Hal Henderics

November 1

Gaster listens patiently until the end.

"Two noteworthy things were found in the human SOUL I experimented on. DETERMINATION, and KARMA. Both merely empower a SOUL, for better or worse. I found that both substances enabled me to send messages to the past, and change the future. In practice, Determination allowed me to create information that did not, and could not exist, by manipulating the properties and behavior of electrons."

"My goal most certainly was not Godhood. I planned to create a weapon powerful enough to shatter the barrier, using Paradox-Energy from a single human SOUL. Like a capacitor that used time itself as the storage medium. Nothing more. Knowing what I do now, the experiment to convert Photons into Altered Neutrinos-"

He pauses.

Something seems to amuse him, and he begins to chuckle.

"Apologies. I thought of something... Funny. A coincidence."

"Did you know that the Degree of Freedom, a term in statistics used to describe how many variables in an equation are free to change, can be represented by the character "Nu"?"

"And did you know that Nu also represents, in atomic science, the Neutrino?"

"And-" he chuckles even more.

"It even represents the 'True Anomaly', a term in astrophysics which deals with the orbiting of stellar bodies?"

"Perhaps it's a coincidence, how this sordid tale dealt so heavily with that curious letter, that you all should arrive alongside The True Anomaly, the child that controls time, meddling in my failed Neutrino experiments, all of you granting us more Degrees of Freedom than we had before."

"Terrible, joke, I know."

His face becomes more grim. "I digress. The experiment was a failure. The shock of so many people hidden in my lab shouting all at once to celebrate, in the chaos of it all, the experiment was damaged, the KARMA was released, alongside the slurry of Neutrinos. My other self had no idea what happened. After all, those people had never been born."

"I attempted to fix my mistake. By quirk or fate, I remembered what my other self did not, perhaps because I walked into my laboratory at the exact moment my other self did. I saw them cease to be without being exposed to the original event. I decided to try and undo the experiment using Time Travel empowered by both Human Substances. I failed. My brother attempted to fix my machine, but it was impossible. He believed it only required KARMA, as he somehow was made aware of the experiments prior."

He shrugs very slightly. "Truthfully, I had little care either way on the subject of Monsters and Humans. The fact of the matter is, if we had been trapped underground for another... decade? Another decade, at our current population growth rate, we would have defeated the air intake capacity of the mountain's cracks and crevices."

"I've never told anyone, naturally, since there was no answer to that problem, but the fact of the matter is, everyone had concerns over space and food, trapped under this mountain, but the true killer would have been carbon dioxide. Suffocation."

"A war would have been preferable to that. Even if every monster died, it would still have been a superior fate to just dying in the darkness, and what would have been far more likely is monsters being forced back underground yet again, with a reduced population."

He looks at Nader. "You may think of it as particularly cruel of me to think this way, but yes, I considered the possibility of our genocide to be a far better result than what would have happened if we had waited or stayed. Indeed, I'm surprised that we even managed to get all seven, dead or alive. The fact of the matter is, it shouldn't be statistically possible for that many humans to fall down here."

"The royal human died twenty years ago, and in twenty years, seven more fell down, despite the mountain's reputation for being cursed? Despite them continuing to fall? Does that not strike you as... Odd? It would mean that either the mountain is swarming with humans, or every two to three years, a human from the same generation as one who disappeared decided to follow in their footsteps."

"And if they sought their end, why were their remains found all over the underground? There are only three entrances. Only one was used, the one Madam Toriel lived near."

"Did they all seek freedom, where once they sought death?" he continues.

He shakes his head. "It disturbs me, that my assumptions were wrong. I predicted that, on average, one human per millennium would fall. Once per century if we were lucky. We were trapped down here for thousands of years, and then, in the two decades before our freedom, no less than 8 humans, not including your group, all fell down here."

"These irregularities consume me, in my moments of lucidity, and now that I've returned, those moments are quite long indeed."

He seems to remember himself.

"I've gotten off topic. Have I explained myself adequately to your liking?"

October 20

Dackly deflates with a sigh. "Wow! That was exhausting. Thanks evil guy! Ugh. It's like trying to argue with your high-school self, with the exact same flavor of petulant bickering."

