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* FateWorseThanDeath: A post-game side mission [[spoiler: gives the Slayer a telepathic connection with several people who were killed in the crush when the Beat hit the Main Stage at SoLA. These people have ended up trapped in what's left of their bodies, which is little more than a chunky red smear across the venue's floor. Fortunately, the Slayer is able to perform a mercy kill by destroying a Clotter that's using the shredded flesh as a body.]]
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* FateWorseThanDeath: A post-game side mission [[spoiler: gives the Slayer a telepathic connection with several people who were killed in the crush when the Beat hit the Main Stage at SoLA.[=SoLA=]. These people have ended up trapped in what's left of their bodies, which is little more than a chunky red smear across the venue's floor. Fortunately, the Slayer is able to perform a mercy kill by destroying a Clotter that's using the shredded flesh as a body.]]
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* CombatTentacles: A singular variant. The new Apex Variant introduced is the Whipper who are zombies that mutilated themselves enough that they can use their intestines as ranged melee weapons, the first one the Slayer encounters is an independent musician outside Grace's home whom they have a Western-style face-off with before the fight proper starts. Even worse, Whippers can cause the Muffled status effect that prevents you from using your Fury Mode as long as they are around.
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* BottomlessPits: "The Deeper" is the second gauntlet within Haus. It vaguely resembles a bizarre night club rave house basement minus anything to actually rave to. It's got concrete walls, panels of bright lights against dark shadow, piles of televisions, loads of beer bottles, and above all else, bottomless pits that kill you (or zombies) instantly. All the Slayers have various BondOneLiners for kicking zombies into the pits.
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* BottomlessPits: "The Deeper" is the second gauntlet within Haus. It vaguely resembles a bizarre night club nightclub rave house basement minus anything to actually rave to. It's got concrete walls, panels of bright lights against dark shadow, piles of televisions, loads of beer bottles, and above all else, bottomless pits that kill you (or zombies) instantly. All the Slayers have various BondOneLiners for kicking zombies into the pits.
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* BrownNote: The "Beat" that turned over thirty thousand people at the Sola Festival into the undead through special speakers placed by the Festival's management. [[spoiler: Thanks to Cadenza and the Player Character assembling the audio samples the PC finds, the Beat comes very close to doing this to the entire human race before they correct their mistake. Even then it's acknowledged by all the characters that the Beat is still out there and just contained]].
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* BrownNote: The "Beat" that turned over thirty thousand people at the Sola SOLA Festival into the undead through special speakers placed by the Festival's management. [[spoiler: Thanks to Cadenza and the Player Character assembling the audio samples the PC finds, the Beat comes very close to doing this to the entire human race before they correct their mistake. Even then it's acknowledged by all the characters that the Beat is still out there and just contained]].
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* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: The Beat is the first true example of this in the Dead Island franchise. It's some sort of entity that can active the Autophage in humans through sound alone (and is all but implied to either have created the Autophage in the first place or at least takes advantage of it) when helped by technology means and if brought into the world by itself would zombify the entire planet almost instantly. It's not even defeated by the end of the DLC, just having the metaphorical door slammed in its face by killing it's avatar the Dirge. While the game had inklings of CosmicHorrorStory trappings before, the Beat tips the entire franchise into the trope.]]
* EldritchLocation: The land around Grace's home is host to a ThinDimensionalBarrier (he reason why Grace moved there in the first place was to study it) that allows easier access to and manipulation of [[LifeForce orgone energy]] which the promoters of the Festival take advantage of zombify over thirty thousand people using the Mood Speakers. [[spoiler: It also makes it an ideal spot to bring the Beat through and zombify the whole planet, as the Slayer and Cadenza almost accidentally do]].
* EldritchLocation: The land around Grace's home is host to a ThinDimensionalBarrier (he reason why Grace moved there in the first place was to study it) that allows easier access to and manipulation of [[LifeForce orgone energy]] which the promoters of the Festival take advantage of zombify over thirty thousand people using the Mood Speakers. [[spoiler: It also makes it an ideal spot to bring the Beat through and zombify the whole planet, as the Slayer and Cadenza almost accidentally do]].
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Grace Park, the only surviving person in SOLA, wasn't always a ConspiracyTheorist as she worked in a large engineering firm before becoming disillusioned with how little impact she was having on the world, not to mention the utter soulless-ness of the corporate world. And ''then'' the SOLA festival literally appeared around her and no one heeded her warnings. By the end of the DLC, [[spoiler: she's become a Numen, helped save the world from the Beat and is more optimistic despite the Zompocalypse still going on because she knows she's not alone anymore]].
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: The Beat is the first true example of this in the Dead Island franchise. It's some sort of entity that can active the Autophage in humans through sound alone (and is all but implied to either have created the Autophage in the first place or at least takes advantage of it) when helped by technology means and if brought into the world by itself would zombify the entire planet almost instantly. It's not even defeated by the end of the DLC, just having the metaphorical door slammed in its face by killingit's its avatar the Dirge. While the game had inklings of CosmicHorrorStory trappings before, the Beat tips the entire franchise into the trope.]]
