Lost Souls MUD: Difference between revisions

 

* [[Absurdly High Level Cap]]: The maximum level is 675. According to developers, the limit only exists because of integer overflow problems on [[Experience Point]] values, and if anybody were to actually reach level 675, experience would be re-implemented using floating point math, removing the cap.

* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Losthaven and Liathyr have genre-conventional dungeon-style sewers.

* [[Acquired Poison Immunity]]: Once you have any degree of poison resistance, exposure to poison will develop it further.

* [[Addressing the Player]]

* [[All the Myriad Ways]]: Planes of existence called "cosms" potentially amount to unlimited alternate worlds.

* [[An Adventurer Is You]]

* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: If you complete the Lost Centaur quest as a new player, you get a very useful portable hole item. If you complete it later, you get... decorative hair combs.

* [[Arrow Catch]]: Characters with the Situational Awareness trait (such as those using the combat meditation skill or the battledancer psionic talent) can do this.

* [[The Big Guy]]: Fezzik, and the guild he heads, the Brute Squad.

* [[Bond Creatures]]: A number of guilds are built around an empathic bonding faculty vaguely inspired by [[His Dark Materials]].

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Some NPCs are aware that some of the people found in their world are the puppets of beings from an entirely different order of reality -- that is, [[Player Characters]]. One has written a book about it.

* [[Breath Weapon]]: A number of species breathe fire by way of phlogiston glands. Esoteric breath weapons are explained by phlogiston absorbing magical essences that infuse the glands' owner.

* [[Evil Weapon]]: Quite a few of them, actually.

* [[Easing Into the Adventure]]: Traditional sewer rat-bashing startup available, for the old school.

* [[Easy Exp]]: Exploration experience; i.e., experience for wandering around gawking.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]

* [[Eye Beams]]: Used extensively by the bezhuldaar (read "beholder") race, and found in a number of other instances; the demonic fomor race has heat-vision-like eyebeams.

* [[Fantasy Pantheon]]

* [[Finishing Move]]: A number of guilds have instant-kill powers that can only affect mortally wounded opponents; players and developers alike generally refer to these as finishing moves, though there is no formal categorization involved. Some are up to [[Mortal Kombat]] levels of violence, like the Ringwielder rune "arkonaad", which causes the victim to explode with sufficient force that its flying limbs can cause serious injuries to bystanders.

* [[Frankenstein's Monster]]: Flesh golems.

* [[Functional Magic]]

* [[Green Rocks]]: Warpstones, which can randomize your race, sex, coloration (and we mean ''highly'' random, as in fuchsia eyes and pink polka-dotted skin), and attributes.

* [[Guide Dang It]]: But the guide is [http://wiki.lostsouls.org/ a dedicated wiki], so that's all right.

* [[Hit Points]]

* [[Hollywood Psych]]

* [[I Call It Vera]]: Nicknaming support allows you to call your weapon, or nearly anything, whatever you like (and automatically continue to perceive it by that name).

* [[Improbable Weapon]]: Basically any physical object is wieldable as a weapon, but yo-yos (note that the yo-yo was actually originally designed as a weapon), magical flowers and umbrellas exist in particular, as well as weapons that randomly shapeshift into odd forms. Players who achieve extreme size and carrying capacity have demonstrated a fondness for wielding the Losthaven clock tower as a weapon.

* [[Is That What They're Calling It Now?]]: The Erotic Arts skill.

* [[Item Crafting]]: Not that much of it, actually, but here and there.

* [[Mind Rape]]: A panoply of mental disorders exists, and powers to inflict them on people.

* [[Mini Game]]: Among others, the [http://wiki.lostsouls.org/Conceptual_navigation Conceptual Navigation] teleportation system.

* [[Mythopoeia]]

* [[New World Tease]]

* [[NPC Scheduling]]: Not universal, but a number of settlements have NPCs who, for example, run a shop during the day and go home at night. Tends to lead to more griping than anything, except in cases where the shop also has a night shift.

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: The dead god Scyros. His omnicidal mania is why he got put down (in some of the better-developed setting history).

* [[Order Versus Chaos]]

* [[Organ Drops]]: Organs can be cut from corpses. Players, apparently all channeling their inner 13-year-old boy, cannot seem to get over their amusement at one of said organs being the anus.

* [[Petting Zoo People]]: Playable races include cat-people (sekh), wolf-people (garou), minotaurs, fish-people (urlnu), bug-people (invae), and spider-people (rachnei), among others.

* [[Player Versus Player]]: There is a dedicated PVP group, the Soulburners, though it doesn't see a lot of action.

* [[Praetorian Guard]]: Once upon a time, the Millenarian Guard, imperial guard of the Altrian Empire. Their remaining legacy in the present day of the setting is the spectacularly enchanted armour that was reserved just for them.

* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: The Wandslinger Litany, based on the Gunslinger's Creed from [[The Dark Tower]], adapted for a slightly more medieval sort of fantasy setting. Wandslingers recite it in order to enter a [[Tranquil Fury]] state called "Wandslinger focus". If you hear this, ''duck'':

I kill with my heart. }}

** The gendered pronouns will automatically change to match the speaker's gender. In a further homage to a particular [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] from [[The Dark Tower]], if the Wandslinger currently suffers from the mental disorder Tourette's Syndrome, the last line is replaced with, "I kill with my heart, ''motherfucker''".

* [[Scratch Damage]]: Averted. Armour doesn't make you less likely to get hit, it absorbs damage.

* [[Seers]]: The soothsayer psionic talent.

* [[Shapeshifting]]

* [[Shapeshifting Squick]]: Players seem oddly fascinated by the... ''possibilities'' presented by shoggothim.

* [[Soul Jar]]: Necrolak's big black gem.

* [[Sssssnaketalk]]: Sentient reptilian species tend to display this. It isn't applied when they speak in their own languages, as extended sibilants are assumed to be an ordinary part of those, so it's mainly seen when snakey types talk the local equivalent of English, Anglic.

* [[Subsystem Damage]]: Limb-based hit points, and one of the sources of mental disorders is getting smacked in the head.

* [[Suicidal Overconfidence]]: Aggressive monsters do not display a lot of common sense.

* [[Tarot Motifs]]: Seen in the popular gamble-your-character mechanism, the Deck of Changes.

* [[A Taste of the Lash]]: The priestesshood of Tolmet from Temple Bloodmoon.

* [[Theme Naming]]: Seen in Imptropolis, home to the chaos imps Impartial, Impassable, Impassioned, Imperceptible, Imperfect, Imperious, Impertinent, Impinge, Impious, Implacable, Implicated, Implode, Impolite, Important, Importune, Impossible, Impostor, Impotent, Impound, Impoverished, Impractical, Imprisoned, Improbable, Improve, Impulsive, and Impure.

* [[Third Eye]]: The ajna chakra, which grants various perceptual benefits, including astral perception, when energized.

* [[The Undead]]: You bet. Undeath is handled as a general term for any situation where a being's continued existence is being sustained by processes other than its natural biology; player characters have a number of options for becoming undead.

* [[The Unintelligible]]: A mental disorder, productive aphasia, converts player characters and NPCs alike into this. Hilarity ensues.

 

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