History NightmareFuel / Deltarune

** The most shocking revelation comes in [[https://deltarune.com/secret/ the "secret" page,]] an array of doors that the user can click on to be met with an image. Most of these are accompanied by unsettling grunts or cheers, but have harmless images like a Ralsei plush, a Pipis, a gumball machine, and a snapshot of the Wikipedia page for the Superbad website. "You won!" "You Lost!" All aside from a single image showing the sprite of a worn chair. "You won?", says the tab before it appears. Clicking on it causes it to turn into an amorphous black mass. Dragging the image shows a very familiar image of yellow-and-pink eyes, one that specifically matches with the face seen in Spamton's basement. Those eyes can randomly [[JumpScare pop into view]] with a creepy laugh when the chair is clicked, sending the viewer back to the main page. But the truly shocking part is the text that shows up on the tab.

** Notably, the two bosses that are in possession of the crystals (Jevil and Spamton) have a level of self-awareness and know much more about things than they should (Jevil is aware of the HP system and that everything is just a game, while Spamton is aware of Kris's SOUL and his lack of freedom). It's heavily implied this self-awareness is what caused both to completely lose any shred of sanity, and ostracized them from their friends. Just how powerful are these crystals?

* After returning from the Dark World, the player's dispensed into the unnamed town from the intro, filled with familiar faces from ''Undertale'' all around. Except NotAsYouKnowThem. Alphys and Undyne have never met before, Bratty and Catty aren't friends and even seem to dislike each other, the Amalgamates are deceased (as is Gerson, one of the only people in the kingdom that had known about what the Deltarune was and Asgore and Toriel being Boss Monsters), there's a mysterious bunker south of town playing low sounds that one may not even realize are there, and even the people that know Kris outright call them a CreepyChild to their face with the implication that they're acting out-of-character currently. For those who haven't played the original game, it's just a cute exploration through a happy town full of friendly monsters. For those who ''have,'' there's a sense of dread and immense ParanoiaFuel, as if an itch in the back of your brain is telling you that something has gone ''horribly'' wrong, but don't know ''what''.

* The music that plays during the vessel creation is... ''unsettling''. It also sounds like [[VideoGame.{{Earthbound}} Giygas]]' theme.

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Just a fun, quirky, upbeat RPG about saving the world with your friends, right? '''WRONG,''' as ''Deltarune'' proves to be even more disturbing than ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}''.

*** Clicking the [It hurts! It Hurts!] link takes you to the aformentioned image of the crossed-out TV, and has text of Spamton ranting against someone, blaming him for all his problems. The url reads "d_a_m_n_y_o_u_t_e_n_n_a" and tab reads "DELETE THIS!". But the revelation for this page comes in the final few lines:

*** Scrolling to the bottom and clicking takes you to the Green Room, but scrolling slightly up and clicking takes you to a bright blue room with a scattered white pixels, accompanied by the sound of ocean waves. Clicking on the black door at the top takes you to another one of Noelle's blog posts, this one speaking about a mysterious door in ''Dragon Blazers'' that traps the player forever (allegedly a glitch), and later a locked door that doesn't open. The latter of which sounds pretty similar to the locked bunker in Hometown, as well as the mysteryman's place in ''Undertale''.

* For the 7th anniversary of ''Undertale'' and the first anniversary of ''Deltarune Chapter 2'', Toby organized the "SPAMTON $WEEPSTAKES", where Spamton temporarily takes over the Deltarune website and allows players to donate money for a chance to get merch. However, a new side of this was quickly discovered; numerous secret links throughout the site that take you to pages with pretty dramatic lore implications:
** There's a link where you can see Noelle logging a sighting of the ICE-E cryptid. Said link has another link to her sister, December's, sighting of it. Except said page is completely dead. There's also a hidden "dess" page with a guitar that plays a version of "Lost Girl". Said version's file name is "findher".
** The most shocking revelation comes in the "secret" page, an array of doors that the user can click on to be met with an image. Most of these are accompanied by unsettling grunts or cheers, but have harmless images like a Ralsei plush, a Pipis, a gumball machine, and a snapshot of the Wikipedia page for the Superbad website. "You won!" "You Lost!" All aside from a single image showing the sprite of a worn chair. "You won?", says the tab before it appears. Clicking on it causes it to turn into an amorphous black mass. Dragging the image shows a very familiar image of yellow-and-pink eyes, one that specifically matches with the face seen in Spamton's basement. Those eyes can randomly [[JumpScare pop into view]] with a creepy laugh when the chair is clicked, sending the viewer back to the main page. But the truly shocking part is the text that shows up on the tab.

