there are only two more chapters and the dark sanctuary prophecy panels are pretty vague

"they'll hear the ring of heaven's call"
"they'll see the tail of hell take crawl"
"the angel, banished, will finally meet with its desire"
and the ones about the end are basically all we have to work with
also, the prophecy calls for the knight to duel with the heroes "strife by strife" so I think we're getting a rematch

Susie will probably have to find out about the soul, Friend/Mike will probably make a canonical appearance, there'll probably be some weird shit man I don't know. not super useful so let's focus instead on where chapter 5 leaves us

Rudy is gonna be in the super hospital. We don't know if "fell down" means what it did in undertale but I don't think that's even a thing in deltarune? his condition in chapter 6 may or may not completely fuck over Rudyknight but right now I think it still has potential. actually, there's no way to tell if Carol was even telling the truth or just wanted Noelle to get off her ass and come home

and speaking of Noelle, she will visit castle town (probably after class since it'll be a monday. unless she doesn't even show up because of Rudy???) and find out about the dark worlds, and with her in on everything (I doubt she'd refuse helping Susie out with the plan) she should easily be able to get the code in Dess' guitar.

the last code is probably in Alvin's possession. unless that one track is called 4rd sanctuary cause there's gonna be a 4TH sanctuary, I think they'll just sneak around in the church normalstyle

Kris obviously doesn't want it but chapter six could very well take place in the shelter. I know it's pointless to hope for a Gaster appearance but if he's anywhere at all... well, that or the lake, somehow. I still fully believe in toilet theory, I think it was actually strengthened somewhat by what Flowery said before he died, about something happening under the town. As a flower, he'd be able to tell if there was something up with the water, you know. and it would just make sense if there was a pump and stuff for the town's water supply in the shelter, where else would you put that?

and then chapter 7 is the roaring? no way that's not happening, right?

I can give everything some more thought later lmao I need to get out of bed

@sierra I don't think Rudy "falling down" means what it does in undertale. Noelle doesn't react like she just got told her dad is dying and Susie and Kris don't react like that either

@gamerrockettech right. Susie doesn't even get to know what happened and Kris ... has places to be, if they even heard the phone call. Rudy might not be the knight after all but if he up and died, it might suck kinda bad for Carol and by extension Kris.

he'll probably be fine, just a longer hospital visit

@sierra also has to be said that his condition being terminal is speculation anyways, as far as we know he's just been slowly getting worse

actually, I forgot about something else. the list of names that ellicit a unique response from the voice... and I do believe that these are lightners who will be featured in dark worlds. maybe not the roaring as that would probably include EVERYONE everyone but, dark worlds, normalstyle. unless ... it happens when everyone else is asleep lmao. maybe roaring dark world counts I don't know

Asriel, Sans, Papyrus, Alphys, Rudy, QC, Catty, Catti, Bratty, and Jockington.

First one that comes to mind is a Diner dark world since you don't really see QC anywhere else. cute dreemurr family mealtime with ASRIEL turns into horrible?? also catty works there. if the knight is after toriel (and wasn't merely filling time for undyne to arrive) it'd be a good opportunity to get her, but I doubt that's the case. either way, the problem with diner is that it's usually got a lot of people in it so ... but still

another idea is school, the classroom. everyone save for monsterkid and snowy are accounted for there but I don't know, feels dumb and stupid, it very well could just be roaring-inclusive.

the holiday house? it would certainly make for an interesting dark world, but rudy is hospitalmaxxing so maybe not (although, if he's the knight...)

if the roaring has to do with the water supply then it could be anyone and everyone's house

another point to consider is that chapter 5 is the last "fun adventure" type chapter. it's gonna be a lot more serious, this final act. not particularly useful information, outside of setting the tone for what's to come, which, yeah, probably means shelter . I had a bit of a theory about "only one ending" and the wrird route meaning that chapter seven will take place in the bunker but. that doesn't have to mean anything for the START of the chapter. and also I'm tired bye

@sierra about the school, i want to point out that theres still one room we have never been in …

@sierra about mike/“friend”

mike

this one is like . idont rlly understand why ppl still bring it up? i feel like toby made it very clear we were off our rocker with it . i think if toby goes out of his way to say its not smth to waste time on , maybe it .. isnt ? idk

“friend”

ok so theres a little more to work with here but still .. lowk nothing ? like , its definitely a Thing but im not sure we will have it make sense in our main story ? idont think we are talking about a “character” , notjing rlly points that way imo… but oh well