* EldritchLocation: The land around Grace's home is host to a ThinDimensionalBarrier(he (the main reason why Grace moved there in the first place was to study it) that allows easier access to and manipulation of [[LifeForce orgone energy]] which the promoters of the Festival take advantage of zombify over thirty thousand people using the Mood Speakers. [[spoiler: It also makes it an ideal spot to bring the Beat through and zombify the whole planet, as the Slayer and Cadenza almost accidentally do]].
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: The Beat is the first true example of this in the Dead Island franchise. It's some sort of entity that can active the Autophage in humans through sound alone (and is all but implied to either have created the Autophage in the first place or at least takes advantage of it) when helped by technology means and if brought into the world by itself would zombify the entire planet almost instantly. It's not even defeated by the end of the DLC, just having the metaphorical door slammed in its face by killing
* EldritchLocation: The land around Grace's home is host to a ThinDimensionalBarrier
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* HiveMind: Explored further than in the main game with the main quest and several side quests, the Autophage hivemind even getting an avatar of sorts in the Dirge that can't be defeated by the Slayer at first. [[spoiler: The Numen hive mind in particular is key to defeating the Dirge and stopping the beat as Grace accepting the help of past Numen (and possibly ''future'' Numen she theorizes) allows her to break Cadenza out of her Beat-driven psychosis and help the Slayer in the final battle.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: The Sola Festival is supposedly about being eco-friendly and sustainability as well promoting good life-balance and mental health, but just from a glance at the excess amounts of trash in the receptacles, the blatant merchandising and wanton disregard for the actual environment (see the red sands used in the Utopia area which is actually beads of plastic that can melt from high heat and they used in ''Southern California'' to boot,) it actually makes more sense from the lore you can recover that the whole event was built to capitalize on the EldritchLocation around Grace's home that allowed the Speakers to zombify thousands of people at once for whatever reason it still makes more sense than the false message the festival was promoting. Considering it's an obvious dig at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival Fyre Festival]] in RealLife, that's to be expected. For a good example, a email states the floating turbines that are supposedly supplying green power to the festival are actually fake with the turbines being spun using power from the grid below.
* {{Hypocrite}}: The Sola Festival is supposedly about being eco-friendly and sustainability as well promoting good life-balance and mental health, but just from a glance at the excess amounts of trash in the receptacles, the blatant merchandising and wanton disregard for the actual environment (see the red sands used in the Utopia area which is actually beads of plastic that can melt from high heat and they used in ''Southern California'' to boot,) it actually makes more sense from the lore you can recover that the whole event was built to capitalize on the EldritchLocation around Grace's home that allowed the Speakers to zombify thousands of people at once for whatever reason it still makes more sense than the false message the festival was promoting. Considering it's an obvious dig at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival Fyre Festival]] in RealLife, that's to be expected. For a good example, a email states the floating turbines that are supposedly supplying green power to the festival are actually fake with the turbines being spun using power from the grid below.
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* HiveMind: Explored further than in the main game with the main quest and several side quests, the Autophage hivemind even getting gets an avatar of sorts in the Dirge that can't be defeated by the Slayer at first. [[spoiler: The Numen hive mind in particular is key to defeating the Dirge and stopping the beat as Grace accepting the help of past Numen (and possibly ''future'' Numen she theorizes) allows her to break Cadenza out of her Beat-driven psychosis and help the Slayer in the final battle.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: The Sola Festival is supposedly about being eco-friendly andsustainability sustainable as well as promoting good life-balance life balance and mental health, but just from a glance at the excess amounts of trash in the receptacles, the blatant merchandising and wanton disregard for the actual environment (see the red sands used in the Utopia area which is actually beads of plastic that can melt from high heat and they used them in ''Southern California'' to boot,) it actually makes more sense from the lore you can recover that the whole event was built to capitalize on the EldritchLocation around Grace's home that allowed the Speakers to zombify thousands of people at once for whatever reason it still makes more sense Grace's than the false message the festival was promoting. Considering it's an obvious dig at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival Fyre Festival]] in from RealLife, that's to be expected. For a good example, a an email states the floating turbines that are supposedly supplying green power to the festival are actually fake with the turbines being spun using power from the grid below. below.
* LovecraftLite: Ho boy. [[spoiler: The SOLA storyline outright confirms that the ''Dead Island'' franchise takes place in a CosmicHorrorStory with the reveal of the Beat, some sort of extradimensional audio being that can trigger the Autophage without a viral component (and may even have created it) and wants to do it to the entire human race way ahead of the schedule Reed discovered in the backstory. Thanks to Cadenza's desperate yearning to learn more about what being a Numen means, she and the Slayer almost summon it into reality before Grace breaks them free of the Beat's influence and they stop its avatar the Dirge, yet the Beat still goes on and none of them expect it stay silent forever.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: The Sola Festival is supposedly about being eco-friendly and
* LovecraftLite: Ho boy. [[spoiler: The SOLA storyline outright confirms that the ''Dead Island'' franchise takes place in a CosmicHorrorStory with the reveal of the Beat, some sort of extradimensional audio being that can trigger the Autophage without a viral component (and may even have created it) and wants to do it to the entire human race way ahead of the schedule Reed discovered in the backstory. Thanks to Cadenza's desperate yearning to learn more about what being a Numen means, she and the Slayer almost summon it into reality before Grace breaks them free of the Beat's influence and they stop its avatar the Dirge, yet the Beat still goes on and none of them expect it stay silent forever.]]
