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Kill Em All was renamed Everybody Dies Ending due to misuse. Dewicking


** If your intelligence is low enough, then when you're leaving for TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, your character can [[TooDumbToLive insist on doing the FTL calculations themselves]], despite ''vocal'' objections from everybody else. Your ship promptly launches itself into the sun at top speed, [[KillEmAll killing everybody]] and [[NonStandardGameOver prematurely ending the game]].

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** If your intelligence is low enough, then when you're leaving for TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, your character can [[TooDumbToLive insist on doing the FTL calculations themselves]], despite ''vocal'' objections from everybody else. Your ship promptly launches itself into the sun at top speed, [[KillEmAll killing everybody]] everybody and [[NonStandardGameOver prematurely ending the game]].
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** An Unplanned Variable with a maxed out hack skill can deactivate it entirely.

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** An Unplanned Variable with a maxed out hack skill can deactivate it entirely. Bonus point for the bot just comically tipping over backwards instead of blowing up spectacularly or something.
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* There's a worker that requested a refund on his shock cannon because it misfires if the electrical cell it's using is covered in blood.

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* There's a worker that requested a refund on his shock cannon because it misfires if the electrical cell it's using is covered in blood. He also hopes for a quick response because that's ''his'' blood on the cell after he got shot by an automechanical, and he apparently dedicated his final moments to typing and sending the refund request.
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** A lady lost a finger on her left hand, but was denied because she was right handed. Her follow up claims become increasingly unintelligible as she loses more fingers.

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** A lady lost a finger on her left hand, but was denied because she was right handed. Her follow up claims become increasingly unintelligible as she loses more fingers. The final message is from someone else in her company who claims her life insurance, claiming she died because she continued to use the finger-chopping machine despite [[BlatantLies signage warning of the danger]]. It got approved immediately.
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* Also, the simple fact that ADA sounds ''a lot'' like [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]] makes her sassy, at times cheerfully psychotic demeanor that much funnier.
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* Perpetual sweetheart Parvati's special attack is a jump that transitions into a two-handed overhead GroundPound with her massive hammer. One of her lines when you tell her to use it is an adorably cheerful "I see a nail!" *SMASH*
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--> '''Jen:''' Hello. My name's Jen. I'm the chief engineer on this gunship and I'd like to let the record show that our captain is a total fucking hullhead. I told him - again and again - that without fixing our regulators, spinning up the engines are going to blow through our coils and we'll go flying off in a completely random direction. Well. Here we are. [[DangerDeadpan Thinking we'll hit soil in, uh, about thirty seconds. This is your chief engineer signing off for what is probably the last time.]] It's a shame you can't see this middle finger I'm holding up, because [[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce I'm doing it as hard as I can.]]

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--> '''Jen:''' Hello. My name's Jen. I'm the chief engineer on this gunship and I'd like to let the record show that our captain is a total fucking hullhead. I told him - again and again - that without fixing our regulators, spinning up the engines are going to blow through our coils and we'll go flying off in a completely random direction. Well. Here we are. [[DangerDeadpan Thinking we'll hit soil in, uh, about thirty seconds. This is your chief engineer signing off for what is probably the last time.]] It's a shame you can't see this [[FlippingTheBird middle finger finger]] I'm holding up, because [[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce I'm doing it as hard as I can.]]
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** If you're intelligence is low enough, then when you're leaving for TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, your character can [[TooDumbToLive insist on doing the FTL calculations themselves]], despite ''vocal'' objections from everybody else. Your ship promptly launches itself into the sun at top speed, [[KillEmAll killing everybody]] and [[NonStandardGameOver prematurely ending the game]].

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** If you're your intelligence is low enough, then when you're leaving for TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, your character can [[TooDumbToLive insist on doing the FTL calculations themselves]], despite ''vocal'' objections from everybody else. Your ship promptly launches itself into the sun at top speed, [[KillEmAll killing everybody]] and [[NonStandardGameOver prematurely ending the game]].
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* When greeting the murderer at the final part of the questline, he makes comments indicating that he's going to launch in to a grand MotiveRant. The Unplanned Variable can [[ShutUpHannibal have none of that.]]

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* When greeting the murderer at the final part of the questline, he makes they make comments indicating that he's they're going to launch in to into a grand MotiveRant. The Unplanned Variable can [[ShutUpHannibal have none of that.]]
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** One of the Intimidate options while speaking to him is hilariously straightforward.
--->"I'm really heavily armed."
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* If the Board collapses, the residents of Byzantium find themselves getting knocked down a rung on the social ladder. Some even had to get ''[[FauxHorrific jobs]]''.
--> It was a dark time, indeed.
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* If you ask ADA why she thinks you got offered the job, she gives you a list of probable reasons. The most likely is that they were desperate, the sixth and least probable reason is because they are confident in your abilities.
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* When greeting the murderer at the final part of the questline, he makes commentst indicating that he's going to launch in to a grand MotiveRant. The Unplanned Variable can [[ShutUpHannibal have none of that.]]

