Anomalytale

[This is honestly the part I fleshed out the least when I was working on it. Unfortunately I do not have any designs or plans for the random battles, however there's a bunch of new and interesting stuff in the area which i hope is interesting enough to make up for that].

[Just imagine what Tem would do with a human soul. Probably get a PHD idk.]

[if I were to add new things now, I'd make some sentry gun enemies to prepare you for the metta-tank boss fight (encountered later on, only in genocide route), using the same 'safe zone' mechanic. As well as spider enemies.]

Anyways, the first half of waterfall would be shorter than UT, without the Undyne chase, with the major changes happening once you get to the village area. The village area with Undyne's house is now connected to a new cave, with the old dark area blocked off by thick walls of cobwebs.

(pacifist route)

In the meantime, Mad Dummy has been able to deal with their anger issues and moved in at Mettaton's old place. Neither him nor Napstablook are home. Monster kid and Firedrake are waiting patiently for the Demon Squad to arrive because they're coming for a recon mission. Spoder is also there and claims the spider kingdom is close and finally they'll be able to reunite with their own kind.

Following a series of tunnels infested by spiders, you arrive at the Spider Kingdom, an old dungeon reclaimed by Muffet, who now goes by "Spider Queen". She sits on a throne, adorned by the legendary artifact. She announces she has closed the old way to Hotland and offers a quick elevator ride to the Capital for a fee. However, you don't have enough money [it's always your gold+1], after which she'll force you to work to pay for the toll [insert minigame here].

After you're done, you can walk around cells and interact with people who have been enslaved because they didn't have enough money to pay the toll. The annoying dog has also been caught for illegal possession of artifacts. The food and comfort provided by Muffet are enough so he won't escape (For now) (he cannot be contained).

After returning to the Queen, she tells you you can now use the elevator to the capital. She shows you the way. Unfortunately, it's so old it breaks into pieces. She hides her embarrassment with her signature laugh. "Guess you'll have to use the long way around anyways". Once you return to the throne, you find your old pal Spoder. Sitting on the throne. With the artifact. "Who is that?! What are you doing with my precious orb?" The queen screams.

Spoder smiles and a flash of light covers the room. "You. Idiot."

Their legs grow in size, joined by two new pair of limbs, one of which is topped with a sharp scythe-like appendage. "Do you trust anyone with a cute face around here?"

A massive pair of bug wings sprout from Spoder's now fuzzy back, followed by a spiky abdomen full of stingers. "Well, look at me, you two. Look at my true self."

Spoder's head is split vertically by a single, knife-like horn. "This is what a true demon looks like!"

The gargantuan bug monster looms over you and the Queen.

"I"

"AM"

"BEELZEBUB"

-BOSS: BEELZEBUB-

Being a true demon, they are much stronger than any boss you've encountered so far. In fact, they'd be as strong as the game's final bosses if it weren't for the help you receive from Muffet. It is also the first "full-screen" fight you face, in which the arena covers the entire screen, allowing for the massive boss to chase your soul and attack based on AI rather than randomly picking attacks.

With ACTs, you can perform team tactics with the Spider Queen, allowing you to distract BEELZEBUB while she sets traps around the room.

They attack using: stomping attacks, spit attacks that spread in various directions, charging at you with their horn, swiping with their scythe appendages, spawning miniature spoders that follow you dealing contact damage, as well as creating spiderwebs around the arena that slow you down. Later during the fight, they gain additional attack in spinning around with the sharp horn out and a massive acid laser spit, as well as powering up their previous attacks: stomp gains several shockwaves, spit has slight homing, scythe has no endlag, charge can be chained and causes shockwaves when it hits a wall, spoders are larger and explode into smaller spoders.

BEELZEBUB’s turns are very long, but the fight only lasts around 5 of them. The Queen has set down a large spider web trap in the throne room which incapacitates BEELZEBUB. You can then grab the artifact right out of their mouth. The demon reverts back to their spoder self and screams "My soul! I wasn't finished! May you be cursed for the rest of eternity, half-demon!"

