Funny / Outcore

Oh, Crap! Zoom back in, fast!

This whole game could be a Crowning Moment of Funny if there weren’t so many Surprisingly Creepy Moments, but even then, Doctor Shinobi sneaks some laughs into the tense bits too.

All spoilers will be unmarked ahead. You Have Been Warned!

Patch Notes

• Some of the patch notes for this game are wonders to behold themselves.
• "Attempted to fix a bug that makes the game break for people who have French names (I'm dead serious. More details below)"
  TL;DR is that Lumi didn't recognize you had the correct folder open if you had characters in your Windows username that weren't already handled for the game. This also happened for Turkish people in earlier builds.
• "The firewall phase has a background effect which can be quite costly to run on old computers. Long ago I implemented a mechanism that measures your FPS and forces the background to look worse until your FPS stabilizes at 45 or above. Some people were still getting low FPS on the lowest background quality, so it's been adjusted to nerf itself even further before stopping."
• "After listening to player feedback: Made it less likely for black holes to appear in real life next to players, sucking them in along with their entire neighborhood."
• "Sorry, my cat just landed his abnormally gigantic ass on the keyboard. Here's proof◊"
• "Made it easier for hackers to write an autosplitter for Outcore."
• "Nerfed Captain Tutorial to be less difficult than the final boss of a Souls game"
• The Big 2023 Update
  • "Added a weird blue gnome to the gnome village"
    That's all of that update's patch notes.
• "At the end of the nightmare flashback - pressing "exit" will now cause a group of clowns to break into your house, beat your ass, spread weird rumors about you among your friends, and continue the game into the next story chapter because you didn't finish the game. Happy birthday."
• "Added another bullet point to this bullet point list to make it seem like a lot more was done for this update."
• "A bunch of bug fixes, but honestly I forgot to write them down so you'll just have to trust me on this one"
• "Being happy is now illegal"
• "Removed Herobrine"
• "Nerfed Booty's last phase to make it less likely players will commit arson after playing it."
• "Added a giant Lumi Plushie outside one of the windows in the school's chapter. This plushie will simply stand there, judging you."
• "Anyway we've talked enough about Lumi. Let's take a look at Jiji doing a poor job drinking water."

On The Desktop

• Right off the bat, when given the option to give Lumi her file, you can just drag it to the Recycle Bin. It closes the game.
  Lumi: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
  
  • The achievement you get for this? “Murder”.

  • This can be done at any time with any file important to Lumi.

• Once you do get around to dragging the file to her, she regains her body, hovering majestically in the air for a short time, before falling directly on her face at the bottom of the screen.

• When you give her “L@umi~.data”, she briefly resumes her “angelic” pose, and then…
  Lumi: Yes… I can feel it… (Uncomfortable face) It’s not working…
  
• Then, you get to the “Safe” puzzle, where you draw shapes in MS Paint to match silhouettes. The first shape is a star (or a “Star-shaped cookie cutter”, according to Lumi ^note Though, this does double as foreshadowing, funnily enough.), but the next shape…
  Lumi: Now it obviously looks like a spaceship and absolutely nothing else.

• Whenever you’re instructed to drag Lumi into the code window to unlock her memories, nothing says you have to drag her into the correct window… if you drag her into your browser, for example, it will have the same effect.

• After the battle with Captain Tutorial, Lumi reminisces about her dad.
  Lumi: Ah, so this is how it all started. And that was my dad… Oh god. I just realized that means you know my dad now.I swear, he’s not always dressed like that! It’s just that he’s always so overdramatic and easily influenced. He once saw a TV show called “Mister Chef” and decided that he’s a world class food artist. …He ended up burning our house. …3 times
  
• Welcome to Lumi’s COOL site
  • The synopsis Lumi gives of her life is really silly, and chock full of foreshadowing.
  Hello!!! My name is Lumi! Welcome to my website, which is the c00lest website in the underground. I like eating gold soup (not really) and playing with my sister (though she's really bad at games!!!).
  I'm usually pretty bored, so my dad told me to try being creative and maybe build a web site. First I had to search "how to make a website" over at YOHOO.COM. Unfortunately, the site didn't show anything because I don't think anyone in the underground ever made a website before. I figured I should probably invent the whole internet technology, so I bought a "Coffee Script" programming book and started studying. It took me AGES! The fact my dad kept blowing up my door didn't help. EUGH, why does he always do that? I wish he would get friends or something (DON'T TELL HIM I SAID THAT!!!). Anyway, I finally finished inventing the web, so welcome to my website! //
  • The fact that the description mentions “Coffee Script” is hilarious, since you use actual Javascript later on in the Idle Game minigame.

