History VideoGame / WeirdAndUnfortunateThingsAreHappening

''[[http://rpgmaker.net/games/8394/ Weird and Unfortunate Things Are Happening]]'' is an RPG by Creator/UnityRPG. The game uses ''[[UsefulNotes/RPGMaker RPG Maker VX Ace]]'' as its engine. After five years of development, the game was released on October 19th, 2020. A UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} version of the game was released on February 6, 2023, with a store page [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/2274410/Weird_and_Unfortunate_Things_Are_Happening/ here]].

* AntiGrinding: If the player fights enough battles in an area, the encounter gauge will turn yellow and fill more slowly. Subverted when the clinic introduces alarm robots, who can summon an enemy team on contact and respawns when the player reenters the room.

* BaitAndSwitch: Miriam initially seems to be the BadassNormal of the party, a staple of games influenced by ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'', until she bonds with Farduon the Scourge and gains psychic abilities in her own right.

* RetGone: The town of Daybreak; the entrance to the town disappeared and taxi drivers have no knowledge of it. Only Alicia remembers. [[spoiler:In the ending, the four party members and some other characters make it out, but it's too late to save Daybreak- Lamar in particular notes that it'll be hard to find work with a "Daybreak-sized hole" in his resume.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: Miriam initially seems to be the BadassNormal of the party, a staple of games influenced by ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'', until she bonds with Farduon the Scourge and gains psychic abilities in her own right.

* {{Cap}}: The inventory stack on items are capped at 50, and any above that simply disappear. Not that you're likely to ever have this happen since inventory items are so limited and never sold at shops.

* CosmicHorrorStory: Hoo boy, where to start? An invasion by a group of beings from another dimension? The fact that such beings have power that is so immense that the only reason the heroes have any chance against them is that another group of beings is empowering the heroes? Or maybe the fact that [[spoiler: the ending implies that the same beings empowering the heroes have sinister designs for Earth and have just successfully removed the only being that might have opposed them?]] Despite the cartoonish art style, this is very much a tale of cosmic horror.

''[[http://rpgmaker.net/games/8394/ Weird and Unfortunate Things Are Happening]]'' is an RPG by Creator/UnityRPG. The game uses ''[[UsefulNotes/RPGMaker RPG Maker VX Ace]]'' as its engine. After five years of development, the game was released on October 19th, 2020. A UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} version of the game will be released on February 6, 2023, with a store page [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/2274410/Weird_and_Unfortunate_Things_Are_Happening/ here]].

''[[http://rpgmaker.net/games/8394/ Weird and Unfortunate Things Are Happening]]'' is an RPG by Creator/UnityRPG. The game uses ''[[UsefulNotes/RPGMaker RPG Maker VX Ace]]'' as its engine. After five years of development, the game was released on October 19th, 2020.

->'''THERE IS NO NIGHTMARE IN DAYBREAK. THE CITY IS ABSOLUTELY FINE. PLEASE FORGET THAT IT EVER EXISTED.'''

-->'''[[BlatantLies THERE IS NO NIGHTMARE IN DAYBREAK. THE CITY IS ABSOLUTELY FINE.]] [[RetGone PLEASE FORGET THAT IT EVER EXISTED.]]'''

** Cephalopup: A dog's head on-top of a octopus / Cephalopod body. But it's also a dog-for-cat twist on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octocat Octocat]] when people turn the "-pus" of "Octopus" to be "puss" another way to refer to cats.

* ThrowTheBookAtThem: How Lamar attacks, by whacking things with the current book / Grimoire he has equipped. It also gives him SP. The FlavorText for Lamar's starting skill, "Book Impact", is "Strike 'em with a book." After he gets "Ghost Puncher", "Hurts ghosts, too?" is added to it. After [[spoiler:he bonds with "Ginyangu"]], it becomes "Book Learning", and loses that FlavorText.

** Cephalopup: A dog's head on-top of a octopus / Cephalopod body.

And then suddenly, the town Dottie lives in disappears off the face of the earth. Daybreak has never existed, at least, to everyone except Alicia. She finds her way inside the erased city, pulled into the extradimensional Vedim Space, which is now full of monsters as well as the mysterious forgotten deities who call themselves Evocations- the inhabitants of the Dereleth Expanse- and who are binding themselves to humans.

* AlienInvasion: Overlapping somewhat with TheLegionsOfHell, the inhabitants of the Dereleth Expanse, led by the [[EldritchAbomination Inner Evocations]], have taken over the city of Daybreak and turned it into a pocket dimension, intending to [[spoiler:turn it and all of Earth into a copy of their destroyed homeland]]. Luckily, the Outer Evocations, Zlonyth, and some friendly Derelethians are also there to aid the heroes in fighting back, [[spoiler:though the Outers seem to have their own wicked agendas for Earth]].
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The extra-dimensional inhabitants of the Dereleth Expanse, ranging from lowly monsters to the full-blown {{eldritch|Abomination}} gods called Evocations, are fully capable of communicating with the humans of Daybreak. They have their own language as well, but it's a CipherLanguage with a direct translation to English letters, plus a handful of cyphers that correspond to certain words.

* BigBadDuumvirate: The four [[EldritchAbomination Inner Evocations]]- [[PsychopathicManchild Ailtur the Noxious]], [[NoNonsenseNemesis Moror the Voracious]], [[TheHeavy Chagora the Enraged]], and [[DarkActionGirl Phritotch the Unknowable]]- are the entities who turned Daybreak into a hellhole pocket dimension and kidnapped Dottie in order to [[spoiler:use her powers to revive their mother, Xelanyel the Matriarch, and turn the planet into a copy of their ruined home Dereleth]]. While Phritotch is officially their leader, they act more like equals, with the other three having a lot of autonomy and being willing to disobey her orders.

* EldritchLocation: Vedim Space and the Dereleth Expanse, being extradimensional, and if you try to flee the Expanse away from the direction the plot is going, you basically run in place.

* FailedASpotCheck: The party makes it to Dottie's house, only to find it's empty. When they run into Viola and Erick, the two remind them that today is a school day, so Dottie would have been at school the moment the Dereleth invasion started.

** [[spoiler:Uratheul]], TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, is the Dereleth Expanse equivalent of Hell, said by Elothu to be where "condemned miscreants" are imprisoned. While not quite a FireAndBrimstoneHell, it is a rather eldritch-looking place with five sections- a creepy church, a womb-like area, an enchanted forest, and two strange maze-like areas. It also houses the toughest enemies in the main game.

* HonestAxe: One of the Fools Spaces has you drop a broken key in a pond, upon which a fairy will ask if you dropped the broken one or shiny golden one. Naturally, choosing the broken one gives you a fully-repaired Fools Key while lying gives you nothing.

* AntiGrinding: If the player fights enough battles in an area, the encounter gauge will turn yellow and fill more slowly.