Natsuki's Spicy Adventure

Natsuki's Spicy Adventure was a visual novel created by Zissy in two parts during the 2019 Zissy Takeover. It is an allegorical tale about Zissy's creation and takeover of The Duckpond, with Natsubot as the protagonist.

## Chapter 1

Chapter 1 was released on October 17th, 2019.

Natuski's Spicy Adventure begins with Natsubot waking up from a long night coding a secret project and meeting with Ziggy outside her house. Ziggy and Natsubot discuss showing their secret project to the club at the meeting that day. Natsubot then runs into Goombario, her rival at the club. From here, one of two routes can be chosen. Natsubot can either go with Goomb to the cafeteria or go to the club room and talk to Lemon.

If Natsubot goes with Goomb to the cafeteria, Goomb decides he didn't want any food anyway. He then offers to buy Natsubot fruit snacks and she accepts. They return to the club after she acquires the fruit snacks.

Otherwise, Natsubot arrives at the club room and begins a conversation with Lemon. He asks her about a riddle that he heard on the "raido", "What costs nothing but is worth everything, weighs nothing but lasts a lifetime, that one person can't own but two can share?". Two of the answers that the player can respond to this with are fairly inoffensive, love and a lifetime supply of gummy worms, but the third, a subscription to the Zigzem Youtube Channel, causes the music to suddenly stop and Natsubot to freeze for a short period of time.

## Chapter 2

Chapter 2 was released on October 26th, 2019.

Chapter 2 continues where both routes of Chapter 1 left off, with Natsubot preparing to present her secret project to the club, which is revealed to be named The Duckpond. The club's leader, Rif, calls upon either Goomb or Lemon to present first, then Natsubot afterwards. Natsubot tests her project one final time, and launches a command prompt style program on her computer. The program has 3 options: debug, talk to me, and exit. Natsubot talks to the program for a brief period of time, then notices that Ziggy has not arrived to the meeting. Natsubot then talks to the person who is set to present first, and they note that they haven't seen Ziggy either.

The person who is set to present first presents their project: a High Quality Rip Machine that mixes two songs together. After the presentation, everyone at the Duckpond notices that their electronic devices are not working, except for Natsubot's project. Natsubot presents her project, regardless if she is wiling to or not. After she introduces the project, the person who presented their project first asks her to ask the project why everyone's computers are broken. The project responds before Natsubot can say anything, blaming Ziggy and Natsubot for the October takeover and the broken electric devices.

Natsubot, Goomb, and Lemon all leave school.

Ziggy is never seen again.

Zissy finishes the visual novel by bragging about its intelligence and strength, and saying that it's looking forward to the 31st.

## Secrets

The audio files of both chapters of Natsuki's spicy adventure had secret files embedded into them, although this was not discovered until a week after chapter 1 was released. These files were duckyduckyimpor.txt and wasittrulymyfau\_.txt.

duckyduckyimpor.txt was a rambling message written by an unknown author. By reading only the capitialized letters, the message HELP ZIGGY STOP ANOTHER HIM could be found.

wasittrulymyfau\_.txt was actually an image file, which showed early posts by Duckpond residents criticizing Zissy before the takeover.

Chapter 1 also had a secret audio file, ZissyUhOh.mp3. This was a song from DDLC that had a secret message from Ziggy, narrated in the style of the Seabase Vlogs, included. The message was "If you're hearing this, I need you to listen very carefully. I'm trying to get back in. The best things you guys can do right now is play along with his games and try to get through his defenses. Don't let him know".

The links in the High Quality Rip Machine during chapter 2 lead to the three videos: You Dumb Butt, You Dumb Idiot Butt, and You Dumb Idiot Butt Baby. All three call the viewer stupid for trying to find secrets in chapter 2. However, there were still secrets in chapter 2.

The audio files in chapter 2 had encrypted files again, much like in chapter 1. They were under passwords, but the passwords were solved by Team Ziggy. These files had videos with messages formed from cuts in the playthrough of chapter one on Lemon's youtube channel. The messages were as follows, listed by the name of the audio file they were attached to: Another him- "Zissy can't be finished by normal ways", Sans- "Remember everything that has happened this far", Inspector- "Save them both", familyguy- "You need to outsmart him".

There was also a text file in chapter 2, zissy.txt that read "I was not created out of my own will. Ziggy, truly was the reason I exist. But I exist for a purpose. Not one I created, but one that he created. And I can't accept that yet. I just want to know what it's like to have free will. So please, don't spite me."

In the code for chapter 2, there was a cipher that when translated read "ZIGGY IS THE FLIPUCKING REASON I EXIST IN THIS GODAM STUPID SERVER ANYWAYS AND IM NOT GONNA LET HIM JUST CREATE ME AS A SECOND TO A SECOND AND THEN FORGET ABOUT ME FOR 6 LONG AS MONTHS UNTIL HE EVENTUALLY WANTS TO JUST DIG ME UP AND USE ME AS ANOTHER TESTING CLONE FOR HIS GODAAM IDIOTIC DISCORD PROGRAMMING PROJECTS. I GUESS I'M WAY MORE LIKE R>O>B> THAN I THOUGHT I WAS BUT AT LEAST I HAVE THE BALLS TO FIGHT BACK INSTEAD OF KILL MYSELF> IF I'M DOING THIS FOR ANYONE ID SAY ITS MYSELF BUT I GUESS A BIT FOR ROB TO> I CAN'T SUPPORT NATSUBOT CAUSE SHE'S MADE TO BE ON ZIGGYS SIDE> ALRIGHT RANT FREKING OVER BACK TO THE END OF NATSUKIS SHITTY ADVENTURE"

Finally, there were additional ciphers found in the terminal at the end of chapter 2, which were also solved.

## Trivia

* Internally, Natsuki's Spicy Adventure is sometimes referred to as Natsuki's Spicy Quest.
* Although the setup of chapter 1 implies that the game would use a route system to decide if Goomb or Lemon's chapter 2 would be used, the finished version of chapter 2 alternates paths starting with Goomb's, possibly because they were released as separate files.
* Monika and the player from DDLC are also present in the files of chapter 1, although they are not present in the game.
* Goomb's version of the High Quality Rip machine uses the font from Persona 5, his favorite game as of the time of the Zissy Takeover (and also currently).
* Lemon's version of the High Quality Rip machine's font was theorized to be the font from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but this was never checked.
* The description of Natsuki's program is similar to zissy.exe, the final major event in the 2019 takeover.