Peasant's Quest

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"Control a short-panted 'peasant' named Rather Dashing as he stumbles through Peasantry in his 'quest' to get revenge on a dragon thing." —Videlectrix

A real long time ago, in the peasant kingdom of Peasantry, some people lived... in fear. You are Rather Dashing, a peasant wearing short pants, who returns from his vacation to find his thatched cottage BURNINATED! You set out on a quest to get revenge on Trogdor once and for all. So will he stay alive and protect this peasant kingdom from burnination? YOU decide!!!

Date: August 2, 2004

Page Title: Peasant's Quest

Contents

Instructions

  • Look around by typing "look".
  • Talk to others by typing "talk".
  • Take items by typing "get (item)".
  • Use items by typing "use (item)". You can also "throw (item)", "give (item)", and some other action words.
  • Type "inv" to see your inventory.
  • Type "save" to save your game and "load" to load a game. (Cookies must be enabled.)
  • Press + or - to speed up or slow down your character.

Fun Facts

Trivia

Goofs

  • If you type "where" on the screen above the Mountain Pass, you'll see that it has no name.
  • Typing "look" on Poor Gary's screen will still say "rotten ol' horse" even after he's fled.
  • If you get Kerrek's belt after getting on fire, the animation of getting the belt won't show you on fire.
  • When you get the Trog-Shield, the flames on your head are mysteriously put out.

Glitches

  • A strange mapping bug allows you to "warp" to the baby lady's house and the inn from another screen entirely. Walk into where you would go to the hidden glen, but go up through the fence and to the left.
  • On the screen containing Jhonka's Cave, walk into the bottom left corner and you'll end up in the inn, however you'll only be able to walk along the bottom and right sides of the screen.
  • Standing behind the "INN" sign while standing as close as possible to the inn itself will cause part of Rather Dashing to appear in front of the sign.
  • If you fail the quiz from one of the three keepers of Trogdor, instead of loading a game, just click on RESTART on the load menu after Game Over. Skip the game's intro and then press Enter. This will once again bring up the question you answered wrong while you're standing by the knight at the entrance of Trogdor's cave. Answering the question wrong again just gets you another Game Over, answering right just makes the box disappear.
  • After you kill the Kerrek, go into the baby cottage. It will be raining inside.
  • On the Game Over screen, hit Enter twice and the animation of your bones will start over.
    • If you die, and press restart, and then press enter twice, you will go through another death scene.
  • After typing "use sword" in Trogdor's inner sanctum, walk right for an interesting glitch. Even though Rather Dashing's graphic is locked in place, he will get burninated even though he is nowhere near Trogdor. The fire will come from Trogdor's neck instead of his nose.
  • Download the Flash file and start a game. At any time type "save". In the save menu, click on the Flash player's control tab (next to file and view), and select "play". It loads the archery game and you can get the bow before you are supposed to, plus you can do it over again to get more than the total points.
  • In Trogdor's Lair, you will hear a tune. Keep pressing load game and it will keep repeating.

Inside References

  • Sometimes, when you jump in to the hay bale (after being covered with mud), it says you jump in like a "two years old boy". This is a reference to Main Page 15.
  • The screen title "River b/w Tree" is a reference to Arcade Game, in which one of the items on Homestar's list is "pork b/w beans". The abbreviation "w/" for "with" is not used, instead it's "b/w" which was used on old vinyl records and singles to refer to the B-side ("b/w" = "backed with"). It was also used in Strong Sad's Lament as "Arts b/w Crafts".
  • If you try to jumping in the left side of the lake, it responds "Not so fast, Swimmer Dan!".
  • When you reach the top of the mountain, it says "Nice jorb climbing the cliff.", which is a reference to A Jorb Well Done, as well as Coach Z's accent in general.
  • At the bale of hay, if you type "Get hay", it makes a reference to Thy Dungeonman and Thy Dungeonman II by saying "Who do you think you are, some kind of Thy Dungeonman?"
    • There is another Thy Dungeonman reference if you "look jhonka."
    • When you type in "die" it says "That wasn't very smart," another reference to Thy Dungeonman.
  • If you type in "get plague" at the burned out tree, the game calls you Mispeller Jones [sic], a reference to the "Interruptor Jones" quip from morning routine.
  • If you enter an area with the Kerrek, and you type in "make friends with Kerrek", it says "Look, it didn't work for Strongbad [sic] and it's not gonna work for you either." and if you type "buy Kerrek a cold one", it says "The kerrek [sic] is a teetotaler and is offended by your request. You've really cheesed him off now." and begins charging at you FAST. These are references to the email for kids, in which Strong Bad types in those commands while playing the game.
  • After killing the Kerrek the screen says "ARROWED!! Nice shot. You smote the Kerrek! He lay there stinking." 'Arrowed' is a running joke used in Teen Girl Squad where any word is made into the past tense by adding ed or 'd.
  • If you return to the corpse of the Kerreck and type "kill Kerrek," it says "Yeah. You smote the Kerrek. You deserve a trophy full of Mutton-ums." This is a reference to the toon New Boots, where Strong Bad claims the Cheat could have earned a trophy full of Steak-ums.

