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>>5896313 >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: How do you handle romance in your quest, if at all? If you avoid it, how do you avoid players' tendency to seek it out?
>Player question: What sort of details do you look for in a waifu or husbando? Do you actually care about the main character's romance?
>Lurker question: Who would you nominate if /qst/ did a waifu or husbando tournament again? Would you vote in it?
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Fri 23 Feb 2024 07:31:59 No. 5933510 Report Quoted By:
>How do you handle romance in your quest, if at all? If you avoid it, how do you avoid players' tendency to seek it out? >What sort of details do you look for in a waifu or husbando? Do you actually care about the main character's romance?
Anonymous
>>5933504 >QM question: How do you handle romance in your quest, if at all? If you avoid it, how do you avoid players' tendency to seek it out? I usually have my protagonist already in a relationship by the time the quest starts, so there’s that, and the players seem to take to that pretty well. They are the main NPCs of the quests and generally are the protagonists closest friend.
For the quests that start off with the players being single, romance is… there if the players choose to pursue it, and usually they do. I usually introduce the romanceable character early on as a friend / colleague and give them some screentime before the option to flirt comes up.
The protagonist themselves also matters a lot when determining the romance.
Romance in Prinzessin Quest is barely there because Emi is largely concerned with other matters, and herself isn’t very motivated by that.
Romance is more prominent in Loveless Gal; Kommgal himself has a lot of issues, one being his distance from his workplace colleagues and women in general. The players consistently chose to push his boundaries in this regard - opening up to Airin in the elevator, talking to her, and having a meal with her.
>Player question: What sort of details do you look for in a waifu or husbando? Do you actually care about the main character's romance? Someone who the protagonist can hang out with. A workplace colleague, someone with the same hobby, doesn’t matter.
If the romance is at the forefront, sure, but if not, then no. Really depends on how well the QM executes it.
>Lurker question: Who would you nominate if /qst/ did a waifu or husbando tournament again? Would you vote in it? I nominate Princess Ekaterine of Dragonborn Antipaladin Quest / Seekers of the Esoteric - she is kind, a little idealistic, but reasonable and wise. I especially like her in Seekers of the Esoteric; she has grown to be a wise monarch, but there’s very much a sense of humanity to her.
Tip’s visit to her castle and the subsequent peace talk is a good encapsulation of her; she’s not opposed to violence or force - her use of <fearsome presence> made that clear enough, and her threat to the drows about trying to fight their way out is self-evident - but she tries to talk things out, shuts down the shit-flinging from both the drows and Tips’ side. She’s still the idealist and sentimental sort, given how she reacted to Izzy’s rants and relevation about her parents being killed by the lizardfolk, but she doesn’t jump to conclusions right away.
I like her very much for that. She has a certain station in life, and she plays it well.
I would vote in both waifu and husbando tournament, most definitely.
Anonymous
An interracial romance quest set in nazi germany
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5933504 >>QM question: >How do you handle romance in your quest, if at all? If you avoid it, how do you avoid players' tendency to seek it out? Put couple girls into the quest that it makes sense to be interested in and let it grow from there really. I do find I always make one girl who is vastly more popular than the others for some reason.
Anonymous
>>5933504 >QM question: How do you handle romance in your quest, if at all?
I prefer to have such relationships built up over time before it gets to a properly romantic stage. There's more investment that way and the shared history lets characters grow into each other. There shouldn't be a rush, though every single thing I've run has ended with terminal first girl syndrome, despite any efforts to twist or yank things. There's at least debate after the fact in most cases.
>Lurker question: >Who would you nominate if /qst/ did a waifu or husbando tournament again? I'm not really interested in such a thing but one thing I would advise on this topic is confirming the assent and participation of the QM in the event rather than counting on nominations alone, because what made the first one good was the runner doing little bits and events and the QMs actually putting stuff in for the characters, because besides that, it would have been a popularity contest, and competitive popularity contests just blow chunks. If you don't have that sort of participation guaranteed, then the soul won't be there.
Curse Carrier DM
>>5933504 >How do you handle romance in your quest, if at all? If you avoid it, how do you avoid players' tendency to seek it out? My current quest is literally based on dating sim settings, it was (almost) inevitable for them to pick someone. Even so, I wouldn't have stopped them if they decided to go solo after it, it's a quest and if the MC isn't interested in romance by vote, then that's also a valid choice.
>What sort of details do you look for in a waifu or husbando? Do you actually care about the main character's romance? I think I want a character that completes the MC and covers up their weakness if possible. Romance is fun in the sense that it can create a lot of interesting conflicts that wouldn't arise from a friendship, however I wouldn't call it strictly necessary. You can get a lot of mileage out of friendships and character interaction too, and writing a bad romance is worse than having none at all imo.
>Who would you nominate if /qst/ did a waifu or husbando tournament again? Would you vote in it? Music from verse quest is my choice, even if it's a weird one. I've really enjoyed her autism and struggles whenever she was on-screen, and it's impressive I can even care for her that much when she can barely speak. I'd vote in it for the novelty of it.
Anonymous
>>5933504 >How do you handle romance in your quest, if at all? I hate it. I can't write romance, I want to avoid writing romance, I hate romance, and I hate how so many people seem to want it. Fuck romance.
>If you avoid it, how do you avoid players' tendency to seek it out? By having shitty quests that barely anyone is interested in, which die off when I either create a hole too big, or get sick of the lack of player engagement.
>What sort of details do you look for in a waifu or husbando? Do you actually care about the main character's romance? It's only relevant to me if the main character is female and her love interest is female, and the narrative never goes past friendly flirting or hinting. Fuck romance.
>Who would you nominate if /qst/ did a waifu or husbando tournament again? Would you vote in it? No.
Anonymous
Would you play a quest about a powerful loli king who defends her people?
Anonymous
>>5933504 >Who would you nominate if /qst/ did a waifu or husbando tournament again? Would you vote in it? shrug. I haven't kept up with many quests last year, so.....Nicole from Lessons in Knighthood?
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>>5933637 Make the QUEENdom one where knights pilot mecha, and I'll show up.
Anonymous
>>5933632 >I hate it. I can't write romance, I want to avoid writing romance, I hate romance, and I hate how so many people seem to want it. Fuck romance. Why?
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>>5933504 >QM question: How do you handle romance in your quest, if at all? If you avoid it, how do you avoid players' tendency to seek it out? Outside of two allies hooking up with each other before meeting the PC and maybe some implied background stuff, I haven't really bothered writing romance in my quest. It's not something I actively avoid but it's just not in the forefront of my mind.
>What sort of details do you look for in a waifu or husbando? Do you actually care about the main character's romance? I don't particularly care about the main character romance a lot of the time. Lest that's the point of the quest or a major part of the story. As for details I like out of a waifu/husbando? Fuck, man, as long as it's cute and the two character mesh well I don't care.
>Who would you nominate if /qst/ did a waifu or husbando tournament again? Would you vote in it? Eh. Don't really have any nominates and frankly, it just boils down to "which quest is more popular???" anyways. Feels like I would be throwing a dart at a wall and hoping something sticks.
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Future Fades has updated. Come for the food, stay for elaborate plans that totally aren't the MC tossing random shit at the wall to see what sticks.
>>5933698 >>5933698 >>5933698 Anonymous
>>5933504 >What sort of details do you look for in a waifu or husbando? Do you actually care about the main character's romance? The times I was really invested in the romantic subplot were when the love interest was actively interested in the MC. I suppose this is what I look for in a waifu.
Anonymous
But what Quest do we NEED right now?
Anonymous
>>5933605 >Who would you nominate if /qst/ did a waifu or husbando tournament again? >I'm not really interested in such a thing but one thing I would advise on this topic is confirming the assent and participation of the QM in the event rather than counting on nominations alone, because what made the first one good was the runner doing little bits and events and the QMs actually putting stuff in for the characters, because besides that, it would have been a popularity contest, and competitive popularity contests just blow chunks. If you don't have that sort of participation guaranteed, then the soul won't be there. This.
ATTENTION QUEST AUTHORS OF /qst/
If you have a waifu or husbando in your quest and want to participate in a tournament, reply to this post with your quest and the character(s) you would like to enter.
Anonymous
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>>5933720 Well, actually, I suppose a better question would be "why do you dislike the things you dislike", but either one works.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5933715 >Grug from Anon you're on trial One hundred thousand years ago, grug was out hunting in the plains, when he slipped and fell into a crevasse, where he was frozen solid.
In 2024, he was discovered by scientists and was thawed out.
He then attended law school and became... Grug the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer!
Grug doesn't trust long nose tribe. He offers the question, "How 6 long nose tribe die in smoke hut when only 4 long nose tribe in land before holobunga?"
Anonymous
>>5933714 A digimon quest that doesn't die instantly.
of course, I'm partly to blame for one of those... Anonymous
>>5933741 Would you be interested in a renamon dating quest?
Anonymous
>>5933715 Airin from Loveless Gal
A perpetually exhausted thirty-something-years-old legal advisor of a slave-auditing company whose clients barely listens to her. Educated in law but comes from a street background; her pastime once was watching cockfights and she has had her share of her own fights.
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>>5933753 If it isn't drowning in AI slop, maybe. Even the digifucker quests died.
Narrator Kommgal !!eK/DTdS3ONO
Narrator Kommgal !!eK/DTdS3ONO ID:eInCOfwI Fri 23 Feb 2024 16:23:11 No. 5933758 Report Quoted By:
>>5933754 And speaking of Loveless Gal, the second thread is dropping soon! Here’s a sneak-peek at one of the new characters - a colleague of Galpet with a feder (he’s not planning on sparring)
If you’re interested in a more low-stakes fantasy story, set in the early modern era and inspired by buddhist / hindu mythology, stay tuned.
Olympus QM
>>5933504 >QM question: How do you handle romance in your quest, if at all? If you avoid it, how do you avoid players' tendency to seek it out? Generally, I think that writing a romance and writing a friendship aren't really all that different. The fundamentals of it- chemistry between two people and watching as they get closer- are the same. The only add in is a couple of quirks that show up as a result of human physiology (the blushing and stammering and butterflies and stuff). In my opinion, the major pitfall that a lot of people fall into with this is putting too much emphasis on the latter while forgetting to even do the former. I should fully understand why these two people want to hang out by the time they start dating.
Then again, the only love interest I put in my quest was only there to
see if my players would have the guts to murder her for personal gain so maybe my opinion isn't all that helpful
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>>5933775 don’t put space between the brackets and the spoiler & /spoiler.
Anonymous
>>5933775 >The fundamentals of it- chemistry between two people and watching as they get closer- are the same. Yeah, definitely. Friendship is a very important thing when it comes to a relationship - they should be someone they are already close with.
Anonymous
>>5933715 >Lady Stacy of Edgelord Crusader Quest Lady Stacy is a wife, a mother, and a humanitarian. While her husband was away on the crusades, she turned the castle into a much needed shelter for vulnerable refugees. She represents the benchmark and perfect western ideal for a wife.
Anonymous
>>5933775 >I should fully understand why these two people want to hang out by the time they start dating. You should be able to understand just by first glance and the first conversation about their jobs.
https://youtube.com/shorts/FSCiE39VLco?si=OaDZs1G1gYGovpIh Anonymous
>>5933779 >Friendship is a very important thing when it comes to a relationship Of course, that's why the various flavors of
>I don't date my friends >I just think of you as a friend >we can't date, because we're friends are such common forms of rejection. Because friendship is so important to a romantic relationship.
Anonymous
>>5933788 Women say those things because they're put on the spot and want an excuse that makes them feel like they aren't being mean about rejecting someone. If they felt it was acceptable to say "Ew, no, never in a million years", they would say that instead.
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>>5933788 >Because friendship is so important to a romantic relationship. Uh. Yes? If you can’t hang out with someone, have fun by being around them platonically then do you really think that would happen all the sudden in a romantic relationship?
>>5933793 he’s right - there’s a reason women say “I don’t date short guys” (they don’t want to say outright they reject you) or “I’m on my period” (they’d rather not have sex) Indonesian Gentleman
>>5933715 >Waifu Tourney: >Rosa Montagni from Jail Quest This goblin con artist with orcish heritage had been adventuring for too long now, and had finally succumbed to her relatives' nagging about getting a suitable husband. So she applied in the waifu tournament, not just to prove she's got quality, but also to win... the prize money! Who knows, maybe someone from the husbando tournament next door might notice her charms?
Anonymous
>>5933504 >How do you handle romance in your quest, if at all? If you avoid it, how do you avoid players' tendency to seek it out? I consider the husbando/waifu decision to big a big part of my particular format of quest these days. Originally it was more of a gimmick for the sexy spy vibe that emerged in my first quest, an opportunity to gather intel that also provided a risk of emotional/political compromise. It went over pretty well, though, so in both sequel quests I've included multiple possible avenues of romance among the supporting cast.
The players never seem to settle on just one, though... >What sort of details do you look for in a waifu or husbando? Do you actually care about the main character's romance? Good chemistry between them and the lead, obviously. Personally, I also have an obvious 'type' in lots of quests, but try to vote against or outside of it from time-to-time just to mix things up and explore different dynamics. After all, when essentially the SAME waifu (ie. identical personality, body-type or aesthetic, whatever) wins every waifu war in every quest, that's less fun.
>Who would you nominate if /qst/ did a waifu or husbando tournament again? Would you vote in it? I'm inclined to nominate Rivka Betruger from Slice or Persephone Cross from Path of the Exorcist, in the event such a thing kicks off again.
>>5933754 is also a good pick, though Nara from Prinzessin might be even better.
>>5933753 Theoretically any quest can be good with the right writing. I'm a little dubious of the premise, but I've seen goofier ideas be executed in an interesting way.
>>5933715 I'd participate in such a tourney. I feel weird picking the entrant myself, but luckily my players already nominated one for me: >5933535 Princess Ekaterine of Hawksong, from Dragonborn Antipaladin Quest and Seekers of the Esoteric: wife, mother, young and inexperienced queen of two kingdoms, strong proponent of the rights of the underclass and outcast,
monogamous monster-fucker Anonymous
>>5933811 how am I supposed to nominate Rosa if you did it yourself?
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>>5933714 Pokequest.
Come back Mediocre.
Anonymous
>>5933815 >Nara from Prinzessin Quest She’s pretty interesting, I suppose. A real gothic menhera™
i prefer her mom Anonymous
>>5933793 If they cared about being mean about rejection, they wouldn't be mean about it when talking to their worthless braindead friends about it.
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>>5933802 Okay, so then remove the ?si instead of saying shit that has nothing to do with the point.
Anonymous
>>5933827 No, they care about their own self-perception.
>I told him we should stay good friends; that was nice of me. >I told my girlfriends all the icky stuff about him and they enjoyed hearing about it; that was nice of me. Anonymous
>>5933835 Okay, so say that instead of the other bullshit about being mean that didn't matter.
Anonymous
>>5933827 What they care about is that you don't resort to violence after being rejected.
Anonymous
>>5933839 Women really aren't unknowable lovecraftian entities. They just don't think the same way as men. Trying to understand their behavior through the lens of "As a man, I would ____" is just going to cause headaches.
Anonymous
>>5933835 >>5933853 You're talking to what is transparently an angry man who is reliving a traumatically-bad breakup or rejection. You cannot reason your way through this conversation.
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>>5933859 I wouldn't understand myself but I've been caught in the middle of a nasty breakup by proxy of being friends with two people who were a couple. They had a nasty falling out and I got dragged into it.
I know that shit fucks people up and that's why I don't envy anyone who goes through that stuff.
Anonymous
>>5933850 It's better for them that way anyway; the guy who hits them goes to jail for it and for the rest of his life he's seen as an abusive piece of shit. While he's in jail, that's one less worthless man to hit on her while she pretties herself up for the 6'2", 5% body fat, 200k a year men she does want.
Her black eye will heal, but that man will never recover.
Anonymous
>>5933853 I don't try to understand womens' behavior through the lens of "as a man, I would ____", I try to understand all people's behavior through the lens of "as a rational and principled person, I would ____", because people tend to claim to be rational and principled, and I have good faith in them until they prove otherwise.
But here we are.
Anonymous
>>5933863 You're not rational and principled. You're bitter, angry and looking for someone to confirm your preconceptions. You ask a question and then reject every answer that doesn't match what you're already thinking. You're driven by pure emotion and are deluding yourself into thinking you follow facts. You are exactly the kind of person you're complaining about, anon.
Anonymous
>>5933861 >>5933863 We're not your therapist.
>inb4 "I don't go to therapy" You, uh, probably should.
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>>5933863 >people tend to claim to be rational and principled You are retarded
Anonymous
>>5933886 YUMMY YUMMY PILLS MY PILLS TASTE FUNNY.
Anonymous
>>5933886 >therapy Imagine being so weak minded you ever think therapy is beneficial. You take SSRIs?
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5933889 >>5933890 I didn't say he needs meds. He should probably talk to a professional, though, rather than screaming into the veritable void of a collaborative fiction community about why he's a MGTOW or whatever.
>>5933893 What, did a pharmaceutical rep break your heart, too? Come on, man. Join a support group or something, then. I don't know.
Anonymous
>>5933898 >I didn't say he needs meds Bro that is what therapy is at this point, lets not pretend otherwise t. used to fuck a slag that went and now takes a copious amount of "medicine"
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>>5933714 A tale of adventure, unconditional heroism, and copious treasure.
Anonymous
>>5933823 Wait what? Sira got his happy ending? Now I'm more interested in finishing reading Sira's quest
Anonymous
>>5933900 I don't know, I never got prescribed anything. maybe it depends what country you live in, I suppose.
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>>5933905 Happy-ISH, it seems like.
>>5933823 Warin IS pretty good, too. Nara's sheer awkwardness was endearing, though.
Anonymous
>>5933906 >I never got prescribed anything >He felt he had to go to therapy Weak.
I really don't get people who are so mentally fragile. I've lived on the streets, nearly died a few times and been in enough fights to the point where my hands are fucked up. I've never needed to trauma dump to a stranger. People are such fucking pussies, when did we stop being able to deal with the minor hardships in our lives?
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>>5933863 If your method doesn't work, the problem isn't with the rest of creation.
Anonymous
>>5933910 >I've never needed to trauma dump to a stranger I mean, you are volunteering all those hardships unsolicited to strangers right now, and seemingly using your struggles and self-reliance as a means of deriving personal self-worth, to the point of feeling you need to denigrate any who you receive as undermining this narrative by following or suggesting other paths. Doesn't scream 'sound sense of self-worth' to me, but if it works for you, it works. As they say in China, "it doesn't matter what colour the cat is, only that it catches mice."
As for
>when did we stop being able to deal with the minor hardships in our lives? I don't know... When did we start praying and consulting shamans or priests for guidance and affirmation? The Upper Paleolithic?
Anonymous
>>5933919 >and seemingly using your struggles and self-reliance as a means of deriving personal self-worth I do, at least in part, I have become rather successful in life despite that shit. Resilience is a good quality to have. I'm tired of people with easy lives crying themselves a river, like get over yourself. Bitching and moping around won't get you nowhere, stoping being a vicitim.
>I don't know... When did we start praying and consulting shamans or priests for guidance and affirmation? The Upper Paleolithic? Ask me how I know you are wh*te.
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>>5933714 A scifi quest, like Stargate, xcom, or Colonial marines.
Anonymous
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>>5933927 Kek, alright, I'll bite. Why do you think I'm white?
Anonymous
>>5933714 I would like to see a nice, classic, fantasy quest. Something like one of the old Disney fantasy movies, but more mature. Or like prince valiant, but with much more substance.
I remember a movie called "knights tale", I think I would be content if someone wrote something like that. I'm not asking for too much I think, nothing fancy.
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>>5933940 Knights tale was good shit.
Anonymous
>>5933940 Disney Prince Quest does sound potentially fun, though it's tough to imagine it not ending up a little more lewd or subversive than typical. is that within the span of "more mature" for you, or a step too far from the basic concept?
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>>5933827 >>5933835 >>5933863 Women have perfectly rational, principled reasons for shit-talking people behind their backs. You might not like the principles, but they're not even difficult to understand.
>Reject a man to his face: hurts his feelings, ruins his day, maybe makes him angry at you (if he's crazy, violently angry) >Gossip with friends about the rejected man: the man doesn't know about it, so nobody's feelings are hurt, nobody's day is ruined, nobody is angry or violent, have fun time with friends The moral evaluation here is "does it cause direct harm", not "is it moral to say mean things about people ever." Insulting people causes direct harm. Gossiping behind their back doesn't (unless it leaks back to them, which is unlikely for random guy #498430). It's as simple as that.
>>5933884 Also, this.
Anonymous
>>5933535 >I nominate Princess Ekaterine of Dragonborn Antipaladin Quest / Seekers of the Esoteric - she is kind, a little idealistic, but reasonable and wise. I especially like her in Seekers of the Esoteric; she has grown to be a wise monarch, but there’s very much a sense of humanity to her. wait, you lurk that quest ? bruh why not vote as well, my dude ?
>>5933591 what quest did you make, anon ?
>>5933637 >Would you play a quest about a powerful loli king who defends her people ? you had me at loli, anon. where do I sign up ?
Anonymous
>>5933953 If you mean going around date raping princesses then no that would be too far out of basic concept. If you mean banging your wife then yeah thats fine.
I wasn't really talking about sex though, and quite frankly if that's the first place you go to then its probably not what im looking for in the first place. Im talking about stuff like sucking jewels out of rings as you kiss someones hand. And more stuff like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2dImprgiB8 Im not looking for game of thrones tier "mature"
Anonymous
>>5933983 Soj, nobody said anything about date-rape, GoT, or even sex... Though, yes, anons will absolutely talk a lot of shit about sex in the comments at least, and be aggressively flirty a lot of the time, even in a quite monogamous quest. Like, if they run into a Maleficient-type witch
and they aren't already married or engaged, they will 100% turn into pic related. Especially if you're drawing her ass.
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>>5933940 >pic rel femboy with a nice ass court princess, tale as old as time
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>>5933993 In a way, having a set and done waifu in a solid relationship is the best way to avoid anons from making googly eyes at every single female character. It won't stop it, but most people won't try if your relationship is completely secure.
So if you wanted to make a quest in such a setting, having a wife you can bang every now and then will suck up most of the want for lewdness.
Anonymous
>>5933927 >Ask me how I know you are wh*te. Is it because he understands cause and effect?
Anonymous
>>5933993 When you say dysney prince but subversive I think ass hole jock, and when you add lewd what else is there then Mr.Daterape? Maybe its a me issue.
>Especially if you're drawing her ass. Also I wasn't thinking of running it myself, im hoping someone else will.
Anonymous
>>5934024 There are many ways to subvert a formula that don't involve a villain protagonist, and MANY ways to be lewd that don't involve any forms of rape whatsoever.
>>5934017 Several aspects of this chart seem out-of-date even as they apply to the mainstream White American monoculture...
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>>5934026 >Several aspects of this chart seem out-of-date even as they apply to the mainstream White American monoculture... You'll have to take it up with the Smithsonian.
Anonymous
>>5934017 Have they done one for black culture?
Anonymous
>>5933504 >QM ? it usually doesn't come up but if players pursue it I won't impede them. Since it isn't planned or provided for though, it would be them after just any of the NPCs, whichever they take a liking to.
Only time in recent memory I can recall it being an issue was, the players were all on board with a relationship but refused to make up their mind nor did they even seem to want to, they just wanted it taken care of for them. So I had to just come up with some rando who vaguely fit the bill of what they wanted. Players seemed alright with it but I didn't like it.
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>>5933714 A Post-Apocalyptic Qst with low-level resource management: scarcity of food, water, bullets, bandages, etc.
The Return of Noble Lesches (or Homer the original QM)'s Trojan War Qst or some spinoff thereof.
SUNBELT CRUSADERS or something similar describing a modern US Civil War with gonzo elements.
An Alt-History WW2/Cold War Espionage/Small Unit Qst.
A Zombie Qst that emphasizes resource management, but more importantly attempting to save people, & balancing useless eaters, training, specialized skillsets, & selfish opportunists.
A Cossack Western Qst, set in the Russian Revolution, or Freikorps Brotherhood Qst set around the same era, emphasizing the individual against the collectivizing forces, & the idealized virtues of the Bogatyr/Teutonic Knight/HRE Paladin.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5933927 He's on this website, presumably employed to be able to afford the internet, & types coherent sentences?
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k ID:aMxndTGh Fri 23 Feb 2024 23:21:49 No. 5934109 Report >>5933715 I'm in.
Cutémon, obviously. Unless that will be weird.
Anonymous
>>5934060 That would be racist!
>>5934109 How about Starr? Maybe Diamond if for villains? But we can't forget best girl
Ramster Anonymous
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>>5934060 Has the National Museum of African American History and Culture done any charts about African American culture? I would hope so, with a name like that.
>>5934119 >That would be racist! Kek, most search results for this chart online are people complaining about it being somewhat racist against non-whites, amusingly, by attributing most positive characteristics as uniquely white.
>>5934103 Sort of like this, I guess. You guys know we have several confirmed non-white QMs on here who do all those things, right?
Anonymous
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>>5933905 My writing back then wasn’t - the best - and the art was sub-par, but yeah, it had a decent conclusion. I’m surprised people still remember that.
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=renaissance%20fantasy By the time of Prinzessin Quest,
he has since passed. Him and Warin eventually left the capital and started a new life in Blackwing. Nara was adopted by them. Had the players chose the magic idol route at the start of Prinzessin, Emi would have been the one raised by Sira and Warin. >>5933972 >wait, you lurk that quest ? bruh why not vote as well, my dude ? I do vote on occasion.
Anonymous
>>5934109 >weird Depends on if it's a waifu tourney or just some like... Queen/princess of /qst/ pageant, I guess.
>>5934119 >Starr/Diamond/ramster Ramster would be hilarious. Starr seems like a reasonable pick, though I think she's not much older than Mashimon... I'm not actually sure.
Ramster would be hilarious Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
>>5933504 >QM Question: Well, my quest isn't really the most romantic one, and there have been little to no romantic subplots, but there are certainly romantic relationships!
I approach writing them the same way I'd approach writing any other relationship, whether it be a friendship, rivalry, etc. As in I try to give them a good, interesting, or entertaining dynamic, or at least one that makes sense for the characters.
The most prevalent is certainly God and Wife, her both being a stay-at-home (or stay-in-space) wife who spends most of her time watching over the kids. Despite that, she's pretty capable and puts God in his place a couple of times throughout the quest lol.
Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
>>5933715 I'd certainly participate!
I'd like to enter The God of Music, since not only is she a popular pick, but I also believe someone already nominated her.
Being The God of Music, she has no voice and is only able to communicate with the sounds of instruments. Her hobbies include: trying to talk to people, failing at talking to people, trying again, and writing extremely complex divine compositions and dropping them down for mortals to find. She's also generally one of the nicest and friendliest gods, and has a lot of love for her family!
A secondary option would be Mandolin, the daughter of the God of Chaos, since she's also popular, and one of my personal favorites.
(Oh, and this cool draw is credited to Siren IIRC)
Anonymous
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Thinking about retrying Billyquest, or maybe some other RE themed quest.
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k ID:aMxndTGh Sat 24 Feb 2024 01:12:03 No. 5934196 Report >>5934119 That's not Hat Shop Girl
>>5934170 Starr is old enough to do adult things like renting a car
Anonymous
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>>5934196 >renting a car Yeah, bu so was 10-yearold Garry Oak in the anime, so I wasn't sure whether that meant anything.
Anonymous
>>5933715 Aika NyanNyan from my best friend is a catgirl. She's a catgirl coroner investigating a mysterious murder.
HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2
Disappearing Hogwarts is back for thread 5! Now with you very much being the harbinger of the apocalypse!
>>5934243 >>5934243 >>5934243 Anonymous
>>5934252 Too short-lived, honestly. Also, you got the quest name wrong. It was "My best friend is a (trans)catgirl~!!".
Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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Versequest has begun updating for the night!
>>5934264 >>5934264 Anonymous
Give me your WORST quest idea
Anonymous
>>5934267 This seems like a top contender
>>5934259 >>5934252 Anonymous
>>5934276 No? Solving a murder mystery is a basic, perfectly workable quest idea. Do worse.
Anonymous
>>5934267 I wanted to do one in an early not-communist country where for the new 5 year plan, the MC gets assigned the job of the village rapist, and of naturally she does not want the role but per expected labor quotas is expected to fulfill the role, so basically has to try and figure out some creative way around the whole thing to avoid it. Really it was supposed to be like a glimpse at theoretical absurdity/horror of fictional not-communism, something like Death of Stalin, and nothing explicit in terms of content would actually happen.
But I fear how the quest would actually go, so never bothered.
Anonymous
>>5934283 Kek, go on then run a troon quest.
Indonesian Gentleman
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>>5933816 That just makes her nomination more solid :B
Anonymous
>>5934284 >village rapist >she Woke leftism has gone too far
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>5934276 It was pretty basic, but not bad.
>>5934287 Taking good, respectable MEN'S JOBS and giving them to FEMINAZIS. How dare they?? Everyone knows women are inferior rapists it's all about the bone
r structure. #YWNBAR
>>5934285 Already on it.
Anonymous
>>5934252 >>5934259 fuck trannies, thank you
Anonymous
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>>5934297 My players generally vote not to, so I'm afraid not.
Anonymous
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>>5934287 The communist ideal New Man or New Woman can serve any role, things like gender, race, creed no longer matter
Anonymous
>>5934267 Are we devising something intentionally bad, or do you just want the ideas we have but like the least?
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>>5934287 Okay we can work with this. Before the communist revolution, the village rapist was a man's job. Why did the government have a salaried position for a village rapist? To combat degeneracy, of course! The village rapist' job was to buttfuck trans girls, gay men and femboys to teach them degeneracy doesn't pay. Now enter communism. Due to severe labor shortage, the traditionally male role of the village rapist is now being forced on you, a biological cis woman. "But how can I rape?" You ask in horror. The commisar silently hands you a strap-on. Thus, your great patriotic duty begins to rape trans girls and femboys as the village rapist and teach them that their bourgeoisie degeneracy won't be tolerated.
Anonymous
>>5934309 In any case, I'll put down an idea I think is bad for a slew of reasons:
>fantasy world that isn't Earth, but is based on modern corporate America >government, corporations, and police aren't corrupt, and are largely helpful/charitable, but only within their insular cities >outside of the massive cities, there are huge expanses of wilderness rife with monsters to hunt, mountains to climb, caves and canyons to explore >adventurer's guilds exist to offer help to citizens who lack the skills to solve problems themselves >different cities see each other as competition, and adventurer guilds may clash for job security or clout; people rarely die from these bouts due to excellent medicine, care, and rules of honorable engagement >subterfuge/sabotage, violations of honor, etc. are criminal offenses and will get someone banished >the legal system is insanely effective at finding the truth and the law favors morality >adventurers are streamers who wear sponsored gear (like weapons, armor, and cybernetics) and eat brand-name take-out foods to drum up business; said "take-out" consists of food that isn't pumped full of GMOs but rarely goes bad (these are mostly giant hamburgers, fries, pastry pockets, based on fast food chains of our world, but actually aren't bad for you) >however, there are also cities of exiles who are banding together to try to ruin the system that kicked them out, and want to conquer the benevolent cities for more power >MC is an up-and-coming streamer and the quest is about finding the best sponsors to not only boost her revenue the best, but make her one of the strongest (and maybe even most heroic) of the top streamers Anonymous
>>5934328 I call it "burger fantasy", as a contrarian idea to a "burgerpunk" thread on /tg/.
Anonymous
>>5934328 That doesn't sound bad at all.
Anonymous
>>5933715 Muna, the mc from Chaos: The Quest for Redemption.
Anonymous
>>5934328 I thought you had a bad idea not a funny one.
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>>5934287 The hope was to avoid the inevitable as much as possible. Playing as a girl is at least one step harder.
Anonymous
>>5934337 What's her deal?
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Didn't realise that we were on a new /qtg/, anyhow, Halo Wolfpack has updated!
>>5914295 Anonymous
>>5934332 Oh, well thank you.
I think it's bad mainly because the only real stakes come from dealing with the outcasts, and making sure they don't ruin society.
I also thought people wouldn't enjoy the glamorized authority, capitalist, nationalist, industrial, and corporate themes very much. Not that I was intentionally baiting or trolling, I just wanted to theorize something I haven't seen in a long time.
I guess it does have a pretty comfy and light-hearted vibe, doesn't it? I just felt it might be too utopian to be interesting.
>>5934338 You have my curiosity, good Anon.
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
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>>5934366 >>5934366 >>5934366 Last Solarpunk update for the weekend! After this weekend, I might have to go quickly if I want to resolve this encounter before the next thread.
Anonymous
>>5934347 She's the goddess of mentality and she's on a quest to free her world, Hanei, from the world government known as the trinity and the embodiment of darkness known as Heus. Along the way she'll redeem as many astray mortal and immortals as she can.
Anonymous
>>5934362 A 'utopian' setting where the main character must still struggle for status, attention, recognition, autonomy, and a sense of purpose with cool/glamorous means and lots of options for action, drama, and customization... is a setting that is both less utopian and more interesting than the label would first suggest. You don't need the threat of death to make a quest interesting; people play business sims and slice-of-life quests here, too. Yous et clear stakes and a fun premise. That's all you need.
>>5934371 What makes her a good waifu, though? What are her interests, her quirks?
Levelman !rnYhP.nKQo
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>>5934347 She's a noblebrighter Immortal who really doesn't like the Chinese, she's an antivirus for evil, she's a bit naive and sometimes airheaded and easily embarrassed. Big fan of the exotic human food "hamburgers" too. She's also got schizo voices in her head.
Anonymous
>>5934362 >>5934373 It's got streamer drama, city vs city fanwars, and presumably the corpos are big enough to exist beyond a single city without compromising neutrality too blatantly.
You can go oshi no ko, pre-cyberpunk, slai, or battle network with this, theres plenty of less than utopian storytelling to be had.
Anonymous
>>5933940 > "knights tale", I think I would be content if someone wrote something like that. I vaguely remember that movie. There were a few jousts and it was a bit comedic, doesn’t take itself too seriously, is that the thing you’re looking for?
Anonymous
>>5933940 Love the art btw - I really like how the faces are drawn. How long did it take you to do this?
Anonymous
>>5933741 Were you the digital detective one?
Anonymous
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>>5934503 No, I was the one who accidentally killed the quest 10 minutes after it started.
Forgotten QM !!cRQ2bB+8b3B
Forgotten QM !!cRQ2bB+8b3B ID:jUaduxT8 Sat 24 Feb 2024 12:19:34 No. 5934531 Report >>5933715 Okay, I'll bite.
>Sir Emile Andrei from Sworn to Valour An idealistic and suitably haughty young knight, from a large family with many siblings. He has recently completed his long and arduous pilgrimage to the holy land and is now 100% convinced that he is on a holy mandate direct from heaven to cleanse his homeland of the undead threat.
Anonymous
>>5933715 Is it only for Authors to nominate? I think Cheryl from Cement Stratosphere would be a good entrant, but that's for Bananas to decide I guess.
Forgotten QM !!cRQ2bB+8b3B
Forgotten QM !!cRQ2bB+8b3B ID:jUaduxT8 Sat 24 Feb 2024 12:26:28 No. 5934534 Report >QM question: How do you handle romance in your quest, if at all? If you avoid it, how do you avoid players' tendency to seek it out?
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
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>>5934532 We barely got to see much of her but sure, I'd nominate her too.
Anonymous
>>5933715 >Who would you nominate if /qst/ did a waifu or husbando tournament again? Does Etsy from Curse QM's Curse Carrier quest count? She's literally pregnant and formally married to the protag, so i suppose she might not be a 'waifu' as much as a 'wife'
Anonymous
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>>5934267 You are raped, gaped, and enslaved by a powerful loli king. That's it. That's the quest
Anonymous
Who is the WORST quest waifu and husbando?
Anonymous
>>5934267 FATAL the quest the movie
Anonymous
>>5934597 Abigail.
Should've been Ila.
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2014/29934269/#p29936199 Worst Husbando goes to Anon-kun of Joker Quest. Betrayed every waifu into death for short term gains in exact reverse order of their introduction.
Anonymous
>>5934614 >Worst Husbando goes to Anon-kun of Joker Quest. Betrayed every waifu into death for short term gains in exact reverse order of their introduction. Anonymous
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>>5934187 she gets my vote and has an audible guitar riff voice in my heart
Anonymous
>>5934267 Hunter biden's campaign manager quest
>Joe biden died of old age before the 2024 election >Kamala malfunctioned >DNC scrambling for a new candidate >"Hey we already have those #biden2024 t-shirts printed let's go with hunter" >You're a rookie election campaign manager hired to make hunter's campaign work >You have to rehabilitate his image and bury his scandals >Stop him from overdosing on drugs or get caught fucking strippers >Daily motivational speeches so he doesn't kill himself Hunter: I can't do it, no one will vote me, I'm a fuck up!
You: Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... It's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, And not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. COWARDS DO THAT AND THAT AIN'T YOU. YOU'RE BETTER THAN THEM HUNTER!
Anonymous
>>5934619 I would agree if it were planned, but it wasn't any set of organized decisions aimed for serving overall personal benefit or mission goals. Just sleep walking in the direction of general apocalypse while pretending actions won't have consequences...
And getting the realistic consequences that typical /qtg/ protag behavior would genuinely earn, which now I think is good. A slightly unique flavor at the time.
Curse Carrier DM
>>5934592 I felt weird about nominating my own quest, I guess. Etsy is definitely one of my favorites too, but she did have more screen time so that it was inevitable she'd get more development.
As for worst girl in my own quest, I'd say Mona is the worse unless you like being stepped on, with the bug queen being a pretty close second. There's also Schadenfreude, but I have been informed some people are actually into her despite the fact I designed her to be as obnoxious as possible.
Anonymous
>>5934623 How did the quest end? I dropped out 50 threads in.
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>>5934625 >Mona is the worse unless you like being stepped on, Mona is made for domination loss.
Anonymous
>>5934373 >>5934433 I feel foolish for overlooking those things, but yeah, you guys are absolutely right.
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>>5934626 QM went full trump/maga then disappeared
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5934613 Step 1: describe your favourite quest character
Step 2: roll 1d100 for their anal circumference
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>>5934630 You accidentally made a really interesting-sounding setting and premise. That's not foolish at all.
>>5934622 Aside from being election tourist catnip, this actually sounds like it could be a pretty amusing time. Maybe with the names filed off and original characters made instead, but Campaign Manager Quest sounds pretty fun.
>>5934597 Irinnile the Succubus from Reptilian Infiltrator and Dragonborn Antipaladin is objectively pretty bad as a choice of soulmate for most people. 'Her' personality (and gender) are partly determined by her summoner or master's desires, which she uses to essentially function as a magical symbiote. She has corrupting influence upon them, is naturally duplicitous, she's selfish and ravenous for desire (especially weird sex), fear, souls and flesh, and while she can be made 'loyal', that loyalty only persists as long as she isn't banished or rebound to another.
The players of the second quest even voted to kill her, sort of Anonymous
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>>5934656 Ah, the classic negative circumference.
Anonymous
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>>5933642 >Lessons in Knighthood Go home, grandpa.
(I miss it too.)
Anonymous
>>5934625 >There's also Schadenfreude, but I have been informed some people are actually into her despite the fact I designed her to be as obnoxious as possible. but QM that's her charm
Anonymous
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>>5934850 Reminds me of Pepper from Slice.
Anonymous
I am watching a retrospective of the Fallout Franchise and it seems to me like the gameplay of 1,2 and New Vegas are essentially complicated quests with a computerized QM.
Anonymous
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>>5934902 >Has there every been a Fallout quest that aimed to capture not just the setting of the franchise but also translating it's gameplay to the /qst/ format? Low IQ moment.
Anonymous
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>>5934534 Easily the 2nd most shocking moment in the Qst since the Leap of Leeroy Jenkins
Anonymous
I'm thinking of rolling up an Exalted Quest, which type would y'all like to see?
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Sat 24 Feb 2024 22:06:05 No. 5934985 Report >>5934978 If it's not a bait, I'll throw in my Terrestrial Lightning/Wind Archer/Dagger user that parent abandonned at birth
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Sat 24 Feb 2024 22:07:54 No. 5934987 Report Quoted By:
Alright, Wuxia fan rejoiced!
Those of you that don't enjoy the turned-base 8 party skirmish of a team turnament in Normal Cultivator Quest, it's now over. We're back to decision making. So if you don't enjoy the way I write fights, you can pick up here
>>5934934 Anonymous
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
Seven Against Thebes Quest is up
>>5934977 Anonymous
>>5934985 Can DB actually get Lightning themed powers? I thought that was the one element they didn't have access to.
Niggapolys
Anonymous
does anyone rememer meguca royale? : D
Anonymous
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>>5934902 For the Deathclaw Wife one I tried to adhere to the gameplay style as best I could through text format. Only way I think could have been more would have been to use a grid map format, which I considered but didn't have the art skills for.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Anonymous
Really don't want to do an update tonight.
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>>5935163 If you communicate that to your players, I'm sure they'll be reasonable and understand.
Anonymous
>>5934267 anons choose a race and location and then run a civilization
Anonymous
>>5935181 Phillipinos in Cuba. Do I win?
Anonymous
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>>5935206 Well, a Filipino Cuban became the first Filipino-descended Prime Minister of Spain, so if that's your victory condition, congrats!
NC-17 !!5BuukXGLH01
*sigh*
Somehow Final Girl Quest returned...
>>5935291 Anonymous
>>5935297 Get hype!
>>5934253 Two of my favourite quests, back!
Anonymous
>>5935302 Speaking of favourites, I almost forgot to ask:
Whatcha' playin', /qst/?
Anonymous
>>5935309 >Posts a "watchya playan" while I am on hiatus >Again Anonymous
>>5935309 For me, all the Star War but especially The Strings in the Dark or what have you (set in a far future era)
THIRD WORLD LEADER (which has us balancing power as a moderate dictator in Afrika and could use more voters, especially considering how much effort the QM puts in)
SWORN TO VALOUR
SEVEN AGAINST THEBES
Operation Bludonia
BRETWALDA (Anglo-Saxon Warrior)
MEDIEVAL MERCENARY
ENCLAVE REMNANT
Anonymous
>>5935309 False World Online
Star Wars Strings in the Shadows
The Wandering Headband
Lodestar: Dawn of a New Age
Gimme some recs
Anonymous
>>5935297 >>5931812 So, question: How do your cool artwork for this quest anyway?
Anonymous
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>>5935317 Do I pay your quest?
Anonymous
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>>5935324 We seem to have similar tastes in some regards.You'd probably like Solarpunk Cleanup Agent and (depending on your tolerance for lewdness) The Lady Knight's Quest.
Maybe even Seekers of the Esoteric, but I feel weird recommending myself. Anonymous
>>5935320 >THIRD WORLD LEADER (which has us balancing power as a moderate dictator in Afrika and could use more voters, especially considering how much effort the QM puts in) I thought this one was another of those low effort quests, how good is it ?
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>>5935355 I find the formatting a little confusing sometimes, but it has a fair amount of effort put in, certainly more than I usually put into mine by all indications. Pretty crunchy mechanically, but large on the QM side of things. Reminds me a bit of playing Tropico at times.
NC-17 !!5BuukXGLH01
>>5935302 I'm beyond flattered. Especially considering how I already managed to fuck up with a formatting blunder in the OP and a typo in the second post. ;~;
>>5935332 It's nothing special, really. It's all very lo-tech and pretty easy.
The banner is a collage. The girl is from PapaNinja on DA, if I remember correctly, and the background is a flipped shot of Sidney Prescott's house from Scream. The font is Ft13th from DaFont, fucked with via MS Paint, with VHS effects by PhotoMosh.
Pic related is how I go about making the rest of the images, with the help of Google, GifCam's monochrome setting and, once again, good ol' MS Paint.
TL;DR: Google-fu, DaFont, PhotoMosh, GifCam and MS Paint.
Anonymous
>>5935309 Of that image:
>Solarpunk >Jail >Verse >Beat Cop >Batquest but outside those
>Curse Carrier >Olympus Incarnation >Do Your Best >Cleaner >Another BS Isekai >Core of Steel Anonymous
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>>5934267 Your favorite quest.
NC-17 !!5BuukXGLH01
>>5935370 As of this latest thread, I'm also experimenting with slop machines. As in, generating pictures instead of searching for suitable pictures online, before following the same process as above. For example, pic related is what
>>5935292 initially looked like. Which in hindsight is kinda retarded because this looks way better as is, but I'm a slave to consistency.
Anonymous
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>>5935378 That dog has seen some shit.
Anonymous
>>5935309 Just False World Online for now.
Still waiting on an epilogue for Exorcist. Solarpunk might be up my alley, but I'm not too sure how to feel about what I've read so far in current thread. Not my kind of downtime.
Also real world events have rather filled up my demands for dystopian urban society. Anonymous
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>>5934473 >>5934472 Its not my dream fantasy quest, but yeah, its something that I would be content reading. As for the art, not long at all. A few hours I think, I don't really keep track since Its just part of a larger set of sketches I'm doing. I was pretty happy with how their faces came out myself.
Anonymous
>>5935390 >but I'm not too sure how to feel about what I've read so far in current thread. what have you read ?
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
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>>5935427 Probably the club downtime part of Thread 3 from what he's said. I probably won't do it again. It was too extended.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Sun 25 Feb 2024 08:53:54 No. 5935461 Report Quoted By:
>>5934998 I don't know Exalted lore well.
Just wanted to play a Typical Terrestrial that actually goes against the nepotism cliche. Like the son of a brothel-partaking soldier abandonned by his whore of mother at a young age
Anonymous
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>>5934373 >What makes her a good waifu, though? What are her interests, her quirks? she's loyal, good natured and has a high sense of justice. also a good empath thanks to her powers and she has 2 "voices" living inside her, one is basically her unconcious manifested and the other is an animaniac, basically. she hasn't been in a relationship before, so she's basically a virgin all around.
she also has great ass TQM !UCjzwiF.lI
>>5933504 >QM question: I've had romance in basically every single one of my quests, except for the one where you played as a horrifying flesh monster from outer space. Although in that one you were basically the father to a young human girl. I feel like adding a romance subplot is an easy way to get players extra invested in the quest, especially if the romantic interest is a good and interesting character her/himself.
>Player Question I have no preference. Some waifu's are a big turn off and I will argue relentlessly to get anons to stop pursuing her, some are cool but I've never seen a waifu in another QM's quest that made me have really intense positive feelings for.
>Lurker Question I nominate Lieran from 2nd Primarch Quest. Dude is a chad in every sense of the word.
Anonymous
>>5934267 >>shotacop quest you're shotacop
you're the first shota to graduate cop school and become a cop
but you're still subjected to anti shota bigotry
(scene: shotacop goes to a bar after his shift)
bartender looks down on him: we don't serve your kind here
shotacop angrily says: why? because you're an anti shota bigot??
bartender: no because you're 12!!!
>what does shotacop do? >>shoot the bigot in the face with your shotagun >>shoot the bigot in the knee with your shotagun >>leave the bar and go home in your shotamobile Anonymous
>>5935537 We need more Shotakino
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>>5934267 >>100 Speech Slaver QuestYou're a slaver, and your job is to capture these supposedly weak slaves with bottomless potential and convince them they are powerless long enough for you to pawn them off to some clueless schmuck.
Go from city to city with progressively larger leaps of logic until you're ready to sell to isekai protags.
Anonymous
>>5935538 >>5935537 What Ive never got about Shota is why you'd want to see a small boy with a tiny peen fuck a women. Is it dicklet cope?
Anonymous
>>5934267 QM simulator. You spend your mental energy to write posts, and when it runs out, you kill yourself. Only (you)s replenish it. Also you roll to avoid the curse every turn.
Anonymous
>>5935546 >he doesn’t get it. Anonymous
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>>5935561 Sorry brah, not gay enough to understand why people want to watch a little boy fuck.
Anonymous
>>5935546 >why you'd want to see a small boy with a tiny peen fuck a women Literally no one wants to see that. You're the one that brought it up, you sick pedo fuck.
Anonymous
>>5935565 >Literally no one wants to see that Explain shota then?
Anonymous
/qtg/ toxicity has really ramped up recently. Feels like the good old days again. Keep it up everyone!
Anonymous
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>>5935575 Fuck you! Go die in a ditch.
Anonymous
>>5935569 >Anon: shares funny quest idea about a 12 year old cop >You: a small boy with a tiny peen fuck a women Degenerates like you should be shot on sight.
Anonymous
>>5934267 >QM circumcision quest Your task is to circumcise every QM
>But anon some (((QMs))) are already circumcised Your task is to force them to go through painful foreskin restoration surgery and then circumcise them
Anonymous
>>5934267 Quest tagline: gotta circumcise 'em all!
Anonymous
>>5935580 What do you think shota is?
Anonymous
>>5935584 Shōta, Shouta, or Shota (しょうた, ショウタ) is a common masculine Japanese given name.
>Shota A young boy, usually between 5 and 13, typically in Japanese anime/manga. These characters are cute, short, and innocent.
Anonymous
>>5934267 > ugly bastard rapes /qst/ waifus every waifu nominated for the tournament gets raped, impregnated, and mindbroken by ugly bastard
their main love interest sits in the cuck chair and cries
Anonymous
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>>5934267 Either fantasy alchemist or urban fantasy quest, except who gives a shit about the premise, the actual point of the quest is for me to write excruciatingly long scenes of the protagonist transforming into a waifu.
Curse Carrier DM
>>5934267 Honestly there's one I want to do where you play as a haunted game/executable file/whatever and try to do spooky shit to get a bigger hold over the material world and mess with whoever plays you. It's pure creepy pasta slop, but that's the charm I guess.
Problem is I have no idea how I'd handle progression, or make it interesting past the original premise. It might work as an experimental one-shot, but I'd rather finish my current quest before doing anything else.
Anonymous
>>5934267 >Start as a young unnamed barbarian conqueror (age 18) >Kill an old foreign king (age 60) and take over his kingdom >Fuck his hot sexually frustrated young wife (age 33) >Sex in every position >Vaginal >Oral >Anal >69 >Mating press >Piledriver >Lotus >Cowgirl >Fellatio >Cunnilingus >Every position known to mankind >Invent some new positions they don't even have names for >This goes on for 300+ posts >Multiple days in game time >Queen definitely knocked up >Queen: oh I forgot to tell you I had a baby with my old husband when I was 15 but poor thing didn't survive they didn't even let me see the body at this point the queen's name is revealed to be Jocasta and the main protagonist's Oedipus Surprise Motherfucker Anonymous
>>5934267 >Ugly Bastard Redemption You're Japanese national treasure and folk hero - ugly bastard. One day, while balls deep in two Japanese schoolgirls, you have a sudden epiphany: "there must be more to life". You resolve to change your ugly bastard ways and do something else with your life.
