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* KnifeNut: [[spoiler:Follow the wrong path, and Lucy's ghost may sneak up on you with a knife in her hand]].
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Creepy Cool Crosses has been renamed and redefined to Creepy Crosses as per this TRS threadZero Context Examples and examples that don’t fit the trope will be removed. The trope is about crosses being used as a symbol of the occult.


* CreepyCoolCrosses: At one point, a large cross slowly descends into the room without warning and simply sits there. [[spoiler:The protagonist ends up crucified on it. This happens if you turn the cross next to the bed upside down. In addition, if at any point Lucy asks you for your favorite color and you answer "Red", she will mention red being the color of hell, and your cross will ''turn itself upside down'', causing the cross to come down and crucify you. "Swearing" by saying "Jeez" as in Jesus Christ or claiming you don't like the Christian God will have the same result.]]

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* CreepyCoolCrosses: CreepyCrosses: At one point, a large cross slowly descends into the room without warning and simply sits there. [[spoiler:The protagonist ends up crucified on it. This happens if you turn the cross next to the bed upside down. In addition, if at any point Lucy asks you for your favorite color and you answer "Red", she will mention red being the color of hell, and your cross will ''turn itself upside down'', causing the cross to come down and crucify you. "Swearing" by saying "Jeez" as in Jesus Christ or claiming you don't like the Christian God will have the same result.]]
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''Don't Chat With Strangers'' is an indie horror game developed by Bartosz Bojarowski. In the middle of the night, you receive a message from a mysterious girl online named Lucy. Your choices in your conversation with her may or may not lead to your demise.

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''Don't Chat With with Strangers'' is an indie horror game developed by Bartosz Bojarowski. In the middle of the night, you receive a message from a mysterious girl online named Lucy. Your choices in your conversation with her may or may not lead to your demise.

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* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Lucy is very cryptic about her goal.

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* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Lucy is very cryptic about her goal.goal in talking to the protagonist, and what she expects of him. [[spoiler: This is because he murdered her, and she wants him to fail at putting her to rest so that she can take revenge.]]



* DeadPersonConversation: [[spoiler:The whole game is this.]]
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Nothing much is lost by dying.

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* DeadPersonConversation: [[spoiler:The whole game is this.this; Lucy was killed by the protagonist shortly before the start of the game.]]
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Nothing much Due to the TrialAndErrorGameplay approach the game takes, dying is lost by dying.not only a minor inconvenience at worst, but is actually necessary in order to figure out how to progress. This is subverted if you die during any of the more involved tasks, like [[spoiler:finishing Mech VS Fruits, or burying Lucy at the correct location.]]



* KaizoTrap: Once [[spoiler:the player finds Lucy's body at the correct location]], the dramatic music playing can lead to the player believing that the game is essentially over, and so they will take their time in surveying the surroundings and in [[spoiler: digging Lucy's grave. This is a mistake, however, because if the protagonist doesn't bury Lucy in time, she revives and rips his head off, leading to another game over.]]

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* KaizoTrap: Once [[spoiler:the the player finds Lucy's [[spoiler:Lucy's body at the correct location]], the dramatic music playing can lead to the player believing that the game is essentially over, so it's not unreasonable for the player to be enmeshed in the atmosphere and so they will thus take their time in surveying the surroundings and in [[spoiler: digging Lucy's grave. This is a mistake, however, because if the protagonist doesn't bury Lucy in time, she revives and rips his head off, leading to another game over. Conversely, if the player tries to mash just to get it over with, the piano playing will end abruptly, causing an instant game over. The player has to dig at the exact rate to bury her before the song ends, but not so fast that the game considers it mashing, in order to complete the final task successfully.]]



* PublicDomainSoundtrack: If Lucy asks if you want to hear her play piano and you agree, she plays "Pachibel's Canon in D". [[spoiler:While she's playing is your only time to safely bury her body. You die if you're still digging when the song stops.]]

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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: If Lucy asks if you want to hear her play piano and you agree, she plays "Pachibel's "Pachelbel's Canon in D". [[spoiler:While she's playing is your only time to safely bury her body. You die if you're still digging when the song stops.]]
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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: If Lucy asks if you want to hear her play piano and you agree, she plays "Pachibel's Canon in D". [[spoiler:While she's playing is your only time to safely bury her body. You die if you're still digging when the song stops.]]

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