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>>6337227 >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: Do you worry much about board preferences and tastes when coming up with or running a quest? Do you make active efforts to tailor your output to what is "popular," or do you just do your own thing?
>Player Question: What do you look for an appreciate most in a quest: quality of prose/artwork, an appealing setting or world, an interesting plothook, or is it all about the
waifus characters for you?
>General Question: Do you think /qst/ has enough activity, and has had enough good candidates, for anotehr king/queen tourney this year? Who would you nominate?
>Lurker Question: Why not at least +1 or comment on the updates so the QM knows someone is appreciating their work?</span>
RQM
>>6366538 Teechncially it would be the third. Speaking of the tournament, I guess it probably makes sense for me to weigh in on this since I ran the last one, even if it wasn't universally beloved by any means.
>>6366543 There's a reason that when I ran it I chose "king" and 'queen" rather than waifu/husbando, and that was exactly why. i know that especially for female characters, the romantic plays a role in how some anons vote, but I wanted kids and weirdos to be allowed to participate and stuff rather than just "waifushit". I think it helps to expand the pool.
>>6366550 That said, wanting to avoid just rehashing the last tourney is also why I barred characters from the prior tournament when I ran mine.
>>6366553 >>6366582 I don't think there's any hard and fast rule about eligibility criteria, since we've only even had two tournaments and the tourney-runners (me included) kind of made it up as we went. For mine, I'd said that a quest should have had at least three threads, or have completed (so one-shots were eligible as long as they had a proper ending). I just didn't want it clogged by quests that were flashes in the pan. Nowadays, threads last a lot longer, though, so your 200-post criteria makes sense, too. I also really like your cateories, and I had personally been toying with the idea of others like "Most likely to [X]", "Scariest", "Cutest", "Sexiest", "Most Stylish", "Smelliest", "Strongest", stuff like that. Just to give runners up a few amusing titles under their belt and encourage participation and recognition more broadly!
>How do anons feel about this? Would anyone be willing to help me? All that is to say I'd certainly be willing to throw in some dosh and lend a hand, insofar as scheduling allows.
GrandDragonQM !!zkQYD4JVtzO
GrandDragonQM !!zkQYD4JVtzO ID:ydSczPuE Wed 04 Feb 2026 06:10:54 No. 6366784 Report Quoted By:
>>6366742 As a participating QM in your tourney, it was a lot of fun. Would definitely recommend/engage with the same rules, no previous entrants allowed and maybe different categories. Would definitely be interesting to write my characters' interactions with some of /qst/s denizens again. And I offer up for the nomination of "Greatest GILF" Meloka, Karn's five foot tall (mostly calmed down) yandere wife and one of the most dangerous fighters in the entire quest.
Anonymous
>>6366538 >1 post by this ID Eh, I'm kind of braindead right now so I'll bite.
You'd need to put some effort forth to make sure we don't get ample samefaggotry and a new and fresh rotation of characters, like a lot of other anons are saying.
>blah blah blah everyone must draw yadda yadda While that's all fine and dandy, how would you get the artistic board collective to agree to this?
Furthermore, how would you make this more interesting than the prior tournaments? The first waifu tournament was buzzing on the account of the board being a whole lot less dead, the first husbando games had Indonesian Gentleman drawing out a literal Hunger Games for the second, and RQM literally ran the last two on his own, which I am going to assume you know this.
I think that /qst/io kart thing that someone mentioned earlier this thread had some merit, but who wants to tardwrangle an entire board of autists who will lose their shit when their candidate of choice loses miserably? It's happened at least once every tournament (well, not really the husbando tournaments. Those are substantially more chill).
>>6366545 There really isn't a better candidate than Stanley Parble from Bones Quest for this. BananasQM !!4PI2iWoB3fd
Anonymous
>>6366526 >Something entirely original, detached from any historical context or commercial property, even if only for one thread You got something ready to go?
>it's somewhat irritating to have to constantly confirm whether any given modern comfort exists by 1884 Seems like an original where you write the rules is best. Next pick would be Digimon.
AdleQM
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>>6366874 >>6366874 You have returned to the mainland after your island trip, though a bit more eastward than planned.....