-BOSS END-

Spoder tries scurrying away, but they're grabbed by a massive hand made of thousands of spiders. "Let me be! I AM THE DEMON PRINCE. I AM YOUR RIGHTFUL RULER. I-Hey! Stop tickling me!"

The Queen faces you and lets out a sigh of relief. "Who the hell was that?" She only then realizes the amount of damage the creature caused to her 'palace' "M-MY CASTLE!" She falls to her knees. "I didn't think being a ruler would be this hard. My kingdom...in ruins in just a week. Maybe I wasn't cut for it." Her spider underlings comfort her, forming a circle around her. "You're right. As long as I have you sweeties, everything will be alright. Thank you."

She smiles before ordering them to throw what remains of the Demon Prince in a secure vault. "Please keep this artifact with you and bring it as far away as you can from here. You will make better use of it than me." The artifact turns into a memento item. Muffet walks you to the old path to hotlands announcing she'll open it again and, even if it pains her, lower the price of the toll to pass through.

However once you get there you notice the webs blocking the entrance to the dark/mushroom area have already been removed. You hear a big commotion coming from the village area so you both decide to check it out. Undyne has arrived to Waterfall to carry out a mission, much to Firedrake and Monster Kid's. She announces she was supposed to look for a human child, but later her mission changed due to an extraordinary DETERMINATION reading which, according to Alphys, indicates the return of a DEMON. She checks her determination detector and is surprised to see that the source of determination has seemingly disappeared. Her attention is caught by a new source that seems compatible with the primary target of the mission.

She heads toward you. “So you are who I was looking for. I’m sure you’ve been the one to defeat the DEMON. Well, I can’t ACT without Alphys’s approval, so for the time being I’ll be keeping my eyes on you.”

Undyne heads out towards Hotland, with the Amalgamate following closely behind, stopping for a moment to look back towards Firedrake.

Muffet breaks the silence: “So uncouth…They didn’t even pay the toll. They could have helped with the castle’s repairs. Alas…”

She turns towards you “It hurts for me to ask you after you’ve helped me deal with that thing, but I would appreciate it if you spared some money for a struggling Queen” [it is optional, however donating money will grant you some healing items in return].

Regardless of choice, she will let you through the old exit to Hotland.

The Amalgamate returns in random encounters until the end of the area, using stronger versions of previous attacks [not as strong as those used in the genocide route].

At the end of the area, on top of her cliff, Undyne awaits you. “Bad news, little fella. I have received...orders.” She jumps off, starting the fight.

-BOSS: UNDYNE (pacifist)-

She uses stronger versions of her green heart attacks from UT but will never turn you SOUL red so as to not let you escape. To compensate, her white bullet patterns allow your green soul’s shield to rotate 360 degrees, meaning you’ll have to be precise with how you rotate the shield.

In addition to the returning attacks, she would feature new attacks in: a barrage of homing spears coming from various directions, a spear spiral [similar to Jevil’s spade attack], bombs that cover the entire screen [you have to shield the blast].

After surviving for about 8 turns, she’ll use her final attack: a combination of all of the above, followed by a long homing spear barrage coming from random directions. Surviving it will frustrate her, causing her to pull out a flask containing a dark fluid. “Alphys said I should only drink this if you retaliated, but...I’M SICK! SICK OF FOLLOWING ORDERS! I OVERTHREW THE GODDAMN KING TO FREE US FROM THIS PRISON! AND FOR WHAT? TO BE SECOND IN COMMAND, AGAIN AND BE TOLD TO SPARE ONE OF THEM?”

She unscrews the container, but out of nowhere…! A small white dog barges in and steals the flask right out Undyne’s hand!

“WAIT! MY HOPES AND DREAMS, CRUSHED BY A DOG?! GET BACK HERE!”

-BOSS END-

You can then access Hotland from the tunnel in the cliff. Right at the entrance you can encounter a demoralized Undyne. “That was embarrassing. Bested by a child and then by a dog. Maybe I do deserve to be second in command. I was just supposed to test you...fine. You can proceed. But don’t expect me to treat you with respect.”

