Line #13 VideoGame/TheKingOfShredsAndPatches


1	''The King Of Shreds And Patches'' is [[InteractiveFiction an interactive supernatural mystery]] by Jimmy Maher, set in the Elizabethan Era. It was inspired by the ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' adventure with the same name.
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3	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 [[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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5	Available for free download [[http://maher.filfre.net/King/ here]].
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7	!!''The King Of Shreds And Patches'' provides examples of:
8	* AmbiguouslyGay: A few characters associated with the theater and similar disreputable professions, like David Moore. Croft and Marlowe appear to be unambiguously gay or bi, however.
9	* ApocalypticLog: A lot of the writings found throughout the game have this flavor.
10	* BedlamHouse: ''The'' Bedlam, as a matter of fact.
11	* DisguisedInDrag: [[spoiler: One way to get past the Tower guards.]]
12	* DismantledMacGuffin: The manuscript pages.
13	* DrivenToSuicide: Croft, and if you're really unlucky, the PC.
14	* EldritchAbomination: The King In Yellow[[FloweryElizabethanEnglish (/e).]]
15	* 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.
16	* GuideDangIt: A few moments savor of this, including maneuvering the boat.
17	* HaveANiceDeath: Some seriously creepy ways of dying in this game, with appropriately horrific and on occasion darkly comic flavor text.
18	* 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''.]]
19	* HumanoidAbomination: The King in Yellow, of course, as well as another manifestation resembling a jester. ''[[MindRape Loosely]]'' resembling a jester.
20	* HumanSacrifice: Poor [[spoiler:Marijne. Lucy, too, as well as the anonymous men and women in the sacrifices taking place under the Tower.]]
21	* InsaneEqualsViolent: Some of those who have been touched by the Yellow King are a danger to others as well as to themselves.
22	* 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.
23	* MalevolentMaskedMen: The sinister priests involved in the conspiracy's occult ceremonies.
24	* MineralMacGuffin: 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.
25	* 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.
26	* NotWhatItLooksLike: [[spoiler:Dee's presence at the occult rite under the Tower of London.]]
27	* OldFlame: Fletcher and Lucy, with the added complication that by Elizabethan standards she's an OldMaid and, though fond of Fletcher, would really rather be writing plays herself.
28	* SecretCircleOfSecrets: The cult operating in London.
29	* ShoutOutToShakespeare: The title, and many of the epigraphs within the game.
30	* SongsInTheKeyOfLock: The key to Moore's fractured mind, as he is a former musician, takes the form of a familiar tune.
31	* SuddenlyHarmfulHarmlessObject: The mirror in Barker's house.
32	* 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.]]
33	* TomeOfEldritchLore: The fragmented manuscript of ''The King In Yellowe'' serves as one of these.
34	* WizardBeard: John Dee.

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