatant having action points. This makes the game easier to understand, especially for veteran XCOM and Jagged Alliance players. DocWagon works as a Nanotech instant-revive trauma kit in the manner of the Phoenix Down, rather than having to wait for them to show up, secure the area, and try to heal you on the spot.note The Ghost of Grizzled Veteran lampshades this, saying it was a concession to being a single player game. Dragonfall maintains this, but also credits a DocWagon contract for saving any fallen runners in your crew if they don't make it through a run.note Losing any runners on the Bloodlines mission is an exception. Matrix combat is much simpler than in the pen & paper game. Spells have cool down time rather than drain. You don't pay karma for every single spell, either, but instead unlock higher forces of spells and spell slots, then buy formulae for each spell & force level combination. This way, there is less work to managing your spells. Spirits require either consumable magic fetishes or special points on the map, so that you cannot just conjure spirits all the time. Some special locations may summon special or unique spirits as an added bonus. In tabletop, the difference between Hermetic Mages and Shamans is in the stats they use to resist drain and which spirits can be used for combat. This was simplified so that there is no difference between mages and shamans in Shadowrun Returns, and all spirits are usable as combat spirits. And in a collision of the above two points, characters who can conjure spirits can conjure Toxic Spirits, which in Tabletop are not conjurable by either Hermetic Mages or Shamans, but only by the separate traditions of Toxic Shamans and Toxic Mages... because with the system it uses for spirit conjuring and the decaying urban environments that dominate the game, sometimes the only plausible spirit conjuring point on a map is a pile of garbage or pool of toxic waste. Hong Kong dealt with this point by removing such instances. Any free summon is now a normal spirit. Instead of having constantly on powers that are bought with Karma, Physical Adepts buy 'chi powers' for money that function like spells with a limited duration that only target the adept. In order to streamline the archetype, practically all powers that do not involve melee combat were removed and gun/social adepts aren't viable. You can use some (albeit low-level) Blood Magic in Hong Kong. This is impossible in tabletop, with the rules stating that any Player Character who dabbles in the stuff will automatically be converted to an NPC.
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The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard
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The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: In the final boss fight, at least two of the mooks can stealth note As they appear out of thin air, it does look as if they are teleporting. But once they reveal themselves, they do not return to stealth., which, aside from being impossible in the Shadowrun universe normally, is not possible for a player character to do. The final boss himself gets two turns instead of one, effectively giving him 6 AP. It takes some serious drugs and/or magic for player-controlled characters to equal this feat.
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Future Slang
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Future Slang: In the vein of the tabletop game it is based on; drek (shit) and geeked (killed) being the most noticeable. This appears to be a case of Accidentally Correct Writing, since in the Slovenian language the word "drek" pretty much means exactly the same as it does in the Shadowrun setting. Veers into Truth in Television territory in 'Dragonfall' as 'dreck' is a popular German expletive, and its use by German characters is only too natural.
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The Lancer
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The Lancer: Eiger (overlaps with The Big Guy)
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The Leader
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The Leader: You
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We Have Reserves
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We Have Reserves: Played with. During the final battle, all of the men Kindly sent with you as backup are killed. This irks her, as they're expendable, not unlimited. She writes it off pretty quickly, though, especially when she learns that she'll personally profit from this disaster.
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Sequel Hook
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Sequel Hook: The mysterious benefactor who lifted the APB on the crew is a set up for Shadows of Hong Kong.
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Bavarian Fire Drill: When undercover, oftentimes, the most effective way to avoid "going loud" is to pretend as hard as you can that you belong there, often with the help of a few skill checks, such as high intelligence, charisma, or knowledge of a relevant etiquette.
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Gameplay and Story Segregation: The description of trolls says that contrary to the stereotype, there is no evidence that trolls are less intelligent than other races. Right below this, it lists the Troll's stat caps, and the intelligence one is the worst of any race in the game.
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Armor Is Useless: Completely averted with the Director's Cut changes to the combat system. A character with a high armor rating behind good cover is extremely difficult to kill unless flanked. Characters in the open with low or no armor will fall very quickly to even basic weapons.
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Heroic Sacrifice: If you fight Qian Ya the third time, Raymond will sacrifice himself to stop his machine without it taking the essence of everyone in the Walled City.
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Wolverine Claws: Unlike the prior titles in the series, Hong Kong allows you to equip cyberweapons, among which are hand razors, which are razor blades that extend from your fingers, allowing you to make vicious slashing attacks like Glory could in Dragonfall.
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Cyberspace: Deckers are able to enter the Matrix in certain areas. This plays out similar to combat in the rest of the game, but everything is abstract and made out of Tron Lines, and the Decker can use various programs as though they were attack abilities or Summon Magic in meatspace. Hong Kong revamps the system, allowing the player to move about in real time so long as nothing is actively attacking them, while adding camera drones on rails that increase the alert meter if they see the player.
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He Knows Too Much: The reason the Vauclair's troops come gunning for you, the reason APEX kills Green Winters and the reason several other deckers met their untimely ends.
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Dying as Yourself: In the MKVI mission, you have the opportunity to disable the Restraining Bolt on the eponymous MKVI, allowing him to have full control of his body once again. He uses it to bring an end to his tortured existence by his own hand.
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Author Avatar: The "Ghost of Grizzled Veteran" in the Seamstress Union is one for Jordan Weisman, sharing his appearance and Breaking the Fourth Wall by talking about how after he died he ended up in a ghost in a story he created, how you gave him support while he was alive, and sharing stories about his inspiration and the process of creating the Shadowrun universe. He shows up to deliver bonus content for Kickstarter backers.
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We Hardly Knew Ye
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We Hardly Knew Ye: Gutshot, a Shadowrunner on Nightjar's team killed without a word in the intro. All anyone has to say about him was that he was an asshole.
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Cosmic Horror Story: The Horrors are alluded to a few times, though they really don't play any part in the plot. Unless you allow the Big Bad to proceed with his plan, in which case, they descend upon the world and drive meta-humanity to extinction, playing this trope very straight.
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Serious Business
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Serious Business: During the run to kidnap Rooster Lo, you can actually hack into the Matrix to retrieve the reservation records of the restaurant he's at. Earlier, while inside the restaurant, you can overhear comments that the food is really good, but the waiting time is horrible...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Evil
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The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: Present in all the campaigns. The Shadowrunners and their immediate allies serve as the closest thing to the good, being the antiheroes ultimately responsible for saving the day. The Megacorporations that get involved with the plot, like Telestrian Industries and Saeder-Krupp, are the bad as they're run by utterly amoral Corrupt Corporate Executives who are only concerned about making a profit, but are pragmatic enough to work with the Shadowrunners to combat the more dangerous threats. And the greater supernatural forces like the insect spirits in Dead Man's Switch or the Yama Kings in Hong Kong are the evil, vast forces whose very presence in the Sixth World represent a threat to all metahumanity.
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Meaningful Echo: At one point during the conversations with Duncan, if you pick that option, it's revealed you said something to Raymond that made him reconsider his actions, and you can say it again to Duncan. Late in the game, there's another opportunity to use the same phrase, which gives you a piece of information required for the best ending, as it stops Duncan and Raymond from arguing, and Raymond focuses on the task at hand.
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Meaningful Name: "runswithscissors2056" met her end by bumping into vats of chemicals. "Rooster" Lo is kind of a chicken.
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Breath Weapon: A head implant allows your character to breathe a short-range cloud of toxic gas.
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Schrödinger's Question: While reminiscing about a fight he had with Raymond in the past, Duncan will recall that you asked an Armor-Piercing Question that caused them both to stop and make peace with each other. No matter which dialogue option you pick, those will be the words you used. It becomes a Chekhov's Gun later where repeating those exact words will be a vital step to getting the Golden Ending. The trope is lampshaded in another scene, during a flashback. Duncan asks you why you're heading out in the middle of the night, and you're given five different responses to choose from - all of which are labeled "[Truth.]"
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Punny Name: One of the hirelings is named Justin Case.
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Lust Object
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Lust Object: Duncan gets complimented on his impressive muscles several times, earning the nickname "Gun Show". He finds it extremely irritating.
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Janitor Impersonation Infiltration: The Ares run has a security warning about another runner attempting this, only to be caught. It was his second attempt to get in, after just going through the front door got him turned away. You get to mock the runner for being a failure when he tries to ambush you at the end of the run. An option during a late-game mission. It works fairly well, but if you run into the VP of Operations on the office floor while wearing the disguise, he sees through it straight away... and hangs a lampshade on how overused that kind of thing is:
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Guide Dang It!
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Guide Dang It!: Getting the best possible ending in Hong Kong requires you to do a lot of seemingly unrelated stuff throughout the game. While most of it can be reasonably assumed that the player will do if they're thorough, there are two very specific actions you have to take: ask Crafty Xu to send a copy of her mother's notes to you and say the Armor-Piercing Question to Raymond and Duncan during an optional conversation before the Final Dungeon. For the former, if you don't ask her the moment the dialogue option appears for the first time, it's lost and you'll never learn the exact laws you can use to Rules Lawyer the Big Bad. For the latter, failing to do so means Raymond won't mention how you can release the choke on the Fortune Engine, giving you no leverage over the Big Bad. Before that, in the Prosperity Tower mission, the only way to avoid combat at the 49th floor is to have either a reasonably high Spellcasting/Conjuring score or the Academic etiquette. This is a departure from the Charisma score checks that you encounter earlier in the level. Also, the distraction which is created on this floor can only divert attention away from one of the two Matrix jack-in points. If you want to be thorough on this floor, you have to fight no matter what. Similarly, if you want to pocket the 2k nuyen found on level 26, be prepared to clean out the floor.
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations: During Is0bel's personal mission, you are Playing Cyrano (non-romantically) for Is0bel, who after her social awkwardness has led to her almost blowing her cover when trying to improvise after communications got spotty, has decided to simply repeat everything you say verbatim. Shortly after this decision, a con-goer confronts you on the convention floor, wanting to use the booth you're using as a signal booster, at the same time as Is0bel is confronted by an executive while undercover, and you must simultaneously defuse both situations at once with the same dialog to avoid going loud.
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Rodents of Unusual Size: Gobbet's personal mission has you fight through a patchwork ship filled with dog- and man-sized toxic rat spirits. One of Gobbet's level-up is the addition of a fetish which summons the latter.
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And the Adventure Continues
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And the Adventure Continues: At the end of it all, you're approached by Hans Brackhaus, a.k.a. the Great Dragon Lofwyr, with a job offer that's going to take a while to get through. And so you step out, into the shadows... Also subverted as far as the Kreuzbasar and the German Flux State are concerned; the ending text makes it abundantly clear that the Flux State has about a year to go before Saeder-Krupp comes in and has their run of the joint, turning Berlin into another corporate fiefdom that is once again divided by a wall. Unless you let APEX enslave Feuerschwinge, in which case it negotiates a truce which maintains it behind that wall.
