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'''[[Badass Longcoat|King Kashue]]:''' Back to your office, Ghand! }}
An award-winning mod for ''[[
The game is set in Forum City, a virtual representation of exactly that, a social internet forum. Forum City is a hub for myriad industries and social interaction, as the virtual forum has become the medium of choice for running society. This makes all the problems endemic to forums magnify a thousand-fold: flame wars are actual REAL wars fought between people of opposing ideologies, and crime committed in the forums is actual crime with real-life consequences. The Moderators of the forums, therefore, are powerful entities indeed, nigh-invulnerable beings with the power to stop anyone cold in the name of maintaining order.
The game starts when one of said Moderators disappears, causing an enormous vacuum in the city's established order. This happens at the worst time possible: two religious cults are engaged in all-out war inside the forums, and online crime is at an all-time high. The remaining Moderators have been spread too thin, and they can see disaster looming on the horizon. Enter Trestkon(that's you!), a former intelligence agent with old ties to the Moderators, who left Forum City years ago for reasons unknown. The Moderators ask Trestkon to investigate the disappearance of their colleague: what Trestkon does, who he allies himself with, and ultimately the fate of the entire city is in your hands.
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{{tropelist|In addition to all the tropes from ''[[Deus Ex]]'', the mod provides examples of:}}
* [[After the End]]: The game is set after the apocalyptic destruction of Deus Ex Incarnate, done through a process known as "Planetization."
* [[Alien Geometries]]: The Voodoo shop
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: A few minor examples exist in the game, such as articles about [[Half
* [[Anarchy Is Chaos]]: Averted {{spoiler|with Ryan's ending. (There's some riots, but it's the same in all endings)}}
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: {{spoiler|1=The GameSpy aliens apparently controlled all of the cities in ForumPlanet since their founding.}}
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** Then we have the Narcissus Entity, pretty much the embodiment of this trope for the entire dev team.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: King Kashue, Slicer, and ''you'', if you choose the correct appearance customisations - characters will even comment on it.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Break Phas's TV when he's at the apartment.
** Likewise, harm anyone at PDX HQ when allied with them. King Kashue will frown upon it.
* [[Big No]]: {{spoiler|Scara and Ryan}} if you {{spoiler|ban them via the space station}}
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* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: The Cult Wars, though the Llamas get a [[Pet the Dog]] moment in the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] if they win.
* [[Fan Fiction]]: As a representation of an internet forum, a fan fiction shop exists in-game.
* [[Fell Off the Back of
* [[Flaming Sword]]: Deus Diablo has one. {{spoiler|You can get it from Raving Nutter on day 2 on a second playthrough.}}
* [[Flanderisation]]: In his mail (viewed through hacking), easter eggs (like NRC), and cheat codes (iamjonas makes everyone a cat), Jonas's personality is "really likes cats" and nothing else.
* [[Fun
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: {{spoiler|Deus Diablo}}, he built an inanimate object with the powers of a board admin {{spoiler|something Gamespy couldn't do, hence why he was kidnapped}}.
* [[Gannon Banned]]: Filler NPCs based on the default avatar of Gamespy forums will ask questions like "How do I get on the boat?".
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* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Trestkon's custom pistols.
* [[Hand Wave]]: Averted. Abomination doesn't even bother explaining how he has the fake plans on himself.
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* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: If Trestkon joins WorldCorp and gives his reason as "It is no worse than PDX", Kashue will use the quote at Trestkon.
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: You will be asked to kill Phasmatis in the WorldCorp story line, as a mod this would be impossible to win even if he didn't teleport your weapons to the bottom of building.
* [[Robotic Psychopath]]: <s>Alpha 2</s> [[Insistent Terminology|Abomination the Second, son of the great protector of Lamar]]
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* [[Insecurity Camera]]: A new manned system is used in addition to the original Deus Ex system. The new system lets you sneak into the camera room and eliminate the guard. The rest of the trope still applies.
* [[Interface Screw]]: At one point in the PDX story {{spoiler|Trestkon downloads an insane AI into his brain}}, causing the screen to randomly spin, zoom and wobble. Latter, you may optionally allow one character to serve as [[Mission Control]] for a level. During this talks incessantly across the infolink at some points, which prevents you from saving the game. This while jumping precariously over an instant-death magma pit. No way it wasn't intentional (at least it is quite funny).
* [[Friend
* [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]]: Tres''kt''on was born of the countless misspellings of the protagonist's name.
* [[Joke Weapon]]: Screw driver, the Llamas' and Goats' sporks/foons, plus the original game's pepper spray.
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* [[Kill and Replace]]: Tres''kt''on aims to do this to Tres''tk''on.
