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8	-> "HE GIANT LICH ON TOP OF TOWER. YOU WANT KILL HIM."
9	-->'''Spinal_Taper'''
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11	''You At Final Boss'' is a Roleplay/RollToDodge game on the Roleplay/{{Bay 12\|PlayByPostGames}} forums. It is considered to be the [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative largest, longest-running minimalist Roll to Dodge in history.]]
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13	As the page quote indicates, the "plot" was originally that the players were trying to slay an evil lich in a tower. Since then, it has... ''slightly'' [[OffTheRails derailed]]. Now, [[ItMakesSenseInContext after many changes of arena, boss, and players,]] it is a struggle between [[GenderBender the lichette]] [[InterspeciesRomance and her husband Dirg]]; [[TheEmpire a massive interstellar empire lead by misko27]]; [[{{VideoGame/Portal}} Aperture Science]], led by "Pragmatic Good" OnlySaneMan mecha-dragon [=GreatWyrmGold=] and located on a spaceship; [[TestosteronePoisoning the Manly Men]], led by [[HeelFaceTurn former]] [[OmnicidalManiac attempted omnicidalist Xantalos]]; [[TheAlcoholic The Drunken Fools]], led by Yoink; [[FluffyTheTerrible Tim]]; and many others, [[DoubleAgent including "members" of the aforementioned sides]].
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15	Read the insanity [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=113993.0 here.]]
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18	!!''You At Final Boss'' contains examples of:
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20	%%* AboveGoodAndEvil: misko27 claims to be this.
21	%%* AbsoluteXenophobe: misko27
22	* BadBoss: [[EvilOverlord misko27]] threatened [=GreatWyrmGold=] repeatedly for his questioning of the former's orders and arguments with Xantalos.
23	%%* BeleagueredAssistant: [[OnlySaneEmployee GreatWyrmGold]] saw himself as this while working with misko27.
24	%%* BigBad: Originally the lich.
25	%%* BossBanter: Also banter from...well, just about everyone.
26	%%* BossBattle: Originally. [[OffTheRails Not so anymore.]]
27	%%* BossGame: Originally. Now there's a lot of enemies to choose from, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder mostly other players]].
28	%%* CardCarryingVillain: Xantalos, misko27, and a few others.
29	%%* TheChessmaster:
30	%%** misko27 attempted to be this. The dice had other ideas.
31	%%** As did [=GreatWyrmGold=], Corai, Xantalos, pretty much everyone else...
32	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Most people, to some extent. [=GreatWyrmGold=] has been accused of this to a great extent, due to not really fitting in with either of the two main factions. Currently, he is leaning more towards the Romantics.
33	%%* CloudCuckooLander: [[CloudCuckooLand Almost everyone.]]
34	* ConservationOfCompetence: Either [[StupidEvil misko27]] was a foolish leader leading (among others) [[OnlySaneMan GreatWyrmGold]], or [[EvilOverlord misko27]] was successful in stopping [[CloudCuckooLander Great]][[TheStarscream Wyrm]][[StupidGood Gold]] from attacking him.
35	* TheDragon: [[OmnicidalManiac Xantalos]] used to be one for [[EvilOverlord misko27]]. Long before that, Corai was the main (if not sole) minion for the lich, and remarkably effective.
36	* DeathIsCheap: Players typically return within a turn.
37	* DuelBoss: At one point, Corai and the lich could be seen as this. Currently, the Paladins see [[StarCrossedLovers Dirg and the lichette]] as this.
38	* ExactTimeToFailure: Subverted; the countdown didn't do anything when it hit 0.5, and hasn't dropped past that.
39	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: [[OmnicidalManiac Xantalos]]'s attempts to destroy the universe.
40	* FaceHeelTurn: Corai defected to the lich's side early on. Later on, either Dirg or misko27 did as well.
41	%%* FinalBoss: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Of course!]]
42	* GenderBender: The lich, after many transformations, became a "lichette" and [[InterspeciesRomance married Dirg]]. Corai was later attacked with Rule 63 and turned into the leader of womanly women by Misko.
43	%%** Dirg is often accused of this.
44	* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Tim showed up without much explanation beyond, "There are too many factions."
45	%%* HeelFaceTurn: Possibly when [=GreatWyrmGold=] formed the [[TakeAThirdOption Moderates]].
46	* LongRunners: For a minimalist Roll to Dodge, at least. Most don't reach 30 pages; You At Final Boss has over ''200'', plus an Out of Character thread of about the same length.
47	* LoneWolfBoss: Any faction leader not directly associated with the lich can be seen as this.
48	* MarathonBoss: As noted by the Long Runner entry, it's taken a while...and the lich still isn't dead!
49	%%* NewBossNewDimension: Played with. New dimensions were entered regularly early on, ranging from Hell to the galactic core to [[Videogame/Portal Aperture Science]] to [[RunningGag a mountain of ice cream]]...
50	* OmnicidalManiac: Xantalos, until he gave up, destroyed a VideoGame/{{Spore}} universe, and founded [[TestosteronePoisoning the Manly Men faction]].
51	%%** Also da_nang's Void faction
52	* OnlySaneMan: [=GreatWyrmGold=] claims to be this, and while he's a bit crazy himself, [[CloudCuckooLand he may be right]].
53	%%* OnlySaneEmployee: GreatWyrmGold saw himself as the Only Sane Minion while working under misko27.
54	* OurLichesAreDifferent: The lich has undergone many transformations, including an orb which was the source of all magic and a "lichette." He also had a blade made of souls of the damned for a while.
55	%%* PlayableEpilogue: For a single turn.
56	* ThePowerOfFriendship: Allegedly the only way to defeat the lich. [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Never confirmed.]]
57	* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Faction leaders get bonuses to ALL rolls. This led to the creation of several factions, which (in turn) lead to [[OhCrap someone with a higher bonus than anyone and a gun]] that [[OneHitKO kills any player in one hit]] ([[DeathIsCheap temporarily]], although [[ContinuingIsPainful with a lowered bonus if a faction leader]]).
58	* RunningGag: Early on, ice cream made an appearance in many failed rolls.
59	%%* TheStarscream: [[EvilOverlord misko27]] saw GreatWyrmGold to be this.
60	%%* ThatOneAttack: Tim's [[OneHitKill gun]]
61	* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: After the epilogue, lampshaded with a PotHole to Website/ThisVeryWiki by Corai.
62	--> '''[=GreatWyrmGold=]:''' I still hit my goal. [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Female canine.]]
63	%%* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Early on, this was common. Later, Spinal_Taper stopped this, to prevent headaches on his part.
64	* WeaksauceWeakness: The lich was supposedly weak to teamwork. [[WithFriendsLikeThese This was never confirmed.]]
65	* WideOpenSandbox: People have gone off and done crazy things unrelated to fighting the lich or whomever, notably Yoink's drunken escapades.

Context Roleplay / YouAtFinalBoss