  • Then there’s the GUEST BOOK.
  By: Mr Tutorial!
  19:41

  Comment:
  HAAAA HA HA HA HA! Now that's my girl! My daughter is the best daughter of all the daughters in the underground

  By: 00% OFF NO RETURNS
  04:17

  Comment:
  HOT AND MOIST BAG OF TRASH IN YOUR AREA! STOP BEING LONELY CLICK HERE!
  • Lumi clearly briefly considered a music career.
    Making a website was nice, but I feel like it's not really my thing. Maybe I should start singing? Perhaps pursue a career as an underground pop singer? I decided to go ahead and record myself. I really like how it came out and how it represents a big part of me. You can download my new song OVER HERE!. I call it... "E"!
    • Even better, if you load the file into an audio player (either by changing the file type to ".wav", or using a program that doesn't care about file extensions like VLC), it reveals that it's an extremely short audio sample of a female going "e" - the same sound used for Lumi's text.

• K-Lev, the “half robot, half mutant, half dog possessed by the soul of a handsome ancient demon lord”.
  • When he first appears after you decrypt the Idle Game file, Lumi summons him out of her hand, and the resulting mess of pixels flies all over the screen. Then, in an explosion, K-Lev appears beside his owner.
  Lumi: Woah!!! Is that… K-Lev? How did you get here? This is K-Lev. He’s my dog. Well, he’s not a real dog. He’s a half robot, half mutant, half dog possessed by the soul of a handsome ancient demon lord. He’s a bit odd, but he’s a reliable friend and a good boy. Right K-Lev?
  (K-Lev poops on the desktop)
  K-Lev: WOOF!
  (Beat)
  Lumi: K-Lev!
  K-Lev: *Sad half robot, half mutant, half dog possessed by the soul of a handsome ancient demon lord noises*
  (K-Lev shoots a laser from his tail and vaporizes the poop.)
  Lumi: Good boy!
  (K-Lev’s eyes flash, and he grows several times his size into an eldritch dog-monster. He lets out a monster growl, and pats Lumi on the head before shrinking back to normal. Lumi gives him a hug.)
  • Lumi and K-Lev’s “Conversation”.
  Lumi: Hey K-Lev, we tried unlocking one of my memory files and it summoned you. Any chance you have something to do with it?
  K-Lev: Woof!
  Lumi: Hmmmmmmm
  K-Lev: Woof Woof!
  Lumi: Yes I see
  K-Lev: Woof Woof WOOF!
  Lumi: She said WHAT?
  K-Lev: Woof!!!
  Lumi: Ah! I see now. I have no idea what he’s saying.
  
• You can drag K-Lev into the Memory Loader instead of Lumi. This swaps him with Lumi in the memory. This results in one of the zaniest jokes in the game.
  Narrator: It’s time to wake up
  (K-Lev gets up, and Lumi bursts into the room… missing her torso.)
  Lumi: GOOD MORNING K-LEV! WHAT A GREAT DAY TO BE YOU! DO YOU KNOW WHO’S A GOOD BOY? DO YOU???
  (Lumi’s sprite starts distorting in wacky ways)
  Lumi: THAT’S RIGHT K-LEV IT’S YOU! YOU’RE THE GOOD BOY! Oh my god, I’m so happy you sleep in my bed while I sleep on the cold hard floor. In fact, you know what good boys like you deserve? Lots… and lots of…
  (Shows graphic of a large bone)
  Lumi: TREATS! Tons of bones made out of gold coins just for YOU!
  (A bunch of golden bones fall onto the bed next to K-Lev)
  Lumi: Yeahhhh you deserve it, buddy, you’re the best.
  (The memory glitches out and you’re booted back to the desktop)
  Lumi: What?! K-Lev? We’re supposed to unlock MY memories, not yours. Besides… There’s no way this memory really happened. …Right? …Let’s go back to unlocking my memories.

Candy Course

• You can get a fake out game over right away if you’re contrarian enough.
  Narrator: Hey Lumi, do you want to go on an epic adventure today and make your dream come true?
  (Player picks no, fake credits roll, cuts back to the game)
  Narrator: Ok, it seems like you’re not in a good mood. Then how about a joke? Knock knock…
  Captain Tutorial (Breaks down door) Haaaaa ha ha ha ha!
  