[[strap in folks, this is gonna be long]]

As soon as you leave the ruins, you are confronted with a subversion of the cutscene in which Sans approaches you for the first time in Undertale. This time, you're the one stalking him. When you reach his sentry station, an encounter starts. He is unaware of your presence. One thing that strikes you about him is that his battle sprite is still black and white and is in Undertale's lower resolution.

-(PACIFIST RUN)-

You pat sans on the shoulder, he says "how many times do I have to tell you to keep your paws off my bones?" before turning around. he is briefly startled. he summons 10 Gaster blasters, but then regains his composure. "heh...ah ah. nah." The blasters disappear. "not even gonna give you the satisfaction." he winks and leaves the battle.

You can find him at his sentry station, where he says he doesn't really have anything to do since the anomaly (aside from overseeing the operations in the ruins) and he can finally relax. Flowey pops out and greets Sans, causing him to flinch again: “i can’t make the same joke twice. so, uh. I’m going to grillby’s”.

[[Going into the forest, you’d encounter monsters I showcased in the snowdin pack. Not much to explain since that pack gave a very in depth look at monsters and group encounter dynamics.I guess I should explain the amalgamate somewhat.]]

The Amalgamate, an amalgamate of all amalgamates, is loose in the forest and will appear as a random encounter. It’s unkillable; only way to end the encounter is fleeing. They always attack first.

[[still love these guys]]

There's not much else to the area as most monsters are afraid of leaving their home in fear of encountering the Amalgamate. Firedrake being the exception as they recognize him as their son, as well as their son's friends as, well...friends (Jerry not included).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yIZgtvk2qc

Snowdin Town is lively as ever. As soon as you get there you experience a cutscene showing the D.O.G.S. returning and a casually dressed Asgore asking them if they have any news of Toriel. Dog duo replies that the explosion that engulfed the Ruins was centered on Toriel’s home. Asgore thanks them and leaves for Grillby's, defeated.

Overworld npcs are fairly similar as they couldn't absorb Frisk's soul. Some shed some more light on the world and events. You learn that Papyrus has left for the capital as he is now second in command of the Demon Squad, the institution that replaced the Royal Guard. Also, more info on the ruins disaster: Asgore left New Home in search of Toriel as soon as he received news of the disaster, which allowed Undyne and Alphys to take over the Capital and proclaim themselves as new rulers. Spoder has followed you out of the ruins, and comments on how fresh the air is, something they had seemingly never felt.

Sans leaves his sentry station and can be found in his home as well as Grillby's. He won't leave these 2 places ever and has a few 4th wall breaks where he asks if you are expecting him to follow you around, but makes it clear he wants nothing to do with you. He also informs Asgore has been living in his home. Talking to Asgore reveals that while he and Sans had never been friends, they've grown a lot closer since the ruins disaster. You can find him at Sans's home later, where he wishes he'd let him sleep in Papyrus's room instead of the couch, but makes it clear he's not complaining and he's glad he found someone who doesn't think he's worthless. He also tells you he's afraid of harming you because he killed countless humans, one of them just a week before you showed up. The Royal Guard was disappointed in learning he didn't have the strength to absorb the human souls, freeing them instead. He was overthrown without even resisting.

[[unfortunately i have no art of asgore, just imagine deltarune asgore's sprite here]]

Talking to Flowey, he would tell you that, as much as he enjoyed messing with him, he hates seeing Asgore down and that maybe he would be happier if they met; even if he knows he won’t feel anything in return. However he’s afraid of what he might say. You can encourage him to do so, after which you can watch an optional cutscene in which Flowey reveals his real identity to Asgore. His first reaction is disbelief, but then as he realizes Flowey is really Asriel, he is overtaken by Joy. He hugs the flower disregarding the thorns. “After all this time, I started to give up. I forgot there’s more to life than...loss.” Asgore says, tears in his eyes. Flowey asks if he doesn’t care that he’s in a different form now, but Asgore shakes his head.

