Mudy Quest - Television Tropes & Idioms

An imageboard-based RPG styled as a text adventure, similar in style and pace to the game to start the genre, Ruby Quest, created and run by a man who goes by the name "Reaver."

It begins with a kobold named Mudy awakening within a small box. He is teleported to a world of fantasy, and promptly sets out to claim a kingdom as his own. It only gets better from there.

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This game provides examples of:

A Date with Rosie Palms - At one point Raital walks in on Mudy rubbing his nose, the kobold equivalent of this trope.
And Then John Was a Zombie - Ivar and Rune, a pair of paladins who were forced into servitude under Calavera upon losing a battle of wits.
Anyone Can Die - Sometimes, averted. Other times, not so much.
Artifact of Doom - Darkbeing.
Art Evolution - And◊ HOW!◊
Author Appeal - Given this and his other quests, it's pretty clear Reaver has some sort of...interest in incest. So if you're expecting a Mudy isn't Latral plot twist, you're going to be disappointed.
Badass Normal - Mudy has no powers with the exception of the sword in his body and relies solely on his own charisma and his allies to forge through problems.
Back from the Dead - Calavera, but then again, he is a Lich, and it wasn't even certain that Swordplague cut the soul up properly.
BFS - Mudy carries one that's bigger than himself, inside his own body.
Big Screwed-Up Family and Royally Screwed Up - The Blutjaegers spent all their childhoods in an ancient abandoned citadel, training to become powerful warriors and destroyers, with a loveless hellspawn as a mother and no father of any kind. Even those of them that did not grow up to become depraved and psychotic monsters share some rather odd personality quirks.
Brother-Sister Incest - Mudy and Raital? Siblings. When do we find out? The very night Mudy "becomes a man".
Calling the Old Man Out - "I am not you. And for that I am forever thankful. I would rather be weak than exist in a world where your corruption rules."
Crowning Moment of Awesome - "Let's do something amazing."
Crowning Moment of Funny - "Did zat girl just give birth?"
Crowning Moment of Heartwarming - Mudy and Raital's love confession.
- Mudy finds out his mother is the Ultimate Evil, tells his allies. Nobody cares.
Cuteness Proximity - Mudy, once he witnesses the transformation of his big sister Kuhral. Complete with a Shout Out to XKCD.
Development Hell
Dropped a Bridget on Him - Prince Silvermoone.
Fanservice - Ample amounts, particularly regarding Darkmoon Dagger.
Fan Disservice - Cheryl the sandworm and Axebeard during the hot springs episode deserve special mention.
Fetish Fuel - "Well.. i-if I remember correctly.. I was making you drink my blood.. That's a way to have me inside of you..."
- Also, Raital and Mudy having sex. She's half-kobold, he's full kobold, meaning he's much smaller than she is. Also, she and her family have a tendency to get nosebleeds whenever aroused. And she's his sister. You see where this is going? The morning after they first have sex, there's enough blood on the bed to cover Mudy in a crust.
Getting Crap Past the Radar - The Oracle sculpture "looks kind of familiar" in several different ways...
Heroic BSOD - "Mudy has succumbed to illnes: LOVE. LOVE has escalated into DESPAIR."
Long Lost Relative - "I am Latral."
High Octane Nightmare Fuel - Chapter 22.5 (spoilers)
Hot Springs Episode - Also contains a minor Shout Out to Ruby Quest. And sibling sex.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain - Lucinus the Serpent King
Kavorka Man - Mudy has a way of inadvertently seducing/arousing almost all of the females he encounters, often accidentally.
Kissing Under the Influence - A mind-controlling slave collar made forced Mudy to kiss a Blutjaeger.
Mayfly December Romance - Darkmoon? 922 years old. Totenkopf? Eleven.
Merged Reality - At one point just as things seem truly fucked, a fey sends Mudy into the past to foil the assassination that set the series of perilous events in motion. It works.
Moment Killer - Hans and Gunther, several times. Their physical appearance does not help.
Names to Run Away From Really Fast - "Blutjaeger" translates to "Bloodhunter".
No Periods, Period - Averted with Darkmoon, for comic relief.
Nose Bleed - All of the Blutjaegers, to the point of a running gag. And a plot device. Not Taikah yet, though.
Only Sane Man - Bladetree.
One-Man Army - Stormplague the bounty hunter. Several Blutjaegers would seem to count as well.
Panty Shot - Mudy
Quirky Miniboss Squad - The Blutjaegers.
Rebellious Princess - Raital.
Royals Who Actually Do Something - The Blutjaegers, princes and princesses all, are quite active.
Running Gag: "He also feels a hand going up his leg."
Shout Out - The Ruby Quest one in the Hot Springs Episode. There's also a character that bears a suspicious resemblance to the lead of Weaver's Dive Quest.
Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace
Tear Jerker: Mudy's reaction to Ivar and Rune unceremoniously turning into dust after asking for their souls back.
Mudy: "Wait! Wait.. I.. I take it back...You're not free..."
- Not to mention Cheryl leaving the party.
Those Two Bad Guys - Hans and Gunther. They also like apples.
Too Good to Last - After an attempt at a restart, Reaver got bored and put the whole thing on indefinite hiatus.
Tsundere - Raital.
Wholesome Crossdresser - Mudy, after his makeover in Firewater.
- Not to mention that he's wearing panties for the majority of the quest.
- Prince Silvermoone as well.
Yandere - Also Raital.

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