• Captain Tutorial’s entire introduction is hilarious.
  Lumi: Dad, what are you doing?
  Captain Tutorial I’m not dad, I’m Captain Tutorial.
  Lumi: What are you wearing? Have you been watching too much anime again?
  Captain Tutorial: Haaaaa ha ha ha ha! Yes!
  Lumi: (Visible Discomfort)
  
• True to his name, Captain Tutorial gives you a tutorial. Of course, it’s just as hilarious as his introduction.
  Captain Tutorial: We’ll begin by teaching you how to move. First start by moving your right foot in front of your left foot.
  On-Screen Pop-up: Put your right foot in front of your left foot to move forward
  Captain Tutorial: Amazing! It may have taken 18 years but you finally learned how to walk!
  
  • Every time he makes his entrance, it’s heralded by a couple of Underground residents playing a Trumpet and a Guitar to the first few bars of Captain Tutorial’s theme, while Lumi’s eyes disappear in embarrassment and irritation.

• Then, the level actually begins.
  Captain Tutorial: You’ve proved without a doubt that you’re ready for the three deadly challenges.
  (Lumi’s room falls apart, revealing a level made of candy)
  Captain Tutorial: Let’s start with the candy themed obstacle course. Haaaaa ha ha ha ha!
  Lumi: Not this again…
  
• The “Crowd”.
  Captain Tutorial: Your task is to reach the end of the obstacle course. Let’s hear what the crowd thinks!
  Crowd:^note Captain Tutorial wearing a shoddy mask “You can do it!” “Yeah! Only Lumi can navigate this deadly candy cotton fluffy obstacle course!”
  Captain Tutorial: Looks like the crowd is rooting for you Lumi! Don’t disappoint them.
  Lumi: Don’t I get a say in this?
  Captain Tutorial: See you on the other side!
  (Captain Tutorial is carried away by a rope from the sky)
  
• The introduction of The Tutorial Hat
  Lumi: Oh no.
  (The two Underground Residents play his intro bars)
  Captain Tutorial: Well done Lumi! You’ve cleared the obstacle course. (Tears up) I’m so proud.
  Lumi: Thanks…
  Captain Tutorial: Now, as impressive as it may be, you will not get to the surface just by walking. You need something to protect yourself with out there.
  (Looped animation of a cardboard “hat” with a stuffed glove attached to it spinning starts to play)
  Captain Tutorial: Which is exactly why you need The Tutorial Hat!
  Lumi: (Genuinely interested) The Tutorial Hat??
  Captain Tutorial: Yes, you heard it right! The Tutorial Hat! Woven from the finest silky rock in the underground and designed by the smartest engineers in Tutorial Corp. It will make you look stylish AND protect your head from the cold!
  
  • The hat’s description in the top left corner of the screen:
  The Tutorial Hat 9990X
  MEGA Processing
  Whopping 0 horse power
  Nuclear explosions proof
  • The ad, where the narrator speaks absolute gibberish:
  Captain Tutorial: Indeed, The Tutorial Hat has everything you need to help you on your journey. But why tell you when I can show you how awesome it is? Let’s watch a commercial showcasing The Tutorial Hat!
  (Ad starts. A sock puppet fails at pouring milk into a plastic bowl)
  Subtitles: Are you more stupid than a brick?
  (The sock puppet makes sad sounds)
  Subtitles: Are you lonely because no one wants to be your friend?
  (The sock puppet blows into party horn, then nods sadly)
  Subtitles: Does your mother say it’s ok and that she loves you anyway?
  (The sock puppet shakes his head sadly)
  Subtitles: Well that’s alright because we’ve got just the thing for you!
  (The looped animation from earlier plays in the ad)
  Subtitles: The Tutorial Hat! Yeah that’s right! Now you can be awesome!
  (Shows the puppet wearing the hat and saying “Oh!” and “Wow!”)
  Subtitles: Pump your intelligence and solve impossible mathematical paradoxes
  (The puppet “solves” a paradox by drawing a smiley face on a white board)
  Subtitles: Become stronger than a sock puppet
  (The puppet uses a hand grip strengthener in its “mouth”)
  Subtitles: And fulfil your dream of becoming the coolest kid in school
  (The puppet talks with two other sock puppets before a comb hits it)
  Subtitles: Let’s hear what our happy customers think about it
  The Puppet (In silhouette): It sucks
  Subtitles: Get your very own tutorial hat right now!
  
  • If you watch closely, you can see that the comb didn’t actually hit the puppet.

