#MALROTH PLEASE

[enclarice]

MALROTH PLEASE THE CELL WAS NEVER MENT FOR YOU

I NEVER WANTED TO LOCK YOU UP PLEEEEEAAAAASE I SPIRALED AFTER YOU LEFT ME

Never has my heart hurt more than when malroth felt betrayed and left me

[murmou]

S/O to @kameonerd566 , I haven't made a post like this in FOREEEEVER omfg tb to the magi brainrot days--

Your 5 favorite characters, Make a poll and let the all-knowing dash decide💅

Tagging: @bullhorns-and-fairywings @faierieprince @what-a-knight @captainkingsley @gryffindor-korra @vieofskycastle & anyone else who wants to feel free to shteal👌

[peridoxikal-redux]

Reparation Through Creation

Now available on Ao3!

Prequel (Not required reading): Rebirth Through Destruction

Words: 10,913

(CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 2. SPECIFICALLY TAKES PLACE IN POSTGAME.)

With Hargon no more and the world at ease, all should be well. However, the highly-praised builder of the Isle of Awakening's battle with her own inner monsters refuses to cease. Can she stand to persevere and move on? Or will she let everything hidden behind that radiant smile devour her?

[crybabypupper]

*Throws Disney's Hercules and Malroth from DQB2 into the baby-pile cutely.* :)

[sparklyrodentthefirst]

It's been too long since I've done DQB2 art. Here's Best Boi™ Malroth.

I fairly recently started another new game and am in a Dragon Quest phase again. I realized too late I should've made the dark half his monster form, but oh well. I'm still pleased with this, and it took forever it feels like.

[parryperi]

Yaaay I can finally share some of the new updates I made to my IoA. Its still a WIP and I've shown parts of the castle here, but id say im actually very happy with it all so far.

(Bonuses and commentary under the cut...if mobile tumblr doesn't mess this up.)

1. Inside the new chapel! Its the first building aside from my recreation of Project Diva's Romeo and Cinderella stage that isn't connected to the castle in the Steppes.

2. A nice little lounge on the ground floor of the castle.

3. It's probably already been seen in one of my clips but the music hall! I'm...trying to give Molly some clothes she might like so she's not always walking around in prison garb, but nothing has seemingly struck her fancy yet.

4. The bedroom for Furrowfield dog girl! (Also seen in a clip lmao). I named her Moon and I tried to match the atmosphere she wanted.

5. The spa. There's actually two to not make the line so long, but they're identical in appearance.

6. Some outdoor paving, a fountain, and some retaining walls im working on. I kept streets in the Scarlet Sands pretty simple so this is truly a test of my gumption here.

7. New farming setup in the Green Gardens. I saw some garden photos where the planters were arranged in overlapping spheres so I tried to recreate it. I also moved Bonanzo and Ordelia to the Gardens alongside their beach house lol.

8. The castle rooftop. I've had a penchant putting flowers everywhere already with how I decorate, so I decided there would just be little gardens up there.

BONUSES:

Memories, anyone? (I'm not sure what I'll do with Shane's ship yet....)

Malroth just standing and watching from afar instead of just having a seat too made me laugh. (This is like....5 minutes after having the builder fistfight a crab, which he interrupted lol).

Still a lot of work to be done, but I'm pleased thus far.

[howwnowbrowncoww]

I love that your first act of creation was to make Malroth! He and the builder would be so happy!🥳

House nearly clean. Soon I get to order my thing.

[sapphire-code]

Welcome everyone to our [schedule undefined] DQB2 modding news!

On today's program we've got something quite peculiar! Keep watching to learn about the newest discovery!

We uh...

We found a Malroth clone in the game.

In postgame files the character 886 has most of Malroth's (1) traits, except he has 10 less HP, has no clothes even if Malroth does, and likes his rooms to be a little bit smaller for some reason.

Information on this is still being researched, but we have not managed to see the elusive Malroth clone in-game yet.

There's. There's just another Malroth in the game. What the heck.

That concludes this [schedule undefined]'s DQB2 modding news! Please stay tuned for more DQB2 discoveries in the future!

My personal theory is that this may be the big Malroth from the Malhalla cutscene, but maybe he's from the IoA final cutscene since he has the hammer

[endingboyhansel]

Here’s something little I put together for DQB2 fans. I call it “Warwick’s Resignation Letter” - a hidden look into Warwick’s mentality by someone who really likes him.

