History VideoGame / ProjectKatPaperLilyPrologue

* GuideDangIt: [[spoiler:If you open the lockers of the third room of the supply room in a specific order,[[note]]From left to right: 4,1,5,2,3.[[/note]] you will obtain the "mysterious blueprint". There are no hints towards how to do this or even of the existence of the blueprints anywhere in the game.]]

* TheQuietOne: Kaya, dubbed "The Quiet Girl" before learning her name, lives up to her description, not wasting too much words.

* TheQuietOne / ShrinkingViolet: Kaya, dubbed "The Quiet Girl" before learning her name, lives up to her description, not wasting too much words.

''Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue'' is a story-based puzzle game developed and created by [=Leef6010=] using [=RPG=] Maker.

The game acts as a prequel for Leef's game VideoGame/PaperLily. It is available for free on [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1698960/Project_Kat__Paper_Lily_Prologue/ Steam]].

The game acts as a prequel for Leef's upcoming game ''Paper Lily''. It is available for free on [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1698960/Project_Kat__Paper_Lily_Prologue/ Steam]].

** '''Dead End K6 - Snip Snip:''' Achieved by befriending the other three girls, adding them to the party and then cutting the plants in the three classrooms. After recruiting the girls for the ritual, Kat starts to cut up the plants in the classrooms. The girls are disturbed by this and leave. Kat feels bad and decides to go home as well, hoping that the next time she tries the ritual, no one else will be around.

* TooDumbToLive: Most of the bad endings happen because Kat messed up the ritual, despite the instructions being incredibly easy to follow - and the true ending happens because everything has GoneHorriblyRight. Who would've thought doing an ominous ritual with heavily demonic overtones would lead to a ''bad'' thing?

** The different outcomes to the first puzzle. Doing the puzzle as seemingly expected will lead to a terrifying and unfavorable outcome, while going out of your way to do the opposite of what you're apparently supposed to do produces much more pleasant results. [[spoiler: Doing the Three Room Ritual perfectly will lead to the true ending, which doubles as a DownerEnding with a KillEmAll outcome. Going against the instructions and doing something unexpected (entering the storage room) leads you to the GoldenEnding where EverybodyLives.]]

* ShrinkingViolet: Kaya, dubbed "The Quiet Girl" before learning her name, lives up to her description, not wasting too much words.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Kat can cut off a tuft of either Saki's, Kaya's or Juli's hair without befriending them first. The girls [[WhatTheHellHero react accordingly]] if you do this.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Choosing to cut the hair of one of the other girls before befriending them will effectively lock you out of a lot of the endings, including the GoldenEnding, as the girls will get angry and refuse to talk to you anymore after that. You also can't get the key to the theater club room anymore, forcing Kat to pick the lock instead, which is much harder and more tedious in terms of gameplay.

** If Kat cuts their hair without befriending them first, the girls will get angry and throw Kat out of the room. They will refuse to talk to her after that.

* DoWellButNotPerfect: The GoldenEnding requires you to get everything ready for the ritual, then abort it at ''just'' the right moment to check the storage room instead. [[spoiler: This leads to the ritual being incomplete when it starts to work its magic, leaving Kat, Saki, Kaya and Juli with a way out where usually there would be none.]]
* DownerEnding: The true ending. [[spoiler: Kat is trapped in the other world, the three other girls are brutally murdered and the last cut-scene implies that the same happens to Kat.]]

* UnnaturallyLoopingLocation: This always happens in some way, shape or form when the ritual is bungled or aborted. [[spoiler: In the ''Academic Spiral'' ending, Kat is trapped in a never-ending stairwell, if Kat, Saki and Juli try to leave after the ritual is almost complete the hallway will start to loop until they turn back and in the ''Girls' Night Out'' ending the storage room starts to loop when Kat and the girls enter the door on the far side.]]

