Video Game / Urrezko Kaiola

Urrezko Kaiola is a multimedia Alternate Reality Game that began in April of 2020. It stretches across a website, a video game, six Twitter accounts (Abby, Lehiakide, Abusari, Haizea, Simulacra-1337,Izoztutako), one Tumblr blog, and a subreddit.

It centers around a video game called Urrezko Kaiola that has Artificial Intelligence characters who each have their own role to fulfill in the game world. One character, Kara, begins decompiling each chapter to release to the world:

• Chapter 0, the Tutorial Chapter, was released 3/30/2020.
• Chapter 1, the Plains Chapter, was released 4/3/2020.
• Chapter 2, the Desert Chapter, was released 4/11/2020.
• Chapter 3, the Hotel Kaiola, was released 9/5/2020.
• Chapter 4, the Sky Chapter, was released 9/19/2020.
• Chapter 5, the Spooky Chapter, was released 12/5/2020.
• Chapter 6, the Ice Chapter, was released 3/8/2021.
• Chapter 7, the Urban Chapter, was released 9/16/2021.
• Chapter 8, the Jungle Chapter, is planned to be released

Meanwhile, other characters named Abby and Lance want to escape the computer and get onto the internet. The players must choose who to side with, and discover what is going on in the strange world of the odd game.

Urrezko Kaiola contains examples of:

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• 11th-Hour Superpower: In Chapter 2, Abby gives you access to the Flirt skill for the final battle. Why is this a superpower? The boss is Lehiakide, who is Allergic to Love.
• Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: Iruzurra, the sole shopkeeper in the game, is this trope personified; he gouges the prices of things that you need to progress in the story, but he also deflates the local currency to make finding money harder.
• Anachronism Stew: Urrezko Kaiola was finished in 2014 In-Universe, but it contains remixes of music and references from much later (including Undertale, Five Nights at Freddy's, Yandere Simulator, etc.) This is justified by Iklusea in Chapter 5. The world has been running on a "Groundhog Day" Loop for a long time now. This explains things such as the Call-Forward references to media made after Urrezko Kaiola supposedly was, and the advanced technology of the master computer.
• And I Must Scream: What being "corrupted" is for these characters. Thankfully, they get better after the master computer reboots.
  • This is also the fate of Ross Blackwood.
• Angels, Devils and Squid: Reflected in the themes of the Admin Terminal. Kara is the angel (as she is so keen to remind you), Iklusea is the devil, and The Shadow and Simulacra in general are the squid. Played With in that Satan Is Good in this universe, and Kara's angelic status is under debate: Simulacra-1337, at the very least, seems to think she is a fairy.
• Anti-Villain / Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains: Urrezko Kaiola is, by and large, Oops! All Anti Villains, so this was inevitable.
  • Type I:
    • Abusari, who is Faux Affably Evil and at least Lawful Evil.
    • Haizea, who only attacks Simulacra and friends (and later the players) because they invaded her home.
    • Ilargia is only doing her job, but is ruthless towards any invaders.
  • Type II:
    • Lehiakide, who only becomes actively antagonistic due to their programming and What the Hell, Player? moments.
    • Ross Blackwood is a darker variant. He's been Trapped in Another World that runs on "Groundhog Day" Loop for years, and his only hope of escape is The Shadow.
    • Tximista goes into this territory after her backstory is revealed.
    • The Shadow themself, arguably, after Chapter 3's big reveal. The Shadow was deemed too powerful by the creator of the game, and Dummied Out.
  • Type III:
    • Kara, who is the only one fighting against the Greater-Scope Villain, but the secrecy involved makes her distinctly untrustworthy to other characters.
  • Type IV:
    • Deconstructed with Lance. He is literally a Designated Villain by his programming: he has to fight the players once a chapter.
    • Abby fits here because she's the designated final boss of Urrezko Kaiola. How this will come about is currently unknown.
    • Iklusea is this, In-Universe at least. She's Urrezko Kaiola's equivalent of Satan. However, she's actually one of the nicer characters.
• Anyone Can Die: Boy howdy...
  • Goizane is killed by Abusari.
  • Abusari gets his comeuppance at the hands of the players.
  • Basati and Zelatatu are killed by Tximista.
  • Not ten minutes after their introduction, Lehen, Bigarren, and Hirugarren are killed by Ilargia.
• Apocalypse How: Releasing The Shadow could potentially cause a Class 0 or Class 1.
• Arc Symbol: Ross's key, which is the answer to all of his puzzles.
• Arc Villain:
  • Chapter 1: A Big Bad Ensemble between Lance and the Clone Generator.
  • Chapter 2: Lehiakide.
  • Chapter 3: Abusari.
  • Chapter 4: Simulacra-1337 aka Ross Bot and his Psycho Rangers, Haizea, Basati, Zelatatu, and Tximista.
  • Chapter 5: A Big Bad Ensemble between Tximista and either Amets and Martzel or Nikole and Aintzane, depending on what avatar you picked.
  • Chapter 6: Izoztutako with Co-Dragons Haizea and Tximista.
  • Chapter 7: Greater-Scope Villain Erlojua with Ilargia as The Heavy.
• Arc Words: "Nothing is to be trusted."
• Bad Powers, Bad People:
  • Abusari has the power to redact information, and is a Corrupt Corporate Executive.
  • Simulacra-1337 has the power of Hollywood Hacking, and is a Jerkass.
  • While its inherent 'evil' is debatable, the power to do anything a video game shopkeeper can is definitely morally ambiguous, and Iruzurra uses it for all it's worth.
• Bad Powers, Good People:
  • Zirikatu also has redacting powers (in his case, The Scottish Trope), but is a decent guy.
