TERRATALE

## INTRO

LONG AGO, TWO RACES RULED OVER EARTH...

HUMANS AND MONSTERS

ONE DAY, A FATAL WAR BROKE OUT BETWEEN THE TWO RACES...

AFTER A LONG FIGHT, HUMANS HAD WON.

THEY SEALED THE MONSTERS UNDERGROUND AND LAY A CURSE

A CURSE THAT WOULD SLOWLY KILL OFF ALL MONSTERS OVER TIME.

MANY YEARS LATER...

MT. EBBOT, 2022

LEGENDS SAY THAT THOSE WHO CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN NEVER RETURN...

BUT SOME PEOPLE ARE A BIT...

ADVENTUROUS.

---Terratale, by TheSleepySpectator

## The tale of Carmen and Kenai

A long time ago, two humans fell into the RUINS.

One human lay awake in light, and the other, motionless and cold.

The surviving one, injured by its fall, called out for help.

KENAI, the king’s daughter, heard the human’s call.

He brought the human back to the castle, along with the corpse of it's sibling.

The King bury the fallen child underneath a bed of purple flowers, keeping the soul locked away.

Over time, KENAI and the human became like siblings, and the human got over the loss of their fallen family, mostly.

The King and Queen treated the human child as their own.

The underground was full of hope.

Maybe, just maybe, this human could free us.

And maybe even cure us.

Then...

One day...

The human and KENAI were not in their beds that morning.

The King and Queen looked everywhere in the Underground.

But there was nothing we could do.

However, the fallen human's soul, was missing.

Everyone had an idea of what they had done.

KENAI had absorbed the fallen human's soul.

She transformed into a being with incredible power.

With the human SOUL, KENAI crossed through the barrier.

She carried her will and DETERMINATION into the sunset.

Back to the village of the humans.

KENAI reached the center of the village.

There, she tried to ask for help.

She tried to reason with the humans, to let them out.

KENAI begged for peace...

Soon, screams rang throughout the area.

Screams so loud and fearful, you could hear them from the bottom of the UNDERGROUND.

The villagers saw KENAI and assumed the worse.

They wouldn't listen.

They only wanted blood.

The humans attacked her with everything they had.

She was struck with blow after blow.

Kenai had the power to destroy them all.

But...

Kenai did not fight back.

Clutching her chest, holding back tears...

KENAI smiled, and walked away.

Wounded, KENAI stumbled home.

She entered the castle and collapsed.

Her dust spread across the garden.

The kingdom fell into despair.

The king and queen had lost their birth child in one night.

...

Maybe we were wrong to shun them.

When the kingdom lay eyes on the surviving human...

What once was love for the human, turned into hate,

A week later, the human disappeared as well.

Most assume that they fled to the surface.

But we all know that it's impossible without another soul to travel with them.

The king decided it was time to end our suffering.

Every human who falls down here must die.

With enough souls, we can shatter the barrier forever.

It’s not long now.

King ASGORE will let us go.

King ASGORE will give us hope.

King ASGORE will save us all.

You should be smiling, too.

Aren’t you excited?

Aren’t you happy?

You won't be sick anymore.

You’re going to be free.

## Library books

### Red bookcase

\* (It’s a school report about monster funerals.)

\* Monster funerals, technically speaking, are cool as heck.

\* When monsters get old and kick the bucket, they turn into dust, and vines grow in that small area.

\* At funerals, we take that dust and spread it on that person’s favorite thing, and we leave flowers in the vines.

\* Then their essence will live on in that thing...

\* Uhhh, am I at the page minimum yet?

\* I’m kinda sick of writing this.

### Blue Bookcase

\* While monsters are mostly made of magic, human beings are mostly made of water.

\* Humans, with their physical forms, are far stronger than us.

\* But they will never know the joy of expressing themselves through magic.

\* They’ll never get a bullet-pattern birthday card, or a bundle of magic flowers...

### Orange Bookcase

\* Because they are made of magic, monsters’ bodies are attuned to their SOUL.

\* If a monster doesn’t want to fight, its defenses will weaken, and the VIRUS will grow quicker.

\* And the crueller the intentions of our enemies, the more their attacks will hurt us.

\* Therefore, if a being with a powerful SOUL struck with the desire to kill...

\* Um, let’s end the chapter here...

### Light Green Bookcase

“MONSTER HISTORY PART 4”

\* no longer, we moved out of our old city, HOME.

\* We braved harsh cold, damp swampland, and searing heat...

\* Until we reached what we now call our capital.

\* “NEW HOME.”

\* Again, our King is really bad at names...

### Dark Green Bookcase

\* Love, hope, compassion...

