History ARG / CatGhost

** ''Midnight'' hints with the final image that [[spoiler:Gideon is Bethany's wife]].

-->[[spoiler: When one door closes another one opens. Elon's story is over but the Catghost universe continues.]]
** [[spoiler: The website now advertises a new upcoming video game called "The Legend Of Frog". Unfortunately, The Legend of Frog was cancelled]].

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: In the eighth episode, ''Judgement'', [[spoiler:Elon is asked, “Why did you run away?” She suddenly freezes up and is not able to answer the question]].

** In '"Acceptance'', [[spoiler: Malone talks to Elon about all of the "[[CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation continuity errors and sloppy writing]]", talks about how none of their reality is real and how Elon doesn't exist]].

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: [[BreakingTheFourthWall Gideon waving goodbye to the audience at the end of the first episode.]] Since then, the fourth wall wasn’t acknowledged again, [[spoiler:at least until the episode ''Judgement''.]]
* ElementalMotifs: [[spoiler: Elon's human form was burned at the stake with fire, in her cat form she can conjure fire from her paws, and she could be considered to have a "fiery" personality. Naarah's human form was drowned in water, her ghost form looks like water bubbles, and she could be described as having a "bubbly" personality.]]

** In the second episode ''Knock'', the word “excruciate” can be seen when Gideon is transported. [[spoiler:The word can be used in the game that goes with the episode, also called ''Knock''.]]
** In episode 3 ''Window'', when Elon opens the pocket mirror, a pentagram with words at each corner can be seen for one frame. When followed through the pentagram, the words read “They are far from here?”
** In episode 4 ''Circle'', when the pentagram is glowing, the phrase “Go east in bad times” can be seen very briefly. This is a hint for [[spoiler:The Bad Ending in that episode’s game, ''Unholy Circle.'']]

---> '''Anon''': ''I am alive? I know I'm alive...''
--->'''Gideon''': Whether you exist or not is not important. What you ''DO'' with that existence is what is important.

*** Elon says a line in Spanish “¿Por qué no los dos?” meaning “Why not both?”, which is [[https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/186189-why-not-both-por-que-no-los-dos a quote from a commercial for Old El Paso tacos]].

* SpecialThanks: At the end of the episode ''Circle,'' there is a special thanks to Beth. This becomes significant when [[spoiler: it’s revealed she is the blue-haired woman speaking in the flashback]].

-->[[spoiler:'''Key:''' [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Your world is ending.]] ]]

-->'''Naarah:''' [[spoiler:Man, [[DeadToBeginWith being dead]]… ''sucks.'']]

-->'''Elon:''' [[spoiler:I refuse. To believe. I'm dead!]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Malone:''']] [[spoiler: It's much worse than that. [''laughs''] ...you [[BreakingTheFourthWall never existed in the first place]].]]

*** Libation: [[spoiler: The screen shows Elon and Narrah sitting in the cabin around the cake that Gideon was given in Episode 1, with more silhouettes in the background.]]
*** Fate: [[spoiler: The screen shows Elon laying on the ground weakly while Malone stands there, referencing when the two first met.]]

''[=CatGhost=]'' is a HorrorComedy WebOriginal multimedia series by Kris Patrick of ''WebComic/TheBedfellows'' fame. Most episodes consist of two parts: a Website/YouTube video and a game that can be downloaded via a link in the description.

* NumbersStation: On Christmas Eve through Christmas Day 2018, the ''Cat Ghost'' youtube channel did a livestream called MBS-823905 X A F 37 (3370 kHz) - RTTY, the title of which is a radio reference. In it, the Evil Naarah face, this time on a jellyfish-like body, recites strings of numbers in an artificial seeming tone that can be decoded into messages similar to the presumed use and purpose of numbers stations.

* NumbersStation: On Christmas Eve through Christmas Day 2018, the ''WebOriginal/CatGhost'' youtube channel did a livestream called MBS-823905 X A F 37 (3370 kHz) - RTTY, the title of which is a radio reference. In it, the Evil Naarah face, this time on a jellyfish-like body, recites strings of numbers in an artificial seeming tone that can be decoded into messages similar to the presumed use and purpose of numbers stations.

-->-- '''Key'''[[note]]In response to the question "What is WebOriginal/{{CatGhost}}?"[[/note]]

''WebOriginal/CatGhost'' is a HorrorComedy WebOriginal multimedia series by Kris Patrick of ''WebComic/TheBedfellows'' fame. Most episodes consist of two parts: a Website/YouTube video and a game that can be downloaded via a link in the description.

