WEEK 2

[akudamods]

Saturday passes uneventfully save a little rain. It's on Sunday that you get a little notification of probation for new areas: Neo-Nipponbashi and Chuo. It'd be possible to investigate, to check out some anime, or to worship the defunct Shinkansen. But maybe it's hard to get excited about any of that when Friday’s events suggest that you have simply been provided some additional photogenic places to commit murder. Are you going to bother either overseer after their participation in some mockery of justice? Troll the internet? Get a bat out of Hyper Zone and just take out your frustration on everything?

Those of you who entered the pods will experience fewer “painful bursts of color” as your body is unaffected below the knees, though the same amount of “slight teleportation” glitches. Those of you who abstained from the pods will continue to experience all of the above as well as electric shock sensations occasionally when touching metal objects.

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Comments

[pr159]

[ Ugh. ]

Thanks.

[ Crossing those off the list of possibilities, then. ]

[your_best_friend]

[* Flowey brings his face back to normal.]

Go ahead. Try 'em on.

[pr159]

Don't think so. I appreciate the input, though.

[ Because anything this plant likes is probably safe for him to rule out. ]

[your_best_friend]

Well, why not? They're clean, aren't they? Though why they display them like this is beyond me. Shouldn't you be going through the shop menu?

[pr159]

I have a few more style criteria beyond just "clean", thankfully.

Why wouldn't they display them like this? It lets you see everything at once and make side-by-side comparisons.

[your_best_friend]

And what would those be? More DF? More ATK? ...More INV?

...Because what if someone takes them without paying? If you buy them directly from the shopkeeper, then that removes that chance. No shop I've ever been to has had their items displayed like this.

Besides, displaying them like this makes it seem like they aren't for sale. It's like they're displaying their prized collections or something. You humans are so strange.

[pr159]

Fashion items and status-enhancing accessories are two different things, even if there's some overlap.

[ He's got a vitality ring, but it's not much to look at. ]

Sounds like your shops just aren't very good at selling things.

[your_best_friend]

Wait, so you're saying you have items that DON'T increase stats or heal you in a meaningful way? I mean you can be stylish and practical at the same time, can't you?

No, that's just the Temmie village shop. ...And maybe Burgerpants. ...And Sans's "hot dog" stand. Don't get me started on Sans's "hot dog" stand. Or his work ethic.

[pr159]

Most articles of clothing don't.

[ He slips on a pair of sunglasses and immediately rolls his eyes behind the tinted lenses before leaning in to check his reflection. ]

All right, I won't.

[your_best_friend]

How... odd. Where I'm from, even a dusty tutu or a stick or a bandage can raise your stats. This is starting to make me wonder just how quickly all those monsters integrated with human society. All I know for sure is that they're living with the humans on the surface peacefully. It's my Golden Ending.

...Do you have a Golden Ending? Or have you not reached it yet?

[pr159]

As is often the case, I really don't know what you're talking about.

[ Though that "Golden Ending" phrase grates on him anyway. If it's the perfect happy ending it sounds like it's supposed to be, the idea of him getting anything like that is a joke. ]

But I can at least tell you that we aren't going to be "integrating" with our monsters any time soon.

[your_best_friend]

Oh yeah, that alternate worlds thing, right? Are your monsters still all sealed up?

[pr159]

They're hardly sealed. They're always running around on all the highroads and everything and being a nuisance.

[your_best_friend]

[* Flowey actually looks delighted to hear that, chuckling a little.]

So your war on the monsters never even stopped. I see! How many of them have you brutally murdered? How many lives have you all ended?

[* There appears to be some sort of misunderstanding. Judging by Flowey's tone, it's as if he's treating "monsters" as just a different type of people instead of, you know... monsters.]

[pr159]

Fighting a bunch of wild animals isn't much of a war. They attack us while we're traveling and we kill them.

[ Or we attack first because we're getting paid to clear them out or we want their item drops. ]

All there is to it, really.

[ As for the number part, like. You saw his billboard, he doesn't need to answer that. ]

[your_best_friend]

...?

They... Are you saying they're the ones to initiate the attacks?

[pr159]

More often than not. Like I said, they're wild animals.

[your_best_friend]

...

Huh. That's a lot different than my monsters. They were actual people.

[* Actual people, not scripted NPCs, Flowey reminds himself.]

[pr159]

Obviously it's different. Our plant monsters actually keep quiet, for one.

[your_best_friend]

Anything more you can tell little old me about your monsters? What's your favorite one?

[pr159]

[ Under his breath: ]

Better at taking hints, too.

[ Sigh. ]

Why would I have a favorite monster?

CW: Gross imagery

[your_best_friend]

Because everyone has a favorite anything. Favorite color, favorite "toy" to play with, favorite food, favorite way to kill someone... you know! Now, I know it may be incredibly difficult for you to do so... It may even cause you to die. People like you would rather rip your own throat out and play jump rope with it.

But... just imagine... Trying something new... like having...

[* Wait for it...]

...manners!

[* Flowey offers a dialog choice:

* Sure thing, good sir!
* Eat a bepis.]

[pr159]

You know, meeting you really has made me appreciate using spyrix even more.

[your_best_friend]

[* ...Okay, Rideaux, you walked right into this one.]

As is often the case, I really don't know what you're talking about.

[pr159]

[ Yeah, he knows you're repeating his words, but. ]

That was the idea.

[ And he's just going to return his attention to these sunglasses and away from this conversation. ]

Anyway, don't you have some weed killer to inhale? Don't let me keep you.