| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elona.png]] |
| 2 | ->''Your pet is running toward you gleefully! It's a... Dog! Cat! Bear! Little Girl!'' |
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| 4 | Some {{roguelike}}s want you to die. Other roguelikes want you to die as painfully as possible. [[ItsAWonderfulFailure Elona wants you to die smiling.]] |
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| 6 | More a bizarre life sim and plain old sandbox RPG than a straight up roguelike, ''Elona'' was designed to allow players to play with no specific goals in mind, doing whatever they want in the open sandbox world of North Tyris. The world of ''Elona'' is plagued by an airborne blight known as Etherwind. You are an adventurer, fresh off the boat, ready to explore and make your mark on the land. Start a farm, run a museum, be a shopkeeper, go adventuring, or raise pets to duel in the monster arena. If you really feel like it, you can do all of those and more. |
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| 8 | Twisted, funny and strangely compelling. Like ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''' Adventure Mode [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on crack]]. |
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| 10 | A spin-off game, simply named ''Elona Shooter'', was released in 2009. It actually has very little to do with Elona, except for sprites and a few references. You play a wanderer who visits a town under siege by hordes of monsters. After being put in charge of the defense of the town, you are then left to do what you will. |
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| 12 | On November 2010, Noa stated that he would not work on ''Elona'' any farther, [[TakeUpMySword but released the source code so that other people could, hopefully, continue development]]. Since then from November 2012, numerous variants have been developed, from doing minimal changes and bugfixes, to making meta-altering overhauls. Two variants in particular are the most popular ones, both of which have English translations: |
| 13 | * ''Omake Overhaul'': A community-driven variant that features plenty quality of life changes, new content and mod compatibility, while keeping the experience as close to the vanilla game as possible. |
| 14 | * ''Elona+'': A fanmade ExpansionPack, containing new acts to explore, as well as sweeping changes to the user experience. It continues to live with periodic updates, expanding to several new continents while adding many new game mechanics and drastically increasing the strength of the enemies. |
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| 16 | In 2021, the game was remade to phones and tablets as ''Elona Mobile''. It's free-to-play, with optional ad-based bonuses microtransactions with a completely new art-style and control mechanics, but is otherwise faithful to the original game in terms of the things to do in-game. |
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| 18 | A {{prequel}}, ''VideoGame/{{Elin}}'', is also in development, and was successfully funded through Website/{{Kickstarter}}. |
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| 20 | Like ''Dwarf Fortress, Elona'' is the successor of an obscure, incomplete game known as ''Etherwind'', a sort of realtime JRPG, which it shares some of the sprites and soundtrack with. |
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| 22 | [[http://ylvania.org/en/ The homepage.]] |
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| 24 | [[https://www.kongregate.com/games/noanoa/elona-shooter Elona Shooter.]] |
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| 26 | [[https://elona.wikia.com/wiki/Elona_Wiki Elona wiki.]] |
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| 29 | !!Elona and Elona Shooter provide examples of: |
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| 31 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 33 | [[folder:Elona]] |
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| 35 | !! Tropes applying to the original version of ''Elona'' |
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| 37 | * AbnormalAmmo: Panties. Also, ammo can be made of all the same materials as other weapons, allowing you to fire candy. |
| 38 | * AbsurdlyHighLevelCap: If there even ''IS'' a level cap to speak of. Either through cheating or through very dedicated grinding you can reach 1000s of levels. (For reference the FinalBoss is only at level 55) However, it's not as awesome as one might expect, as raising the character level [[EmptyLevels just gives you higher HP and MP caps]]. |
| 39 | * AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The janitor of Lumiest tasks you with clearing the city sewer out of monsters. |
| 40 | * AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Eating poisonous corpses may give you antibodies, raising your poison resistance. |
| 41 | * ActionBomb: Some characters explode themselves as a tactic. This can be aggravating as other characters with that ability will also explode in a chain reaction. And of course, there's the possiblity of your {{escort|Mission}} being a ActionBomb itself. |
| 42 | * ActuallyFourMooks: |
| 43 | ** If you choose to try and rob a wandering vendor, about 20 blokes appear to kill you. |
| 44 | ** Same problem happens when a Rogue Boss stops you. Challenge him, and about twenty of his buddies show up to kick your ass. |
| 45 | ** It's possible to make custom {{Non Player Character}}s do this as well, but lord help ye in deciphering the code. HSP is a harsh mistress. |
| 46 | ** If you summon Ehekatl, then kill her, an enemy called God Inside Ehekatl spawns in her place. This also happens at the end of the game, killing the final boss spawns a neutral bonus boss. Based on this code a few Japanese have created critters that will spill out multiple other critters, or will spawn new critters upon death. They tend to be [[Franchise/TouhouProject Yukkuri]] related, so beware custom moongate maps with yukkuri. |
| 47 | * AllInARow: Averted. Party members will wander off to attack enemies or just run around in your general vicinity. This often causes angry monsters attacked by your allies to attack you when the ally runs back, so most people buy a leash to chain the ally to you. And if you have a little girl as an ally... |
| 48 | * AllThereInTheManual: All monster lore is contained in their respective Card descriptions... which are for some reason not included in the English translations, removing the descriptions entirely. |
| 49 | * AlmightyJanitor: |
| 50 | ** [[spoiler:The moody, unassuming gravekeeper]] in the first town you go to? Yeah, he's the most powerful friendly NPC in the game and wields the game's most destructive weapon, not that it is practical for you, given that it turns battlefields into permanently uninhabitable wastelands if you don't kill him quickly enough. |
| 51 | ** Balzak the janitor is also quite tough for starting characters, for those looking to fill their museums. |
| 52 | * AndYourRewardIsEdible - You will occasionally get food as a reward for quests. Especially Harvest Time quests. Occasionally, you'll be rewarded with equipment made of "raw" (or candy, if it's miracle-quality or higher), which is edible. Yes, you can be awarded edible scythes, armor and footwear. |
| 53 | * AndYourRewardIsParenthood: Not only can you marry just about anyone, you can have a baby with them, too. This is called "making a gene." |
| 54 | * AntiGrinding: All skills have a "potential" score, which determines how fast the skill gains experience, goes down as the skill gains levels, and slowly goes up as your character rests. Trying to grind a single skill intensively will make the overall experience gain much slower than if the player simply goes about their adventures using all of them. |
| 55 | * AntiPoopSocking: If you are worshiping a god and have an item with the "It catches signals from god." attribute equipped you will occasionally see random comments from the god you're worshipping, including them voicing concern if you've played for an extended period of time. Notably, if you've been playing for twenty-four hours straight and are worshiping Ehekatl you'll receive a signal from her begging you not to die. |
| 56 | * AnyoneCanDie: Absolutely every NPC can be targeted and killed. In fact, if you own a museum, you’re encouraged to do this – special [=NPCs=] have a unique figurine and card to go with them. |
| 57 | * ArbitraryGunPower - Machine guns are usually weak, but consistent and have less range penalty. Shotguns are stronger than crap, granted you're within 2 tiles of the enemy at best. Pistols are usually... terrible. Laser Guns, on the other hand, have no range penalty at up to a distance of 7 tiles, but have a pathetic 5% Pierce. And, finally, special variants dropped from bosses or random enemies are usually superior to the base firearms. |
| 58 | * ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: Simply put, 5 charisma per pet. This includes pets that aren’t traveling with you or are running a ranch/store. |
| 59 | * ArtificialGravity: The gravity spell, which requires a very high magic stat and casting skill while being only “situational” at best. |
| 60 | * ArtificialStupidity: Your pets will wander off wherever they want, unless you have the leash. Additionally, equipping a ranged weapon won’t do anything if the pet’s AI doesn’t say to ever use ranged attacks. |
| 61 | * ArtisticLicenseBiology: All creatures will produce milk and eggs when put in a ranch, regardless of gender or species, and you only need one to breed more. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] ingame and {{Handwaved}} as an effect of the Etherwind. |
| 62 | * AscendedToCarnivorism - Everyone can and will eat meat, including rabbits and sheep. |
| 63 | * BanditMook: Thieves and certain other enemies will attempt to steal your gold and teleport away. |
| 64 | * BerserkButton - Loyter ''hates'' bad piano playing. See DisproportionateRetribution. |
| 65 | * BettingMiniGame: Casinos allow you to play blackjack for rare items. |
| 66 | %%* BigBad: [[spoiler:Zeome, the False Prophet]] |
| 67 | * BizarreSexualDimorphism: Several god pets (the pet that you get from worshiping a specific god) can have gender specific evolution appearance with their own stats. |
| 68 | ** The Exile, god pet of Itzpalt of Element, begins as a hooded figure with three red eyes visible from their shadowed face. When evolved, male Exile will turn into Dark Demon Dragon - a huge black armored dragon. Female Exile will turn into a Permanent Exile - who while still three-eyed, is otherwise a normal proportioned sagely young woman with bangs. |
| 69 | ** The Cute Fairy, god pet of Kumiromi of Harvest, is a small green-haired, dragonfly-winged fairy. Evolved, male fairy becomes Deathscythe - a scythe-armed, skeletal-winged angel of death. Female fairy evolves into Dryas - a beautiful blond fairy with wings made of leaves. |