>Write the next great American novel >Save a critically endangered species of penguins >Solve a currently unsolved mathematical equation But your planned redemption isn't accepted by many. Japanese salarymen demand: "ugly bastard come back here and fuck our wives"! Japanese schoolgirls cry: "please steal our precious virginities and impregnate us ugly bastard"! The Japanese government pleads: "you're our only hope to save Japan from declining birth rates ugly bastard"! You turn them all succinctly: "sorry I don't want to be horny anymore. I want to be happy".
Anonymous
>>5934267 Cartel torturer quest. Your job is to make torture/snuff videos for the cartel. It's a shit job but somebody's gotta do it.
Anonymous
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>>5934267 spoiler format quest i dunno
BechiiQM !cA75R4LBa6
>>5933504 >QM Question I'm surprised people reacted so well with the romance I did. Though I liked the character the MC ended up with, I wasn't going out of my way for them to bang, but they managed to feel like a pretty natural and spontaneous love story. Bratty girl meets schizoid boy, she tries to push him off due to not knowing how to deal with her crush, guy finds it amusing and keeps teasing her, cut to a few years later and they're both supporting each other to be the best they can be despite their struggles. Hopefully they can get a happy ending when we get around to that, but it'll depend on the luck of the dice.
>>5933715 I'll bite, never been in these things before so it could be fun.
Vlad Santana from Berserk Quest, a lover of peace and a pacifist at heart that begrudgingly fights against the forces of evil to protect the weak because he knows they can't do it themselves. Tends to self flagellate to an almost suicidal degree to keep his friends and loved ones from being hurt.
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Sun 25 Feb 2024 17:24:24 No. 5935697 Report Quoted By:
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Sun 25 Feb 2024 18:21:53 No. 5935738 Report If any of you dropped had any interrest in Normal Cultivator Quest but is not up to date,
I have a tie to break over there :
>>5934934 Else, I'll summon Souvarine to break it.
Anonymous
>>5935546 >What Ive never got about Shota is why you'd want to see a small boy with a tiny peen fuck a women. something something older women crushes when you're young
Anonymous
>>5935594 every /qst/ waifu is capable of beating his ass, although charllotte from Drowned redux may be willing to stay
Anonymous
>>5935850 You underestimate ugly bastard's power
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5935565 >>5935580 >>5935586 He's just only used to seeing it in the context of 'shotcon', because this is 4chan. it's like the visceral cringe I get when I see the word 'loli' or 'lolita', even though it can also just mean 'little girl' or 'frilly dress fashion' or whatever. I get it.
>>5935546 >>5935846 I've heard it said that for those who aren't just
closet pedos, expressing an Oedipus complex, or reliving a childhood fantasy as an adult, one common explanation of age-play fantasies (including mommy-dommy or daddy-dom stuff) is a desire to feel innocent, cute and free of responsibility again, taken care of and treasured. It often manifests in people who never really got that as a kid, and have fetishized it in its absence. It's actually quite sad.
Anonymous
>>5935854 You can't handle his GIRTH
Anonymous
>>5935850 This will take a team of earth's mightiest heroes, then.
Anonymous
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>>5935855 so from a desire to feel submissive to relieving lost childhood ? interesting.
Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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Have begun updating for the day!
>>5935868 >>5935868 Anonymous
>>5935862 The Ugly Bastard could double the dead lift of the "Muscleman".
Anonymous
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>>5935870 Never underestimate BLOATmaxxers.
Anonymous
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>>5935862 hey,a nother baalbuddy fan
Anonymous
>>5935594 Are you the same guy bringing up cuck stuff in the last few generals?
>>5935611 Real game or made up? Guess could make it a dungeon core like but with Vidya.
Anonymous
>>5933714 Correct me if i'm wrong, but we havn't had a classic Post-Endor warlord/empire quest (specifically naval commander doing stuff) in a long time. As long as I've been on tg/qst those have always had a special role on these boards. And they tend to be damned popular.
Anonymous
Curse Carrier DM
>>5935888 It'd probably be a made up game, since limiting yourself to a specific ARG/creepypasta would take away control from the voters. Maybe if they pick a gmod map then they can affect more people since it can be used in multiplayer, or if they choose a haunted cartridge they have a stronger hold over the physical world and the person playing them. I'd need more time to figure out the first few builds and what would constitute a game over (maybe if you're too unsubtle they just destroy the game and you're screwed I don't know)
Anonymous
>>5935643 >cartel I thought 4chan would choose yakuza
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5935902 Working on it. Will probably see the light of day sometime in 2025.
Anonymous
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>>5935917 Very cool anon! Just don't work yourself out too much, a year long preparation sounds pretty hardcore.
Anonymous
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I'm on the knifes edge of writing a quest.
Anonymous
>>5933504 >Who would you nominate if /qst/ did a waifu or husbando tournament again? Anonymous
CORE QM WHERE ARE YOU
TQM !UCjzwiF.lI
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>>5935947 >>5935947 >>5935947 The Wandering Headband has updated! Checking out the bunker of the thief who stole your headbands, you find some strange and interesting things.
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>5936019 Jeez, can't you read, anon? That's 1704253591685195!
Blair Weaver from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, I think. Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Anonymous
Is wearing a cape of an enemy's skin that gives you powers cringe?
Anonymous
>>5936057 Pretty classic wizard shit, actually. And classic schizo shit. Berserkergang shit.
Anonymous
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>>5936061 Cool, thanks, wasn't sure if it sounded too edgy.
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>5936068 Magic cape, you see its different.
Anonymous
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>>5936068 According to Herodotus, the Scythians would make capes pf cloaks of many scalps sewn together. By doing this with loose stitching, perhaps you could tear the snagged part off and escape?
Anonymous
>>5935581 What if the QM is a woman?
Oh wait. There are no women on the internet, much less female QMs. Ehehehe.
Anonymous
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>>5936112 >What if the QM is a woman? >He's never heard of female circumcision OBA-337 !!4mnDVUrwiI8
>wanted to start the third thread mid-February Welp that didn't happen. Next week is my birthday so the week after that I'm gonna try to come back to Spaceship Pilot in a Fantasy World again. Plot progressed pretty far last time so I wonder if I should do a recap or something? Lord knows I need to recap MYSELF on what I was gonna do...
Also I wanted to do an unrelated oneshot in between the last thread and the next one, but it's been a constant 40 degrees celsius over here and it makes me way too tired to try and create new characters and stuff.
>>5933715 Seems cool, idk if people consider Storkie a "waifu" but I think she's alright looking enough for that, here's the first thread for reference
>https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2023/5827414/ Anonymous
>>5936191 >idk if people consider Storkie a "waifu" A fuckable girl design = waifu
at least for most morons
Anonymous
>>5935909 Maybe you could have the players manage/specify the mechanics of the creepypasta game...but then in a given episode they assume the role of someone playing the game? At the beginning, the player just like hears a thump behind them at a jump scare in the game. As the game becomes more powerful/refined the horror ratchets up, and the way the horror ratchets up is determined by your actual players.
For the fail state, you could do it a few different ways and have different game-builds handle things differently.
MyHouse.WAD gains power from people playing it, and will gain a lot of power if they play it long enough for a physical manifestation to draw the victim in...but up until that point it's subsisting on crumbs. On the other hand, it's just a file on the internet that anyone can download. If you don't draw the paranatural police' attention then there's no way to die.
As opposed to Jumanji, which is a physical gameboard. It gains tons of power from anyone playing it, and manifests things physically by default. It's a game of brinkmanship to keep the players alive while harvesting fear from them. Enough fear that when they inevitably destroy its corporeal form there's plenty of energy to reconstitute elsewhere.
Anonymous
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Congratulations to Weaver of Curse Carrier to be one of the few quest main characters to be a parent
Anonymous
>>5936204 fuckable = waifu
OBA-337 !!4mnDVUrwiI8
>>5936204 >>5936228 That's fair, personally I usually consider a "waifu" to be "someone I would have a long term relationship with (inclusing banging)" as opposed to someone I'd just bang
Anonymous
>>5936253 Does that make QMs all waifus?
Anonymous
>>5936253 I personally believe waifu = "fictional girl you would want a long term relationship plus sex with", hence the saying you can only have one waifu and more ruins your laifu (thanks /a/)
Over time, that parody term has evolved to mean "any fictional girl that's cute and appealing to weeb scum" which is almost every fictional girl out there
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Final Girl Quest update is up.
>>5936269 OBA-337 !!4mnDVUrwiI8
>>5936258 Is it REALLY a long term relationship if they disappear for 6+ months after every, uh... session?
Anonymous
I'm going to write a space quest.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>5936280 Sounds cool. I wish we had more of those.
Anonymous
>>5935862 I'm going to write the winner of the waifu tourney getting raped, enslaved and mindbroken by these legends
Anonymous
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>>5936279 Hey man, just cause you pick bad partners doesn't change things, man. All my waifus run damn near daily for years on end. You're not into mysterious loners, man, you're into schizophrenics with avoidant personality disorder, maaannnn.
Anonymous
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>>5936289 Five bucks says you'll be too much of a coward to do it.
Anonymous
>>5936259 I think the /qst/ usage sort of means "character you would either personally marry or think would make a good/amusing marriage option in a quest you were playing."
Anonymous
>>5936289 >he doesn’t know she already gets off to shotas and lolis Anonymous
>>5936294 which character from your quests would be your wiafu ?
>>5936299 what about the rest of that group ?
Anonymous
>>5936329 Izzy has the most elements consciously drawn from my actual ex. Well, so do Eka and Costella, but that was a different ex; I only MARRIED one of them.
Anonymous
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>>5936335 Actually, wait, no: obviously it would be
Davora the Herbalist, RIP Anonymous
>>5936329 She doesn’t mind a gyaru-o - her colleague (from another department) literally is one. I’m sure the same goes for the muscle guy.
Anonymous
>>5936289 Your /qst/ waifu has been repeatedly raped and mindbroken by cuckolding sentai netorangers. What do?
> Abandon her, she's ruined > Take responsibility and marry her despite what happened Olympus QM
>>5936253 >personally I usually consider a "waifu" to be "someone I would have a long term relationship with (inclusing banging)" as opposed to someone I'd just bang Welp, guess that eliminates my entire quest. Just about every single female main character I have is either dead or a complete psycho, with the protagonist being the poster girl for "don't stick your dick in crazy"
Except Chen, but I haven't even given her a proper character design so she's probably near the bottom of my quest's potential waifu contest Anonymous
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>>5936380 Still fun to submit one for a waifu tourney. Last one included a bunch of psychos and killers-for-hire, and while none of them won their interactions and the fanart was fun.
DetectQM
>>5935372 >>5935309 Thanks for reading Beat Cop, fellas. Appreciate it.
Speaking of the thread is back from Weekend Break for the week, gonna try to get in the habit of announcing it here.
>>5920234 Anonymous
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>>5936379 >> Take responsibility and marry her despite what happened Anonymous
Quests where the hero sacrifices himself in the fight against evil?
Anonymous
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>>5936399 No need to thank us for enjoying a good story, DQM.
>>5936409 Reynauld from Kobolt Klan Adoption, though he accidentally lived longer than expected despite his best efforts. At least, he has SO FAR.
Pepper from Slice Quest
just abou Reptilian Infiltrator Quest had
The Infiltrator , though, uh, 'evil' is sort of in the eyes of the beholder with that one.
Anonymous
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>>5936409 does losing your powers count as sacrifice? I can think of one then.
Otherwise, I know a quest that does the complete opposite. MC looks at everyone sacrificing everything they have for victory, decides that's cringe and takes the crown with plain cunning.
Anonymous
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>>5936283 How many of them don't have propoganda of shitty government structures?
Anonymous
Anonymous
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Rolled 2, 6 = 8 (2d6) test2
Anonymous
It's been months and Blood and Seed still hasn't resurfaced. I was looking forward to a second thread but I guess not.
Anonymous
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>>5936566 nevermind I'm retarded and didn't see it
Anonymous
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Rolled 3 (1d20) i just wanna roll dice
Curse Carrier DM
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>>5936212 I think the main appeal would be to control the entity itself (although a short section where you control a victim could be fun to see what it's like from the other side.)
My main thought was that you'd try to trick people into killing themselves or others, dig up guilt, or just present yourself as a false deity to help yourself spread. Granted, at this point it's more cult simulator, and I think the more interesting part would be messing with specific individuals, so there should be a focus on that.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
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Last chance for /qst/ to weigh in on Seven Against Thebes' MC's skillset and abilities. This is arguably the most impactful vote in the entire quest and we're speedrunning chargen to get it out of the way!
>>5934989 If you haven't read my quests previously, please give it a chance! There will be DEMIGODS, there will be DECEIT, and there will be DEDICATIONS to the cruel gods of Olympus that dictate the lives of all DANAANS, for good or ill...
Anonymous
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hey guys how would you feel about a Madoka Magica dungeon crawler? with stats and parties and all that shit. i love doing lovedovey emotional stuff but you guys are a lot more about how to kill stuff, so i wanna try that
Anonymous
Just a quick question, but how good/bad are dice pool systems on 4chan?
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Mon 26 Feb 2024 14:04:03 No. 5936689 Report Quoted By:
>>5936679 Several ways to handle it.
>Bo3 d100 You will roll on average 70. With 50 DC, your protag will feel heroic.
>Xd6, success on 4-5-6 I'm partial to this, because of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean What I like :
RQM system with several d20. Base DC is 15, number of roll depending of skill level, DC changed by write-in and choices of players
Anonymous
Hey, I would like to ask if I should finish a quest.
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Mon 26 Feb 2024 15:54:41 No. 5936733 Report Quoted By:
>>5936697 Finish it for your 4 players.
Anonymous
>>5936697 What is your quest? Four players is a respectable number around here.
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Hoping for a tie-breaker vote in the Monster Girl Facility Quest. The MC is currently in quite the firefight, and has to decide to keep pushing forward or to try something else before anyone else gets shot.
>>5935970 >>5935970 >>5935970 Anonymous
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I wish I had more one or two more players in my quest
Anonymous
>>5936697 Idk what's your quest but you got me interested so I'd say finish it, make some tweaks to it if you have an idea of what's wrong
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>>5936762 >>5936762 >>5936762 New update for The Wandering Headband, new mandatory shill post.
Also I have a question for my players in particular: How many of you currently playing the Wandering Headband came from Christian Cultist in The Underhive and how many of you just saw it on the board one day and thought it'd be fun to play? And to those who came from Christian Cultist Quest, which one do you like better, TWH or Christian Cultist Quest?
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>>5935033 I do! I hope it RITurns some day soon.. in some form at least.
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Mon 26 Feb 2024 18:00:42 No. 5936777 Report Speaking of disappeared QM...
Anonymous
>>5936777 Same but with Core of Steel
Anonymous
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>>5936338 alright, what about the tentacles and fat bastard ?
>>5936335 >I only MARRIED one of them oh, didn't know you're married
DeepCoreQM
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>>5936409 That was the finale of Black-Mesa Black Ops Quest.
Anonymous
>>5936734 I'm a demon?
I will make it in a minute.
I made a good sumary this time.
>>5936754 Whats wrong is its going to be hard to deliver and I dont have the skills.
I have to put an eldritch entity the players design in the quest because the plot demands it,
but I have only a vague idea on how to not break the quest and the MC with it.
That is the gif.
Do you have any ideas anon
Anonymous
>>5936777 >>5936781 Same but Star Wars: Interregnum
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Mon 26 Feb 2024 21:14:15 No. 5936891 Report Quoted By:
>>5936679 You should take a look at Lodestar, we use a dicepool system in which matching numbers count as successes! It's going by extremely well, in my opinion.
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>>5936781 could get behind that as well, although mediocre disappearance burns harder
Anonymous
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>>5936863 Real
Same but SUNBELT CRUSADERS
Anonymous
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>>5936768 I saw you spitball it on a prior QTG, never even saw the show. Need to catch up on your 2nd thread (you forgot the 2nd part by the way).
Anonymous
Does any QM here show their quests to their friends and families? If so, what's their reaction to it?
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>>5936915 >Family Fuck no. I always dance around the issue when they ask what I do by saying I'm writing a novel or something like that. I'd rather kill myself than try to explain anything about my quest to my family given they're OLD at this point.
>Friends I know two of my friends have expressed interest in what I write in my quests. Granted both are already into the stuff I write before I started questing so I feel like that's cheating.
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>>5936915 I have told a little bit about it to my family and friends. I recently told my dad about it in more detail since he was curious about it.
He thought it was amusing how my players:
- Were surprisingly ethical and didn't really commit any warcrimes despite it being really easy for them to do so.
- Used a sweet, innocent monster girl to try and threaten a scientist with the threat that she would eat him alive (She's a vegetarian)
He also wondered if stories ever get stolen from this site so the thieves can profit from the creativity here, which... surely has never happened, right?
Anonymous
Gacha quest guy here, I lost literal months of notes (save for only the pics and a couple of files I had in my phones) when my hard drive died. Needless to say, I am beyond fucking devastated. Fuck this shit.
Anonymous
>>5936931 Disappointing; was looking forward to more slop waifus, especially Steamy.
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Mon 26 Feb 2024 22:09:39 No. 5936936 Report Quoted By:
>>5936915 Told 3 friends.
>One came specifically to the board to play my first PokeQuest. She didn't hanged out in other threads for some reason. >One is interested and ask me about broad strokes of what's happening and directions of Dragon's Dungeon from time to time >One nods politely so I take he's not really interrested in my rambling. Anonymous
>>5936915 Fuck no, did tell my family that I do a bit of writing online, but that's as far it went. They were interested, and thought I should try to publish it lol.
>>5936931 Why would you have months of notes if you've not even started? Chances are your quest will die in the first thread.
Anonymous
>>5936933 Got +1800 waifu slops on my phone but I am too lazy to upload them. Might delete them actually to forget this huge fucking waste of time.
>>5936939 OCD/Perfectionism , I wanted to finish all the nations the MC would travel while searching for a cure for her disease despite other anon's more rational suggestion to just wing it.
Anonymous
>>5936940 anon don't be so afraid of failure. odds are neither of us is Bukowski. write for the fuck of it.
Anonymous
>>5936940 >OCD/Perfectionism You have to let go of that if you are ever going to be a QM, if not you will languish on updates not being quite right for days. Just run it man.
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
>>5936940 >I wanted to finish all the nations the MC would travel while searching for a cure for her disease despite other anon's more rational suggestion to just wing it. Buddy, this is coming from a guy who has spent years stewing in his own internal bastard mix of various settings into his own makeshift hogpodge of one.
It doesn't matter how much background lore you have if your players never see it or never bother TO see it. Could I spend forever working on the lore of all 26 of my Alphabet Companies (massive megacorporations), each of which has some weird quirk to it?
Do my players know or care about more than, at most, a handful of them because they're plot relevant or they're relevant to whatever mission they're working with? No.
Write for what the players are likely to see and would actually care to involve themselves with. Worldbuilding is an easy way to get lost in the sauce when the players really just want to fuck a cute girl you wrote or something.
Anonymous
>>5936945 damn straight. just fuck around. fuck up. have fun like jesus, this isn't about you justifying your existence or your self-worth or whatever bullshit you may feel writing implies. we havin fun here. playing in the mud. slapping each others asses. that dumbass 'perfectionist' bullshit is gonna ruin your growth and life until you realize that this is just a game and that the goal is to have fun, and sometimes it's even fun when the thread goes to shit
Anonymous
>>5936940 Please run or I will cry.
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>>5936940 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
You really only need the images; the rest will come on its own. If you do elect not to run it, please post a mega with your slopfus.
Anonymous
>gacha waifu quest will never happen now
Anonymous
>>5936940 >I wanted to finish all the nations the MC would travel while searching for a cure for her disease despite other anon's more rational suggestion to just wing it. The point of WORLDBUILDING is to create a WORLD for the story to take place. It’s not necessary to flesh out every corner of the world - just the ones you are visiting, and even then, in the relevant sectors.
Make some outlines and be done with it. It’s the plotline and characters that’s your main concern.
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The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:TKj04KDK Tue 27 Feb 2024 01:51:05 No. 5937060 Report Quoted By:
>>5937044 Batquest is having the final update of ACT II of the Fourth Arc. This vote determines the fate of Gotham and the future of Batman's mission. The next update will start the new thread and the grand finale of the Batquest/Superquest arc.
Anonymous
>>5936019 The best /qst/ waifu. She's taken though.
Anonymous
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>>5937063 >She's taken though Yeah, taken by the streets.
Anonymous
>>5937063 >The best /qst/ waifu. She's taken though. what's her name and where's she from ?
Anonymous
If we are talking about waifus, which quest has the ugliest waifu? And why is the MC getting with a slampig?
Anonymous
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>Be me >Wait months for new Blood and Seed thread >Theres a new Blood and Seed thread >QM hasn't updated in a week
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I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX ID:eEq4ELSW Tue 27 Feb 2024 03:25:35 No. 5937110 Report Quoted By:
>>5937097 Was sick these past few days, but The Lady Knight's Quest is back. Seeing the aftereffects of your ninja maid's encounter with Rebecca and the Greater Demon she summoned.
Anonymous
>>5935309 Just Simple Space Empire
I really like civ quests like what Bulgar did or the Half Elf Romans or Golden Age Monkequest
Any sugs?
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>>5937070 Marella from Christian Cultist in The Underhive Quest. She's got a horrible scar across her face that makes one half of her face sag downward, and both halves of her face are held together by staples, and in between the staples is red, raw flesh. But she's a badass bitch so it evens out.
Anonymous
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>>5936915 My family knows I write in a collaborative writing project for a small group online. That's about it. My mom knows a bit of the subject matter, in a very shallow fashion.
Quite a few of my friends know (and even occasionally check in on or vote) in my quests, but none of them really seem especially interested. It's a shame, really, but they're pretty busy folks. Also, I think they never really stray from my thread; 4chan's reputational musk puts them off. Even the ones who used to hang out here mostly grew out of it or got driven away by election tourists who never left.
Anonymous
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>>5937070 I submit, for your consideration: Glowie, from Dragonborn Antipaladin.
Anonymous
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>>5937114 If you like Roman half-elves, you ought to be playing Untamed Civilization Project, which is literally that.
"I'm A Demon?" also has civ elements and, holy shit...
>>5936799 It's back!!
Anonymous
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>>5937070 The sensai / teacher character from short stacks fantasy wizard apprentice quest.
*Dabs*
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
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>>5937272 >>5937272 >>5937272 Apologies about being exceptionally late, but Solarpunk update!
I gotta work quick because a lot of new threads were made and it is on page 10.
CoreQM !HQdLRxFnaM
>>5935956 Fine. Two days.
Thread 8.5, where we finish up the interludes and only then get back to smashing giant metal titans against each other.
A reminder for QMs out there, end your threads at a good stopping point, otherwise you're stuck like me and need to do a half-thread to complete something.
But my schedule finally opened up and maybe sticking a deadline will make me keep to it. Like the last 3 times I said something.
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Tue 27 Feb 2024 06:54:52 No. 5937287 Report Quoted By:
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>>5936777 Same but for Cyberpunk Quest
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>>5937284 I'm glad you are all right. Please watch your health
Anonymous
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>>5937069 Blair from the Fire Emblem quest. She's with Ashe.
There was actually a husbando war over him, I don't know all the details. Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
>>5936915 I was sort of forced to show my family my quest because one of my younger relatives really wanted to read the "webcomic" I was working on.
She ended up talking about it to my mother, who then looked at me in disbelief and said something along the lines of "You wrote a story with 7 crucifixions in it?", lol.
Anonymous
>>5933504 >Who would you nominate if /qst/ did a waifu or husbando tournament again? Would you vote in it? Sir Emile Andrei for husbando
Lady Frida Vancewell for waifu
The Bear and the Maiden (lol) Fair
>>5934534 The playerbase is hilarious
Anonymous
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>>5937432 >You wrote a story with 7 crucifixions in it? You gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>5936915 My only IRL friend who knows about my Questing is my roommate, who is also a 4channer retard. I often tell him plot related spoilers to Monke Quest because I know he doesn't give enough of a shit to post them online, lol. He is also into creative stuff and I'm jealous of him sometimes since he is much more skilled at video editing and programming then I am.
None of my family members know what I do specifically, but my Mom knows I'm into writing and art. Because I've been published in a magazine she thinks I'm a God-Tier writer however, and asked me advice on how to write her own novel. I read some of her writing and I was skilled enough to see it was amateurish but not skilled enough to give real constrictive feedback lmao
Anonymous
>>5937505 >my roommate You have to be 18+ to post on 4channel.
Anonymous
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>>5936915 Fuck no, I play actual TTRPGs and am part of a TTRPG server and don't tell those people that I play what is effectively a multi-person single character role playing game on 4chan.
"Oh you know, some free form, forum based RPGs from time to time"
If it wasn't 4chan (or god forbid fiction.live)... maybe but everyone who hears 4chan only knows of /b/ and not even specifically just all the weird shit this place is capable of.
This and /tg/ occasionally are the only parts of this website I even visit anymore
Anonymous
>>5937508 >only kids live with roommates retard
Anonymous
>>5937512 Have you tried getting a job?
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5937515 I probably earn 5 times more than you do
Kraken !!foLJeTBIOjr
Anonymous
>>5937518 >I earn more than you >Yet he's got a roommate Kk bud
>>5937517 Wherever fits your skills and pays you well.
Anonymous
>>5937527 I had a roommate when I was earning 6 figures, simply because I had a place with soace for one and I appreciate the company.
Anonymous
>>5937530 >Sharing a room with someone else when you aren't in a relationship Sounds like hell
Anonymous
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Why reply to obvious trolling?
Anonymous
>>5937533 >sharing a room That's not what a roommate is. Unless you mean, like, a living room. Are you ESL? Might explain the confusion.
Anonymous
>>5937038 >>5936973 >>5936966 >>5936960 >>5936945 >>5936943 >>5936941 Thank you all for your kind and encouraging responses. I salvage what I can by downscaling the original scope of my quest instead so it would be at least feasible for me to actually run it.
How about a gacha dungeon crawler quest instead, does it sound fun ?
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5937543 A roommate isn't a housemate.
Anonymous
>>5937569 That's exactly what it is. It's interchangeable
Anonymous
TrashQM
>>5937598 >>5937598 >>5937598 The Graverobber's Daughter continues after a day's delay! Chlotsuintha finds herself an arms length away from two Guards, with nothing between her and them but shadows and an unlocked basement door! She overhears a portion of a conversation, though she believes she didn't hear everything perfectly as portions of the conversation don't make sense. But if she wants to knock-down the Clerking House without knocking-down her own schedule and itinerary, she is going to need to deduce what was actually said - and more importantly, what it means for her and her 'labors' here!
Anonymous
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>>5937557 Thanks for responding with what I was hoping for that
>>5937527 didn't give
Anonymous
>when no one replies to your bait
Anonymous
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>>5937660 I'm sorry sweetie, I'll try harder in the future.
Anonymous
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>>5937550 Absolutely! Try starting off with a small concept, and if you have fun and the players are into it, you can expand into a larger area within the same setting at your own pace.
TQM !UCjzwiF.lI
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>>5937704 >>5937704 >>5937704 New update for The Wandering Headband has just dropped, as Rokutaro get's asked a life or death question.
TQM !UCjzwiF.lI
>>5933715 Oh shit, somehow missed this. Alright, I submit Marella and Kvar from Christian Cultist In The Underhive. Marcella, a scarred, violent sadistic psycho, and Kvar a man so sweet and kind that God chose him out of everyone in the galaxy to bring Christianity back from the dead.
Levelman !rnYhP.nKQo
I love my quest so much, I made a whole wiki for it.
https://chaosquest.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page Curse Carrier DM
Anonymous
>>5937574 Its not anon.
>>5937800 Good work!
Anonymous
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>>5937800 Well done anon.
Now you just need to make it as big as House&Dominion's or Chapter Quest's.
Anonymous
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>>5937800 That's rad. Did this for a few old D&D and other TTRPG campaigns, but those were a long time ago. Not sure I have the energy to do that sort of thing these days.
>>5937849 Look up the definition. Don't cherry-pick, and note North American usage.
Anonymous
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>>5933863 Anon, you seem like you need some help with this thing, so I'll let you in on a secret.
>as a man, I would... >as a rational and principled person, I would... There is no difference between these two sentences.
Anonymous
Why is this board not as racist as the other boards? Is this, dare I say it, the woke board?
Anonymous
>>5937926 You forgot to change your ID, TQM
TQM !UCjzwiF.lI
>>5937934 I know. I've been found out. It's all over for me now. My anonymous shitposting days are done.
Anonymous
>>5937934 Why would he need to?
>>5937926 Almost nobody here is 'woke' (especially as almost nobody on that side of the political aisle refers to themselves that way, and certainly not in the caricatured, pejorative way it is meant by conservatives. A fair few of us are to varying degrees left-leaning or, at the very least, not actively race nationalists or supremacists, which is no doubt helped along by the fact that we are a surprisingly racially/nationally diverse board judging by the QMs who have disclosed such details.
Ultimately, though, we are simply more civil and less shitty than average, because while many boards on 4chan are just a place for people to argue about media or society or
American politics. This place is essentially a creative writing group, where we all collaborate and share art, and even have some measure of persistent identity (for QMs in general and, for players, at least within a given thread by ID). People are consequently less touchy because they don't want the output of art to stop, and they have some skin in the game.
Anonymous
>>5937945 >Why would he need to? It is obvious bait to stir up shitposting t. Shitposter
Anonymous
>>5937944 >>5937945 Just looking out for a fellow shit stirrer. QTG gets boring when no one takes the bait
Anonymous
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>>5937945 >not being an enlightened centrist who is also a misanthrope Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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Music surf update!
>>5937949 >>5937949 TQM !UCjzwiF.lI
>>5937945 On a serious note yeah that's probably it. People are here for a shared hobby that requires active participation and creative exercise from both the QMs and the players, so people aren't gonna come here just to stir shit up so they can get their daily dose of pointless internet argument dopamine.
>>5937951 As a
half black half white leftist myself, I was just fucking around to get some discussion going and for the lulz. It is something I've genuinely noticed though, this board is way milder on the racism and general bigotry than just about any board I've seen. Which is why it's basically the only board I use.
Anonymous
>>5937961 >half black half white >Pigheart posts on /qtg/ Anonymous
>>5937953 >when no one takes the bait That's what I'm here for.
>>5937969 >pigheart That's a new one for me.
Anonymous
>>5937969 The fuck is pigheart? I've been called every slur in the book but that one is brand new to me. Is it a really old timey one like fishbelly?
Anonymous
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>>5937975 >That's a new one for me There's some mixed race guy who looks like a pig and goes by the name Lionheart. Anonymous
>>5937981 I've never met a mixed race guy before, do you feel more connected to one of your parent's races? If so why?
Anonymous
>>5937987 Not especially. More so I feel less connected to both races. I feel it's probably the same for most mixed people. However, feeling a connection to your race isn't something I deem important for myself really, and I find those people who have zero accomplishments themselves that constantly harp on about their race's accomplishments like it's something they had a hand in to be really lame, so ultimately it's whatever.
Anonymous
>>5937991 Ok, cool cheers.
>I find those people who have zero accomplishments themselves that constantly harp on about their race's accomplishments I work in software, I find a lot of Indians and Asians are very racially motivated and I don't consider them failures.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Anonymous
>>5937991 Seems about right, though it's also pretty variable based on country and the dominant culture of the region, in my experience and based on my studies. Most mixed people I know describe a similar experience, but the exceptions are the Black Americans I know (who, even if a quarter or half White, often identify as "Black" when asked due to the way society seems to view them) and mixed First Nations who live(d) on rez land for any length of time, who often identify quite closely with the tribal nation or band in which they hold status/citizenship.
Anonymous
>>5937996 >I find a lot of Indians and Asians are very racially motivated and I don't consider them failures. pretty sure TQM meant people who ARE failures (or at least mediocre) but try to cleave to their ethnic group's accomplishments to make up for their own lack of importance. You know, the kind of Black guy who unironcially says "WE WUZ KANGS" and makes the purported Blackness of the pharaohs a major part of his personal identity or like, a White guy who talks about the ancient Norse or Romans like he was there helping them invent or conquer stuff, but actually PERSONALLY works as a shelf-stocker at Wal-Mart.
Anonymous
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>>5938011 Oh ok, I misread that, thanks for clearing that up. Funnily enough I don't really know anyone I would consider a failure.
TQM !UCjzwiF.lI
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>>5938011 You got it anon.
Anonymous
>>5937961 About the only quest I can think of with significant /pol/ influence apart from player-on-player bickering and the odd schizo is HFY Quest.
Anonymous
>>5937961 >this board is way milder on the racism and general bigotry than just about any board I've seen. As an anonymous guy, I will call you NIGGER (allcaps), FAGGOT (allcaps), NIGGERFAGGOT (allcaps), and additionally [red][b:lit][i:lit]NIGGERFAGGOT[/i:lit][/b:lit][/red] as much or as little as I damn well please. And I will mean absolutely none of it with any emotion or seriousness. You cannot stop me either. You can't close your ears and shut your eyes. Your only recourse is to accept the slurs and dismiss them at the same time. Become immune to the no-no gamer words, and you'll be above most people of either skin color in our modern weakling society. Go you!
Anonymous
>>5938028 Literally nobody on 4chan feels hurt by anonymous randos calling them slurs.
Anonymous
>>5938042 That's not true. The tourists do.
TQM !UCjzwiF.lI
>>5938028 Good for you anon.
Anonymous
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>>5938080 No no no. It's the other way around. Good for YOU.
Niggapolys
archivebro
>>5938020 I got up to thread 17 or 18 before I went “live” with HFY and then it started wearing me down. I didn’t last the next full thread.
Unrelated, I’m willing to pick up a couple reviews this week. I know I owe Olympus QM still as they were the last one I was working on, but I’ll take up to two more. I want to avoid flaking later on.
I know other people were in the queue from the previous /qtg/ I did them in, but I’m nuking the rest of that and starting fresh.
Anonymous
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Wed 28 Feb 2024 02:44:38 No. 5938160 Report >>5938157 I'd appreciate a quick review of Lodestar, despite only being two threads in so far.
Chartman !!RtTRSNxm597
TQM !UCjzwiF.lI
>>5938157 If you can resume your review of Christian Cultist in The Underhive that'd be awesome.
Anonymous
>>5937945 >Almost nobody here is 'woke' (especially as almost nobody on that side of the political aisle refers to themselves that way, and certainly not in the caricatured, pejorative way) bruh almost no one anywhere refers to themselves in the caricature their opponents paint of them
>>5938157 Cursed Carrier and Chaos: The Quest for Redemption
Anonymous
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>>5938167 *Curse Carrier, minor typo
Anonymous
Anonymous
Olympus QM
>>5938157 Glad to see you back, and thanks for checking out my quest. It's gotten a bit longer since I suggested it, but I think it's still pretty manageable. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts
Anonymous
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>>5938167 >bruh almost no one anywhere refers to themselves in the caricature their opponents paint of them I call myself retard all the time.
Anonymous
>>5938158 Racism is undeniably hilarious and everyone should be racist against everyone.
Anonymous
>>5938195 Its unavoidable. I used to think it was something that could be done away with when I was younger and niave and liberal but 20+ times of getting attacked by black guys for being white and watching bystander blacks laugh and cheer and all the threats that never crossed the line into action and all the paranoid black conspiratarding later... there's no hope. My actions have next to zero bearing on how I'm treated by blacks, only my skin color matters, so why not be racist? If I'm assumed to "have it coming" no matter whatthen at least I can preserve my self-respect by not grovelling or demeaning myself.
Anonymous
>>5938178 Noone. Go about your business, sir.
NC-17 !!5BuukXGLH01
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Final Girl Quest update is up.
>>5938238 Anonymous
>>5937800 Wow, you had a LOT of content to put together. How often do you update, and then how did you find the time to do things like this?
OBA-337 !!4mnDVUrwiI8
Stupid idea for a gacha-themed quest I'll probably not make>Dystopian captalist far future, giant machine overlords clone and combine humans, put them in little containers and collect them for fun or have them fight each other like Pokemon (and to feed money to the bigger badder machine overlords) >(You) are a defective gacha person that escaped from your container and avoided capture, now you must free all the humans/kill the machine overlords/do whatever you want to do >Roll to get your own randomly generated (both appearence and stat/attack-wise) gacha peeps so you can use them in battle, each having a single unchanging class that relates to generic anime character tropes
Anonymous
Somebody make an OC capeshit quest, I need my fix.
Anonymous
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>>5938195 I have my main character as casually racist because they're basically a medieval peasant without the Internet so everything they've heard is just hearsay, gossip, stereotypes, etc. until just now where they are in an actually multicultural organization and their ass is not leaving their preconceptions at the door.
Anonymous
>>5938157 HFY went full /pol/? I fell off early on, but I never got that vibe from it. A bit "Rah Rah America Numbah One", but that's all.
I would have said Space Monke, especially the prequel. I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX ID:eEq4ELSW Wed 28 Feb 2024 05:46:37 No. 5938298 Report Quoted By:
>>5938291 >>5938291 >>5938291 The Lady Knight's Quest has updated. Time to see if you can get the Earl or Damien to explain why they want to take the Road Beneath so very much.
Anonymous
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>>5936915 I mostly just grouse to my wife when the players aren't doing what I want them to do, which is more of a reflection of my bad planning really.
Anonymous
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>>5936931 That's rough man. Gotta use them cloud services so this shit doesn't happen.
Levelman !rnYhP.nKQo
>>5938256 I try to update hourly when I'm running. I don't watch television or play many games so my free time outside of work is sufficient to get this stuff done fast enough, I'm like a german I place a lot of importance on work ethic.
Anonymous
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>>5937934 People come here to read nerd stories.
Anonymous
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>>5938212 >...and then everyone clapped, racistly. Herald !ULYsQj1OnU
To the anon's that I left in the lurch back in January and anyone who's interested I'll be starting Westeros: Interregnum up in the next week or so.
Anonymous
>>5938045 Don't be absurd, tourists probably feel validated by them, especially if they feel morally superior to begin with.
Anonymous
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>>5938374 I think you and I both know better. Just like someone saying "be honest", when you give them what they want they cry afterwards.
Anonymous
>>5938195 No, racism is evil. We need more quests promoting interracial harmony. Pic related
Anonymous
>>5938402 >that dog has antlers THEIR DOGS LOOK DIFFERENT THAN MY DOGS, KNIFE EM, BOYS
Anonymous
>>5938404 Knives don't work on the black king's chiseled abs.
He laughs and kills you and takes your wife.
He now has four pregnant white woman wives.
The black king wins again!
Anonymous
>>5938411 What? Who gives a shit about the guy? I'm talking about the dogs, look at those fucking alien things. You got brain worms buddy? I can drive you to a hospital if you need it.
Anonymous
>>5938413 Obviously, The Black King dove in the way of your attempt to shank his loyal (if misshapen) hunting hound. That lumpy deer-dog once saved his heir from a venomous serpent, and he will defend that oblong creature with his life.
Anonymous
the above exchange is why if i have a black character they must be female
Anonymous
>>5938445 The MC of my quest is black and I've had zero trouble. It's all about the tone of your quest and how you interact with your players. You can even have a trans MC and if you do it legitimately and not as bait you'll probably get a decent amount of players with minimal bitching.
Anonymous
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>>5938427 Of course, the black king is a noble and heroic ruler who defends all helpless women, children and animals in his realm, often using his chiseled abs.
Anonymous
>>5938451 You can even have a cat as the MC
Anderson Thorell (QM)
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Got a lot of time and even more motivation today to write for the Monster Girl Facility quest. So, hope to get a second, large update in later today if there are enough responses for my first update.
A nice choice between maybe helping a guardsman out to save his life, going hunting for the man who tricked you into getting into a small gun battle, or splitting up your party to do both in the hopes that nothing bad will happen.
>>5938529 >>5938529 >>5938529 >>5938529 Anonymous
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>>5938445 >the above exchange is why if i have a black character they must be female >porn addicts and /pol/lacks cannot be given an inch to work with and it fucking sucks a black woman will ward off the /pol/acks, sure, but the coomers will treat her as any other female, anon. 4keks is a diverse board after all.
Anonymous
>>5938479 No, that's illegal.
Anonymous
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>>5938587 Damn guess we have to arrest grandfather then
Anonymous
>>5938587 Heretical, even.
Anonymous
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>>5938593 Some may even call it perverse
Anonymous
>>5938587 Is it illegal because it doesn't have human hands/etc, or because it coughs up hairballs?
Anonymous
>>5938157 Nice to see you again.
By the way, Loveless Gal thread 2 is in production - here’s a sneak-peek of the recap.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5938604 It's illegal because she'll become the coolest protagonist, like a dragon in a pond of frogs.
Kraken !!foLJeTBIOjr
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>>5938644 >>5938644 >>5938644 Future Fades has updated. Potential is found, then a malfunction precipitates crisis.
Anonymous
>>5937625 This is a quest I should have read. Oh well.
HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2
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>>5938657 >>5938657 >>5938657 Disappearing Hogwarts has updated. Flying on a skeletal horse and sneaking into a magical hospital in search of Avalon, but there are guards in the way.
Anonymous
>>5938650 NOTHINGS STOPPING YOU ANON.
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>5938638 Oh man, now I sort of want to run a Pretty Kitty Crime Syndicate Quest. Reptilian Infiltrator players know.
Anonymous
>>5938696 I started Do your best when it was on thread 70.
Anonymous
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>>5938707 Some folks have more free time than others.
Anonymous
>>5938696 Do you not read a book because it has many pages? Do you not play a game because it has many hours of gameplay? Do you not go to a buffet because they have a very particular recipe for those weird dumplings you can't find anywhere else and they're really good for some reason and they're suspiciously perfectly cooked all the time and no matter who you ask they can't tell you anything about them but their off-white color and juicy innards combined with the subtle spice is just enough to keep you coming back for more and there's always a ton of them?
Just read it while on break at work or something.
Anonymous
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>>5938707 Oh yeah mister wiseguy? How is that quest then? Tell it to the whole class why don't ya
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
>just noticed I fucked up and changed my naming convention for a stat from "Savvy" to "Cunning"
Anonymous
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>>5938723 We can't all be cunning linguists anon, its okay.
Anonymous
Also everyone GIVE ME YOUR FUCKING QUEST IDEAS NOW
Anonymous
>>5938750 what are you gonna do with them?
Anderson Thorell (QM)
>>5938750 I had an idea based on an old character of mine:
Fantasy Wine/Beer salesman. You play as an old brewer who tries making fancy wines and beers using magic and alchemy. You try and sell your produce in the wildest places and just have fun talking with the (often drunk) locals.
What will the main goal be? Idfk, I just think some old cranky beer seller is a silly enough idea to be made into a quest or something.
Anonymous
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>>5938711 In some ways it's a bit more like starting a game, but first watching someone else play it for many, many hours before you can touch the controller. That's usually what throws me. I don't mind if it's exceptionally well-written or gripping, or not more than a few threads in, but no way am I sitting down to read 20-70 threads before I can jump in and vote.
>>5938756 Kill them, obviously. He's The-Killer.jpg.
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
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>>5938750 *My* quest ideas?
>You, a tanky horned autistic barbarian from the icy wasteland island of Oci, are the 6th person sent to perform a wellness check on the jungle city's head archwizard. His tower is full of traps. Most have sprung by now, some haven't, and not everyone that came before you has died. Get to the top, find out what happened, and report back alive. >A torrential rain pours down on a bountiful city beset by riots. The religious have been made to believe the nation is ruled by an unseen Goddess of Bounty, and the newest appointed official ran straight out of the palace yelling that "the Queen is in a cage." It is time to break into the desert palace and find what you're looking for, be it money, glory, or answers. >Multiplayer Solarpunk skirmish, possibly run alongside the main thread and whose outcomes are at least referenced Anonymous
>>5938750 >Hot yaoi quest in fantasy setting >alternatively, otome with tomboy MC Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
>>5938750 Here are some ideas I've been thinking about running in the future! Thought of course I'd like to be done with my current quest before I do that...
>You have 365 days before everything in existence is destroyed. You cannot stop it, and you cannot slow it down. You are the only one who knows this. Figure out what you're gonna do with the short time you and everyone else have left. Good luck. >You are a schizophrenic shut-in who believes that an alien race will soon come and take over Earth. You go to sleep one night, only to somehow wake up two thousand years later. You were right, aliens have taken over Earth. You, being the only person from the before times left, are the only one who can possibly restore Earth to its former self. >After attempting suicide, a socially inept, anxious, depressed dog finds out he has the ability to come back after death. Not only that, but he can bring inanimate objects to life, turning them into creatures called "Natus". After being sent a strange package, this dog is forced to save the world from a conspiracy involving martian people, the time police, and interdimensional forces beyond comprehension. Anonymous
>>5938760 Slice-of-life business sims are often fun. Maybe if he's cranky and old, it can be a matter of getting his business in good working order to pass it on or sell it?
Anonymous
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>>5935559 I am shocked a questquest hans't been done before.
Anonymous
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>>5938787 >>You have 365 days before everything in existence is destroyed. You cannot stop it, and you cannot slow it down. You are the only one who knows this. Figure out what you're gonna do with the short time you and everyone else have left. Good luck. If it's going to destroy everything in existence, the clear answer is to become a being outside of existence. The quest to BECOME GOD begins. Everyone and everything else is fucked though.
Anderson Thorell (QM)
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>>5938794 I'm thinking it's more just him exploring the world after a succesful, lengthy life in the same place. He wants to share his passion to the world, whilst also looking for more interesting ingredients to try and make into booze.
Also, just imagine the bastard going to like some demonic stronghold and sharing beer with them. It'd be fucking hilarious.
OBA-337 !!4mnDVUrwiI8
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>>5938750 You've been misteriously transported into the /qst/ catalog and must go into quests and find some magic/sci fi (depends on the quest genre) artifact that sends you home
Anonymous
>>5938750 A paladin captain quest: you're in command of a small detachment of paladins and their squires sent to bring order and religion into a wild and lawless land. Defeat monsters, win over the mistrustful locals, set up your keep and manage your subordinates.
Anonymous
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>>5938711 May as well read a book then. Personaly I don't like looking at a screen when reading in the first place.
I am ashamed to admit that it's hard to concentrate on reading when I'm at my PC because my brain is being pulled to do other shit. Another reason why I prefer a book, because it takes me away from a screen.
Anonymous
>>5938772 Fuck off don't bait me
Anonymous
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>>5938829 Based Teutonic Qst
Gotta' deliver Baltic DEEP LORE though
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5938750 Kind of wanted to do a Mortal Engines setting quest, players controlling one of the mobile cities, starting small and trying to survive and expand. I don't think people may have much interest or familiarity with the setting though, enough for a quest.
Or, a quest about a dragon not powerful enough to obtain a treasure hoard by might, so deigns to amass wealth by entrepreneurship and trade... backed up by a still plenty dangerous dragon, of course.
Otherwise, there's always that longing to give Beastfolk Quest another try, but as always the concern that veteran players wouldn't care for any sort of redo.
Narrator !!btRlcMjw3B1
Hey anyone up to co-hosting a quest with me? IP banning has cucked me
Quest Context: Fantasy Africa
Quest type: Hybrid trying something new :3
Reason I need someone to help me start a thread:
https://youtu.be/d1x5GXMdK50?feature=shared Anonymous
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>>5938274 the beginning reminded me of the 40k eugenics quest (RIP)
Anonymous
>>5938869 Mortal Engines? Based. Would play. If you think the setting is an interest-killer, just borrow the concepts you like and file the serial numbers off.
Draconic Merchant Quest sounds fun, too.
And Beastfolk Quest... Well, I might play. I was pretty invested in Khora's story. That said, I don't even see it on suptg anymore, and I'd be willing to give it a go as long as some of the neat lore and such was intact.
Anonymous
>>5938878 File the serial numbers off, I mean it's a rather specifically niche type of setting, with mobile cities rolling around and battling it out.
As for Beastfolk, part of the reason it ended in the first place was that I wasn't happy with the lore and later on came up with a more mechanically appealing concept. And so while it would be the same setting and related characters (relative of Khora I figure), I'm not sure how it would go over. I mean if we're being real though, really the biggest obstacle is the fact that Beastfolk was an open ended write-in quest and I would want another attempt to be the same, but it seems in the last few years that open ended write-in quests have fallen out of favor. At least as much as, most every attempt of mine since then, has failed. So if at it's very core the style of play isn't in favor or appealing to players of present /qst/ then it seems obvious that it wouldn't fare well, on top of the other issues. Still, there's always that interest for it again.
Anonymous
>>5938284 Curse Carrier kinda fits that, although it's not capeshit.
>>5938336 >I don't watch television or play many games so my free time outside of work is sufficient to get this stuff done fast enough brother lives for the quest, that's why he's khhv like us.
>>5938605 >By the way, Loveless Gal thread 2 is in production - here’s a sneak-peek of the recap. waiting warmly.
>>5938711 there's a big difference between reading a book/novel and having to sit through a big amount of archives from a quest before you can interact with it, which is /qst/ main point.
>>5938750 centenarian vampire woman who looks like a teenager decides to become an idol/pop artist to change things up.
>>5938873 there you are, next Rangers quest when ?
Anonymous
>>5938880 I think it helps to start a quest with a bit more direction and some pre-gen options, and open it up to more write-ins and such as you go on and build an active player base, who understands and is invested in the setting and character, and who can agree upon a general thrust or direction. I've had some success that way, at least.
Playing a descendant or relative of Khora could be fun, though. I also quite liked Troll Quest!
Narrator !!btRlcMjw3B1
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>>5938883 Probs April-May, kinda want to test the water with this one-shot. Rangers 2 is going to be coop/pvp, need to learn how /qst/ posters react to choices.
Anonymous
>>5938883 >there's a big difference between reading a book/novel and having to sit through a big amount of archives from a quest before you can interact with it There is an expression for this, "lurk more". It is ancient wisdom. More seriously though, the lurking and catching up portion is no different from reading a book with annotations and bullshit scribbled in the margins. I wouldn't want to play a quest if I wasn't interested in reading it, not the other way around. That's just me though. I could be crazy.
Anonymous
>>5938869 Trader dragon sounds like fun. I like the idea of dragons being less powerful due to technology/magic improving and then having to get proper jobs as functioning members of society instead of being a money grubbing murder lizard.
Anonymous
>>5938889 >There is an expression for this, "lurk more". It is ancient wisdom. More seriously though, the lurking and catching up portion is no different from reading a book with annotations and bullshit scribbled in the margins. I wouldn't want to play a quest if I wasn't interested in reading it, not the other way around. That's just me though. I could be crazy. for me, I'm only willing to read 3-4 threads at most before having to vote. I'm only willing to go longer if it's an archive from a quest I played before.
Anonymous
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>>5938886 Well I'll definitely take that into consideration, yeah.
And thanks, I'm really glad you and others liked Troll Quest, I had a lot of fun running it. Shame it kind of went the same way, with lessened write-in interest.
>>5938890 Well a big possibility and interest for the concept was, doing it with an eastern style dragon. Exiled or something like that, so as a foreigner is why they don't have a powerbase to start with and have to try and carve something out for themselves a more mundane way. That, and obviously the difference in sensibilities between stereotypical greedy and tyrannical western dragons, and their eastern cousins.