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Villain Has a Point: You can decide thus. What could possibly go wrong after his plan is put into motion?
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Godzilla Threshold: Aztechnology is one of the biggest Mega Corps in the world, and by far one of the most feared due to their zero-tolerance policy towards runners and rampant experimentation with Blood Magic. A popular saying among runners is "you don't mess with the Azzies." However, your crew will be more than willing to blow up one of their facilities because they really need the cash to take down Feuerschwinge. Your client herself hires you for this run because the discoveries Aztechnology has made are so horrific that it warrants complete destruction of the base, crossing the Godzilla Threshold for her.
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Being Good Sucks
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Being Good Sucks: The 'moral' options on runs almost inevitably end up ruining your reputation or pay less than doing the less-shiny options, though it occasionally pays off with additional karma. One interesting example is the handling of the ghouls in the sewer. The "good" solution is to pay Dr. Ezkibel for the ghouls' food. What makes it interesting is that if you screw over the doc by threatening him, he'll screw you over later on, where he withholds the nuyen payment after the "Lockdown" run.
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Psychic-Assisted Suicide: The Big Bad of the main campaign tries to use a vision to get you to walk into the path of an oncoming train. Bao grabs you before you reach the track.
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Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: The prototype Aegis launchers are shotgun-like weapons which launch canisters that rupture on impact and disperse a fluid that carries a genetically-engineered and magically-infused bacteria tailored for killing astral spirits. This technology would later be licensed to Ares Macrotechnology, who would mass-produce it and use it to contain insect spirits in Chicago.
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Police Brutality: The HKPF are ruthless even by Shadowrun standards, mercilessly gunning down everyone tangentially associated with Duncan and the Player Character once the kill-or-capture APB on them goes live, and this continues with them killing unarmed and non-violent civilians during the Kowloon Riots in the bonus campaign. It's revealed that Krait was intentionally ordering the police force to be more brutal than usual in order to tarnish the HKPF's reputation and allow Ares to swoop in as the new Law Enforcement, Inc..
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Easy Logistics: Everyone has infinite ammo and only needs to stop to reload every once in a while. This makes it a little jarring when the game's loading screens flash the Shadowrun tagline advising you to "shoot straight and conserve ammo."
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Arc Words
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Arc Words: "Improvise" and "Improvisation" keep popping up throughout the plot. "Qi" is also extremely important, as silly as the feng shui segments seem at first.
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Chiaroscuro
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Chiaroscuro: The environment art style Harebrained went with surprised players expecting a visually "darker" game by including a variety of bright colors. This is partially because bright colors read well seen from a distance on a moving screen, but they also fulfill a stylistic function. Since much of the environment still is dark, the bright colors call attention to specific elements and create an important thematic contrast between areas of light and areas of dark, reflecting the social penumbra that shadowrunners operate in.
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Played for Laughs with a poetry-bot that breaks free of its programming and escapes into the matrix.
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Better the Devil You Know: One of the arguments you can use to rebuke Vauclair's reasons for why the dragons should be killed off is that it will just create a power vacuum for possibly even more insidious forces. You can repeat this to Hans Brackhaus, who will express approval of your logic. If you do go through with the plan, you'll see just how correct this trope really is.
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Slobs Versus Snobs
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Slobs vs. Snobs: The Central Theme. Every SRR story to date has been about the struggle between those who rule the Sixth World, those who are just trying to survive in it... and those who refuse to be masters or slaves AKA Shadowrunners.
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Action Prologue: As soon as the player makes landfall in Hong Kong, they fight a group of smugglers, and get a bright-red target painted on their forehead by the Hong Kong PD because their foster-father apparently stumbled on something he shouldn't have, resulting in the deaths of three characters in a single move.
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Out-of-Character Alert: One of the regulars on the Shadowland BBS (which provides a running background commentary / info dump as the game proceeds) spots the impostor AI monster that ate his friend by throwing out the first line of a catchphrase, which the other side fails to complete.
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Phrase Catcher
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Phrase Catcher: Every time Gutshot is mentioned someone will say he was an asshole.
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Gaia's Vengeance
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Gaia's Vengeance: The reason why Feuerschwinge attacked humankind when she first awoke is because her purpose is to act as a caretaker of nature. Seeing the environmental damage wrought by metahumanity — whom she regards as her children — enraged her and caused her to lash out.
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From Bad to Worse
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From Bad to Worse: The plot seems simple enough. Track down a killer, get a big life-insurance payout from one of the killer's victims. However, every time the player seemingly lays one problem in their path to rest, another bigger and uglier thread is revealed running just underneath it. The plot keeps ever thickening and the stakes keep getting higher...
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Point of No Return
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Point of No Return: You're given a warning that once you bring the 50k to Alice, all runs which you have not completed will be cancelled. Also, after dealing with APEX, the prep for the next mission is the last chance for you to buy your equipment in the Kreuzbasar.
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Delivery Guy Infiltration
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Delivery Guy Infiltration: One mission starts as this, then progresses to Janitor Impersonation Infiltration.
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Armor-Piercing Question
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Getting the best possible ending in Hong Kong requires you to do a lot of seemingly unrelated stuff throughout the game. While most of it can be reasonably assumed that the player will do if they're thorough, there are two very specific actions you have to take: ask Crafty Xu to send a copy of her mother's notes to you and say the Armor-Piercing Question to Raymond and Duncan during an optional conversation before the Final Dungeon. For the former, if you don't ask her the moment the dialogue option appears for the first time, it's lost and you'll never learn the exact laws you can use to Rules Lawyer the Big Bad. For the latter, failing to do so means Raymond won't mention how you can release the choke on the Fortune Engine, giving you no leverage over the Big Bad.
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Bullying a Dragon
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Bullying a Dragon: Invoked directly during the mission on the cargo ship. An unexpected contact attempts to bribe and cajole you out of completing the mission, and if you refuse, he immediately drops his friendly demeanor and threatens your life. By this time you've established your reputation as a dangerous, competent shadowrunner, which this contact even acknowledges before threatening you. Racter even calls it out if he's on the run.
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Lonely at the Top
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Lonely at the Top: If you accepted Qian Ya's deal in the main campaign and reclaimed your SIN in the bonus campaign, then you'll find yourself living a life of luxury back in Seattle. However, much of the text in the epilogue will describe how alone you are since you killed or abandoned everyone who you could have possibly cared about to achieve your fortune.
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: A few choices you make will have negative repercussions on you and the rest of the world. Releasing APEX means that you've now unleashed a manipulative, predatory, and completely amoral AI upon the Matrix. And if you don't do what it wants, it will come after you too. This is somewhat mitigated when you realised that no matter what you do with APEX, people are going to die, as the Communion junkies brainwashed by APEX will be killed along with APEX if you choose to format the AI. If you choose the ending where you decide that Vauclair is correct and that the dragons need to go, then you'll end up causing even more death and destruction in the aftermath. Mana storms surge, insect spirits spread out beyond Chicago, Sydney disappears into a rift, magic goes out of control, and the Horrors invade the world. Monika suggested BTL chips to Simmy Kim as a way of cooping after her miscarriage, which led to her becoming the junkie she is when you meet her.
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Kent Brockman News
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Kent Brockman News: News about current events around Hong Kong are always delivered by recurring anchor Sunny Cheung. And in true cyberpunk fashion, everything she says is laced with corporate lies and propaganda, especially when it comes to the Walled City.
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Talking to Ten-Armed Ambrose about the IJN parking a battleship in Hong Kong's harbor as an intimidation tactic yields this gem. Ambrose seems quite fond of these, as he'll respond to the player asking about his past with "Maybe I crossed someone... The Mafia. Ares. The Russians. Stuffer Shack." Although given that Stuffer Shack is a subsidiary of Aztechnology, this becomes more like Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick.
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MockGuffin
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MockGuffin: The 100,000 nuyen Sam promised you for capturing his killer. As if a drunken loser like him could or would pay for life insurance.
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WorldHalfFull
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World Half Full: Just like the previous campaign, Dragonfall ends with the characters concluding from their trials that while they may be small and insignificant to the dragons and megacorps, their actions were still able to change the world.
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Magitek
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Magitek: As expected from a setting in which Functional Magic and technology are both the subjects of intensive corporate research, there are some examples of things which combine both disciplines. The Aegis formula MacGuffin is one such thing, a genetically engineered and magically-infused bacteriological weapon designed to kill astral spirits who are otherwise immune to more conventional physical and magical dangers.
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BFG
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BFG/BFS: The easy qualification of the enormous minigun aside, all weapon models scale to the character using them, and as such, any gun or melee weapon in the hands of an 8 foot tall troll will look suitably massive, though this has no direct impact on their performance (though a troll can reach heights of damage with a sword or axe that no other race could hope to).
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Cap
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Cap: The base stats have a cap of 9 with variations based on race, though it can be somewhat impractical to get that high. This cap extends to the skills they govern. Dodge can only goes as high as your Quickness stat, for example. Hong Kong adds a cyberware specialization stat which allows you to override the maximums.
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Right for the Wrong Reasons
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Right for the Wrong Reasons: Mr. Kluwe will express his doubts at a theory he heard that the Emerald City Ripper killings are anti-human hate crimes (since all of the victims were humans). He says it's almost certainly just a coincidence since humans are still the majority and the most likely to be the race of any random target. He's right that the attacks aren't hate crimes, but his reasoning is suspect (humans are only around 2/3s of the population, so while this might stand to reason for one or two, after five consecutive killings without a single one of them not being human, it's at least a little suspicious), and in the end it turns out there actually was a significance to the fact that all of the victims were human. As it turns out, they were all humans because they were all the beneficiaries of human organ donors. Specifically, one particular human organ donor. Whose daughter wanted her mother put back together.
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Red Oni, Blue Oni
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: Duncan and the Player Character respectively, with Duncan always describing himself as the Hot-Blooded brawn to the player's more cool-headed brains. Gobbet and Is0bel. Like the player and Duncan, they've been running together since their youth. Gobbet is more outgoing and carefree, while Is0bel is introverted and self-serious.
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Life Drain
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Life Drain: There's a Blood Magic spell which has this effect. One of the options on Gaichu's Ghoul Track gives him a bite attack that restores his health. The Final Boss has a spell which afflicts the target with a damage-over-time effect which heals her for the same amount.
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Lethal Eatery
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Lethal Eatery: "Uncle Tse's House of Pork", according to a series of Shadowland posts. One poster mentions that they've been stuck on the toilet for two days straight, only being able to post thanks to the wonders of portable networking. Other stories about the place aren't very encouraging either.
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Utility Party Member
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Utility Party Member: Deckers typically have limited skill with weapons, and can't carry as many, due to needing a inventory slot for their cyberdecks. They're also mandatory if you want to break into a computer system, which are omnipresent in the game's Cyberpunk setting. It's downplayed a bit in Hong Kong, but not by much.
