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* DropTheHammer: A sledgehammer is one of the available melee weapons, favored by the Mob's thugs. It's definitely powerful, but expensive.
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''Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones'' is a horror [[WesternRPG cRPG]] based on the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, developed by the Turkish Cultic Games and published by 1C Entertainment. It was funded by a successful Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1698219403/stygian-a-lovecraftian-computer-rpg on July 1, 2016]], and was released on September 26, 2019 for [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] and UsefulNotes/{{Linux}} [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PCs]] on Website/GogDotCom and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.

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''Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones'' is a horror [[WesternRPG cRPG]] based on the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, developed by the Turkish Cultic Games and published by 1C Entertainment. It was funded by a successful Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1698219403/stygian-a-lovecraftian-computer-rpg on July 1, 2016]], and was released on September 26, 2019 for [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows [[Platform/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] and UsefulNotes/{{Linux}} [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer Platform/{{Linux}} [[Platform/IBMPersonalComputer PCs]] on Website/GogDotCom and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.
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* NiceHat: Sonia was a milliner in New York in her past life, and wears a rather elaborate wide-brimmed hat with a large feathery plume. [[ColorMotif Like the rest of her outfit, the hat is green]]. She waves it in the air to distract enemies before [[TheGunslinger firing her Trick Shot]].


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* SignatureHeadgear: Sonia was a milliner in New York in her past life, and wears a rather elaborate wide-brimmed hat with a large feathery plume. [[ColorMotif Like the rest of her outfit, the hat is green]]. She waves it in the air to distract enemies before [[TheGunslinger firing her Trick Shot]].
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* YouHaveToHaveJews: Isidore is a rare example of a sympathetic Jewish character -- a Kabbalah mystic to be precise -- in a Mythos story. Sonia, if she's anything like the real-life Sonia Greene Lovecraft, would also come from a Jewish family.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: A gameplay mechanic which takes two main forms: the SanityMeter, damaged by environment and the appearance of monsters which should not be, as well as functioning as your ManaMeter for casting spells; and Angst, primarily increased by the horrible actions you must undertake to survive, such as watching harm come to others or causing it yourself and all kinds of combat -- a kind of anti-ExperiencePoints. If your Sanity drops low enough, near or below the halfway mark over an extended period of time, your character will go mad, randomly receiving one of the game's HollywoodPersonalityDisorders, also permanent: [[FunnySchizophrenia Schizophrenia]], Paranoia, Mania, or Psychopathy. Each comes with its own quirks -- penalties but also unique bonuses, representing, like your character's [[UnconventionalAlignment chosen belief system]], a unique way of coping with the world.

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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: A gameplay mechanic which takes two main forms: the SanityMeter, damaged by environment and the appearance of monsters which should not be, as well as functioning as your ManaMeter for casting spells; and Angst, primarily increased by the horrible actions you must undertake to survive, such as watching harm come to others or causing it yourself and all kinds of combat -- a kind of anti-ExperiencePoints. If your Sanity drops low enough, near or below the halfway mark over an extended period of time, your character will go mad, randomly receiving one of the game's HollywoodPersonalityDisorders, disorders, also permanent: [[FunnySchizophrenia Schizophrenia]], Paranoia, Mania, or Psychopathy. Each comes with its own quirks -- penalties but also unique bonuses, representing, like your character's [[UnconventionalAlignment chosen belief system]], a unique way of coping with the world.

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* TheBerserker: The undead Nameless Soldier's fractured memories have him believing he's still in wartorn France. In combat, he has a chance every turn to go berserk, attacking a random target, friend or foe, with his equipped weapon.

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* TheBerserker: The undead Nameless Soldier's fractured memories have him believing he's still in wartorn France. In combat, he has a chance every turn to go berserk, attacking a random target, friend target (friend or foe, foe) with his equipped weapon.



