Hey Man! Was Skimming Through Your Aus And I Was Wondering What Biome Based Challenges Vos And The Others

hey man! was skimming through your aus and i was wondering what biome based challenges vos and the others would face in the templeswap au and how that would lead to vos getting imprisoned ... sounded very inter esting

Yesyes so the TempleSwap AU started as “what if the Sea Temple was a desert or jungle temple instead?” and I ran with those biomes to theme each temple and its rooms! In the Desert Temple iteration, Jack, Vos, and Sammy explore a massive sandcastle in the Twisting Sands of Spyr’hal Mesa; in the Jungle Temple version, the trio explore a labyrinth-style construct (think of a jungle temple the size of a woodland mansion) in the middle of a crazy jungle I have yet to name. As for the challenges:

🏜️Desert Temple: The traps are similar to pyramids with most of the dangers being husks and quicksand pits. (Pretty easy to avoid if you’re taking your time and keeping an eye out.) However, the main trouble comes when the trio find a giant room with a terracotta X on the floor. As Jack starts digging, the sand floor around the X falls through, revealing a bottomless pit beneath it. Sammy was unfortunately standing on the sand and falls to her death. Attempting to flee, Jack and Vos are separated when Vos stumbles into quicksand and slowly dragged into a secret chamber beneath the floor. Jack is slightly worse for wear, getting caught in a husk horde on his way to the entrance; his eye and arm get scratched up bad.

The sandstone walls in Vos’ cell are too steep to climb and mining fatigue won’t let him dig his way out. Luckily, he does have a lantern and lots of water bottles and the sand floor is pretty warm and cozy. The downsides are the occasional husk that falls through the quicksand pit onto him and the rare heatwaves that make the temple miserably hot.

🌲Jungle Temple: The winding maze of hallways is very Indiana Jones inspired with the boobytraps being trapdoors, arrow dispensers, pressure plates that move walls, etc. There are also hidden buttons that reveal secrets if you’re paying attention. The trio make it to a chamber with a golden totem of undying surrounded by pressure plates, buttons, and levers. Jack suspects the idol to be a fake (it is) and the trio opt to test the levers and pressure plates one by one to see if any reveal a hidden doorway. Most shoot arrows or open rooms that lead nowhere, but one drops a wall that hides a zombie horde behind it. The three try and regroup at a previous hallway, but Sammy trips over a vine while trying to escape the horde and is killed by zombies. While running through the maze, Vos steps on a pressure that seals him behind a wall. Jack gets an arrow to the face on the way out so that’s why his eye is messed up.

Vos assumed the pressure plate he stepped on would fire an arrow at him so he ducked and rolled… right into the hidden room that opened up. Oops. Before he knew what actually happened, the wall behind him slammed shut and locked him inside. He has rations and torches and the vines on the walls make for great bed fodder. Again, mining fatigue won’t let him break his way out and the constant zombie growls keep him awake often.

I decided to make the holding cells in Minecraft for fun. :] I wanted the chambers to be different from the Sea Temple where he’s stranded on the ceiling so the Desert Temple has him stuck beneath the floor and the Jungle Temple traps him in the walls.

Funnily enough, Vos survives in both these versions! Depending on the temple, he either lives off of rotten flesh from the husks that accidentally fall through the quicksand pit or eats moss and vines off the walls Deltarune style. Can you imagine the surprise when Jesse and co. hear a voice speak to them from beneath the floor/ behind a wall? Petra throws a rope down through the quicksand and pulls up a very sand-coated man in the Desert Temple. Or Jesse manages to find the right pressure plate to open up the wall to free a frazzled fella who looks like he totally hasn’t eaten moss ever… he promises.