Anonymous
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>>5938889 You're not crazy. There are many ways to enjoy a quest. For some, it's just a matter of enjoying good reading. For others, the interactive aspect or sense of community is key. Depending on your personal reasons for enjoying any given quest, a lengthy archive binge may or may not make sense.
Anonymous
>>5938750 i wanna run madokas but nobody gives a shit aaaaaa
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>>5938892 I don’t blame you… but I also read Body Horror Quest from the beginning only to catch up in the final thread, the 54th, so I can go binging for a while with little expectation of voting. Depends on the quest and feel of the votes.
In that example, it took me something like a month to get through it on top of the other stuff I was reading.
AurebeshQM !FFB4lyp4p.
Anyone remember End of the Republic quest, or Noir Detective? Life has really thrown me around the past few months but I'm at a point where I think I can restart these two, if enough people are interested.
Anonymous
>>5938869 >Mortal Engines quest Hell yes. Wider setting lore might be a bit complex for newbs, but the setting itself is simple enough, the apocalypse happened, people mobilised entire cities and now they go around eating each other in what's left of the world. If you introduce things gradually like in the book I think it'd work.
Anonymous
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>>5938934 Well I was just worried that anyone seeing something like
>Mortal Engines Quest would be turned off it automatically from the outset, but if people actually don't mind and would enjoy it, then I'd be compelled to try and run something
Anonymous
>>5938711 >Do you not read a book because it has many pages? Yes.
>Do you not play a game because it has many hours of gameplay? Yes.
The depth of gameplay and story matters more to me than amount of content. I keep coming back to Hellish Quart, Sekiro (roughly 200 hours rn), Dishonored, Katana Zero, and Va11halla while I could barely stomach a NG+2 of Elden Ring.
>Do you not go to a buffet because they have a very particular recipe for those weird dumplings you can't find anywhere else and they're really good for some reason? Yes, if each trip takes four or five times longer than if I went to another buffet and that has decent ones.
Being concise is underrated. A good book, a good game, or in this case, a good quest doesn’t need to entertain you for days - it only needs be to long enough to tell its story.
Greenhorn Quest, for example. Right now there’s only four threads, and it appears to be ending soon, but see how often they are mentioned and how fondly people talk about it.
Grimdark Cyberpunk Capeshit Quest is another while. It only lasted one thread - and while the thread was pretty long - people still talk about it occasionally because of how the quest was executed.
Anonymous
If i was to do an dark lord quest where players take over the world, would you prefer a wounded god that empowers his followers with blessings or a regular man with a few magic items?
Anonymous
>>5938750 Dating Sim from the view of an incel.
Surrounded by cute girls all around and since none of them are responding, none of them want to talk to you. How typical, maybe if you were STRONGER or SMARTER or more SUAVE you'd finally get a response of any sort, and even then, you'd have to contend with HIM. That afterschool club is basically his own personal harem, what SECRETS is he gatekeeping from you and everyone else??
It's an actual dating sim game, player is just an NPC meant to be filler, be petty and to make the MC look good by default. Anonymous
>>5938965 What about a regular man who has faith in his god, and with great or evil enough deeds in tribute, it empowers him with blessings?
Anonymous
>>5938968 Pretty sure that's been done before
>>5938969 Yeah, you could mix both in together.
Anonymous
>>5938971 Could even be a wounded god, but his efforts mend his deity overtime
OBA-337 !!4mnDVUrwiI8
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>>5938968 I had a Dating Sim Quest idea once where the MC had to purposefully evade all women that wanted to date him, which slowly caused the world to get more and more fucked up and aggressive towards wanting the MC to make out with someone. I think mixing that with your idea could lead to funny situations.
>>5938965 Regular guy that's so sick everyone just assumed he's a God
Anonymous
>>5938973 >one dude so virtuous or sinful he keeps a god alive through his actions alone Divine Caricature quest let's go
Anonymous
>>5938971 Gimme a name so I can take some much needed blatant inspiration
Anonymous
>>5938979 Can't remember, this was back from the /tg/ days
Anonymous
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>>5938965 A wounded god sounds cooler to me, but I'm a theology enthusiast weirdo. Regular dude with magic items could be awesome if his repertoire had interesting niche uses instead of just being flat-out powerful.
>>5938968 Extrinsically cucked and seething about it, The Quest, could be a lot of fun. The metalogical hopelessness of it reminds me of how the dwarves in Lord of the Rings don't really exist, in the sense that they have their own impact on fate. The Almighty just sympathy for his son who tried to create his own mortals, the dwarves, and retroactively included them in the deterministic fate of the world, changing the people who were already there but not changing anything. In that sense, they're powerless because they were ultimately destined to be. Much like your quest concept's protagonist is an incel, because by the nature of his existential paradigm, it was meant to be.
Are (You) a bad enough dude to stand against the power of god, anime, and the preordained protagonist of All Things and get the girl?
Anonymous
>>5935855 >it's like the visceral cringe I get when I see the word 'loli' or 'lolita', even though it can also just mean 'little girl' or 'frilly dress fashion' or whatever. I get it. Lolita is the gothic frilly-dress fashion.
Loli is more in-line with what you meant — a stylized drawing of a female child. Shota is the male version.
>>5935546 >>5935846 >why shotas? There’s a lot of reasons - and
>>5935855 got some of it right regarding the desire to be pampered by someone more mature - but there are a few sub-genres that do not fall entirely in-line with this explanation.
>Kusogaki / Mesogaki / Erogaki rape correction It mainly revolves around a “bratty” loli / shota teasing an adult (often sexually) and being dominated by said adult. The dynamic is like a mommy/daddy dom, but a lot more exaggerated.
>loli/shotadom Peak fiction.
Essentially Loli + Femdom / Shota + Maledom
TLDR; Don’t play Blue Archive. There’s no going back after the cunny bug bites.
Anonymous
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>>5938981 Maybe something like harem quest or romcom quest?
Anonymous
>>5938973 >>5938978 Last Believer quest could be rad. (You) are a zealot trying to resurrect your god in a world that's passed them by. Bonus points for religious persecution and themes of blind faith juxtaposed with hopeless fatalism. At that point, you're more a close friend of your god or a caretaker in their last days than you are another worshiper.
Anonymous
>>5938986 >Your god has dementia and you've got to fix them because you can't stand to listen to their stories one more time Anonymous
>>5938987 >"This is the fifth time this month he has told me the story of how he created gremlins. If I have to listen to one more Christmas Carol mid-way through his retelling I will burn the next person I see alive." Anonymous
>>5938988 >"Alright, I've just got to journey to a mythical continent in the land of dreams, outwit a cyclops to get his mythical plums so I can render them into prunes beneath the light of the transcendent dawn, and then pour a libation of prunes juice at your forgotten, undead-riddled temple ruin deep in the bowels of the earth? Right, got it. How hard can it be?" Anonymous
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>>5938931 AYO, LET'S FUCKING GO
RIP to all the blue-on-blue :(
Anonymous
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>>5938989 I had the idea of a caper into the realm of a different god to steal their macguffin to make our god shut up for five minutes. Very amusing.
Anonymous
>>5938983 >Kusogaki / Mesogaki / Erogaki rape correction those 3 are basically loli only, with the shotas having something akin to a pervert brat that's horny (doing upskirts, grabbing boobs/ass, etc)
>loli/shotadom >Peak fiction. >Essentially Loli + Femdom / Shota + Maledom hello, based department ?
Anonymous
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>>5939011 Yes? Director of kino speaking.
Anonymous
Anonymous
Why are there so many pedos on /qst/?
Anonymous
>>5939027 Because it's funny?
Anonymous
>>5939027 >he thinks fiction / fantasy is reality Not gonna make it.
>>5939029 *Cute and funny
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>>5938983 >Lolita is the gothic frilly-dress fashion. >Loli is more in-line with what you meant — a stylized drawing of a female child. They both owe their etymology to Vladamir Nabokov's novel about a delusional hebephiliac, and the resulting English-language term for a sexually precocious or simply attractive underage girl. I know Japan uses the terms a bit differently from one another these days (the frilly dresses and such), but being into lolis is called being a 'lolicon', which itself is an abbreviation of 'lolita complex'.
>>5938986 >>5938988 >>5938989 >>5938987 Reminds me of Terry Pratchett's Small Gods (pic related), which makes me very interested.
Anonymous
>>5939027 >Why are there so many pedos on /qst/ ? lurk more, tourist
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX ID:eEq4ELSW Thu 29 Feb 2024 03:43:23 No. 5939056 Report ...what in the actual fuck did I walk in on?
Anyways, LKQ update. Damien Status: Bullied.
>>5939049 >>5939049 >>5939049 Anonymous
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>>5939056 >...what in the actual fuck did I walk in on? The same kind of people who are disguised in your very quest, hombre. Be afeared.
Anonymous
>>5939052 Two NEETs samefagging does not constitute a majority. Pedos are not welcome here and they’re considered scum in Japan too.
Anonymous
>>5939056 4chan.
>>5939105 The site's culture has always had an unusual tolerance for those fetishes. 'I want to be the little girl' and 'hey kid wanna /ss/' and all that. You may say "but those are merely memes", but Poe's Law and its corollaries apply.
That said, I think
>>5939032 has a point insofar as, while loli and shota and other such stuff makes me uncomfortable, I imagine (or at least very much hope) that most people who make those jokes aren't into those genres of porn, and that most people who are into that shit keep it to the drawn stuff and have the good moral sense and/or understanding of consequences not to mess about with actual kids. In the same way I might write or play in violent quests, or watch slasher flicks, or play brutal video games while still being a huge pansy IRL, I imagine most people getting their jollies with lolis are a far cry from being Humbert Humbert IRL.
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Me on the left
Anonymous
>>5939117 You’re telling me people to jerk it to mother/son or siblings porn don’t actually want to fuck their family in real life? I am shocked.
Anonymous
>>5939134 I mean, I'm sure some do. The huge and weird glut of stepfamily porn hasn't resulted in some huge uptick in incest cases to my knowledge, though, which would seem to indicate to me that people are better at separating reality from fantasy than many moral guardians give them credit for, though.
I've heard that most people into sibling/stepsibling stuff were only children, too, though I'm not sure how well-researched that is.
Anonymous
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>>5939145 There's a similar phenomenon amongst people with/without freckles expressing a desire for the opposite to be true. People are a bit zonked in the gourd.
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
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One of the last Solarpunk updates for the thread!
>>5939010 >>5939010 >>5939010 I feel like my head is fried.
TQM !UCjzwiF.lI
So I’ve got this idea of a native american narcotics chemist who worked for the cartel somehow getting transported back in time to the same place he was in, Mexico, but in the year 1444. In the Quest/Book, he will have to prepare the Mayans for the oncoming tide of European Conquerors that will arrive in 48 years. Using his chemistry skills and talent, as well as knowledge of modern military and criminal tactics he will use narcotic drugs, modern medicine and chemistry to both arm, win over and inoculate the Mayan people against their would be conquerors. Quest/Book would be called Narco in 1444. Thoughts?
Anonymous
>>5939181 Are you going to unironically use Chel as an artistic representation of a waifu?
Anonymous
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>>5939181 Seems interesting. Would check it out.
TQM !UCjzwiF.lI
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>>5939182 Huh? The chick from Portal?
TQM !UCjzwiF.lI
>>5939182 Oh I get what you mean now, nah I'll be going for a more realistic, semi-historically accurate approach.
Anonymous
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>>5939181 Might work. Gathering military quantities of plants will be quite a task.
Anonymous
>>5939027 Anon
>shitpost quest idea about a 12 year old cop shooting bartenders Pedos
>a small boy with a tiny peen fuck a women >“bratty” loli / shota teasing an adult (often sexually) and being dominated by said adult >cunny bug bites Disturbing
Anonymous
Anonymous
Guys really trying to push this brand new general to the bump limit at a record pace this time, huh?
Anonymous
>>5939188 D'awwww man. I GUESS. Gonna bitch about a lack of primo babes though.
Anonymous
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You guys know what happened to the other viking themed Forge World A.I. quest? I miss that one.
Anonymous
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>>5939195 >Pedos >a small boy with a tiny peen fuck a women >>5935546 it was literally brought up by someone trying to call the anon who suggested the shota cop was gonna be lewd Anonymous
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>>5939181 Depends on the depth of the lore and economics imo. You might be able to run it different but the whole thing about introducing new technologies to societies and societies interacting is all about scale, macro and micro.
Indonesian Gentleman
>>5938750 >Facility/civ quest thing where you are an AI that survived the nuclear apocalypse, and became unwitting warden/god to a tribe of post-apoc humans >You are a ghost that got tasked to haunt a mansion, you got a scare quota but why do only absolute weirdos visit your mansion?! You gotta get real c r e a t i v e to scare them! >Rat detective quest. You are a smart rat in a world of humans, and you solve crimes! You get treats when you do, maybe even cheese! >Cyberpunk news quest: you are a field reporter for a media megacorp, can you survive both the streets and the ratings? Anonymous
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>>5939270 >>Cyberpunk news quest: you are a field reporter for a media megacorp, can you survive both the streets and the ratings? Anonymous
>>5939199 shhh
>>5939221 ok lemme see if theres interest
POST WISH
DUBS GETS IT
CAN'T BE TO GO FUCK MYSELF
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5939278 Fuck yourself.
Nothing personal it's just out of principle.
Anonymous
>>5939278 Help out that QM what's havin' a hard time in his life. There's always one kicking around. Alternatively, go fuck your mom.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5939278 Magical Girl+Kamen Rider Quest
DO IT COWARD
Anonymous
>>5939278 delinquent magical girl quest, Sukebans are always in fashion
TQM !UCjzwiF.lI
>>5939278 New OC Capeshit Quest.
Anonymous
>>5939289 >>5939294 >>5939299 >>5939300 >>5939301 >>5939302 >>5939303 niggas i appreciate the attention rlyrly but madoka magica is about little girls asking for wishes to a fucking cat called Kyubey and becoming a magical girl in exchange. when i said 'POST WISH' i meant 'POST THE WISH THE LITTLE GIRL MAKES', not 'POST WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO'
>>5939294 i understand
>>5939299 im already the budget psychoanalyst of half my family and friends. have mercy
>>5939301 you know, /technically/, magical girls ARE already kamen riders
anyway, let me rephrase myself. YOU ARE A LITTLE GIRL. YOU ASK FOR A WISH FOR X REASON (whichever you imagine, no need to state it but you can imply it). WHICH IS IT?
example: Felicia asks to make it as if her parents death had never happened. The way her wish is phrased fucks her over and so she just doesn't remember what happened. They are still very much dead.
also yeah sukebans
DetectQM
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>>5939299 Thank you, Anon. You've saved me.
Cat Tax as recompense.
Anonymous
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>>5939310 Magical Girls don't get sick motorcycles, and Kamen Riders don't get cute mascots that may or may not be living demons.
Anonymous
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>>5939310 The magical girl wants a Sukeban magical girl quest
Anonymous
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New update for Wander Headband has dropped, new mandatory shill post. Rokutaro has finally reached Neo-Tokyo with the help of a powerful if strange man, and his hunt for the headband thief can finally begin in earnest.
>>5939414 >>5939414 >>5939414 Anonymous
>>5938965 Only do a dark lord quest if you intend to reward the players if they act like a dark lord. We recently had such a quest where the PC was supposed to be the bringer of the apocalypse but the players immediately began pragmatizing everything instead of being evil so I dropped it.
CoreQM !HQdLRxFnaM
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>>5939238 New Core of Steel thread, for those that requested it.
(Again) Starting by wrapping up the plot points from prior threads.
Big stompy robots, dying pilots, AI sisters, and Civil Wars abound. If it sounds interesting, check out the archive.
Anonymous
>>5939426 Is there any quest where an evil MC stayed evil?
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>>5939450 Created. And it was glorious.
Anonymous
>>5939450 What about quests where a MC becomes evil? And I mean slowly over time, not first thread stuff.
Anonymous
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>>5939456 Snakecatcher quest. Simped for his evil waifu all the way until the bad end.
Anonymous
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>>5939456 +10000 to Snakecatcher. One of the only quests where I hated the playerbase with the passion of a burning sun. Still an extremely solid read though:
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=snakecatcher Anonymous
>>5939450 So far, so bad in Olympus Incarnation. Our latest major act of evil was twisting another god's desire for love and acceptance into hate for his teammates, resulting in both his and his teammates death. Shortly before that we crashed a plane into a shopping center.
Anonymous
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>>5939467 Also in Olympus incarnation:
>should we do a porn thing? >Are you Fucking retarded you Stupid Shithead >how about doing it to someone else to ruin their life? >Oh yeah that's cool >by the way we're about to get a ton of people killed >whatever Love that quest. So funny.
Anonymous
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>>5939467 >9/11 a shopping mall I will now read your quest.
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>>5939450 I'd characterize the main character of Reptilian Infiltrator as Lawful Evil until then end, and her kid in Dragonborn Antipaladin as somewhere between that and MAYEB Lawful Neutral. the players my disagree, though, and I don't really enforce a D&D alignment chart in the universe; law/chaos and good/evil can be detected by magic, but mostly just have to do with factional affiliations and/or origin rather than your own personal inclinations (though the former can certainly affect the latter and vice versa).
Anonymous
>>5938157 Requesting a review of Batquest.
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>>5939574 Or any of my quests to be honest.
Because my quests have such small playerbases and I update slowly. ( Nationquest isn't dead don't worry folks!) . It can be hard to get much actionable feedback.
Anonymous
WOW! I CAN'T BELIEVE CURSE CARRIER IS GOING TO GET ITS FINAL THREAD NEXT WEEK! A QUEST FINALLY REACHING A CONCLUSION THAT ISN'T THE QM>FLAKING >BURNING OUT >VANISHING >DYING IRL >DROPPING THE QUEST
Anonymous
>>5939585 >A QUEST FINALLY REACHING A CONCLUSION Happened before, bud. But congratulations.
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>>5939588 Yeah, this doesn't seem THAT rare. I guess maybe relative to the sheer number of quests that die in their first couple threads.
Anonymous
>>5938750 I watched Bodies recently, a series about four detectives in different time periods (late 1800s, 2nd WW, 2023 and 205X) finding the same body in the same alley. Not a similar body. the SAME body, to the DNA, death wound and position. Sounds fun to run a quest with that idea, so you can see how each MC from each period tackles the mystery depending on their tech level, and how they build upon what the others have found (and how the first guy is utterly fucked, because he's going at it completely alone and with worse tech).
Alternatively, do four different worlds instead, a magical one, a cyberpunk one, a steampunk one and a noir one. All of them finding the same body and investigating in their different ways. Just don't know how to get the feeling of "an ongoing project across generations" with it being caused by parallel-world fuckery instead of time fuckery.
Anonymous
>>5939607 >parallel-world fuckery Cross-Dimensional Detective Quest sounds found!
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>>5939610 >magical detective in the cyberpunk world confused by all the tech >cyberpunk detective in the noir world wondering where all the color went >noir detective in the steampunk world spending fifteen minutes looking at a watch because his internal monologue is describing it as some godforsaken contraption with too many bits and bobs >steampunk detective in the magical world trying (and failing) to not ask where their crystal cog computers are Curse Carrier DM
>>5939585 I wonder how often QM actually die irl since I swear this isn't the first time I hear about that. But yeah I've heard of other quests announcing their final threads relatively often here, sometimes even reviving years old quest to finally put a proper end to it, which I think is nice.
Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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>>5939585 Fire Emblem quest is literally on its final thread after three years of monthly threads.
Anonymous
What differentiates a Normal Cultivator Quest from an abnormal cultivator quest?
Anonymous
>>5939711 One of them pays taxes.
Anonymous
>>5939715 You joke, but a very major part of cultivator organizations is paying taxes to your superior. It's the only reason they keep thousands of newbies and normal people under their protection.
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>>5939747 >You joke I didn't.
fitwymY+
Wtf is with this trashheap of a general lately? Too many weirdos coming out of the woodwork.
>>5938833 But yaoi and tomboys LE GOOD
Anonymous
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>>5939759 As opposed to all the normal, regular people who spend their free time writing interactive fiction on a tiny, past-its-prime 4chan board?
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:TKj04KDK Fri 01 Mar 2024 02:25:01 No. 5939854 Report Quoted By:
>>5939841 Batquest's new thread is up.
Decide the outcome of Batman and Superman's ultimate confrontation!
Anonymous
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
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>>5939885 >>5939885 >>5939885 Final vote of this thread! Interlude? Maybe.
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LINGDOM QUEST 3 IS UP!
>>5939898 >>5939898 >>5939898 Join us in this low stakes cute and comfy quest about a kingdom of pygmies and explore their society!
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>>5939759 Actually it feels a whole lot tamer than qtg of olden days where recurring theme was how to actively sabotage long running quests and drive QMs off the board
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
You know what my problem is? I'm not running a Quest.
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What was the first “pick race and location” quest, and how well did it do, compared to the slop that we get today?
Anonymous
>>5939963 lets run a quest together bananas, ill be the idea /boss guy and ill manage the quest and you do the labour. How about it?
Anonymous
>>5939991 Only if you actually have GOOD ideas tho.
Anonymous
>>5939998 I got an endless stream of good ideas bro. Can you handle them? I'm not so sure...
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Fri 01 Mar 2024 07:40:51 No. 5940001 Report Quoted By:
>>5939711 Usually cultivation story are about a guy that find 3 hidden legacies, 4 forgotten techniques and every girl crossing his path swoons over him.
My quest is a bit different.
Indonesian Gentleman
>>5939210 >yfw you're not Huemac AKA Assman of Yucatan Anonymous
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>>5940025 Dude was literally named Big Dick in polite terms. What a fuckin lad.
Anonymous
>>5939963 >Dune 2 >Mommy I am too scared to start world war 3 because I had a scary dream >in my scary dream I had a horrible vision, a prophecy, I imagined this man named Villeneuve spent 2 hours filming a strobe light in a bucket of sand (the sand is computer generated), his film about sand was very cheap-looking, amateurish and tiresome, it was not even as good as that film made by Aaron Bushnell >ok mommy I drank the blue toilet cleaner, I am ready to start world war 3 now I recommend you skip the first 2 hours. The last 40mins has a good CGI spaceship though
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
Why are you replying to me?
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>>5940056 I think you meant David Lynch unless your tastes in film are extremely esoteric.
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>>5938949 >Hellish Quart Thanks for this recommendation anon, I had never heard of this game and was not at all aware of it. I watched a lot of this videogame it looks so incredible hehe, the music soundtrack is excellent, I am worried by the dainty French rapier girl's stance, I was always told never to wave my left hand around when fencing hehe.
The look of that entire game and several of the sabre characters seems inspired by this film scene (I have not seen this Polish film though), the developers appear to have replicated the look, the fighting stage mise en scene and costumes very closely
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ljExTEPNFnM The characters seem so cool in this game, I like the drunken priest also the black (Ottoman empire?) African guy also the Spanish lady and the Italian longsword lady they are both very attractive, yay. I do see how this game resembles a modern Bushido Blade, I loved that game on PSX so much. (and there is even a similar slightly glitched first person view lol just like Bushido Blade!) The animations and motion capture seem so detailed, I like how a lot of fights end with strikes that maim the hand or arms, that seems very unusual and distinctive for a fighting game.
gif related reveals the ultimate indignity that awaits all beskirted female fighting game opponents, in defeat you must fall over and expose your crotch and undergarments. This is far worse than all those alternative blood-spattering death animations that result in tendons being cut or a hand being severed. The shame, the unbearable shame
Anonymous
Is this a good name for a quest?
AurebeshQM !FFB4lyp4p.
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The Heresy has begun
>>5940124 Brother against brother, father against his sons...
DetectQM
>>5940116 I like the look of it a lot, well done, Anon.
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
>>5940116 Looks kino. Ship it. NOW.
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>>5940269 >>5940255 Thank you. I'm still figuring out some mechanics, but I have an idea for the first thread's story.
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>>5940116 The name "Alkimia" reminds me of Alchemilla Hospital from Silent Hill. I'd assume the Quest has something to do with the occult or alchemy, but perhaps in a more lighthearted tone given the "story" and the color/look of the logo.
Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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Hate advocates for mortal rights.
>>5940315 >>5940315 Curse Carrier DM
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I don't know if I want to put in extra effort drawing the thumbnail of my next thread, or just use the last one that I still kinda like. I guess if I'm going to take a week break from the quest, I might as well spend some of that time drawing some stuff.
Chartman !!RtTRSNxm597
Lieutenant Commander, wake up! The Captain wishes to see you. What's that? Oh, don't worry about that nightmare... I'm sure its not relevant.
>Did you want to bring the layabout with you? Its been a year but here's:
Voidship Bridge Simulator #3 - Awaken
>>5940353 >>5940379 Anonymous
>>5940090 Oh neat. Earlier in development her groin and upper thighs weren’t modeled - they were invisible.
>I was always told never to wave my left hand around when fencing hehe. >I am worried by the dainty French rapier girl's stance Modern Olympic fencing is the descendant of epee fencing, albeit more sportified, which is the descendant of smallsword fencing, and the smallsword itself is a descendant of the rapier.
Some things got left behind.
A lot of rapier and smallsword treatises mention deflecting a thrust with your hand. Some of them even detail using a cape in conjunction with a rapier - either being held in front like a shield or throwing it forward to obscure vision.
In game, if you time your push right, you can actually push aside a cut or thrust. I’ve seen online gameplay where a person pushes aside a thrust from Father Zera’s longsword.
Grabs also interrupt attacks - the grab actually has collision hitboxes with the character, so you can actually grab someone while mid-attack animation if their arms line up right; you can’t stop a cut mid-swing, but you can arrest the wrist before they throw that cut.
>The look of that entire game and several of the sabre characters seems inspired by [The Deluge] You’d be correct. The Deluge and Hellish Quart both are set in 17th century Poland.
>I like the drunken priest also the black (Ottoman empire?) African guy also the Spanish lady and the Italian longsword lady they are both very attractive, yay. They have their own fighting styles. Father Zera and Isabella both draw from the German and Italian schools of swordsmanship. Liechtenaur and Fiore De Liberi tradition respectively.
Marie (french rapier lady) and Marta (spanish) are two very different types of fencers.
Marie has more committed lunges and thrusts - she even has the passata sotto (called Triangle in-game) Definitely something akin to Italian sources.
Marta with her upright posture, low commitment thrusts and shorter reach is more reminiscent of La Verdadera Desterza - a Spanish style which prefers more circular footwork, which is why her strongest moves are sidestep thrusts.
For Alexander (the African guy)
https://youtu.be/Mp85Y_NKcNs?si=2_emFZgYtJlgdoB5 My personal favorite has to be Kalkstein, though. Reminds me of Bolognese sidesword and Meyer rapier, and a little of british military saber.
>The animations and motion capture seem so detailed As expected of a ex-Witcher dev.
They also mocap HEMA fencers for that - and the main dev is one, himself.
https://youtu.be/YQHZ1xK4_m0?si=Bv4PJIBh-OkSPQon https://youtu.be/J9AWiNIvllc?si=PmHam2fTLatJhWli >I like how a lot of fights end with strikes that maim the hand or arms, that seems very unusual and distinctive for a fighting game. Funnily enough, that is exactly how it is in HEMA sparring, whether that be rapier, longsword, or saber. Strikes to the hand are the easiest to execute - it’s the closest thing to you, after all.
Anonymous
>>5940443 Deeper leaning postures is something that certain rapier systems do to maximize reach and reduce the hitbox, essentially. Marie’s postures are very reminiscent of Salvator Fabris’.
https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Salvator_Fabris By the way, Yendrek (axe guy) literally has animation yoinked from this video lol - the dev admitted to exaggerating some of it, especially the jump.
https://youtu.be/KNSvu6-pkY0?si=_zBUVZUFJ4oJeo7h Anonymous
>>5940443 >>5940447 wow, thank you very much for that wiktenauer link! That appears to be a very deep and fascinating reference source, I never thought of looking for techniques and descriptions there!
>Kalkstein / schiavona swordsman I actually liked his posture (left hand behind on hip etc) very much too, it looks the most modern and seems the most commanding and contemporary looking, though there is nothing really similar to his schiavona in sport fencing today, hehe
I was actually thinking about these melee combat duels after watching Villeneuve Dune 2 lol,
>>5940056 the fight choreography in them is not very convincing (at one point during the last Feyd Rautha / Paul knife duel, someone performs a sideways ninja Power Rangers spin flip lol, I was perplexed)
Actually a film I remember from a long time ago which had a very believable and tense (at least to me) knife duel scene was this one, The Hunted (2003)
The Hunted final knife scene, Tommy Lee Jones / Benicio del Toro
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=58LpdAE6lh0 What I liked about this fight sequence is it is very close-up, intimate and brutal, there are not really any flourishes or Power Rangers spins hehe, the strikes are just punches and grappling and the knives draw blood nearly every time, as opposed to the Hollywood "empty air slashing blade flailing spinning" type choreography. So I actually imagined something like this in my mind for a Dune type knife fight etc.
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>>5939963 >I'm not running a Quest. you are running multiple, you just haven't made any thread for them.
so go do one.
Anonymous
>>5940116 Sure, as long as it has direct relevance to the setting, like the main land or the MC is named Al-Kimia, or maybe it's the name of some lost/promised land the MC is seeking out.
I do think your logo is very stylish; seems evocation of adventure, and perhaps something Middle East inspired?
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Final Girl Quest update is up.
>>5940552 Mainline !!UYOWmh/i6t0
>>5937356 Cyberpunk quest will be returning in a few days, slightly delayed from when I thought I'd start the second thread but it is still happening.
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>>5940526 It's clearly an Arabic variant of "alchemy", retard. But you're right, I'd love a good alchemy quest. I still remember
the amazing Elf Slave Quest from many years ago that I was told much much later was ran by the Peasant Lord Quest QM? And it got rebooted or moved to akun or something? I never heard of it again after, and never checked akun for it. I miss it though; it was a magical experience at the time. Anyway yeah, Middle-Eastern alchemist quest would be very interesting
>>5940116 RUN IT
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Anonymous
>>5940060 >I fucking hate Dune. wtf, thats not a possible opinion on dune. Sandworms are BASED
Anonymous
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>>5940624 Prefer Earthworms. They taste better. Also not as gritty.
NC-17 !!5BuukXGLH01
I know it's too much to ask, but if anyone has time to spare I could really use a review of Final Girl Quest. It's basically an '80s slasher movie and everything unfolds during a single night. I'm a huge fan of the genre and I crafted this with genre fans in mind, so it's pretty niche, but I'd love an outside perspective. I love my players to death but they're always too kind to me. So if you feel like tearing something apart and spitting some harsh truths, please go for it. Still, I'm amazed at how relatively well it's turned out so far and grateful for my playerbase, especially considering how this is my first quest and could've just as easily been a trainwreck.
>https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Final+Girl+Quest Incidentally, I did notice archivebro offered to review some stuff a few days ago but by the time I saw the post it already had too many replies.
Anonymous
>>5940578 Based, I’ve been waiting for your return.
archivebro
>>5938160 Noted! You’re up next.
>>5938164 Slow going due to the subject matter unfortunately. Good quest from what I saw early on, but my WH (40k or otherwise) interest is meh and I’m not religious enough to really identify with the MC. Still, I can keep plugging away at it so I can say something more relevant to the more recent material.
>>5939618 >>5938336 Anon here (
>>5938167 ) has put your quests up for review. Either of you interested? I’d rather do them with QM permission unless it’s a jokey one like I did for Slice Quest.
>>5938221 >>5940390 Glad to see you’re back, Chartman! You did good work in the first two threads. I think I already left my feedback at the end of the second, but I can probably expand it if you want a blurb here in /qtg/ like I did a few threads ago.
>>5938294 It was more anons, but all the Jewish symbolism didn’t help. Of course, it could have always been a bit much for me and I could glaze over it while in the archives. Easy to skip over stuff when I’m not checking a thread daily.
>>5938605 Remember to post here in the /qtg/ and I’ll be there as anon! Unless I forget to delete my name from the text box again…
>>5938182 Caught up, left my government-mandated one post minimum for a reviewed quest! Will attempt writing it up after dinner.
archivebro
>>5940665 Oh, and for being nice about respecting the limits I posted you can take the first position past the ones I’ve mentioned. After Olympus is posted that would make you third since I promised two more.
I will likely still have enough juice to assist, though I make no promises on how soon it’ll happen.
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>>5940721 I don't mind, I just don't like shilling my own stuff because of some illogical reason my brain made up, but you can review curse carrier since someone else asked for me.
Levelman !rnYhP.nKQo
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>>5940721 Sure, go ahead. It'd be fun to read.
NC-17 !!5BuukXGLH01
>>5940725 Thanks a bunch, much appreciated!
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
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>>5940721 I'm tempted to ask for a review, but my quests are long and not everyone's cup of tea, it feels indulgent. Plus, I already know I'm a hack and REALLY bad for typos.
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>>5937961 I second this experience. I probably would have left 4chan all together if it weren't for qst. (Though I do still follow occasional /co/ storytimes)
Anonymous
>>5938004 That's a product of the social concept called "racialization" which basically means race isn't an interest aspect of a person but more a collection of how they are treated by society. Especially in the USA, various economic and social factors lead to people usually being judged on their distance from whiteness (thus the one drop rule) as opposed to the Latinadad where proximity to whiteness holds more sway. (Not to say one system is better than the other, both I would argue are objectively harmful.)
Anonymous
Last thread someone said Lodestar was a good example of a quest that had multiple MCs/a party.
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Sat 02 Mar 2024 00:39:30 No. 5940788 Report >>5940721 Extremely based, thanks for the time archivebro!
>>5940763 The general idea is just that the players choose whichever character they want to be for, at least, the bulk of each thread. There will be some moments important to each character that will have us swapping over to them for the duration of that time, but other than that, it'll be up to the players who you control at any given time. I suppose I'd even be willing to swap control mid-thread at any point if enough people mentioned a desire to swap. I'm a loosey goosey kind of guy, so I can roll with it pretty easily.
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Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Sat 02 Mar 2024 00:40:32 No. 5940791 Report Quoted By:
>>5940788 Oh, and expect an update in Lodestar later tonight, fellas. Cefdinir helped me where Augmentin couldn't. My obligatory curse period is at an end.
TQM !UCjzwiF.lI
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>>5940721 >Slow going due to the subject matter unfortunately. Good quest from what I saw early on, but my WH (40k or otherwise) interest is meh and I’m not religious enough to really identify with the MC. Still, I can keep plugging away at it so I can say something more relevant to the more recent material. Understandable, no problem if you wanna drop it. Funny thing is that I am a cringe atheist and have no spiritual beliefs whatsoever. I just thought the concept was neat. Thanks for reading so far reviewanon.
TQM !UCjzwiF.lI
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>>5940721 Actually now that I think of it, as lame as it is to request you read ANOTHER of my quests, is that my first quest, Starving Creature Quest may be more up your alley. I reread the threads recently and fell in love with the story, concept and characters recently to the point that I may bring it back over Christian Cultist Quest once The Wandering Headband is done.
Chartman !!RtTRSNxm597
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>>5940721 That would be great. Considering how many of your theories I ended up blending into the story retroactively you're uniquely qualified for the task.
Anonymous
QMs: what's your go-to or best excuse to flake out of a scheduled session? Let's hear 'em.
Anonymous
>>5940871 You mean a fake excuse or a real one?
Anonymous
>>5940873 Let's hear the fakes
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>>5940871 "Got too drunk or high to write good," though that's been pretty rare even during some rough circumstances.
Forgotten QM !!cRQ2bB+8b3B
Forgotten QM !!cRQ2bB+8b3B ID:jUaduxT8 Sat 02 Mar 2024 03:01:21 No. 5940880 Report >>5940871 >go-to QM no update excuse Typically, that I’m drunk. Or working late (and drinking).
But honestly, if you’re up front with your players about when you’re up for an update or not you shouldn’t have trouble. This is a passion project, not a job.
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>>5940871 Sleep derivation from writing too much.
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>>5940880 >But honestly, if you’re up front with your players about when you’re up for an update or not you shouldn’t have trouble. This is a passion project, not a job. I do think this view has become more of a norm than it used to be. Players have become less entitled. I think some QMs still don't want to admit that they're just not in the mood and make excuses up, which I find kinda funny.
Anonymous
>>5940760 Oh, I'm familiar. Like I said, "due to the way society seems to view them." My Black/White friend in the UK calls himself such; my Black friends in The US do not, even though statistically they're as likely as not to be a quarter White and a bit American Indian, and one of them even straight up had a White mom.
"ReptoidQM loves race-mixing" memes aside, the boundaries and gradations between populations, ideologies, and cultures is a running theme in my quests.
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>>5940875 The best fake one I ever heard was "I'm being evicted".
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>>5938294 It's always been there as an undercurrent in its readers and often comes to the surface when someone mentions something or there's something in an update to bring it up. The usual mix of antisemitism, obsession with Israel and China and conspiracy theories - all both in and out of character, since the MC acts as an extension of the audience.
While I wouldn't be on 4chan if I was particularly offended by it, it's quite jarring on a board where OOC politics is usually left at the door and, like archivebro said, it just got exhausting after a while and I dropped out. That and the MC is a bit too sociopathic for my liking but that's not /pol/-related (or maybe it says something about /pol/, who knows?).
Anonymous
>>5940507 >though there is nothing really similar to his schiavona in sport fencing today The schiavona is one of many types of basket-hilt swords. Closest thing would be those type of sparring.
https://youtu.be/teF7Kqabh4w?si=I19Y_V0hifqmIr5c That being said, some schiavona have enough space on the crossguard that you can put your index finger on it, like a rapier. In that sense you can use it like a sidesword.
https://youtu.be/_geTjyP8b4c?si=VQ-jvkw2xWVTPXbJ >>5940721 >Remember to post here in the /qtg/ and I’ll be there as anon! Unless I forget to delete my name from the text box again… Don’t you worry. Here’s a sneak-peek of our auditor and legal advisor in the new artstyle.
>>5940887 >"ReptoidQM loves race-mixing" memes aside, the boundaries and gradations between populations, ideologies, and cultures is a running theme in my quests. Funnily enough, I do the exact same thing despite having different races being unable to breed with one another as a golden rule in my universe. Zeal and Cris were the most prominent example of that but there has been an undercurrent of that in my other quests too.
Anonymous
>>5940578 I can't wait to try and convince other anons to sign up for health insurance.
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>>5940871 "I gotta take a dump, see you guys later!"
Anonymous
>>5940903 Zeal & Cris are my number 1 couple from your quests, but these weirdos are right up there.
Number three in Pine's assistant that she babysat when they were kids, and who was getting HICKEYS FROM A GIANT SNAKE, the absolute madlad. Anonymous
>>5940947 Ah. Makari. I never expanded much on the “-bearer” magic system, although I suppose Gal would technically fit the definition.
She babysat him when he was a kid as an odd job. Yeah, he was something else. I imagined his snake gf to be similar in size to Elden Ring Zorayas’. Just a beeg snek. Anonymous
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>>5940955 I believe he was a write-in, too. Back when my quests had that mechanic. Good times. Goblin Assassin thread 1 and 2 were pretty fun - felt a lot more like an adventure compared to the quests which followed.
archivebro
>>5938182 Alright, Olympus Incarnation. The second quest I’ve read where the MC is played as a straight villain with no morality pets that lasted more than a thread. I think that says more about the average /qst/ player than my personal tastes, but most of my quest consumption dates back to the /tg/ days from archive diving so maybe it’s confirmation bias mixed with outdated info.
Sadly I do not remember the name of first quest, I probably read it a decade ago.
Regardless, it’s made for an interesting quest, especially since a) I would expect that you would be more prepared to write a more neutral or heroic character and b) you admitted as much in one of the threads. That said, the surprise character direction hasn’t altered the story or supporting cast in ways that feel rushed or unnatural, so kudos to that!
The overall quest style, where anons are playing would-be god (of ruin in this case) with relatively little to channel them in any given direction besides “get stronger” and “don’t die”, is the right call for really flexing the creative writing muscles. I’d wonder how you could ever feel safe knowing you’ve anons basically free rein to do almost anything that isn’t considered OOC thanks to decisions they’ve already made over a couple threads, but I accept that insanity as intrinsic to all QMs to some degree and both you and your anons engage with it well.
The overall list of abilities, traits, items, powers etc. that are available are pretty good as well! They fill a large variety of niches and surprising combo opportunities keep revealing themselves. I know anons were just realizing how the authority that makes the MC scream really loud seemed useless at first, but the Whispers upgrade to let it infect others through any sound the MC emits makes it worth considering for levels. It’s impressive for any quest, even more-so a first try.
archivebro
>>5940967 That said, things do feel like they move far too quickly in updates. There was never any real dialogue or interaction with mortals early on, no real weight to the sessions at work to make it seem like a slog compared to our paths, no feeling for how much or little money the MC had and how that’s affecting her, no indication of how weak or powerful her authorities are compared to others, and so on. I can’t say most of those are necessarily a wrong take for the quest - the most important interactions are with other incarnations by design, I admit bias towards writing with more narrative fluff in it while others prefer something quicker, and reading about boring work (surprisingly) can be boring. But the lack of narrative feedback, heavy emphasis on the (as-mentioned good) mechanics, and what was for much of the beginning a constant string of successes with seemingly no chance at failure (could anons have really failed the boar fight without being absolute idiots?) makes me feel like it’s a modified form of a LitRPG where anons were voting to get numbers up so they would be up. Streamers, influence, level, divinity, authorities, life expectancy. Some anons are all for that crunch. I just can’t deal with it for long without a lot of story stapled to it everywhere. That’s being alleviated with the introduction of the pantheon and working longer missions as a result, but it’s not quite at the level yet where I’d be content. I expect it will get there though, the stakes can’t shrink back down at this point. Anons are going up against organizations, they’re too large to curbstomp quickly and that gives time to expand other characters.
archivebro
>>5940969 Jesus, I should have broken that up more.
Onto one major mistake you already learned from, and one I’ve noticed that you maybe have, but I didn’t look at enough anon votes to tell. The major mistake - no sudden character shifts when anons have no idea that’ll happen ever. You mentioned it was like a PoV switch in a story and you like those, but you thought the time it took to resolve dragged it down. I’d say a more appropriate analogy is inviting people over for a D&D session, letting them play for a couple weeks with their characters, then taking their sheets away suddenly, handing them a new one you filled out, and telling them “this is your current character”. Hits different when it’s put that way, but it’s closer to the truth. Most quests here boil down to a QM running a campaign with one player character, and anons get to share that character. You can’t take that away from them through PoV changes, railroading, or character assassination without pushback. Spell the rules out in advance or ask if anons want to change things up and you’ll get a much better reception.
For the smaller issue, I’ve noticed a fair number of “filler” votes. Things like getting a level-up and having one vote option to check the shop for new items, or voting on which awards to read through first when three or four have stacked up. Thing is, those votes themselves are irrelevant at best, wasteful at most. Got three different types of awards and no intention of surprising anons midway through with an attack or scare that stops them from looking further? You can just open the loot boxes all at once and use 3-7 posts, then let them figure out what to do with everything with all the info on the table. Anons vote to look at the new shop items, decide they don’t want them, and back out? They’ve just taken two votes to get to the same “wat do next” prompt. That’s not fun for you or for them.
Best way to avoid those pitfalls is to restructure things so they don’t happen. Each level-up results in new shop items getting checked by the MC automatically and posted, or they get added to the shop tracker with a “shop item list updated” notice. Rewards technically need to be resolved in the order they’re processed. ecause of authority limits and such, sure, but bend the rules to let them see all of them at once and handwave it as them coincidentally opening them in the right order so you can move onto the crunch. Anons won’t chide you or complain about making things more convenient on a meta level for voting purposes, especially since anyone in your quest is already used to dealing with multi-part votes thanks to how the shop and leveling systems work. I don’t think you’re trying to create “gotcha” moments by having anons vote for one prize only to open another prize immediately afterward and realize they made a bad choice either, so why let that happen?
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>>5940971 Last item I’ll comment on is the execution of the one-time love interest. It was a good character-building moment, with anons having a crisis of faith before resolving themselves as a villain for the rest of the quest… but any vote where anons can do one thing and immediately vote the exact opposite afterward leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It’s true to life, sure, but most of the time there’s no new info so anons will regurgitate what’s already been said. Normally they dig in harder unless something happened that wasn’t expected, so all that will normally change the vote is some anons getting too burned out/busy to care the second time around and that’s not fun. I’d give it more time between a vote and the opportunity to take it back so more can happen. Then anons may reconsider their previous positions.
All told, you’re doing good for a first auest. The villian MC is a little hard for me to deal with personally so I’ll only pop in occasionally, but you’ve got a good core of anons and plenty of engagement thanks to the open-ended nature of the quest. Keep at it and figure out what you like to see and run in your quests!
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>>5940871 I may be late but I have never flaked on a session in any quest.
Olympus QM
>>5940967 Thanks a lot for the feedback!
Thought I'd give some thoughts on your thoughts.
>Regarding the POV switch Yeah, absolutely a bad play. I really wanted to introduce Braun&co and show the reader how the world is like for more normal, well adjusted people, especially ones on the actual enforcement side of the law. There were a couple things I wanted to show off and foreshadow regarding mechanics and worldbuilding stuff as well, especially since some of the stuff that happened during his little piece of the story is gonna come up later and Atë wouldn't have any way of knowing about it. That being said, I did absolutely misread the nature of quests and the way players interface with them. Won't do it again (at least on the main thread).
>Regarding characterization I didn't want to make Atë too specific if that makes sense. Her financial situation is implied to be comfortable enough for her not to worry about it but not so great that she can just quit. I had an income bracket in mind, but I wanted to leave as much about her as possible up to interpretation. If I mired her down too much in her opinions on things, her likes and dislikes, and her general demeanor and attitude. I wanted to let the players construct her completely from the ground up, but that obviously leads to a boring read and I totally get not liking the hyper dry writing of the first thread especially
>Regarding level up votes Honestly, yeah, I originally did it like that to basically stall for time while I came up with the names and wording of all of the authorities. Olympus Incarnation Quest is super open ended, and since it's possible that players won't even look at all of the authorities, I usually don't have all the pithy titles and downgraded level 1 effect text ready to go, especially since rules lawyering is the bread and butter of the mechanics side of the quest
>Regarding mortals Atë was made to broadly be a bit of a shut in who keeps her head down and doesn't really talk to anyone out of disdain, mostly. I gave the players opportunities to get to know people, but since they were just gonna kill them anyway, they didn't care, and so Atë and the narrator didn't care either. Braun gives his opinions on people a lot, and most dialogue he has is recorded word for word, because Braun is the type of guy who would take note of and care about that sort of thing. The players' Atë isn't that sort of person
>Regarding the kill vote Surprisingly, most of the anons who voted to spare before changed their minds and decided to kill her off later. From a writer's perspective, the moment of hesitation followed by resolve and going for the kill was really satisfying narratively, but retrospectively, I could understand how that might feel disheartening for a reader who voted to spare the first time
Olympus QM
>>5940988 Overall, a fair review. Honestly surprised at how positive it was considering both how mechanics heavy and morally objectionable it all is, plus a couple of major blunders that I freely admit to. As a writer, this quest has been a super interesting challenge, especially the tweaks I've had to make to most of the stuff I had prepared to accommodate for Atë's unique powers and a strictly evil aligned tendencies. I'm glad you checked it out and hopefully enjoyed at least some of the ride. On another note, for the other reviews you gave, there was a bit of technical analysis on the prose and writing itself. If you could spare the time, some thoughts on that and character dialogue would be super appreciated (no pressure if it's a hassle though). Thanks again
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Been posting in Operation Bludonia for awhile now, and it could use more voters. Some interesting development occurs every turn, & when I suggested warcrimes it was mentioned that backlash could occur, so it's rather grounded as far as a tactical armchair-commander Qst goes.
Anonymous
does anyone know what happened to DesertQM, from the RWBY Vacuo quest ?
Anonymous
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Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Sat 02 Mar 2024 07:50:36 No. 5941045 Report Quoted By:
>>5941039 Lodestar resumes updating! Sorry for all the delays, folks!
Anonymous
>>5940721 Archivebro you're one of qst finest.
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Rolled 2, 6, 6 = 14 (3d6) Mufufufufufu...
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>>5940903 I’m getting Aviary Attorney vibes for some reason. Combination of the text box and the art style, sure, but it seems a bit of a stretch. That’s brains for you I suppose.
>>5940992 Many blunders were admitted, the remaining ones are justifiable, and the fact that you still have good engagement levels shows that what you’re doing right is enough to offset the missteps. No reason not to be positive in face of the evidence!
The actual prose and writing review? The easiest part honestly. I didn’t comment much on it since there wasn’t anything that tripped the major warning signs for me. No overdose by ellipses, dashes, commas, or run-ons. Grammar and typo issues exist, but not in any quantity to suggest a consistent problem with your writing, only that you missed something when proofreading. As someone who is doing all these posts from my phone, I can’t cast stones on that willy-nilly without stoning myself dead first.
You have a decent balance between having characters express themselves via dialogue vs summarizing their thoughts for important matters so word counts don’t explode and the action doesn’t grind to a halt.
As I mentioned the early writing felt rushed at times. It’s clearly because of you wanting to leave characterization for anons - you couldn’t go too deep into writing for how Atë felt about things so the writing was more a vehicle to move her between events than a story at times. Now that her character has been firmly established in some respects you’ve been branching out more in describing how she views and interacts with people, her treasures, and her authorities.
Personally, I’d prefer a little more activity being shown during dialogue exchanges to avoid talking heads syndrome, but I’m not a huge stickler for that. I’m not a very visual person so I lose some of the intended effect of writing like that anyway. Can’t envision a scene with anything beyond generalities, y’know? Others can be taken out of a story because of that though so I feel obliged to bring it up.
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>>5941267 Forgot my name, for what little that matters.
>>5941064 I contribute where I can! Which is not with an actual quest, I’d flake so hard you wouldn’t see me for years afterward. I’ll stick with reviews and write-ins.
Anonymous
>>5938983 >>Bratty Stepchild Correction Quest You are a-
> Stepmom > Stepdad You married the-
> Father > Mother of your bratty
> Stepson > Stepdaughter Which path QST?
Olympus QM
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>>5941267 Thanks for the feedback! I'll keep your comments in mind going forward. Having some outside eyes on these things makes it a lot easier to get some perspective on how to improve. You're doing god's work, archivebro
Anonymous
>>5941267 >anything that tripped the major warning signs for me. No overdose by ellipses, dashes, commas, or run-ons Could you explain further?
Anonymous
>>5941274 Whats the appeal of the quest?
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>>5941307 I had commented in some earlier reviews, but those were a couple /qtg/ threads ago.
Basically, I’m not going out of my way to notice spelling or grammar issues when I read. Takes me out of the story too much, and I read fairly quick so I can cruise along pretty well even with some potholes. But some things affect me even with that approach.
The biggest one is ellipses. Every time I hit those… I mentally “read” that pause in the dialogue or action. It’s meant to be people trailing off after all. If I read ellipses a half-dozen times over the span of a few paragraphs it’s like I’m taking my foot off the gas every few seconds when I’m trying to maintain a constant speed.