\* This is what people say monster SOULs are made of.

\* But the absolute nature of “SOUL” is unknown.

\* After all, humans have proven their SOULs don’t need these things to exist.

\* And just they did to us.

### Yellow Bookcase

\* Contrary to popular belief, some monsters are immune to the Virus.

\* Most of the time, if they're immune, they'll be born with a flower somewhere on their body,

\* Whereas monsters who may be affected by it are not born with a flower.

\* They almost always have two dark lines on their faces.

\* It looks really creepy.

### Yellow Bookshelf 2, the sequel.

\* (It's a book labelled Monster History Part 6.)

\* Unfortunately, monsters are not experienced with illness.

\* However, when monsters are about to expire of the CURSE or age, they lie down, immobile.

\* We call this state "Fallen Down."

\* A person who has Fallen Down will soon perish.

\* In a way, this confusing situation was all too familiar.

## Waterfall writings

\* (Ancient writing covers the walls... you can just make out the words.)

\* “The War of Humans and Monsters.”

\* Why did the humans attack?

\* Indeed, it seemed that they had nothing to fear.

\* Humans are unbelievable strong.

\* It would take the SOUL of nearly every monster...

\* ... Just to equal the power of a single human SOUL.

\* But humans have one weakness.

\* Ironically, it is the strength of their SOUL.

\* Its power allows it to persist outside the human body, even after death.

\* If a monster defeats a human, they can take its SOUL.

\* A monster with a human SOUL...

\* A horrible beast with unfathomable power.

\* (It’s an illustration of a strange creature...)

\* (There’s something very unsettling about this drawing.)

\* (The ancient glyphs have been painted over with a list of 21 different flavors.)

\* “The power to take their SOULs.”

\* “This is the power that the humans feared.”

\* This power has no counter.

\* Indeed, a human cannot take a monster’s SOUL.

\* When a monster dies, its SOUL disappears.

\* And an incredible power would be needed to take the SOUL of a living monster.

\* There is only one exception.

\* The SOUL of a special species of monster called a

“Boss Monster.”

\* A Boss Monster’s SOUL is strong enough to persist after death...

\* If only for a few moments.

\* A human could absorb this SOUL.

\* But this has never happened.

\* And now it never will.

\* Hurt, beaten, and fearful for our lives, we surrendered to the humans.

\* Seven of their greatest magicians sealed us underground with a magic spell, and cursed us.

\* Flowers plague our bodies, ripping away at our hope, day by day.

\* Anything can enter through the seal, but only beings with a powerful SOUL can leave.

\* And unless the seal is broken, those with our curse may never leave, as this curse eats away at our souls.

\* Why do this to us?

\* There is only one way to reverse this spell.

\* If a huge power, equivalent to seven human SOULs, attacks the barrier...

\* It will be destroyed.

\* But this cursed place has no entrances or exits.

\* There is no way a human could come here.

\* We will remain trapped down here forever.

\* Without candles or magic to guide them Home, the monsters used crystals to navigate.

\* However...

\* There is a prophecy.

\* The Angel...

\* The One Who Has Seen The Surface...

\* They will return.

\* And the underground will go empty.

## Flowey after-game dialogue dump

### Flowey wasn’t killed. First time meeting them at this point in time. End of Neutral run.

Why...?

Why did you let me go?

Don’t you realize that being nice...

... just makes you get hurt?

Look at yourself.

You made all these great friends.

But now, you’ll probably never see them again.

Not to mention how much they’ve been set back by you, and half of them may be dead now.

Hurts, doesn’t it?

If you had just gone through without caring about anyone...

You wouldn’t have to feel bad now.

So I don’t get it.

If you really did everything the right way..

Why did things still end up like this?

Why...?

Is life really that unfair?

...

Say.

What if I told you...

I knew some way to get you a better ending?

#### Befriended Papyrus and Undyne...

You’ll have to load your SAVE file, and...

Well, in the meantime, why don’t you go see Dr. Alphys?

It seems like you could have been better friends.

Who knows... maybe she’s got the key to your happiness...?

See you soon.

### If a genocide route has been triggered before...

Why, Carmen...?

Why?

WHY?

We were on our way to REAL victory.

On our way to making up for LAST time!

Why’d you have to SCREW IT UP?

Hahaha...

Is this REVENGE?

Are you ANGRY because I wasted HER SOUL?

Making me watch you act so pure and happy, while I...?

…

No.

NO.

I KNOW what you’re doing.

You just want to see what it’s all like.

Before we TEAR IT AWAY from them.

Ahahaha...

Genius, Carmen.

Well, I’ll let you mess around.

