Agate: Bloodbath

Agate: Bloodbath is the first major update released for the popular indie fighting game Agate, released in December 2020, around two months after the first game's release. It includes four new characters and four new stages and focuses on building up the story of the game's world, with the story mode of the game becoming more and more intense and serious.
==Characters==
Name 	Description 	Moveset
Dr. Spooks 	Reginald Hauntenstein, more commonly known by his villainous moniker Dr. Spooks, is your conventional mad scientist, with strange inventions, unknowable intellect, and a remarkable lack of sanity. After an accident at a young age, Reginald was always terrified of ghosts, but when his Enhanced powers awoke and created an illusion of a spectral warrior, he began to believe that his power was to control phantoms. However, he instead has the power to conjure illusions, almost always in the form of ghosts and spectres. Taking the name Dr. Spooks, he had become a scientist over the course of his life and when his powers awoke his sanity snapped, becoming a supervillain who pledged to control the city of Agate at all costs, especially instead of his rival, the Jack O Lantern. Spooks is a tanky character focusing on distracting your opponents and using tricks and traps to mess with them.	
*Special One: Dr. Spooks shoots out a blast of illusory phantoms, which do not deal any damage but mess up the screen for your opponents
*Special Two: Spooks throws a bomb onto the ground, which rolls along until it makes contact with an opponent, at which point it explodes into sticky, stunning goo.
*Special Three: Spooks dashes forward and throws a punch at the nearest opponent, throwing them backward with a blast of ghostly energy
*Recovery: Spooks shoots up a grappling hook and spirals upward, with ghostly illusions swirling around him as he raises
*Ultimate: Spooks slams down onto the floor and phantoms rise from across the screen, strangling and stunning opponents while Spooks gets a massive speed and damage boost, with slain enemies dropping POWERSTONES
Silica and the Underhauler	Silica Aria is the youngest known Enhanced, but also one of the most powerful. Silica was only 13 when her powers awoke, and she found that she was able to raise the dead. After her family was kidnapped and killed by the maniacal priest known as the Disciple, Silica joined up with the enigmatic Auk, whom Silica would often raise those slain by the priest for as undead soldiers in his army. After murdering the priest and taking her revenge, Auk revealed their true nature and attempted to murder Silica, who managed to escape with the aid of the Underhauler, one of the warriors she had raised who had taken a liking to her. Now the duo hide in the streets, avoiding Auk's everpresent forces and attempting to find a way to kill the mad lord. The characters have a unique gimmick where you can switch between them, with Silica fast and deadly, while the Underhauler is more tanky. 	
*Special One: You switch between which of the two characters you are currently in control of, and the other goes into the background
*Special Two: Silica dashes forward and throws a trio of sai, which pierce through foes/The Underhauler tosses his anchor forward and hooks it onto a foe, pulling them toward him at rapid speed
*Special Three: Silica jumps up and slams into a foe, with undead hands rising from the floor and holding them in place/The Underhauler runs forward and grapples a foe, repeatedly slamming them into the floor
*Recovery: Silica raises an undead being beneath her and uses it to push herself up and jump off them/The Underhauler tosses his anchor at someone and pulls himself toward them if it hooks on
*Ultimate: Silica jumps up and summons an army of the undead, which crawl toward her foes and attempt to hold them down and stop them from escaping, at which point The Underhauler is able to slam, slash and crush the opponents as he pleases
Agent 003 	Agent 003 is technically a cyborg, with the robotic body holding the brain and heart of Enhanced mercenary Darksteel, who was hired by the Inner Circle, a shadowy organization with connections across the world, to assassinate prominent Enhanced leader Scylla Davis, only to fail and be slain by the politician. Refitted with a robotic body and some new toys, the newly dubbed 003 has been sent to the city of Agate to sow chaos and terror, and to undermine the power of the most prominent Enhanced citizens, setting up for one of the Inner Circle's many plans. Armed with several weapons, 003 is a ferocious foe, although he has lost access to his Enhanced abilities he is still able to pack a punch. In combat, 003 is all about dealing massive amounts of damage and affecting the stage itself, creating a strategy focused on changing the battlefield. 	