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* SawBladesOfDeath: Seems to be Grace's specialty as an engineer. You can get the Ripper from her vending machine (with blueprints for it on her walls) and completing the DLC gets you a sawblade launcher that can charge up and shoot several blades at once.
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* SawBladesOfDeath: Seems to be Grace's specialty as an engineer.when it comes to weapons. You can get the Ripper from her vending machine (with blueprints for it on her walls) and completing the DLC gets you a sawblade launcher that can charge up and shoot several blades at once.
* WhipItGood: The new Apex Variant introduced is the Whipper who are zombies that mutilated themselves enough that they can use their intestines as ranged melee weapons, the first one the Slayer encounters is an independent musician outside Grace's home that they have a Western-style face-ff with before the fight proper starts. Even worse, Whippers can cause the Muffled status effect that prevents you from using your Fury Mode as long as they are around.
* WhipItGood: The new Apex Variant introduced is the Whipper who are zombies that mutilated themselves enough that they can use their intestines as ranged melee weapons, the first one the Slayer encounters is an independent musician outside Grace's home that they have a Western-style face-ff with before the fight proper starts. Even worse, Whippers can cause the Muffled status effect that prevents you from using your Fury Mode as long as they are around.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: One of the first things you see when you start SOLA is a bunch of people who've been killed by being pushed through a locked security turnstile. It turns out that [[spoiler: hundreds of people got turned to zombies at once by the Beat, which triggered a "crowd crush" that turned many of the concert attendees to human soup. Several locations on the SOLA grounds are covered in a textured red stain that's all that's left of them.]]
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* FateWorseThanDeath: A post-game side mission [[spoiler: gives the Slayer a telepathic connection with several people who were killed in the crush when the Beat hit the Main Stage at SoLA. These people have ended up trapped in what's left of their bodies, which is little more than a chunky red smear across the venue's floor. Fortunately, the Slayer is able to perform a mercy kill by destroying a Clotter that's using the shredded flesh as a body.]]
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BrownNote: The "Beat" that turned over thirty thousand people at the Sola Festival into the undead through special speakers placed by the Festival's management. [[spoiler: Thanks to Cadenza and the Player Character assembling the audio samples the PC finds, the Beat comes very close to doing this to the entire human race before they correct their mistake. Even then it's acknowledged by all the characters that the Beat is still out there and just contained]].
EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: The Beat is the first true example of this in the Dead Island franchise. It's some sort of entity that can active the Autophage in humans through sound alone (and is all but implied to either have created the Autophage in the first place or at least takes advantage of it) when helped by technology means and if brought into the world by itself would zombify the entire planet almost instantly. It's not even defeated by the end of the DLC, just having the metaphorical door slammed in its face by killing it's avatar the Dirge. While the game had inklings of CosmicHorrorStory trappings before, the Beat tips the entire franchise into the trope.]]
EldritchLocation: The land around Grace's home is host to a ThinDimensionalBarrier (he reason why Grace moved there in the first place was to study it) that allows easier access to and manipulation of [[LifeForce orgone energy]] which the promoters of the Festival take advantage of zombify over thirty thousand people using the Mood Speakers. [[spoiler: It also makes it an ideal spot to bring the Beat through and zombify the whole planet, as the Slayer and Cadenza almost accidentally do]].
HiveMind: Explored further than in the main game with the main quest and several side quests, the Autophage hivemind even getting an avatar of sorts in the Dirge that can't be defeated by the Slayer at first. [[spoiler: The Numen hive mind in particular is key to defeating the Dirge and stopping the beat as Grace accepting the help of past Numen (and possibly ''future'' Numen she theorizes) allows her to break Cadenza out of her Beat-driven psychosis and help the Slayer in the final battle.]]
{{Hypocrite}}: The Sola Festival is supposedly about being eco-friendly and sustainability as well promoting good life-balance and mental health, but just from a glance at the excess amounts of trash in the receptacles, the blatant merchandising and wanton disregard for the actual environment (see the red sands used in the Utopia area which is actually beads of plastic that can melt from high heat and they used in ''Southern California'' to boot,) it actually makes more sense from the lore you can recover that the whole event was built to capitalize on the EldritchLocation around Grace's home that allowed the Speakers to zombify thousands of people at once for whatever reason it still makes more sense than the false message the festival was promoting. Considering it's an obvious dig at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival Fyre Festival]] in RealLife, that's to be expected. For a good example, a email states the floating turbines that are supposedly supplying green power to the festival are actually fake with the turbines being spun using power from the grid below.
NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: The audio samples the Slayer gives to Cadenza allows her to start bringing the Beat fully into existence to get answers about what Numens are, but almost results in the entire human race being zombified before she and the Slayer kill the Dirge and stop it. In the Slayer's defense they were looking for information about stopping the Beat from reoccurring.]]
SawBladesOfDeath: Seems to be Grace's specialty as an engineer. You can get the Ripper from her vending machine (with blueprints for it on her walls) and completing the DLC gets you a sawblade launcher that can charge up and shoot several blades at once.
EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: The Beat is the first true example of this in the Dead Island franchise. It's some sort of entity that can active the Autophage in humans through sound alone (and is all but implied to either have created the Autophage in the first place or at least takes advantage of it) when helped by technology means and if brought into the world by itself would zombify the entire planet almost instantly. It's not even defeated by the end of the DLC, just having the metaphorical door slammed in its face by killing it's avatar the Dirge. While the game had inklings of CosmicHorrorStory trappings before, the Beat tips the entire franchise into the trope.]]
EldritchLocation: The land around Grace's home is host to a ThinDimensionalBarrier (he reason why Grace moved there in the first place was to study it) that allows easier access to and manipulation of [[LifeForce orgone energy]] which the promoters of the Festival take advantage of zombify over thirty thousand people using the Mood Speakers. [[spoiler: It also makes it an ideal spot to bring the Beat through and zombify the whole planet, as the Slayer and Cadenza almost accidentally do]].
HiveMind: Explored further than in the main game with the main quest and several side quests, the Autophage hivemind even getting an avatar of sorts in the Dirge that can't be defeated by the Slayer at first. [[spoiler: The Numen hive mind in particular is key to defeating the Dirge and stopping the beat as Grace accepting the help of past Numen (and possibly ''future'' Numen she theorizes) allows her to break Cadenza out of her Beat-driven psychosis and help the Slayer in the final battle.]]
{{Hypocrite}}: The Sola Festival is supposedly about being eco-friendly and sustainability as well promoting good life-balance and mental health, but just from a glance at the excess amounts of trash in the receptacles, the blatant merchandising and wanton disregard for the actual environment (see the red sands used in the Utopia area which is actually beads of plastic that can melt from high heat and they used in ''Southern California'' to boot,) it actually makes more sense from the lore you can recover that the whole event was built to capitalize on the EldritchLocation around Grace's home that allowed the Speakers to zombify thousands of people at once for whatever reason it still makes more sense than the false message the festival was promoting. Considering it's an obvious dig at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival Fyre Festival]] in RealLife, that's to be expected. For a good example, a email states the floating turbines that are supposedly supplying green power to the festival are actually fake with the turbines being spun using power from the grid below.
NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: The audio samples the Slayer gives to Cadenza allows her to start bringing the Beat fully into existence to get answers about what Numens are, but almost results in the entire human race being zombified before she and the Slayer kill the Dirge and stop it. In the Slayer's defense they were looking for information about stopping the Beat from reoccurring.]]
SawBladesOfDeath: Seems to be Grace's specialty as an engineer. You can get the Ripper from her vending machine (with blueprints for it on her walls) and completing the DLC gets you a sawblade launcher that can charge up and shoot several blades at once.
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* BrownNote: The "Beat" that turned over thirty thousand people at the Sola Festival into the undead through special speakers placed by the Festival's management. [[spoiler: Thanks to Cadenza and the Player Character assembling the audio samples the PC finds, the Beat comes very close to doing this to the entire human race before they correct their mistake. Even then it's acknowledged by all the characters that the Beat is still out there and just contained]].
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: The Beat is the first true example of this in the Dead Island franchise. It's some sort of entity that can active the Autophage in humans through sound alone (and is all but implied to either have created the Autophage in the first place or at least takes advantage of it) when helped by technology means and if brought into the world by itself would zombify the entire planet almost instantly. It's not even defeated by the end of the DLC, just having the metaphorical door slammed in its face by killing it's avatar the Dirge. While the game had inklings of CosmicHorrorStory trappings before, the Beat tips the entire franchise into the trope.]]
* EldritchLocation: The land around Grace's home is host to a ThinDimensionalBarrier (he reason why Grace moved there in the first place was to study it) that allows easier access to and manipulation of [[LifeForce orgone energy]] which the promoters of the Festival take advantage of zombify over thirty thousand people using the Mood Speakers. [[spoiler: It also makes it an ideal spot to bring the Beat through and zombify the whole planet, as the Slayer and Cadenza almost accidentally do]].
* HiveMind: Explored further than in the main game with the main quest and several side quests, the Autophage hivemind even getting an avatar of sorts in the Dirge that can't be defeated by the Slayer at first. [[spoiler: The Numen hive mind in particular is key to defeating the Dirge and stopping the beat as Grace accepting the help of past Numen (and possibly ''future'' Numen she theorizes) allows her to break Cadenza out of her Beat-driven psychosis and help the Slayer in the final battle.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: The Sola Festival is supposedly about being eco-friendly and sustainability as well promoting good life-balance and mental health, but just from a glance at the excess amounts of trash in the receptacles, the blatant merchandising and wanton disregard for the actual environment (see the red sands used in the Utopia area which is actually beads of plastic that can melt from high heat and they used in ''Southern California'' to boot,) it actually makes more sense from the lore you can recover that the whole event was built to capitalize on the EldritchLocation around Grace's home that allowed the Speakers to zombify thousands of people at once for whatever reason it still makes more sense than the false message the festival was promoting. Considering it's an obvious dig at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival Fyre Festival]] in RealLife, that's to be expected. For a good example, a email states the floating turbines that are supposedly supplying green power to the festival are actually fake with the turbines being spun using power from the grid below.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: The audio samples the Slayer gives to Cadenza allows her to start bringing the Beat fully into existence to get answers about what Numens are, but almost results in the entire human race being zombified before she and the Slayer kill the Dirge and stop it. In the Slayer's defense they were looking for information about stopping the Beat from reoccurring.]]