All the unusual punctuation marks contribute to this though even if ellipses are the worst for it. Ellipses, dashes, colons, semicolons, and others I don’t know the exact name for are uncommon enough that they twig my attention to some extent, so too many in tight succession has me focusing more on the writing style than the story, and that’s not what you want a reader to do.
To a lesser extent, I consider large blocks of text without any breakpoints to be a headache, like I did in
>>5940969 egregiously. With that much close-spaced text in a chunk I have to pay extra attention to make sure I don’t shift a line up or down in my reading. Easy enough to do, but with paragraphs that long it can add up to something I’m aware of, taking me out of the story.
Run-ons are usually invisible to me, but they can contribute to the long blocks of text that do get noticed. The general rule I learned was a paragraph should be 3-4 sentences, but it should really be 3-4 lines. Some sentences can run way longer than a line!
This is the most subjective of the writing points I’ve mentioned, but I feel safe generally recommending QMs take a more aggressive stance to breaking up paragraphs. I haven’t seen writing that goes so far with breaking things out that I notice it, while I’ve seen plenty of writers (myself included) fail to chunk out sections properly. I figure most people will stop before they cut things up too much.
Related but not from your question, dialogue should generally be broken into separate lines when the speaker changes. You can play with this if characters are speaking over each other or cutting in as others talk, even play with it as a purposeful writing style, but you need to take a critical eye to those cases to ensure it can still be followed and that whatever you’re doing is consistent.
The general rule of thumb for all of this is that how you write should be invisible to people unless you’re specifically calling attention to it for some purpose. The goal of most writing is to tell a story, not have people see how you tell one mechanically. That’s for reviews like this!
Anonymous
>>5941274 Stepdad mom stepson. Ai getting better at hands
>>5941311 To punish your bratty stepson behind his mom's back, obviously
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>>5940871 I'm not one to schedule sessions, but the most often used reason for not posting a usual update is that I'm just not feeling like writing that day followed by being too tired from work.
Anonymous
>>5941329 >To punish your bratty stepson behind his mom's back, obviously Domestic violence quest? I can get behind that. Who would the player character be?
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>>5941340 Dropped, I want to play as the GOAT
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>>5938157 I'll take one for Solarpunk, if you're interested.
Anonymous
What are you all's thoughts on melodrama in quests? Do you prefer a more realistic, naturalistic approach to characters reactions to events and hurdles, or do you really go for the weepy, shouty highly passionate stuff like me ? How much in either direction is too much? How little is too little?
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>>5941274 >Stepmom >Mother >Stepdaughter Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
>>5941359 In my opinion, it really depends on the already established mood and themes of the quest (or any kind of fiction), and also what exactly is being depicted.
Like, having EVERY little slightly emotional moment be depicted in an overly exaggerated melodramatic way is not gonna work unless used for comedy or parody. But, if you're depicting some epic final battle between a guy and his former best friend who betrayed him and killed his girlfriend or something, a bit of melodrama is acceptable, if not appropriate.
I will say, though, that more subdued and realistic emotional moments tend to get me more than melodramatic ones, but that's more just me.
Olympus QM
>>5941368 >I will say, though, that more subdued and realistic emotional moments tend to get me more than melodramatic ones, but that's more just me. Yeah, I feel mostly the same way. Melodrama has its time and place, but a more realistic reaction to the events in question is more relatable, and thereby resonates more deeply with me personally. That being said, a sappy, soap-opera-esque quest would be super entertaining, and I'd absolutely read that
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>>5938157 I for one want you to read Do Your Best Quest (including all the side threads along with the main ones in chronological order) and including the almost-mandatory spinoff Slightly Petty Revenge Quest which took place alongside the main quest in the time it was ran. If you're going to read this whole thing, just make sure to stick to chronological thread order for both DYB and SPR and you'll be good
Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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Have begun updating for the day! Hoping to get a good few done today.
>>5941392 >>5941392 Anonymous
>>5941368 I remember hearing this saying that "if your character cries, your reader doesn’t", or in a Hot Wings with Bryan Cranston where he says "If a character cries easily, the audience doesn't have to... but if a character tries not to cry, that's when the audience will"
It think that's a good way of seeing things. I watched Star Trek Discovery and the MC of that show cries every other episode, and it loses meaning. You don't feel anything for her, because she's always crying. Worse, it means that when something Truly Awful happens to her, there is nowhere else she can go emotionally. She's crying just as much if her cat died or if an entire fleet was destroyed because of her poor choices.
Compare it to Picard, who is always composed. When you see him lose his shit, when you see him broken, you can feel the blow, because only a hit the size of a planet could crack a man as stoic as him.
If the character is always feeling and demonstrating the same emotion, then they lose personhood. Another comparison is Kratos in the original GoW trilogy. By the end of the second game, he has no personality, he's just this little ball of hate who is screaming all the time. Him raging is the norm, so when something happens that makes him angrier happens, there is nowhere his personality can go, because he's already at maximum anger.
Compare it to the new one, where he is calmer and more mature. You can see the anger flowing inside him, but he keeps his shit together. Even when fighting, he has rage, but never hate, so when he shouts at his kid it has an impact, and you can see him fighting to control it. It gives depth to the character, because it shows the full impact of it.
Anonymous
>>5941428 >something happens that makes him angrier happens, there is nowhere his personality can go, because he's already at maximum anger. I don't know, he seemed a bit madder during that thing with Pandora and Zeus than that thing with Gaea.
Anonymous
>>5941428 >>5941437 >If the character is always feeling and demonstrating the same emotion, then they lose personhood This quicktime event taught me a lot about Greek philosophy
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>>5941444 It taught me that having your head ripped off hurts so bad you'll scream even after you die from it. Ouch!
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
>>5941437 Kek, I actually played all of the major GoW games in release order (excluding Ragnarok) within the last 6 months as a guilty habit and to recharge a bit from immersing myself in Greek/Latin literature and it’s quite interesting to see the GoW storytelling evolve over the games.
Some bizarre choices i recall:
-anime-tier boss battle with six-winged Persephone (???) in one of the PSP games
-Killing Death in one of the PSP games - presumably this is why death is meaningless to Kratos
-Pandora being a whiny tomgirl in GoW3
-the storyline in GoWA being chopped up into multiple flashback sequences so you can’t follow the plot
-Heracles being “drunk wine mom” Hera’s bitchboy in GoW3
Also I found it amusing in God of War 2018 that dead gods no longer violently explode upon death like they did in the prior games. Maybe the Norse gods have a healthier diet?
Anonymous
>>5941458 What they did to Herc was a damn travesty.
>Maybe the Norse gods have a healthier diet? Wouldn't that be something, Ambrosia is food-nitroglycerine but the Greek pantheon just loves it too much to stop eating it.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
>>5941465 Ambrosia and nectar being TNT and deity-strength viagra/meth makes a lot of Zeus’ decisionmaking suddenly understandable
Anonymous
>>5941466 >zeus after gorging himself on the strongest stimulants known to the gods: That is a REALLY pretty cow... Anonymous
>>5941372 Seven Against Thebes is about BIG MEN with BIG EMOTIONS so far, so it may be up your alley.
Anonymous
>>5941469 Kek. Pic related: Zeus on a bender.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
>>5941487 We haven’t even gotten to the really spicy parts yet, I’m just setting the stage for EXTREME PATHOS as a humble aspriring tragedian
Anonymous
>>5941494 Really begs the question "How many times has Zeus asked Hera to turn into an animal for sex?". Considering how often he goes out and bangs swans and shit, the answer is probably "a lot and she doesn't".
Anonymous
>>5941502 Usually he wants to BE an animal during sex, it seems like. Like to my knowledge he didn't bang a swan, he turned into a swan to bang a mortal woman.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
>>5941502 This is not a serious take of mine but I like to imagine that the Big Three as having zoomer-style delusions:
Zeus: sparkly pansexual polygamist married to devout Mormon 10 years older than him
Hades: autist who is happily dating his anime pillow, spends 19 hours a day playing Stardew Valley
Poseidon: actual Chad but with crippling self-doubt and thus becomes a “male lifestyle influencer”, refuses to admit that he is gay.
Anonymous
>>5941458 >Heracles, Greek mythology etc My favourite element from Hercules is actually how he met his demise, the Shirt Of Nessus or "poisoned clothing" theme, I think this recurs a lot in literature it is also mentioned in Shakespeare often and I think Euripides Medea also uses a poisoned dress to assassinate her love rival Glauce (I think some versions describe it as a carcanet or necklace or coronet of some form though).
Anyway here is a modern version of the poisoned dress / agonising clothing theme, from one of my favourite films and visual spectacles the Shekhar Kapur adaptation of Elizabeth (1998). In this film her handmaiden tries on one of the queen's dresses (a gift from the Spanish ambassador) her handmaiden wears the queen's dress to impersonate the monarch on a secret romantic assignation with Robert Dudley, the queen's former favourite lover who has been spurned by her since taking the throne. In his jealousy he tries to imagine and recreate the passion of his previous sexual trysts and escapades with Elizabeth through her handmaiden assuming her appearance wearing her dress, but halfway through the sex act before she reaches climax the handmaiden dies a horrible agonising death as the dress has been smeared in poison. Unwittingly through her indiscretions and fornication with the Queen's former lover, the handmaiden saves Elizabeth from this assassination attempt, yay
Anonymous
>>5941507 Yeah that's fair. Dude gets really into his roleplay sessions I guess. What animal hasn't he been? I think he even went as like, a mist or rain one time, too. What a fucking degen.
>>5941509 >poseidon is not!andy tatertot It's always the water dudes who get shafted the hardest kek. "Earth Shaker" more like "ass shaker" eyyyy.
But Hades is definitely our guy. Anonymous
>>5941509 This is comedy gold and also weirdly fitting.
Can't believe NEET Hades got an actual waifu, though, though I guess kidnapping your niece simplifies courtship... >>5941359 My approach to this has been a bit odd by the nature of my quests. The first two starred people who were at least partly lizard and raised in a weird cult as living weapons, so I wrote both of them as having relatively dulled emotions, especially at the beginning of their stories. The main character of my current quest is an effeminate half-elf, and I write elves as being much more openly emotional and tender than the setting's humans even usually are, so it's quite the swing. That said, the Infiltrator got to have some proper big melodrama when she broke up with her boyfriend, and her kid became quite fond of giving grandiose speeches about destiny to anyone who would listen, so they got to have their moments.
Anonymous
>>5941274 >>5941329 you going to run this quest or not asshole?
Anonymous
>>5941509 >Poseidon >actual Chad >refuses to admit that he is gay. What?
Anonymous
>>5941516 >a mist or rain A, uh, "golden shower", actually. A golden shower than got a chick pregnant. Zeus has never encountered a kink he wasn't into.
Anonymous
>>5941428 >Star Trek Discovery vs Patrick Stewart I have not watched it but I have a feeling the discriminating factor resides upon one thespian being a Shakespearean actor hehe
Also, you just made me realise that the horrifying ANGULAR CHEEKBONE CHIN HORROR WOMAN from amzn Wheel Of Time was also Lady Macbeth lol. I only saw some snippets of the tv production of this theatre staging, I remember Patrick Stewart had an amazing shawl lapel waistcoat thing, the costumes were very interesting. Also they made the Macbeth witches into nurses if I remember for this stage adaptation
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>>5941526 Mans IS the tag list on your favorite booru.
Anonymous
>>5941509 >pansexual he's only pansexual as the meme of them fucking anything that moves (or not) instead of the boring real definition.
Anonymous
>>5941509 >actual Chad but with crippling self-doubt and thus becomes a “male lifestyle influencer”, refuses to admit that he is gay. >chad and gay paradox
Anonymous
>>5941540 He's PANsexual in really the broadest and most degenerate possible sense, putting true pansexual to shame (or, perhaps, making them appear almost prudish by comparison). Or maybe not, I guess, since to my knowledge his only male lover (and even that is debated) is Ganymede.
Definitely a degen, though, in far more profound ways than most IRL people could or would accomplish.
>>5941545 >paradox mfw
Anonymous
>>5941523 Probably has something to do with how he turned Caenis into a man after raping her.
Anonymous
>>5941559 Some people say that Alexander the Gayt shit is from contemporaries trying to slander him. However to note, he is a real life anime protag with heterochromia and everything so who knows what the fuck was going on with that guy.
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>>5941562 Also Nerites.
>>5941563 >Some people say that Alexander the Gayt shit is from contemporaries trying to slander him I mean, some people can't cope with historical figures they admire or who were influential to their culture don't share their values. The simple fact of the matter is that among Hellenic peoples of that era, making out publicly with teenage slave-eunuch wasn't seen as unmanly, even if pretty much everyone of any orientation outside of a very small fringe would find it utterly bizarre. Historian like Plutarch thus actually talk about him doing so, and without any great judgement on his character in some of the accounts, which would make for rather poor slander. he's not alone, either since lots of Greek and Roman figures had young boys or men they were very, very fond of and brought everywhere with them.
These relationships aren't socially acceptable by today's standards even among gays, and I personally find them gross, but they're not very hetero.
Anonymous
>>5941575 I mean there were laws explicitly stating that if someone was found to be gay they had zero rights, could not vote, and should be ostracized. I think those were the rules for Athens at one point. It's really hard to know when and where things were accepted. Time do be making that shit hard as fuck. Especially when "I said he was gay, I didn't say it was bad" is still calling someone a homo. It's basically the "No offense, but". And there were still historians who did say "Yeah he was a faggot. A little bitch boyfucker." around those times. Maybe not about him specifically, but people.
As for gays not liking kids nowadays, well that's definitely a /pol/ discussion. And I'm sure someone has a LOT to say about it kek.
Anonymous
>>5941580 As I understand it, BOTTOMS lost status and rights, bit not tops. That is to say: if you're pitching in Ancient Greece, you're not a despicable gross excuse for a man, only if you CATCH, which is part of why young slaves and/or eunuchs were popular lovers: it was obvious who was doing the boning and who was being boned. It also seemed to be more widely-practiced among the elites and nobles, and was sometimes looked down upon by populist movements. It came and went in trends, too, even in a single lifetime; Plato wrote of homosexuality as virtuous at one point, and abominable at a later point.
>As for gays not liking kids nowadays, well that's definitely a /pol/ discussion. And I'm sure someone has a LOT to say about it kek. Oh, no doubt. Outside of /pol/ shit or even /lgbt/ shit, though, I just find the way in which the past is truly such a foreign country interesting. Cultural relativism is something I visit a lot in my quests, made more dramatic by the added complexity of literal non-humans, magical 'technologies' dramatically affecting how different groups live, vastly different lifespans between some races, and the meddling of gods and wizards.
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Making my quest late at night, going to sleep, working and coming back a bit later than usual probably won't do wonders for my momentum and first impressions.
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>>5941584 I always thought the "It's okay to fuck, not be fucked" was a Roman thing. Which also went hand in hand with their "Going down on a woman is the least manly thing a man can do" thing they were reputed to believe. The problem I have with it is their is a ton of biases both from ancient sources and modern translations both. And there's always just as much "Yeah it's aight" as "Nah that shit's trash" for any given thing. I wish I had a time machine just to ask these silly little questions kek. But the practice of pederasty in particular is extremely hotly debated. Being that the earliest sources referring to it make no mention of lovers or even allusions to it, that it is meant to teach, not to "teach". Later sources suggest however that it was, in fact, like a sugar daddy scenario. Then you get to the modern era where you've got two sides citing their preferred narrative and screeching over it, as we oft do. Or maybe I'm getting it backwards and mixed up. Either way.
>extenuating circumstance exacerbating cultural paradigms Makes sense to me. How exactly could a living hunk of stone that watched the first sunrise possibly keep up with or know the thoughts of the soft meatlings that trod upon its still sleeping kin? Sometimes worlds are just different. Nothing can really be done for it if you don't go out of your way to try.
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>>5941496 With how that Trojan War quest ended, you certainly have a bright future on this board in running quests with big tragedy in them
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>>5941521 >her kid became quite fond of giving grandiose speeches about destiny to anyone who would listen I dropped Dragonborn Antipaladin around the point the dwarves were recruited on the trip back, and the protag found out his mom's killer was in the big city. Did the main character eventually decide the lizard gods were a shit or something? And the big chad ascending serpent guy didn't like that despite him being THE chad snake deity? What happened?
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>>5941608 Don't be fooled. 95% of all of those threads do not even break 200 posts total. They are short episodes in a long LONG series. You can get through the entire quest in a couple weeks easily. I guarantee it
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>>5941614 >Did the main character eventually decide the lizard gods were a shit or something? He expressed annoyance at the gods' bickering and mean-spiritedness as time went on, especially as he became more tolerant of mammalian races and more open to human emotion.
He never outright rejected (most) of them, but he did invoke their assistance and then, when they asked him to perform some murders that he was personally opposed to as a price, he couldn't bring himself to make good on the deal; that upset the Serpent Ascendant, who considered oath-breaking to be a sign of extreme weakness.
He later worsened the situation by pledging under oath to put his responsibility to his family and new human subjects above his responsibilities as an antipaladin, which cost him those antipaladin powers.
His final arc of the quest entailed going on a quest to regain his power, concluding that the gods were flighty and unreliable partners and trying to seize power by other means (capturing and absorbing the Greater Demon Irinnile), failing in battle against her and calling upon the captive spirit of his ancestor, and subsequently becoming possessed for a year and forced to be a passenger in his own body. When things boiled over and the ancestral spirit wearing his body almost killed his childhood love when she tried to free him, he risked it all in one great act of defiance which impressed two of the gods (Serpent Ascendant and Mother of Dragons) so much that they gave him bonuses and restored his antipaladin status.
Anonymous
>>5941584 >As I understand it, BOTTOMS lost status and rights, bit not tops. This was the actual lore in royal rumble. based ancient civilizations.
Anonymous
>>5941632 >ever taking privileges or status away from Nyeuu Never. Not even once.
Anonymous
>>5941559 >mfw pic rel fucked women and was bi at best, my point stands, kek.
Anonymous
>>5941642 I guess that's fair. Pic related is probably a clearer example if bisexuals don't count as gay.
"Fortune has turned her back on me. She has it in for me; she is a woman, and I am not that way inclined."
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>>5941652 now that's a good one.
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Important plot update!
>>5941685 >>5941685 Anonymous
>>5941640 It could have been a spicy secret ree
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I haven't run a quest for 4 years, but I want to give it another shot in the near future. I have several ideas, but I don't know which one to settle for>A bio and cyberpunk combo. In late 20th century Earth was hit by alien lifeforms traveling through the cosmos that can influence and transform flesh. Earth became a fleshy hellscape and humanity is now living in cities dominated by corporate feudal lords. MC would be a mercenary in one such city. >A late-medieval world which is currently becoming messed up due to a gigantic hole in the ground that breaks both people and reality. Some study it, some worship it, it gives people weird forms of magic and creates monsters. Made in Abyss meets Fear & Hunger. MC would explore this twisted world and try to understand it and make a name for themselves. >A fantasy world undergoing industrial revolution. The old order is crumbling underneath the rapid societal developments and with it an ancient empire where various factions try to take advantage or resist these changes. MC would navigate this difficult landscape to decide the country's fate.
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>>5941755 >>A bio and cyberpunk combo. In late 20th century Earth was hit by alien lifeforms traveling through the cosmos that can influence and transform flesh. Earth became a fleshy hellscape and humanity is now living in cities dominated by corporate feudal lords. MC would be a mercenary in one such city. Flesh? Weak. Chrome? Sweet.
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>>5941720 Nyeuu being a bottom is in no way, shame, or form a secret or surprise, in any world. Look at the man.
>>5941755 >A bio and cyberpunk combo. In late 20th century Earth was hit by alien lifeforms traveling through the cosmos that can influence and transform flesh. Earth became a fleshy hellscape and humanity is now living in cities dominated by corporate feudal lords. MC would be a mercenary in one such city. Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Sun 03 Mar 2024 01:22:05 No. 5941770 Report >>5941755 >A bio and cyberpunk combo. In late 20th century Earth was hit by alien lifeforms traveling through the cosmos that can influence and transform flesh. Earth became a fleshy hellscape and humanity is now living in cities dominated by corporate feudal lords. MC would be a mercenary in one such city. I like this one the most, but the late-medieval world is also a good and solid choice. But the weirdness of the biocyberpunk setting appeals to me the most.
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THE PARTY ARC HAS ENDED!
>>5941860 >>5941860 Anonymous
Bare-knuckle boxing quest when?
Anonymous
>>5941755 >A fantasy world undergoing industrial revolution. The old order is crumbling underneath the rapid societal developments and with it an ancient empire where various factions try to take advantage or resist these changes. MC would navigate this difficult landscape to decide the country's fate. Anonymous
>>5941755 >>A fantasy world undergoing industrial revolution. The old order is crumbling underneath the rapid societal developments and with it an ancient empire where various factions try to take advantage or resist these changes. MC would navigate this difficult landscape to decide the country's fate. don't do this one because im kinda planning on a quest thats kinda like that.
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>>5940698 A trauma team contract is a preem idea, choom.
>>5940914 Good to know some anons are still looking forward to it after a months long gap, shouldn't be too much longer now before I have it up. Probably on Monday or Tuesday, I've got a busy weekend.
Anonymous
I do not care for Versequest.
Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Sun 03 Mar 2024 04:54:35 No. 5941947 Report Anonymous
Trying to get back into questwriting after like getting into it once like ten years ago. Does anyone have any horror quest reccomendations?
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>>5941759 >>5941762 >>5941770 >>5941894 Thank you for the feedback. I have the world mostly fleshed (no pun intended) out and I will begin writing the quest in the next few weeks!
>>5941915 Alright buddy, that one's yours
Looking forward to it!
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>>5941953 Pizzeria Quest was good. Still is if you go back and read it, but WHERE IS GHOST
WHY DID HE CLAIM HE'D BE BACK ONLY TO DIE OFFSCREEN
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Anonymous
Out of all the new recent quests on /qst/ a disproportionate amount of them are insincere, outright bait or have already been flaked on. The most active of threads are all established sequels and nobody partakes in new threads for the reasons listed above. /qst/ has fallen.
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Spaceship Pilot in a Fantasy World returns next weekend! Now I just need to relearn how to draw the characters...
Anonymous
>>5941994 >Escape Bunny Girl Adventure Bait to the third degree. Not even continued by its OP.
>My Roommate is an Elf from Another World!!! Abandoned with only 8 lines.
>Antegrian Occupation Quest /pol/ baiting.
>Waste Of Space Quest Self explanatory title.
>Empire of Slaves >Million Souls Quest Also Abandoned
Quests not listed here are written by discord cliques, are continuations or run by a trip.
Anonymous
>>5941994 >>5942009 Seems like your final line allows you to easily discount the several legit threads started recently, to prop up a dubious narrative of a fallen /qst/. We're small and slow, but far from dead.
Pic very much related. A couple may be dead or flaked on, but I don't even play or follow all the active quests and this is STILL at least a couple dozen active creators. We really just need a slightly bigger pool of players to speed up activity.
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>>5941994 >>5942009 ...So, what, you gonna steal those abandoned quests and run them yourself? Or are you just going to say /qst/ is fucked again and/or advertise akun as the new hotness?
Anonymous
>>5942032 A pool of creators that has failed to grow and tend to run variations of the same niche they're accustomed to. Lets take RWBY Vacuo Quest as an example. Thread #1 smashed the 1k post barrier, and Thread #2 hit around 600 or so, give or take. A prospective QM for sure, and yet just 3 months into the new year and zero word from him since. Why? It's not like he isn't struggling for an audience. More players will not come if more QMs don't pop up to vary the catalog. Or maybe a GOOD fantasy quest will save the board miraculously, whatever good actually entails.
Anonymous
>>5942047 Well in just the last few months I think we got new QMs in Verquest's QM, Disappearing Hogwarts' QM, Lodestar's QM (I think) and Lady Knight's QM. Fae Smelter is back with Chimp Out, Final Girl picked back up (a firsttime QM as well), and we have a few relative unknowns running new quests in my list too. Just looking at my (not at all comprehensive) list, we have LOTS of genres and writing styles.
Anonymous
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>>5941994 that dude took my classic fantasy quest idea and ran it off a cliff. now I need a new FRESH idea.
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Sun 03 Mar 2024 07:25:00 No. 5942065 Report Quoted By:
>>5942050 Can confirm that I'm a new QM! But a longtime player. Since the /tg/ days.
Anonymous
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>>5941564 Soon, valenbro. The prophet has spoken so surely we'll see a thread in the next two weeks.
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX ID:eEq4ELSW Sun 03 Mar 2024 07:49:21 No. 5942075 Report Quoted By:
>>5942072 >>5942072 >>5942072 The Lady Knight's Quest has updated. Time to travel to Rosarium!
Anonymous
>when you put effort into your quest but don't get (You)s
AurebeshQM !FFB4lyp4p.
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I want someone to make a Planet of the Apes quest.I'd do it myself but I already have 1 active quest and 2 or 3 on the backburner
Anonymous
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>>5941755 >>A fantasy world undergoing industrial revolution. The old order is crumbling underneath the rapid societal developments and with it an ancient empire where various factions try to take advantage or resist these changes. MC would navigate this difficult landscape to decide the country's fate. Anonymous
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>>5942147 I feel the same way sometimes, but you gotta move past it and use it as an opportunity to improve
Anonymous
>>5941274 >>Alternate idea: bratty stepparent correction quest You are the-
> Stepson > Stepdaughter Your-
> Father > Mother married your bratty new-
> Stepfather > Stepmother Can you defeat the brat QST?
Anonymous
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>>5941522 Patience, anon, patience.
Good brat correction quest will come to you but only if you reply "spam them harder daddy".
Anonymous
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>>5941994 >>5942009 My ad will be up later today, thanks for reminding me to place it, shitpostanon ;D
Curse Carrier DM
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Alright, time for the (probably) final thread of curse carrier.
>>5942189 Narrator !!vdg9/QeSHTL
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>>5941994 I tried my best, only two anons carried my quest. Now the ISP kill team are cucking me once more, also the fucking 300 and 60 second posting shit is cancer.
Anonymous
What's the HORNIEST quest on the board right now?
Anonymous
>>5939303 You're Captain Nazi - the greatest hero of the Axis. After 80 years you've returned to resume the good fight and save innocent children from Jew pedophiles. You find a swarm o' rabbis hiding in a tunnel under a synagogue with blood stained child sized mattresses.
>Kill them all >Torture them for information >Write in Niggapolys
>>5941510 Spotted Souv, glad to have you amongst our ranks.
Anonymous
N'wah
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>>5941947 Is that a Dunmer?
Anonymous
>>5941884 Where can I watch these fights?
Anonymous
>>5941770 Could take some inspiration from the game Death Trash
Niggapolys
>>5941584 >>5941602 Checkout Leather Apron Club's vids on the subject. There's always highly degen behavior when civilizations falloff; decadence, an abundance of prosperity, prolonged peace, etc. In a few hundred years, Chinese anthropologists & historians may think that Americans have always been fagosexuals do to recent tendencies as our society circles the drain. Of course there can be resurgences, renewals of national consciousness & wellbeing, so these trends may have came & went as you suggested. Ultimately, in a world in which tradition is paramount & antibiotics are not available, I'm erring on the not-a-bunch-of-gayos side. Plus with Alexander the Great, one of the main accusations was that he was queerotized with his best friend from childhood & second-in-command, simply because when his comrade fell in battle, Alexander raged for days about it. Academic niggas out here never having an actual friend in their lives.
Anonymous
>>5942322 >Death Trash Huh, looks interesting. Thanks for the bringing it up anon.
Makes me wonder if there's been any quests that have that Fallout-ish feel without it being Fallout itself.
Anonymous
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>>5942327 There's a bit more to that, such as their personal identification with Achilels and Patroclus, but yeah, Bagoas is the better-attested.
>Ultimately, in a world in which tradition is paramount & antibiotics are not available, I'm erring on the not-a-bunch-of-gayos side. The art of ye olde Greece seems to indicate that the homoerotic behaviour involved less anal than non-gays typically think of when reflecting on gay sex.
Also, the Chinese probably already talk that shit in their propaganda, but also, we know all about AI of Han, Dong Xian, and the 'passion of the cut sleeve' Anonymous
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>>5942246 Of the real, actual quests which aren't bait? Probably The Lady Knight's Quest. Or Eviler Omni-Man, I guess, since even though everything people tell me about it (or that I discerned from a quick glance) tells me it's sort of a meme quest, it IS on thread 2.
Blue !KvaiISM3II
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>>5941608 I don't know exactly who you are if I'm being honest, but if you're going around reading quests and offering feedback I'd definitely be interested. You seem pretty astute.
Can I entice you to read my quest as well? It's early enough that it probably wouldn't be too demanding on your time.
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Feeling%20Blue Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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Have begun updating for the day! Starting off with a talk with Wife.
>>5942370 >>5942370 Anonymous
>>5942312 sshhh it is a secret, I am trying to maintain the masquerade, very secret shhh
Anonymous
>>5942322 >>5942329 >Death Trash Thanks for this recommendation too anon, I like the art style!
I think an underexplored genre is Acid Fantasy, the sort of psychedelic hallucinogenic chromatic dream world (often post apocalyptic or swords and sorcery crossover).
Pic related is not CGI it is apparently a real place, a photo of Dallol
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallol_(hydrothermal_system) from wikipedia, it is a volcanic caldera ? landscape of sulphur geysers and salt pillar formations near a triangular triple junction tectonic formation at the intersection of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. I liked this picture because if you ever played Conan Exiles (the open world third person rpg, where you can craft the comedy slave wheels and leash maidens and captives to them, all whilst completely naked lol, everything is dangling out) there is a sort of salt volcanic region in that game with some good rare mineral / mining resources, and this photo proves that the desolate wasteland from the game actually exists in real life hehe
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>5942403 Dude that's fucking siiick, I think Morrowind's appeal besides the DEEP KIRKBRIDIAN DMT GNOSTIC PAGANG LORE is the landscape being super alien, yet not to a degree in which it distracts from itself.
Anonymous
ReptoidQM
>>5942403 >I think an underexplored genre is Acid Fantasy, the sort of psychedelic hallucinogenic chromatic dream world (often post apocalyptic or swords and sorcery crossover). Wizards Quest when?
Anonymous
>>5942470 You have my support, 1 Billion Percent. Especially if you link the vids from New Axis covers of Black Magick SS songs in threads.
Anonymous
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>>5942472 I'm, alas, already running a weird sci-fi/fantasy quest. It's more New Age, conspiracy, and biopunk flavoured than World War/Vietnam industrial acid-trip.
Would play the shit out of a quest with that bizarre Bakshi vibe, though.
Anonymous
>>5942470 YOU MOTHERFUCKER
I WATCHED THAT MOVIE LAST WEEK
GET OUT OF MY WALLS
Anonymous
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>>5942567 No.
>>5940056 I liked it. I'm always down movie that can be summarized as "space witches use Oedipal complexes to trick the Taliban and bondage vampires into fighting each other, and the prank goes too far when a man is permitted to drink woman-only limited edition Gatorade and becomes too powerful." That it has such a good cast and a big budget only makes it better.
Anonymous
>>5942165 >Stepson >father >Stepmother Anonymous
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>>5942165 >Stepdaughter >Mother >Stepmother NC-17 !!5BuukXGLH01
Final Girl Quest update is up.
>>5942714 Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>5941994 If you're not taking every opportunity to pack your game with cute anime girls, I'm not even going to LOOK at your quest.
Anderson Thorell (QM)
Shhh. Be vewy vewy quiet, we're hunting wabbit monster girls!
New update for the monster girl quest. And a new monster girl has been found. She may look cute, but she's going to be quite the threat to take down.
>>5942779 >>5942779 >>5942779 Anonymous
>>5942787 you should've changed the name of your quest since the moment anons chose to play as the monster hunting teams instead of the monster girls
Anonymous
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To QMs out there
Anonymous
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>>5942818 It's still a quest about a Monster Girl Facility s the man plot point, though.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
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Seven Against Thebes Quest is still in the prologue - it's a fine time to consider playing! New update below!
>>5942868 Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
15-minute timer on this next vote. Mercy, or death?
>>5942875 >>5942875 Anonymous
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>>5942879 /qst/ is soft. SOFT.
I also voted to spare him Anonymous
What's your HORNIEST quest idea?
Anderson Thorell (QM)
>>5943094 Fuck it, this is based on a setting I've written with my friend and I think it'd fit quite well for the pervs on here.
Isekai'd into a fantasy setting. However, you are watched by two of the fantasy world's native gods: one the god of hedonism, the other a god of sadism. You must now avoid falling to either of them, as they both force you into all kinds of temptatious scenarios.
If you fail and start indulging in their despicable acts, you will be unable to return to your old world, and become a worshipper who desires to spread the word of your new god. If you manage to avoid all of their perversion and protect yourself for long enough, you might be able to return to your own world.
Is it a ridiculous idea? Yep. Could it lead to some fun yet crude moments? I think so.
Anonymous
>>5943111 This gave me an idea of my own. You're isekaid and are watched by numerous gods who grant you various boons - as long as you continue to entertain them. You're basically a livestreamer, and if your audience is not sufficiently engaged, they will leave you alone with all the enemies you've made and without a hope for the future.
Anonymous
>>5943111 >based on a setting I've written with my friend That's very very gay
Anonymous
>>5943168 I'm sorry you can't be friends with a guy without being a faggot for them, anon
Anonymous
>>5943192 It's more the writing of a smut setting with your mate.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
I've been itching to start a new thread here- though I did just get sick and it sapped a lot of my motivation. In my recovery, I feel more confident. Now normally I'd just post something (a new Quest) without any build up or approval, since I find that more fun and hype then not, but this time I have a bit of decision paralysis with so many possible Quests in my head to run.>Comfy >Serious >Mysterious
Anonymous
>>5943195 Did anon ever specify it was a male friend?
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>5943094 >REY MYSTERIO RAPES YOU EVERY NIGHT >you wake up in the middle of the night >there's a man in your room >it's wwe superstar rey mysterio >"booyaka booyaka!" rey mysterio bends you over with his powerful wrestler hands >"no rey no!" you try to fight him off but he's too powerful >"booyaka booyaka!" with a powerful roar he penetrates your virgin asshole >"someone help!" you shout for help but no one comes >rey mysterio rapes you >again and again >"booyaka booyaka!" with a powerful roar he finishes then leaves through the window This idea came to me in a dream.
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5943271 her hips don't lie. where is she from ?
Anonymous
Anonymous
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If you guys give him free (you)s he will never run monkey quest
Anonymous
>>5943131 Isn't this just Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint?
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>5943317 Fucking psychic Koreans stealing my ideas before I even come up with them, baka
Curse Carrier DM
>>5943317 Oh, I remember reading this one. The idea was fun but I kind of wish the MC didn't get to metagame as hard as he did. I also wished they leaned more into the 'gods treat this like a gambling/entertainment game', as I find that aspect way more interesting than the MC himself. Hell, I'd watch a webcomic about a god gambling on underdogs and losing all his divine power because they keep dying.
Anonymous
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>>5943200 No idea lol, I'm fine with anything. But if I had to chose it'd probably be
>Comfy If you actually have an idea for it.
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Mon 04 Mar 2024 23:33:34 No. 5943412 Report >>5943390 Wouldn't that make that god himself an underdog?
Imagine: he bets the last of his power and his very life in an all or nothing bid against another god. The underdog he's betting on? Himself, now as a mortal. Except, like many gods, he has trouble relating to many of the everyday struggles that mortals have to go through. And, of course, he still has the inflated ego of a god compared to a mortal.
Anonymous
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>>5943412 That sounds like a blast, would read/play.
Anonymous
>>5943412 >playing as an autistic egomaniac You need a quest for that? I thought we all already know what that's like.
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Mon 04 Mar 2024 23:42:17 No. 5943419 Report Quoted By:
>>5943416 It's like watching a rich guy become poor. They might have similar traits to you, but everyone wants to see the rich dude's first few weeks of suffering as he struggles to adapt to his new situation.
Curse Carrier DM
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>>5943412 That does sound interesting, the god would have 'meta knowledge' only gods are aware of, but at a severe disadvantage when it comes to feats he's used to magic away. Also, I'm sure other deities would love to bully a previous god that is now subject to mortal rules.
Anonymous
I used to be able to write without reservation, but now I can't. I think my own ideas are cringe and petter out within a few days. I hate it. My documents are all around 1 - 2 pages long before I abandon the idea and writing for a few days.
Anonymous
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>>5943552 Just gotta' embrace that cringe. That's what I do. Sometimes when you power through that "this is sorta' trash" feeling, you will come out the other side with something you actually like. /qst/ is good for that, too, because you get real-time feedback and input, and can even sort of petition players to brainstorm plot, setting, or character ideas if you're struggling or stuff is feeling stale.
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX ID:eEq4ELSW Tue 05 Mar 2024 02:43:47 No. 5943572 Report Quoted By:
>>5943564 >>5943564 >>5943564 The Lady Knight's Quest has updated with the results of the Natural 8 on the encounter roll.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Anonymous
Tips for someone who doesn't write much on how to start a quest ?
Anonymous
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Hi any anons here who were reading Planet Pirates, sorry for a big wait, but you'll have to wait a little longer for thread three -- it'll probably go up in two weeks.
Anonymous
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>>5943675 It's probably not a good idea to start a quest with a vote and then wait 24 hours to see what wins, at least without telling your players.
>>5941243 You should also put in a bit more effort on the opening text then just four short sentences, lest any passerby looks at it and assumes you'd flake after the first post.
Anonymous
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>>5943675 Plan out your storylines
Have drafts for NPCs
You can improvise, but having some solid ideas on your plot and characters will help immensely.
Pace yourself - know how long you take to write and plan accordingly. You dont want to churn out slop and rush out a filler update.
And the most important tip of all - you are the QM. You decide things. You can veto things if the players choose a direction which is contradictory to your vision. You also should NEVER write an option that you’re unwilling to go there for this very reason.
DemBones !!ehWv9n5C1mz
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>>5943675 Some of the best advice I can give is take a look at some of the quests you enjoy, archived or live, and take note of what they do well. What do you like about their writing style? How they format their posts? Are there mechanics that seem to work? How do they handle dialogue and choices?
Besides that I'd also recommend telling your readers when you plan to update--doesn't have to be 100% planned out from the getgo, but there's a huge difference between writing an update every hour vs. once per week. As long as you communicate with your players you should be fine.
Last but not least, write something you ENJOY writing! At their core quests should be fun--if you're writing out of obligation then you might want to chill a bit or reconsider. Your first quest will always be daunting, but once you get into the swing of things it can also be a bunch of fun too.
Oh, and don't forget to post a link here when you start it so we can check it out! Good luck, anon--starting's always the hardest part!
>>5943552 Sometimes the best thing is to just get it all on paper--just vomit all the ideas on there without any inhibitions. A day or so later check back in and see if you can polish it. Just remember that nothing's gonna start off FANTASTIC--stories, characters, settings... they all evolve on their own as you write them more. It's hard to avoid smothering them all in the crib, but part of every writer's struggle, rookie or veteran, is fighting through the inner critic at least for a little bit.
If you're really struggling you can always post some samples/background info here, on the Discord, or send some to a friend to look at. Sometimes a fresh pair of eyes is the best medicine.
Also I haven't posted art in a while so
Anonymous
>>5943094 You're a dungeon adventurer, but you only gain levels by fucking and your wife is a non-human with a very short pregnancy cycle.
Try not to run out of money funding your rapidly expanding family.
Anonymous
>>5943745 I vote for
> File for a divorce Anonymous
>>5943765 The government denies your application. Since your marriage, there has been 30% less work to do cleaning up after your escapades, and they'd like to keep it that way.
Anonymous
Hey QST.
Anonymous
>>5943767 Well you know the obvious next step is murder. Blame the courts.
Anonymous
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>>5943772 Your raging boner makes it too difficult to wield your rod. It clatters on your bed as your wife watches you curiously.
Anonymous
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>>5943769 Between SUNBELT CRUSADERS, STARRED WART: INTERREGNUM, TROJAN WAR/SEVEN AGAINST THEBES, & SWORN TO VALOUR for me personally.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5941329 >>5943941 >>5942593 >>5943949 >>5941522 Believe in the asshole that believes in you
>>5941311 There must be something deeply broken inside you not to find joy in punishing your bratty stepson
Anonymous
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>>5942246 Not the horniest quest, but Disappearing Hogwarts contains maybe the horniest individual anon I have seen in some time.
TrashQM
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>>5943493 >>5943493 >>5943493 The Graverobber's Daughter continues! Chlotsuintha finds herself faced with the prospect of using her Cold-Touch Scarification Glyph to 'Ice-Lockpick' a door open, or spending more time searching through the Clerking House, for another route into the archives. Neither are particularly appealing; time is desperately precious now as she has no idea when the Guards or the bondsman will return, restricting her movement through the house once again, so she is not keen on traipsing through the place. Likewise, use of the Glyph wears and chips away at her, dulling and confounding her senses, in addition to taking hours or days off of her life. But a decision must be made!
I need a proper tie-breaker for this vote, and the thread is about to fall off of the board.
Artemis !!yoLdzmFz1N1
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Eclipsed Moon Quest short Epilogue post before the finale thread goes off board.
>>5944058 >>5944058 >>5944058 YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi ID:WCqjk/mn Tue 05 Mar 2024 19:52:41 No. 5944081 Report I hope to return with a new quest soon.
Anonymous
Anderson Thorell (QM)
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The first major battle has started in the Monster Girl Facility Quest!
You may have the advantage of having quite some soldiers and allies, but this rabbit doesn't seem like she will be an easy kill. In fact, death is likely to await those on the receiving end of those nasty, big, pointy teeth.
>>5944202 >>5944202 >>5944202 Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
RQM
>>5944081 >>5944107 Cerea/Centorea was pretty cute back when I checked out the first batch of Everyday Monster Girls comics, so fair play. A bit one-note, but every character in that series was, except for the agency director and maybe Miia. Even then, Miia is sort of just Lum from Urusei Yatsura.
At any rate, I am prepared to romance a horse whose neck and head have been replaced with an entire human female's torso. Bring it on.
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
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>>5944289 >>5944289 >>5944289 To my players, your favorite schizo is back on the menu after my short break. Meant to post an hour earlier but life happens, ya know?
Time to post daily for over a month straight, haha. Thank god my writing juices are back. Anonymous
>>5943961 my submissive and breedable shit post quest got deleted in like an hour after I posted it but watch this stay up forever. Im on some jannys list for sure. Everypost i make he gets a little ding or something and he comes running.
Anonymous
lurker here, wanted to test a roll
Anonymous
>>5944690 to do that you have to write it in the "option" field.
Anonymous
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Rolled 21 (1d50) >>5944691 Oh, i get it. thanks mate.
Benjamin Bones
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi ID:gMvdI7j7 Wed 06 Mar 2024 12:16:59 No. 5944709 Report Quoted By:
>>5944107 Centaur pussy.
>>5944239 That's good, please look forward to it.
Anonymous
>>5944706 I'd call benjamin's ending more...bittersweet, wouldn't it?
Anonymous
>>5944660 Beating twinks is based
Breeding twinks is wrong
Anonymous
>>5944737 Gentlemen, gentlemen, we can compromise. This is what erotic spanking was invented for. Though...
>>5941274 Uh, how old is this stepson?
Anonymous
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>>5944726 Bittersweet is my comfort zone, so that works out well.
Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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VERSEQUEST. UPDATE. WAR GOD. FUN.
>>5945049 >>5945049 HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
Guh. I hate it when I realize I made a fuck up, go to delete and remake the post and reupload it, then realize I made a few more fuckups. The only time I ever wish this place had an edit function.
Anonymous
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>>5943094 Prima Nocta quest
Oh, and you're a noblelady
Anonymous
>>5945070 Why not write your draft in a word processor, then just proofread it before and after copy-pasting it into the post form?
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
>>5945085 I will admit, it's mostly me rushing through the proofreading and only noticing that I typed "[spoilers]" instead of "[spoilers]", or forgetting a / here or there. A word processor doesn't really know how that formatting works, ya know?
It doesn't really happen that often but when it does, I'm annoyed at myself more than anything.
Anonymous
>>5945085 I can't speak for that QM, but I'm terrible for proofreading my own work. If I don't he a good fifteen-or-more minute gap between when I wrote it and when I read it, my brain autocorrects on my behalf. Spellcheck or an AI can help, but in a setting with lots of exotic names and nouns, you get a lot of squiggly red lines and you can still end up missing things (or, if you use an AI, it can 'correct' things wrong or even censor your swearing sometimes. And then there's formatting errors, or typos where one correctly-spelled word becomes another.
Anonymous
>>5945087 >>5945088 I find copying and pasting the text on a different editor (from docs to sublime, or even notepad, anything with a different font) and reading on that helps with catching dumb mistakes. Also, having something to automatically export your writing from whatever text editor you're using to 4chan's shitty tag system helps not fuckup basic tags
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
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>>5945092 Probably a smart idea to start doing that, frankly. Thanks for the advice.
Anonymous
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>>5945087 Do you use Ctrl s?
Anonymous
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>>5945087 >A word processor doesn't really know how that formatting works, ya know? If you add it to the program's dictionary, it should underline it when you mess it up. I keep a block of text at the top of my notepad file:
[b:lit][blue] BLUE TEXT [/blue][/b:lit]
[b:lit][red] RED TEXT [/red][/b:lit]
[b:lit][green] GREEN TEXT [/green][/b:lit]
That way I just copy and paste it and don't have to worry about making typos when retyping it.
Anonymous
People are sleeping on "I'm A Demon?"
Anonymous
>>5945130 >People are sleeping on "I'm A Demon?" is it good ?
Anonymous
>>5945145 It's got sovl, art, a neat setting, mechanical depth, a good cast of characters, and a cute elf girl with wiggling ears selling illegal stickers for crime-cash.
Anonymous
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>>5945148 The art has definitely improved since last I saw it
Anonymous
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>>5945087 >A word processor doesn't really know how that formatting works, ya know? Ya I know.
That's what your eyes are for.
The proofreading.
NC-17 !!5BuukXGLH01
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Final Girl Quest update is up.
>>5945227 OBA-337 !!4mnDVUrwiI8
How big should a recap of previous threads be? I want it to be an in universe recap with the characters recording in a log what happened so far in humorous fashion, so I feel it should be rather short and slightly confusing on purpose for comedy, but I don't know if I should maybe take it a bit more seriously and put more actual information in so readers can actually remember the plot... or should I just expect people to know the story and do whatever I want?
Anonymous
>>5945349 If you want you can write up a regular draft, then "funnify" it. Then you can post the humorous one and then post a spoilered serious one some time after. That is a lot of extra work though. Alternatively, bulletpoints.
DemBones !!ehWv9n5C1mz
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>>5945349 In my experience one post tends to be a good amount--two or more might be stretching it. You can drop a link to the archive if people wanna revisit the last thread, so don't worry about people catching up!
Anonymous
>>5945354 Good approach.
>>5945349 Depends how long the story's been running, how old the plot points you're referencing are, and whether you're looking to hook in new players or just refresh old ones.
OBA-337 !!4mnDVUrwiI8
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>>5945356 It's just been two threads so far, last one was around a month and a half ago. My main issue is that there was a pretty big plot dump towards the end of the last thread that is super important for the overall story but the characters themselves aren't supposed to really care about it that much, so it'd feel out of character to slide it in the recap (and also it'd just take up a lot of space and be kind of wordy, the original scene already was a bit much...)
>you're looking to hook in new players or just refresh old ones. I'm treating this more like a book I'm writing on the spot than a game, so I'd prefer people start from the beginning cus I do have some foreshadowing spread around. But of course if they join in on thread #3 and have a good time I couldn't really disapprove of that. From the last few choices from the last thread is looks like my players want (or at least wanted at the time) to relax and do some worldbuilding/slice of life stuff rather than make a beeline for The Plot anyways.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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Life talks about fear, and why he doesn't have it (He's lying).
>>5945418 >>5945418 Anonymous
>>5943769 Maverick Hunter Quest
Maybe Journal of the Occult and Shooting Star after.
Honorable Mentions are Broken Sky Online, Lessons in Knighthood, Deniable Assets, Bladebound Retainer, don't really have a pure fantasy contender for 5th honorable mention.
Anonymous
if someone other other ran a wheel of time quest, what kind of character would you want to play as? an aes sedai? a hunter for the horn? maybe even a dark friend?
Anonymous
>>5945547 Sure, I’d play. I just don’t want hear about dresses every update, lol.
Mite b fun to play as a dark friend crashing civilization with no survivors in the time of Lews Therin or maybe playing as someone during the last stand of Malkier (your mission - save baby Prince Lan). Lots of good stuff to mine for a quest
Anonymous
>>5944990 >Uh, how old is this stepson? 700 year old dragon shota
Anonymous
Just a work in progress concept I made for a potential game setting. I was inspired by extraction / looter shooters like Arena Breakout and Escape From Tarkov, and also videogames like Manhunt and Condemned Criminal Origins as well as that second film The Purge: Anarchy. I am still debating whether to make it post apocalyptic or maybe just near-collapse etc, this might determine the look of the game and the firearms
The idea is a sort of urban SERE (survival evasion resistance escape) scenario, you are being hunted by some mercenaries - it is a bit like that old John Woo / Jean Claude van Damme action film Hard Target (1993) but also heavily inspired by John Carpenter Escape From New York (1981).
Something that is holding me back: I really like the look of the biker gangs (see my gif here
>>5935911 ) except I know literally nothing about motorbikes lol except for the fact that they look cool and also I liked the bit in Mission Impossible 2 where Tom Cruise leaps out of one and shoots a Beretta. So I am not too sure where to go with the motorbikes etc. except there will probably be lots of menacing biker gang hunters with possible bdsm outfits and black helmets wielding submachine guns and DOING WHEELIES THERE WILL BE WHEELIES
Another difficulty is I want PHOTOREALISTIC top down / aerial view / birdseye overhead drone type shots of urban retail type areas, you know the abandoned shopping mall supermarket dept store type locations (think the Escape From Tarkov amazing Interchange level, or even that bizarre supermarket suicide cultist horror level from the FEAR 3 videogame) yet these top down images are really really hard to find. I have scoured googl, just give it a try, it is really hard to source a good photorealistic top down view of a supermarket for an rpg battlemap. I also have looked at some modern art depictions, I believe the contemporary photographers Brian Ulrich and Andreas Gursky deliver some abstract or hyperreal retail dystopia type imagery
The idea of the game is probably to just loot supermarkets / retail whilst evading the hunters (and probably then exfiltrate...?) I am also debating whether to make the game more post-apocalyptic / primitive ie low magazine type vagrant /Condemned Criminal origin style weaponry, baseball bats, shotguns, broken revolvers etc or adopt the more Arena Breakout / Tarkov style militaristic urban warfare (ballistic visors assault rifle setup etc).
