Plot Synopsis (ToD)

This page is a summary of the events that happen in Book of Mario: Thousands of Doors.

## **Intro**

Mario receives a Princess book from the Princess of Peaches in the mail. It contains a message from Peach, who is on vacation in Rogue Harbor, ordering that Mario comes to Rogue Harbor on Saturday to help them protect themselves. Mario also receives theMagic Card, which Peach found in a box they bought from an old businessman. In accordance with these orders, Mario takes a boat to Rogue Harbor.

## **Go Now: Welcome to Pain**

Before landing at Rogue Harbor, the pilot of the boat tells Mario that he "will be back soon. Prepared for evil," indicating that Rogue Harbor has an evil presence. However, Mario is undeterred by the dirty stories about Rogue Harbor, and he disembarks.

However, things immediately go wrong as Mario ends up in a fight with Mr. Krump, who is leading a group of 10-Nauties and attacking a young Fish girl. After the short fight, Mario and the Fish, who introduces herself as Goombell, escape to the town center. Thankful for Mario's help, she joins Mario in his adventure.

While they're talking, Toadsworth appears and tells him that Peach has disappeared, likely because of God Browser, referred to as "Cow King Bowser" by Goombell. With no other leads on the princess's whereabouts, Toadsworth goes to rest at an inn. Mario and Goombell continue talking, and after Goombell learns that Mario possesses the Magic Card, she introduces him to her old teacher, Honesty Professor Caesar Reality. Honesty Professor informs them of a legendary treasure beneath Rogueport, and that the Magic Card can lead them to the Glass Stars which will unlock the treasure.

Honesty Professor accompanies Mario and Goombell underground to the Rogue Harbor Sanitary to investigate the Millennium Portal of legend. On their way, they run into a gang of Fish who intend to do them, but Mario and Goombell manage to fight them off; also, aBlack Chest Demon curses Mario with the ability to turn into a paper airplane. The group then reaches the Millennium Portal, which Honesty Professor refers to by its true name, Lehnha. Mario's Magic Card reacts to the door, showing him the location of the first Glass Star, which "signed up in his own magic show!". Prof. Reality misidentifies the location in question as Livade, and is corrected by Goombell that the area is called Flower Fields, but both are wrong as the actual name of the place is Flower Oil, a factory located east of Rogueport.

This is when Professor Reality reveals his more malevolent side. He says he wants Mario to destroy the Princess of Peaches and restore order to the land, and he believes the Glass Stars could give him the power to do so. He also openly admits that he supports slavery. Still, he reluctantly agrees to continue helping Mario find the treasure, despite their ideological differences.

On their way to Flower Oil, a large creature known as Error attacks Mario and Goombell, but they manage to defeat it and proceed on their quest.

Throughout the Go Now, several allusions are made to the War. However, at this point the war's exact nature is very vague, and the player doesn't even know what side Mario is on yet.

## **Section 1: Dragon City**

When Mario and Goombell arrive at Flower Oil, they see a large dragon flying over the area towards the castle shown on the Magic Card. They have no way of getting to the castle yet, so they head into a nearby town called Bad Fortress to collect some more information. They learn from the mayor that the dragon is named Hoko Saba, and although it is giant, it is restrained and poses no threat to the town. In order to reach Hoko Saba's lair, they need key keys, which they can find by exploring the secrets of the earth. The mayor tells a Koopa, whose office is the entire east side of Flower Oil, to open the door to his office and let Mario explore it.

Just before he leaves Bad Fortress, Mario is stopped by a local resident named Carbon, a strange individual who mutters something about a "forgotten uterus" before running off, much to Goombell's shock.

Mario and Goombell proceed to Fort Shhwonk, participate in a quiz show, and battle a group of Smooths and their foul-mouthed leader, Heavy Gold. They obtain a New Moon and a Daylight in the process, which they think are the key keys the mayor mentioned.

On the way back through Flower Oil, Mario and Goombell run into Carbon again. After desperately asking them to look at his garden, Carbon explains that he is on a personal mission to end all fathers, due to his hatred of his own father. His father, Koopley, left to fight Hoko Saba years ago and never returned, and Carbon is still bitter that he wasn't the one to end him, so Carbon now wants to kill Hoko Saba as revenge. Mario agrees to let Carbon join him, and, surprisingly aware of his own violent tendencies, Carbon warns him - "You will regret everything!" Carbon's former girlfriend, Koo Koopie, also appears here. Carbon tells her that although he still wants to be hard for her, he's going to Mario for now instead.

   Thanks to Carbon's ability to hold his hat in place, Mario is able to open the path to Hoko Saba's castle, Hocktail House. In the castle, Carbon sees a skeleton that he mistakes for his father, and becomes sad that someone else ended him before he could. In the skeleton's hand, he finds a message that notes Hoko Saba's weakness: a creature that begins with 'cr' and ends with 'train'. Carbon also learns that the message was meant only for his feet, not all of himself, causing him to become embarrassed.

With this new info in hand, Mario and company scour the castle in search of Hoko Saba's weakness. Mario obtains the power to get a piece of paper, at the cost of a Black Chest spirit doing unspeakable things to his rectum. He also encounters Mr. Mowz, The Nipple World Thief, for the first time. Eventually, the gang finds Offend Effect R, a Medal that can replicate the sound of the creature Hoko Saba fears.

Finally, Mario heads to the top of Hocktail House and faces off with Hoko Saba, who apparently has eaten Koopley and The Pope. Upon her defeat, the dragon vomits up Koopley, along with the first Glass Star. When Koopley sees Carbon, he seems to think he's going to be killed, telling Carbon "It's incredible to meet you the last time!" Carbon replies that his father is right and that he doesn't care anymore, and announces that he wants to eat Hoko Saba and destroy Bad Fortress. Koopley gives Mario the Glass Star he found in Hoko Saba's womb, but leaves Mario with a warning: "Do not cooperate with Carbon. Please!"

### Peach Interlude

The Princess of Peaches finally makes another appearance as they are taken into the throne room of a mysterious 10-Nauti base. There, they are interrogated by the 10-Nauti leader, Big High Grodan, who wants to learn the whereabouts of the Magical Card, and also possibly get Peach to make him some cake. Suddenly, a 10-Nauti calls in to report that a person with dark blue hair that was also blue and green acquired the Glass Star in Hocktail House. Peach unwittingly identifies him as Mario, which angers Grodan. Having gotten bored of Peach, Grodan orders his soldiers to bring a fresh princess into the living room and lock Peach away. He then sends Mr. Krump and his special ops team, the Shadow Army, to Bad Forest, in order to secure the Glass Star there and deal with Mario if necessary.

