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Beyond the Pale (Also called Valhalla) is where your character can ascend to after defeating The Naughty Sorceress and freeing King Ralph XI. The astral plane acts mainly as a waystation for adventurers to return to the Kingdom of Loathing and face the game's challenges again, and is thus not actually considered part of the Kingdom. This cloudy afterlife is home to a few locations, all of them boring save one.
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Notes
- When you enter this area, you and your familiar become the character class Astral Spirit, which means nothing more than lack of one of the six character classes:
- As an Astral Spirit, your level, Muscle, Mysticality, Moxie, HP, MP, and adventures are set to infinity, but as you might expect, on a plane of existence where everyone is the same, infinite stats are not very useful.
- While here, you cannot interact with the Kingdom in any way (except for the chat and forums). You can neither enter any area of the Kingdom, nor check your profile (nor anyone else's) or character sheet, nor use any items or skills you had in your life before. You also cannot read messages or access the account menu. You cannot receive any items or meat from other players, and though other players can still send you messages and packages from The Gift Shop, you will not actually receive them until you leave Valhalla.
- One weird note about Valhalla... Somehow, time still passes for you. Any days you spend in Valhalla get added to your last ascension.
References
- Valhalla is part of Norse mythology, it is "Odin's hall, the home for those slain gloriously in battle."
- "Beyond the Pale" originally meant "outside the jurisdiction of the Crown". "Pale" descends from the Latin "palus", which was a wooden stake. (That's where we get "impale".) The English would put up a fence line to mark their boundaries, especially between England and Ireland, and around the last English holding in France. If you went "beyond the pale", you were stepping outside of protection of the Crown and its army.
- The infinite fun on this plane stems from Jick's The Hidden Brotherhood.
