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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* MistakenForGay: Or maybe not? The gargoyle Kallibrus mentions that he and Cairbre are "bonded", to which Cairbre reacts flustered and tells him not to say that to others lest they get the wrong idea. However, it is never specified what exactly Kallibrus means with "bonded", nor is it made entirely clear what Cairbre's means with "getting the wrong idea" (though the latter is less ambiguous than the former).

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* MistakenForGay: Or maybe not? The gargoyle Kallibrus mentions that he and Cairbre are "bonded", to which Cairbre reacts flustered and tells him not to say that to others lest they get the "the wrong idea. However, idea". While it is never specified made clear what exactly Kallibrus means with "bonded", nor it is it made entirely clear what Cairbre's means with "getting the wrong idea" (though the latter is less ambiguous than the former).indeed unlikely that he's refering to a homosexual relationship since gargoyles don't have genders and don't mate.
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* MistakenForGay: Or maybe not? The gargoyle Kallibrus mentions that he and Cairbre are "bonded", to which Cairbre reacts flustered and tells him not to say that to others lest they get the wrong idea. However, it is never specified what exactly Kallibrus means with "bonded", nor is it made entirely clear what Cairbre's means with "getting the wrong idea" (though the latter is less ambiguous than the former).
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''Ultima VII:The Black Gate'' is a PC game released in 1992 by Creator/OriginSystems. It is largely considered to be one of the best games in the ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' series, possibly one of the best PC {{RPG}}s period, and had a nearly ''VideoGame/DragonQuest''-esque level of influence on {{Western RPG}}s which followed - nearly ''every'' open-world RPG released after 1992 owes at least a little something to ''U7'' and the absurd freedom of action it provided to the player.

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''Ultima VII:The Black Gate'' is a PC game released in 1992 by Creator/OriginSystems. It is largely considered to be one of the best games in the ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' series, possibly one of the best PC {{RPG}}s period, and had a nearly ''VideoGame/DragonQuest''-esque ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' level of influence on {{Western RPG}}s which followed - nearly ''every'' open-world RPG released after 1992 owes at least a little something to ''U7'' and the absurd freedom of action it provided to the player.

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* SealedEvilInACan: The demon inside the Blackrock Sword
* SealedGoodInACan: The Time Lord is imprisoned in the Shrine of Spirituality.

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* SoulJar: The Well of Souls
* StealthRun: The {{Invisibility}} spell is made for this.

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* SickeninglySweet: Kissme is an in-universe example. Your characters even find her cuteness rather annoying.[[labelnote:*]]But they'll get rather angry if you decide to swat her.[[/labelnote]]
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* TastesLikeDiabetes: Kissme is an in-universe example. Your characters even find her cuteness rather annoying.[[labelnote:*]]But they'll get rather angry if you decide to swat her.[[/labelnote]]

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%%* ShopFodder: Gold nuggets, gems, and Silver Serpent venom



* VendorTrash: Gold nuggets, gems, and Silver Serpent venom
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* FantasticDrug: Silver Serpent venom, which is used recreationally by a few [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]], and to dope the Britannian Mining Company's labouring gargoyles.

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* FantasticDrug: Silver Serpent venom, which is used recreationally by a few [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]], and to dope the Britannian Mining Company's labouring gargoyles. It's pretty much fantasy meth.
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* ImprovisedBandage: Cloth can be cut into bandages using shears, which can provide some healing for injured members of the player's party.
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** Batlin has some kind of prejudice against healers, so the book claims they're a bunch of useless charlatans.
** The book makes it sound like Spektran is a genuine independent sultanate. [[spoiler: In reality, the "sultan" is the island's only inhabitant.]]
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The Emps are somewhat monkey-like.
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* KleptomaniacHero: The game gives you a lot of opportunities to do so. But beware, there ARE consequences if someone catches you!

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* KleptomaniacHero: The game gives you a lot of opportunities to do so. But beware, there ARE consequences if someone catches you!you! ''However'', it counts only as stealing if you move stuff around. Putting anything on one of your characters or into one of your bags means that it's now flagged as your property and you can do anything you want with it. This works regardless of whether the owner is present or not.
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* ChainOfDeals: To reach the Time Lord you need help from [[WillOTheWisp the Wisps]], who want Alagner's journal, who wants to know the secrets of Skara Brae, where they're having a bit of a [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]] problem...

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* ChainOfDeals: To reach the Time Lord you need help from to deal with the Emps so you can communicate with the [[WillOTheWisp the Wisps]], who want Alagner's journal, who wants to know the secrets of Skara Brae, where they're having a bit of a [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]] problem...

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** Your answers in the Fellowship's personality test will always be interpreted in the worst possible way.

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** Your While your answers in to the first half of the Fellowship's personality test are interpreted in a positive light, the second half will always be interpreted in the worst possible way.way (which means that you are, of course, perfectly suited for a membership in the fellowship).


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* PintSizedPowerhouse: Spark. Unlike any other character he starts at level 1, which means that even though his stat average is slightly lower than that of most other characters (Yolo, Shamino, Dupre, Sentri), he quickly catches up and his stat total surpases that of all other characters in the game (including the Avatar) if you pick the right trainers. Next to Dupre, he's the only one who can have STR 30 at level 8.

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* StylisticSuck: The Fellowship's PassionPlay.

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* ThrivingGhostTown: Britannian towns do not seem as heavily populated as they look.
* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler: The Wisps.]]
* TruthSerum: The Cube Prism forces lying people to tell the truth.
* {{Unobtanium}}: Caddelite and Blackrock.

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* %%* ThrivingGhostTown: Britannian towns do not seem as heavily populated as they look.
* %%* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler: The Wisps.]]
* %%* TruthSerum: The Cube Prism forces lying people to tell the truth.
* %%* {{Unobtanium}}: Caddelite and Blackrock.Blackrock.
* UnicornsPreferVirgins: The leader of a herd of unicorns once refused the summoning of a wizard, who in retaliation placed the Curse of Chastity upon them and made them unable to stand the presence of non-virgins. Lasher the unicorn in particular is very tired of being used to ruin the reputations of women. Unless you've visited the in-game brothel before meeting him, your party members (one of which is a lecher, and another of which is married) are quite amused to learn that you are a virgin. Since the game had no way of telling whatever your protagonist has done in the previous nine games, Lasher [[HandWave simply reveals]] that you "regain your virginity" whenever entering the realm of Britannia.



* WhatTheHellHero: Stealing, attacking innocents, [[spoiler: joining the Fellowship]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking wasting wine by pouring it into the floor]] will trigger this reaction from the Avatar's companions.
** VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Do any of these too much, however, and your companions will either leave or attack you.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Stealing, attacking innocents, [[spoiler: joining the Fellowship]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking wasting wine by pouring it into the floor]] will trigger this reaction from the Avatar's companions.
** VideoGameCrueltyPunishment:
companions. [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment Do any of these too much, however, and your companions will either leave or attack you.you]].
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* JustifiedCriminal: Weston attempted to steal apples from the Royal Orchard, and was arrested. In his cell, he said he headed to Britain to purchase food, and the keeper Figg was selling apples at a grossly inflated price. Should the Avatar rely the information to Lord British, he will quickly exonerate the thief and launch in investigation into the situation.


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* SadisticChoice: Alina is living in the Fellowship homeless shelter, and her husband was arrested for stealing from the Royal Orchard. She has a choice to join the fellowship and perhaps they'll intervene in the case, or she could refuse while being at risk of getting expelled from the shelter (because it's for fellowship members).
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Rated T despite having fully naked male and female characters (yes, fully detailed, though pixellated). The Avatar may also kill children in a graphic manner.

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* PassionPlay: A group of Fellowship minstrels outside of Trinsic will perform what they ''call'' a passion play, but it has nothing to do with Jesus, being a badly-acted recruiting advertisement for the Fellowship.

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* PassionPlay: A group of Fellowship minstrels outside of Trinsic will perform what they ''call'' a passion play, but it has nothing to do with Jesus, being a badly-acted recruiting pay-to-view advertisement for the Fellowship. If the Avatar watches it, there's three key words noticed that draw an important connection about the Fellowship.
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Sanguine Cognition


* ChurchOfHappyology: [[spoiler:Practically every single thing about the Fellowship mirrors Scientology in some form or other. Batlin is a spitting image of Hubbard, the Fellowship have practices similar to Fair Game and Disconnection, and the Avatar is even given a Personality Test early on, which, as you can see [[http://lparchive.org/Ultima-VII-The-Black-Gate/Update%2015/ here]], is obviously rigged against them.]]

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* ChurchOfHappyology: The Fellowship, with their philosophy named "Sanguine Cognition", a fancy way of saying cheerful knowledge (but not blood knowledge). [[spoiler:Practically every single thing about the Fellowship mirrors Scientology in some form or other. Batlin is a spitting image of Hubbard, the Fellowship have practices similar to Fair Game and Disconnection, and the Avatar is even given a Personality Test early on, which, as you can see [[http://lparchive.org/Ultima-VII-The-Black-Gate/Update%2015/ here]], is obviously rigged against them.]]
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Okay, CoH was a ZCE. The linked page gave a good description.

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* ChurchOfHappyology: [[spoiler:Practically every single thing about the Fellowship mirrors Scientology in some form or other. Batlin is a spitting image of Hubbard, the Fellowship have practices similar to Fair Game and Disconnection, and the Avatar is even given a Personality Test early on, which, as you can see [[http://lparchive.org/Ultima-VII-The-Black-Gate/Update%2015/ here]], is obviously rigged against them.]]

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Happyology is for parodies. Also, ZCE fix.


* ChurchOfHappyology: The Fellowship



* NoFairCheating: If you use the teleport cheat to access an otherwise unreachable room in the tip of a mountain range, you'll find Lord British, who will yell at you for cheating. He will also try to kill your entire party.[[note]]According to [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/game-reviews/britannia-burns-richard-garriott-interview-part-3/ Richard Garriott]], this was actually because a certain programmer created a cheat room without asking permission first and made the teleporter to it easy to access and stumble upon by accident. Rather than just delete the cheat room and chastise the programmer, however, Richard Garriott just made the cheat room much more difficult to access (see the Trinsic DebugRoom described above), and changed the original teleporter destination to this square in the mountain, so that the next time the programmer tried to access it, Lord British would appear, call him out on it, and disable all his cheats to leave (all the options in the cheat menu become "Oink" from that point on).[[/note]]



* PathOfInspiration: [[spoiler: The Fellowship]]

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* PathOfInspiration: [[spoiler: The Fellowship]]Fellowship. Their three values, "Strive For Unity", "Trust Thy Brother" and "Worthiness Precedes Reward" seem good on the surface, but have a true meaning behind them. Unity copies the WithUsOrAgainstUs trope, Trust means do what another says without question, and worthiness precedes a just reward as indicated in the talk about the murder to the Trinsic Fellowship sage. ]]



* YouBastard: If you use the teleport cheat to access an otherwise unreachable room in the tip of a mountain range, you'll find Lord British, who will yell at you for cheating. He will also try to kill your entire party.[[note]]According to [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/game-reviews/britannia-burns-richard-garriott-interview-part-3/ Richard Garriott]], this was actually because a certain programmer created a cheat room without asking permission first and made the teleporter to it easy to access and stumble upon by accident. Rather than just delete the cheat room and chastise the programmer, however, Richard Garriott just made the cheat room much more difficult to access (see the Trinsic DebugRoom described above), and changed the original teleporter destination to this square in the mountain, so that the next time the programmer tried to access it, Lord British would appear, call him out on it, and disable all his cheats to leave (all the options in the cheat menu become "Oink" from that point on).[[/note]]
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* AttackAnimal: One possible ranged weapon you can use is a trained hawk.

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Calvinball is a game where you make up new rules as you go. The rule of the jester's Game is to use one-syllable words only. There are no additional rules being made up.


* {{Calvinball}}: "The Game", as played by the king's court fool. Solve it to win skill points and a clue to the main quest. [[spoiler: The goal is to use no words but those that, when spake, need but one sound.]]
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* YourCheatingHeart:
** [[spoiler: Patterson, the mayor of Britannia, is cheating with the museum curator, Candice.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: the chaimbermaid Nell is cheating on her fiance with none other than Lord British himself!]]
** After winning Nastassia's heart, you can head to Buccaneer's Den and get it on with the prostitutes, if you want.
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** Everyone in Serpent's Hold is based off of a character from Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration

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** Everyone in Serpent's Hold is based off of a character from Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
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* INeedYouStronger: Initially, the Guardian's voice chimes in with genuinely helpful (if imperious) advice ([[AC:"Yes, Avatar, that is the correct direction to travel"]]) and warnings if you do stuff that negatively affects your KarmaMeter.

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* INeedYouStronger: Initially, the Guardian's voice chimes in with genuinely helpful (if imperious) advice ([[AC:"Yes, Avatar, that is the correct direction to travel"]]) and warnings if you do stuff that negatively affects your KarmaMeter.KarmaMeter.
->''"Yes, Avatar, that is the correct direction to travel"''

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don't hide relevant information under notes and double don't hide it under [[labelnote:*]]. in fact never use [[labelnote:*]] at all


* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: The Emps[[labelnote:*]]the passive voice is always used by Emps[[/labelnote]] and the Gargoyles[[labelnote:*]]to always use the infinitive form of the verb when to speak[[/labelnote]].

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* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: StrangeSyntaxSpeaker:
** To observe that the Gargoyles return from ''VideoGame/UltimaVI''. To also note that they retain their old speaking pattern. To start all sentences with an infinitive, and to avoid pronouns.
** An example is shown by the speech of Emps.
The Emps[[labelnote:*]]the passive voice is always used by Emps[[/labelnote]] and the Gargoyles[[labelnote:*]]to always use the infinitive form of the verb when to speak[[/labelnote]].them.

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