"Oh, but uhh, fair warning, I think we're all still pissed at you, yaknow, evil and all that. Sounds like you're at least after the same thing we are though, so good on you! We happen to both like the multiverse existing, and that's some common ground I can get behind at least!" Dackly comments, picking at her ear.

"Dackly... I wouldn't be so familiar with this individual. They did put forth an effort to kill us, even if it appears they did not plan on succeeding." Gozer critiques, disliking the instability of the being before him, even ignoring his dark nature.

Dackly smirks. "You ever hear of a guy called Xanatos?" Dackly asks the Makuta, an amused thought coming to mind.

October 20

"Oh please! Of all the people, of all the beings in all the worlds, you are the one I like the least in my decently long life of exploration. You've got no place among my friends, don't worry about that."

"You're misunderstanding this situation, which is that I'm giving you good advice. Medusa died, then her clone died again, then another clone died a third time."

"Medusa isn't someone you should aspire to be. You think I'm fixed? That I think you can be fixed? God no! But I've got friends, wealth, a home, food and drink, goals that I can achieve, and I haven't died a single time."

"Go out! Petrify some guys for pissing you off! Be a bartender and sell property on the side, rule a planet and call yourself 'Georgia' for god's sake, but we both know that your fate is in your hands, and Medusa? She would, will, and has squandered that handful of fate."

"I know for a fact that becoming someone else is almost worse than being you, but almost only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades."

She shakes her head at Medusa's mistaken assumptions. "I don't even care if you're our enemy in the future, if you try to kill us again, but pissing away this opportunity so you can mantle a thrice-dead goddess and pretend that this time it will end differently? While you lay defeated yet again at the foot of your hubris by me of all people?"

"I hate that."

Dackly crosses her arms, glaring at her enemy.

October 20

"You're a clone. Just like me. Or did you get one blow to the head too many and forget?" Dackly reminds.

She quotes from memory. "Add a pinch of memories to a ton of souls, put them in a blender and hit frappe!"

"The fact that you're somehow able to lie to yourself, now especially, is proof of your mental strength. But it's over. You want truth? Here it is!"

Dackly jabs a finger at the fallen foe.

"You're not Medusa! You suck at being her! So just give up and be someone else already! This might be your only chance to do it!"

October 19

Gaster frowns.

"To be frank, I've no clue who you are. Being scattered across time and space is... well, I would not recommend it, but unless you have traveled the same paths thousands upon thousands of times, I doubt I've seen you."

He pauses.

"Ah. The branches of time. Of reality. So many iterations of the exact same event. With so many ways it can unfold..."

"Parallel universe are... Very... Interesting. Wouldn't you agree?"

Lost in his own little world, it takes Gaster a moment to process what Nader had said.

"You've read what I've left behind? It shouldn't be possible, and yet it isn't very well possible to lie about. Curiouser and curiouser. Lucine's spell did indeed free me and the others. In a sense."

"It wasn't complete, but the rest of your friends proved more than capable of... Tying up loose ends. For that, I am obviously quite grateful. I'm afraid I didn't see much of anything until it came to a close."

"You and your friends were... Only briefly in this world. Both in the literal sense that you've been here for less than a day or so, and in the sense that you had so few timelines to your name."

"Is there something you require of me? I'm afraid if it is a cure to confusion you're after, I have hardly enough for myself."

"Or perhaps you are here in search of something more tangible?"

October 17

Scout Skipper begins using Murder Dance to amp up her groove. Her Jittery moves are sure to get the enemy bones moving!

Spoiler

Stats:

Essence: 3

Constitution: 5

Dexterity: 8

Intelligence: 1

Resistance: 0

Strength: 1

Synergy: 1

Perks:

Level 1 Perk: Death Warp: The user revives upon death, at the cost of being dragged back to where they started.

On death, the user respawns either on the ships, or at the beginning area of the current plot, chosen by the current GM.

Actions:

-Actives

Murderdance: The user jitters around by walking into a wall. This makes them take obscene numbers of steps at a high speed.

Level 1: By walking into a northern-facing wall, the user may aggravate all enemies nearby, drawing them towards Scout Skipper.

Level 2: If the user walks into the corner of two walls facing to the North and East, the effects of this ability are quadrupled.

