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Opening narration
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[[caption-width-right:350:''In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten.'']]
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->''My dear child, listen, and I'll feed you a tale. It begins with dinner denied. No bread, no butter, not even dessert. A mean repast by the meanest measure, enough to make a stomach grumble and an ill will stew. Enough to leave a tongue yearning for sugarplums.''
->''You know what's next. It's what happened. An offer, something sweet, something simple, and you swallowed. Children are such trusting people. What you ate grew into a hole deeper than mere hunger: it swallowed you. Now, just as you were served, you shall be served again.''
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->''You know what's next. It's what happened. An offer, something sweet, something simple, and you swallowed. Children are such trusting people. What you ate grew into a hole deeper than mere hunger: it swallowed you. Now, just as you were served, you shall be served again.''
-->-- Intro text
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no, you do have to eat the shadow to get the Golden Ending. that's how you upgrade the hole in your stomach to an abyss
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* GuideDangIt: When you're inside [[spoiler:the Baron's fourth stomach]], you encounter a shadow. Naturally, your first thought would be to eat it. [[spoiler:Do that and you're locked out of the GoldenEnding. What you're supposed to do is ''examine'' it. Up to this point, the Examine command has served mostly as a means of obtaining extra flavor (no pun intended), with no sign it's gameplay-important.]]
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* GuideDangIt: When you're inside [[spoiler:the Baron's fourth stomach]], you encounter a shadow. Naturally, your first thought would be to eat it. [[spoiler:Do that and you're locked out of the GoldenEnding. What you're supposed to do is ''examine'' it. Up to this point, the Examine command has served mostly as a means of obtaining extra flavor (no pun intended), with no sign it's gameplay-important.]]
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Baleful Polymorph was renamed per TRS
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* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler: In the first ending, you're transformed into a living food, with the reveal that the inhabitants of the castle underwent the same fate.]]
* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler: In the first ending, you're transformed into a living food, with the reveal that the inhabitants of the castle underwent the same fate.]]
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* SchmuckBanquet: This is [[spoiler: the overarching plot]]. Nearly everything (and everyone) you meet is made of food, and you can't enter the last area until you've fattened yourself up enough [[spoiler: and made yourself a sufficiently poetic target for a BalefulPolymorph]].
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* SchmuckBanquet: This is [[spoiler: the overarching plot]]. Nearly everything (and everyone) you meet is made of food, and you can't enter the last area until you've fattened yourself up enough [[spoiler: and made yourself a sufficiently poetic target for a BalefulPolymorph]].ForcedTransformation]].
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* {{Backstory}}:
** As told in the west tapestry, the castle was once besieged by an army of mice led by [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the mouse king]].
** As can be seen from examining the castle, it is the place known in Myth/ArthurianLegend as Castle Charyot.[[note]]Or more commonly "Chariot", but the game uses the "Charyot" spelling.[[/note]] As told in the east tapestry, Morgan Le Fay took control of it from its hosts and held it for a hundred years before it was taken back in a bloody battle.
** As told in the west tapestry, the castle was once besieged by an army of mice led by [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the mouse king]].
** As can be seen from examining the castle, it is the place known in Myth/ArthurianLegend as Castle Charyot.[[note]]Or more commonly "Chariot", but the game uses the "Charyot" spelling.[[/note]] As told in the east tapestry, Morgan Le Fay took control of it from its hosts and held it for a hundred years before it was taken back in a bloody battle.
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* TheFairFolk: [[spoiler:The castle's true inhabitants are implied to be fairies -- the dangerous sort. They are described as having grey faces, hairy hands, and glittering wings.]]
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* TheFairFolk: [[spoiler:The The castle's true inhabitants original hosts are implied to be have been fairies -- the dangerous sort. They As told in the east tapestry, Morgan Le Fay took over for a time and entrapped them with magic, but was eventually ousted. [[spoiler:They are very much still present and are seen in the cup ending, described as having grey faces, hairy hands, and glittering wings.]]]]
