| Metagaming
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| Tapped Out Quest Information
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Metagaming is a premium questline in The Simpsons: Tapped Out. It was introduced in the Clash of Clones content update. It requires the Shadow Knight to be obtained.
Dialogue
Pt. 1
| After tapping on the Shadow Knight's exclamation mark
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PREPARE TO TASTE THE COLD STEEL OF THE SHADOW KNIGHT'S SWORD!
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I'm not sure it'd be possible for anyone to taste anything of yours. You're just an avatar from a videogame, remember?
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UGH! THIS AGAIN?!
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Look, I've been thinking -- what if we just admit that this is all a videogame? That's how we got that barbarian guy in here.
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Smithers and me am talking marriage. Does Homer still do that?
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Man, I forgot how far that story went off the rails.
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But even though we're in a videogame, you're still from a videogame inside us.
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Exactly! So we're both from videogames. I'm just on the wrong server, or got a computer virus, or telnet-url-imdb-something…
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Sorry Bart, but Earthland Realms isn't another game -- it's a game within the game. It can't be real in our world because we've already defined it as fake.
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You're supposed to call me Shadow Knight.
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| Task: "Make Shadow Knight Question His Existence". The job takes place at Shadow Knight's Throne and takes 10 hours.
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Quest reward:  100 and  10
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Pt. 2
| After tapping on the Shadow Knight's exclamation mark
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Still wrestling with your existence, Shadow Knight?
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It just seems so unfair. My mom was a witch. Homer's been a million things.
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Even Ned Flanders got to be the devil, with kick-ass flames shooting out him!
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I know, pretty much anyone can be anything… as long as they come from a parallel universe.
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But isn't Earthland Realms a parallel universe?
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Please, a universe can't be parallel to the universe that contains it. It's the first rule of story-telling.
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You, my friend, are fictional.
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That's it! That can be my explanation!
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I'm a fictional character that came to life in the real world… just like in one of those several movies where that happens!
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Do you really want to do that story?
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No. I just want to go on a killing spree. I saw it in my task list.
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| Task: "Make Shadow Knight Continue To Question His Existence". The job takes place at Shadow Knight's Throne and takes 24 hours.
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| Quest reward: 100 and 10
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Pt. 3
| After tapping on the Shadow Knight's exclamation mark
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*weary sigh*
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Where are you going, Shadow Knight?
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To kill myself by jumping off a bridge. I just have to find a road square placed over a water square.
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Don't do that. Just because the logic of your existence is in doubt, doesn't mean you can't have a little fun.
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I'm just a game within a game. What could I do that'd be fun?
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Play a game?
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Task: "Reach Level 13 and Build Android's Dungeon".
Task: "60 minutes". The job takes the Android's Dungeon.
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| Quest reward: 100 and 10
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Pt. 4
| After tapping on the Shadow Knight's exclamation mark
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Did you see my berserker ranger kill that army of orcs? God, it was awesome!
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I just didn't understand how a medieval knight could have lock-on targeting, or a heads-up-display, or carry so many throwing axes…
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Who cares? It reminded me of the cardinal rules of videogames -- things don't have to make sense as long as they're fun!
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I don't know. I like how in Assassin's Creed they spend the first two hours of the game explaining how your interface and abilities are from a near-future technology allowing you to replay your ancestors past encoded in the DNA of--
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*getting stabbed noise*
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No. What was fun about that game was what's fun about every game… killing people!
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THE SHADOW KNIGHT IS BACK!
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| Task: "Make Shadow Knight Go on a Killing Spree". The job takes 12 hours.
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| Quest reward: 200 and 20
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Behind the Laughter
The following dialogue was cut from Pt. 2:
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We could have every Futurama character there is walking around -- if it weren't such a legal hassle -- because they're from a parallel universe.
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