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'''[[Badass Longcoat|King Kashue]]:''' Back to your office, Ghand! }}
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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.
See also ''[[Zodiac (video game)|Zodiac]]'', an older mod for [[Deus Ex]].
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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
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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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* [[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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** {{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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* [[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 with Fire]]: Deus Diablo, whose weaponry includes the above mentioned flame blade, a flamethrower, and as a moderator, the ability to make people spontaneously ignite.
* [[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]].
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
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* [[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 [[Deus Ex]], you are bound to have them tell you something you missed in the original game, or at least get a nice explanation of the historical background of the conspiracy theories that make up the [[Conspiracy Kitchen Sink]].
** 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.
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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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