>>6366849 >>6366849 Your first military operation, independent and alone, try not to cause too much havoc.
Kektus !!XncvlGp7Hp5
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There is a new update for The Caretaker Quest!
The boss battle continues!
You had a great start! But will you be able to keep the momentum?
If you roll high enough, you might be able to finish the battle right now!
Will you be able to beat Salazar? Roll the dice and find out!
>>6358384 >>6358384 >>6358384 Anonymous
What I got from your post, mutie boy, is "we should run a boring ass tourney that nobody cares enough to samefag in". But then what's the point of running such a tourney?
Anderson Thorell (QM)
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Hoping for a tie-breaker vote for the Monster Girl Facility Quest, because this is an important one.
You're about to enter the 'leisure centre' for the first time, a place where subjects and staff used to relax in the past. Now though, it has become a hotbed for depravity, death squad action and lawlessness. Therefore, it is important to decide where you'll be heading, given what threats might await you. Will you just follow the quickest route given to you by Annie, or will you take detours to the more eerie, depraved and potentially inhabited areas?
>>6366530 >>6366530 >>6366530 Sloucho !9ff7WVg9ik
>>6366904 QRD on ForgottenQM's voting system?
Anonymous
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>>6366814 >Stanley Volka from Dark Quest could give her a run for her money, but is even better suited to "sweetest."
Anonymous
>>6366962 I believe that Forgotten spends the first couple days of each new thread allowing people to register an ID for a trip, and then after that, new IDs or people without trips cannot vote. I think there might be some more nuance to it. I haven't actually played one of their quests yet, but that is my impression.
Anonymous
"Registering IDs" don't really stop samefagging, but it does stop people who don't have static IDs from voting.
Sloucho !9ff7WVg9ik
>>6367099 I was thinking about making people tripfag but I think that will just torpedo engagement
Anonymous
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>>6367108 >>6367112 There's no real foolproof way around vote fraud. it's the price we pay for anonymity. I usually only discount 1post IDs when they would swing a vote, and usually afford some lenience with a trip or backlink. I've found it seems to deter the most egregious samefags. People say it doesn't work, and I know there are ways to get a couple extra votes out of it if you're dedicated and have multiple static IPs you can access, but I think the idea that it does nothing is a little overstated and fatalistic.
LucasFarts !!2p0hJ22mvEQ
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The first chapter of I Woke Up As A Jedi Princess? has concluded!
>>6336109 >>6336109 If you like romantic comedies with a spattering of Star Wars autism, the next thread will start on Friday, making right now a GREAT time to marathon the entire thread!
Greenwood !!/HrpOu6vZI3
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>>6365176 >>6365196 It's true. I'm hoping to conclude the quest not that things have settled down a bit.
I'd also like to bring some more tabletop-inspired content to the board in the future.
Humanity and Honor
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>>6366582 I don't know about best luck or worst luck.
Perhaps we could put in 'funniest post'? Though humor is subjective...
Anonymous
>>6365137 >QM Question: No. I'm not good enough to have wide appeal. I'm happy with the minimum player base, I'll do this for the grinding mostly.
>Player Question: Quests need to appeal to my fetishes or my childish interests. Otherwise I just get bored.
Unless it's really really good quest like After Bloom.
>General Question: Dunno. I nominate Marnie the Spiteful from Digimon the Tower. She should rank high.
>Lurker Question: If you like a quest then vote and let a comment about your decision. It should be basic etiquette.
+1 are ok if you let the reason of your +1
Anonymous
>>6366582 Does >Biggest Bastard occupy the same space that something like >Most Evil Villain or >Best Antagonist would cover? Cause there's been a good series of bad guys for quests recently that I've noticed.
Sloucho !9ff7WVg9ik
>>6367299 I feel like protagonists OR antagonists could be nominated for Biggest Bastard, and I feel like that's a better category than Best Villain both for its broadness and because I think it's easier to quantify who is the most bastardous than it is which bad guy is the 'best', though idk if that makes sense. I guess I am also considering how an antagonist could be Most Sweetest, depending on the quest, some MC's are the 'villain' of their story, though I notice that isn't as common.