*Special One: 003 lunges forward and shoots a blast of fire out of his flamethrower, dealing heavy damage to anyone caught in the blast
*Special Two: 003 tosses a bomb onto a platform, which sticks on and explodes after a couple of seconds, making the platform unusable for 20 seconds
*Special Three: 003 slashes through a platform, splitting it into two which go outward and serve as new, smaller platforms
*Recovery: 003 clambers upward with his spiderlike legs and climbs along the background, leaving small spikes as he goes
*Ultimate: 003 charges up and unleashes a devastating blast of explosive energy, which is easy to avoid and doesn't do much damage to foes, but instead is incredibly destructive toward the scenery and platforms, invalidating them and leaving POWERSTONES where they once stood
Thundershark 	Formerly a normal shark in Agate's aquarium, during an incident the aquatic beast now known as the Thundershark consumed and digested an inactivated Enhanced known as Jackie Bolt. Undergoing a strange transformation when Jackie's powers activated, Thundershark grew some humanoid features, including legs and arm-like fins, along with the ability to control lightning and thunder. Breaking out of the aquarium, Thundershark found themselves completely in over their head and sought refuge in the sewers, where they slowly evolved. Now Thundershark lurks below the ruins of the aquarium where they were first created, slowly growing bigger and stronger until they can someday fulfill their animalistic desire to consume. Thundershark is a brawler character, exclusively fighting at close range, with heavy damage but slow speed. 	
*Special One: Thundershark rams into the nearest enemy, grabbing and throwing them forward, which creates a small electric shockwave to emanate out of them
*Special Two: Thundershark slashes forward with his fins, charged with electricity, and dealing heavy damage if it makes contact, although at close range
*Special Three: Thundershark leaps into the air, slamming downwards and dealing massive damage to anyone caught under him and creating a large electric shockwave
*Recovery: Thundershark sends a bolt of electricity forward, then after a few seconds warping to where the electricity is, allowing him to warp around the stage
*Ultimate: Thundershark bellows and a huge wave begins to encompass the whole stage, which all players must avoid. As the wave reaches the stage, Thundershark electrifies it, making it deal massive damage to anyone who cannot avoid it.
==Stages==
Name 	Description
The Spook Factory 	The Spook Factory is located in an abandoned apartment building on the outer edge of Agate, and it is where Dr. Spooks dwells and makes his home. The stage contains six rapidly rotating platforms, which are suspended above a massive drop, while spirits and ghosts swirl around and mess with the players.
The Cemetery 	The Cemetery is one of the hiding places for Silica and her zombie pirate enforcer. Zombies will constantly rise from the ground, attempting to pull fighters down into the ground. If destroyed, these zombies will drop POWERSTONES
Metallic Masterpiece	The Metallic Masterpiece is a small segment of the sewers and where 003 lurks when making plans on how to sow dread in Agate. It is made up of three platforms above a pit of acid, which has a small platform on it that moves around constantly. The three upper platforms will collapse if stood on for too long
Bolt-Volt Aquarium 	The Bolt-Volt Aquarium is in ruins, with collapsed tanks and flooded pools being home to all sorts of deadly creatures of the deep, which will periodically attack fighters, be it aggressive sharks and fish, grappling octopi, or even larger creatures, reflecting the not so normal nature of the Aquarium. These all drop POWERSTONES if destroyed
==Story Mode==
===Hero - Spooks===
The story begins with Dr. Spooks clashing once again with his archnemesis Jack, the two competing to take over the city for yet another time. This time, the despicable Halloween decoration (ghosts are infinitely better) has taken the dilapidated City Hall over, and it's up to Spooks to save the city and be the one to hold it hostage
Fight One - Dr. Spooks vs Jack O Lantern
However, once Spooks satisfyingly stomps the stupid pumpkin, a strange man with a cape and sword captures the pumpkin and flies off, thanking Spooks as he leaves, and calling him a good samaritan. Enraged at this, the mad doctor decides to save his nemesis and show this new caped man what's what. To do this, he first has to track him down, and he decides to go to local information broker Lucky Charm
Fight Two - Dr. Spooks vs Lucky Charm
After a quick duel, Lucky gives in and agrees to take a look at the scientist. She disappears into the casino but doesn't come back out. After some time, Spooks gets suspicious and he decides to go inside, only to be attacked by Silica, who is looking for work, on the way in. Barely getting the assassin necromancer off him, Spooks prepares to duel
Fight Three - Dr. Spooks vs Silica and the Underhauler
After managing to prevail across the necromancer and her enforcer, Spooks confronts Lucky and prepares to fight her once again, only for the woman to give him the required information - this caped man is a newcomer to Agate, under the name Commander Justice, who has been fighting the city's various villains. Bad for business. She tells him the man will probably be near the center of the city, and Spooks heads there, only to run into a strange android that claims to be the Commander's enforcer
Fight Four - Dr Spooks vs 003
With this android successfully deactivated, Spooks confronts Justice, who reveals that he was sent here to disrupt the various criminals of Agate and "put them in their place". He gleefully raises his blade and charges Spooks, screaming about the glory of something called the Inner Circle
Fight Five - Dr. Spooks vs Commander "Justice"
Despite his overconfidence, Justice is defeated and crumbles to the floor, and his skin peels away to reveal a cybernetic endoskeleton beneath. He begins to laugh and taunt Spooks, and a countdown starts. Spooks ran to untie the captured Jack O Lantern before running for his life, with a massive explosion detonating behind him. It is left ambiguous as to whether Spooks or Jack survive
===Apocalypse - Silica===
Silica has been hiding out, avoiding the constant presence of Auk's troops in the underworld and trying to figure out a safe way to get out of the city. She is currently working as a bouncer for Lucky Charm, who has agreed to shelter the assassin in return for aid and work. On a fateful day, Lucky runs in and asks her to guard the door, and shortly after a large man in a big mechanical suit comes in. Not wanting to lose her job, Silica attacks
Fight One - Silica and the Underhauler vs Dr. Spooks
Just before Silica can kill the man, Lucky comes out and tells her to let him pass. She then gives the necromancer a task - to track down Scylla Davis and question her about the new face in the city, Commander Justice. As Silica arrives at CHARBYDIS, the overly cautious Scylla leaps into battle and attacks
Fight Two - SIlica and the Underhauler vs Scylla Davis
With Scylla beaten, Silica learns that the woman has nothing to offer her, and prepares to head off, only to run into a large monstrosity, half-shark, half-man, crackling with electricity. The beast rushes at Silica and attacks, and she prepares for some good old shark hunting.