But just something I was working on, maybe it can inspire other anons
Some random music inspiration, I was so impressed watching Escape From New York. This song is an arrangement of La Cathedrale Engloutie, Engulfed / Drowned Cathedral by Claude Debussy (1910) except it is a SYNTH arrangement by John Carpenter, hehe
La Cathedrale Engloutie, Escape From New York
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aVSXB7GP7Q0 The working title of this horror looter survivor game setting is UPYR. Oh also there are vampires
Anonymous
>>5945628 pic related is a visual reference to the biker hunters from John Woo / Jean Claude Van Damme Hard Target (1993) sort of all black leather black helmet look. In the film they actually don't directly shoot at the victims they just fire around them (to chase / corral them towards killing ground, so that the billionaire hunters who have paid for the privilege of murdering their quarry get to make the kill, deliver the finishing blow / take trophies etc) So maybe something like this look except at night, more bdsm like those early 2000s Marilyn Manson music videos and more neon / street lights and WHEELIES and glow and revving engines and burning flameout tires and things. In the film these bikers use MP5s, I thought about giving them more high tech weaponry. In my picture, I have an AC556k (auto version of mini 14) because it is sort of like PUBG battle royale lol and a bit primitive post apocalyptic scavenger looking, the other hunter / looter has a curious smg sorry you can barely see it but it is the US copy of the Carl Gustaf M45, the Smith and Wesson M76 after Sweden banned exports of the firearm because of Vietnam lol. I remember this gun because you may recall, Heath Ledger uses it in a memorable scene from The Dark Knight. Anyway I am undecided whether to make the setting postapocalyptic scavenging with rubbish broken savage looking guns (or even make guns very rare, just barbed wire baseball bats and machetes for everyone), or to go full military fetish and give everyone P90s or SIG MCXs and things. Maybe different gangs could have different things...?
Anyway maybe these ideas can inspire other anons with settings for games, I will just play Arena Breakout instead lol
Anonymous
>>5945586 No half measures.
Anonymous
>>5945547 >>5945585 pic related reveals the moment when the hero protagonist of The Wheel Of Time the innocent young farmhand Rand fron the idyllic pastoral haven of Two Rivers discovers his true destiny is to become The RAND Corporation, and also his aghast facial expression upon beholding his potential ethnic romantic interest
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>>5945586 Well if he passes the Harkness--
>shota Well, nevermind.
>>5945633 I'm with soijak on this one.
Anonymous
>>5941528 >>5945547 >>5945585 >>5945642 I had to look up her name, I mentally remember her only as the MASSIVE JAW CHIN WOMAN who castrates all the men (with sorcery). The amzn Wheel Of Time scriptwriters seem to acknowledge this meme
(conversation between prisoners regarding Liandrin, season 2 episode 2)
[Min] So, you're the possum that's been scratching at my wall. So, what did you do to piss off the blonde?
[Mat] Nothing.
[Min] Ah. Is it a sex thing, then? Yeah, she looks like she'd be into domination. Those cheekbones...
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>>5945528 Maverick Hunter was a great one.
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>>5945657 Actually my first thought on seeing "Liandrin" is not the Wheel Of Time red chin woman (have never read the books only hate/guilt watched amzn cringe tv series lol) but actually that Liandri Mining megacorporation from Unreal Tournament, I think beyond the deathmatch level in ut99 they also sponsored the robots in the later ut2k4 and unreal tournament 3 games. I wish they had never dropped this series, now because of Epic Games Unreal engine so many popular videogames have been ruined with that Fortnite cartoonish art style noooooo
Anonymous
I have an idea for one of those quests where you play as a fantasy person hunting down isekai'd people. But I want to insert as many anime tropes as I can think of and I need moar.
Anonymous
>>5945675 >hunting down iskeai'd people I feel pity for the PC given how every single isekai protag I know about has a dozen cheat skills.
Anonymous
>>5945675 >MC is given an old ratty cloak that makes them look like an old peasant, an enchanted turnip cart that is always somehow filled with slightly moldy produce, and an old horse equipped with horseshoes of speed >Hunts down isekai protags and sends them back by running them down ala Truck-kun Anonymous
>>5945675 Just don't make the plot twist be that all isekaijin are bad and you want to kill all of them mercilessly even if they've done nothing, except the female one because you're gay and that makes her good actually.
Anonymous
>>5945675 Isekais keep being distracted by MC's massive otome boobs and thinking she is their designated waifu instead of hunter.
Anonymous
>>5945680 For balancing reasons I'm limiting most, not all, of the isekai'd to only 1 cheat skill so every mission isn't against god incarnate.
>>5945685 >>5945690 This is exactly the type of style I'm looking for. I'm saving these ideas for later.
>>5945687 What I'm currently going for is that this is what most people believe but it'll pretty quickly become apparent that it isn't actually the case.
Anonymous
>>5945690 >They're also how she killed one of them >It's the inciting incident of the quest and how she joins/is forced to join the organization Anonymous
>>5945696 >What I'm currently going for is that this is what most people believe but it'll pretty quickly become apparent that it isn't actually the case. The part about isekai mcs being shitters, or the part about ignoring your so-called crusade because being a gay woman apparently absolves you of all your sins?
Anonymous
>>5945700 the part where every isekai dude is pure evil. I think I'd be too boring if they all were, though plenty of them will be simply to keep the plot rollin.
Anonymous
>>5945706 I guess for the sake of the story, but realistically speaking the average 'isekai protagonist' is a spineless loser who wouldn't do jackshit, even if they had an ridiculous cheat power, because their personalities are fucking weak, they have the power to kill a god but they crumble like a fucking crouton if a girl says 'hi' to them.
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>>5945675 This particular idea reminds me of the anti-isekai nobleman hunter quest from some time ago. It was pretty nice, hope it comes back one day.
Anonymous
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>>5945696 MC has a normal love interest who is somewhat oblivious to her clumsy attempts at seduction.
von Adlershorst
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>>5945726 >>5945726 The Adlershorst Dynasty Quest is back.
Anonymous
>be in nostalgic mood >go on archive and search for my old quest that I dropped 4 years ago and was actually pretty cringy >mfw someone mentioned it 2 months ago hoping for a continuation
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>>5945696 >>5945698 I'd play it for the giant tits
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Rolled 13 + 2 (1d123 + 2) Testing [b:lit]test[/b:lit]
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>>5945793 Guns, Magic and Madness Anonymous
>>5945628 >>5945631 >VAMPIRES I mentioned on the last qtg I was trying to desperately think of some clever contemporary twist on vampires, it is really quite hard, I am trying to imagine some original or unique approach to it.
An idea I was thinking about is to make it so that there is no distinction between vampires and hunters; there is basically no way to tell them apart.
So if you think of every vampire film, there is always this distinction, whether it was from the early proto gothic novels (vampires are foreigners / outsiders threatening Anglican England seducing all the young noblewomen or maybe it is Roman Catholicism or Papists or something) or later on they are a supernatural force with ancient lineage etc preying upon beauty, youth. Then you have all the dhampir stuff mixed progeny of human vampire bloodlines etc like Blade as a daywalker or Bloodrayne the videogame lol. I guess in Bloodborne the protagonist is basically a vampire although it is never even mentioned (all those blood bullets and bloodletting cutting saws, Cainhurst level etc).
So some idea where the hunters have taken on the attributes of vampires (maybe they have ingested vampire blood for strength? A bit like the ending of 30 Days Of Night etc) and also the vampires themselves are hidden unknowable unseen unmentioned, but there is really no means of distinguishing between hunter and hunted. I actually had this weird thought playing Arena Breakout I guess it applies to any looter extraction shooter lol, but basically all cultures and societies have some form of taboo or rite against desecrating the dead (it still happened, Egyptian tomb robbers etc but it was never met with anything other than cultural approbation and harsh punishment) but in a strange way the ethos of these videogames (maybe a legacy of post Soviet economic looting trauma from the Russian developers lol) is they are essentially inculcating and training a mindset of looting from corpses lol, this is seen as the means to "win" the victory condition and necessary to survival (in fact the scoring is such that more looting equals more rank points lol) And there is this weird scene in the Francis Ford Coppola Dracula (1992) which closely follows Bram Stoker's novel, where van Helsing gleefully desecrates the corpse of Lucy Westenra, encouraging her husband to transfix the heart of his dead bride (think about the imagery, this is the first act of "penetration" of his unconsummated marriage) before van Helsing decapitates her head in a fountain of gore, whilst this is claimed as the means to destroy a vampire ironically this rite immortalises the vampire or could be said to give birth to the vampire myth which is then re-enacted again and again across films and books and games etc.
So imagine a scenario where hammering a stake through the heart CREATES a vampire lol, that might cause a bit of a shock lol
Anonymous
>>5945811 weird vampire lore ideas I had to "modernise" the legend
- I liked the idea of 50 boxes of grave earth from the original Bram Stoker Dracula novel. So I mentioned a while back on a really old qtg here
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5644579/#5652828 (see images from this sequence of posts hehe)
of a technothriller horror game scenario about a vampire unleashed on a remote deepwater / subsea oil rig. So the modern equivalent of the vampire carrying coffin earth from Transylvania might be... drilling core / geological rock samples, from some abyss or oceanic trench. I did extensive research on this subject (ok look I just watched that Mark Wahlberg film Deepwater Horizon, it is an incredible film one of the best ever with the computer effects, I really wished I had seen it after the time of the Macondo explosion lol but mostly I was just relieved that I sponsored tech stocks at the time not oil and gas E&P or esg stuff hehe) I actually had a lot of stuff prepared but an oil rig drilling platform or FPSO is a really hard setting to convey with accuracy and authenticity. Another source of inspiration I had was an obscure PS2 videogame called Cold Fear, set entirely on some Coast Guard ship ? (it is a Resident Evil clone) during a seastorm, that game had some very impressive sea effects and environments
- maybe something like the idea of the vampires being consecrated or created im a ritual through watching some horrifying gore video. Ok everyone has been on /gif we are shocked by nothing on 4chan even that Mexican cartel face peeling video but perhaps to the average person vampirism is like data, it is just pure electronic horror torture gore data, that traumatises people and possesses them with unnatural hunger and desires... I suppose maybe I could have used some more traditional imagery like a Blood Grail or chalice or something lol but I like the idea of vampirism as just video data that infects and corrupts the minds of the innocent, hehe. And they feel a need to propagate it, to spread and reshare the contagion...
- no idea how to link back any of this horror lore to my supermarket / shopping mall Escape From Tarkov extraction shooter scenario.
>>5945628 >>5945631 I just really want lots of cool tactical gear and assault rifles and things but also VAMPIRES. please, please
Anonymous
>>5945642 >>5945628 >>5945631 >>5945811 >>5945813 hmmmm if anyone has any good vampire ideas inspirations or original things to steal from books games films etc please let me know, please do share
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>>5945811 >desecrating corpse / shock video >lore subversion of hammering a stake into corpse CREATES a vampire etc So I don't think the subversion is entirely as farfetched as it sounds. For example, this gif from Pulp Fiction where John Travolta hammers some sort of adrenaline needle into Uma Thurman's heart to revive her after she has overdosed herself... Most people have remarked that this resurrection imagery very closely parallels the vampire transfixion scene etc.
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>>5945804 I remember that! I think it's not cringy at all and was actually pretty good.
Anonymous
>>5945813 >perhaps to the average person vampirism is like data, it is just pure electronic horror torture gore data, that traumatises people and possesses them with unnatural hunger and desires... I suppose maybe I could have used some more traditional imagery like a Blood Grail or chalice or something lol but I like the idea of vampirism as just video data that infects and corrupts the minds of the innocent, hehe. And they feel a need to propagate it, to spread and reshare the contagion... Very Hellraiser Cenobite, actually. "We have such sights to show you," and such.
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Death knocks out her brother for being a shit.
>>5945840 >>5945840 Anonymous
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>>5945835 >>5944990 >EROTIC SPANKING tee hee hee I am so glad you mentioned this ReptoidQM. You get this picture of Marilyn Manson doing things to feet near the Belgian Cinquantenaire ? I imagine this is essentially what the European Union does on a daily basis yay. The true horror of Marilyn Manson is comparing the unbelievably hot women / concert attendees featured in this music video with splendid mesmerising cinematography to the actual appearance of fans of this genre of music, it is somewhat disappointing. Where have all the goth girls gone hmmmm, what has become of them hmmmm hmmmm
This Is The New Shit (Uncensored Lyrics) Marilyn Manson
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJWkmMGCy4w Everything has been said before
There's nothing left to say anymore
When it's all the same
You can ask for it by name
Babble babble bitch bitch
Rebel rebel party party
Sex sex sex and don't forget the violence
Blah blah blah got your lovey-dovey sad-and-lonely
Stick your stupid slogan in
Everybody sing along:
Are you motherfuckers ready...
For the NEW SHIT???
Stand up and admit
Tomorrow's never coming
This is the NEW SHIT
Stand up and admit...
Do we get it? NO!
Do we want it? YEAH!
This is the NEW SHIT
Stand up and admit
Anonymous
>>5936915 My current quest is degen so I can't. I'm running a vtuber quest on fiction.live atm and they picked the loli avatar.
Previous quests like Matsuno Inc. or "little dungeon that could" would've been easier to explain, but I still didn't tell anyone -- nor that I write to begin with
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>>5945916 >Matsuno Inc. Know that I am angry at you for dropping it.
Anonymous
>>5945916 You dropped idol quest.... for loli shit......
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>>5945916 I'm happy you're happy, I guess, but... Degenerate loli vtuber quest, huh? Eesh.
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>>5945916 >loli shit I can't stop you but I can judge you. What the fuck.
Anonymous
>>5945916 I’m willing to follow your quest if its a hagloli. Drop that name bruh.
TrashQM
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>>5946039 >>5946039 >>5946039 The Graverobber's Daughter resumes! Chlotsuintha continues to work her way through the Clerking House, but she is now worried that she gotten herself lost in the proverbial weeds - and will not be able to complete everything she set out to do tonight, regardless of how quickly she manages to get her hands on a Family Patent.
Anonymous
Been tempted to delve into the archives and read old quests, but don't know where to start on that. Has anyone ever compiled a list of pretty good quests? Especially the discontinued/completed ones.
Anonymous
>>5945916 gib a name and we'll see it
>>5945972 >You dropped idol quest.... for loli shit...... he dropped for other reasons dude, let it go
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Anonymous
>>5946080 I would recommend Moloch's stuff, but he didn't actually tag his name on suptg uhhhh
Northern Beasts
NerV: Second Daughter
uhhh he's done SMT, sky pirates, small gods setting, magical girls but the names escape me.
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>>5946154 Path of the Exorcist, most recently, which was great.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
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I finally got my shit together and finally posted an update:
>>5946177 Adrastus has announced war with Thebes at a state dinner - but how will Hippomedon react to the news?
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX ID:eEq4ELSW Fri 08 Mar 2024 04:46:56 No. 5946196 Report >>5946193 >>5946193 >>5946193 The Lady Knight's Quest has updated! A certain someone respects Rene's autonomy as a person by knocking on his dreamscape, but asserts her authority as his teacher by by coming in anyways.
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>>5946196 >Smut quests on /qst/ I thought we move past that baka
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>>5946196 You should use Google docs! They’re a lot more customizable. Just be sure to use a ghost account. Ao3 is also good.
Anonymous
>>5945628 >>5945631 >>5945811 >>5945813 >>5945814 >UTTERLY DEMENTED alternate worldbuilding setting I briefly contemplated A while back on some civilisation quest a player anon created a tribe of river vampires, I swear I came up with something similar independently before I read their lore post but I was secretly shamefully disheartened afterwards nooo lol
I had been inventing an utterly demented setting, it was inspired by the most random historical phenomenon like this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_Patrol but early medieval.
My setting was after some unspecified cataclysm, the entire world consists of one remaining river shaped as a folded space-filling fractal Peano curve
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_curve The river connects the last two remaining city states cultures, the western side is the GUNBOAT EMPIRE their city is Ashuelot (I chose this because it sounded like Camelot, Trump primary in New Hampshire lol also I wanted VENGEANCE against GRRMartin stealing stupid no context English names like Bolton for Game Of Thrones lol) they have medieval type handgonnes and cannons, maybe they look a bit like WFRP landsknechts etc (or Marco Polo?) Then on the other side of the river in the East is Shangdu, the Ascended Capital (I chose this because it is like de Quincey Xanadu) it is probably more akin to Karakorum or something, unleash all oriental Silk Road desert bit from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon stereotypical antics etc. Shangdu has some dredging ships reclaiming land from the world river. In between the two cities and the fractal river that folds in on itself is just steep gorges endless desert and wilderness ruins wasteland steppe and of course ravenous hungering feral VAMPIRES
pic related is some inspiration I had for the endless riverworld, it includes the precursors of oil rigs the SEADROME air platform and also ww2 Maunsell Forts sea castle yay
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Forts along the Thames estuary. I kept oscillating between whether to make the setting medieval or just conventional post-apocalyptic argh
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>>5946080 Fuck it, I'll recommend an old drawquest of mine from, Jesus fucking Christ I'm old, nine years ago. Happening Skyline, which was a mix of Event Horizon with Ruby Quest, completed with only 5 threads. It was pretty fun to run, even if I was updating at a rhythm that would be utterly insane to do today.
Anonymous
>>5945628 >>5945631 >>5945811 >>5945813 >>5945814 >>5946217 There was going to be some lore about the vampires practising sky burial, I got the name UPYR from looking at the etymology, I read somewhere a possibly made-up speculation that vampire comes from UPYR "unburned" ie uncremated corpse. So the Unburned, the feral vampires are actually the true human survivors / descendants? of the cataclysm that reshaped the riverworld / floodland versus the city dwellers (maybe a Fallout vault or Metro 2033 situation? or those survivors from Tom Cruise Oblivion film lol)
I was quite attracted to the idea of "the world map is just one linear straight line a river endlessly folded on itself" because it makes delineating locations easier literally you could draw a line map like A-B-C etc, I got this idea from an OSR setting I read where the entire world destinations were just set along a straight line on a neverending bridge. There was going to be a setup where none of this lore was ever going to be explained, it would be portrayed as an ordinary medieval fantasy world, none of the NPCs realise the bizarreness of the realm in which they resided. But after spending a while researching and investigating this setting, I discarded it because it felt too ridiculous and unbelievable, untethered from reality etc also I didn't have tremendous confidence in my ability to create vampire wuxia lol
Anonymous
>>5946222 >>5946217 This sounds potentially neat. Your writing and QMing style is a bit avante garde anyway, and your settings and narratives heavily symbolic, so I think you could make t work for those folks who are familiar with your approach.
Anonymous
guys, Akira Toriyama passed away.
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>>5946265 Goodbye, legend.
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>>5946265 Rip, Mexico must be in shambles rn
I still remember the days of being a little retard and screaming DBZ moves on the playground with my friends.
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>>5946240 Thank you kind anon but I actually think my ideas there were a bit incoherent, I do not possess the courage of Hideo Kojima Death Stranding tier shameless CRINGE CREATIVE POWER to execute it, but I just wanted to share my worldbuilding inspirations.
I think some anons mentioned or did waterworld or submarine / maritime quests in the past, so maybe the seadrome fortress / oil rig thing
>>5945813 >>5946217 could be used in that sort of post apocalyptic setting.
Pic related shows Norman Reedus response to whatever Kojima was trying to convey in Death Stranding. At least this trailer did not feature a cyborg ninja guitar laser gun
Anonymous
>>5934328 >>5934330 >>5934362 >>5934373 >>5934433 >BURGER FANTASY >utopian detournement / subversion of tg burgerpunk genre >happy game streamers promoting burgers etc This is a clever idea hehe
I mentioned before I was really impressed by the Gerard Butler film Gamer (2009)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamer_(2009_film) back then when I watched it I immediately recognised it as a prescient film. It is not the most intellectual or sophisticated critique lol and in fact the action gunbattle sequences are a bit cheap fake digital muzzle flash FX looking but the basic premise (world divided into two garish / lurid simulations, Society and Slayers with population renting their bodies out to an audience alternately for virtual sex or murder violence) was pretty compelling
Here is Gerard Butler wielding his dual beta C mag G36k, I like how someone decided to design ammunition holders to exactly resemble the shape of two testicles beside a penis
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>>5946282 obligatory no explanation Gamer (2009) film gif. I have a thing with the idea of puppet people / partitioned memory or consciousness being rented out for pleasure entertainment purposes, I remember Joss Whedon did this in that old Dollhouse tv series, there is something incredibly hot about this cyberpunk idea
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>>5946265 He fr for this one.
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>>5946265 rip
Dragonball is kino, he left behind a great series
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>>5945916 pease revert to sanity. Bring back little dungeon.
Anonymous
>>5945916 >>5946055 >>5946081 It's called "So You Want To Be A VTuber?" on akun/fiction live
It doesn't actually have any porn or smut in it, but the players voted for the MC to use a loli baba as her vtuber persona
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>>5946335 >NEET becoming a bratty loli streamer Mhm. Not bad.
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Fri 08 Mar 2024 09:50:22 No. 5946348 Report Quoted By:
>>5946338 >>5946338 >>5946338 Lodestar's second thread has had its final update. Please await the third thread once this one is about to or has just fallen off. It's been a blast so far!
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The Adlershorst Dynasty Quest has been updated.
>>5946358 >>5946360 Anonymous
>>5946282 >>5934328 >>5934330 >BURGERPUNK COMBAT STREAMER I strongly approve of this setting I created a visual aesthetics moodboard. Your name is Rogan Kappa you are an elite 360 noscope CQB TIER ONE BURGER OPERATOR you are trying to loot the gamergirl golden bathwater (it is piss) you must maintain meditative bullet time vigilance combat focus by nonstop injecting pharmacokinetic hype aggression psychostimulants like the obesity drug Zepbound in an orgasmic 24hr nonstop videogaming narcotic-fuelled rage fiend frenzy in order to maintain LLY share price trajectory, it looks like pic related
Anonymous
>>5946372 What is the opposite of BURGERPUNK?
Anonymous
>>5946373 Sicklepunk
Most of the world has been sectioned off into closed communities, not because of some great catastrophe, but to minimize costs, environmental impact, and risks of ideological divergence.
Life within a community is fairly comfortable after they FINALLY worked out the agricultural logistics to keep everyone fed, but now there is very little variety within a single City, whether in taste or nutrition. Lifespans rarely go beyond 60 due to this, intentionally maximizing the working uptime of human lives.
The brunt of conflict occurs as intra-City politics, backstabbing each other outside of public view. Actual, skilled chefs and farmers are precious resources, traded around and often killed as collateral in conflicts. Only the ones filmed for news segments live safely, but they can be pulled out for one reason or another.
Protagonists would be either a chef/farmer trying to survive, a politician hungry for power, or small rebel groups trying to dodge what still exists of the global sensor net to bring seeds and produce to a different City.
Anonymous
>>5946373 >>5946379 I thought about the semiotics very carefully and consulted
https://cari.institute/aesthetics (recommend this website, it is fascinating).
The immediate temptation is to reposition along some hierarchial value axis of conspicuous consumption, eg opposite of BURGERPUNK some sort of gastro chic bourgeois dining aesthetic etc but this is actually incorrect, because it is still a form of consumption.
So think like this, if BURGERPUNK is about
-ingesting, eating, consuming
-infrastructure of convenience, drive-thru, fast turnover, QSR (quick service restaurant) industry etc
-modernity, anthropogenic reshaped urban environment
The antithesis is not just "upscale / hipster restaurant style luxury consumption" It is probably closer to something like those eremitic penitent desert prophets praying on a pillar / anorexic saintess living in seclusion immured in a cave denying themselves food lol in the era of St Jerome, Macarius of Egypt or Augustine etc.
So MONKPUNK or HERMITPUNK??
Alternatively, if you are unwilling to jettison the consumption angle, something that emphasises great difficulty, inconvenience / toxicity of consumption, like those Bear Grylls desert survivalist videos of him squeezing fluids and dung water from rotting camel bladders and drinking them to slake his thirst. Something along these lines for an alternative to BURGERPUNK
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>>5945916 >ditched The Little Dungeon that Could for loli vtuber quest Anonymous
>>5946379 >>5946373 >>5946372 >>5946380 >what about BURGERPUNK but communist? / transposed to a non American setting? I can see the idea but I don't think it is the opposite of BURGERPUNK because intrinsic to the aesthetic is a statement on modernity and industrialisation. Burgers are extremely political (think first MCD McDonalds opening in Moscow after Cold War, and those first headlines of Ukraine war sanctions US QSR chains YUM brands / KFC, MCD etc withdrawing from Russia etc) if you read the Economist (do not do this, it is an evil vampire propaganda publication) you know they commonly cite the Big Mac Index to compare international Purchasing Power Parity (measure affordability of the same standardised item, a Big Mac, across various countries with McDonalds chains etc)
Pic related is an advert I remember for KFC / YUM brands, I thought this one was very clever. This advert is more for an investor relations type business publication audience though lol
Anonymous
>>5946388 it's not a diametric opposite, but I wasn't aiming for that. It's still going to need punk SOMEwhere
Anonymous
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>>5946388 Looks AI generated
Anonymous
>>5946379 >>5946388 >>5946395 hehe I quite liked your homespun modest communal / agrarian eco city-state vision anon, it reminded me a bit of the Arts And Crafts movement of William Morris.
Unfortunately akin to a process of cultural phagocytosis, BURGERPUNK has already ingested it and regurgitated it as COTTAGECORE noooo
But nevertheless, you get this random poem I once read about in the Paris Review, if any anons here ever get married you can use this, tee hee hee
The poem is noted for being fairly unpresumptuous (does not make any gender or hetero homo type assertions) if you are into that sort of thing, it is just a nice poem
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2010/08/06/books-for-the-subway-reading-at-weddings/ Love Is Enough
William Morris
Love is enough: though the World be a-waning,
And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining,
Though the sky be too dark for dim eyes to discover
The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder,
Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder,
And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over,
Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter;
The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter
These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.
>4chan wife procurement method >Mongolian bride horseback abduction Anonymous
Anonymous
Ivan
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>>5946291 >>5946291 >>5946291 New DECISION up in Antegrian Occupation Quest, and the practical aspect has officially started
Anonymous
There are too many damn fantasy quests right now. They've cornered my market again.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
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>>5941608 Archivebro, I’ve finally summoned the confidence to ask for your review of Seven Against Thebes Quest (should you choose to accept this request).
I’m in for the full ride now, so I may as well do the best job possible - your feedback would be appreciated!
Anonymous
>>5946335 >doesn't actually have any porn or smut Not so bad then. AT that point it's just a child avatar, if they aren't lewd about it.
>>5946379 >Most of the world has been sectioned off into closed communities, not because of some great catastrophe, but to minimize costs, environmental impact, and risks of ideological divergence. Solarpunk Cleanup Agent does a bit of this.
Anonymous
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>>5946475 But are any of them GOOD?
Anonymous
I'm tired of fantasy, is there a GOOD sci-fi quest?
Anonymous
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>>5946499 Try my quest, it's the best of all time.
Anonymous
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>>5946380 >So MONKPUNK or HERMITPUNK?? I think the word you are looking for is ASCETICPUNK. A man who refuses the niceties of all things and routines pushes himself with rigors and hardships that are uneccessary. Not strictly for enlightenment, but because he rejects the notion of the world around him philosophically and he chooses the simplest of living. Olden days Hardcore ascetics purportedly used to eat raw meats and drink river water instead of cooking their food and drinking normal wines and beers.
If there was ever an opposite of rampant soul-crushing consumerism, it would have to be self-destructive return to monke asceticism.
Anonymous
>>5946379 >ECO-PUNK SEED TRANSPORTER >BRAVE REBEL FACTION SEED CARRIERS The SALVATION OF HUMANITY I like this concept, originally my mind went to those white windpowered sky gliders from Nausicaa but then I remembered, anime is really horrible
So what better than a TACTICAL DRUID these SEED CARRIERS wear GHILLIE SUITS you know they are very peaceful and environmentally conscious because of the nurturing camouflage fronds of grass and flowers and vines adorning their MASSIVE antimateriel SNIPER RIFLES, yay
Also instead of metal armoured plates inserted into their ballistic vest they just strap on a sack of fertiliser to absorb ricochets and piercing ammunition rounds. DUNG ARMOUR your BULLETS CANNOT PENETRATE MY DUNG
von Adlershorst
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Adlershorst Dynasty Quest update: Meet one of the monarchs of the great powers.
>>5946710 >>5946716 >>5946722 Anonymous
Any interest in a Star Wars quest where you take on the role of squad leader for a special forces squad? You'll pick between being a Rebel or Imperial squad.
Anonymous
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>>5946729 >Republic/Imperial Commandos quest Sounds based, run it!
Anonymous
I wanna make a simple quest about a Succubus roommate.
Anonymous
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>>5946759 I mean. You're obviously going to get disappointed people when you run "your roommate is a sex demon but the sex demon does no sex"
Ultimately depends what the point of the quest is
NC-17 !!5BuukXGLH01
Man, five threads in and I'm still trynna figure out the pacing. Like, I usually aim for 4500+ word updates 'cause there's more room for characterization and plotstuffs, but on the other hand smaller updates work much better when it comes to crunch, action scenes, time triggers etc. At the same time, posting small updates makes me feel like I'm not honoring my players' investment. And then there's the whole post-a-day vs session debate which is also a factor as far as flow is concerned. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. I find QMing to be extremely fun and rewarding and I'm really glad I decided to take the plunge, I just thought I would've found my footing by now. Am I making any sense?
Anonymous
>>5946759 MC gains power by performing chaste and pure actions and the ultimate goal is to get succmate to attend church.
Anonymous
>>5946759 If you set expectations and an amusing angle like you yourself and
>>5946766 pitched, you should be fine.... But yes, maybe consider a less inherently-sexy variety of demon if you really want to avoid mixed messaging and horny anons.
Anonymous
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>>5946759 I think having it be in the OP os enough
Anonymous
>>5946765 Been running quests on 4chan since 2010 and I still don't know what I'm doing.
Anonymous
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>>5946781 >I'm dating Gemory and want to bring her to church! The newest romcom manga quest.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Anonymous
SOLARPUNK QUEST QM
Anonymous
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>Yes, we write quests, how could you tell?
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
>>5946379 >>5946380 >>5946487 The word "Burgerpunk" never crossed my mind, but the first thing I wanted when establishing the setting of Solarpunk Cleanup Agent Quest was "rabid contrarianism of globalism," which is quite similar to making the opposite of Burgerpunk. In the setting, the entire world collapsed only because a couple places did and that dragged down everyone else. Even the most far-flung reaches of the world got into trouble because someone somewhere had one bad idea. The people of Finland and Italy were not involved in their apocalyptic event and still suffered because one happened and they couldn't live without those that were involved the world away, and they came to hate the idea of national trade at the cost of independence and autonomy, which plays into the most critical factor of autonomy; food production and the environment. It became immediately obvious these were critical to be cared for if peoples wanted to avoid eating from the same hand that strangled them.
"Burgerpunk" is burgerpunk because of the ubiquity of systems and services. The burgers are frankly irrelevant. In real life I could drive 1000 miles and still find a Buc-ee's. If I could drive to the moon, I would want to see that beaver there too because I am not stopping at the McDonald's. This idea of "this shit is everywhere" that goes hand in worldwide trade because worldwide communication and cooperation is all about finding someone new to sell these things to. These things become inescapable. It *must* grow. So the opposite of a system that must grow wide is a system that must hold itself back. Quotas. Regulations. Rules and red tape. Instead of demanding you buy more, they demand you to ask for less. There's not enough space for everyone to have a McMansion and a car, so get out of your pod and walk if you live in a city. If you don't, you get no infrastructure to speak of because it's a waste of resources, but at least you have space enough for a nigh-medieval house and there's probably less surveillance tasked to make sure you're not biting off more than you can chew.
>>5946801 I'm alive and alright, yeah. Thanks for asking.
Illuminator !!Dagy5xbWaim
Illuminator !!Dagy5xbWaim ID:ooDflAlL Sat 09 Mar 2024 01:59:02 No. 5946831 Report Quoted By:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJtFXTIEwYQ trying my hand at a Wheel of Time Quest, come join in!
>>5946827 Anonymous
>>5946781 I was thinking more about the angle of how annoying it must be to live with a being that can enter your dreams, nothing too serious or inherently fetishy.
Main problem would be simply that MC can't sleep well because she's there, and how to solve that without just kicking her out because demon-ness aside she's just a seemingly normal person.
That and if you upset her there may be consequences.
Anonymous
>>5946842 Sounds potentially fun, but if
>How do I make sure anons are not disappointed when there are no lewds or any nsfw content? is a big concern, just call her a dream demon.
Anonymous
>>5946845 Not a HUGE concern, just don't want shit that will get me banned on a blue board and keeps the thing relatively lighthearted
Anonymous
>>5946819 There's one thing notable about this type of setting. There's enough global regulation being enforced that you can conceivably power DOWN weapons and materials.
Make a steel-bone composite that's 3 times lighter but just as durable. Now everyone can fly around like superheroes without creating an arms race for special resources/capitalism, and you could still get high tech stuff like mecha. Peak human condition still plays a major factor alongside scifi gear.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
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>>5946842 Ah. You are referring to the old meaning of succubus - a demon that sits on you and causes nightmares.
It’s definitely doable as long as you make the opening posts about what “succubus” means in your setting.
>>5946849 You can talk about sex in-universe but detailed descriptions of sex happening in-universe might get your post deleted. Stick to links to other websites like ao3 or google docs if you’re doing that.
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
>>5946851 Yeah. I still had technology keep advancing in certain regards, primarily chemistry and material sciences, with the intention that they recycle the things they use/break/kill into more usable resources. I've seen a guy make knives out of chocolate and smoke, genetically modifying and chemically treating lignum vitae before giving it a nice coat with the right laminate varnish would be definitely comparable to metal, and sneaking some metal foam into your equipment and construction would make things a lot lighter for how sturdy they are. And this is tech that is available today, just rather pointless to pursue.
There's some things that don't have a real scientific explanation in my setting, like solid-state warm hydrogen which unleashes a lot of force as it is decompressed back into a gas, and is used as fuel for jet-powered weapons and occasionally armor as it becomes trialed for being an actual vehicular fuel source. Being hydrogen, it quickly mixes with the oxygen in the air and leaves a trail of mist where it passes and makes bubbles on the jet exhausts. Despite using a bunch of practical things, I still value the rule of cool.
Oh and on the topic of eco-friendly mecha, seeing this image may or may not have been a big influence in actually balling up and starting the quest.
Anonymous
Where is TIMEKILLER QM with Star Wartz TRAVELLER QST & SABER & MUSKET QST!?!
Anonymous
>>5946759 They shouldn't be disappointed by lack of lewds knowing full well that this is a blue board and isn't Akun.
Then again, we have some real smooth-brained retards between the faggots who don't know what "punk" means and the literal nonce who thinks a mean action isn't mean if mean people derive enjoyment from it.
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>>5946966 You’re that cunt that thinks “punk” means prostitutes? Good to see you again. It ain’t the Elizabethan era anymore. We don’t use punk to mean that anymore.
Anonymous
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>>5946966 > a mean action isn't mean if mean people derive enjoyment from it What are you even on about, 1post shit-stirring anon?
>>5946873 The jet-propelled axe is its own justification.
Anonymous
Wheel of Time Quest updated and looking for players:
>>5946827 if you don't know the books, the world or the concepts in them, don't worry, I'll explain them as we go.
Anonymous
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>>5947017 Your writing is really impressive, anon! A very good opening! (Fingers crossed for your Aes Sedai being a treacherous secret evil Black Ajah, hehe)
Anonymous
>>5946944 I counter your lyrics with this song below
The Black Angels, Young Men Dead
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VvKjpGP6P5Y I was actually looking for some motorcycle gang inspiration music,
>>5945631 >>5945628 I vaguely remembered the guitar opening refrain of this song but confused Black Angels with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club lol spent ages searching for the wrong band. For some reason I associate all motorcycle gang music with Vietnam, it just feels right, similar era etc. I really wish I knew more about motorcycles to write convincingly for the setting, I guess you have Vietnam Harley Davidson type Sons Of Anarchy ? look, bosozoku Akira type cyber Japanese superbike type look, the aforementioned black helmet stunt bike John Woo / Hard Target Asian biker assassin look
>>5935911 and maybe that dirt / trail bike post Apocalyptic Mad Max Fury Road or Days Gone ps4 game hehe
***
Fire for the hills pick up your feet and lets go
Head for the hills pick up steel on your way
And when you find a piece of them in your sight
Fire at will don't you waste no time
Another thought of the unaware
Addiction in disguise
With a drop of blood
You will take them out, for me
Fire from the hills pick up speed and lets go
Fire for real yeah shoot to kill with no aim
Head for the hills yes eyes on the camp fire glow
Creep up there like a white mink hiding in snow
And out of the black a figure forms
A soldier in the sky
With a drop of love
Trying to set you free
Run for the hills pick up your feet and lets go
We did our jobs pick up speed now lets move
The trees cant grow without the sun in their eyes
And we can't live if we're too afraid to die
Hold on tight yes hold on tight you're too slow
Fire at the breeze that blows these thoughts through our mind
Hire only thieves to steal the thoughts from our heads
Anonymous
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>>5947061 >>5945631 >>5945628 >>5935911 It goes without saying that the best motorbike gang song is this one, they really went full Anton Corbijn raw black and white with the staging hehe. Thrust your pelvis rhythmically to this
GASOLINE The Dead Weather (live version at Third Man Records)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=biLBPYdrOLM To be afraid is a luxury
So cool your engines for me
I don't want a sweetheart
I want a machine
I love you the most, I do
When you're so close to me
I can smell the gasoline
To be soft is too easy, huh
Don't get soft on me
I don't want a sweetheart, sweetheart
I want a machine
I love you the most, I do
When you're so close to me
I can smell the gasoline
Anonymous
>>5942567 >>5946868 >walls >INSIDE PLACE I have not played Silent Hill 4 but for some reason this image feels appropriate
Anonymous
Name 10 quest characters you know
Anonymous
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>>5947073 Do they have to be player characters? Characters with screen time? Characters that simply exist in the quest in the background? That is a very open ended question.
Al-Kimist
"The Empire of Al-Kimia-- A land once ruled by powerful cabals of alchemists. The Alchemists waged war on each other, driven by hunger for gold and power. With each passing battle, Alchemists slowly drove each other to extinction.> Dad, I can't take this. You're better off saving it for Aubergine. (Stress +1, Family affinity +1, Reliability +1) > Dad, how can I leave when the woman I love is here? (Love +1, Reliability +2) > There's someone I love, but love can be found anywhere there's opportunity. (Love +2, Courage +1) > Thank you dad. Training my body with farm work has really paid off. (Courage +2, Combat +1)
Anonymous
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>>5946759 >How do I make sure anons are not disappointed when there are no lewds or any nsfw content? Well what else does your quest have to hook players?
There are a few other creatues and monsters that are said to eat dreams. Pokemon has two dream eating mons based on Tapirs. Could also world build on how your Suck busses are different.
Anonymous
>>5947110 Intro is good enough but you need to explain how the stats work.
Anonymous
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>>5947110 Needs more incest and grey morality
Anonymous
>>5947117 They're not so much stats, but just an indicator of the protagonist's personality to start with. Like, is he the reliable type? Is he the type to fall in love easily? Is he brave? Does he like fighting?
Anonymous
>>5946765 >Like, I usually aim for 4500+ word updates Do you mean characters? Because there's no way your updates are close to 5k words.
Anonymous
>>5947119 I did a similar thing with my first quest. The opening choices were implicit in the character's taste and style, her choice of hunting prey ranging from birds to wolverines to another person, down to how she prepared and thought about eating it. But even so, I described my stats in detail before making people pick between them. So, for /qst/, I would recommend
>setup >mechanical explanation of primary stats to be decided >flavorful poll Al-Kimist
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>>5947125 Thanks, that's actually very helpful and constructive advice. I'll include an explanation of the "personality" stats.
Al-Kimist
>>5947125 [[Al-Kimia Story has 4 different “Personality” stats. Courage increases your affinity for fighting and allows you to keep a cool head in stressful situations, Love means you're passionate and prone to making decisions based on love, Knowledge increases your affinity for acquiring knowledge and considering the breadth of your options and Reliability is your affinity for learning about the mundane like cooking and mending clothes.
When you make decisions against Marron's wants in-the-moment, you acquire stress. Accumulate enough stress and you will accrue penalties to your roll depending on your stress level.
While playing, you can also obtain ‘Affinity’ for the people you meet. Essentially, this is your level of closeness with that person or group]]
If I include this between the story intro and the choices, is this enough information about the various personality types?
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>>5946873 Well you clearly have the project moon market covered, so if I do something similar I may go more along the lines of CrossCode
Anonymous
>>5947129 What I did back then for my quest was define what would happen if you were at the lowest possible option of a stat and compare it to the maxed value of that respective stat, to define what it means to invest in and have a lot of this particular character trait. Unless there is something you mean to hide from having Max Love of Max Reliability, I feel like a comparison between having none of the stat and its greatest extent is healthy for letting players know what they're getting into with their commitments.
Between a flavorful OP and a second/third post with this information disclosed and permitted to be voted on, I think you can mitigate a lot of people's conniptions on what they're getting into when they vote for different personality traits.
Al-Kimist
>>5947136 Thank you so much, I'm so glad I asked for advice instead of going full bore with what I intended.
I'll go ahead and write in some contrasts between low and high personality traits.
Al-Kimist
>>5947136 [[Al-Kimia Story has 4 different “Personality” stats.
Courage allows you to keep a cool head in stressful situations. Someone with low Courage would be cowardly, while someone with high Courage can keep their cool even when fighting a much stronger foe. People with high courage can also be reckless, ignoring fear even when it serves a purpose.
Love is the stat of passion. Someone with low Love can come across as cold and unfeeling while someone with high love can be bolstered by the feelings they have for others. People with high love can be philanderers, pursuing love above all else.
Knowledge increases your affinity for acquiring knowledge. Someone with low knowledge can be stupid and forgetful, while someone with high knowledge can recall information quickly and dedicate themselves to study. People with high knowledge can be paralyzed by indecision from all the knowledge they hold.
Reliability is your affinity for learning about the mundane. Someone with low Reliability can have their head in the clouds while someone with high reliability can be counted on to stay steadfast in the worst of times. People with high Reliability can be bad at dreaming of a brighter future, preferring instead the certainty of the present.
When you make decisions against Marron's wants in-the-moment, you acquire stress. Accumulate enough stress and you will accrue penalties to your roll depending on your stress level.
While playing, you can also obtain ‘Affinity’ for the people you meet. Essentially, this is your level of closeness with that person or group]]
Here's the revised version of the stat explanations. Hopefully this suffices.
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>>5947138 With all due respect, I am just a guy. I didn't start many quests, but I feel like the way I started my quests mitigated a bunch of people being upset that it wasn't what they wanted. I personally think these are good practices, and I can't imagine a reality where they aren't, but don't take my word as gospel. I just believe it is good nature to tell people what they are getting into if they invest into one thing, and what they are missing if they don't invest into this other thing.
To provide an example of what I did back when:
>Sobriety is how alert and clear your mind is, which can put you above most other aloof and absentminded Tiefs, be they friend or foe. >At Base (0) Sobriety, you are painfully oblivious, in a state of lucidity equal to one half-asleep. At 1 Sobriety, you are the average Tief; inattentive and bad at remembering faces, but gets the gist of important things. At 2 Sobriety, you are more aware of your surroundings than most of your peers. At 5 Sobriety, your eyes are always stinging from being open all the time, looking for things it may not be able to see but you detect regardless. Sobriety was a sort of unique case because it was such an exotic stat that explicitly isn't Intelligence or Wisdom or anything like that. I had to explain a bit more in that regard, because the character archetypes ranged from "bumbling fucktard" to "mellow stoner with a greatsword" to "woman who has seen too much and is culturally obliged to see much, much more", and I *believe* my descriptions portrayed as much.
Descriptions should have a similar level of transparency into portraying what kind of character the stats would create, and therefore what the players would spend a good portion of the quest playing as before they grow their stats and change as a protagonist.
Ultimately, it's your quest. Include what you will or won't, I just believe transparency on what players will get is a good practice.
>>5947142 This is much more welcoming and comprehensive on the directions your quest could go and what the player character is capable of doing. I like the almost negative traits of the max-level investments you described, and admit I am a sucker for those myself. Personally this is a great improvement.
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>>5947110 I need more of a hook than just "generic fantasy".
Why should I play your Quest over others? What will it do differently? The stats seem interesting, you should probably develop that more if its going to be a major thing
NC-17 !!5BuukXGLH01
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>>5946783 Here's to the next fourteen years, then!
>>5947122 Fuck, I'm retarded. Yeah, I meant characters.
von Adlershorst
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Adlershorst Dynasty Quest Update
>>5947204 >>5947206 Anonymous
>>5946765 I've ran a few quests before which were all done in session style, but if I ever do another one I think I'm gonna go for one daily update. While it's not as immediately rewarding I think the added perks of being inclusive towards all timezones and extra time for player discussion (something I really love) makes up for it.
Anonymous
>>5946759 > make the MC an angel > Go read Good Omens > Run what basically amounts to the beginning of that relationship Anonymous
I want to make the opening few updates affect the MC's character through the dialog that the players vote for. Should I just make the votes more implied or affix an actual tag like [Haughty] to the vote?>”Wait! You’re hurt,” You bend down and start to heal his wound with your magic, you can’t stand to see someone in such a state. >”Wait! You’re hurt,” You bend down and start to heal his wound with your magic, you can’t stand to see someone in such a state. [Good-Natured] [Unlocks Healing Magic]
ReptoidQM
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>>5947110 >>5947129 >>5947142 I'm intrigued enough to check it out!
>>5947260 Good taste, anon.
>>5947268 I've tried with tags and without, and I find that the tags are best early on (to establish how cause and effect relationships work with votes and stats and such) and can be dropped or used less frequently later. For choices where the intent or implications might not be clear, though, and yet will be far-reaching or lasting, I sometimes bring them back.
Anonymous
>>5946765 I think your pacing is fine. Literally the only complaint I have about your quest is the long delays and hiatuses. The rest is superb stuff.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
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This is the second-biggest vote of Seven Against Thebes Quest - how will Hippomedon contribute to the Argive war effort?
>>5947337 This would be an excellent time for new players to jump in
or just shitpost, that's fun too Anonymous
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>>5947260 That sounds amusing.
>Captcha: K0KG Anderson Thorell (QM)
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>>5947413 >>5947413 >>5947413 First update of the weekend is out for the Monster Girl Facility Quest. Douse your flamethrower in holy water, request the Lord's blessings, and recite chapter two, verses nine to twenty-one from the Book of Armaments! This rabbit monster girl is dynamite. And it's time to kill her once and for all!
Anonymous
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>>5945675 The Isekai Inquisition is now up! Join in to chargen for Lorina de Lindan and start hunting your first Stranger while learning under an Inquisitor.
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>>5945675 The Isekai Inquisitoon is now live! Join in to chargen Lorina de Lindan and start hunting your first Stranger under the wing of a more experienced Inquisitor.
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Beginning updates for the night!
>>5947585 >>5947585 Illuminator !!Dagy5xbWaim
Illuminator !!Dagy5xbWaim ID:ooDflAlL Sun 10 Mar 2024 01:51:14 No. 5947730 Report Quoted By:
Wheel of Time Quest has updated:
>>5947154 Anonymous
can I make a quest about a man who is always covered in cum
NC-17 !!5BuukXGLH01
Final Girl Quest update is up.
>>5947737 Anonymous
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>>5947732 Probably. Sometimes jannies wipe out perfectly good (or at least not actually abandoned or overtly sexual) quests in big sweeps of troll threads, and we DO have a few troll threads kicking around.
Also, I would wager yours would be a troll thread.
Anonymous
>>5947732 Only if you use more than just "cum". Use splooge, baby batter, man sauce, male tears, jizz, ejaculate, semen, spunk, choked chicken grease, white gold, alabaster juice, and everyone's favorite - boy gunk. You know, etc.
I assume it'll be slice of life?
NC-17 !!5BuukXGLH01
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>>5947228 I did ask for time zones to try and figure out an inclusive posting window but not everyone wants to share, which is completely understandable.
>player discussion Always a treat.
>>5947316 >long delays and hiatuses I'm working on that, I promise. It's just that juggling IRL stuff and QMing is a pretty tough balancing act. It's a skill which means I can learn it, but I'm definitely not there yet.
>The rest is superb stuff You just made a grown-ass man blush.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
von Adlershorst
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I require a tiebreaker vote, so if anyone is interested. It would be much appreciated.
>>5947477 >>5947484 Anonymous
...you know, in still kinda lowkey fixin to run a Homestuck Quest.
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>5948010 Hey man, did you know he is STILL kinda lowkey fixin to run a homestuck quest? Any day now.
Anonymous
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>>5948007 this is another soj meme
Anonymous
>>5947758 >I assume it'll be slice of life? No, political thriller
von Adlershorst
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>>5948090 I require anons who are willing to roll, I would appreciate anyone willing to do so
Anonymous
>>5945813 >>5947732 >>5947758 >>5948069 >POLITICAL THRILLER? >A MAN, COVERED IN... I imagine this is what it looks like when subsea tectonic plates from the Cenozoic era erupt and ejaculate into your face.
Imagine waiting 65 million years for sexual release
Bratwurst
>>5948108 You're a political prisoner who was subjected to horrific human experiments that fundamentally altered your biology. Now you seek to-
> live a normal life > strike fear into the hearts of the same men that created you > expose the atrocities of the regime and start a revolution > write in Anonymous
Can I make a quest about Goku going back in time and joining the Nazi party?
Indonesian Gentleman
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>>5948200 Too soon, man, too soon.
Anonymous
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>>5948169 >one and a half sentences of quest backround >no details regarding the setting or the world >three generic choices and a write-in option If that's all the effort you're going to put in to start off your quest idea, I might as well just put a one word write-in and be done with it.
>COOM Anonymous
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>>5948200 This is dumb, but a DB quest where Goku is adopted by General Red and the Red Ribbon Army could be interesting.
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX ID:eEq4ELSW Sun 10 Mar 2024 19:28:28 No. 5948266 Report Quoted By:
>>5948240 >>5948240 >>5948240 The Lady Knight's Quest has updated!
ReptoidQM
New thread is up for anyone playing (or interested in joining) Seekers of the Esoteric!
We've got:
>Transhumanism >Transdimensional visitors >Transgender goblins >Dungeons >Dragons >Realpolitik >Religion >Hippies >Cultists >Manifest Destiny >The Age of Aquarius >The Singularity >Polygamy >Parthenogensis >Callbacks to Reptilian Infiltrator and Dragonborn Antipaladin >...And more! >>5948262 Anonymous
>>5947746 I love your gifs dude
Anonymous
>>5948277 >>5947746 You both produce some really striking visuals for your quests, which I admire.
Anonymous
>>5947746 When will we get Final Girl's final fight and final update?
von Adlershorst
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Adlershorst Dynasty update.
