Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-26006155-20190706141559

Person, "Village Blows" is a poorly defined term.

Just like how we were arguing whether "The End of 201X" means the last month, or the last day, or the last hour even.. we simply don't know how much clearance exists by that term alone.

The full text is: "The humans attacked him with everything they had." "He was struck with blow after blow." "ASRIEL had the power to destroy them all." ( https://youtu.be/7Ig88w_2_6A?t=2659 )

'Everything They Had' sounds like more than one method of attack was used.

Why couldn't the humans have guns?

One of the Six who followed Chara (a search party from her village? People she knew?) definitely had a gun, it's one of the weapons we find along the way, and the theme of one of Omega Flowey's attacks using The Six captured human souls.

On the subject of what a Village is, it's a just a small settlement.

And whatever Village Chara came from, it was *very* close to Mount Ebott.

At the start of Undertale we see Chara running up a mountain.. without any sort of equipment or supplies. And no obvious method of transportation than their own two feet. They're not exploring.. they're running away from something, as if something has pushed them to the breaking point and this was a spur of the moment decision.

And later, Asriel carries Chara's body out of the Underground and walks their body to the center of their village.. with his own two feet.

Chara lived in walking distance to Mount Ebott. And Hometown is just the right size of settlement to be called a village.

Everything still says Modern Era to me.

And since monster tech before Gaster was synchronized to human tech, since they got all of it by reverse-engineering human trash, having a video camera was possible at this day and age without the need of a mad scientist.

The first tape shows that Toriel and Asgore had a video camera, before Asriel was even born! Which means this camera has been in the Dreemur family for several years before Chara even arrived.

And if Gaster had designed a video camera, I don't think it would look anything like the type with a lens cap we could pick up at Best Buy.

In mad scientist/Girl Genius Spark fashion, everything Gaster makes seems to be massively overbuilt, erring on the side of massive power while paying little mind to mundane concerns like Safety.

He created the excessively large Core, and filled it with rows after rows of high-powered overlapping laser arrays. He made people sail through the air on blasts of hot steam as a form of public transportation! If it doesn't violate at least three laws of physics most people believe, he'd probably find the project boring.

Asking Gaster to personaly make a completely mundane piece of consumer electronics.. without even a system to automaticly teleport the lens cap out of the way if the user forgets to remove it?... might actually hurt his mind.

So I still think The Modern Era is by far the most likely time for Undertale to occur, and for both Chara and Frisk to visit the Underground.

Elevator Voice mistook Frisk for Chara, after all. If 300 years had pasted between their arrivals, either Time Travel Shenanigans have occured, or Chara's some kind of Undead.