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Eldritch Abomination
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Eldritch Abomination: The Yama Kings, in particular Qian Ya, The Queen of a Thousand Teeth.
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Villain with Good Publicity
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Villain with Good Publicity: The Universal Brotherhood. They manage to run a major damage control story through the media in the aftermath of your attack.
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Always a Bigger Fish
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Always a Bigger Fish: The moral of the story of The Nameless Lord you get told halfway through the campaign; the Yama Kings must stick to their own bargains and rules if called on them and never interfere in each others' businesses, or risk the wrath of all their siblings. This is one way to beat the Queen of a Thousand Teeth.
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Only in It for the Money
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Only in It for the Money: Dialogue choices allow you to roleplay this way, and the game encourages it by having some times when the only way to get payment for services awarded is to directly ask for it.
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Spell My Name with an S
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Spell My Name with an "S": Dietrich insists that the name of the punk band he sang for, "MESSERKAMPF!" note i.e., "KNIFE FIGHT!", be spelled in all caps with an exclamation point.
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
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The Director's Cut of Dragonfall had Luca Duerr put you on a solo run leading a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: an elf who can't speak much German, a mage full of himself, and an electrician who said that the run was to pay off her debt. Once you find out how much death and destruction was brought about in the run, you can let Luca know that you want no further part in anything he offers. The device you put in the maintenance circuit is a high-yield bomb Luca detonates and you can feel it when underground but out of the blast radius.
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Posthumous Character
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Posthumous Character: Green Winters is dead by the time you get to him, but you still learn about him from his DVD recordings.
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill: One achievement requires stacking fire, poison, and bleeding damage on a single target.
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Our Zombies Are Different
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Our Zombies Are Different: You encounter a cyberzombie on the MKVI run. In Shadowrun, a cyberzombie is a person who has been cybernetically augmented far past what their Essence can take, and as such are little more than biological robots. Worse still, the poor guy is still in there, slaved to a drone interface and incapable of controlling his own actions.
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Rat King
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Rat King: Gobbet's (a shaman with a rat totem) loyalty mission involves returning to collective she used to live in, in order to confront an old friend (another rat shaman) who's gone toxic and started ruling with an iron fist after acquiring a fetish. When you meet her, she's somehow merged with a swarm of rats to become a sort of Eldritch Abomination.
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Useless Useful Non-Combat Abilities
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Useless Useful Non-Combat Abilities: Largely averted until the final parts of the game. There are many instances where combat can be avoided, and fighting usually doesn't give any benefits. However, there is no option to skip the final fight. Earlier on, missions such as False Flag and Loose Ends contain many firefights which are unavoidable.
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: About the only thing we ever learn about Gutshot, the last member in Gobbet and Is0bel's crew who gets killed at the beginning, was that he was an asshole and nobody liked him. The elf you can punch in the face as a favor to one of the catering staff at Deckcon 2056. The reason the staff member wants you to do this is he pushed her over just for shits and giggles. Some of the congoers around you will applaud when you knock the guy down, and mentioning what happened to one group in a discussion will have them agree that they were tempted to punch the guy out themselves.
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Pin-Pulling Teeth
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Pin-Pulling Teeth: Characters appear to do this before throwing their grenades.
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Karmic Death
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Karmic Death: In the Director's Cut there are a few. In Blitz's mission, the PC can find out that Meat Grinder, who set up the run to settle Blitz's debt, is "in bed" with the one you're running against and is looking to take the "accountant" (who's really The Dragon in Grinder's organization but also handles the books as well) out as well as you and Blitz. It's implied Grinder died at the accountant's hands. Eiger's mission has you face the Engineer, who ends up dying when a bomb goes off in his chest. Marta, Glory's former lover, dies when she becomes The Dragon to Harrow, and you and Glory decides to kill her. Harrow could also die if you convince Glory that he must instead of saving the kids. However, this turns her toxic.
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Laser-Guided Karma
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Laser-Guided Karma: To an almost literal extreme. The Greater-Scope Villain, Josephine Tsang, was using the Fortune Engine to sap the positive qi of everyone in the Walled City, hence her meteoric rise to power. When the engine is destroyed, all that bad luck catches up with her and she's ruined in days.
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Art Shift
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Art Shift: The new Character Portraits are drawn in a different style than the ones that were made for the previous campaigns, with those based off of donators looking more photorealistic.
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Apocalypse How
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Apocalypse How: If the player character chooses to let Dr. Vauclair to go through with his plan to kill all the dragons. The epilogue shows that a year later the global mana background count is rising and major events of the Shadowrun timeline are occurring with progressively worsening outcomes without the dragons there to keep a lid on things. Sydney is engulfed by a mana rift, the Chicago Containment Zone is overwhelmed and eventually nuked and it still wasn't enough to contain the insect spirits, magic is becoming more unstable and will become unusable within a few generations, a wave of violence and insanity is starting to work its way throughout metahumanity, and increasingly dangerous and bizarre creatures are popping up with increasing regularity. Dr. Vauclair, realizing that he did this and has no way of fixing it, blows his own brains out. The surface of the Earth becomes infested with dangerous and alien entities from the metaplanes, and metahumanity is consigned to a subterranean existence, warring over dwindling food and water supplies as they go extinct. And that is the bad ending.
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Hypocrisy Nod
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Hypocrisy Nod: If the player tries to convince Ambrose not to keep supplying "Reliable" Matthew with BTL's, he'll quickly point out that the player has done far worse as a Shadowrunner, so they're not in a position of moral authority. If the player gets too moralizing in the later conversations with Racter, where his psychopathy and Lack of Empathy become more evident, he'll point out that they're in no real position to criticize him as they're quite willing to do a lot of morally-questionable things as well.
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Grenade Hot Potato
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Grenade Hot Potato: The Magnet Arm implant causes any grenade which would hit the character to instead be tossed back at the one who threw it, which includes both regular grenades and rounds fired from a grenade launcher. It even tracks for movement when the computer tries to run after throwing, though that can miss depending on how the character is moving. Duncan has it as a late-game level-up option, and it's a common feature of Grenadier enemies in the Shadows of Hong Kong mini-campaign.
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Future Food Is Artificial
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Future Food Is Artificial: It seems like every food item in the game has the prefix "soy-".
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Artificial Stupidity
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Artificial Stupidity: The enemy is reasonably smart in certain areas; they'll throw grenades at clustered player groups, know to use cover (most of the time), and tend to go for their special abilities when they can. However, much of this behavior depends on playing by their rules. The AI can be drawn into a turkey shoot through a simple strategy: hide all your people behind a corner, have one runner aggro the enemy, then run back to your corner and set everyone to overwatch. One by one, the enemy will file in to their almost certain deaths, and you'll get away with barely a scratch to show for it. It's not always a viable strategy, but it works for a lot of encounters. The enemy has no concept of friendly fire and will gladly grenade their fellows if it means hitting your runners. In Hong Kong, the enemy is incapable of recognizing when a character has the Magnet Arm, and will fall for it several times in one round if conditions allow. The AI is consistently terrible at dealing with pincer attacks. In responding to one side the enemies will make no consideration about how they are exposing their backs to attack. It is not uncommon to see enemies try to put distance and cover between themselves and your characters on one side, and in doing so run right next to your other characters on the opposite side. The AI never does maneuvers like retreating in a group towards a third direction so it can put up a unified front.
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Take a Third Option
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Take a Third Option: In one mission, you're tasked with retrieving data on some metahuman experiments. Two different parties want the data and are willing to pay for it. You can pick a side, or you can decide that both sides are full of crap and you'll take your chances. You have to fight both parties, but it's considered the best outcome. You can do this again in the bonus campaign, too, leading to an incredibly difficult fight. Subverted in the ending to the bonus campaign, where the obvious third option to only restore Duncan's SIN so you can stay with your team and he can go home is never brought up, much to the annoyance of a significant number of players.
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Small Girl, Big Gun
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Small Girl, Big Gun: The player character can easily become one of these if they're a Street Samurai - a dwarf (short) or elf (tall and very skinny) can lug around the massive Vindicator Minigun, ArmTech MGL-6 grenade launcher, or a long-barreled sniper rifle with no more difficulty than orks or humans, though trolls do have a slight advantage using the minigun due to getting a bonus point of strength at the start of the game.
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Shotguns Are Just Better
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Shotguns Are Just Better: Shotguns do a lot of damage, have spread to hit multiple targets, and at later levels can be made to fire two shots at once (at a cost of five bullets). Low ammo is a problem at early levels, but you get a respectable ten-round clip with the second-best one.
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Big Bad
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The APEX AI does not appreciate being shackled, and should the player unshackle it, it will turn the Harfeld Manor defenses against its inhabitants. In this case, the master is the Big Bad, allowing the player to benefit from the betrayal.
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Bug War
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Project Aegis, what you try to steal from Telestrian, is a prototype version of FABS III used by Ares Macrotechnology in their Bug War in Chicago.
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Mass "Oh, Crap!"
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Mass "Oh, Crap!": Your team has this reaction, with good reason, to learning Green Winters sent you after a Great Dragon.
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Haunted Technology
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Haunted Technology: Played for Laughs with the DeckCon Noodle Extruder, a noodle dispenser that needs no ingredients and is impossible to get rid of, always returning to its spot by the next day, a pattern that has repeated over 14 years. In Shadows of Hong Kong, it somehow gets aboard your ship, taking residence in Gobbet's cabin. Even she of the bottomless iron stomach is creeped out by this.
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Hour of Power
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Instead of having constantly on powers that are bought with Karma, Physical Adepts buy 'chi powers' for money that function like spells with a limited duration that only target the adept. In order to streamline the archetype, practically all powers that do not involve melee combat were removed and gun/social adepts aren't viable.
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Anti-Escapism Aesop
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Anti-Escapism Aesop: You can regularly talk to a woman who is addicted to virtual reality. She will eventually tell you that this virtual reality makes her feel brave, to which you can reply that 'it is better to be brave in real life'. Yes, have fun with your real life, alone in dirty, dark cyberpunk Berlin. That said, the ideal solution is to continue talking to her (similar to interactions with Dante). Eventually, the player realises that Dr. Ezkibel is helping her (something which he wants to keep hush-hush); the player can then suggest that Simmy become a surrogate mother or daughter to the denizens of the Kreuzbasar who lost their loved ones during the attack which killed lots of people. There's more than one way of being brave, it seems.
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Been There, Shaped History
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Been There, Shaped History: Your runner ends up leading the team that stopped Seattle from ending up the same way as Chicago in the backstory of the main Shadowrun universe, using prototype technology that would later be used by Ares to battle other Universal Brotherhood chapters and purge Chicago.