*** There are two segments in the Spamton Value Network stream where an ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''-styled Spamton dubbed "Spamton Z. Spamton" appears. In the first, distorted music plays as he tells the audience to disable their antivirus before his head detaches from his body and flies off the screen. In the second, the music is replaced by repeating thuds. Spamton Z's face is completely blank, and a text box appears as if he's saying something, but there's nothing on it.
*** Early on in the stream is a 90s-styled commercial for the Spamton [=NutriNose=], a sort of pipette shaped like Spamton's head that can quickly deliver food into anyone's mouth, accompanied by footage of a beautiful woman using the device and a demonstration of how it works. Despite the comedically nostalgic nature of the commercial, there are hints to a darker side; the commercial warns in big red text not to blow on the nozzle, tells the audience not to ask their doctors about it, and the disclaimer is a big wall of illegible text. Later in the stream, in a dark homage to the infamous "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31O33zX3DBg Burger King Pokémon Recall]]" [=PSAs=], is a PSA telling anyone who has the [=NutriNose=] to immediately discard it as fatal explosions have been reported by use of it, along with two [=NutriNose=] in the same pose as the Pokéballs from that PSA.

*** Early on in the stream is a 90s-styled commercial for the Spamton [=NutriNose=], a sort of pipette shaped like Spamton's head that can quickly deliver food into anyone's mouth, accompanied by footage of a beautiful woman using the device and a demonstration of how it works. Despite the comedically nostalgic nature of the commercial, there are hints to a darker side; the commercial warns in big red text not to blow on the nozzle, tells the audience not to ask their doctors about it, and the disclaimer is a big wall of illegible text. Later in the stream, in a dark homage to the infamous "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31O33zX3DBg Burger King Pokémon Recall]]" [=PSAs=], is a PSA telling anyone who has the [=NutriNose=] to immediately discard it as fatal explosions have been reported by use of it, along with two [=NutriNose=] in the same pose as the Pokéballs from that PSA. [[FridgeHorror Just how does this thing kill people, and how many were killed by it]]?

* Your arrival in the Dark World is heralded by eerie silence, a gloomy atmosphere, and various bleak ruins. There isn't any melody to the music, just ambience in the background with dissonant notes, and strange creatures that react to your presence. Then you start finding eye-shaped markings in the stone walls, some of them ''bleeding'' darkness, and huge piles of [[FridgeHorror dust]]. The mysterious figure that turns out to be Lancer trying to kill you is a ''relief'' from the tension and build up from a place so alien. There's nothing else like this in the areas you visit afterwards.
** And then we find out in Chapter 2 that those eye markings are identical to the ExtraEyes that appear on the [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Titans]], meaning either this entire region was some sort of tribute to them, or the aftermath of something that happened involving the Titans, maybe from even [[AfterTheEnd the last time they awakened.]]

*** At the end of the stream, the thin façade breaks down completely when the Fangamer team interrupts the broadcast, revealing that this wasn't actually their doing and the whole 'Spamton Value Network' was a hijack. Spamton A. Spamton panics and flees into the "real world", shaky cam following him as he runs through empty fields and to a payphone. Spamton A tries to call Spamton, pleading for him to pick up as the "Ode to Spamton" echoes louder and louder, and [[NothingIsScarier whatever's chasing him down gets him before he can reach him.]] The last shot of the stream is of the dropped receiver, droning louder and louder until a SmashToBlack. TheEnd.

*** After the livestream, Toby Fox stated that was the "normal" ending donators earned from voting for Spamton's "Freedom". There was a possibly ''worse'' alternate one recorded for the Silence outcome [[NothingIsScarier which is left unknown]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61zGGtTdv5s The livestream]] announcing the winners for the Spamton Sweepstakes takes place on a StylisticSuck 'shopping network' dedicated to entirely Spamton products. And by 'dedicated to Spamton', that means two people [[note]]Wayne and Baaulp from [[WebVideo/WayneRadioTv Radio TV Solutions]], respectively[[/note]] in shitty cosplays of Spamton often pledging their allegiance (and money) to him [[StylisticSuck as if he's a sort of deity.]] People have called it a sort of cult indoctrination video, and it's heavily implied the two were kidnapped and forced to do this.

** The livestream announcing the winners for the Spamton Sweepstakes takes place on a StylisticSuck 'shopping network' dedicated to entirely Spamton products. And by 'dedicated to Spamton', that means two people [[note]]Wayne and Baaulp from [[WebVideo/WayneRadioTv Radio TV Solutions]], respectively[[/note]] in shitty cosplays of Spamton often pledging their allegiance (and money) to him [[StylisticSuck as if he's a sort of deity.]] People have called it a sort of cult indoctrination video, and it's heavily implied the two were kidnapped and forced to do this.