** '''True Ending K1 - [[spoiler: Curiosity Killed the Kat]]:''' Achieved by doing the ritual correctly, not grouping up with the other girls and, if possible, selecting 'Please, let me out' when trapped in the enclosed room. [[spoiler: Kat performs the ritual. While waiting the required five minutes she has a flashback to a conversation with an unnamed girl, who tries to discourage her from doing the Three Room Ritual, but is unsuccessful. Kat then closes her eyes and counts to one hundred. After opening her eyes again, she finds herself in a long hallway with multiple doors, one of which is boarded up. After finding the key for the fairly normal looking door, Kat enters and discovers a different hallway similar to that of her high-school. A mysterious entity begins to taunt her as Kat traverses this strange place, mocking her desire to find her missing father and how her mother will be truly alone now that both her husband and daughter are gone. It goes so far as to show her a vision of what appears to be her past (the vision can be ignored, which opens the path to the ''My Way'' ending). Eventually the voice traps Kat in an enclosed room, where Kat finally breaks down and begs the voice to be let go. The entity seemingly obliges, transporting Kat back to the first hallway. The boarded up door is now accessible. Kat enters and is greeted by a trail of bloodstains, which turn out to come from the mauled corpses of the three other girls. After following the bloodstains for a while, Kat arrives at another door labeled 'exit'. The door opens after a few seconds. When Kat sees what's behind it, she starts crying and says that she doesn't want to die. If certain actions have been taken beforehand, the voice will ask her why not and claim everyone should die "at least once". The screen turns black while some horrific sounds can be heard, implying that the entity has killed Kat. The game ends.]]

** '''Dead End K7 -[[spoiler: [[GoldenEnding Girls' Night Out]]]]:''' Achieved by befriending and grouping up with the girls, then collecting everything needed for the ritual but not drawing the chalk lines or assembling the candles and instead going to the storage room. [[spoiler: After everything is prepared for the ritual, except for the candles and chalk lines, Kat and the girls come across the locked storage room. Realizing none of them has ever seen what's inside of it, they decide to pick the lock and take a look. When they try to leave again, they get stuck in what appears to be an endless loop of one weirdly arranged storage room after another. Eventually they come across a mysterious figure who tells them that the ritual works, but because they didn't complete it there is still a chance for them to get out before it's too late. Kat refuses, as she hasn't found the answers she's looking for, but the figure implores her to reconsider, telling her that her, Saki, Kaya and Juli will die if she continues. Kat relents and leaves together with the girls. Shortly before leaving the storage room, she asks the mysterious figure if they were the one who warned her away in her dream at the beginning of the game. The figure replies it was most likely just her subconscious trying to warn about the dangers of the ritual as well. As the four girls are walking home, Saki, Kaya and Juli notice Kat seems down and decide to take her to a karaoke bar to cheer her up. Kat accepts the invitation and the girls have a fun night together, with Kat deciding that maybe forgetting about the ritual would be for the best.]]

** You have the option of giving Saki the key to the theater club room back after you used it.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Kat can cut off a tuft of either Saki's, Kaya's or Juli's hair, without befriending them first. The girls [[WhatTheHellHero react accordingly]] if you do this.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Choosing to cut the hair of one of the other girls before you're friends effectively locks you out of a lot of the endings, including the GoldenEnding, as the girls will get angry and refuse to talk to you if you do it. You also can't get the key to the theater club room anymore, forcing Kat to pick the lock instead, which is much harder and more tedious in terms of gameplay.

** If Kat cuts their hair without befriending them first, the girls are shocked and throw Kat out of the room. They refuse to talk with her if she interacts with them after that.

