>>5426672It was a few days before my birthday in November when I started <span class="mu-g">BONES QUEST–</span> I had nearly finished my 750ml bottle of Stolichnaya and a whole carton of <span class="mu-i">Simply Orange</span>. I’d been visiting /qst/ for ages, and even /tg/ as well when people were still able to run on there. As I found a shitty image of the word ‘<span class="mu-i">Bones</span>’ off of Google and I hovered over the ‘post’ button in the ‘Create New Thread’ interface, I had no idea what the next few minutes would evolve into.
Almost two years later, I’ve written almost every day for over two hours at least, filled a handful of Google Docs with 2500 pages worth of word vomit, and have an image folder that’s about 1.56GB large. To most QMs that’s not much at all, but to me it’s a mammoth achievement–one that I never thought would ever get past the conceptual phase.
I’ve moved twice, gotten engaged, made countless new friends, and somehow have never improved in my drawing skills whatsoever. I’ve had days where I’ve only had one poster, days where I can barely tally the votes. We’ve had the good, the bad, and the ugly in decisions, both player and (mostly) mine, but at the end of it all I can say with absolute (and VERY sappy) certainty that this has been, for me at least, a crazy and unimaginably fun ride.
Thank you to the players who took a chance on my first thread and stuck with it even when I was still figuring out formatting–you had every right to think I’d flake and/or fuck it all up before the end of the first thread. Thanks to the others who came aboard later–those brave and diligent souls who took who knows how long to trudge through the archives to get here and, despite all warnings and red flags suggesting otherwise, continued to read and play along!
Thank you to the folks who just jumped on–the ones who made it just in time, the fan-arters whose work still makes me feel warm and fuzzy every time I see it in my image folder, the brave QMs and folks who gave me feedback and advice even when it wasn’t what I wanted to hear, and let’s not forget those brave lurkers either–the ones who still took time out of their busy schedules to read the quest.
<span class="mu-i">Bones Quest</span> wasn’t, and still isn’t, the most popular quest on the board, nor is it the flashiest. Or deepest. Hell, probably isn’t that funny either. Still, it’s mine, and I can’t begin to express just how much it means to me that you joined me on this freakish liquor-born experiment. I’ve never met any of you (and trust me, you probably don’t wanna meet me), but I want you to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for playing. You guys and your decisions have made this a truly wonderful story to write and you KNOW I couldn’t have finished it without you!
>CONTD. 