Ralsei: (Next battle, we should show her how to ACT!) (I think she might really enjoy that!)
Unfortunately, I neglect to try bossing Susie around. I'm sure that would have gone swimmingly, but I check the checker instead.
And Susie wollops the thing into the stratosphere.
Oh well.
Ralsei: As heroes, we have the power to make a peaceful future. So, from now on, let's try to avoid FIGHTing, OK?
Susie: ...
Ralsei: Umm, what if you just took it easy on them...? If you weaken an enemy, I can use my PACIFY spell. Which, can put exhausted people to sleep!
Ralsei: Well, um, just think about it! (We might have to WARN enemies about her, Kris...)
Save point: The power of mean girls shines within you.
This is a MASSIVE INFODUMP WALL OF TEXT incoming, because this Jigsawry in the little bowler hat opens the way to the ingame tutorial.
Jigsawry: We've been forced to do TUTORIALS just to make ends meet. When the KING got power, he fired everyone and replaced all puzzle makers with HIM... ROUXLS KAARD... Lord of the Puzzles... Be careful!
How the hell do you pronounce that? Rowksls? Again, this looks suspiciously like an anagram, but unless the guy turns out to be commentary on how A RAD OX LURKS, I don't know what of.
There are four more Jigsawry on this screen, each of whom have their own aspect of the game to explain.
The guy on the far left, with three hats on, explains KRIS's abilities. Or... not really. He explains that if someone hits 0 HP, there's not a dedicated revival item, Phoenix-Down style. You just feed them an item or use Ralsei's healing magic.
Ralsei takes over the next point and describes how, since he always moves after Kris, that Ralsei can SPARE or PACIFY an enemy on the same turn that Kris did whatever needed to be done to make it SPARE-able or PACIFY-able.
Next guy over, wearing two hats, describes Susie. And in describing her, draws her attention, so most of his little explanatory poems end with him cowering a bit.
Anyhow, Susie always fights. She always fights the topmost enemy on the enemy side. If you WARN that enemy, it will evade her attacks, so you have time to ACT and SPARE them. ("So there's no reason to use it", according to Susie.)
Second guy from the right badly describes Ralsei's magic. Ralsei has to correct him and I've already explained what his magic does, so... moving on.
Rightmost guy explains the tension meter, as poorly as the other guys explain character abilities. So Ralsei again corrects the tutorial guy that TP does in fact translate directly to money after a battle, as I surmised before. (He also clarifies that it is indeed "tension points"... not "toilet paper".)
Right. That would have been about five times longer with an actual transcription. But each tutorial guy also shills for a donation...
And you can in fact put a dollar in the dollar hole. (They had a box, but it got stole.)
This echoes back to the Dog Shrine, added to the Playstation version of Undertale, so it never showed up in my LP. With the Playstation version came cheevos, because I'm pretty sure that Sony's policy is that no game can be without them. So Undertale got a Dog Shrine, where you could drop gold into the donation box, one at a time. After donating 350 gold, you'd earned all the achievements offered.
(The Switch release, in turn, wrecked the Dog Shrine and added a fight with Mad Mew Mew, i.e. the ghost formerly possessing the Mad Dummy had possessed a lifesized doll of an anime character that he stole out of some nerdy place... but that's neither here nor there.)
Anyway, this hole fills up after a single dark-dollar is placed inside. That's what the D in D$ stands for, it turns out. It's "dark dollars".
I'm probably going to stick with "muns".
