Prologue
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In the Marine Investigations headquarters: Aki is reading a book, Mich is listening to music (Water Day), Marta looks at the ceiling
Marta: Sigh…
…
Marta: Why don’t we have an assignment yet?
Aki: It’s the sixth time you’ve asked…
Marta gets up and looks at Aki
Marta: It doesn’t do much good to stay there reading…
Aki closes the book
Aki: Look, we don’t have any assignments, so maybe think of something else.
Aki: Maybe rehearse for the next concert, or… I don’t know.
Marta: I see a lot of enthusiasm.
Aki: Look who’s talking…
Marta and Aki look at Mich
Mich: … (He notices that they are staring at him)
Mich: … What is it?
Marta: Nothing…
Aki receives a notification
Aki: Squalus in fabula… We have an assignment!
Marta: Finally! Uh… I meant to say: what is it about?
Aki: Apparently Marina is asking us to investigate his virtual world… the Memverse.
Mich: What would that be?
Marta: I know.
Aki and Mich look at Marta
Marta: It’s a kind of virtual dimension created by Marina for the victims of Kamabo Corporation.
Aki and Mich look at her a little confused
Aki: Kamabo Co.?
Marta: Forget it.
Aki: There seem to be anomalies and she would like someone to investigate.
Mich: Well then I would say that we could set it for the next week-
Marta: Ah no no no! I waited two hours here doing nothing.
Marta: We accept the assignment and that’s it.
Aki & Mich: Sigh…
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Marta runs out of the agency
Marta: Marine Investigations to the-
She clashes with an Octoling
Marta: Ouch…
Marta: Hey… Are you all right?…
Marta: Don’t tell me that I made you lose your memory with that clash!
Marta: Oh well, my name is Marta. What about you?
Here the player creates the character
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Aki and Mich leave the agency
Aki: You really had to run…
Aki: …like that…? (He notices the Octoling)
Aki: Marta, who are they?
Marta: Ah… Uh… They are a very dear old acquaintance of mine.
Marta: Aren’t you?
The Octoling looks at her with a not so convinced look
Marta: Yes eh… They don’t talk that much but we’ve known each other practically forever!
Aki and Mich look at her with suspicious eyes
Mich: I think she collided with this octoling.
Marta: You-
Marta approaches Mich, Aki gets in the way
Aki: Stay calm…
Aki: Better to save your energy for the investigation.
Aki: What’s your name?
…
Aki: Ah… Okay…
Aki: We’ll call you Seven.
Marta: What kind of name would it be?!
Aki: Listen… It’s July 7th… it’s the first one that came to mind.
Marta: Oh well.
Aki: So, would you like to help us?
They nod
Aki: Great.
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The player walks a bit around Sea Reef, while there is a dialogue
Mich: Hey, Marta.
Marta: Hmm?
Mich: You know how to access this… Memverse, right?
Marta: Ehm…
Marta: Yes, of course! We just need to go here! Follow me.
Aki: (Ihope she knows what she’s doing…)
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Mich: Marta… We’ve been walking for three hours… Are you sure you know where you’re going?
Marta: Stâ sìtto! (Shut up!)
The two continue to argue as they walk
Seven sees a strange light
The light intensifies and everyone after a glitch effect, they all disappear
They find themselves in the Memverse
Title “Splatoon MF Chapter 2”
Seven, Aki, Marta and Mich wake up in the Inkopolis Square of the Memverse
Mich: Ugh… What is this place…?
Marta: Ahh…
Marta opens her eyes
Marta: There! See?! You just had to trust me bonelàn-i! ()
Aki and Mich look at her with suspicious eyes
They all stand up
Aki: Are you all okay?
Mich: Yes, yes.
Aki: Now back to us…
Aki: Marta, since you’ve already been here, can you give us directions?
Marta: So… Listen to me carefully.
Marta: I don’t remember EVERYTHING about this place.
Marta: I only knew how to get us all here.
Mich: And it was definitely you who saw that strange light that brought us here… Yeah, right…
Marta: Listen…
Marta and Mich argue, Aki looks at them waiting for them to calm down
After they calm down
Marta: Ahem…
Mich: Ahem…
???: H… e… l… p…
Aki: Who spoke?!
