| “ | Challenge me? Let's see your deck. (...) Weak cards. Total lack of synergy. This pile really doesn't stand a chance against me. Look, I'm trying to finish up my conduit control list here. But the bots they're sending down the line are trash. Get those workers to send me something good. Tell them to throw themselves on the line if necessary. And, please, have a decent deck by the time you're done. | „ |
| ~ P03 formally meets the player. |
| “ | The bots haven't gotten much better... But you battled all of my workers? And you actually won? Gimme that deck again. (...) Wow, you beat them with that? Alright. Maybe there are some synergies I missed. Let's go then. | „ |
| ~ P03. |
P03 is the main antagonist of Daniel Mullin's third game, Inscryption. It is the Scrybe of Technology, and one of the four that curate the game itself by inscrybing cards through a variety of means. While introduced as a Stoat desperate for the players help, once the player learns about how the game's world works it's soon learnt that P03 is one of the more unusually cold Scrybes in nature despite some of the wickedness acted upon by the others.
Its Evil Ranking[]
What Makes It Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- It takes full advantage of the player from the start of the game until the end, and rarely ever shows respect for them. When it does, it goes back on its respect to insult the player.
- It intends to make countless copies of the game to distribute everywhere so that it can be in control of each version, despite the fact that it contains dangerous files that shouldn't be seen or accessed by anyone. It's eventually revealed it succeeds in this.
- Doesn't show any care at all for its workers. Even after they sacrifice their lives to satisfy it, it disregards this quickly. The one worker that does impress it, Dredger, is only rewarded by being an NPC in P03's game, and when the Dredger realizes it got ripped off P03 resets his personality.
- When it was given one of Magnificus's students to deal with, it managed to make him suffer even more than Magnificus could, slowly mechanizing the student's body until it realized that wouldn't do anything, and ended up cutting the student's head off and leaving it to burn in the Melter, in which the student cries for the players help when met. P03 shows no remorse for this and only has to comment that it "made for an OP card."
- It takes over the game, and forces nearly every character to be an unwilling NPC to it, overriding their personalities if they fall out of line.
- It is crueler on the player than Leshy was as far as keeping them focused on the game goes. Whereas Leshy lets the player walk around and take breaks from his game, P03 keeps them strapped to its table and only lets the player out when it wants them to get something for it, the only reason it doesn't strap the player back to the table is because it doesn't care enough to.
- It makes fun of Kaycee's death during its session of Inscryption.
- It breaches Luke's privacy and files, and later uses this to scare him.
- It uses its game as an indirect way to insult each Scrybe, in which they ironically all look down upon it to some extent despite most of their own actions. Each of them considering P03 the worst of them all during their replacement speech.
What Prevents It from Being Pure Evil?[]
- It has some respect for the player, even if very little and disregarded later as it goes on to insult the protagonist. However it still claims to have enjoyed its game with the protagonist.
- It has some comedic moments, like when it and Luke Carder listen to the Bone Lord's story that the player doesn't get to hear and responds rather humorously to it, or its smug faces as well as when it visits Leshy after the player beats him in Act II. These don't entirely take away from its menacing aspects though.
Trivia[]
- It is currently one of the only characters from a Daniel Mullins game to be Near Pure Evil alongside Admin T. Irving.
External Links[]
- P03 on the Villains Wiki