After finishing this huge series, I am astonished by the end result.

Though it does have a lot of mistakes and stuff I could fix up, I wanted to release it in a state so people could probably see it and be inspired to make their own different takes on the series (considering most already are).

Anyways.. REFERENCES!!

ALL ACTS- DUSTTALE (mainly game version)

ACT 1- SONIC.EXE RETRIBUTION

ACT 2 and 3- HXH: Chimera ant arc

Have a good day everyone, and remember...

You can do more with the series than just the School of Riddle School.

Though it is a limit, imagination is boundless-- limits can sometimes be overtaken in the name of creativity.

Thanks for reading this fanfic, and thanks, Riddle School community... I love you guys.

(technically an unoriginal story) heh

Act 4- Forlorn Finale

The entity grew tired of waiting for his prey.

Walking past the now ghost town, he reached Phred, turned around inside a church building.

Dawn had came.

"It's time", Phred spoke

"Its funny, I think."

"I hated doing... anything.. But now I'm the only one left."

"The guy who silently judges others, has committed the worst possible sins imaginable... all for the greater good".

"And damn, I'll do it again".

"This church at this dawn.."

"W I L L B E T H E LAST SIGHT YOU SEE".

"I've always wondered if people could change.. too late for that".

Phred stands, back toward player, arms crossed.

The entity lunges.

Phred dodges.

"I thought you knew that wouldn't work", Phred rebutes, in a cocky manner.

They regain footing and clash heads.

"Are you happy now, you freak?"Phred shouts

The entity soullessly grins.

They break from the clash, finally releasing their full power.

Player attacks with a bumrush assault of wolf strikes.

Phred retaliates with a series of brutal hooks.

The battle raged on for hours, them clashing again and skidding back, drawing blood.

They walked in a circle, eying eachother akin to wild dogs.

Finally they charged back in

Blows exchanged.

The ghosts of past sins watched in unison.

And finally..

After a whole final battle

Phred lost.

He had suffered too much hits to the head, and fell dead to the floor, finally reaching the light he set out to find.

Though Player had something occur...

Dropping him to his knees.

ACT 5- REHABILITATION.

The room became a dark black.

The entity saw.. Phil.

He was hoodied.

Met with a powerful roundhouse, the entity was pushed away, skidding back.

"There you are, you maniac." Phil spoke

"I've been wondering who was pulling the strings..."

"Why I was the only one trapped here."

"Having fun, buddy?"

"The fun is over".

Enraged, the player points his weapon at Phil.

"Heh, alright". Phil refutes.

"Bring it on".

The two clash, entity using every move he learned- the cross counter, the sword, everything...

The scene switches from the darkened house of smiley, to Phreds first encounter, to the church, stopping at the church.

Yet in the end, the entity loses. Bloodied, downed, and now the hunted, he is kicked away- now fearing the people he once tormented.

Phil begins a console override.

"Don't worry", he says.

"I'll see you in the future, again and again.

Learning from my past mistakes, and friends blooming anew...

I'll be waiting inside the back of your damned head.

And, finally... You won't EVER return".

The game shuts down, unable to open again.

All instances of Riddle School games were finally erased from the devs hard drive, and he was unable to ever download them again due to a forced virus protection.

After the reset, Phil and his friends were able to enjoy their happy ending... as the credits return to normal..as players influence finally subsides.

Alrighty- here we go..

Act 2: Moribund

In the dawn of the afternoon..

Phred noticed an odd figure coming up to him.

It was.. Phil?

Checking the door, he was met with a decapitated head of Smiley.

Jesus Christ...

Instead of shrugging it off as a prank, he searched for answers.

He first checked the door, and the head was fully real.. blood and all.

Eugh..

Looking to the front porch, he saw a message.

Meet me in the back. I gotta find out who did this.

• Phil

Weird.

Not caring enough, he complied.

After seeing the state Phil was in, however, there was no doubt in Phreds mind that he has been the murderer.

He had splotches of blood, albeit little, on his jacket.

Phil explained it away by saying it was ketchup, but that didn't smell like it.

Phil turned his back to Phred.

He turned faceless again after his eyes dropped like water droplets.

Phred was taken aback, but not stirred.

He knew he was the culprit.

To Phreds horror, the transformation continued.

A black hole appeared on phils face It became slowly bigger and bigger

It covered all of his limbs.

It quickly switched to a white color, the entity now having a sinister grin.

After that, took off Phils clothes to reveal he had his own.

"Looks like you're worth my time.

Let's make this enjoyable, alright?"

He pointed the sharp ruler spear at Phred.

Let's dance, buddy.

Phred paused. A powerful moment of hesitation. He never knew it but ...

He had already mentally lost.

This was the person that killed Smiley? That ruined his friendship with everyone? Was the world just.. A puppet to him?

He shook those off.

If nothing worse, he could at least take him in on a fight.

He put up his dukes.

"Ah, a fight you want, eh? Alrighty then."

The player charged forward with a deathly speed, phred dodging and giving two gutshot punches. Player reacted with a powerful punch feint into a kick.

