#interlopers rewrite

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Ya know what I haven't talked about it in a DAMN good bit, but given ive been seeing some interlopers stuff fly up on my feed I should add:

Much as I am to rage against Interlopers and its many, MANY plot issues, I ain't one to bash anyone who still finds some enjoyment in it.

If ya like it? More power to ya! And if you're looking to remake it or rewrite it yourself, GO FOR IT.

Sides, if there's anything I support it's people taking shit the glitchtale team fumbles the fucking bill on and make it their own.

It's still a weird undertale and LISA crossover, I'm sure plenty of LISA fans are either gonna wonder what the fuck it is, or get the thousand yard stare remembering that god damn thing, and not everyone - either pure LISA fans, Undertale fans, or mfers that like to cross shit over - will like the premise

But ey, I still think there's SOME merit to it.

As for my own little project? I have the FIRST whole damn chapter done, or at least its been done for a week or so, but I'm thinking on going back to add some things cause uh, I fucking forgot to confront the issue of the Trumpet Buddy gets at the end of Joyful.

Which, I did write it with the DE ending in mind, but it still wouldn't make much sense for Buddy - even if she is on a journey of healing in the wasteland of Olathe and beyond - to simply abandon something that makes Joy mutants null and void to her, or straight up control them.

There COULD be something interesting in her rejecting it, but it still feels like a massive step away from her character that should be rectified if anything

Do not expect this thing to come out any time soon, though. I am slowly chipping away at it, a page a day at least, though holy SHIT things like LibreOffice help massively in that department

Anyways, back to the regular schedule of reblogs, and the occasional yappery on shit, and an apology ahead of time to the Lisa mfers looking at this shit going "what the fuck is an interlopers" or "WHY the fuck is this a thing", I engage in esoteric and eldritch things with fandoms so you uh...uuuh....

Yeah I got nothing, I await my crucifixion in the coming months, mind the rube goldberg ass traps along the way.

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OUT OF THE WASTE, INTO THE MAW.

This has been living rent free in my head for months now, and it's all thanks to @shigg315 that it's been absolutely fucking realized.

God, go and check his work out, he does incredibly high quality art that shouldn't be glossed over. Not one bit.

As for the meaning of this little piece? Well, it's one of the most important locations for this Interlopers rewrite if you ask me.

It is THE point that decides everything for Chara and Buddy

Its where new scars will be made and old ones be cut fresh.

It is the largest diversion point from the original Interlopers

And it's the spotlight on one of the bigger, more well known parts of the Lisa fan content

What happens after this trek through hell remains to be seen, but as a wise man once said...

You either become a part of Infinity...

Or Infinity becomes a part of you...

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Late fourth ask about interloper reimagined

If you were made this into a game ,what it would it be like

Like is this a party A in game B type , what chara moveset be like , what the pacing be like that sort of this

If I'd made this into a game, it'd be less of a "Hopeful in Joyful" situation and more so "Buddy and Chara venture into territory covered by games, after the events of said games (theoretical or otherwise)" type situation. I'd want to have Buddy and Chara see the sights of Olathe, maybe come across some of the characters from these fan games (Timeless, Pointless, Hopeful, etc), and have some of them be recruitable alongside some original characters

As for the playstyle, I'm thinking Buddy would take the roll of a damage dealer that works with combos, mixing in some of her perfect timing attacks as separate abilities to those done with her combos. Chara, on the other hand, would work their way up into being a tank with minor support abilities (ie Dodge), and overall better offensive capabilities, augmenting their strength through optional story-defining side quests.

I'm thinking that both do great with one another while additional party members that join augment their playstylrs, IE dudes that focus on disabling enemies, augmenting Buddy and Chara's attacks, feed their SP/TP, maybe even copy their abilities into some unique doppelgang'd form that can inflict status effects on enemies...

Maybe even include a certain salesman from a certain Lisa-Deltarune crossover...though that heavily depends on the vibe of things.

It all depends, but I'd want them to feel uniquely themselves, and fun to play.

Pacing wise? Probably...4 or 5 areas? Midpoint being Downtown. I'd like to think it starts off as a tag team roadtrip through the shit that is Olathe before things get absolutely bumblefucked and it all starts to go downhill...

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Ask about interloper rewrite 3: electric boogaloo

Will there be other character from lisa that will show up?

