History Main / InnSecurity

** A free stay in Rose Town ends up with the innkeeper's son's toy coming to life and wandering out into the woods, prompting Mario and company to follow. (Said stay is free because, while it was still a toy, the innkeeper son accidentally uses it to '''KNOCK MARIO OUT'''.)

-->--'''[[ConsoleRPGCliches49To72 Console RPG Cliches]]''' #52

* In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'', you get attacked at an inn once. However, it is relatively unimportant to the plot and the inn is one of your bases of operation.

* Ordinarily this is averted in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'': the Sunken Flagon, your base of operations in Neverwinter, is pretty safe due to being frequented by adventurers and off-duty Watch officers. The exception comes at the end of Act I, when the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens githyanki]] that had been bothering you periodically for the length of the chapter attack the inn and kidnap Shandra Jerro because they think she has information about some {{plot coupon}}s.

* Surprisingly averted in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'', when the party travels to the character Bartz's home town and are offered a free stay at the inn, no plot or strings attached.
** From TheRPGClichesGame:
--->'''Free Inn Rule'''. When an inn is free for no reason, don't stay there. Somebody will steal your money during the night. Does not apply to inns that are free for a reason (i.e., you saved the town, [[color:green:main character's hometown]], etc.).

* Subverted in the FightingFantasy ''Literature/HouseOfHell'' has you the hero, being starting out in a horror movie cliche (Car breaks down, massive thunderstorm, finds a old mansion and asks to use a phone) you end up meeting the host, with the many dialogue trees you get [[ButThouMust you will ultimately end up captured]] either due to drugged wine, drugged food, or if you constantly refuse both insisting to use the phone, the host gets pissed in which the butler [[TakeAThirdOption chloroforms you.]]

* The protagonist in Creator/HPLovecraft's short story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is attacked while staying at an inn in the eponymous town. He is sufficiently restless/paranoid that he barricades the room long before they try to enter by force and escapes without even getting a good look at his attackers until later on.

* Subverted in the Sixth ''Literature/SpellSinger'' novel "Time of the Transference" in which Jon-Tom and Mudge are sleeping in a free lodging by a rather Cajun-like village. They are woken up in the middle of the night by a Raccoon, who warns them that the leader of village is going to double-cross them and rat them out to the pirates, whom they were planning to rescue Mudge's girlfriend from.

* Subverted in the FightingFantasy "House of Hell" has you the hero, being starting out in a horror movie cliche (Car breaks down, massive thunderstorm, finds a old mansion and asks to use a phone) you end up meeting the host, with the many dialogue trees you get [[ButThouMust you will ultimately end up captured]] either due to drugged wine, drugged food, or if you constantly refuse both insisting to use the phone, the host gets pissed in which the butler [[TakeAThirdOption chloroforms you.]]

* Subverted in the FightingFantasy "House of Hell" has you the hero, being starting out in a horror movie cliche (Car breaks down, massive thunderstorm, finds a old mansion and asks to use a phone) you end up meeting the host, with the many dialogue trees you get [[ButThouMust you will ultimately end up captured]] either due to drugged wine, drugged food, or if you constantly refuse, the butler [[TakeAThirdOption chloroforms you.]]

** Should you happen to get a room at Moslin's Inn in Hackdirt while looking for Dar-Ma, you will be rudely awoken by a bug-eyed creep trying to club you on the head.

** In Elder Scrolls 1 Arena (Or was it Daggerfall?) There is a glitch which if you sleep in an inn, there is a rare chance you'll be locked in your room and you can hear guards telling you to surrender on the other side.

* An example of the second type: One of the save points in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' is a trap, and triggers a boss fight against a succubus posing as [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Alucard's]] dead human mother, Lisa. This is glaringly obvious, because this save point is not the same color as the others in the game, and yet you have to use it to [[ButThouMust proceed through the game]]... at least if you [[MultipleEndings want to get the good ending.]]

* In the second book of ''Literature/Sorcery!'' (a series of four linked ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebooks) you normally end up staying at an inn, and wake up tied up to an elaborate trap created by the innkeeper. Make the wrong choice and a guillotine blade decapitates you.

* In the second book of ''Sorcery!'' (a series of four linked ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebooks) you normally end up staying at an inn, and wake up tied up to an elaborate trap created by the innkeeper. Make the wrong choice and a guillotine blade decapitates you.

* In The RedwallSeries, while Inns don't seem to exist in that universe, there have been countless situations where characters bunking down (Whether in the wild, or staying at someone's home) wake up captured.

* Somewhat averted in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald on one of the routes an old lady suggests you spend the night, well, okay. As soon as you wake up she suggests you spend the night again, this repeats infinitely until you say no. As suspicious as it seems, that's all it is suspicious. She doesn't rob you she just enjoys you spending the night. Which thinking about it too hard could fall into FridgeHorror.

# ...get trapped in a LotusEaterMachine-type dream, with a liberal application of NightmareFuel, a DuelBoss battle or both for good measure

** After Strago provides you with a cheap stay at the inn (one gold piece) in Thamasa, the party is forced awake in the middle of the night to rescue Relm from a burning building.