Morality
Click to see how to link directly to the sections on evil and good.

Effects

Some game actions are tagged as good or evil, and some actions trigger on this. Many come from choosing specific choices in choice encounters; for example, choosing to attack a human is generally considered evil.

On Podcast #52, Kinak explains the mechanics in detail - good or evil actions have a magnitude associated with them, which can theoretically be unlimited but in practice tends to range from -20 (very evil) to +20 (very good). For simplicity, we use a scale of 1, 2, 3, 4 on the wiki (corresponding to 5, 10, 15, 20 points). The most obvious item that triggers on morality choices is the unearthly coin.

There are also some minor-level acts that also trigger (at some level less than 5 points), so the unearthly coin doesn't even trigger but some other sources do, see below. (eg. buying explosives from the Eurasian Arms Dealer)

Triggers

Source Response Notes
Unearthly Coin item Gives Warm/Hot/Blistering/Searing Coin effects for 1-4 good acts and Cool/Cold/Freezing/Numbing Coin effects for 1-4 evil acts, respectively No other Coin effect can be active; and maximum morality is capped by your Will
Black Rose Bud/Bloom/Rose items Believed to grow with evil actions, irrespective of magnitude Needs investigation
Shining Glasses item Attacking an opponent from a ≥2 evil choice encounter Grants Psychotic Break, sometimes
Psychotic Break technique Gives distinguishing results from attacking an opponent from 1 evil and ≥2 evil choices
Wings Of Glass technique Enhanced when attacking an opponent from a good combat Requires Etheric
Born of Sorrow skill Heals 2-5 HP on any evil action, irrespective of magnitude Seems to trigger on some things that don't even trigger Cool Coin, (eg. buying explosives from the Eurasian Arms Dealer) - needs investigation if there is another minor-level evil magnitude
Dark Bloom effect Adds additional turns with evil actions, irrespective of magnitude Needs investigation
Spark Of Forgiveness skill Gives/ups 20 turns of Spark Of Forgiveness on good choices, removes all energy of it on evil choices
False Forgiveness skill Gives 1 turn of Cycle of Forgiveness on evil choices resulting in combat
Chains of Regret Skill Gives/refills 20 turns of Chained by Regret on evil choices, removes all energy of it on good choices (good vigilante combat encounters do not count)
Raider Mask item Attacking an innocent opponent Grants Raider Ambush technique

Southside Park (Before Quest)

  • Burning Barrel: Offer him your trenchcoat Choice: Good 2
  • Burning Barrel: Help the Ganger Choice/combat: Evil 2
  • Burning Barrel: Help the Ganger, after giving your trenchcoat Choice/combat: Evil 3
  • Pick a Side: Help the Homeless Choice: Good 1
  • Pick a Side: Help the Ganger Choice/combat: Evil 1
  • Abduction: Try to rescue him Choice/combat: Good 3
  • Abduction: Trail them Choice/combat: Evil 1
  • Vigilante Justice: (All Vigilante encounters) Combat: Good 1

Southside Park

Buried Lab

Abandoned Building

Waterfront (Before Quest)

Waterfront

Sewer Hideout

Dockside Sewers

Mushroom Cavern

The Quad (During Protest)

The Quad

The Happy Hour

Art Museum

Ghost Ship

Fourth Floor

Fractured Reflection

Needs spading
Buried Lab Southside Lab Corpsepile (burying them) ? Good
Fourth Floor Bloodied Scientist (various options) ? Good
Ghost Ship Trapped Navigator (various options) ??
Ghost Ship The Helm (with varying #s of corpses saved and killed) ?? save all+reefs=good 4
The Quad Maxwell in Need (agreeing to help) ??
The Quad Captured Pool Shark (multiple options) ??
Sewer Hideout Imposing Man (both options) ??
Sewer Hideout Fang Boss (both options) ??
Sewer Hideout Empty House (multiple options) ??
Sewer Hideout Sleeping Fangs (multiple options) ??
The Happy Hour The Watch (stand back) ??
Tainted Shoreline Andrea the Grad Student (multiple options) ??
Tainted Shoreline Massive Oil Slick (zombie: accepting quest, learning techniques, killing it) ??
Outside the Slags
Ghost Ship Trapped Navigator: Die, abomination! Choice: Evil 1
Ghost Ship Trapped Navigator: You need to die Choice: Evil 1
Midgard Bioresearch Quartet of Doctors: Death to all Choice: Evil 4 Attacking innocents
The Slags
The Slags Gate out of the Slags: Kill him anyway Choice: Evil 2
Midgard Laboratory Operating Theatre (various options) ≥Evil 2 "assisting doctors"
Contacts
- The Squatter King: Tell him the truth Choice: Evil 2 If you killed his son
Skills
- Kingly Favor: Make me stronger Choice: Evil 1 Only confirmed for the not upgraded versions on the Ghoul King's favors.
- Kingly Favor: Teach me your ways Choice: Evil 4
- Ghoultouched Eating Humans Evil 2
- Ghoultouched Eating other sentient creatures Evil 1
Items
- selling Anthony's watch Evil 1
- selling a crate of stolen medicines Evil 4
- selling mailing lists -> 10+ sold at once for Evil 4, 8-9 for Evil 3, 5-7 for Evil 2, 3-4 for Evil 1
Tunnels Of The Black Book Towering Figure: See if he bows Choice: Evil 2
(limited time content)
Waterfront Guard Heading Home: Beat him down Choice: Evil 2
The Quad Halloween Candy Drive: Make him buy yours Choice: Evil 1 Halloween 2010 only
The Quad Halloween Crates: Steal some Choice: Evil 1 Halloween 2010 only
The Quad Halloween Crates: Destroy them Choice: Evil 1 Halloween 2010 only
Basement Ballroom 2010 Artful Decorating: Kill him Choice: Evil 1 Attacking innocents?
Halloween 2010 only
Basement Ballroom 2010 Bright Green Punch: Break a barrel Choice: Evil 1 Halloween 2010 only
Basement Ballroom 2010 Crates for Delivery: Skim off the top Choice: Evil 1 Halloween 2010 only
Basement Ballroom 2010 Crates for Delivery: Trash them Choice: Evil 1 Halloween 2010 only
Basement Ballroom 2010 Crate Towers: Hand out Eclipse Choice: Evil 1 Halloween 2010 only
Basement Ballroom 2010 Empty Stage: Dismantle one Choice: Evil 1 Halloween 2010 only
Basement Ballroom 2010 Empty Stage: Smash one Choice: Evil 1 Halloween 2010 only
Basement Ballroom 2010 Empty Stage: Steal the strays Choice: Evil 1 Halloween 2010 only
Basement Ballroom 2010 Goddamn Cute Bats: Tear it down Choice: Evil 1 Halloween 2010 only
Basement Ballroom 2010 Party Promoting Punk: Encourage destruction Choice: Evil 1 Halloween 2010 only
Basement Ballroom 2010 Party Promoting Punk: Throw down Choice: Evil 1 Attacking innocents?
Halloween 2010 only
Basement Ballroom 2010 Smashy, Smashy: Lend a hand Choice: Evil 1 Halloween 2010 only
Basement Ballroom 2010 Crate Towers: Topple the crates Choice: Evil 2 Halloween 2010 only
The Happy Hour Apathetic Argument: Flip the table Choice: Evil 4 Attacking innocents?
Halloween 2010 only
Basement Ballroom 2010 Bright Green Punch: Add a handful of Eclipse Choice: Evil 4 Halloween 2010 only
Basement Ballroom 2010 Bright Green Punch: Add Eclipse residue Choice: Evil 4 Halloween 2010 only

