History VideoGame / ZorkGrandInquisitor

* CosmicKeystone: A Cube of Foundation, the [[TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples Skull of Yoruk]], and the Coconut of Quendor.

With magic on the decline and the world in his hands, Mir Yannick ruled the land with an iron fist, using Totemization for the smallest crimes, and banned all magic use, instead forcing everyone to rely completely on technology, which had previously just been a supplement to magic (Zork has a technology level somewhere around WorldWarII. They can harness the power of electricity, and have radio, television, and movies, but don't have the technology for cars, planes, or firearms).

* GenreSavvy: The two-headed beast's opening monologue.
--> Let's cut the crap, okay? You got this far, you know the drill: you're the adventurer, [[strike:I'm]] ''we're'' your basic two-headed guardian-of-Hades-type creature. You're looking for treasure, mana, crystals, [[VideoGame/{{Myst}} red pages, blue pages]], whatever. It's all the same, really. The point is: you wanna get by. They always do. And we gotta kill ya. We always do. There's a little banter, a little slaying, chop-chop-chop yada-yada-yada, and then I gotta string your entrails all over the place and make a big mess. [...] Yeah, that's right, pull out the old inventory! ''Something's'' gotta work!

'''Inquisition Guard''': ''(opens tiny book and reads)'' You have no rights.

** If you [[TooDumbToLive climb inside the Totemizer]] with it set on "Inquisition Hall" the game states that you lay there in complete boredom for hundreds of years and eventually become [[ReturnToZork Ms.]] [[SadistTeacher Peeper's]] Paperweight.

** Also, the easy solution to the Hades Shuttle Courtesy Phone is to [[spoiler: cast Kendall, the "Simplify Instructions" spell.]]
** When you face a six-armed invisible guard blocking your way on a rope bridge, [[spoiler: you cut away the bridge, letting him fall to his death. You then build a new bridge using magic.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: After running his entire regime persecuting and stamping down magic in favor of technology, the Grand Inquisitor succumbs to the temptation of the Coconut of Quendor's magic. [[spoiler:This gets him killed.]]

* LargeHam: Y'gael the Enchantress. She tries as hard as she possibly can to sound ridiculously whimsical.
** Y'gael is badly out-hammed by the Inquisitor himself, complete with [[HamAndCheese cheese]]. Also [[ChewingTheScenery scenery chewing]] in later cutscenes.

** After sending the Griff through a Time Tunnel, he'll start to complain about what you're making him do (stealing mail, touching a dragon's tooth, etc.). Is the AFGNCAAP sharing his body, or is it just a case of [[BreakingTheFourthWall Breaking the Fourth Wall]]?.

** If you try to gain entrance to the tavern whilst playing as Griff, you'll occasionally get;

* TooDumbToLive: [[RefusalOfTheCall You can climb out of the well at any time]], despite Dalboz warning you not to. Doing so gets you arrested, Dalboz confiscated, and you totemized.

* UnwinnableByDesign: At one point in the game, the Griff gets the Coconut of Quendor from within the mouth of a dragon, but then someone in the dragon's stomach says that he needs a coconut to make a piina colada and tosses you rope for you to tie to a tooth. If you decide to drop the Coconut of Quendor down the dragon's throat instead to appease the guy, the Griff will comment, "Somehow I don't think that was its intended usage."

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The two-headed beast's opening monologue.
--> Let's cut the crap, okay? You got this far, you know the drill: you're the adventurer, [[strike:I'm]] ''we're'' your basic two-headed guardian-of-Hades-type creature. You're looking for treasure, mana, crystals, [[VideoGame/{{Myst}} red pages, blue pages]], whatever. It's all the same, really. The point is: you wanna get by. They always do. And we gotta kill ya. We always do. There's a little banter, a little slaying, chop-chop-chop yada-yada-yada, and then I gotta string your entrails all over the place and make a big mess. [...] Yeah, that's right, pull out the old inventory! ''Something's'' gotta work!

** Y'gael is badly out-hammed by the Inquisitor himself, complete with [[HamAndCheese]] cheese. Also [[ChewingTheScenery scenery chewing]] in later cutscenes.

* ReadTheFreakingManual: Early on in the game, there is a glass case with a sword, a map and a hammer that reads 'In Case of Adventure, Break Glass.' You can open the case to take out the hammer, but you cannot remove the sword or the map until you close the case and smash the glass cover with the hammer.

* Sdrawkcab Name: Odibil, the spell for making yourself extremely attractive to other creatures.