Dear your majesty, (No, that sounds too informal.)

Your gracious majesty, (It sounds like I’m trying to flatter him.)

Your majesty,

I have served as your humble servant for many a year. However the time has come for me to resign from my position as Captain of the Moonbrooke Brigade of Guards.

I have thought this through heavily, and I am not befitting of the post. For too long my flaws have been hindering my work. I am

(… what am I anyway?)

I am a liar. I am a fool. I have been deceived by the Children of Hargon by my own fears. I am not fit to be leading this army. I have already sent spies in. I wish I could go back in time and prevent myself from joining that insidious group. I wish I didn’t do any of this. I am merely just a coward. I am a monster.

Please tell the Builder that I am sorry I locked Malroth in the dungeon. It was in the way of my plan, my own selfcentred plan. I didn’t want to die. I don’t want to die.

PLEASE GET ME OUT OF HERE. GET ME OUT OF THIS ILLUSION. GET ME OUT OF HERE. PLEASE. THE WORLD IS CRACKING IN. IT IS LIKE A SHARP ICICLE ON MY SKIN, PIERCING MY FLESH. PLEASE GET ME OUT. I CAN DO ANYTHING.

I TRIED TO WARN YOU, YOUR MAJESTY. I TRIED TO WARN YOU THIS IS JUST AN ILLUSION. DO YOU EVEN CARE? OR ARE YOU BLIND ON PURPOSE? IS A HAPPY LIE REALLY WHAT YOU WANT? YOU ARE NOT REAL. I AM NOT REAL. I AM NOTHING.

THE ICE IS STARTING TO TEAR ME APART. MY NIGHTMARES ARE GETTING WORSE. I AM GOING TO DIE SOON. I AM GOING TO DIE.

NOTHING CAN SAVE ME. I AM A DEAD MAN.

(… that took an… unexpected turn. I shall rewrite this letter.)

Your majesty,

I am sorry.

(No… he’ll be asking why I’m writing to say sorry… I need a different approach. A different way to confess. Hm. Wait… confess? I have an idea…)

Dear Sister Esther,

I would like to ask you if you can keep some letters away for me. I would like them only to be taken out in the event that I specifically request for them, or I pass away. Please find them attached by this nail.

May the Goddess be praised.

Captain Warwick

[snailroyal]

my meds are killing me

if i die please tell malroth i love him and i think his punches are siiiiiickkkjkjjj

[crybabypupper]

Does anyone else headcanon Malroth from Dragon Quest: Builders 2 as a toddler regressor, or is that just me? 👉🏻👈🏻

[sapphire-rb]

;0; pleaSe PLEASE PLEASE DOCUMENT UR JOURNEY I am so interested in how the hell you even did the stuff with RAM and duplicated Malroths. How would modding that stuff even work?? Could you mod in quests like relationship stuff with Malroth? Would there be a way to have a DQB2 modding scene? Are those worlds able to connect to the servers and be experienced?? PLEASE I WANNA KNOW.

Alright then! Here's everything I could find on the internet about code-related stuff in DQB2:

RAM editing: Using Cheat Engine. Nothing revolutionary. For steam there's already files on the internet you can download and use without any RAM searching. Since I use an emulator I need to constantly find the place it decided to write the data to. With that you can change your position, health, hunger, stamina, gratitude points, time of day, and stuff like that.

Save editor: Here's the thread with everything knowdledgewise about save editing. This is useful for hacking in items, villagers, going to all islands (including Malhalla and Skelkatraz), appearance, level and max health, and other stuff like that. In there there's also map editors but they're very clunky.

Modding: There isn't any modding comunity for the game because the file structure just sucks. Its one big file (Linkdata) and another index file that tells the game where to find stuff in the big file. Any editing has to change the big file. There is a program made by turtle insect (who is basically the one that made all of the dqb2 modding tools) that extracts the files and reinjects them back. So editing it is possible, but very tedious.

The extent of modding in this game is texture editing, documented in this video. The thing is, every change is local, and unless both parties had the same edited linkdata they wouldn't see the edited stuff.

For text editing there was a translation tool back on the demo days, but ever since the official translation released the file structure changed and the tool became outdated. (It wasn't updated since it became obsolete, there's already a translation after all)

The Malroth stuff was with the save editor. I'm trying to find where the game stores stuff like the amount of textboxes per dialogue and the animation sequences to change them around but it's going to take a while until I get something working.

