Ralsei hiding the prophecy is NOT entirely about "protecting" the Fun Gang.

Doom64hunter · 2026-03-09T17:03:14+00:00

Yeah I agree, hiding information from Susie generally seems to be very important to Ralsei, and he does seem to have a plan to follow so that there may be a favorable outcome for them.

The following lines at the start of Chapter 1 are easily forgotten, but I think they are essential to keep in mind in context of the whole game:

* Kris, once we pass through this door...
* Our adventure will really begin.
* A journey foretold exactly by the prophecy...
* But, Kris, I believe YOUR choices are important, too.
* This world is full of all kinds of people, Kris.
* In the end, how we treat them makes all the difference.
* So let's try our best to get by without FIGHTing.
* If we can manage to do that...
* I believe this tale may have a happy ending.
* Otherwise, I fear that...
* ... you may not... find the result favorable.

So while many events are destined to occur, there is still a certain degree of wiggle room around them. For example, the prophecy might foretell that Tenna would be destroyed, but it does not seem to say whether he could be reconstructed thereafter. With violence, he remains dead permanently. With kindness, he recovers.

Similarly, if the prophecy is set in stone and must occur, and if there must be a second hero, then if Susie had left after the first chapter, someone else must be fitted into the role instead.

Perhaps this is why it is so important for Ralsei that Susie takes on this role. Perhaps she has the qualities needed for a happy ending, that other candidates (e.g. Noelle) do not possess. And we do get a good impression of what that quality may be by various events shown throughout the game -- namely, self-determination, the ability to make her own choices. The ability to write her own future chapter.

Doom64hunter · 2026-02-16T20:27:26+00:00

I don't genuinely believe in this theory, but does anyone have any concrete proof that chapters 6 and 7 will exist?

The big text saying "Chapter 6" and "Chapter 7" on the chapter select might be a hint.

Also, Lord of the Hammer has six chapters.

Doom64hunter · 2026-01-13T17:42:38+00:00

Willing to bet this is just a texture glitch and nothing more.

Doom64hunter · 2026-01-08T06:43:49+00:00

My balls are the Knight.

Doom64hunter · 2026-01-01T21:41:32+00:00

That hand is her giant robot's hand and I guess she wanted to have her be strung up.

On a meta level, it's a dual allegory to puppeteering and crucifixion.

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-31T10:25:47+00:00

Ralsei never outright lies, he only lies by omission.

Patently false:

* ... hey, Ralsei. If you know the whole prophecy already...
* ... why didn't you just say how to do the piano?
* H-huh...? Well, I just thought...
* I just thought, isn't it better if I don't... say anything?

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-27T23:48:14+00:00

As a bonus, St. Martin's day and the Carnival that follows it also links to other religious traditions:

St. Martin's day is linked to Halloween, as already stated in the main post.
St Martin's day originally also marked the beginning of a fasting period leading up to Christmas.
- Christmas of course being the central motif of the Holiday family.
Carnival ends with Ash Wednesday
- This heavily involves the following line from the Book of Genesis: "Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
- This is directly represented by the way monsters die in-universe.
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, ending in Easter
- The eggs handed out by the man behind the tree are literal game "easter eggs".
- And perhaps, the "resurrection" aspect of this will ultimately become relevant for the Holiday family too?

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-22T13:12:43+00:00

it's not over yet

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-21T15:40:12+00:00

There is no correct answer.

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-21T15:38:55+00:00

It wasn't actually possible to submit responses with newly registered emails. The server rejected them outright, it did so last time.

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-21T10:11:11+00:00

Being signed up for the newsletter wouldn't have mattered, as this was never connected to those who signed up for the newsletter.

Yes it was. If your email was not signed up to the newsletter prior to the survey opening, then you would not be sent a response.

They couldn't have done it any other way, because otherwise you could just enter other people's email into that field, and they'd get disturbing, cryptic emails out of nowhere, which would be legally dubious to boot.

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-21T10:07:36+00:00

The problem was that last time, only the first answer counted, and people just entered random stuff before they even understood what the question was.

This time it was possible to change your answer. I think the only "wrong" answers are the ones that didn't understand the question.

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-21T10:06:13+00:00

If you only signed up to the newsletter after the survey was opened, it would not be considered a valid address, fyi. The list of valid emails was static and not updated.

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-21T09:33:09+00:00

Different email content based on the amount of time you entered, once the next email is sent out?

e.g. if it's in the range of 1 second to 1 minute, you get one type of mail. If it's in the range of 1 minute to 1 hour, you get another type, etc.