  • Considering how the internet is portrayed in this franchise, Lehiakide's power to draw strength from it qualifies as this.
• Berserk Button:
  • Do NOT misgender Lehiakide. In fact, Lehiakide is so Hot-Blooded it’s more like a berserk switchboard.
  • For Simulacra-1337, do not imply he's an Artificial Intelligence. Or human, for that matter. And don't say that AI or humans are superior to Simulacra. To a lesser extent, don't imply he and Ross Blackwood are one and the same. And don't deprive him of cigarettes.
  • For Abby and Lance, Kara's mere existence.
  • Conversely, for Kara it's mentions of The Shadow, and also her sister.
  • For Erlojua, it's hurting Ilargia, or vice versa.
• Big Bad: The Shadow is this for the whole series, backed up by his dragon Ross Blackwood.
• Bilingual Bonus: The Basque names.
  • Nikole means "we are stuck"
  • Aintzane means "to keep going"
  • Amets means "dream"
  • Martzel means "hammer of justice"
  • Goizane means "High Fairy"
  • Lehiakide means "Rival" or "Antagonist"
  • Abusari means "abusive"
  • Izoztutako means "frozen"
  • Basati means "savage", "wild", or "brutal"
  • Zelatatu means "spy"
  • Tximista means "lightning"
  • Haizea means "wind"
  • Iruzurra means "scam"
  • Euritsu means "rain"
  • Trebea means "skilled" or "competent"
  • Edarialko means "drink"
  • Zirikatu means "tease"
  • Amorratu means annoyed or angry.
  • Lehen, Bigarren, and Hirgarren mean first, second, and third respectively.
  • The Violinist's true name, Biolina, means "violin".
  • The Keyboardist's true name, Sintizadorea, means "synthesizer".
  • The Vocalist's true name, Sopranoa, means "soprano".
  • Ilargia means "moon", while Erlojua means "clock". Their house is called ClockMoon Mansion.
  • Urrun means "far".
  • Zilarra means "silver".
  • Loratzen means "blooming".
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Abby, Kara, Izoztutako, Tximista, the list goes on...
• But Thou Must!: You are required to fight Izoztutako by invading her room. There's no other way to get the keys you need to continue forward.
• Cain and Abel: Kara and her sister, Iklusea. The former trapped the latter in the Nightmare Realm, which is this world's equivalent of hell.
• Character Blog: Abby’s Twitter, Lance’s Reddit account, the subreddit, Lehiakide’s Twitter, and Abusari's Twitter are a major part of the story.
• The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Multiple characters can break the rules of the game world.
  • Abby can access Dummied Out items, including a phone.
  • Lehiakide and Abusari can move entire areas of the game world around.
  • In the end of Chapter 3, Abusari makes himself completely invincible.
  • At the end of Chapter 4, Simulacra-1337 not only completely heals himself, he stops the music and downloads an Eminem song to play for Phase 2 of his fight.
  • Izoztutako modifies all of Chapter 6 to make it Nintendo Hard.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist:
  • Lehiakide to Lance: The latter is an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, the former is a Lightning Bruiser.
  • Abusari to Lehiakide (and Lance): Lehiakide and Lance rely exclusively on their physical abilites, while Abusari is a statistically weak Non-Action Guy who only stands a chance in a fight using The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard. Also, the latter two are comparatively sympathetic while Abusari is a Knight of Cerebus with very little audience sympathy.
  • Simulacra-1337 to Abusari: Abusari is statistically weak while Ross Bot is the strongest enemy in terms of raw stats faced so far. Abusari works alone while Ross Bot has his Five-Man Band. Abusari is Faux Affably Evil while Ross Bot is a complete Jerkass and makes no effort to hide it.
  • The Avatars to every previous antagonist: While each other antagonist had an arc on Twitter or other social media before their respective chapter released, the Avatars did not and came with no warning.
  • Tximista to Simulacra-1337: While Simulacra is motivated by It Amused Me, Tximista is motivated by her love for Lehiakide. In addition, Tximista is a Glass Cannon while Ross Bot is a Lightning Bruiser.
  • Izoztutako to Simulacra-1337: While Simulacra-1337 is self-aware of his jerkassery, Izoztutako is a Small Name, Big Ego.
