Super Paper Mario -- Interlude After Chapter 5

In Castle Bleck, O'Chunks is singing for Nastasia. It's a song about Count Bleck's greatness. Towards the end, he runs out of steam. Mimi appears, telling him to stop, saying he's breaking windows. Nastasia explains that she made O'Chunks come up with a nice motivational tone as a punishment for being defeated again. She's making him sing it 1,000 times. Mimi says Nastasia's more evil than she thought. She asks where the count is. She hasn't received a call to do anything and is bored. Mr. L drops in, saying Brobot is gassed up and ready to fight. Nastasia loves the enthusiasm, but tells him to shelve the robot action plan for the time being. Count Bleck left specific orders to stand by. Mimi can't believe they're supposed to wait for the hero to come get them. Mr. L says he'll leave to do other things if he's not needed. Nastasia is agitated, saying they aren't going anywhere, as Count Bleck's orders are absolute. She leaves. Mimi's bored and Mr. L says Brobot craves a daily smash and there's no action here. Dimentio says it's hard to stay still when one pines for sweet vengeance, but the count's orders are absolute and without exception. They shouldn't dare think about executing a secret sneak attack, even though defeating the hero would please the count. They MUST follow orders. Mimi remembers she has something to do and Mr. L says he must deflavorize Brobot's Flavorizer and they both leave. Dimentio says he must leave as well.

We now return to our serial drama of Timpani and Blumiere.
Blumiere: Look, Timpani. The stars are beautiful, aren't they?
Timpani: There's a tradition in my village. We believe that wishes on stars come true.
Blumiere: Oh, is that so? In that case, we'd better get wishing, don't you think?
Timpani: I don't need to wish anymore.
Blumiere: Mmm?
Timpani: I already have everything I need right here.
Blumiere: Timpani... Aren't you cold?
Timpani: Not at all. I'm very warm... Can we stay like this? Just a little longer?

Back in Flipside, Peach calls to Tippi, saying she's a little out of it. Tippi asks if they just heard something, but none of them did. She thought she remembered something very important, but the ground shakes and The Void grows larger. They need to open the door to the next world quickly. On the second floor and Merlon says they're back. The Void grows larger and some worlds may have started to decay already. He wonders how long Flipside will be spared. Tippi asks if the Light Prognosticus says how much time they have left and Merlon says it was only written to counter the Dark Prognosticus, so it's not truly prophetic. It's hard to say how much time they have left, but it's probably not much. Tippi says they can only go forward and can't wait for worlds to end. Merlon has a message from Nolrem, saying that a Heart Pillar has been spotted on the outskirts of Flopside. In the meanwhile, he'll look into the Light Prognosticus for clues.

On the second floor of Flopside, go into the Fortune Teller's house and you'll find Merlee's moved in. Merlee asks them for a favor: she lost her crystal ball in her move over here and Merluvlee in Flipside uses the same kind. She wants the heroes to ask her for one. She says this won't take long, but it's a long sidequest. Merluvlee says she's in training and Bestovius has some useful equipment. She asks them to get it for her. Go to Chapter 1-1 and ask Bestovius for the Training Equipment. He says he lent Old Man Watchitt a You-Know-What and wants it back. Go to Chapter 1-2 and go to Watchitt's house. He says he's been seeing a strange lady in his dreams who talks a lot and needed help with something. He describes her as looking like Merlumina. He says she needs to get out of his dreams and if the heroes help her, he'll give them anything. Since she's been in his dreams many times, he's become a fan and wants her autograph. Go to Chapter 1-4 and find Merlumina again. She says it's a pleasure to meet them again. They ask why she's still here and she says she couldn't fall asleep after sleeping for so long, so she sent out her frustrations telepathically. They reached someone in a nearby town of Ancient blood. She says she did it when she was single to meet people. She tells a long story, which makes the heroes fall asleep. She thinks that Watchitt is hard of hearing, which made her sad and unable to sleep. She says she used to fall asleep to lullabies and tells another long story. All this talking is making her drowsy and the heroes' plan to make her sleepy by making her talk was brilliant. She starts fading, but the heroes remember to ask for her autograph. Give it to Watchitt, who gives you Bestovius's You-Know-What. Give it to Bestovius for the Training Machine and give that to Merluvlee, who gives you the crystal ball. She says to tell Merlee that they're even now. Merlee give you a free charm and a Random House Key. Get your charm first and go for the Special Package, as it lasts the longest. Go to the first floor of Flopside and unlock the locked house. There's a large chest. It's time to get funky. A Pixl says, "Doodly-doo!" then makes animal and car noises. All things sing and to live is to make music, according to the Pixl. Her name is Piccolo and heard their footsteps, which isn't their essence. She joins the party with the ability to make different music based on the character, with the ability to remove curses.

