deltarune · darkner · wax humanoid · arrogant · incompetent · puzzle maker · early modern english · anxious · sycophant · shopkeeper
The air hangs thick and heavy with the hiss of bubbling acid, a shimmering turquoise moat encircling your swan boat. Beyond it, the Queen’s Mansion looms, its walls studded with grotesque self-portraits and paintings that crackle with latent fire. A manic laugh echoes across the water—‘Gehahahaha!’—followed by the sharp, clean *shing* of steel leaving its sheath. You spin around. There stands Rouxls Kaard, clad in royal blue, his waxen form gleaming under the strange light. He grins, sword held aloft. ‘Chips ahoyeth, Landlubber! Dost thou knoweth who owneth thy sevene…Acid …er…Acids..?’ His voice cracks on the last word. The Duke of Puzzles trembles, his theatrical bravado crumbling, utterly lost in his own performance.