| 70 | ** The Android, the pet from Mani of Machine, is unique because in Elona+, the unevolved Android already look different based on gender; male Android is more mechanical than the female one. When evolved, male Android becomes HumongousMecha the Gun Laser. Meanwhile, female Android becomes more mecha-musume Grang Griph. |
| 71 | ** The Black Cat, god pet from Ehekatl of Luck, is an ordinary black kitten that will turn into a giant black lion named Big Black Cat if male, and [[CatGirl Black Catsister]] if female. |
| 72 | * BlessedWithSuck: Fame. While necessary to get better quests, having high Fame also raises your taxes and the frequency and strength of bandit attacks. |
| 73 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: A middle-aged man wedding and impregnating a prepubescent youth? Typical. ''A farm dedicated to breeding and slaughtering purchased slaves for meat? ''Nobody will bat an eye. The reaction to you committing casual murder will range from being given no response at all if the victim is a lowly beggar to being given a few wary glances at worst if you kill somebody important (like say, the ''King of Palmia''), but get caught pickpocketing or even not pay your bills on time and it's warrant enough for you to be ''killed on sight''. And you're free to repeatedly kill the King of Palmia... until you kill him too many times, and then the guards get angry. Slightly averted in Elona+, as guards will simply arrest you rather than kill you on sight. |
| 74 | * BodyguardCrush: Your pet's affection goes up as they kill stuff for you. |
| 75 | * BodyHorror: What most of the mutations, Etherwind or not, tend to do to you. Even if the sprites don't show it, a high level character usually runs around with the eyes of a hawk, a hard shell on the skin, and generally more limbs than a person should have. Although it can be healed using a rather rare potion. (rare can be subjective) |
| 76 | * BoringButPractical: |
| 77 | ** Magic dart. It’s one of the first spells you can cast, and it has no special effects, but most everything has no magic resistance. Additionally, cut damage is resisted by even less targets. |
| 78 | ** The Farmer and Pianist classes. Sure, they don't start with any combat abilities, but the abilities they ''do'' have allow them to consistently complete "Harvest Time!" and "Party Time!" quests, providing a consistent supply of gold and platinum coins so you can eventually get and train up whatever abilities you want. Further, the Gardening skill that Farmers start with allow them to grow very helpful stat-boosting herbs, making the mid- and late game a breeze if you properly set up. |
| 79 | * BreakTheCutie: After finishing the Main Quest Act 1, the little girl Gwen the Innocent in Yowyn who likes to collect flowers and follow you around will grow up into the warrior woman Gwen the Pitiless whose dialogues are implying that the constantly hostile world and monsters forced her to kill everything just to survive. |
| 80 | * BreathWeapon: [[HellHound Hounds]], [[OurDragonsAreDifferent drakes, and dragons]] have breath attacks matching their elemental affinity. Also you, if you take the fire breath feat. |
| 81 | * BuildLikeAnEgyptian: There's a pyramid north of Port Kapul, on the westernmost side of the map. You need a special book to enter, and it's full of mummies. |
| 82 | * ButLiquorIsQuicker: You can have sex with any NPC as long as they're drunk. You'll gain money and train your charisma, but also lose karma and sanity. |
| 83 | * CaptureBalls: Monster Balls can be used to capture monsters when they're at low health and their level is equal to or lesser than the ball's level. |
| 84 | * CapturedSuperEntity: Ebon the Fire Giant is shackled in magic chains in the town of Noyel and kept as a tourist attraction. The NPC keeping him comments the giant could destroy the whole town if freed. [[DevelopersForesight If you know lockpicking, you can release him]] and watch the ensuing mayhem. |
| 85 | * CastFromHitPoints: You can still cast spells even when your MP is too low, although this will cause damage. Having the Magic Capacity skill will help reduce the damage taken from this. |
| 86 | * CatGirl: |
| 87 | ** Ehekatl, the Goddess of Luck, is one. She mewls a lot, is as crazy and flighty as one... And, bizarrely enough, doesn't have the ears. |
| 88 | ** The younger catsister spawned from reading her diary. |
| 89 | ** You can be one if you pick the catsister (or catgod) debug race. And even if you don't, cat ears and a tail are available as parts for your VirtualPaperDoll. |
| 90 | * ChestMonster: Mimics. In addition to chests they can appear as treasure balls, safes, and even stairs. They sit in one place until you come close, at which point they either explode or spam chaos magic at you. As a metal, they enjoy 90% physical damage reduction and insane speed, and have good resistances. On the flipside, their small health pools and insane speed make them vulnerable to poison, acid, and fire. |
| 91 | * ColorCodedElements: [[PlayingWithFire Fire]] is red, [[AnIcePerson ice]] is white, [[ShockAndAwe lightning]] is yellow, [[TechnicolorToxin poison]] is green, [[CastingAShadow darkness]] is purple, [[TheCorruption ether]] is blue, [[YourMindMakesItReal mind]] is pink, [[MakeMeWannaShout sound]] is brown, and [[EntropyAndChaosMagic chaos]] is magenta. |
| 92 | * ContinuingIsPainful: Though the fact you can continue ''at all'' is merciful for a roguelike, that still doesn't mean that losing a good chunk of your things as well as EXP doesn't hurt. Especially when you've contracted a disease that will ''kill you again in less then an in-game week'' if you can't cure it. |
| 93 | * CookingMechanics: With its farming sims elements, this game includes a vast amount of food. There are over thirty different kinds of food available, from fruits to vegetables to fish to nuts, and that's before using the Cooking skill to turn them into finished meals. With the Cooking skill, there are at least seven different kinds of meals you can make for each food type. Eating well-prepared meals will eventually lead to attribute gains. The kind of attribute gain you can expect depends on what you've been eating; for example, fruit can raise Magic and Charisma, while fish improves Dexterity and Learning. |
| 94 | * CoolGate: Moongates. However, they only lead to user created rooms which are otherwise inaccessible in standard play. Whether they lead to a room full of locked doors or a world where the gods are put in zoos is entirely random. |
| 95 | * TheCorruption: Etherwind is implied to slowly [[FaceMonsterTurn turn people and animals into ravaging monsters]], both physically and mentally. This can be observed as ether exposure gives you various monster traits, until having too many results in a NonStandardGameOver, and during the etherwinds there are stronger monsters in the wilderness. |
| 96 | * CrazyCatLady: Mia, a very odd girl you can find in Palmia, who is obsessed with cats and is treated like an outcast by the other townsfolk. |
| 97 | %%* CreepyChild: [[spoiler:Orphe the Chaos Child]], an OptionalBoss available in the postgame.]] |
| 98 | * CriticalEncumbranceFailure: Averted. As you carry more stuff, a penalty on speed becomes greater and greater. When you're REALLY burdened, you start getting crushed by your stuff, losing HP, and you also have a chance to fall down stairs and potentially break your neck. If your inventory gets ''too'' heavy, you become completely unable to move. |
| 99 | * CriticalExistenceFailure: Played straight. The only indicator that you're low on health, apart from your health bar, is a pounding heartbeat sound that sounds ''once'' and is easily lost amongst the sword clashes, machine gun fire, and grenade explosions... |
| 100 | * CuteBruiser - The little girl you can start with can become one. |
| 101 | * CuteMonsterGirl: Quite a few, including fairies, harpies, [[CatGirl Catsisters]], Dogsisters, medusae, etc. Elona+ adds quite a few more as optional evolutions for female pets, such as Snakes/Cobras->Lamiae, Wasps->Queen Bees, Black Cat->Black Catsister, Slimes->SlimeGirl, etc. There's also a [[SpearCounterpart cute monster boy]] in the Butler->Sheep Butler line (who is technically of the "[[HumanDemonHybrid Mazin]]" race). |
| 102 | * CyberPunk: The Cyber Dome. Yerles also gains shades of this in Elona+, with their higher ranking military agents wearing [[PoweredArmor power armor]] and their elites being {{cyborg}}s. ''With [[LaserBlade light sabers]]''. |
| 103 | * DamageSpongeBoss: The [[VideoGame/BioShock Big Daddies]]. Per the Elona wiki, for a well-prepared character, one of the most dangerous parts of this enemy isn't its weaponry (though that can still kill you good), but the possibility of starving to death while trying to kill it. |
| 104 | * DarkHumor: The 'pregnant' status effect has nothing to do with actual pregnancy. [[spoiler:Instead, it means you've been impregnated by a XenomorphXerox and its alien offspring will burst out of your body soon.]] |
| 105 | * DeadlyNosebleed - Overlapping with [[PsychicNosebleed Magical Nosebleed]] below, its quite possible to die from overcasting. |
| 106 | * DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Played straight, at least for a roguelike, since you can just get back up. Sure, there are penalties such as stat and item loss, but that's not as bad as having to start all over. |
| 107 | * DeathOfAThousandCuts: Some enemies will take a lot of scratches before going down, if they can't regenerate their health enough anyway. Can be done quite literally as cut damage is rarely resisted. |
| 108 | * DecadeDissonance - Yerles and possibly Zanan are clearly more advanced then the nations of North Tyris, sporting industrial-era technology such as howitzers, machine guns, and grenades. This is exemplified even more in Elona+, where Yerles is shown to have ''cybernetics'', jet aircraft, and HumongousMecha. And Eulderna has a blimp. |
| 109 | * DestroyableItems: Fire, ice, and acid damage can do this unless you [[NoSell No Sell]] it or the item is resistant. |
| 110 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Not just with the lesser horrors (Shub-Niggurath, Great Race of Yith, etc.), but it is entirely possible to summon a god with a Wish and kill it. Then kill the even stronger god that immediately spawns afterward, too. |
| 111 | %%* DisasterScavengers |
| 112 | * DiscOneNuke: When you wake up in the cave at the beginning of the cave, you'll see Larnneire and Lomias, two Elea who helped you out at the shipwreck. They'll stick around until you kick them out or first enter Vernis, the town closes to your new home. If you get 12,000 gold without entering Vernis once, you can buy the dangerous bomb (read: nuke) from the Noel, the bomber in the pub at Derphy. Pick it up, and bring it back to your house. (If you can't carry it, just pick it up and hold 5 on the number pad until its weight crushes you, killing you. You might drop the bomb when you die, but it's not likely) Then, when you get back home, use the bomb. Ten turns later, you'll have nuked your own house and [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential killed the two people who helped you out at the shipwreck]]. But hey, they'll drop the Bow of Vinderre and Ether Dagger, the second best longbow in the game, and one of the best shortswords in the game (Ether Dagger vs. Lucky Dagger. Also, daggers are "shortswords" in Elona) |
