Editing Creepy Steeple

{{location infobox
|image=[[File:TTYDNS Creepy Steeple.png|250px]]
|greater_location=[[Twilight Trail]]
|ruler=[[Doopliss]]
|inhabitants=[[Boo]]s, [[Swoop]]s, [[Buzzy Beetle]]s, [[Parrot (character)|Parrot]]
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]]) ([[List of games by date#2024|2024]])
}}
{{quote|Beyond town is a forest, and in its heart is an ancient building, the {{color|red|Creepy Steeple}}.|Mayor Dour|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}
[[File:DooplissStainedGlass.png|thumb|left|The stained-glass window in the foyer of Creepy Steeple.]]
The '''Creepy Steeple''' is the home of many [[Boo]]s and the [[Big Boo|Atomic Boo]] in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', but the most important resident is [[Doopliss]], who is even depicted in the stained-glass window in the Steeple's foyer. This location is where Doopliss steals [[Mario]]'s identity and name, temporarily making him a shadow. After being defeated twice by the real Mario in Chapter 4, Doopliss abandoned Creepy Steeple and joined the [[Three Shadows]] (in place of [[Vivian]], who had joined Mario).

There is a Boo called [[The Creepy Steeple Boo]] who Mario has to interact with at first. Afterwards, Mario must use the stairs behind the main room to get to the balcony, where Doopliss resides. After defeating Doopliss, Mario's body is stolen and he acts as a shadow. With [[Vivian]]'s help, he gets to know Doopliss's name from the [[parrot (character)|parrot]] in a room deep below the steeple as well as [[the Letter "p"]] required to spell it. With these two things, Mario will be able to confront Doopliss at the balcony again, defeating him and getting the fourth [[Ruby Star|Crystal Star]].

The Creepy Steeple is located beyond [[Twilight Town]] at the end of the [[Twilight Trail]]. There is a secret entrance through the well in front of the Steeple. There is also a secret path in the northern corridor of the building which leads to a golden tree behind the Steeple.  This golden tree is the only source of [[Golden Leaf|Golden Leaves]], which are useful items for recipes.
==Enemies==
''For [[list of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy formations|enemy formations]] in Creepy Steeple, see [[list of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy formations#Creepy Steeple|here]].''
*[[Boo]] (spawn as enemies in the overworld after Atomic Boo is defeated)
*[[Buzzy Beetle]]
*[[Spike Top]]
*[[Swoop]]
*[[Big Boo#Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door|Atomic Boo]] (mid-boss, optional)
*[[Doopliss]] (Chapter 4 Boss)
*[[Goombella]] (fought with Doopliss)
*[[Koops]] (fought if Goombella is defeated)
*[[Flurrie]] (fought if Koops is defeated)
*[[Yoshi Kid|Yoshi]] (fought if Flurrie is defeated)