Level 1: Flip Stomp: The user leaps into the air, and, flipping over, stomps down onto a foe below with their fists.

Merit Level 1: Deals 1d6+Dex Damage, adds 1d6 Damage for each time this is used without using any other action. Not doing anything counts as an action.

Level 1: Clip: The user attempts to force themselves through a barrier that has some sort of flaw in it.

Merit Level 1: The user makes a Dex Check against a door, wall, or other barrier. If the barrier has some sort of flaw in it, such as a crack, or thin spot, the user may pass through it.

-Passives

Level 1: Wrongwarp: The user can find themselves in strange places when they die in other strange places.

Trick Level 1: If the user dies while passing through a significant passageway, transition, or teleporter, they have a chance to respawn in a doorway or transition into a random location somewhere in the same world.

Level 2: The user may trigger this ability when using Clip.

October 12

"When all the truth does is make your heart ache, sometimes a lie is easier to take," Dackly says with a smile.

"Was it really that much better, being you of all people? At least I had some stuff going for me." the gorgon questions sadly.

"You threw away your future to reclaim your past. You are now what you once were, but now you can never be what you would have been." Gozer admits confusingly.

Dackly looks confused, but continues. "Uhh, yeah. And that. Look, just give up, really. You can't beat us in a fight, but like, even if you did, so what? You wouldn't feel any better, and you know it."

"You can't just pretend I'm not real. I'm not Medusa anymore, but to tell the truth, neither are you. Surely you know that, deep down?"

"Aren't you starting to get sick of fighting for no good reason?" Dackly asks, approaching the laid-low goddess of darkness.

October 4

Nader finds, once he returns to the lab, that Gaster's situation seems to have already been dealt with.

Another member of the party found a confluence of thick, churning darkness, and after purging it for hours, began to rip monster after monster free of the timeless void within it.

The skeletal scientist is investigating a vial of the black sludge that was once his entire world under a microscope.

September 20

As Scarlet stomps off, Sucrose simply huffs, crossing her arms.

"I am a perfectly serviceable at repairing organics, unless any of you happen to have molecular imaging structures in your eyes as well."

September 15

Toriel offers Lucine a sympathetic look. "No, it looks fine on you. As I've mentioned, Asriel has been... Excitable. It seems he struggles to contain himself. He has had a few minor outbursts before this, but we are being patient with him."

September 15

"Well duh! There's a resource crisis going on! I don't know the details, but the empire can't exactly afford to waste any resources on frivolous things right now." Sucrose says.

"I wouldn't know anything about morality, though. I leave that sort of thinking to those sort of thinkers." she says, unsure how to respond to Scarlet's assertion that the empire is morally wrong.

September 13

Asgore's brow furrows at the mention of Gaster.

"That's odd. I seem to recall Dr. Alphys having been the Royal Scientist, and yet, I don't recall Dr. Gaster being removed from his position."

"No matter. If information on how to aid Gaster is to be found anywhere, it would surely be at his laboratory. I believe you were there once already."

September 11

"Well, I don't know how you organics organize your empires, but with Gemkind, every gem fills a tailor-built purpose. We have Quartzes for the soldiers, Rubies for the bodyguards, Lapises for Terraforming."

"I don't know the details, of course, but Sucrose, the organic chemical produced by many forms of plant life as a chemical fuel-storage method, has a crystalline structure that can effectively harness light when incubated correctly in a Kindergarden environment, so someone decided to see if my line could serve a purpose too, and produced a few of us for testing."

She frowns slightly at the memory.

"Sadly, I don't think we made the cut. 'Manipulation of organic lifeforms lacks practical application not filled by other roles, and molecular-scale vision and shapeshifting are similarly filled by other gem subsets', they said. I was slated for harvesting, then Jack did whatever it is he did, and now I'm here!" Despite her chipper tone, one might struggle to think of any positive way anyone could interpret the term 'harvesting' in relation to people, much less people in what appears to be a strict alien caste system.

She smiles unerringly.

"I really should get back to Homeworld as soon as is feasible, though. It's obvious that organic life has more potential than my testing supervisors gave credit. Why, just the potential for new shapeshifting blueprints alone would be worth a great deal."

September 10

Arminius-

"Y-yes, in fact, uhh, let's not mention that you can even do any of this..."

