One of these days I am going to sit down and write up as much of the silly bits of dqxi as I can remember (or encounter as I replay it, whenever THAT ends up being)
Like. It’s the goddamn apocalypse. You reunite with one of your party members who straight up thought you were dead.
They IMMEDIATELY shove your enemy-turned-team-dad into a clown costume.
There’s a town early in game where everyone speaks in haiku. You go there later and find out that this is a deliberate affectation, probably because the town is at least slightly a tourist trap.
The leader of this town later tries to feed actual human beings to a dragon. She’s still speaking in haiku the ENTIRE time.
You meet a mermaid who speaks EXCLUSIVELY in iambic heptameter and you’re like, all right, this is clearly just one weird mermaid, and then you find the mermaid kingdom and no they’re ALL like that. Unlike haiku town this is probably not an affectation.
A tournament arc that’s really just a giant wrestling parody. Also you find out your randomly-assigned tournament partner has been kidnapping his opponents to feed to a giant spider and that’s how he’s been winning all these fights.
The mayor of your hometown has a book of puns written down specifically so he can tell his granddaughter.
There’s a lost little girl named Dora in one of the towns. You discover later that she’s actually the cursed mural that’s been making people disappear into thin air. Her proper name is Dora-in-Grey. This punchline didn’t land for me until MONTHS later and I wanted to cry.
Secondary antagonist helps cause the aforementioned apocalypse and, according to a random npc, IMMEDIATELY goes to a bakery and shoves concerning amounts of cake into his mouth.
There is a full-grown adult stuck in a kid’s body because weird side effects of magic bullshit and while they do steer away from anything that would be particularly Icky they give you MULTIPLE fursuits for her to wear.
Dragon with a jar. His name is Jarvis. He speaks primarily in jar and pot-based puns.
Resident jester (who is responsible for the clown costume above) bargains with a minor villain, offering to give her something very valuable in exchange for freeing the hostages she took. They drop horse manure into her hand. The key-item-get jingle plays.
A different minor antagonist: “eh, I’m done being evil, I only froze the town and tried to kill you guys cause the hot guy who let me out of the book told me to.”
You can find a series of journals with TREMENDOUS emotional payoff, but first you have to sit through five entries where the author gives you his alias: Sudo Nim. (You know. Pseudonym. Amazing.)
Healijah. Just…everything about Healijah.
It’s a reference to The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde! Fitting for someone as fixated on immortality and beauty as Dora-in-Grey is, hm?
You’re correct it’s just been A Bit since I played and I was a little too fuzzy on the details