==Items==
{|class="wikitable"
!Item
!Location
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Boo's Sheet|game=NS}} [[File:Nintendo Switch Logo.svg|15px|link=Nintendo Switch]]
|Rewarded from the Creepy Steeple Boo after successfully answering all questions of his first quiz. 
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Cookbook|game=NS}}
|In the treasure room through a hole on the north wall of the main room, it is inside the right chest.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Flower Saver|game=NS}}
|In the room just below the main room, it is in a chest in the secret passage to the back. Mario must have Flurrie blow up the wall.
|-style="background:lightgreen"
|{{PMTTYD item|Golden Leaf|game=NS}}
|In the passage to the north of the main room, there is a gap in the fence on the north. To the right is the tree with this item, a replenishable resource.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Ice Smash|game=NS}}
|In the treasure room through a hole on the north wall of the main room, it is inside the left chest.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Ice Storm|game=NS}} [[File:Nintendo Switch Logo.svg|15px|link=Nintendo Switch]]
|Rewarded from the Creepy Steeple Boo after successfully answering all questions of his third quiz.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Lucky Start|game=NS}}
|In the main room, it is dropped by the [[Big Boo|Atomic Boo]].
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Money Money|game=NS}} [[File:Nintendo Switch Logo.svg|15px|link=Nintendo Switch]]
|Rewarded from the Creepy Steeple Boo after successfully answering all questions of his final quiz.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Mr. Softener|game=NS}}
|In the storeroom with the parrot, it is in the right wooden chest.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Peachy Peach|game=NS}} [[File:Nintendo Switch Logo.svg|15px|link=Nintendo Switch]]
|Rewarded from the Creepy Steeple Boo after successfully answering all questions of his second quiz.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Power Plus|link=Power Plus (badge)|game=NS}}
|In the storeroom with the parrot, it is in the left wooden chest.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Ruby Star|game=NS}}
|In the balcony, dropped by [[Doopliss]] after he is defeated at the end of Chapter 4.
|-
|rowspan=3|{{PMTTYD item|Shine Sprite|game=NS}}
|In the treasure room through a hole on the north wall of the main room, it is in the right.
|-
|Down the well through the pipe outside the steeple, it is to the southwest of the trampoline.
|-
|Halfway through the pipe outside the steeple, it is next to the save block.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Shooting Star (item)|Shooting Star|game=NS}} [[File:Nintendo Switch Logo.svg|15px|link=Nintendo Switch]]
|Rewarded from the Creepy Steeple Boo after successfully answering all questions of his fourth quiz.
|-
|rowspan=5|{{PMTTYD item|Star Piece|game=NS}}
|Outside Creepy Steeple, it is to the left of the main gate, by the back side.
|-
|In the treasure room through a hole on the north wall of the main room, it is behind the mats.
|-
|In the room to the right of the main room, it is under a panel to the right of the stairs in the middle.
|-
|In the passage below the main room, it is behind the right windows in the north side. Accessible from the pipe outside the steeple.
|-
|In the storeroom with the parrot, it is under a panel in the southeast.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|link=Steeple Key|Steeple Key gray|text=Steeple Key|game=NS}}
|In the main room, it is in the left of the south hallway in the high place.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|link=Steeple Key|Steeple Key purple|text=Steeple Key|game=NS}}
|In the storeroom with the parrot, it is in the southwest chest.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|link=The Letter "p"|Letter P|text=The Letter "p"|game=NS}}
|In the storeroom with the parrot, it is in the west chest.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Tornado Jump|link=Tornado Jump (badge)|game=NS}}
|Down the well through the pipe outside the steeple, it is in the red question block near the Buzzy Beetles.
|-
|rowspan=2|{{PMTTYD item|Ultra Mushroom|game=NS}}
|In the passage below the main room, it is dropped by the Boo if his quiz was answered correctly in Chapter 4 and lost forever if answered incorrectly.
|-
|Rewarded from the Creepy Steeple Boo after successfully answering all questions of his fifth quiz. [[File:Nintendo Switch Logo.svg|15px|link=Nintendo Switch]]
|}

===Hidden ? Block===
{{main|List of hidden blocks in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}
{|class="wikitable"
!Item
!Description
!Image
!Image (block revealed)
|-
|1 {{PMTTYD item|Coin|game=NS}}
|At the entrance of the Steeple, Mario should jump at the fourth step from the top to reveal the hidden ? Block. The location of this block is mentioned in Wonky's Tales, "Creepy Steeple's Secret".<ref>'''Wonky:''' There's a wacky old place called Creepy Steeple somewhere in this land, and if you jump on the fourth step from the top, ol' Wonky hears you get a good thing. I don't know how useful that is, but hey, it's worth a shot.</ref>
|[[File:PMTTYDHiddenBlocks7.png|250px]]
|[[File:PMTTYDHiddenBlocks7R.png|250px]]
|}