* SawBladesOfDeath: Seems to be Grace's specialty as an engineer. You can get the Ripper from her vending machine (with blueprints for it on her walls) and completing the DLC gets you a sawblade launcher that can charge up and shoot several blades at once.
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: The Beat is the first true example of this in the Dead Island franchise. It's some sort of entity that can active the Autophage in humans through sound alone (and is all but implied to either have created the Autophage in the first place or at least takes advantage of it) when helped by technology means and if brought into the world by itself would zombify the entire planet almost instantly. It's not even defeated by the end of the DLC, just having the metaphorical door slammed in its face by killing it's avatar the Dirge. While the game had inklings of CosmicHorrorStory trappings before, the Beat tips the entire franchise into the trope.]]
* EldritchLocation: The land around Grace's home is host to a ThinDimensionalBarrier (he reason why Grace moved there in the first place was to study it) that allows easier access to and manipulation of [[LifeForce orgone energy]] which the promoters of the Festival take advantage of zombify over thirty thousand people using the Mood Speakers. [[spoiler: It also makes it an ideal spot to bring the Beat through and zombify the whole planet, as the Slayer and Cadenza almost accidentally do]].
* HiveMind: Explored further than in the main game with the main quest and several side quests, the Autophage hivemind even getting an avatar of sorts in the Dirge that can't be defeated by the Slayer at first. [[spoiler: The Numen hive mind in particular is key to defeating the Dirge and stopping the beat as Grace accepting the help of past Numen (and possibly ''future'' Numen she theorizes) allows her to break Cadenza out of her Beat-driven psychosis and help the Slayer in the final battle.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: The Sola Festival is supposedly about being eco-friendly and sustainability as well promoting good life-balance and mental health, but just from a glance at the excess amounts of trash in the receptacles, the blatant merchandising and wanton disregard for the actual environment (see the red sands used in the Utopia area which is actually beads of plastic that can melt from high heat and they used in ''Southern California'' to boot,) it actually makes more sense from the lore you can recover that the whole event was built to capitalize on the EldritchLocation around Grace's home that allowed the Speakers to zombify thousands of people at once for whatever reason it still makes more sense than the false message the festival was promoting. Considering it's an obvious dig at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival Fyre Festival]] in RealLife, that's to be expected. For a good example, a email states the floating turbines that are supposedly supplying green power to the festival are actually fake with the turbines being spun using power from the grid below.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: The audio samples the Slayer gives to Cadenza allows her to start bringing the Beat fully into existence to get answers about what Numens are, but almost results in the entire human race being zombified before she and the Slayer kill the Dirge and stop it. In the Slayer's defense they were looking for information about stopping the Beat from reoccurring.]]
* SawBladesOfDeath: Seems to be Grace's specialty as an engineer. You can get the Ripper from her vending machine (with blueprints for it on her walls) and completing the DLC gets you a sawblade launcher that can charge up and shoot several blades at once.
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BrownNote: The "Beat" that turned over thirty thousand people at the Sola Festival into the undead through special speakers placed by the Festival's management. [[spoiler: Thanks to Cadenza and the Player Character assembling the audio samples the PC finds, the Beat comes very close to doing this to the entire human race before they correct their mistake. Even then it's acknowledged by all the characters that the Beat is still out there and just contained]].
EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: The Beat is the first true example of this in the Dead Island franchise. It's some sort of entity that can active the Autophage in humans through sound alone (and is all but implied to either have created the Autophage in the first place or at least takes advantage of it) when helped by technology means and if brought into the world by itself would zombify the entire planet almost instantly. It's not even defeated by the end of the DLC, just having the metaphorical door slammed in its face by killing it's avatar the Dirge. While the game had inklings of CosmicHorrorStory trappings before, the Beat tips the entire franchise into the trope.]]
EldritchLocation: The land around Grace's home is host to a ThinDimensionalBarrier (he reason why Grace moved there in the first place was to study it) that allows easier access to and manipulation of [[LifeForce orgone energy]] which the promoters of the Festival take advantage of zombify over thirty thousand people using the Mood Speakers. [[spoiler: It also makes it an ideal spot to bring the Beat through and zombify the whole planet, as the Slayer and Cadenza almost accidentally do]].
HiveMind: Explored further than in the main game with the main quest and several side quests, the Autophage hivemind even getting an avatar of sorts in the Dirge that can't be defeated by the Slayer at first. [[spoiler: The Numen hive mind in particular is key to defeating the Dirge and stopping the beat as Grace accepting the help of past Numen (and possibly ''future'' Numen she theorizes) allows her to break Cadenza out of her Beat-driven psychosis and help the Slayer in the final battle.]]