Sloucho !9ff7WVg9ik
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>>6367181 >really good quest like After Bloom Thank you anon, I have been really humbled by the enthusiasm for this quest, it's been crazy to regularly get 7+ players participating. Working on After-Bloom in particular has really helped me start to shake the seasonal depression.
BananasQM !!4PI2iWoB3fd
>>6367299 >>6367301 One of our residents drew this great collage of a huge number of Quest villains previously; I'd love a biggest bastard quest tourney as it'd be more unique then a best hubando/waifu tournment that we've done before. I just wouldn't take it too serious giving the track record of previous tournaments.
Sloucho !9ff7WVg9ik
>>6367304 Woh....
That RULES
Can anyone explain to me a few of these guys? I am curious about:
>Second from the left, pale figure with #1 Dad shirt >Four from the left, in the middle, behind the lich; the giant black behemoth with the white cat mask >Fourth from the right, front row, anthropomorph with the glasses, trenchcoat, and knife >Giant hulking plant monster in the back row, on the right, with the flowers on its horns and multiple rows of eyes >The corporate looking dude in the back row on the right, just behind the plant monster, with the yellow tie Anonymous
>>6367304 Wasn't it Levelman from CHAOS and the Beerus Food Reviews quest? He did one with a few more add-ons, too!
>>6367309 >Fourth from the right, front row, anthropomorph with the glasses, trenchcoat, and knife From Jail Quest, or rather I guess from an earlier quest that happened in the same multiverse and later he reappeared in Jail Quest? His name was Orville, but he was driven mad by some past experiments and then became a merc or associate of a sinister dimension-endangering cult.
>The corporate looking dude in the back row on the right, just behind the plant monster, with the yellow tie Richard from Drowned Quest. I never played it, but from the last King of /QST/ tournament I gather he's some sort of demon snake ghost of the protagonist's dad?
Indonesian Gentleman
>feel tired lately >finally got the last update drawn last night for Jail Quest's current thread >about to post update today >thread slipped under to page 11 Argrgrg, at least I managed to finish this year's Goblin Week. Will post em here real quick
And oh, Jail Quest thread 13's archived:
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2026/6322745 >>6367309 >>6367311 Yeah, Orville was from a past quest I ran (and dropped) in tgchan called Ouroboros Parable. Same one from which Millie and James Baxter's from.
Indonesian Gentleman
>>6367346 Goblin Week 2026: Uniquely Goblin Jobs #1 - Mushroom Walker
Part hobby gardener, part ecosystem maintainer, part food vendor; the Mushroom Walker not only provides fresh fungal protein to their local neighborhood, but also helps disseminate spores of edible fungi around. Shrooms for everyone!
Indonesian Gentleman
>>6367347 Goblin Week 2026: Uniquely Goblin Jobs #2: Ear Appraiser
To a goblin, the ear is a sensitive thing; and there are gobs whose duty is to classify, groom, and decorate them. From filing errant callouses to applying the latest trend of earwear, the ear appraiser must know their way around ears.
Indonesian Gentleman
>>6367348 Goblin Week 2026: Uniquely Goblin Jobs #3: Gibberlinguist
Goblins adapt quickly to their environment, and thus there is a myriad of goblin languages - some only goblins understand. The Gibberlinguist is there to record and translate these lingoes, even as they bubble up from slangs and patois.
On the left gobbo's shoulder is the symbol of the Eternal Empire, which was where Gibberlinguistics was born; they tried to assimilate their native universe's goblins to little effect, until semi-educated goblins volunteered to be the first Gibberlinguists.
Since then the Empire has conquered or assimilated a few other universes (Hinomaru, Libertad, Tmavy Les, Central Node, Pandemonium...), that is until their home universe got hit by a reality storm. So yeah, not that eternal, actually. The gobbos, already dispersed all over, survived.
Indonesian Gentleman
>>6367349 Goblin Week 2026: Uniquely Goblin Jobs #4: Vibration Coder
Ever since goblins got exposed to the idea of computers from the Central Node realm, they've since created their own using sound as the main programming component. The Vibration Coder's job is to make sure the frequencies doesn't clash.