"I don't think the p-people here would be t-too pleased with uhh..."

"You know." she finishes, waving abstractly to Arminius's menagery.

Lucine-

When Lucine returns, the goat-kid notices her outfit and giggles uncontrollably, with emphasis on the "uncontrollable"

He is herded out of the room by Chara, who pats him on the back sympathetically.

"He is a bit excitable right now," Toriel apologizes. It seems that regaining one's soul is not without side effects.

September 10

"That's weird... Didn't you say you were here to get Swagged Needles, Anesthetic, and Disinfectants?" Sucrose recites with a finger to her chin.

She shrugs with a smile. "And I haven't met any organics at all! Well, other than a few samples that I got to have a look at when my line was being tested. Those ones weren't very interesting though."

She gets a wider smile at this.

"Oh, but just imagine if I had access to organic lifeforms like yourself. I could have proven without a doubt the use in my line's purpose. Oh well."

Sucrose giggles as if it were worth a laugh at.

"I'm sure by the time I return to Homeworld, I'll have amassed quite the library of useful tricks, and that's all that really matters."

"Until then, of course, It would certainly help me if all of my samples were alive and kicking, so I'm still supremely interested in finding out how physical repairs work on organics. They certainly wouldn't work on a gem!"

September 1

"Hey, I know plenty about biology! I've already developed a veritable library of biologically inspired shapeshifting blueprints.

With that, she holds up a finger and it glows for a moment, before emitting an acrid scent.

"You think any other gem could shape-shift an acidic molecular structure into their light like this? I've even been working on cultivating some of those neat cells from you gem-shaped organics. Oh once I get enough, I'm sure I'll crack the code on how an organic lifeform could be as smart as you are without so much as gem fragments involved in the process."

She holds up a hand with a suspiciously petri-dish like divot in the middle of its palm.

When Scarlet explains why the little bacteria are such a bad thing, Sucrose is enlightened and displeased.

"Well that isn't very nice of them at all." She says, her cheeks puffing out as she crosses her arms.

September 1

Sucrose gives Scarlet another vacant look, but thinks a bit harder.

"Hmm..."

"Oh! You mean the tiny organic lifeforms, right? Woop!" she shouts, breathing out an impossibly fine purple powder into her hands, and spitting out several tiny skulls.

"The powder tells the really tiny biomass that eats it to die, but doesn't tell the big biomass like you to do that, and the skulls tell those pesky pain-cells to take a break!. Here ya go!" she says, handing over the candies and sugar.

"It sure is funny that you want to kill the really tiny ones, I mean, they're such cuties," Sucrose says, tapping Scarlet on the shoulder and giggling as she stares the finger she used to do it.

"I think I'll call you 'squirmy'." she says to the essentially invisible bacteria.

Quote

Death Powder: A microscopically fine sugar dust that causes microorganisms that eat it to die. Has no effect on larger or complex organisms.

4X Numbskulls: A tiny skull shaped candy that totally nullifies pain for organic lifeforms.

Numb Skulls: One willing organic target gains 3d4+3 THP, but their current HP and damage they receive is obfuscated until the end of the encounter. Single Use.

August 31

Toriel rapidly returns with a set of clothing.

"I'm afraid we don't have much, but perhaps these might fit you?" She says, offering a green-and-yellow striped shirt and pants.

August 31

Sucrose gives Scarlet a vacant look.

"I don't know anything about deeseinfectants or anysthetics, but I can probably come up with something." she giggles, puffing out her cheek while the gemstone embedded in it glows brightly.

"These very special candies are made of light. Whatever cellular mass consumed the sugars for fuel, I get to tell it what to do for a while!"

"So if these deeseinfectants or anysthetics do something to organic biomass, then these can too, I bet." She offers a smile as she holds out the plain white candy, like a pearl or a jawbreaker, it shimmers softly.

"Of course, I'm pretty sure I could do more, if I had some actual sugars to study and mess with, but eh, what can you do?"

August 31

Sucruse gapes openly at Scarlet.

"Well now, you might be the most interesting organic lifeform I've ever seen! Just where did you come from, you lovely lovely biomass?" she says, walking around Scarlet and scrutinizing her.