{{Hypocrite}}: The Sola Festival is supposedly about being eco-friendly and sustainability as well promoting good life-balance and mental health, but just from a glance at the excess amounts of trash in the receptacles, the blatant merchandising and wanton disregard for the actual environment (see the red sands used in the Utopia area which is actually beads of plastic that can melt from high heat and they used in ''Southern California'' to boot,) it actually makes more sense from the lore you can recover that the whole event was built to capitalize on the EldritchLocation around Grace's home that allowed the Speakers to zombify thousands of people at once for whatever reason it still makes more sense than the false message the festival was promoting. Considering it's an obvious dig at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival Fyre Festival]] in RealLife, that's to be expected. For a good example, a email states the floating turbines that are supposedly supplying green power to the festival are actually fake with the turbines being spun using power from the grid below.
NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: The audio samples the Slayer gives to Cadenza allows her to start bringing the Beat fully into existence to get answers about what Numens are, but almost results in the entire human race being zombified before she and the Slayer kill the Dirge and stop it. In the Slayer's defense they were looking for information about stopping the Beat from reoccurring.]]
SawBladesOfDeath: Seems to be Grace's specialty as an engineer. You can get the Ripper from her vending machine (with blueprints for it on her walls) and completing the DLC gets you a sawblade launcher that can charge up and shoot several blades at once.
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The Slayers receive a transmission telling everyone to stay away from the SOLA Festival at all costs... so of course they ''have'' to check it out. What they find is a festival besieged by a living sound wave that turns all who hear it into zombies, instantly.
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The Slayers receive a transmission telling everyone to stay away from the SOLA Festival at all costs... so of course they ''have'' to check it out. What they find is a festival besieged by a living sound wave that turns all who hear it into zombies, instantly.
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* OrganDrops: About halfway through the game (and right after unlocking Fury Mode), the Slayers re-encounter Patton, a strange man who's been living in the sewers, with one arm elbow-deep up a zombie's corpse (and a giant glove thank god). He reveals that the mutated EliteMook zombies all have strange special organs in them that let them do otherwise impossible things. For example, making a tiny steel hammer tough enough to explode a zombie head with a tap. From then on you can start harvesting all sorts of useful materials from zombies and special blueprints to make use of them.
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* BrainUploading: This is apparently the goal of the Haus cult, though the only supposedly-uploaded member you interact with is a voice of Hope.
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* BrainUploading: This is apparently the goal of the Haus cult, though the only supposedly-uploaded member you interact with is a voice of Hope. Hope [[spoiler: until you take the post-campaign Missing: Zahra where Hope's mother is forced to [[SharingABody ride shotgun in your Brink Implant]] until you can get her uploaded to the Ark to be with her daughter. Further confirming the BrainUploading is returning to Haus later so you can listen in on a conversation between the two where Zahra is doing a MyBelovedSmother routine on her daughter for not applying herself further ''in the doomsday cult they both joined'']].
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-->'''Jacob:''' ''Oi!'' Dillon! ''Welcome to my day job.''
-->'''Dani:''' Then let's get into it, ye melter!
-->'''Ryan:''' Come on, big boy. Let's fucking do it.
-->'''Carla:''' I'm ready, meathead! Let's light it up!
-->'''Dani:''' Then let's get into it, ye melter!
-->'''Ryan:''' Come on, big boy. Let's fucking do it.
-->'''Carla:''' I'm ready, meathead! Let's light it up!
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-->'''Jacob:''' ''Oi!'' Dillon! ''Welcome to my day job.''
-->'''Dani:'''''\\
'''Dani:''' Then let's get into it, yemelter!
-->'''Ryan:'''melter!\\
'''Ryan:''' Come on, big boy. Let's fucking doit.
-->'''Carla:'''it.\\
'''Carla:''' I'm ready, meathead! Let's light it up!
-->'''Dani:'''
'''Dani:''' Then let's get into it, ye
-->'''Ryan:'''
'''Ryan:''' Come on, big boy. Let's fucking do
-->'''Carla:'''
'''Carla:''' I'm ready, meathead! Let's light it up!
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* TruthInTelevision: The particular type of prosthetic leg that Amy uses (often called a Running Blade) is an actual type of prosthesis used by real life disabled athletes. As opposed to prosthetic legs that look more human in shape, running blades are designed to have better shock absortion and provide bounce that allows for more comfortable and efficient running, and are much more durable than an everyday walkable prosthetic. Something very valuable for an aspiring Paralympic medalist (or a survivor of the zombie-riddled streets of HELL-A).
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* TooDumbToLive: You can find a note about one person's plan to get evacuated first because the sick and wounded are being prioritized before everyone else, which involves riding a bike into a speeding ambulance. If you want to know where you find this note, it's on a corpse stuck underneath the wheel of the ambulance in question.
* TruthInTelevision: The particular type of prosthetic leg that Amy uses (often called a Running Blade) is an actual type of prosthesis used by real life disabled athletes. As opposed to prosthetic legs that look more human in shape, running blades are designed to have better shockabsortion absorption and provide bounce that allows for more comfortable and efficient running, and are much more durable than an everyday walkable prosthetic. Something very valuable for an aspiring Paralympic medalist (or a survivor of the zombie-riddled streets of HELL-A).
