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>>6213393 >What is a quest? An interactive story in which a Quest Master (QM) writes and provides the readers with options on how to proceed — similar to a choose-your-own-adventure book or an old text adventure
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>QM question: What are some inspirations for your quests? Both quests and non-quests.
>Player question: Pitch a quest, be it one you want to run or one you want to see run but don't have the time/confidence to run (if it's the latter then just run it, it can't hurt). If you don't have an idea for a full quest, then how would you change one you've read/are reading?
>General question: What did you do during 4chan's downtime? Did you go to another site to get your questing fix or just wait it out? Have you expanded your quest reading to other sites since, or are you /qst/ only?
>Lurker question: Do you feel more or less confident to post now, after all the dirty laundry has been aired out and the timer decreased? You should still vote btw, unless you're posting from a mobile IP or something and have an excuse.
>Miscellaneous question: What other boards do you frequent? What boards (besides /qst/) do you wish had more traffic? If you could make a board, what would it be?
AdleQM
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It would appear that our southern neighbour is in a bit of a hiccup, how will you help them?
>>6270084 >>6270085 >>6270084 >>6270085 Moloch !!2JUQluPu334
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Assassins stalk the holy city, and The Pale Inheritance is live:
>>6266786 >>6266786 DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:P6T8TuW7 Sat 05 Jul 2025 17:53:44 No. 6270185 Report Quoted By:
New normal Cultivator Quest thread!
>>>6270154 EvilQM !!4vnChGf1HwS
After an exceptionally hectic week, Dreadknight Quest returns!
>>6267613 Dreadknight Quest Thread 1 - Post 15
>>6270213 >>6270213 >>6270213 Saligia and the Skelebros plan out the Night Raid.
Detlev says his first words since your turned him into a Revenant.
It seems that the Hamlet may not be as sure about their rebellion as they appear to be...
Anonymous
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>>6269495 >What about advertising a Qst on SB/SV/Akun... SB/SV are diametrically opposed to 4chan on principle. Any kind of advertising would get promptly nuked.
As for Akun... where would you even advertise? It doesn't seem to have any type of general area people hang around in.
FERO_ACTUAL !!+NJ0qFqznJ8
FERO_ACTUAL !!+NJ0qFqznJ8 ID:vDexG4mq Sun 06 Jul 2025 01:47:51 No. 6270353 Report Quoted By:
>>6270245 >>6270245 >>6270245 Mere Fallow is back! After a short break : )
AdleQM
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With the army now raised, and preparing to cross the border, it is up to you how to conduct the first forays of the war.
>>6270504 >>6270504 >>6270504 SuperBusy !!+3p8herLSNd
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>>6270528 >>6270528 >>6270528 The stakes just went up in Pokemon Trainer Quest. Turns out, keeping your pokemon not with you at your home comes with some risks and as a result, someone's made an attempt to steal Latias from your home.
Anonymous
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>>6269877 FF14 Quest where you play as a Lalafell
Moloch !!2JUQluPu334
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The Pale Inheritance is now live. So that last attempt at finding some assassins didn't go so well. Second time lucky, right?
>>6266786 >>6266786 Anonymous
>>6269851 >this place /qtg/ or the board?
Anonymous
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>>6270707 nta but sometimes people mistake /qst/ for the "question and answer" board. This is understandable, as the actual /qa/ board has nothing to do with answering questions.
AdleQM
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And now, you must try to catch the first of two rebellious vassals on the behalf of your neighbour, do you have what it takes?
>>6270710 >>6270710 >>6270710 Anonymous
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Greetings brother daoists, we of Normal cultivator quest come with a request we have made before. Everyone is entitled to a d100 in the recent update to try and get a good affinity for a damage/element type. If you are happy to assist with stacking the deck in our favour, do please go and roll a D100 in thread and call it for "storm affinity". And if you think this is cheesy scheming bullshit shamelessly trying to improve our chances. Yes. Next question.
EvilQM !!4vnChGf1HwS
>>6270223 Dreadknight Quest Thread 1 - Post 16
>>6270928 >>6270928 >>6270928 Saligia talks with the guards and makes some new friends.
The civilians are safe for the time being, on their way to allies in Goldgrain.
Now is the time to support your local skeletons.
Pontifex Maximus
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Fallout: The Broken Shore continues! The parlay is ongoing...