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* When greeting the murderer at the final part of the questline, he makes commentst comments indicating that he's going to launch in to a grand MotiveRant. The Unplanned Variable can [[ShutUpHannibal have none of that.]]



** And you can follow it up by predicted the exact shape the final boss fight will take, and the murderer will just get frustrated at the Unplanned Variable's attitude, saying "you just couldn't let me have my moment, could you?"

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** And you can follow it up by predicted predicting the exact shape the final boss fight will take, and the murderer will just get frustrated at the Unplanned Variable's attitude, saying "you just couldn't let me have my moment, could you?"
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--> '''Narrator:''' That "WWUUUAGH" sound can only mean one thing... we must gaze over an epic shot of a world. And there should be lens flares.

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--> '''Narrator:''' That "WWUUUAGH" sound can only mean one thing... we must gaze over an epic shot of a world. ''[[MundaneMadeAwesome And there should be lens flares.be]] {{lens flare}}s!''
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* During the Peril on Gorgon quest, the Unreliable is found by a group of mercenaries. ADA brings up the countermeasures in the airlock meant to protect the ship during boarding.
--> '''Unplanned Variable:''' Our airlock has a death trap installed? ADA, you need to tell me these things!
--> '''ADA:''' I understand. Allow me to rectify my oversight. Captain, please be informed that our airlock has a death trap installed.
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-->''"I'm really happy that this doesn't break; that this works."''
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* When greeting the murderer at the final part of the questline, he makes commentst indicating that he's going to launch in to a grand MotiveRant. The Unplanned Variable can [[ShutUpHannibal have none of that.]]
-->'''Unplanned Variable:''' ''*raise hand*'' Let me stop your monologue right now. I don't care.
** And you can follow it up by predicted the exact shape the final boss fight will take, and the murderer will just get frustrated at the Unplanned Variable's attitude, saying "you just couldn't let me have my moment, could you?"
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* Gladys sells two caps, model A and model B. Both are identical except one is a pallet swap for the other. The model A's description is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "this is style A."]] Meanwhile, model B's description is "this is not style A. That's the other one."

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* Gladys sells two caps, model A and model B. Both are identical except one is a pallet swap PaletteSwap for the other. The model A's description is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "this is style A."]] Meanwhile, model B's description is "this is not style A. That's the other one."

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[[folder:Roseway]]
* Roseway has the usual "monsters being experimented on have escaped and killed everyone" plotline. What nefarious product is Auntie Cleo's using raptidons for? Toothpaste.
-->'''The Unplanned Variable:''' Wait, this is all about toothpaste?\\
'''Anton Crane:''' One cannot exaggerate the benefits of good dental hygiene. May I continue?\\
'''The Unplanned Variable:''' Only if you'd like me to punch you in the throat. Can we just cut to the chase here?\\
'''Anton Crane:''' Very well. We'd formulated the world's most effective appetite suppressant toothpaste.\\
'''The Unplanned Variable:''' You can couch it however you like, it's still just toothpaste. Uh, diet toothpaste.\\
'''Anton Crane:''' Not just any diet toothpaste -- the ''ultimate'' diet toothpaste.
* One terminal praises Anton for his work on the toothpaste, but notes it still has a few minor problems, like a bad flavor and causing temporary blindness. The flavor is the bigger problem.
* To get Anton's research, you need to enter one of Auntie Cleo's secret labs. The one with the literal neon sign telling you it's a secret lab.
* You can find an email chain requesting a change of the code on an armory door to something complicated. The response is an obtuse list of references, ranging from someone's birthday month to the number of incidents with a certain piece of machinery... that works out to 1234. This gets approved.
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* One way you can get a prison guard disguise cartridge is by lying to the docking bay guard that you're the Chairman's *eyebrow stylist*, and the guard is relieved that you've shown up.

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* One way you can get a prison guard disguise cartridge is by lying to the docking bay guard that you're the Chairman's *eyebrow stylist*, ''eyebrow stylist'', and the guard is relieved that you've shown up.
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** An Unplanned Variable with a maxed out hack skill can deactivate it entirely.
* One way you can get a prison guard disguise cartridge is by lying to the docking bay guard that you're the Chairman's *eyebrow stylist*, and the guard is relieved that you've shown up.
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* All companions comment on the creepy Spacer's Choice Moon Man fountain with the rotating head in the Synthesis and Manufactory Center lobby, but Nyoka gets a BrickJoke about it, commenting that it's going to haunt her. Later, when riding the elevator on the way out of the building, she makes a startled shout and then apologizes, saying she thought about the fountain again.

