Ultima VII Part Two: Difference between revisions

* [[Apocalyptic Log]] - A very disturbing diary in White Dragon Castle that details {{spoiler|how the king brutally tortured everyone to death.}}

** As well as the Hyerophant Scroll which you get in the hidden cave right at the beggining of the game.

* [[Awesome but Impractical]] - The <s> Armageddon</s> Imbalance spell, which kills everyone except you.

* [[Bag of Spilling]] - Explained here, as your items are taken away by a magical storm. What's not explained is why you're back at level three, though.

** Also a [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]] moment. If you try and subvert this event by dropping all the affected items then walking to the trigger point for the storm, the results are the same. Justified as otherwise the early plot to recover them would make no sense.

* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti]] - The Gwani

* [[Commonplace Rare]]: One of the common reagents you use for spellcasting is mandrake, and indeed it can be found and bought in plenty of places. Later in the game, an NPC gives you the task to obtain mandrake. For some reason, only mandrake from one specific location qualifies, all the other mandrake doesn't work; and you can't get to that spot yet (semi-justified in that he wants ''fresh'' mandrake, and the stuff you can buy is presumably dried: it doesn't make a difference a spell reagent, though).

* [[Continuity Nod]]: In the previous game, repeatedly tapping a parrot with a mallet will eventually have him tell you coordinates where a treasure was located. Doing it in this game, the parrot eventually says "That will not work this time!"

** As well as the cause of the impending disaster. It's actually {{spoiler|a side effect of events in the third game}}.

* [[Convection, Schmonvection]] - Averted here, as your characters will complain about the heat in Furnace and lose health if you don't cast Chill on them.

* [[Cypher Language]] - The Ophidian script is essentially this - the design of the letters and the presence of the Transcribe spell makes it obvious that it wasn't designed for easy reading (Erstam even lampshades its non-intuitiveness in the manual). It has a 1 to 1 correspondence to the Latin alphabet, too.

* [[Darker and Edgier]] - Arguably more so than even [[Ultima VII|The Black Gate]]

* [[Hookers and Blow]]: When the Avatar is in the dream realm , he comes across Stefano, who is sitting on a throne surrounded by naked women (some of whom are playing tag). After discussing plot points with the Avatar, Stefano tells him/her to lighten up. If you have a ranged weapon you can kill his dream form and force him to wake up; he is not amused.

* [[Hospital Surprise]] - Played with here. If the Avatar is killed, s/he is teleported to Monk Isle. The monks try to teleport you back to where you were, though they do miss sometimes.

* [[Ironic Name]] - while Frigidazzi's name fits with her magic specialization, in romantic matters she's [[Anything That Moves|anything but frigid]].

* [[Kangaroo Court]] - TWICE. Dupre is put on trial in Fawn {{spoiler|which is being manipulated by Kalyista and Voldin}}, and the Avatar is put on trial in Moonshade.

* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]] - The game practically encourages it. Lampshaded in the [[Kangaroo Court]] in Fawn, when the prosecution points this out as suspicious behavior.

** [[Kleptomaniac Hero, Found Underwear]] - You can find some disturbing stuff if you look around Rotoluncia's "love cabin."

* [[Lethal Lava Land]] - Furnace and the larger Ophidian ruins.

* [[Light Is Not Good]] - {{spoiler|The worshippers of Order murdered the Hierophant of Balance, then they blamed it on the worshippers of Chaos, and used this as a excuse to wage a genocidal war on the latter.}}

** {{spoiler|Actually, I don't think it's ever made entirely clear who killed the Heirophant. It is clear, though, that the followers of Order blamed it on Chaos with almost no evidence at all.}}

* [[Lost World]] - The Serpent Isle itself.

* [[Minus World]] - The "land of the dead" where dead characters are sent. You can get there through the teleport cheat.

* [[Monster Town]] - The Goblin and Gwani villages

* [[Muggles]] - The "Mundanes" of Moonshade.

* [[Take Your Time]] - {{spoiler|Don't worry, the universe won't come apart at the seams THAT quickly...}}

* [[Take That]] - You can go after a guy pirating Origin video games.

* [[Unobtanium]] - Stoneheart. It's needed for instant-death spells.

* [[Unwinnable by Design]] - the number of plot-critical items in this game is simply crazy, and dropping or consuming one by mistake will leave you stuck forever. By the end of the game your characters' backpacks will be filled with layers upon layers of random items. Things are only made worse by the fact that unlike the previous games in the series, this game is not a [[Wide Open Sandbox]], so the area where you left the vital item behind may no longer be accessible to you when you actually need it, and even if it is, the game world is still so huge that you're extremely lucky if you even remember where to begin looking for it.