I know you’ll come back eventually.

And when that time comes...

Carmen...

We'll be waiting for you.

### EX Speech 1

Why do you keep coming back here?

Oh, I get it.

You wanna be friends, huh...?

You’re PATHETIC.

You REALLY think I want to be friends with YOU?

Heh...

You really DON’T get it, do you?

There’s only one person I could care about anymore.

And even then, I couldn’t TRULY care about them.

I just like to think there’s someone out there...

Someone that I won’t get tired of.

Someone like ME.

...

Say.

Quit looking at me with that stupid expression.

You’re pissing me off.

### EX 2

So you’re here again.

What’s wrong with you?

Are you trying to start the Flowey Fan Club?

Because if you want to join THAT...

You’ll have to talk to Papyrus.

Yeah, he started one.

A few different times, anyway.

Decorated his whole house with purple flowers.

It freaked his brother out.

That was fun.

...

I won’t lie.

He’s one of the better characters to mess around with.

Took me a long time to get bored of that one.

...yeah.

Talk to him about it.

### EX 3

So.

Did you start the Flowey Fan Club?

Ha.

I’m just kidding.

I was watching.

I know you didn’t.

But I don’t care.

Really.

He probably would have invited his garbage brother.

You know.

Smiley Trashbag.

...

Say.

If I have ONE piece of advice for you...

DON’T.

Let his brother.

Find out ANYTHING about you.

He’ll... well...

Let’s just say.

He’s caused me more than my fair share of resets.

Stay away from that guy.

### EX 4

Why do you keep coming back here?

You don’t REALLY want to be friends, do you...?

...

No. I get it.

You’re just like me, aren’t you?

You don’t care about anyone.

You’re just bored.

You just want to see what I’ll say.

So you can laugh and throw me away like a broken toy.

Well, TOO BAD!

I’m not LIKE everybody else.

So, from now on...

You’re not getting ANYTHING.

### EX 5

...

Don't you have anything better to do?

## TRUE LAB ENTRIES

\* ENTRY NUMBER 1

\* This is it...

\* Time to do what the King has asked me to do.

\* To do what Carmen gave their life for.

\* I will create the power to free us all.

\* I will unleash the power of the SOUL.

\* ENTRY NUMBER 2

\* The barrier is locked by SOUL power. .

\* Unfortunately, this power cannot be recreated artificially.

\* SOUL power can only be derived from what was once living.

\* So, to create more, we will have to use what we have now...

\* The SOULs of monsters.

\* ENTRY NUMBER 3

\* But extracting a SOUL from a living monster would require incredible power...

\* Besides being impractical, doing so would instantly destroy the SOUL’s host.

\* And, unlike the persistent SOULs of humans...

\* The SOULs of most monsters disappear immediately upon death.

\* If only I could make a monster’s soul last...

\* Unfortunately, unless they're a BOSS MONSTER, or uninfected, their souls are useless.

\* ENTRY NUMBER 4

\* I’ve been researching humans to see if I can find any info about their SOULS.

\* I ended up snooping around the castle...

\* And found these weird tapes.

\* I don’t feel like ASGORE’s watched them...

\* I don’t think he should.

\* ENTRY NUMBER 5

\* I’ve done it.

\* Using the blueprints, I’ve extracted it from Carmen's SOUL.

\* I believe this is what gives human SOULs the strength to persist after death.

\* The will to keep living...

\* The resolve to change fate.

\* Let’s call this power...

\* “Determination.”

\* ENTRY NUMBER 6

\* ASGORE asked everyone outside the city for monsters that had “fallen down.”

\* It hurt having to reject the infected.

\* Their bodies came in today.

\* They’re still comatose...

\* And soon, they’ll all turn into dust.

\* But what happens if I inject “determination” into them?

\* If their SOULS persist after they perish, then...

\* Freedom might be closer than we all thought.

\* ENTRY NUMBER 7

\* We’ll need a vessel to wield the monster SOULs when the time comes.

\* After all, a monster cannot absorb the SOULs of other monsters.

\* Just as a human cannot absorb a human SOUL...

\* So then...

\* What about something that’s neither human nor monster?

=)

\* ENTRY NUMBER 8

\* I’ve chosen a candidate.

\* I haven’t told ASGORE yet, because I want to surprise him with it...

\* In the center of his garden, there’s something special.

\* The first violet flower, that grew before all the others.

\* The flower from the outside world.

\* It appeared just before the queen left.

\* I wonder...

\* What happens when something without a SOUL gains the will to live?

\* ENTRY NUMBER 9

\* things aren’t going well.

\* none of the bodies have turned into dust, so I can’t get the SOULs.