• Then, it leads to a pinball game, but not before a strange case of reverse discounts.
  Lumi: Wow, how do I get this hat?
  Captain Tutorial: Why, I’m glad you asked! All you need to do is pay a certain amount of score points which you can collect from this challenge I’ve set up just for you!
  (The camera cuts to the giant pinball machine, and pans around, viewing all its components.)
  Captain Tutorial: Your second deadly challenge is to earn enough score points to buy this hat. The recommended price of the Tutorial Hat in regular retailers is 2,000 score points. And the discounted price can usually reach 1,000 score points. But hold on... UNBELIEVABLE! I’ve just been told we’ve got a new deal just for you Lumi! 5,000 POINTS! That’s right, only 5,000 points and you can have your very own Tutorial Hat But can you do it? Let’s hear what the crowd thinks!
  Crowd^note The glorious return of Captain Tutorial wearing a shoddy paper mask: “You can do it Lumi!” "Yeah! Only Lumi has it in her to support the endless unsustainable cycle of capitalism! We believe in you!”
  Captain Tutorial: Well then Lumi, looks like the crowd is rooting for you Don’t disappoint them!
  
• The first boss fight gets an… interesting introduction.
  Captain Tutorial: Well done Lumi! You successfully earned 5,000 or more points. Your hat will be delivered to you in 12 business days.
  Lumi: Aren’t you supposed to take my money?
  Captain Tutorial: Haaaa ha ha ha ha
  (Screen turns to static, cut to the underground city, with several buildings and people on fire)
  Captain Tutorial: Stop right there VILLAIN!
  Lumi: Villain?
  Captain Tutorial: That’s right. You’re the one who put these people in the burning buildings aren’t you?
  Person on fire: HELP ME!!!
  Captain Tutorial: Well fear not, everyone. I, Captain Tutorial, shall DEFEAT this villain and save the burning citizens. In that particular order!
  Person on fire: I’m burning to death!!!
  Captain Tutorial: Before I annihilate you let’s hear what the crowd has to say
  Person on fire: (Music cuts out as a distant scream sound plays) AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaa
  Captain Tutorial: ...Don’t worry villain, there are other helpless citizens stuck in this building. But before I defeat you and save them I must change to my battle suit. Get ready. It’s tutorial time!
  (Captain Tutorial starts his Transformation Sequence, with the camera zooming out, briefly showing a cropped version of the sequence as an embarrassed Lumi watches. Captain Tutorial finishes his Transformation Sequence, only to end up looking exactly how he did seconds before.)
  Captain Tutorial: Now that I’ve got my battle suit on you will not be able to commit EVIL. Your last deadly challenge is to defeat me. And as a lesson I shall teach you how to FIGHT.
  • You never actually get to use The Tutorial Hat.

• During the fight itself, Captain Tutorial’s attacks are pretty funny, too.
  • In one of his attacks, Tutorial charges up a punch, and punches a nearby building, defenestrating a handful of burning people. You can hear their screams as they fall, and they’re hilarious.

  • He gathers up two stacks of cars, and hurls them at you.
    • You can see a building collapse in the background.

  • During the second phase, he’s lifted by the rope from before, and starts shooting laser eyes.

  • When you finally defeat him, the rope falls from the top of the screen, defying the laws of physics by staying completely straight, as there’s a sequence of explosions, bringing him down.

Ofelia Returns

• In an otherwise dramatic and sad scene, the storybook that Lumi’s reading has an interesting twist.
  Lumi: “And they lived happily ever after... Until they died in a horrible traffic accident. The end”
  
• After Mr Tutorial wakes up Lumi again, Ofelia bursts through the door (though not as explosively as Mr. Tutorial) and whisks Lumi off on a more adventurous version of her daily routine.
  • First, she greets her sis.
  Ofelia: Hey Lumi!
  Lumi: Ofelia?!
  (The sisters hug)
  Lumi: You’re finally back! How was your adventure? Was Booty’s lair big and awesome???
  Ofelia: Haha, you bet. I don’t even understand why Dad orbit us from venturing into it. But I’ll tell you all about it later. We should get going to work. Dad won’t be happy if we don’t bring some coins to eat for dinner.
  
