History VideoGame / SpiderAndWeb

* TranquillizerDart: The pulse guns shoot bolts of energy that knock people out, while shooting most inanimate objects produces the result: "The [object] showers a corona of sparks. Lacking a nervous system, however, it is unaffected by the pulse."

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: "Tango"]]

* DeconstructionGame

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Tango"]].

* AirventPassageway: Averted; the man mentions that the grates have been custom-made to be impossible to crawl through. [[spoiler:The ventilation grilles, however, are a handy hiding place for objects in a pinch.]]

The game may be found on the author's website [[https://eblong.com/zarf/if.html#tangle here]], and on IFDB [[http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=2xyccw3pe0uovfad here]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:The opening.]]

* StunGuns: The pulse guns shoot bolts of energy that knock people out, while shooting most inanimate objects produces the result: "The [object] showers a corona of sparks. Lacking a nervous system, however, it is unaffected by the pulse."

* NoNameGiven: You, and your interrogator's only referred to by his title: with'.
* NonstandardGameOver: Annoying the interrogator enough will make him fry your brain.

The game may be found [[http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=2xyccw3pe0uovfad here]].

* BlatantLies: You can lie brazenly to the interpreter, such as answering "yes" [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder to the rhetorical question]] of whether you'd been captured before you had time to do anything. These are even referred to in the source code as blatant_lies (as opposed to sneaky_lies).

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Your interrogator describes you as similar to him. Whether you buy it depends on your choices.

* NotSoDifferent: Your interrogator tries this on you. Whether you buy it depends on your choices.

** Deconstructed with [[spoiler: the package; it never existed as it was just a lie you told the interrogator to keep him from discovering your gun]].

* TeleportersAndTransporters: The contents of the lab you are there to investigate.

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* ''VideoGame/SplinterCellConviction'' starts as a flashback of Victor Coste while being interrogated by armed Black Arrow contractors.

''Spider and Web'' is an independently written work of InteractiveFiction created by Andrew Plotkin, which won five of the 1998 Xyzzy Awards and was a finalist for four more. The story is told through a series of {{flashback}}s by an UnreliableNarrator - who also happens to be the protagonist, an [[SpyFiction unnamed, captured spy]], on an unknown mission against an [[{{Commieland}} unidentified country]] in [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture the near future]], and equipped with [[ChekhovsArmoury a wide variety of sophisticated tools]].

* GenreSavvy: [[spoiler: It's implied that your character deliberately got caught in order to get their lockpick back, hence why there was a trap under the interrogation chair.]]

''Spider And Web'' is an independently written work of InteractiveFiction created by Andrew Plotkin, which won five of the 1998 Xyzzy Awards and was a finalist for four more. The story is told through a series of {{flashback}}s by an UnreliableNarrator - who also happens to be the protagonist, an [[SpyFiction unnamed, captured spy]], on an unknown mission against an [[{{Commieland}} unidentified country]] in [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture the near future]], and equipped with [[ChekhovsArmoury a wide variety of sophisticated tools]].

!!''Spider And Web'' provides examples of the following tropes:

** Man: "We rebuilt our ventilation system from the ground up, less than half a year ago. It's fenced and webbed and wired so that a grain of sand couldn't sneak through."

* [[spoiler:BolivianArmyEnding]]: [[spoiler:You use the teleporter, but you never find out where it takes you.]]

** Subverted/deconstructed with [[spoiler: the package; it never existed as it was just a lie you told the interrogator to keep him from discovering your gun]].

* EnforcedColdWar: [[spoiler: You invoke this if you choose to destroy the papers; neither side gets the teleporter so there's no open war like the interrogator feared there would be]].
* FeaturelessProtagonist: Played with. The protagonist's sex, age and looks are indeed never specified; however, as the game progresses, it implies a more specific history and personality for the protagonist.

** [[spoiler: And "tango".]]

* MisappliedPhlebotinum: Averted. The interrogator points out how the secret you're after would have ''massive'' effects if either side gets ahold of it. [[spoiler: Indeed a teleporter would been have major impact on a war]].

* [[spoiler:TeleportersAndTransporters]]: The contents of the lab you are there to investigate.
* ThrowingTheDistraction: Early in the game, you throw [[spoiler:your lockpick]] to distract a guard. [[spoiler:Subverted. The "distraction" story was to cover up the fact that the player character had left the lockpick in a lock while hiding from the guard.]]

* [[spoiler:WeaponizedTeleportation]]: Your enemy's end goal, and the reason you're in the country. In the ending where [[spoiler: you steal the teleporter's plans for your own side]], this is possible for your country to achieve as well.