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But first, can you clear out the rats in my basement?
A common early quest in many [[Role
Often considered a classic hallmark of the genre, and is likely to be included simply as a nod to tradition. Or, as is becoming more and more common, parodied with an unusual variety of rats.
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* Played straight in Facebook game ''[[Mousehunt]]''. Though ''everything'' you fight is a mouse, the three weakest mice (White, Brown and Grey) the player encounters in the tutorial are based off regular varieties of real-life mice/rats while everything else is a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]
* The first quest for the Fighter's Guild in ''[[Morrowind]]'' has you killing a room full of rats.
** ''[[Oblivion]]'' plays it straight by starting you off in a dungeon/secret passage largely populated by rats, but subverts it with the first Fighter's Guild
** When asked about "Rumors," some NPCs will [[Lampshade Hanging|point out]] how the tasks given to new recruits always seem to have something to do with rats.
* At the beginning of ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'', you're asked to kill all the rats in a warehouse as part of the tutorial. [[Deadpan Snarker|CHARNAME's journal contains a several-lines long sarcastic rant on his/her thoughts on the 'quest'.]]
** ''[[Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance]]'' also begins with one of these, in the cellar beneath the Elfsong Tavern.
* ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' has a [https://web.archive.org/web/20090113072930/http://nwn.bioware.com/support/patchdetails127.html demo module] for rats and dire rats, named "[[Talk Like a Pirate|Thar be Rats! Yarrr!]]".
** In ''Hex Coda'', a module by [[Tropers/Twoflower|Stefan Gagne]], you're asked to get rid of the rats in the basement of a bar. Except that these are mutant, anthropomorphic rats, and the best course of action is not violence, but
* The reboot of ''[[The Bard's Tale]]'' starts with the Bard trying to impress a Barmaid by taking care of her rat problem. Turns out that the 'problem' is a giant, fire-breathing rat, and the locals regularly get a kick out of watching cocky adventurer types being beaten by it.
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]''. You start out fetching a mosquito larva from a forest and clearing out a tavern owner's basement of rats - including the miniboss [[Dastardly Whiplash|Baron von Ratsworth]]. However, the rats [[Mook Maker|just keep coming]] until you find and turn off the [[Rule of Funny|rat faucet]].
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* The first thing you are required to do in ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' is to clear out the rats in a sewer. One of the local old guys even calls Vaan "Vaan Ratsbane" jokingly.
* One of the weakest enemies and most common first encounters in ''[[Dungeon Crawl]]'' is the common brown rat.
* The old [[Noob Cave|Tutorial Island]] in ''[[
* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' has a quest that gives you a bounty on rat tails. In keeping with Sigil's utter bizzarness, it is on ''Cranium'' rats, who become increasingly deadly sorcerers when in the presence of more of their kind.
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' had a subversion; you don't fight rats until around halfway through the game.
* ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' has the human noble fight off an invasion of rats in their family's pantry in their origin story. Like all classic RPG tropes in the game, it's [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded.]]
** Oddly enough, it's the only time in the entire franchise thus far that giant rats are an enemy.
* In the original ''[[Alone in
* In ''[[Arcanum]]'', a Tarantian businessman asks you to clear the rats out of his warehouse, although this actually occurs in the second town you visit. There are a couple of opportunities earlier in the game to kill rats in dark rooms, though.
* Your first task in the original ''[[Fallout]]'' game is to head over to Vault 15 and see if they've got a spare water chip. As it happens, Vault 15 is now a bomb shelter full of mutant rats, and of course you start in Vault 13, also full of rats.
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* One of the first things you do in ''[[Brain Lord]]'' is help clear one villager's attic of rats.
* For the first part of any ''[[Pokémon]]'' game, one of your major annoyances will be the Rattatta coming at you every time you hit a patch of grass. Except for Gen V, where it's Patrats.
* ''[[
* In ''[[FHBG]]'', the player controls an exterminator called in to purge the vermin from the facility.
== Tabletop RPG ==
* Any time you start out on lower levels in ''[[Dungeons
* [[Savage Worlds|Evernight]] true to its [[Cliché Storm|stereotypical]] [[Affectionate Parody|fantasy RPG]] roots has one of the very first quests: kill the rats under the tavern.
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