-->'''Robert:''' ''[sobbing]'' [[BalefulPolymorph I'm a banana!]]\\

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: [[spoiler: Both Naarah and Bethany had blue hair when they were alive. However Naarah's was a much darker and subdued shade of blue compared to Beth's.]]

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** [[spoiler:The Void episodes, which are much shorter than the standard episodes, and are in the old-school pixely style.]]
** [[spoiler:Episode 8 ''Judgement'' is one long in-character Q&A.]]

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Elon and Naarah suffering horrible deaths by being burned at the stake and drowning, respectively. Both were quite young at the time of their deaths, with Naarah being ''fourteen at the oldest.'']]

*** Libation shows [[spoiler:Elon and Narrah sitting around the cake with the coven, hinting at Narrah joining them]].

* MoneyToBurn: In "Catghost 9: Warmth", Gideon sits by a campfire fueled by burning dollars, or "paper notes" as they are referred to by Key and Naarah. In the art on the show's Patreon page, all three main characters sit by the same fire, albeit in different forms. Elon is a bat, Naarah resembles the jellyfish like thing from the Christmas livestream, and Gideon is a log.

* NumbersStation: On Christmas Eve through Christmas Day 2018, the ''WebOriginal/CatGhost'' youtube channel did a livestream called MBS-823905 X A F 37 (3370 kHz) - RTTY, the title of which is a radio reference. In it, the Evil Naarah face, this time on a jellyfish like body, recites strings of numbers in an artificial seeming tone that can be decoded into messages similar to the presumed use and purpose of numbers stations.

-->I decided to make a learning game for kids. [...] Original plans for the characters was they would learn early development lessons, like brushing teeth, doing chores, being a good friend and telling silly jokes together.

*** The shovel and the lines Gideon speak when examining it reference [[spoiler:the Digging Girl, the protagonist of ''Dark Cavern'']].

*** Circle: [[spoiler:The screen shows Key in a circle of torches, with Malone and a young Elon next to it, as well as the sillhouettes of a large crowd of people, likely Malone's coven.]]
*** Libation: [[spoiler:The screen shows Elon and Narrah sitting in the cabin around the cake that Gideon was given in Episode 1, with more sillhouettes in the background.]]
*** Fate: [[spoiler:The screen shows Elon laying on the ground weakly while Malone stands there, referencing when the two first met.]]

*** One of the interactable objects is a pocket mirror, which [[spoiler:resembles the one that the Wtacher uses to appear to Elon]], and one of Gideon's lines when examining it is "You will remember", referring to how [[spoiler:every appearance of mirrors in the series leads to a flashback of sorts]].

** The secret ending in the game ''Banana'' leads to [[spoiler:a hidden page on the official website hosting a painting of human Elon and Naarah sitting on a cliff overlooking a large body of water]]. This foreshadows the ending of the episode ''Key''.

** ''Banana'''s jar messages hint towards [[spoiler:the characters being DeadToBeginWith by showing their borth and death dates]], and some other things like [[spoiler:Elon and Narrah's pact with [[GreaterScopeVillain Aglasas]]]].

*** Clone has [[spoiler:a bunch of figures of Gideon on a shelf, hinting at the characters being [[TrappedInTVLand trapped]] in the game ''Party Country''.

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* StoryToGameplayRatio: Fluctuates depending on the game. ''Happybirthday'', ''Dark Cavern', ''Banana'', ''Midnight'', and ''Pertinence'' have simple but involved plots that give clear insight into the overall narrative of the series, while ''Joke'', ''Unholy Circle'' and ''Leak'' have more abstract plots but do give story information; of these games, ''Unholy Circle'', ''Midnight'', and ''Leak'' are the most like traditional games, with an end goal and win/lose condition, as well as mechanics and obstacles to traverse, while ''Joke'' is a puzzle game where you have to use clues from Episode 2 to figure out the right combinations of letters to unlock images. ''Happybirthday'', ''Dark Cavern'', and ''Banana'' are more about exploration, and while they do have an end goal of sorts, there is no real way to lose. ''Pertinence'' is just you walking from right to left. At the other end is ''Window'', ''Key'', ''Dance Party'', and ''Exit'', which aren't really games in the traditional sense as they offer little interactivity, and have NoPlotNoProblem.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: