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* GoldenEnding: Completing the quest without using Wishbringer at all.
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* DenserAndWackier: Even for Franchise/{{Zork}}, which is pretty dense and wacky to begin with.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPlatypi: You must save the life of a platypus princess; her father is appropriately grateful.
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* MacGuffinTitle: Also a OneWordTitle, and a {{Portmantitle}}.The Wishbringer is the magical stone that the villain is seeking.
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* {{Portmantitle}}: Also a MacGuffinTitle, and a OneWordTitle."Wishbringer" is one word.
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* GuideDangIt: Even though it was designed as an easier game for new players, ''Wishbringer'' has a bad one: [[spoiler: the can with the rattlesnake has a false bottom which contains Wishbringer]]. The only hint is the item rattling even after it's opened, and considering that you likely dropped it after using it the first time, you're not likely to notice.
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* GuideDangIt: Even though it was designed as an easier game for new players, ''Wishbringer'' has a bad one: [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the can with the rattlesnake has a false bottom which contains Wishbringer]]. The only hint is the item rattling even after it's opened, and considering that you likely dropped it after using it the first time, you're not likely to notice.
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* EyeOfNewt: All of the wishes require you to have some kind of material object or ingredient to work.
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* FluffyTheTerrible: A hellhound named Alexis.
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* FluffyTheTerrible: A hellhound named Alexis.Alexis (which, probably not so coincidentally, is also the name of the [[GodSaveUsFromtheQueen evil queen]] in the game's back story).
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* CreepyCemeteryCreepyCemetery: The Festeron one is spooky but harmless. The Witchville version is... surprisingly non-lethal, although all your items will be scattered if you enter.
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* HostageForMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Subverted, the [[MacGuffinGirl hostage]] ''is'' the MacGuffin]].
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* HostageForMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Subverted, the [[MacGuffinGirl hostage]] hostage ''is'' the MacGuffin]].
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* MacGuffinGirl: [[spoiler:The title stone turns out to be the cat you're supposed to rescue, Chaos. Besides not being human, the "girl" is already in MacGuffin form and you have to make the choice to restore her to life.]]
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* ThatPoorCat: You can feed the grue's milk to either of the cats in the game. It... doesn't agree with them.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: At one point you encounter the platypus princess trapped in a murder machine; the game gives you the option either to release her or to activate the machine, killing her rather gruesomely.
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* StopHelpingMe: Simon is supplied with a magic radio that provides helpful advice and alerts him to danger... by turning itself on and playing music ''[[WithCatlikeTread very loudly]]'', invariably alerting the danger to ''him'' as well.
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* StopHelpingMe: UnwantedAssistance: Simon is supplied with a magic radio that provides helpful advice and alerts him to danger... by turning itself on and playing music ''[[WithCatlikeTread very loudly]]'', invariably alerting the danger to ''him'' as well.
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A comedic novelization of the game was written by CraigShawGardner in 1988.
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* AndroclesLion: You can rescue a seahorse at the beginning of the game by tossing it back into the ocean. [[spoiler:Later on, it will bring a wave of seahorses to rescue you if you get tossed in the ocean by the Boot Patrol.]]
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* EverythingsBetterWithChocolate: You have to have eaten some before you can wish for Freedom.
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* MacGuffin: The Wishbringer stone; the Evil One breaks the rules and steals it at the beginning of the story, and Simon's job is to get it back before midnight.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Simon really wants to do this, but he's warned that the Evil One takes the postman's participation in her schemes very seriously; if she catches him trying to run away he'll ''wish'' [[AFateWorseThanDeath she'd only killed him]].
* SeeThruSpecs: A pair of apparent joke glasses that allow one to tell whether something is magic. (They can also switch someone from their DarkWorld personality back to their regular one, but only if they are actually wearing them.)
* SeeThruSpecs: A pair of apparent joke glasses that allow one to tell whether something is magic. (They can also switch someone from their DarkWorld personality back to their regular one, but only if they are actually wearing them.)
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Simon really wants to do this, but he's warned that the Evil One takes the postman's participation in her schemes very seriously; if she catches him trying to run away he'll ''wish'' she'd [[AFateWorseThanDeath she'd only killed him]].
* SeeThruSpecs: A pair of apparent joke glasses that allow one to tell whether something is magic. (They can also switch someone from their DarkWorld personality back to their regular one, but only ifthey are the person is actually wearing them.)
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* EverythingsBetterWithChocolate: You have to have eaten some before you can wish for Freedom.
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* EngagementChallenge: The origin of Wishbringer, described in the feelies, features these; the princes all died, and the princess withered away with unfulfilled wishes until eventually Wishbringer was all that was left.
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* EngagementChallenge: The seriously depressing origin of Wishbringer, described in the feelies, {{feelies}}, features these; the princes all died, and the princess withered away with unfulfilled wishes until eventually Wishbringer was all that was left.
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* CreepyCemetery
* TheMaze: The mountain path functions as this in the DarkWorld; it's shrouded in impenetrable mist, making it impossible to see which way the path goes.
* TunnelNetwork: Several locations in Witchville lead to underground tunnels.
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* ChekovsSkill: Early in the book we see Simon's sleight-of-hand skills; this is how he ultimately keeps Wishbringer out of the Evil One's hands.
* ContinuityNod: The Magick Shoppe owner in the game may be the same person as the sorceress Y'Gael in ''Beyond Zork''. In the novelization, she calls herself Gail.
* ContinuityNod: The Magick Shoppe owner in the game may be the same person as the sorceress Y'Gael in ''Beyond Zork''. In the novelization, she calls herself Gail.
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* ChekovsSkill: ChekhovsSkill: Early in the book we see Simon's sleight-of-hand skills; this is how he ultimately how he keeps Wishbringer out of the Evil One's hands.
* ContinuityNod: The Magick Shoppe owner in the game may be the same person as the sorceress Y'Gael in ''BeyondZork''. In Zork''; the novelization, she calls herself novelization alludes to this by naming her Gail.
* ContinuityNod: The Magick Shoppe owner in the game may be the same person as the sorceress Y'Gael in ''Beyond
* ExactWords: [[EmbarrassingFirstName Amy Sue]] Grue explains that it's quite true that no one has ever seen a grue and lived to talk about it...but since Simon has only talked to her in the dark, he's okay.
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* MinionShipping: The game's mostly off-screen romance between Librarian Voss and Postmaster Crisp (both of whom work for the Evil One in the DarkWorld) gets pretty passionate in the novelization.
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* MinionShipping: The game's mostly off-screen romance between Librarian Voss and Postmaster Crisp (both of whom work for are the Evil One One's minions in the DarkWorld) Witchville) gets pretty passionate in the novelization.
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* ChekovsSkill: Early in the book we see Simon's sleight-of-hand skills; this is how he ultimately keeps Wishbringer out of the Evil One's hands.
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* CainAndAbel: The Evil One and the Magick Shoppe proprietor are apparently sisters.
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* DarkWorld: After you exit the Magick Shoppe, you discover that the evil sorceress has changed the pleasant town of Festeron into the creepy and dangerous Witchville.
* EverythingsBetterWithPlatypi:''Wishbringer'' had You must save the life of a platypus royalty.princess; her father is appropriately grateful.
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* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Our hero accidentally wanders into the lair of that bloodthirsty scourge of the ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}'' universe, the grue... where he has a pleasant chat with the grue in question, who even provides some helpful directions. [[spoiler:And then later on he brings by his enemies as an afternoon snack. Who says it doesn't pay to be polite to adventurers?]] This is absolutely not the case in the game itself, where your best options are to provide it with a warm blanket and raid its fridge.
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* BoxedCrook: Simon, the protagonist, is a con artist who's been sentenced to work in the post office. (No relation to [[Discworld/GoingPostal any other books]] with that premise.)
* CainAndAbel: The novelization expands on the familial relationship between the Magick Shoppe proprietor (Gail) and the Evil One (Gladys), and adds another "good" sister, Hortense.
* ContinuityNod: The Magick Shoppe owner in the game may be the same person as the sorceress Y'Gael in ''Beyond Zork''. In the novelization, she calls herself Gail.
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu:Our hero Simon accidentally wanders into the lair of that bloodthirsty scourge of the ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}'' universe, the grue... where he has a pleasant chat with the grue in question, who even provides some helpful directions. [[spoiler:And then later on he brings by his enemies as an afternoon snack. Who says it doesn't pay to be polite to adventurers?]] This is absolutely not the case in the game itself, where your best options are the closest you get to provide it with a warm blanket and an adult grue is to raid its fridge.fridge while being ''very'' careful not to get its attention.
* HereWeGoAgain: The book takes the tack that the Evil One plays out the events of the game over and over and over again, being opposed by whoever happens to be working in the post office at the time. As the book ends, the postmaster gives Simon another letter to deliver to the Magick Shoppe...
* CainAndAbel: The novelization expands on the familial relationship between the Magick Shoppe proprietor (Gail) and the Evil One (Gladys), and adds another "good" sister, Hortense.
* ContinuityNod: The Magick Shoppe owner in the game may be the same person as the sorceress Y'Gael in ''Beyond Zork''. In the novelization, she calls herself Gail.
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* HereWeGoAgain: The book takes the tack that the Evil One plays out the events of the game over and over and over again, being opposed by whoever happens to be working in the post office at the time. As the book ends, the postmaster gives Simon another letter to deliver to the Magick Shoppe...
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Simon really wants to do this, but he's warned that the Evil One takes the postman's participation in her schemes very seriously; if she catches him trying to run away he'll ''wish'' [[AFateWorseThanDeath she'd only killed him]].
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* StopHelpingMe: The hero is supplied with a magic radio that provides helpful advice and alerts him to danger... by turning itself on and playing music ''[[WithCatlikeTread very loudly]]'', invariably alerting the danger to ''him'' as well.
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* StopHelpingMe: The hero Simon is supplied with a magic radio that provides helpful advice and alerts him to danger... by turning itself on and playing music ''[[WithCatlikeTread very loudly]]'', invariably alerting the danger to ''him'' as well.
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The game begins with you, a humble postal clerk, being sent to deliver a letter to the proprietor of Ye Olde Magick Shoppe. The letter turns out to be a ransom note: an evil sorceress has kidnapped the proprietor's cat, and wants in return the magical Wishbringer.
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* OminousSavePrompt: The game prompts you to save before playing the "Transmatter" arcade game. Standard for the genre, and not the only situation where the wrong actions make the game {{Unwinnable}}, but they ramp up the ominous factor several times byCreator/CraigShawGardner.asking if you ''really'' want to play and having the other gamers go quiet.
* OminousSavePrompt: The game prompts you to save before playing the "Transmatter" arcade game. Standard for the genre, and not the only situation where the wrong actions make the game {{Unwinnable}}, but they ramp up the ominous factor several times by
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* YouShouldntKnowThisAlready: The drawbridge password and the poodle/hellhound's name. There are only three options for the password, and the dog's name never changes, but guessing or looking up the name in the hintbook results in the bridge or dog deciding that you're just guessing and thus not obeying.
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* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Our hero accidentally wanders into the lair of that bloodthirsty scourge of the ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}'' universe, the grue... where he has a pleasant chat with the grue in question, who even provides some helpful directions. [[spoiler:And then later on he brings by his enemies as an afternoon snack. Who says it doesn't pay to be polite to adventurers?]] This is absolutely not the case in the game itself, where your best options are to provide it with a warm blanket and raid its fridge.
* {{Novelization}}: Written by Creator/CraigShawGardner.
* SeeThruSpecs: A pair of apparent joke glasses that allow one to tell whether something is magic.
* StopHelpingMe: The hero is supplied with a magic radio that provides helpful advice and alerts him to danger... by turning itself on and playing music ''[[WithCatlikeTread very loudly]]'', invariably alerting the danger to ''him'' as well.
* YouShouldntKnowThisAlready: The drawbridge password and the poodle/hellhound's name. There are only three options for the password, and the dog's name never changes, but guessing or looking up the name in the hintbook results in the bridge or dog deciding that you're just guessing and thus not obeying.
!!The novelization provides examples of:
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Our hero accidentally wanders into the lair of that bloodthirsty scourge of the ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}'' universe, the grue... where he has a pleasant chat with the grue in question, who even provides some helpful directions. [[spoiler:And then later on he brings by his enemies as an afternoon snack. Who says it doesn't pay to be polite to adventurers?]] This is absolutely not the case in the game itself, where your best options are to provide it with a warm blanket and raid its fridge.
* {{Novelization}}: Written by Creator/CraigShawGardner.
* SeeThruSpecs: A pair of apparent joke glasses that allow one to tell whether something is magic.
* StopHelpingMe: The hero is supplied with a magic radio that provides helpful advice and alerts him to danger... by turning itself on and playing music ''[[WithCatlikeTread very loudly]]'', invariably alerting the danger to ''him'' as well.
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* ClairvoyantSecurityForce: In the card and novelty shop, touching anything summons the owner from an adjacent room.
* EverythingsBetterWithPlatypi: ''Wishbringer'' had platypus royalty.
* {{Fauxshadow}}: Throughout the feelies and prologue, repeated mention is made of the threat of the dragon Thermofax; there are also a number of fake-clues in the hint book about dealing with him. Thermofax doesn't play any role in the game whatsoever.
* FluffyTheTerrible: A hellhound named Alexis.
* GaidenGame: ''Wishbringer'' is set in the world of the ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}'' series, but there are no plot connections.
* GuideDangIt: Even though it was designed as an easier game for new players, ''Wishbringer'' has a bad one: [[spoiler: the can with the rattlesnake has a false bottom which contains Wishbringer]]. The only hint is the item rattling even after it's opened, and considering that you likely dropped it after using it the first time, you're not likely to notice.
* {{Hellhound}}
* HostageForMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Subverted, the [[MacGuffinGirl hostage]] ''is'' the MacGuffin]].
* LighterAndSofter: It's aimed at kids and beginners, so the puzzles are easier and the style lighter and more jokey than many other Infocom games.
* {{Novelization}}: Written by Creator/CraigShawGardner.
* TheTamingOfTheGrue: Grues first appeared as the unseen (and, because they never leave pitch-dark areas, unseeable) monsters who would eat adventurers careless enough to wander in dark places without a light source. In ''Wishbringer'' they're still dangerous, but played more for laughs; there is a grue lair with a refrigerator whose light goes ''out'' when you open it and a mother grue with an apron.
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''Wishbringer'' is an InteractiveFiction game published by Creator/{{Infocom}} in 1985, and set in the same world as the ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}'' series.
The Wishbringer is a magical stone that can perform seven magical actions (each of which can be used once only during the game). It is possible to complete the game without ever using the stone, but careful deployment of the "wishes" can make things much easier.
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