  • Ilargia and Erlojua to Zirikatu and Izoztutako: While both are a Power Couple in an Unequal Pairing, the former couple's relationship is much more healthy and much less belligerent. In addition, while it is possible to turn Zirikatu against Izoztutako, Ilargia stays loyal to Erlojua, to a fault.
• Controllable Helplessness: Bizkarroi is unkillable, and will defeat your party no matter what, but you still enter a fight rather than getting an instant game over.
• Crapsaccharine World: Majorly. It seems to be a happy Animesque RPG. In reality, it's a Gilded Cage for the Artificial Intelligence trapped inside it. Despite White-and-Grey Morality, this is not a very good place to live.
• Crutch Character: Lehiakide, in Chapters 4 and 5. Post-Heel–Face Turn, they've gotten a lot stronger, with Thunderbolt, Backup Bash, and the ability to use kunai as a weapon of choice.
• Cutting Off the Branches: The ending chosen by the most participants is considered the canon ending, for example: Lehiakide being defeated non-violently, and Simulacra-1337 deciding to take over the Sky Realm because he didn't get cigarretes.
• Curtains Match the Windows: Aintzane, Zelatatu, and Biolina (red eyes and hair), Super Haizea and Tximista (yellow/golden eyes and hair), Izoztutako, Lance, and Lehen (blue eyes and hair), Kara (purple eyes and hair), Iklusea (purple eyes and lilac hair), Bizkarroi (black hair and dark grey eyes).
• Dark Magical Girl:
  • Played With by Kara. She has the anti-villainous personality and attachment to a 'parental' figure. Ironically, the Magical Girl she faces off with is her sister, Iklusea.
  • Played straight by Tximista. She plays Good Powers, Bad People straight. Like most examples of this trope, she's a Broken Bird. In her case, it's being driven insane by only being a Satellite Love Interest and then being seperated from Lehiakide.
• Dark Reprise: "Room" gets reprised later as "Room..." when you get a room in The Hotel Kaiola.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Obviously, given the meta nature of the game.
  • The Avatars deconstruct Player Character, of all things. During Chapter 5, Two of the Avatars you didn't choose (Amets and Martzel if you picked Nikole or Aintzane; Nikole and Aintzane if you picked Amets or Martzel) become the Arc Villain because you didn't choose them.
  • Lance deconstructs the fourth type of Anti-Villain. While he personally holds no malice towards the players, his constant insistence on fighting the players makes him more of an annoyance than anything else.
  • Kara deconstructs Big Good. While she is the only one fighting against the Greater-Scope Villain, but the secrecy involved makes her distinctly untrustworthy to other characters.
  • Zelatatu deconstructs Insufferable Genius. While his puzzles (especially the quiz) are pretty difficult, Save Scumming, which he has no way to protect against, make them trivial.
  • Iruzurra deconstructs Adam Smith Hates Your Guts. Sure, the player has to deal with his shenannagins and has no way out of them, but every other character looks down on him for it, making him The Friend Nobody Likes.
  • Tximista deconstructs Satellite Love Interest and Yandere; She was designed to be Lehiakide's Love Interest in a bonus mode that focused entirely on Lehiakide, but both her character and the mode were scrapped early in development. In fact, it was scrapped so early that Tximista's character was not developed much at all beyond being Lehiakide's Love Interest. Then she was banished to the Infinite Field.
  • Izoztutako deconstructs God Save Us from the Queen!. Because her subjects are more than a little fed up of her lockdown of all non-essential personell, they're more than willing to help you out.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Lehiakide.
• Developer's Foresight: In-Universe, Simulacra-7779 is an Anthropromophic Personification of this trope.
• Demoted to Dragon: In-Universe, this happened to Haizea when Ross Bot performed his Hostile Show Takeover of chapter 4. She wasn't happy about it.
• Dueling Player Characters: During Chapter 5, two of the Avatars you did not choose become the antagonists.
• Duel Boss: Between Lehiakide and Tximista near the end of chapter 5.
• The Dragon:
  • Lance to Abby.
  • Ross Blackwood to The Shadow
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: When Lehiakide and Tximista fight one on one in Chapter 5, Lehiakide wakes up injured, drugged, and tired. It's this trope because Lehiakide is the Crutch Character of the party and would absolutely wipe the floor with Glass Cannon Tximista otherwise.