\* i told the families that i would give them the dust back for the funerals.

\* people are starting to ask me what’s happening.

\* what do i do?

\* ENTRY NUMBER 10

\* experiments on the vessel are a failure.

\* it doesn’t seem to be any different from the control cases.

\* whatever.

\* they’re a hassle to work with anyway.

\* the seeds just stick to you, and won’t let go...

\* ENTRY NUMBER 11

\* now that mettaton’s made it big, he never talks to me anymore.

\* ... except to ask when i’m going to finish his body.

\* but i’m afraid if i finish his body, he won’t need me anymore...

\* then we’ll never be friends ever again.

\* ... not to mention, every time i try to work on it, i just get really sweaty...

\* ENTRY NUMBER 12

\* nothing is happening.

\* i don’t know what to do.

\* i’ll just keep injecting everything with “determination.”

\* i want this to work.

\* ENTRY NUMBER 13

\* one of the bodies opened its eyes.

\* ENTRY NUMBER 14

\* Everyone that had fallen down...

\* ... has woken up.

\* They’re all walking around and talking like nothing is wrong.

\* I thought they were goners...

\* ENTRY NUMBER 15

\* Seems like this research was a dead end...

\* But at least we got a happy ending out of it...?

\* I sent the SOULS and the vessel back to ASGORE.

\* And I called all of the families and told them everyone’s alive.

\* Even some of the vines and flowers are disappearing!

\* I’ll send everyone back tomorrow.

\* ENTRY NUMBER 16

\* no No NO NO NO NO NO

\* ENTRY NUMBER 18

\* the flower’s gone.

\* ENTRY NUMBER 19

\* the families keep calling me to ask when everyone is coming home.

\* what am i supposed to say?

\* i don’t even answer the phone anymore.

\* ENTRY NUMBER 20

\* ASGORE left me five messages today.

\* four about everyone being angry

\* one about this cute teacup he found that looks like me

\* thanks asgore.

\* ENTRY NUMBER 21

\* i spend all my time at the garbage dump now

\* it’s my element

### VHS Tapes

\* Psssst.

\* Gorey, wake up.

\* Mmm?

\* What is it, dear?

\* ... err, and why do you have that video camera?

\* Shush!

\* I want to get your reaction.

\* Gorey, dearest.

\* What is my favorite vegetable?

\* Hmmm...

\* Carrots, right?

\* No no no!

\* My FAVORITE vegetable is...

\* Eda-MOM-e.

\* ... get it???

\* ...

\* Go back to bed, dear.

\* No no!!

\* Not yet!

\* Hee hee hee.

\* Now, If I were a dog, what breed of dog would I be?

\* Hmmm... I don’t know, honey.

\* What kind of dog would you be?

\* I would be...

\* A MOMERANIAN.

\* Hohoho!

\* You sure are excited to have this child.

\* You know, if you keep making jokes like this...

\* One day, you could be...

\* ... a famous MOMedian.

\* ...

\* Well, I am going to bed.

\* Hey!

\* Come on, Tori!

\* That one was funny!

\* Hahaha, I know.

\* I am just teasing you.

\* Goodnight, dear.

\* Goodnight, honey.

\* ...

\* Oh dear, perhaps it is too dark in here for the video to

come out...

\* Okay, Carmen, are you ready?

\* Do your creepy face!

\* AHHHHH!!

\* Hee hee hee!

\* Oh!

\* Wait!

\* I had the lens cap on...

\* What!?

\* You’re not gonna do it again...?

\* Come on, quit tricking me!

\* Haha!

\* Howdy, Carmen!

\* Smile for the camera!

\* Ha, this time I got YOU!

\* I left the cap on...

\* ON PURPOSE!

\* Now you’re smiling for noooo reason!

\* Hee hee hee!

\* What?

\* Oh, yeah, I remember.

\* When we tried to make butterscotch pie for Dad, right?

\* The recipe asked for cups of butter...

\* But we couldn't find any buttercup FLOWERS, so we just picked some Morning Glories instead?

\* Yeah!

\* Those flowers got him really sick.

\* I felt so bad.

\* We made Mom really upset.

\* I should have laughed it off, like you did...

\* Um, anyway, where are you going with this?

\* Huh?

\* Turn off the camera...?

\* OK.

\* I... I don’t like this idea, Carmen.

\* Wh.. what?

\* N-no, I’m not...

\* ... big kids don’t cry.

\* Yeah, you’re right.

\* No!

\* I’d never doubt you, Carmen...

\* Never!

\* Y... yeah!

\* We’ll be strong!

\* We’ll free everyone.

\* I’ll go get the SOUL...

