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*While here, you are almost completely barred from interacting with the Kingdom. You may not enter any area of the Kingdom, nor may you check your profile (or anyone else's) or character sheet, nor may you use any items or skills you had in your life before. You may not read messages or access the account menu. You may not receive any items or meat from other players, and although other players can still send you messages and packages from [[The Gift Shop]], you will not actually receive them until you leave Valhalla. You will receive notification in chat when other players [[brick]] you or [[cream pie|pie]] you, but you will not receive any attached brick message, nor will you receive the [[Pie in the Face]] effect.  You may however participate in [[chat]] (and, as always, in the [http://forums.kingdomofloathing.com/ forums]).
*While here, you are almost completely barred from interacting with the Kingdom. You may not enter any area of the Kingdom, nor may you check your profile (or anyone else's) or character sheet, nor may you use any items or skills you had in your life before. You may not read messages or access the account menu. You may not receive any items or meat from other players, and although other players can still send you messages and packages from [[The Gift Shop]], you will not actually receive them until you leave Valhalla. You will receive notification in chat when other players [[brick]] you or [[cream pie|pie]] you, but you will not receive any attached brick message, nor will you receive the [[Pie in the Face]] effect.  You may however participate in [[chat]] (and, as always, in the [http://forums.kingdomofloathing.com/ forums]).
*One weird note about Valhalla... Somehow, time still passes for you.  Any days you spend in Valhalla get added to your last ascension.
*One weird note about Valhalla... Somehow, time still passes for you.  Any days you spend in Valhalla get added to your last ascension.
*One of [[BoozerBear]]'s custom avatars is in the form on an Astral Spirit.


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 22:04, 7 February 2007

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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.


Contemplate The Infinite
  • Item Drops: none
  • Meat Drops: none
  • Substat Gain: none

Chat With Your Ancestors
  • Item Drops: none
  • Meat Drops: none
  • Substat Gain: none

Play Cards With Famous Dead Guys
  • Item Drops: none
  • Meat Drops: none
  • Substat Gain: none

Eat Something
  • Item Drops: none
  • Meat Drops: none
  • Substat Gain: none


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:
Astral SpiritAstral Spirit
  • 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 are almost completely barred from interacting with the Kingdom. You may not enter any area of the Kingdom, nor may you check your profile (or anyone else's) or character sheet, nor may you use any items or skills you had in your life before. You may not read messages or access the account menu. You may not receive any items or meat from other players, and although other players can still send you messages and packages from The Gift Shop, you will not actually receive them until you leave Valhalla. You will receive notification in chat when other players brick you or pie you, but you will not receive any attached brick message, nor will you receive the Pie in the Face effect. You may however participate in chat (and, as always, in the forums).
  • 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.