Pinocchio

**Pinocchio** (otherwise known as **P**) is the protagonist and the player character of *Lies Of P*. He is the surrogate son of Geppetto and is a puppet unaffected by the frenzy. His choices throughout *Lies Of P* determine whether he remains a puppet or becomes a real boy.

(Please note that through the game not once is the player ever referred to as Pinocchio. This is a name given to the characters by the community with no active context to support it other than "in the original book' which is not a reference for the game mealy a inspiration.)

## Background

Following the death of his son, Carlo, a devastated Gepetto sought to bring his son back to life. He invented the P-Organ which could absorb Ergo and transferred Carlo's Ergo into it. The first puppet he created from his son's body, however, was too inefficient with Ergo and potentially destructive. Geppetto stored the puppet away and created a new puppet named Pinocchio in a secret workshop within Krat Central Station. By transferring the P-Organ Into Pinocchio, Geppetto knew that P would collect massive amounts of Ergo which would enable the P-Organ to withstanding the original puppet's body. He also made P the only puppet unbound to the Grand Covenant so that he would be able to collect Ergo unhindered. Additionally, Geppetto gave P an appearance identical to Carlo so that the collected Ergo would be refined in such a way that P would have a personality as close to Carlo's as possible. Following P's completion, Geppetto departed and instigated the Puppet Frenzy so as to accelerate the collection of Ergo.

Pinocchio first awakens after being found by Sophia. After being told to find her at Hotel Krat, P fought his away through the train station and Cerasani Alley. Eventually he is stopped by the Parade Master. The Parade Master appears to speak to him, but P is unable to understand the puppet and proceeds to attack it. Afterwards, he reaches the hotel's front door and is able to lie his away past the hotel's security. Once inside, P met Sophia, Eugénie, and Antonia Cerasani. Sophia told him that he needed to find Geppetto as he was the only one who could stop the Puppet Frenzy. Upon leaving the hotel, P is greeted by a puppet housed in Monad's Lamp named Gemini who promises to act as his guide through the city. P later found him hiding in a carriage from a Stalker named Mad Donkey on Alchemist's Bridge. After killing the Stalker, P met his father for the first time. Promising to talk more later, Geppetto told P to go to Krat City Hall to stop the Scrapped Watchman. Once defeated, P returned to Hotel Krat and spoke to his father. Geppetto asked him to find his friend, Lorenzini Venigni who went to stop the production of new puppets at Venigni Works but never returned. Upon arriving at the factory, P met two Stalkers named Red Fox and Black Cat. They told P that they had been hired to protect Venigni but abandoned him due to King's Flame, Fuoco. After going deeper into the factory, P successfully managed to rescue Venigni and his butler Pulcinella and stopped Fuoco.

P later travels to Moonlight Town and comes across creatures known as Carcasses, humans infected with the Petrification Disease that mutated through unknown means. Here he meets a mysterious doctor named Giangio who is searching for the Gold Coin Tree. Afterwards, he makes his way to St. Frangelico Cathedral, where he meets Cecile, a servant of the Archbishop, and Alidoro the Hound, a Stalker and renowned treasure hunter, and defeats Archbishop Andreus, who had transformed into a hideous monster from his greed. From here, P travels to the Malum District where he meets Red Fox And Black Cat once more. The two offer to help P travel through the district which has become overrun with Carcasses. Eventually, P finds the hideout of the Black Rabbit Brotherhood, a criminal organization comprised of four siblings who were terrorizing the district. He manages to kill the eldest brother which causes the others to swear revenge and flee. P then investigates the Brotherhood's hideout and finds a portrait of a boy that looks exactly like him. He then finds a secret passage that takes him to Hotel Krat's secret garden. Here P finds Giango, as well as the legendary Gold Coin Tree, and helps him pick some Gold Coin Fruit in exchange for some items.

P returns to Geppetto and is told that he needs to travel to Rosa Isabelle Street to stop the King Of Puppets, whom he "suspected" was the cause of the Puppet Frenzy. After receiving the key from Antonia, P traveled to the street and met several interesting people such as Julian The Gentleman, the White Lady, and the famous actress Adelina Corday. He later traveled to the Estella Opera House and confronted The King Of Puppets. After a short play that showed a puppet similar to Geppetto transferring a heart from one puppet who looks like Pinocchio to another, the King of Puppets himself appeared. The King seemed happy to see P and reached out his hand in what appeared to be friendship but was quickly reproached by P. The two then fought but it soon became apparent that P was gaining the upper hand. During the course of the fight, it seemed like the King was trying to tell him something but P was unable to understand him. After destroying The King Of Puppets, it is revealed that it was merely a suit for the real King, Romeo. Through it all, P is successful in destroying Romeo. After returning outside, P is greeted by Geppetto.