** '''Dead End K7 -[[spoiler: [[GoldenEnding Girls' Night Out]]]]:''' Achieved by befriending and grouping up with the girls, then collecting everything needed for the ritual but not drawing the chalk lines or assembling the candles and instead going to the storage room. [[spoiler: After everything is prepared for the ritual, except for the candles and chalk lines, Kat and the girls come across the locked storage room. Realizing none of them has ever seen what's inside of it, they decide to pick the lock and take a look. When they try to leave again, they get stuck in what appears to be an endless loop of one weirdly arranged storage room after another. Eventually they come across a mysterious figure who tells them that the ritual works, but because they didn't complete it there is still a chance for them to get out before it's too late. Kat refuses, as she hasn't found the answers she's looking for, but the figure implores her to reconsider, telling her that her, Saki, Kaya and Juli will die if she continues. Kat relents and leaves together with the girls. Shortly before leaving the storage room, she asks the mysterious figure if they were the one who warned her away in her dream at the beginning o f the game. The figure replies it was most likely just her subconscious sensing the ritual was bad news. As the four girls are walking home, Saki, Kaya and Juli notice Kat seems down an decide to take her to a karaoke bar. Kat accepts the invitation and the girls have a fun night together, with Kat thinking that maybe forgetting about the ritual would be for the best.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Most of the bad endings happen because Kat messed up the ritual, despite the instructions being incredibly easy to follow - and the true ending happens because everything has GoneHorriblyRight. Who'd have thunk doing an ominous ritual with heavily demonic overtones would lead to a ''bad'' thing?

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Choosing to cut the hair of one of the other girls before you're friends effectively locks you out of a lot of the endings, including the GoldenEnding, as the girls will get angry and refuse to talk to you if you do it. You also can't get the key to the theater club room anymore, forcing Kat to pick the lock instead, which is much harder and more tedious in terms of gameplay. The theater club room will also appear much more ominous.

* MirrorScare: Lampshaded, but doesn't actually happen. [[spoiler: When interacting with the mirrors in the other world, Kat comments that in a location like this, looking into mirrors is just asking to be jumpscared.]]

** '''True Ending K1 - [[spoiler: Curiosity Killed the Kat]]:''' Achieved by doing the ritual correctly, not grouping up with the other girls and, if possible, selecting 'Please, let me out' when trapped in the enclosed room. [[spoiler: Kat performs the ritual. While waiting she has a flashback to a conversation with an unnamed girl, who tries to discourage her from doing the Three Room Ritual, but is unsuccessful. She then closes her eyes and counts to one hundred. After opening her eyes again, she finds herself in a long hallway with multiple doors, one of which is boarded up. After finding the key for the fairly normal looking door, Kat enters and discovers a different hallway similar to that of her high-school. A mysterious entity begins to taunt her as Kat traverses this strange place, mocking her desire to find her missing father and how her mother will be truly alone now that both her husband and daughter are gone. It goes so far as to show her a vision of what appears to be her past (the vision can be ignored, which opens the path to the ''My Way'' ending). Eventually the voice traps Kat in an enclosed room, where Kat finally breaks down and begs the voice to be let go. The entity seemingly obliges, transporting Kat back to the first hallway. The boarded up door is now accessible. Kat enters and is greeted by a trail of bloodstains, which turn out to come from the mauled corpses of the three other girls. After following the bloodstains for a while, Kat arrives at another door labeled 'exit'. The door opens after a few seconds. When Kat sees what's behind it, she starts crying and says that she doesn't want to die. If certain actions have been taken beforehand, the voice will ask her why not and claim everyone should die "at least once". The screen turns black while some horrific sounds can be heard, implying that the entity has killed Kat. The game ends.]]

** '''Dead End K3 - [[spoiler: Academic Spiral]]:''' Achieved by leaving the school after Juli, Saki and Kaya aren't in the occult club room anymore. [[spoiler: Like in the ''Cold Kat Feet'' ending, Kat decides against doing the ritual and tries to leave. However, when she goes down the stairs, the stairwell appears to be infinite, never stopping or going anywhere. Kat eventually makes the decision to stop and rest, hoping that someone will find her. Whens he wakes up, she's still in the stairway. Beginning to get a horrible suspicion, she draws a chalk cross on the ground, then tries to descend the stairwell one final time. To her horror, she finds the same chalk cross on the ground in the "next" stairway, confirming that she is trapped in an infinite loop. The screen goes black as Kat tearfully apologizes to her mother for not coming home again. The game ends.]]