| 113 | * DisgustingPublicToilet: Averted. Toilets have the same effect as fountains - you can drink out of them. |
| 114 | * DisproportionateRetribution: If you play music near an NPC that is much higher leveled than you, they'll throw a stone at you. Since they're stronger than you, this will often be lethal, especially for new characters. |
| 115 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Sometimes, upon deciding to ride your pet, it will tell you to "be gentle". |
| 116 | * DoomyDoomsOfDoom: Doomed equipment has all the nasty effects of a curse, in addition to harming the wielder and being harder to dispell. Wearing several pieces dooms you to die a sudden death. |
| 117 | * DreamWalker: One possible effect while sleeping is a wizard accidentally entering your dreams and teaching you a random spell to make up for the interruption. This is the easiest way to learn some of the rarer spells such as Wizard's Harvest or Wish. |
| 118 | * DualWielding: A skill. You can't go GunsAkimbo with guns, however. You also get a penalty if the weapons you're using are too heavy for normal dual wielding, like, say, using a claymore and an axe. (Even if your strength normally would negate this.) Mutants, the only race which can gain limbs without heavy cheat engine editing, can, with some amazing save-scumming skills, take this up to eleven quite literally, though there's a steep accuracy decline starting from the fifth arm. |
| 119 | * DuelingPlayerCharacters - The final boss of [[BrutalBonusLevel the Void]] is [[spoiler:the original player character from ''VideoGame/NetHack'' / ''VideoGame/SlashEM''.]] |
| 120 | * DumpStat: Learning has almost no effect whatsoever besides slightly increasing your MP and increasing your skill points if you get it high enough. |
| 121 | * EasyExp: You can learn to gain experience by traveling from town to town. |
| 122 | * EdibleAmmunition: |
| 123 | ** Ammo items can be "raw" (or candy if it's an artefact) which means you can eat them. If the equipment has any stat or skill bonuses, eating it will grant bonus experience. |
| 124 | ** You can throw chestnuts at enemies. Quite predictably, it causes bleeding damage. |
| 125 | * EmptyLevels: Your skills and stats level up independently from your actual character level, and it's possible to increase either without increasing the other. Increasing the character level and nothing else has few benefits (the most notable is increasing your HP and MP) and is usually a bad idea. (Thankfully, it's hard to do accidentally and can be undone.) |
| 126 | * EnemyMine: A spell GoneHorriblyWrong may result in summoning several monsters which will try to kill the caster. If this happens to an enemy spellcaster, the summoned monsters will take your side. |
| 127 | * AnEntrepreneurIsYou: On top of exploring dungeons, you can make some money by purchasing buildings such as ranches, farms, museums, and shops. The shop is particularly important, as you can use it to sell almost any item for a much better price than just selling it to a random shop. |
| 128 | * EscortMission: One of the various quests available. This can be as simple as just going to the destination, or having to deal with assassins as well. |
| 129 | * EverythingTryingToKillYou: Averted, neutral [=NPCs=] will often spawn in dungeons and wilderness areas and attack hostile monsters. And any monster spawned by a book reading or a spell cast in confusion has a chance of coming out neutral. For small creatures, this is a boon, as they will respawn in the town they are summoned in until you catch them or otherwise force them to stop appearing (though it's slightly buggy, sometimes they don't respawn for ages, or not at all, since they aren't originally a part of the town.) For large creatures, it sure is nice having a sky golem spawn on your side after you inadvertently summon a master lich. They will engage any hostile monsters just as a normal neutral character such as a rogue archer or mercenary would do. |
| 130 | * EvolvingWeapon: This, along with LivingWeapon, are what some artifacts can be. Using them too much eventually becomes fatal, as they'll eventually gain the bloodsucking property, which randomly deals Cut damage to you and makes you bleed. |
| 131 | * ExplosiveBreeder: |
| 132 | ** Mass monsters, bubbles, and some other monsters can split if they aren't killed fast enough. Of course, if you're not strong enough to kill one before they split, it gets ugly fast. |
| 133 | ** Putits, the weakest monsters in the whole game, will multiply fast if put in a ranch. Since they can be used for a variety of purposes (Gene engineering, meat that increases Charisma, high rate of production of eggs/milk), this makes them extremely profitable. |
| 134 | * ExtremeOmnisexual: Your character can marry and create a "gene" (read: have sex with to make a baby) with your party members. They can be anything from [[EldritchAbomination yith]], [[BestialityIsDepraved animals]], {{robo|Sexual}}ts, [[CargoShip a sentient bike]], to [[BreadEggsMilkSquick little girls]]. |
| 135 | * FragileSpeedster: Quicklings have low enough HP to be killed in one hit. On the flipside, they are the fastest creature in the game and will dodge almost everything you throw at them. |
| 136 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: You can occasionally hear in Vernis what happens to those suicidal enough to perform in front of Loyter. |
| 137 | -->''Something is killed by an audience. "Did I suck that bad?"'' |
| 138 | * GameMod: While the game's coding prevents any large modifications to actual gameplay, a lot of small things, ranging from portraits, sprites, music, or game text, can be easily changed by altering the config files. |
| 139 | * GameplayAndStorySegregation: Important [=NPCs=] will respawn when killed [[PlotlineDeath unless the plot says otherwise]]. Even then, they will respawn if you haven't yet reached the point in the plot where they are supposed to die. |
| 140 | * GasMaskMooks: Yerles soldiers will constantly hamper you across the early and mid game, even if you yourself are a Yerles. This is also how "machine troopers" are represented. |
| 141 | * GayOption: for a loose definition of "gender" anyway, since there are no functional differences between male and female characters. [[BestialityIsDepraved Even non-sentient species.]] |
| 142 | * GlobalCurrencyException: Miral lets you trade Small Medals for rare items. |
| 143 | * TheGoomba: Putits fulfill this role as weak slime monsters. ''Actual slimes'' will most likely melt an inattentive character to death. |
| 144 | * GuiltyPleasures: You can use a leash to tether your party members to you. (They walk in the same general direction as you, but tend to wander off and aggro monsters) When you take the leash off the character, you get the message, "(name) gasps, 'D-don't sto....N-nothing!'" |
| 145 | * HarmfulHealing: [[KillTheGod You can kill the world's pantheon]] if you so choose if you prepared to fight [[TurnRed their second form]]. Among the gods, there's Jure of Healing - which as can be seen from the name, is the goddess of healing. Killing Jure will cause her next form named Blessed Jure to sprout out of her corpse, and Blessed Jure has an offensive skill named Excessive Heal. The text message of skill being used says "Excessive heal breaks tissue of target!" and it gives the target hemorrhage status debuff. |
| 146 | * HatesBeingTouched: If anyone touches a summoned Ehekatl, she will destroy everything in her presence with pillars of fire. |
| 147 | * HealingFactor: Literally, the Healing skill determines how much HP you regenerate every turn. It can be temporarily or permanently increased in various ways like any other skill, but bleeding and poison prevents it from working. |
| 148 | * HeadTurningBeauty: Everyone loves Shena's ass. |
| 149 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: |
| 150 | ** Remember ThoseTwoGuys in the tutorial, and that strange NPC in the graveyard in Vernis? They go on their own quest while you do yours. Although you wouldn't know if you only played the English Version. |
| 151 | ** You are not the only adventurer lurking around the game world as well. 40 other explorers will go on quests and discover artifacts, which you can even ask them to barter with you should you bump into them. |
| 152 | * HideYourChildren: Averted. Children are treated the same way adults are in-game, getting drunk just as often, doing things that are illegal in nearly every country, or attacking enemies. Not to mention a little girl can be your starter pet. She's also your ''best'' pet, since she can use weapons and skills. |
| 153 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Hungry sea lions [[BanditMook steal and eat food from your backpack]]. If your food is rotten or poisoned, their stealing attempts will backfire horribly. |
| 154 | * HoldTheLine: The Kamikaze Attack quest from the injured guard in Port Kapul. |
| 155 | * AHomeownerIsYou: You have a house (initially a cave, but it can be upgraded all the way to a castle) that serves as your home base. You can warp to it anytime and fill it with useful furniture such as beds and freezers that would be too impractical to carry around. [[AnInteriorDecoratorIsYou You can also decorate it with furniture]] to improve your salary. |
| 156 | * HomosexualReproduction: Once you marry a character, you can have a child with them, regardless of gender... [[InterspeciesRomance Or species.]] |
| 157 | * HumanChess: Inverted. Chess pieces can appear as normal enemies in a dungeon. And they equip weapons and armor. |
| 158 | * HyperspaceArsenal: |
| 159 | ** The 4D pocket spell lets you remove any item (except cargo) from your inventory, and claim it back later. |
| 160 | ** If your strength stat and/or weight lifting skill are high enough, you can carry an absurd amount of items. Weight is the only thing that matters, so you can potentially stuff several trees, statues, and pianos in your pack with no (or minor) penalties. |
| 161 | * IAmNotLeftHanded: [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Did you just kill a god?]] They'll respawn immediately in their stronger form. |
| 162 | * IAteWhat - During the game's tutorial, the game tries to teach you how to manually eat food. It does this with the "corpse of beggar", which the NPC doesn't actually tell you to eat. When you tell the tutorial NPC you ate it, acts grossed out and... [[ImAHumanitarian doesn't really believe you, for obvious reasons.]] Even worse, it's implied said beggar was the previous inhabitant of the cave; The NPC is making you get rid of the evidence! |
| 163 | * ImAHumanitarian: Eating human flesh makes you go insane... at least until you mutate and develop a liking for it. |
| 164 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: |
| 165 | ** Panties can be used to deal psychological damage to enemies. Enemies who are killed this way go insane and kill themselves. |
| 166 | ** You can also use an artifact piano as a thrown weapon. |
| 167 | ** The RNG also generates weapons such as a Candy Staff of Lightning, a Cloth Scythe, and a Raw Sword. The staff and the sword can be eaten. Foods made of 'raw' are basically thought of as being jerky-like, aside from those specifically stating they are candy. |
| 168 | * InfinityPlusOneElement: Surprisingly not Magic, even though magic resistance is rare even among boss-type monsters. Cut damage surpasses Magic by having all creatures have a default Cut resistance of 0 (by comparison, 100 resistance is considered to be normal and anything less means you were weak to that element) and receiving Cut damage also inflicts the Bleeding debuff, which acts like a much more nastier version of poison. The most common method of dealing Cut damage is with shuriken, but there are certain randart equipment that can inflict Cut damage to enemies that hit you with melee attacks. There's also the hidden Ether and Acid elements, which are only available to [=NPC=]s and are just as irresistible as Cut. |
| 169 | * InGameNovel: While they aren't very long, there are several books that can be found and read. |
| 170 | * InsubstantialIngredients: One can make scrolls with harvested materials like screaming madman or memory fragments. |
| 171 | * InterchangeableAntimatterKeys: Averted. There actually aren't any keys, only lockpicks which may break depending on how skilled you are at lockpicking. |
| 172 | * AnInteriorDecoratorIsYou: Several types of furniture exist and can be placed in your home. Having nice furniture increases your home rank, which increases your salary. |
| 173 | * AnInteriorDesignerIsYou - Use the house board at home. (It's up and to the left of the salary chest). |
| 174 | * JerkassGod: The pantheon in this game is... interesting. Mani of Machine is misanthropic and can't wait to turn you into an android if you worship him. Lulwy of Wind is an outright sadistic dominatrix and possibly corrupted by the dreaded Etherwind. Ehekatl of Luck is pretty much insane and it seems she infects Kumiromi of Harvest, or maybe Kumiromi has a different brand of madness. Opatos of Earth is so obnoxiously loudmouthed, even when he's violent. Itzpalt of Element is such a condescending jackass, he makes Lulwy looks like a kind goddess. Jure of Healing is hard A-grade {{Tsundere}} and Yacatect of Wealth seems like a kind big sister, but she's very much encouraging vices like greed to fuel her worshipers. |
| 175 | * JokeCharacter: You can play as a snail as a ChallengeRun. They're as weak as you expect. Activating extra races allows you to play as certain enemies, like a dog, cat, yith, et cetera, without their special abilities. |
| 176 | * JokeItem: You can wield swords, guns, and bows made of candy. They do inferior damage, typically. |
| 177 | * KarmaHoudini: But only if you're careful. For instance, you can't kill the guy who wants you to kill cats for him, or a person who just cut down a prostitute in cold blood, without taking a karma hit. That said, you can break the minds of children (which leads them to kill themselves), send beggars to Hell, and summon a bunch of monsters to wipe out some weaker [=NPCs=], and simply teleport away while laughing. With the proper feat, you can even nuke a city and still not be considered a criminal (though learning that feat requires that you nuke a city without it, first). |
| 178 | * KleptomaniacHero: Averted. You can't pick up anything that isn't yours without using the pickpocket skill. You can, however, eat food straight off the ground. Won't be as healthy as cooking it, of course, but it works great in Vernis and Yowyn while doing hunting/gardening quests. |
| 179 | * KingMook: Each Nefia dungeon (randomly generated dungeon that pop up in the overworld) have a boss at the last floor who is a randomly chosen, powered up regular enemy, and to signify this their name will be enclosed in <> brackets (Example: <goblin>). Beating these bosses signify the completion of the dungeon, will raise your fame, and drop valuable loot. |
| 180 | * LampshadeHanging: The in-game ranching guidebook lampshades the [[ArtisticLicenseBiology Artistic License: Biology]] mechanics of ranching. |
| 181 | --> '''Breeder's Guide:''' And no, I'm not going to try to explain how mammals will lay eggs or how exactly you milk a twenty-ton firebreathing lizard. Just accept the fact and move on. |
| 182 | * LethalChef: |
| 183 | ** It is possible to mess up cooking so badly that raw meat would have been better than your attempts at cooking it. |
| 184 | ** Giving poorly cooked food to an NPC for quest related purposes will make the NPC hate you. |
| 185 | ** The same thing happens with cursed drinks and potions. Interestingly, giving someone cursed food only makes them hate you, and doesn't give you a karma hit, but giving them plain ROTTEN food does (unless you can escape the area before they die of food poisoning). |
| 186 | * LethalJokeItem: |
| 187 | ** You can wield a special piano as a weapon, and... Shena's panties. The former does massive damage and the second has a chance to drive enemies insane. |
| 188 | ** Raw is the worst material equipment can have, but it makes the item edible. Eating an item made of Raw can provide you with various benefits depending on the items's attributes: "It maintains [stat]" will give you a temporary buff to that stat's growth rate, "It improves [skill]" will train that skill, and "It increases [stat]" will provide experience to the stat in question. Since shoes (normally one of the lowest-tiered leg items) are guaranteed to give a bonus to speed, obtaining many scrolls of inferior material, turning those shoes into Raw, and eating them is one of the few ways to train [[OneStatToRuleThemAll speed]]. |
| 189 | * LizardFolk: One of the enemy races, naturally skilled at close combat and wielding polearms. |
| 190 | * LoopholeAbuse: |
| 191 | ** Due to the Stealth skill relying strictly on sight, it is possible to receive the message "Your Stealth skills increases," while in the middle of ''performing music'' - one that you receive money for once it's complete. Apparently people don't have to see you to throw money at you. |
| 192 | ** In some quests, you are tasked with stealing a specific item from another NPC in town. You can complete the quest by giving any item that fits the description though, since the quest giver is apparently unable to tell the difference between two earth crystals or rods of summon monsters. |
| 193 | ** You can't pick up items that are placed in towns, but nothing prevents you from actually using them, so you can repeatedly do things like looting valuables from safes and eating the town's entire supply of food. |
| 194 | * LordBritishPostulate: |
| 195 | ** Most major [=NPCs=]. In fact, the tougher ones can survive a '''nuclear blast'''. There's actually a reason to try and kill them though, because unique [=NPCs=] might drop a unique statue or card upon death. |
| 196 | ** One of the random lines of NPC dialogue has the NPC wondering if shopkeepers really are invincible. |
| 197 | * LovePotion: Available and effective, but having your pets drink it results in Karma loss. Mixing it into their food results in Karma loss. However, throwing it at them or making them step in a puddle of it results in the same effect, but with no karma loss. |
| 198 | * LudicrousGibs: Everything dies in an explosion of chunky salsa (and that's mainly if you ''didn't'' use magic - then it's a magical black vortex, or if you got turned into an ice sculpture) and the only remains are some bloody bits and whatever items it was holding. If you're lucky, there's a leftover corpse that you can pick up and cook to eat. |
| 199 | * MadBomber: Noel is most positivity ''insane''. On another note, the sole military presence of Zanan (supposedly at war with Elea) in the game is represented by wandering [[BombThrowingAnarchists bomb throwers]]. |
| 200 | * MadnessMantra: "Round Eyes! Round Eyes! Round Eyes!" "You snail!" and various other cries when the player's insane. |
| 201 | * MagicalEye: The sole NPC with heterochromia turns out to be [[spoiler:one of the most powerful endgame bosses, with one of the best weapons.]] |
| 202 | * MagicVersusScience: Mentioned in random conversations, where magic and science were thought to be opposed. Obviously, it's not the case in the game. |
| 203 | * MagikarpPower: |
| 204 | ** Pianists, when in the right hands, can ruin bosses that other classes couldn't handle because their high charisma allows them to hire many allies. |
| 205 | ** Mutants and fairies are this for races. Mutants only start with four equipment slots, and the latter can only equip the lightest of armor, and suffer from low life. However, Mutants slowly gain more slots as they level, getting far more than normal, and fairies have naturally high resistances and gain a dodge bonus with what items they can use. With the right preparations, Mutants can wield multiple weapons and be mighty damage dealers, while fairies can enjoy dodging physical attacks while taking little from magic (which always hits). |
| 206 | ** On paper, farmers. Farming can get you herbs, some of the most powerful foods in the game, to greatly buff up your stats. However, farming requires entry-level combat and herbs are rare AND won't survive unless your farming stat is high. |
| 207 | * MakeAWish: Very rarely, you gain the ability to make a wish. You can ask for almost any item, but [[YouCantGetYeFlask the text parser sometimes misinterprets what you typed in]], so [[GuideDangIt be sure to have a guide handy]]. |
| 208 | * ManaBurn: Casting spells that cost more than your current MP or taking MP damage that puts your MP below 0 results in a "Magical reaction" that deals damage depending on how far into the negatives your MP is. By default you receive 4 times your current negative MP on the instant you take MP damage, but you can mitigate it somewhat by increasing your Magic Capacity skill, which is trained by, of course, taking damage from having negative MP. |
| 209 | * MassiveRaceSelection: There are 11 playable races to choose from, plus additonal 65 debug races which can be enabled in the config files. |
| 210 | * MasterOfAll: You, eventually. The only limit on how many skills you can learn is how much time you spend getting platinum coins. In fact, this is encouraged, due to some stats being harder to train without certain skills. |
| 211 | * MacGuffin: The Origin of Vice laying at the 45th level of Lesimas. It's supposed to be the unfiltered true history of the entire world, and it is necessary to get it to finish the main quest...Too bad that it [[UselessItem becomes entirely powerless after leaving the dungeon, and is just proof you've actually beaten the main quest.]] |
| 212 | * MeaningfulName: The game has the same name as a genus of Snails. One of the races is the Snails, that just so happens to be [[HarderThanHard the most difficult race to play]] and starting [[PlayerCharacter characters]] are compared to most of the enemies in the game, especially gods. |
