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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