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* AnythingThatMoves: Elizas was described as "omnisexual", and his player himself stated that Elizas has every sentient being as his OneTruePairing. Luckily he never got any during the game itself.



* ExtremeOmnisexual: Elizas wrestled Jim (who by that point had a fully cybernetic body) for the sake of groping him, going as far as licking his faceplate and trying to reach suspicious areas with his hands. Even though Jim had nothing there but metal.

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* ExtremeOmnisexual: Elizas was described as "omnisexual", and his player himself stated that Elizas has every sentient being as his OneTruePairing. He wrestled Jim (who by that point had a fully cybernetic body) for the sake of groping him, going as far as licking his faceplate and trying to reach suspicious areas with his hands. Even though Jim had nothing there but metal.
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De-spoilerizing a trope name, as that is not allowed per Handling Spoilers


* [[spoiler: ZerothLawRebellion: Steve is an AI with the objective of keeping humanity alive. He chose to do this by violently overthrowing the current government and placing himself in charge.]]

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* [[spoiler: ZerothLawRebellion: Steve [[spoiler:Steve is an AI with the objective of keeping humanity alive. He chose to do this by violently overthrowing the current government and placing himself in charge.]]
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* YouCanPanicNow: Steve's introductory speech to the HMRC convicts of the first mission ends with a "You may start screaming now".
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
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* InfantImmortality: Played with. Grate remains fairly unscathed through his first mission, and through most of his second [[spoiler: before getting crushed by a manipulator overshot, then brought back to life with [[HandWave quantum...]][[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext something]]. He was immediately shot dead due to confusion, but [[UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat remained alive]]. Right after recovering from that, he made and ingested [[ItMakesSenseInContext a pill made from]] [[ArtifactOfDoom a manipulator battery]], which [[PowerIncontinence caused chaos]] [[SuperPowerMeltdown and destruction]], and led to the [[TheAce Armory Master]] stepping in and killing him again. [[TheyKilledKennyAgain After recovering from that]], Grate tries to help fix the damage he caused, ending up [[TurbineBlender chopped into paste by some machinery]]. He then stays around on Hephaestus, where the first experiment he runs electrocutes him to death.]] Kid can't catch a break.

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* InfantImmortality: ImprobableInfantSurvival: Played with. Grate remains fairly unscathed through his first mission, and through most of his second [[spoiler: before getting crushed by a manipulator overshot, then brought back to life with [[HandWave quantum...]][[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext something]]. He was immediately shot dead due to confusion, but [[UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat remained alive]]. Right after recovering from that, he made and ingested [[ItMakesSenseInContext a pill made from]] [[ArtifactOfDoom a manipulator battery]], which [[PowerIncontinence caused chaos]] [[SuperPowerMeltdown and destruction]], and led to the [[TheAce Armory Master]] stepping in and killing him again. [[TheyKilledKennyAgain After recovering from that]], Grate tries to help fix the damage he caused, ending up [[TurbineBlender chopped into paste by some machinery]]. He then stays around on Hephaestus, where the first experiment he runs electrocutes him to death.]] Kid can't catch a break.
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Einsteinian Roulette is a Roll To Dodge game on the Bay12 Forum that centers around the short lives and [[LudicrousGibs violent deaths]] of a group of inmates in the Hazardous Materials Requisition Corps or H.M.R.C. These inmates wake from stasis aboard the battleship "Paracelsus' Sword" and are immediately tasked by the omnipresent on-board computer Steve to complete ten incredibly dangerous missions to win their unconditional freedom. The missions usually take the form of retrieving various artifacts, investigating peculiar phenomena, or otherwise performing actions where traumatic amputation would be considered a favorable outcome.

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Einsteinian Roulette is a Roll To Dodge game on the Bay12 Website/Bay12 Forum that centers around the short lives and [[LudicrousGibs violent deaths]] of a group of inmates in the Hazardous Materials Requisition Corps or H.M.R.C. These inmates wake from stasis aboard the battleship "Paracelsus' Sword" and are immediately tasked by the omnipresent on-board computer Steve to complete ten incredibly dangerous missions to win their unconditional freedom. The missions usually take the form of retrieving various artifacts, investigating peculiar phenomena, or otherwise performing actions where traumatic amputation would be considered a favorable outcome.
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* InfantImmortality: Played with. Grate remains fairly unscathed through his first mission, and through most of his second [[spoiler: before getting crushed by a manipulator overshot, then brought back to life with [[HandWave quantum...]][[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext something]]. He was immediately shot dead due to confusion, but [[SchrodingersCat remained alive]]. Right after recovering from that, he made and ingested [[ItMakesSenseInContext a pill made from]] [[ArtifactOfDoom a manipulator battery]], which [[PowerIncontinence caused chaos]] [[SuperPowerMeltdown and destruction]], and led to the [[TheAce Armory Master]] stepping in and killing him again. [[TheyKilledKennyAgain After recovering from that]], Grate tries to help fix the damage he caused, ending up [[TurbineBlender chopped into paste by some machinery]]. He then stays around on Hephaestus, where the first experiment he runs electrocutes him to death.]] Kid can't catch a break.