* TruthInTelevision: The particular type of prosthetic leg that Amy uses (often called a Running Blade) is an actual type of prosthesis used by real life disabled athletes. As opposed to prosthetic legs that look more human in shape, running blades are designed to have better shock
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* IncongruouslyDressedZombie: One of the zombies seen in the mob at the end is a surfer with her surfbord still attached to her ankle.
* RobbingTheDead: In the E3 2014 trailer, after the :zombified jogger gets killed (well, disassembled) by a melee weapon in the face by two survivors, one of them gets out and steals the shoes the zombie jogger was wearing.
* RobbingTheDead: In the E3 2014 trailer, after the :zombified jogger gets killed (well, disassembled) by a melee weapon in the face by two survivors, one of them gets out and steals the shoes the zombie jogger was wearing.
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* IncongruouslyDressedZombie: One of the zombies seen in the mob at the end is a surfer with her surfbord surfboard still attached to her ankle.
* RobbingTheDead: In the E3 2014 trailer, after the:zombified zombified jogger gets killed (well, disassembled) by a melee weapon in the face by two survivors, one of them gets out and steals the shoes the zombie jogger was wearing.
* RobbingTheDead: In the E3 2014 trailer, after the
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** A whiteboard listing radio frequencies at the life guard tower in the Venice Beach sector reveals several military FOBs codenamed [[Series/{{Friends}} Rachel, Phoebe, and Monica]]
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** A whiteboard listing radio frequencies at the life guard tower in the Venice Beach sector reveals several military FOBs [=FOBs=] codenamed [[Series/{{Friends}} Rachel, Phoebe, and Monica]]
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* BottomlessPits: "The Deeper" is the second gauntlet within Haus. It vaguely resembles a bizarre night club rave house basement minus anything to actually rave to. It's got concrete walls, panels of bright lights against dark shadow, piles of televisions, loads of beer bottles, and above all else, bottomless pits that kill you (or zombies) instantly. All the Slayers have various PostMortemOneLiners for kicking zombies into the pits.
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* BottomlessPits: "The Deeper" is the second gauntlet within Haus. It vaguely resembles a bizarre night club rave house basement minus anything to actually rave to. It's got concrete walls, panels of bright lights against dark shadow, piles of televisions, loads of beer bottles, and above all else, bottomless pits that kill you (or zombies) instantly. All the Slayers have various PostMortemOneLiners BondOneLiners for kicking zombies into the pits.
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* DirtyCoward: According to Curtis Sinclair, his nephew, Tony Sinclair, tried to survive the party by sacrificing one one the maids by throwing her at a zombie. For that reason, Curtis doesn't feel too bad for Tony once he was infected and encourages the slayer to kill Tony out of spite.
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** Goofy-outfit non-boss zombies include food delivery people with a backpack full of healing items on their back, roller derby enthusiasts, or zombies with a full tank of pure drinking water on their backs (good for elemental effects, but that's overdoing it on the foam-dome).
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** Goofy-outfit non-boss zombies include food delivery people with a backpack full of healing items on their back, roller derby enthusiasts, or zombies with a full tank of pure drinking water on their backs (good for elemental effects, but that's overdoing it on the foam-dome).effects) apparently because in life they were walking water vendors to tourists.
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** Goofy-outfit non-boss zombies include food delivery people with a backpack full of healing items on their back, roller derby enthusiasts, or zombies with a full tank of pure drinking water on their backs (good for elemental effects, but that's overdoing it on the foam-dome).
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* BottomlessPits: "The Deeper" is the second gauntlet within Haus. It vaguely resembles a bizarre night club rave house basement minus anything to actually rave to. It's got concrete walls, panels of bright lights against dark shadow, piles of televisions, loads of beer bottles, and above all else, bottomless pits that kill you (or zombies) instantly. All the Slayers have various PostMortemOneLiners for kicking zombies into the pits.
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* BrainUploading: This is apparently the goal of the Haus cult, though the only supposedly-uploaded member you interact with is a voice of Hope.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The more the Slayer learns about the cult the more convinced they are that it's a scam that lures members in with debauchery and doomsday warnings before subjecting them to brutal TrialByCombat and mutilation. However, [[spoiler: when they meet Konstantin in "person" and save the Ark and it's uploaded human minds it's revealed that the Haus really is a BenevolentConspiracy that is trying to save humanity by preserving those that prove themselves strong enough to survive adversity. This is even more apparent if the Slayer has already completed the main story line and learned about the Autophage from Reed]].
* BenevolentAI: [[spoiler: Konstantin is a surprisingly example even though he is responsible for the Slayer being infected in the first place by sending the young couple met in the prologue. As "he" explains, the Slayer was the best chance of saving the Ark and its stored human minds from the Dark Brains and is genuinely thankful for their help (and the plane was going down anyway thanks to Robert hiding his ZombieInfectee status, the couple Konstantin sent just insured the Slayer got bitten at just the right time to make it to Emma's]].
* BrainUploading: This is apparently the goal of the Haus cult, though the only supposedly-uploaded member you interact with is a voice of Hope.