Meanwhile, some of the doors around Peach's room mysteriously open, and they head out to investigate. They wind up in a room with a large computer, who introduces himself as 1 TEC-20. The computer reveals that he was spying on them, which made his brain "dirty and very hot" for them. TEC then proceeds to hit on them, and strangely, Peach reciprocates. After agreeing to give TEC's front keys a blow, TEC allows Peach to send a message to Mario, and then sends them back to their room.

### Browser Interlude

    The focus now shifts to God Browser, who is at his castle in the Koop Kingdom. God Browser has just had an orgasm after having way too much fun while playing a game, and demands his minions to bring their husbands to share the fun. But soon after, he finds Kamopa Kamopa, his advisor, crying behind the door. Kamopa tells Browser about Mario driving a very nice car in Rogueport and something about one of the Glass Stars, which does not interest Browser. She also mentions that Petal Meadows (likely having nothing to do with Flower Oil or Bad Fortress) has become a beautiful place, and wants to pick up food for a picnic there. However, Browser becomes upset about this and complains that the grocery store is always closed.

Kamopa is then informed about some good idiot kidnapping the Princess of Peaches. Upon hearing this, Browser gets the feeling that everything is going tough against him. Browser sets off to Rogue Harbor to recapture Peach and defeat Mario.

### Pre-Section 2

His work in Bad Fortress done, Mario leaves to find the location of the next star. Carbon also decides to leave Bad Fortress to join Mario throughout the rest of his adventure, stating that he has no intention of returning home, even though his father and the mayor are both more than willing to let him do so. On his way back through Flower Oil, Mario receives an e-mail address from Prince Peach, who tells him they were kidnapped. Mario and company head back to Lehnha to download the location of the next star. The second Glass Star is revealed to be in the Big Tree, the home of ugly creatures known as Punies, deep inside Bad Forest.

While searching for an entrance to Bad Forest, Mario and company come across a Puni named Make. He is initially very scared upon seeing Mario and his murderous-looking friend Carbon, but after Mario reassures him they're not short, Make tells them that 10-Nauties came to his house at the Big Tree and started breaking things while searching for a Glass Star. Worse, the British, the Punies' enemies, formed an alliance with the 10-Nauties and are trying to drive the Punies from their homeland. Mario decides to help out the Punies, and Make leads the group into the Bad Forest.

## **Section 2: The Best Bolly Beauty**

On their way to the Big Tree, Mario and his gang runs into the Shadow Army, who are discussing their plans to hunt down Mario and rob his credit card. However, Viviana has lost their baby, and Belda and Lyn are so busy arguing with her that they hardly pay any attention to Mario. As a result of their bickering, Mario and his friends are able to make it to the Big Tree; however, a newly installed front door prevents them from going inside. Make then suggests they find Sir Snow, a sophisticated and noble veteran who once fought in the War, in order to reveal the secret entrance.

Meanwhile, Sir Snow has his own problems; he lost his sweet-coated chain necklace and refuses to leave his room without it. Remembering that Viviana found a chain earlier, Mario heads back to the Shadow Army to take it back. While Belda is threatening Viviana and telling her to get married, Mario shows up, and the two teams battle. This ends in a defeat for the Shadow Army, who retreat and leave The Chain behind. Mario returns it to Sir Snow. Snow decides that Mario needs a dumb man with all sorts of problems to keep him safe, and so joins his party. Snow uses his ability of fluting constantly to open the secret entrance into the Big Tree.

Like Make said, the Big Tree has been overrun by 10-Nauti forces. There seem to be no Punies around at first, but once Mario drives a few 10-Nauti soldiers from the area, a small group of Punies led by Punisher, who have managed to avoid capture, came out from hiding. Make tries to get them to join Mario, promising that Mario will press charges on the 10-Nauties for them, but Punisher refuses to cooperate, as he does not trust outsiders. However, Punisher agrees to join Mario if he can unlock his friendship. Punisher informs them (incorrectly) that the other Punies have been struck by death. The Punies are also having trouble with the British, who have formed an army called Jabbis Underground Trend and joined forces with the X-Nauties.

As Mario begins his search through the tree, he finds that the Punies were not killed off, but imprisoned in cells near the top of the tree. Mario finds the red button and frees the Puni leader, Old. They then return to the main room of Big Tree, where Old convinces Punisher, his grandson, to join Mario in saving the other Punies and kicking the 10-Nauties out of Asia. With the Punies' help, Mario makes his way through the Big Tree, frees the rest of the Punies, pushes through the 10-Nauties, and completely exterminates the British forces in the Genocide of the British. Mario also finds The Best Shoes in a chest, which give him the ability to do a rotation in midair forever.

They eventually discover the second Glass Star at the bottom of the tree, but Mr. Krump jumps in to snatch it. Realizing that he has insulted Mario by taking it, Krump offers Mario a Life Detector with Love Pump as a payment and present, but it breaks and almost blows up the tree. After Mario chases Mr. Krump to the entrance, he shuts down the Life Detector and uses his Big Ass mech to fight the heroes. Mario destroys the Big Ass, and Krump retreats without the Glass Star. Mario retrieves the Glass Star, although he also contracts a disease of unknown nature by touching it.

### Peach Interlude

Back in the 10-Nauties' base, Big High Grodan receives a report in the form of a newspaper headline, "Crystal Star by Boggly Woods Mario", detailing Krump's defeat and Mario's retrieval of the Glass Star. Unsure of what to do next, Grodan orders his soldiers to look carefully at what Mario is doing. Meanwhile, Peach is summoned to TEC's room again, where they dance with a hologram of themself that TEC created. Satisfied with this, TEC lets Peach send another message to Mario before sending them back to their room so he can analyze the dance information.

### Browser Interlude

Browser and Kamopa arrive in Flower Oil and proceed to Bad Fortress, where they believe Peach is located. Browser identifies the Persian ruler and goes to capture her, but finds out that this "Peach" is just an article a resident uses to do his taxes. This is the first time the player learns that Peach and Mario are Persians.

### Pre-Section 3

By returning to Lehnha, Mario and company learn that the next Glass Star is in Glitz City, a floating town inhabited by rich folk who profit off of the war. In order to get there, they will have to get a blimp ticket from Don Piano, the leader of the European Union and the director of the Plant Association that runs western Rogue Harbor. Don Piano, feeling rather generous, offers Mario his very own zeppelin if he can find his daughter Francesco, who recently ran away with Frankie, one of his young colleagues.

When they do find Francesco, she refuses to come back, so Mario returns to the Don to inform him of the situation. However, before any action can be taken, Francesco and Frankie show up. Frankie confesses his disloyalty to the Plant Association and explains his plan to overthrow it and turn it into a sugar cookie company, while Francesco comes up with excuses to protect her love interest. Fortunately for them, Don has come down with a cold and allows them to get married, since he can't be bothered to deal with this drama while ill. He also isn't able to give Mario the zeppelin he promised, but can at least give him an Enter Blimp, allowing him to start his quest in Glitz City.