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• Eldritch Location: The Hotel Kaiola in Chapter 3. It has Alien Geometries, time vortexes, and constant glitching.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Abby, Haizea, Izoztutako, and Iklusea have elements of this in their respective designs.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Urrezko Kaiola^note means 'gilded cage' is a Gilded Cage. Lehiakide^note means 'rival' or 'antagonist' is an antagonist, at least at first. Haizea, Tximista, and Izoztutako all have names that describe their powers (Blow You Away, Shock and Awe, and An Ice Person repespectively).
• Expy:
  • Abby of Monika.
  • Haizea is one of Aya Shameimaru, with identical powers and a remix of her Leitmotif.
  • Iklusea is one of Jevil, with his role in the story, Leitmotif, and item called Devil's Knife.
  • Izoztutako is one of Cirno, with similar appearance, powers, Leitmotif, and Small Name, Big Ego.
  • Ilargia is one of Sakuya Izayoi, while her mistress Erlojua is one of Remilia Scarlet.
    • Additionally, they also reference Acronix and Krux, with similar color-schemes for their powers, and being called 'the Hands of Time'.
  • The Band references the cast of Five Nights at Freddy's, down to similar color schemes, similar instruments, and a minigame that references FNAF 1's gameplay.
• Fission Mailed: In the battle with Tximista during Chapter 6, if you lose you don't get taken to the game over screen because Ross Bot makes himself playable in order to beat up Tximista for killing his other minions.
• Flechette Storm: Lehiakide's weapon of choice is kunai, and they can hit a lot of times per turn with them.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: … because there is no fourth wall. Characters can interact with players and players can directly influence their behavior.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Considering the wide range of personalities on display, these were inevitable.
  • Abusari is so widely disliked because of his incessant promoting of his hotel. In fact, most of the cast (including Abby, Lance, and Lehiakide) up to that point are banned from the Hotel Kaiola. The only person who is willing to give him the time of day is Izoztutako, and that might just have been For the Lulz, according to Zirikatu.
  • Haizea. Even compared to Izoztutako, her realm has absolutely no permanent inhabitants besides her! Like Abusari, only Izoztutako is willing to give her the time of day.
  • Izoztutako, of course. The only people who don't hate or fear her are Abusari, Haizea (detailed above), Tximista, and Zirikatu (who has The Masochism Tango relationship with her).
  • Iruzurra is so disliked not even Izoztutako will give him the time of day. Everyone, including Kara, vehemently dislikes him. He's only able to stay around due to his shopkeeper-powers.
  • Kara insists upon fighting alone, and has absolutely no allies. Not that this bothers her that much.
• Gameplay and Story Integration:
  • Iklusea will actually spare you if you lose to her, since you're just proving yourself.
  • Kara is immune to seduction attacks due to being asexual.
  • The only enemies that drop gold in Chapter Four are near Iruzurra. This is because he puts the gold in them himself (to facilitate his Adam Smith Hates Your Guts shenanigans.)
  • During the Duel Boss fight between Lehiakide and Tximista, Lehiakide, who just woke up after being hit by lightning and drugged, is noticably weakened. It would be pretty easy, otherwise.
  • In the same fight, Tximista uses the Kiss skill like Abby does... but on you. This is because she's a Yandere in Mad Love with Lehiakide.
  • The game softlocks if Bizkarroi deletes all of your party members.
• Gilded Cage: The Urrezko Kaiola world itself is, obviously.
• Golden Super Mode: Haizea has one.
• Good Powers, Bad People:
  • Abby has Magikarp Power, but is the final boss of Urrezko Kaiola.
  • Tximista has Shock and Awe, but is a Yandere.
  • Izoztutako is An Ice Person, but is a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk Ungrateful Bitch.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Izoztutako is this for the first six chapters; she gave Abusari the Hyper Shield as 'a social expirement' and acted as support behind the scenes for Haizea and Tximista.
• Green Hill Zone: Chapter 1 is this as the Plains Chapter.
• Grew Beyond Their Programming: Subverted. Each character has free will, but still behaves according to their programming.
  • Kara keeps everyone stuck in the game because that is her role.
  • Abby is flirtatious and saccharine because that's how she's intended to be. Maitalea, her character class, means "Lover" in Basque.
  • Lance fights the player despite having no ill will towards them because he is designed to be an antagonist.
  • Lehiakide is antagonistic and Tsundere because they were intended as an Arc Villain.
  • The Shadow is only villainous because of their programming.
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: The entire world is in the midst of one. The Solvers have tried and failed to beat The Shadow 41 times. The story starts on loop number 42.
  • On a smaller scale, Ross Blackwood's world, nicknamed 'the fogworld', also works this way.
• Hostile Show Takeover:
  • Abby takes over the entire discord for a while.
  • All of Chapter 3 is this. Abusari was only supposed to be a minor Optional Boss, but he used map editing to create an entire chapter for him and his hotel.
  • Simulacra-1337 did this to Chapter 4, demoting Haizea to Dragon and becoming the main villain along with his posse.
• Innocuously Important Episode: Chapter 3. Despite being made up of a Hostile Show Takeover that was captained by an Optional Boss with no overall importance to the Myth Arc, Chapter 3 did introduce a whole hell of a lot of new elements that became important in later chapters, including Chapter 4's antagonists, Ross Bot, Tximista, Zelatatu, and Basati, Lehiakide's makeover, and the antagonist of Chapter 6, Izoztutako.
• Interchangeable Antimatter Keys: Zig-zagged. Certain doors have unique keys, but the Hotel Kaiola and Sky Realm play it straight.
• Interface Screw: Abusari can redact spoilers/important information from the players as black boxes.
• Kiai: Haizea lets out an impressive one (it lasts twelve text boxes) when she transforms into her Golden Super Mode.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Lehiakide, eventually.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Ross Bot.
• Knight of Cerebus: Abusari. Has absolutely no redeeming qualities besides being suspiciously polite, performs a Hostile Show Takeover to get an entire chapter to himself, and is the first character to permanently kill another.
• Lame Pun Reaction: This gem.