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* All companions comment on the creepy unsettling Spacer's Choice Moon Man fountain with the rotating head in the Synthesis and Manufactory Center lobby, but Nyoka gets a BrickJoke about it. Upon seeing it, commenting she says that she knows it's going to haunt her. Later, when riding her, and then later, on the elevator ride on the way out of the building, she makes a startled shout noise and then apologizes, saying explains that she thought about the creepy fountain again.
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* All companions comment on the creepy Spacer's Choice Moon Man fountain with the rotating head in the Synthesis and Manufactory Center lobby, but Nyoka gets a BrickJoke about it, commenting that it's going to haunt her. Later, when riding the elevator on the way out of the building, she makes a startled shout and then apologizes, saying she thought about the fountain again.

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* Gladys puts on a very cheerful and friendly demeanor at almost all times, even while conspiring with the player to perform illegal espionage and provide her with the evidence. If you give away the "diet toothpaste" formula before returning to her, the Unplanned Variable will tell her about it but then say that they "lost it". Glady's will cheerfully respond "Good for you, dear!" and then just sit there and wait for you to actually give her something worth her while.

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* Gladys puts on a very cheerful and friendly demeanor at almost all times, even while conspiring with the player to perform illegal espionage and provide her with the evidence. If you give away the "diet toothpaste" formula before returning to her, the Unplanned Variable will tell her about it but then say that they "lost it". Glady's Gladys will cheerfully respond "Good for you, dear!" and then just sit there and wait for you to actually give her something worth her while.while.
** Gladys acts so much like a stereotypical grandmother, telling you about the batch of cookies she just baked, the latest episode of her favorite aetherwave serial, or a cute knick-knack she bought, and gives you candy on your way out of her office, it's easy to forget that she's one of the most powerful players in Halcyon's black market.
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* The Grand Colonial's sign is partially burned out, showing the luxury hotel's name as the "Grand Colon."

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---> '''Max:''' Most businesses on Halcyon are run by sprats, but this is the first I've seen one openly acknowledge it.

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---> '''Max:''' Most businesses on in Halcyon are run by sprats, but this is the first I've seen one openly acknowledge it.


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* While investigating Bertie Holcomb, you can ask one of your companions to play GoodCopBadCop with you to intimidate him into cooperating. All of them are good.
* Asking a post-Scylla Max to intimidate the tossball mascot who broke into the penthouse is gold.
-->'''Max:''' You, uh, should watch yourself, or we'll force you to... consider how your whole existence is based on a lie perpetrated by the corporations. Or... um, shoot you?

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** Ellie isn't fazed by this at all.
---> You know, they do something similar in Byzantium. Fancier system, but same idea.

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*** If you've visited the spratwurst shop on the Groundbreaker, you can ask Lex if there's a plan in case Matt gets ground up into spratwurst.
----> '''Lex:''' Shit, I didn't think of that. Someone could've eaten my boss!
** Ellie isn't fazed by this at all.
all. Neither is a pre-Scylla Max.
---> '''Ellie:''' You know, they do something similar in Byzantium. Fancier system, but same idea.idea.
---> '''Max:''' Most businesses on Halcyon are run by sprats, but this is the first I've seen one openly acknowledge it.
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* You can taste some of the evidence the discrepancy amplifier turns up. Your companions and other characters react with a mix of confusion and horror. Turned into a BrickJoke if you take Felix with you to investigate Sedrick and the wiretap in his office, which is connected to a receiver in a bathroom.

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* You can taste some of the evidence the discrepancy amplifier turns up. Your up, and your companions and other characters react with a mix of confusion and horror. Turned into a BrickJoke if you take Felix with you to investigate Sedrick and the wiretap in his office, which is connected to a receiver in a bathroom.public bathroom stall.
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* While investigating the hotel kitchen, the cook complains that they're out of food. If you keep trying to order something, he'll eventually give you a bottle of ketchup just to make you leave him alone.
** The discrepancy amplifier helpfully alerts you to a stove burner that's so coated in old grease that it'll probably explode if someone turns it on. One of the options is, of course, to [[SchmuckBait turn it on]]. (The burner doesn't work.)
* You can taste some of the evidence the discrepancy amplifier turns up. Your companions and other characters react with a mix of confusion and horror. Turned into a BrickJoke if you take Felix with you to investigate Sedrick and the wiretap in his office, which is connected to a receiver in a bathroom.
-->'''Felix:''' Boss, ''please'' don't taste the dirt this time!
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[[folder:Eridanos]]
* A Dumb Unplanned Variable can accuse ''themselves'' of murdering Halcyon Helen. Each crew member gets a turn to express just how exasperated they are with their captain, and Administrator Ludovico rapidly loses his composure and patience while grilling them on how they could have possibly arrived at that conclusion. Then he accidentally reveals how the murder was committed.
** After completing the main questline and returning to ADA, she asks who the culprit was. The Unplanned Variable can once again pin the crime on themselves, and ADA responds that trying to follow their logic fried her circuits.
* When asking [[TheDon Sedrick Kincannon]] about his alibi, he plainly answers that he couldn't have killed Helen... because he was busy committing a different, completely unrelated murder.

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