Lost Souls MUD: Difference between revisions

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* [[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.

* [[Art Major Biology]]: In particular, the [[Square Cube Law]] appears to have been repealed.

* [[Art Major Biology]]: In particular, the [[Square-Cube Law]] appears to have been repealed.

* [[ASCII Art]]: Shows up here and there, such as in depictions of Ringwielder power runes and chakra glyphs.

* [[Auto Revive]]: A variety of "life protection" effects, with the most classic being the Amulet of Life Protection.

* [[Badass]]: The fun part of being a high-level player is the going toe to toe with elder gods.

* [[Badass Creed]]: See [[Pre Ass Kicking One Liner]], below.

* [[Badass Creed]]: See [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]], below.

* [[Bag of Sharing]]: Played straight by the Ringwielder rune "glochar", which accesses a shared extradimensional storage space, and the Jinxian Plutocracy hoop, which is a portal to a shared vault.

* [[Bandit Mook]]: Several cities are lousy with pickpockets who will hock your stuff at the nearest shop; they and plenty others will happily loot your corpse if you die.

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* [[Destroyable Items]]

* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: Very big on supporting emergent gameplay.

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu]]: Literally; there is a quest to kill Cthulhu. Cthulhu, as is its habit, reforms in a few minutes, of course.

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Literally; there is a quest to kill Cthulhu. Cthulhu, as is its habit, reforms in a few minutes, of course.

* [[Died Standing Up]]: A trait called "thanatogalvanism", naturally occurring in such notable species as chickens and giant chickens, as well as achievable by those in a berserker rage, results in one's body continuing to move, and even spasmodically fight, past the nominal point of death, including by decapitation.

* [[Difficult but Awesome]]: Various guilds, particularly the Aligned, artist-philosopher-magicians with a huge array of abilities that work by highly esoteric logic, as well as the entire game, which doesn't have quite the learning curve of [[Dwarf Fortress]] but gives it a run for its money.

* [[Disintegrator Ray]]: The bezhuldaar (read "beholder") disruption beam power.

* [[Divine Ranks]]

* [[Dual Wielding]]: For the merely two-handed; see Multi Armed And Dangerous below.

* [[Dual-Wielding]]: For the merely two-handed; see Multi Armed And Dangerous below.

* [[Diminishing Returns for Balance]]

* [[Drop the Hammer]]

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* [[Eldritch Abomination]]

* [[Eldritch Location]]

* [[Elemental Rock Paper Scissors]]

* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]

* [[Encyclopedia Exposita]]: A selection of in-game books serve this purpose.

* [[Endless Game]]

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* [[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.

* [[Food As Bribe]]: The most pleasant way of getting past Kerberos, the three-headed dog guarding the fiery portal from the cave of Tainaron to the River Tethys.

* [[~~Frankensteins~~ Monster]]: Flesh golems.

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

* [[Functional Magic]]

* [[Game Favored Gender]]: Arguably, females have it better due to the unmarried-female-only Spearmaidens and some divine sexism in Erisian Liberation Front invocations.

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* [[Get Back Here Boss]]: The most notorious offender is Finwe, who, if seriously wounded, is perfectly willing and able to teleport himself to an extraplanar refuge and heal up before continuing battle.

* [[Global Currency]]: Gold coins. A development initiative to create regional currencies stalled out.

* [[God Emperor]]: Ahrikol.

* [[God-Emperor]]: Ahrikol.

* [[God in Human Form]]: What players generally think of as fighting gods is generally fighting their avatars.

* [[God of Evil]]: Asmodai.

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* [[Intercourse With You]]: The Nizari, assassins in the service of Kali, sometimes earn ''a great deal'' of Kali's favor.

* [[In Universe Game Clock]]: Two ''Lost Souls'' seconds equal one RL second; six-day week, 10-month year, 30-hour day.

* [[Is That What ~~Theyre~~ Calling It Now]]: The Erotic Arts skill.