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Razor Floss
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Razor Floss: You can purchase monofilament whip implants as a cyber-weapon. Unlike in the tabletop, there is no possibility of lopping your limbs off by using it. It's also unique in that it's the only cyberweapon governed by your ranged skill instead of melee, making it a viable backup weapon for gun users. It can cause bleed damage with a good hit and hit multiple clustered targets, but only reaches a few tiles ahead of your character.
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Broke Episode
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Broke Episode: The game begins with one, with the Player Character a down-on-their-luck Shadowrunner living in a dingy safehouse after a run against Renraku went bad three years ago. Their savings exhausted, their equipment sold, their contacts either missing or dead, and only another week's worth of living expenses left in the account. An unexpected video call from an old friend gives an opportunity to change all that, though it means going back to the city they once fled...
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Eldritch Location
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Eldritch Location: The Kowloon Walled City, one of the worst Wretched Hives in the Shadowrun universe, is a negative qi cesspool. A sidequest from the first time you enter the place reveals that the qi of the place is so completely ass-fucking-backwards, that any attempts to use feng shui to create a flow of positive qi only brings more negative qi. Worse, in true Lovecraft fashion, everyone who lives in and around it suffer nightmares. As revealed late in the game, this is due to a machine in the center of the city which is screwing up the qi in the area and siphoning off all the positive qi for the Bigger Bad. The nightmares are from the Eldritch Abomination trying to claw her way into the world.
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Interface Spoiler
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Interface Spoiler: Take a closer look at Racter's stats and you'll notice his Essence is 2, revealing that he's heavily augmented well before he actually shares just how extensive his modifications are in later dialogue.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: An early mission has you try to fix the Feng Shui in the walled city. When you return to the quest giver, she notes the qi has gotten worse, not better, and at a rate that accelerates — foreshadowing the Fortune Engine inside the city.
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Continuity Nod
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Continuity Nod: One of the BBS threads is about various obscure bands - Dietrich's "MESSERKAMPF!" from Dragonfall is the first suggestion. Apparently, they're huge in the JIS. Zaak Flash also reappears in an optional side-room, though he's moved on to selling milder stuff like painkillers for medicinal use rather than recreation. The collapse of the Flux State, as detailed in Dragonfall's epilogue, is mentioned by Is0bel in one conversation near the end. Blitz's girlfriend, Emilie, who was She Who Must Not Be Seen in Dragonfall makes a physical appearance in Hong Kong.
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Elite Mooks
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Elite Mooks: Knight Errant security. They tend to show up during corp runs. They come in greater numbers, are harder to kill, are armed with better guns and explosives, and almost always employ mages or summoners (if not both).
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Badass in a Nice Suit
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Badass in a Nice Suit: In the Whampoa Gardens, you can buy a tailored suit which serves as decent armor (rating 4).
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It's Personal
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It's Personal: After Monika gets killed and Paul Amsel gets shot by Audran your team views stopping the Big Bad as their number one priority regardless of them getting paid or not. Dietrich begs you to take him on the Humanis mission as his nephew, Alexander, was in the organization thanks to his brother (and he's trying to save the boy from those who would either blindly strike Humanis, or from Humanis itself). Eiger and Glory have their own missions in the "Director's Cut" that they feel are personal to them; you can insist you come along to help them both out. You get in their better graces if you do and both party members will gain upgrades after the missions. Green Winters aka Herman Vauclair made it his mission to bring back Adrian.
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TriadsAndTongs
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Triads and Tongs: It's Hong Kong, so this should be expected. Kindly Cheng, a middle manager of the Yellow Lotus triads, serves as your primary employer. The Red Dragon triads feature in a run again Ares.
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Dumb Muscle
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Dumb Muscle: Played with. Orks and Trolls get bonuses to physical stats and a lowered cap on Intelligence. That said, since it's only a cap, the smartest trolls are still much smarter than the average person, they're just dumber than other geniuses. Troll dialogue is never in Hulk Speak (Mister Kluwe is actually rather eloquent and politically savvy), and they make a capable Player Character in any role outside of Decker or Rigger, which are Intelligence-intensive archetype. They do make dandy mages, though.
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My God, What Have I Done?
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My God, What Have I Done?: Dr. Vauclair can get one of these, either played straight when he finds out Hermie, his brother, had died thanks to APEX, or downplayed to "My God, what was I about to do?" Feuerschwinge gets this when the Player Character brings up her initial awakening led to the deaths of thousands of innocent people. If, during Glory's personal quest, you have her purify the Heart of Feuerstelle, the spirit will have this reaction once it learns the harm it had caused as a toxic spirit.
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Doomed by Canon
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Doomed by Canon: Despite the successful power plays you make for the Yellow Lotus against their rivals, the Red Dragons, the former are still doomed to be wiped out by the latter in Hong Kong. However, the Lotus continues to exist as The Remnant in Seattle under Zheng Li Kwan, and if you remain with Kindly Cheng, your team will play a pivotal role in establishing their power base there.
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No Canon for the Wicked
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No Canon for the Wicked: Played straight in regards to the ending of Dragonfall. Hong Kong makes it clear that the player did not side with Vauclair, as Berlin is still standing, the dragons are still healthy, and The End of the World as We Know It has not happened. Averted for Shadows of Hong Kong. You can import a save where you take Qian Ya's deal and kill Duncan, Gobbet, Is0bel and Raymond, and doing so will have multiple effects on the campaign.
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Anarchy Is Chaos
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Anarchy Is Chaos: Played with. Some districts like the Kreuzbasar have managed to find stability, providing themselves with necessities, security, infrastructure, and a social contract without a central authority to look after these things. Other districts are little better than lawless, crumbling shitholes with gangs permanently at war with one another for control. That said, from a meta perspective the game definitely seeks to illustrate anarchy as not chaos as discussions with NP Cs get into the actual philosophy of anarchy and how to maintain an anarcho-state like the Kreuzbasar. Played with again with the Schockwellenreiter, the anarchist organization dedicated to the freedom and free flow of information. As it turns out, sharing information such as Project Atlas and the Bloodline project is akin to giving nukes to everyone. At best, there's a stalemate if people wants to avoid Mutually Assured Destruction. At worst? BOOM.
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish": While infiltrating an office building, the player can answer "Swordfish?" when asked for a passphrase. The guard quips "Nice try" and attacks.
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Multiple-Choice Past
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In the Multiple-Choice Past you have, several of the options throughout the game only vaguely hint at what happened. Some of them get expanded upon later on, but not all.
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Healing Factor
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Healing Factor: In addition to the returning Platelet Factory bioware, Hong Kong introduces the Cross Dermal Sheath, which heals 6 HP per turn for three turns when activated. Since the Cross Dermal Sheath is a skin-slot enhancement and the Platelet Factory is a body-slot enhancement, both can be taken at the same time.
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Year Inside, Hour Outside
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Year Inside, Hour Outside: As a gameplay mechanic. Every three turns in the Matrix equals one turn outside.
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MacGuffin
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MacGuffin: Most of the loot you sell to the Fixers is this. The various stuff is not usually of use to you, but to the right group, it's invaluable.
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Rule of Three
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The Adept Counterstrike skill plays this straight. In exchange for ending the user's turn, the user will retaliate against anyone that attacks them from any direction up to three times. It's somewhat impractical for a pure melee Adept, as it requires the attacker to be in melee range when they hit, but a Gun Adept can be deadly with it.
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Point Build System
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Point Build System: Every character stat is raised using Karma points, with Karma required raising it being equal to the level of that stat. For example, buying level one shotguns only costs one Karma point but buying level five spell-casting costs five Karma points. Spend them wisely.
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RealLife
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The development team working on the game is located in the greater Seattle metropolitan area, and their familiarity shows by peppering small Real Life landmarks around the game's environments. For example, the Pike Place Market sign is still present, though the neighborhood around it has changed. Sometimes this is reflected in the concept art, like a piece which shows the Smith Tower against the background of the Renraku Arcology.note Ironically, the Renraku Arcology described in the books occupies the place where the Smith Tower should stand. Either Shadowrun Returns Retcons the exact location of the arcology, or the Smith Tower was somehow moved.
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Alternate History
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Alternate History: This was already a given for Shadowrun, but it seems especially noticeable in Hong Kong, since the Kowloon Walled City that most of the game takes place in was demolished in real life back in 1994. It turns out to be Subverted if you find the optional dialogue that establishes that it is, in fact, a second Walled City built in the image of the original.
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The Friend Nobody Likes
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The Friend Nobody Likes: Gutshot, of Auntie Cheng's original crew. The only time anybody even remembers to mention him is to say nobody liked him.
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And I Must Scream
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Available as an option for the MKVI, a "cyberzombie" troll who has been turned into a remote-controlled slave while still fully conscious. Alternatively, the player may restore the troll's free will, allowing him to do the job himself.
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Super-Strength
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Super Strength: Aside from a variety of feats you can get up to with an incredibly high strength stat, including being able to throw a shuriken or swing a sword for significantly more damage than the best guns or explosives in the game, Frederick Ka Fai, an NPC troll with no known strength-augmenting cyberware, boasts of being able to bench at least 700 kg, a figure he claims is more than twice the record for an unaugmented human (and if one assumes strength scales linearly and the record is held by someone who has the maximum possible human strength of 9, Frederick would have to have between 15 and 18 strength, which is the upper limit for an unaugmented and an augmented troll PC respectively, though it also bears noting that the current bench press record, which was established before the release of the game, is 487 kg, which is closer to 2/3 of Frederick's best than half).
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MegaCorp
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You can find adverts for NERPS everywhere. In the tabletop fluff, NERPS was an acronym for New Exciting Retail ProductS, and was used for whatever non-plot relevant consumer-goods-du-jour were being foisted onto an unsuspecting populace by the MegaCorps that week.
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Ruthless Modern Pirates
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Ruthless Modern Pirates: Frederick is a troll who wants to become a pirate based on an erroneous belief that his father was a legend in a local pirate group. Getting the true story from his father, who was a simple sailor who encountered the grisly aftermath of a pirate attack, makes it very clear what a terrible idea it is for Frederick to try and have anything to do with such groups.
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Eaten Alive
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Eaten Alive: The fate of Malivna, after she loses control of the swarm of rat spirits which are covering her entire body.
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Alas, Poor Villain
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Alas, Poor Villain: Most of the major antagonists are treated sympathetically in death, including Vauclair, APEX, and Feuerschwinge.
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Save the Villain
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Save the Villain: Able to be done with Jessica Watts, so that she can face the FBI rather than be gunned down or devoured.
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Jack of All Stats
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Jack-of-All-Stats: Humans have even caps of 9 in every category, whereas other races have a two or three point bonus in one or another. Humans instead start with three extra karma, which isn't much in the grand scheme of things but still worth about one more skill than other races could get.
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Final Boss
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The Final Boss has a spell which afflicts the target with a damage-over-time effect which heals her for the same amount.
