You continued through Snowdin town, but there was nothing to do, as the vessel refused to interact with anything, and all doors were locked, until suddenly, you interacted with the Christmas tree.
* You observe the tree, and the gifts under it...
* You feel as it is stolen...
* You feel being stolen...
"Shayy": "Impressive plastic shit in front of me. Boxes full of lies and emotional damage, my favourite."
You then continued around, but the vessel found everything else irrelevant, except you entered Grillby's, and a cutscenes started.
The vessel entered Grillby's, and the bell sounded. Grillby was behind the counter, and slowly lifted its flame head to look. The vessel walked firmly and with a superiority knowing nothing was going to be on his way.
After reaching the counter, he sat down, and stretched his head, before staring at Grillby, both staring at each other, before all flickered and was different, and where the vessel was sitting, was Sans, and all Grillby's was full of monsters sitting and enjoying being there on their way.
The vessel Shaked his head, and all flickered back, but his eyes were steady and constantly moving between closing of tiredness and flickering of insanity and madness.
Then, he closed his eyes firmly, and asked for a ketchup bottle, a hamburger, and some fries if possible.
Grillby hesitated, but after a moment, he walked away to prepare the order.
"Shayy"(Thought): "So... An alive flame... I may need to cool it down to kill it. Is not as I could stab an element of the periodic table, or literal flames. Non solids are impossible to touch, which means, I must find another way..."
"Maybe I could approach to kill it, if I make its atoms be solidified with a chemical reaction. That would instantly make the atoms fuse with others, compressing to allow me or anything to can touch as if is a solid element."
"Maybe I can get something to carry the water from that river of before..."
Then, Grillby came back with the order, and gave the vessel the order. The vessel acknowledged by nodding, and started eating the fries slowly, one by one and enjoying.
Grillby hesitated, starting to clean a glass, knowing he was gaining time for the evacuation he was told, but refused to go. The moment Grillby saw the vessel enter his bar, he knew the Royal Guard failed to stop the vessel, but when Grillby saw the vessel sat down in Sans' place, Grillby knew he was capable of gaining time, and more monsters could evacuate to be saved, and the Royal Guard could prepare for when the vessel reaches Waterfall.
As the vessel continued to eat, the moment was more and more tense.
"Shayy"(Thought): "I hate when I say something, or plan thoughts about it, and then do the opposite of it... I didn't wanted to lose time, but... Ugh, I hate how I don't know, or even... Understand myself..."
"Even in this moment... I wonder why I keep trying to be someone... When I'm not..."
"Items have no rights... I'm just a puppet pretending to play the act, and yet... Even when all feels real, I'm very aware all is fake..."
Then, all suddenly goes dark, except for a circle that keeps lighting the vessel, and he slowly turn around, his head doing a near 180 grades spin, his head barely turned around while his body unmoved.
"Shayy"(Thought): "We both know... What is going on... Do we?..."
"Yes, we both know... I learnt to be good puppet, so... I'll learn to keep up with you."
"She... Well... I guess at some point, you'll meet her more properly. But I just say... You already met her in a way... In the Ruins..."
"Very funny of the level... Sure was a trap, or... I don't know. But is not as none of us should care tho. So, how about if you make me learn..."
Then, the vessel's expression darkened, his grin expanding highly slowly, the camera zooming slowly on his face and expression, and his eyes opening slowly bigger and bigger while his pupils moved smaller but more focused.
"THE TRUE HARD WAY? =)"
Then, all flashed back to normal, and the vessel continued eating the fries, but the cutscene continued, showing the vessel finishing the fries, and grabbing the ketchup bottle.
The vessel hesitated for a second, staring at the bottle, before opening it, and drinking it for an instant. After less of a second, he stopped drinking, and his expression was if he just got slapped and woke up with full energy.
* You energized with Ketchup Bottle.
* Your STATS, Buffs, and Magic Spells have been boosted temporarily by 3.