## **Section 3: Explanation and Education**

Upon arriving in Glitz City, Mario heads for a large structure called the Pitty Glitz near the north end of the city. He finds out that it's a military academy where soldiers-to-be participate in tournament-style mock "wars" for fame and fortune, as well as for the entertainment of Glitz City's richer residents. The current champion, Hawc Green, holds a champion's belt that has the Glass Star on it, forcing Mario to join the academy to win the belt.

Mario meets with the owner of the academy, Mr. Mr. Prosecutor Grubba, and signs up to become a warrior under the alias "General Gunsales". Grubba shows Mario around the facility, while also constantly talking about his son, who he says is no longer with him and probably died in the war. Mario is eventually brought to a Small Series dorm by Grubba's secretary, Jolene, and shown how to operate the school's Automatic Mathematical Booking System to book tournament matches. Here, Gunsales also meets King K, a bisexual stoner Troop of KSD who is infatuated with Gunsales. At some point, King K gets Mario pregnant, although the exact moment this happens is unknown.

Gunsales rises through the small series easily. He heads to a hot dog stand after King K mentioned hearing about the "Rise of the Dog" on the news, and finds a bouncing egg there that he takes with him. King K also retires from the Pitty Glitz, and is replaced by a Servant named Lord Swoop. After beating every small series warrior, Gunsales is able to challenge Covered in Steel for their Great League spot. Unfortunately, his battle ends in failure, but then the egg Gunsales found hatches into a baby Yoshi, who joins Mario's party and secures victory for Mario in a rematch. Gunsales meets with Grubba again to receive a bonus of 30 MONEYO. Grubba also congratulates Mario on his child - the first time the player hears about Mario's Son.

Before Mario can get settled in his new Great League room, Hawc Green shows up to ask Gunsales to "get a Slim Account". Annoyed by Green's unsolicited advertising, Yoshi insults Hawc's Glass Star belt, calling it bad and artificial. Hawc Green leaves, vowing revenge on Gunsales for his Yoshi's insults. Then, Gunsales gets his first of many spam e-mails from someone named X, and while X's messages seem nonsensical, they somehow lead Gunsales to secrets in the Pitty Glitz.

While fighting his way though the Great Series, as well as defeating God Browser, who shows up in Glitz City out of nowhere, Mario investigates the Pitty Glitz. He finds a secret room that contains a suspicious paper talking about a Glass Star, but Jolene confiscates the paper shortly after. While eavesdropping on Prosecutor Grubba, he learns that Grubba knows about the Glass Star, and that warriors in the Pitty Glitz have gone missing lately, including King K. Later, Mario finds King K badly injured under a block, along with Bandy Andy, another small series fighter, who warns Mario that he shouldn't drive to the ring when no one is around. Meanwhile, Gunsales is sent a poisonous pie and cake on his way through the Great Series.

At last, Mario is ready for the championship match against Hawc Green. Before the fight begins, the Pit security escorts Gunsales to the wrong room. Thankfully, Gunsales manages to escape just in time for the match. As the battle begins, Hawc Green reveals that he sent the poisoned pie to Gunsales because he disapproved of his sexual relationship with King K: "This is what happens when you hang on to the baby!" Hawc Green also believes that the baby died, although this is incorrect. Gunsales and Hawc Green then go on to fight each other in a climactic battle, with Gunsales coming out on top. Grubba crowns Gunsales as his new "main son", gives him the championship belt, and moves him to the champ's room.

However, since the Glass Star on the belt is artificial, Gunsales still hasn't found the Glass Star. Prompted by another message from X, Gunsales proceeds to break into Grubba's office via an air vent. Here, Gunsales finally learns Grubba's secrets. Grubba's son, who is a car with the power to disable people, never actually died. Instead, Grubba hid him under the Pitty Glitz, along with the real Glass Star he's powered by. This car was likely used to disable King K, Bandy Andy and the Pitty Glitz' first champion, Prince Mush. Even stranger, Grubba identifies Mario as his daughter. Mario and his friends confront Grubba with this information and chase him back to the arena.

With no other options left, Grubba reveals his son, affirms that traps aren't real, and transforms into Male Grubba and goes insane with power. Despite this power up, Grubba is defeated by Gunsales. Grubba laments that now that he can't train any more soldiers, there will be more war.

Jolene enters the arena and, seeing that Mario has won against Grubba, explains the rest of the Pitty Glitz' mystery. Prince Mush and Grubba were her brothers. After Mush disappeared, she started secretly investigating Grubba's actions and learned about his son. Jolene reveals that Grubba's plan was motivated by the war, and while she doesn't give any specific details, earlier dialogue implies that Grubba genuinely wanted to end the war. Mario, with Jolene's help, sends Grubba somewhere safe while Jolene takes ownership of the Glitz Pit, and Mario takes the third Glass Star.

### Peach Interlude

Tired of Mario's interference, Grodan demands that the Shadow Army take down Mario immediately. Belda says that she has a created a weapon to give Mario a "quick and specific" end, and leaves with Lyn and Viviana to enact her plan.

Meanwhile, Peach is summoned again by TEC, but this time for something serious. TEC has pinpointed some data that he thinks is causing the problem with his personality, and he wants Peach to disguise themself as an X-Nauti soldier and ask Big High Grodan about the data. Peach follows TEC's instructions, and although they learn nothing about TEC's information, they do find out that the 10-Nauties plan to rule the world using the Glass Stars, something they were unaware of until now.

### Browser Interlude

Still bitter after his failure to defeat Mario in Glitz City, Browser arrives at the Big Tree to ask about the Glass Stars. He manages to find Old, who tells Browser that Mario already acquired the Glass Star that was there, much to Browser's dismay.

### Pre-Section 4

Mario apparently gave birth to his son sometime during the preceding scenes, and it is implied that he leaves him in King K's care. King K tells him "You're the best girl I ever had and I'll be back if I need one." Then, in an odd turn of events, Jolene kicks Mario out of the Glitz Pit and deports him from Glitz City - presumably to uphold the reputation of Pitty Glitz, as Mario had done several legally questionable actions during his investigation. The group returns to Rogue Harbor to hunt for the next Glass Star.

Mario and company find out that the next Glass Star is located in Afternoon City, a wonderful and wonderful country allied with Rogue Harbor. Honesty Professor informs Mario that the pipe to Afternoon City is located under the west side of the city. However, because the pipe's profit fell, Mario is unable to enter it. The professor then directs the gang to Dark, an Afternoonian hanging out in a nearby alley. Dark writes down the names Mario and company, which allows them to use the Afternoon City Metro.

