Hal Henderics

"What, you don't recognize it? What are they teaching you kids in school nowadays?!" He barks out, laughing. "That's the Delta Rune, the emblem of our kingdom." "The Kingdom... Of Monsters," he says sagely. He laughs even louder. "Great name, huh?" he says slyly. "It's as I always say... Ol' King Fluffybuns can't name for beans!" Gerson finishes, shaking his head with amusement. "As for the meaning..." "Well, I'm afraid it predates written history. All we know is that those triangles down below symbolize us monsters, and that winged circle up there symbolizes..." "Something else. A lot of folks think it's the prophesy, the one that says an Angel from the surface will descend down here, and make the underground go empty." "Course... Nowadays, people have gotten a bleaker outlook on it, thinking it'll be an 'Angel of Death', here to empty the underground by killing everyone in it." He shrugs. "When I look at that circle though... I just think it looks neat!"

Gerson smiles at this. "I've been around a long time. Maybe too long!" "It sure is easy to study history when you've lived through so much of it yourself!" "Sometimes a fella just gets loaded up with all sorts of trinkets, trying to dig up history."

"Wahaha! Well, there isn't any other kind of junk, is there?" the old turtle says, squinting at Jun. "Just some cans of Sea Tea, some old glasses, a torn notebook. I'm trying to get rid of some of this junk! The name's Gerson." Looking around, Jun notes the junk in question. they also note the strange symbol carved into the stone wall behind Gerson.

-Waterfall Jun enters the turtle's shop. As they do, they notice something odd about the room. Ace Ambassador has been forcibly activated! "Whoa there! I've got some neat junk for sale, kid!"

-Waterfall "Nope. Would you like to go to Hotland, or perhaps Snowdin?" they ask. (19, 20) Jun tries to figure out what's under the cloak, but... There's nothing underneath it, as far as Jun's sophisticated sensor array can tell.

-Waterfall Jun arrives to a river with a boat on it. On the boat is a cloaked figure, and on the boat's figurehead is a goofy looking dog's face carved into the wood. "Where would you like to go?" they ask.

Sans chuckles at Rachel's response. Sans stands up, and starts walking out of the room. After a moment, he pauses, looking back at the party with a serious smile. ... With that, Sans walks right out of the building, leaving the party to their business.

Burgerpants becomes much more lively. "That's attractive people for you! If you aren't 'One of them', they're just going to take advantage of you." "Like those two chicks that hang out in the alley here who asked me to sneak them some glamburgers. And I, naive teenager that I was, said yes to them..." His face scrunches up nervously. "bad idea." "So I went to the alley to see those two chicks, and uhh... see what'd happen next!" "Then my boss saw me and asked me what I was doing..." "I was so startled, the hamburgers in my pockets tumbled out and fell onto the ground..." "Not wanting to lose face, I scrambled to pick them up, but the weight of the remaining hamburgers..." ... "...Caused my pants to fall down." "Then the girls laughed at me." He looks morose. "Everyone calls me Burgerpants now." He shakes his head, turning back to the subject of Mettaton. "Anyway, I wanted to be an actor!" "When I first came to hotland, it was my dream to work with Mettaton!.." He chuckles derisively. "Well, be careful what you wish for, little buddy!" "God, I mean, have you even looked around? This place is a labyrinth of bad choices! And every time we try to change things for the better, Mettaton vetos it, and says;" He begins speaking in a mocking robotic tone. "Oh! That's not how they do it on the surface!" He scowls. "Oh! Right! Because humans are always eating hamburgers made out of sequins and glue!" He sighs. "Why do people find him so attractive?! He's literally just a freakin' rectangle!" "..." "One time, I uhh... Bought one of those kits online... to... uh..." "Make yourself more rectangular." "...They don't work" he mutters. On a roll, Burgerpants continues his ranting, now that he's started. "Nothing down here ever changes. I'll probably be stuck at this stupid job forever." After a few moments, he forces himself to smile. "But wait! There's one thing that keeps me going!" he says. "If ASGORE gets just one more SOUL, we'll all get to go to the surface!" he says, smiling as hard as he can make himself. "It'll be a brand new world! There's got to be a second chance out there for me! For everyone!" He leans back with a sly smile as he takes another toke. "So stay strong little buddy. When I make it big, I'll keep you in mind!" he says with a smile. "Need anything else?"

