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=== <span><span class="tts"><span class="visual">Rouxls</span><s class="bracket"> (</s><s class="help">pronounced </s><i class="aural">Rules</i><s class="bracket">)</s></span></span> ===

The bottom of the tunnel system is, comically, not actually that far from where the heroes decide to turn around and go back. It's maybe a fourth of the distance you've gone so far. There are no new Darkners here, only repeats of Darkners already found somewhere else which do not count toward the Dark World's "good ending".

When you finally get to the bottom, Asgore is there chipping dirt off some kind of stone relief on the wall, along with... {{TTS|tts=Rules Card|Rouxls Kaard}}? He now has a deep blue detective hat, and looks very proud of himself for becoming assistant detective.

{{b|tts=Rules:|Rouxls:}}  (Howest didst I do?) <ref name="rk"/><br/>
{{b|Susie:}}  {{stage|[eyes narrowed]}} (Kris. What's going on here?)<br/>
{{b|tts=Rules:|Rouxls:}}  (I am protecting thoust mission so'st thee can completeth it in peace.)<br/>
{{b|Susie:}}  {{stage|[glaring]}} Kris.

{{b|Asgore:}}  Ah, Kris.<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  Didn't expect to see you in here.<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  Didn't you have some kind of group project to do?<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  Ah. Well. I suppose in the end, this search for Dess is very important.<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  She was like some kind of weird big sister to you, huh?<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  But it's all so confusing. No matter how many new threads I find they all just keep leading to more new things.

{{stage|[Kris gets a dialogue choice:]}}<br/>
{{TTS|tts=(Option 1.) Strange.|☐ Strange.}}&nbsp;&nbsp; {{TTS|tts=(Option 2.) You're not going to find her|☐ You're not going to find her}}

{{stage|[Option 1]}}<br/>
({{b|Kris:}}  Strange.)<br/>
{{b|tts=Rules:|Rouxls:}}  {{stage|[perfectly complicit grin]}} It art a probleme most queer.<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  Every time I get a new clue... I'm left asking, but what does it mean?<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  But I know you wouldn't know any more than I do.<br/>
{{b|Ralsei:}}  Don't worry. We're doing our best to help you find the answers.<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  Heh. I knew there had to be some reason you look like my son.<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  {{stage|[to self; pondering off to side]}} Darkners... they're shaped like their allegiances, aren't they? <ref name="rg"/>

{{stage|[If you talk to Asgore again and pick Option 1 again:]}}<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  Ah, Kris.<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  Are you trying to solve the tunnels?<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  There are all these pieces.<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  But it's all so confusing. Every new breakthrough I find, they all just seem to keep leading to more new things.<br/>
({{b|Kris:}}  Strange.)<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  Every time I think I've cracked something... I'm left with the question, but what does it all mean?<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  I wonder how long this is going to take.<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  If I'm down here any longer. I'll have no wife any more. <ref name="LLr"/><br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  I'll be spending the new year in a hole in the ground having beers with a card man.<br/>
{{b|tts=Rules:|Rouxls:}}  So nothing art wrongeth.<br/>
{{b|Susie:}}  (Kris. Are we really going to leave him like this.)<br/>
{{b|Susie:}}  (This is sad.)

{{stage|[Option 2]}}<br/>
({{b|Kris:}}  You're not going to find her)<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  I'm... what?<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  But with this odd little duke of puzzles helping me, I just know I'm going to get there some day.<br/>
{{b|tts=Rules:|Rouxls:}}  What did thoust call me?<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  Oh, the uh, stately. charming. duke of puzzles. I wasn't meaning to be rude.<br/>
{{b|tts=Rules:|Rouxls:}}  Carry on.<br/>
{{b|Susie:}}  Dude. This whole Dark World is messing with you.<br/>
{{b|Susie:}}  First Oll'een, now this. It's like the whole thing is trying to hide the truth.<br/>
{{b|Susie:}}  {{stage|[pondering]}} Under... a mountain of dark secrets?<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  {{stage|[looks down; vaguely embarrassed]}} Oh.<br/>
{{b|Susie:}}  I don't understand why, but it's like everyone here is spilling secrets to hide stuff they actually don't want me to find.<br/>
{{b|Susie:}}  Including Kris.<br/>
{{b|Susie:}}  Care to explain to your dad why you deliberately put him in the hands of a second Oll'een?<br/>
{{stage|[There is a pause. Kris glances over to Asgore, apparently saying something. Asgore only looks a little ashamed of himself, not really paying attention to the fact these remarks are coming out of teenagers.]}}<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  ...Carol thought that too.<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  But she couldn't push me away. Because no matter how dark or strange things get, I've never seen the problem in holding out hope.<br/>
{{b|Ralsei:}}  Yes, that's a wonderful thought.<br/>
{{b|Ralsei:}}  Susie, how about we stand by and think about the Knight? Given how, you know, it's going to be a real struggle to defeat them.  {{stage|[looks directly into camera at Angel]}}<br/>
{{stage|[Susie and Ralsei step to the side a bit and concentrate on the Knight so the Angel can't see whatever is going on between Asgore and Kris.}}<br/>
{{stage|Susie at first gives Ralsei a really judgemental look like she wants no part of this, but says nothing, and ultimately goes along with his plan.]}}