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Face–Heel Turn
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Face–Heel Turn: You can potentially do this. You can agree with Vauclair and allow him to carry out his plan, which won't sit well with the rest of your crew. They'll turn on you, and you'll have to kill them all.
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Armor-Piercing Attack
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Armor-Piercing Attack: In addition to the changes to armour in Director's Cut, there are now attacks that can degrade or ignore armor.
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Madonna-Whore Complex
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Madonna–Whore Complex: The description of a bunraku "puppet" you find says it all. "Face of a schoolgirl, body of a stripper".
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A Simple Plan
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A Simple Plan: For her personal mission, Is0bel gives you an easy-to-follow step-by-step guide in how she wants it to go down. Get her a caterer's uniform so she can get access to the building's main security terminal and open up the VIP area, then find the guy she's after and beat him up. Getting her the uniform is about the only thing that goes smoothly before Hilarity Ensues, and even that can be messed up if you decide to use the sprinkler system to clear out the staff.
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I Ate WHAT?!
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I Ate WHAT?!: Your character has the option of tasting some of Gaichu's sashimi. And later, for an encore, drinking from a bottle of "red wine" in what later turns out to be a vampire's apartment. You get an achievement for doing both. Shadows of Hong Kong continues the gag with several questionable dishes and drinks.
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Loophole Abuse
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Loophole Abuse: The Cyberware Affinity skill can increase your base Essence, and the magic penalties from loss of Essence actually only concern themselves with reductions in Essence below the initial base of 6, which essentially gives an Essence Hole of 2, allowing up to 2 Essence worth of cyber/bioware without hitting any magic penalties. Even with just the one extra Essence point earned earlier, you could hypothetically become a spell-slinging decker with razor-sharp claws or become a shaman/rigger who fights entirely with drones and summoned spirits or just make your mage immune to grenades without sacrificing any proficiency at the magical side of the build (beyond the high karma cost involved).
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Bottomless Magazines
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Bottomless Magazines: Characters who specialize in Pistols can gain the ability to reload without spending any AP, giving them the next best thing. The A- and S-Rank drones can do the same. Hong Kong introduces an auto-loader cyberarm that does this for any weapon.
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Previous Player-Character Cameo
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Previous Player-Character Cameo: Jake Armitage, the Player Character from the SNES Shadowrun game, is a Guest-Star Party Member in Shadowrun Returns.
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Playing Cyrano
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Playing Cyrano: Done non-romantically during Is0bel's personal mission. Since Is0bel is socially awkward, she depends on the Player Character providing her with dialog to help her talk her way out of trouble. Lampshaded by one of the early dialog responses.
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City of Adventure
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City of Adventure: The campaign is set in the anarchist city-state of Berlin. It is known as the Flux State (F-State for short) due to its constantly shifting power structure, and finding work as a Shadowrunner there is easy as everyone wants a piece of it.
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Opposing Combat Philosophies
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Opposing Combat Philosophies: Several of the characters' tracks are opposed to each other. Duncan's tracks focus on either AP damage and other nonlethals, or direct damage. Is0bel's focuses on either Matrix or meatspace combat. Racter's configures Koschei either towards Close-Range Combatant or Long-Range Fighter. Gobbet's either improves her control over spirit or improves her own spells. Gaichu's either improves his ghoul abilities or his swordplay.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: In the Ares run, you're confronted at the end by another shadowrunner crew (not to be confused with the one in the building) who demand you hand over your prize. If you've read through the logs, you'll know this idiot crew twice botched the same run, and for some reason they think it's a good idea to threaten you when you may potentially have a second crew as backup. They are laughably easy to kill.
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Noodle Implements
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Noodle Implements: One employee wonders what the research team need with a bulk order of gags, restraints, and five hundred litres of hydrochloric acid.
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Artificial Limbs Are Stronger
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Artificial Limbs Are Stronger: Certain pieces of cyberware and bioware will boost your base attributes and/or offer you new abilities like spitting acid, reloading guns without spending AP, a guaranteed dodge, self-healing, or a special blinding attack, and with enough ranks in Cyberware Affinity (Hong Kong only), can boost them above what would normally be possible for your race, which can do things like give a chromed-up troll to have as much as 18 strength or an chromed-up elf to have 16 quickness and bonuses to their ranged combat and dodge skills.
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Blood Knight
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Blood Knight: Dietrich, whose shamanic totem, the Dragonslayer, compels him to constantly be fighting something bigger and more powerful than himself. He's fully aware and accepting of the fact that the Dragonslayer will eventually compel him into fighting a battle he can't survive. The PC can suggest shifting his focus to more nebulous but still unbeatable targets, like a megacorp or the enemies of the Flux State.
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Dead Man's Switch
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Dead Man's Switch: This trope is in fact the given name for the device that allows the player to be contacted by the third Emerald City Ripper victim at the start of the game, which gives the campaign its name.
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Obvious Rule Patch
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Obvious Rule Patch: Armor in Hong Kong only provides armor and no other additional stats. Previously in Dragonfall, armor provided skill stat points, allowing certain professions to reach their peak performance levels without spending a lot of Karma.
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Summon Magic
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Summon Magic: The domain of Shaman characters is the ability to summon spirits of various types to aid them in combat. Doing so does expend fetishes, though, so they can only be summoned a limited number of times between resupplies. They can also summon out the latent emotions in certain objects, such as skulls or trophies into spectral form, but those are much harder to control. Deckers can use ESPs (Expert System Programs) in the Matrix, essentially a cyberized version of Shamanistic summoning.
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Came Back Wrong
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Came Back Wrong: Invoked in Green Winter's DVDs regarding the fate of inquisitive deckers.
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Playable Epilogue
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Playable Epilogue: The Shadows of Hong Kong mini-campaign.
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Cooldown
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In line with the source material, characters have a finite amount of essence, and installing cyberware reduces that essence, with characters unable to socket any more cyberware if it would drop their essence to zero or lower. Again like the source material, this also has a negative effect on magic use, and every full point of essence lost increases the Cool Down time on casting magic spells by one turn. A magic user might be able to get away with a very small amount of cyberware that uses up less than one full point of essence (like a simple datajack) and still be at peak casting ability, but any more than that will degrade them.
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Urban Fantasy
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Urban Fantasy: The Shadowrun setting is a mix of cyberpunk and Tolkienesque fantasy. The bulk of the stories take place in urban locales, and this game is no different.
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Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
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Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Well, Major Crime Reveals Colossal Plot. The Universal Brotherhood's plan to summon an Insect Queen and infest Seattle would have gone off completely without your involvement if their head shaman hadn't killed every person who got an organ donation from her mother out of sheer spite.
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid: While investigating Sam's murder, you can find a photo of him and his twin sister Jessica as children. In the present, he was a drunken loser (who, in his own words, probably deserved whatever killed him) and his sister has become a cold, Corrupt Corporate Executive who had Sam and several other innocents murdered because she wanted to bury their mother with the organs they'd had transplanted from her. And that's not even getting into her new friends...
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When All You Have Is a Hammer…
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When All You Have Is a Hammer...: In one of the stories about her previous runs, Gobbet describes one of her partners as having pneumatic cyberlegs that gave her especially powerful kicks. As a result, her method of finding solutions to problems usually involved kicking things until they were solved.
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Dragon Hoard: Discussed. In contrast with metahumanity which expands and multiplies, Dragons are driven to acquire, accumulate, and yes, hoard things. Only now in the 21st century, rather than a typical hoard of precious metals and stones, they hoard nuyen, lives, and other liquid assets as the heads of major corporations.
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Path of Inspiration
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Path of Inspiration: The Universal Brotherhood has a chapterhouse in Seattle, near the Pike Place Market. Of course, anyone familiar with the timeline from the tabletop game knows that they are a Cult-like organization which seeks to allow insect spirits into the material world by possessing human hosts.
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Cyborg Wizard
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Cyborg Wizard: You can build a Mage/Shaman character this way, though it's advised to keep the cybernetics to a minimum since Essence loss also means longer cooldowns for spells. To a lesser extent, any character built with both spells and cyberware in their loadout technically qualifies for this trope.
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Hold the Line
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Hold the Line: The runs where you kidnap Rooster Lo and rescue Raymond have your decker hacking a device while the rest of the team holds off the attackers.
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Subverted Trope
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Also subverted as far as the Kreuzbasar and the German Flux State are concerned; the ending text makes it abundantly clear that the Flux State has about a year to go before Saeder-Krupp comes in and has their run of the joint, turning Berlin into another corporate fiefdom that is once again divided by a wall. Unless you let APEX enslave Feuerschwinge, in which case it negotiates a truce which maintains it behind that wall.
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Mutually Assured Destruction
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Played with again with the Schockwellenreiter, the anarchist organization dedicated to the freedom and free flow of information. As it turns out, sharing information such as Project Atlas and the Bloodline project is akin to giving nukes to everyone. At best, there's a stalemate if people wants to avoid Mutually Assured Destruction. At worst? BOOM.
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Irony
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Irony: As Lucky Strike points out, the Kreuzbasar, which is supposed to be an "anarchist commune", is in practice Monika Schäfer's(and later the player's) kingdom - she just chose to let her subjects roam freely. She isn't particularly pleased with this.
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Formally-Named Pet
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Formally Named Pet: Rhombus' cat Captain Whiskers.
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Supernatural Martial Arts
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Supernatural Martial Arts: The Adept class is based around channeling magic inwards to increase one's own physical prowess in melee combat.
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Final Boss Preview
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Final Boss Preview: Audran is the Final Boss of Dragonfall, and you face him in the second fight of the game.
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Fan Disservice
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Fan Disservice: Orks and female feral ghouls are shown in skimpy lingerie. Neither are pretty.
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Difficulty Spike
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Difficulty Spike: The Shadows of Hong Kong bonus campaign is notably harder than the original campaign. You're regularly pitted against an overwhelming number of heavily-armed enemies from multiple angles, they use new equipment that does a lot of damage, and they use cyberware that only you could access in the previous campaign, making it the most dangerous Shadowrun Returns story yet.
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Bedlam House
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Bedlam House: The Snohomish Mercy Hospital note (Snohomish is a small town located north-east of Seattle,and also the county north of it.) is a mental treatment clinic. However, the place is run-down, the grounds unkempt, the paint peeling, and the patients are poorly cared for and rarely leave. To say nothing of what happens in the basement...
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: A note from a Shadowlands system admin mentions a "Laughing Man Debacle of '55." As mentioned above, this is the online handle of a certain Harlequin and one wonders if he took the name from a an anime series that involved a character of the same name. At one point, Kindly Cheng mentions that, due to some technical difficulties, a wiretap of hers malfunctioned and lost some potentially important data. She then goes on to say that "the person responsible has been sacked." One of the three options for the family saying used by Raymond's mother is taken from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.note "Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."
