Undertale - Pet dogs and date a skeleton!

I'm trying and so far failing to find a walkthrough that confirms this, but:
in the Core, there's three ways to solve it to get to Mettaton, right? the puzzle, fighting your way through, or waiting until the forcefield disappears? I remember the third option being a thing, but I can't find anyone who's done it

does anyone remember this, it's going to bother me like crazy, I swear you could do it that way

eta: minor word changes

 

you can in fact do it, it's what the "I cannot fight, I cannot think, but with patience I will make my way through" sign is referring to.

you have to wait by the forcefield for several minutes, it is boring but it's an option.

 

do you have to stay in the same room, or is it overall waiting?

reset guilt makes canon review so difficult ;_; lps never have all the phone dialogue or half the secrets

 

canon review without the reset guilt

(i think this has all the phone dialogue and all the secrets. it's supposed to contain all the text in undertale anyway, including some lines removed from normal gameplay. it's not a lp, though.)

 

You have to stay in the room next to the forcefield. I don't know how close you have to be to the forcefield-it's probably just 'same room' but it might be 'same side of the room'.

Also, another way to avoid reset guilt is to just cut-and-paste your save to a different folder. Tada you start again without resetting!

 

-_- of all the fiddly details to potentially need for a fic... hope I can still make it work.

*angelic chorus, confetti*
wish it was text rather than screenshots, though.

 

Would it work to have Frisk (or whoever is doing the waiting thing) decide to rest by the forcefield? Then they'd wake up from their nap or near-nap to find that the forcefield had turned off.

 

also, at just a glance there are more cameras than I knew existed?? there's one in the trees in Snowdin town too, I'd never think to look there

 

yep. i did that with my true pacifist save so if i ever decide to do geno, i can revert back to normal when i'm done with it.

and that's got me imagining how big the undertale multiverse must be, if each save file is it's own little world.

you're welcome!

i think there are resources that are pure text but i haven't identified any good ones yet, and i like the screenshots myself 'cause they give more context (eg. facial expressions, body language, what room a phone convo was in) than pure text does and are easier to search through for the exact detail i want than the videos are.

 

if no one hears from me again, I have been crushed underneath a mountain of screenshots while reveling in Papyrus's phone call text and collecting barely useful trivia

probably the best death anyone could ever hope for.

 

it's probably behind death by laughter and death by adorable

 

another thing I had, not really an AU, was a thing where, post-game, Chara reveals themself

this results in Alphys trying to make them things that they can interact with, and somehow results in them starting up a let's play series and becoming a popular youtuber who narrates every last one of their videos

like, alphys made a computer that spirits could interact with
because it's alphys, it has dimensional boxes, uses dimensional box technology to put way more components inside it than would fit normally, uses some form of magical cooling, has a keychain, and can make chara visible-ish for a short period of time

 

So I've been distracting myself from some upsetting life stuff by amusing myself with UT AU stuff.

There was one minor trend a while back to have the skelebros turn human when they went outside the underground, which is a neat variation on them being originally human. Bugs me a bit since true pacifist involves breaking the barrier before Frisk wakes up to the monsters being back, breaks and not just unlocks.... But that's fixable.
There's another trend for Gaster to have made the skelebros from human skeletons, maybe two of the six souls (did Asgore not notice the bodies go missing??), or from spare humans who he himself found and kept secret, or from part of his own magic and part of the humans' souls.

So, I thought... combine them. Gaster takes like, a small bone each from two of the fallen humans. A toe bone or something. And (Alphys found the blue prints for the extractor, someone else made the original extractor, simplest to assume the precious royal scientist) some SOUL stuff from those same two. And his own magic, a little of his own matter (his hands are popular and I never tire of scientist Sans as right hand man jokes.) So Gaster tries making hybrid human/monster skeleton monsters, in hopes they'll have stronger souls, closer to what's needed to break the barrier. No luck, but they are both magically very powerful, enough to use the blasters he designs and has them test. A distracted!scientist!Dadster, not very available emotionally but also not evil horrible scientist. Just, yep, you two were made differently, and glad you're here even though it's not the intended result.

Fast forward, the tp final fight. The barrier, broken with all the souls flying out and coalescing off screen to reform the monsters' bodies. Two of the human souls, though, notice what seems to be living bodies like their own, souls that feel like part of their own.

The main six friends wake in that room with Frisk's sleeping body, and the bros... Well, there's two humans with their outfits and voices (everyone is surprised by this) and they remember the lives of those fallen humans AND the lives as a skeleton each??? (everyone is surprised by this) and also they're a little easily alarmed by Asgore and a little weepy fond of Toriel.

Not sure what else I'd want to explore from there. Identity confusion is an option. Maybe they were never baby bones, but started as monsters with child bodies and enough memories they couldn't recall to be amnesiac children, and now it's like the two halves of their lives are reconnected. The question of whether they could still use magic (ancient human mages existed, according to the writing, but there don't seem to be any in the modern times). The weirdness of human bodies wtf, figuring that out again. Trying to explain it to human society without giving rise to fear of changelings, that monsters will steal their children to wear their bodies as disguises and fit in along them.

 

and then the other fallen humans are even more confused (all the coffins open, so they all seem to have gotten up and left...)

 

Oh boy. They wouldn't be living bodies for the souls to return to, so if the other four did manage to revive like that, it sounds like it'd be the start of a zombie story.

 

maybe asriel resurrected them properly. maybe they got turned into monsters. maybe they're weird confused zombies. who knows?

 

Yeah, there's a lot of options for anyone who wants to explore that. I hadn't wanted to, more interested in exploring changes to the main characters' dynamic, and the "despite everything, still themselves" aspect of human!skelebros.

Thoughhhhhh. One thing that could work for what I'm interested in, but still makes space for bringing the fallen humans to some sort of life, is if the gang tried to recreate the thing that made Sans and Papyrus in the first place. To make clone/child skeleton monsters that the souls, if they're still around, could recognize and jump into.

That way it's internally consistent, is a side plot for further exploring how they'd all feel (would Papyrus be excited to be a parent-of-sorts? Sans guilty and uncomfortable but agreeing hey, they got this chance, they should try to give it to the others? Alphys scared as fuck if she's asked to help, because oh boy she doesn't want to do anything like this again? Asgore be pitifully glad, the chance to try to make amends? Would Toriel push it, because they hadn't deserved this? Would Frisk go pester Flowey to see if he's sure he wants to stay away because what if what if?)

 

yup!

in most of my post-pacifist fics, I'm planning to mention the other fallen humans coming back

 

AU where boss monsters weren't around during the war, but were instead created by gaster

 

Oooooh. Intriguing.