Ross Bot: why dont you come to my shack and fight me

Ross Bot: ill even use my bopha

Kara: What in the world is bopha?

Ross Bot: bopha deez nuts bitch

Kara: Perish.

• Large Ham: Martzel. He's THE HAMMER OF JUSTICE!
• Levels Take Flight: Chapter 4. You even get a Cool Airship.
• Little Bit Beastly: Ice Realm residents tend to be this, with either cat ears, a cat tail, or both.
• Lord British Postulate: In chapter 3, when Abusari goes full The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard using the Hyper Shield ability, you're supposed to defeat him using Shield Breaker items you got at a side-mission earlier in the chapter. However, it's completely possible to defeat him even in this state by getting very lucky with status effects.
  • The moving statues in Chapter 2's Mansion deliver you a One-Hit Kill if you make contact with them (without even taking you to a battle screen). The intended way to deal with them is playing music boxes throughout the mansion that will immobilize all of the statues for 30 seconds, or just running away. However, you can trap the statues with boxes.
  • Exploited with a similar battle to the first example in Chapter 6. Three endings are locked behind exploiting the postulate and beating Tximista (as opposed to triggering a Fission Mailed).
  • Averted with Bizkarroi in Chapter Seven, who can be defeated, but simply re-challenges you at that point.
• Lovecraft Lite: The true threat is a technology-based Eldritch Abomination, but the story largely operates on White-and-Grey Morality and Defeat Means Friendship.
• Lower-Deck Episode: Chapter 3. Aside from cameos, you're mostly dealing with minor characters introduced in this chapter.
• Luminescent Blush: Abby is prone to this. So is Lehiakide, after they begin a Heel–Face Turn.

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• Medium Awareness: Given a Decon-Recon Switch. Yes, the characters know they aren't human and that they exist within a fictional world. However, none of them seem existentially bothered by this. Only some of them want to leave, and that's more because of Kara than because of the game world.
• Mêlée à Trois: In (the lead-up to) chapter 2, Lehiakide is fighting with Kara, Kara is fighting with Abby and Lance, and Abby and Lance are aiding the players against Lehiakide.
  • A more complicated one occurs at the end of chapter 4, involving the players' party (the avatar, Abby, and Lehiakide), Ross Bot and his minions, Tximista, Haizea, and finally Izoztutako.
  • Again in Chapter 5 between Tximista, Ross Bot, and the player.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Simulacra-1337 considers Simulacra like himself superior to humans (and Artificial Intelligence).
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Averted. While the game characters do have free will and make their own decisions, they always follow their purpose and programming.
• Myth Arc: What is The Shadow, and why does Kara fear it so much?
• Off the Rails: Technically, most of the game is this, to the point that what constitutes 'the rails' changes almost every chapter.
  • Lehiakide modifies Chapter 2 to make it harder and themself stronger. What the original Chapter 2 would have been like is unknown at this point.
  • Chapter 3 in its current form wasn't even supposed to exist. Chapter 3 was originally the Sky Chapter, but Abusari created a chapter simply dedicated to him and his hotel, which was originally a brutal bonus level and Abusari himself an Optional Boss.
  • Chapter 4 precedes as it was intended to (barring the fact it happens one chapter later) except the intended main villain, Haizea, was Demoted to Dragon, and an entirely new villain, Ross Bot, takes the Arc Villain mantle.
• The Psycho Rangers: Simulacra-1337, Haizea, Basati, Zelatatu and Tximista, the antagonists of Chapter 4.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Simulacra-1337 and Zelatatu. Averted with Aitzane (for the most part).
• Rei Ayanami Expy: Kara, natch. She has purple hair and eyes, she is always The Stoic, rarely shows emotions besides apathy or mild annoyance, and always talks in a correct and monotone manner.
• Satan Is Good: Exaggerated. Iklusea, this setting's devil, is more heroic than most other characters.
• Satellite Love Interest: Deconstructed with Tximista. She was designed to be Lehiakide's Love Interest in a bonus mode that focused entirely on Lehiakide, but both her character and the mode were scrapped early in development. In fact, it was scrapped so early that Tximista's character was not developed much at all beyond being Lehiakide's Love Interest. Then she was banished to the Infinite Field.

Euritsu: You do the math on why she ended up so crazy.

• The Scottish Trope: Saying The Shadow's true name out loud (or on text on the internet) will give them power (according to Kara). Characters variously refer to them as "them", "THEM", or just The Shadow.
  • Exploited by Zirikatu, whose unique ability is to hide his name from being spoken or viewed, even by the game interface.
• Sibling Yin-Yang:
  • Kara and Iklusea. They're both the goddesses of the setting, but that's where the similarities end. Kara is asexual while Iklusea is Ms. Fanservice.
  • Zirikatu and Euritsu. The former's ability allows him to redact information (his name, specifically,) from view, while the latter's ability allows her to know almost anything.
• Shifting Sand Land: Chapter 2 is this, including pyramids and all.
• Shock and Awe: Tximista (it's even in her name), and to a lesser extent Lehiakide and Martzel.
• Shout-Out: Has its own page here.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Abby is one of the main characters.
• Significant Haircut: Lehiakide's makeover between Chapter 2 (their stint as an Arc Villain) and Chapter 3 (the beginning of their Character Development) marks their transition from an antagonist to a protagonist.
• Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Chapter 6 and areas removed from it tend to be this.
• Status Effects: There's burning and poison (which inflict Damage Over Time), paralysis, freezing, disabling, confusion, and stun (all of which stop the character from moving), infatuation, and some stranger ones.
• The Starscream: Both Tximista and Haizea to Ross Bot in Chapter 4.