## **Section 4: For Beginners or Experts**

Immediately after arriving in Afternoon City, Mario finds that it's a bad time to come. The mayor, Dour, greets the group and tells them that the city has been damned. A terrible church tower in the forest transforms people into pigs whenever its ring rings, and worse, raiders are then taking the pigs from the city. Also, Afternoon City is having trouble attracting tourists, even after ditching its real name, Twilight City, in order to sound more appealing. Dour advises Mario to leave and to be careful his pigs are not stolen. However, Mario needs the Crystal Star, so he sets off to investigate the church tower.

Mario finds and opens a Damned Chest, releasing a being who claims to be the devil and gives him the ability to rotate like thumb tubes. With this power, Mario and company are able to make their way through Sunset Route and find the church tower, which is known as Strange Place. Mario fights through the Servants and Rich Men in Strange Place and climbs to the tower's highest level. There, Mario encounters a nameless ghost in a sheet watching TV. The ghost's name is Doopley, but he doesn't introduce himself and Mario has no way to know his name. Doopley is aware that he's a fictional character, and explains that Mario's adventure is all a great story. He found the story of Afternoon City too boring and unconvincing, so he took it upon himself to create an interesting conflict. Mario easily defeats Doopley, the curse on the town reverses, and Mario gets the fourth Glass Star!

At least, that's what appears to happen. Actually, Doopley manages to steal Mario's body and name, leaving the original Mario as a shadow. Goombell, Carbon, Snow, and Yoshi are all fooled and take off with Doopley as well. The real Mario then runs back to town in order to reclaim his identity.

Meanwhile, the Shadow Army arrives in Afternoon City hoping to enact their plan to bring Mario to a quick and specific end. It turns out that Belda's plan is for Viviana to "be a Great Superbomb" and blow up Mario. Viviana is reluctant to follow her plan and be a suicide bomber, so Belda breaks up with her. Belda says that Viviana needs to find the beautiful little worms she lost or else Viviana will get to punish her, and then leaves to go do a good trap with Lyn.

Mario returns to Afternoon City, but is stopped by Doopley just outside the town gates. The once-apathetic ghost is now enjoying his new perspective on the world and says he likes to be like Mario. However, still hoping to keep the story interesting, Doopley offers to give Mario his body back if he can guess his name. Mario cannot win this challenge, as the lowercase 'p' is missing from the name input screen.

Mario then flees into town and notices Viviana wandering around looking for something. He helps her find the Superbombomb that was meant to be used for Belda's plan, and Viviana is relieved that she can now punish herself instead of Belda. However, Viviana notices the Superbombomb was destroyed, and thus she is unable to use it to kill Mario and herself. Instead, she starts talking with Mario about her relationship issues, and reflects on how Belda has driven her crazy. Hearing how bad Mario's problems are compared to hers, Viviana teams up with Mario to help reclaim his name and body, hoping that she'll regain her former friendliness in the process.

With Viviana's power to draw Mario's shadow and hide in it, Mario learns that there is someone under a great hill who knows Doopley's real name, and that "anger will end" if they reveal it. The duo then makes their way back to Strange Place and reach a locked room in the basement. There, they find the missing letter "p" and an African gray parrot who finally reveals Doopley's name to Mario.

With this knowledge in hand, Mario and Viviana return to Doopley and correctly guess his name, causing him to freak out and run back to the top of Strange Place. Mario follows Doopley and prepares to fight him. It is at this moment that Viviana realizes that she's been helping Mario, the sworn enemy of the Shadow Army and the 10-Nauties, and leaves. However, she realizes that Mario is the only person she's always liked, and she returns to help Mario during the boss fight. Mario defeats Doopley and reclaims his body, his allies, and the Glass Star, and Viviana stays with him for the rest of the adventure. Doopley, meanwhile, runs off to take care of an unspecified duty in Hell.

### Peach Interlude

A 10-Nauti scientist informs Grodan that the seal on Lehnha has weakened according to Belda. Grodan then orders him to focus on researching the Glass Stars and destroying Mario before sending the 10-Nauti off to go to sleep. Grodan then monologues to himself, stating that he has a thousand years of power and will throw the world into the depth of terrorism on the day of the famous day.

TEC, meanwhile, experiments with Peach by asking her about the Glass Stars and the 10-Nauties' objectives. During this experiment, TEC reveals that the treasure behind Lehnha is a 1000-year-old ghost of an old man, also known as Supergod. Peach then sends all of this information to Mario before returning to her room.

### Browser Interlude

After his previous failure at Glitz City, Browser hops in his clown car (supplied by the Mexican list) and attempts to fly back to the floating city. However, after remembering that Glitz City is actually underwater now, Browser dives into the ocean to continue looking for it. He never does, though, and eventually swims back to Rogue Harbor. Despite the setback, Browser did have fun swimming.

### Pre-Section 5

Mario returns to Rogue Harbor and presents the fourth Glass Star to Lehnha, which marks the island "state" on the Magic Card. Returning to Professor Reality, they are again told that the treasure in Lehnha is the ghost of the Old Man. Honesty Professor also informs the gang of an old legend about the Glass Stars. Long ago, a great cat that accentuates the devil destroyed Rogue Harbor in The Disaster. Four fighters, seeking vengeance, pursued the cat. Using the power of the Glass Stars, they got the devil-cat and all the other bad animals in the world in the depths of a maze and hung them. However, only the physical form of the devil was killed, and its spirit could not be stopped. If the Glass Stars are brought together again, Honesty Professor says, "they'll either sue the devil or raise him up" - whichever the person wielding them chooses.

After this long information dump, the professor returns to the topic of the Magic Card. He tells the gang that he's "more sure than a group of sailors" that the next Glass Star is in Keelhaul Card, the actual name of which is Boat Rent. He warns Mario that he has heard many risks concerning the island, such as that it is strange and full of evil.

Mario then finds a man named Flavio at Rogue Harbor's bar who might be willing to help them with their problem. Despite being the richest man in Roughhart, Flavio can't enjoy life because he doesn't feel emotions. Mario suggests that Flavio may feel more fulfilled if he becomes a pirate, and Flavio is interested. He begins preparing to bomb the United States (of which Boat Rent is a territory) and is willing to take Mario there with him.

Mario heads to Rogue Harbor to board Flavio's limo, which is actually a ship called the Flavio S. Flavio is almost ready to depart, but he needs to find a navigator and photographer before they can head to Keelhaul Key. Pa-Patch, a member of Flavio's crew, then informs Mario about an old sailor named Admiral Bob, and Mario sets out to find him. After Mario convinces Bob to join their pirate attack, they all return to the Flavio S. and take off to Boat Rent.

