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* OldFlame: Fletcher and Lucy, with the added complication that by Elizabethan standards she's a bit of a ChristmasCake and, though fond of Fletcher, would really rather be writing plays herself.
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* OldFlame: Fletcher and Lucy, with the added complication that by Elizabethan standards she's a bit of a ChristmasCake an OldMaid and, though fond of Fletcher, would really rather be writing plays herself.
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On [[WikiRule IFwiki]] [[http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/The_King_of_Shreds_and_Patches here]] and available for free download [[http://maher.filfre.net/King/ here]].
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/WilliamShakespeare, Creator/ChristopherMarlowe, and English occultist John Dee all make appearances.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/WilliamShakespeare, Creator/ChristopherMarlowe, and English occultist John Dee all make appearances. The premiere of Shakespeare’s ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' is the backdrop for supernatural interference. [[spoiler:He is one of the the playwrights involved in the efforts to reconstruct ''The King In Yellowe''.]]
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* Creator/WilliamShakespeare: Appears as a character; the premiere of his ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' is the backdrop for supernatural interference. [[spoiler:He is one of the the playwrights involved in the efforts to reconstruct ''The King In Yellowe''.]]
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* VirginSacrifice: [[spoiler:Marijne, possibly. Definitely a HumanSacrifice at any rate.]]
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* WizardBeard: John Dee.
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* WizardBeard: John Dee.Dee.
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''The King Of Shreds And Patches'' is [[InteractiveFiction an interactive supernatural mystery]] by Jimmy Maher, set in the Elizabethan Era.
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''The King Of Shreds And Patches'' is [[InteractiveFiction an interactive supernatural mystery]] by Jimmy Maher, set in the Elizabethan Era.
Era. It was inspired by the ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' adventure with the same name.
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You, respectable printer Robert Fletcher, are invited to dine with your old friend John Croft, a dissolute theatrical type newly returned from his years abroad in Heidelberg. But by the time you've arrived Croft [[DrivenToSuicide hangs dead from a rafter,]] with a [[TheKingInYellow mysterious sigil]] painted on the wall, and surrounded by scattered pages from several different manuscripts as well as a diary that tells an ominously suggestive story. Before you have long to unravel the fate of your friend, you receive a letter from your lady friend, Lucy Henry, asking you if you'd please investigate what's become of her cousin Marijne...
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You, respectable printer Robert Fletcher, are invited to dine with your old friend John Croft, a dissolute theatrical type newly returned from his years abroad in Heidelberg. But by the time you've arrived Croft [[DrivenToSuicide hangs dead from a rafter,]] with a [[TheKingInYellow [[Literature/TheKingInYellow mysterious sigil]] painted on the wall, and surrounded by scattered pages from several different manuscripts as well as a diary that tells an ominously suggestive story. Before you have long to unravel the fate of your friend, you receive a letter from your lady friend, Lucy Henry, asking you if you'd please investigate what's become of her cousin Marijne...
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: WilliamShakespeare, ChristopherMarlowe, and English occultist John Dee all make appearances.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: WilliamShakespeare, ChristopherMarlowe, Creator/WilliamShakespeare, Creator/ChristopherMarlowe, and English occultist John Dee all make appearances.
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* WilliamShakespeare: Creator/WilliamShakespeare: Appears as a character; the premiere of his ''{{Hamlet}}'' ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' is the backdrop for supernatural interference. [[spoiler:He is one of the the playwrights involved in the efforts to reconstruct ''The King In Yellowe''.]]
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* HaveANiceDeath: Some seriously creepy ways of dying in this game, with appropriately horrific flavor text.
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* HaveANiceDeath: Some seriously creepy ways of dying in this game, with appropriately horrific and on occasion darkly comic flavor text.
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You, respectable printer Robert Fletcher, are invited to dine with your old friend John Croft, a dissolute theatrical type newly returned from his years abroad in Heidelberg. But by the time you've arrived Croft hangs dead from a rafter with a [[TheKingInYellow mysterious sigil]] painted on the wall, and surrounded by scattered pages from several different manuscripts as well as a diary that tells an ominously suggestive story. Before you have long to unravel the fate of your friend, you receive a letter from your lady friend, Lucy Henry, asking you if you'd please investigate what's become of her cousin Marijne...
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You, respectable printer Robert Fletcher, are invited to dine with your old friend John Croft, a dissolute theatrical type newly returned from his years abroad in Heidelberg. But by the time you've arrived Croft [[DrivenToSuicide hangs dead from a rafter rafter,]] with a [[TheKingInYellow mysterious sigil]] painted on the wall, and surrounded by scattered pages from several different manuscripts as well as a diary that tells an ominously suggestive story. Before you have long to unravel the fate of your friend, you receive a letter from your lady friend, Lucy Henry, asking you if you'd please investigate what's become of her cousin Marijne...