* [[Kill Sat]]: The ROFL laser.
* [[Leaning
* [[Les Collaborateurs]]: {{spoiler|Despot, and presumably the other Forum Planet admins as well}}.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Compared to the original [[
* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: Vortex Grenade + Victim(s) = This. Justified since the grenade does create a black hole that rips the victim apart.
* [[MacGyvering]]: The new use for the Demolition skill is to make explosives out of household chemicals.
* [[Malevolent Architecture]]: {{spoiler|Despot's Apartment}}.
* [[Mana]]: A Planet[[Diablo]] merchant brought some mana potions to PlanetDeusEx by mistake, and you can find a lot of them lying around. {{spoiler|They are ammunition for the Fire Staff weapon}}.
* [[Mini Game]]: [[Pong]], [[
* [[Mission Control]]: Various characters depending on the faction you support, most prominently Evil Invasion and That Guy. {{spoiler|in the last mission, you also have Ryan and The Narcissus Entity.}}
* [[Molotov Cocktail]]: Can be made with some household chemicals and a bottle of wine.
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** {{spoiler|To help the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] [[Take Over the World]].}}
** {{spoiler|Same as above, [[I Can Rule Alone|but betray the]] [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] [[I Can Rule Alone|and rule over Forumplanet]]}}.
** {{spoiler|To help the [[Ubermensch]] stablish Forumplanet [["What Now?" Ending|as an anarchy]]}}.
** {{spoiler|The super secret ending with [[No Fourth Wall]].}}
* [[The Multiverse|Multiverse, the]]: It is mentioned that Gamespy's other Planet sites have Forum Cities similar to the one where the game takes place. The most information given for any of them is Planet[[Half Life]] has a thriving mod industry. Design notes mention a Planet[[Halo]] arms merchant who never made it into the game. The description of the "Mana potion" item mentions they were brought over by a planet Diablo merchant.
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* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: Killing Scara. B. King during your first meeting will result in such, as {{spoiler|''an avatar of the game's development team'' tells Trestkon that his actions are not supported (as in, they didn't program the quests to accommodate that action, as it would require an infinite amount of time to program reactions for everything), tells him he wasn't expected to survive, and after a conversation kills him via script functions, meaning that ''even God mode will not help you''.}}
** Killing or knocking out any person (except Jonas, who can be knocked out) in the PDX HQ when your allied with them will result in the game sealing the exits, and invisible NPCs coming down to mop the floor with you.
* [[Not That There's Anything Wrong
* [[Not Quite Starring]]: Lawrence "Trestkon" Laxdal does the voices of a few NPCs, but not the lead who named after him. Jonas Waever DOES voice himself, however.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: A conversation in the apartment building at the start reveals that all the guards (who all look exactly alike) are called variations of Jim or James in an extremely meta moment.
** One member of DXO mentions DeusEx.org and Deus Ex Online were both created with the same purpose and merged because there wasn't room for 2 "DXO"s.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Trestkon, possibly Jonas, and the moderator staff.
* [[Pacifist Run]]: Of course, it is a [[
* [[Pamphlet Shelf]]: A new system for multipage books exists in an attempt to avert this, but many places still use the original game's system of multiple books for each chapter, such as the fan fiction shop.
* [[Path of Inspiration]]: A hidden book reveals that {{spoiler|every religion in Forum City was formed as part of a pact between the founders to secretly gain power}}.
* [[Perma Death]]: This is how getting killed works in-universe, required killed people to start over. Though the game uses a standard save/reload system.
* [[Playing
* [[Point of No Return]]: Three. The first is about halfway through, the second is just before the penultimate level, the third is just before the [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon]].
** The game will even go out of its way to warn you about the first one, with your corresponding [[Mission Control]] adviser warning you before you pass it.
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* {{spoiler|[[La Résistance]]: DXO.}}
* [[Retraux]]: The game's graphical ability mirrors the original ''Deus Ex'''s 2000 era graphics despite being finished in 2009 and set in 2004, even with the new assets.
* [[Rhymes
* [[Sequence Breaking]]: If you climb over a gate before you get the code, an NPC will ask how you did it and list a few methods.
** [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: Naturally, the developers are fully aware of the ability to "grenade climb" and other oddities in the Deus Ex engine, they have been working on a 9 year old game for over 7 years.
*** Not to mention that most of the doors in the game have infinite strength. A good way to breeze through Deus Ex was to breech doors with explosives and rockets, which could usually be found almost everywhere. [[The Nameless Mod]] makes them much harder to find, forcing you to rely more on lockpicks, multitools, passwords, and alternate paths opposed to sheer force.