Indonesian Gentleman
>>6367350 Goblin Week 2026: Uniquely Goblin Jobs #5: Trap Poker
Due to their historical tendency to squat in abandoned ruins of their original realm, goblins often come across traps left behind by its former inhabitants. Thus, crews of Trap Pokers clear them out carefully so goblin families can live inside.
Indonesian Gentleman
>>6367351 Goblin Week 2026: Uniquely Goblin Jobs #6: Grovekeeper
Goblins who died of natural causes will grow into a tree, and so the Grovekeepers tend these ancestral trees with reverence. Some are even descendants of the same tree they are taking care of, taking the term 'family tree' in a very goblin way.
Indonesian Gentleman
>>6367352 Goblin Week 2026: Uniquely Goblin Jobs #7: Branegineer
While this job won't be goblin-exclusive for long, the Branegineer's duty of maintaining the membrane of realities is crucial. Braving Nowhere, the chaotic is-not between realms, the goblins' innate self-affirmation deter them from unraveling.
Anonymous
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Incredible posts IG
AdleQM
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>>6367356 >>6367356 The first battle is about to begin, but who shall win it is yet to be decided
>>6367377 >>6367378 You have found something of old, something is now guarded by something vile.
Sloucho !9ff7WVg9ik
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>>6367346 I like Orville's vibe. Also thank you for Goblin Week 2K26, very educational!
DemBones !!kuHaJ5dacSC
>>6367347 >>6367348 >>6367349 >>6367350 >>6367351 >>6367352 >>6367353 Thank you for your service, goblins. Awesome stuff, IG! Love seeing your work!
Anonymous
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>>6367351 The boot marked "human" is terrific.
PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E
PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E ID:L/2v3dtV Thu 05 Feb 2026 21:51:00 No. 6367464 Report >>6366724 That they don't. Considering my luck, it might even end up being 2-3 threads instead of 1. But it would definitely be short, and remain mostly a writing exercise. I doubt it'd be too expansive or grand; just a quick thing to hopefully get back into the game with and use as a warm-up.
Hopefully. :D >>6366725 Oh shit, good to know! Last I remember, the QM just disappeared for a bit before life ran me over. Thanks for letting me know he didn't abandon ship.
>>6366852 I technically do have something ready to go, but I'm likely going to keep whatever original quest I do short by means of premise. Something without a huge expansive world or lots of potential. Otherwise I'd risk not one-shotting the one-shot, which defeats the purpose, and possibly abandoning Poképocalypse in favor of it.
If I used what I have ready to go, that would definitely incur such a possibility. Therefore, I'm probably saving that for after Poképocalypse is done. >>it's somewhat irritating to have to constantly confirm whether any given modern comfort exists by 1884 >Seems like an original where you write the rules is best. Might be. The main concern there is communicating those rules to new players and lapsed questgoers alike in a succinct and understandable manner. That might be just as, if not more, difficult than simply looking up historical factoids and throwing them into the mix.
I'm not even all that annoyed by the constant looking-up of things-- it just tends to wear on you after so long doing it. All these constant little breaks in proofreading and drafting where you have to make sure you're not breaking with the timeline. There'll be fewer of them as time goes on, especially as inventions are likely sped up and the world becomes significantly more alien due to the *everything,* but the constant urge to slip in some modern comforts for the sake of quicker writing can end up ever-present at its worst. Death by a thousand papercuts.
Anyways: I made a countdown for this stuff as a reminder (and because I remembered about timezones a little too late). When this countdown hits 1 day, I'll close the poll. I should have something up by the time it reaches 0. (If not, please harass me plentifully through whatever means you can.)
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20260207T17&p0=3546&msg=PokepocalypseQM+Gets+Off+Her+%40ss+and+Writes+Again&font=cursive Until then, I'm going to echo
>>6367409 's sentiment and get back to work.
PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E
PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E ID:L/2v3dtV Thu 05 Feb 2026 22:01:42 No. 6367468 Report Quoted By:
>>6367464 >When this countdown hits 1 day <24 hours, not 1 day. But yeah. Poll's still open for now.