==Profiles==
{{PMTTYD map}}
*'''Tattles:'''
**"''This is Creepy Steeple. Seeing it in the moonlight gives me the willies... It looks like a ghost could pop out at any minute. No way I'm going in there. Uh... Although, I guess since YOU'RE with me, Mario, I'll give it my best...''"
**"''We're inside Creepy Steeple. At least the moon provides a LITTLE light, y'know? This place seems super-old, huh? I'd like to research it...as soon as it's not haunted.''"
**"''This appears to be the Creepy Steeple storeroom. Sheesh, have a few cobwebs! I'm not so good with ghosts OR spiders, to be honest... And ghost spiders...horrible.''"
**"''Who knew we could get down here from up there? Wow! This room's well hidden! Talk about minimal decor: one jump pad and one door. Think there's anything else?''"
**"''This is an underground corridor in Creepy Steeple. The flames are kinda freaky. The fact that they're burning means someone must've been here recently, though.''"
**"''This is a courtyard of Creepy Steeple. Pretty decent breeze out here, huh? Aside from the [[!_Switch|switch]], there isn't much here.''"
**"''This is a courtyard of Creepy Steeple. Boy, that garden sure could use some love. Aside from the switch, there isn't much here.''"
**"''Wow, interesting staircase... Hmmm... Just one staircase, but three doors... What's the story with THAT, you think? Lazy architects?''"
**"''The winding stair leads up to the belfry. Talk about a doozy of a climb! I mean, it's almost like the staircase is saying... "Go away. I totally hate you."''"
**"''This is the well's bottom... but it seems to have dried up. Which is good for us. There's a corridor leading out of here... smells like a puzzle to me, Mario!''"
**"''I gotta say, I'm outta ideas. I mean, you can't pull it out, push it away, hammer it... What should we do, Mario? Hmm... I got nothing. I'm thinking we probably oughta just leave it for now.''"
**"''Who knew the bottom of the well connected to this place? This place is totally crazy. I wonder if Doopliss knew about this passage?''" (GCN)
***"''Who knew the bottom of the well connected to this place? Sneaky, sneaky... I wonder if Doopliss knew about this passage?''" (Switch)
**"''This is an underground room in Creepy Steeple. There's a parrot here, but no people. That parrot must get pretty bored with no one around. Think he talks to himself?''"
**"''This is the belfry of Creepy Steeple. Every time this bell rung, a villager would be turned into a pig...''" (Switch only)
*'''Map description:''' ''An old building deep in the woods that exudes a strange aura.''

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Creepy Steeple.jpg|Overview of the Steeple
PMTTYD Creepy Steeple Dungeon.jpg|The dungeon
PMTTYD Creepy Steeple Crystal Star Statue.jpg|The [[Crystal Star]] statue
PMTTYD Creepy Steeple Moving Staircase.jpg|The moving staircase
PMTTYD Creepy Steeple Boo Swarm.jpg|The unleashed [[Boo]]s
PMTTYD Creepy Steeple Garden.jpg|The garden
PMTTYD Creepy Steeple Springboard.jpg|A cave
PMTTYD Creepy Steeple Doopliss Room.jpg|[[Doopliss]]'s lair
PMTTYD Creepy Steeple Hidden Storage Room.jpg|The hidden storage room
PMTTYD Creepy Steeple Parrot Room.jpg|The parrot room
PMTTYDNS Parrot room.jpg|The parrot room in the Nintendo Switch remake
PMTTYD Creepy Steeple Boo Hall.jpg|The Boo hall
PMTTYDNS Creepy Steeple Main.jpg|The main room in the remake
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=オドロン寺院
|JapR=Odoron Jiin
|JapM=「オドロン」is derived from「驚く」(''odoroku'', to be astonished) and「寺院」means "temple"
|ChiS=惊魂寺院
|ChiSR=Jīnghún Sìyuàn
|ChiSM=Horror Temple
|ChiT=驚魂寺院
|ChiTR=Jīnghún Sìyuàn
|ChiTM=Horror Temple
|Dut=Huize Sidder
|DutM=Shiver Manor
|Fre=Église occulte
|FreM=Occult Church
|Ger=Spukabtei
|GerM=Spook Abbey
|Ita=Tempio dell'Orrore
|ItaM=Temple of Horror
|Kor=오싹오싹 사원
|KorR=Ossak-ossak Sawon
|KorM=Creepy Temple
|Spa=Templo Lúgubre
|SpaM=Gloomy Temple
}}

==References==
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