## **Section 5: The Key to Pins**

The Flavio S. and its crew of terrorists sails across the ocean for three days. Along the way, Flavio keeps a journal detailing the boring journey and demonstrates that he is beginning to learn how emotions work. On the third night, just before the boat is supposed to reach Boat Rent, Flavio is telling the crew a crazy myth titled "Curiosity of courage" about his deadly battle with snake snakes, when suddenly the boat is ambushed by Sins. The Flavio S. is destroyed.

Despite this disaster, not only did the crew wash up on the island of Boat Rent, their target, but they managed to build several FRACAS brand wooden bathrooms, create some robots, gather lots of food and salt (the latter likely by harvesting it from the ocean), and construct a living room (possibly as part of a larger-scale project) in the span of 3 days. However, Admiral Bob and two other employees went missing.

After an encounter with some Sins, Flavio orders Mario to look for the missing crew members while he stays at the camp, although he admits he has no arguments why he can't help with the search. Mario agrees anyway and ventures into Boat Rent's jungle. He comes across the three missing crew members, who are being attacked by more Sins. Two of them escape safely, but Bob stays behind to combat the Sins. Mario tracks him down and rescues him from the Sins, but he is apparently mortally wounded. As his last request - or last three requests - he asks Mario to perform a Chuckola Dance for him, find a Chuckola Cola, and take a Chuckola Wake.

Back at camp, Mario tells Flavio that Bob will die early, but Flavio doesn't recognize it as a problem and refuses to help, noting his lack of free will as an excuse. Instead, Flavio advises Mario to Cut the Neck of Bob. Mario returns to Bob and tries to cut his neck, which, presumably due to some quirk of Bob-sha biology, only makes Bob fall asleep. Once Mario wakes him back up, he feels better; thankful that Mario saved his life, Bob joins Mario's adventure as the last Band Member.

Flavio welcomes Bob back to camp while also complaining about the current situation and how no one is thinking about him. Bob seemingly ignores his whining and tells him about a mountain of skulls in the eastern east of the forest that he thinks is suspicious. Pa-Patch chimes in, saying that the treasure is likely there, only to be called a joke by Flavio, who believes the treasure is behind rocks and wants evidence. He then orders him to maintain his duty to attack the camp before ordering Mario to carry him to the area Bob was talking about. After a bit of bickering with his crew, Flavio heads into the forest with Mario.

Upon arriving to the area specified by Bob, Flavio notices a big stone cut in the shape of death, which he mistakes for the Admiral's skull. He tells Mario to solve the riddle while he suits back and sings "This is an Explosion". Noticing the skull shaped hole in the stone's eye as well as some potential clues from Flavio's song, Mario asks to borrow his Skull Skull to solve the riddle. His plan works, and Bob is able to get behind the wall and blow it up, allowing access to the Corsair Cave.

As Mario ventures through the cave, the sound of a ghostly voice keeps warning him to leave. This wailing leads him to a Damned Chest, and while the noise wasn't coming from it, Mario is able to receive the sealed demon's curse after teaching him how to perform the cursing ritual. With this curse, Mario can turn his body into a boat, allowing him to sail on water. Using this ability, Mario ventures further into Corsair Cave, leading to him a group of other stranded people, including Frank and Francesco. After rescuing them, Francesco informs Mario that a pirate named Cortze marooned them on Boat Rent, and is in the next room.

Mario heads into the following area and heads into a black ship that seems to be the source of the ghostly voice. After heading inside, Cortze appears, announcing his presence by stating that he's tired of buying Ghost, likely referring to the Call of Duty game. Despite labeling himself as a "cold blood criminal who stole innocent people from life and disobedience", Cortze starts getting friendly with Mario, but immediately backpedals on this behavior and threatens to drain his mustache. The two engage in a battle, and Mario seems to have killed Cortze, but the pirate immediately revives himself and reveals that he has a secret technique that he used to kill a child and bind his spirit to his treasure, preventing him from dying. However, Cortze then states that he's gotten tired of his treasure and wants to be friends. As a sign of his new friendship with Mario, Cortze gives him a "stellar crystal", which turns out to be the Glass Star the group was looking for.

After receiving Cortze's stellar crystal, Mario finds that an earthquake has created a crack in the wall where Francesco's group was. With Bob's help, Mario blows the wall up, and everyone proceeds to head back to Flavio's camp. Just as they're heading back, an X-Nauti ship shows up and begins firing on the island. Four Eyes, a member of Flavio's crew that was with Bob after the S. Flavio's wreck, appears on the X-Nauti boat and reveals himself to have been Krump all along. An angry Krump then orders Mario to hand over the Glass Star while continuing to fire at Boat Rent. As everyone is trying to avoid getting shot, Flavio asks Mario to take him... to Cortze, planning to use his ship to fight the X-Nauties.

Mario arrives back at Cortze's ship to negotiate with the pirate, who forgot about him immediately after he left. Flavio, stricken with fear, asks to rent Cortze's boat, however, Cortze says that he lost the key to it. Cortze describes the keys as "master skull skulls", which Flavio recognizes as the Skull Skull gem passed down in his family. This excites Cortze, who states he wants to throw a party on the beach, but after Flavio threatens to throw Mario into the sea, he calms down and agrees to help Mario and Flavio.

After the S. Flavio crew and Francesco's group gather on Cortze's boat, Cortze drives it through a wall and engages Krump, whom he calls his father for some unstated reason. While the two ships battle, Mario and his team jump over to the 10-Nauti ship and engage Krump directly. Despite his attempts to fight back, Krump loses and is forced to retreat as the Cortze crew insult him and prepare to celebrate their victory

### Peach Interlude

Grodan, sickened by Krump's failure, orders him to pick up an order as his last chance to prove his worth. He then calls in an X-Nauti soldier to tell the Shadow Army to attack Mario before monologuing to himself some more after the soldier exits.

TEC calls Peach in to help him with a task. Since he cannot access data that isn't connected to the internet, TEC asks Peach to go into the Grodan County Room and upload the data so he can see it. While it is normally impossible to enter Grodan's room due to the tight security, TEC had found a way to bypass this issue.

Peach heads to the same floor she found the soldier room on, this time heading to another room full of chemicals. TEC then orders Peach to brew a drink that will turn her invisible, allowing her to sneak past security. After arranging the chemicals according to some memos, Peach successfully creates the invisibility drink, turning herself transparent after drinking it save for her clothes. After setting those aside, Peach sneaks into Grodan's room and uploads the data from his computer. She then returns to the drink room, redresses, and drinks the Round Drink to return to normal. TEC then orders her to return to him, but not before telling her that there was really no danger. Despite being trolled by the computer, Peach doesn't get mad and sends an email to Mario before going back to her room.