  • The pair go to work and Ofelia gets sidetracked.
  Lumi: The first 3 coins will spawn to the right. Now another one will drop from the left. And another four will spawn above this point.
  Ofelia: Hey Lumi, forget about that. Look what I made.
  (Screen pans to a large stone pillar, which Ofelia has adorned with a pattern of coins in the shape of a smiley face)
  Lumi: Woah! It’s so big!
  Ofelia: Yep, hehe
  Lumi: It looks a bit unstable
  Ofelia: Huh?
  (The pillar starts to fall)
  Lumi: (with a cartoonishly exaggerated expression) AHHHHHHHH!!!
  (The pillar crushes her)
  
  • During their lunch break, Ofelia gets the two of them into some mischief.
  Person: Well, everyone, it’s time to eat!
  Lumi: I really don’t want to eat this anymore. I’m sick of this bland taste
  Ofelia: Oh, really now? Well, look deep into your food. I snuck up some delicious non-coiny food I found at Booty’s cave.
  Lumi: What? Really??? But I can’t see it
  Ofelia: Look deeper
  Lumi: …I still can’t see it
  Ofelia: Stop holding back. Look DEEPER
  (Lumi plunges her face into the bowl of gold coins. She looks back up, her face covered in gold)
  Lumi: It’s not there
  Ofelia: Pffff. Well... I guess I was wrong. I can’t believe you actually fell for that Lumi. Hahahahaha.
  Lumi: Ofeliaaaaaaa.
  (Lumi tries throwing some of the gold at Ofelia, only to miss her and hit one of the other workers)
  Person: Hey! Who threw this at me?
  (The person throws some gold at another person)
  Person: Hey! Who threw this at me?
  (The person throws some gold at another person)
  Person: Hey! Who threw this at me?
  (The person throws some gold at another person)
  Ofelia: DUCK FOR YOUR LIFE
  
  • Ofelia tells Lumi some things about the world above.
  Ofelia: I had a little chat with Booty when I visited his cave. Get this, apparently, he actually WAS in the world above! He told me things I couldn’t even begin to imagine exist. Things such as new colors that don’t exist in the underground. Or the fact there is no ceiling!
  Lumi: Wow.
  Ofelia: There are no walls. You can walk wherever you want and there doesn’t appear to be an end to it. Instead of a ceiling, there is a giant ball of light that hurts your eyes if you look at it
  Lumi: That sounds terrible.
  Ofelia: I know. Isn’t it great?! AND it’s not even the best thing about the world above.
  Lumi: What is the best thing about it?
  Ofelia: Lumi… It’s FOOD. Apparently, there are cookies made out of things other than coins!!!
  Lumi: WHAT?!
  Ofelia: YEAH!!! I think they grow on trees or something?
  Lumi: What are trees?
  Ofelia: I don’t know. Haha
  

Booty’s Cave

• The whole segment is a homage to Undertale's beginning and Pacifist Route final boss, and it’s hilarious.
  • Lumi first meets Booty the Bootleg, a giant boot with a stupid sewn-on face.
  Booty the Bootleg: Howdy! I’m Booty! Booty the Bootleg. You must be new around here, right?
  Lumi: Wait, did you just say Booty? You look nothing like what Ofelia told me. You’re more like a shameless ripoff.
  Booty the Bootleg: Ripoff? Wow! you must be so confused. Someone ought to teach you how things work around here. I guess ol’ me will have to do!
  (An Undertale-style battle begins)
  
  • Then, Booty the Bootleg gives a very economic tutorial.
  Booty the Bootleg: See this number? This is your score! It is directly tied to your credit card. The bigger your score is, the better life you can live! And oh gee, you look like you could use a bigger score. How about I help you? All you have to do is pay a little sum of score points, and your investment will grow tenfold. Perhaps even… TENTENFOLD!
  Lumi: (Hold it together Lumi, it will be worth it to learn about the world above)
  Booty the Bootleg: So what do you say? Would you like to invest 1000 score points?
  >Sounds legit. Must be a good deal
  (1000 points drain from the counter)
  Booty the Bootleg: Thank you very much! You can increase the returns on your investment by getting more investors to join our investment plan. The more investors you sign up the more score points you can make! Here, let me give you a couple of investors to sign up, on the house!
  (He summons six shuriken-shaped Undertale-styled bullets)
  Booty the Bootleg: See these? Use your face to try and catch as many “chainsaw shuriken shaped investors” as you can!
  (He misses with all the projectiles)
  Booty the Bootleg: Whoops I missed haha
  Lumi: Are you trying to kill me??
  Booty the Bootleg: WHAT?? No no!!
  Lumi: Yes, you are
  
