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* DropTheHammer: Rolo uses his blacksmithing hammer to [[spoiler: knock out two guards and the commander of the Dwindling Heights garrison prior to the final battle.]] He also uses it [[spoiler: to fight scores of undead warriors during the final battle itself.]]
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''Ghost of a Tale'' is a 3D [[StealthBasedGame stealth]] ActionAdventure game where you play as Tilo, a mouse minstrel who has been imprisoned by the Rats of the Red Paw Army and sent to Keep on a remote Island in the middle of a lake called Dwindling Heights. It was developed by, and initially released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Early Access in July 2016, before getting ported to UsefulNotes/XboxOne on June 30th, 2017, fully launching on [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] on March 13th, 2018, and getting released on UsefulNotes/PS4 on March 12th, 2019.
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''Ghost of a Tale'' is a 3D [[StealthBasedGame stealth]] ActionAdventure game where you play as Tilo, a mouse minstrel who has been imprisoned by the Rats of the Red Paw Army and sent to Keep on a remote Island in the middle of a lake called Dwindling Heights. It was developed by, and initially released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Platform/{{Steam}} Early Access in July 2016, before getting ported to UsefulNotes/XboxOne Platform/XboxOne on June 30th, 2017, fully launching on [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer [[Platform/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] on March 13th, 2018, and getting released on UsefulNotes/PS4 Platform/PS4 on March 12th, 2019.
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* Main/{{Oubliette}}: Early on, you're told about the famous Captain Powderkeg by a frog pirate who is imprisoned near Tilo's cell. The frog talks about how he frequently has conversations with him, but when Tilo visits the nearby cell, all he finds is a skeleton wearing a pirate hat. All attempts to tell the frog pirate that his buddy is dead fail. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when it turns out that Captain Powderkeg is very much alive and that you've been talking to him almost the entire game.]]
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* Main/{{Oubliette}}: {{Oubliette}}: Early on, you're told about the famous Captain Powderkeg by a frog pirate who is imprisoned near Tilo's cell. The frog talks about how he frequently has conversations with him, but when Tilo visits the nearby cell, all he finds is a skeleton wearing a pirate hat. All attempts to tell the frog pirate that his buddy is dead fail. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when it turns out that Captain Powderkeg is very much alive and that you've been talking to him almost the entire game.]]
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* NiceHat: Tilo's Minstrel hat.
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'''Commander:''' My lovely's ears, all soft and purple ... I long to nuzzle at her fur-ple.\\
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'''Commander:''' My lovely's ears, all soft and purple ... I long to nuzzle at her fur-ple.\\
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* TheBlacksmith: Rolo is the blacksmith for Dwindling Heights and is one of the friendly NPCs the player can interact with. For varying sums of money, he provides maps and hints toward numerous quest. If specific side-quests are completed, he also upgrades your suit of armour so it is lighter and more nimble, and also forges a [[spoiler: gold crown]] for you as part of the end-game.
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* TheBlacksmith: Rolo is the blacksmith for Dwindling Heights and is one of the friendly NPCs [=NPCs=] the player can interact with. For varying sums of money, he provides maps and hints toward numerous quest. If specific side-quests are completed, he also upgrades your suit of armour so it is lighter and more nimble, and also forges a [[spoiler: gold crown]] for you as part of the end-game.
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* DeadPersonConversation: Tilo has numerous of these with the ghost of [[spoiler: Dunlain.]]
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* FauxFlame: Dying Lights are a type of special fire that emanates blue light but does not burn and cannot be extinguished. It is mentioned that they are often used on ships due to their relative permanence, and can be found in various areas during the game, most notably the catacombs. A lantern of Dying Light can also be obtained through a side-quest.
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* GhostlyAnimals: [[spoiler: Dunlain]] is a spectral rat, which is to be expected considering all characters in the setting are anthropomorphic animals.
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* ISeeDeadPeople: Tilo is noted to be the only one capable of seeing and speaking with the [[spoiler: ghost of Dunlain.]] It seems that everyone is capable of seeing the [[spoiler: undead warriors reanimated by the Green Flame, though these are reanimated skeletons rather than ghosts.]]