* BenevolentAI: [[spoiler: Konstantin is a surprisingly example even though he is responsible for the Slayer being infected in the first place by sending the young couple met in the prologue. As "he" explains, the Slayer was the best chance of saving the Ark and its stored human minds from the Dark Brains and is genuinely thankful for their help (and the plane was going down anyway thanks to Robert hiding his ZombieInfectee status, the couple Konstantin sent just insured the Slayer got bitten at just the right time to make it to Emma's]].
* BrainUploading: This is apparently the goal of the Haus cult, though the only supposedly-uploaded member you interact with is a voice of Hope.
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* DevilInPlainSight: Two of the three main members of the cult are friendly (if unsettlingly weird) but all the recordings you hear of Yong Ho make him *incredibly* sinister, not helped by the fact that his latex suit has full on demon horns coming out of the head.
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* {{Cyborg}}: How the Ascended achieve their transhuman state. [[spoiler: The Slayer becomes one after saving the Ark as a "reward" and is apparently modified enough to serve as a BodyBackupDrive for the titular Zahra during the Missing: Zahra quest until they can be uploaded into the Ark by SharingABody]].
* DevilInPlainSight: Two of the three main members of the cult are friendly (if unsettlingly weird) but all the recordings you hear of Yong Ho make him *incredibly* sinister, not helped by the fact that his latex suit has full on demon horns coming out of thehead.
head. [[spoiler: The Slayer only meets Yong Ho, in a sense, after they've been turned into a Screamer by the Autophage, but the Missing: Zahra quest reveals he had Hope's mother sacrifice both arms when she returned to the Haus after running away, so at the very least he wasn't the forgiving type]].
* TemptingFate: There are signs in the first trials area warning you to stay off the grass with good reason to do so. [[spoiler: Later on the Haus covers the sidewalk with grass and forces you to fight zombies trigged by the inevitable stepping]].
* DevilInPlainSight: Two of the three main members of the cult are friendly (if unsettlingly weird) but all the recordings you hear of Yong Ho make him *incredibly* sinister, not helped by the fact that his latex suit has full on demon horns coming out of the
* TemptingFate: There are signs in the first trials area warning you to stay off the grass with good reason to do so. [[spoiler: Later on the Haus covers the sidewalk with grass and forces you to fight zombies trigged by the inevitable stepping]].
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* AnArmAndALeg: For reasons clear only to the cult members, they all had to lose their right arm as part of their "Ascension" and you see lots of their stored bodies perfectly preserved, all missing their right arm.
* BrainUploading: This is apparently the goal of the Haus cult, though the only supposedly-uploaded member you interact with is a voice of Hope.
* ChaosArchitecture: Some of the locations in the Haus seem to move on a semi-regular basis. Your hand-drawn map has scribbled out an area where the Well in the forest "used to be". You don't see too much of it in action yourself, but at least once when you emerge out of the houses in the fake neighborhood, the grass-free path has disappeared. And it's back the next time you're there.
* DevilInPlainSight: Two of the three main members of the cult are friendly (if unsettlingly weird) but all the recordings you hear of Yong Ho make him *incredibly* sinister, not helped by the fact that his latex suit has full on demon horns coming out of the head.
* BrainUploading: This is apparently the goal of the Haus cult, though the only supposedly-uploaded member you interact with is a voice of Hope.
* ChaosArchitecture: Some of the locations in the Haus seem to move on a semi-regular basis. Your hand-drawn map has scribbled out an area where the Well in the forest "used to be". You don't see too much of it in action yourself, but at least once when you emerge out of the houses in the fake neighborhood, the grass-free path has disappeared. And it's back the next time you're there.
* DevilInPlainSight: Two of the three main members of the cult are friendly (if unsettlingly weird) but all the recordings you hear of Yong Ho make him *incredibly* sinister, not helped by the fact that his latex suit has full on demon horns coming out of the head.
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The Slayers are offered a strange invitation to a house in Malibu that belongs to a mysterious cult, which seems to worship the Konstantin OS.
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The Slayers are offered a strange invitation to a house in Malibu that belongs to a mysterious cult, which seems to worship the Konstantin OS.
OS. It's set during the events of the main game and can be pursued at any point after the Halperin Hotel mission.
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The Slayers are offered a strange invitation to a house in Malibu that belongs to a mysterious cult, which seems to worship the Konstantin OS.
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** Caustic-X, the substance brought in by the military to dispose of zombie corpses, is actually alkali in nature rather than acidic as its appearance may suggest. Bases are actually far more damaging to organic tissue than acids, and penetrate much more deeply much faster.
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* TruthInTelevision: The particular type of prosthetic leg that Amy uses (often called a Running Blade) is an actual type of prosthesis used by real life disabled athletes. As opposed to prosthetic legs that look more human in shape, running blades are designed to have better shock absortion and provide bounce that allows for more comfortable and efficient running, and are much more durable than an everyday walkable prosthetic. Something very valuable for an aspiring Paralympic medalist (or a survivor of the zombie-riddled streets of HELL-A).
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** Bruno, TheSmartGuy of the Slayers, does the same as everyone else (because the script says so) but of them, he's the one who chides himself for doing this form of WorstAid. "Stupid, stupid, stupid!"