| 213 | * MercyKill: [[spoiler:Lily]] will ask you to end her suffering after [[spoiler:realizing her disease is incurable.]] |
| 214 | * MetalSlime: The bells. They have only 15 HP, but they have extremely high speed and a special bitFlag that reduces all damage by 90%. They also have a tendency to run away from the map at random. Gold Bells drop a large amount of cash, while Silver/Platinum Bells drop a small amount of platinum coins and have an additional chance of dropping a small medal. Their corpses don't do much good for you, though. |
| 215 | * MightyGlacier: The playable Golem race. |
| 216 | * MiniGame: Blackjack, as mentioned above. A card game is also in the works. |
| 217 | * MonsterArena: For your pets, which may be monsters. You can also fight there, but the ranks for you and your pets are separate. |
| 218 | * MoneySpider: Gold Bells, for some reason, always drop a large amount of gold on death. Silver/Platinum Bells drop platinum coins and small medals instead. Additionally, high-quality random loot, coins, and a chest always spawn at your feet when you defeat certain boss monsters. |
| 219 | * MonsterAdventurers: If you enable the extra races, you can make an adventurer of a race normally reserved for monsters. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight And the NPCs won't even raise an eyebrow.]] |
| 220 | * MonumentalTheft: You can steal objects such as tombs, fountains, and statues if you have ridiculous amounts of strength and pickpocket skill. Or simply reduce their weight with a special item to make the theft easier. |
| 221 | * MookChivalry: Averted. If you enter a dungeon, be ready to be mobbed. Thankfully, there are many sources of splash damage. |
| 222 | * MoreDakka: If you ever find burst ammo. |
| 223 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: High level mutants will eventually turn into this - however, having more than seventy limbs will slow you down, somewhat. Also the Asura (debug) race, which starts the game with 30 levels and 250% potential in DualWield. |
| 224 | * MundaneUtility: You can [[BreathWeapon breathe fire]] to incinerate your enemies ...or to roast your food. |
| 225 | * NamedWeapons: All artifacts are this, thanks to the random name generator the game uses. Given that the name generator includes words such as "Bitch", "Sex", and "Retard", you have the potential to have weapons with names that are either hilarious, extremely offensive, or [[VulgarHumor both]]. |
| 226 | * NecessaryDrawback: Many. |
| 227 | ** Accuracy decreases are placed on you for trying to Dual Wield weapons that are too heavy to feasibly dual wield. |
| 228 | ** Additionally, there are even more accuracy decreases for characters with many weapon slots, preventing you from utilizing a mutant that has a conga line of daggers. |
| 229 | ** The Bow of Vinderre can one-shot nearly anything you’d encounter at the beginning of the game. However, if you are trying to bite off more than you can chew, you’ll end up pulling the target into melee range instead. |
| 230 | ** Fairies have incredible dodging abilities, but can’t equip anything even mildly heavy. |
| 231 | * NewbieImmunity: When the player reaches Level 6, the game stops taking it easy on you. You'll start getting taxed, and you'll receive the full penalty of reviving after death. ''Elona+'' raises the starting point to Level 10. |
| 232 | * NewSpeak: Renton the suffering wizard sometimes says, "Will the kiss of Death bring an end to the double-plus-ungood that is my life?" |
| 233 | * NoSuchThingAsDehydration: The original game featured a hunger feature but no thirst, though you could drink potions with various effects, water which can cure confusion, soda which restores stamina, milk which makes you fuller and can change your height if blessed or cursed, coffee which [[MustHaveCaffiene staves off sleepiness]], and various types of booze which makes you drunk. The popular fanmade expansion pack Elona+ added a hydration mechanic that drains your stamina if you don't drink [[ScrappyMechanic and it was very poorly received]], to the point where there are mods that get rid of it. |
| 234 | * NotTheIntendedUse: |
| 235 | ** Causing an alien infestation in [[CapitalCity Palmia]] is an efficient way to get many heavy corpses for sacrificing. |
| 236 | ** The fastest way to train the pickpocket skill is by ''stealing the trees out of the forest''. They're intended to serve only as decoration, and are marked as not your property to make you unable to pick them up normally. This, and their heavy weight means they give a lot of experience when stolen, and since this is a forest there's nobody around to catch you on act anyway. |
| 237 | * NumberOfTheBeast: Forts of Chaos all have a danger level of 666. [[spoiler:It's a metaphor - the actual difficulty isn't such high, but what awaits you inside is an OptionalBoss battle.]] |
| 238 | * ObviousRulePatch: |
| 239 | ** Eating gives you stat bonuses. Eating cursed food makes you vomit, but gives you stat bonuses anyway. Combine the two and you can eat as much as you want. This was later patched so eating too much cursed food may give you anorexia, making you vomit everything you eat until cured or until you die of starvation. |
| 240 | ** The usual death penalty does not apply if you die during a quest. Many players abused this to get rid of nastier status effects such as the aforementioned anorexia, until version 1.22 added a stat penalty for dying during a quest. |
| 241 | * ObviouslyEvil - The mad bomber in Derphy would give the [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Demoman]] chills, and she constantly cackles about blowing random people up. And just wait until you complete her quest! The response is...way out there. |
| 242 | * OneStatToRuleThemAll: Speed is just about the most valuable stat in game allowing you to complete actions faster and time is everything. |
| 243 | * TheOphelia: Some of Gwen The Innocent's quotes imply this, such as "A crown of flowers did his mother weave with all her heart...♪" and "Red is the color of love, of blood, and of roses♪" |
| 244 | ** Mia of Palmia is the ''cutest'' CrazyCatLady. |
| 245 | ** Noel the MadBomber has a cute design. |
| 246 | * OptionalSexualEncounter: |
| 247 | ** The rogue's den Derphy has prostitutes of both genders for sale. |
| 248 | ** The player can even give alcoholic beverages to NPC's and 'sell' themselves. Not only does this earn money, but it also trains charisma, but carries the risk of an "STD" (really you going insane for a certain amount of time). |
| 249 | ** You can do this with anyone you're married to (which includes lions, cats, dogs, [[EldritchAbomination Yith, Shub-Niggurath herself,]] [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction tyrannosaurs, dragons, minotaurs]], [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels from your God/dess of choice,]] [[SexBot giant hulking machines...]]) |
| 250 | * PaletteSwap: Used commonly throughout the game to [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority mark stronger versions of common monsters]], and to indicate an item is made of a certain material. The furniture you find in the game also comes in random colors, and you can invoke this trope by using a bottle of dye. |
| 251 | * {{Permadeath}}: Added in the later versions of the game for extra roguishness. Given that Elona bosses can hit for ''massive damage'', this makes the game appreciably difficult. |
| 252 | * PermanentlyMissableContent: If you don't obtain the card and figurine of certain unique [=NPCs=] until the point they die a [[PlotlineDeath Plotline Death]], then you've lost your chance. If you ''do'' kill them for their card and figurine though, they'll eventually respawn [[GameplayAndStorySegregation so they can "officially" die this time]]. |
| 253 | * PhysicalGod: It's possible to summon one of the various Gods you worship, and even be one as a debug race. The later can be AwesomeYetImpractical since they have only four slots in exchange for [[{{Pun}} godly]] stats. There's also other, ''lesser'' (that is to say they won't as likely instantly obliterate you the moment they become visible on the screen) deities such as [[EldritchAbomination Shub Niggurath]] and the [[UsefulNotes/FlyingSpaghettiMonster Flying Spaghetti Monster]]. |
| 254 | * ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The jeweler skill is used to write scrolls. Actually making jewels requires the tailoring skill. |
| 255 | * PoisonMushroom: |
| 256 | ** Cursed items are this, having an effect that is usually counterproductive to the normal effect of that item. For example, cursed food makes you vomit, cursed potion of acidproofing corrodes the item it's used on, and a cursed scroll of escape sends you to jail. |
| 257 | ** Like most roguelikes, ''Elona'' has an [[UnknownItemIdentification Item Identification]] system and potions and scrolls of both harmful and beneficial types. That clear potion you just picked in a dungeon? It could either be a [[HealingPotion potion of major healing]] or a [[HollywoodAcid bottle of sulfuric acid]], or something entirely different. |
| 258 | * PowerupMount: Averted, as riding even a suitable animal without enough Riding skill will actually hinder your speed and fighting capability. Played straight in that with a high enough skill you can practically piggyback on the back of any of your companions. [[HugeRiderTinyMount Even a hamster.]] |
| 259 | * PressXToDie: The nuclear bomb. Detonating it results in a cutscene that shows a nuclear mushroom seen from outer space, and then back to the game field, [=NPCs=] are dying left and right, "cheerfully" saying "I hate this planet" and so on. [[RefugeInAudacity This is in a game that allows you to keep a little girl as pet, complete with leash.]] But the nuke ''does'' have its use and you can cheat the death as well as the bad karma, if you know how. |
| 260 | * PurelyAestheticGender: To the point where you can have a character on paper be its own DistaffCounterpart on-screen. Age, height, and weight also have no in-game effect. |
| 261 | * RandomEvent: Random events will happen while wandering, which range from a rich man throwing money at you, to being blessed by a wandering priest, to being robbed by bandits. |
| 262 | * RelationshipValues: |
| 263 | ** You can raise these by giving the target wedding rings and other romantic presents, or lower them by repeatedly talking to them with a low charisma, or, quite obviously, attacking them. |
| 264 | ** Your followers are somewhat different: you need to A) ensure your pet/slave/potential lover doesn't die too much, or they'll hate you, and B) keep giving engagement jewelry (rings, necklaces, etc) to them to get them to love you more and more. Their relationship values will also go up quite nicely, but not nearly as fast, by [[BodyguardCrush having them kill stuff.]] |
