1 | '''Basic Trope''': The main cast is involuntarily scattered across the world before they can reach their goal. |
2 | * '''Straight''': At the end of Act II of ''JustForFun/TalesOfTroperia DLC: The Alice Chronicles'', [[TheDragon Viscount Slaughter]] escapes the PlayerParty by casting the Displacement spell on them: Alice becomes trapped on the [[CirclesOfHell Sixth Circle of Hell]], Boudica is [[{{Robinsonade}} marooned]] on an IslandOfMystery, Charlie is chased by TheWildHunt through TheLostWoods, while Dmitri ends up in a ThirstyDesert and is promptly MadeASlave by the nomads. Act III then consists of {{Arbitrarily Serialized Simultaneous|Adventures}} {{Solo Sequence}}s where they find their individual ways back to the FirstTown. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Every living person on the entire planet (including the villains!) is kicked into a different parallel dimension by the spell. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice is teleported away from the rest of the party as she is about to land the finishing blow on TheDragon, and they have to go searching for her. |
5 | * '''Justified''': ??? |
6 | * '''Inverted''': The RagtagBunchOfMisfits is magically [[SummonEverymanHero summoned from different places]] for a mission. |
7 | * '''Subverted''': TheDragon's spell wears off after a few hours and the heroes are teleported back together again after a cutscene. |
8 | * '''Double Subverted''': The spell ''seems'' to wear off, allowing the party to exchange their locations, but takes effect once again, stranding them in their respective predicaments permanently. |
9 | * '''Parodied''': The party is scattered... into different rooms within the same building. |
10 | * '''Zig Zagged''': ??? |
11 | * '''Averted''': The party is never forcibly split at any point in the game. |
12 | * '''Enforced''': Every party member [[EveryoneHasASpecialMove gains a unique power]] post-scattering, and the devs decided to give each of them their own [[DayInTheLimelight mini-arc]] before they all join back together again. |
13 | * '''Lampshaded''': ??? |
14 | * '''Invoked''': ??? |
15 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
16 | * '''Defied''': It so happens that Charlie had a Recall spell [[CrazyPrepared prepared for just such an occasion]], allowing him to regather the entire party just in time to catch up with TheDragon. |
17 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
18 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
19 | * '''Played For Laughs''': Each party member lands in a personal IronicHell of the hilariously embarrassing variety: Alice is back with her excessively doting family, Boudica butts heads with a legion of {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s, Charlie joins a primitive tribe that holds him for TheFool, and Dmitri has to cross-dress to hide in a sultan's harem. |
20 | * '''Played For Drama''': Each party member believes themselves to be the SoleSurvivor, and much time is devoted to their feelings of loss and loneliness in the wake of their friends' presumed deaths. |
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22 | Back to PartyScattering. |
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24 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
25 | %% |
26 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
27 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
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