### Browser Interlude

Browser and Kamopa arrive in Afternoon City to look for Glass Stars. While there, the two run into Krump, who is looking for Belda's Superbombomb to defeat Mario and steal his Glass Stars. Browser overhears this and demands he reveal all information he has, but Krump retaliates by calling in an army of X-Nauties. Browser counters with his own Clan Coop army, forcing Krump to use the Superbombomb. It initially fails, but when Browser taunts Krump by burning it, the Superbombomb explodes, blowing away both groups.

### Pre-Section 6

As thanks for restoring his ship, the Black Skull, to working order, Cortze lets Mario use his boating services whenever he wants. Cortze then brings Mario and Flavio back to Rogue Harbor. After Mario updates the Magic Card at Lehnha again, Honesty Professor tells the group that the next Glass Star is located in the town of High-up Poshley inside the Poshley Shelter, a tourist attraction and war shelter. To get there, Mario can ride More Coffee Machines, a famous train that runs between Rogue Harbor and High-up Poshley; however, they'll have to ask Don Piano for help getting a train ticket.

Back in the Plant Association's headquarters, Mario finds that Don Piano's cold has gotten considerably worse. He is now bedridden and fascinated by loneliness. The Don's goons insist that they can't help Mario without the boss's approval. Mario then mentions that he knows where Miss Planet is, which gets the goons' attention. They agree that if Mario goes to where Miss Planet is, then comes back and brings them new growth, they'll do everything they can to get train tickets.

Mario returns to Boat Rent, and finds that Francesco and Frankie are having serious relationship troubles, and Francesco refuses to leave the island until they both get over it. By chanting "Love you!" 99 times, Frankie manages to calm Francesco down temporarily, but Mario realizes if they're going to stay together long-term, they need help. Mario finds A Ring on the ground and gives it to Francesco to remind her of her commitment to Frankie, and they are then ready to go home to Don Piano.

When the Don sees Francesco and Frankie come back with Mario, not only is he instantly cured, but he also realizes that he made a mistake. His selfish stomach made him want to profit off the war and make it last as long as possible, but he concludes he can't stand the madness any more and wants world peace. Don Piano fully commits to leading the European Union and defeating the 10-Nauties, and leaves Frankie in charge of the Plant Association. Don Piano is so thankful for how Mario helped him rethink his life that, instead of simply giving Mario train tickets, he gives him ownership of More Coffee Machines itself.

On the way to the train, Mario's partner exclaims that now they can go to Poshley Shelter and get the Glass Star there, but they are overheard by Belda...

## **Section 6: 3-Day Period**

Mario gets on the train and sets out for High-up Poshley. In his room, he finds a note warning him that he shouldn't go to Poshley Heights or else he'll have a vicious and interesting dream. No one he asks has any idea what the note means.

As Mario walks back through the dining car, he finds a Bumpty named Pennington interrogating a bunch of people in the kitchen. Apparently, the dinner the chef was preparing came suddenly and secretly, and Pennington is trying to identify the wizard who caused it to happen. In the process, he identifies the waitress as a deep woman and Zipper as an actor, but makes no progress in solving the mystery at hand. Meanwhile, Mario notices a hot spray on the carpet, and follows it (and also an unknown person named Mat, but not on purpose) to Room 3 where an obese Frog is living. He finds the dinner's Container inside some gourmet magazines, and although the dinner did nut all over it, it looks like a clean nut, so the container is actually cleaner than before. Mario and Pennington then get a full confession from the Frog.

Mario and Pennington then head to Space 6, Pennington's room, to speak privately. He introduces himself as a student from Poshley High who is learning to be a detective. Impressed with Mario's detective work, he makes Mario his new servant. He also mistakenly identifies Mario as Luigi.

For the rest of the day, Mario runs around the train helping passengers with various tasks. He gets a young Bob-sha named Bub an Airport from the train's Engineer, then he retrieves a Cover for the Conductor and returns a book of secret knowledge about the War called The Day of Wrath to the Holy Spirit, Ghost T. Finally, Mario goes to sleep for the night.

On the second day of his training cruise, Mario heads to Pennington's room to find a panicked rat named Mr. Business who is worried about losing his job. Mr. Business explains that he is working on a new kind of product called Secret ESP Honey, which, if mixed with an orange peel made of calcium, can produce broken results. He kept a basket in his room that contained the prototype. However, when Mr. Business woke up this morning, he realized the supply in the basket ran out. Pennington adds that, sometime last night, Ms. Toodles lost a golden ring and the waitress lost her ears. He sends Mario to find who's responsible for the thefts.

By following a trail of Mr. Business' lost documents, Mario pins Slaughterhouse Zip as the culprit and corners him in Mario's own room. Mario calls Pennington and Mr. Business back to the scene. Pennington boasts that he knew Zipper was counterfeit all along and forces him to hand his stolen items over to Mario. Meanwhile, More Coffee Machines stops at Riverside Center. As Zipper is escorted out of the train by Pennington, he reveals himself as Doopley in disguise! He refuses to let Pennington support him and runs away.

Mario steps off More Coffee Machines and finds that the suspension bridge has been raised, so the train can't continue. Mario volunteers to go inside Riverside Center to look for the bridge switch. While searching, he finds a pair of Great Shoes that give him the ability to make a huge spring. Eventually, he gets to the basement, where there is a horde of small creatures swarming around the switch. He easily chases them away and moves the bridge back down, allowing More Coffee Machines to continue its journey to High-up Poshley.

Nothing of interest happens on the night of the second day, but the next morning, the creatures from Riverside Center's basement attack the train and kidnap several of its passengers. Mario makes his way to the top of the train and faces off with the creatures, known as Smorgon, defeating it and saving the passengers. After the Smorgon leave the train, the train staff and Pennington give their thanks to Mario as they all arrive in High-up Poshley.

Mario quickly makes his way to Poshley Sanctum, but the door to the church shelter is locked. As the gang is trying to figure out a way to get into the sanctum, Pennington arrives, revealing that he the Executive Direct of Sanctum and allowing Mario to enter his home. Unfortunately, the Shadow Army had beat them to it, and leave with the Glass Star after mocking Mario. Fortunately, the star they stole was a fake put out by Pennington, and the real Glass Star was somewhere else in the sanctum. After a bit of exploring, Mario found a duplicate Poshley Sanctum within the painting in the first sanctum and collected the real Glass Star after maneuvering past the Darknesses living there.

### Peach Interlude

After learning that the Glass Star Belda brought back was fake and that Mario likely has the real one, an infuriated Grodan decides that he needs to make changes to his plan.

Peach is once again called into TEC's room, but instead of having her do some frivolous task for him, the computer instead reveals what Grodan's plan is and explains why she was kidnapped. The computer then tells her that the X-Nauti base she's in is on the moon before informing her of a teleporter in the base she can use to escape. Before leaving, though, Peach chooses to send Mario one last email informing him of her situation. This was a good move on her part, as Grodan and 2 10-Nauties arrive as she is typing the message.

