Put more thought into that Five Nights At Joysticks JRs shitpost of an idea. It is 1 am where I am and I am exhausted from work, so I have no idea if any of this is comprehensible. Goodnight everyone
You play as Nix. Normally, you’d spend your nights either on the Hinobi Night Shift patrolling around town or asleep, but with the new animatronics just recently installed and set up, Jimmy really wants someone who’s experienced with Hinobi Tech and Tech Support staying overnight for a few days to make sure everything is working correctly and the recently repaired Cakey Von Smasher isn’t going to go on another rampage and start punching holes in the walls. Aka: he needs You to work the night shift.
Your “office” (a smaller storage room in the back, far away from the larger storage rooms in the basement) has a single door leading out into a hallway on your left, a FNAF 2 style open hallway in front of you and and a large vent located behind you. It’s got a desk with a computer monitor and some other bits of tech that would normally be used by the security guard, but you have a tech gauntlet that works just as well if you plug it into the router. Just a shame it won’t do anything to hold back the robots (even if you could damage them, you are definitely getting fired if you blow a massive hole through Ralphie Boar’s chest).
You don’t have a conventional flashlight, and the three potential entrances to your office don’t have attached lights. Instead, you have your gauntlet and it’s built in flashbang, aka a reset device. The resets won’t do anything to the animatronics, but will very briefly light up the hallway/vent you fire it at. Basically imagine the flash beacon from Sister Location. That’s your flashlight. You can even reset rooms through the camera system, although you don’t really need to in order to see. In fact, doing this will disable your ability to view the camera for few seconds due to the bright flash of the reset and the fact that the cameras very much are not made for this and need a moment to reboot themselves.
You can peak through the door on your left, but it’s only a wooden door. It won’t protect you from the several hundred pound robots wandering the building. Instead, Nix will shut it, then fully barricade it with plixelcraft. The open hallway and vent can also be sealed by Nix’s plixelcraft. Nix can only have one barrier at a time, and having a barrier active will slowly drain his gauntlet’s battery, which slowly recharges when not in use.
The newest addition to the Joystick Jr’s Family, and Ralphie Bear’s modernized replacement. He’s more advanced, he’s easier to reprogram and repair, his head is slightly more connected to his shoulders, he can even walk around on stage instead of having to be hoisted out of a hatch in the floor by external machinery.
And now he’s left that stage to make his way straight to your office.
Ralphie Boar starts on his stage, and slowly moves through the building to eventually make his way to your office. He can appear at either the left door or the open hallway, and he’s pretty easy to deal with. If he’s at the door, close it. If he’s in the open hallway, you can use plixelcraft to block him. Once his pathfinding figures out that there’s something preventing him from entering the office, he’ll wander back to his stage.
Resetting Ralphie Boar either in the cameras or when he’s in one of the hallways won’t do any lasting damage, he doesn’t have a brain to reset, but will stun him for a few seconds. The effect is really small, as he will shake off the reset incredibly quickly, but it can definitely save you if you desperately need to deal with something else. Plus resets take a very long time to lose their overall effectiveness on him, so with enough micromanagement you can slow his movement considerably.
Cakey’s been repaired since the… incident…. with Miko, but she’s still a bit twitchy.
The entire deal with Cakey is that you do NOT want her to start moving, because if she does, there’s nothing you can do to stop her.
Cakey stays on stage for the duration of the night, mostly inactive. However, throughout the night, she’ll start to activate and go through the usual motions of her performance. When she does this, you need to drop whatever you’re doing, switch to her camera and go through a brief hacking minigame to shut her off before she gets too far into her performance.
Fail to do this and Cakey will glitch out, tear herself off her stage and make a mad dash for your office. Her incredible strength and lack of any proper pathfinding means that she will tear straight through your left door, regardless of if it’s open, closed. sealed with plixelcraft or whatever. If Cakey fully activates, you’re as good as dead.
As the nights go on, not only does the hacking Minigame get harder and Cakey needs to be hacked more frequently, but Cakey eventually starts wandering around the arcade on her own, and you need to find her on the cameras in order to hack her. Luckily, she makes a LOT of noise whenever she moves.
Once Ralphie Boar was fully set up, Ralphie Bear was no longer needed, but Jimmy just couldn’t bear (pun intended) to throw him away. Instead, he’s been placed in the same storage area where that Animatronic Duck was being stored in Ralphie Bear is Back.
Ralphie Bear is basically a more aggressive version of Ralphie Boar. He’ll leave the storage area, make his way through the arcade and eventually reach your office at either of the main entrances. Barricade the relevant entrance to keep him at bay.
He moves a bit slower than Ralphie Boar, but doesn’t always return to the storage room when repelled. Instead, he’ll head to one of several rooms along his path. Sometimes he’ll go all the way back to the storage room, sometimes he’ll only go back to the playstructure room and sometimes he’ll go to the animatronic stage for example.
The trick is, the Bear and Boar work in tandem. If one is in a hallway, the other will always attack the opposite hallway. Neither of them can block each other. Ralphie Boar will turn around and wander off at the first sign of a barrier, but Ralphie Bear will spend several seconds banging against whatever’s in front of him before he gets the hint and leaves.