Real-World References

Other Video Games

  • When you die, the programmers give you a little message: "'Thanks so much for playing this game here! Don't get too frustrated. Take some time for yourself. Have a refreshing coffee. Relax. Then come back and try again maybe!' -The Videlectrix Guys". This is a reference to certain Sierra adventure games, such as Space Quest, in which the creators would include humorous messages to be displayed when you died.
  • The game itself is a parody of "King's Quest" and related games; the game's graphics are based on said game, "Peasantry" is a play on "Daventry," there are mountains in the background that can never be reached, no matter how far north Dashing travels, and one screen is "apparently autumn".
  • The filename of the game is disk4of12.html, a nod to old PC games which were often distributed on multiple floppy disks and which prompted the player to insert the next disk at certain points during installation or gameplay.
  • When you type "break" anything, it says "Violence is not the answer." This is a reference to classic text adventure parsers, which often reply with "Violence is not the solution" if the player enters something of the sort.
  • If you try to GET CANDLE after waking up in the Inn, it will say "It seems like you should be able to do that, doesn't it? Sorry. No dice." This is a play on the fact that many old games had important items standing out, with brighter colors or a thicker border (making it easier to find the right book in a bookshelf to open a secret passage).
  • Starting from the Hidden Glen screen, turn left as you exit through the hole in the fence. This allows you enter the screen "located" above the Hidden Glen, which turns out to be the interior of the Baby Lady Cottage. Entering the cottage in this manner changes the way you interact with your surroundings, allowing you to walk through walls, and even walk an indeterminate distance off the edge of the screen. Possibly this is not an error, but rather a reference to Atari's old Adventure game, in which you could peer off the edge of one screen into another, and enter a secret room which is said to be the first instance of an "Easter egg" in a game.
  • When you type "look" and then an object that doesn't really contribute to the game, the message will say "You don't need to look at that." This may be a reference to Space Quest 4 in which it says the exact same thing.
  • When you smite the Kerrek, it'll first say "Here goes, Kid Icarus". This is a reference to a Nintendo game of the same name: Kid Icarus, in which your main weapon is a bow.
  • The save screen may be a reference to the old Legend of Zelda games in format, the addition of hearts through progress, and the addition of artifacts that are added to your body (shield, helmet, sword).
  • Mendelev won't talk to you if you are on his side of the desk when you talk to him. This may be a reference to a shopkeeper in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, who similarly insisted that you talk to him on the other side of the desk.
  • When trying to 'get' a certain object the game will tell you "No. That doesn't look like it would fit in your pants." There is one other point at which you are told that the main character has stuffed an object into his shorts. These may be references to the point and click puzzle adventure Monkey Island games, in which the main character, Guybrush Threepwood, stuffed any helpful props he can find in his pants.
  • Typing "light lantern" is a reference to the text-based Zork series, in which you always carried a Brass Lantern, and which is parodied in Thy Dungeonman.
  • The "Disk read error. Please insert floppy disk 2 into Drive B and press enter." message may be a reference to the infamous "stump joke" from The Secret of Monkey Island, in which there was a stump in the forest, which when examined said there was a hole leading to a system of catacombs beneath it. However when you tried to use it, it would ask you to insert various disk numbers that didn't come with the game (online references vary, but usually are somewhere around disk 20 to disk 100). After cancelling all these requests the hero would say "I'll just have to skip that part of the game." The joke was not included in the CD-ROM version of the game.
  • When you obtain the Kerrek's belt, Rather Dashing holds it over his head in a fashion similar to Link of The Legend of Zelda.
  • Naked Ned popping in and out from the tree is similar to Smoke from Mortal Kombat II in the living forest level, where you would occasionally see him pop out, look, and return behind the tree.
  • The noise you hear when the disk read error occurs is very similar to the Commodore 64 disk drive, for when the drive is trying to load a disk, it sometimes loses its place where it was loading and made a loud clicking noise.