* [[Shadow Dictator]]: Despot.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Many. To [[
* [[Sidequest]]: Many more than in the original game.
* [[Simultaneous Warning and Action]]: Goats have a REALLY long line for this
* [[Skippable Boss]]: Pretty much all of them.
* [[Slouch of Villainy]] / [[Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive]] as seen in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120316224130/http://teknikal-vision.deviantart.com/art/2009-TheNamelessMod-sketches01-116861757 this] fanart of Scara that the developers used for his character portrait in the manual from version 1.0.2 and is "absolutely spot on".
* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: You can ask an NPC called Beeblequix to help you open a few doors in one area, but his primary function is to distract you with his inane comments about his favourite soaps, dead rat anecdotes and even some music while you are attempting tricky platforming sections. You are unable to quicksave during his remarks. This is deliberate and lampshaded when he points out it was SO ANNOYING when this sort of thing happened in Deus Ex.
** Thankfully you can turn down his help, and have the option to murder him [[And Your Little Dog, Too|(and his cat)]] if he pushes you over the edge.
* [[Story-Driven Invulnerability]]: Averted, you can kill anyone who is not a moderator (and you do find a way to kill these in some of the [[Multiple Endings]]), you can kill boss characters like [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend|Kylie]], [[Career Killers|ZeroPresence]], and [[Intrepid Reporter|Slicer]] early in the game. However, it is played straight with {{spoiler|Scara B. King. You can kill him, but you trigger a [[Nonstandard Game Over]] if you do it before [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]].}}
* [[Talking Animal]]: It's apparently possible to choose an animal model for the Forum City avatar. Examples include a cat in PDX, a dog in the Llama temple and a wolf, with whom Trestkon worked in the past and who can give you a subquest.
* [[Talking the Monster
** And in another, less extreme example, it is a possible solution for a minor side-quest early in the game where you talk a gang member into stopping their activities.
*** It is also possible to kill {{spoiler|Silver Dragon}} by convincing him to flee the WorldCorp parking lot... and be gunned down by WorldCorp guards.
* [[Talking to Himself]]: Though Jeremiah Costello voices both the lead and Scara B. King, the team deemed him good enough that it wasn't noticeable, so it was kept.
* [[Talking Your Way Out]]: If {{spoiler|ZP or Slicer}} survives his first confrontation with the player and the player loses the second confrontation this is required to continue the game.
* [[Take That]]: <s>The description of</s> the "DaiKatana" weapon in its entirety (it takes up a huge chunk of the inventory, does pitiful damage and worst of all, hurts you when you use it) is one massive Take That at... [[
** Trestkon notes after being given one in a series of fetch quest that he has been transported to [[World of Warcraft]]
* [[The Gods Must Be Lazy]]: Despot could very easily stop the trouble with World Corp, or at the very least give banning powers to the remaining two moderators, but is more than content to sit on his ass in his apartment and watch TV. Some of his actions, or lack thereof in the Deus Diablo case is because {{spoiler|he is secretly working with Game Spy, and because he has been mutated since the collapse of DXI.}}
* [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]: Seriously, you'll know when you get there.
* [[
* [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life]]: The fan fiction shop owners have the "start with one question, ask another, and another" effect. No matter how much you love [[
** One of them even warns you when you're about to enter a particularly long-winded conversation, which is littered with increasingly rude options for escaping the branch.
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: Shadowcode has a pretty realistic face. The (admitted to be deliberate by the devs on IRC) This is creepy in a game where the graphics are intentionally designed to look like they are from 2000.
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* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: You can hurt and kill anyone who's not a moderator, {{spoiler|Scara B. King}} or one of the two reanimated heads in the voodoo shop.
** In contrast to King Kashue rewarding you for keeping enemies alive, Phas will reward you for doing the ''exact opposite''
** And then there is the new weapons. Blow up your enemies (or innocent victims) like a balloon with the PHAT-Rifle, create a mini-black hole with the vortex grenade and have it redecorate the room with their guts, or just set them ablaze with the firestaff.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]]: Try killing or knocking out anyone in the PDX Building if you're allied with them.
* [[Unwinnable]]: There are a few instances in the game where either a bug or a player action can result in you getting "stuck" forcing you to go to another save state, cheat to get past, or start over in a worse-case scenario. Using the vortex grenade can fling necessary items into unreachable spots, and in one level, a robot that blows open a door for you may prematurely stop if interrupted, runs out of enemies, or runs into a corner, preventing you from passing it without "nocliping" your way through.
* [[Warp Zone]]: One between the different districts is made available upon the completion of a sidequest.
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