Line #20 PlayingWith/PartyScattering


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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