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* DistractedByTheSexy: One of the upper bedrooms has been decorated with sexy posters by the Thousand Young. That room becomes one of the few safe ones through most of the game, as cultists and even some creatures looking for Stardust there will be too distracted by the posters to see her.
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** Ln'eta - Cthulhu, a betentacled Old One dreaming under the sea. The nature of her dream indicates she's also playing the role of [[spoiler:Azathoth]].
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* CessationOfExistence: [[spoiler:Since the realities that the games play out in are simply dreams of the eldritch gods, cutting them out does this, as they wake up. Immortal humans get put into a limbo state, unless the Eternal Sleeper (i.e. Azathoth) is waken up, in which case pretty much everyone else gets hit with this, bypassing immortality and such.]]
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* RippleEffectProofMemory: Touching a book of rituals partly gives this power to the protagonists, allowing them to remember events from the previous "realities" (as in, the previous dream of the Elder Gods they inhabited). Buck from ''Date to Die For'' also has this due to Rohk'zan's Kiss of Immortality letting him persist through the void between dreams.
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* RippleEffectProofMemory: Touching a book of rituals partly gives this power to the protagonists, allowing them to remember events from the previous "realities" (as in, the previous dream of the Elder Gods they inhabited). Buck [[spoiler:Buck from ''Date to Die For'' also has this due to Rohk'zan's Kiss of Immortality letting him persist through the void between dreams.]]
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: The Truth Ending. At the end of the game, Nyanlathotep provides Stardust the means and option to conduct the Uprooting Ritual a final time, rendering all of her and Rhok'zan's efforts throughout the game moot.]] See Through the Eyes of Madness and Wham Line below for more details.
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* PunctuationShaker: A subtle gag is that the names of the eldritch ladies are actually fairly [[TomTheDarkLord standard ones disguised as alien ones]]. So when pronounced outloud, these unknowable horrors are, in the end, known as "Lynetta", "Esther", and "Roxanne".
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* SadisticChoice: Kidd gives one to Stardust at the end of his route by telling his BrainwashedAndCrazy fans that he hates people who escape from burning buildings. If Stardust performs the Uprooting ritual and ignites the Black Woods, they'll throw themselves into the flames in devotion to Kidd, forcing Stardust to indirectly kill up to 5 innocent people if she doesn't surrender. Rohk'zan suggests that Stardust should TakeAThirdOption by killing Kidd to break his hold over the hostages, essentially turning the situation into the trolley problem. In the normal ending, [[spoiler:Stardust will admit that she can't bring herself to kill Kidd and leaves him and any remaining fans to die, but not before calling out Kidd's attempt to blame her for the result of his actions]]. In the true ending for the chapter, [[spoiler:she takes a ''fourth'' option and frees everyone to remove Kidd's leverage]].
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* ChekhovsGag: The plant mister, which spends most of the game as an optional RunningGag where Stardust can shut up whoever's talking to her. When it's picked up, the game mentions that it has another use, which comes into play when [[spoiler:Stardust needs to stop Nyanlothotep from capturing Buck and dooming the universe]].
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* NonStandardGameOver: The regular GameOver screen is a missing person's poster for Stardust, but if Stardust [[spoiler:allows Nyanlathotep to capture Buck at the end of Chapter 1000]], the screen will be completely blank to represent [[spoiler:Buck successfully managing to wake the Eternal Dreamer and erase everything]].
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* NonStandardGameOver: The regular GameOver screen is a missing person's poster for Stardust, but if Stardust [[spoiler:allows Nyanlathotep to capture Buck at the end of Chapter 1000]], the screen will be completely blank to represent [[spoiler:Buck successfully managing to wake the Eternal Dreamer Sleeper and erase everything]].
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* ActionizedSequel: It has much more interactive elements than the first game, mainly requiring the player to move between all the rooms in the house without being ambushed by the Thousand Young or the denizens of the Black Woods.
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* RunningGag: "Worcestershire sauce" being words that only eldritch beings can pronounce correctly.
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* GilliganCut: When D keeps insisting that Estir's demand to serve her for all eternity is exactly what marriage is, she says this:
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* GilliganCut: When D keeps insisting that Estir's demand to serve her for all eternity is exactly what marriage is, she says this:
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-->'''Estir''': "Eh? Y-you can't be serious, right?"
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* BaitAndSwitch: The start of Chapter 1000 has Stardust wake up to see what appears to be [[spoiler: Muu hanging from the ceiling dead. After a moment of panic, Muu's true body appears and reveals the librarian Stardust has been interacting with is just a lifelike puppet.]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: The start of Chapter 1000 has Stardust wake up to see what appears to be [[spoiler: Muu hanging from the ceiling dead. After a moment of panic, Muu's true body appears and reveals the librarian bookstore owner Stardust has been interacting with is just a lifelike puppet.]]
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* RippleEffectProofMemory: touching a book of rituals partly gives this power to the protagonists, allowing them to remember events from the previous "realities" (as in, the previous dream of the Elder Gods they inhabited). Buck from ''Date to Die For'' also has this due to Rohk'zan's Kiss of Immortality letting him persist through the void between dreams.
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* StealthPrequel: [[spoiler: Revealed to take place before ''First Date'' when the end of Chapter 1000 shows Rhok'zan talking about her dreams to a young Ln'eta and Estir, wondering if they'll find the same type of love some day]].
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* NonStandardGameOver: The regular GameOver screen is a missing person's poster for Stardust, but if Stardust [[spoiler:allows Nyanlathotep to capture Buck at the end of Chapter 1000]], the screen will be completely blank to represent [[spoiler:Buck successfully managing to wake the Eternal Dreamer and erase everything]].
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* ContinuityNod: The "Worcestershire sauce" gag from the first game comes up again, this time when Muu points out Stardust can't pronounce certain eldritch words.
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* TheGhost: Muu, the creator of the books, is mentioned but does not appear in ''First Date''. Nyanlathotep shows up with a book she intimidated her into making so that you can banish her, so that the figurative bridge between worlds stays severed for the mutual safety of both sides. [[spoiler:Muu double crosses her by hiding a banishing ritual and defenses against her torments in the book, but you have to be canny enough to spot it first.]] However, [[https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/2240790/ss_c5016ddb357066a63b5bdd9db219e15fa7f58461.jpg?t=1672804337 a screenshot]] for ''Date to Die For'' shows that she will appear in that installment.
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* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: It's revealed early on that Stardust is seeing an edited version of reality. She's unable to see when she's cripplingly wounded, and there are occasional flashes to reality, showing things are far more extreme than she sees at first. [[spoiler: In one transformation, she's a CuteMonsterGirl, but it flashes to show a much more extreme transformation, and she is bleating instead of speaking]]. It's shown in final ending [[spoiler: that Stardust has been [[MoreThanMindControl tricked into falling in love]] with the black wood despite attempting to destroy it at the beginning, just like the prophesy said.]]
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* WhamLine: In the Truth Ending of Episode 4 [[spoiler: Nyarlathotep [[IronicEcho repeats the warning]] from the beginning that everyone who tries to destroy the black woods ends up worshiping it. The entire plot of the game was fulfilling this curse.]]
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