After the moment is over, Flowey tells you that maybe the soul in his possession has allowed him to feel again. He thanks you for believing in him and giving him a second chance after what he did in the ruins (you obtain his memento item). Sans barges in and there’s a funny sitcom bit where he hates flowey but doesn’t want to hurt his old, grieving boss’s feelings. [[i just made this part up i thought it would be funny]]

If you try to leave for Waterfall, Sans will block your way. "maybe I've been too harsh on you. you're not a human, are you? i can feel it in your soul. damn. you're...them. i never thought i'd see the day. in front of you lies a path of pain, death and darkness. but you have to be strong. just...please go easy on my brother. he doesn't understand what he's doing."

"and another thing... r u n ."

-BOSS: THE AMALGAMATE (pacifist)-

The amalgamate charges at you, using multiple attacks at once. The only way forward is to run (akin to Undyne's pacifist battle in UT). After a few turns, they will be slowed down by the blizzard, at which point they'll give up. You're free to leave for Waterfall.

-BOSS END-

-(GENOCIDE RUN)-

You stab sans in the back. He staggers forward. "father...we did it" are his last words, before vanishing into dust.

In genocide, there is not much to do. The Amalgamate will come to rescue firedrake and his friends, at which point you'll have to run. The only way to complete the route, however, is to spare no one, so if you proceed without killing them, The Shadow will appear and end you.

Snowdin is deserted. If you head east, you'll find Asgore blocking your path. "Sans and I were supposed to meet at Grillby's 10 minutes ago. He is never late. He told me not to confront anyone but...killing is the only thing I know how to do. Whatever you are...prepare yourself."

-BOSS: ASGORE AND AMALGAMATE-

[[concept art of amalgamate in which they look like an eggplant]]

Asgore uses similar attacks as his UT battle. However, after a few turns, a loud, distorted howl interrupts the fight. Amalgamate joins in. "Are you here to rub salt in the wound?" "Or...YOU! What have you done to the children?! YOU...YOU DEMON!" Amalgamate and Asgore attack in sync. However the old monster is no match for Wally. "Sans...I should have listened." he turns into dust. You can then run away from the fight.

-BOSS END-

Part 1-p: The Awakening (genocide route)

[Text in square brackets is outside comments. Since I will not work on it anymore, I’ll start dumping the story on here, including some rather low quality sketches of the character designs. I give you permission to use anything here as you like, but I’d prefer if you gave credit.]

[Taking place just a week after Chapter 0, the game would have started in a similar way to the original game.]

In the deepest depths of the RUINs, a human (?) child wakes up, without knowing how he got there nor how much did he sleep for. On the walls, incomprehensible carvings told about forgotten prophecies, of Demons, Humans and Fiends.

The human wanders around the RUINs, hoping to find a way out.

[the ruins you would have gone through are the area you see in the background of the actual ruins in Undertale.]

A SHADOWy figure appears out of thin air. They start talking about how in this new UNDERGROUND there are only two options: to KILL, or be KILLED. There is no inbetween: once a pacifist or genocide run is started, you cannot turn back. if you do, the SHADOW will kill the human instantly.

Soon, he encounters Dummy Sensei, who used to live in the capital, training the Royal Guards, but decided to search for the Dummy that lived in the RUINs after hearing about the GREAT CATASTROPHE. Dummy Sensei fought against the humans during the war, but since then, he learnt to forgive. Seeing a young, unarmed human, he decides to help him survive in the Underground, teaching him how to dodge the different forms of magic. However, he is unable to use RED magic, and so warns the human to be careful when he faces a monster that can use it, because even Sensei himself doesn't know what effect it has.

The human proceeds in a ruined town area, where he meets the D.O.G.S. unit (Discoverers Of Great Stuff), that are searching for survivors after the GREAT CATASTROPHE, which destroyed the majority of the RUINs' inhabitants.