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* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler: Dunlain intended to marry her lover, Hythe, after the war with the Green Flame concluded. Unfortunately, Hythe perishes during the final battle of the war, greatly affecting Dunlain. One quest involves helping a spectral Dunlain remember the name of her long-lost lover.]]
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* DinerBrawl: Asking the guard in the commissary about any interesting events sometimes results in one of these being reported. Participants in the brawl are mentioned to have been stabbed with a carrot or brained with a sausage.
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* KnowledgeBroker: The Magpies. It is stated that only the wealthiest and most powerful individuals can afford their knowledge.
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* MundaneWish: From the Magpie's perspective, at least. The Magpie eventually agrees to grant Tilo one piece of information of his choosing. Tilo chooses to ask where his wife is. The Magpie is taken aback by this, and offers the knowledge of how the universe was formed, or what happens after death, but Tilo insists on knowing the whereabouts of his wife, which the Magpie grants.
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* PirateBooty: Captain Otto Powderkeg's hidden treasure becomes a key plot point later in the story. [[spoiler: It contains maps allowing Tilo to find the mythical isle of Periclave, where his wife has wound up following a shipwreck. It also contains a crystal that allows the Emerald Flame to return and wreak havoc before being re-contained.]]
* PirateSong: "Heaven in a Bottle," which Tilo can play at various points in the story.
* PirateSong: "Heaven in a Bottle," which Tilo can play at various points in the story.
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* AteTheSpoon: Rotgut, a potent alcoholic drink, is said to melt glass. As a result, the inside of bottles containing the beverage are coated with wax.
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* BettingMiniGame: You can play a gambling game called "High, Low, Seven" with a soldier in the castle's commissary. The player can bet two to five florins, and the outcome is dependent on two dice rolls. Any sum of the dice greater than seven doubles the player's wager if they bet "High", and sums less than seven also doubles the wager if they bet "Low". A dice roll of seven, meanwhile, quadruples the player's wager if they bet "Seven".
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* DownTheDrain: The castle of Dwindling Heights features a sewer system that Tilo must explore to accomplish several objectives. Later in the game, Kerold inadvertently has Tilo pour a bucket containing [[spoiler: a compass]] down a literal drain, and Tilo must venture back into the sewers to retrieve it.
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* DressedToPlunder: Tilo can assemble a pirate costume, which is used [[spoiler: at the end of the game to fool Kerold into giving up vital information.]]
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* EyePatchOfPower: The pirate outfit Tilo can assemble sports one. Later, after [[spoiler: Rolo the blacksmith is revealed to have been Otto Powderkeg the pirate, Rolo/Powderkeg admits that he wore one in his piracy days, though he only did so because it was fashionable.]]
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* SeadogBeard: Kerold Redwhiskers sports one. Later in the game, [[spoiler: Tilo takes strands of his beard to make a fake one as part of a costume.]]
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* DreadfulMusician: The Commander of the Dwindling Heights garrison, who fancies himself an amateur musician. When he asks you to listen to one of his compositions, the music is cacophonic and the lyrics are dreadful, with forced rhymes abounding.
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* PainfulRhyme: The Commander of the Dwindling Heights garrison tries his hand at being a musician, with dreadful results. The one song of his we get to here suffers from numerous forces attempts to rhyme.
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* PainfulRhyme: The Commander of the Dwindling Heights garrison tries his hand at being a musician, with dreadful results. The one song of his we get to here hear suffers from numerous forces forced attempts to rhyme.
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'''Commander:''' My lovely's eyes, they shine and sparkle ... Like rubies glowing in the darkle.\\
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* PainfulRhyme: The Commander of the Dwindling Heights garrison tries his hand at being a musician, with dreadful results. The one song of his we get to here suffers from numerous forces attempts to rhyme.
'''Commander:''' My lovely's eyes, they shine and sparkle ... Like rubies glowing in the darkle.\\
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'''Commander:''' My lovely's ears, all soft and purple ... I long to nuzzle at her fur-ple.\\
'''Commander:''' My lovely's eyes, they shine and sparkle ... Like rubies glowing in the darkle.\\
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'''Commander:''' My lovely's ears, all soft and purple ... I long to nuzzle at her fur-ple.\\
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* BeeAfraid: Both played straight and subverted. Numerous beehives can be found in the world, and the bees within will swarm and sting Tilo if he gets close to them for too long. However, the hives can be knocked down and their queens relocated to man-made beehives on the castle grounds. The new bee colonies that form as a result are friendly and provide consumable honey every forty-eight hours.