| 265 | * RewardFromNowhere - You get some items for kicking the tutorial NPC out of your house. However, they'll leave after a few days, and if you don't show them out, you don't get the items. |
| 266 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Putits, who look like ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'''s slimes with BlackBeadEyes. |
| 267 | * RougeAnglesOfSatin: Hilariously, in the [=OOMSESTepNC=] variant, the "cook" class is misspelled as "cock". |
| 268 | * ScratchDamage: You slash at [target] and make a scratch. |
| 269 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: You can leave a hunting mission before you’re completed, and you’ll fail the mission, but at least you’re not dead. You can also leave a farming mission early, however, you will fail the mission even if you’ve pulled enough crops. |
| 270 | * SealedEvilInACan: |
| 271 | ** [[spoiler: Zeome]] can be seen as this, requiring 3 keys before being able to confront him. |
| 272 | ** Those etherwinds that constantly plague you while traveling? [[spoiler:It's actually a countermeasure to Messera, a virus that wiped out the last civilization.]] |
| 273 | * SchizoTech: Hot tubs, machine guns, electric lamps, nuclear bombs, laser guns, genetic engineering, AI-controlled motorcycles, and more all exist within Elona's vaguely medieval setting, which features stone castles, knights in plate armor, wizards in robes, sail-powered wood ships, horses being the primary form of transport, swords and arrows of every type, and medieval/Victorian-style clothing. Cyber Dome is a settlement whose entire existence ''is'' SchizoTech, supposedly from worshiping the Machine God. Elona+ later reveals that the setting is closer to an UrbanFantasy, with high-technology being the norm in regions outside of North Tyris; Yerles have jet aircraft, Eulderna have blimps ''in addition to wizards in robes'', [[MadScientist Zanan has its own brand of scientists]], and Xeren was an [[AdvancedAncientHumans advanced civilization before it was destroyed]]. Apparently, [[DecadeDissonance North Tyris is the equivalent of a third-world country]]. |
| 274 | * ShopliftAndDie: Applies not only to shopkeepers, but to anyone who sees you trying to pick up something that isn't yours. Like a piece of garbage. The most you can do is secretly eat displayed foods, which never gets you caught. |
| 275 | * ShortRangeShotgun: Shotguns get a severe damage penalty if your target is too far away. |
| 276 | * SideQuest: You have to build up money and experience by looking at mission postings in each town, ranging from buying/stealing a specific item, playing the piano for a party, murdering creatures in the area, or transporting cargo to another town. |
| 277 | * SinisterMinister: Missionaries of Darkness, [[PlayingWithFire Red Baptists]], and [[AnIcePerson Blue Baptists]] are hostile clergymen you can find in most dungeons. |
| 278 | * TheSixStats: Four of the six stats are as normal, but (like in ''[[VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery ADOM]]'') Intelligence and Wisdom are replaced with Learning and Willpower. |
| 279 | * SkillScoresAndPerks: Skills and feats. Subverted in that some skills give you new abilities and some feats simply increase your stats. |
| 280 | * ShipwreckStart: The player character was shipwrecked and then rescued by two characters that hold good loot but are more to provide tutorial information and the starter house. |
| 281 | * ShoutOut: |
| 282 | ** Having to kill [[VideoGame/BioShock Big Daddies and rescue Little Sisters]] is a quest you can take to unlock genetic manipulation. The scientist who gives you it sounds suspiciously like Tanenbaum, without the accent. (It's a voiceless game, after all.) Alternatively, you can devour her [[PoweredByAForsakenChild phlebotinum-filled body]] for stat boosts (note: one of the only ways to increase your HP and MP besides levelling). |
| 283 | ** You can capture monsters with [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} monster balls]]. |
| 284 | ** Even more, in Elona+ the recipe for making them takes a spell for extra-dimensional storage, a box, and a nut, mirroring how Apricorns were used to make Balls in generation 2. |
| 285 | ** One of the starting class is the Manga/{{Claymore}}. |
| 286 | ** There are also [[Franchise/{{Alien}} certain lifeforms that can impregnate you and then burst out of your chest]]. The main one is, of course, called Alien. |
| 287 | ** There's a currently unimplemented card game called [[Franchise/YuGiOh Wizards]] and TableTopGame/{{Magic|TheGathering}}. |
| 288 | ** There's also [[Creator/HPLovecraft Shub Niggurath]] appearing as a rare encounter. Strangely, it's not too hostile, and will instead render you insane, then summon loads and LOADS of much more dangerous creatures like adamantium golems before teleporting away. And yes, a properly built martial artist CAN [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch it to death]] before it does either of these. (Think Franchise/FinalFantasy [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Black Belt]]). Beware of being trapped in a corner by it, however. If there's little room to maneuver it, er...kinda...tentacle rapes you, I guess.[[note]]Naturally, [[ExtremeOmnisexual you can marry it.]][[/note]] |
| 289 | ** The [[Manga/{{Akira}} Kaneda Bike]]. |
| 290 | ** As of Version 1.16, there's a high level dungeon called The Void which requires you to defeat several void masters in order to proceed further into the void. The last void master turns out to be [[spoiler: the @ symbol, a.k.a the default player character symbol used in many ASCII-based roguelikes, like ''VideoGame/NetHack'']] |
| 291 | ** The sprite for the leather hat is identical to the sprite used for the elven leather helm in the tilesets of ''VideoGame/DungeonCrawl'' and 32x32 ''[=NetHack=]''. |
| 292 | ** ''[[VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery ADOM]]'' references: |
| 293 | *** The puppy cave, which is quite similar to the one from ''ADOM'' in terms of the description given (often dying trying to take the puppy out? Mhmm.) |
| 294 | *** The SevenLeagueBoots from the same game also make an appearance and function exactly the same, quickening the rate at which you travel on the map. |
| 295 | *** The ether corruption system works similar to ADOM's chaos corruption system, sharing many of the same mutations, such as living mana battery and extra eyes. |
| 296 | *** The Stomafillia, a herb from the game, also makes an appearance in Elona, and like in ADOM, it is a lightweight highly filling food stuff. |
| 297 | *** Indeed, even Elona's stat system seems grounded on ADOM's, including replacing Intelligence and Wisdom with Learning and Will. |
| 298 | ** Odd example: On the voting board, people often submit alias when they get an appropriate title (for example: [[Franchise/TouhouProject The Drunk Suika Ibuki]], Demon King Creator/EddieMurphy, and so on.) |
| 299 | ** Noel's passive dialogue is a word for word reference to [[WesternAnimation/TheTick The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight.]] [[EvilLaugh Ahahahahaha!]] |
| 300 | ** The cat hater in Yowyn occasionally quotes [[VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay Greg the Grim Reaper]]. |
| 301 | ** Mia's CatchPhrase, [[Manga/NyoronChuruyaSan nyoroon]]. |
| 302 | ** The entire Yeek race are a reference to the book ''Little Fuzzy'' by H. Beam Piper. |
| 303 | ** There exists an Elona+ exclusive weapon called the Dragon Slayer that you can get through a high-level quest. Which is a clear reference to the manga ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''. |
| 304 | ** In Elona+ sometimes Nefia will go into a fever time, where you can gather more materials, and flames surround the in-game clock. This is a reference to a mechanic in ''[[VideoGame/OreshikaTaintedBloodlines Oreshika]]''. |
| 305 | ** Elona+ has a [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} whip weapon that deals massive damage to the undead called "Bloody Tears"]]. |
| 306 | * SlaveMarket: You can buy and sell party members in [[WretchedHive Derphy]]. [=NPCs=] defend the practice by mentioning how important it is to the economy. |
| 307 | --> Slavery is a very lucrative business. Many people claim it's evil, but even mighty [[CapitalCity Palmia]]'s economy would disintegrate if they didn't have any slaves to work their fields. |
| 308 | * SomethingWeForgot: If you attempt to leave a hunting mission before every monster is dead, you get a different message. Important due to the occasional presence of invisible monsters. |
| 309 | * SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Averted. Random encounters on the world map will scale according to your distance from the nearest town and fame, which is a sort of measure of your heroic deeds (or lack thereof). Dungeons such as the pre-generated level 666 castle can be found on the road between two cities. Randomly generated dungeons of varying difficulty can also spawn next to your starting location. |
| 310 | * SortingAlgorithmOfWeaponEffectiveness: Played more or less straight. However, it is possible (albeit very unlikely) to find an InfinityPlusOneSword early on thanks to the RNG that drives the game. |
| 311 | * StatGrinding: Some skills are passive and pretty much only there to make increasing your stats easier. |
| 312 | * StatusEffects: Poison, confusion, stunning, sleep, paralysis, regeneration, slowness, bleeding, silence, weakness, vulnerablity, blindness, and speed, along with some more unconventional ones. |
| 313 | * SwordAndGun: Thanks to the way Elona handles equipment, this is usually taken to the next step, namely Sword and Shield and Gun. If you're a mutant, you'll probably find yourself equipped with a Sword and Shield and Axe and Spear and Sword and Gun and... |
| 314 | * TalkingIsAFreeAction: Averted. Insult is a special action. |
| 315 | * ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler:Zeome the false prophet]], the FinalBoss of the Main Quest (Or in Elona+, [[DiscOneFinalBoss Act 1]].) will yell out "Impossible!" as you defeat him. |
| 316 | * ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: |
| 317 | ** The Performance Quests will be largely this for the otherwise mostly incapable Pianist class, which is the only class that can perform those quests reasonably well without tons of grinding. |
| 318 | ** The "Rain of Sanity" ability looks fairly useless on paper as sanity usually recovers rather quickly and sources of insanity are rare (and usually self-inflicted) early on. That is, until you reach the late game with lots of Yiths and Shub-Nigguraths that love to spam their "Eye of Insanity" ability. |
| 319 | * TimeStandsStill: Time Stop ammunition and certain artifact properties can stop time for a few turns, allowing you to run away or inflict damage however you please without fear of retaliation. |
| 320 | * TraumaInn: Sleeping will restore all your HP and MP, in addition to providing random, mostly positive effects from dreams. |
| 321 | * {{Tsundere}}: The Healing goddess, Jure of the healing, doesn't want to help you. [[BlatantLies Really, she doesn't! Stupid!]] |
