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* MercyLead: At the end of Level 6, Lil's Chronometer 3000 malfunctions and she ends up in a Latin-speaking BigRedDevil's dimension. Using a proper translator (not the in-game one) on his words reveals that he's actually giving Lil a head start of ten seconds to flee [[NobleDemon instead of immediately killing her, as she is an unprotected child]], and he's killed people for less than this.

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* BullyingADragon: Day 9 has a little DragonRider and her massive dragon [[FluffyTheTerrible Peaches]] try for enlistment in the war. A literal example of the trope occurs if Lil unwisely teases Peaches over her name, who gets enraged and kills Lil, leading to a GameOver.

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* BullyingADragon: BullyingADragon:
** Day 2 has Mayala, a heavily armed warrior woman from a ProudWarriorRaceGuy who are quick to violence if challenged in combat. Trying to confiscate her weapons or use the whip against her will have Mayala sternly warn Lil that doing so will be considered challenging her in combat, and pressing on in both cases will end up with Lil being killed.
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Day 9 has a little DragonRider and her massive dragon [[FluffyTheTerrible Peaches]] try for enlistment in the war. A literal example of the trope occurs if Lil unwisely teases Peaches over her name, who gets enraged and kills Lil, leading to a GameOver.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The "Lightning Round" of the gameshow consists of having somebody struck by lightning.
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** The kindly old woman on Level 10 appears to be cheerful pie seller... except that she's also a WickedWitch and those pies are made from children she puts to sleep with drug-laced candy.

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** The kindly old woman on Level 10 appears to be a cheerful pie seller... except that she's also a WickedWitch and those pies are made from children she puts to sleep with drug-laced candy.
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* ObviouslyEvil: Tyronius Athanatos wears dark clothing, has an evil scowl on his face, has a name that partially includes the Greek god of death Thanatos, is racist towards {{Muggles}}, and is secretly planning a mage uprising on day one. He's the second character that Lil meets at the guardhouse on Day 1, intended to show the player an obvious example to Deny in contrast to the Obviously Good [[CoolOldLady Mrs. Abernathy]] before him. Sure enough, [[spoiler:Tyronius turns out to be the ultimate villain, being responsible for the King's murder, brainwashing Desdemona into serving him, and trying to use the Chronometer 3000 to MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight]].

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* ObviouslyEvil: Tyronius Athanatos wears dark clothing, has an evil scowl on his face, has a name surname that partially includes the Greek god of death Thanatos, is racist towards {{Muggles}}, and is secretly planning a mage uprising on day one. He's the second character that Lil meets at the guardhouse on Day 1, intended to show the player an obvious example to Deny in contrast to the Obviously Good [[CoolOldLady sweet old lady]] Mrs. Abernathy]] Abernathy before him. Sure enough, [[spoiler:Tyronius turns out to be the ultimate villain, being responsible for the King's murder, brainwashing Desdemona into serving him, and trying to use the Chronometer 3000 to MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight]].
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* ObviouslyEvil: Tyronius Athanatos wears dark clothing, has an evil scowl on his face, is racist towards {{Muggles}}, and is secretly planning a mage uprising on day one. [[spoiler: Sure enough, he turns out to be the ultimate villain, being responsible for the King's murder, brainwashing Desdemona into serving him, and trying to use the Chronometer 3000 to MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight]].

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* ObviouslyEvil: Tyronius Athanatos wears dark clothing, has an evil scowl on his face, has a name that partially includes the Greek god of death Thanatos, is racist towards {{Muggles}}, and is secretly planning a mage uprising on day one. [[spoiler: He's the second character that Lil meets at the guardhouse on Day 1, intended to show the player an obvious example to Deny in contrast to the Obviously Good [[CoolOldLady Mrs. Abernathy]] before him. Sure enough, he [[spoiler:Tyronius turns out to be the ultimate villain, being responsible for the King's murder, brainwashing Desdemona into serving him, and trying to use the Chronometer 3000 to MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight]].

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* ShortTeensTallAdults: Or "tweens" in this case. Lil is twelve years old, yet she's only tall enough to roughly reach the adult characters' waists at best.



* TeensAreShort: Or "Tweens Are Short" in this case. Lil is twelve years old, yet she's only tall enough to roughly reach the adult characters' waists at best.

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*** The shapeshifter and fake Praetor are in the city on day 7 even if you denied them earlier.

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*** The shapeshifter and fake Praetor are in the city on day 7 even if you denied them earlier. However, this is {{Justified}} due to the fact that they could gain entry through another gate.



* MultipleEndings: Your choices during certain days will effect the ending, including Tyronius' speech before [[spoiler:he uses the Chronometer 3000 to go back to the wedding]].



