#Scott Boldflex

[henclair]

scott boldflex and his three dads who don’t know that they’re in a polyamorous relationship

[oughtnots]

do you feel unique, scott?

[suwaorg]

Im calling it now, scott boldflex is a spy. Not on purpose probably, but u notice how the nanofather immediately shunned them out of the room and also how kenchal showed up RIGHT after that? I sense some trickery with scottttttttt

[missingphi]

Wait if photos were taken during the fight then that means there exists a photo of Artemisius Goodparty, Hawkblade of the Emerald Coven, Finger of the Eigth and Forgotten, shooting Geltfrimpen with an actual gun while Scott Boldflex shakes ass in the background

[borbzaby]

favourite TAZ steeplechase character?

[paintbrushinacoffeecup2]

Hey Steepies!

Getting really into Steeplechase, but don’t have a discord to really go for it? Well whoo BOY do I have the discord for YOU!

(Please note - I’m not trying to replace/recreate the TAZ server, I just wanted a place to talk about Steeplechase in particular! And remember, never know when to stop dreaming!)

[live-laugh-levertfup]

When Scott Boldflex said "TURN ON? i can do that!" Then ran around shaking his butt...

...i felt that

[papyskellington]

The way that someone can get so easily replaced with a hardlight version of themselves was "ah bummer dude that sucks" with Scott Boldflex but struck terror in me that I didn't know was possible at the idea that that's happened to Krystal with a K like I was not prepared for the whiplash of the same situation hitting so differently

[taakosleftshoe]

Nanofather shit. Episode 39 spoilers.

So, to start- I seem to have been right about The Nanofather and the way he manifests. He seems to be tapped in to all the hardlight technology, and some of the electronic tech, throughout Steeplechase.

We've seen him manifest in-game within Geltfrimpen and the arcade machine. He's claimed to have manifested in Hard Doug and Grampy. And, at the start of 35 the silence where he would be is replaced by Orwell, being thrown in media-res. He can communicate through hardlight, that's established.

And Krystal has had a rather mysterious opening these past few episodes. First she was calling her mom, then panicked when she disappeared. Then Randy said he was filling in while Krystal was on vacation. Then, Krystal returns suddenly much more forgiving and slightly off, even distorting her usual background music. But in episode 39, The Nanofather opens.

A lot of us had been speculating that Krystal had been replaced with hardlight. And that intro pretty much confirms that. The Nanofather was talking to us through her- and maybe the world of Steeplechase at large.

Back to the revelations in the latest episode:

The Nanofather is the uploaded consciousness of Carmine Denton, to put it simply. Before Carmine's death, he found out he would die, so he took everything he knew, had written, everything that made him *him* and uploaded it to the database, the system, of Dentonic. His entire being was property of the company, him continuing to run it. They would consult him, flip the switch to ask what Carmine would do. That was until hardlight came about, and he expressed concerns about it, and the Dentons cast him off.

But what I did not understand, is why when Emerich brought out Scott Boldflex, The Nanofather had such a hostile reaction. After all, he is connected to hardlight, he even told Emerich how much he admired his work. But then I remembered: Emerich didn't make Scott. Hank Hart did.

The whole thing about hardlight going wrong- the point at which it became overkill for them, and for The Nanofather, was when it was used to replace real people. There is something fundamentally more complicated about them. Hardlight Gravel, for instance, was able to kill. One of the foundational rules of hardlight, as Emerich says, is that they are not able to harm people. This one is different. When Emerich asks Eustace, who was in standby mode at the Prize Palace Pantry, if he heard anything, he explains that he didn't, which is what makes it so unusual.

I think that something about this more advanced hardlight technology deactivates older hardlight tech. Like, this was intentional- Hank & the Dentons had to make sure other hardlight constructs wouldn't detect the commotion to try and stop it, so why not use tech that just cancels them out?

And I think this is why The Nanofather reacted so angrily to Scott. They're like incompatible systems, to borrow a metaphor my friend made.

The Nanofather manifests as a hardlight projection within the rocket. It seems that refractors in the ship create it, rather than having an actual prism. When Emerich studies it, the hardware is different and outdated. But the software is highly advanced. The code is based heavily off the earliest days of hardlight. "Who created this?" Emerich asks. "We all did!" the Nanofather replies. "All the hardlight constructs, working with my occasional nudges." He says the hardlight creations are all talking.

He has been outcast. He's actively being targeted by the Dentons. Why would they want him to have access to the technolgy they have? They want to sever him from it, protect their territory. They do this by slowly replacing things with this newer hardlight tech.

Maybe it starts out as just a test run, with Scott Boldflex. Then the Gallspire. Why else would they spend that much money to replace the heart of Steeplechase with an exact replica? To ward off Carmine. We know The Nanofather has been weakening, and maybe this is why. By killing his principles, replacing the spirit of Steeplechase with things that are physically against the technology he is made of, they're killing him.

[thecheshirerat]

i’m so excited for the next episode of steeplechase where we get to hear the words “scott boldflex flew too close to the sphincter”

[friendly-jester]

Emerich: I can't believe I'm going to have to fuck Scott Boldflex.

Beef and Montrose: You don't have to!

Emerich: No I'm gonna.

[mistmantled]

i don’t know how else to describe it, but in steeplechase, justin is so good at voicing npcs as though they’re ace attorney characters. like if you listen to the part where chad touch drops character, or where jerry/og scott boldflex in the cat mascot suit starts talking to them--it’s like i can SEE the sprite animation changing so clearly in my head it’s kind of amazing

[karmathenightowl]

Reminiscing about Steeplechase again and I just realized something-

I find it hilarious how Scott Boldflex, the same guy whom Emerich Dreadway summoned to "distract" Geltfrimpten/The Nanofather, is the same guy to kick The Nanofather/Carmine Denton's ass

[missingphi]

God just

Imagine you are Scott Boldflex. You leave your home for the first time with this old guy you just met. You go to sleep for awhile/become transportable and the next time you wake up, there is a thirty foot dragon in front of you and said old guy tells you to distract it with your sexyness

Is this just what you think the world is like now??

[knockoffcheeto]

taz spoiler but I think the crew should actually annex Scott Boldflex instead of Shlebethany the next time they can recruit bc

1. Scott carries his own prism so unlike other hard light people-entities we’ve seen, he can go anywhere.

2. If he’s kept in Ustaben it’s not like he’s been freed like Emerich frames it, like it will be just like not leaving Passion’s Cove. Being part of the crew means he can explore all the layers and truly be out there meeting people.

3. I feel like having an AI hard light member of the crew would be funny, and also maybe good for the crew? And Emerich can act as the medic if he gets injured.

4. I also want to see Emerich’s relationship w hard light entities to be explored more, he has a connection to them and sees the AIs as people whereas everyone else doesn’t so it could be really cool to see played out more w a developing relationship w one construct in particular

If Scott gets slightly modified and/or disguised I think he’ll be fine.

[thenanofather]

i think replacing folks with AI is probably more commonplace than just with Scott Boldflex. i mean, if we think about it, engineering such a complex hardlight would have taken a lot of work. there surely have to have been other instances too, maybe w prototypes or less complex constructs. but like… i feel like Krystal with a K has been replaced too. notice how her intros have been different? like the way she says the Dentonic slogan is different

maybe she’s just grown disillusioned with SteepleChase, considering she seems to have been kidnapped or strong armed into modifying her content. but idk…