Chapter 3

*"Chapter 3: Well, shit-"*, also known as the *Norm Route*, is the final chapter/route in the game, unlocked after the Randy, Oliver, Karen, and Bigfoot routes have been completed. In it, Mayor Mingus exiles Gingi from Dialtown, forcing them to team up with the last "normie" to find a way back home and reclaim their eggs.

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## Summary

On a dark and stormy night, the Mingling, lead by Mayor Mingus Crown herself, is summoned in order to deal with Gingi's annoying presence, where it revealed that they (somehow) managed to preform actions of all four routes over the course of 12 months; laying eggs on private property, harassing Dialtown citizens, exposing the town to vulgar cinema, convincing Karen Dunn to skip town and become an artist, befriending Bigfoot, stealing Mingus's rug, and (worst of all), fraternizing with Randy Jade. Mingus sees their removal as the final obstacle in her path to recreate the Dialtown of 1966, when The Dialup first occurred, and is willing to do anything to achieve it. She has Shooty and Stabby drug Gingi with green food before stuffing them in a cat-carrier and bring them to her, which she then exiles.

After waking up, Gingi breaks out of the cat-carrier and finds themselves stranded with a note attached to their spine. While walking around bemoaning how lost they are, Jerry, now a shepherd thanks to what happened in Randy's route, rolls out to them and asks why they were here. Gingi asks Jerry if he could read the note, which has "GET OUT" written all over it, they learn that it was signed by the mayor. Jerry (on Gingi's pleads), then reads the second half, which calls out Gingi as a monster and threat to normality itself due to their selfish, vulgar, and destructive inclinations, and that they are never to return to Dialtown. Utterly heartbroken by this, Phonegingi nearly gives up until Jerry states this this letter has two glaring flaws that make the letter worthless; the first being that Gingi never gives up, having helped him, Randy, Oliver, Karen, and Bigfoot become happier. The second being Gingi was not the first person exiled for being a threat to normality. There is one last person whose head is entirely organic, having somehow avoided getting their head replaced during the Dialup; a "normie". Gingi decides to go to them for help against Jerry's warnings of them being dangerous. As Gingi heads to the "normie", they make it clear to the Narrator that they also don't want to give up on Dialtown for the sake of their eggs, their friends, and out of spite.

Eventually, Phonegingi reaches the normie's shack, and despite all the warnings, goes knock on the front door. The normie immediately tells them to leave, but Gingi refuses to budge. A year passes by, and the normie finally relents and lets them inside, upon which the they reveal their name; Sgt. Norm Allen, a patriotic Air Force pilot who was tasked by president Callum Crown to enter a wormhole in space, which caused the man to time travel from 1966 to 2020s and avoid The Dialup. He was then exiled by Mingus for refusing to "conform", and he's been living alone ever since, seeing the Dialtown as a place of hypocrites for letting themselves be run by her, "the very definition of abnormal" thanks to her cat head. After answering Gingi's questions, he then demands they leave, but Gingi still refuses. When he talks about an artist woman with a horse decal who he has sighted nearby, Gingi realizes it's Karen and decides to go to her, in the hopes she could smuggle them back into Dialtown. Gingi tries to convince Norm to come with, but he refuses until they mention they could reach Mingus herself just to piss her off, which gives him the idea to make a deal with them to tag along back to Dialtown to act as protection so he can have the satisfaction of seeing Mingus's reaction to Gingi.

After 10 minutes of unimaginable chit-chat as the two travel to where Karen is, Norm is at the end of his rope dealing with Gingi's idiotic questioning. Gingi then asks what Dialtown was like under Callum Crown, Mingus's grandfather. Norm then goes on to tell the life story of Callum. Callum was born in Dialtown with a brilliant mind and an obsession with telephones, but only one complete limb, which made him unable to serve during World War II. To deal with this, he would build artificial limbs so he could walk, but all his attempts to join were denied as he was seen as a freak who'd slow everyone else down. Eventually, a bitter Callum would start a business in selling prosthetics to returning war veterans, and soon started his own company. When his business ran into finical trouble, he started offering improved prosthetics that could better people's lives, only to be laughed at and be forced to close his factory down, becoming a door-to-door vendor. He would then to create the first telephone head, with then caught on quick enough that it would allow Callum to run for mayor of Dialtown, then senate, and finally presidency. To become president, he proposed a plan that would bring about a true utopia that involved replacing everyone's heads, but refused to explain the details unless he was elected, which was unanimously voted for, and thus instigating The Dialup. But on the day he was giving his ultimate speech, he accidentally erased his own memories, forcing the world to move on while Callum sits alone, unable to tell if "the war was over."