* TemporarySubstitute: The plot revolves around the usual gatekeeper's daughter filling in for him while he is away attending to other matters.

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* TemporarySubstitute: The plot revolves around the usual gatekeeper's daughter filling in for him while he is away attending to other matters.matters, and a few of the other children she meets end up in similar situations.



* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The end of each level tells what happened to all the characters who were let in or turned away.

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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The end of each level tells what happened to all the characters who were let in or turned away.away, while the end of the game tells what happens after the final day that is played.
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* LiteralMetaphor: In the demo version of the game, Lil is on a ''Series/TheDatingGame''-like show interviewing three potential heroes to go and save a princess: [[FighterMageThief a barbarian, a mage, and a thief]]. Halfway through, she has to pick one for the "Lightning Round", and freaks out when her chosen hero is then [[ReducedToDust turned into an ash pile]] by actual lightning.

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* LiteralMetaphor: In At the demo version start of the game, fourth night, Lil is on a ''Series/TheDatingGame''-like show interviewing three potential heroes to go and save a princess: the missing Princess Desdemona: [[FighterMageThief a barbarian, a mage, and a thief]]. Halfway through, she has to pick one for the "Lightning Round", and freaks out when her chosen hero is then [[ReducedToDust turned into an ash pile]] by actual lightning.
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* RunOrDie: At the end of Lil's shift on Level 6, the Chronometer 3000 malfunctions and sends her to an alternate universe where a [[spoiler:Latin-speaking BigRedDevil is waiting at the guardhouse. He'll monologue a bit and start a countdown, killing Lil with a sea of flames if he finishes, and the only way out of this is to use the Chronometer 3000 to book it out of there]].
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** Chloe on Day 1 appears to be like Belle from a ''Disney'' musical, being overly cheery and speaking in a sing-song voice. She's also a ruthless criminal ''hiding a flamethrower on her'' and is seeking to kill and commit crimes. If not handled properly, she can even burn down the Guardhouse and kill Lil.

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** Chloe on Day 1 2 appears to be like Belle from a ''Disney'' musical, being overly cheery and speaking in a sing-song voice. She's also a ruthless criminal ''hiding a flamethrower on her'' and is seeking to kill and commit crimes. If not handled properly, she can even burn down the Guardhouse and kill Lil.

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* ObviouslyEvil: Tyronius Athanatos wears dark clothing, has an evil scowl on his face, is racist towards {{Muggles}}, and is secretly planning a mage uprising on day one. [[spoiler: Sure enough, he turns out to be the ultimate villain, brainwashing Desdemona and trying to use the Chronometer 3000 to MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight]].

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* ObviouslyEvil: Tyronius Athanatos wears dark clothing, has an evil scowl on his face, is racist towards {{Muggles}}, and is secretly planning a mage uprising on day one. [[spoiler: Sure enough, he turns out to be the ultimate villain, being responsible for the King's murder, brainwashing Desdemona into serving him, and trying to use the Chronometer 3000 to MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight]].


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** Catering Corp offers to provide [[Film/SoylentGreen "Soylent Beige" nutrient bars]] to the starving population on Day 9. Needless to say, using the decipher will reveal that [[spoiler:Soylent Beige is [[HumanResources made from people]]]].
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: There are quite a number of characters who embody this:
** Chloe on Day 1 appears to be like Belle from a ''Disney'' musical, being overly cheery and speaking in a sing-song voice. She's also a ruthless criminal ''hiding a flamethrower on her'' and is seeking to kill and commit crimes. If not handled properly, she can even burn down the Guardhouse and kill Lil.
** The kindly old woman on Level 10 appears to be cheerful pie seller... except that she's also a WickedWitch and those pies are made from children she puts to sleep with drug-laced candy.
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* BullyingADragon: Day 9 has a little DragonRider and her massive dragon [[FluffyTheTerrible Peaches]] try for enlistment in the war. A literal example of the trope occurs if Lil unwisely teases Peaches over her name, who gets enraged and kill her, leading to a GameOver.

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* BullyingADragon: Day 9 has a little DragonRider and her massive dragon [[FluffyTheTerrible Peaches]] try for enlistment in the war. A literal example of the trope occurs if Lil unwisely teases Peaches over her name, who gets enraged and kill her, kills Lil, leading to a GameOver.
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* BullyingADragon: Day 9 has a little DragonRider and her massive dragon [[FluffyTheTerrible Peaches]] try for enlistment in the war. A literal example of the trope occurs if Lil unwisely teases Peaches over her name, who gets enraged and kill her, leading to a GameOver.
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* ObviouslyEvil: Tyronius Athanatos wears dark clothing, has an evil scowl on his face, is racist towards {{Muggles}}, and is secretly planning a mage uprising on day one. [[spoiler: Sure enough, he turns out to be the ultimate villain, brainwashing Desdemona and trying to use the Chronomaster 3000 to MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight]].