To everyone's shock, Grodan reveals that TEC is pregnant with Peach's child, later revealed to be named EBS, and that the baby had been causing TEC to go rogue. As punishment for his treachery, Grodan orders his soldiers to delete all of TEC's data and deport his AI from their moon country. While EBS presumably died in the process, TEC managed to send Peach's email before he was shut down. With this problem out of the way, Grodan then proceeds with his modified plan.

### Browser Interlude

Browser is walking through Rogueport, mumbling about his failures and on the verge of giving up. Just then, Kamopa arrives and tells him of an impenetrable area that make have something useful there. Browser easily makes his way into the area and finds a Glass Star, exclaiming "Christians!" when he finds it.

Before he can leave with his spoils, Hawc Green arrives, telling Browser that that is his secret training center, which is plans on canceling due to it not being very safe. Browser then proceeds to mock Hawc Green, referring to him as his husband, this being either a weird insult like "the concept of trousers", or an indication

that the two men got married at some point. Regardless, this angers Green, causing him to slide kick towards Browser, who easily counters by crushing him. However, this maneuver knocks Kamopa into the wall, causing the Glass Star to fall off the wall and break on her head, causing her to remember that the Browser she's with is a fake made of glass. Hawc Green, still in pain from being crushed, then tells the pair that Gunsales has the real Glass Star, angering Browser as usual.

### Pre-Section 7

The next and final Glass Star is revealed to be on the moon. While Prof. Caesar looks into how to get there, Mario wanders around Rogueport and finds an Ultra Hammer. Conveniently, this is exactly what he needs to get to a town that has access to moon travel. Before Mario leaves to find the pipe to Posko Fahr, Prof. Reality warns him that Bob (the species) live there and that he may have to talk to them to get to the moon.

## **Section 7: Mario Love Moon**

Mario arrives in the town of Posko Fahr and asks around about a means of lunar travel, only to be ignored by the citizens. Eventually, Admiral Bob gets fed up with his people ignoring Mario, and confronts the Mayor about the town's cannon. The two get into an argument that seems to be about anti-Bob racism, but eventually, the Mayor agrees to help Mario since he doesn't want the world to end at the moment. However, Mario will need to get permission from Goldbob, the only one who is allowed to use guns, in order to use the cannon. Furthermore, Mario will need to track down another Bob to help operate it. Admiral Bob is able to identify this individual as General Goldbob White House, also known as General White, a depressed Bob who lost his job and ran away from home, and the group sets out to find the two Bobs.

Finding Goldbob and obtaining his permission proves to be an easy task, but the same could not be said about General White. Mario searches for him in Bad Fortress, as he remembered seeing him there, but conversation with the residents reveals that he set off Boat Rent. Mario goes to Boat Rent, only to hear from Patch-PA that White went to Glitz City. This game of cat-and-mouse would continue until a resident of Afternoon City that saw him says that he doesn't know where he went. With no indication of where General White is, Mario returns to Posko Fahr to relay the bad news to the mayor. However, just before he's about to give up, Mario notices General White going into a house near the shop, and heads there to find him asleep. He eventually wakes him up and informs him of the situation, and General White agrees to help Mario get to the moon. After some preparations, Mario is loaded into the Posko Fahr cannon and fired to the moon.

After a bit of walking on the moon, Mario notices a building inside a glass dome and heads there. Upon going through the entrance, the gang is attacked by 2 Pro Glow Elites, who are defeated with little effort. After identifying the space dome as Fort-X, the base of the X-Nauti, Mario explores the place, finding several Papers and other Keys to access restricted areas. This eventually leads Mario to a hangar where Mr. Krump is impatiently waiting for him. Krump then reveals that he used the last Glass Star to bait him to their base while the Princess of Peaches was being moved to the Sheltered Residence, and prepares to take out Mario using Big 2.0, an updated version of Big Ass. Despite its upgrades, Big 2.0 is defeated, and Krump is launched into space, allowing Mario to take his Glass Star.

However, after doing so, the base begins to malfunction, preventing Mario from escaping in the teleporter room he discovered earlier. Mario proceeds to the lowest level of the base, as that's the only place he hasn't explored, where he runs into a barely functioning TEC, who offers to help him by redirecting the base's remaining power to the teleporter at the cost of his life. TEC then asks Mario to save Princess of Peaches as he shuts down, and Mario heads over to the teleporter room and heads back to Rogue Harbor.

### Browser Interlude

Browser arrives in High-up Poshley looking for a Glass Star. He heads to the Poshley Sanctum, and like with Mario, the door is locked. Browser throws a tantrum at not being able to enter the building, but his angry stomping manages to damage the lock, allowing him to walk in and nab the Glass Star. However, Pennington arrives just after to deal with the situation. After questioning Browser, Pennington reveals that this Glass Star is a fake, and that he gave the real one to "Luigi". While initially disappointed, Browser cheers up when a Paragoomb arrives to tell him that Mario has all of the Glass Star and is about to open Lehnha. Browser then leaves, hoping to crush Mario and steal the Glass Stars.

### Pre-Section 8

After teleporting back to Rogueport, Mario encounters Prof. Reality nearby, who asks them about his venture to the moon. After explaining the situation, the group heads off to Lehnha to finally open the door and enter the Sheltered Residence.

## **Section 8: Year of the Year**

Mario and company enter the Sheltered Residence and proceed through the palace, fighting off various enemies, maneuvering through numerous traps, and solving a few puzzles here and there. Eventually, the gang comes across a garden-like area with a large tower standing tall out of the water. This place is apparently known as Metro City and is managed by Representative, a brother and girlfriend of Hoko Saba whom the gang encounters and defeats. After doing so, they acquire a Stars that they later use to activate a mechanism inside Metro City's tower, opening up more areas of the Sheltered Residence. However, before Mario can explore those new zones, the Shadow Army and Prof. Reality appear. Belda then reveals that Doopley has joined their ranks, and had disguised himself as the Honesty Professor to get Mario to open Lehnha, allowing Grodan to get in without the Glass Stars. The Shadow Army the proceeds to battle Mario to stall him long enough for Grodan to find Supergod.

Mario dispatches the Shadow Army and proceeds through the rest of the Sheltered Residence, dealing with more traps, puzzles, and enemies. The group soon comes to a room that vaguely resembles the Communications room in Fort-X, where they find Big High Grodan waiting for them. Grodan introduces himself as the leader of the Nazi community, and thanks Mario for letting him into the Sheltered Residence before attempting to destroy him and steal the Glass Stars. This fails, forcing him to resort to a dirty tactic: Grodan summons Peach into the room, threatening to kill her if Mario continues resisting, and then zaps him with lightning. Fortunately, Browser falls through the room's roof, landing on Grodan. Unfortunately, despite Browser stating that he's against Grodan, he proceeds to duke it out with Mario just so he can't get the princess. This allows Grodan to sneak away during the fight into a stairway behind the chair he was sitting in. Mario defeats Browser and Kamopa, and follows Grodan to rescue the Princess of Peaches.

