
This machine is the DT Extraction Machine, which Alphys used to extract determination from the six previously captured human SOULs. While exploring the Lab, the protagonist encounters a strange machine. Alphys's lab entries provide backstory on her experiments and are found throughout the True Lab. The protagonist also discovers that Alphys attempted to create a soulless vessel from a Golden Flower the vessel is heavily implied to be Flowey. While working with Determination, Alphys resurrected monsters who had "fallen down" such as Shyren's sister and Snowdrake's Mother, who as a result soon melted into Amalgamates. It is here that the protagonist learns about the term "fallen down", which refers to a comatose state that monsters fall under before turning to dust (this term was previously mentioned in one of Mettaton's diaries in his house). In the True Lab, the protagonist learns about how Alphys experimented with determination, SOULs, fallen monsters, and Golden Flowers. The protagonist traverses the True Laboratory where they find several Lab Entries, Amalgamates, and four keys which give access to the power supply to restart the elevator. Once the protagonist enters and opens the elevator door, they cannot return to the rest of the Underground as they are locked in the True Lab. When the protagonist arrives at the Lab, there is a note in front of the previously locked door, which now opens upon approaching.Īfter entering the door, the protagonist rides an elevator that malfunctions and crashes. The entrance to the True Lab, initially disguised as a bathroom.Īfter the protagonist has completed the date with Alphys by giving her Undyne's Letter, Papyrus calls the protagonist and strongly recommends that they meet Alphys at her lab. You all at least deserve to know what I did.Īlphys's Note, before entering the True Lab If you want to know "the truth." Enter the door to the north of this note. But if you don't ever hear from me again. This isn't anyone else's problem but mine. And for that to happen, I have to be able to face my own mistakes.

You guys alone can't magically make my own problems go away. She says that, despite having to reveal the truth about herself to everyone, people still treat her like a hero. In the near-genocide Neutral Route ending, Alphys talks for most of the endgame phone call. In some Neutral endings, it is implied Alphys commits suicide here. When the protagonist first enters Hotland, they are led to believe that the elevator leading to the True Lab is a toilet, due to Alphys's dialogue.

This area also features a set of VHS tapes providing more information about the first fallen human and their relation with the Dreemurr family.The information that can be gathered in this location provides an insight on Alphys's personality and some of the causes of her anxiety, insecurity and lack of self-esteem, as well as some detail about how she and Mettaton began to grow more distant.A few of the screens also reveal how Flowey came to be.It is also revealed that SOULs cannot be artificially created, contrary to what Alphys told King Asgore in order to get her job as a royal scientist.The screens on the walls explain the concept of determination in great detail, including its effects on both humans and monsters and how it was extracted and used by Alphys in her experiments.The amalgamates are introduced, along with the details about Alphys's experiments with human SOULs in an attempt to find a way to destroy the Barrier.Upon entering the True Lab, the True Pacifist Route can no longer be aborted, and most of the Underground becomes inaccessible until the epilogue. This area is the point of no return for the True Pacifist Route.3.6 DT Extraction Machine to Green Key Slot.
