One of the self-insert characters in its version of the game, and one of the bosses, is G0lly, a naive robot that is overwhelmed and excited over connecting to the internet, and encourages the player to work with others online through custom cards. It is a recurring joke in the fandom to clean the stinky bot.īrings to mind 'haunted cartridge' creepypasta stories from the early days of the internet. In game, it's depicted with a couple cracks on its screen and grime that covers most of its plating/head. It's first seen in the medium of a pixelated RPG that looks like it's from the early 2000s. 'Total misplay.' as Stoat, and 'You're a stupid, stupid, idiot gamer like the rest.' as itself in act 3.

Diversity win! The manipulative robot is LGBT. This sparked a popular headcanon that the robot is transgender. G0lly, a self-insert representation of P03 in act 3 of the game, is referred to exclusively by she/her pronouns by both P03 and Goobert, another NPC. Additionally, although P03 is sexless, the robot canonically uses it/he pronouns ('he' used by one of P03's workers, 'it' used by other characters). Its smug ass even manages to succeed in its plan of uploading Inscryption and spread itself across the internet, which the protagonist actively granted access to.ĭuring a Q&A stream involving Inscryption creator Daniel Mullins, when asked if the two Scrybes Leshy and P03 were divorced he responded “Yeah,” and shrugged his shoulders. At the last part of Act 2, he manages to find the OLD_DATA, scan it and use it in battle as bait so that, as the player attacks it, it eventually takes control over the whole game.

It's the Scrybe of Tecnology and its inscryption tool (that the scrybes use to create cards) is a scanner which it uses to scan robot's CPUs. Bonus points for having a digital screen for a face. Literally even mentioning its name is considered a spoiler.

Successfully tricks the player into fulfilling its evil plot under the guise of playing a tabletop game. Heavily associated with glowing neon blue. It handcuffs the player to the table and forces them to play its tabletop game.īrags to the player how he managed to pull of a 5-lane field instead of a 4-lane one like Leshy's and how he successfully tricked them at the end of the game.īoth is a robot that occasionally malfunctions as a plot point and breaks the boundaries of its video game world via glitching in order to advance its sinister motives. PO3 is trapped in the form of a talking stoat card at the start of the game. It talks directly to the player and uses actual files from their computer and the profile pictures/account names of people on their Steam friends list in a boss battle. It's implied that it succeeded and the game the real life player is playing on Steam is evidence of that. P03's goal is to trick the player into preparing the game to be uploaded to Steam, with it as the main lead and its preferred rules, fully aware it could spread the evil data even further. In the game's second act, P03 finds the data while the other characters battle, and uses it to restart the game with its rules alone (and some borrowed from the other Scrybes). The game that they're in also has some kind of evil data buried in it that causes the Scrybes to fight for its power. The four Scrybes are all aware they're in a video game and are fully sentient beings within it. If that sounds confusing, you'd be right. The game the real world player plays has segments that cut to videos of a trading card YouTuber who the player controls while playing the fictional game within the narrative. To clarify, the actual game Inscryption available on Steam in the real world and the fictional game Inscryption within the narrative of the game are technically different things, and it only exists in the latter. P03 is one of four Scrybes (powerful beings who employ various methods of creating trading cards so as to play a game kind of like Yu-Gi-Oh) in the game-within-a-game of Inscryption, and it uses a factory to mass produce other robots and then scan them to put them on the cards. Literally even describing anything about this character is a spoiler, so be warned.

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