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[[File:Eric_the_Unready_cover_7584.jpg|frame|[[Monster Is a Mommy|Oh yes, you did it! You got the beast! Now what will you do about the mommy?]]]]
An [[Interactive Fiction]] game by
As [[The Klutz]] knight Sir Eric the Unready, you must embark on a quest to end all quests
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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of knighthood in general and every fantasy trope even remotely applicable to it.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The authors' preferred form of [[Copy Protection]].
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* [[Black Knight]]: The Dreaded Knight of the Black Pauldron.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Quite a few of these.
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: Eric The Unready himself and, by proxy, the player.
* [[Copy Protection]]: You have to buy a new suit of armour once the game starts proper, and the copy protection codes are your armour element sizes, which is [[All There in the Manual]].
* [[Curse Escape Clause]]: A [[Genre Savvy]] farmer applies for a knight's help in invoking this for his daughter, whom the local witch has apparently turned into a pig. Sir Eric steps up to the challenge. {{spoiler|[[Averted Trope|Averted]] when it turns out the girl was gone shopping. The pig enjoyed the kiss, at least
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* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: Do you want to deflower a sacrifical virgin? You can try, but unfortunately, you have to be THIS TALL to do so, and you are not.
▲* [[Distressed Damsel]]: The princess Lorealle The Worthy, who Eric is supposed to be saving.
* [[Double Entendre]]: Used repeatedly.▼
{{quote| "She's a typical farmer's daughter with great-looking apples."}}▼
* [[Doomy Dooms of Doom]]: One of the many McGuffins Eric has to procure are The Bolt Cutters Of Doom!
▲* [[Double Entendre]]: Used repeatedly.
* [[Edible Bludgeon]]: How Sir Eric (unwittingly) wins his fight against the dreaded [[Black Knight|Knight Of the Black Pauldron]].
* [[Game Show]]: Eric will have to go through one during his adventures. As tradition holds, it's a mini-game!
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Quite a few scenes have detailed reactions for any obscene input from the player, ranging from attempts to consume fecal matter (formulated in any level of vulgarity the player chooses) to attempts at copulating with any female whom Eric encounters.
* [[Grumpy Old Man]]: There are several old knights in the Knight Hall indulging in this.
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* [[Holy Grail]]: Parodied with the Holy Grill.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: You can hardly go for five minutes without tripping over one. Some character names fall into this as well, most prominently with Bud (the) Wizard.
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* [[Poor Man's Porn]]: There are some tittilating woodcuts of the famous singer Lily on sale at the fair.
* [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]]: One of the examples from [[Grumpy Old Man]] talk.
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* [[Red Herring]]: The Wavenous Waven of Wangoon is set up as a monster you might have to defeat in your adventures. It's never mentioned again after the first time.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: [[The Game]]. Everybody and their monkey's uncle seem intent on having Eric go through the most miserable, demeaning and repulsive solution to every problem present, conveniently remembering that there was a cleaner, nicer, painless alternative only after the obstacle has been overcome.
* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]: Every wizard in the game has these. It's a fantasy parody, what did you expect?
* [[Shout-Out]]: As usual with Legend games, these are numerous.
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** You get mistaken for the famous missing bard [[Elvis Presley|Elvis Priestley]] during your adventures.
** One of the chapters replicates the setting of ''[[
** Look out, [[Monkey Island|a four-headed monkey]]!
** During the Swamp Trek sequence, you also visit [[
** The local knights are called the [[King Arthur|Knights of the Rhomboid Table]]. One of the game's bards also sings a song about "a knight's chaste love for the wife of the king
** The entire library in the Agora sequence is full of literary [[Shout-Out]] material, though the main offender is [[The Joy of X|The Joy Of Hex]].
** A subtle one: the guy running Baskin Bobbin's is called Bobbin. One of the things Eric can say to him is that he [[Loom (
** The Classifieds section of the newspapers is devoted entirely to this:
*** [[Romeo and Juliet|"SWF, Capulet, seeks handsome and daring partner for life. Must have good balcony climbing skills. <...> No Montagues please."]]
*** [[The Lord of the Rings|"Bilbo. Come home. All is forgiven. P.S. I sold the ring. Frodo."]]
*** Other Classifieds [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] include [[Peter Pan]], [[The Pied Piper of Hamelin]] and the [[Norse Mythology]].
* [[Speech Impediment]]: [[Zig
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* [[Spinning Paper]]: Readable newspaper issues covering the publicized (and grossly misrepresented) events of the previous chapter serve as chapter breaks.
* [[Unicorn]]: Played straight
* [[Worst News Judgement Ever]]: Used in conjunction with [[Spinning Paper]], see above.
* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: Almost everyone speaks like this and this is used to provide the occasional [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] name switch.
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[[Category:Fantasy Video Games]]
[[Category:Interactive Fiction]]
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