At this point the player can decide which path to choose: pacifist or genocide. [Time for genocide]

Spoder dodges your attack and scurries away. [[they can be seen stalking you in places, but you cannot interact with them]]

In the genocide route you cannot gain memento items. You just proceed, taking out the D.O.G.S.

Eventually he finds a way out of the ruins, however he is stopped by Flowey. [[Here's some suuuuuuper early concept art for flowey's boss form]]

-BOSS: FLOWEY-

At the start of the boss fight, Flowey refers to the human as Chara. The human tries to convince him that he has no idea who they are. Flowey is convinced that he has been possessed by Chara, and so, tries to convince them to come out by threathening him. He uses the ANOMALY's power to transform into a 1-SOUL monster (an angel). The human cannot even scratch the BOSS. Flowey keeps mocking him by lowering his defense on purpose. However, the human discovers a new action: SPELL. A fireball shoots out, setting fire to the overgrown plant. At this moment, Flowey realizes that the "human" truly is not Chara. He asks who he really is, but the human says that the only thing he remembers is his name: Wally. Before another fireball turns him to ash.

-BOSS OVER-

Amidst the pile of ash lies an old cellphone. Garbage noise comes out of it. Wally leaves the RUINs.

With the release of Deltarune Chapter 2 my interest in Undertale, and by extension Anomalytale has been renewed.

No, I don't feel like starting to work on it again, but this time I do feel like actually finishing up the lore and story as well as concepts I wanted to use in the final project.

Firstly, I'd like to talk about Demons. They were the ancestors of both humans and monsters. Humans evolved a strong body while monsters evolved a strong soul. When the soul of a human and that of a monster fuse, a person's true potential is unleashed, forming an angel, an artificially created demon.

Behind Anomalytale's story are 2 angels: Alphonse and Agemo (Alphonse is the skeleton and Agemo is the kid from the intro!). I have hinted at Agemo's angel form many times (fun fact: the AU's symbol is Agemo's soul), but I never made a sprite or final design for Alphonse’s angel form.

But they are not the only angels in AT. In fact most enemies are, given they come from timelines in which they absorbed Frisk's soul.

What's stopping them from destroying the barrier? Alphys. More on that later.

There honestly weren't going to be many Demons featured in the game. Spoder is the only one I remember. Yeah, that Spoder.

He was defeated by an ancient tribe of humans and monsters that lived underground, his soul sealed in the artifact the annoying dog absorbs in UT. (wait, does that make toby an angel)

Oh yeah, the save points you encounter in UT are basically remnants of DETERMINATION (god) after they split to create demons.

I think that's enough for now. Have some art of Omega Angel Agemo.

Ngl the talk about the Roaring in Deltarune gave me AT vibes DETERMINATION’s design even looks like a Titan! I guess I predicted it? (/j)

Part 1-p: The Awakening (pacifist route) 

[Text in square brackets is outside comments. Since I will not work on it anymore, I’ll start dumping the story on here, including some rather low quality sketches of the character designs. I give you permission to use anything here as you like, but I’d prefer if you gave credit.] 

[Taking place just a week after Chapter 0, the game would have started in a similar way to the original game.]

In the deepest depths of the RUINs, a human child wakes up, without knowing how he got there nor how much did he sleep for. On the walls, incomprehensible carvings told about forgotten prophecies, of Demons, Humans and Fiends.

The human wanders around the RUINs, hoping to find a way out. 

[the ruins you would have gone through are the area you see in the background of the actual ruins in Undertale.]

A SHADOWy figure appears out of thin air. They start talking about how in this new UNDERGROUND there are only two options: to KILL, or be KILLED. There is no inbetween: once a pacifist or genocide run is started, you cannot turn back. if you do, the SHADOW will kill the human instantly.

Soon, he encounters Dummy Sensei, who used to live in the capital, training the Royal Guards, but decided to search for the Dummy that lived in the RUINs after hearing about the GREAT CATASTROPHE. Dummy Sensei fought against the humans during the war, but since then, he learnt to forgive. Seeing a young, unarmed human, he decides to help him survive in the Underground, teaching him how to dodge the different forms of magic. However, he is unable to use RED magic, and so warns the human to be careful when he faces a monster that can use it, because even Sensei himself doesn't know what effect it has.