This presents an issue. You can only seal one entrance with plixelcraft at a time. Therefore, if both attack at once, or if Ralphie Boar shows up at an entrance while Ralphie Bear is still banging at the other entrance, you can’t do anything to stop him.
In other to stop this: Resets. You can’t exactly delete the memories of a robot, but the animatronics in Joystick JRs have always had a bit of a problem with certain bright lights. Most things in the arcade are fine, but flash photography is a particular problem. It makes the animatronics freeze up for a bit. Ralphie Boar will be stunned for a very short period of time, but the older model of Ralphie BEAR is a lot more susceptible to it. Resetting him in either the cameras or in the hallway before he starts banging at your door will make him freeze for several seconds before he’s able to move again, although constantly resetting him over and over again will eventually make resets much less effective.
So the game plan with the Ralphie Twins is doing whatever you can to keep them desynced. Resetting Ralphie Bear to make sure that he only shows up when you’re able to deal with him. For the first few nights, you’re able to mostly focus on him, since resets are most effective on him and delaying Ralphie Boar requires significantly more micromanagement and isn’t as worth doing in comparison.
Remember that duck animatronic in the storage room? I think Miko kicking it’s head off made it vengeful somehow. It’s in the walls.
Doofy Duck (non-canon name I made up) starts in the storage room with Ralphie Bear, and once he starts moving, he enters the vents. Due to there being very few cameras in the vents, he mostly needs to be tracked by audio cues to know when he moves. He’ll attack through the vent behind you, requiring you to barricade it off.
Doofy Duck is unaffected by resets, or at the very least resets do very, very little to delay it. It WILL show up at your office, rather consistently in fact, and from this point onwards, you need to schedule The Two Ralphies around this thing, making sure that neither one will be in place to attack while Nix is turned to look in the complete opposite direction while barricading that vent shut. This means splitting your attention between the Easier to Delay but more aggressive Ralphie Bear and the Harder to Delay but less aggressive Ralphie Boar, while also needing to keep track of Cakey Von Smasher’s location for whenever she starts activating.
Occasionally, Doofy Duck will leave the vents and rush to one of your other entrances, waiting for other animatronics to leave if someone else is already there and sliding in almost immediately after they leave. Unlike in the vents, they’re almost completely silent when doing this. They leave rather quickly once the door is barricaded, but it can take you by surprise if you immediately move on to something else without properly checking the entrance, or if you cut it too close with animatronic timings and don’t give yourself enough room to breathe.
Night 6 Exclusive Boss Fight.
There is something else in the building with you. Below the storage room. In the dust and spiderweb covered basement with all the old and broken arcade machines and forgotten bits of trash.
It will crawl out from beneath the building shortly after the night starts, then make its way towards you. It won’t enter the vents, they’re too loud, but it can take a large number of different possible paths, even doubling back on itself at times.
It’s very difficult to spot. It has several different locations where it could be on each camera, and it attempts to hide in all of them. You have to look out for it. Sometimes you’ll see an arm barely sticking out from behind an arcade machine, sometimes you’ll see it’s shadow on a distant wall, sometimes an object will be out of place like a door that is normally closed being open and sometimes you won’t see anything at all and you’ll have to deduce it’s location based on things like the camera’s lights flickering or the footage being blurrier and having more static than normal.
That being said, if you switch to a camera and it is fully visible, look away immediately. You’ve caught it out of position and It knows you’re there. Stare at it for even a few seconds and its head will quickly snap to the camera, then permanently disable it. When you switch back, it will either be hiding in the room somewhere or already have moved to a nearby room.
In order to keep it at bay, you need to watch it. It’s smart, and it doesn’t want to be seen. It won’t leave its hiding spot and move to another room if it knows you’re watching it. Spend as much time as you reasonably can on whatever camera it’s currently on. And don’t lose track of it. The other animatronics are still active and you WILL eventually need to switch to another camera to delay Ralphie or Hack Cakey or leave the cameras entirely to hold one of the entrances shut. When you come back, find it as fast as possible and get back to watching it.
You need to watch it because if it makes it to either entrance to your office, there is no way to hold it back. It will rip open that wooden door and tear through any plixelcraft barrier you have set up like it’s made of paper. The only way to beat it is to make sure it never gets that close to begin with.
If you notice that the monitor in your office is suddenly turned on, shut it off immediately. You don’t need it, you have your much-more-secure gauntlet. It’s not an animatronic, and if you leave that monitor on it will skip directly to your office by pulling itself straight through the screen.
Resets won’t delay it. In fact, resetting a camera that it’s currently on will result in it immediately moving to another camera, as it’s smart enough to know that you can’t see it for a few seconds both during and after the reset. Resetting it while it’s fully visible will result in it taking out the camera like if you stared at it and then getting way more aggressive for a short while. Attempting to reset it while it’s standing in the hallways outside your office will result in a small Easter Egg where it freezes for a split second with an errored reset icon visible above its head, followed by Bolypius charging at you at mach fuck to deliver an immediate jumpscare. Luckily, if another animatronic is in the hallway with it, it will hide, allowing you to check the hallway for other threats without immediately dying.
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