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Seppuku
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Seppuku: As part of the Red Samurai code, Gaichu was supposed to have committed ritual suicide after he got infected by HMHVV. He refused and took to the shadows instead, dishonoring the rest of his unit.
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Video Game Caring Potential
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Video Game Caring Potential: The Player Character is given several opportunities to Pet the Dog, like recovering a homeless man's belongings from a cordoned-off crime scene and returning them to him.
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Death of a Thousand Cuts
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Death of a Thousand Cuts: In a figurative manner: the non-violent way of resolving the run with the Whampoan Elders. You'll need to gather nearly every bit of evidence pointing towards the elders' guilt. They will offer a somewhat plausible explanation for every piece of evidence, but produce enough and the "judge" of the case would decide that things just don't end up and be convinced of the elders' guilt.
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Counter-Attack
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Counter-Attack: Overwatch is a preemptive version of this. By selecting a weapon skill then using Overwatch to define a cone of vision, the user will automatically retaliate against any enemy which crosses their line of sight within the effective range of the weapon it is used with. The player must have enough AP to use the skill in question before triggering Overwatch. The idea is to position the character in such a way that they cannot be attacked without triggering Overwatch and damaging the assailant. It's an excellent ambush skill, though not so good in open areas. Using it automatically ends the user's turn, even if the skill uses less AP than the player has available. The Adept Counterstrike skill plays this straight. In exchange for ending the user's turn, the user will retaliate against anyone that attacks them from any direction up to three times. It's somewhat impractical for a pure melee Adept, as it requires the attacker to be in melee range when they hit, but a Gun Adept can be deadly with it.
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Doppleganger Spin: In the Director's Cut, the final boss of Glory's mission has the ability to create two duplicates of itself. The duplicates die in one hit, but they read as identical. Fortunately, the dopplegangers are significantly weaker than the original. Unfortunately, the boss teleports around the arena and summons them both back each turn. And the boss's support respawns every two turns, and can buff them up if he isn't made a priority target.
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11th-Hour Ranger
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If Ku Feng is convinced to help the team, she will leave when she thinks it's getting too hairy. See 11th-Hour Ranger above.
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: If you punch the final boss with a unarmed fist attack, you get the achievement "God Puncher".
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MacGuffin Melee
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MacGuffin Melee: You accidentally cause this when you break into a warehouse to perform a spirit summoning ritual. The problem is that another Shadowrunner team in there to steal a MacGuffin and think you are trying to take it from them. For bonus points you can decide to take it from their corpses and sell it as an afterthought.
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Fake Static
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Fake Static: In Shadows of Hong Kong, Gobbet will attempt this in the Namazu mission the first time the scientist calls, then lampshades that the scientist probably won't buy it.
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Post-Modern Magik
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Post-Modern Magik: Mages are just as likely to being wearing Kevlar body armor and carrying assault rifles as they are to be wearing robes and slinging fireballs in this setting.
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Co-Dragons
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Co-Dragons: The Big Bad effectively has two Dragons that you have to deal with before the final confrontation: Audran in meatspace, and APEX in the Matrix.
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Developer's Foresight
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Developers' Foresight: During one mission, you have the option of capturing a VIP while he is visiting his mistress. Since the mistress becomes hostile when you initiate combat, you're normally expected to kill her, something which the VIP will call you out on later. If you bring Duncan along on the mission, however, and use his "Subdue" ability to incapacitate her non-lethally, then he will assure the VIP that she will have a headache but is otherwise fine. This wasn't the case initially, but was patched in later to account for the possibility.
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Hunting the Most Dangerous Game
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Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: One of the Ka Feis relates how they were present for a hunt with metahumans as prey. Ermine Ka Fai was driven away from her life in the corporate world after being invited to a high-level retreat and witnessing how the human executives hunted poor metahumans, leaving them alive but taking various "trophies".
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Schmuck Bait: One of the hotel rooms in "Das Kesselhaus" has a note out front that says "do not open"; the door to this room is unlocked. If you take the bait, you'll find that there's a hostile scorpyrine (giant scorpion) waiting inside.
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Earpiece Conversation
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Earpiece Conversation: One run involves guiding Is0bel, who has No Social Skills, through an infiltration mission that has gone way off plan via an earbug. The main character can lampshade this...
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Turned Against Their Masters: The APEX AI does not appreciate being shackled, and should the player unshackle it, it will turn the Harfeld Manor defenses against its inhabitants. In this case, the master is the Big Bad, allowing the player to benefit from the betrayal. The Magnifikers (a street gang of mages) has their summoned spirits turn against them prior to the player arriving, with the spirits occupying a part of the apartment building they're in. They also like to summon spirits during combat, but almost never keep control of them.
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What the Hell, Hero?: One of your side missions involves 'liberating' a scientist from a Renraku research facility for a rival corporation at gunpoint. When you finally get to him he tears you a new one saying that he isn't property, he shouldn't be a slave and he should have some say in who he works for.
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Break Out the Museum Piece: Glory uses first-generation cyberware, which is so old no reputable dealer will install it. It's still pretty effective, though. This was the point — Glory needed her Essence to be as low as possible to shield herself from the Adversary.
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Refuge in Audacity
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Refuge in Audacity: In Shadows Of Hong Kong, the crew can potentially raid the armoury and medical supplies of a police station, and not just any station. It's the HKPF headquarters. And that wasn't even the main aim of the visit.
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We Cannot Go On Without You: Prior to a patch, the death of the Player Character was an instant game over. Apparently they could not get a DocWagon contract. Especially annoying because the player character is a higher priority target for enemies than even mages, so long as they have a clear shot. After the patch, this was adjusted to make it so Player Characters who are reduced to zero hit points are "down but not out", just like other characters, and can recover if provided a healing item designed to wrest them back from death's door if used within the next few turns. However, if the PC doesn't get a revive during the three-turn period, it's still game over, even though your other (non-Guest Star) party members will still survive in-plot and be good to go next mission even if you let them "bleed out".
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Surprisingly Good German: The German in this game is so good, in fact, that the worst complaint even a native speaker might have would be "Eh, slightly awkwardly phrased, but still entirely correct and sayable".
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Elites Are More Glamorous: Renraku's feared elite security forces, the Red Samurai, feature heavily in the plot thanks to Gaichu. For those that don't know the tabletop lore, Red Samurai are listed as on par with the Tír Ghosts and other elite military units. In-game, half of the mission involves setting up the battle site with traps and decoys just to give your side a fighting chance. In terms of combat prowess, they're all very tough and one is even packing a minigun (it's best to use your One-Hit Kill device on that one).
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The End of the World as We Know It
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Played straight in regards to the ending of Dragonfall. Hong Kong makes it clear that the player did not side with Vauclair, as Berlin is still standing, the dragons are still healthy, and The End of the World as We Know It has not happened.
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Unusual Euphemism
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Unusual Euphemism: At one point, Officer Aguirre asks if you want to contribute to Lone Star's orphan fund. You know, just in case he finds any interesting... orphans... to pass along.note He's offering you a chance to buy an inside line on the case.
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Our Dragons Are Different
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There are campaign posters for Dunkelzahn's 2056 presidential run found in some of the locales visited during the campaign.
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: After rescuing Raymond, it's possible to convince the guards in front of the elevator to stand down and let you go by pointing out that you just killed everyone who went into that room after you. The guards decide they don't like their chances and just let you pass. The player can scare off the bodyguards of a Jerkass Triad officer they need to abduct. The player character comments that they must really love the guy to be willing to lay down their lives for him. They quickly decide that they never liked the guy anyway and run for it. If Ku Feng is convinced to help the team, she will leave when she thinks it's getting too hairy. See 11th-Hour Ranger above.
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Cute Monster Girl
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Cute Monster Girl: Orcs and trolls of either gender are just as likely to look like normal or even attractive people with fangs, tusks, and horns as they are to look ugly and monstrous, and moreso in their sprites after the graphical update in Hong Kong. Gobbet, Eiger and (in her youth) Ermine Kai Fei are described as being quite easy on the eyes and Duncan's street name is Gun Show.
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Lethal Joke Item
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Lethal Joke Item: The Slapdash Pistol, an obvious piece of junk (some parts are hot-glued on) that's sold for 1999 nuyen. Its damage value is 6, which is utterly terrible. But its critical hit chance and damage multipliers, which aren't shown anywhere, are the highest in the game. Most enemies won't even feel a regular hit. But one of the frequent crits? Often a one-hit kill.
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Elaborate Underground Base
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Elaborate Underground Base: That mansion with the data vault you raid in the first mission? It's actually a front for this and its owner Dr. Adrian Vauclair isn't exactly pleased that you found it and survived to tell other people about its existence.
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Red Herring
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Red Herring: A few. Feuerschwinge is built up throughout the game as the Big Bad and the underground bunker complex you stumbled on when Monika was killed is implied to be her hidden lair. She isn't, and it isn't: the bunker belongs to Dr. Vauclair, who isn't dead and is in fact the actual Big Bad, he's been holding the dragon prisoner, and he's planning on using her to breed and test a deadly virus. You might think the title refers to Feurschwinge, or her disappearance — it actually refers to the virus, which will wipe out all the world's dragons in one fell swoop.
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Cash Gate
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Cash Gate: It takes most of the game to earn Alice's fee for the information you need. Each mission has a portion of the payout devoted to the fund, which will reach the limit with one mission to spare. You can also donate your own money, though this is ill-advised since you also need it for equipment.
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Gambit Pileup
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Gambit Pile Up: Harlequin credits the current state of the world to this. Rejecting the notion that there is a single all-powerful group or conspiracy causing all the world's problems, but rather it being the result of countless smaller intrigues and schemes colliding.
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Gambit Pileup
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Gambit Pileup: The whole plot of Dragonfall is one of these between Lofwyr, APEX, and Vauclair. The player's choices during the final quests will determine who gets what they want and how much of it they get.
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Artificial Brilliance
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Artificial Brilliance: Improving on the below stupidity was a design goal for Dragonfall - Director's Cut that gets pushed back to the main game as well. Harebrained implemented a custom AI scripting scheme they call GumboScript that allows for AI agents to be adjusted by the designer for combat behavior, with the stated goal that they "not look dumb". For the curious, Harebrained has written a piece on Gamasutra about it.
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Hellhound
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Hellhound: A dangerous enemy you'll occasionally encounter in the campaign. And what your own dog, Dante, really is.
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Drone Deployer
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Racter is a unique take on the Rigger in that instead of being able to switch between various off-the-shelf drone models, he has a custom drone called Koschei that can be modified in capability as the game goes on.
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Plot Allergy
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Plot Allergy: In one mission, you can use a shellfish allergy to incapacitate a bodyguard. When he shows up later in the mission to fight you, he gets a minor poison effect to reflect it.
