Here. Another sex-based game. Characters are kidnapped to take part in a giant social experiment revolving around sex, but instead of dying if they don't have sex in time, there are lighter consequences.
Tropes used in Microcosm include:
- Action Girl: From Claymores to ancient Japanese heroines.
- Anachronism Stew: Not just the characters, but the city itself, which conforms to produce whatever anyone might need from any culture. Most of Micro-Metropolis is Present Day in design and structure, though.
- A Party - Also Known as an Orgy: The Midsummer Masquerade.
- Bigger Is Better in Bed: Jack Harkness, Greebo, Ivan, Tibarn, Bahzell all are superior...to name just a few.
- Containment Field: The dome around the city. A source of endless frustration for everyone who wants to go home, particularly the geniuses who think their intellect should have solved the problem by now.
- Crossover Ship
- Death Is a Slap on The Wrist: It takes six hours for a character to come back. Maybe they're docked some money or messed with in some non-permanent way.
- Exotic Equipment: Nobody's really sure what the Arbiter and Megamind are packing, but chances are it falls under this.
- Fish Out of Temporal Water: Played straight both ways to varying degrees, from Brainiac 5 of the 31st Century lamenting the primitive technology to Flynn Rider freaking out over cars.
- For Science!
- Gender Flip: Common status effect.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: The Captain and any woman he sleeps with.
- Interspecies Romance
- It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It: Greebo can't understand why what he does is wrong if his partners always climax.
- Love Dodecahedron
- Love Potion: Several events have featured aphrodisiacs.
- Kissing Under the Influence: And making out...and screwing...
- Mad Scientist: Quite a few. Mayuri, Herbert West, Nikola Tesla...
- Mate or Die: A less extreme example. Death isn't actually mentioned in the rules as being a side-effect of not having sex; characters come down with really bad flu and then get electric shocks from the microchip.
- Memetic Sex God: Tibarn. "Hookerfeathers" indeed.
- Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate: The hospital is staffed with 'em. Herbert West and Medusa, for example.
- Naked People Are Funny: The whole point of Naked Weekend.
- Naughty Nuns: Siggy.
- Naughty Tentacles: Tentacle monsters created by Kyoko pop up from time to time. There's also been one event where characters were attacked by very amorous tentacles, Mammon vs. Mukuro fight had tentacles that got out of control and went exploring, Saya, Melona...so many tentacles that there's a tag in the main comm for them.
- No Name Given: The Mistress, the Captain, and the Doctor.
- Non-Player Character: The scientists behind the experiment. More specifically, Mayuri and Nemu Kurotsuchi.
- Odd Friendship: Plenty, but of note because they're not too friendly to begin with: Phantom Miria and the Arbiter.
- Our Vampires Are Different: And how!
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up
- Really Seven Hundred Years Old: So, so many.
- Science Is Useless / Useless Superpowers: It doesn't matter how smart or strong you are, you cannot break the barrier.
- STD Immunity
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Hanna and Agnes, full stop. She's got 8 inches on him.
- Translator Microbes: The microchips also act as this.
- We Have Those, Too: Happens a lot with the different strains of vampires.