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

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

* [[Ki Attacks]]: Sufficiently enlightened Aisenshi gain access to the chi punch and chi kick maneuvers, unarmed attacks that do a combination of physical and energy-based damage, not to mention leaving a sparkly trail behind in the air.

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* [[Loads and Loads of Races]]: Forty-two initially visible to new players, with more available under unusual circumstances.

* [[Luck Stat]]: Luck was once, but is no longer, one of the core character stats, or "attributes". But luck is still around, now as a "trait" that a character may or may not have (and may be good luck or bad luck).

* [[Luckily My Shield Will Protect Me]]: Shields are very effective, and can block attacks like fiery breath and many magical spells that cannot be parried.

* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]: Shields are very effective, and can block attacks like fiery breath and many magical spells that cannot be parried.

* [[Ludicrous Speed]]: Seen in the Phylactery of Blinding Speed, a cursed item that makes you ''a lot'' faster... to the point that the vision centers of your brain can't process the incoming information any more and cease functioning.

* [[Made of Explodium]]: The "clockwork orange" monster (oh hey, wonder if that's a reference), a sort of self-guided living bomb.

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* [[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.

* [[Multi Armed and Dangerous]]: Some easily accessible races have four hands, and a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoggoth Shoggoth] can have, like, lots.

* [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous]]: Some easily accessible races have four hands, and a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoggoth Shoggoth] can have, like, lots.

* [[Mythopoeia]]

* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: The most well-known instance of this is in [[http://wiki.lostsouls.org/Hastur_

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* [[Olympic Swimmer]]: People routinely swim between continents, though flying is preferred because it's immensely faster. Trying to swim between continents wearing plate armour may not work out, though.

* [[Ominous Floating Castle]]: Darkhold.

* [[One Gender Race]]: There are a few of these, starting with fantasy staples of male-only satyrs and female-only nymphs. In less prosaic fare, Kali has a servitor race, the dakshina, who only seem to come in a female model, and the aethoss tree-folk are all hermaphrodites (though this implies considerably different things in a plant lifeform than it would in a human).

* [[One-Gender Race]]: There are a few of these, starting with fantasy staples of male-only satyrs and female-only nymphs. In less prosaic fare, Kali has a servitor race, the dakshina, who only seem to come in a female model, and the aethoss tree-folk are all hermaphrodites (though this implies considerably different things in a plant lifeform than it would in a human).

* [[One Hit Polykill]]: Probably best seen in the Ringwielder rune "zerivalak", chain lightning.

* [[One-Hit Polykill]]: Probably best seen in the Ringwielder rune "zerivalak", chain lightning.

* [[One Winged Angel]]: Most popular in Corna, but shows up occasionally elsewhere.

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: Most popular in Corna, but shows up occasionally elsewhere.

* [[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.

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* [[Point Build System]]

* [[Post Modernism]]

* [[Power Up]]

* [[Power-Up]]

* [[Powered Armor]]: Sentinel steampunk power armour suits, and arguably the paraxos class of chaos armours.

* [[Powers That Be]]: The gods.

* [[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'':

* [[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'':

{{quote| I do not aim with my hand.<br />

He who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.<br />

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* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Green Lantern Corps rings don't work against ''iron''.

* [[Welcome to Corneria]]: NPCs are not generally great conversationalists; mostly when they have anything useful to say, the out-of-character "info" command shows you what verbal cues they will respond to. (An exception is that in several towns, NPCs can be asked for directions to interesting places in the town in a fairly freeform fashion.)

* [[Well Intentioned Extremist]]: Arguably, Kalyxes the Shadow Lord, who imprisons people he has determined to pose a threat to "balance", based on magical divination -- that is, he locks them up because of what they ''otherwise would do'', in a fantasy version of "precrime" a la [[Minority Report]].

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Arguably, Kalyxes the Shadow Lord, who imprisons people he has determined to pose a threat to "balance", based on magical divination -- that is, he locks them up because of what they ''otherwise would do'', in a fantasy version of "precrime" a la [[Minority Report]].

* [[Wizard Needs Food Badly]]

* [[World of Chaos]]: The Exoma, very literally.

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