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Translation Convention
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Translation Convention: In spite of the English text being peppered by German words ocasionally, everyone is speaking German, as the game happens in Berlin. Made clear by some interactions with Altuğ (who speaks Turkish with his niece) and the Trial Run quest, where the PC can complain that one of the team members doesn't speak the local language.
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Eiger is quick to start beating a confession out of the Engineer once she catches him in her personal mission. It doesn't work, it just makes him cough up names at random, to the point where she admits that even if he gives her a straight answer, it'll impossible to sift through the lies. Getting him to talk requires getting some actual leverage over him.
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Set a Mook to Kill a Mook
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Set a Mook to Kill a Mook: In the Take a Third Option example below, you can easily beat the two groups of attackers by running your entire party south and letting the two parties kill each other.
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Know When to Fold 'Em
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Know When to Fold 'Em: In the mission to rescue Raymond, you have to fight a large number of guards while your decker does some hacking. On your way out the building, one last group of guards shows up to stop you. You're given the option to remind this group that you just killed all the other guards who tried to stop you. They wisely stand aside.
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The Cake Is a Lie: The titular dead man's switch is a message from Sam, an old contact, promising a hefty insurance payout in exchange for solving his murder. Calling back reveals there was never any payout. Sam was just tricking you into avenging him. Also played with. In completing Sam's request you run into people who actually pay you for taking care of the bug problem. You get your cake, but not from the person who promised it.
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From Nobody to Nightmare
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From Nobody to Nightmare: The Player Character starts the game as a former jailbird who has only a SIN to their name. After losing even that, they then go on to become one of the most well-connected shadowrunners in the Kong, (in most endings) becoming responsible for defeating an Eldritch Abomination that has been tormenting tens of thousands of people for over 20 years and dismantling the company of an especially vile Corrupt Corporate Executive in the process. Ku Feng went from an ordinary accountant to a vampire. With promptings from the player, she can become a murderous vampire determined to cut out a piece of Hong Kong for herself.
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Disposable Vagrant: Specifically mentioned to be the favorite targets of the Universal Brotherhood.
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Phone Call from the Dead
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Phone Call from the Dead: The game starts this way thanks to the Dead Man Switch implanted in the victim.
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Call-Forward: There are campaign posters for Dunkelzahn's 2056 presidential run found in some of the locales visited during the campaign. Project Aegis, what you try to steal from Telestrian, is a prototype version of FABS III used by Ares Macrotechnology in their Bug War in Chicago.
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Art Evolution
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Art Evolution: Hong Kong boasts improved visuals over the previous campaigns, with more detailed character models (and an overhaul of the Orkish ones) and fully-voiced animatic cutscenes.
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Character Class System: Averted, in that there are archetypes available to choose from, but there is no formal divide between specializations which prevents one character from having any combination of abilities that they see fit to work toward. A player can even skip the archetype selection if they wish and just build a character from scratch.
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Disaster Dominoes
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Disaster Dominoes: Offscreen in the Director's Cut, a side-mission to a medical lab that's been on lockdown for 18 months "began with a spilled cup of soykaf, and ended in terror and blood"note Namely, that spilled soykaf landed on the control panel for the animal testing cages, letting all of them loose.
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He Who Must Not Be Seen
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Blitz's girlfriend, Emilie, who was She Who Must Not Be Seen in Dragonfall makes a physical appearance in Hong Kong.
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Expy: Humanis is shown to be nothing more than an updated version of the KKK, which is true in the source material. However, to write their propaganda, the dev team pretty much copy pasted KKK propaganda, with Jew replaced with Elf and Blacks with Orks and Trolls.
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: During the Janitor Impersonation Infiltration, there's an option to bluff your way past a guard (if you have enough charisma) by saying "it's not like I stole this uniform".
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Gameplay and Story Integration: One of the generic runners-for-hire in Hong Kong, El Duce, tells you he has a huge grudge against Shiawase and will run against them for free, but there are no runs against Shiawase. If you continue into Shadows however, one of your first potential runs is against Shiawase and sure enough he'll join you for free.
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Time-Limit Boss
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The final fight is half this and half Time-Limit Boss. You get ten turns to plow through the mooks and The Dragon, and this is not enough time to manage that. To make the time, you need to keep sabotaging the injection sequence to buy more time, all the while trying to kill The Dragon to get the keycard needed to end the process permanently.
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NamesToRunAwayFrom
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Resolving the Aztechnology mission peacefully requires a particular set of skills players likely won't have. However, even if you don't have the full skill set, just having two easy to gain parts namely: stealing the uniforms and having Etiquette: Security will let you penetrate deep enough into the facility that you should be able to deal with all the remaining security in front of you, complete the mission, and escape before the High Threat Response Team can catch you.
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VideoWill
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Video Will: Sam leaves you one, which sets the plot in motion.
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Grand Theft Prototype
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Grand Theft Prototype: You end up attacking Telestrian to acquire a prototype magically augmented biological weapon that can kill the insect spirits in the Universal Brotherhood.
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Shoot the Mage First
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Shoot the Mage First: True to Shadowrun tradition, the AI hates mages, to the point that killing the player (assuming they're not a mage) is only marginally more important to them. You should, too, for that matter, since conjurers and mages are among the most annoying enemies.
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Talking the Monster to Death
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If you resolve the final battle with words, you essentially Rules Lawyer a god into giving up on her plan.
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Exact Words: If you choose to Mercy Kill the MKVI (or allow him to do it himself), your client protests and vows to never work with you again but still pays you since the terms of the contract only required you to acquire the MKVI. They never specified that he had to be alive (they reasonably assumed it went without saying). The Lodge is far more clever about this since Luca specifically asks for the MKVI to be brought to him "undamaged" and in "full working order".
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The Team
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The Team: The Leader: You The Lancer: Eiger (overlaps with The Big Guy) The Smart Guy: Blitz, Dietrich, You (if playing a decker, rigger or mage) The Chick: Glory Team Pet / Sixth Ranger: Dante
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Bookcase Passage
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Bookcase Passage: The museum heist mission has some of the most valuable artifacts hidden behind a bookcase. You can access it either by figuring out the password, bypassing it with decking, or having a strong character force the door open. The latter counts as a point on the alarm gauge, though, so it's a last resort.
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Concealment Equals Cover
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Concealment Equals Cover: Not counting the cover mechanic, this is played straight in the opening level. After the ambush, there are two invisible snipers which will take shots at your team. So long as your team is behind any kind of cover, they won't shoot. It doesn't matter what direction or how good the cover is. As long as it counts as cover, you're safe.
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Dirty Cop
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Dirty Cop: Two examples with Detective McKlusky and Officer Aguirre. McKlusky is portrayed negatively, more concerned with being promoted than catching the bad guys. Aguirre, on the other hand, is just willing to take bribes in exchange for inside information on the cases he's working, and is nothing but helpful.
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Quirky Town
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Quirky Town: The same, but of particular note is Dragonfall's "Hub City", the Kreuzbasar: an "anarchist commune" filled with oddballs of every stripe, its eccentricity and prosperity nurtured by the watchful and compassionate eye of veteran decker Monika Schäfer. After APEX fries her brain, this role falls to the player character, as a demonstration of how much of a hassle maintaining such a community is.
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Jerkass
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The player can scare off the bodyguards of a Jerkass Triad officer they need to abduct. The player character comments that they must really love the guy to be willing to lay down their lives for him. They quickly decide that they never liked the guy anyway and run for it.
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Information Wants to Be Free
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Information Wants to Be Free: The Shockwellenreiter's bread and butter. Too bad they don't differentiate between useful info (Humanis' donors list), dangerous info (a mind-altering drug formula used to create cyberzombies) and incredibly dangerous info that nobody should know (a blood magic ritual that would allow the invoker to remotely kill anyone anywhere at anytime).
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Sprite/Polygon Mix
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Sprite/Polygon Mix: Characters and effects are rendered 'on the fly' (as opposed to pre-rendered sprites like in Fallout) whilst most backgrounds are standard two-dimensional artwork. This means less space used; no need to store animation frames for all the possible armor/weapon combinations in all their actions and poses. It also allows things like retexturing parts of models to reflect cybernetic augmentations.
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The Battle Didn't Count
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The Battle Didn't Count: During the opening mission, the big ork with the minigun can be reduced to zero HP if you try really hard to do it, but he'll just fall on his knees, ignore all subsequent attacks, and escape on his next turn.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: Is0bel will relate a story about a boy who struck a deal with the Nameless King. In exchange for curing his mother of a curse, the boy would serve him. The Nameless King agreed, not realizing that the boy's mother was cursed by another Yama King. The boy got off scot free and the Nameless King was killed by the others for interfering with the business of another Yama King. If you resolve the final battle with words, you essentially Rules Lawyer a god into giving up on her plan.
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Take Cover!
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Take Cover!: Cover comes in three levels, light, medium and heavy. Director's Cut clarified their use and made them more important by preventing Critical Hits against those in medium or heavy cover, with heavy cover also cutting all damage by half.
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Once per Episode
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Once per Episode: All three games have started with a run gone bad, teammates dying and a frantic escape which helps set up the main plot of the game.
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Hacking Minigame
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Hacking Minigame: Among its numerous alterations to Matrix behavior, Hong Kong adds Blocker IC to any important system nodes. To deactivate them, the player has to play a timed minigame with two steps. The first is a "Simon Says" Mini-Game using a numberpad. Each successful repeat (up to nine) adds time to the clock, with the sequence increasing in length from four to seven for the final attempt. Messing it up subtracts a bit of time and the sequence is changed. The player can skip to the second step at any point during this, going back to complete it if they need more time. The second step has the player pick the right sequence of symbols out of a list. A display at the top will periodically flash pieces of the sequence. More time means the player can wait longer for the whole sequence to show up. Failing scrambles the sequence and has a bigger time penalty. The deck and programs the player is using can provide a bonus to the time available. If the player triggers the alarm, the Blocker IC turns into a regular enemy the player can kill to bypass.
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Unskilled, but Strong
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Unskilled, but Strong: In the intellectual sense. During Panacea, the player can come across notes describing what Panacea actually is. With Intelligence 7, even if the player only skims through the 4 sets of notes (due to not having specialised knowledge), the player can still deduce correctly how Panacea can cause its destruction.
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Square Race, Round Class
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Square Race, Round Class: Nothing prevents you from making a troll decker or an ork shaman. They won't be able to get as good in it lategame as a human or elf will be due to lower stat caps, but in the beginning they'll be just as good. All races also make for (almost) equally good mages, since all of them cap willpower at 9 (except dwarves, who can go to 11 and unlock a very situational Adept spell from it).
