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* In the first ''[[Wild ARMs]]'' game, a teleporter accident will send you to The Abyss. Oops. |
* In the first ''[[Wild ARMs]]'' game, a teleporter accident will send you to The Abyss. Oops. |
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* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has craftable teleporters which can send you to certain cities. They're stated to be safe and reliable, except they aren't, having possible mishaps such as making you an evil twin, changing your appearance to that of another race or sending you high, high up in the sky. In the case of the latter, it's a good thing the engineers capable of making these devices also have the option of adding a parachute to their cloaks. |
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has craftable teleporters which can send you to certain cities. They're stated to be safe and reliable, except they aren't, having possible mishaps such as making you an evil twin, changing your appearance to that of another race or sending you high, high up in the sky. In the case of the latter, it's a good thing the engineers capable of making these devices also have the option of adding a parachute to their cloaks. |
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* If you forget to eat your peanuts in the brutally unforgiving Infocom game of ''[[ |
* If you forget to eat your peanuts in the brutally unforgiving Infocom game of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', being teleported off the Earth winds up killing you. Since the text directing mentions this, it was probably the easiest puzzle in the game to solve. |
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* The ''[[Suikoden]]'' series has the recurring character Viki, a young sorceress with very powerful teleportation magic. Unfortunately, she's also an error-prone [[The Ditz|ditz]] who occasionally botches a teleport. In gameplay, her errors are completely harmless: a time-consuming annoyance at worst, and sometimes actually helpful since they're the only way into certain rooms that are locked from the inside. Story-wise, more serious accidents (one at the end of each game) explain why she's able to appear in every game of the series despite her being a teenager in all of them and the games having gaps of as much as 150 years between them: when she ''really'' botches a teleport, it's not just a matter of where she'll end up but ''[[Time Travel|when]]''. |
* The ''[[Suikoden]]'' series has the recurring character Viki, a young sorceress with very powerful teleportation magic. Unfortunately, she's also an error-prone [[The Ditz|ditz]] who occasionally botches a teleport. In gameplay, her errors are completely harmless: a time-consuming annoyance at worst, and sometimes actually helpful since they're the only way into certain rooms that are locked from the inside. Story-wise, more serious accidents (one at the end of each game) explain why she's able to appear in every game of the series despite her being a teenager in all of them and the games having gaps of as much as 150 years between them: when she ''really'' botches a teleport, it's not just a matter of where she'll end up but ''[[Time Travel|when]]''. |
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** If you use her teleport rune in battle, she will teleport things (enemies out of the battle, or heavy objects that will fall on the enemies). If she botches a teleport at this time, it can have ''disastrous'' results (such as teleporting all allies except her out of battle, or making the heavy object fall on the party). |
** If you use her teleport rune in battle, she will teleport things (enemies out of the battle, or heavy objects that will fall on the enemies). If she botches a teleport at this time, it can have ''disastrous'' results (such as teleporting all allies except her out of battle, or making the heavy object fall on the party). |
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