???: H… e… l… p…
Mich: It looks like it came from that weird building over there!
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The player heads to the building where the mysterious voice is located
Start cutscene
Marta: Wow.
Marta: Well, what do you all say? Do we go inside?
Aki: It’s the only lead we have.
They enter the building: there is a large room with someone in the center
Aki: Hey, there is someone over there!
Mich: Let’s see who it is.
They approach
Mich: It… It can’t be…
Is there Dalamo in a virtual sphere
Mich: Dalamo?!
Aki: What’s he doing over there?
They approach
Aki: He seems to be in a state of sleep.
Aki: Maybe if I try to…
Aki tries to touch the sphere
A strange figure appears
Aki: Ahh!!
???: Step back!
Marta: Who are you?!
Null: I am Null.
Null: The ultimate reality
Null: The one who has the power to rewrite reality.
Null: Scram!
He throws them out of the building
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Marta: Argh… I can’t take these falls anymore…
Aki: Look! There’s something there!
The player must retrieve the thing on the ground
(Dalamo’s Diary – 3 years ago)
Dear Diary, today is a special day!
Our new album will finally be released! The Hiskomin will be known all over the world! How I wish Mich was at least as enthusiastic as I am… He seems a bit distracted and down lately, maybe I should talk to him.
By the way, today, dad’s company recovered a wreck near the coast of Sea Reef. Who knows, maybe I’ll find something interesting for a new project!
Aki: Dalamo’s diary?
Mich: …
Aki: …
Marta: …
Mich: But… what was Dalamo doing in here?
Aki looks at Marta
Aki: Marta, do you know who can access the Memverse?
Marta: I don’t know much about it…
Marta: But Marina had mentioned something about some kind of code.
Marta: I think there is a database of all those who can enter.
Aki: Dalamo was definitely not part of this database.
Aki: Then it must have been that entity that made the changes.
Mich: Well… Then I would say to move. We need to find clues and…
Marta: … Mich.
Marta looks at Mich
Marta: If… Urgh… If you need a hug…
Mich hugs Marta
Marta: Okay, okay that’s enough.
Marta: Let’s go!
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The player re-enters the building, but the main room is no longer there, there are instead a large room with three virtual doors
Marta: What the…
Marta: HEY! Where did the room from before go?!
Aki: Wait…
There’s an elevator in the middle
Aki: Let’s try to see what’s on that elevator.
The player moves to the elevator
???: Howdie, dearest friends!
Aki: Woah!
Marta: And who would you be?!
???: Ah, dearest excuses!
Flamby: My name is Flamby the dearest robot of the bestest guard!
Marta: Ah…
Flamby: I’m guessing you really want to meet your dearest friend, right?
Aki: Well, he doesn’t seem to be so well.
Flamby: Very clear! But there are very importantest conditionest to be bestfully respected!
Marta: (Did it break or something?)
Flamby: You will have to complete the dearest three rooms and bestfully answer a very smallest dearest question to access the room.
Flamby: Use the dearest knowledge that you will acquire thanks to the various pieces of dearest diary in the very three rooms.
Marta: But why use a PRIVATE diary for a quiz?
Flamby: Bestest of dearest luck! (Disappears)
Marta: (I guess he didn’t listen to me…)
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The player now has 3 rooms to complete: each room has a sequence of 10 levels to overcome and at the end there is a boss. Each room has a separate score, so if you lose in one room, you don’t have to do the other again. You can choose the order of the rooms.
Marta’s room
Marta: Bònn-a dìccia! (Good luck!)
Dialogue 1 – 2 levels
Marta: Look, I’m sorry for the blow to the head I gave you earlier.
…
Marta: No hard feelings, right?
Dialogue 2 – 7 levels
Marta: We’re almost there!
Marta: You are really a lighting, where you learned all these techniques?
…
Marta: … Oh, well.
Dialogue 3 – End of Room
Marta Robot’s boss fight:
Marta Robot uses three snipers at the same time, and the shots are huge. It will be necessary to splat it three times.
Marta: Hurray! Another piece of the diary!
