Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb



Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb is an point-and-click adventure game created under The Dreamers Guild during the early nineties and re-released under Wyrmkeep Entertainment.

Following the apparent disappearance of humanity, the world has been inhabited and civilized by anthropomorphized creatures descended from experimental animals endowed with self-awareness by mankind.

The major plot of the game involves the false accusation of Rif, a member of the Fox Tribe, of stealing the Orb of Storms, an ancient human artifact once used to forecast the weather. Holding his girlfriend, Rhene, hostage as an incentive, his accusers task him with retrieving the Orb in order to clear his name. He embarks upon his quest with two helpers and watchers - Okk, the boar, and Eeah, the elk - engaging in various quests and trials of intrigue along the way.

An online webcomic strip based upon events occurring after the conclusion of the game may be found on the official Inherit the Earth website.

It contains examples of the following tropes:

Tropes:
"Wildcat Guard: "Halt! Stand where you are."
 * After the End: The humans are gone and the animals are left to wonder why.
 * Animal Testing: An unusually positive example through which the animals gained sentience, speech, and opposable thumbs.
 * Call a Rabbit a Smeerp: The morphs' names for our leftover technology. A telescope is a lightcatcher, for example.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Riff in spades. Goes along with being a fox I suppose. It gets him in trouble often.

Riff: "That should be easy enough, where else can I stand?""


 * Distressed Damsel: Rhene is held hostage by the Boar Tribe as an incentive for the protagonist to retrieve the Orb of Storms.
 * Executive Meddling: Inherit the Earth was originally supposed to be a serious game about quarreling races of Uplifted Animal. However when the publishers heard that the main character was a talking fox, they decided the game must be for kids. This lead to the plot being dumbed down, and the whole world becoming Lighter and Softer.
 * Also, the reason why there's no sequel. There was meant to be one, but the publisher refused to allow one to be made.
 * Funny Animal/ Humanoid Animals: Everyone in the game.
 * Furry Fandom: It shouldn't be a surprise that Furries lapped this game up.
 * Humanity's Wake: It appears that the human race was wiped out by a plague, leaving their Morph creations behind.
 * Lost Technology
 * MacGuffin: The Orb of Storms, and how.
 * Multinational Team: The team consists of a fox, a boar and an elk.
 * Running Gag: If you talk to Eeah and Okk along the way, they will comment on the current situation. If Eeah likes the area, Okk will inevitably hate it. Also, Eeah often tries to get people to cooperate by mentioning that he's a soldier of the Forest King. It never works.
 * Schizo-Tech: All over the place, though not as bad as some examples. Most of the Civilized Lands seem to be at a medieval tech level with leftover pieces of human technology they don't really understand. The Wild Lands and the Northern Island are closer to the tribal level, but with more semi-intact human ruins.
 * Sequel Hook: The Orb of Storms is lost . However, the creators of the game couldn't get the rights to create a sequel.
 * Uplifted Animal: It's implied that the animals were made intelligent through genetic engineering, before humans disappeared.
 * Who's on First?: Riff needs a distraction to get by a guard. Hilarity Ensues.