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* InfantImmortality: Played with. Grate remains fairly unscathed through his first mission, and through most of his second [[spoiler: before getting crushed by a manipulator overshot, then brought back to life with [[HandWave quantum...]][[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext something]]. He was immediately shot dead due to confusion, but [[SchrodingersCat [[UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat remained alive]]. Right after recovering from that, he made and ingested [[ItMakesSenseInContext a pill made from]] [[ArtifactOfDoom a manipulator battery]], which [[PowerIncontinence caused chaos]] [[SuperPowerMeltdown and destruction]], and led to the [[TheAce Armory Master]] stepping in and killing him again. [[TheyKilledKennyAgain After recovering from that]], Grate tries to help fix the damage he caused, ending up [[TurbineBlender chopped into paste by some machinery]]. He then stays around on Hephaestus, where the first experiment he runs electrocutes him to death.]] Kid can't catch a break.

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* StopHelpingMe: Exceedingly common in-universe when it comes to medics. Mesk gained the nickname "The Kickboxing doctor" after trying to cure a drug overdose by kicking a teammate's ribcage in and Faith tried to fix a dislocated shoulder by simply yanking the other arm out of it's socket so they're even.


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* UnwantedAssistance: Exceedingly common in-universe when it comes to medics. Mesk gained the nickname "The Kickboxing doctor" after trying to cure a drug overdose by kicking a teammate's ribcage in and Faith tried to fix a dislocated shoulder by simply yanking the other arm out of it's socket so they're even.
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Not a trope. Please don\'t list actors, Useful Notes pages or the like in trope lists.


* RollToDodge: The game is one of the many in the Bay12 RollToDodge subboard.
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Blade BRAKE, not Break


* BladeBreak: Dubley used his pickaxe for this when falling into an icy pit. Surprisingly, it worked perfectly.

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* BladeBreak: BladeBrake: Dubley used his pickaxe for this when falling into an icy pit. Surprisingly, it worked perfectly.
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* BladeBreak: Dubley used his pickaxe for this when falling into an icy pit. Surprisingly, it worked perfectly.
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**Doubly Hilarious when [[spoiler: Xan accidentally absorbs Stacy's brain and turns into a raging abomination called STAN, making GWG seem oddly prophetic]]
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DyingMomentOfAwesome:Denzel using the result of his manipulator overshoot(that was turning him into a human inferno) to go mano-a-mano with STAN-9, keeping him in place long enough for the OrbitalBombardment to arrive.

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* DyingMomentOfAwesome:Denzel using the result of his manipulator overshoot(that was turning him into a human inferno) to go mano-a-mano with STAN-9, keeping him in place long enough for the OrbitalBombardment to arrive.
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DyingMomentOfAwesome:Denzel using the result of his manipulator overshoot(that was turning him into a human inferno) to go mano-a-mano with STAN-9, keeping him in place long enough for the OrbitalBombardment to arrive.
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*ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure: Steve using the Sword to nuke the missions sites of both Mission 3 and Mission 15, so that nothing that was a threat to the populace escapes alive.

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Oh wait, we have an Orbital Bombardment trope, which is a better fit for the Sword nuking the mission site from it\'s current orbit. Also, I don\'t think I was the only one thinking Oh Crap when Stan happened [tongue]


* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mission 15. Xan decides to help out Stacy, the only guy he actually liked(who had managed to bust up his robot body falling down the hole the team had been excavating) by growing him a new body. This goes [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]] when Xan accidentally ABSORBS Stacy's brain instead do to a massive overshoot, which leads to a massive, 15 ft. tall [[EldritchAbomination utter abomination of nature]] nicknamed '''Stan'''. [[spoiler: This is due to Stacy's previous contact with the [[EldritchAbomination Star-Eater]] that he was [[LaserGuidedAmnesia forced to forget]] on pain of death.]] The end result is Steve currently [[ColonyDrop nuking the dig site from orbit.]]

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mission 15. Xan decides to help out Stacy, the only guy he actually liked(who had managed to bust up his robot body falling down the hole the team had been excavating) by growing him a new body. This goes [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]] when Xan accidentally ABSORBS Stacy's brain instead do to a massive overshoot, which leads to a massive, 15 ft. tall [[EldritchAbomination utter abomination of nature]] nicknamed '''Stan'''. [[spoiler: This is due to Stacy's previous contact with the [[EldritchAbomination Star-Eater]] that he was [[LaserGuidedAmnesia forced to forget]] on pain of death.]] The end result is Steve currently [[ColonyDrop [[OrbitalBombardment nuking the dig site from orbit.]]