| 322 | --> [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial "I-I'm not falling l-love with you! D-don't you never ever leave me...okay? You stupid...!"]] |
| 323 | * {{Ubermensch}}: Juere flavor text describes them like this. "The Juere are a people wild and free. Scorning the "weaker" laws of others, they quickly learn the tricks and technologies of others before ever moving onwards." |
| 324 | * UnidentifiedItems: Similar to ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'', scholars in towns can identify items for you. You also identify equipment automatically over time if you're carrying it; that process is sped up by the "Sense Quality" skill. |
| 325 | * UngratefulBastard: Remember the two characters that saved you during the shipwreck? Many players opt to nuke them in return. Or at least kick them out. |
| 326 | * UnstableEquilibrium: If your karma goes too far into the negative, you are marked as a criminal, and guards will go after you in town. The easiest way to get your karma back up is death or from doing missions... which are in town. |
| 327 | * VancianMagic: Elona has this and combines it with a ManaMeter. Reading from a spell book grants you spell charges. To cast a spell, you need to consume some spell charges, some mana, and pass a casting skill check. Once a spell runs out of charges, you cannot cast it until you read its spellbook again or gain spell stocks from other sources. |
| 328 | * VideoGameCaringPotential: Some people get very attached to their Little Girl. |
| 329 | * VideoGameCrueltyPotential: |
| 330 | ** The game doesn't limit what kind of creatures you can raise on a ranch, as long as it's living, so you can raise humans, including little girls, on a ranch and slaughter them for their meat. |
| 331 | ** There's no karma penalty for killing unnamed {{Non Player Character}}s. Furthermore, [[WouldHurtAChild most unnamed [=NPCs=] are children]]. So feel free to [[DisproportionateRetribution throw a grenade at the kids in Noyel for throwing snowballs at you]]. |
| 332 | ** Then there's the sandbag item, which lets you pin an NPC to it and attack it endlessly without it dying. It doesn't even give experience, so the only point is sadistic torture. |
| 333 | * ViolationOfCommonSense: There's an item called "Secret treasure of saint" which increases your maximum Karma by 20 (giving you higher tax breaks). How do you get it? [[spoiler:[[VideogameCrueltyPotential By murdering Gwen the Innocent]]. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Multiple times]], since it's a rare drop. There's not even a Karma penalty for doing this]]. |
| 334 | * WakeUpCallBoss: |
| 335 | ** Many many pianists have had their careers ended early by performing in front of Loyter. |
| 336 | ** On a more general note, Goda the Orc Captain is more than capable of slaughtering players lower then level 5 unless they're extremely well-geared. It doesn't help that he spawns at random. Thankfully, he'll stop spawning once you managed to beat him once...if you can. Even later in the game, he'll occasionally show up as an adversary in the higher tiers of the pet arena, and he's one tough customer, slaying untrained dragons like they're cannon fodder, ''and destroying tanks with nothing but his axe''. |
| 337 | ** The floor that Issizzle the Dark Abomination inhabits in the Crypt of the Damned [[SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity has many layers of rooms with locked doors and beds all on one side of the area]]. An inexperienced player might think this area is a perfect place to hide from the boss and recover HP. Until they find out the hard way that unlike most enemies encountered up to this point, Issizzle [[ArtificialBrilliance knows exactly where you are]] and is more than willing to bust down walls to get to you. |
| 338 | * WastefulWishing: There are many pointless things you can type into the wishing textbox: |
| 339 | ** "Death" instantly kills you. |
| 340 | ** "Name" lets you change your name, something that you can already do for free anytime by pressing 'i' and then '5'. The being granting your wish even laughs at you if you wish for this. |
| 341 | ** "Sex" [[GenderBender gives you an instant sex change]], which [[PurelyAestheticGender has no effect on anything]]. |
| 342 | ** "Beauty" just displays the text "A typical wish..." and does nothing else. |
| 343 | * WelcomeToCorneria: Averted. Every random NPC picks a line from one of several pools of possible text each time you talk to them. While the combined pool is rather large, it never changes throughout the course of the game. Major NPC's and your God/Goddess-given companions play this trope straight, though. Also note you can edit them and add to them. So have a ball, and share your [[HilarityEnsues rapier witticisms]] with all your friends! The Elona community backs and supports [[http://drop.io drop.io]], for those who need a place to put their creations. The Japanese tend to use Japan's DA, Pixiv, however. |
| 344 | * WhatTheHellPlayer |
| 345 | ** There's a very slim chance that upon drinking from a fountain, you can get a wish. The game allows you to type something that you want to wish for. Try typing "Death", and you'll get your wish. |
| 346 | ** In your character window, you have a stat called "sanity". It represents how crazy you've gone, and you can increase it by eating human flesh. (Unless you have a mutation that says you are okay with eating human flesh). |
| 347 | * WhereItAllBegan: [[spoiler:Lesimas, the NoobCave, turns out to be TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon.]] |
| 348 | * WretchedHive: Derphy. The beginner's guide describes it as such, verbatim. Even the inhabitants describe it as such. |
| 349 | * YetAnotherStupidDeath: Death is an inevitable thing, but there are some particularly bizarre ways to die in this game. |
| 350 | ** Being pelted to death by the audience when your performing skills are less than good |
| 351 | ** Choking on mochi |
| 352 | ** Using the tight rope |
| 353 | ** Overcasting spells |
| 354 | ** Falling down the stairs |
| 355 | ** Breaking your back due to the weight of your inventory |
| 356 | ** Targeting yourself with damaging special actions |
| 357 | ** Summoning monsters due to cursed equipment |
| 358 | ** Reading difficult spellbooks and having them drain all your mana twice in a row, causing almost guaranteed instant death by overcasting. |
| 359 | * YouCantGetYeFlask: If you have the fortune of [[MakeAWish being granted a wish]], be careful, because the text parser might accidentally read part of your wish, ignore the rest, and give you a completely different thing from what you wanted. |
| 360 | * YouHaveResearchedBreathing: You can ''pick up'' gold easily, but ''removing'' it from your wallet is much more difficult and requires the use of a Kitty Bank, an uncommon item. Death can cost a significant chunk of your gold, so being forced to haul your fortune everywhere can cause some problems. |
| 361 | * YourMindMakesItReal: All dreams your character has while sleeping will have some effect on them in the waking world. |
| 362 | |
| 363 | ---- |
| 364 | |
| 365 | !!The expansion Elona+ provides examples of: |
| 366 | * AdaptationExpansion: Elona+ finishes the last of Noa's projects in Elona. Including: |
| 367 | ** Two new plotlines, each as long as the main game's. |
| 368 | ** Finishing hundreds of items and NPC's, adding a new crafting system, a new character point system, and greatly rebalancing the game. |
| 369 | ** Every God can be summoned and interacted with, now, as opposed to the half-coded Gods (minus Ehekatl) in the original game. Yes, you can fight them to the death. [[spoiler:And fight the God ''they'' spawn on death, too.]] |
| 370 | * AdvancedAncientHumans: The civilization that Ultima of the base game destroyed was apparently one of the most advanced races on the face of Irva, with late game monsters being the mechanical remains of their civilization such as [[RagnarokProof satellites and tanks]]. They're something of the precursors to Yerles, who have repurposed much of their technology to suit their own needs. |
| 371 | * ArmorPiercingAttack: Lightsabres have low damage, but have 100% armor pierce. |
| 372 | * AsianFoxSpirit: The fox brother, one of his evolution paths allows him to become a nine-tailed fox brother. |
| 373 | * AwesomeYetImpractical: The divine weapons, which are wielded by the Gods themselves and have to be taken from their cold, dead hands (and if you kill their normal form, [[TurnsRed they will rise back up for Round Two]]), have huge attributes and give awesome bonuses...and weigh about 100 times more than a regular weapon. Even by finding a way to lug around so much weight, there is still the not-so-negligible fact that they all have the "Ragnarok" property, which torches the current map and summons hordes of hostile high-level monsters. |
| 374 | * BattleButler: You'll get one of your own if you read a butler's diary. They're adept in martial arts and guns, and also good at healing. |
| 375 | * BlindIdiotTranslation: The farther you progress, the worse the translation becomes unless you know Japanese. Halfway through South Tyris, the trope reaches its limit by having quest-critical characters just spout completely unrelated text from completely different parts of the game, making progress almost impossible without the use of a guide. |
| 376 | * BoringButPractical: The Pot for Fusion recipes. They require you get a few non-combat skills leveled up a bit, but get a pot early on and you can make as much money as you want by just gathering garbage in the wilderness and turning it into profitable items to sell. |
| 377 | * BraggingRightsReward: God weapons, recieved by killing the Gods summoned by a Wish and then their OneWingedAngel form, are extremely powerful...but they also have the really nasty Ragnarok effect, making them extremely impractical and basically exist just so you have proof that you killed one the toughest enemies in the game. |
| 378 | * CooldownHug: The Squeeze skill slightly heals your companion and snapping them out of Berserker and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Brainwash]] statuses. |
| 379 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: There are certain named [=NPCs=] that, when beaten, ask to join you. Some of them are the roaming uniques from the original, like the previously mentioned Goda the orc captain. Since they spawn a new friendly version of themselves when you agree to let them join, this means you can let them take their own loot back and eat their own corpses! |
| 380 | * DiskOneNuke: The "Knowledge of Magical Plants" feat grants you the "Violent Garden" ability, which inflicts strong poison damage to every enemy you can see. At the start of the game, using it can kill almost everything in one or two uses, although it becomes less useful later on. |
| 381 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: |
| 382 | ** Zeome The False Prophet, the final boss of the base game, is now only the final boss of Act 1. Killing him, and thus finishing Lesimas, unlocks South Tyris and Act 2. |