Geppetto tells P to make his way through the Lorenzini Arcade in order to reach the Grand Exhibition, where there were rumors of the Alchemists discovering a cure for the Petrification Disease. Making his way through the Arcade, P is contacted by Venigni via Stargazer, having discovered how to broadcast his voice through Ergo waves. Venigni informs P that he received a distress call from someone in the Grand Exhibition, and asks him to investigate it. P eventually reaches the Grand Exhibition and finds his way inside, where he encounters Belle, a member of the Krat militia who was separated from her partner and trapped inside the Exhibition Gallery. She asks P to defeat Champion Victor, a modified human the Alchemists had been experimenting on. Making his way through the Exhibition, P eventually encounters and battles Victor, who had been mutated with Carcass body fluid. Despite Victor’s inhuman strength and fighting prowess, P manages to defeat him before he is impaled and killed with a spear thrown by Laxasia the Complete, before P is met by Simon Manus, leader of the Alchemists.

Manus reveals that his “cure” for the Petrification Disease is the creation of enhanced humans mutated with Carcass body fluid, calling it the next step in human evolution. He asks what P thinks he has created, with P either saying “hope for a cure” or “monsters”. Regardless of his answer, Simon gives P the key to the gallery containing the Saintess of Mercy statue, and invited him to come to the Alchemists’ island base to see their work, before leaving him to go on his way. Coming across the Saintess of Mercy statue, P is met by Sophia, who reveals the truth about the nature of Ergo; it is the souls and memories of humans in crystallized form as a result of the Petrification Disease. She also reveals that the Gold Coin Tree was created by the Alchemists experimenting on Listeners like herself.

Afterwards, Pinocchio makes his way through the remainder of the Exhibition and comes across a tram. It is here that P is reunited with Red Fox and Black Cat, who ask P for a Gold Coin Fruit, which they need to treat Black Cat’s failing eyesight. Whatever P chooses, he then approaches the tram and is contacted by Venigni again, who tells him that in order to reach the Isle of Alchemists, they would need Golden Ergo, which they would only find in the Barren Swamp. P enters the tram and travels to the Barren Swamp, which is inhabited both by Carcasses and discarded Puppets. Here Pinocchio reunites with Alidoro, who is searching for a legendary weapon located in the nest of a monster living in the Swamp. Further ahead, P encounters a Broken Puppet who had developed an ego and asks P to teach him about emotions. Nearby, P encounters the Owl Doctor, a Stalker who had gone insane after discovering the truth about the Alchemist’s “Miracle Cure” and tries to kill him, but ends up being killed himself.

P eventually reaches a bridge and begins crossing it when an earthquake hits, which Gemini states came from the direction of Krat Central Station. Continuing on, P encounters Rookie Explorer Hugo, a novice treasure hunter and fan of Alidoro, who is attempting to enter Hermit’s Cave in pursuit of the riches within. Moving forward, P enters the nest of the Green Monster of the Swamp and battles it. Halfway through the fight, the Monster takes control of the body of a large Puppet (somewhat resembling the Scrapped Watchman) containing the Golden Ergo that Venigni needs and continues its attack, but it is eventually defeated and P acquires the Golden Ergo. Leaving the Monster’s nest, P is met by Alidoro again, who proclaims his success in retrieving the legendary weapon and thanks P for distracting the Monster, giving him the nickname “Alidoro’s Best Bait”.

Pinocchio moves forward and follows the path into an underground tunnel that returns him to Krat Central Station, which is now overrun with Carcasses and corrupted Puppets. Exploring the station, P comes across Atkinson, Belle’s partner, who has become infected with the Petrification Disease and is transforming into a Carcass. Atkinson pleads with P to deliver a letter to Belle and tell her that he died a soldier, before he begins to succumb to his mutation. P also returns to the train car where he first awakened and discovers a hidden workshop behind it, with a note from Simon thanking him for helping the Alchemists to recover a “relic” Geppetto had stolen from them. Further ahead, P is attacked by Robber Weasel, who attempts to rob him, but P proves to be more than a match for the Stalker and kills her. Exiting the station, P makes his way to an abandoned apartment which leads towards Collapsing Krat, where massive growths of Kroud (a mineral that grows larger by absorbing Ergo) have burst through the ground and caused the streets and building to break apart and collapse.