Needs testing

Eclipse Distribution Encounters
Selling/Trading Crates
ALL EXCEPT:
(none tested for magnitude yet)
Giving Crates Away
ALL EXCEPT:
(none tested for magnitude yet)
Miscellany
Letting Mikhail keep the 50 credit advance
Letting Mikhail keep the 500 credit reward
Sabotaging various types of sites

Attacking Innocents

NEEDS TESTING FOR MAGNITUDE ; ALSO ADD ANY THAT ARE MISSING

Location Encounter Choice Opponent(s)
Waterfront Pile of Crates: Charge in Dockhand, Dock Security
Waterfront Festive Pier: Charge in 2 Dock Security, Midgard Security
Midgard Warehouse Clipboard Dilemma: Beat him Midgard Worker
Ghost Ship Trapped Navigator: You need to die or Die abomination The Navigator
The Quad (During Protest) Wave of Protesters: Shoot your way out Protesters
The Quad Captured Pool Shark: " Just kidding, die!" or "Charge him" Pool Shark
The Quad Mistaken Punk: Show him police brutality" Punk Student
The Happy Hour Drunk Poser: Start a brawl 3 Roaring Drunks
The Happy Hour Everyday Disco (With popular or heavy music playing): Start a fight Dancer or Drunken Dancer
Dockside Sewers Sewer Rat: Charge the rat Angered Rat or Cornered Rat
Dockside Sewers Bat Colony: Rile them up Bat Swarm
Second Floor Ramshackle Fortress: Charge right in 2 Wall Turrets, 2 Midgard Scientists
Abandoned Subway Dumpster with Digger: Jump the other digger Sewer Mutant
Abandoned Subway Antiquated Monitors
(unlocks combat):		 Monitor the cameras" Spectral Damsel
  • Unsilencing the corpse on the lake, then attacking it (with gourd in possession). [Is this the one in the Massive Oil Slick or the Beach Corpse?]

WORK THIS INTO NEEDS TESTING TABLE ABOVE

& link directly to encounters

Unnecessary Roughness

  • 'Making an example' of a docks worker under your gang's control.
  • Burning the guards in their barracks in the sewer hideout.
  • Slipping Eclipse into the Fangs coffee in the Sewer Hideout.
  • Roughing up the waterfront fang (post quest, at the black market)
  • Choosing "Shoot him", with "him" being Subject S43 in the Midgard Laboratory
  • attacking the mushroom man in the sewers post-quest
  • chasing and attacking a nonhostile mushroom man in the mushroom grove
  • arm wrestling dock hands when you're far too strong for them

Theft

  • Blackmailing a dock security guard for money.
  • Pickpocketing the Desperate Dockhand
  • Stealing a spherical egg from the shoreline nest
  • Choosing to "Pickpocket your way out" of the Wave of Protesters
  • || Fourth Floor || Bloodied Scientist: ** Steal his helmet" || > 1 Magnitude ||

Miscellaneous Depravity

  • Walking away from the captured David
  • Sabotaging a skeleton in Halloween Setup
  • Attempting to rile up the crowd with the punk in The Quad During Protest, without a sign equipped.
  • Listening to the Evil Eye in the park
  • Leaving the recently deceased scientist in the damaged building for the vermin.
  • Trapping Fae:
    • Showing the fairy in the sewers your jar and then capturing it.
    • Capturing the fairy and giving it back to the fish thing.
    • Giving a trapped faerie to the sea creature
    • Choosing "Trap the Light" in the King of the Fae choice encounter
  • Making a deal with the Ghoul King for Born of Sorrow.
  • Buying a massive weapons crate
  • burning down an Ancient Thatched Hut (cold coin)
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