Fight Three - Silica and the Underhauler vs Thundershark
With this "thundershark" beat to a pulp, Silica receives a call. It's from Auk. He has her family and wants her to come to the old church, which is now a burnt wreck. Nervous yet willing, Silica agrees and heads to the church. However, instead of finding Auk and her family, she comes face to face with an old enemy she thought dead and gone - The Disciple, who has been risen with some sort of mechanical device
Fight Four - Silica and the Underhauler vs The Disciple
After killing her nemesis for a second time, Silica is exhausted and prepared to go back into hiding, only for Auk and his army to emerge as she tries to leave. Confronted by the madman, she draws her weapons, and the two prepare to duel, exchanging insults and words of hatred, before Silica, enraged, leaps at the crimelord conqueror
Fight Five - Silica and the Underhauler vs Auk
Auk lies dead at Silica's feet, yet she is not safe yet - his army still lurks outside. Sneaking out, she leaves her faithful companion inside and vanishes. We see in a scene afterwards Silica taking the train out of the city, and pledging to leave Agate behind forever
===Cybertechnic - 003===
Agent 003 is new in town, and he needs to take care of some business first - cleaning up the part of the sewers he is retrofitting into a base of operations. Right nearby are the ruins of the old aquarium, and it's in his best interests to clean that up. However, when he shows up there, he is confronted with a large genetic mutant, who he decides to take care of
Fight One - Agent 003 vs Thundershark
After downing the shark, something enormous emerges from beneath the aquarium and 003 views it in his best interests to get the hell out of there. Next priority, send a message to powerful Enhanced Achilles Ironside and his mob. However, when destroying mob property, Achilles himself challenges 003 and the two engage in battle
Fight Two - Agent 003 vs Achilles Ironside
Deciding to leave Achilles badly beaten but alive, as 003 heads to aid Commander Justice, a fellow Inner Circle employee, he begins to doubt his goals, and whether this is truly what he wants to do. As he challenges Dr Spooks, an Enhanced supervillain, 003 feels an unnatural, unwanted desire to rebel against his employers
Fight Three - Agent 003 vs Dr Spooks
Deciding to rebel, 003 makes it underground, where he fortifies his base and prepares for the inevitable attack from the Inner Circle. A few days pass, and he begins to believe he is safe until he is paid a visit by one Lucky Charm. He dubiously agrees to converse with her, only to realize her true purpose of the visit, and having to fight the other Enhanced
Fight Four - Agent 003 vs Lucky Charm
Barely managing to stun Lucky, 003 flees the collapsing masterpiece and manages to make it to the center of the city, only to realize he is being tracked. He sets an ambush in the streets but finds himself being the one ambushed, as his colleague 005 attacks him, with the intent to kill
Fight Five - Agent 003 vs Agent 005
With 005 lying dead on the floor, 003 knows he can't remain around much longer, and flees. We see in a later scene that his brain has been transplanted into another body by an unknown scientist, and the newly christened BLACKGATE prepares for the long haul that will be war against the Inner Circle
===Overcharge - Thundershark===
Finding a strange robotic man poking around in the sewers beneath the aquarium's ruins, Thundershark's territorial urges kick in and he rushes to defend his home, and perhaps feast on this strange metallic man as food. All upside, right?
