Chapter Summaries

Murder and her counterparts discussed how to support their growing group of Sanses, and OuterDust revealed she could create convincing illusory G. After Insanity argued that DustBerry’s cooking filled Papyrus’s role, the group eventually agreed to let DustBerry make tacos.

• Killer worried that their growing group of Sanses would strain their finances.
• OuterDust conjured a stack of illusory G, and Killer discovered the coins were fakes made from magic.
• DustBerry objected that using illusions to simulate money might be unfair to shopkeepers, while Murder noted that they had already run up tabs at Grillby's.
• OuterDust offered to make illusory food or tacos for the group, but Insanity argued that DustBerry’s cooking occupied Papyrus’s role.
• DustBerry stayed silent for several days, then the group agreed to let her make tacos to feed them.

DMurder fled from SP!Dust with Killer and EInsanity, who both feared being caught by the bizarre pursuer. The three remained in flight, with DMurder carrying both girls while SP!Dust chased them.

• DMurder mistook Killer’s arrival for the backup he had requested and grabbed her, fleeing into the sky as SP!Dust followed.
• Killer told DMurder that OuterDust was supposed to help, but EInsanity arrived instead and DMurder caught her too.
• Killer and EInsanity questioned whether SP!Dust was DMurder’s dark side and admitted they did not want to fight it.
• Killer asked DMurder to kill her rather than let SP!Dust catch her, while EInsanity said she trusted him to protect them.
• DMurder realized he was still carrying both girls as he continued running from SP!Dust.

Murder, Killer, and Insanity were trapped by SPDust until OuterDust rescued them by drawing everyone into an illusion. After waking aboard her simulated star destroyer, Murder learned they had avoided the potion’s effects and that OuterDust had kept the Gender-Swapping Potion for research.

• SPDust restrained Murder, Killer, and Insanity with a forest of trees, then tried to force a Gender-Swapping Potion on Murder.
• OuterDust intervened with her Astral Secret Art and pulled all four of them into an illusion before SPDust could go further.
• Murder woke aboard OuterDust’s simulated star destroyer beside the still-sleeping Killer and Insanity and checked that he was still male.
• OuterDust explained that she had rescued them and recovered the Gender-Swapping Potion, then invited Murder to help research it.
• Murder agreed and decided to find OuterDust in the main control room to discuss broadening their technological capabilities.

Murder reunited with Blue and met several alternate-universe Berries, who invited him to join their snail race. DustBerry had brought him along because she could not find anyone else to participate, leaving Murder watching a snail and wondering if the race was a challenge stage.

• DustBerry took Murder to a point in space-time within Underswap.
• Murder recognized Blue, whom he had previously met in Dusttale, and greeted him.
• Murder met SFBerry, UDBerry, ODBerry, and IBerry, learning that they each held Papyrus's role in their timelines.
• Blue asked Murder to join the snail race, and DustBerry quietly asked him to play along.
• Murder watched the hooded Genetically Modified Snail jog along and wondered whether it was a challenge stage.