>>5948292 >>5948296 >>5948299 DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Sun 10 Mar 2024 20:14:59 No. 5948309 Report Quoted By:
Another day, another time to mourn the lack of thread 3 of Pokemon : Loser
Anderson Thorell (QM)
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>>5948282 >>5948282 >>5948282 Monster girl facility quest has been updated! Probably one of the final updates before the quest gets archived, so let's see if we can turn this huge mess into a win still...
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>>5948277 >>5948279 Here I am, blushing again. Thanks a bunch for the kind words, guys.
You can find the secrets of the craft right here!
>>5935370 For the gifs, I just sandwich two black-and-white frames between three colored ones and adjust the speed of each frame to achieve the lightning effect.
>>5948287 At the end of Final Girl Quest Part III, hopefully.
Anonymous
>>5948314 Hey, de nada. We're an artist's community, first and foremost. it behooves us to express our appreciation for good art.
Anonymous
>>5948273 >Parthenogensis is that from the bug queen ?
RQM
>>5948355 Yeah, though she's a background character who hasn't even been addressed by name in this quest so far. I meant more Carazzi being split off from Zith-Zi.
Though the lunar eladrin are also artificial beings without functional reproductive tracts, as you may recall Nym and Devi telling Tips... Anonymous
>>5948367 >I meant more Carazzi being split off from Zith-Zi. tbf she does have a father and a mother...
> Anderson Thorell (QM)
Just had an idea for quest which I wanna share. Not because I'll run it, but because maybe somebody likes the idea and would want to run it.
Anonymous
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>>5948374 >a father and a mother Sort of, though she's not got much of Tips' "genetics" in her, and Zith-Zi doesn't see herself that way.
unless you mean Yen-Zi and The Infiltrator and Irinnile, in which case she has three mothers, or a mother and two fathers, depending how you count them >>5948375 The crossover angle's neat. The basic vibe reminds me of Pokemon Fork & Spoon, which I dearly hope returns some day, or maybe Shopkeeper Quest.
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>>5948327 Much appreciated. I'm just kinda having a hard time calling my stuff "art" 'cause it's basically just pictures I found or other people's actual art, Frankenstein'd into something new with a bit of visual flair, crafted with the help of tools I also didn't create. Like, best case scenario my contribution is maybe 15-20% tops. Plus, this is a community full of real-life talented and dedicated drawfriends, so calling myself an artist feels kinda hubris-y.
Anonymous
>>5948384 Collage counts as art. Editing and curating, remixing, and recontextualizing existing material is still art. Maybe not HIGH art, or as impressive as those who craft a beautiful image from their own hands, but it's still a form of art. In our case, it's also only a piece of a greater audio-visual whole, mixed with a selected soundtrack of music and writing that you do yourself to bind it all together into a narrative. Don't sell yourself short.
Anonymous
>>5948375 >Also, bonus points if some of the clients are well known characters from other quests lol There are some VERY colorful characters out there. For some reason this reminds me of some of the skits you'd see in shows like Robot Chicken toward the end of some episodes, or some youtube series like how it should have ended. Some real superfriends type shit. It's pretty amusing.
>>5948384 There are people who literally smear paint onto a canvas with a single stroke of their hand and call it art. There was a fucking banana taped to a wall. At one point an INVISIBLE STATUE was sold for tens of thousands of dollars. And while it's clearly money laundering, it is still classified as art.
I think the fact that you're putting in real effort to do something more than makes it art. At least in my humble philistine opinion.
Anonymous
>>5948384 Art is such a vague term that really, anything can be considered 'art'. What you do is at least transforming raw materials (i.e images) into something new. For me, the actual definition of art is something made to express a person's creativity. And your stuff passes that threshold.
No need to beat yourself up. As long as you enjoy doing what you do and other people enjoy it, it's art.
Anonymous
>>5946759 Update: Nah I give up. I don't feel confident in my funnyness and the concept feels a bit too lazy and limiting.
Maybe I'll just do an ever simpler shitpost quest or something... Idk man. I don't feel like drawing.
Anonymous
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>>5948427 Forcing yourself to run something won't get you anywhere. Give yourself a week or two to stew over an idea before you find something you wanna run.
Anonymous
>>5948273 >Transgender goblins Did you mean hermaphroditic?
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>>5948391 >>5948396 >>5948400 >The Blushening Part II: Blush Harder At the end of the day, if people are having fun, I'm happy. The fact that anyone would spend their precious time on a noob QM with a niche quest is beyond flattering. This is a wonderful community and I'm thankful I get to be a part of it.
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Incidentally, Final Girl Quest is the launching pad for the North Fallsverse. There's already two spin-offs in the works. Once I'm done with FGQ Part I, I'll leave to the players to decide if they want Part II or pic related.
Anonymous
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>>5948443 Yes to both, in this particular case.
>>5948481 Interesting!
Anonymous
>>5945711 Also the horrible tropes associated with isekai MCs these days. Like outright buying slaves, or mind control brands, or stupid careless shit like inventing something that would in reality crash economies.
Even female isekai MCs recently haven't been that great. Though in general they don't go around purchasing slaves and other stuff. They instead do stuff like 'I introduce high end sweets like chocolates to the masses for money' or in Korean manhwa introduce things like nutrition such as the idea of vitamin C in rose hips.
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
>>5948448 Hey, no need to beat yourself up. Most of our quests are niche. Fuck, man, my quest is a hodge podge of inspirations from various sources that I enjoyed (Project Moon, SCP, Cruelty Squad, etc etc)
I'm glad you're enjoying your time here man. That's the main point of this board, after all. Creative writing and enjoying it.
Anonymous
>>5948598 Lord knows mine is, and most of what I read as well. Though I think a few of the quests on here would have some mainstream appeal with the right edits, especially Beat Cop and Disappearing Hogwarts. Plus, when I think about how weirdness like Rise of the Shield Hero (speaking of lousy isekai,
>>5948591 ) gets big, well... You never know, I guess.
Anonymous
>>5948591 Oh, don't forget being an apparent political savant, and then just making capitalism again, despite being transported to another universe with goddamn magic in it, along with being a stage magician in a world with magic, and yet not explaining how your magic tricks work when there's ACTUAL FUCKING MAGES in that fantasy world.
Looking at you, creators of High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World, you lazy fuckers. Anonymous
>>5948633 I think the weird workaholicism of the modern koreans badly infects the female isekai genre. I get that they live in a literal cyberpunk reality of oppressive chaebols and shit, so why recreate those things in the other world?
Why capitalism? Why are you working yourself into the grave so hard? If you can work less, why do you choose to do more? Or screw around with politics through your modern lenses and expect the other characters to act as you predict?
I mean, at least in old 90s Japanese isekai's with female protagonists... the modern sensibilities of the female MC horribly clashes and causes huge repercussions or consequences such as religion...
Anonymous
>>5948641 >I get that they live in a literal cyberpunk reality of oppressive chaebols and shit, so why recreate those things in the other world? Maybe Souv was onto something...
>>5931784 Anonymous
>>5948641 >Why capitalism ? I mean, it's the only system that works rn and it's gonna be an improvement over feudalism. It's kinda hard to create a new system.
Anonymous
>>5948633 >here's a unique thing to introduce: modernity It's the worst because it's almost every Isekai.
Bad worldbuilding? Doesn't matter. Actually cool worldbuilding? Doesn't matter.
Ruin it with policies that shouldn't work but they do because while that 23 year old suicide risk redditor doesn't know how literally ancient voting is their specifically modern cultural variation of it solves a majority of problems in sub-4 generations. Or the same for selling soap, somehow, but comedy/SoL gets a pass.
But, it's fiction largely written by sub40yr olds hard coping with being dedicated internet citizens so misunderstanding reality on a socially basic level while googling facts to steal from periodic table cheatsheets to turn into "super unique magic" is par ganbate thy loserdom course.
>>5948641 >>5948646 And this, much. People just ape what they're seeing as successful, then degrees of [storimagically easily applied] modern thinking are the natural extensions of poorly worn attempts at increasing a protagonist's effective agency but the writer doesn't know how to do that because they've lived one whole life without any genuine agency themselves. So, substitute economics they don't understand as their MC's solutions to fantasyland problems because the one thing the writer's right about is their target audience largely doesn't know that shit either, so it doesn't matter. Still lazy.
Have a whole cultural system of gambling with blessed bones because they're shavings of rambunctious pet kaiju teeth dropped to earth from the moongarden of the god's second vacationhome with enough intragodra-jujujuice that few but enough survived thus those rare bone-die are to mere mortal's tied magiphysically & symbolically to both fortune, divinity, strength, and slim chances, and used in life or death gambles between magic casters and lordlies of all types, and now maybe the MC has to oh I'unno learn the fucking culture to understand why the magic is powerful the way it is or something??
Nah, just take a dump on an assembly line staffed with orcs. Job's done.
>>5948673 You see, that's true, BUT STILL.
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Spaceship Pilot in a Fantasy World is back!
>>5948692 >>5948692 Hope everyone enjoys it! I've missed writing these gals over the last month...
Anonymous
>>5948678 >You see, that's true, BUT STILL. you're gonna have to drop this part, senpai. it's the only that you can't argue against.
DetectQM
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>>5948614 I'm waiting for my call from DC any day now
Anonymous
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>>5948704 The only more I'd've said is that a well worldbuilt form of magical fantasy capitalism is more intriguing to myself than a modern variant transplanted into a generic fantasy setting.
It's just, if there's a part of your world you can use to really show your work and give your characters real opportunity for growth or returns on elf futures, an economy is a super good storytelling tool.
Supplanting it wholesale is the authorial force stating they're not gonna spend time making something neat or a just a lil bit unique out of it.
Anonymous
>>5948678 My impression is... that Korean women who write their isekai female MC stories really want to become the head of their own damn chaebols and rule the world (ie South Korea) as they see fit.
Okay, I get it, it's a fantasy and power trip for the Korean ladies. The female equivalent of the male power fantasies.
Like those handsome men, not going to judge that. Men do it with beautiful women.
Anonymous
>>5948721 My male power fantasy is sitting down and watching the sunset after a heated gun battle to save the planet and bleeding out just before that great burning ball crests the horizon so a sad musical number can fade out with my final breath. Bonus points if it begins to rain as if the world itself is weeping.
DetectQM
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Gotham City Beat Cop returns from our weekend break with a big break in the mystery!
>>5920234 Anonymous
>>5948591 >MCs these days outright buying slaves, or mind control brands I think that started with Rising of Shield Hero and everyone just copied that. The first copycat I could think of would be How Not to Summon a Demonlord. Genuine slop with some fanservice thrown in.
I never liked fanservice much, especially the “accidental pervert kind”, but I at least have to give them props for depicting the protagonist fingering one of the main girls in a ritual instead of pussyfooting around and have him always run into breasts and grope them or any other “haha not-sex” type of bullshit.
That being said, I never liked fantasy where slavery is treated as the most evil thing by default either. It’s part of history and not every story has to be about “what-ifs” and going back in time to stop slavery or remove it from the equation completely. It’s the same reason why the omission of firearms technology rubs me the wrong way in so many “mediveal” fantasy - especially Games of Thrones and The Last Samurai. DnD is damned guilty of this when rapiers was always something prominent. Ghost of Tsushima too I have issues with - the whole concept of Bushido and how Lord Sakai behaves in that game, that’s retarded. Honor is about serving your lord - you brain someone in the back or fight them head-on, doesn’t matter. You did what you were asked to do.
>>5948721 >My impression is... that Korean women who write their isekai female MC stories really want to become the head of their own damn chaebols and rule the world (ie South Korea) as they see fit. Pretty much, although its not unique to S. Korea. Chinese manhua too has a lot of stories about CEOs and rich people and all that. I guess its a harmless power fantasy - I’m get it - but this obsession with wealth and fancy shit feels a bit odd. Honestly after a certain point money becomes a lot less important. Having 10 Audi cars isn’t going make your life 50% happier than having 5, or 2.
>>5948646 >>5948678 >worldbuilding I never bothered. I’ve seen people come up with so many inventive concepts and art and potential storylines but I’ve seen just as many obsess over shit that does not really matter — I remember recently there was a QM who was so worried about writing the background details of his ~25 nations or something when he really should be writing the story itself.
Worldbuilding serves as a world where a story can be told. That is all. You add only what’s needed and leave the rest up until it comes time to explore it.
You don’t need to reinvent the wheel - if it powers your story or makes it possible, good enough.
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Anonymous
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>>5948448 >>The Blushening Part II: Blush Harder I, too, enjoyed からかい上手の高木さん .
Anonymous
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>>5948727 A good death. Hmmm. Yeah, that's the stuff.
Anonymous
>>5948798 Ah yes, the legend of the honorable samurai who only fights using bladed weapons against ready opponents in respectable duels. I guess it's not that different from how we mythologized knights as protectors of virtue rather than a collection of rich fops and semi-literate pugilists bribed into submission with land grants to collect taxes and levy troops. Makes for satisfying storytelling, though, especially if you want to justify the existing power structures. After all, to be good is to be NOBLE (high-bred) and CIVIL (connected to civic governance) whereas to be evil is to be BARBAROUS (foreign) and a VILLAIN (a peasant farmer).
The same schema is probably partly why we see the glorification of not just capitalism but capitalist EXCESS in the form of that 'become a super-CEO captain of industry, single-handedly revolutionize the economy, acquire a fleet of vehicles' way you describe. It ties the material success of the wealthiest people in the wealthiest countries to moral virtue and promises that if you are simply good and true and play by the rules of your society, then your society's greatest treasures can be yours; failure is characterized as moral failing, and moral failing (or deviance from societal norms) must necessarily lead to failure. If communism or feudalism or military dictatorship or slavery or other not-acceptable-here-and-now things could theoretically work or result in positive outcomes, it casts the objective morality of the current order into question.
Anonymous
>>5948886 >It ties the material success of the wealthiest people in the wealthiest countries to moral virtue and promises that if you are simply good and true and play by the rules of your society, then your society's greatest treasures can be yours Ah. The American Dream. It’s called such for a reason - it ain’t reality.
The result is what matters most of the time. Hard work certainly helps but if you’re hammering away on a problem that requires a screwdriver, well… all those hours ain’t doing shit.
The same goes for lies, too. Outside of schools, even. So many movies, so many media just keep talking about how honesty is the best thing to do.
Funny how your stories have proven this line on thinking wrong on so many occasions.
>Dragonborn Antipaladin Theral not telling Ekaterine about killing her brother and then offering his sword to his god saved the marriage from breaking down even further. It’s still not all there in Seekers but yeah, that’s not gonna go over well no matter he puts it had he told her the truth.
>Seekers If Tips and ZithZi didn’t seek audience with Ekaterine by infiltrating the castle that night, they wouldn’t be there to defend themselves when the drows and Theral was discussing the matter of the goodberries.
And of course there’s the thief and our excursion to Sylvan realms
Anonymous
When are we going to get a GOOD sifi quest?
von Adlershorst
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Von Adlershorst Dynasty Quest Update. Hire people to do stuff for you.
>>5948976 >>5948977 AurebeshQM !FFB4lyp4p.
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The Heresy has updated
>>5948986 Choose whether you want to torture psykers to death for science or keep them as frozen icicles! And pick which Segmentum you'll be operating in!
Anonymous
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>>5948935 >Theral not telling Ekaterine about killing her brother and then offering his sword to his god saved the marriage from breaking down even further. man, long wang sure knows how to dig holes.
>>5948944 >When are we going to get a GOOD sifi quest? I assume you wanna another HFY by the pic rel ?
Anonymous
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>>5948944 To be fair, that purple thing looks delicious.
Anonymous
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>>5948944 WOULD
>>5948935 I wouldn't take moral instruction from Theral, in fairness; the
lizard man ate his cousin.
Tips is alright, most of the time.
Anonymous
I just recently found out about this board and I'm so pumped to try making something in here. I'm more of an artist than a writer so the story is probably gonna suck, but at least it'll look cute and suck! I'm going to at least try something super simple at first, but does anyone have any tips for a newbie? Are these stories planned ahead of time or just go with the flow? Honestly don't know which is harder.
Olympus QM
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>>5949084 Drawquests are really appreciated on this board (personally I draw much slower than I write so I could never do one), and the drawings can make up for a lot of writing weaknesses. As far as advice goes, I think the big ones are
>Set reasonable expectations For yourself and for your readers. If you try to do multiple updates with detailed drawings every day, you'll probably burn out super quick.
>Don't feel too pressured to take your story where you don't want it to go Write-ins are cool, and some people enjoy the challenge of working with whatever the readers throw at you, but if you have specific ideas for things and don't like the direction or worldbuilding implications of a write-in, don't be afraid to strike it down.
>Are these stories planned ahead of time or just go with the flow? That depends on you, mostly. I like to plan the broad strokes but leave the specifics vague in case I have to move stuff around in the story's timeline. Others like to fully improvise, and others still draft up massive documents detailing everything about their world and intended major characters.
My best advice is to just go with whatever seems fun- lots of quests fizzle out, and there's no judgement in trial and error. Give it a try and see where it goes
Anonymous
>>5949084 For a first attempt - something fun, breezy. Drawquests are usually well-received, especially if they’re a bit silly.
Board volume is low too, so most QMs update 5-7 times per week, rather than 12hour marathons like in the old days of 2017
CoreQM !HQdLRxFnaM
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>>5949084 Hardest part for me is staying consistent with updates. Be communicative with your players when you need to take a break. (Do what I say, not what I do. Ghosting for a week isn't really cool, so sorry to the squad of people that read and vote in Core of Steel, and the one person that repeatedly asks if it is over)
Start new threads when you're on like page 8-10, preferably at a good stopping point. The board's fairly slow but spamming new threads is annoying. Remember to Archive when you do so, before the older thread falls off the board.
On the Planning front, I do usually have some foes, missions, and story beats planned out ahead of time, but the players can derail stuff at critical points to take the train in different directions so I try to not go too far out. Comparisons to game mastering for tabletop RPGs are often spot on.
Getting started and getting the story/quest moving is often a sticking point. Try to avoid taking too long in character generation. Keep it snappy. If you keep consistency in updates most quests do find an audience. Remember that not everyone who reads votes, and we call those Lurkers.
And if you do decide to end prematurely from lack of (You)s, say something to that effect. Or throw it on Hiatus and return months later when someone calls your name in the QTG.
Hope you enjoy your time here in our little corner.
Anonymous
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>>5949084 Welcome aboard, and good luck! Any idea what you'd like to run in terms of premise or genre?
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>>5949084 Hey, welcome!
> Are these stories planned ahead of time or just go with the flow? Honestly don't know which is harder. As other anons said, it depends on your style. Like with books, some people have the whole thing detailed and pages of world building, while some have exactly a single initial post in their heads and a dream.
Also, don't rush. Threads here live for weeks, you have time. Set up proper expectations and talk to your players. Can't make it for a while? Let them know and ping the QTG when you come back. Don't like the direction the quest is taking? Talk to them. Think a write-in choice they're asking for doesn't fit your world or the character? Tell them as much.
Most of us know how difficult it is to run a quest. Your players will understand most things if you just tell them honestly.
Anonymous
Wow, thanks for the reponses guys. For my first it's going to be very simple (I hope). There will be an objective and we have to reach it. It's going to be in kinda medievalish fantasy, ina mansion and the MC is a Maid. At least this is my first idea I have in my head atm.
Anonymous
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>>5949124 A fantastical mansion maid mystery with art? yeah, you'll do just fine here. I'll keep an eye out for it!
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>>5949084 Speaking as a noob myself, autistic planning has saved my ass on multiple occasions. You don't necessarily have to go overboard with it, but I think having a basic skeleton of your story and a few major events and/or set pieces mapped out at the very least is a must. A solid foundation will help you be more confident in your storytelling, and it also lets your playerbase know that you respect their time and investment. Don't get too attached to your stuff though, because players WILL throw you curveballs and you WILL have to improvise on the fly. Which isn't a bad thing at all, it keeps your quest fresh and sharpens your QM tools. There's also a lot of room-reading involved. If, for instance, you've planned for X but the majority of your players want Y, you should try to work it into your story, as long as it doesn't break things. The most important piece of advice I can give you is give yourself a lot of options and keep certain things relatively vague to avoid writing yourself into a corner. Leeway saves lives. In any case, as long as you're having fun and your plyers are having fun, you're good. Welcome to the party!
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>>5949140 >plyers Fuck me sideways. Typos are the bane of my existence.
Anderson Thorell (QM)
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>>5949128 >>5949128 >>5949128 First update of the day for the monster girl facility quest is out! A tough battle is slowly starting to inch towards victory, but at what cost will it be?
>>5949084 >>5949124 I'd say it's a pretty decent idea for a quest so far. You don't need huge and extremely deep ideas to make something fun and engaging. I am definitely curious what the story will really branch off towards though, and how the MC being a maid will influence everything. Will the story focus more on a mystery you'll need to solve in/around the mansion, or will it be more of a fetch-quest with the journey really being the fun part?
Regardless of what it will be, I wouldn't stress the logistics of writing too much. You can always just wing it with the rules and ideas you've got set up. Obviously, you need some basics, but don't put all your energy into a world which ultimately may not be explored.
Either way, good luck Anon!
Anonymous
>>5949084 post your work. I was also neither an artist nor a writer when I started and look at me now
very little has changed Anonymous
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>>5948798 I think you're seeing something different to what I'm saying. I'm not telling QMs to worldbuild decades for the storyworth of a minute, I'm talking about silly isekai genre foibles. The example I used is a wordswap from an event in a sol isekai novel, where the MC seeks learning specific cultural intricacies because it's important to themselves to understand the view of that world's magic after they've already made it important (or, entirely hinging on the basis of) their story, from their own goals and relationships.
I felt worldbuilding's focal importance being most effective for story/character was implicit to the statement that awarding their novel character's MC additional agency, or rewards, rings hollow to when it's built on the negation of a world presented to be fantasy.
It's saying here's your truck-kun escapade, but also let's just bury it unsatisfying.
Ofc, I said all that in risey language without any examples of doing it right, so I understand the rejoinder. The Craft Sequence, Dresden, and Godclads fit the good sides of what I mean to describe. For Quests it's been a while but Banished and HQQ both accomplished it in spades, always maintaining contextual importance to the player MC's actions.
They're also exceptions proving the rule of how time consuming and difficult that can be to sustain, too. It's all management, to its heart.
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Scorekeeper !!urZ1qzDpXky ID:i8VmKiAa Mon 11 Mar 2024 19:27:54 No. 5949195 Report Quoted By:
>>5949184 >>5949184 >>5949184 Maximum Spider Quest is up and running! Feel free to swing on by when you get a chance! We've got a new suit, a new member to the team, and a new story arc building up!
Anonymous
>>5949150 Here's something I drew.
I wasn't expecting so much helpful advice, I can't thank you guys enough.
I'm not going to go all out on the art, I'm mostly trying to do something to get me started in writing these kinds of stories. I also don't want people to have too high hopes though for this. It is my first time ever writing anything. I'll try my best.
Anonymous
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>>5949205 Nice. I want to do unmentionable things with the small one.
Like holding hands and getting ice cream together. Anonymous
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>>5949205 >I'm not going to go all out on the art, You'd be surprised and probably feel just fine, if you saw how low the bar can be here for art in quests
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>>5949084 >Are these stories planned ahead of time or just go with the flow? Both. Especially if you have write ins or dice. People have their own knowledge and ideas so may see things different and take a path you didn't expect.
You can plan for your hero's to sneak into the dragons lair but can they get the princess out unharmed, will they steal any loot, will they even survive?
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
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>>5949205 You want some advice? Don't worry about it. Players care about consistency and communication first and foremost. As long as you update on a consistent schedule and you don't leave your players in the dark, all else follows after that.
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>>5949294 So you can roll a d3. Awesome.
Anonymous
Rolled 65607, 138236, 10615 = 214458 (3d145762) >>5949295 Pretty sure you can roll just about anything
Anonymous
>>5949297 Unless it's more than a 25dX. Or is it 15dX?
Anonymous
>>5949297 You can also roll with modifiers using this syntax:
XdY+Z
XdY+-Z
Anonymous
Rolled 2, 6, 3, 6, 5, 5, 5, 7, 8, 5, 8, 8, 1, 7, 8, 4, 3, 6, 3, 1, 1, 6, 2, 4, 9 = 123 (25d10) >>5949299 Let's find out,.
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>>5949302 My favorite thing is when a QM calls for a negative modifier and everyone rolls with a positive one because they never learned you have to +- for a negative on here.
>>5949304 Out status: found
DemBones !!ehWv9n5C1mz
>>5949084 Welcome! Glad to have some new meat for the grinder! Other folks covered some good ground already, but if you're looking for newbie tips then here's a few big ones:
Before running anything I'd take a look at some of the quests currently on the board--make sure to sort by Last Reply on the catalog so you can see what's still updating! When perusing the threads try to get a feel for what you like or dislike about them--the mechanics, the posting style, the dialogue... a little research can go a long way towards starting off strong.
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html This link takes you to archived quests--the /tg/ archive has some of the quests before we were split off from /tg/ and the /qst/ archive has old quests after the split. I recommend sorting by 'Highest Score' to see some quests that did something right. Not all hits get high scores, obviously, but it ain't a bad place to start when looking at older quests.
Above all, though, running a quest should be FUN! Keep that in mind if it gets harder to update or player engagement drops--sometimes taking a short break from updating goes a long way.
Eager to see what you can put out! Don't forget to link your quest here once you start! And don't worry too much about the threshold for 'good art'--even a simple sketch goes a long way here. Players love pictures.
Don't be afraid to ask for advice before, during, or after the process. We don't bite!
Anonymous
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>>5949084 >>5949319 Disclaimer: Some of us bite a little. Ignore rude 1post IDs, they're shit disturbers.
On that note, one thing to keep an eye out for is vote-rigging, either for purposes of control of outcomes or simply for purposes of sabotage if you run a quest on an unpopular or contentious subject or theme. It may not be a big deal in your case, especially if it's a lighthearted quest, but if shit-flinging starts, you may sometimes see a surge of single-post IDs voting on specific subjects. Feel free to set ground rules disallowing such votes or weighting them less than IDs with multiple votes.
To that same end, I've found that when players get really rowdy/salty and fall into arguments, politely telling them to stop can be surprisingly effective. Some QMs thrive on that sort of thing, mind you, but if you're not one of them don't be afraid to speak up before people get entrenched and belligerent.
AurebeshQM !FFB4lyp4p.
Pick a spot in the Ultima Segmentum to venture to as the Alpha Legion! The Heresy is just beginning, and you may yet leave your mark...
>>5949431 Anonymous
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>>5949434 The Alpha Legion? Do you mean the Alpha Legion or the Alpha Legion? Or do you mean the totally not Alpha Legion?
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
TrashQM
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>>5949680 >>5949680 >>5949680 The Graverobber's Daughter continues! Chlotsuintha, scared and increasingly hungry, makes what might be a rather rash decision to finish a meal that one of the Guards set on the Clerking house left behind. As she scavenges what her father used to dryly call 'plated carrion', she must come to terms with not only her continued lack of progress, but her continued lack of focus as well, as it is likely to be much more damning.
von Adlershorst
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The von Alderhorst Dynasty Quest has updated
>>5949779 >>5949780 Anonymous
>>5940788 Alright, I’ve put this off long enough. I’ve made it up by voting in the latter part of the 2nd thread
and shit-posting about going a merchant route and DRM runes at least for a while… but that unofficially closed a while ago. Whoops.
My first thought on this was “man this is really reminding me of an LP I watched on Skies of Arcadia”, which you then commented on being a major influence on the quest. Congrats on making the source material feel so strong in the opening because Skies of Arcadia was a good game.
The quest hits the right notes past that to capture the same feel as the game, which was about good-natured sky pirates gradually getting sucked into situations increasingly above their head. The setting and tone leans (or is) comedic when dealing with the primary crew, with seriousness being interjected when seemingly at anons discretion. It’s a good fit for what it seems like the quest will entail, which will definitely involve flying ships to various locales for trade, adventure, and to see what’s out there.
You mentioned running this as a campaign before for some friends. That’s mostly a good thing for the quest since you’ve effectively tested a lot more of the setting, characters, and plot than most QMs. I do wonder how it’ll work when anons inevitably go off the rails in comparison, but you got through the “trial run” with the other group and no idea how they’d react so at least it’s familiar territory!
Some things to address: shops, scope creep, and party switches. First one is easy and already being worked on - you’ve mentioned making a better list of goods and services and delaying a vote on shopping to a new thread as a result. It seems like shopping is going to be a recurring thing in the quest, so spending some time to make scaleable lists you can easily shift between merchants seems like something that’ll pay dividends. It’s generally better to end threads with fiddly stuff like shopping rather than starting them since they can get bogged down in minutiae pretty easily. Not always possible with how long threads are, but this was a good opportunity for it.
archivebro
>>5949910 Now, scope creep. Plenty of other QMs here have talked about it in the past! Anons end up doing things that QMs don’t expect or plan on, and all QMs need to figure out where the line is on building out their world vs. letting anons play in it and see what they don’t end up using/seeing. With an adventure-filled world in which you’re flying a pirate ship there’s a LOT of openness on where to go. Anons could decide to become merchants, sail off into the distance to see what’s out there and if Ramza will sleep with it, or stick close to their known associates and explore mostly when prompted.
Each is a very different game, and for now I’m unsure how heavy a hand you’ll have in guiding the narrative. The disk/part references and characters like Admiral Sato showing up “early” suggests you already have some far-off points in mind, and that may lead to some railroady feelings later on if not managed properly. The setting and feel of the quest promises the exact opposite of a script after all, so I can’t say anons won’t be more sensitive to it than some other quests. Just keep the scope of the quest in mind and don’t be afraid to ask anons what they’re looking to do (in-character or not) and take the time to retool things if you feel anons are gravitating towards certain aspects that don’t gel well with that long-term vision.
Finally, party switches. I like the idea of switching the PoV character every thread, it lets everyone have a hand in crafting the characters and lets anons get a better feel for how their crew thinks and operates. I do think a little clarification is needed on whether anons should be controlling non-PoV characters indirectly while voting. I ran down a list of why each member of the crew could support the demon crew member joining, but I don’t know I should expect that to “count” for the others or not. Playing as the character with low social/brain stats makes it feel like it’s out-of-character to try and convince the others even if I can think of reasons they’d accept.
So, some clarification in the opening post when anons go to pick a character would be nice. I imagine the options are that if you’re acting with the crew then you’ll figure out what applies on a case-by-case basis (i.e. write-ins with how other characters need to act may be considered), if thinking through other character’s actions/reasoning gives a bonus to a roll or check for them even if we’d have no way of controlling or helping as our PoV character (such as assuming a crewmate that escaped a prison would be trying to bust us out using a method within their skill set and we help set up the situation they’d need to use it), or if we’re limited to convincing others of our viewpoint or helping directly and we can get bonuses/maluses that way.
archivebro
>>5949912 In terms of writing, nothing jumped out at me as a problem. I will comment that speech tics can be aggravating to read since I have to translate them mentally and the demon definitely uses too many ellipses, but with those problems quarantined to one character and none of the narration so far I can ride over that relatively easy. We’ll see how that holds up now that she’s a crew member though…
All told, a very strong start for a quest! Glad to have you on board as a new QM.
Anonymous
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>>5949084 Draw quests have always been popular. You could start with your quests on the more art heavy side and gradually introduce more writing as you go on until you find a sweet-spot that works for you.
von Adlershorst
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>>5949084 I have always felt that drawings can help compensate for my writing skills.
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Tue 12 Mar 2024 21:16:31 No. 5950057 Report >>5949910 >>5949912 >>5949913 Thanks for the review, man! I'll definitely keep in mind to host shopping stuff mid to late in a thread in the future, it didn't cross my mind that it might make for a slow start of thread.
Going off the rails isn't going to be a problem, because I designed it from the ground up to be freeform. I have an overarching series of plot points that will eventually demand to be addressed, but how we address it will be up to the players, and it's nothing on such a timecrunch that will prevent people from exploring, fucking around, and enjoying the spirit of an adventure.
We're already in the territory of things being quite a bit different than in the initial run of Lodestar, if I'm being honest, but for the better - the tabletop run helped me see things that could do with improvement or streamlining, which I've done for this quest. Honestly, I'd recommend running your quest ideas as a tabletop game first to other folks, it's a great way to prepare and flesh out things that you wouldn't normally consider fleshing out.
I've been running it as the POV character influencing the non-POVs, but I can see the merit in having it be a "group consensus" vote for a lot of things instead. In fact, that would be a helpful way to deal with the issue you noted in that last sentence on party switches. I'd say I was trying to find a way to have it make sense for someone other than Captain Valentine to make meaningful decisions, but honestly it just ended up weirdly sloppy compared to just overt group decisionmaking.
I do worry about the overuse of speech tics with the demon, but at the same time, it's supposed to help emphasize Gremory's difficulty with speech. Her thought processes and mouth structure are both quite a bit different than the human norm, so she has to put more effort and thought into speaking than everyone else. There's also supposed to be a bit of heavy breathing/wheezing in each pause she makes, but I could probably have made that clearer. I'm unsure how else to make her speech seem stilted and unnatural without being too grating.
Thread 3 soon, by the way! I've been a bit busy the past few days, but the Official Shopping List and new thread should both be done within a few days at most.
Anonymous
>>5950057 >There's also supposed to be a bit of heavy breathing/wheezing in each pause she makes, but I could probably have made that clearer. I'm unsure how else to make her speech seem stilted and unnatural without being too grating. I guess you could also just mention every now and again in the description that she is wheezing/pausing, and otherwise write it normally. Then again, I'm one to talk; my reptilian characters often ssslip in exxxxtra esssessss, much to the detriment of my already lousy spellchecking.
Anonymous
Archivebro's latest two reviews have been added to the long-dormant Quest Review Bin:
https://pastebin.com/u/QuestReviewsArchive I'll find the rest in the older QTGs and add them in a little while. Since reviews are being written again, I suggest that the review pastebin be added back into the QTG OP.
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>>5950183 By the way, if anybody else remembers any quest reviews that have happened but aren't in here, drop me a tip-off and I'll try to find and add them.
archivebro
>>5950057 Alternately, run your tabletop games as a quest first and iron out the kinks with internet randos. Either way, trial runs are good for hammering out things! Not everyone can do that, but it’s a definite edge if you can.
Regarding group consesnus, feel free to mix it up depending on how much time the characters have or things like that. If it’s a planning session where everyone can talk it out then everything is on the table, whereas if anons are acting on a plan and it failed then they’re on their own for their plans.
It might mean a revamp of combat to have non-PoV characters act under QM control unless anons can come up with a succinct enough plan for it to be shouted out during battle and followed easily. I don’t have strong feelings for one way over another, just that it’s consistent unless you want to be experimental for a special event.
Semi-related, my bar for handing over party control is to be better than the Persona 3 AI, and I struggle to believe anyone could accidentally do worse than that.
And I’d suggest
>>5950175 for the speech tic. I honestly don’t mind the elongated speech patterns as much as the ellipses, but there’s a lot of things I don’t mind as much as repeated ellipses so I realize that’s not super meaningful.
>>5950183 Fuck, these are getting stored in an easily accessible location? I’ll need to watch my swears. I should also switch away from phone posting so I can proofread my shit effectively.
I never knew that there was a bin with quest reviews in it, only that they’d been done before. Very neat!
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Tue 12 Mar 2024 23:29:50 No. 5950196 Report Quoted By:
>>5950193 >Alternately, run your tabletop games as a quest first and iron out the kinks with internet randos. Get the best possible experience for your bros, huh? I can respect that. But at the same time, there's always the chance of them finding the quest and peeking ahead at the 'dm notes'.
Anonymous
>>5950193 If you have edits you want to make to any of your reviews I have posted right now, feel free to let me know and I'd be happy to make them.
And yes-- it used to be in the QTG OP for a long time before some enterprising anons "cleaned it up" because it wasn't being used. I still have the login for it, though, so I thought I'd make use of it.
archivebro
>>5950198 Nothing that jumps out at me from memory, I’d need to review them. I’ll probably look after my next review, which… will be Cursed Carrier going by order they were requested, even if I got confirmation later. Then Final Girl since I said I’d slip that in as the next one after my “promised” 3 reviews are done and everything else in the order requested.
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>>5950205 No worries. I watch the QTG all the time, so feel free to (you) me whenever you take a look at them. Alternately, I hang out in the QTG discord, so if you'd rather reach out privately drop a line there.
Also, I think I have all of them archived now-- let me know if I'm missing any.
DetectQM
>>5949912 This is a great review, I'm actually going to check the quest out after that. If you ever have a lot of free time to put into Gotham Beat Cop I'd love to hear from you as well. (But it's 4 threads deep so I don't mind if you back burner it for a long time)
archivebro
>>5950215 My reviews have shifted more towards supporting QMs on what I think works well, what doesn’t, and any other feedback I can think of, but I’m glad to know the reviews still work for potential anons!
It’ll probably take long enough for me to get to this that I’ll drop off the face of the earth and resurface much later by calling for a new list. But it’ll be slotted in for now!
Curse Carrier DM
>>5950205 Damn, it's my turn. I'm taking a short break from it since I kind of got sick & burnt out, and I haven't been super happy with my writing on the last thread. I really like your reviews, I can get a feel for the type of quest it is and if it's my thing or not, and I even started using ellipses less after you mentioned them being an issue, since I realized I used them a little bit too much. You're doing good work for what is a relatively small and niche community.
Anonymous
So I haven't run a quest in years, but I was thinking about running one again now that I've suddenly found myself unemployed and with a bunch of free time. I was thinking of something set in Cyberpunk 2021 where the protagonist is a solo who gradually gets tied into the 4th Corporate War and resulting carnage. Looking over the rules for CP2021 it seems pretty simple, but does anyone have any tips on how to better adjust the system to be run in a quest?I primarily ran quests on anonkun/fiction.live and that's probably where I'd be running again just because it's what I'm used to- not sure what reputation that site has here though
Narrator Galpet !!eK/DTdS3ONO
Narrator Galpet !!eK/DTdS3ONO ID:WJxIiiw3 Wed 13 Mar 2024 01:43:10 No. 5950256 Report >>5950220 Hello, archivebro. Loveless Gal 2 is up!
For the first update, you’ll get a glimpse into Galpet and the other kids’ lives.
>>5950010 >>5950011 >>5950013 >>5950015 >>5950017 >>5950018 >>5950023 >>5950025 >>5950027 Anonymous
>>5950252 I'm not familiar with that specific system, but one thing to keep in mind whenever converting any tabletop roleplaying game to a 4chan quest is that we're a slow boards, so votes and rolls come in slow. The interface is old and a bit clunky, too. As such, when combat or other fiddly multi-phase rolling situations come into play, I would simplify it on the player side, reducing the number of rolls or doing some of them in the background to keep it nice and streamlined for the other participants. Tends to lead to a smoother reading experience for those who aren't here for crunch, and easier to run as well.
Anonymous
>>5950198 >>5950205 You should edit "Playing a guy into shotacon porn books" to "Playing a guy into straight shotacon porn books" in the Loveless Gal review otherwise anons will think that the mc is gay, kek.
Anonymous
>>5950259 The idea I was thinking of would be
that I roll everything to really drive in a theme of powerlessness that the players (and the player character) would feel. If all they do is choose the next course of action, it heightens the feeling of things being beyond their control. Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
archivebro
>>5950238 >I’m reducing ellipses use across the board even in quests I haven’t reviewed My work is done. I can stop reviewing now, the most important lesson has been captured for posterity thanks to the pastebin and others have picked up on it from those reviews. I will never accomplish more in my life.
>>5950256 Thanks for the update! I’ll drop in once I make peace with my increasing number of tabs again. Hope the other anons are still around too.
There was a time where I was reading 21 threads, voting regularly in something like 15-17, doing write-ins/working with anons to figure something out in more than half (more engaged than simply voting basically), and reading at least one archive quest. I miss having that energy. >>5950260 I mean, I read the second sentence the same as the first since I normally consider shotacon to be young guy/older female and that IS a straight pairing. I can probably rework that later to be clearer.
Maybe I’m just missing out on the ShotaxShota or ShotaxOlder Guy pairings that outweigh the “straight” pairings. My bad if so, I gotta admit that’s not a topic I really want to study in depth to spare some poor FBI intern from investigating my online search history more thoroughly.
There’s only so much the monster girl searches can hide before they realize it’s both a fetish AND a cover! Anonymous
>>5950314 >I miss having that energy. I would fear anyone who had that energy, to be quite honest.
Anonymous
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>>5950314 >My work is done. I can stop reviewing now, the most important lesson has been captured for posterity thanks to the pastebin and others have picked up on it from those reviews. I will never accomplish more in my life. But, wait! Justasecond! What if... more people need.. to learn, how. To not be, WilliamShatner?! We still need, you bro.
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX ID:eEq4ELSW Wed 13 Mar 2024 03:12:25 No. 5950327 Report >>5950318 >>5950318 >>5950318 The Lady Knight's Quest has updated!
Anonymous
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>>5950314 >I mean, I read the second sentence the same as the first since I normally consider shotacon to be young guy/older female same, but since there's the yaoi side as well and H sites have to put the straight tag because of it, I gave the tip for clarity/s sake.
>>5950327 neat
Anonymous
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>>5950260 He’s 100% straight — also a siscon through and through!
Anonymous
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And speaking of which…
Anonymous
>>5950270 I roll the rolls in my quest, too, though the probabilities are balanced such (and the players' luck has been such) that I doubt many feel powerless. It does streamline writing and speed up updates, though.
>>5950319 >pic related Could never do the kind of in-depth archive binges and meaningful reviews archivebro does, though.
Anonymous
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>>5950097 Unexpectedly have a three-way tie, if anyone would like the chance for a deciding choice. After a supervillain bank robbery, there's concern of where to go next.
Anonymous
>Run Quests for a few years >Come up with characters, situations, storylines, etc. >Make the Quests that guide players towards my cool content >Learn about railroading, open tables, and sandbox gaming from /tg/ >See how much more earned and significant a campaign or story is when its developed through play instead of pre-planned out >mfw
Anonymous
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>>5950557 Shut up and carry on I suppose. Does it really matter if you're doing it optimally? Have you ever thrown a sportsball? Do you feel bad because you're not an olympic putz with a full team of analysts telling you where to put your nuts when you throw for optimal hang time?
Get your bait outta here. Anonymous
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>>5950557 Better to have structure and not needing it than writing yourself in a corner and unable to resolve plotlines satisfyingly.
Anderson Thorell (QM)
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>>5950624 >>5950624 >>5950624 Monster Girl Facility Quest #4 has officially started! And we're starting with a pretty solid win in the form of a dead rabbit girl. At least, she seems dead...
Anonymous
>>5950557 >Learn about railroading, open tables, and sandbox gaming from /tg/ These are appropriate for a certain kind of quest which I don't even think is popular anymore. Nowadays the plot driven quests are actually what gets players. Even civ quests are narrative driven nowadays.
The best format now seems to be episodic. You're better off stealing ideas from how tv shows are structured instead.
Anonymous
>>5950252 Haven't run on akun for a few years, but I imagine it's still coomer-driven. Pretty sure there's already a bunch of cyberpunk quests on there. Just filter by likes/comments and see how the popular ones did their mechanics.
Anonymous
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>>5950701 Having plot points and certain planned events or character beats for NPCs is different than railroading, in my opinion. Railroading is when you have a very narrow, rigid path without much room for the players or their character to actually affect what happens, who lives or dies, or what girl (if any) they get, or any other important events. Some quests do that, but many more, while plot-driven, still let the players choose those key elements and angles of approach, and even fail, fumble, succeed, or triumph based on luck or the validity of player choices.
Anonymous
I have a hard time reading in general and so its common for me to not be able to keep up with stories that go very much in depth. Anyone have a good quest they know of that a neanderthal could follow and have a blast?
Anonymous
>>5950714 Here is a short weird puzzle I encountered recently, this is my adaptation of it:
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A mysterious billionaire VAMPIRE SORCEROR announces a reward of ONE MILLION for anyone who dares to drink vampire blood by tomorrow evening.
However, the vampire sorceror concedes that after signing the binding agreement, the transfer of money will actually be made by sunrise tomorrow morning. All that is in fact required is to proclaim THE INTENTION before midnight - tonight - of drinking the blood on the next day, whereupon you will definitely receive the reward money of 1 million by sunrise tomorrow morning.
In fact there is nothing stopping you from deciding before midnight that you intend to drink the blood tomorrow, but changing your mind the next day after receiving the money and not going through with it.
All that is required to obtain the money by morning is verification before midnight of YOUR INTENTION to drink blood the next day.
You look at the chalice of vampire blood. It will make you violently and unpleasantly sick for one day but after that you will be fine (probably)
>1/ commit your intention before midnight that you absolutely intend to drink the blood tomorrow; then drink the blood the next day as promised (receive 1 million, feel a bit sick afterwards)
>2/ deceive the vampire: before midnight announce that you intend to drink the blood tomorrow afternoon, but after receiving the money in the morning, DO NOT actually drink it (receive 1 million... with no consequences...?)
>3/ announce that you do not intend to drink the blood tomorrow, and afterwards on the next day do not drink it (you get nothing)
>4/ announce that you do not intend to drink the blood, but nonetheless drink it the next day (as the binding agreement stipulates that you must confirm your INTENTION today before midnight to drink the blood on the following day, you receive nothing, in addition to feeling sick afterwards)
Anonymous
>>5950714 I'd recommend versequest: lots of pictures, maybe the shortest update to update wordcount on /qst/, and a well crafted story to boot. For non drawquests, super "villain" is pretty good- the posts are around average length but the tone is very camp golden age comics so it's a pretty east read. If you like mechanics, first thread of olympus incarnation is also very ooga booga numbers go up, but, for better or for worse, the quest has gotten more narrative driven and by extension wordier over time. Simple space empire is also present minimalistic, but it is also a civ quest with a lot of in-depth politicking and a whole lot of worldbuilding to remember, so I'm not sure if you'd be into that. Primitive fantasy survival also seems right up your lane, but the QM's been gone for like a week and a half so idk if it's still running
Anonymous
>>5950726 The puzzle is an adaptation of this philosophical scenario on rationality, commitment and will from Gregory Kavka, it is related to theories of incentive alignment, signalling, compellence and deterrence from Thomas Schelling. You can see a game theoretic payoff matrix of the decisions here
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavka%27s_toxin_puzzle Anonymous
>>5950726 I guess the trick is that you can't intend one thing and do something else? It also depends on how the Vampire is determining my intention. Is he reading my mind? If so, then I propose the following:
When it comes time to drink the blood, I will flip a coin. If the coin lands heads I will drink the blood, if tails, I will not. The coin is loaded, with a 99% of landing tails, nonetheless, in the 1% chance it lands heads, I will drink the blood without fail. In this case, there is a superposition. Before midnight, I am both intending to drink the blood and not drink it. Since the wager does not stipulate that I cannot have multiple intentions (that I must ONLY intend to drink the blood) I should receive the full million irrespective of the result of the toss, with a 99% of winning without having to drink.
Anonymous
>>5950753 >>5950726 >>5950729 hehe, I see someone appears to have studied game theory, or is aware of the Schelling doctrine of randomisation / contingent threat, or mixed strategy Nash equilibrium approach in game theory hehe
I just thought this puzzle was interesting, because all of qst / roleplaying games / those old gamebooks etc are about decisionmaking and choices and intentions manifested through actions.
This paradox can basically be reduced to "can you intend to do a thing which you know you will not do", the paradox bit is because the reward is contingent on the INTENTION to do a thing later (and not the action of doing it or declaring or announcing it etc) so if you are purely rational, you know that there is no benefit ever from drinking the disgusting sickening blood (poison in Kavka original example), the reward is based only upon the intention (not the action or declaration etc) so you would never rationally ever intend to do it. I also thought about whether there could be some signalling value to drinking the blood (eg, if this were a repeated game with many many iterations occurrences, perhaps there would be some value to going through the ordeal once, to prove that you adhered to your word?? To signal commitment etc You would expect the value of the cost of doing the unpleasant disgusting thing to be at least equal to the sum of discounted future gains from commitment to repeated iterations of the game etc)
The way to see the weird psychological paradox of this game is actually to abstract it even further and excise all the vampire blood money reward fictional elements, just imagine it as "I will reward myself if I intend to undergo an unpleasant thing..." but I can cheat and give myself the reward anyway if I tell myself I just "intend" to undergo it... therefore is there any credibility ever to inflicting the unpleasant ordeal upon myself?? etc
This is interesting, because all the apparent challenges risks threats dangers difficulties harms in imaginary roleplaying games are a bit like this, hehe
So I suppose your solution of the game theory mixed strategy Nash, introducing randomisation, is a bit like saying just let random dice decide these things, hehe
archivebro
>>5950753 Why stop at a tails result meaning you drink?
Flip a coin. If it lands on heads or tails, you won’t drink the blood. If the coin lands on its side and transforms into a chicken that says 50 “Hail Mary”s then you will drink the blood.
There’s no caveat that you need to attach what you believe are realistic scenarios to whether you’ll drink the blood or not, only that you know the possibility technically exists and you will drink it if that possibility is met. It may require a situation that would force a fundamental rethink of the nature of existence on your part, but the vampire blood will probably be a relief by then since vampires are clearly something you’re more familiar with than whatever just happened.
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>>5950447 To me it's a thematic way that makes it clear that the players aren't shaping the story but instead responding to events that escalate out of their control
>>5950704 I mean I plan on working with that, in one of my biggest akun quests the players' lust for a harem began to blow up in their face and they were going to get partially NTR'd for neglecting some girls in favor of others. I mean I like writing smut, but I like a good story more and I'll be damned if I let people's boners get in the way.
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>>5950789 >>5950753 >>5950726 >>5950729 >>5950763 Alternatively,
>Declare that you are in fact a TRILLIONAIRE intergalactic spacefaring vampire sorceror, you spurn this pathetic paltry offer of ONE MILLION with income-inelastic hauteur, scorch the rival vampire with your space MELTAGUN Possibly I feel the response may also depend upon if the seductive vampire appearances resemble the ladies in pic related, in which case one might eagerly leap forth and self-volunteer to imbibe any / all fluids proffered
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>>5950213 >>5950213 >>5950213 New decision in Antegrian Occupation Quest: you successfully occupied a courthouse, what else will you occupy?
Also, where are all those soldiers you were promised?
Anonymous
>>5950728 Thanks, so far taking a look at them, they don't seem to hard to get into. I'll definitely look more into them after work.
>>5950726 Also this gave my pea brain a headache but I kinda understand it now. Though someone brought up the coin with 99% chance of them not drinking the blood, I would find it hard to believe that a person would even have the Intention of drinking it even if it was 1%. Intending to do something that your not gonna do sounds so illogical to me, thats the point I guess.
I'm going to be having like 3 different IDs, from work, in the car and at home lol. Also these captchas suck.