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* MineralMacGuffinMineralMacGuffin: Numerous precious (or simply magically-significant) stones with various uses and fixtures, including some color-coded ones employed in a significant puzzle in the last act.
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* DrivenToSuicide
DrivenToSuicide: Croft, and if you're really unlucky, the PC.
*EldritchAbomination
EldritchAbomination: The King In Yellow[[FloweryElizabethanEnglish (/e).]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: In scads. This is already the fate of Moore, and takes effect on the player character if you tarry too long at the Hamlet premiere.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: In scads. This is already the fate of Moore, and takes effect on the player character if you tarry too long at the Hamlet premiere.
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* HaveANiceDeath: Some seriously creepy ways of dying in this game.
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* HaveANiceDeath: Some seriously creepy ways of dying in this game.game, with appropriately horrific flavor text.
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* SecretCircleOfSecrets: The cult operating in London.
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!!''The King Of Shreds And Patches'' provides examples of:
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* ElizabethanEra
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* AmbiguouslyGay: A few characters, like David Moore. Croft and Marlowe appear to be unambiguously gay or bi, however.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: A few characters, characters associated with the theater and similar disreputable professions, like David Moore. Croft and Marlowe appear to be unambiguously gay or bi, however.
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The King Of Shreds And Patches is [[InteractiveFiction an interactive supernatural mystery]] by Jimmy Maher.
You, respectable printer Robert Fletcher, are invited to dine with your old friend John Croft, a dissolute theatrical type newly returned from his years abroad in Heidelberg. But by the time you've arrived Croft hangs dead from a rafter with a [[TheKingInYellow mysterious sigil]] painted on the wall, and surrounded by scattered pages from several different manuscripts as well as a diary that tells an ominously suggestive story. Before you have long to unravel the fate of your friend, you receive a letter from your lady friend, Lucy Henry, asking you if you'd please investigate what's become of her cousin Marijne...
On [[WikiRule IFwiki]] [[http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/The_King_of_Shreds_and_Patches here]] and available for free download [[http://maher.filfre.net/King/ here]].
*AmbiguouslyGay: A few characters, like David Moore. Croft and Marlowe appear to be unambiguously gay or bi, however.
*ApocalypticLog: A lot of the writings found throughout the game have this flavor.
*BedlamHouse: ''The'' Bedlam, as a matter of fact.
*DisguisedInDrag: [[spoiler: One way to get past the Tower guards.]]
*DismantledMacGuffin: The manuscript pages.
*DrivenToSuicide
*EldritchAbomination
*ElizabethanEra
*GoMadFromTheRevelation: In scads.
*GuideDangIt: A few moments savor of this, including maneuvering the boat.
*HaveANiceDeath: Some seriously creepy ways of dying in this game.
*HistoricalDomainCharacter: WilliamShakespeare, ChristopherMarlowe, and English occultist John Dee all make appearances.
*HumanoidAbomination: The King in Yellow, of course, as well as another manifestation resembling a jester. ''[[MindRape Loosely]]'' resembling a jester.
*HumanSacrifice: Poor [[spoiler:Marijne. Lucy, too, as well as the anonymous men and women in the sacrifices taking place under the Tower.]]
*InsaneEqualsViolent: Some of those who have been touched by the Yellow King are a danger to others as well as to themselves.
*MagicalIncantation: Both longer passages of text in English with sinister effects and a [[WordsCanBreakMyBones plot-important passage]] in what may or may not actually be Ancient Greek.
*MalevolentMaskedMen: The sinister priests involved in the conspiracy's occult ceremonies.
*MineralMacGuffin
*MistakenForCheating: A non-humorous example; some of the anxiety surrounding [[spoiler:Lucy's disappearance]] is complicated by the thought that she may have gone willingly, or believed she was going willingly with the promise of romance.
*NotWhatItLooksLike: [[spoiler:Dee's presence at the occult rite under the Tower of London.]]
*OldFlame: Fletcher and Lucy, with the added complication that by Elizabethan standards she's a bit of a ChristmasCake and, though fond of Fletcher, would really rather be writing plays herself.
*ShoutOutToShakespeare: The title, and many of the epigraphs within the game.
*SongsInTheKeyOfLock: The key to Moore's fractured mind, as he is a former musician, takes the form of a familiar tune.
*SuddenlyHarmfulHarmlessObject: The mirror in Barker's house.