* HaveANiceDeath: Dying, being totemized or otherwise permanently messing up your quest results in a text scroll describing the aftermath of your last action. Falling down a bottomless pit, for example, leads to the computer describing how you fell for so long you died of old age.

* SpinningPapers: Shown in the intro.

'''''Zork: Grand Inquisitor''''' is a humorous 3D Point-and-Click AdventureGame, part of the ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}'' series, combining high quality (for 1997) 3D pictures, slightly lower quality animations, and text to describe the ending and the death scenes.

** Played straight with the Flood Control Dam puzzle, as it will always be solved just as Antharia Jack is always right about to step into the Totemizer.

* {{AFGNCAAP}}: TropeNamer

* AlwaysClose: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] when you pour Cola onto Zork Rocks, making them go critical, but played straight when Antharia Jack is always right about to step into the Totemizer when the power goes out.
* AndIMustScream: Getting Totemized definitely falls into this category. And yes, it can happen to the player (although the game mercifully spares you the details of the long-term effects except in text form).

* BeneathTheEarth: The Great Underground Empire

* {{Calvinball}}: Double Fanucci
* CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker: You encounter this a few times through the game; fiddling with a loudspeaker in Port Foozle is part of the solution to a puzzle.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The Totemizer

* DiscardAndDraw

* {{Expy}}: Antharia Jack is an Franchise/IndianaJones type. Subverted, in that he's a sissy.

* GlobalCurrency: Zorkmids

* {{Hammerspace}}: The vacuum, [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Dalboz. When the player puts a large vacuum on a vending machine, he comments "Just where were you keeping that?"
* HaveANiceDeath

* NinjaButterfly: Dalboz

* PlotTailoredToTheParty
* PsychicPowers: Lucy Flathead's telepathy

* SpeakFriendAndEnter
* SpiderSense: Dalboz and your [[TheLordOfTheRings glowing sword]]
* TeleportersAndTransporters

* TheManyDeathsOfYou

* ToHellAndBack

* {{Unwinnable}}: At one point in the game, the Griff gets the Coconut of Quendor from within the mouth of a dragon, but then someone in the dragon's stomach says that he needs a coconut to make a piina colada and tosses you rope for you to tie to a tooth. If you decide to drop the Coconut of Quendor down the dragon's throat instead to appease the guy, the Griff will comment, "Somehow I don't think that was its intended usage."
* TheVoice: We never actually see what Dalboz's human form looks like. (Since the Lamp isn't actually his body, it doesn't count) it's even lampshaded in-game, when you find his student I.D he beforehand conveniently cast an "Turn embarrassing photo invisible spell"

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the previous game in the series, ''VideoGame/ZorkNemesis''

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[[caption-width-right:350:The mighty Inquisitor himself]]

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Dalboz in the ending. You end up taking over his role as Dungeon Master.]]

* BottomlessPits: You don't die, and raise a family with someone else who fell down the bottomless pit. (But it's still a NonstandardGameOver.)

** At the end of the game [[spoiler: You take over the title of Dungeon Master, which also happened to the protagonist at the end of Zork 3]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: Upon defeating the Six-Armed Invisible Guard, Dalboz will inform you that "You gain 86 experience points and found a healing potion," before realising that he's being the [[DungeonsAndDragons wrong kind of Dungeon Master]].

** Two types of things the Hades beast assumes you're looking for are [[{{Myst}} red pages and blue pages]].

--> Let's cut the crap, okay? You got this far, you know the drill: you're the adventurer, [[strike:I'm]] ''we're'' your basic two-headed guardian-of-Hades-type creature. You're looking for treasure, mana, crystals, [[{{Myst}} red pages, blue pages]], whatever. It's all the same, really. The point is: you wanna get by. They always do. And we gotta kill ya. We always do. There's a little banter, a little slaying, chop-chop-chop yada-yada-yada, and then I gotta string your entrails all over the place and make a big mess. [...] Yeah, that's right, pull out the old inventory! ''Something's'' gotta work!

* ShoutOut: The Coconut of Quendor is an apparent parody of the Amulet of Yendor, the MacGuffin from ''VideoGame/{{Rogue}}'' (and subsequently ''{{Nethack}}'').

*** Boos's Mill (where you hear that line) is shown as a painting in Dalboz's bedroom.

* TheVoice: We never actually see what Dalboz's human form looks like. (Since the Lamp isn't actually his body, it doesn't count)

*** If you try to gain entrance to the tavern whilst playing as Griff, you'll occasionally get;

* ExpositionFairy: Dalboz.