-->''[examining tapestry]''\\
… as though mortal enchantments could entrap a race older than human blood.\\
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''[examining hosts in tapestry]''\\
There's no babe born will rule what rules under the ground, behind the sky, beyond humankind's ken. A familiar in thrall's merely a doom sat at the door. A queen with mortal blood will never keep this castle's seat.
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… as though mortal enchantments could entrap a race older than human blood.\\
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''[examining hosts in tapestry]''\\
There's no babe born will rule what rules under the ground, behind the sky, beyond humankind's ken. A familiar in thrall's merely a doom sat at the door. A queen with mortal blood will never keep this castle's seat.
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* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: [[spoiler:The fairy queen is ultimately behind the suffering many undergo at the castle.]]
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* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: GodSaveUsFromTheQueen:
** As told in the east tapestry, Morgan Le Fay -- referred to as a "traitor queen" -- once held the castle, entrapping its hosts with magic.
** [[spoiler:The fairy queen is ultimately behind the suffering many undergo at the castle.]]
** As told in the east tapestry, Morgan Le Fay -- referred to as a "traitor queen" -- once held the castle, entrapping its hosts with magic.
** [[spoiler:The fairy queen is ultimately behind the suffering many undergo at the castle.]]
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* DeadGuyOnDisplay: The fens outside the castle are filled with human corpses impaled on skewers planted in the ground. Examining them tells you: "Enemies all, and planted for a cautionary wood. Challenge the castle: here's what will happen."
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* DeadGuyOnDisplay: DeadGuyOnDisplay:
** The fens outside the castle are filled with human corpses impaled on skewers planted in the ground. Examining them tellsyou: "Enemies you:
--->Enemies all, and planted for a cautionary wood. Challenge the castle: here's what willhappen."happen.
** The fur of the defeated mouse king can be found in the chapel, adorning the altar.
--->You wouldn't think a rodent would have such sumptuous fur, but this royal fur's better groomed than any mortal king's coiffure. It's found a higher purpose here than its skinned bearer could have given it.
** The fens outside the castle are filled with human corpses impaled on skewers planted in the ground. Examining them tells
--->Enemies all, and planted for a cautionary wood. Challenge the castle: here's what will
** The fur of the defeated mouse king can be found in the chapel, adorning the altar.
--->You wouldn't think a rodent would have such sumptuous fur, but this royal fur's better groomed than any mortal king's coiffure. It's found a higher purpose here than its skinned bearer could have given it.
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** There are a few mentions of Pierre Canard, the former fifth member of the Amuse-Bouche Quartet, who is implied to have been eaten by the others.
** The mouse king, as depicted in the west tapestry, once led an invasion of his army against the castle. They were defeated, and his fur put on display in the chapel.
** There are a few mentions of Pierre Canard, the former fifth member of the Amuse-Bouche Quartet, who is implied to have been eaten by the others.
** The mouse king, as depicted in the west tapestry, once led an invasion of his army against the castle. They were defeated, and his fur put on display in the chapel.
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* VineTentacles: Jenny Lettucehead is a salad-based PlantPerson with vines that will lash out, keeping you at bay.
-->Had she the inclination Jenny could squeeze you into a paste. Vines wrapped around your ankles, legs, coiling tighter till your torso's compressed and your head pops with a champagne cork's freedom. Hands, arms, animal limbs are clumsy logs next to her vegetable tendrils.
-->Had she the inclination Jenny could squeeze you into a paste. Vines wrapped around your ankles, legs, coiling tighter till your torso's compressed and your head pops with a champagne cork's freedom. Hands, arms, animal limbs are clumsy logs next to her vegetable tendrils.
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* {{Pun}}: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasis Antanaclasis]] is used if the player persists in eating the mound of filth, with the narrator commenting:
-->Whatever's gotten into you, my dear, I couldn't guess. Now more filth's gotten into you, at any rate, as you swallow what's in your mouth again.
:::The first "gotten into you" is meant figuratively, while the second is meant literally.
-->Whatever's gotten into you, my dear, I couldn't guess. Now more filth's gotten into you, at any rate, as you swallow what's in your mouth again.
:::The first "gotten into you" is meant figuratively, while the second is meant literally.