* The King [[WouldHurtAChild threatening harm towards Lancer.]] He had no remorse at all towards this, and based on other lines in the game, he was already known as a terrible father. Plus, the King striking and nearly killing the party as their guards are down.

** The livestream announcing the winners for the Spamton Sweepstakes takes place on a StylisticSuck 'shopping network' dedicated to entirely Spamton products. And by 'dedicated to Spamton', that means two people [[note]]Wayne and Baaulp from [[WebVideo/WayneRadioTv Radio TV Solutions]], respectively[[/note]] in shitty cosplays of Spamton often pledging their allegiance (and money) to him [[StylisticSuck as if he's a sort of deity.]] People have called it a sort of cult indoctrination video.
*** It's heavily implied that the two hosts have been essentially kidnapped for this program, given their "missing" posters show up during a couple breaks.
*** A digital and round-headed "Spamton Z." shows up on two breaks in what looks like a retro game. The second scene is monochrome and set to some strange noises, with "Spamton Z." trying to say something on a blank dialogue box before the scene fades out.
*** The ending. The thin façade breaks down completely when the Fangamer team interrupts the broadcast and are immediately confused by what's going on. As "Spamton A." tries to salvage the stream, the old FBI piracy disclaimer starts to overlay everything like a bad greenscreen. "Spamton A." panics, trying to explain it wasn't his idea, then runs off into the "real world". He tries to find the telephone to call Spamton as the "Ode to Spamton" echoes louder and louder, and [[NothingIsScarier whatever's chasing him down gets him before he can reach him.]] The last shot of the stream is of the dropped receiver, droning louder and louder until a SmashToBlack. TheEnd.

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* Among the various links within the Spamton Sweepstakes page is the "secret" page, an array of doors that the user can click on to be met with an image. Most of these are accompanied by unsettling grunts or cheers, but have harmless images like a Ralsei plush, a Pipis, a gumball machine, and a snapshot of the Wikipedia page for the Superbad website. The one exception is one that leads to a worn chair. Clicking on it causes it to turn into an amorphous black mass. Dragging the image shows a very familiar image of yellow-and-pink eyes, one that specifically matches with the face seen in Spamton's basement. Those eyes can randomly [[JumpScare pop into view]] with a creepy laugh when the chair is clicked, sending the viewer back to the main page.
* The "tv" page on the right side of the [[https://deltarune.com/ramb/ Green Room]] has the Dreemurr family's TV turned off in the dark. [[NothingIsScarier Nothing happens]].
* The final "item" of the sweepstakes is just labeled "Spamton's fate". And unlike every other item up to this point, the flavor text is decidedly ''not'' written by Spamton. Instead, it's written by an unnamed individual who asks the viewer if they've become "sick of him", seems to dislike the attention he's getting and wants someone else in the spotlight, and asks the viewer to help them "buy Spamton's silence, permanently". While they offered another option to spare him, and "Survival" indeed won out, the Spamton Value Network stream ended with a sequence where the host, Spamton ''A.'' Spamton, was hunted down and killed in his stead.
* The livestream announcing the winners for the Spamton Sweepstakes takes place on a StylisticSuck 'shopping network' dedicated to entirely Spamton products. And by 'dedicated to Spamton', that means two people [[note]]Wayne and Baaulp from [[WebVideo/WayneRadioTv Radio TV Solutions]], respectively[[/note]] in shitty cosplays of Spamton often pledging their allegiance (and money) to him [[StylisticSuck as if he's a sort of deity.]] People have called it a sort of cult indoctrination video, and it's heavily implied the two were kidnapped and forced to do this.
* There are two segments in the Spamton Value Network stream where an ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''-styled Spamton dubbed "Spamton Z. Spamton" appears. In the first, distorted music plays as he tells the audience to disable their antivirus before his head detaches from his body and flies off the screen. In the second, the music is replaced by repeating thuds. Spamton Z's face is completely blank, and a text box appears as if he's saying something, but there's nothing on it.
* At the end of the stream, the thin façade breaks down completely when the Fangamer team interrupts the broadcast, revealing that this wasn't actually their doing and the whole 'Spamton Value Network' was a hijack. Spamton A. Spamton panics and flees into the "real world", shaky cam following him as he runs through empty fields and to a payphone. Spamton A tries to call Spamton, pleading for him to pick up as the "Ode to Spamton" echoes louder and louder, and [[NothingIsScarier whatever's chasing him down gets him before he can reach him.]] The last shot of the stream is of the dropped receiver, droning louder and louder until a SmashToBlack. TheEnd.

