Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-26006155-20190621103749

Let’s go back to Story Potential, and the Waterfall Gylphs.

If the glyphs said: “No amount of monster SOULs could ever equal the power of a single human SOUL” ... then there is only one possibility to break the Barrier. The monsters have no choice but to wait for another human. Story Potential: Low. Boring.

But if they said: “It would take more monster SOULs than the entire Undergroubd contains to equal the power of a single human SOUL.” ...Then Alphy’s approach of slowly collecting SOULs from dying monster over generations is unlocked, creating an interesting alternative for people with a lot of patience. Story Potential: Medium.

But this is what the glyphs actually say:

“It would take ALMOST ALL of the monster SOULs in the Underground to equal the power of a single human SOUL.”

So, if someone had enough knowledge and power, they could destroy the Barrier overnight, by collecting almost all of the monster SOULs in the Underground in one huge genocidal blast.

Story Potential: High!

Gaster’s Darkest Experiment was something horrible.

And powerful enough that it’s fallout echoed across timelines, to awaken Flowey in Alphy’s lab, causing her to write “The Flower’s Gone.” in True Lab Entry 18. Right after she and Gaster made their respective Entry 17’s

Gaster was also trying to break the Barrier, and prepared a vessel that could absorb both human and monster SOUL. But he did something different from Alphys. Something so bad that his best friend Sans was actually willing to kill him to stop it.

What else could The Darkest Experiment have been, but an attempt to activate Option Three? To break the Barrier instantly by genociding monsterkind?

Can you think of anything else more horrible than this that it might have been?