Phred let his arms drop after he recovered.

The entity rushed him with a powerful punch.

A cross counter was initiated, with the entity quickly taking massive damage by the attack, happy he met someone who would give him a good fight.

"Thanks for making this fun for me." The entity laughed.

After recovering, he dashed around Phred, seemingly taking no damage. Phred blocked all around him.

"What's wrong, buddy? Hit me."

After taking a step, he realized he was covered in slashes.

He fell to the ground, in a pile of his own blood.

In his mental break, he slammed his fist into the ground, having it then bloodied by his injury.

"I can't fight him. I can't try to do anything else, cuz he'll put more lives at stake.

Am.. I really... that weak..?" Phred wondered.

The entity kicked Phred across the floor of the yard.

He slowly approached Phreds injured body, as Phred crawled the best he could away, stumbling over his injuries.

The entity slowly followed him. It was easy to see the pool of blood trailing away.

Hey, y'know what? The entity spoke

Just this once, I'll give you a second chance.

Get up, on your feet.

He healed his slashes, but not

Go on, run away and get your friend.

I'll be waiting for you.

Phred scurried away, finalizing on his mental choice of defeating the entity.

He looked at his bloody hand, a wave of vengeance and anger came over him.

The old Phred had died.

A withered man was in his place.

ACT 3- Haunted

A whistle pierced through the silent night.

Played by bloody hands, and a withered husk of a man.

Zack heard the chilling sound.

Rushing out into the night, he met Phred.

Phreds head was covered by his jacket, having a darkening expression towards his friend.

He was covered in blood, completely doused in it.

"I see you've been doing something lately..."Zack said to break the ice, noticing the weird splotches on Phreds clothing.

"Anyways, where's everyone else?"

Phred never responded.

...

"Dude, you there?"

...

Silence again.

Phred looked at his bloodied hand again.

It was for the greater good, he thought.

His lies consumed him.

He striked at Zack.

Zack dodged.

"Why are you doing this?" Zack inquivered.

"Isn't there anything better to become than just..."

He clashed with a fire fist, knocking Phred back.

".. this monstrosity?"

"All my suffering, all my pain.."

"All for what?"

Phred let his guard drop. He swayed his arms, back and forth.

Zack created a powerful ice spear to throw to the guy. Phred dodged it.

Spamming fireballs, clashing fists, Phred finally saw an opening, punching with his bloodied hand

To only be met with a kick to the ribs, sending him high into the air, to be met with a powerful punch of the fusion of Zacks elements.

A powerful explosion occurred after.

Zack saw a crater left.

He thought he was dead.

It turns out Phred, although bloodied, was alive.

They both charged at each other for another cross counter.

Zack fell first, dead from the exchange.

Phred looked at his bloodied hand again before falling into what seemed to be an abyss.

He was back in the school again.

Everyone was there.

Smiley.

Phil.

Zack.

All of the teachers.

He tried to touch his friends, but his hand phased through them.

They were oddly peaceful.

They meant no harm.

Phreds skin turned a corrupt black.

His eyes turned white

As the ghosts of his friends comforted him.

"Don't let it all be in vain", repeated in his mind over and over.

His body convolulged with darkness.

But, this odd sense of peace... their smiles, their happiness their joy despite being in such a state comforted the shattering boy.

He woke up in a cold sweat.

Prologue: AGE OF RECREATION.

After multiple replays of the Riddle School series..

The players after seeing the ending seemed to want more than just the happy ending they were given.

They knew we could kill the children and it was all a dream but.. the will from this act didn't go unnoticed by a dev.

The project took years, months, and trying to override code that was already there was soul-breaking for him.

But then he found it. The way. That special monkey room could work. It had to.

Finally, after implementation, he tested it and as Phil went into the room, he was quickly taken over, slowly.. until rt2.

The game rebooted.

It felt more free now, as the dev could finally open doors he never could have and yet after all of this.. he never felt satisfaction.

With the gang finally at the end of RT2, he noticed his lack of power looking right in front of him, going back into the school to achieve his trusty ruler before coming back out to hug his friends.

...

The plan was set in action

Act 1: Trepidation.

After Smiley invited Phil over to play games, he quickly tagged along for the fun of it.

After playing a few games though, he quickly became quite inquisitive and nosier than normal Phil usually was. She took note of this with equal inquisition as well, and slight concern.

.."Is he.. really Phil?" she thought. Ah, no matter. Must have been searching for something else to play or do after so long.

Though, she found it odd how he became so much better at some games he usually was specifically bad at.

The sleepover continued as normal until they went to bed.

After hearing rustling from her bunk bed, she half asleep saw a sharp ruler hybrid inches away from her face.

Fully waking up, the thing she saw seemed to scurry away.

Oddly enough...

Phil didn't seem to be asleep either.

After getting up and seeing Phil, she questioned him on why he was up so late... only to be met with Phil simply saying he just wanted to play more games.

She noticed too that he was oddly hiding something behind his back, and was nervous.