* TheBlacksmith: Rolo is the blacksmith for Dwindling Heights and is one of the friendly NPCs the player can interact with. For varying sums of money, he provides maps and hints toward numerous quest. If specific side-quests are completed, he also upgrades your suit of armour so it is lighter and more nimble, and also forges a [[spoiler: gold crown]] for you as part of the end-game.
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* DropTheHammer: Rolo uses his blacksmithing hammer to [[spoiler: knock out two guards and the commander of the Dwindling Heights garrison prior to the final battle.]] He also uses it [[spoiler: to fight scores of undead warriors during the final battle itself.]]
* DumbwaiterRide: Silas has an improvised dumbwaiter consisting of a small basket and counterweight, which he uses to ferry supplies between the garden and his station on the highest tower of the castle. Tilo, being a small mouse, can use this dumbwaiter to travel quickly from the tower summit to the garden.
* DumbwaiterRide: Silas has an improvised dumbwaiter consisting of a small basket and counterweight, which he uses to ferry supplies between the garden and his station on the highest tower of the castle. Tilo, being a small mouse, can use this dumbwaiter to travel quickly from the tower summit to the garden.
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: Bottles can be picked up and thrown at the head of guards, temporarily knocking them out and allowing Tilo to sneak by or steal their belongings.
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* StockBeehive: The wild beehives found in the world fit this trope.
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* BearTrap: Bear traps are scattered throughout the far tower, sewers, and catacomb areas. However, they are not used to trap bears, and are instead used to try and kill the giant spiders plaguing Dwindling Heights castle. Tilo can step in them himself and take damage if he is not careful. He can also throw objects into the trap to activate them, nullifying them as a threat, and can later learn abilities that allow him to sense the traps and reset them.
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* GiantEnemyCrab: The in-game lore makes reference to "sundercrabs," giant crabs that live in Lake Vaelia. While they are normally hostile creatures, it is stated that the sundercrabs can be domesticated and used as beasts of burden. Tilo can come across a domesticated sundercrab at the Harbour, where it remains docile.
* GiantSpider: Large spiders inhabit the sewers and catacombs under Dwindling Heights. Tilo himself crosses paths with a dead spider in the sewers, from which he must draw poison for a quest, and later encounters living spiders in the catacombs.
* GiantSpider: Large spiders inhabit the sewers and catacombs under Dwindling Heights. Tilo himself crosses paths with a dead spider in the sewers, from which he must draw poison for a quest, and later encounters living spiders in the catacombs.
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* AncientTomb: A network of catacombs stretches under Dwindling Heights, and Tilo visits the catacombs several times to complete quests over the course of the story. The tomb of [[spoiler: the hero Dunlain]] can be found here.
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Kerold Redwhiskers, the insane, imprisoned frog pirate, claims that his captain, Otto Powderkeg, is alive in the next cell, and even carries out "conversations" with him. A quick look in the next cell reveals a skeleton wearing a pirate hat, suggesting that the Powderkeg is, in fact, dead. However, the end of the game reveals that [[Powederkeg is alive and is, in fact, Rolo, the castle's blacksmith.]] Whether or not [[Powderkeg]] visited Kerold and had actual conversations with him, or if Kerold was right for the wrong reasons is left ambiguous.
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Kerold Redwhiskers, the insane, imprisoned frog pirate, claims that his captain, Otto Powderkeg, is alive in the next cell, and even carries out "conversations" with him. A quick look in the next cell reveals a skeleton wearing a pirate hat, suggesting that the Powderkeg is, in fact, dead. However, the end of the game not only reveals that [[Powederkeg Powderkeg is alive and is, in fact, alive, but also reveals that [[spoiler: the blacksmith, Rolo, the castle's blacksmith.is in fact Powderkeg, who has covertly assumed a new identity.]] Whether or not [[Powderkeg]] visited Kerold and had actual conversations with him, or if Kerold was right for the wrong reasons is left ambiguous.