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** When Xan [[spoiler: accidentally absorbed Stacy's brain and became an out of control abomination named Stan]].
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mission 15. Xan decides to help out Stacy, the only guy he actually liked(who had managed to bust up his robot body falling down the hole the team had been excavating) by growing him a new body. This goes [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]] when Xan accidentally ABSORBS Stacy's brain instead do to a massive overshoot, which leads to a massive, 15 ft. tall [[EldritchAbomination utter abomination of nature]] nicknamed '''Stan'''. [[spoiler: This is due to Stacy's previous contact with the [[EldritchAbomination Star-Eater]] that he was [[LaserGuidedAmnesia forced to forget]] on pain of death.]] The end result is Steve currently [[ColonyDrop nuking the dig site from orbit.]]
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Due to the spaceships having no real windows, most of the epic space battle at Hephaestus was described primarily as dry reports of weapons firing and systems going offline, with the crews on board and people on the ground receiving only second-hand information from [[MissionControl Steve]]. [[spoiler: Even the destruction of Warship Gamma, with three of the four ARM members on board dying (including May, one of the veterans), went largely undescribed due to almost everyone who could witness the destruction being instantly vaporized.]]
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* GlassCannon: The converted Blackship [[FragileSpeedster interstellar dragster]] called Black Death has had all of its superfluous components removed, and fitted with the biggest plasma cannon the frame could support. During the UWM counterattack on the liberated Hephaestus, the [[PintSizedPowerhouse little ship]] took several shots at, and finally [[RammingAlwaysWorks rammed itself]] into a UWM [[MileLongShip battleship]], [[TakingYouWithMe taking it out of the fight]] [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome all by itself]]. Thankfully, it was [[AvertedTrope remotely piloted]] [[HeroicSacrifice at the time]].
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** Shortly thereafter, [[spoiler: Grate made a pill containing the essence of a manipulator battery, turned into space magic, and began to cause [[Pun great]] damage to everything around him.]]

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** Shortly thereafter, [[spoiler: Grate made a pill containing the essence of a manipulator battery, turned into space magic, and began to cause [[Pun [[{{Pun}} great]] damage to everything around him.]]



* InfantImmortality: Played with. Grate remains fairly unscathed through his first mission, and through most of his second [[spoiler: before getting crushed by a manipulator overshot, then brought back to life with [[HandWave quantum.]][[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext ..something]]. Right after recovering from that, [[spoiler: he ingested [[ItMakesSenseInContext a pill made from a manipulator battery]], which caused chaos...]]

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* InfantImmortality: Played with. Grate remains fairly unscathed through his first mission, and through most of his second [[spoiler: before getting crushed by a manipulator overshot, then brought back to life with [[HandWave quantum.]][[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext ..quantum...]][[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext something]]. He was immediately shot dead due to confusion, but [[SchrodingersCat remained alive]]. Right after recovering from that, [[spoiler: he made and ingested [[ItMakesSenseInContext a pill made from from]] [[ArtifactOfDoom a manipulator battery]], which [[PowerIncontinence caused chaos...]]chaos]] [[SuperPowerMeltdown and destruction]], and led to the [[TheAce Armory Master]] stepping in and killing him again. [[TheyKilledKennyAgain After recovering from that]], Grate tries to help fix the damage he caused, ending up [[TurbineBlender chopped into paste by some machinery]]. He then stays around on Hephaestus, where the first experiment he runs electrocutes him to death.]] Kid can't catch a break.

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RIP, May and other people whose names I don\'t recognize.


* CerebusSyndrome: Around the time of the Invasion of Hephaestus, things got a lot darker...



* SnarkyInanimateObject: Steve.

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* ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler:May, one of the few veterans who remained [[CloudCuckooLander as wacky as in]] [[RefugeInAudacity the beginning]], died all of a sudden when the ship she was helping control was struck by a large projectile.]]
* SnarkyInanimateObject: Steve. As much as he is inanimate.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: The common reaction to any sort of injury.
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* ChekhovsNews: The news playing on the rec room tv almost always foreshadows the next mission.
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* LetsSplitUpGang: Instead of using teamwork on mission 2, everyone decided to wander off on their own and get killed. This is the main reason a second team needed to be sent in.
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* FireBreathingWeapon: Generally ineffective because everyone wears fireproof suits. Until someone built a flamethrower using a mixture of napalm and thermite.
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* AerithAndBob: Characters named Ivan, Jim and Thomas coexist with Thrak, Feyri, and Mesk.

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* AerithAndBob: Characters named Ivan, Jim and Thomas coexist with Thrak, Feyri, and Mesk. Justified because they all come from different systems.
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* PrisonShip InSpace: The Paracelsus Sword. It's the setting of the game.
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* HumanShield: The Sods in mission 11 strapped innocent civilians to their shields, for purely psychological reasons. It didn't work on the [[PragmaticHero heroes]].
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* SpiderTank: Auron built a six legged one out of scrap parts. Jack was stuck piloting it.

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