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* The Talking Spamton plush has a chance of randomly yelling the mysterious muttering heard in the background of BIG SHOT. It's very unsettling.
* For the 7th anniversary of ''Undertale'' and the first anniversary of ''Deltarune Chapter 2'', Toby organized the "SPAMTON $WEEPSTAKES", where Spamton temporarily takes over the Deltarune website and allows players to donate money for a chance to get merch. However, a new side of this was quickly discovered; numerous secret links throughout the site that take you to pages with pretty dramatic lore implications:
** There's a link where you can see Noelle logging a sighting of the ICE-E cryptid. Said link has another link to her sister, December's, sighting of it. Except said page is completely dead. There's also a hidden "dess" page with a guitar that plays a version of "Lost Girl". Said version's file name is "findher".
** The most shocking revelation comes in the "secret" page, an array of doors that the user can click on to be met with an image. Most of these are accompanied by unsettling grunts or cheers, but have harmless images like a Ralsei plush, a Pipis, a gumball machine, and a snapshot of the Wikipedia page for the Superbad website. "You won!" "You Lost!" All aside from a single image showing the sprite of a worn chair. "You won?", says the tab before it appears. Clicking on it causes it to turn into an amorphous black mass. Dragging the image shows a very familiar image of yellow-and-pink eyes, one that specifically matches with the face seen in Spamton's basement. Those eyes can randomly [[JumpScare pop into view]] with a creepy laugh when the chair is clicked, sending the viewer back to the main page. But the truly shocking part is the text that shows up on the tab.
----> But what if it could
---->(once the chair is clicked on) ...[[WhamLine get darker than dark]]?
** The "tv" page on the right side of the [[https://deltarune.com/ramb/ Green Room]] has the Dreemurr family's TV turned off in the dark. [[NothingIsScarier Nothing happens]], but if you drag the TV's image into the adress bar and change the filename to [[https://deltarune.com/assets/images/tv2.gif "tv2.gif"]], a crossed-out version of the TV appears. [[MindScrew Why?...]]
** The "Spamton Engraved Wedding Ring" has this in the description:
----> IF YOU PROMISE ME YOUR [Heart-shapedObject] I CAN PROMISE YOU AN [[=HonestMan=]] WHO WILL ALWAYS BE THERE TO [SCREAM] [It hurts! It Hurts!]
*** Clicking the [It hurts! It Hurts!] link takes you to the aformentioned image of the crossed-out TV, and has text of Spamton ranting against someone, blaming him for all his problems. The url reads "d_a_m_n_y_o_u_t_e_n_n_a" and tab reads "DELETE THIS!". But the revelation for this page comes in the final few lines:
----> EVERYONE IS GOING TO PAY [5 easy payments of $9.99] UNTIL THEY'RE ALL IN THE [Disposal Area] BEGGING FOR MY [$#&*]!!!
----> EVERYONE... EVERYONE EXCEPT...
----> (in black text, shows up when highlighted) ... [[WhamLine Mike]]...
*** Clicking on the crossed-out TV leads you to a page full of visual and aural white noise, mimicking a TV tuned to a dead channel, and a block of white text which reads as follows:
----> WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?
----> [[OhCrap YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE]]!!
*** Scrolling to the bottom and clicking takes you to the Green Room, but scrolling slightly up and clicking takes you to a bright blue room with a scattered white pixels, accompanied by the sound of ocean waves. Clicking on the black door at the top takes you to another one of Noelle's blog posts, this one speaking about a mysterious door in ''Dragon Blazers'' that traps the player forever (allegedly a glitch), and later a locked door that doesn't open. The latter of which sounds pretty similar to the locked bunker in Hometown, as well as the mysteryman's place in ''Undertale''.
** The final "item" is just labeled "Spamton's fate". And unlike every other item up to this point, the flavor text is decidedly ''not'' written by Spamton. Instead, it's written by an unnamed individual who asks the viewer if they've become "sick of him", seems to dislike the attention he's getting and wants someone else in the spotlight, and asks the viewer to help them "buy Spamton's silence, permanently". While they offered another option to spare him, and "Survival" indeed won out, the Spamton Value Network stream ended with a sequence where the host, Spamton ''A.'' Spamton, was hunted down and killed in his stead.
** The livestream announcing the winners for the Spamton Sweepstakes takes place on a StylisticSuck 'shopping network' dedicated to entirely Spamton products. And by 'dedicated to Spamton', that means two people [[note]]Wayne and Baaulp from [[WebVideo/WayneRadioTv Radio TV Solutions]], respectively[[/note]] in shitty cosplays of Spamton often pledging their allegiance (and money) to him [[StylisticSuck as if he's a sort of deity.]] People have called it a sort of cult indoctrination video.
*** It's heavily implied that the two hosts have been essentially kidnapped for this program, given their "missing" posters show up during a couple breaks.
*** A digital and round-headed "Spamton Z." shows up on two breaks in what looks like a retro game. The second scene is monochrome and set to some strange noises, with "Spamton Z." trying to say something on a blank dialogue box before the scene fades out.
*** The ending. The thin façade breaks down completely when the Fangamer team interrupts the broadcast and are immediately confused by what's going on. As "Spamton A." tries to salvage the stream, the old FBI piracy disclaimer starts to overlay everything like a bad greenscreen. "Spamton A." panics, trying to explain it wasn't his idea, then runs off into the "real world". He tries to find the telephone to call Spamton as the "Ode to Spamton" echoes louder and louder, and [[NothingIsScarier whatever's chasing him down gets him before he can reach him.]] The last shot of the stream is of the dropped receiver, droning louder and louder until a SmashToBlack. TheEnd.
---> ''MAY THE HYMN OF THE ANGELS SING THEE TO THY REST''
*** After the livestream, Toby Fox stated that was the "normal" ending donators earned from voting for Spamton's "Freedom". There was a possibly ''worse'' alternate one recorded for the Silence outcome [[NothingIsScarier which is left unknown]].
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--> IT APPEARS YOU HAVE REACHED\\
AN END.\\
[[VideoGame/{{Deltarune}} WILL YOU TRY AGAIN?]]