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* {{Pun}}: A couple instances of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasis Antanaclasis]] antanaclasis]]:
** In the intro text, the narrator describes a lack of dinner as a "mean repast by the meanest measure". The first "mean" isused if meant in the sense of "ungenerous", while the one in "meanest" is meant in the sense of "unkind".
** If the player persists in eating the mound of filth,with the narrator commenting:
-->Whatever'scomments:
--->Whatever's gotten into you, my dear, I couldn't guess. Now more filth's gotten into you, at any rate, as you swallow what's in your mouth again.
:::The ::::The first "gotten into you" is meant figuratively, while the second is meant literally.
** In the intro text, the narrator describes a lack of dinner as a "mean repast by the meanest measure". The first "mean" is
** If the player persists in eating the mound of filth,
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--->Whatever's gotten into you, my dear, I couldn't guess. Now more filth's gotten into you, at any rate, as you swallow what's in your mouth again.
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:::The first "gotten into you" is meant figuratively, while the second is meant literally.
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* LemonyNarrator: The narrator talks in a very flowery style, extolling foods and flavours in lavish detail.
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* LemonyNarrator: The narrator talks in a very flowery style, extolling foods and flavours in lavish detail.detail, expresses opinions on things in the story, and calls you/the player character by endearments and diminutives such as "darling", "dear", and "child".
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** A secret passageway connects [[spoiler:the dungeon's east cell with the buttery. In the cell it's hidden behind the pastry maiden, and in the buttery it's hidden behind the largest barrel.]]
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** A secret passageway connects [[spoiler:the dungeon's east cell with the buttery. In the cell cell, it's hidden behind the pastry maiden, and in the buttery buttery, it's hidden behind the largest barrel.]]
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* FoodPorn: The descriptions of food and the act of eating are extremely detailed.
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* EyelessFace: Frypan Frederick has no facial features apart from a mouth.
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* EyelessFace: EyelessFace:
** Frypan Frederick has no facial features apart from amouth.mouth.
** Jenny Lettucehead has ears and a mouth, but no eyes.
** Frypan Frederick has no facial features apart from a
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* RageAgainstTheAuthor: [[spoiler:In the rebellion ending, you attack and overpower the narrator, and after a stalemate, win your freedom. During the stalemate, she keeps her narration brief and outright refuses to provide more detailed descriptions, stating, "I've served you enough lavish words."]]
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* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: [[spoiler:The fairy queen is ultimately behind the suffering many undergo at the castle.]]
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* CombatTentacles: Jenny's vines lash out, keeping you at bay.
-->Had she the inclination Jenny could squeeze you into a paste. Vines wrapped around your ankles, legs, coiling tighter till your torso's compressed and your head pops with a champagne cork's freedom. Hands, arms, animal limbs are clumsy logs next to her vegetable tendrils.
-->Had she the inclination Jenny could squeeze you into a paste. Vines wrapped around your ankles, legs, coiling tighter till your torso's compressed and your head pops with a champagne cork's freedom. Hands, arms, animal limbs are clumsy logs next to her vegetable tendrils.
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* JaggedMouth: When Dame Demitasse opens her jaws, her porcelain face splits open into jagged fangs.
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* ScaryTeeth: Jenny Lettucehead has sharklike carrot teeth.
-->There's a wedge carved into her head, and in that wedge are carrots set in triple tiers whose points, were they in any other mouth, might shred a human body into ribbons in less than a trice. Be thankful you're not nightsoil: then you'd have different luck.
-->There's a wedge carved into her head, and in that wedge are carrots set in triple tiers whose points, were they in any other mouth, might shred a human body into ribbons in less than a trice. Be thankful you're not nightsoil: then you'd have different luck.
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* DeadGuyOnDisplay: The fens outside the castle are filled with human corpses. Examining them tells you: "Enemies all, and planted for a cautionary wood. Challenge the castle: here's what will happen."
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* DeadGuyOnDisplay: The fens outside the castle are filled with human corpses.corpses impaled on skewers planted in the ground. Examining them tells you: "Enemies all, and planted for a cautionary wood. Challenge the castle: here's what will happen."