The vessel then started eating the Burger with joy, and after a while, he then finished it, and saved the Ketchup Bottle.
The cutscene then ended by the vessel getting up, turning around, and walking to the door while waving his left hand.
You hesitate, but then leave Grillby's, and start moving around, trying to find something to kill Grillby, as the vessel analyzed in his mental monologue.
After a moment, you walked up, and interacted with the Ice Maker structure that dropped Ice cubes on the river that goes directly to Waterfall.
"Shayy": "Oh, and that? Perfect! Throw ice directly to fire makes a chemical combustion, more efective than water only as ice is just solidified water to be in a solid state instead of liquid, with less temperature, which hits more contrast to the sudden change of temperature."
Then, a cutscene started, and the vessel grabbed an ice cube, and quickly went to Grillby's. After a moment, he entered, and went towards Grillby's while holding it with both arms.
Grillby remained standing behind the counter, knowing he was going to die sooner or later, but at least he did gain time, and all he could do now... Was try to get all the time he could get before dying.
And so, before the vessel reached near the counter, Grillby shoot a flame, hitting the ice buce and breaking it in half, and pushing the vessel a step back.
The ice cube fell down, both halves melting slowly, and then, the cutscene ended, and the battle started.
* Time to refresh the warmth.
You hesitated, observing the options, and then FIGHT, but obviously, the slash did no effect.
Grillby's attacks were all fire magic attacks, and flames. You used your next turnes to grab the ice cube, but every time you grabbed a part, Grillby used the flames to break it into smaller pieces, from halves to pieces, and so on.
After a while of the battle, Grillby used his special attack. All the background changed to be a grill, and you moved around to not get fried, until suddenly, after a big while, the grill overheated and started to smoke, until exploding.
You checked ACT, and there was the option.
* You threw the ice cube piece.
The vessel threw the ice cube piece, reaching Grillby's head, and the flames of Grillby's head smoked away, but by an accident, the vessel by threwing the ice cube with his left arm, he focused on it, and used the Magic Eye and the pose he left his arm was towards Grillby's, and when he closed his hand, a sudden blaster appeared, and shot a blast, blasting Grillby and everything behind as the walls and the part of the ceiling.
The vessel hesitated, stunned and surprised, but his left eye was flashing blue and purple, and his left pupil was red and black.
* You won...
* You got 300 EXP and 0 G.
The vessel hesitated, moving his left hand to his left eye in a sudden rush, but after an instant, he slowly moved his left hand away, wondering while being surprised and spechless, but then he took a deep breath, and you left Grillby's.
Once outside, you checked STATS.
"Shayy"
Lv 10
HP 154/154
AT 10 (43) | EXP 4281
DF 250 (312) | NEXT 379
MG 200 (360)
WEAPON: Folding Pocket Knife
ARMOR: Thick Jacket
GOLD 0
Then, you checked ITEMS, noticing you had Ketchup Bottle.
Ketchup Bottle
* Your energy drink... For some reason... And somehow...
* STAT BOOSTS:
When used, heals 5 HP, and boosts: STATS and Buffs.
The effects stack the more is continuously used.
* Usage: 99%
A small sip uses 1%, but heals 5 HP and boosts by 1.2.
A medium sip uses 2%, but heals 10 HP and boosts by 1.4.
A big sip uses 5%, but heals 25 HP and boosts by 2.
The more usage continuously, the more stacked are the effects, but resets when the battle ends or after few minutes if out of battle.
After 2 continuos small sips, uses 2%, but heals 15 HP and boosts by 1.5.
After 2 continuos medium sips, uses 4%, but heals 20 HP and boosts by 1.9.
After 2 continuos big sips, uses 10%, but heals 60 HP and boosts by 4.2.
* Strategy:
This ITEM is a Strategy Item, which is not used instantly, but possesses uses until being used completely.