\* Psst... Carmen...

\* Please...come here...

\* I don’t like this plan anymore.

\* I... I...

\* ... no, I said...

\* I said I’d never doubt you.

\* Six, right?

\* We just have to get six...

\* And we’ll do it together, right?

\* All three of us, together.

## GASTER FOLLOWERS

\* Alphys might work faster.

\* But the old Royal Scientist, Doctor W.D. Gaster?

\* One day, he vanished without a trace.

\* They say he shattered across time and space.

\* Ha ha...

\* How can I say so without fear?

\* I’m holding a piece of him right here.

\* It makes sense why ASGORE took so long to hire a new

Royal Scientist.

\* After all, the old one...

\* Dr. Gaster.

\* What an act to follow!

\* They say he created the CORE.

\* However, his life...

\* Was cut short.

\* One day, he fell into his creation, and...

\* Will Alphys end up the same way?

\* I understand why ASGORE waited so long to hire a new

Royal Scientist.

\* The previous one...

\* Dr. Gaster.

\* His brilliance was irreplaceable.

\* However, his life...

\* Was cut short.

\* One day, his experiments went wrong, and...

\* Well, I needn’t gossip.

\* After all, it’s rude to talk about someone who’s listening.

## Error dump

\* Error!

\* If you are reading this, don't.

\* Prove to me that you are...

\* Hey, let me finish.

\* It is ERROR MESSAGE! Yes No

\* Error

Error!!

Error.

HAT DIALOGUE.

THAT THING ON YOUR BODY...

I WAS NEVER ONE TO BEPIS.

Bepis

ERROR????

THIS IS AN ERROR MESSAGE. REALLY!!!

WHAT!? THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE.

\* Beautiful. An error message.

\* (You hear a small voice.) Congratulations! What's wrong with you!?

BEPIS.

\* (This will never happen.)

\* (It's a horse stable.) \* (Do you want to go inside?) Yes No

\* (You jostle the door.)

\* (It's locked.)

\* (Suddenly, from inside the [redacted], you hear a

\* x

Flagrant error ; )

\* Somewhere, a quiche's worst fear becomes reality.

\* A quiche in another timeline.

ERROR!!! SEE YOU LATER!

\* Where will we go today?

Error Error

\* PATHETIC HUMAN.

\* I AM METTATON, BIG TIME SEXY ROBOT LOVER.

\* Come on! What are you doing!

\* Wrong message!

\* This message will NEVER happen.

You shouldn't read this.

Error, Pepibs.

G - Ninechara (9999 G) Really sell Ninechara for G? Exit

\* Error?

\* Error!

\* (Last chance to wish before Hotland.)

\* (Careful of pollen.)

\*TEST!!!

\* Hamburger Helpers.

```
* A rousing error.
* (Error.)

```

ERROR?

No question.

Funyuns

Juggalos

Happy Beefsteak

Thunder muffin

Errror Babye

What's a pretzel's favorite color?

Black Yellow Red Dusk

How bright is this text?

85% Bright
84% Bright
86% Bright
83% Bright

LOOLLLL IF YOU CAME TO THIS PART OF THE CODE TO SEE WHO I HAVE A CRUSH ON YOURE OUT OF LUCK

\* (Art club is cancelled!)

... that this is an error message!?

(THESE NEXT ONES ARE ABOUT SLOW DANCING, NOT SEX)

```
(Hmmm? Getting creative?)
(Dance with me, darling.)
(Oh! The audience can feel
your passion!)
(Show the audience
your passion!)
(So close... How passionate...)
(... do you need some help?)
(... what ARE you doing?)
(Don't stop now!)
(Look at you, leaping around
the stage...)
(Can't keep your hands off, huh?)
(Is that how humans dance?)
(Humans are stranger
than I thought.)
(Oh! They're really
getting into it.)
(Moving so far...)
(Who can blame you?)
(Hmmm, I'll have to get used
to it...)
(Even better than
I thought...)
(So that's what
it's like.)
(Dancing with... A human.)
(What a shame...)

```

\* Error Baby

\* Capital wenisberry

What the fuck is wrong

\* I'm a goofy goober Yeah this errorr. message.

East: Burgertown \* North: Cord \* West: Restraint \* This area's not done so no fun is allowed here yet. \* Signed, the Manmengent

Monster seems satisfied.

\* You execute some action.

\* ENTRY NUMBER 17

\* monsters' physical forms can't handle "determination" like humans' can.

\* with too much determination, our bodies begin to break down.

\* everyone's melted together...

La, la. Time to wake up and smell the pain. \* Though.... It's still a little shaky. fhuehfuehfuehfuheufhe