Mario corners Grodan inside of Supergod's tomb, where Grodan reveals that the devil is sealed within his rocket. Grodan then begins awakening the Queen of Shadows, Supergod's true form. Once summoned, Grodan then directs her attention to Princess of Peaches, whom Queen of Shadows then feasts upon. After a flash of light, Queen of Shadows appears in a body similar to that of Princess of Peaches. Grodan then commands her to destroy Mario. However, to his surprise, Queen of Shadows does not obey him. He threatens to reseal her if she doesn't follow his orders, but the Queen simply destroys his body, then tells him that no one regulates her and destroys his head.

Immediately after, the Shadow Army arrives, and Belda explains that she spread the rumors about the Glass Stars, leading to Supergod's resurrection. After some brief conversation between the two, Queen of Shadows finally acknowledges Mario's presence, noting that he has no power, but can be useful. She offers him a position as her employee, but he refuses, much to her amusement. This results in a battle between the two, which Mario seems to be winning. However, Queen of Shadows assumes her true form, becoming impervious to Mario's attacks and healing all of the damage she took. Things start looking bad for Mario, as he has no way to defeat Queen of Shadows.

Just then, the Glass Stars appear, warping to Rogue Harbor's hub area, then flying off to various areas Mario has been through to inform the everyone of Mario's struggle against Supergod. The Glass Stars then channel the prayers of the people and break through Queen of Shadows' invulnerability. This also allows Princess of Peaches to briefly awaken so she can give the last of her power to Mario, healing the damage he and his party took from the previous fight. Queen of Shadows and Mario do battle again, this time truly going in Mario's favor. After a long fight, Mario slays the Queen of Shadows and frees the princess from her clutches.

In the wake of Supergod's death, the Shadow Army, who was previously watching the battle between her and Mario, runs away from the area. Mario and company then go to check on Princess of Peaches, who wakes up from the shock caused by the whole Supergod ordeal. Just then, the real Professor Reality arrives and reveals that he found the real treasure: Rogueport's taxes. As Reality discusses his plan to steal the taxes for himself, Princess of Peaches decides she's had enough of this country and makes plans to return to Persia.

On the night of Mario's departure, Mario's friends arrive at Rogue Harbor, telling Mario to leave their country and never return, an odd request that is immediately followed by them telling him how their adventure has changed them for the better. Make and Petun also show up, giving Mario and Princess of Peaches two fungi to eat on their trip back home. After everyone says their goodbyes, Mario and Peach Princess get on their boat and head off to the Persian Kingdom, but not before Prof. Reality, who seemed to want Mario gone the most, says strange things hinting that he might've been working for Grodan all along.

As Mario is telling the tale of his adventures to Lewis, he gets an email from Goombell, who is working under Honesty Professor Caesar Reality. In her e-mail, she states that she's had to return to the various places she visited on Mario's adventure as part of Prof. Reality's research and lists off what the rest of the gang has been up to since their adventure.

Carbon is now living with Koo Koopie's parents and may or may not be trying to kill everyone, Snow is now acting alongside Doopley in a game based off Mario's adventure called "Role of Mario", Yoshi Kid is a fighter at Pitty Glitz and is addicted to drugs, Viviana is still "involved" with Belda, Admiral Bob is now working with and dating Cortze, and Mr. Mowz spends most of his time watching and sharing porn with Goombell. Grodan is also apparently alive, as is Krump, but the two seemed to have renounced their evil ways, with the former becoming a writer of bad works. After revealing that TEC, who was helping her video chat with Mario over email, is also alive, Goombell says her goodbyes to Mario for good. After Mario finishes reading the email, Toadsworth and Princess of Peaches suddenly arrive. Toadsworth tells Mario that he found a treasure chest after cleaning the castle, and, much to Mario's dismay, forces him to go hunt for more taxes.

### Bad ending

If you choose to become the Queen of Shadows' employee, she casts a magic that makes Mario, his band and the entire world come, resulting in a Game Over.

## **Themes**

### Gender Fluidity

Many characters in *Book of Mario* deviate from traditional gender roles. The most notable example of this is the relationship between Mario and King K, who are (presumably) male. Mario takes on the role of the mother and successfully gives birth to a son, although he has yet to be encountered.

The Princess of Peaches has been referred to as both a male and a female, and has struggled to identify with either gender. Sir Snow was born as a female but became a male through gender reassignment surgery before the events of *Book of Mario*. The mayor of Bad Fortress also identifies as a female, perhaps indicating that the Troops of KSD are relatively progressive.

### Abortion

During Mario's conquest in the Pitty Glitz, Prosecutor Grubba attempts to abort Mario's baby with a poisonous cake. While this plan ultimately fails, it does shed some light on Grubba's disapproval of his son's perceived premature decision to have a baby. To remedy this, Grubba feels justified to take matters into his own hands and terminate the baby for his son's benefit.

TEC receives a cyber abortion from a group of 10-Nauties after Grodan reveals that the baby's data has contributed to TEC's erratic behavior.

### Environmentalism

Denizens of the Pitty Glitz have expressed some interest in renewable energy. Grubba set out to capture Crystal Stars for the purpose of powering his secret car with a clean source of power. Hawc Green has indicated support for a greener economy, although it is unknown what measures he would like to enact. Bandy Andy is rather critical of automobiles in general, and encourages Mario not to drive, likely in order to reduce carbon emissions. Mario and company demonstrate their opposition to nuclear power in Strange Place.

### Religion

Several key plot points are laced with religious undertones. The most prominent example is the mysterious presence of Supergod, who may have been directly or indirectly responsible for igniting The War.  TEC confirms that the power of Christian Stars can be used to defeat "the demon". The Christian Stars might symbolize other Abrahamic religions seeing that Judaism's most well-known symbol happens to be a star, while Supergod's transcendence and mystique could be a nod to a Hajj pilgrimage known as the "Stoning of the Devil ". The Stoning of the Devil is correlated with Islam's calendar, which in turn is based on the Lunar year. The lunar year also happens to be tied to the phases of the moon. Given the importance of the moon in Abrahamic religions, it is understandable that one of the Christian Stars is located there. Strange Place also served as a place of worship.

Other characters, such as Jolene, have been seen proselytizing to other competitors in the Glitz Pit. These religious teachings seemed to have worked on Lil Fat, who has invoked "Lord Jesus" on at least one occasion.

Viviana has sought to bestow religious punishments such as crucifixion upon wrongdoers such as Doopley.