*** Clicking on the crossed-out TV leads you to... a garbled, mess of a page with loud radio static playing and this line:

** The final "item" is just labeled "Spamton's fate". And unlike every other item up to this point, the flavor text is decidedly ''not'' written by Spamton. Instead, it's written by an unnamed individual who asks the viewer if they've become "sick of him", seems to dislike the attention he's getting and wants someone else in the spotlight, and asks the viewer to help them "buy Spamton's silence, permanently". While "Survival" won out, the Spamton Value Network stream ended with a sequence where Spamton ''A.'' Spamton was hunted down and killed in his stead.

*** Scrolling to the bottom and clicking takes you to the Green Room, but scrolling slightly up and clicking takes you to a bright blue room with a scattered white pixels, accompanied by the sound of ocean waves. Clicking on the black door at the top takes you to another one of Noelle's blog posts, this one speaking about a mysterious door in Dragon Blazers that traps the player forever (allegedly a glitch), and later a locked door that doesn't open. The latter of which sounds pretty similar to the locked bunker in Hometown, as well as the mysteryman's place in Undertale.
** The final "item" is just labeled "Spamton's fate". And unlike every other item up to this point, the flavor text is decidedly ''not'' written by Spamton. Instead, it's written by an unnamed individual who asks the viewer if they've become "sick of him", seems to dislike the attention he's getting and wants someone else in the spotlight, and asks the viewer to help them "buy Spamton's silence, permanently".

----> IF YOU PROMISE ME YOUR [Heart-shapedObject] I CAN PROMISE YOU AN [HonestMan] WHO WILL ALWAYS BE THERE TO [SCREAM] [It hurts! It Hurts!]

*** Clicking the [It hurts! It Hurts!] link takes you to the aformentioned image of the crossed-out TV, and has text of Spamton ranting against an unnamed individual, blaming him for all his problems. The url reads "d_a_m_n_y_o_u_t_e_n_n_a" and tab reads "DELETE THIS!". Clicking on the crossed-out TV leads you to... a garbled, mess of a page with loud radio static playing and this line:

* For the 7th anniversary of ''Undertale'' and the first anniversary of ''Deltarune Chapter 2'', Toby organized the "SPAMTON $WEEPSTAKES", where Spamton temporarily takes over the Deltarune website and allows players to donate money for a chance to get merch. But not even this was free from massive lore drops:

----> YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE!!

** The "tv" page has the Dreemurr family's TV turned off in the dark. [[NothingIsScarier Nothing happens]], but if you drag the TV's image into the adress bar and change the filename to [[https://deltarune.com/assets/images/tv2.gif "tv2.gif"]], a crossed-out version of the TV appears. [[MindScrew Why?...]]

** There's a link where you can see Noelle logging a sighting of the ICE-E cryptid. Said link has another link to her sister, December's, sighting of it. Except said page is completely dead.