Anonymous
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>>5950823 hehe, you raise an excellent point about commitment, what if the loaded coin / 1d100 roll comes up 01 and so it means you have to drink the disgusting blood etc why would you feel the need to go through with it, if you had already received the money? Also the mechanism to determine whether you drink or not is sort of superfluous, as the vampire admitted, you will absolutely receive the reward money beforehand so long as there is the intention of doing the thing etc. I guess you could engineer some device like a 1d100 needle injector or program it so that if rand(1, 100) = 1 the autoinjector self administers the horrible blood dose etc, but the entire point is that there is no need to ingest the blood, once you have received the money... but you only receive the money if you intend to drink the disgusting thing... and so round and round it goes etc.
I think the anon was being very clever with the mixed strategy Nash solution of "superposition of outcomes" introducing a bit of ambiguity over a probability distribution into the original binary outcome intentions etc (a lot of game theory scenarios are resolved with similar approaches to what the anon proposed), but then the vampire might counter that the reward will be scaled accordingly (ie you only get some vanishingly miniscule % proportion of the reward based upon the respective miniscule probability of intending to do the disgusting / vile thing etc)
As you can see from the wikipedia the paradox does not really have a solution, I just thought it was interesting from a dungeonmaster or QM perspective, often in rpg games the DM needs to ADMINISTER THE PUNISHMENT THE EVIL BAD THING, but is any of it credible given the denouement / the paradoxical scenario I described with this puzzle etc.
Anonymous
>>5945628 Anyway, I have been nonstop watching John Carpenter films, it started with that anon mentioning going to Antarctica on the last qtg so I watched The Thing (hehe I liked how in Halloween, which was made in the 70s, John Carpenter included a little preview of The Thing a film he would go on to make later yay). I watched Assault On Precinct 13 (70s original), then Escape From New York Escape From LA and Halloween etc. I am beginning to think John Carpenter is the greatest visionary director ever in America, Escape From New York sort of predicts 9/11 (World Trade Centre imagery), he predicted aapl Watch and biometrics back in 1981, Escape From LA has a scene where a fatal virus is used for control / compliance, but actually turns into a harmless flu by the end...
Also, I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned it, but it seems to me that ALL OF CYBERPUNK which comes from William Gibson Neuromancer, was basically derived from John Carpenter Escape From New York (eg the Neuromancer hacker neurotoxin that poisons Case - it sounds a lot like the micro-explosives injected into Kurt Russell carotid arteries... also I remember one of the minor subplots of Neuromancer involved some mercenaries flying behind Soviet lines in stealth microlight gliders... this is basically the opening infiltration of Escape From New York) The tone of Cold War era nihilism that pervades John Carpenter's horror / apocalyptic work also feels more relevant than ever (Escape From LA is set in a backdrop of war against a Soviet Union / China alliance) What I like about his films is they can be understood on many levels, they seem very political and predictive of the future. Perhaps John Carpenter himself did not anticipate all of the resonant imagery that his filmmaking evoked but he simply drew upon decades of 1950s 1960s sci fi that reached into the imaginative mass psyche of fears panics and anxieties that recur through the ages etc
Anyway pic related some keyframes from Escape From LA. The sequel is not as iconic as the first one, there are still some cool moments (and I stupidly did not even see the subverted twist twist ending coming lol) but I just thought these scenes looked really cool, trying to find imagery like this for an extraction looter type urban SERE / loot raid setting
Anonymous
Is romancing really that prominent with players? I might be naive but it seems like something easily avoidable or are the players THAT persistent or something?
Anonymous
>>5950918 Depends on the quest. In character-driven quests I've run or played, my experience is that, if you offer the option for romance with an even vaguely attractive or interesting NPC, players will go for it. This even happened in quests like Dog Quest, Frogcore, and Dire Chimp Rise.
Anonymous
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>>5950918 Buncha attention starved puppies, the lot of 'em!
Anonymous
>>5950918 Not if the MC is a cat, no.
Anonymous
>>5950888 Double Dragon (1994) has a lot of matte painting backgrounds that remind me of EFLA.
Anonymous
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX ID:eEq4ELSW Thu 14 Mar 2024 04:07:36 No. 5951175 Report Quoted By:
>>5951171 >>5951171 >>5951171 The Lady Knight's Quest has updated. The Princeps of Pleniflora has asked your aid in killing the so-called "Samaritan" of the Knights of Depravity.
Anonymous
>>5951059 >>5951061 >>5945628 >>5950888 wow, thank you so much for this amazing recommendation kind anon!
This is indeed exactly the aesthetic, I never would have found this obscure film by myself, I see now from researching wikipedia that the cinematographer of that Double Dragon film is actually the same guy who shot a lot of John Carpenter films, so those matte painting aesthetics make sense! I know all anons possess secret inspirational troves of curated references of beautiful film and videogame images, I wish more people would share them on qtg, I MUST HAVE THEM I MUST POSSESS ALL THE MIND IMAGES hehe
Obviously the "post apocalyptic looted urban highways / ruined city" is not a new concept, just from what I have played I can think of The Last Of Us, Days Gone,
>>5947061 Dead Island Dying Light etc many many zombie type games or whatever they are doing in Haiti right now, Condemned Criminal Origins has the same feel to me as well as FEAR (2 & 3), I suppose The Division is sort of in there too (have not played it). But I am just impressed by how John Carpenter in 1981 created a film that continues to feel utterly contemporary, incredibly shocking and irresistibly relevant. It is strange to me how the imagined John Carpenter ruined Americana postapocalyptic urban wasteland is sort of like a psychic shadow, an imprint or symmetric haunting that echoes the postSoviet type landscape on the other side (Escape From New York... Escape From Tarkov... all the STALKER Metro 2033 type stuff etc)
Think of how in the military raid extraction shooters, the key item is to loot food / nourishment / nutrition sustainment etc. to maintain energy, hydration
In a way, the ruined John Carpenter urban horror looted wasteland is actually the soul of burgerpunk
>>5946372 >>5934328 >>5934330 made manifest; this is the hunger consuming the burgers, this
>>5951059 >>5951061 >>5950888 is what resides within the psychological interior, the landscape inside
Anonymous
>>5948646 >>5948673 >why recreate these things... in another world? >>5934330 >>5934328 >>5946372 >>5945628 >>5951194 I guess the creators of this KFC / YUM Brands advert
>>5946388 never intended for the ubiquity of their fast-food branding to extrude into cyber landscapes of videogame consciousness
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:TKj04KDK Thu 14 Mar 2024 06:58:37 No. 5951260 Report Quoted By:
>>5951252 Batquest has updated. A massive shift has come to Gotham, and Bruce must decide how to respond.
I apologize for the extreme delay.
One that long should not happen again.
I am posting here so that any readers who stopped checking the thread could be made aware the quest is still active in case they want to keep playing/reading.
Anonymous
Are there no shortcuts for italics and bold and such like ctrl+s is for spoilers? Would be a big help instead of manually typing all the time.
Anonymous
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>>5951262 I used to write my quests in markdown, which uses **for bold** and *for italics*.
After that I used the regex from pic related
Anonymous
They removed IP count I see?
Curse Carrier DM
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I'm back from my short break, I try to keep the breaks short because I know that every time I stop doing something any longer than 5 days I lose all momentum and motivation to do anything. Anyway curse carrier update as I try to figure out how to write family life in an interesting way (I can't)
>>5951369 Anonymous
>>5950994 Huan is single not because the readers fear romance, but that we'd have to be extremely picky and scrutinizing for it to be in character.
>>5951350 Apparently they're rolling out an ID system for the whole site rather than certain boards like here or /biz/. Not like it'll change much since the system is easy to get around as we've seen many times.
Anonymous
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>>5951391 >Apparently they're rolling out an ID system for the whole site rather than certain boards like here or /biz/. Sauce? I assumed it was just for the benefit of election shills.
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Thu 14 Mar 2024 16:04:06 No. 5951442 Report Quoted By:
>>5951440 >>5951440 >>5951440 Good morning, ladies and gents! It's time for a new LODESTAR thread!
Anonymous
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Thu 14 Mar 2024 17:41:35 No. 5951484 Report So I let the players ask questions about the world their 5 year old boy is in. Here's the sect branch master answer :
>>5951477 >>5951477 >>5951477 Archivebro, QM of the board, how do you handle loredump? players, how do you want your lore to be dumped?
Indonesian Gentleman
>>5951484 Preferably less of a dump and more like a daily dose. That is, woven into the main story a bit, in the character interaction and dialogue hopefully. Not saying that direct loredumps like finding a document or asking an in-game historian won't work, but I feel like the players should feel like they've earned those lore bits.
Anonymous
So in a Quest where the players choices can cause the MC to die but reverts back before the deicision is made, wouldn't it feel like your choices don't matter? I tend to overthink of things alot, so I'll probably continue to ask alot of questions.
Anonymous
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>>5951541 >not switching beat to making the quest about defeating a malicious god that keeps making the MC suffer and die with its power over time Anonymous
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>>5951541 Depends on execution.
If the players can fail in a way other than dying, it'll work
Or if it's a purely comedy quest, which can do without stakes at all.
Anonymous
What's the average wait time for responses for most quests and I would assume most people would like is to be ASAP but to get the most people to engage with it the longer the wait the better right? Popularity matters as well I guess.
HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2
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>>5951561 It varies from QM to QM, of course, but usually faster in the beginning of a first thread, to get people engaged, and then you can space them out later to give more people time to vote and yourself time to write. As this
>>5949093 anon said, most quests update 5-7 times a week, so about 24h between posts once the quest is settled.
I personally try to post once a day, but sometimes when there are minor or less important posts/roll-result posts, or if it is just a particularly good day for writing, I manage to get two out
Anonymous
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>>5951561 Most quests seem to update about once a day. Some run in cycles of multiple updates in a shorter window.
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
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>>5951541 Depends on why it is reverted to begin with. If it's because of a flub on the QM's part, then that's more in the realm of not being an unfair bastard because YOU fucked up. If it's because the QM doesn't LET your character ever die, then that's just writing a story with no stakes.
>>5951561 First thread, update frequently so players don't wander off. After that, once a day is more than enough.
Anonymous
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>>5951561 I usually wait until:
>all of my usual players have replied >most of the players have replied and there's a clear majority consensus for the vote, and at least 4 hours have passed >there are fewer votes than that, or no real consensus, but at least 24 hours have passed. Quests I follow are all over the map, though, from session-style rapid-fire updates to once-a-week.
von Adlershorst
Anonymous
>>5951523 Have you read the circumstances?
Player Character is taught by the sect's branch master over one week of travel. This is a direct answer to questions asked by said player.
Anonymous
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>>5951541 You will have to lose something on revert in a serious quest.
Anonymous
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>>5951541 The reset should carry consequences. Meaningful ones.
archivebro
>>5951484 I feel like the QMs of the board are the OPs of whatever the current /qtg/ and /qag/ threads are. Doesn’t mean much when the IDs are different between threads, go figure.
I have a high tolerance for lore dumps like that. Ask a ton of in-universe questions, get an out-of-universe list of answers is fine by me. I don’t like going outside the site to read the lore the first time, but storing it externally afterward is fine.
Keeping everything in-universe is normally better, but if the end result is going to be 8 or 12 or more posts of back-and-forth between the characters and some irrelevant info because one character likes to ramble or comment on the scenery then I will not blame (the opposite, if anything) any QM for presenting it in an easier-to-digest format.
Having everything expressed in the narrative is for readers. As players, we need to caveat that sometimes for ease of reference, understanding, and to keep QMs from crying when they realize all their worldbuilding notes that answer anons’ questions have to be rewritten on the fly like they’re coming from one or more characters.
Anonymous
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>>5951672 >I'm the current QM of /qst/ I refuse this responsibility.
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Thu 14 Mar 2024 23:56:20 No. 5951750 Report >>5951742 And now we've got the first REAL update of Lodestar's third thread. Demon lore galore, with a dash of Soul lore.
Rest in peace, Archivebro, because this is a gremory-heavy update. I tried to restrain her natural use of ellipses for you, but I can only do so much.
Anonymous
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>>5938358 Have the waves swept you away, Herald?
Anonymous
>>5951750 It’s okay, the restraint is enough. Having it quarantined to one character is okay enough, I can tell myself that it won’t spread and infect everything I love and hold dear.
I asked a bunch of questions, have fun freaking out our MCs with the answers. Anderson Thorell (QM)
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>>5951860 >>5951860 >>5951860 Big update out for the Monster Girl Facility Quest. After quite some encounters, many hard-fought battles and a lot of injuries, you are once again back at the main base. Time to see how well you'll get paid for finally doing your job properly.
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Fri 15 Mar 2024 03:10:20 No. 5951910 Report Quoted By:
>>5951799 >I can tell myself that it won’t spread and infect everything I love and hold dear. Or...will...it...?
Anonymous
>>5951194 Happy to share. It's been a while but iirc Hardware (1990) has some exterior shots of post-apocalyptic buildings.
Indonesian Gentleman
>>5951616 Well yeah then that would work - just don't make it too overly long.
Anonymous
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>>5951672 Thanks archivebro
>>5952003 thanks too, IG
Anonymous
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>>5951966 >>5951194 Thank you for this incredible and obscure recommendation, I need to check out this film hehe. I like the look of it, has a bit of the production value nostalgia feel of those FMV segments from old 1990s DOS videogames (remember when major actors like Clive Owen, John Hurt, Christopher Walken made hours long sci fi film cutscenes for DOS games like that Wing Commander Privateer 2 sequel lol, witness this for the level of acting ability lol)
Privateer 2, Christopher Walken
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xpZPP4Mhi50 The acting Christopher Walken delivers here, and the set design of this DOS videogame cutscene, is better than all of Dune 2. BONUS: watch with youtube autogenerated subtitles for added hilarity as googl the largest AI machine learning company on the planet attempts to comprehend Clive Owens slurred accent ("anyone who tries to get in their way, they're eliminated" translates to "their lemonade", "it's my job, that's all it is - a job" translates to "it's my job, thus Allah is a joy" etc)
Privateer 2, Brian Blessed / Clive Owen
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9PU5nsgXTAI (no idea what is even happening here lol. Unfortunately when I tried playing Privateer 2 I had some issues installing the modern patch hack thing that removed the interlaced scanlines from all the FMV cutscenes in the game, so I never managed to fully appreciate the glorious cringe acting, but nevertheless you can watch it without 90s DOS game cutscenes video scanlines on youtube)
also made me initially think of those peculiar cyborg wasteland type films directed by Albert Pyun which can be a bit mixed or hit and miss lol. Personally I prefer this type of sci fi to Villeneuve Dune
Anonymous
Someone make me a quest inspired by this book
Anonymous
As much as I like quest mechanics, I suck at creating them and my poor attempts at them end up hampering my quests.
Anonymous
>>5952112 I'd condense it all down into a roll+modifier, with the players voting on which Apostle's suggestion to do so that you can condense all of the micromanagement down to just a few choices. For example:
> Bob (2 Faith, 4 Power, 1 Charisma): Lets focus our resources on the plan to sneak past the guards and loot the relic! > Mary (5 Faith, 1 Power, 2 Charisma): Lets focus our resources on killing Parry! > Jake (3 Faith, 3 Power, 3 Charisma): s u m m o n t h e p l a t y p u s And then there's a roll based on the relevant stats (could be just one Apostle or all or something. You could do the number crunch so that the anons don't have to.)
Anonymous
>>5952108 No.
Which part would you even want? The spiders or the children of time?
Anonymous
>>5952112 >>5952125 Reminds me a bit of the Fear Faith Force Wealth Order Kindness attributes from Highfleet
Anonymous
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>>5952112 >>5952125 >>5952147 Actually I think it might be interesting to break down the elements of FAITH a bit more in a theological sense
Because I think a lot of rpgs create this overarching all encompassing type meta stat eg what does INTELLIGENCE even mean (contextually can manifest in many different ways etc)
So it might be interesting instead of one super stat like FAITH, could have some other dimensions or parameters like
TRADITION vs RADICALISM (or maybe zealotry etc)
eg you could be faithful yet conservative (cling to the old rites, conserve the ancient ways) or you might possess faith in the sense of needing to overthrow the entire order and embrace modernity (it might also mean casting out the heretics)
SUPERSTITION / mysticism vs PRAGMATISM (or maybe modernity) it could be like those who believe in literal miracles vs allegorical interpretations
I recoil a bit from the horrible Hofstede dimensions of culture thing
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede%27s_cultural_dimensions_theory (it is all a bit pseudo nonsense or a convoluted means of conveying distinctions of anthropological superiority, this form of disappointing academic racism especially popular amongst the terrifying modern hierophantic cultist caste of MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS and it is far less understandable and less amusing compared to browsing /pol) but you might want to consider some of those dimensions like hierarchy, individualism/collectivism uncertainty avoidance etc in terms of how your imaginary culture evolves
Instead of hit points / health, an attribute called something like UNITY or COHESION. You could set this up like some sort of interval roll on a 1d100 as an illustration eg a range 30 ~ 70,
<30 the tribe lacks any leadership, no-one is motivated to do anything or believe or follow any ideals etc
>70 the tribe is obsessed with finding traitors and infighting, there is a risk of a schism / internecine religious war You could translate similar 1d100 interval rolls between the two extremes across other parameters / cultural dimensions.
The idea is to provide a mix / tradeoffs of desired and hindrance type manifestations of each parameter (instead of a monotonically increasing higher = always better stat like dnd Intelligence Wisdom Charisma etc) For example, higher Superstition might lead to emergence of more prophets, visionaries mystics etc who create more doctrines and lead to better cohesion, but it might lead to your cult / tribe becoming more inward focused, esoteric and backward degrading their wealth, relations and influence amongst uninitiated outsiders
Anonymous
>>5952108 Why don't (You) make it?
>:( Anonymous
>>5952222 Because I'm already writing another quest.
von Adlershorst
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Adlershorst Dynasty Update: Combat encounter time.
>>5952336 >>5952337 >>5952338 Olympus QM
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Olympus Incarnation Quest is back after a brief hiatus
>>5952359 >>5952359 >>5952359 Anonymous
Anonymous
Ivan
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>>5952497 >>5952497 >>5952497 Big choice in Occupation Quest. Time to figure out what problem to solve first.
Anonymous
aight guys need some serious input here. so i was thinking about doing a quest about a girl that kills people because she thinks its the right thing to do, she has a website to which people send their wishes. heres the thing: i suck ass at detectivesque shit and all that noir which would be inherent to the genre. it would be more about philosophy and emotions and shit, and i'd have to leave the logic bullshit to you guys because i am not smart. what do you think?
Anonymous
>>5952505 DO you have any broader o longer-term plot planned out for it beyond the premise?
Anderson Thorell (QM)
>>5952505 From the way you're explaining the premise of it, I kinda wonder if the quest will also have some more psychological aspects to it. If you opt to go in that direction as well, you could maybe just incite fear in your players by constantly bringing up how the cops will find you out. If you keep doing it, maybe players will grow numb to it, or they will keep being overly cautious for a threat that doesn't exist. Or at least, they are overestimating it in some regard.
Regardless, it really depends on what your long term plans are and if you want them to actively deal with the detective stuff that is going to haunt them.
Anonymous
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>>5952524 Decision making for the creation of a secret society/cult, that a supervillain has gotten caught up in, if you had interest in making things better or worse for the world!
BechiiQM !cA75R4LBa6
>>5952532 >>5952532 >>5952532 It's up! Hopefully I can end the quest on this thread
Anonymous
Lumina if you’re here when is the next royale thread?
Anonymous
90s MG Villainess
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90s MG Villainess
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Magical Girl Villainess is on once more!
>>5952624 Anonymous
>>5952507 i like it when things unfold naturally due to consequences
so no not really
but i do have the setting kinda
>>5952511 thats true. i call it the krillin factor. kill him enough times and nobody will give shit anymore. and yeah, its meant to be much more psychological than technical, but i indeed would welcome logical erika bullshit
>>5952595 im not here
jk. thing is, i got a full time job and things are going great, except for me not having not even less thab one hundreth of the time i used to have. i miss my girls, but for now i wanna fill the void with something else that doesnt demand as many braincells as to not do it justice. also i dont know if my niggucas still around. also emma best girl, she takes care of her mental health
Anonymous
>>5952669 I think the specific premise you've laid out IS one that might peter out or become hard to maintain, as a psychological crime drama is an especially difficult sort of thing to keep going and reach a satisfying conclusion for without at least SOME pre-plotting. It's s a demanding genre to work in., being mystery adjacent Mystery novel readers are another breed as far as noticing (and expecting) fine detail.
Anonymous
>>5952669 Good to hear things have been going great for you. I do hope the royale returns one day if you find the time and emma's boat arc finishes.
>still around Yea...the QTG might not be where the others are checking in, but I have faith that they'll end up trickling in when the time comes tho.
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Sat 16 Mar 2024 07:21:43 No. 5952714 Report Quoted By:
>>5952707 >>5952707 >>5952707 Your daily dose of Lodestar just dropped. A 5-post update for this one, whew! But it was so fun to write that I just couldn't stop.
Don't gotta worry about burnout if you're utterly obsessed with your work and love doing it SO DAMN MUCH!
Anonymous
Please shill me some Quests with original mechanics
Anonymous
>>5952155 At which point in their development?
Anonymous
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>>5952505 Make up on the fly and be really good at bullshitting, just like the Death Note author
Anonymous
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>>5952749 I'm not very mechanically-inclined, but several of these have some neat gimmicks and angles in the 'gameplay' aspect, such as the adapted Harry Potter magic system in Disappearing Hogwarts, the use of an (apparently not unique, but I've never seen it used on /qst/ before) rolling system in Lodestar, the adventure game-style inventory in Final Girl, the "Game of Distortion" in "I'm a Demon?", the way Hypercrisis Bro does variable DCs and allocated points in Batquest/Superquest, the memory and reading-comprehension puzzles that occasionally crop up in Schizo QM's quests like the currently-ongoing Loveless Gal...
Anonymous
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>>5952799 I want a quest that tracks their development and evolution. But of course not spiders this time.
NC-17 !!5BuukXGLH01
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Final Girl Quest update is up.
>>5952894 Apologies for the delay.
Anderson Thorell (QM)
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>>5952903 >>5952903 >>5952903 First update of the weekend is out for the Monster Girl Facility Quest, and with that also some incredible fanart from one of the Anons who follows it. Seriously, it's too good not to share it around here. All credits go to him, obviously.
The update is mostly just some fun conversations between doctors and a rather pissed of member of your squad. At least you got an opportunity to maybe gather some medical intel, as well as plan ahead for the next excursion.
Anonymous
>>5952374 I hate that I can't write one.
Anonymous
>>5952918 Almost nyone can, honestly. Will it be as good as it is in your head, half-imagined? Maybe not. But a basic, enjoyable quest is attainable to most, if not all. You just need to be able to present in a few sentences a basic premise and ask:
>wat do? After that, you just rinse and repeat, and in a pinch they even have AI tools to help when you hit a brick wall.
Anonymous
Super hero assassin quest when?
Anonymous
>>5952967 A superhero who is an assassin, or someone who assassinates superheroes?
Anonymous
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>>5952972 Either or, I'm easy.
Anonymous
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>>5952972 Playing a guy who has to figure out ways to kill people with superpowers when he's just a guy could be fun.
Lanu !!xX2uu4ZVO2b
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Second thread of multiplayer civ quest is up! Any new players are welcome!
>>5953011 >>5953011 >>5953011 Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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Versequest 5 has been posted!
>>5953138 >>5953138 Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>5953157 You may go and samefag.
Anonymous
I'm not great with colour so I tried testing out going monochromatic but not sure if the payout is worth it. It's definitely going to slow me down but not as much as full on colour. I feel like without at least some kinda of colour it seems empty to me.
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>5952967 A quest about pigeons stuck in a building and can't get out so they have to learn to live and survive inside when?
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX
I Just Love Lady Knights !!qp9SkPCS7dX ID:eEq4ELSW Sun 17 Mar 2024 06:01:33 No. 5953565 Report Quoted By:
>>5953562 >>5953562 >>5953562 The Lady Knight's quest has updated! Louise learns why the Princeps Octavian is hunting the Samaritan and how his younger brother ended up in the position to get taken...
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5953516 There are plenty of quests that go with a purely black and white with the very eventual splash of color (the obvious reference being Ruby Quest, which you should definitely check out of you haven't already). I think that as long as it matches the tone of the quest, it's fine (though this gray on gray feels very depressive for me, which is fine if that's the goal)
Narrator Kommgal !!eK/DTdS3ONO
Narrator Kommgal !!eK/DTdS3ONO ID:vpvdaPIR Sun 17 Mar 2024 10:46:13 No. 5953655 Report Quoted By:
>>5950918 It can be, depending on the genre and characters.
>>5950950 says it pretty well - if you offer, they’ll probably take it.
I myself have ran a few quests and in many of them I have the protagonist already in a relationship before the quest takes place — and the players seem to take to it well.
>>5952749 >original Quest mechanics RQM - Author of “Reptilian Infiltrator” “Dragonborn Antipaladin” and “Seekers of the Esoteric” - has a dicerolling method is pretty interesting.
You have multiple dicerolls vs DC for most challenges - you get more dicerolls if you are proficient in a certain topic, and the DC can be decreased if you have a satisfying write-in.
On occasion are dialogue boss battles; you need to convince someone of something, and depending on your reasoning, you can reduce the diceroll DC. Some offer guidelines while others are write-in only. It’s a neat way of challenging the players.
>reading-comprehension puzzles that occasionally crop up in quests like the currently-ongoing Loveless Gal... Speaking of which - Loveless Gal has been updated!
Check it out if you’re interested in a low-stakes fantasy based on the early modern time period and a dash of Buddhist/Hindu mythology. And a little of VA11HALLA and The Coffin of Andy and Leyley. We update every 2-3 days with 3-4 posts’ worth of writings and art!
Our two Gal’s lives get closer to a bind…
>>5952957 >>5952960 >>5952961 >>5952964 >>5952966 Curse Carrier DM
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>>5953618 I originally started drawing in pure black and white, but I didn't actually use the black to color anything, I just did the lines, and it felt so empty I ended up colored most of my backgrounds in future drawings.
Well, I barely draw proper background anymore, I really should again, but it was more time-consuming than I'd like. I think the image
>>5953516 here still looks pretty good, although it can be a little gloomy, which is not a bad thing if that's what you're going for I guess. You can make black and white look vibrant, but I'm too much of a pre-beg to give advice in that regard.
Anonymous
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>>5953618 >(the obvious reference being Ruby Quest, which you should definitely check out of you haven't already). this reminds me of RWBY Vacuo Quest and how QM hasn't returned in 2 months already...
Anonymous
>>5952922 It's mostly just IRL bullshit that keeps me from running, honestly.
I don't want to set the expectation that I'll be putting an update up this or that time, then fail to do so because I couldn't write the update due to either distractions, interruptions, or burnout.
Sure, other people do it, but I don't want to do it. Not out of some "holier than thou" fart-huffery, I just don't feel good doing it.
And sorry for the "woe is me" nonsense, I just needed to vent.
Anonymous
>>5954206 I'm the "burger fantasy" guy upthread, by the way.
Seeing so many positive replies makes me want to do it, but I'm afraid of being unable to make it interesting, and KEEP it interesting, aside from the aforementioned IRL nonsense.
Anonymous
>>5954210 >>5954206 Maybe start it on a more episodic note, with a single event or competition, lasting for one or two threads? Then you've told a little self-contained narrative, but can continue it if inspiration strikes, or return to it later.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
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Hey anons, come check out my battle autism!
>>5954205 Hippomedon of Argos has organized the greatest war drills of the Late Bronze Age and now he's about to HAM on his uncles.
DetectQM
After an unexpected hiccup, Gotham Beat Cop is back for this week's session. First on the menu? Visiting mom and dad.
Anonymous
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>>5954287 >Visiting mom and dad. The hardest of challenges. Try to walk away without your pockets full of junk and snacks.
Anonymous
>>5954210 >>5946379 >>5946372 >>5946373 >>5934328 >>5934330 >>5946388 >>5951194 >>5951203 >BURGERPUNK COMBAT STREAMER, versus >>5946379 >>5946652 >>5946410 >AGRARIAN HERO ECO-DRUID COTTAGECORE SEED TRANSPORTER I was solo raiding and looting in Arena Breakout; look what I found tee hee hee
Of course, I dropped this pathetic seed packet and plundered GPUs and an oil can instead, backpack space is so precious and they are worth much more in exchange in the marketplace
Anonymous
>>5954358 I do enjoy the idea of both of those things (rich combat streamers fighting for clout and poor, primitivist agrarians) could exist in the same setting. Reminds me of Deca-Dence.
Anonymous
I have never played anything that's determined by dice. It seems pretty straight forward but I’m not sure if it’s something I should put into my quest. It seems like fun, but also adds another level of complexity that I might not fully understand. I had the idea of the MC dying and reverting it when a wrong choice is made, but never by chance, only the poor decisions of the players. The MC has their own personality and things they wouldn’t realistically be able to do or want to do. If the players make the obvious wrong decision or pick some outlandish choice, bad things happen. I want players to understand that picking THE idiotic idea isn’t conducive to the story, but the option is still there and probably get a fun interaction from it but it’s not for moving the quest forward. What are some pitfalls from the Dice Mechanics as a whole and pitfalls of my idea of reverting really bad decisions?
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>>5954472 >What are some pitfalls from the Dice Mechanics as a whole and pitfalls of my idea of reverting really bad decisions? For dicerolls, it could feel too RNG-heavy depending on how the system works. A best of 3d20 vs DC is a lot more randomized if you do not have modifiers to dice or stats, especially if the DC is hidden from the players. It’s always a shit feeling when you played your cards right, make the right choices and then have dice spiral things downward.
Being able to revert from really bad decisions is a difficult thing to nail down. It can take away a lot of stakes if the players know they can bounce back from most things - you need to make sure your players know which choices are more permanent and cannot be reverted if you want to implement that mechanic. You don’t want players goofing around on a matter they can’t take back, but the players don’t need to be 100% serious all the time and miss fun tidbits of the world.
Chartman !!RtTRSNxm597
>>5954523 >>5954532 >>5940353 The Captain looks back upon memories of a happier time and how they came to an end...
Will you heed his warning Lieutenant Commander?
Or will you forge your own treacherous path through the dangers ahead?
Anonymous
>Just realised my quest borrows heavily from Dune
Anonymous
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>5954539 That's a great piece of art and took a really long time to make. I also loved the way you used that effect on the photographic background to keep with the style and save time on having to draw it yourself, which is clever- something I've always wanted to do more of myself to accelerate update speeds.
As yet another person who runs my Quest but better- I raise a toast to you, Chartman! Also Cleo best waifu
Anonymous
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>>5954606 >As yet another person who runs my Quest but better space monke? that's an entirely different genre. space monke is civilization management.
Anonymous
>>5954600 A quest you don't read apparently. Basically it mirrors Paul's moral corruption and how his enamoured followers lead him to his Jihad. I based the player character off myself, but exceptional and with my flaws exaggerated: ego, pride, competitiveness.
Anonymous
>>5954611 Why are you being so shy about it? I'm interested. I liked the new Dune films quite a bit and find the universe and themes interesting.
Anonymous
>>5954622 I've got three dollars and fifty-two cents on him not actually running a quest.
Anonymous
>>5954632 >about tree fiddy You can't fool me you eight stories tall crustacean from the plethazoic era. I know you're that gotdang Loch Ness Monster!
Anonymous
>>5954632 How you want to pay me?
Anonymous
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>>5954648 >mfw >>5954652 Mans really copy pasted the word "Nuts" a hundred-thousand times just to act like he's a writer. How silly.
Anonymous
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>>5954472 I guess you could have a simple gambling game to try it out. Or a practice fight or whatever to to understand ranges abd all that.
Chartman !!RtTRSNxm597
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>>5954606 Ha thanks, the background was the quickest part of the whole process. Just copy pasted in an image of a farmhouse and applied the glowing edges and black and white filters in Photoshop.
And yeah, like anon said we may have the same genre but you're tackling the grand civilisation stuff while my quest still hasn't progresses more than a single evening timewise. I just like writing the character interactions and drawing.
Anonymous
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>>5954212 That's a good idea.
archivebro
>>5950238 So, I’m caught up on Curse Carrier now. The start had me leery at first. It opens with “have sex or die” and we go from there? Seems tailored to grab the horny crowd. Then anons start talking to their neighbor who seems a little too into gadgets, and it turns out she’s actually a super-smart, paranoid, and anxiety-prone genius who can easily make millions? Too much power escalation too quick for me, and it didn’t settle right until I later read the inspiration for a quest.
It’s envisioned as a type of dating sim, and the choices at the beginning on what to do were the “routes” to different girls. Suddenly everything fit into place.
As I kept reading, my mind jumped to a VN I played a long time ago. I don’t think it was a big one, especially since it had some bugs in the later stages that kept me from unlocking some upgraded activities and meant I never completed the “final” route. The high-level overview is largely unimportant, but the big takeaway from it is that for 75% of the game you were wooing teenage girls in a normal school setting. In the last 25% you find out your girlfriend is a robot, or was dead and possessed by a demon, or you and your girlfriend prevent reality collapse from alternate dimensions etc. etc. All absolutely insane things that had basically no buildup at all. It was pretty fun seeing all the different ways the game could go.
That game was Shira Oka: Second Chances, and is apparently the biggest inspiration for the quest as I found out later. I’m shocked to have met anyone else who played the game. This quest feels like the first 5% of it was the initial route picking that was the 75% in SO, while the rest of it is the backend 25% with how much things suddenly ramped up. And that’s okay, because trying to do it SO’s way would have had a lot of anons upset at the sudden genre shift later on.
Back on track, once I thought of the beginning and gameplay in VN terms, the girlfriends being so OP (or not, in one route not chosen) in their own ways makes sense. As much as anons are running their own character, they’re also running their girl’s route with all the quirks and general insanity that brings in a world where plenty of other people are also ridiculous in both dramatic and comedic ways with their powers. It turns out getting the girl is the easy part in this quest, KEEPING her (and yourself) alive and well to enjoy some happiness is the main draw.
Having the requisite background knowledge of Shita Oka, I realize my original advice of pacing out the story over a longer period of time so anons can acclimate to the world is missing the point. The quest feels like a fever dream at some points, like the fight with Schadenfreude, compared to more “grounded” times, like the agents or the MC opening up to Etsy on his insecurities, and that’s very much an intended feature! But with that in mind… I don’t know what advice I can give since the absurdity is the charm.
archivebro
>>5954915 There’s the overall repetition in words and such on a technical level, but that in particular is a pain point for me as a writer too. I run different variations of sentences and paragraphs through my head so often while writing that I carry verbiage over between them way too easily. I know I’ve committed that sin in these reviews more times than I’ve realized, and I don’t twinge onto it as easily as grammar or spelling errors. I only bring it up because you called it out ourself in some posts, honestly, so take some heart in that I glazed right over it myself!
For future ideas, I know the idea of “resets” has been toyed around with so anons can go down another girl’s route. It’s not a bad idea since that’s the way a lot of VNs work, and both SO and more recent ones like Slay The Princess show those resets can be done in-universe. I don’t know if it’d make the most sense to do the resets in this world if it wasn’t planned at first. Lord knows you’d have a lot of threads ahead of you if you went that route, and you may not have the time for it later.
A new quest could give it a try though, and you could shorten the expected “lifespan” of each route so they’d only last a thread on average. That lets you flesh out the gameplay/thematic differences between the routes more thoroughly before letting anons loose in it.
Surprisingly enough, it would not be the first quest VN with time loops that I’ve read. That honor goes to Visual Novel Quest! It was a drawquest that went for the full VN experience, requiring anons to select commands, save and reload their game, and so on. It was a good one, promising “a cute and light-hearted quest” that’s could have easily fit into something like Curse Carrier quest with some tweaking, and it’s gold-rated to boot! Not bad, right? Those “guro” and “grimdark” tags were clearly just the archivist having a hoot!
It wasn’t So there’s my thoughts. Not as much practical advice as I’d like to give, especially since you admitted you’re a first-timer for running a quest, but if you refined the quest too much it’d lose some of that batshit VN charm.
My best advice to learn about quests is to read more anyway. I learned writing largely through reading, and you can get a good feel for different ways to present quests to anons through what’s been done before even if it doesn’t show you all the work that goes in behind the scenes. That’s not directed to you, Curse Carrier, but to any anon wondering about running their own quests. We had “lurk moar” for a reason after all, and even after many years of lurking my first foray into namefagging as “archivebro” was pretty disastrous. There’s always ways to learn from others, especially as you start trying things and start to notice little things that QMs and anons did that you never noticed before.
archivebro
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>>5954916 I suppose the spoilered text should read
The tags are accurate. to avoid confusion. I realize now that I could have been dissing the other quest, and I’m not. It was very well done.
Ivan
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>>5954243 >>5954243 >>5954243 New decision in Antegrian Occupation Quest. Gennady has decided to contact the army unit under his command and must figure out where they are and how to get there
HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2
>>5954915 Don't know if you have slots open in that waiting list of yours, but I'd love to hear what you think of Disappearing Hogwarts if you have the time!
Anonymous
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Player question: which quest has the best/your favorite art? Doesn't have to be a drawquest as long as the art is original (and not AI generated)
OBA-337 !!4mnDVUrwiI8
There was once this (now cancelled) isekai manga about a guy who wants to get revenge on a bunch of parodies of well known isekai characters. I'd adore to do a version of this where you're some Agent 47-esque assassin that needs to infiltrate an inter-dimensional party filled with all kinds of people and creatures from different worlds and assassinate some targets, but the problem is that every world has their own magic system/technology/other shenanigans so you need to play around those worlds' rules to figure out a way to kill the target effectively and hide the bodies without being found out instantly.
Anonymous
>>5954984 Just make them bitches
Anonymous
>>5954984 >There was once this (now cancelled) isekai manga about a guy who wants to get revenge on a bunch of parodies of well known isekai characters. what the name of it ?
OBA-337 !!4mnDVUrwiI8
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>>5954992 Cheat Slayer, pretty sure they only made like two chapters for it before cancellation though so there's not a lot of it
Anonymous
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>>5954992 It only last a chapter or two. Cheat Slayer. It was a bridge burning temper tantrum by the mangaka cause his gambling manga and his isekai manga got massively outsold by the series he took the MC/ most popular character from to serve as his villains, with no other thought put behind it so that's why you have faces like Bakarina and the waitress from that one restraunt isekai amongst characters who could actually be the Boys'd into being villains
Olympus QM
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>>5954984 Honestly, it's a really interesting idea (I'd definitely read it if it was running). My hands are too full with my own stuff to actually run it, but I and probably many others would be happy to toss an original magic system+character concept at you if you were to run it. Another fun idea could be to do the same idea but with spoofs of different /qst/ protagonists, with the permission of the qms obviously
Anonymous
>>5954987 Ah, the Shield Hero solution.
>>5954984 >the Subaru knockoff is called Honda Kek
Anonymous
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>>5955001 For me, its Don Will Dead
Anonymous
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>>5954789 So I'm running a Matrix game set in the Middle East. I have no idea if I'm allowed to recruit from /qst/, but last year I did and no one cared.
You can also play here, but people can totally see your moves.
Anonymous
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>>5953571 wut this mean????
also! yknow what? maybe i can just do meguca royale but! just for the lulz, like an imaginary sidequest or something, like a one-shot of how it was meant to be from the start
before i totally derailed it with feelings lawl
but i dunno. i think that what most got people into my quest was the sense of kinship and belonging of being a group(since even emma kept coming to pipe in) but i also want my niggas to have fun. i dunno. its hard. ill do something soon though. i miss my lovely autist gucas a lot
archivebro
>>5954958 There are always slots open. When I burn out and stop reviewing long enough to call for a fresh list in another thread is the real question!
Final Girl Quest is next on the list though,
Anonymous
>>5933715 Alright /qtg/, it's obvious there's enough interest in a waifu tournament but I've never done anything like this before. If someone else is interested in taking the reins on hosting it, please reply.
I don't remember if the previous tournament was held here or in its own thread.
Anonymous
>>5955430 https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2021/4999756/ https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2022/5090023/ The last time we did a Waifu Tournament or Husbando Games, they were both great, but handled rather differently. Applications were put in here, and the tourneys themselves got their own threads.
Gacha guy !!2xXmWA15jwN
Gacha guy here, I finally started my gacha themed request! It is over here:
>>5955470 >>5955470 >>5955470 Due to the lack of any prep, it is will probably fail but at least I tried, right?
Captcha: Javv
Anonymous
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>>5955430 But the Waifu Tournament wasn't even that lon--
>2021 HNNNNNNNNNNNNNG
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
>>5955444 I still remember being beyond bewildered when my character (The Administrator) won the husbando tournament. Good times, good times.
Curse Carrier DM
>>5954916 >>5954915 I'm surprised someone played that game too honestly. It's really hard to explain the charm of shira oka, but I think a huge part is that despite the endings being absolutely batshit insane, they are somehow foreshadowed in plenty of little ways that would make no sense if you didn't know what was coming. With each character's ending you even get to see all the other character's simultaneous endings happen behind the scene, like some events being stopped outright by one character being told to fuck off, or one character dying off-screen and being mentioned as missing during another route. It was part of the inspiration of the 'rumor update' I suppose.
It's still a very janky game, with not the best art and admittedly a lot of repetition (did you know you have to play the game 9 times to get the true ending? And that there is no skip button?) it's still a game with a metric ton of soul, and one I respect for genuinely trying to bring something unique to the dating sim field in its own schizophrenic way.
Really the worst part is they don't let me bang Satsuko.
As for the criticism, yeah, true. I think I always wanted the quest to keep some of the batshit insane level that SO had, but I also wanted to make it coherent within its own logic. Etsy is a tech genius that's closer to a cartoon mad scientist than anything realistic, but I still try to think, 'what would she actually do in her situation.' the answer is probably only make money as needed and be afraid that someone wants to steal my cool secrets to fuck me over.
I know I have a huge problem with repetition, and since I don't proofread myself as hard during this quest, it's even more flagrant here. I did lurk here for a while before posting, but only for like 6 months or so, which is probably peanuts compared to most people here. I was of course much longer on 4chan, but every board's culture is different, so that doesn't mean much.
The truth is I don't have as much time to read, and I can be pretty ADHD brained, so unless the prose is really good and captures me immediately, or it's short easily digestible paragraphs, it can be hard for me to stay focused. I think i'll catch up on a few quests I've neglected to read when i'm done with this one. Thanks for the review, I was a little afraid of being torn to shred, but all the criticisms are ones I already agree with, so it wasn't that bad.
Anonymous
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>>5955665 That was me, I decided the outcome.
Anonymous
Why are Star Wars quests so cursed?
archivebro
>>5955672 I feel you on the ADHD. Been medicated since I was a kid. It’s part of why I suggested in an earlier review to break up long paragraphs even if everything is technically related to a single thought. It gets hard to keep focus on where I’m at if the prose is too stuffed.
Y’know, I managed to block out the lack of a skip button from my memory. But that was what made grinding for the Lit and Math upgrades so agonizing. Every time I got a random girl congratulating me on my good Lit/Math scores instead of triggering the event that would lead to their upgrades, I died a little more.
I should see if my save survived the PC migration and try finishing it at some point. I could probably still do the last route without them, I had all the traits and had all but 2 stats at max I think. I got a lot of Christmas pity points during the grind.
And yeah, I’d have harsher words but I’m familiar with the inspiration and realize that jank was inevitable. There’s no clean way to marry SO’s endings with the rest of the game given how much they ramped up, and succeeding at it would make it lose the impact that it had. So it’s a lose-lose proposition to “improve” on it in the ways I’d normally suggest once translated to a quest.
So congratulations I suppose! Much like how I thought about Skies of Arcadia when reading Lodestar I jumped to Shira Oka: Second Chances while reading yours. You succeeded at translating the feel of the game into quest form, and that’s worth celebrating. It was an imperfect game, but the storylines still made enough of an impact for me to remember over a decade later.
First route? I got lucky with Rena as it, the Meditation upgrade was so goddamn necessary and I’m glad I got it early on. Curse Carrier DM
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>>5955789 I know way too much about that game, and the funniest part is how one of the upgrade is tied to you being very bad at literature and I think being friend enough with Alice. It's such a rare upgrade as it's not only tied to a random event, and it requires you to stay bad at that stat, which is unlikely to happen after a few loops unless you treat it as a dump stat.
First route was Alice, she has a lot of mandatory events, and shitting on Aya gives you bonus points with her which is nice. Fun fact, you can get fail here if your strength isn't high enough as you can't take the zombie apocalypse, and satsuko just goes 'skill issue' and resets you which is incredibly harsh as the game never warns you you'll need strenght at all. Also the game is no longer available on their website since it's been hacked and vandalized, and for some god forsaken reason they never thought of putting it on steam or...any regular game store really. It can only be found on dlsite, there's something funny about a western game trying to emulate japanese media that can now only be found on a japanese store.
Anonymous
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>>5938358 please don't disappear herald. Westeros interregnum was what got me into Game of Thrones lore to begin with.
AurebeshQM !FFB4lyp4p.
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The Horus Heresy is back to a regular schedule! (Fingers crossed the Chaos Gods don't curse me for that)
>>5956203 Decide whether to go with Constantin Valdor to talk down Magnus or tell the Captain-General of the Custodes to piss off!
SeQuester !!h8JTK8xK3Lt
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Wardens of Nine Circles is up and running, please give it a look if you are interested!
>>5946815 Anonymous
Why do people shill their quest without describing what it is and trying to sell it?
Anonymous
>>5956260 They trust in the ability of anons here to click a link and read a paragraph or two.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5956260 I'm bad at marketing, how can I make it so it interests you?
Anonymous
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>>5956308 Mine are pretty good.
Anonymous
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Any quest where the MC cheats on his waifu?
>>5956322 Explain why your quest is compelling and enjoyable.
Anonymous
i think my brain is telling me to make a Civ quest now
Anonymous
>>5956347 A generic "pick race and location" one, or something more unique? How's your brain for follow-through?
Anonymous
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>>5956347 I will play it if you make it a Fantasy New World colonization civ quest.
Anonymous
>>5956350 it works on a scale of "sorry guys i gotta eat dinner, quests over." to like, a bump limit thread and then half a thread, and i try to be at least a little original
Anonymous
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>>5956379 If you're willing to commit to one thread, just do something to wrap it up (even if it's just a single major milestone or 'arc') in that time. Then, even if it's short, it'll feel satisfying.
Anonymous
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>>5956347 i also had an idea for a quest where you have to defend a 1950s US from victorious Germans and maybe Japanese in the pacific, and you're commanding troops in close up battles, kinda like that operation bludonia but that might require a a lot more effort
Anonymous
>>5955486 Glad to see you doing it. You seem to be handling yourself pretty well, write in to ignore all the options and ties. Proust!
The setting is much more different from what i imagined. Was expecting tratidonal fantasy.
TravelingQM
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Test. Lets see if this works
Gacha guy !!2xXmWA15jwN
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We have finally reached the gacha portion of the quest here:
Deus Novus
>>5956506 >>5956506 >>5956506 Will our bare knuckled Mechnos protagonist assemble a party capable of potentially finding the girl with the seed of divinity? Only you ( and the power of rolls) can decide!
>>5956421 It is mostly fantasy, don't let the intro fool you. As I had states before, this is a dungeon crawler mini version of what I originally had in mind.
Anderson Thorell (QM)
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Really big update for the monster girl facility quest just got posted! We've had a little change of to the perspective of a different squad, who have encountered a particularly dark and 'intimate' subjects. At least you'll have plenty of armour to protect you... hopefully.
>>5956513 >>5956513 >>5956513 Anonymous
>>5954360 Both things existing would be the worst nightmare for either side.
An actual ideological opponent will mean that the agri-states have to communicate and band together, and their rebels will have resources one way or another to jump ship.
Socialism actually being a thing will create a choice in the burgerpunk cities they didn't know they had, and will inevitably lead to streamers who actively support socialism, fracturing themselves in civil war.
They might seriously pretend the other doesn't exist.
Anonymous
>>5955244 How big is the list as of current?
Anonymous
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>>5956771 >tfw ultra-propaganda shadow-wars where they media blackout the fuck out of eachother totally and constantly witch hunt amongst their own people to keep their ideals "pure" Junky !amLSarXkOc
What do you guys think of my quest? It's about idiots in a room who do stuff. IDK what the plot will be. Maybe you guys could give me suggestions.
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>>5956796 It's fucking terrible and nobody should play your quest. Let me explain why:
It's an exercise in gobbling your cock. Many quests are like this (I'd gladly gobble Levelman's cock), but yours a is a particularly tragic case of it. It's a shitposty-looking quest and rather than play along the humorous write-in you've been given, you just shut it down and keep shoving down our throats more background lore and railroad more things to happen to us. People aren't going to care unless it's interesting (it's not) or they can meaningfully interact with it in the way that the Quest inspires them do to (you don't allow them to).
It seems like you use the Quest mechanics as a way to farm (You)s rather than a way to actually produce a quality gameplay experience for the (You)-givers.
The only meaningful choices we have made so far are those that give names to your doodlyass characters.
Focus on making a good game rather than trying to wrangle anons into feeding your narcissism.
Anonymous
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>>5956796 Well the art is quite fun
Anonymous
>>5939181 >MAYAN VICE You get Crockett's Theme by Jan Hammer. Vaguely synth sounding pan pipes (?), they are sort of Mayan
MIAMI VICE OST (1989)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfgf9HatIHI Anonymous
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>>5939181 >>5957018 >MIAMI VICE 1444AD Edition >SPEEDBOATS >GALLEONS >ARQUEBUSIERS >ASSAULT RIFLES >SCANTILY CLAD BIKINI WOMEN >SEMI-NAKED NATIVE WOMEN >FLAMINGOES >A PET ALLIGATOR NAMED ELVIS It is practically the same genre
Anonymous
>>5956796 I'm going to be honest, as soon as I saw the first image, I clicked the back button.
Draw your characters with arms, people.
My other problem is that I'm not a fan of the "you/your character is in a white room or in a box and has no recollection of anything relevant to [self] or [situation]" start.
Start with some action and describe minor motivations and surface thoughts of who we're supposed to be investing our time in.
Sorry, as it is, it just isn't very compelling.
Anonymous
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>>5957091 +1
He is correct.
>>5956796 You need some structure in your plot - otherwise the players will get bored and start shitposting or throw random shit to the wall and see what sticks. Make a premise, a goal, a character motivation or anything that establishes a certain tone.
It doesn’t need to be long, or complex. Even a sentence will do.
You are a ___ !
Nowadays you work for ___ !
Your superior is __ and she has asked you to ___ !
Anonymous
So to the long running and successful QMs, how do you prepare for your threads?
Anonymous
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>>5957111 I've been running on and off for 10+ years, I've had a few very successful Quests, and I don't plan anything like that.
I have a LOT of setting details and character concepts buzzing in my head, but I never actually plot out a storyline.
Anonymous
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>>5957111 I take some point-form notes about likely arcs, trajectories, characters, and scenes. Sometimes, if anons follow the path I predicted, I even get to use them!
Anonymous
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>>5957111 I wouldn’t describe my quests as long-running, but I have run a few quests. Later ones (drawquests) decently successful; 4-6 players on average.