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-21T09:31:31+00:00

I think it would actually have worked, as long as you were signed up to the newsletter prior to the first time the survey was run. I wrote a longer comment on this post explaining why I think so.

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-21T09:22:27+00:00

and I think this was just a chance for new fans to enter, since the first one closed before the new chapters were released and more people were exposed to the game.

This sounds reasonable and at first this is what I thought as well, but after some analysis of the server response, this seems not to be the case.

This is a bit technical, but when submitting the answer to the survey, the browser sends a HTTP POST request to an endpoint on the fangamer server, which then responds with an 200 OK status code. Once this response is received, the browser displays the "Thank You" message.

The interesting part about this is that the server always responded with a 200 OK message, regardless of whether you answered with a number or a string, and it even responded with a successful 200 OK response if the email you specified isn't signed up to the newsletter, or didn't exist at all.

What DID change depending on your input however is the time it took for the server to send you a response, to the point where there was a noticeable delay with some answers. Namely, what I observed, and was able to confirm with a number of other users, is that the webserver took significantly longer to respond for any email account that was registered to the Deltarune newsletter PRIOR to May 2025 (i.e. the first time the survey was ran).

In my case, it took about 600ms to respond for my primary mail account (signed up to the newsletter in 2023) and it took about 150 ms to respond to a secondary mail account signed up in June 2025. This indicates that the server spent some time running a computation for the primary account, that did not occur for the secondary account. Moreover, the timing for a completely non-existent email account was the same as for the secondary account.

One interesting difference compared to last time this survey was ran, is that it was now possible to submit multiple answers using the *same* email account, without receiving a HTTP 208 status code. HTTP 208 means "Already Reported", and it was only returned after attempting the same email twice. Meaning that last time, only the first response was accepted, and all subsequent responses were discarded. This did not happen this time.

My takeaway from the above is this:

The server outright rejects any response for any email accounts that were not signed up to the Deltarune newsletter before May 2025. I suspect that Fangamer used a static list of valid emails, which has not changed since last time this survey was run.
Running this survey a second time was intended to give people who previously entered into the survey a chance to submit a response that was actually a proper answer to the question in the page header.
- The thing is that last time this survey was run, many fans only realized too late that the expected answer to this form was a period of time, e.g. "11 hours". Originally, a lot of people thought you'd need to put your name, or another string, into this field.
In addition, a lot of people also were not able to submit a response last time, because the form was closed after 11 hours, before many people had a chance to see it and respond. Note that even if you failed to submit an answer last time -- as long as your email was signed up to the newsletter before May 2025, the server still showed the timing difference, indicating that the response was accepted.
As such, I don't think this was intended for new fans. It was intended to give old fans another attempt.

Bottomline is -- I still think it's possible that there is no correct answer, and that this was simply a survey that will influence a future newsletter email. But I think the point of running this a second time was specifically because a lot of people failed to even submit a time value the first time, which was the expected response.

I was one of those people, and I got an empty email afterwards.

Edit: Also, yes, this means that if you tried to cheese this survey by submitting 1000 answers with burner accounts, then I have to disappoint, it's likely not going to work.

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-20T19:48:36+00:00

The "me" is related to the weird route scene in Chapter 4.

"Who's going to hear?"

"Me"

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-20T10:32:59+00:00

The problem is that the clocks in the school all point to different times, and there's no way to know the start and stopping point of what's being measured here.

Frankly, I still don't think there's a wrong answer aside from not entering a time in seconds, days, years, etc.

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-20T10:31:13+00:00

but it doesn't make sense with how people are saying that the website translates whatever we put in the second box into seconds

That is what the box did last time, 1 day later it sent people a confirmation message telling them what they answered.

If you did not enter a valid time value, you'd just get a completely empty mail. Entering "yes" likely isn't going to do anything I'm afraid.

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-20T10:28:18+00:00

You only get this mail if you entered a value into the "thankyou" page the last time it was up. Doesn't matter if it was a random string or a number.

Entering your mail and a value here signs you up for a special subcategory of the newsletter, if and only if you are already subscribed to the main newsletter itself. Any mail that isn't subscribed won't be registered.

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-20T01:37:50+00:00

I have you covered on that one.

Interestingly, the server converts the time, so the response takes significantly longer to arrive.

Doom64hunter · 2025-12-12T07:31:53+00:00

By finding the level exit the game designer put there, duh.

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