It's all local changes though. It wouldn't be seen in the servers. Things in the save data file would, like edited villagers, but any linkdata shenanigans wouldn't.

[I have written a lot of Malroth dialogue I want to edit in and post sfdgfsdgsdf but I feel like I'll have to bring a sledgehammer to the code and break it in half to get it working]

[drk-of-light]

PLEASE CW YOUR REALISTIC MALROTH ART

[alefgardtravelguide]

here are our main team members! transcription of the images is under the cut!

📝【Team Introduction】 🗺 Greetings from the fanbook's main team!! 🥳 On top of their roles, my teammates also work on a division I call mental support

Name: Kairi Vocation: Administrator @/konoha_kairi on Twitter & IG

"This project has taken me places, a lot of them being real close to hell. Please look forward to it!"

Inventory: Plumberry x10, SMILE SLIME plush x4, Gold x0, Wrist brace x2

Name: Nathan White/N8 Vocation: Editor + Loremaster @/Neifiris on Twitter, n8storefront@gmail.com

"It's me, the editor and self-proclaimed Dragon Quest 1 Historian! I've been passionate baout the first Dragon Quest for years - which I'm told makes me the weird one. Regardless, this project has been wonderful to work on! Please look forward to it!"

Inventory: (E) Red Pen x1, Espresso shot x9, Magic Key x6, Unbuilt model kit x2

Name: Caeri Vocation: Artist @/caerilorem on Twitter and @/caeri.lorem on IG

"Hi! I'm Caeri/Vin. I love drawing plants, flower, grass etc :> I also enjoy seeing small miniature things, they're so smol lol"

Inventory: Tissue x100, Special Medicine x5, Elfin Elixir x10, Sapphire x1

Name: Vi Vocation: Artist @vidramon on Twitter, IG, and Tumblr

"I like to draw happy, colorful slimes & other favorite DQ monsters, though sometimes I draw people, too. Kairi keeps threatening to eat my slimes, but I guess that might be on me for making so many of them dessert themed."

Inventory: Earth block x99, Magic key x6, Crochet Malroth x1, Sketchbook x12

[queermentaldisaster]

Could you please give me/us a little lore or background info on DQB2 for your CoD crossover fic I know absolutely nothing about it but from what you’ve said it sounds interesting

Ahhh! Yes! I love love love love info-dumping about this game!

All under the cut bc it's a lot

Okay, so it starts with the Builder (the player character, and who Soap will be) waking up on a ship, which serves as a tutorial, but it's actually kinda important story-wise.

So, long story short, the ship gets caught in a storm, rocks shatter the hull, and the ship sinks. Fade to black.

Builder wakes up on a deserted island with the wreckage of the ship, and they end up meeting this guy called Malroth. Black hair, red eyes, elf ears, muscular (this is who Ghost is) and the first thing he does is show Builder a bunch of corpses! (Romance if I've ever heard it)

One of these corpses is actually alive!!! Her name is Lulu (we hate Lulu here) and she makes us build shit for us (read, her) (also kinda a tutorial but important story-wise) and then Builder and Malroth beat the shit out of rats and slimes and then the next day they meet the Hairy Hermit, who, after repairing his temple, gives Builder the whole ass island!!! (Gasppp!!!!)

So this sparks a rivalry between Malroth and Lulu on what to call the island. (Lulutopia or Empire of Evisceration.) Then, a ship arrives, and you're sent off to the first story island, Furrowfield.

Here, it's supposed to be an island full of greenery and farms, but because the main baddies, the Children of Hargon (he sucks, we hate him) want destruction and pain all over the world, have corrupted the island. Builder repairs it, losing a friend along the way.

Then they take their friends back to the Isle of Awakening (that's the deserted island!!!) and rinse and repeat this for another island.

Then they go to jail, escape, and sail to another island. Moonbrooke.

Moonbrooke is where everything goes to shit, because Malroth gets imprisoned!!! (I'm still salty about that) and so he gets really grumpy and manipulated and then once you get back to the Isle of Awakening and finish the third area, everything goes to utter shit (I'm not gonna spoil that because I want that at least to be a surprise for those who haven't played/watched the game)

But yeah! There's your very watered rundown on DQB2!