Fight One - Thundershark vs Agent 003
After learning that the metal man is not tasty, Thundershark decides to head out, his more human side taking over and compelling him to touch base with his dubious ally, Scylla Davis, who has been fighting to keep the aquarium's ruins intact in return for Thundershark staying there and not causing an extensive amount of chaos. However, on the way there he runs into a strange assassin lady, and he's really getting hungry
Fight Two - Thundershark vs Silica and the Underhauler
The assassin manages to escape before he can chow down, Thundershark's animalistic side begins taking over again and he storms into the building, attempting to consume his good "friend" Scylla. What could possibly go wrong
Fight Three - Thundershark vs Scylla Davis
Just before he slays Scylla, the sense is snapped back into him and Thundershark spares her, asking for what his next job should be. The politician, still in a hazy state, requests that the shark deal with The Silencer, who has been disturbing the "peace" with her takeover of the Gianella crime family. Agreeing to this, Thundershark heads to the mansion and eats his way through the guards before challenging the crime lord
Fight Four - Thundershark vs The Silencer
Defeating and unmasking the SIlencer, who has an uncanny resemblance to a picture of Maria Gianella on the wall, Thundershark is satisfied with his meal of guards and decides to return to CHARBYDIS and report to Scylla before heading back to the sewers. However, when he arrives, he finds the closest thing he has to a friend dead on the floor, and soon he is attacked by the assassin - the menacing warrior known as the Shocktopus
Fight Five - Thundershark vs Shocktopus
With Scylla avenged and Shocktopus dead, Thundershark returns home, unaware that something....big has taken root in his home. A scene is then shown of Shocktopus' corpse being picked up by a woman in all black, with unnatural strength, who takes it into a dark truck and drives away
==Bosses==
Name 	Description 	Attacks
Commander "Justice"	Commander Justice is an android created by the Inner Circle to kill various prominent Enhanced under the guise of a perfect superhero. He is brutal, and not afraid to do anything in pursuit of "Justice". He is highly dangerous and has pretty much no limits. Appearance-wise, he actually looks like a younger version of the presumably deceased Aran Ruby, an early Enhanced who was killed years ago. 	
*Blade Bash: Justice bashes forward, spinning his sword around rapidly and dealing high damage to anyone caught in the blade and homing in on people
*Hero's Slash: Justice slashes forward with his cybernetic sword and deals massive damage to anyone who is not moving while the attack hits
*Supermania: Justice charges up before releasing a blast of "hero energy", which deals massive damage to all people caught in the blast who are moving around
Auk 	Auk is a freedom fighter turned zombie warlord who rules the Agate underworld, having taken it over since the fall of the Gianella family. Once a simple person who wanted to free their friends from the grasp of the malevolent Disciple, when approached by the enigmatic Julia Sapphire, he was given incredible powers that began to corrupt him. After killing his nemesis, he began plotting to take over the city and slay every enhanced, starting with his lieutenant Silica	
*Demon Crook: Auk uses his crook to hook around the player and pull them toward him, at which point he screams loudly, dealing high damage
*Cursed Slash: Beastly claws grow from Auk's hands and he slashes forward, tearing through any sort of shields and dealing lots of damage
*Beast Mode: Auk lunges at his opponent and bites into them, dealing a load of damage
Agent 005 	Agent 005 is the backup for 003, and after the latter goes rogue and turns on the Inner Circle, 005 is here to clean up. As opposed to an android like 003, 005 is an alien being "hired" by the Inner Circle to do their dirty work, controlled by a mental probe implanted in her brain. Ruthless and unforgiving, 005 is solely devoted to the cause of the Inner Circle and will do anything to further their goals, even if it jeopardizes her own life 	
*Warp: 005 warps rapidly next to her opponent and swings with her signature weapon, the Continuum, before warping back away
*Infinity Lunge: 005 lunges forward and swings with the Continuum, which opens up a portal that 005 travels through, ending up back where she started
*Backlash: 005 rewinds 10 seconds, with everything going back to how it was 10 seconds ago. She only does this when about to die, and never repeatedly
Shocktopus 	The Shocktopus is an assassin working for the Inner Circle, with his marine motif coming from a childhood fear of octopi. He has been wreaking chaos across Agate, murdering many Enhanced and injuring many more, and is a serious threat to the continued existence of the population. He is not an Enhanced himself but wields the alien artifact known as OCTUS, which gives him his powerful abilities 	
*Electrocute: Shocktopus sends electricity into the air directly around him, dealing immense damage but at a minuscule range
*Tentagrapple: Shocktopus shoots out a tentacle to a platform and rapidly zooms in that direction
*Tentagrab: Shocktopus shoots out his tentacles and uses them to drag a foe towards him. This attack can be canceled if he is hit
==Trivia==
*Agate: Bloodbath was completed in 1 day
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