quest is coming back 3rd/4th week of June, sorry for the extended delay but I'll need a very long rest after this
>QM questionFucking hell, don't get me started. In terms of quests, mostly just Disappearing Hogwarts and the original Poképocalypse that got flaked on, but in terms of everything else... the franchise as a whole and its missed potential, a general lack of historical fiction that isn't inundated with modern-day sensibilities (or just really bad), a dumb love of sprinkling secrets everywhere and general schizo-chart shit like ARGs? I'm going to stop there or I'll go on forever.
>Player question:All of my ideas are some kind of schlocky historical fiction, but here's one that might interest someone other than me:
Clean-cut average joe from the 50s starts seeing time-displaced shit all over his neighborhood that nobody else can see. It isn't too drastic a displacement, just stuff from that century inexplicably showing up too late or too early, but it's enough to be noticeable. Ends up freaking after a future version of himself shows up in his backyard, decrepit and unrecognizable, and that version of himself explicitly acknowledges his presence. Cue a long journey to find out wtf is happening
and eventually realizing that glowies have to do with it. Involves the JFK assassination and Cuban missile crisis.
I don't have the time to run this and I won't for ages.
>General question:Waited it out, did some worldbuilding. Enjoyed fixing up the pokepocalypse timeline and having some time off, I guess, but I really missed /qst/ a lot more than I expected to.
>>6251948Plot-planning and worldbuilding is done passively, every single day, in the background. Same with planning updates. Research is done in sporadic bursts that often come from completely unrelated things, which is frustrating me because it's making it hard to focus on it long enough not to contradict past statements.
I gave up looking for images a while back because it sometimes added nearly an hour's worth of time to posting. I was extremely hyperspecific about my images: I don't think I used a single real-life shot that wasn't specifically in California, as example, and most were taken in the 1880s. Many were also at the exact locations i used in the quest. I was never satisfied with the vaguer stuff, so I just gave up images as a whole and I've been much happier since.
The actual posts themselves tend to take half an hour to four hours depending on the size and my energy level. The former is very rare-- I usually spend at least an hour or two on my writing. I tend to give them one read-over, sometimes with someone else's opinion, then post. If I let myself go beyond one proofread, I'll inevitably start thinking my work is shit and just discard it.
I never feel like I'm putting in enough effort, which is odd since I always give it 110% lol. Imposter syndrome kicking in again probably. Gotta get over that.