(Dalamo’s Diary – 3 years ago)
Dear Diary,
Something happened… that I would’ve never expected from Mich. He quit the duo. Poff, just like that… He said “I want to mix more colors in my musical canvas”… But why?!? Why now?! With the album coming out…
It makes me angry just thinking about it. He also moved so I won’t see him again… Maybe it’s better that you think about something else…
Ah yes! In the wreck I found a very special device! It contained information about a species of being that is able to rewrite reality. It seems that it is an artifact dating back to human times. Very dangerous… Better to go deeper!
Aki: Hey, I think I get it.
Marta: What?
Aki: Dalamo found what would later become the Reality-shape pen.
Marta: …
Aki: Come on! How can you not remember it?!
Aki: Oh well… He wanted to use it to create a world without us.
Marta: Oh yes! Now I remember!
Mich: …
Aki: We need to find the other pieces of the diary to understand more and take the quiz.
Aki: Come on Seven!
Mich’s Room
Mich: Good luck…
Dialogue 1 – 2 levels
Mich: Have you ever heard of the Hiskomin? Those named in Dalamo’s diary.
…
Mich: Never mind…
Dialogue 2 – 7 levels
Mich: You are really strong!
Mich: At this pace we will arrive in a heartbeat!
…
Mich: …
Dialogue 3 – End of Room
Mich Robot’s Boss fight:
Mich Robot has a large musical keyboard. The player is on this keyboard and must prevent the notes they play from hitting them. You have to hit Mich’s robot three times.
Mich: Here we are! Another piece of the diary!
(Dalamo’s Diary – 2 years ago)
Dear Diary,
It’s been a year since Mich left. I saw him in the company of an anemone and an Octoling while walking around Splatilano City. He looks happy… Maybe one day I’ll take courage and go talk to him. I would have a lot of things to tell him!
For some time I have been dedicating myself to computer science. I managed to create cute robots that can do a lot of useful tasks for household chores and started the project for a roguelike video game. It’s going to be fabulous!
Ah, right! I analyzed the device: it contained a program with which you can recreate a world to your liking. Use some kind of empty matter or something… And it seems that the last use was made 10,000 years ago, but the username leaves me a bit perplexed. I will study it a little more but I think I will destroy it. It’s too dangerous.
Marta: Apparently in the end it didn’t destroy it.
Aki: Strange…
Mich: What do you mean?
Aki: Well, from the way the diary is written, Dalamo didn’t seem to be going to get revenge.
Aki: Which is weird based on what he told us in the Splatilano City subway.
Marta: Actually it’s a bit suspicious.
Marta: Come on, let’s get the last part back!
Aki’s Room
Aki: Good luck!
Dialogue 1 – 2 levels
Aki: You don’t feel dragged into a story that doesn’t concern you, do you?
…
Aki: Well… Those who are silent consent…
Dialogue 2 – 7 levels
Aki: Wow! Truly incredible!
Aki: We owe you a huge favor for what you’re doing.
…
Aki: (Do they know how to talk..?)
Dialogue 3 – End of Room
Boss fight by Aki Robot:
Aki Robot is located on top of an artificial pyramid. The player with his special ink must create platforms to reach it, but sandstorms will hinder him. He has to hit Aki three times.
Aki: Here’s the diary piece!
(Dalamo’s Diary – 2 years ago)
Dear Diary?
I don’t know what a diary is… But at least I’m free after a long time. This Inkling was really naïve to try to access the files protected by the professor, what a move of true genius.
Thanks to his intervention, I was finally able to get out of the archive, but unfortunately I needed a temporary physical shape. This world is very different from the one in which I was created… Too much different.
Apparently humanity has been missing for 10,000 years, so the Professor will surely have disappeared, perhaps even the Phone has failed. Well, now I’ll enter in the scene. His grudge is directed at a certain Mich, Marta and Aki … Interesting… It seems that their energy waves are very particular. They might work for my plan.
I will use their energy to power the program that will rewrite this reality, so humanity can thrive again. I’m going to use this “Memverse” as an accumulator… But why am I writing? Ah… It is Dalamo who tries to opposkfjgfjdg…
Aki: …
Marta: …
Mich: …
Mich: So… It wasn’t Dalamo who had attacked us…
Aki: No, it was that strange entity that entered HIS body.