Eventually, P reaches the Collapsed Workshop Tower, fighting enhanced Alchemists and the Walker of Illusions, before he receives a frantic message from Sophia, who tells him that Hotel Krat is under attack and implores him to hurry back. Finding that the Stargazers no longer work, P is forced to make his way back to the Hotel on foot, fighting his way through more Carcasses and corrupted Puppets. Eventually, P encounters the Corrupted Parade Master and is forced to battle it. After defeating it, P reaches the Hotel and finds that it has been ransacked, with a giant banner reading “hypocrite” hanging over the Hotel’s Stargazer. P meets with Sophia, who expresses her relief that P is alright and reveals what happened; Geppetto had been kidnapped by the Black Rabbit Brotherhood, Red Fox, and Black Cat, after Alidoro shut off the Hotel’s security. Sophia asks P to check on the others, who have barricaded themselves in the study room. At first, Eugénie refuses to open the door, initially mistaking P for the Hotel’s attackers, but clears the way when she realizes that it’s him. Entering the study, he is greeted by Antonia, who confirms Geppetto’s kidnapping. In order to save Geppetto, P learns a secret melody from Antonia to play on the piano in the Hotel ball room that opens a secret passage to the Relic of Trismegistus.

Entering the subterranean area and fighting a handful of Puppets, Pinocchio is met by the surviving members of the Black Rabbit Brotherhood, hellbent on killing him to avenge their older brother. Partway through the battle, the Eldest Brother of the Black Rabbit Brotherhood bursts out of a large coffin, having been experimented on and revived by the Alchemists. Despite the Eldest Brother’s inhuman strength and speed, P emerges victorious, killing the Black Rabbit Brotherhood and putting down the Eldest Brother for good. Moving forward, P comes across Alidoro and confronts him on why he betrayed the Hotel. Here the truth is revealed; “Alidoro” is actually the Hound’s former partner, Parrot, who killed and stole Alidoro’s identity, taking advantage of the Hound’s reputation for his own selfish purposes. P has the choice of leaving Parrot or killing him. Whatever his choice, P continues forward and comes across the *Pistris*, Venigni’s submarine. Using the Golden Lead-Acid Battery that Venigni had made from the Golden Ergo, P activates the submarine and heads for the Isle of Alchemists.

Arriving at the Black Seaside, P is surprised to find Sophia waiting for him on the shore. Sophia reveals that she had never actually been at the Hotel, and that she had only been using a projection of herself, with her real body being imprisoned in Arche Abbey, the Alchemist’s base of operations. She tells P that Simon’s misuse of her power had caused her soul to become fragmented, and how her awakening him in Krat Central Station was primarily in order to save her rather than Krat. She expresses remorse for tricking P but is thankful for all he had done to save Krat and its people, and grants P the remainder of her power, pleading with him to save her and give her peace, in the hope that her body and spirit would be reunited with a peaceful death. Making his way up the beach, P experiences the memories of Carlo’s life; how Geppetto had left him at the Monad Charity House and Sophia introduced him to Romeo; how Carlo grew to resent his father for his absence in his life, and how he wished to be trained by the Legendary Stalker; and how he contracted and died from the Petrification Disease.

Entering the Abbey, P fights through hordes of Carcasses and enhanced Alchemists as he ascends the tower. He comes across Test Subject 826, who he aids in helping escape the Abbey before reaching the Ascension Bridge, where he encounters Laxasia the Complete and fights her. Halfway through their duel, Laxasia sheds her armor and activates the electric conductors in her sword, imbuing it with electricity. Without her armor, Laxasia’s speed increases significantly, and she becomes an even greater challenge for P. Despite this, P ultimately emerges victorious and strikes Laxasia down. Entering the chamber ahead, P is met with the heart-wrenching discovery of the real Sophia, her mutated and tormented form strapped into a machine used to exploit her powers over Ergo. Sophia pleads with P to end her suffering, instructing him to absorb her Ergo into himself. P is left with a critical decision; let Sophia live and allow her to succumb to her agonizing pain, or follow her instructions and absorb her Ergo, causing her body to disintegrate. Whatever his choice, P then leaves the chamber and continues his ascent, with Gemini hoping they did the right thing.

Further up the tower, P encounters Black Cat again, who had been instructed by Simon to slow him down, but agrees to let P pass in exchange for a Gold Coin Fruit. By doing so, P is allowed to move forward, with Black Cat asking him to spare his sister, claiming they would take the Gold Coin Fruit and leave Krat to start anew. If not, he and P fight, and P kills him. Further ahead, P meets Red Fox, who, depending on what choice was made with Black Cat, will either attack P to avenge her brother, or ask for an additional Gold Coin Fruit. Giving her a Fruit will prompt her to say that with the amount they have, they might finally be able to cure Black Cat for good, while also revealing her real name, Claudia, before allowing P to move forward and reach Geppetto. Freeing his father, P briefly speaks with Geppetto before he is given the key to the door nearby, allowing him to reach the Cradle of the Gods at the top of the Arche Abbey, where he encounters Simon Manus once again.

