Beyond the Pale

Template:Click	Template:Click			Template:Click
	Template:Click	Template:Click	Template:Click
	Template:Click	Template:Click	Template:Click
	Template:Click	Template:Click	Template:Click
	Template:Click

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.

• The Valhalladay Inn
• Contemplate The Infinite
• Chat With Your Ancestors
• Play Cards With Famous Dead Guys
• Eat Something

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 , 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 next 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.
• Beyond The Pale is the sixth stand-up comedy album released by American stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan. Many of the track names are directly related to food and eating ("I Love Food", "Eat Like an American", "Fast Food", etc. - all possible connections to Eat Something). Other track titles are of a religious / spiritual nature ("Catholic", "Heaven", and "Jesus, Mary and Joseph") which refer to the concept of an afterlife. Additionally, the cover art of the CD album and DVD performance are plain white with a simple shot of Jim Gaffigan which is completely inline with the stick figure graphic simplicity of Kingdom of Loathing