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* ObviouslyEvil: Tyronius Athanatos wears dark clothing, has an evil scowl on his face, is racist towards {{Muggles}}, and is secretly planning a mage uprising on day one. [[spoiler: Sure enough, he turns out to be the ultimate villain, brainwashing Desdemona and trying to use the Chronomaster Chronometer 3000 to MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight]].
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* ObviouslyEvil: Tyronius Athanatos wears dark clothing, has an evil scowl on his face, and is secretly planning a mage uprising on day one. [[spoiler: Sure enough, he turns out to be the ultimate villain, brainwashing Desdemona and trying to use the Chronomaster 3000 to MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight]].

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* ObviouslyEvil: Tyronius Athanatos wears dark clothing, has an evil scowl on his face, is racist towards {{Muggles}}, and is secretly planning a mage uprising on day one. [[spoiler: Sure enough, he turns out to be the ultimate villain, brainwashing Desdemona and trying to use the Chronomaster 3000 to MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight]].
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* ObviouslyEvil: Tyronius Athanatos wears dark clothing, has an evil scowl on his face, and is secretly planning a mage uprising on day one. [[spoiler: Sure enough, he turns out to be the ultimate villain, brainwashing Desdemona and trying to use the ]].

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* ObviouslyEvil: Tyronius Athanatos wears dark clothing, has an evil scowl on his face, and is secretly planning a mage uprising on day one. [[spoiler: Sure enough, he turns out to be the ultimate villain, brainwashing Desdemona and trying to use the ]].Chronomaster 3000 to MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight]].

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* FighterMageThief: The council of Stryker, Ashe, and Malcolm respectively. Stryker is the no-nonsense war Lieutenant, Ashe, while not a mage, is the intellectual of the three, and Malcolm, despite his silliness, is adept at trickery. Fittingly enough, the champions they selected to save the princess are respectively a barbarian, a wizard, and a thief.



* ObviouslyEvil: Tyronius Athanatos wears dark clothing, has an evil scowl on his face, and is secretly planning a mage uprising on day one. [[spoiler: Sure enough, he turns out to be the ultimate villain, brainwashing Desdemona and trying to use the ]].



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In Chloe's 4* epilogue, she tries to pickpocket a guard, but since she was singing loudly while doing so, she was caught immediately and sent to prison.

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** Trying to instigate a fight against armed people or psychopaths will not end well for Lil, who's a 12 year old girl with no combat skills or proper weaponry.
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In Chloe's 4* epilogue, she tries to pickpocket a guard, but since she was singing loudly while doing so, she was caught immediately and sent to prison.
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** On day 11, a [[Expy Not-Mandalorian]] comes to your booth.
** You also have a [[Expy Tiny Tim]] goblin, and the dialog is almost entirely in amusingly butchered Dickens quotes.

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** On day 11, a [[Expy [[{{Expy}} Not-Mandalorian]] comes to your booth.
** You also have a [[Expy [[{{Expy}} Tiny Tim]] goblin, and the dialog is almost entirely in amusingly butchered Dickens quotes.
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** On day 11, a [[Expy Not-Mandalorian]] comes to your booth.
** You also have a [[Expy Tiny Tim]] goblin, and the dialog is almost entirely in amusingly butchered Dickens quotes.
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* SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration: Varies quite a bit
** Much of the time, the gameplay affects the story. People reference past events and the entire story changes based on your actions.
** However, there are some times where the ending narration of the day contradicts the later parts, and numerous people are in the city even if you denied them.
*** The shapeshifter and fake Praetor are in the city on day 7 even if you denied them earlier.
*** If you get a 4-star with Gary on day 11 [[spoiler: his wand is taken and he is explicitly cast out of the mages guild and put into rehab by Chuck]], so he shouldn't be in the city at all. However, he is present every time in day 12 no matter what you do.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In Chloe's 4* epilogue, she tries to pickpocket a guard, but since she was singing loudly while doing so, she was caught immediately and sent to prison.

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* PaperThinDisguise: Some characters will disguise themselves as important-looking figures, although it can be pretty easy to tell that they're fakes from first glance.

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* PaperThinDisguise: Some characters will disguise themselves as important-looking figures, although it can be pretty easy to tell that they're fakes from first glance. Level 2 has Sir Beverly's "horse", which can be revealed as two nerds who only joined him on the promise of $10.
* PuppetKing: The council of Ashe, Stryker and Malcolm would prefer if Princess Desdemona is kept in a ceremonial position while they control the kingdom.


