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{{quote| ''Shena's ass is the best.'' -Random NPCs}}
{{quote| ''Your pet is running toward you gleefully! It's a...[[Dogs Are Dumb|dog!]] [[Cats Are Mean|Cat!]] [[
Some roguelikes want you to die. Other roguelikes want you to die as painfully as possible. [[
More a life sim and normal RPG than a straight up roguelike, Elona was designed to allow players to play with no specific goals in mind, doing whatever they want in the open sandbox world of North Tyris. The world of Elona is plagued by an airborn blight known as Etherwind. You are an adventurer, fresh from the boat, ready to explore and make your mark on the land. Start a farm, run a museum, be a shopkeeper, go adventuring, or raise pets to duel in the monster arena. If you really feel like it, you can do all of those and more.
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[http://elona.wikia.com/wiki/Elona_Wiki Elona wiki.]
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* [[Action Bomb]]: Some characters explode themselves as a tactic. This can be aggravating as other characters with that ability will also explode in a chain reaction. And of course, there's the possiblity of your [[Escort Mission|escort]] being a [[Action Bomb]] itself.
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** A lot of NPCs will dislike your performances, and gladly express their discontentment by way of rocks, until you trained it enough. And since they're generally higher leveled than you at first, it'll usually result in you being gibbed.
** While he is not quite as strong, Gilbert is also a renowned music critic, if you see someone that looks like a knight in your partytime quest, zap him away before you begin playing.
* [[Dual
** Mutants, the only class which can gain limbs without heavy cheat engine editing, can, with some amazing save-scumming skills, take this [[Up to Eleven]] quite literally, though there's a steep accuracy decline starting from the fifth arm.
* [[Empty Levels]]: Your skills and stats level up independently from your actual character level, and it's possible to increase either without increasing the other. Increasing the character level and nothing else has few benefits and is usually a bad idea. (Thankfully, it's hard to do accidentally and can be undone.)
* [[Escort Mission]]: One of the various quests availiable. This can be as simple as just going to the destination, or having to deal with assassins as well.
* [[
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Averted, neutral NPCs will often spawn in dungeons and wilderness areas and attack hostile monsters.
** Also, any monster spawned by a book reading or a spell cast in confusion has a chance of coming out neutral. For small creatures, this is a boon, as they will respawn in the town they are summoned in until you catch them or otherwise force them to stop appearing (though it's slightly buggy, sometimes they don't respawn for ages, or not at all, since they aren't originally a part of the town.) For large creatures, it sure is nice having a sky golem spawn on your side after you inadvertently summon a master lich. They will engage any hostile monsters just as a normal neutral character such as a rogue archer or mercenary would do.
* [[Evolving Weapon]]: This, along with [[Living Weapon]], are what some artifacts can be. Using them too much eventually becomes fatal.
* [[Five Races]]: A bit different than usual, as there are 11 official races, but they're similar to or hybrids of the five races listed.
** Snails (yes, salt kills them instantly) would count as a cute race, except they are better at nothing that the other races can't do better. They're explicitly described as [[Self
* [[Extreme Omnisexual]]: Your character can marry and create a "gene" with your party members. They can be anything from [[Eldritch Abomination|yith]], [[But You Screw One Goat!|animals]], to little girls.
* [[Game Mod]]: While the game's coding prevents any large modifications to actual gameplay, a lot of small things, ranging from portraits, sprites, music, or game text, can be easily changed by altering the config files.
* [[Hello Nurse]]: Everyone loves Shena's ass.
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* [[Interchangeable Antimatter Keys]]: Averted. There actually aren't any keys, only lockpicks which may break depending on how skilled you are at lockpicking.
* [[Izchaks Wrath]]: Applies not only to shopkeepers, but to anyone who sees you trying to pick up something that isn't yours. Like a piece of garbage. The most you can do is secretly eat displayed foods, which never gets you caught.
* [[Joke Character]]: You can play as a snail as a [[Self
** [[Lethal Joke Character]]: ...Or a dinosaur, or a dragon, or a God...
* [[Karma Houdini]]: But only if you're careful. For instance, you can't kill the guy who wants you to kill cats for him, or a person who just cut down a prostitute in cold blood, without taking a karma hit. That said, you can break the minds of children (which leads them to kill themselves), send beggars to Hell, and summon a bunch of monsters to wipe out some weaker NPCs, and simply teleport away while laughing. With the proper feat, you can even nuke a city and still not be considered a criminal.
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* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: The brooding man ([[Awesome McCoolname|Whom Dwell in the Vanity]]) at the Vernis graveyard has this -- red and blue, too!
* [[Monster Arena]]: For your pets, which may be monsters. You can also fight there, but the ranks for you and your pets are seperate.
* [[Multi
* [[Named Weapons]]: All artifacts are this, thanks to the random name generator the game uses.
** Also can result in some [[Crowning Moments Of Funny]] due to name/ability/skillboost combination as well...
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** There are also [[Alien (Film)|certain lifeforms that can impregnate you and then burst out of your chest]].
** There's a currently unimplemented card game called [[Yu-Gi-Oh|Wizards and Magic]].
** There's also [[HP Lovecraft|Shub Niggurath]] appearing as a rare encounter. Strangely, it's not too hostile, and will instead render you insane, then summon loads and LOADS of much more dangerous creatures like adamantium golems before teleporting away. And yes, a properly built martial artist CAN [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|punch it to death]] before it does either of these. (Think [[Final Fantasy]] [[Charles Atlas Superpower|Black Belt]]). Beware of being trapped in a corner by it, however. If there's little room to maneuver it, er...kinda...tentacle rapes you, I guess.
** The [[Akira (Manga)|Kaneda Bike]].
** As of Version 1.16, there's a high level dungeon called The Void which requires you to defeat several void masters in order to proceed further into the void. The last void master turns out to be {{spoiler|the @ symbol, a.k.a the player character from [[Nethack]]}}
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** Noel's passive dialogue is a word for word reference to [[The Tick|The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight.]] [[Evil Laugh|Ahahahahaha!]]
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: Pretty much averted for the most part. Random encounters on the world map will scale according to your distance from the nearest town and fame, which is a sort of measure of your heroic deeds (or lack thereof). Dungeons such as the pre-generated level 666 castle can be found on the road between two cities. Randomly generated dungeons of varying difficulty can also spawn next to your starting location.
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness]]: Played more or less straight. However, it is possible (albeit very unlikely) to find an [[Infinity
* [[Sword and Gun]]: Thanks to the way Elona handles equipment, this is usually taken to the next step, namely Sword and Shield and Gun. If you're a mutant, you'll probably find yourself equipped with a [[Up to Eleven|Sword and Shield and Axe and Spear and Sword and Gun and...]]
* [[This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman]]: The Performance Quests will be largely this for the otherwise mostly incapable Pianist class, which is the only class that can perform those quests reasonably well without tons of grinding.
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