Back in Dialtown, The Mingling meets once again to discuss phase 2 of Mingus's societal reforms, which involved Gingi's eggs being taken from the funfair and to the zoo. When told that Gingi could return after a year, the Mayor reveals she's made a scarecrow from three objects from the previous routes to keep the cryptid out; "Big gregma". Gingi naturally finds it as the Mayor notes the improbability, but Norm effortlessly destroys it with his gun. They finally meet Karen, who gets the idea of smuggling the two in by presenting them as art pieces for Oliver's Scareshack, but not before forcing Norm to apologize to Gingi for calling them an idiot. At the Scareshack, Norm reveals that he wants to kill Mingus out of revenge for the exile, much to Oliver's fears that doing so would only prove her right. After leaving, they are attacked by Shooty and Stabby, but are chased away upon realizing that they have no bullets, and Norm does.

Back at the Mingling, Mingus fires the two for failing them, and sends Billy after them in the Subway, and tries to use the fact that Norm wouldn't dare hurt a child. However, he retreats when Norm threatens to give his gun to Gingi to shoot Billy, who has zero qualms with harming children, and is fired for failing Mingus, with the Hobo opting to go and stop them. At the Funfair, Randy lets Gingi and Norm in after Norm explains what happened, but are then ambushed by the Hobo, who states Mingus plans on turning Gingi's eggs into an omelet before asking them to tie themselves up. Norm, not believing the Hobo to be God, angers him enough to enter his "GoddoG" form to keep them trapped, but is talked down when Gingi states he's happier being a hobo and Norm offers an omelet. God then states that his previous statement was a lie and that the eggs are with Theoroar before departing. At the Zoo, Theoroar appears and reveals that he has both the eggs as well as Bigfoot, before entering a stand-off with Norm, during which he also reveals that the zoo was dying ever since Gingi escaped and has been struggling to keep it afloat, and hopes that it can save with Bigfoot and the eggs. Gingi however counters that his zoo has done nothing but keep the adventure for himself, and that Theoroar needs to find adventure for himself. This causes him to stand down and give up the eggs, and then blow up the zoo, releasing all the animals and Bigfoot. Bigfoot then speaks for the first time that he, Norm, and Gingi are "good" before sprinting off into the night.

After this, Norm and Gingi start walking over to the Mayor's office, only for Mingus to come down and furiously reprimand the two for throwing Dialtown into chaos. She makes her contempt for Gingi clear while stating that Norm was, before now, nothing but an afterthought in her head as he did nothing but sulk in solitude as she wanted. She then reveals her plan to recreate the Dialtown of 1966 hinged on her successfully reawakening her grandfather Callum by remaking Dialtown into the town he once lived in, but thanks to Gingi's actions, foiled every attempt. Norm calls her out on this, and eventually the two prepare to kill each other. Just then the Narrator finally comes back, telling Gingi that the reason they haven't spoken was thanks to having become friends with Norm, Jery and the datables. The Narrator then tells Gingi to make a choice to decide the ending of the story, and Gingi opts to stop Norm from shooting Mingus, which leaves them alone to deal with her. Now faced with a wrathful cat-mayor, the Narrator recommends asking for her postcard of Callum, which had words written by Callum himself. With help from Norm, she is forced to comply. Gingi, despite being illiterate, then manages to read what was was written, stating that Callum hoped that "All are welcome here in Dialtown", much to Norm's indignation and Mingus's horror. She then reveals that she wanted to bring back her grandfather because she missed him after one day Callum having an semi-lucid episode where she was mistaken for his deceased love.

After realizing her mistake, she finally lifts Norm's and Gingi's exile from Dialtown, with the cryptid no longer allowed to play with fireworks in exchange for staying at the park. Norm is then brought in to help the mayor change Dialtown for the better. Sometime later, Norm is then brought into an interview about his experiences. Meanwhile, Gingi's eggs finally hatch, only for the hatchlings to be animal-headed versions that Gingi despises, bemoaning how everything had been for naught.

## Endings

* The ending where you get shot by a deranged cowboy and are subsequently mailed to Randy: Decide to yell BOO! at Norm. He fatally shoots Gingi, causing them to shit themselves. They then ask for any final requests, which is to be mailed to Randy, just to freak him out.
* The ending where you encourage Norm to shoot Mayor Mingus and learn absolutely *FUCK ALL* about friendship or forgiveness or whatever: Wave at Norm. At the final confrontation, tell Norm not to miss Mayor Mingus. He manages to kill her, but then realizes that he just proved her right. It ends with both him and Gingi staring at the player screen for the ending.
* Norm's Good Ending/True Ending: Wave at Norm. At the final confrontation, tell Norm not to shoot Mayor Mingus. After convincing Norm to give up his revenge, Gingi then convinces Mingus to give them the postcard, which reads "All are welcome here in Dialtown", making Mingus stand down and reform. As an interview with Norm on his experience happens, Gingi eggs finally hatch, only to be repulsed by their appearance and bemoan how everything was for naught.