Music

  • If you type LOOK near the hay, it says "It reminds you of a warm, safe place where as a child you'd hide", a reference to "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses.
  • Looking at the rock in the middle of the river gives a reference to "Rock of Ages" by Def Leppard.
  • When you scare Gary it says he "broke on through to the other side", a reference to "Break on Through" by the Doors.
  • Hugging the tree at the hay bale produces a reference to a well-known Byrds song. However, once you do this you seem to get stuck.
  • If you look at the cracked ground it says something about it being a place in which rock stars make amazing guitar solos— a reference to Slash's solo on "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses.

TV/Movies/Comic Books

  • When you first talk to the knight guarding the mountain pass, he calls you "Dragonheart", a reference to the movie of the same name.
  • If you ring the bell in the Inn it says "Instead of ringing or dinging, it just goes 'DUNG.'" This is probably a reference to the Monty Python joke: "What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG."
  • If you try to get the pebbles but are too far away it says "You try to do your best Mr. Fantastic impression." This is a reference to the Fantastic Four.
  • If you go to the screen with "River b/w Tree" and type "look hut" or "look cottage", it says "You see a cottage in the distance. You hold your fingers up to one eye and pretend to squash it." This is a reference to the Head-Crusher sketch on Kids in the Hall.
  • "Look tree" on the Hidden Glen screen. The result could of course be a reference to any fantasy story with elves, but is likely a reference to the portrayal of Legolas in the recent Lord of the Rings films. Some variation of this phrase was heard to be uttered by fanatics everywhere.
  • Using the baby at the hole of the mysterious cabin bings up a message "Deploying Q-Baby…," which is probably a reference to items such as the Q-Boat, provided to fictional British secret agent James Bond by Q, an inventor of cool, cool spy gadgets.
  • If you try to give the Jhonka something he'll reply with "Don't need nothing from no filthy peasantses!!" This is a reference to the Lord of the Rings character Gollum, whom Jhonka somewhat resembles.

Other

  • Typing 'throw baby' at the west screen of the lake gets the message "I guess you misread the walkthrough at GameFAQs..." GameFAQs is a popular gaming website known for its huge number of walkthroughs or FAQs for just about every game there is (including Peasant's Quest).
  • When you look at the painting in the inn, it says that there are dogs playing "Magic: The Nerdering". This is a reference to the Magic: the Gathering card game, as well as to the stereotype of Magic-players as being antisocial nerds. The painting itself is a reference to C. M. Coolidge's painting of dogs playing poker, entitled "Looks Like Four of a Kind".
  • If you try to "scare gary" before getting the mask, two of the three possible responses are references. The first ("You tell Gary the story about the kid who pops this big zit he has and all these baby spiders come out. It doesn't phase him.") is a reference to an urban legend, and the second ("You tell Gary the "THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!!" one but he doesn't act very scared. He's probably heard it before.") is a reference to the old horror movie When a Stranger Calls.
  • The berries on the bushes are called "Crunch Berries." This is a reference to the cereal of the same name.
  • Trying to jump in the hay from far away will cause a reply which includes a usage of the initials MJ. This is a reference to Michael Jordan, a basketball player who had an incredible vertical jump, and was able to dunk the ball from the foul line, which is several feet away.
  • Looking at the rocking chair after the baby lady leaves will get you a message saying "One of those self-rocking kind. Not bad for a brown-collar peasant-type. Must be trickle-down in action." This may be a reference to trickle-down economics; part of Ronald Reagan's economic plan for the United States was based on the theory that allowing those with the most economic influence (businesses and the upper-class) to flourish would "trickle down" and benefit the rest of the economy in the form of increased spending, saving, and investment. Therefore, according to the trickle-down theory, given fair market conditions, the best way to enhance overall economic health is to concentrate economic benefits on those with the most economic influence.
    • Furthermore, "brown-collar" is a reference to white and blue collar jobs, referring to office work and manual labor respectively. There is no brown collar, but we can only assume it represents whatever brown-robed peasants do.

See Also

External Links

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