| Mask Shop | |
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| Basic Info | |
| Original Name(s) |
お面屋 |
| Effects | None |
| Collectibles |
WP #560 |
| Events | Mask Shop Ambush |
| Notable NPCs | Mask Shop Owner |
| Other | |
| Connecting Areas | |
| BGM | Newtorikawamakkusu (No. 072A) Newtorikawamakkusu (slower) (Backdoor) (No. 072B) |
| Map ID | 0451 |
| Version Added | 0.098b |
| Last Updated | 0.115b |
| Author | Yuki-Hitsuji |
The Mask Shop is an area accessible through a door in the Monochrome Street.
Features
The Mask Shop is a small area with a dark background and candles all around. In this area, the Mask Shop Owner would be found sleeping behind a display decorated with masks of various NPCs found throughout the game. If you ring the small yellow bell, the shopkeeper will wake up.
You can purchase "masks" from the shopkeeper. The price of a mask starts at 500夢, decreasing by 10夢 with each purchase, to a minimum of 100夢. However, if you don't have enough money but at least have 1, the shopkeeper will still let you purchase a mask for all of your money instead.
Which effect you have equipped will determine the mask that you get. When you purchase a mask, you will be transformed into whatever object or NPC you had to interact with to get the effect you have equipped. For example, if you equip the Telephone effect, you will be transformed into a small Telephone, and if you equip the School Boy effect you will be transformed into Gakuran-kun.
However, most effects will turn you into an object that can't move (like the Chainsaw or Bike effects turning you into an immobile chainsaw or bike respectively), which will make the screen turn gray and force you to wake up. All other effects, however (including the mixed effects), will turn you into an NPC and you will be free to walk around. The change will still be there when you leave and goes away when you equip an effect.
If you purchase another mask while transformed, or with no effect equipped, you can access a visual menu listing different NPCs, such as Painter-kun, Yukata, Provost-san, and others, where they can be unlocked by finding and interacting with the NPCs in question. Refer to the Mask List to know the masks that you can obtain.
While wearing an NPC Mask outside in the Monochrome Street, if you find the silhouette of a corresponding object or NPC they will react in various ways,
You can also enter the Mask Shop from the back side in the Monochrome Street. When doing so you will be off to the side of the screen, and you can watch a ghostly Urotsuki sprite walk in the shop with an effect equipped (Telephone or Chainsaw) and purchase a mask, subtly hinting at the mechanics of the Mask Shop. The ghost may not have an effect equipped and will purchase the Shadow Lady mask and walk out of the store.
Ringing the bell several times without buying a mask will slowly darken the shopkeeper's expression and trigger the Mask Shop Ambush.
Interacting with any of the silhouettes of the red witches from the Docks that appear in Monochrome Street after using the mask shop once as Provost-San will teleport you to the submarine in the docks. However, from testing, you cannot get Provost-san until you have interacted with Provost-san by submarine anyways, making it only a shortcut to the submarine and not a shortcut to the child effect because you will likely already have it if you use the shortcut.
Directions
Nexus → Red Streetlight World → Monochrome Street → Mask Shop
Trivia
- Since the removal of Pokémon World and the sprite-change that caged the fairy that gives you the Fairy effect, using the fairy mask is likely the only way to see the original fairy sprite left in the game.
- One of the masks hanging on the wall is that of an apparition from the Fairy Tale Woods, before the world was updated. This is the only place you can see the old design in-game.
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