>>6270956 >>6270956 >>6270956 Anonymous
>>6269486 /qst/ peaked in 2018, reaching as many as 5,254 posts per day.
Now, it's down to just 353 posts per day, meaning over 93% of its original users have left.
AdleQM
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Uh-oh! It would seem that you are in big trouble, so now you must choose, fight or flight?
>>6271112 >>6271112 >>6271112 Anonymous
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We need wheelbarrows of 2d20 at Supreme Space Monkey; anyone wanna roll?
Pontifex Maximus
Is it ever advisable to have rolls & choices combined, due to the risk of voters switching their decisions based on roll results?
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:P6T8TuW7 Mon 07 Jul 2025 18:22:20 No. 6271276 Report Quoted By:
>>6271273 >rQM Depends how strong you want your MC.
AdleQM
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With you now temporarily safe, it is now up to you to decide how to proceed.
>>6271275 >>6271275 >>6271275 Anonymous
>>6271026 I can believe that, it feels pretty dead. Question is, how do we get more new users on the board? Or do we just resign ourselves to qst dying because the entire site is declining?
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:P6T8TuW7 Mon 07 Jul 2025 18:54:38 No. 6271301 Report >>6271292 I'm shilling the board left and right. Advertising on 4chan itself seems to work.
Pontifex Maximus
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Fallout: The Broken Shore is active once again! The parlay has gotten down to brass tacks, what's on offer from the surface-world sailors. Is it worth selling out your vault, or should you drop the ruse?
>>6271299 >>6271299 >>6271299 Anonymous
>>6271026 Doubles advocate here: that could also mean one super-player used to post multiple times in every thread.
DemBones !!kuHaJ5dacSC
>>6271362 Yea... it truly is a doggie-dog world here on /qst/...
HandlerQM !!wTl2g7PClIm
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>>6271273 I think it's better 99% of the time to not let players roll with their vote since let's take this
OH NO! A SLIME MONSTER IS AFTER YOU! WHAT DO?
>RUN (Roll 3d20+2, DC 10, three successes needed) >KILL (Roll 3d20+1, DC 12, two successes needed) >BEG FOR MERCY (roll 3d20, DC 15, one success needed) If people decide they want to run but they got an unlucky 4 or something, no one is going to vote or roll to RUN after that since they can't pass.
If people decide they want to beg for mercy but they get two unlucky rolls, they're not going to vote or roll for BEG FOR MERCY again
So it just funnels people into KILL since it has the most wiggle room.
It saves time, sure, by not having to ask players to 'roll d100 three times hyuk hyuk' and you can shit out an update faster.
But it sorta makes the vote less of 'hmm what do I wanna do and what do I wanna risk' and turns it into "okay let's just see how RNG plays out THEN we decide on a vote' which doesn't really seem that engaging.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
If Ketus is here, I managed to archive the last thread eventually since Cloudflare unfucked it's self and Lord Licorice did something about the AI scraping his site and taking all the bandwidth. New Ilvermorny tonight hopefully but along with the Holiday, extra work, and other crap? I have not had the time or energy to finish the last bit of the next update or really even play other quests.
Kektus !!XncvlGp7Hp5
>>6271466 i am, i was about to post about making a new thread soon and then the thread got archieved right under my feet.
thanks for the help m8!
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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>>6271487 Welcome. I intended to do it b4 it fell off but stuff and thing. Just happy I caught in time. Suptg having issues didn't help, haha.
Anonymous
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>>6271273 Personally, I just roll the dice when I write the update to speed it up. On a faster board, I guess I might do otherwise.
>>6271301 It did pick up a little bit, but sadly didn't reverse the trend.
>>6271363 Kek.
DetectQM
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GOTHAM CITY BEAT COP RETURNS.... after an unintended long weekend due to corporate malice.
Come on by and help us decide on the best approach to take down a human fridge.
>>6271574 >>6271574 >>6271574 AdleQM
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And now, to undo the numerical superiority of our foe, we have decided upon an ambush...
>>6271789 >>6271789 >>6271789 Anonymous
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Plan how we are going to save our daughter by stealing an absurd amount of money or going back into the belly of a dead goddess
>>6270888 >>6270888 >>6270888 Anonymous
>>6269438 /qst/ splitting felt like a mistake at the time and maybe quests would have been fine there for a bit longer, but 2016 and just after really was when /tg/ went to absolute shit. Imagine trying to run a quest in an environment where a single post slightly out of line resulted in
>wow another trannyfaggot freakshit quest huh? spam.