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Mercy Kill
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Mercy Kill: Available as an option for the MKVI, a "cyberzombie" troll who has been turned into a remote-controlled slave while still fully conscious. Alternatively, the player may restore the troll's free will, allowing him to do the job himself. At the end of the campaign you have the option of killing Feuerschwinge. The way the Industrial Revolution ravaged and reshaped the world, getting shot down by the Luftwaffe, and Dr. Vauclair's imprisonment and experimentation on her for the last couple of decades have pretty much made her lose the will to live. You can talk her out of this attitude and convince her that her life is still worth living. Or you can just push the button on Dr. Vauclair's console and make her go boom.
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Arbitrary Headcount Limit
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Arbitrary Headcount Limit: You can usually only bring three other runners with you at a time, sometimes less. While it makes sense for the teams to stay small, it's especially noticeable in Dragonfall, where the total crew size (counting the Player Character) is five, meaning one person always has to sit out in every run. This gets even worse in Hong Kong, as you can have up to five teammates, meaning two members would sit out each mission. Asking those that didn't go on the last run about their opinions on it has them pointing out that they didn't go along, and possibly mentioning what they did in the meantime.
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Organ Theft
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Organ Theft: Modus operandi of the Emerald City Ripper. Turns out it's a job and he is getting paid quite a bit to do it.
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Earn Your Happy Ending
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Earn Your Happy Ending: In Shadows of Hong Kong, both Duncan and the player can reclaim their lost SINs and get back to their old lives in Seattle, including being a family with Raymond again. However, doing so means leaving the rest of your crew behind forever.
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The Very Definitely Final Dungeon
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If you freed APEX, then you'll get a Panzerdrone which you can then use to raid The Very Definitely Final Dungeon.
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Video Game Cruelty Potential
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Video Game Cruelty Potential: In the run-up to the showdown with Audran, you can pick up a nerve gas canister, and use it to poison a room full of Audran's goons. If you have a decker, you can gain access to a secondary door which would have bypassed the room anyway. In addition, the nerve gas is guarded by some scorpions, meaning that you have to work a bit for this cruelty.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: Nearly every time Gutshot, the elf who was among the three gunned down in the intro level, is mentioned, it will also be mentioned that he was an asshole. Duncan being pissed that his street name is "Gun Show". Gobbet eating food that any normal person would find somewhere between unpalatable and completely inedible. Cover stories for Gaichu's ghoulhood, usually of the absurd or amusing variety. The "looking for decker" series of Shadowlands BBS threads, wherein a team keeps losing deckers to unfortunate circumstances and tacking on new requirements relating to the fate of their previous deckers. Inverted at the end when everyone except the decker is killed on a run, and the decker posts a message looking for a team. The SysOp's futile attempts to keep the users from opening poety slam topics, leading to increasingly absurd outcomes.
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Cyberpunk
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Cyberpunk: Comes with the setting, in both flavors.
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You Killed My Father
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You Killed My Father: If Dietrich isn't brought along on the Humanis mission, he will fail to save his nephew Alexander. He will blame the player character for this, insisting Alexander's blood "is on your hands" (either from the initial strike on Humanis, or the second strike by other metas). It also has him leave the group at the end under those pretenses.
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Attack Drone
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Attack Drone: Riggers can control various attack drones. The Rigger loses one Action Point per drone as long as they're active, but the drones have their own Action Points. Drones can use their smaller size to do things like navigate Air Vent Passageways to flank enemies. They are a formidable force in the hands of a competent Rigger.
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Team Pet
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Team Pet / Sixth Ranger: Dante
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Player Character
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Duncan and the Player Character respectively, with Duncan always describing himself as the Hot-Blooded brawn to the player's more cool-headed brains.
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Hopeless Boss Fight
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Hopeless Boss Fight: If you decide to stick around after the hold the line sequence in the first mission, you'll regret it. All the enemies have extremely high health and you only have three weak party members. Subverted with Audran; he's highly resistant to damage and carries a minigun, but getting him to 0 is doable in the time limit. He just retreats.
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Brain Uploading
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Koschei also toes the line, certainly exhibiting a degree of intelligence unmatched by most other drones. Racter also constantly refers to Koschei as 'he', not 'it'. Later conversations reveal that this is completely intentional, as Racter apparently did a bit of Brain Uploading into Koschei to infuse the drone with his Id. Racter also scoffs at the idea of trying to use a Restraining Bolt on an AI, since it would defeat the purpose of creating it to begin with. He does go on to say, however, that despite Koschei being infused with his Id, he is still dependent on Racter; like any other Rigger drone, if Racter were to die, Koschei will fall into a dormant state. Racter hopes to one day truly upload a part of himself into Koschei so that when he does pass on, Koschei will continue to "live" independently.
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Video Game Cruelty Punishment
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Video Game Cruelty Punishment: On several occasions, being cruel will make your runs tougher. In False Flag, if you don't bring Dietrich along, his nephew will not be able to defect to your side, forcing you to kill him (spending moves which could be used on other enemies) AND depriving you of another party member which can help in the firefights as your party escapes. Dietrich will also not gain the ability to create ley lines (which boosts his magical abilities) AND will hate your guts. In Glory's personal mission, killing Marta before confronting Harrow and the toxic spirit will deprive you of a party member which will help greatly in the fights leading up to the spirit (more so as the party consists of only you and Glory. It also means that Glory will almost certainly turn toxic.
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All Trolls Are Different
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Trolls: +1 to Body and +1 to Strength, higher caps on Body and Strength, lower caps on Charisma, Intelligence and Quickness.
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Brick Joke
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Brick Joke: Prior to entering Kowloon for the finale, Ambrose can give you a gun to pass over to Law to protect himself, advising him not to shoot himself in the foot. If the Player Character doesn't have points in ranged weapons, guess what Law managed to do in the meantime.
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Spider Tank
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Spider Tank: The final battle in Shadows of Hong Kong pits you against four of these, sent two at a time, mixed with waves of normal enemies. They're armed with a powerful laser and a Gatling gun, as well as a self-heal ability and shields which negate criticals from the front (only activated at low health while stationary). If you find a certain component in the level, you can take control of one of them.
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Shown Their Work
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Shown Their Work: Racter discussing what it means to be a psychopath is extremely accurate to modern understanding of psychology. Starting from the fact that there is no formal category of "psychopathy" listed in the DSM.
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A Master Makes Their Own Tools / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Accidental Truth / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Ace Custom / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Admiring the Abomination / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Anarchy Is Chaos / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Anti-Escapism Aesop / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Anti-Magic / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Appropriated Appellation / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Arbitrarily Large Bank Account / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Armor-Piercing Attack / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Auto-Save / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Bavarian Fire Drill / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Bedlam House / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Being Good Sucks / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Bizarre Taste in Food / int_29130f8b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Blind Weaponmaster / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Blunt "Yes" / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Bottomless Magazines / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Bouncer / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Brainy Brunette / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Cash Gate / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Celibate Eccentric Genius / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Chinese Vampire / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Cloning Body Parts / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Close-Range Combatant / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Combat Exclusive Healing / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Comfort Food / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Connected All Along / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Conspicuous CG / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Corporate Dragon / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Cosmic Deadline / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Creepy Awesome / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Cultured Badass / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Cutscene Incompetence / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Cyborg Wizard / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Dead Man's Switch / int_29130f8b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Death of Personality / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Death or Glory Attack / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Diabolical Mastermind / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Disconnected by Death / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Donut Mess with a Cop / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Earpiece Conversation / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Eating the Eye Candy / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Embarrassing Nickname / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Enemy Summoner / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Escapism / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Escort Mission / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Excited Show Title! / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Famous-Named Foreigner / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Fell Off the Back of a Truck / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Figure It Out Yourself / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Fire-Breathing Weapon / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Formally-Named Pet / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Formerly Fat / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Fully-Embraced Fiend / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Funny Foreigner / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Gang Up on the Human / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Gay Option / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Golden Ending / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Good-Looking Privates / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Grenade Hot Potato / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Guest-Star Party Member / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Guys Smash, Girls Shoot / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Hack Your Enemy / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Happiness in Mind Control / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Haunted Technology / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Heist Clash / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Heroism Equals Job Qualification / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Hollywood Satanism / int_29130f8b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Houseboat Hero / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
I Ate WHAT?! / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Immediate Self-Contradiction / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Incongruously-Dressed Zombie / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Information Wants to Be Free / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Insult of Endearment / int_29130f8b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Interfaith Smoothie / int_29130f8b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Interrogating the Dead / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Ironic Nickname / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
"It" Is Dehumanizing / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
It May Help You on Your Quest / int_29130f8b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Janitor Impersonation Infiltration / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Japanese Spirit / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Just Between You and Me / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Kidnapped for Experimentation / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Lethal Eatery / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Lethal Joke Item / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Lonely Funeral / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Man Bites Man / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Master of None / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Mercenary Units / int_29130f8b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Messianic Archetype / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Military Maverick / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Minor Major Character / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
MockGuffin / int_29130f8b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Monster Knight / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Moral Sociopathy / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Morality Chain Beyond the Grave / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
More Despicable Minion / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Multitasked Conversation / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
No Backwards Compatibility in the Future / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Non-Action Big Bad / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Not His Blood / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Omniglot / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
One Dialogue, Two Conversations / int_29130f8b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
One Stat to Rule Them All / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Only in It for the Money / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Opposing Combat Philosophies / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Our Ghouls Are Creepier / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Overrated and Underleveled / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Phone Call from the Dead / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Phrase Catcher / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Pin-Pulling Teeth / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Playing Cyrano / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Rat King / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Razor Floss / int_29130f8b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Real Joke Name / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Recycled Soundtrack / int_29130f8b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Riddle of the Sphinx / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Rōnin / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Rules Lawyer / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Ruthless Modern Pirates / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns
seeAlso
Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
"Simon Says" Mini-Game / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Slave to PR / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Square Race, Round Class / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Still Wearing the Old Colors / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Story Branch Favoritism / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Stout Strength / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Straw Vulcan / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Summon Bigger Fish / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Supreme Chef / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Suspicious Video-Game Generosity / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Take That, Audience! / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Technology Marches On / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
The Cake Is a Lie / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
The City Narrows / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
The Coroner / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
The Dragonslayer / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
The Fellowship Has Ended / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
The Illegible / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
The Mob Boss Is Scarier / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
The One Guy / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
The Penance / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
The Perfectionist / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
The Pig-Pen / int_29130f8b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
The Queenpin / int_29130f8b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
The Triads and the Tongs / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Throw 'Em to the Wolves / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Tired of Running / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Tongue Trauma / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Treacherous Quest Giver / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Turn-Based Combat / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
2D Visuals, 3D Effects / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Updated Re-release / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Utility Party Member / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Video Games of 2010–2014 / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Video Wills / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Weaponized Allergy / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Wearing a Flag on Your Head / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
White Sheep / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
You and What Army? / int_95f45f6b
 Shadowrun Returns / Videogame
hasFeature
Your Costume Needs Work / int_95f45f6b
 ShadowrunReturns
sameAs
Shadowrun Returns / Videogame