T to Z

• Tomboy and Girly Girl: While Lehiakide isn't a girl, they and Abby fit this dynamic to a T.
  • Haizea and Tximista, although the former is a Tomboy with a Girly Streak and the formed is a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak, befitting a Yandere.
• Tsundere:
  • Type A (harsh):
    • Lehiakide. Hates being called cute, reacts rudely to any affection players give them, but sometimes decides to be kind and helpful. Even gets called such by a player and they only react with an angry emoji.
    • Izoztutako is this mixed with Jerk with a Heart of Jerk. Everyone besides her Love Interest gets the cold shoulder, but with him she devolves into Slap-Slap-Kiss, Suspiciously Specific Denial, and Hypocritical Heartwarming.
  • Type B (sweet):
    • Abby gains shades of this as the chapters go on.
    • Zirikatu, Izoztutako's Love Interest, is this. With anyone besides her, he's cordial (unless bothered), but with her he devolves into The Tease and Belligerent Sexual Tension.
• Unexpectedly Dark Episode: Chapter 5, massively. The only warning that it was going to be as dark as it was was a reference to it maybe being called "The Spooky Chapter" internally, and that did not prepare players in the slightest for the chase sequences, surprisingly dark tone, and Danganronpa music.
• Unwinnable by Design: If you face Abusari's second battle without first clearing the Corrupted Wastes and gaining the Shield Breakers^note The name of the item you get in the Corrupted Wastes is a Base 64 corruption of the actual name of the item , he becomes virtually unbeatable. But not completely, see Lord British Postulate.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Played for Drama. Lehiakide gets, understandably, very angry after being misgendered and starts modifying their own stats to make Chapter 2 and onward incredibly difficult.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Frequently.
  • Lehiakide after each of their defeats in Chapter 2 except the last one.
  • Ross Bot does a literal exit stage left at the end of Chapter 4.
  • Tximista does it literally again when Ross Bot sics a tank on her.
• Villainous Friendship: Implied with Abusari and Izoztutako. Also Izoztutako, Haizea, and Tximista.
• Villainous Rescue: Ross Bot does this with a tank in chapter 5.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The Shadow, in comparision to the Crapsaccharine World, is a No-Nonsense Nemesis and an exception to the White-and-Grey Morality.
• Wham Line: The end of the diary in the library in Chapter 3.

The Creator: Abby should be the final boss.

• Wham Shot: Goizame's dead body inside the Hotel Kaiola.
• What the Hell, Hero? / What the Hell, Player?: Lehiakide delivers these after being misgendered by the players.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Inverted and Played for Laughs. Simulacra-1337 believes that both humans and game characters are inferior to Simulacra.
• White-and-Grey Morality: At "white" we have the players, and at "grey" we have Kara, a Hero with Bad Publicity or Anti-Villain depending on interpretation, and Abby, who is sweet and saccharine, but comes off as a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, especially when interacting with someone other than the players.
  • Chapter 2’s Arc Villain, Lehiakide, is a cute Tsundere and Woobie despite their general antagonism.
  • Chapter 3 brings in Abusari, whose only motivation for villainy is to get customers to his hotel, never mind that it's an Eldritch Location.
  • Chapter 4 has in its Psycho Rangers the jerkish but morally ambiguous Ross Bot, the Anti-Villain Haizea, and the Shrinking Violet Yandere, Tximista.
• Whole-Plot Reference: Chapter 3's Hotel Kaiola is one to Merlee's Mansion.
• Yandere: Tximista for Lehiakide.
• Youkai: Izoztutako is refered to as a yuki-onna in one song title, while Zirikatu's class title is Nekomata.