"Oh how I'd love to know how you got metal of all things into your cellular makeup. Is it bacterial? Viral? Some sort of adaptation? Oooh, surely it couldn't be nanotechnology, even Gem technology doesn't show hallmarks like those little metal fellows infesting you!"

She realizes what Scarlet asked only after satisfying her curiosity.

"Stitching...? Oh! Oh, do you do some sort of organic repairs? How exciting, repairing organic lifeforms using 'stitching', it sounds so hilariously ineffective, and yet... Oh, I simply must see for myself how biomass reacts to being repaired in that way!"

She scratches her chin, before giggling.

"Alright, let's find you some materials!" she says, taking a moment to shapeshift as she cups her hands around her eyes like binoculars, with her eyes somehow poking out of the end after a brief flash of light.

August 31

Asgore offers a teary smile.

"In truth, I had only wished to see my wife and children once again. And yet, despite the impossibility of that wish, here it is, granted in full, beyond even what I had hoped."

"How could I not grasp this chance with my own two hands, to right the wrongs of the past, and to do what I can to shape the future my children will inhabit?"

Asriel and Chara are peaking out from behind a doorframe, watching the exchange.

-

Around the same time, Frisk walks through the door, holding a large red Artifact. They look somewhat vindicated.

"I knew something was off about this timeline, and this cinches it," they say, holding up the magical artifact.

"I have no clue what this is, because I've literally never gotten my hands on it before. Never once. A small white dog normally shows up and steals it no matter what I try. Even using a hush puppy isn't normally enough to stop it."

"That said, I believe you all can put it to better use than I can," Frisk says, handing over the artifact to Lucine.

You obtained the Nav-G! This mysterious object can guide your ship to a new world.

"I guess all that's left to do now is to get ready to go back to the surface. Whenever you're all ready, I think we should go celebrate with some Karaoke. Does that sound fun?"

August 30

Sucrose skips up and down the halls of the ship, giggling merrily. She hasn't been harvested, she gets to be on this ship of neat organic life, and she even got to study a huge specimen up close earlier!

This has been an utterly wonderful cycle so far!

It's a bit of a traitorous thought, but she was originally slated for harvesting because her prototypical line lacked practical application in a colony-setting. Perhaps if she can learn even more about organic life, she could convince the higher-ups that there's some untapped potential!

"Oh, I'm so excited I could just sing!" she mutters with glee, humming an aimless tune as she skips around while shapeshifting her innards in twisted internal experiments.

August 27

Nader+Lucine

Toriel looks a bit startled. "Oh, I see."

She walks away quickly into the other room, and Asgore comes out shortly afterwards. He looks tired, but happy.

"Yes? I was told I have visitors...?"

"Oh! Lucine, it is very good to see you. I am glad to see that you are well," he smiles, before turning to Nader.

"It seems you too, are well. In a sense, at least."

-

Arminius

"Well, that's... interesting," Alphys says politely.

Merging Bombshell and Piglet together, the end result is a stronger, larger, far more socially clever Piglet! It seems bombshell didn't have nearly enough force-of-personality to avoid being subsumed entirely.

August 24

"You're absolutely right. Gozer could not become a Toa. What you're seeing before you..."

The new Toa flexes, rippling heat radiating from them.

"Is someone entirely new!"

"So I should start calling you Flowzer then? Like Flame Gozer." Dackly says, tired but alive.

"...You should probably keep calling me Gozer." He retorts.

Dackly grins.

"Now then, let's put an end to this, for good!"

Dackly strikes a pose next to Gozer with Cap awkwardly third-wheeling!

"Hey Cell! I need you to hit me as hard as you can!" she shouts over to her ally.

Dackly Charges Laser Vision to use on Medusa, and sacrifices her Wave of Denial Buff!

Cap and Gozer use Caltrops on themselves, reducing their Init by 3 and stunning them!

When Dackly's health goes below 30, An ally goes into critical health, and an ally reaches full health, Checkmate will trigger!

Spoiler

Petrify: (Dackly, Gaze)
Dackly focuses on Feelings of Hatred and Fear, blasting a target with pure hatred, which feeds on the targets fear and slowly brings them closer to becoming petrified.
"Inflicts Int+1d6 Hatred Stacks.

