Ink 'n' Slide Station

Ink 'n' Slide Station is a test in paid downloadable content, the Octo Expansion. This station is unlocked after clearing either Grab & Go Station, Tubular 8-Ball Station, House Party Station or Bustalicious Station.

Access
The player must clear either Grab & Go Station,  Tubular 8-Ball Station,  House Party Station or  Bustalicious Station to access this test. The shortest way to access this station is to clear Bustalicious Station.

Checkpoint 1
Starting from the first checkpoint there is a path to an Inkfurler which the player has to shoot and use as a path to the next platform below. The next platform has a crate containing two Power Eggs and another Inkfurler which makes a path to another platform below. There's a Balloon which can be shot for two Power Eggs. The next platform has a grated area where the player can shoot the Inkfurler of the next platform from. This platform has a Sanitized Octotrooper Bonbon stationed on it, a crate containing Armor, another Inkfurler, and the second checkpoint.

Checkpoint 2
Hit the Inkfurler to make a path and avoid the Octotrooper Bonbons' shots that are stationed on platforms to the right and left. Hit another Inkfurler and climb up it. There's an optional path that uses the aforementioned platforms with the Octotrooper Bonbons. Two Squid Rings appear when choosing this path and the last platform has a crate containing a Power Egg container with 25 eggs. Otherwise the path leads to the third checkpoint.

Checkpoint 3
Follow the path to an Inkfurler which goes along a balloon to the left and in between two platforms with cover against Sanitized Octocommanders and leads directly to one of those Octarians. There is a crate with Armor. Below the platforms, there is an area with a Gusher to go back. Follow the path to the Octocommander on a platform with another raised area with more cover and two Power Eggs to the left. Follow the path to the next Octocommander on a raised area, and the final Octocommander on yet another raised area. Splatting them makes a Launchpad appear leading to the fourth checkpoint.

Checkpoint 4
Climb up the Inkfurler ahead to a small platform with another Inkfurler which leads to a Sanitized Shielded Octotrooper to the right, Inkfurler to the left, which can easily defeat the shielded Octarian, and an Inkfurler in the distance. Hit the Inkfurler to continue to with a Ride rail and the fifth checkpoint.

Checkpoint 5
Hit and ride the ride rail which goes around three columns with stationed Shielded Octotroopers and platform with nine crates on them, an Inkfurler, and two balloons floating around it. Hit the Inkfurler to jump on it when the ride rail leads back to the fifth checkpoint. The Inkfurler ends on a small platform with a crate containing a Power Egg container. Follow the Inkfurler back to the aforementioned platform with nine crates. Behind the platforms is the sixth and final checkpoint on a raised area to the right.

Final Checkpoint
An Inkfurler leads to another Inkfurler attached to a small platform with a crate containing three Power Eggs. Hitting it alerts a Sanitized Octosniper which will start to shoot. The next Inkfurler leads to another Inkfurler. An Inkfurler attached to a platform below has to be hit to make a path that leads to another Inkfurler that slopes up to another Inkfurler. There is another Inkfurler below that leads to another Inkfurler below that leads to yet another Inkfurler below. This one leads to yet another Inkfurler that leads to a sloped one that ultimately leads to one which has to be climbed up, arriving at the Octosniper's location and the Goal.

Mem Cake
"A Skalop brand atop your crown Will turn some heads but really shreds When it is simply turned around."

- Skalop mem cake

Completing this test awards the player with the Skalop mem cake.

Quotes
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S2 Icon C.Q. Cumber 2.png C.Q. Cumbergreen
"You'll need to use the Inkfurlers in this area to create a path through the air."

"Once they're unfurled, shoot the end to keep 'em that way."

"And keep in mind that Inkfurlers will roll back up if they're hit by enemy ink."

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S2 Icon Cap'n Cuttlefish.png Cap'n Cuttlefishgreen
"Excellent!"

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S2 Icon Marina 2.png Marinagreen
"Rush through or proceed with caution... What to do - whatcha gonna do?"

"Octocommander dead ahead! Watch out for that Inkfurler rolling back up."

"I thought you'd fallen off!"

"Ah - looks like this ride rail loops back around to where it starts."

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S2 Icon Pearl 2.png Pearlgreen
"Yeah! Now dip, dive, slip 'n' slide!"

"You've got a main and a sub weapon. Don't be shy about using 'em both!"

"Ugh - more bad guys?!"

"Bam! Who's next?!"

"That. Was. Awesome!"

"So many Inkfurlers... Not fun."

"Watch out - that sniper looks like trouble!"

"Nice work, Eight! You're a beast."

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Trivia

 * The station's title is a play on the phrase "Slip 'n' Slide" and the subtitle is a play on the phrase "For realz".
 * Ink 'n' Slide Station, under its Japanese name, "Ciretami Yama River Station", was revealed before the Octo Expansion was released.
 * The Japanese title of this station is a pun on "Kireta misanga" (a broken misanga).
 * This station has Rock'n Flowers and what looks like marbles floating around in the background of this level. The Rock'n Flowers are a toy made by a Japanese company called Takara in the eighties.
 * The Dutch title of this station alludes to the Rock'n Flowers and the marbles. "Knikkeren" also means "to play with marbles", supporting the idea that there are marbles floating around.