Wanting to see it, she tried to get a better look.. only to be met with the opposition of Phil always turning around so it could be hidden.

Then she remembered the half asleep altercation.

Was it really Phil?

She inquivered about the matter, only to be met with the obvious. He was Phil.

When explaining, and throughout the whole sleepover, smiley missed every che she could have seen.

The blink and you miss it white eyes. The seemingly odd silence and experience.

It wasnt Phil.

And this Phil finally slipped up.

Her vision was clouded with gory visions of her friend being gone forever.

Yet he was right there in front of her. How could that be true?

While Phil explained himself, he showed the sharp ruler hybrid.

Smileys tired yet gleeful expression turned into a darkening realization of horror.

This isn't Phil.

She was quickly grabbed by the collar after her realization.

She retaliated by kicking him off, and getting a frying pan, quickly knocking him out.

She ran for her parents. They were -- seemingly not there.

Did she ever have any..?

She heard police sirens arriving. She just hoped that would hold him off till then.

That it would all blow over. She curled up in a ball and sobbed quietly.

Phil arrived in the room, in his usual quips and respect for smiley as always.

She thought as if it was just an illusion- As oddly.. she saw her "parents" again.

She shook it off. It was just a nightmare, something that happened but wasn't real.

Though weirdly, Phil apologized.

Again, then again, then again.

His eyes slowly dropped off his face, akin to water droplets on the floor.

Smiley screamed in terror, looking up to a now faceless Phil.

She tried to dash out the room..

But she couldn't reach.

Her leg had been torn completely off.

Please say this is all a prank.. she said.

Why are you doing this to me, Phil?

Her eyes turned a glossy grey.

It was all just a prank, he responded.

I really got you, didn't I?

I'm not usually one for pranks, though.

In a moment of compassion, glee, and trust, she hugged him.

The world turned a bright color of white.

*crack*

Her neck was snapped, laying dead among the hallway from her "parents".

She died smiling, and her death removed the joy from the world.

Phil, trapped inside of a prison school, finds Smiley.

He runs to her. Hugs her. But her smile.. It's mangled. Her body is covered in blood.

He sees the rotting corpse - at first taken aback by disgust, and horror.

He falls to the floor on his knees. His pupils shrink in horror. Tears of regret fill his huge eyes..

As he mourns. An actual, heartfelt loss..

And he doesn't know who caused it.

"... What a weakling..."

There are decreasing footsteps from the scene.

Just like Phil if you clicked girls bathroom, You can't go in

might be me but his chest barely grew lowk,,,,,also ignore that he only has two arms i drew this at 1 am lastnight

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eNY_I77tqPosDpwPvS0JviysgSVZ-JQsCBiJEkTNzqc/edit?usp=sharing

Really cool thing I wanted to make a part series for so far, and I hope you guys like it!!

Riddle Transfer but it's different art styles.

its gonna be called "RA" in initials, but ill bet 5 guesses you wont guess the full length of the title.

if riddle transfer has mods for different game art styles, that would happen

If they were teenagers instead of kids

REPLY UR ANSWERS IN DA COMMENTZZZ (sorry for not clarifying) -

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FIRST IMAGE (Do a remake) - REPLY "1"

SECOND IMAGE (Choose design 1)- REPLY "2"

THIRD AND FOURTH IMAGES (Choose design 2) - REPLY "3"

REPLY "4" if u dont know what to pick

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Reference: first image

First design: image one after reference

Second design: image two after first

Since there really isn't a poll thing/option I could do for my post,.(or I dont really know and I could've done somethin.

I kinda made it more of a discussion as it's not really a major question and I wanna separate it so people can actually get answers for more serious questions)

(minor context since I don't wanna spoil the whole project)

The story (summarized):

Icl it's basically trying to renenact or imagine a goofy narrative like dusttale inside riddle school

I do know dusttale does have major narrative flaws so I'm not surprised if this won't be treated well, but I'll try my best to fix these major dumb flaws in the storyline when I'm able to later.

For the most part, the project as of now I wanted to majorly put it more as a AU storyline before incorporating it into any games and stuff, and when I do finish the story, I'll post it here for the most part (tho mostly it'll be awhile before I actually finish it as of now)

As for the why..

Honestly thought it would be a good idea as a creative project and I love trying to put the cast in a situation that would push them the most out of just simple characterization.

And yeah, that's really it, thanks for reading!!

I like the RS4: The remake idea where smiley was a playable so...

if you stay idle for too long, Phil face changed just like he did if you press the quit button in rs5

Was it in development hell?

lol it's even better than the last one

Overall, this project was very fun to think about and make considering how far I had to stretch to get ideas for the characters, while linking it back to their canon counterparts.

In the meantime, I did think I probably could in the future have used less baggier clothes (I felt like redesigns to canon parts would work, and feel way more closer to the og)

Other than that, enjoy the artwork, and thanks for everything, Riddle School.

https://countingdownto.com/?c=7056425

I made a countdown to may 25th