The human proceeds in a ruined town area, where he meets the D.O.G.S. unit (Discoverers Of Great Stuff), that are searching for survivors after the GREAT CATASTROPHE, which destroyed the majority of the RUINs' inhabitants.

At this point the player can decide which path to choose: pacifist or genocide. [I'll start with the pacifist route, then I'll talk about the genocide one.]

Around the ruins, you will soon encounter Spoder, a new spider character who has survived the catastrophe. They are super friendly and will follow you around dropping spider puns and being a nuisance generally. They’ve been separated from their spider bretheren, and request you bring them to their kind.

[[this idiot]]

The human makes friends with Lesser Dog, Dogi and Greater Dog, the latter of which will have a sidequest revolving around making it more reliable to the other D.O.G.S. (awarding the player Dogi's Nose Nuzzle Championship trophy)

[a thing i wanted to do, each area would have had a character with a side quest. Completing them would award the player some unique equipment, the MEMENTO items.]

The dogs show the human the way out. However, a vine sprouts out of the ground, incapacitating him.

-BOSS: FLOWEY-

At the start of the boss fight, Flowey refers to the human as Chara. The human tries to convince him that he has no idea who they are. Flowey is convinced that he has been possessed by Chara, and so, tries to convince them to come out by threathening the human. He uses the ANOMALY's power to transform into a 1-SOUL monster. The human cannot even scratch the BOSS. Flowey keeps mocking him by lowering his defense on purpose. However, the human discovers a new action: SPELL. The human's hand is now engulfed by flames. Surpised by it, Flowey lets go of him. At this moment, Flowey realizes that the "human" truly is not Chara. He asks who he really is, but the human says that the only thing he remembers is his name: Wally, and that he doesn't even know if he is human.

-BOSS OVER-

Flowey apologizes to the human, and together, they exit the RUINs (Spoder, too). He swears he will help him find out about his past, and so, they traverse the woods of Snowdin. He also gifts Wally a strange cellphone he found when the CATASTROPHE hit the RUINs. With it, it's possible to equip MEMENTO items, manage sidequests and call your friends (if you have any).

First of all, I want to apologise for being silent for the past months. 

So, yeah. Anomalytale is officially cancelled. I know some of you will probably be upset at me, but I couldn’t go on. Last year has been very heavy for me, and combined with lack of feedback and bad planning on my part, made me lose interest in the project (and in Undertale as a whole).

But don’t worry, it’s not the last thing you’ll hear from me (and about Anomalytale for that matter). I plan to dump all the unfinished stuff, concept art and even the entire story on here. At that point, if anyone wants to contribute to its completion can go ahead.

(just a small taste of what I had yet to announce)

If you’re curious about what I’m gonna do next, for the past 4 months I’ve been working on an actual game, and I’ve almost reached a point where I’m confident about showing it. A playable demo of Project CB will come out soon.

After almost a year, it’s finally here. Although not as good as I thought it would be, I still hope you’ll enjoy it. Download in the link below. (.rar)

These are all references that do not have anything to do with Undertale’s canon. Warning: there could be some spoilers for other video games. 

This attack was taken from the Miracle Matter boss fight from Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards

These projectiles are based off of Uboa from Yume Nikki. Nope, it’s not Gaster, even though Gaster itself seems to be based off of it.

This one Memoryhead looks like Giygas from Earthbound.

This attack is very similar to the Monoeye boss fight in Metal Slug 3, except there’s Everyman!

In case you were wondering which part belonged to whom. Endogeny and Reaper Bird’s heads are fused.

I’m finally announcing that I’m working on a comic for the AU. The picture above is a small preview of one of the panels. The first chapter is almost completed. This is taking me a loong time to complete, but from the second chapter onwards the series will be entirely in black and white to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on each individual drawing. 

I hope you all continue to support the project.