Go to the third floor of Flipside using the pipe on the second floor. There's a red rock with Piccolo drawn on it. Use her power near the rock to reveal a chest with a Merlee card. Go to the second floor of Flopside and use Tippi's power to reveal some blocks under the pipe. Use the pipe to reach the third floor and go to the left to find a similar block. Use Piccolo's power to reveal a chest with the Nolrem card. Go to B2 and flip to find Welderberg on the right. He'll build you a pipe from here to the second floor of Flopside for 100 coins. Go to the outskirts on the second floor and use Cudge to break the yellow block. This makes a pipe appear. Take it down to the first floor outskirts. Take the pipe in the area down to B1, then another to B2. Behind the pipe is a yellow switch that makes the wall disappear. There's a large chest with the Power Plus. Use it to permanently boost your attack by 1. Drop down the gap to the left and you'll find a chest with a Barry card.

Go back to the first floor outskirts and flip in front of the sign. Follow the path and use Dottie to go under the rock formation. There's a square stone that's actually a yellow block. Hit it to make a red switch appear. Stand on it to make a Heart Pillar appear. Place the Pure Heart to make a blue door. Nolrem says at the Duel of 100, the hero will meet with dark powers of purest chaos. If the hero falls to the 100, the chaos world grows and the Purity Heart fades. The hero will falls to the world where games are ended. He deciphered this part of the Light Prognosticus, which says that if they fail to pass the duels, all worlds are ruined. Their lives and the Purity Heart will be lost. Although this message may discourage them, he must still send them forth as they can not nothing else. Stock up on healing items before going starting the next chapter.

Super Paper Mario -- Chapter: 1-4 -- Monster of the Ruins

Somehow, Mario had found the strength to cross the desert's sweltering dunes. Ahead was a sprawling complex of ruins rising out of the sand. Thankful for the shade, Mario and Tippi ventured deeper inside. They were the very ruins Old Man Watchitt had warned them about. What dangers lurked inside the shady corridors ahead?

In the Yold Ruins, Tippi says the Pure Heart is nearby, but something else is waiting ahead. Go downstairs and through the door. You'll find Buzzy Beetles crawling on the floor and ceiling. There are fire bars ahead. Flip to get around them if they give you any trouble. Over one of them is an item block with a Mushroom. Stand on the item block, then go right. Drop down near the ladder to find a chest with a Life Shroom. Climb back up the ladder and drop down to the left, then walk to the right to the door.

Go past the fire bars and locked door and you'll find flip blocks in 3D under the floating door. Hit the flip blocks to make them flip into the other dimension, which gives you platforms to stand on. You can now reach the door. The door leads to a room with Spiny Tromps. Flip pasts them and you'll find a ladder leading to a chest with a Ruins Key. Go back through the door and unlock the locked door. There are Spiny Tromps in the next room, quicksand, as well as two doors. The lower one is locked. Flip into 3D to find a block to stand on so you can reach the top door. It leads to a room with a pipe spewing infinite Squiglets. Throw one at the switch on the ceiling and the ground shakes. Leave the room and go back over the quicksand, where you'll find a Ruins Key. Grab it with Thoreau and unlock the door.

The door leads to a room with a floating door. Use Tippi's power to reveal an invisible platform under the door, then go through it. The door leads to a room with fire bars, a locked door, and a key surrounded by blocks. Go near the blocks and flip to find that the key was in the back wall. Go to the right and flip and you'll find a path to a new room. There are a couple of Buzzy Beetles and a chest with the Buzzy Beetle card. Go back and unlock the door.

Spring up and left and you'll see a floating door. Flip and you'll find a ladder leading up. There is a switch up here. Hit it to make a big red switch appear and make many Spiny Tromps come out of the right wall. Run to the red switch and hit it to make the floor drop out, making the Spiny Tromps fall below. Drop down onto them and you can now reach the door.

Through the door are four red switches. Flip into 3D to figure out the order you need to hit them: middle right, left, right, middle left. This draws in a set of tall stairs. At the top is a Super Shroom and a Save Block next to a pipe.