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* ShoutOut:
** Chloe, the last entrant in Level 2, is one for ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', who alternates between singing like she's in a Disney musical and speaking.


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* WackyParentSeriousChild: Hamish spends his time in the guard shed barely doing a competent job and spending his money gambling away at goblinball. Lil on the other hand may be a snarker, but she can take her job much more seriously than her father.
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* LiteralMetaphor: In the demo version of the game, Lil is on a ''Series/TheDatingGame''-like show interviewing three potential heroes to go and save a princess: [[FighterMageThief a barbarian, a mage, and a thief]]. Halfway through, she has to pick one for the "Lightning Round", and freaks out when her chosen hero is then [[ReducedToDust turned into an ash pile]] by actual lightning. [[labelnote]] Except the Wizard, who explains he was an elemental Wizard. [[/labelnote]]

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* LiteralMetaphor: In the demo version of the game, Lil is on a ''Series/TheDatingGame''-like show interviewing three potential heroes to go and save a princess: [[FighterMageThief a barbarian, a mage, and a thief]]. Halfway through, she has to pick one for the "Lightning Round", and freaks out when her chosen hero is then [[ReducedToDust turned into an ash pile]] by actual lightning. [[labelnote]] Except the Wizard, who explains he was an elemental Wizard. [[/labelnote]]
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* LiteralMetaphor: In the demo version of the game, Lil is on a ''Series/TheDatingGame''-like show interviewing three potential heroes to go and save a princess: [[FighterMageThief a barbarian, a mage, and a thief]]. Halfway through, she has to pick one for the "Lightning Round", and freaks out when her chosen hero is then [[ReducedToDust turned into an ash pile]] by actual lightning.

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* LiteralMetaphor: In the demo version of the game, Lil is on a ''Series/TheDatingGame''-like show interviewing three potential heroes to go and save a princess: [[FighterMageThief a barbarian, a mage, and a thief]]. Halfway through, she has to pick one for the "Lightning Round", and freaks out when her chosen hero is then [[ReducedToDust turned into an ash pile]] by actual lightning. [[labelnote]] Except the Wizard, who explains he was an elemental Wizard. [[/labelnote]]
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* LiteralMetaphor: In the demo version of the game, Lil is on a ''Series/TheDatingGame''-like show interviewing three potential heroes to go and save a princess: [[FighterMageThief a barbarian, a mage, and a thief]]. Halfway through, she has to pick one for the "Lightning Round", and freaks out when her chosen hero is then [[ReducedToDust turned into an ash pile]] by actual lightning.

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* TeensAreShort: Or "Tweens are Short" in this case. Lil is twelve years old, yet she's only tall enough to roughly reach the adult characters' waists at best.

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* TeensAreShort: Or "Tweens are Are Short" in this case. Lil is twelve years old, yet she's only tall enough to roughly reach the adult characters' waists at best.best.
* TemporarySubstitute: The plot revolves around the usual gatekeeper's daughter filling in for him while he is away attending to other matters.

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* BigOlEyebrows: Lil sports these, which she gets from her father.

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* BigOlEyebrows: Lil sports these, which she gets from her father. Various other characters have these as well.


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* PaperThinDisguise: Some characters will disguise themselves as important-looking figures, although it can be pretty easy to tell that they're fakes from first glance.


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* TeensAreShort: Or "Tweens are Short" in this case. Lil is twelve years old, yet she's only tall enough to roughly reach the adult characters' waists at best.
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''Lil' Guardsman'' is a point-and-click puzzle game developed by Hilltop Studios released in 2024.

In this deduction adventure, you play as Lil - an unlikely 12-year-old hero - covering your dad's shift at the guard shed and are tasked with deciding the fate of over 100 unique characters. You will question humans, elves, goblins, cyclopses, and other fantasy creatures using your powers of deduction to determine who to admit or deny based on how they respond to your questions and your trusty tools. Sending visitors to jail, inadvertently zapping them to smithereens, or letting them go on their merry way are all part of the job. But be careful: who you let through the castle gates will determine the kingdom's fate.
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!!Tropes:
* AnimeHair: Lil sports a gigantic head of hair almost half the size of her body.
* BigOlEyebrows: Lil sports these, which she gets from her father.
* LittleMissSnarker: Lil is usually sporting at least one sardonic quip towards everyone she meets.
* SchizoTech: The plot is set in a medieval era, yet there are modern objects like electric lights and clock radios.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The end of each level tells what happened to all the characters who were let in or turned away.
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