{{stage|[Over in another part of the Dark World, the Knight has already arrived, and seems to be hovering around searching for something. There is very clearly a second Dark Fountain into the burnt flower world in the background placed in a different location than the first one.]}}

{{stage|[When the view returns, only Susie and Ralsei are in view. Ralsei is looking down the passage very worried. Susie is not afraid, but is frowning. Something is apparently very wrong.]}}<br/>
{{b|Ralsei:}}  {{stage|[to Susie]}} Um. What do we do about this?<br/>
{{b|Susie:}}  Well, first we stop worrying.<br/>
{{b|Susie:}}  Kris.<br/>
{{b|Susie:}}  You caused this. So you're going to have to fix it.

The camera finally pans back over to Kris and Asgore, and immediately brings the two of them up into a simple encounter. Asgore is silently staring at Kris confused and hurt, cradling one hand that appears to be bleeding for mysterious reasons. It's not really clear from first glance which of the two might have inflicted the wound, or what was used. Asgore doesn't appear to be carrying a blade or pointed object. So, did Kris stab him? Kris looks much too calm right now to have done that. You'd think they'd look just a little afraid of someone catching them for having stabbed someone. But no. Kris only looks vaguely... disappointed. As if this isn't the thing that should have resulted from whatever the two of them just attempted to do, and perhaps Asgore should have been tougher against the blow or maybe Kris just finds him totally clueless and stabbing his hand was a stupid ill-conceived method for doing whatever was supposed to be done. Whatever it was that just happened, the two of them are on the encounter screen now. You can Defend for no particular reason. You can use an item. If you press the Mercy button, Asgore will just continue to look hurt and confused, so you can't Spare him yet. You can "Fight" Asgore, which Kris seems to interpret as something like "harshly argue with".

{{stage|[Fight]}}<br/>
<nowiki>*</nowiki> {{stage|You lightly punch Asgore on the shoulder and tell him he could have done a lot better.}}<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  No. I see. I shouldn't be meddling in this.

But the most interesting thing happens when you open the Act menu. Kris now knows a new action called "HealingLight". When you use this, a ray of light pours in on Asgore and he stops bleeding. You can then Spare him, and things go back to the overworld.

{{b|Asgore:}}  I see. I see how all this is.<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  This is far worse than I could have imagined.<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  Maybe... I'll just go home.<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  Maybe it's better that you three handle this.<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  What?<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  When the fountain closes I'll go home?<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  Okay. Well, maybe I'll stay down here then. Those flowers have seen a lot of things.<br/>
{{b|tts=Rules:|Rouxls:}}  I can keep thoust company.<br/>
{{b|Susie:}}  No. I have something better for you to do.<br/>
{{stage|[Susie opens the spellbook.]}}<br/>
{{b|Susie:}}  Get in here, and you can meet the Knight.<br/>
{{stage|[{{TTS|tts=Rules|Rouxls}} looks at the book stunned, apparently pretty keen on this offer, and dissolves into a bunch of sparkles that go into the book.]}}<br/>
{{b|Asgore:}}  {{stage|[disappointed]}} ...Oh.<br/>
{{stage|[Asgore looks down at himself like "what am I doing with my life", and the three heroes head on their way.]}}

If you come back, Asgore will have left for a different part of the Dark World; he does not just stay down there looking miserable. If you bother to go back to the flower detective agency more toward the beginning, he will actually be there attempting to explain his findings in the tunnels to the Darkners, with several new boards up on the walls.

If you successfully got {{TTS|tts=Rules Card|Rouxls Kaard}}, the Oll'een fight will be a lot easier, because not only can all three characters heal to some extent, but you can use {{TTS|tts=Rules|Rouxls}} to change up the rules and undo some of Oll'een's annoying tricks. We've come full circle. {{TTS|tts=Rules Card|Rouxls Kaard}} gained a weird malicious mirror of himself in Oll'een, but you can also defeat the outwardly-evil foil to {{TTS|tts=Rules Card|Rouxls Kaard}} with the not-so-bad one.