Example being :belt guy and five guy , any of the painful party member or any character from the fangame ?

Oh I definitely want to bring in some of the other Lisa fan characters

Alex Churchland and Joel for one, with maybe Downtown Mechanic's portrayal of Arnold Shpitz (Who would be the one infinitized person to face the two? I'm still on the fence about that unless this is turned into a fan game with a Pain Mode involved), Elton and Berny from Timeless, Beltboy and ESPECIALLY Fives, the list goes on for fan characters.

Maybe even Oswald Vegas, my beloved, from Lisa the Undone.

As for official characters? I'd like to have Tigerman show up as part of a fight, maybe Buckets too cause God dammit I love buckets and his gambling addiction. The others are still up in the air as to where they'd be after joyful.

I'd still like to have some more original characters be a part of this story to spice things up, keep it original if you will, but those are some of the ideas I'm running with as of right now.

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Ask about interloper..... again

So how did the chara encounter go in the rewrite

And how chara is alive and killing

Right, so with the Chara encounter

Ah, my dumbass can't help but see it as Buddy having the advantage in the fight. You get Buddy throwing hands with not only her katana but some martial arts as well - some call backs from Rando's arsenal plus a few she's come up with - her fighting style definitely being a more unique form of the Armstrong style, but with a focus on bladed weapons, while Chara gives you more of a "royal kid made street rat" type fighting style. Sure Chara is killing the likes of melting warriors and skeletal assholes, but in my eyes...their technique is still a bit undefined. Very...one note? In that it's less about the sweeps, the kicks, punches or slashes and more just focused on the singular goal of "KILL THAT MFER RIGHT GOD DAMN NOW." - and therefore very focused on slashing and dashing. That leads to their downfall in the fight, but not from an outright death. THAT, my friend, is the catalyst to where this...partnership will go.

The Interlopers Rewrite will definitely focus on a lot of martial arts stuff, as i can't lie, Austin Jorgensen sold me on the idea of Olathe being this Fist of the North Star-ass Apocalypse where guys will develop their own fighting styles to survive and thrive - and plus, god dammit, it makes sense for Buddy to know more than just stabbing and slicing - ESPECIALLY if we wanna take some fan media into account like Lisa the Undone.

Give that bitch the machine gun punch

Bitches love the machine gun punch

The idea primarily comes from listening to A LOT of Lisa fan music, given its the type of stuff I'd love to emulate in either an animated or comic fashion.

As to how Chara is alive? I've settled on the notion that it's them possessing Frisk's body, using it as a vessel if you will

Much like our other favorite teen from a similar, albeit different game.

It's actually something I've been wanting to touch on as well, cause God damn, Deltarune really opened the Pandora's Box on how one would interact with a living thing controlling their every move.

...as to if Frisk is conscious, aware of these things? If they willingly let this all happen?

That's something i can't entirely disclose, but needless to say it's part of the struggle of identity i want to explore with Chara in this rewritten Interlopers.

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What the relationship between buddy and chara

Ask about interloper rewrite

So with Buddy and Chara, I personally see it as like...initially hostile - given, ya know, the former is stumbling onto the latter's example of what happens when a knife trick goes wrong with an entire species.

Similar in vein to the original Interlopers, but with a slow burn towards overall friendship.

I'm hesitant to really explore it deeper than that considering the hell of shipping culture and the likes (my god-forsaken autism has conditioned me to look upon that stuff like a cosmic horror entity), but in the same vein...

Their relationship would be akin to a broken mirror.

Buddy has done some wild shit - kill off an entire cabal of warlords, survived explosions, witness the normal amount of man-made horrors and incompetent bounty hunters looking for the last woman on earth. She has climbed that peak and finds that there's nothing there but thin air and a whole lot of corpses

Chara, on the other hand, has just reached that peak themselves. I don't want to get into too much detail on the reason why they do it, what their motivation was and what not, considering I wanna explore that more in writing their character out, but they've yet to reach the same conclusions Buddy has, if they ever will.

That is the commonality they'll share, and whether that blossoms into a genuine friendship or a cold hatred? That'll have to be seen...but if Lisa the Undone and a few other fan games teach me anything about fixating on Lisa stuff, it's that it'll be forged in blood, fire, pain and happiness in small doses.

Also wild bullshit too. You can't have a friend in Olathe that hasn't seen the most batshit stupid people in existence.