-> .memoria is this adventure game you play without reading the manual
-> and you black out for the first 20 minutes
-> and then start playing with a broken controller
-> and you're a bit wasted
-> but it's like the best game ever so you just have to keep playing!
--> Forum member Godbot, describing .Memoria rather accurately.

''.Memoria'' is a dead [[InteractiveComic MSPA Forum Adventure]] (a comic unrelated to ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'' but maintaining the same "faux adventure game" format, hosted on the ''MS Paint Adventures'' forums), written and drawn by forums user Engineclock. Stare in helpless fascination as a [[ArmlessBiped marvelous, mysterious biped]] with [[EasyAmnesia hollywood amnesia]] traipses about and causes a scene.

Of course, there's more to it than that.

Aforementioned biped Nyroti finds himself entrapped in an escalating conflict centering around something known as "The Lock". He proceeds to have run-ins with psychotic robots, horrible monsters, and, most importantly, hats.

Well-known for its unique narrative style, its excellent visuals, and its [[MindScrew slightly confusing plot]]. Its forum thread and discussion box can be found [[http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?28371-.Memoria here]], and an MSPA-styled mirror can be found [[http://mspfanventures.com/?s=67 here]]. Unfortunately all pictures have been removed from their host Photobucket account.

Note that there are many unmarked spoilers on this page. Read the adventure first.

[[Characters/{{DotMemoria}} Has a characters page.]]

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!!Tropes exemplified in .Memoria

%%* AlienGeometries: The Far Periphery certainly qualifies.
* ArtShift: For several updates, the art style shifted to all-pencil, as well as watercolor. This had more to do with the author's tablet breaking than anything else.
%%* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Most notably, Nyroti.
%%--> There are two structures immediately visible to you. One looks like it might be a ridiculously large series of aqueducts; the other is a group of tall OH MY GOD IS THAT THE SUN

%%-->You love the sun. It is the shiniest thing of all.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Nyroti encounters a particularly large worm creature at one point. It isn't friendly.
%%* BuffySpeak: Nyroti does this all the time.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Nathaniel, after being revived by Roderick, isn't quite the same as he was. Partially because of possession by a ghost.]]
* ColorCodedCharacters: Caliginosity is black and blue, Effulgence is white and red. Remember that, kids.
* CrapsackWorld: Certainly. The world is being torn apart by the conflict, huge monsters roam the lands, etc.
%%* CrypticConversation: Any conversation with the Equalizers will inevitably turn into this.
%%** Nevermind the Equalizers, practically every conversation with anyone is this. You can number the ones that aren't on your fingers.
%%* CurbStompBattle: Done by Nyroti to a Lock monster near the beginning of the story.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The main character has an affinity for dark, which is no worse than light.
%%* DeathWorld: Hints of this, at least.
* EldritchAbomination: They seem to be a staple of Caliginosity. There are hints of this in the "real" world as well.
%%* EldritchLocation: See AlienGeometries above.
* ExtraEyes: Nyroti progressively gains more and more of these all over his body as the story progresses. Quite a few of the story's characters have an unreasonably large number of eyes, as well. By the same token...
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Nyroti gains a multitude of eyes running down his back and down his legs. He's not a big fan of them.
* {{Flashback}}: Nyroti has these occasionally, but they don't make a whole lot of sense (yet).
* GreyAndGrayMorality: There's honestly no telling which side of the conflict is "good" or "bad". The Equalizers know, but they're certainly not telling.
* HelloInsertNameHere: Happens twice early on, given the nature of the format. Nyroti's name is made up of parts of three suggestions, and Nathaniel was named shortly after.
%%* HeroicBSOD: Nyroti has one of these after S.A.D.I.E. rips his heart out. He gets better, though.
* JustBeforeTheEnd: It's implied that the world is nearing its destruction. Afterparty seems to be one of the last cities.
* LightIsNotGood: By the same token as DarkIsNotEvil, beings of light are not any better than those of dark, and are more often than not painted in a negative light.
* MadnessMantra: Bellcat in the regular world. Nyroti also delves into this at times.
-->stop stop stop stop let us go let go let go stop stop let go let go
* MalevolentArchitecture: The ?? building certainly qualifies, considering that [[spoiler: it's controlled by (or rather, is) S.A.D.I.E.]]
%%* MindScrew: The plot can quite unclear at times.
%%* MoodWhiplash: Immediately after [[http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?28371-.Memoria&p=4660431&viewfull=1#post4660431 this]] TearJerker (spoilers), forum member Anomaly begins his incredibly silly [[http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?28371-.Memoria&p=4681707&viewfull=1#post4681707 intermission]].
%%* TheChosenOne: Nyroti seems to be this, but he's really not very good at it.
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