(So, I haven’t gotten to making profile subpages yet. But, it also turns out I don’t really need it! As long as I link to the first part and the last part before this, there’s a chain across all the parts, since the bottom of the post has links to all the posts that linked this post! If that breaks I’ll start adding links to the next part to every thread at the bottom. I’ll likely also link to the start of the current region as well. [Ruins, Snowdin, Waterfall, etc]
Part 0: https://undertale.wiki/d/t/underflub-undertale-bloopers-chapter-0-intro/340
Part 1: https://undertale.wiki/d/t/underflub-undertale-blooper-au-part-1-your-best-friend/384
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Toriel: So follow me, my child.
Frisk: Wait, who are you?!
Toriel: Oh! I apologize for not introducing myself! I was supposed to do that! I am TORIEL, garden of the ruins.
Frisk: Garden?
Toriel: Oh, ehaha! What is coming over me today? I’m the GUARDIAN of the RUINS. And I will guide you through the catacombs.
Frisk: Uh, wait, Catacombs? Are we DEAD?! Why are we at a gravesite?
Toriel: …My child, it… This… I meant that this was an underground cavern… that…
Frisk: Did people die here?
Toriel: …Why don’t we just move on for right now? …Anyways… Allow me to educate you about the operations of the RUINS.
(Toriel ends up tripping and hitting all the buttons, but the door still opens.)
Toriel:…Well, this one, we found a way to deactivate, but… er… The RUINS has puzzles, which are required to travel from room to room. …The next one is a real one, so prepare yourself.
(They enter the next room)
Toriel: Now flip the righ- erm, the left switch!
(Frisk flips the left switch and nothing happens)
Toriel: Erm, this is strange. The pathway should have opened. Did something happen to the switches? Did the puzzlemakers tune the wrong switch?
Ruins Dummy Ghost: Um, I wired the left lever to the spikes as you said- Wait, was it your left or my left?
Toriel: It was our left!
Dummy Ghost: Oh.. sorry about that. Um, I guess I’ll just lower the spikes now…
(The spikes lower)
Frisk:Uh, who was that?
Toriel:Puzzles don’t make themselves, do they?
Frisk:But if these are ruins, why did it just sound like you were setting it up just now?
Toriel:Er… We were.. recalibrating them! Now, why don’t we proceed to the next room?
(They proceed to the next room.)
Toriel:As a human living in the underground, monsters may attack you. When a monster attacks, you will enter a FIGHT. When you are in a FIGHT, strike up a friendly conversation! Then I will come and resolve the conflict.
Toriel:Here, practice with this dummy.
Frisk:Umm.. what?
Toriel:Oh, do you need advice on some conversation topics? Well, I often start with a simple “how do you do?”
Frisk:…I just don’t get the idea of just talking to them. Is that really-
Toriel:That is why I will come to resolve the conflict myself. Think of it as… a stalling tactic. If they’re focused in what you’re saying, that’s focus not being spent on attacking you, for the time being. Jokes can be useful as well! Listen to this one… What did the skeleton tie his roof with?
Frisk:Shin-gles!
Toriel:Oh, you’ve already heard that one? Well, I hope you get the idea! But really, you can say anything, just don’t both- err, it’s a dummy, it won’t be bothered! Just walk up to it. and it’ll start the FIGHT!
* You encountered the Dummy.
Frisk:Um.. How does this work?
* Just… act? Talk? If you want to know about the dummy, you can Act->Check! Or you can attack it, your choice!
Frisk:I’ll check. ACT->Check
* DUMMY - ATK 0 DEF 0
* We’ll be together forever, won’t w- Wait, what am I saying?!
* A cotton heart, and a button eye-You are the apple of my eye
Frisk:…Um, how does that help?
* Look, it’s a dummy. Say whatever.
Frisk:Hello! Say, what’s it like? Being you? I’m only human. Are there others like you? Are you looking for a friend?
* It doesn’t seem much for conversation.
Frisk:How do you know that? If you knew it from the start, why did you-
* TORIEL seems happy with you.
* YOU WON! Gained 0 XP and 0 GOLD
Toriel:Ah, very good! You are very good.