Go through the pipe, which appears to take you outside into the desert. Run to the right and someone shouts, "WARNING!" A dragon is drawn in, detecting an intrusion. It tells Mario to leave immediately or be purged. It recognizes something about Mario and scans him and his red cap, blue overalls, and level 5 mustache. It says it's impossible, but searches its databanks. It identifies Mario as the legendary hero and introduces itself as Fracktail, defender of the Pure Heart from lawless intruders. Mario is late and Fracktail has waited thousands of years for him. It lets Mario pass and says the Pure Heart is ahead.

Someone says it won't be that easy. They say it's nice to meet Mario and his mustache. It is the master of dimensions and pleaser of crowds, Dimentio. Dimentio thinks it would be dull if Mario's journey ended so easily, so it now ends with magic. It zaps Fracktail's antenna, saying Mario and Fracktail can spend some quality time together, while Fracktail snacks on him. He leaves and Fracktail starts malfunctioning. "BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP. I AM ERROR. PRESS ANY KEY TO RESTART. ...SYSTEM NOT FOUND. INSERT INSTALL DISC.  DISCK NOT FOUND. PLEASE CONFIRM DISC COVER IS CLOSED. READ ERROR. INSERT BOOT DISC AND PRESS ENTER. NO RESPONSE. SYSTEM MAY BE BUSY OR MELTING INTO SLAG. APPLICATION ERROR. SAVE YOUR WORK AND QUIT. YOU LOST EVERYTHING. WAY TO GO, GENIUS. WAITING FOR PROCESSORS. '404 computer hamsters not found.' THREAT LEVEL UPGRADED TO JELLY ROLL 1. DETONATION IMMINENT. BEEBLEBLIP!
C:/ run query identification
C:/ run insult generator
C:/ results: go away yeti-lip!
CTRL ALT DEL!"

Fracktail attacks. It has an unknown amount of HP and 1 attack power. Fracktail will fly around for a while, then charge from the background. It will then fly to the right. After a while, the ground will start shaking and Fracktail will chomp through the sands from the right. Flip into 3D to dodge, then jump on its back. While there, Frackles, small robots on its back that protect it, will appear. Pick them up with Thoreau and throw them into the antenna, which is Fracktail's weak spot. Hit it a few times and Fracktail will fly faster, sending Mario along the length of its back. Its head is right behind its tail, so if you jump, you may be able to land back on the head and continue attacking. Otherwise, you'll land back on the ground and it will fly around again. When you defeat it, Fracktail says "SYSTEM CRASH!" Fracktail says it malfunctioned and tells the hero the error is its. It's sorry and its shame cycle is smoldering. Fracktail asks Mario to please save the world before exploding, revealing its skeleton. Mario lands on the ground and a door appears.

Go through the door to a quiet chamber. Go down the stairs and Merlumina welcomes Mario. She is a dormant soul who waited 1,500 years to give the hero the Pure Heart. She says his presence means that all worlds have begun to collapse. Merlumina says that long ago, her people build a civilization hailed as a beacon of culture. Unfortunately, they were powerless to stop the Dark Prognosticus, of which there is no known author. It foretold future events, and, on the last page, it was written that a chaotic power will devour the world. Her people knew it had to be stopped, so their greatest minds devised a grand plan to stop the tragedy before it happened. They needed something with the pure essence of love to confront the chaos, so the researchers created the Purity Heart and divided it into eight pieces. They hid the eight pieces in different dimensions for their own protection for when the hero arrived. Everything seemed to be going as planned, but the wheels of destiny began spinning wildly out of control, beginning with a small incident. It's a long story and Mario falls asleep. Merlumina concludes her story saying that they hope the Purity Heart will have the power to defeat chaos. To save the worlds, Mario must find the eight Pure Hears to form the Purity Heart, their last and only hope. She tells him to go forth and that everything is depending on him. She gives him the orange Pure Heart and Thoreau starts dancing.

End of Chapter
Before disappearing, Merlumina had entrusted Mario to save every world. She had waited 1,500 years to deliver the message to the legendary hero. With the second Pure Heart in hand, Mario was in great spirits. But six Pure Hearts still remained to be found, and the journey had just begun. With a flutter, Tippi said, "I think we'd better return to Flipside.." The weight of every world's fate once again rested on Mario's shoulders.