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
** A couple of corpses in the dungeon; one is impaled on a judas chair, which has a spike in place of a cushion, and one is impaled on the spikes of a pastry maiden.
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** A couple of corpses in the dungeon; one is impaled on a judas chair, which has a spike in place of a cushion, and one is impaled on the spikes of a pastry maiden.
** The human corpses covering the fens are impaled on long, two-pronged skewers that have been planted in the ground.
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* BookcasePassage:
** A secret passageway connects [[spoiler:the dungeon's east cell with the buttery. In the cell it's hidden behind the pastry maiden, and in the buttery it's hidden behind the largest barrel.]]
** A secret stairwell can be found in [[spoiler:the baron's fireplace, leading down to the great hall.]]
** A secret passageway connects [[spoiler:the dungeon's east cell with the buttery. In the cell it's hidden behind the pastry maiden, and in the buttery it's hidden behind the largest barrel.]]
** A secret stairwell can be found in [[spoiler:the baron's fireplace, leading down to the great hall.]]
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* FireBreathingDiner:
** A harmless version if you eat a flambeau -- smoke pours from your nostrils.
** If you eat a scorpion pepper, smoke pours from your nose and ears and your mouth glows orange-hot.
** A harmless version if you eat a flambeau -- smoke pours from your nostrils.
** If you eat a scorpion pepper, smoke pours from your nose and ears and your mouth glows orange-hot.
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* LiteralMinded: The player may attempt to interact with something that was not meant literally, in which case the narrator will clarify.
** Inside the Baron's shadow:
--->Well, dear, you're in a pickle now.\\
>'''eat pickle'''\\
It's a ''figurative'' pickle, my darling.
** Standing at the castle gateway:
--->You stand before the castle's only gate. Through this passage must pass all seeking admittance or leave, whether they be the fairest or most squalid amongst us. […] Walk northward, noble guests, to the courtyard; slink eastward, servants, serfs bearing supplies, through that low kitchen door. All to their stationed ranks.\\
>'''examine guests'''\\
A rhetorical flourish, my dear. I paint them in your mind that you might picture how they come and go: aristocrats with trains and banners marching into the courtyard; meanwhile lower orders must needs access their own quarters, and here's a side door to their serving realm.
** Inside the Baron's shadow:
--->Well, dear, you're in a pickle now.\\
>'''eat pickle'''\\
It's a ''figurative'' pickle, my darling.
** Standing at the castle gateway:
--->You stand before the castle's only gate. Through this passage must pass all seeking admittance or leave, whether they be the fairest or most squalid amongst us. […] Walk northward, noble guests, to the courtyard; slink eastward, servants, serfs bearing supplies, through that low kitchen door. All to their stationed ranks.\\
>'''examine guests'''\\
A rhetorical flourish, my dear. I paint them in your mind that you might picture how they come and go: aristocrats with trains and banners marching into the courtyard; meanwhile lower orders must needs access their own quarters, and here's a side door to their serving realm.
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* FaerieCourt: [[spoiler:The castle is implied to be inhabited by fairies who are ruled by a queen.]]
* TheFairFolk: [[spoiler:The castle's true inhabitants are implied to be fairies -- the dangerous sort. They are described as having grey faces, hairy hands, and glittering wings.]]
* TheFairFolk: [[spoiler:The castle's true inhabitants are implied to be fairies -- the dangerous sort. They are described as having grey faces, hairy hands, and glittering wings.]]
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* {{Pun}}: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasis Antanaclasis]] is used if the player persists in eating the mound of filth:
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* {{Pun}}: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasis Antanaclasis]] is used if the player persists in eating the mound of filth:filth, with the narrator commenting:
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* {{Pun}}: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasis Antanaclasis]] is used if the player persists in eating the mound of filth:
-->Whatever's gotten into you, my dear, I couldn't guess. Now more filth's gotten into you, at any rate, as you swallow what's in your mouth again.
-->Whatever's gotten into you, my dear, I couldn't guess. Now more filth's gotten into you, at any rate, as you swallow what's in your mouth again.