>>6269486 >>6271026 I was never really around for peak /qst/ (after it split from /tg/ I kind of got overwhelmed by how many quests there suddenly were, and I'd never been the sort to follow quests long term: I dropped in and out of one-shots or took part in the occasional longer thing if it seemed fun). Last time I ran on /qst/ was 2022 and even post-covid the pace was first enough for multiple updates a day.
>>6269495 What are SB/SV/Akun?
Anonymous
>>6272062 >SB SpaceBattles, a forum with a sizeable questing community. They seem to focus on capeshit/worm, and moderation is pretty anal.
>SV SufficientVelocity. SpaceBattle's woke sibling.
>Akun AKA Fiction(dot)live. Website dedicated to question, but it's smut/degen central.
Anonymous
>>6272065 Akun also apoarentky runs on the back of one lone proprietor, who occasionally has backwards-ass ideas about paying for super-votes and other contriversial monetization schemes, which worries me more than smut.
Pontifex Maximus
My solution: create an account & run a qst on fic dot live, but make it clear that it's merely for notifying players when the qst is updating here. It would also be convenient as a wiki of sorts for each qst, as you can post appendices, glossaries, bios, maps, inventories, character sheets, sideqst logs, etc. there.
Anonymous
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>>6272073 That might be worth a go, actually...
Anonymous
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>>6272073 Had the same thought.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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>>6272070 >Akun also apoarentky runs on the back of one lone proprietor, who occasionally has backwards-ass ideas about paying for super-votes and other contriversial monetization schemes, which worries me more than smut. Also, the spaghetti-code. I recall an exploit at one point that could let you get a virus just by seeing the thing in chats. Patched pretty quickly at least. Also, just front end exploits; it was arbitrary to bring up shit that the QM or what passes for mods had deleted like CP or other fucked up shit.
There have been a few good quests but I recall not many and other than short form or one-shots, like almost none that finished. We have a similar issue, sure, but I feel like it is worse there.
Also, a shit search function, unless you go by tag. Like, you can type in the exact name of a quest and not have it pull up.
I go for like 2 quests or to reread a handful that were good and minimum smut. Very little non-porn OC IMO and a shit tone of cross-overs.
I know it makes me a hypocrite since that is how I started out writing and my thing is a fanfic of a fanfic of a children's series but meh. EvilQM !!4vnChGf1HwS
>>6270935 Dreadknight Quest Thread 1 - Post 16
>>6272191 >>6272191 >>6272191 Oh no! Saligia's been captured!
Whatever will she do? Surely she will need to use her sinful body to beg for her life.
But men who fear the light will not fall for such temptations, for their hearts are free from sin and they're basically all dickless eunuchs.
Pontifex Maximus
>>6272198 Hey EvilQM, harkening back to my proposal here:
>>6272073 Your Qst seems tailor-made to draw in coomers, like the majority of that site's userbase; would you be willing to trial the idea to see if we can draw in more players/voters/qsters that way?
AdleQM
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With the enemy now trapped, it is up to you to make certain that they stay trapped, but can you?
>>6272419 >>6272419 >>6272419 Anonymous
Anonymous
WOWE!!!!! CLEANER QUEST HAS ENDED!!!! A QUEST ACTUALLY CONCLUDED WITHOUT THE QM FLAKING OR BURNING OUT OR RAGEQUITTING!!!!!! AMAZING~~~~!!!
Kektus !!XncvlGp7Hp5
EvilQM !!4vnChGf1HwS
>>6272426 I might use it as a secondary archive at some point. Post the quest there with some lag. Their demand to have a lot of updates at once kills me, once a day is the best pace I can do...
Pontifex Maximus
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>>6272806 What I meant was to still run Qsts here, but just notifying voters by going live there & storing info like a wiki.
FALLOUT: THE SHATTERED SHORE II
Has updated! Initial confusion aside, you're now in a haggling situation with this Jack Costner fellow. What might he part with in return for the location of the Vault? Is he trustworthy enough to even have said location, or worthwhile enough as a mercantile figure to begin trade with the only home you've known? You decide:
>>6273206 >>6273206 >>6273206 Also, another QM's Qst that I find highly interesting, FATHER, DO YOU LOVE ME? has updated as well. Go check it out:
>>6273458 PS: is it possible to crosspost to another Board? Tried to & the hyperlinks wouldn't work.