Dead Plate

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## General Information

### Upload Date

November 6, 2023 (Windows)
November 4, 2023 (Mac)

### Estimated Playtime

1 hour (normal)
3 hours (all endings)

## Miscellaneous

### Developer/s

Studio Investigrave

**Dead Plate** is a short 2D restaurant tycoon themed rpg horror game with visual novel and point-and-click elements set in 1960s France following the story of a lively waiter named Rody trying to make as much money as possible in a week at a fancy bistro owned by a charismatic and successful chef, Vince.

The game utilizes elements of gore, violence, blood, eyestrain, disturbing imagery, graphic death and cannibalism.

## Plot

The game begins with the protagonist, Rody Lamoree, having just been hired to work at a fancy french restaurant owned by a charismatic and successful chef, Vincent Charbonneau, nicknamed **Vince** for short. The player can choose to play the tutorial or skip it, but this will have no effect on future gameplay. As Rody begins working at the bistro for the first few days, he begins to have violent and disturbing nightmares every night before work about him and Vince, his new boss. The game can finish in 4 different ways:

### Ending 1: Table for One

If the player completed the entire week normally without any difficulties, Rody will quit his job and get in a phone booth to call his now ex-girlfriend, Manon, who was the entire reason he started working in the first place. However, Manon doesn't respond his calls, leaving Rody in a confused state as the game rolls the credits.

### Ending 2: Best Served Cold

If the player has triggered Vince's phone call through a variety of actions (*that will be listed below*), Rody will have the option to come to Vince's "dinner party". If accepted, Rody will work just like a waiter to Vince's 4 other guests with no consequences if failure is met. After, he can sneak into Vincent's bedroom and steal the restaurant's freezer key. To get this ending, the player must start Day 7 without equipping the matches, enter the freezer and interact with the meat grinder in the far-left corner on the bottom. Vince will appear behind Rody and knock him out could, resulting in him waking up tied with ropes. Then, Vincent will come back inside the room and threaten Rody with a sharp knife, giving him a 15 second headstart to "crawl out of the freezer". Despite the player's speed, Vince will call Rody a disappointment before stabbing him.

### Ending 3: Best Served Hot

The player must start Day 7 after having stolen the freezer key and having equipped the matches bought from the catalog in Rody's apartment. Then, they must do the same procedure as Ending 2. However, Rody will be able to use the matches to burn the ropes on him. After managing to escape the freezer, Vince will come out of his office holding a kitchen knife as he notices Rody outside. A chase sequence will begin where Vince will constantly try to kill Rody whenever he catches up to him. If the player dodges all of his attacks, Rody will use a broken glass bottle to stab Vincent's neck multiple times. Then he will cover him and the restaurant with cooking oil found in the freezer, before lighting the matches and burning down the restaurant as the credits roll.

### Ending 4: Abattoir

If the player doesn't dodge Vincent's attack during the chase sequence from Ending 3, the latter will stab Rody and drag him into the freezer, as the sound of meat crushing and cutting against a saw echoes in the credits scene.

## Cast

* Rody Lamoree (protagonist);
* Vincent Charbonneau (antagonist);
* Manon (supporting character);
* Minor Characters.

## Trivia

* To trigger Vincent's Phone Call, the player must complete a few small, untold tasks:
	+ Take out the trash on Day 3.
	+ Walk in the kitchen past a minute mark on Day 4.
	+ Talk with Vince on Day 4 (“Can you give me a raise” and “Do you like your job” options).
	+ Talk with Vince on Day 5 (“What’s your favorite food”).
	+ Go in Vince’s office during the Night segment of Day 5 and interact with the trash can.
* RachelDrawsThis has confirmed that Manon is straight, Rody is bisexual with internalized biphobia and a heavy lean on girls, and Vincent is canonically gay.
* In the main restaurant map, there is a small secret hole in the upper left corner on the wall. On Day 6, Vincent's bloodshot eye can be seen staring through the hole during the whole shift. Weirdly, Rody will not reference this in his dialogue.
* Because of the community's love for the *Rody x Vince* ship, and Vincent's canon sexuality, Rachel has said that any reading through the game is valid. Meaning that anyone could interpret Vincent as either having a crush on Rody or not.
* The composer for Dead Plate's music is **BellKalengar**, also called **BKalengar**, who is also the composer for all of the other games.
* Vincent's bistro is called **La Gueule de Saturne**, as seen in the Main Menu and in the catalog in Rody's apartment.
* If the player can't seem to clean up a table or interact with anything, they should press [Z] from the bottom right side of the table or press the respective arrow key towards what they're interacting with, then press [Z] normally.
* It's possible to see a clone of Rody during Ending 3, during the segment where Rody is supposed to go grab the cooking oil from the freezer, that is stuck to the original sprite. This is known and confirmed to be just a bug, but some people have taken it more literally and theorize that the "double Rody" is a sign of derealization and insanity after having stabbed/killed Vincent.