Sloucho !9ff7WVg9ik
>>6366526 >Something entirely original, detached from any historical context or commercial property, even if only for one thread I think you're a great writer, so I am curious what your original ideas are like. Would you be able to say what genre you think you are leaning towards? I imagine it wouldn't be another Western/period piece, so maybe scifi or a
GOOD? fantasy quest?
Bored !!HlL1Fmhwn7e
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>>6367478 >>6367478 >>6367478 Continuation of Sith Ascendant
PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E
PoképocalypseQM !!fwDszUHyX/E ID:L/2v3dtV Fri 06 Feb 2026 01:48:32 No. 6367555 Report Quoted By:
>>6367469 >I think you're a great writer, I'm flattered! Thank you.
>I am curious what your original ideas are like. Would you be able to say what genre you think you are leaning towards? I imagine it wouldn't be another Western/period piece, so maybe scifi or a GOOD? fantasy quest? Well, kind of.
For the thing I want to do after Poképocalypse, it's definitely scifi. Probably moreso soft scifi than hard, if only because I am retarded and cannot into science very well (even when I try ;-;), but somewhat definitively scifi.
Technically post-apocalypse, too, but post-post-post-post apocalypse to the point where I'm not sure it'll ever even come up. For whatever original thing I come up with for the weekend,
assuming I don't cheap out and just appropriate the aforementioned setting, I'm split between either pure mundanity or possibly surrealistic fantasy. The latter is maybe less likely than the former, if only because I doubt I'll be satisfied doing that without providing accompanying visuals, but both are vague handwaves in the direction of possibility.
It'll probably be easier for me to be more definitive tomorrow; it's late here and I'm not in the best headspace. But the general idea is something along these lines.
A GOOD fantasy quest is something that I dread may never come about. Certainly not by my hand. 'Tis too rare a treasure for the common anon to chance upon, let alone the ever-rarer /qst/anon. Only the most wisened and knowledgeable scholars of the genre may attempt such feats, and rarely may they ever succeed.
Anonymous
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>>6365137 >QM Question Nah, I don't worry about that sort of thing at all. I have an idea in my head and I run with it. Usually I'll get at least one or two players. It helps that I'm a drawfag.
>Player Question A cool setting or premise will hook me, or funny art. I prefer the silly scratchy MS Paint type of stuff over the super high-color impressive artwork too, actually.
Sloucho !9ff7WVg9ik
Anonymous
AdleQM
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>>6367717 >>6367718 The beast lies dead, and to the victor go the spoils.
>>6367720 >>6367720 While your attack wasn't as successful as you had hoped, you allies can now begin in earnest.
YouAndYourWaifu !!irzaLbqaXFx
YouAndYourWaifu !!irzaLbqaXFx ID:1Ftvp2Nf Fri 06 Feb 2026 15:38:04 No. 6367735 Report >>6365241 >(The Prophecy Names Me[...]) Hey dude. Sorry for disappearing after giving an estimated time and thanks for still remembering the quest. The plan was to go on a trip to Himalayas and then, fresh and with some ideas in mind, return. That was many months ago, maybe a year? But instead I returned even lazier, imagine! As it usually goes, the longer one waits, the harder it becomes to return. At this point, I'm not sure if I even remember enough about the characters or the world to continue and do it right, or if my prose didn't deteriorate. And I had shamefully left so many quest unfinished compared to the only one I did finish, that I don't trust myself to start a new quest. Every short one-shot ends up ballooning into multiple threads, no matter how hard I tried. Do share your thoughts on what I should do.
LadQM !!MVfjC2eUor9
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Since my thread is no longer bumping, I will make an ad for my quest!
>>6364853 You're a dwarf adventurer in Anbennar! You fight things, collect gold, get cool gear, meet people, kill people, rescue people. All kinds of adventurer stuff. I am no lore erudite for Anbennar, but I believe I know enough about the region we're in and the regions we might go to, so come explore the world with other anons at a more grounded level.
LadQM !!MVfjC2eUor9
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>>6367735 My tip: Reread your last thread and give it a go. If your short one-shots balloon into multiple threads, that's already a shitton of effort you can put in before burnout rears its head.
Do it