This is considered a status effect, whose effects (But not application of the stacks) can be resisted by specific defenses, such as Mirror Mail, True Heroic Resolve, and being made of stone.

When Hatred Stacks Exceed Remaining Health, the target is petrified, executing them. Enemies are considered Helpless in this state."
Stacks increased to Int+1d8
Stacks increased to Int+2d6
An additional effect is granted to this attack, based on a chosen ally, light source, or pertinent status effect.

Toa Heartlight (Untyped)

The ancient mechanisms of the Toa Canister have transformed you into a creature of Bionicle! But without a source of elemental power, only some of its features have been unlocked.

Grants +2 damage reduction and +2 to a stat chosen when equipped.

Cannot be unequipped at this time.

Deals 5% of your MHP in nonlethal pure damage to you each round until you pass out.

Self-damage can be negated if you wear a Kanohi Mask of Power.

Blue Art - Laser Vision: Dackly takes a turn to charge up in a very flashy and obvious way, and then fires FRIKKIN LASER BEAMS from her eye, dealing 1d6 + intelligence damage to up to 6 targets. 5 round cooldown. Dackly can sacrifice buff effects on herself while charging to increase the damage by 1d6 to each target per buff expended.

Name

Checkmate (Both Partners)

Description

The user performs an action which radically turns the tide of battle, based on a plan made previously coming to fruition perfectly

Level 1

The user must have one Debuff, one Buff, and be below half their max health, the target must be charging their ultimate action, or, if no ultimate technique exists, they must be using their gimmick, they must also either have stacks from, or be under the effects of an action labeled "Gaze" in it's tags. At least one ally must be in critical health, and one must be at max health.

Deal 12d12+Int+Dex damage, and stun the target, bypassing stun immunities. Once per plot cooldown. Once this ability is usable, it may be activated at-will, as a free first strike.

Spray (Gozer, Cap)

Cap throws a handful of Stone Caltrops at enemies

Lower Init for 3 enemies by 3 each, if init hits zero, they are stunned

August 14

Gozer uses Royal Guard, and predicts that Everyone will be attacked by Medusa!

"I predicted you would predict that."

He looks towards the Toa stones, and to an onlooker, it might seem as though he's contemplating.

This is untrue, however. Just as he always has, Gozer has only followed his one singular path. The path of the Earth.

"Dackly!" he shouts.

"The attempt has failed! The attempt to craft a being of good from the remains of evil has failed, and now, that failure must be destroyed! It must be destroyed so that another attempt may be made!"

"For allowing you to turn down this path and to give hope for the future, this supreme failure must be annihilated in its entirety! To take another path, where the path of earth has failed, there can only be one recourse!"

Gozer leaps towards the Toa Stone of fire, allowing the energy to annihilate the Earth Elemental, and allow a new one to be born.

Spoiler

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Spoiler

Royal Guard: (Gozer, Blue Art)

Gozer assumes a powerful stance, preparing to absorb incoming attacks.

Gozer predicts that a specific target will be attacked by a specific other target.
If he is correct, the attack is negated, and D&G gain a damage boost equal to the damage negated, which is added to their next attack.
This action takes place immediately before the attack being blocked does.

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Spray (Gozer, Cap)

Cap throws a handful of Stone Caltrops at enemies

Lower Init for 3 enemies by 3 each, if init hits zero, they are stunned

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Celestial Spear (Cap, Blue Art)

Cramping Dackly's Signature Move, Cap throws a spear at an enemy made of Celestial Magic.

Deals 1d10+Int Damage, but the enemy's next attack on Cap will deal 1d10+Attacking Stat Damage to them.

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Checkmate (Both Partners)

The user performs an action which radically turns the tide of battle, based on a plan made previously coming to fruition perfectly

The user must have one Debuff, one Buff, and be below half their max health, the target must be charging their ultimate action, or, if no ultimate technique exists, they must be using their gimmick, they must also either have stacks from, or be under the effects of an action labeled "Gaze" in it's tags. At least one ally must be in critical health, and one must be at max health.

Deal 10d12+Int+Dex damage, and stun the target, bypassing stun immunities. Once per plot cooldown. Once this ability is usable, it may be activated at-will, as a free first strike.

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