-Grillby's As the others talk, Grillby returns with everyone's orders. Sans smiles a bit wider, and passes Rachel his burger, noticing she arrived too late to order with everyone else. He laughs a bit in spite of himself. He pauses for a moment. The whole building goes quiet. He looks at everyone's faces, and settles on Ignia. Frisk swallows, focusing on their food. It seems this caught them badly off guard. He says to Ignia, as if she has any clue what he's going on about. He waits for a few moments before sharing his conclusion. He stretches wide, letting out a yawn as the noises in the room return to their usual volume. Grillby rolls their eyes behind their glasses.

"Well, he doesn't really get mad... It's more like he has this... CD he plays..." Burgerpants's face turns sour. "Filled with songs about how bad I am at my job..." He shakes his head at Lucine's declaration of it being too late. "You've still got time little buddy! Don't end up like me." He leans back with a sly smile as he takes a puff. "I'm 19 years old and I've already wasted my entire life." "Don't worry about it. It's only against the rules for me to talk to customers who haven't paid yet. Everyone calls me Burgerpants," he says. Though, he sounds resigned with the name.

Burgerpants looks nervous. "Mettaton gets upset if I get too chummy with the customers..." He shrugs. "Who knows. Sans just kinda shows up from time to time. He works here as a comedian, he's pretty funny." "But take it from me little buddy, don't get mixed up with popular people. They'll just take advantage of you," they say.

-Grilby's Rachel enters the restaurant, finding a variety of kookie looking monsters. Toriel follows in after her, and the children at last escape her arms, scampering over to a booth nearby. She overhears a few conversations as she approaches the bar with the rest of the party. "I hear human food is different from monster food. Not only does it do things like 'spoil', but apparently it goes all the way through your body. Disgusting... I'd love to try it some time." A gigantic venus-fly-trap says, mulling over an omelette. A swirly eyed rabbit slams down another glass of a glowing orange drink. "No matter where I go, it's the same menu, the same people... Help! I wan' new drinks an' h-h-h hot guys!" they lament to themselves. As Rachel approaches the bar, Sans looks at the others. He notes down everyone's orders, and glances at Ignia and Frisk. The living flame-elemental finishes wiping the glass they're holding, and walks into the kitchen to make the orders. Sans casually combs the back of his skull with a cheap plastic comb.

-Napstablook's House As Jun lays down, they begin to feel like garbage. As such a small, insignificant individual, one can't help but wonder, "What could I do that others cannot?" And yet, in such a vast, infinite cosmos, Jun is the only one in their position. The only person right here, right now, who can do what they can do. All Stats +1! Skill obtained: As Jun stands up, Napstablook does as well. "Thanks, that was really nice..." Napstablook pauses. "Maybe the River Person can help. They ferry monsters all over the underground..."

Law smiles. "Always happy to help." This Kusuke guy was pretty fun to work with. It's been too long since Law could really chew on a temporal conundrum like that.

As she eats the sandwich, she feels power surging through her! Mana Max, Health Max, +4 to all attacks next battle!

-MTT Resort Oddly, the pile of money on the counter was exactly enough, and the cat shrugs, before putting on his best cashier smile and packaging up the order. "Thanksy! Have a fabuful day!" he says with cheer so utterly false and so convincingly potent that, if it were an alien, it could impersonate X-Com Personnel and organize a massive conspiracy. He looks awkwardly at the pair after handing them the sandwich, which looks more like a cross. It's unclear how the loaf used to house the sandwich fillings was baked into a shape like that, but it seems to have happened regardless. The sandwich is comprised of an obscene amount of vegetables, provalone, and suspiciously fake meats.

-Snowdin Doggo shrugs a bit at Rachel's words. "Well I bet you're a ton better than those evil humans that stuck us all down here," Doggo offers her. Asriel looks incredibly uncomfortable with Ignia's description. Or maybe he's just cramping up from being carried almost a mile. Frisk looks to Ignia. As if to prove their point, the Child walks over to a bear setting Christmas presents under a tree, and strikes up a conversation. "A while back, some awful teens tormented a monster by putting decorations on his tree-like horns, so we all gave him gifts to make him feel better," the monster says. "Now it's a tradition to put gifts under a decorated tree!" When Frisk wanders off, Ignia hears a teenage mouse and a devil-horned monster having a conversation. "Everyone's always laughing and cracking jokes, trying to forget our modern crises. Dreariness, crowding, lack of sunlight... I'd join them, but I'm just not very funny," the mouse points out. The devil-horned monster nods. "The Underground has problems, but we keep smiling. We can't do anything about it, so why be morose?" - Sans shrugs when Arminius's call to arms fails to attract anyone other than the Dog Squadron, who were already going into Grillby's. As if noticing Sans and Arminius about to walk into the place, Frisk skips up behind them and joins in. He walks them both into the diner and greets the patrons. "(Hi Sans!)" "What's up Sans!" Dogamy and Dogaressa ask. "Hey Sans." "Hiya Sansy~!" two other monsters say. As he approaches the bar, one of the monsters sitting there fixes him with a look. "Weren't you just here for breakfast a few minutes ago Sans?" A rimshot plays out of nowhere, and everyone laughs. He says to Arminius and Frisk. When Frisk hops up on one of the stools, a loud farting noise erupts. He looks between Frisk and Arminius. There seems to be a few things on the menu, including burgers and fries. Weirdly, the only drink on the menu is something called a "Red Hot Shot." They don't sell it to kids. Frisk orders a burger.