This Strategy Item synchronizes with the Magic Eye, allowing a stack boost if the item is used continuously during a battle or inside small time loops out of a battle, and gives extra stack boosts after every use inside the combo usage.
It functions strategically to fit in a more save plan for long term, and be used in really required circunstances.
* Lore:
A deep soul memory, now boosted by the memories from the Magic Eye... You feel as good times are refhresing your mind.
You feel Sans-ational to the bone, a overflow of magic chilling through your spine highly.
👎︎🏳︎☠︎🕯︎❄︎ ☞︎🏳︎☼︎☝︎☜︎❄︎📪︎ 💧︎🏳︎☠︎📬︎📬︎📬︎ ✡︎🏳︎✝︎ ⊕︎🖐︎☹︎☹︎ ✌︎☹︎⊕︎✌︎✡︎💧︎ ☼︎☜︎💣︎✌︎🖐︎☠︎📬︎
You hesitated, as you noticed in the stream chat, someone mentioned to try going back to the Ruins, maybe now you can kill the spiders in the Spider Bake Sale.
Shayy: "No, you can't. Once you go out of the Ruins, you can't go back."
The stream chat continued, challenging you to do it to test what happens. You know nothing will happen, as even this was a different vessel, and everything was changing a lot, it was still not possible to go back to the Ruins, but after the constant jokes and challenges of the chat, you go all the way to the entrance of Snowdin Forest, to the door gates of the Ruins.
After a big while, you reach there, and for your surprise, is open, so you go through, and you went back to the Ruins.
Shayy: "Wait, you can? How did you know, chat?"
Stream chat:
"I'm a dev 😎"
"Your mom told me 😂"
"It was obvious 🤣"
"Imagine not knowing."
After a moment, you went through the Ruins, as you remembered the refusal of the vessel to go to the Spider Bake Sale, so you went now, but in the room before, a cutscene started.
The vessel entered the room, and all started to go ghostly fading away. And then, tears starting to rain. The vessel moved, dodging easily the tears. And after a short moment, Napstablook fade in, then the cutscene ended, adn the battle started.
* Paranormal activity, sad I don't have any cross.
You FIGHT, but it passed through Napstablook. Napstablook then attacked, in new patterns you didn't know, but were still easy, more by the fact you take so low dmg and auto-heal every turn.
The next turn, you check SPELLS, and use Fire Magic, killing Napstablook easily.
* You won...
* You got 100 EXP and 0 G.
When the battle ended, you went to the Spider Bake Sale. All faded black, and after a second, all went back to normal.
* You won...
* You got 9 EXP and 0 G.
You hesitated, but you didn't wanted to get in that room, as you could see flames going out of that room, assuming the vessel burnt all in the room, so you went back to Snowdin, walking all the long way, until the stream chat remembered you about running using SHIFT to sprint and run, instead of walking all the way.
In your quick way back to Snowdin town, you did a quick check on STATS.
"Shayy"
Lv 10
HP 154/154
AT 10 (43) | EXP 4390
DF 250 (312) | NEXT 270
MG 200 (360)
WEAPON: Folding Pocket Knife
ARMOR: Thick Jacket
GOLD 0
Stream chat:
"Why is so hard to this vessel to Lv up?"
"Imagine being on genocide and can't Lv up."
"My guy got 100 EXP instead of losing 1 EXP from Blooky."
"Imagine getting 9 EXP from a room with spiders."
"Bro thinks is the MC:"
"F Napstablook."
"Can we talk about my guy using magic?"
"Imagine having so much plot armor, you can steal magic, and things from monsters."
"Bro think is Snas Undertail."
"Let bro believe is the goat, until gets goatted 🤣"
After running back to Snowdin, you hesitated, before trying to interact further with Snowdin, but there wasn't any other new interaction, so you continued forward.
The next room, the path was clear to proceed forward, and only the trees in the side, and behind the line of trees in the left side was the river to Waterfall.
You continued, but Papyrus was nowhere to be seen.