* GoMadFromTheRevelation: A gameplay mechanic which takes two main forms: the SanityMeter, damaged by environment and the appearance of monsters which should not be, as well as functioning as your ManaMeter for casting spells; and Angst, primarily increased by the horrible actions you must undertake to survive, such as watching harm come to others or causing it yourself and all kinds of combat -- a kind of anti-ExperiencePoints. If your Sanity drops low enough, near or below the halfway mark over an extended period of time, your character will go mad, randomly receiving one of the game's HollywoodPersonalityDisorders, also permanent: [[FunnySchizophrenia Schizophrenia]], Paranoia, Mania, Psychopathy. Each comes with its own quirks -- penalties but also unique bonuses, representing, like your character's [[UnconventionalAlignment chosen belief system]], a unique way of coping with the world.

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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: A gameplay mechanic which takes two main forms: the SanityMeter, damaged by environment and the appearance of monsters which should not be, as well as functioning as your ManaMeter for casting spells; and Angst, primarily increased by the horrible actions you must undertake to survive, such as watching harm come to others or causing it yourself and all kinds of combat -- a kind of anti-ExperiencePoints. If your Sanity drops low enough, near or below the halfway mark over an extended period of time, your character will go mad, randomly receiving one of the game's HollywoodPersonalityDisorders, also permanent: [[FunnySchizophrenia Schizophrenia]], Paranoia, Mania, or Psychopathy. Each comes with its own quirks -- penalties but also unique bonuses, representing, like your character's [[UnconventionalAlignment chosen belief system]], a unique way of coping with the world.world.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Companion Sonia Greene Carter is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Greene Sonia Greene Lovecraft Davis]], apart from being married to Lovecraft's AuthorAvatar Randolph Carter instead of Lovecraft himself. Like the real-life Greene, she was a horror author in her own right and worked in New York as a milliner. In-game, instead of amicably separating after a few years, this version of Greene has become an OccultDetective, searching for her missing husband Carter.



** Lovecraft's AuthorAvatar Randolph Carter, protagonist of "The Unnamable", "The Silver Key", and ''Literature/TheDreamQuestOfUnknownKadath'', is here shown to be a [[ComicBookFantasyCasting dead ringer for the author himself]]. You meet him in a dream, and his wife, Sonia Greene Carter (based on and named after Lovecraft's actual wife), is another of your potential companions, in the game a horror author in her own right -- and an OccultDetective, searching for her missing husband.

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** Lovecraft's AuthorAvatar Randolph Carter, protagonist of "The Unnamable", "The Silver Key", and ''Literature/TheDreamQuestOfUnknownKadath'', is here shown to be a [[ComicBookFantasyCasting dead ringer for the author himself]]. You meet him in a dream, and his wife, Sonia Greene Carter (based on and named after Lovecraft's actual wife), is another of your potential companions, in the game a horror author in her own right -- and an OccultDetective, searching for her missing husband.companions.

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* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: The player character can have a maximum of two "proper" companions and one hired fighter who goes away if you run out of cigs to retain his services.

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* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: The player character can have a maximum of two "proper" companions (out of three total) and one hired fighter who goes away henchman at a time. The main henchmen, Eduardo, leaves if you run out of cigs to retain his services.services; the other two are only available temporarily, during the quest to clear out the Marsh warehouse and [[spoiler:on the surface of Nithon]] respectively. [[spoiler:Eduardo [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere decides he's had enough and leaves the party]] if he's still with you after the Blasted Street.]]



* LovableRogue: Henchman Eduardo presents himself to you as such, a [[LatinLover Cubano bon vivant]], [[HiredGuns gun for hire]] and knife fighter who's happy to do your killing for you so long as you pay him 20 cigs a day. He freely admits that he would have been a criminal before the Black Day, but he's very much ALighterShadeOfBlack compared to the Mob.



* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:Stanley Fredkin, reduced to a BrainInAJar by the Mi-Go.]]

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* WasOnceAMan: Many cases straight out of the Mythos: [[spoiler:Stanley Fredkin, reduced to a BrainInAJar by the Mi-Go.Mi-Go; the ghouls in the Marsh warehouse were presumably human once; and the TwoBeingsOneBody horrors in the Blasted Street only became fused together under the influence of the meteor.]]

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