Deltarune FOREVER!!

Muffled sounds of complaint

Now that Tess is sporting the beta design of an in-game unit token, let’s get to talking about some of the ailments you can expect to see in Keen Original Fighter Tour

The Slowed ailment

“W-h-y… i-s… e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g… s-o… f-a-s-t-?”

This ailment has been reworked since its debut in KOFTournament. Originally it was a turn-skipping ailment with worse luck for heavier armors. Now, it cuts your speed stat by three points, reducing your overall movement in battle. Slowed will also have a unique mechanic for shaking off where; instead of rolling to remove it, you spend a turn making zero movement and choosing to convert your action into a reaction. Taking this passive approach to your turn will guarantee its removal. However, when AFTERSlowed; you cannot move at all on the first turn of effects, your speed penalty increases from three to four, and the ailment is immune to the normal method of shaking it off (items still work though).

The Confused ailment

“What in the [by boogity] is going on here?! Did you scramble my [trumpet honk] circuits boss?!?!”

Confusion remains largely unchanged from its OG version. The dice rolled has simply changed to a d% instead of a standard d10, but you will still hit yourself while attacking by rolling lower than a 50%. The OVERConfused ailment only changes the standard one by dealing 1d4 damage to yourself when your successful roll is between 50% and 70%.

The Bleeding ailment

“What on god’s green [DIC Productions] are you- OW! You stabbed me like a pincushion! Now I’m [‘tis but a scratch]!”

Bleeding is a new ailment introduced for Keen Original Fighter Tour. Bleeding has you take 1 damage at the start of your turn for each turn you’ve been bleeding (1 on the first, 2 on the second, so-on and so-forth), and will reduce your vigor and endurance stats by 1. When OVERBleeding, any damage type that you would take normally is now considered potent damage, and resisted damage will be taken as standard damage.

The Drenched ailment

Sounds of aggravated struggling and lots of waterboarding

The Drenched ailment is a mix of old and new. Like before, your agility stat is reduced by 2 and you take 2 extra damage from Shock attacks. A new effect is that when you make movement, you are affected by slippery terrain conditions (think ice physics in puzzles, but there is a punishment if you run out of movement before stopping). OVERDrenched is still a rough ailment, because you are so bogged down with moisture that your character’s typing is overridden to only Tidal. Because your elemental balance is so unstable; Shock damage replaces the ailment with Paralysis, Chill damage makes you Frozen, and Light damage causes Blindness.

And that’s the update! Credits for references below.

Tess artwork by user @torchrandom, you can find their art at @torchsartblog

Ailment artwork by user @beef-chuck

Tess pop-culture references in-order

Dr. Evil - Austin Powers

“I Would Rather” - Artist is Jazz Emu

Toadbert - Mario & Luigi rpg series

Doot meme

DIC children’s entertainment company: broadcast logo meme

Now that we’re past the cut, here’s a fun fact about entropy worms in my canon. In the Multiverse of multiverses, branching timelines and realities are endless and can lead to clutter when they die out. With infinite existence in an infinite quantity, it could be trouble when a young timeline branches into an old dead one, so to keep infinity sustainable, entropy worms were made. These extra dimensional critters feed on the energy of reality; things like time, heat, light, sound, motion, willpower, and creativity are all forms of energy that entropy worms can eat for their bodily function. Larger worms have grown from consuming realities and timelines (and usually manifest on a size able to consume entire stars whole), while smaller ones have consumed only a few star-systems worth of energy (these manifest at the size of common earth insects). Entropy worms consume energy through physical contact and are sensitive enough to consume even the energy found in cosmic background radiation. Because of this, they are very cold to the touch, unless you have earned their trust.

Entropy worms are usually long and tubular in shape, but can use their energy to distort their bodies: causing stretching, shrinking, morphing shape, etc. One important note is that they will sometimes form a hardened mass when enough energy is stored within their bodies. With this extra energy, an entropy worm can either molt and grow into the next stage of life, or reproduce asexually by discarding the mass which will eventually hatch into a baby entropy worm after an aeon or two.