Undead Tale An Undertale AU that takes place within the same underground, with the same characters you know, but with a twist. The DT experiments, once responsible for the amalgamates, and performed by the mysterious Dr. W.D. Gaster, have now created a corruption of monster souls, which spreads throughout the Underground, and threatens all of monster kind with annhiliation. The story picks up at the very start of the outbreak, and goes on to the very end. Please give the AU a read on Archive of Our Own! https://archiveofourown.org/works/28979274/chapters/71115720 Asks are welcome!
I am making this post so that newcomers and people who've been around a while can get a better introduction to the AU, what it's all about, and what may lie ahead!
Undead Tale is an AU created and written by Artsy Puppy (me), based on Undertale by Toby Fox (if you haven't played the game, please do. also why are you here lmao)
This AU takes the idea of a zombie style outbreak within the Underground and puts a twist on it, explaining both the origins of this new timeline, the creation of the corrupted monsters that roam the caverns, and showing how the cast manage through this crisis. Along the way, they will encounter friends and foes, fight corrupted and monster alike, and face many twists and turns, all with one goal: to survive and escape.
If you want to follow the AU on other sites or see more content from me either about the AU or otherwise, please check out my YouTube, the AU's Twitter, my Soundcloud (with tracks made for the AU here and here), my AO3, and this Tumblr account (give all of those a follow, please :3)!
(UPDATE: also here's a link to the Undead Tale Classic Document, where I will put everything I can find related to the old version of Undead Tale :) also link to the original comparison post here)
With Undead Tale's main story now fully written and published on AO3, I don't entirely know.
I don't want to stop making Undead Tale content, and I love how I managed to finish this story and get it out there, but I'm not entirely sure where to go next.
I know I'm not done with this AU though, I have plans for maybe adding some more content, maybe expanding on stuff, it's all very rough and in my head rn, and I don't want to make promises I can't keep for certain.
All I know is that this AU isn't done yet, I want to make more, and hopefully share it with everyone who's willing to read, watch, or listen :)
huge apologies for forgetting about this blog, i've just been so, SO busy not only being a college student, but also working on other things besides the AU
i really want to do more of this and other personal things but i have a lot of that i want to do and also college assignments i have to do, so yeah, i've been very very busy
college is fun but man is there a lot to do
also just been dealing with some personal things on the side, which i', gonna try to get squared away so i can get better
anyway, that's all
i have plans for the AU but like
none of them are attainable rn, so i'm putting them off lmao
that's all, see y'all eventually when i have something new
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So this post was originally going to be just some funny fun facts or whatever, but then I got into looking at the old edits in the past of the google docs for the AU, and I felt like talking about a lot of the things that were changed, as well as some fun facts too
Gonna put under a keep reading, this is long
Here we go
If a human were to ever be corrupted, it wouldn't turn them into a zombie like creature like it does with monsters. Due to humans having natural, uncorrupted determination, they would be infected, but the effects would be almost purely psychological, with maybe some physical affects. They'd be reached out to by Chara in a similar way they reach out to Frisk through the acolytes in chapter 89
Idk if I ever mentioned this but I did consider bringing the Fun Gang from Deltarune into the plot, mostly just as a fun what if sorta thing lmao
Fang was originally gonna have a different name, but also have Fang as a sort of chosen name. I don't remember what the other name was
The chapters around where Fang learns that Sans killed his friend were rewritten and scrapped at least three times. At first it would involve some of Fangs guys saving an innocent monster, then learning of something that way, the other two were similar to the final one, but ultimately scraped and rewritten
Initially when Fang let's the two monsters go, he would've said something about armageddon coming or whatever, but I didn't like that, and it didn't line up with his character later on, so I rewrote it
The chapter "Not Always Right" gets it's name as a reference to this song from State of Decay 2
I think Papyrus would've originally been a commander, because I remember thinking of a track called "Commander Papyrus" or something like that, where it would be kinda like Bonestrife from Glitchtale. Glad I didn't do that
I've written 2 alternate scenarios for the AU, one where Papyrus dies early on when Undyne's spear hits him instead, and one where instead of seriously wounding Toriel, Frisk accidentally kills her. Neither will be expanded on, though, and they're both really short
I originally envisioned the acolyte's as being a genuine cult of sentient corrupted that wore robes and shit, stereotypical cult stuff lmao
I wanted to do the final fight in the Saviorlovania chapter for a long time, but I couldn't think of the context for it until later on into the story
There were smaller changes I made when finalizing the story, like Asgore drinking tea at the beginning instead of reading a book, simple stuff to make things feel more in character
There are several entirely scrapped chapters. One was about the Ruins, and it would've been the chapter after "Costume Party Preparations", it would've followed Toriel, Flowey, and Napstablook. The chapter was then scrapped for another one where it would have Alphys already preparing to renovate and open up the lab, instead of that coming later. Another one would've been a short chapter with very few words, hinting at Fang coming to Snowdin during the time Frisk lived with Sans and Papyrus
There was originally a 2 day time jump in the chapter "Opening the Gateway to Hell" instead of a 1 day time jump in "Spear of Justice"
The chapter name "Hope Prevails" is another reference to a song from State of Decay
There was going to be a chapter called "The Coming War", and it would start with a 1 month time jump. Literally nothing else of this chapter existed lmao
The chapters "Not Always Right" and "Vengeance" were originally one after the other, with no chapters in between
Instead of having the same Asriel sequence in the chapter "Cottonball", where Frisk has a dream about Asriel like in Undertale, instead she would've had a vision of Gaster reciting entry 17
The guards outside the Fortress that Frisk and Sans bump into would've been RG-01 and 02
This bullshit
The chapter "It's Showtime!" was originally gonna be named after that one song with the overly long title about a mint and pillow from Undertale (I dont feel like typing it all out)
I could go on, but I think that's enough fun facts for one day
Have fun, enjoy things, please check out the AU if you haven't already, that's all