*ThePlague: An epidemic is ravaging London at the time of the game's central events, worrying some and leaving others unfazed while producing an atmosphere of mounting fear and paranoia. [[spoiler:Fletcher is blighted with [[MysticalPlague the outward appearance of a plague victim]] after the failed summoning at the Hamlet premiere, leaving him an outcast.]]
*TomeOfEldritchLore: The fragmented manuscript of ''The King In Yellowe'' serves as one of these.
*VirginSacrifice: [[spoiler:Marijne, possibly. Definitely a HumanSacrifice at any rate.]]
*WilliamShakespeare: Appears as a character; the premiere of his ''{{Hamlet}}'' is the backdrop for supernatural interference. [[spoiler:He is one of the the playwrights involved in the efforts to reconstruct ''The King In Yellowe''.]]
*WizardBeard: John Dee.
You, respectable printer Robert Fletcher, are invited to dine with your old friend John Croft, a dissolute theatrical type newly returned from his years abroad in Heidelberg. But by the time you've arrived Croft hangs dead from a rafter with a [[TheKingInYellow mysterious sigil]] painted on the wall, and surrounded by scattered pages from several different manuscripts as well as a diary that tells an ominously suggestive story. Before you have long to unravel the fate of your friend, you receive a letter from your lady friend, Lucy Henry, asking you if you'd please investigate what's become of her cousin Marijne...
On [[WikiRule IFwiki]] [[http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/The_King_of_Shreds_and_Patches here]] and available for free download [[http://maher.filfre.net/King/ here]].
*AmbiguouslyGay: A few characters, like David Moore. Croft and Marlowe appear to be unambiguously gay or bi, however.
*ApocalypticLog: A lot of the writings found throughout the game have this flavor.
*BedlamHouse: ''The'' Bedlam, as a matter of fact.
*DisguisedInDrag: [[spoiler: One way to get past the Tower guards.]]
*DismantledMacGuffin: The manuscript pages.
*DrivenToSuicide
*EldritchAbomination
*ElizabethanEra
*GoMadFromTheRevelation: In scads.
*GuideDangIt: A few moments savor of this, including maneuvering the boat.
*HaveANiceDeath: Some seriously creepy ways of dying in this game.
*HistoricalDomainCharacter: WilliamShakespeare, ChristopherMarlowe, and English occultist John Dee all make appearances.
*HumanoidAbomination: The King in Yellow, of course, as well as another manifestation resembling a jester. ''[[MindRape Loosely]]'' resembling a jester.
*HumanSacrifice: Poor [[spoiler:Marijne. Lucy, too, as well as the anonymous men and women in the sacrifices taking place under the Tower.]]
*InsaneEqualsViolent: Some of those who have been touched by the Yellow King are a danger to others as well as to themselves.
*MagicalIncantation: Both longer passages of text in English with sinister effects and a [[WordsCanBreakMyBones plot-important passage]] in what may or may not actually be Ancient Greek.
*MalevolentMaskedMen: The sinister priests involved in the conspiracy's occult ceremonies.
*MineralMacGuffin
*MistakenForCheating: A non-humorous example; some of the anxiety surrounding [[spoiler:Lucy's disappearance]] is complicated by the thought that she may have gone willingly, or believed she was going willingly with the promise of romance.
*NotWhatItLooksLike: [[spoiler:Dee's presence at the occult rite under the Tower of London.]]
*OldFlame: Fletcher and Lucy, with the added complication that by Elizabethan standards she's a bit of a ChristmasCake and, though fond of Fletcher, would really rather be writing plays herself.
*ShoutOutToShakespeare: The title, and many of the epigraphs within the game.
*SongsInTheKeyOfLock: The key to Moore's fractured mind, as he is a former musician, takes the form of a familiar tune.
*SuddenlyHarmfulHarmlessObject: The mirror in Barker's house.
*ThePlague: An epidemic is ravaging London at the time of the game's central events, worrying some and leaving others unfazed while producing an atmosphere of mounting fear and paranoia. [[spoiler:Fletcher is blighted with [[MysticalPlague the outward appearance of a plague victim]] after the failed summoning at the Hamlet premiere, leaving him an outcast.]]
*TomeOfEldritchLore: The fragmented manuscript of ''The King In Yellowe'' serves as one of these.
*VirginSacrifice: [[spoiler:Marijne, possibly. Definitely a HumanSacrifice at any rate.]]
*WilliamShakespeare: Appears as a character; the premiere of his ''{{Hamlet}}'' is the backdrop for supernatural interference. [[spoiler:He is one of the the playwrights involved in the efforts to reconstruct ''The King In Yellowe''.]]
*WizardBeard: John Dee.