  • Booty’s tragic backstory.
  Lumi: I’ve heard you’ve been to the world above. I’m here because I want your advice so I can explore it. But if you don’t intend to help me then I’ve got no reason to stay here.
  Booty the Bootleg: WAIT! Please just listen.
  (Beat)
  Booty the Bootleg: Ok, I admit it. I was trying to kill you. I did it so I could take your credit card and save my family
  Lumi: Save your family?
  Booty the Bootleg: Yes… The truth is I’m actually part of the royal family. I am the prince of the Kingdom of Bootland. Recently the king’s counselor has been trying to take down the royal family in an attempt to take over the kingdom. My family has a large sum of score points. I’m talking about at least a BILLION score points.
  Lumi: Wow. That’s a lot of score points
  Booty the Bootleg: I’ve been trying to transfer the score points out of the country to keep it safe. But alas, the counselor was quicker and froze our bank account. I know a guy at the bank who can unfreeze the royal account, but I need to bribe him with score points. He said he wouldn’t do it unless I paid him a number of score points equivalent to your specific bank account’s total sum of score points. Please! If you help me I promise I will pay you back 100 times the amount of score points you currently have!!
  >Give Booty your credit card
  Booty the Bootleg: Thank you!! Now I can finally save the Kingdom of Bootland. Please hold on, I’ll be right back
  (Booty slides offscreen and buys a bunch of clothes with your points, then slides back onscreen)
  Booty the Bootleg: Oh hey, you’re still here. Listen… I started transferring the bribery funds to my banker friend when all of the sudden your credit card got blocked. This must have been caused by some kind of automatic anti-fraud system. Obviously, this is a false alarm haha. Say… could you please call your credit card company and ask them to unblock the credit card?
  >Yeah just hold on
  Booty the Bootleg: Oh, thank you!
  Lumi: (Dials credit card company) Hey, it’s me. Could you please unblock my credit card? Alright, it’s unlocked
  Booty the Bootleg: Thank you!
  (Booty slides offscreen again and buys a convertible with the last of your points and drives back onscreen)
  Booty the Bootleg: Haha, that was fun. Woah oh… Say, SpongeRob™… How about you go and park the car for me?
  (Booty does a backflip out of the car, with SpongeRob™ driving it offscreen, audibly crashing it)
  Booty the Bootleg: Hey listen, the credit card stopped working again. I think it’s been blocked once more.
  Lumi: It’s not blocked. I’m just out of score points…
  Booty the Bootleg: Oh… Well I’m sure you’ve got another one. And I can’t just let such an opportunity pass. So I’m going to take it from you. HAHAHAHAHAHA.
  Lumi: Please, just stop. I don’t care why you’re trying to steal my score points. But can you please tell me anything about the world above?
  Booty the Bootleg: Oh. I’ve never been to the world above, haha
  Lumi: What…? So you really know nothing about it?
  Booty the Bootleg: Correct
  Lumi: (Why did Ofelia lie to me?)
  Lumi: …Well I’m done here. Thanks for wasting my time
  Booty the Bootleg: Don’t go just yet! I’m sure you have score points to spare
  Lumi: What are you going to do, stop me? You’re nothing but a plagiarist bootleg that is barely stitched together. A mere faker.

• Lumi’s reaction to Booty’s boss form, “Big Booty”.
  Lumi: This is too much of a ripoff for me to deal with
  
• Lumi is tired of Booty’s antics.
  Lumi Are you ready to tell me who gave you that photo?
  Booty the Bootleg: WAHHHHHHHHH
  Lumi: (Weirded out) Why are you crying?
  Booty the Bootleg: Your DETERMINATION is truly touching
  Lumi: (Please stop…)
  
• Booty finally tells Lumi about his involvement with the photo’s delivery.
  Booty the Bootleg: So about that photo That photo was given to me by……………. a dog! It just appeared in my lair one day. Inside its mouth were this photo and a letter. The letter promised me a great fortune if I laid that photo at a specific spot on a specific time. That’s it. I didn’t even get paid for my hard effort
  Lumi: I can’t believe I’m somewhat surprised that information is actually useless. How am I supposed to believe that story?
  Booty the Bootleg: Whether that story is believable or not is not part of the deal
  

Meta

• When launching the game from Steam, you have the option to launch the "Choose this if the game works correctly, but instead of playing it, you prefer to see cute animals with clown noses" edition. Instead of launching Outcore, it'll fire up a Google Image Search searching for that exact phrase.
• The two DLC packs you can purchase for Outcore are going to revolutionize the gameplay by... Adding a clown nose to Lumi, and adding an RGB color-cycling clown nose to Lumi.