Law hops off of Mirri's shoulder for a moment, approaching the time traveler. After all the strangeness lately, it would be nice to get back to normalcy. Dealing with time travelers and constructing superscience armaments. Good old fashioned normality. "I'm always a fan of putting good advice into action. Let's see what we can do."

Sans looks like he has no clue what Arminius is talking about.

-Snowdin Town Flow-... Asriel looks concerned, wriggling around in Toriel's grip and looking at Ignia. She seems to have zero intention of not carrying her children around for the remainder of the day. The child shakes their head at Rachel's question. After a confused moment considering what exactly it is they did, they clarify, gesturing to Chara and Asriel. The child pauses. It's only just now starting to sink in. They say with a stoic poker face that obscures whether or not the words are meant to comfort Rachel or not. They look tired. Toriel looks tempted to comfort Frisk, but their arms are full of kids, and they still don't understand. The gang begins traveling to Snowdin with the assistance of the dogs. One of the dogs, Doggo, seems to have something to say to Rachel. "Hey, Human. I didn't realize it at the time, but... You're really good at fighting!" he says, holding up one hand. "That gun of yours blew my daggers right out of my hands, but there's hardly a scratch on me! You must have really not wanted to hurt us at all!" "You're a good human! If you ever need anything, just give a whistle!" "Well, don't actually whistle please. Just ask nicely." It's only then that it becomes clear that Doggo should be missing, at minimum, their entire hand, considering they took a shot from her gun head-on. It seems Doggo isn't even aware of the fact that she didn't shoot them 'Out of his hands', so much as blew them into superheated shrapnel. Doggo looks satisfied with his proclamation, as the group crosses the bridge into Snowdin. There is an Inn, a Shop, a 'Libriarby', several houses, and what appears to be a diner called "Grillby's" Other features include a Wolf that throws ice cubes into the river, Sans hanging out outside of his house, A Christmas tree, and several residents who look surprised to see the entire Canine Unit and the party arriving. The child pauses in front of a seemingly random spot and holds their hand out, as if warming themselves by a campfire. They frown for a moment, and Arminius can see the golden star hanging in front of them. Chara smiles, and clears their throat. Rachel, Arminius and Ignia are filled with a sense of Deja Vu, and they now know why. Toriel simply looks confused, and the Dogs look like it isn't their problem.

-MTT Resort Lucine and Prodditor enter the MTT Brand Burger Emporium, a fast food joint run by what appears to be a cat smoking a joint. They look horribly disgruntled. "Welcome to MTT Brand Burger Emporium, home of the Glamburger. Sparkle up your day™!" When the pair realize they have no money, all seems lost, until a smiling, short skeleton places some money on the table. Without saying anything else, he walks out of the building and disappears. The disgruntled cat looks nervous, as if any minute, his boss would burst in and berate him. No boss seems forthcoming, however.

-Waterfall Napstablook attempts a small smile, and goes over to the fridge to get some food while Jun puts on a different song. "Ohh... That song... Once you learn the lyrics, you can't help but sing along." "Oooooo OOooooo Oooo Oooooo Oooooo..." After they finish their sandwich, they seem to notice Jun looking for somewhere to sit. "You know... After a big meal, I like to lay on the ground and feel like garbage. It's a family tradition." "...Would you like to join me?"

-Hotland Lucine and Prodditor discover that the elevator leading straight to New Home has been damaged somehow, and the door on it has been reduced to steaming metal, forcing them to take an alternate path that eventually leads them to a gigantic combination Hotel and Restaurant. Just through those doors, New Home sits. Lucine notices that, however she was healed, she's running incredibly low on mana, and wasn't the food here made of magic?

-Napstablook's House Jun begins playing one of the songs. "dang, that ambience... It's like my whole body is being spooked..." Napstablook says, adjusting their headphones. TV More Music Computer Refridgerator