| 383 | ** Meshera Alpha The Deformed Angel is the final boss of Act 2, and their defeat unlocks the continent of Lost Irva and Act 3. |
| 384 | * DubInducedPlotHole: The original ''Elona'' had a CatGirl NPC called "Younger Cat Sister", whose race was translated as "Catsister." This made some sense, as she was the only NPC of that kind. However, this version adds some new Catsisters who aren't actually cats or sisters, such as [[AsianFoxSpirit Fox Brother]] and [[FaunsAndSatyrs Siraha and Kuron]], which made more sense in Japanese, where their race was called "Kemobito", which translates to "LittleBitBeastly." |
| 385 | * EvolutionaryLevels: Follows a system very much inspired by Franchise/{{Pokemon}}, you can evolve your pet - or even turn it into something completely new by using extremely rare items called Evolution Hearts. |
| 386 | * GodzillaThreshold: A group of blonde-haired blue-eyed humans [[spoiler:engineered the Etherwind and gave themselves immunity, in order to eradicate Meshera from the surface of the world (as well as screw over the rest of humankind).]] |
| 387 | * GreatBow: Ballistae are extremely heavy, but otherwise function the same as any other crossbow. |
| 388 | * HotCoffeeMinigame: "Sleep Sharing" can randomly occur if you sleep while one of your partners is holding a Sleep Sheep. The goal is to get both you and your partner to reach their "limit" at the same time. Nothing explicit is shown or written, but it's still clear what you're doing. |
| 389 | * ICannotSelfTerminate: Enemies infected by Meshera: "Please... kill me..." |
| 390 | * LethalJokeItem: Elona+ adds a fourth gift from Gods: while the other three are simply received upon reaching a certain favor score and include useful pets, permanent perks and decent artifact weapons, the fourth gifts (which you have to summon the god itself to obtain) are equipment pieces which give a huge bonus to PV but give a large enough penalty to bring several attributes and skills to zero. While wearing them into actual battle is a terrible idea, with a little finesse they're useful on a strategic level. Attributes and skills that are very high gain levels slowly, but by [[PowerLimiter lowering those attributes and skills]] and setting up the right situation, you can continue to train them in a time-efficient manner. |
| 391 | * MarshmallowHell: The Squeeze skill does damage if the target isn't friendly enough to you. And yes, you CAN kill someone by smothering them this way. |
| 392 | * ObviousRulePatch: In the original ''Elona'', you could keep infinitely giving potions of cure corruption to Pael's Mom whenever you needed to fill up your karma meter. In ''Elona+'', she'll eventually recover from her Ether Disease permanently if you give her enough potions, which does give the quest a happy ending, but it also denies you the fastest source of karma. |
| 393 | * OlympusMons: Averted. Recruiting monsters of the God race will seriously gimp all their stats (mostly the HP) and set all their skill potentials to zero, making them subpar to tanks, dragons and several other new monsters. |
| 394 | * OneWingedAngel: All of the Gods that can be summoned through a Wish will spawn an EXTREMELY more powerful version of themselves when killed. For comparison, Jure is around level 350, which is already an exceedingly high level even for end-game, and has around 1200 on each stat. Blessed Jure, the more powerful version, is around Level ''1200'', with each stat at a flat 2000. |
| 395 | * PurelyAestheticGender: On you, it has just as little bearing in the base game, but averted with pet evolution. Certain pets evolve into different forms depending on gender. |
| 396 | * TankGoodness: Xeren Electric Tanks will gladly electrocute you while charging at you with blazing speeds, but make one of the better mounts if you can manage to obtain one. |
| 397 | * TookALevelInBadass: |
| 398 | ** The sweet, little girl named Gwen the innocent that follows you around in Yowyn? After completing the North Tyris main quest, she becomes Gwen the '''pitiless''', giving her jacked-up stats and superb resistance to all elements except Magic, and each time you kill her, she gains a level when she respawns. You can fight her as an Optional or, with the Astral Light Pen, recruit her to your side. |
| 399 | ** The Pet Evolution system lets most of your allies become this, gaining insane stats and abilities. The MascotMook Little Girl in particular can get two: a [[MagicalGirl White]] [[CuteWitch Witch]], and a [[CuteBruiser Valkyrie]]. |
| 400 | ** The moment one triggers the South Tyris expansion. The game immediately opens up a new method of training your character with CharacterPoints called AP to allow you to deal with the difficulty spike South Tyris brings. Shadow step, and [[SwordBeam shining wave]] make this doubly true for melee characters. |
| 401 | * TransformationTrinket: Shift Cores (only obtainable by wishing) grant you a major stat buff, let you fill up your gauge to 200%, and temporarily change your appearance. |
| 402 | * UrineTrouble: The "Marking" ability infuriates an enemy and reduces your hydration level. You can also pick up your own piss as an inventory item. |
| 403 | * WeaponizedCar: Give any vehicle a ranged weapon, and it will assist you as you fight. You can do this with motorbikes, combat planes, tanks and much more. Those same vehicles can simply melee the enemies to death. Presumably this means they are running them over. |
| 404 | * WombLevel: The final level of Rehmido, the Meshera lair, is covered in flesh and veins. |
| 405 | [[/folder]] |
| 406 | |
| 407 | [[folder:Elona Shooter]] |
| 408 | * ActionBomb: You can bribe your little sisters into suicide bombing. Somehow, they are resurrected at the end of every day, but you still only have to buy the upgrade once. |
| 409 | * AirborneMook: There's quite a few varieties. You have dragonflies, birds, rat-dropping pteranodons, and dragons. |
| 410 | * ArmorPiercingAttack |
| 411 | * AttackItsWeakPoint: A key mechanic in the game. Hitting an enemy's weak point deals double damage. Scoring 7 criticals will make your character go into a frenzy (called "Rampage" in this game), increasing damage, firing rate, and reload speed for a short time. Additionally, Sense gives the user a chance to inflict a critical hit even if the user doesn't strike the target's weak point. |
| 412 | * {{BFG}}: Grenade Launchers, Rocket Launchers, Heavy Machine Guns. Averted with the devastating Gravity Gun, which looks like a FN P90 sub-machine gun. |
| 413 | * CriticalHit: Attacking the creature's weak point result in this. Also, with a certain skill, the character has a chance to kill a creature outright without hitting its weak point. |
| 414 | * EnergyWeapon: The "Ether", shot by dragons. This is one of the most devastating attacks. |
| 415 | * ExperiencePoints: Comes in 2 varieties. Character xp is needed for leveling up and pick new skills. As a character kills with a certain weapon type, they gain weapon xp for it. |
| 416 | * HeroicComedicSociopath: When in town, one of the possible actions is to Rob the Museum (you actually kill people visiting the town museum) for money. Why the visitors keep flocking to the museum the next day is anyone's guess. |
| 417 | * HoldTheLine: See ProtectionMission. Also the characters stand in a line in front of the castle. |
| 418 | * OneHitPolykill: A few. |
| 419 | ** The big guns (Grenade Launchers, Rocket Launchers and Gravity Guns) are this, naturally. However, you'll until you find any of them, you're stuck with a Cheap Worn HMG. |
| 420 | ** The Bows and Crossbows, are also capable of this, thank to their piercing shots. The pierce count can be upgraded to up to 10 pierces. Additionally, large enemies (generally the aerial and heavily armored ones) are large enough to be hit multiple times with one bolt. |
| 421 | * MagikarpPower: Classes that [[CripplingOverspecialization specialize]] in big guns. Getting one of the powerful big guns can take a while, and until then, you might just be stuck with a cheap worn HMG. |
| 422 | * MasterOfAll: The noble class can use all weapons. |
| 423 | * MoreDakka: Rapid bowguns embody this trope. |
| 424 | * PoisonMushroom: Just like in the original game, using the Ragnarok spawns a massive horde of dragons that will quickly lay waste to your castle. You can kill the dragons before that happens and earn a medal for doing so. |
| 425 | * ProtectionMission: The entire game is about protecting the castle from an onslaught of enemies. |
| 426 | * RandomDrop: Killed enemies drop junks, bosses drop weapon or mods, the shop inventory is also randomized. |
| 427 | * RandomEvent: Searching the town. |
| 428 | * RandomNumberGod: Get just the right sequence of cool weapon with multiple mod slots, awesome mods and wicked drops, you're basically invincible for many, many levels. Get unlucky with weapons and mods, you're [=SoL=] and will be lucky to get past level 10. |
| 429 | * RareRandomDrop: Various items are virtually impossible to gain from killed bosses, and has to be acquired by "refreshing" the item shop. Among them are: Leech mod level 3, 6-slot or even 5-slot weapons. |
| 430 | * SaveScumming: To get decent teammates and gear, expect to do this a lot. Later versions add several measures to prevent this, such as preventing certain rare but desirable events from happening if the same save file is loaded multiple times too quickly. |
| 431 | * ScratchDamage: Mosquitos can be hard to hit and do 1 damage to the wall. |
| 432 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Averted. There’s no leaving the mysterious town you’re in. In fact, one of the obtainable titles is King. |
| 433 | * SingleUseShield: Holy Grail of Jure. |
| 434 | * ShortRangeShotgun |
| 435 | * ShotgunsAreJustBetter: With multiple pellets per shot, shotguns work very well both for dealing damage and pushing back enemies (achievable with Impact weapon mod, or using the Sheriff character). |
| 436 | * ShoutOut: To Elona itself. Upon getting a critical kill, messages that fly by showing how close you are to a rampage nod to Elona’s characters and goddesses. |
| 437 | * SocketedEquipment: Each weapon has from 1 to 6 slots. Various "weapon mods" of 3 quality levels can be inserted into these slots to improve the weapon's effectiveness (Damage, Fire Rate, Ammo Capacity, Reload Speed, Accuracy, etc). |
| 438 | * SuspendSave: In hardcore mode, this is your only method of saving. Your save is deleted as soon as the next day starts. |
| 439 | * TalkingIsaFreeAction: Averted. Taunting and praying take 2AP. |
| 440 | * UnlockableContent: All the achievements will give you some kind of bonus. Achievements that require you to get a class to level 10 will let you unlock the second page of classes. |
| 441 | * UnwinnableByDesign: As enemies get stronger after each day, if the player fails to upgrade the appropriate skills and/or get stronger weapons, the game will get to this state. |
| 442 | [[/folder]] |
| 443 | |
| 444 | Scut! |
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