Simon, having used the Arm of God and become a hulking, mutated creature, declares that Ergo is the key to a world without lies and will unlock true evolution before attacking P. Despite his inhuman strength, P succeeds in overpowering him, causing him to collapse. However, Simon endures, removing his coat and revealing a mass of branch-like growths where his left arm should be. The branches open, revealing a pale-blue humanoid entity growing out of Simon’s body, transforming him into the Awakened God. Simon and P continue their battle in a pocket dimension, with Simon unleashing powerful energy blasts in combination with his massive club. In spite of this, he still proves no match for P, and is ultimately defeated. Simon declares that Sophia has chosen a winner, and that he envies P, wondering if Sophia helps him out of a sense of duty, contempt for Simon, or if she truly cares for P. He asks what P did with her, to which he can reply either that he gave her peace or liberated her from Arche Abbey. Whatever the answer, Simon expresses his belief that his power to read minds is a curse, and that he wouldn’t be able to bear it if not for Sophia. As he dies, Simon states that it’s fine if he is gone, but ominously warns P to be wary of Gepetto.

After this, Pinocchio takes the Arm of God from Simon and uses the platform in the middle of the arena to descend Under the Abyss, where he encounters Geppetto, much to Gemini’s surprise. Geppetto expresses his joy to his son, claiming that with the Arm of God and the vast amount of Ergo P had absorbed over his quest, they had almost everything they needed to turn P into a real boy. He then reveals that there is one last thing they need to complete the process: P’s heart. Geppetto tells P to give him the P-Organ, leaving P with the choice to either give Geppetto his heart or refuse, with the possibility for three different endings depending on his actions throughout the story:

If Pinocchio agrees to give Geppetto his heart, Geppetto will embrace him before pulling the P-Organ out of his body, killing him. Geppetto will then place the P-Organ into a new Puppet body and successfully revives Carlo. Returning to Hotel Krat, Carlo kills the survivors within so Geppetto can transfer their Ergo into Puppets, turning them into Carlo’s loyal servants.

If P has low Humanity or leaves Sophia alive and refuses to give Geppetto his heart, Geppetto will express his disappointment in P before summoning the Nameless Puppet to take the P-Organ by force. After P defeats the Nameless Puppet, he will lose his footing and the Nameless Puppet will attempt to skewer P. However, Geppetto will jump in front of P and take the blow for him, chastising the Nameless Puppet for trying to destroy his heart. This allows P to punch the Nameless Puppet and tear its heart out before crushing it, killing it for good. As P holds the wounded Geppetto in his arms, he curses P for being a “useless Puppet” before dying. P then returns to the Hotel, where the inhabitants thank him for his help in ending the Puppet Frenzy and saving the city.

If P has high Humanity and gives Sophia peace by absorbing her Ergo and refuses to give Geppetto his heart, events will play out identically to the previous ending, up to the point where Geppetto sacrifices himself to stop the Nameless Puppet from harming P. As Geppetto lays dying in P’s arms, P begins to cry, showing that Carlo had been revived after all. Geppetto apologizes to P for what he has done before passing away. Afterwards, P goes out onto the balcony of Arche Abbey to see the sunrise, before he comes across an inactive female Puppet with ethereal blue hair. P transfers Sophia’s Ergo into the Puppet, an act which causes him to fall unconscious. Sophia awakens in the Puppet body and smiles when she recognizes P in front of her, holding him in a manner mirroring the image of the Saintess of Mercy Statue and saying that it’s nice to see him. Some time later, P returns to the Hotel, and the inhabitants thank him for saving the city.

## Gameplay

Players begin the game by choosing a Combat Style. Pinocchio can wield a variety of weapons with different handles and blades. He can also be equipped with different Legion Arms.

## Description

*Play as P, a puppet mechanoid, and fight through everything in your path to find this mystery person.*
*But don't expect any help along the way and don't make the mistake of trusting anyone.*
*You must always lie to others if you hope to become human.*
## Trivia

* His original name when he was human was Carlo, named after the author of the original book, Carlo Collodi.
	+ The name was also used in Guillermo del Toro's depiction of Pinocchio.
* Pinocchio is never actually referred to by name at any point in the game. In fact, the only time "Geppetto's puppet" is referred to by any name is during the battle with the Puppet King, who refers to him as “Carlo”. This is missed during the first playthrough, as the player is not able to understand the "Puppet Language" until NG+. In fact, the name Pinocchio is actually more a fan title than an official one.
* In promotional material, Pinocchio is seen wearing the Blue Blood’s Tailcoat.
* As Pinocchio lies throughout the game, his shadow’s nose will grow longer, referencing how Pinocchio’s nose would grow every time he lied in the original story.
* Rather than telling the truth in order to become a real boy, Pinocchio must tell lies to act more human.
	+ This is only part of the equation however. P's "Humanity" grows as he acts human. Lying is one thing since puppets cannot lie, but selfless or emotionally-driven actions will also evolve his Humanity.
* As Pinocchio’s “Humanity” increases, he begins making grunting sounds when exerting himself (i.e. dodging, jumping, taking damage).