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Peasant's Quest is a Macromedia Flash game published by the fictional company Videlectrix. The player takes the role of Rather Dashing, a peasant who has had his thatched roof cottage "burninated" by Trogdor.

Origins

This story is based off the Homestar Runner internet cartoons, specifically the Strong Bad (SB) E-Mails. Trogdor was created when Strong Bad was asked to demonstrate his "skills of an artist" in e-mail entitled "Dragon." This later spawned the game Trogdor, in which the player stomped on peasants. Once the required amount of 10 was reached, Trogdor attained the "Burninate!" ability. The player received the ability to breath a constant spew of flames to burninate the thatched roofed cottages. Players also had to be wary of being arrowed or sworded by enemy archers and knights.

The game is a parody of King's Quest and other adventure games and text-based adventures and it closely resembles the humor from the Space Quest and Monkey Island series.

Overview

In order to complete the game, the player is required to complete three tasks:

Dress like a peasant
Smell like a peasant
Be on fire like a peasant

After completing these and rendering the player a true peasant, the mountain pass guard will allow the player on the road to Trogdor and ultimately allow the player to attempt to slay him.

Plot

The player controls Rather Dashing, a "peasant wearing short pants" who returns from his vacation to find his cottage burninated by Trogdor. Rather Dashing swears revenge on him and proceeds to try to kill him. The blue knight guarding his lair will not let Rather Dashing pass because he does not look like a peasant, does not stink like a peasant, and is not on fire like a peasant. He soon receive a bow and arrow from local archers Dongolev and Mendelev, which then allows Rather Dashing to shoot a large beast called a Kerrek. Rather Dashing puts on his belt, and smells horrible. He then gets covered in mud and jump in a haystack, which allows him to sneak up on a pile of riches guarded by a Jhonka, a troll-like man. Rather Dashing then give the riches to a lady peasant, and she gives Rather Dashing her baby. The baby then allows Rather Dashing to find some pills, soda, and a meatball sub. The baby also crawls through a hole in a house without a doorknob, and gets Rather Dashing a cloak that makes him look like a peasant and runs away to start a new life. Next, he spends a night in an inn, which ends with Rather Dashing getting burning hot wax on his head. A lantern then lights the wax on fire, finally making Rather Dashing on fire like a peasant. The blue knight will then let Rather Dashing have a perilous climb up the mountainside to get to Trogdor's lair. Before entering Trogdor's lair, Rather Dashing needs to answer three trivia questions to the three keepers of Trogdor or give them the pills, sub, and soda. Once Rather Dashing in Trogdor's lair, he learns that Trogdor is actually invincible, and cannot be killed. The player can, however, throw the sword at Trogdor, waking him up. Regardless, the ending is the same. Trogdor burninates Rather Dashing, ending the game. Finally, a statue is built in Peasantry honoring Rather Dashing and his bravery.

Movie Trailer

At halftime during Super Bowl Sunday 2005, a video was put on the Homestar Runner website entitled "Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer". The trailer became so popular that it overloaded the site's server; consequently, it was removed the next morning and replaced later that day with three versions with smaller file sizes.

The video was a trailer to an imaginary live action Peasant's Quest movie. The trailer featured characters from the actual Peasant's Quest game including Rather Dashing, Dongolev and Mendelev, the peasant lady, the baby, Jhonka, Kerrek, the Blue Knight, and the Keepers of Trogdor, as well as many scenes from the games including throwing the baby into the lake, killing the Kerrek, scaring the horse Gary, and getting the horse grease poured on your head. The trailer also featured a character called The King of Peasantry not included in the original game. Rather Dashing was played by Matt Chapman, the person who does many of the voices on the Homestar Runner site.

Other Peasant's Quest Cartoons

On the recently released homestarrunner.com DVD Everything Else, Vol. 1 there was a cartoon in which the Peasant's Quest Movie trailer was done in the same art style as the game. The original movie also played on the bottom corner of the cartoon.

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