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** Wearing an outfit when first talking to silas will cause him to comment on it, such as asking why Tilo is hiding his face if you're wearing the thief's mask.
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Kerold Redwhiskers, the insane, imprisoned frog pirate, claims that his captain, Otto Powderkeg, is alive in the next cell, and even carries out "conversations" with him. A quick look in the next cell reveals a skeleton wearing a pirate hat, suggesting that the Powderkeg is, in fact, dead. However, the end of the game reveals that [[Powederkeg is alive and is, in fact, Rolo, the castle's blacksmith.]] Whether or not [[Powderkeg]] visited Kerold and had actual conversations with him, or if Kerold was right for the wrong reasons is left ambiguous.
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* CartoonCheese: Tilo can carry health-restoring cheese in his inventory that fits the stereotypical image of cheese (orange, with holes, and shaped like a wedge). Later in the game, Silas orders a cheese wheel, which looks exactly how you would expect it to.
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* EvilChef: [[spoiler: Ouma Rezzia, the chef of Dwindling Heights,]] is the head of the smuggling ring in the castle.
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* InstantSedation: While gathering proof of a smuggling ring at Dwindling Heights, Tilo must ask the cook, Ouma Rezzia, for a key one of the smugglers left behind. Rezzia asks you to try a dish she is making, into which she has slipped a sedative that knocks you out shortly thereafter; she is the secret leader of the smugglers, "The Master," and incapacitates you to cover her trail, though you wake up none of the worse for wear and can confront her again later.
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* HideousHangoverCure: When a despaired Silas gets drunk, Tilo has the cook, Ouma, make a tonic to cure his hangover. While it is not specified if the tonic tastes poorly, it is effective in helping Silas become sober.
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* SamusIsAGirl: Not Tilo, but an InUniverse example occurs with [[spoiler:Duinlan]].
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* SamusIsAGirl: Not Tilo, but an InUniverse example occurs StepOneEscape: This game starts with [[spoiler:Duinlan]].the player character waking up in a prison cell. The first task is obviously trying to get out.
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* PropagandaPiece: Some of Tilo's songs are clearly written as either propaganda for the Red Claw, or satire aimed at them.
** The Ballad of the Coward King is a rather heavy-handed critique of the last rat king before the red claw, with the implication that it makes him come across as far worse than he actually was in order to glorify the red claw.
** The Poisoned Cup is meant to justify the mice's place in society as a lower class by describing how they betrayed their allies to save their own skin. Considering that the events of the song heavily contradict other stories about the green flame as a nonsapient force incapable of bargaining, it's rather obviously fake or exaggerated.
** Murder of Crows is satire on the other side of the political spectrum, written by a mouse minstrel as a critique of the ruling rats.
** The Ballad of the Coward King is a rather heavy-handed critique of the last rat king before the red claw, with the implication that it makes him come across as far worse than he actually was in order to glorify the red claw.
** The Poisoned Cup is meant to justify the mice's place in society as a lower class by describing how they betrayed their allies to save their own skin. Considering that the events of the song heavily contradict other stories about the green flame as a nonsapient force incapable of bargaining, it's rather obviously fake or exaggerated.
** Murder of Crows is satire on the other side of the political spectrum, written by a mouse minstrel as a critique of the ruling rats.
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* ResourcefulRodent: The main character, Tilo, has to outsmart the rats by hiding from them, distracting them, or by knocking them out with bottles and barrels.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Tilo knows a song called "The Rat with Two Tails". "Tail" is definitely a bawdy euphemism and optionally playing the song for one character elicits a comment about a polite mouse knowing a song like that. This qualifies as the trope because in the US the game's ESRB rating is E 10+
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* GuideDangIt: The game provides quests to what you're supposed to do, but not how to do it, which can cause you to get stuck very easily.
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* DevelopersForesight: Wearing an outfit when first talking to silas will cause him to comment on it, such as asking why Tilo is hiding his face if you're wearing the thief's mask.
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* DevelopersForesight: Silas is full of this.
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** Silas will also comment on what you're carrying, such as asking about why you've a bottle.
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* GagPenis: The song "The Rat with two Tails". Let's just say that the second tail in question is not a tail.
