Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-32182236-20190818180635

While discussing my theory for the origin of the HUD, someone actually managed to debunk it.

Remember the time I brought up the idea of absorbing ambient magic ala TP from Deltarune to explain turns?

Turns out I had the wrong foundation from the start.

When Jerry is entirely alone... He does nothing. Yet, his turn doesn't last forever, we get to keep attacking.

Jerry's doing the exact same thing that Sans is doing based on my hypothesis.. Yet the outcome is different.

Now that I mention it here, I did think of a possible way to solve the issue.. Though I believe the solution is also false. The only way for this to still make sense by my hypothesis is if Jerry just never puts our SOUL back in the box in the first place. This would mean our encounter with Jerry is like the times before turn-based combat evolved:Where a human could just attack again and again.

...Nope. He puts you back in the box:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1csiZrkqso8 (start at 0:35. Or don't, it's just 35 seconds.)

So that hypothesis is busted. I'll have to start looking into alternatives now.

...And actually get onto Part 5 of my Mother Analysis if I can get to it.