Marta: What a piece of dirt!
Aki: Let’s get back to the main room soon!
The player heads to the main room
Flamby: Dearest howdie again everyone!
Flamby: You’ve completed all the rooms, bestest great!
Flamby: Then my dearest question is the followingest…
Flamby: What is Null?
Marta: It’s an atrocity, that’s what it is!
Flamby: Very wrong answer!
Marta: You-
Marta tries to hit him but falls backwards
Marta: That’s not fair! You’re a robot!
Flamby: Would you like to try again again?
Aki: Hmm…
Aki: Ah! Of course!
Aki: Null is software created to create a human utopian world.
Flamby: Very correct answer!
Marta: Wha…?
Marta: But how did you get it Aki?!
Aki: Well… Just read between the lines of the last diary.
Marta: (I don’t think I’ll ever understand him…)
Mich: (I’m coming Dalamo…)
Mich: Come on, let’s go!
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Start cutscene
Aki: Huh…?
Marta: Be careful!
Marta activates a shield bubble that protects them from a tentacle of technological rays
Mich: What the..?
Null is around Dalamo who controls him
Null: If you have come this far it means that you know my reasons.
Null: Your energy belongs to me, and he will be my mediator.
Null: By the way, his hatred of you is completely well-founde-
Mich: Listen to me carefully!
Mich walks ahead
Mich: You will never have our energy or Dalamo’s…
Mich: If humanity has disappeared it is because of the choices that humans themselves have made…
Mich: And you have no right to exploit my friend like that!
Null: Ridiculous. You have no hope.
“Null: Ereased reality”
End cutscene
In the boss level, the player will have to destroy checkpoints that are located on three very high towers. Each time one is destroyed, Null becomes vulnerable. The player must hit it three times.
Start cutscene
Null: No… no… Error…
Null: Argh!
Dalamo falls out of Null’s energy bubble
Mich: Dalamo!
Mich takes Dalamo in his arms and carries him to
Dalamo: Mich…?
Dalamo: What happened…?
Mich: There is no time for explanations.
Mich: It’s time to shut down that specter.
Mich: Can you get me a console Dalamo?
Dalamo: I… I think so…
Dalamo takes a computer and creates a console
Mich starts to start a base
Mich looks at Aki and Marta
Aki and Marta look at each other and smile
Marta: It’s time to increase the pace.
Marta: The tide of fire and wind…
Marta: My name is Marta!
Aki: The flow of the sandy wind…
Aki: Call me Aki!
Mich: Our blood is red-blue.
Mich: I’m Mich!
Marta: And we are all together…
Marta: Marine Flambè!
Marta: It’s time to make a clean wipeout guys!
All: Yes!!
Null: What’s going on?! What are you doing?!?
End of cutscene
Dialogue with Nullo in the background Final Boss cutscene Epilogue
Marta: It’s time for the final sprint!
Marta: Hey, Seven! We’ve got you covered!
Marta gives the player a special sniper
Mich: Keep that too!
Mich makes his drums appear on the stage that give a boost to damage and mobility
Aki: Wind whirls! Help Seven!
Aki spawns Wind whirls that the player can freely use
Null: Surrender now!!
In the final phase of the boss the player must destroy the final boss using all the boosts given by the characters. He has a top bar that when he reaches zero is defeated.
Null: NOOOOO!!
Null explodes
A small chip falls
Null: Let me out!!
Dalamo picks it up
Dalamo: I really think I’ll keep you like this for now.
Dalamo turns around smiling
Dalamo: Thank you guys…
Everyone smiles and Mich hugs Dalamo
Marta: Yes ok enough, look over there!
An exit appears
Everyone heads for the exit
Seven looks at them and moves forward with the group
Start cutscene
Marine Flambè return to the headquarters of Marine Investigations
Marta: Well, that was an adventure right?
Everyone nods
Aki: But I don’t want such assignments anymore.
Marta: Come on, don’t be so boring!
Everybody laughs
End cutscene
End Credits