>Obviously for drawquests, you can prepare a certain amount of content for encounters or characters >Do you just write blocks of text and description, more vague story outlines, or something else? I have storylines tied to NPCs - kinda like sidequests in a game or (for more overarching ones) routes in a VN. This way, I can introduce a bunch of them to the protagonist, and see what they choose to pursue.
For NPCs, I have a few bulletpoints on their goals, their past, and their affiliations.
Anonymous
>>5957111 When my players are asleep at night, I sneak into their houses and sit on their chests to listen to their sleep murmurs and ramblings, and prepare for threads with that
Anonymous
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>>5957111 I used to fly a lot more by the seat of my pants, but as my (very long-running) quest has gone on, I've done more and more planning to ensure that everything gets kept track of and tied back in nicely. For normal threads, I personally like to make loose flowcharts using
https://app.diagrams.net/ to plot out what conversations or plot points are likely to happen when, and in what likely order (with the knowledge that I'll have to change and add things once the players get there). For threads that are too improv-heavy to depend on a flowchart, usually "dungeon" threads set in a contained location, I instead make a list of all the things I want the players to encounter or learn about, and I trust myself to work in things on the list as context allows.
Anonymous
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>>5957111 Started running quests in the spring of 2010. Sometimes I have a few mental sketches of potential NPCs that may be encountered, but mostly I just start with a loose premise for the protagonist and make everything up as I go.
Anonymous
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>>5956796 Bit too lolrandom for me so far, but it IS just starting. Very Andrew Hussie-esque.
von Adlershorst
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>>5957295 >>5957300 Adlershorst Dynasty Quest update.
Anonymous
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>>5957111 The most important thing for a long running quest is knowing what you want to write. Guide the quest in that direction no matter what players vote, if you lose interest or enjoyment of your own quest then you will stop writing for it. Also thinking about cool updates you want to do, it can help you when demotivated and stuck with writers block.
Gacha guy !!2xXmWA15jwN
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Our first Aybaine dive had just begun! Of all twelve guiding stars, we had rolled tue black star of death....
>>5957365 >>5957365 >>5957365 Anonymous
>>5957233 >sneak into their house >sit on their chests to listen to their sleep murmurs and ramblings... NO
Prepare to flee in abject cowardly disarray as you GAZE IN SHEER TERROR upon my (ample bosom) PROTECTIVE CHEST SKULL ORBS the hollowed sockets shall leer back at your trembling visage, you shall never pilfer my dream mutterings argh no never noooooo
Anonymous
>>5957386 Disappointingly I was actually trying to find the John Blanche illustration of the wh40k spike bra woman (?) I am not sure what it was called, maybe one of the Necromunda House Escher girls ?? (I tried searching for that "Mad Donna" character but that was not her, not the picture unfortunately) I also tried searching for like a Callidus assassin (or maybe it was one of the old series Inquisitor 54mm miniature death cultists concept art ?) Maybe I imagined or hallucinated the whole thing lol but I swear there is some old wh40k art of a spike bra lady hmmm hmmm I just cannot track it down unfortunately nooo
RQM
>>5955430 If this anon doesn't take it up by the time I'm done my quest (or feel I have the energy), I may take a stab at this myself. However, I'd want to get at least a portrait for each character in a shared artstyle which (with 12 waifus and 12 husbando, the two winners from last tourney as 'hosts', and a portrait of the winners of each together) would take about $1960 USD.
If I was to volunteer my time, would other anons be willing to contribute funding? I would see about setting up a GoFundMe or Kofi or whatever people do to enable such things these days if people would be down, and if we made over and above the goal I'd look into commissioning fun little art to accompany specific events or match-ups.
>How would you run it? I'd run it as a round robin. It would be 2.5 months at one match-up per thread per day (though I'd probably take a day off now and then), if I run the husbando and waifu tourney concurrently in two threads.
I'd take a month or so for a preliminary thread to see which characters participate, and then to commission the initial art. My eligibility criteria would be that a character:
1. cannot have been a contender in the previous tourneys
2. must be from a quest which has either wrapped up or has at least 3 threads and hasn't been flaked on yet
3. must be an original character, not from an existing multimedia property
4. must have some art of them for the commissioned artist to reference
5. maximum of one character per tourney for any given quest
I'd start each thread off with a five-day period for people to register consistent/stable IPs, and begin voting afterwards, with non-backlinked 1-post IDs not counted.
>How do we know you won't flake out, and/or take the money and run? I've been running quests with pretty consistent daily updates for three years, and I've commissioned art for my own quest and probably about a dozen others, most recently the one I got from Indonesian Gentleman for six quests plus my own.
So, thoughts? I'm not promising yet, just gauging inetrest.
Anonymous
>>5957400 >would take about $1960 USD How you figure that? I've never commissioned art.
archivebro
>>5956780 I believe it’s
>Final Girl Quest >Seven Against Thebes >Chaos: The Quest For Redemption >Do Your Best Quest I will prioritize QMs that ask for reviews for their own quest over anons that request them, so the order may change. I try to include constructive criticism but that part only matters if the QM is interested in it.
archivebro
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>>5957418 Relatedly, I already find Final Girl Quest pretty horrifying in just the first few posts. MC talking about astronomical tuition costs and not wanting to overburden her family with all the parent plus loans?
Hah. Hah. I’d come up with a wittier joke, but I’m too busy monitoring the fence that keeps some old intrusive thoughts corralled. Hah.
Anonymous
>>5957400 Even if you do get the pictures, how do we know that you won't take a cut out of the money?
Anonymous
>>5957411 >>5957449 About $70 a piece (including a small tip and tax) is pretty typical, maybe even low, on Fiverr (where I get most of my art). I might end up having to shell out some cash of my own, or I might come out slightly ahead, depending on the artist, though I'd just spend it on quest art for some QM anyway. Like i said, I've already commissioned several hundreds of dollars of art for QMs out of appreciation in the past.
I can't really offer any guarantees other than this record and whatever reputation I've accrued here.
Anonymous
>>5957400 >However, I'd want to get at least a portrait for each character in a shared artstyle which (with 12 waifus and 12 husbando, the two winners from last tourney as 'hosts', and a portrait of the winners of each together) would take about $1960 USD. You could get them for free with an AI.
Anonymous
>>5957463 Sure, if that's what people would rather. I don't have a subscription to any premium service, though, and I personally view the soulful, human-made art of the characters as one of the principal draws of the waifu/husbando tournaments. Even if someone recommended an AI art generator which could produce reliably accurate (rather than approximate) art of a wide array of esoteric /qst/ characters, I wouldn't be interested in devoting my time and effort to such an AI-generated endeavor. Someone else could run it, in that case.
Anonymous
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>>5957465 Drawfagging is always cool but $2k seems like too steep of a requirement for a 4chan tourney.
Anonymous
>>5957400 >shared artstyle >12 husbandos / waifus & 2 hosts >$1960 USD >70 dollars each Let’s tone that down a little. Just go for lineart as opposed to full colors. You don’t need to do all that. That should be 20-30 a piece. About 500-800 usd.
>>5957462 You don’t really need to tip. I’ve commissioned a few and none didn’t really give a shit - just pay the price listed.
>>5957463 That’s just plain disrespect to the characters. AI slop is hardly the most consistent thing around.
RQM !!UCDxn1yqtzR
>>5957493 If you know a good and reliable artist doing $20-$30 black-and-white lineart commissions on Fiverr, drop a link. If people are happy with that, I'd be willing to run the tourneys that way.
Anonymous
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>>5957504 I’m afraid the artist I commissioned for this art is currently on Twitter and his bank account is region-locked.
Another one is this person but his sketches are 100 usd so that’s probably a no-go either.
https://www.deviantart.com/stormriderqv/journal/Stormriderqv-s-Commission-Sheet-925958880 https://x.com/stormriderqv/status/1770287925819027556?s=46&t=Hb7ydsjhPlpAWWOp2X4lDA I’ll see what I could find.
Anonymous
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Idea: We force someone like 91m10 to draw all the art at gunpoint.
Anonymous
I told myself that would make a simple story but of course I can never do that so it's alot more complicated and kinda became attached to it. So, I definitely don't want this to be my first Quest and was thinking maybe just doing a Quest with someone in this same universe to at least dip my toe in the water. Though this one would definitely be much much shorter. I would like to imagine I'm not the only one who this happens to.
Anonymous
>>5957400 >1. cannot have been a contender in the previous tourneys Monke bros... it's over.
Anonymous
>>5957564 Kima was never a contender in the waifu tourney. Only Kinja would be ineligible.
Anonymous
Indonesian Gentleman
>>5957504 Well hello there!
But seriously though, my price is 25 USD for a single character's lineart, and +15 USD for each additional character in the same order.
So that's like 25 + (15 x 13) = 220 USD. A bargain, I'd say!
Anonymous
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>>5957612 Well, if you have time for 28 commissions in your schedule!
Anons, what say you? I can afford that on my own, actually. Would you participate in the quest as pitched at
>>5957400 , if I do it FOR FREE?
Anonymous
>>5957612 ...Though isn't it more like $420 USD for 28 total pieces, under that pricing matrix? Might still ask people to pitch in for $200 of it, in that case, to cover both tourneys.
archivebro
>>5940738 I, uh, caught up already with Final Girl. I don’t normally notice how quickly I get through threads since the amount of posts varies and threads last a long time, but it’s hard not to in this case.
You seem interested in something more substantial than I’d usually provide, so I’m not posting my review yet since it’s late and doing my normal reviews is already a pain since it’s all by phone. I’m going to write one up tomorrow on my computer instead so I can organize it better.
It won’t be my final form. Editor Archivebro is a thing, but he can’t read for fun because he’s too busy dissecting everything to enjoy it. It’s too disconnected from normal anon reading to be good for a review. The headache also inevitably kills him, and that’s no bueno. But it was short enough to be closer to his way of looking at things for the full duration.
Is the horror creeping in yet? I know I can’t write quests, much less a horror one, but I’d like to think I can do a horror post. Don’t worry, it’ll be mostly good and you can guess the biggest criticism already. Anonymous
Quests as we know them have been a thing longer on /qst/ than they were on /tg/.
Anonymous
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>>5957704 What are ya talkin' about, sonny? Quests died when the board split. Ain't you never heard that? These thangs here ain't quests huh hah.
Indonesian Gentleman
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>>5957647 Oh yeah, 28 huh, forgot to count the other half. Yeah that sounds about right.
Anonymous
>>5957400 Definitely interested (maybe even to the point if chipping in a 20 or whatever I can afford to put in)
I think a great way to check interest is also to run the Pre-Lim soon of people suggesting or offering up their Characters from their Quests. (May be easier to use an Anonymous Google Questionaire or something? For vote counting purposes). I think the response on that would be a decent reflection of the response for the tourney as a whole.
Anonymous
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>>5957704 God, what a horrid thought.
Forgotten QM !!cRQ2bB+8b3B
Forgotten QM !!cRQ2bB+8b3B ID:ngN6zEUM Fri 22 Mar 2024 09:49:29 No. 5957819 Report I would just like to say that I love all my players and shadow readers you guys are the best.
Anonymous
NC-17 !!5BuukXGLH01
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>>5957674 Oh, I'm legitimately terrified. I feel like I'm back in the army, sweating my way through inspection. But hey, I asked for this. Thanks for taking the time, man. I hope it was a fun read
... I'm mostly mad at myself for bringing things to a screeching halt yet again, just when I was about to introduce new mechanics.
Anonymous
>>5957463 I'd be offended if someone offered AI slop to describe my characters.
Anonymous
RQM !!UCDxn1yqtzR
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>>5957813 When I'm sure I have the time and energy to pull this off, then, I'll start. I'm a bit under-the-weather right now, so I'll kick this cold/flu/covid first.
Anonymous
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>>5957566 Kima is a shit waifu anyway, she's basically the reason why the Giga-cide happened.
von Adlershorst
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>>5958084 >>5958087 Adlershorst Dynasty Quest update.
TravelingQM
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>>5958179 The new thread of Bretwalda quest is up. Historical action adventure set in 9th-century England. Come check it out.
Anonymous
How do you know if you're burnt out OR if the Quest you're running right now is just really shitty?
Anonymous
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>>5958299 Well, do you WANT to keep writing? CAN you? If the answer to either of those is no, it's probably burnout.
OBA-337 !!4mnDVUrwiI8
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I need to get a better schedule, turns out "one update a day" is really hard to keep up for more than a week, even when I'm not busy sometimes I just can't be bothered to do anything at my usual "writing hour" (aka midnight to 2 AM). Maybe just 4 or 5 times a week would be better.
>>5958299 If your reaction to writing a new update is "ughh, I gotta write more of this shit" then it's probably shitty, if your reaction is "man, I really want to progress the story but I'm not feeling it rn" it's probably burnout
Anonymous
>>5957704 Quests as we know them run at a pace that envies a corpse's speed and occupy a board that takes months to push a single thread into archive.
They've been "as we know them" since the enforced quarantine.
Anonymous
>>5958339 I've seen a couple quests here that ran at /tg/ pace. They all died of course.
Anonymous
>want to start a new thread but I don't want to ruin my sleep schedule
Anonymous
>>5958340 Glory to the madness that was capeshit dystopia quest.
Anonymous
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>>5958365 It's only on hiatus bro. It's not dead. It'll be back. Bro it's only been a couple years. Trust me bro.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Sat 23 Mar 2024 10:13:28 No. 5958491 Report Quoted By:
So there is a new thread of the skirmish-thing that my 40k minor xenos quest evolved into;
There's more often than not a shitty drawing to go with the update. Players, regroup there :
>>5958470 Lurkers, you are welcome too
>>5958470 Anonymous
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>>5958299 I have a kill switch set on my Quests. If it gets less than X voters in Y hours, Z times in a row, I kill the quest immediately.
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>5958498 Maybe Wednesday, we'll see, it's not like you read my quest anyway.
Anonymous
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>>5934361 I have to say that thinking on it, i don't think we can stop Wells brother from joining the UNSC marines in the long run.
He might join them even with the talk we did..... if he does we could put him under our watch.
>>5952535 Good !
Anonymous
Check out the touhou quest, I'm shilling it here cause the QM didn't do it when he started
>>5957767 MikoQM !!K0nuVFq7z7A
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>>5958542 Mystery, Mayhem, Mikoism.
Episode 1 is continuing, as our misfit protagonist Reina Tamura forgets how to function following a strange nightmare…
Come
break this tie play!
MikoQM !!K0nuVFq7z7A
>>5933504 >Player question Make it clear romance isn’t important to the protagonist at the moment, and don’t have immediately likeable and trustable characters. Let stuff build, and then let them choose later.
>Player question Like any successful relationship the ideal is to find someone who doesn’t so much exist as your opposite but rather as an offset. Someone who can provide the things you can’t, and so that way the both of you can be stronger. That’s not to say you should think of romance as only a transaction for finding someone to cover weaknesses, that would be silly, but I think it’s important to find love in someone who can provide counterbalance to your flaws, perhaps help you understand flaws you never knew you had. Not as some deranged “I can fix them” kind of way but as a way to know that they’re safe with you and beloved, you do not need to guard yourself.
>Who would you nominate for waifu/husbando tourney? I’m not really sure, honestly. Feel like I haven’t read enough quests in full to really have that debate.
Anonymous
>>5958549 I wish I had shills
Anonymous
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>>5958567 If I'm enjoying a new quest that the QM didn't shill in /qtg/, I'll do it for them or yell at them in thread to do it themselves
MikoQM !!K0nuVFq7z7A
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>>5957528 You are not. Ambition is great but it’s a double edged sword. When they say starting small helps, they really are being accurate. MDS is rather ambitious for me, but I’m curbing the ambition by attempting each thread being effectively a bottle of an episode with yes a long term overarching narrative but each individual thread being more of a oneshot. Which goes perfectly with detective stories. A different case each episode, and eventually connections between the cases form.
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Sat 23 Mar 2024 14:54:31 No. 5958616 Report >>5958607 >>5958607 >>5958607 My gay-ass body stopped cucking me long enough for me to write another Lodestar update!
I'm starting to think I should perform dark ritualistic sacrifices to sate the gods. Maybe eat a bear's heart or two so I can have a stronger body.
Anonymous
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Sat 23 Mar 2024 17:22:25 No. 5958707 Report >>5958616 So you're a member of the coterie of faggot qm? Metaphorical or litteral? Not that it matter the slightest.
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:e172i234 Sat 23 Mar 2024 18:11:29 No. 5958744 Report >>5958707 Now you listen here, sugartits. Having gay sex and being a faggot are two wildly different things. But that's besides the point, I just like to insult my body whenever it fails to meet my expectations.
If every cell in your body doesn't fear being whipped like a dog and berated for disappointing you, you're just never gonna be at peak efficiency.
Narrator Kommgal !!eK/DTdS3ONO
Narrator Kommgal !!eK/DTdS3ONO ID:vpvdaPIR Sat 23 Mar 2024 18:14:17 No. 5958747 Report Quoted By:
Loveless Gal has updated!
Hands are played. Traps are placed and sprung.
… and on the surface, nothing appears to be happening at all.
>>5958730 >>5958732 >>5958734 >>5958736 Anonymous
>>5958744 >Having gay sex and being a faggot are two wildly different things. It's true. He has relationships with women, but sex with men.
von Adlershorst
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>>5958795 >>5958800 Adlershorst dynasty Update
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5958282 >>5958282 >>5958282 Final vote of the Fire Emblem Three Houses quest. To old and new readers come join us for the epilogue.
WalletQM !!BQj4XApxC8E
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>>5958351 >>5958351 >>5958351 I have started a quest in which a strange man attempts to find the owner of a wallet. Setting is Japan, 1988, since that seems kind of relevant to who would want to read it. Here's the obligatory /qtg/ shill.
MikoQM !!K0nuVFq7z7A
>>5958830 >Chargen at the END of the quest to determine protag’s child That’s actually cool as hell. Been forever since I’ve touched a Fire Emblem though.
MikoQM !!K0nuVFq7z7A
>>5958789 By the logic of SVU world it’s entirely possible that being gay only occurs when Ice T observes the act as such.
Anonymous
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>>5958868 "I'm here to check your credentials."
Anonymous
>>5958865 First and final vote being the same is pretty poetic I say.
Anonymous
>>5958868 So as long as we avoid Ice T we can do whatever we want. Interesting.
Anonymous
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>>5958889 It's like pottery, it rhymes
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
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A new thread of Halo Wolfpack is up!
>>5958948 >>5958948 >>5958948 Crispycuts
BakaGM !!McabwtSnRCg
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Making a little Touhou quest. Middle of character creation at the moment, thus far its been decided that its going to be a player Fairy and their Human friend causing an incident by switching everyone's hats around. Current vote on the powers of the two incident causers is a bit too close to call at the moment. Thinking maybe a bit of advertising here might change that, or at least increase the number of votes involved in the current one to be more than 3.
>>5957767 >>5957767 >>5957767 Greenwood !!2IhCLnnO0Db
MikoQM !!K0nuVFq7z7A
>>5958890 Of course the other members of the SVU hold their own strange powers over reality. Theyre called special for a REASON.
MikoQM !!K0nuVFq7z7A
>>5959057 >>5959057 And just as well, as seen in the phenomenal masterpiece episode of Television known as “Intimidation Games”, gamers are the only ones who can even even muster a fraction of the SVU’s supernatural power.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
New update in Seven Against Thebes! I've had a tough week but hoping to regain my momentum in QMing.
>>5959229 Will Hippomedon of Argos successfully embarass not one, but three (3) of his uncles, including the King himself, in the greatest war exercise of the Late Bronze Age?
P.S. Have some AI slop for your enjoyment, /qtg/
Anonymous
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>>5959233 >dude is fighting with the most gilded fucking ramen bowl of all time wicked
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
Couldn't you have been obsessed with one of my Quests I actually cared about, Souv? Like Space Monke? Or Concrete Stratosphere?
Anonymous
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>>5959228 lets have some map fun
Anonymous
>>5959311 hehe, the premise of The INSIDE PLACE
>>5946861 >>5946868 is actually very good, the setup is very simple understandable approachable, it has a good SCP / X Files type feel. I was actually very intrigued with the genre direction you were veering towards, whether you would turn it into a sort of Silent Hill 4 The Room horror (this pic
>>5947072 , I actually have not played it but know the vague story outline) or if at some stage TACTICAL OPERATORS with GAS MASK FETISH GEAR were going to burst in and seize control of the mysterious interdimensional portal, it could be like Stargate or something hehe. So look you have all these themes:
-livestreaming, Twitch / youtuber celebrity etc
-dimensional portal: Stargate or Silent Hill The Room ? Alien realm or horror
-bizarre architecture, geometry; can be either occult Lovecraft like that haunted house
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House that inspired The Evil Within videogame, or it could be more sci-fi or government conspiracy etc.
-urban exploration / post apocalyptic etc this is the STALKER / Metro 2033 tunnel delving etc I was wondering if the inside would resemble some sort of twisted inner psychological landscape / reflection of reality etc.
No worries or pressure if you don't like it or are bored with writing it,, but I thought your setup was really good because there are so many potential possibilities and hence the suspense...!!
I think I mentioned it before on an old qtg, but I once attended an art exhibition by Antony Gormley at White Cube in London with an installation called Passage, imagine an upright human shaped metal sarcophagus except it has a depth of around 10 metres or so, so when you walk into the interior of the coffin-tunnel it gets really dark there is just the reverberating clang of your footsteps on the metal floor and when you turn around all the light has receded etc (you can see it in the bottom right of my picture here)
https://archived.moe/files/qst/image/1679/97/1679979844138847.jpg https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5603637/#5617725 So that was a really memorable art installation for me (it was so good I actually saw it twice, I went to another Gormley opening again featuring a similar piece at the Royal Academy) and your quest with the dark mysterious geometry tunnel reminded me of that experience, hehe
Anonymous
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>>5959488 I am fascinated by archtitecture, I guess the modern equivalent of that Winchester House legend (neverending maze mansion construction by the firearms magnate widow who believed that she would die if she ever stopped building or adding to her labyrinth house) maybe the modern equivalent is this
https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-inside-hawaii-compound/ I think the ghost story was something like the old widow Winchester had to keep rebuilding her mansion to trap all the ghosts of the people killed from the Winchester rifle gunmaker fortune etc, hence the twisted false stairwells and corridors that led to nowhere or dead-end walls. Well I hope these tech entrepreneur survivalist bunkers have similar paranormal defences against all the psychological trauma-wraiths of social media suicides and gore images, hehe
Anyway, just a picture of SAFEBOX BARBED WIRE HEAD ?? one of the many cool bosses of The Evil Within, I suppose he is not as cool as Pyramid Head but he has a meat hammer to make up for it. The Evil Within had a weird plot about virtual reality and the design of the asylum I believe was inspired by the Winchester Mansion. HE IS COMING, TECH BROS HE IS COMING FOR YOU
Herald !!KkS4Smo8047
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Westeros interregnum returns!
Near on three weeks later than I said >>5959556 >>5959556 >>5959556 MikoQM !!K0nuVFq7z7A
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>>5959597 >>5959597 >>5959597 Miko Detective Story returns to updating with a question: is love an ingredient?
THE DARK LORD, MALEK (Level 400+)
THE DARK LORD, MALEK (Level 400+) ID:jxLBnPNS Sun 24 Mar 2024 14:39:04 No. 5959655 Report >>5958603 >>5958603 {GENERIC FANTASY WORLD. OBJECTIVE: LIVE. ESTABLISH YOUR OWN PATH. Interract with one another, etc. There are pre-set characters (Two, currently) that can be filled who are involved with the more severe, action-oriented aspects of the world.
[Syvenn: A playable character. Role: Advanced Spellsword Lvl 15. Race: ELVEN. Currently captured in a dungeon, high-risk scenario.]
[Wizard (Name: Gealal) is a playable character, descended from demigods. Level 61. Skilled in all forms of magick, especially illusion and destruction.]
You can be anything you want, but if you seek to be a character whose level exceeds 20, you must make a request. Pure Demigods are Level 300-400+}
>>5958603 >>5958603 DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Sun 24 Mar 2024 15:11:51 No. 5959672 Report >>5959655 Is that it? A Good™ Fantasy Quest?
Anonymous
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Sun 24 Mar 2024 15:19:11 No. 5959681 Report Hey Souvarine I know you're around.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>5959672 >QM is playing in the Quest themselves >Intro post is not in character and refers to the QM as an entity (4th wall breaking) >Intro post / quest start is char gen >Generic fantasy setting >Using modern day turns of phrase and speech ("basically a demigod; call it the blacklands or some shit") in a medieval fantasy setting >Multiplayer game / abnormal quest structure >"Levels" or power scaling are known quantities and defined in universe or in player facing information (in universe mechanics; ie not-immersive) >Impatient QM >Memespouting QM >QM using dialogue descriptions ("evil fucking spider") as objective, omnipotent 3rd person narrator descriptors >QM uses mixed media (official art + tegaki scribbles) >No secure tripcode >No established ruleset or prompt/vote schema in the first post >QM made even one formatting mistake in any post in the first thread Oh...
THE DARK LORD, MALEK (Level 400+)
THE DARK LORD, MALEK (Level 400+) ID:jxLBnPNS Sun 24 Mar 2024 15:48:05 No. 5959709 Report Quoted By:
>>5959697 STOP HYPERANALYZING MY POWER FANTASY YOU EVIL ASS-BURGER
Anonymous
>>5959681 My apologies DrDragon QM I tried to read your quest but it had a terrifying ANIME PICTURE on the front cover, my eyes melted I am very sorry, sorry
Anonymous
>>5957386 >>5957391 >desperate hunt for old wh40k John Blanche (?) ELUSIVE SPIKE BRA WOMAN...? I spent ages trying to find it apologies for the horrible low resolution pixellated quality but I still have not had great success maybe I imagined it argh, anyway, here is just some cool art from I think the 2nd Inquisitor (54mm skirmish) codex, I wish wh40k art style was still like this instead of the colourful mobile game fortnite style now lol. I am a huge fan of all of Dan Abnett 40k stuff like Eisenhorn Ravenor Bequin and Gaunt's Ghosts etc. I think the Inquisitor game rulebooks had some of the best art and lore, all the discussions of the rival factions Amalathian Xanthite Monodominant Recongregationist etc was really fascinating to me, the original Eisenhorn trilogy had the best exploration of this and the factional infighting but it unfortunately seemed to have gotten sidelined during the Ravenor and Bequin books etc
Anonymous
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>>5959746 oh my god lol I think I found it, I must have seen it from one of those John Blanche 40k artbook compilations (I kept searching through codexes and rulebooks, this sketch was not in any of them lol) anyway here is the CONICAL BRA WOMAN her chest armour could probably be adapted for drilling purposes
Anonymous
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>>5959746 The pose of the wh40k corseted death cult assassin girls reminds me a bit of Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907 (they are prostitutes) or perhaps also his later work Les Trois Danseuses (1925) If you look at the righthand dancer in the 1925 painting, you notice that there is actually a hidden fourth face in silhouette (against the blue window) apparently a tribute to a bohemian friend of Picasso, Ramon Pichot, after his death
Gacha guy !!2xXmWA15jwN
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Deus Novus continues with the MC potentially dying during a confrontation with a narcissistic woman made from light.
>>5959828 >>5959828 >>5959828 Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
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Halo Wolfpack is up and running!
>>5958948 >>5958948 >>5958948 Anonymous
Does anybody know what happened to bodyhorrorQM? I can't anything, although I didn't check the xitter, as I do not have an account.
Anonymous
>>5959975 what's his twitter ?
archivebro
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>>5959975 Same, I’ve wondered before. They disappeared once for a while based on the archives. I only caught up in the last vote or two of the last thread, and I wish there was another I could really take part in.
Completely unrelated, being sick sucks. It’s a pain to think through reading, writing, or SQL when I keep coughing and wanting to sleep.
Versequest !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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Versequest returns!
>>5960089 >>5960089 Anonymous
fuck it. guys, where do i get a drawfag that wont obliterate my 3rd world ass for a semi-decent op pic? googling and cropping anime girls won't show enough commitment
Anonymous
Maybe dumb question, but how often/long do you prefer quests to update?
Anonymous
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>>5960187 18 times a day, about 6000 characters per. +an image in every story post. Also they have to tuck me in when they stop running for the day.
Anonymous
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>>5960187 Once or twice per day is my preference, but really as frequently as the QM is comfortable updating without burning out or compromising quality. If there are a lot of really lengthy and substantive updates every single day, rapid-fire, I might fall behind and bow out, though, since I also work.
Anonymous
>>5960153 Indonesian Gentleman (who you can flag down in this very thread) does good work and isn't too pricey. Fiverr is where I usually find folks these days. Twitter used to be a good option, but I don't really use it anymore since Musk borked everything, and also my favorite artists on there seem to be from sanctioned countries without access to any payment methods I can use.
DetectQM
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Gotham Beat Cop is back for the week. Probably moving to a new thread here soon so pop in while you can.
>>5920234 Anonymous
>>5960153 Honestly, even if your art isn't top notch it's totally possible to come up with a solid, original OP image: ms paint scribbles, a snazzy logo overlaid on some cool buildings with a filter, or even aislop can all provide a solid basis to work with. I make my own op images and, while far from perfect, they've been serviceable so far. Generally, if your premise and writing are decent, people won't really care about your op pic that much (except souv, if you want him reading stay clear of anime)
Anonymous
>>5960235 The crucifix stops some vampires. For others, it's wild roses or garlic. For the vampire sorcerers of Wall Street, it is the humble moeblob.
Anonymous
>>5959725 >>5960235 >>5960238 There must be some means to overcome this debilitating weakness, to negate the horrifying warding power of anime... Like some sort of dhampir, human and Japanese animation blood mixed together as a half-breed, able to survive in the corrupting glare of the Rising Sun... hmmm... I wonder...
Anonymous
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>>5959725 >>5960235 >>5960238 >>5960244 If only there were some sort of dark ritual, whereby you could transform into a vampire sorceror who did not fear anime, the one terrible weakness. You would become utterly indestructible and invulnerable to all harm and ridicule, you could spread your dark reign of blood conquest over the entire earth for all eternity. Sadly this ritual does not exist, vampires do not exist in Japan, they have never even heard of them
Anonymous
>>5958868 >>5958890 >>5959057 >>5959064 Thank you very much for this episode recommendation, I hunted it down and watched it all yay there are even some TACTICAL OPERATORS finally yay.
This episode highlights a disturbing reversal, in that American law and justice is portrayed as the ruthless and exclusive enforcers of an aggrieved wealthy venture capitalist class who believe they are being persecuted by their own consumer audience of users, who are attired like Islamic State terrorists. For example from the script:
(...)
These guys want Raina Punjabi out of the gaming world.
Just because she's a woman?
There's a lot of haters out there that think she slept her way into the business.
Oh, right, right, she's engaged to that venture capitalist, Steven Kaplan.
Okay, so because her fiancé has money, that means she has no talent?
To them, and they want to take her down no matter what.
(...)
In reality, the perpetrators of sexual deviance, oppression and sexual violence are in fact the venture capitalists themselves (for instance, see this article from 2018)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/brotopia-silicon-valley-secretive-orgiastic-inner-sanctum >Some of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley are regulars at exclusive, drug-fueled, sex-laced parties—gatherings they describe not as scandalous, or even secret, but as a bold, unconventional lifestyle choice. Yet, while the guys get laid, the women get screwed...(...) >Ava was working as an executive assistant at Google when she ran into her married boss at a bondage club in San Francisco. He was getting a blow job from a woman strapped to a spanking bench who was being entered by another man from behind. Ava and her boss, an engineer, locked eyes but didn’t exchange a word (...) So it is a bit awkward. I was also trying to discern what videogame they were using for the first person shooter graphics and the rival female developer Civilisation 4x game (which actually used 3rd person type rpg graphics??) it was a bit difficult to tell from the brief visual interludes.
Nonetheless thank you very much for this episode recommendation I really enjoyed it very much
Law And Order: Special Victims Unit
Season 16 Episode 14, Intimidation Game
script transcript from here
https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?t=21733 Anonymous
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>>5960308 >>5958868 >>5958890 >>5959057 >>5959064 >They sent her a threatening message earlier today saying they want to see her on her knees in front of the whole world, and she got doxxed an hour ago... >That's how they knew this address! >And where was that posted? >A sub thread on Red Channel, tracking Raina, it's vile... Where can I find this anonymous hacker website known as Redchan, I really want to know
MikoQM !!K0nuVFq7z7A
>>5960308 Yeah this episode was made in direct response to GamerGate. It’s one of my favorite episodes of SVU because it is just so damn cheesy. It’s not ENTIRELY tone deaf on gaming. Just sort of tone deaf. Also a Paul Brother gets shot in the episode. Remember when Justin Bieber got shot on a CSI episode and the gif of the scene was everywhere for like a year after?
Anonymous
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Anyone knows what happened to medieval mercenary quest?
MikoQM !!K0nuVFq7z7A
>>5960322 https://youtu.be/36RTvZ8NjUQ?si=Gh7SVWLpqGYsmxVP American crime procedurals can be some of the most interesting and most comedic looks at our culture. The culture of crime and pop culture. I mean, 24 (the one with Kiefer) is just a fucking wild monument to violence. If you squint at it for 2 seconds you realize it’s a level of death on that show that is just completely insane. Comical even. Yet multiple presidents have said it’s their all time favorite show and treat Jack Bauer like an inspiration. For an enjoyer of the absurd, these shows are a riot.
MikoQM !!K0nuVFq7z7A
Anonymous
>>5960324 >>5960322 >>5960325 >24, Jack Bauer etc torture violence Yes I do see your point and understand the references to the post 9/11 HOMELAND NATIONAL SECURITY prerogative (see my picture here
>>5935916 ) sort of normalising all the foreign blacksites extraordinary rendition and Abu Ghraib rectal feeding torture stuff, but to be honest I was never really very shocked by Jack Bauer antics on 24 (I think I stopped watching the series after there was some episode where the black guy president was assassinated by a POISON HANDSHAKE or something, I just found that completely ridiculous). I never really thought 24 was all that brutal or violent or shocking (eg even in the footage clip you linked, where Jack Bauer bites the throat out of his captor... it is sort of like that iconic Conan scene where he is crucified on the Tree Of Woe and he bites the head off the prowling vulture, so not really an unfamiliar level of violence)
I am not convinced 24 really marked an escalation in brutality, maybe just to a mainstream viewership, in fact I feel a lot of the 80s action / military films were probably more violent.
I remember preferring that 24 series black guy president actor when he was in that Spec Ops tv series The Unit, I thought his acting was more relatable in that show, as opposed to preparing the democratic psyche for Obama. To be fair Hollywood does portray NSA / CIA / DoD as pure evil on a fairly routine basis, eg the entire Bourne Ultimatum Matt Damon films, or Mark Wahlberg as the sniper in Shooter executing the corrupt senator at the end, etc if you have not gotten the message that the spies are evil and working in a zero oversight conspiracy against the citizenry etc. or say that Iraq war film Green Zone etc ending with the unsubtle film shot of THE OIL it is about THE OIL but I think nowadays on balance the environment is probably tilted against critique, there is more of the Kathryn Bigelow Hurt Locker Zero Dark Thirty glamour hype propaganda etc (and I say this having immensely enjoyed the look and style of her films) or even take something like Sicario, which is also glamourised military vigilante extraterritorial rendition torture violence
Anonymous
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>>5960324 >>5960325 >>5960355 >>5935916 The "suicide" harness scene from the Mark Wahlberg film Shooter (2007) I once read an article claiming that the CIA intervened with the script writing of the Ben Stiller romantic comedy film Meet The Parents, where Robert DeNiro plays a surly retired ex CIA prospective father-in-law to Ben Stiller, the CIA intervened and wanted to remove all cinematic references to Guantanamo or enhanced interrogation torture scenes from the final script edit of that film. This interesting "self-assisted suicide" apparatus / torsion armature however made it onto cinema screens, so I can only assume the US intelligence community wished for mainstream audiences and cinemagoers to be familiar with it and approve of its depiction, deployment and use
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
...Has anybody else noticed how much more active /qst/ has been in the past few months? It's been really nice.
Anonymous
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>>5960187 Depends on length of update.
once a day or once every 2 days for 3-4 post’s worth of writing (each post has a cap of 3k letters)
Any longer and I’ll need to read it in bursts. Elf Maiden iirc had 5-6 posts’ worth of update every 3-4 days.
>>5960419 We ain’t dying, that’s for sure. Our little obscure corner of the internet still got some gems in it.
Anderson Thorell (QM)
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Asking for a tiebreaker vote in the Monster Girl Facility Quest. Votes are currently split between standing your ground and shooting down a very nasty cow girl, or retreating and praying she doesn't run you down.
>>5960074 >>5960074 >>5960074 Anonymous
QM
>>5960439 >>5960439 >>5960439 >>5960439 A good ol' battle of Good vs Evil. Establish a plan and enact it. Default classes are as shown, however ideas can be pitched in brackets.
>>5960439 >>5960439 >>5960439 >>5960439 Anonymous
>>5960419 I feel like the /qst/ ads I ran on 4chan actually did something.
Anonymous
>>5960419 >>5960443 Just chiming in to say that our advertising campaign last year really did seem to draw in new players and has had an appreciable impact on board volumes.
I honestly think we should collectively consider a “spring campaign” as well.
I mean, if someone is willing to pay $20 for good quality drawfaggotry, why not $20 to draw in new players? Everyone has more fun when the board is more active.
Anonymous
>>5960448 No one's going to play your cringe ass self insert power fantasy dude. Especially after you abandoned the first attempt
Anonymous
So in the very beginning of Ruby Quest someone was shouting "We are being Railroaded!" What does that mean exactly? My assumption is that the QM is making sure you go their way and shuts down any kind of deviance. Is Railroading inherently a bad thing? Surely some kind of Railroading is needed for some Quests. What do you consider Railroading and does it make you stop participating in a Quest?
Anonymous
>>5960464 Railroading is like "We crit succeeded on punting the goblin lord groblakadakabaka in the balls" and the result being treated like a failure/ ignored because the QM wants groblakadakabaka to finish smooching on the MC's flygirl
QM
>>5960459 I abandoned the first attempt because it was not up to standard. What's the fuckin issue, bud? You want me to include a few bodypillows and questionably designed anime girls to suit your tastes?
It's not that kind of 'self-insert'. The only self-insertions are utilized to drive the plot and game forward. Ultimately it all comes back to the QM anyway. It's a generic roleplay with some statistical stuff thrown in.
THAT'S FUN!
Anonymous
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>>5960468 You write and sound like an underage, and you're not going to get an audience to stroke off your power fantasy boner. Just write fanfiction like other kids your age
Anonymous
>>5960464 >What does that mean exactly? I've been told having an existing character with a predefined personality is railroading.
Anonymous
>>5960464 When choices have no meaning.
You want to go to this castle instead of the town? Too bad. You cast your vote, but the QM states you MUST go to the town and writes that you go to the town instead.
Anonymous
>>5960451 Is dropping $20 in ads going to become a routine thing to keep the board alive?
Anonymous
>>5960482 I’m personally willing to chip in $20 every year or so if that means the board doesn’t die. It’s also possible that volumes/growth becomes self-sustaining if the board becomes healthier. Anyways, most hobbies cost money, after all.
Anonymous
>>5960419 >>5960449 >>5960451 >>5960482 >>5960484 Not only is activity lower than it was at this time of the year in 2023, but it is in fact still lower than ever, excluding outliers such as holidays. If the advertisements are doing anything, they are retarding the decline, not reversing it.
Anonymous
>>5960492 Can’t argue with the overall trend since ~2017 but it’s probably more fair to look just at 2023 and onwards, since placing ads is a relatively recent thing. The effect is probably somewhat modest, to your point, and so your image’s y-axis is probably too high for a quick visual assessment of the last 18 months
Anonymous
>>5960495 Here is one of the last three years. High activity on /qst/ was around over 1,200 daily posts in March of 2023, compared against the high activity of just over 1,000 daily posts throughout in March of 2024.
Anonymous
>>5960492 >>5960500 4chan as a whole is in a more gradual but parallel decline. /qst/, as a niche board on a declining site, is just following that general trend in a more immediately-noticeable manner.
>>5960419 I think what your'e seeing (and I've noticed it too) is a small surge of fresh blood among QMs, and more communal activity and discussion among QMs. I don't think the number of players has increased much, if at all.
Anonymous
>>5960464 When players overwhelmingly and/or repeatedly vote to do something else, and the QM essentially says "no," that's railroading.
Sometimes that can be justified, such as when the QM is making it clear he's not interested in running a specific type of quest (ie. the quest is about an honourable knight training a squire, and the players vote for a write-in option to poison or abandon the squire; "no, it's call 'Knight & Squire Quest' and you are an honourable knight, you can't do that."). This can also be fair if it is wildly out-of-keeping with the quest up to that point, or would immediately end the quest ("hey, clever idea to tapdance for the dragon rather than trying to stealth past it or fight it, but it has animal intelligence and it will just kill you, gonna' veto that.").
When players have a clever or interesting idea which doesn't conceptually break the quest's core premise, established characterization, or internal logic, and the QM still doesn't allow it because he has another outcome he'd prefer, that's railroading of an unacceptable (to me) variety. It removes agency and, while I enjoy reading a good story, quests are not books. They're interactive. I'm of the opinion you should let people interact with them,a nd help steer and direct them.
Anonymous
>>5960500 Unfortunately there’s no way to really know whether the ads are helping, but I like to imagine the surge in volume towards of the end of 2023 was driven in part by the ad campaign that fall, and maybe some of these new players stuck around?
One possible aggressive move is to place ads on rival quest sites, although that might be seen as a declaration of war…
Anonymous
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>>5960522 I'd rather, if we were to go that route, place those ads on non-quest roleplaying and TTRPG sites and such. Less likely to trigger a feud.
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
>>5960492 >>5960504 Honestly, even if /qst/ is going to decline into nothingness in the next few years, I'm not going to wallow in doom posting about it.
As an incredibly amateur writer, I have a lot of fun writing for the handful of autists who stick around and read my quests. What happens happens, I suppose.
MikoQM !!K0nuVFq7z7A
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>>5960355 >I was never really shocked by Jack Bauer’s antics Yeah, I don’t think it’s shocking in the moment it’s more shocking in retrospect. When you’re watching the whole season it all feels like reasonable escalations and tense action and then years later you think about it and laugh to yourself “he really did that shit, huh?”
>This interesting "self-assisted suicide" apparatus / torsion armature however made it onto cinema screens, so I can only assume the US intelligence community wished for mainstream audiences and cinemagoers to be familiar with it and approve of its depiction, deployment and use Damn. The easy optimistic answer is they took out the Guantanamo stuff but left in the suicide harness because the suicide harness is “too ridiculous” to be believed, but theory you pose is definitely scary if true.
RQM
MikoQM !!K0nuVFq7z7A
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>>5960537 Yeah. To me, the allure of running on QST over more “dedicated” quest joints is that it’s more okay to be pulpy or amateur. I never feel like I’m writing updates out of obligation.
Anonymous
>>5960466 That sounds oddly personal. Though, that would definitely suck.
>>5960472 So, wouldn't that mean any Quest in an already existing universe. That sounds super stupid.
>>5960473 Why even have it as an option to not go in the first place.
>>5960508 This is more in line to what I thought Railroading was. This is definitly going to help.
Thanks alot guys! I really want avoid being Railroady. I was a little worried because I want my characters to have personality and their own thoughts, feelings, goals, things that make a good character. Funny enough thats exactly what I was thinking makes a very Railroady Quest.
Anonymous
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[QM Guided OPEN WORLD]
Current unclaimed boosters:
>>5960515 ( a "Roll 1d100".)>>5960530 (CLAIMED) [As an example] >>5960452 (+10 + Lvl Up)+ An unclaimed Lvl 600 Deity (See OP:
>>5960439 )
Open Paths:
>>5960600 [Risky but potentially rewarding]+ Pitch your own path or join a faction.
Anonymous
[QM Guided OPEN WORLD]
Current unclaimed boosters:
>>5960515 ( a "Roll 1d100".)>>5960530 (CLAIMED) [As an example]>>5960452 (+10 + Lvl Up)+ An unclaimed Lvl 600 Deity (See OP:
>>5960439 )
Open Paths:
>>5960600 [Risky but potentially rewarding]+ Pitch your own path or join a faction.
Anonymous
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>>5960601 Ultimately, if your players feel they have agency and can develop the character (even within limits) or steer the story (again, even in a bounded way), complaints about railroading will be limited. Some quests have a main character who is very 'tabula rasa', but many more have an established personality from the get-go, not least of which fanfic quests where you play an existing character, like Batquest.
I also have a personal pet peeve about false dichotomies where solutions which could avoid that binary are disallowed without explanation, but even that doesn't bother everyone.
Anonymous
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>>5960482 20 bucks is like nothing. Most people on this board spend more in a month on video games or other hobbies.
Anonymous
>>5960609 Besides the fact it is just a self indulgent power fantasy, people here don't like multiplayer quests generally and they flounder even without the QM abandoning their first attempt in two days. Cause, like Civ quests, they generally don't last before the players or QM get bored. And you've shown you're quick to cut and run, That your updates are like a sentence long, also doesn't help. Short and concise can be good, but too short and too concise feels lazy
This isn't a winning recipe mate
Anonymous
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>>5960614 Also to add onto this, immediately giving a chance for some players to get a massive leg up on others, is also another hole in the ship, as it is a hilariously bad idea since favoritism leaves a stink which is gonna make it less likely players are going to give it a chance besides the other reasons I've mentioned
Anonymous
>>5960614 The first attempt was a half-assed mistake.
It isn't a power fantasy, I'm just playing Questmaster. It's not for everyone. It's catered to my own tastes, with a gambling element. It's not necessarily competitive, more of a dice game really, and I'm giving out plenty of opportunities to increase power. Regardless, I don't play favorites. + I've already stated that players can pitch their own classes/roles.
The RNG gambling element makes it fair, does it not?
I assumed the opportunities I was giving out would attract players. Apparently not?
Anonymous
>>5960629 Anon, don’t let the shitposters get you down - there are anons here in /qtg/ who are incapable of being satisfied and are only here to troll QMs.
My only critique for you is that /qst/ is a low-volume board right now and your thread openers are not terribly inviting -you should consider opening with shorter and simpler posts and introduce the underlying mechanics over time.
Anonymous
>>5960629 yeah sure pal. Considering your first attempt is still on the board and everyone can see your original vision, its clear as day you just wanna stroke off your dark lord alter ego.
And no it won't. It'll do the opposite in fact., it just makes you look desperate for players. the sort who, even if they hadn't abandoned one quest and restarted from scratch, tend to flake quickly.. Add in that your updates have nothing of substance, there is no goal (Open world quests tend not to work out either, but combined with multiplayer quests, that heightens the issue with each of them most players have), and that you're using peculiar dice systems, over using the text colors (My opinion, shit hurts the eyes, especially with those ugly ass colored squares you keep posting), are additional flaws to your quest.
Even if you fixed them, it isn't going to go well. Multiplayer quests go fucking nowhere, especially without a directing vision behind them besides "My OC is the best, try to beat him". Even the well put together ones wither since it is very, very easy for one player to overwhelm the others, even in one that they're working together in, cause they just post more.
And this leads back to you offering so many opportunities and strong starts to try draw in players.
Your idea would work better with friends, rather than questing, especially /qst/, since the old fast session /tg/ form of questing is basically fucking dead here and most go for long form, one update every day or so quests due to the slower nature of the board. Which is another blow against you way of updating with like a sentence each time
And without giving people time to see you've updated, you post and post for things to do, which discourages and drives off interest, especially those who want to play fair and give everyone a chance to claim them
Also, no favoritism? One of your first posts you left it up to RNG if you'd give the person who replied it the ability to kill off any character below a certain level. That, that's bad. Like, if it was npc or enemy, it'd be okay, but as it stands that just is begging for griefing
Now a lot of this could be me being autistic, but I've seen plenty of quests with the issues I have with yours flop over and die within a week at most
Anonymous
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>>5960637 Reminds me of when that autist was posting the false flag trans quest and people were defending them in thread even when they were caught with their trip/ name off outrage baiting in them.
Or anons here tried defending that on ASOIAF QM who popped up right after Interregnum showed up and got good numbers, who same fagged to try and force the quest to take place in dorne.
There are times, yes, when anons just shit on QMs for no reason, like starting a new thread early when they're new, but there are times that critique and complaints actually mean something
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5960638 You're overthinking it. Some aspects would turn people off, I get that. "Considering your first attempt is still on the board and everyone can see your original vision ..." You're overthinking it. Not everyone hyperanalyzes things like you. You can't seem to drop the "power fantasy" shit. The original idea was "how about I start a fantasy rpg quest. Hmm, I'm gonna need an in-lore opposing force to explain away the conflict" Obviously I would play that part because it's vital for the quest to function. The whole self-insert stuff is just a plot device, an excuse for consistent opposing forces to exist in lore.
My original post was definitely more in line with being a self-insert power fantasy though, I admit that. I only did that because I'm used to anons entertaining my shit on other boards. I forgot how dead and structured this place was.
You're right in some regard, I do need to adjust some things.
Anonymous
>>5960648 he's also got a gmail liked to the Character Abilities doc:
[email protected] there is a different email linked to the "Quest Fan Works" doc, but I'd have to check if that's added by OP or by fan
Anonymous
>>5960653 It really doesn't, you can just say there is a darklord without rping as them and using cringe early 2000 meme speak, use third person. That you left the quest also probably scared off the players you had there, wiping their progress. That isn't overanylzing, that showed those who were participating and those who were just watching what to expect
I'd recommend establishing sessions, a period where you and your players interact, for a voting period, and to lengthen your updates, even to individuals to sentences or paragraphs, maybe give them suggestions of actions
Still gonna dog on you for the self insert thing, cause it was hilariously bad
Anonymous
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>>5960655 fan works doc seem to be fan made and simply QM linked
Anonymous
>>5960660 And to explain the session/voting tike, setting aside a few hours to plag with each player is the only way to make multi-player quests lose the "one guy absorbs all the goodies"/"progresses too far for the other players to have an impact/voice"
And, for the same reason, I'd remove the God choice. If one player takes that, it'll make the rest feel like shit. It's hard to feel like you're character is strong or matters when some other dickwheeze is playing a literal god
Anonymous
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>>5960666 >>5960666 And I mean, playing with every player at a scheduled time, not hold sessions for one guy at a time. It'll make it more like a ttrpg than a quest but that's kinda how multi-player quests go
This will help with your faster posting. As adding a few more lines of description or fluff won't cut down on your posting time that much. Which the color switches probably slow, use them sparingly, like for bosses or cool shit since they can be eye searing if abused
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
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Halo Wolfpack is up and running!
>>5958948 >>5958948 >>5958948 Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
>>5960482 Can't we just ask admins to give us some fucking banners?
Anonymous
>>5960696 We have one or two don't we? The nat 1 one, and another with the "it's like having friends" slogan or whatever
Anonymous
>>5960203 i'll take my shot then, how much do you think he'll charge? those drawings of his are always lovely, but I wonder if he can go darker. we gotta make the catalog look a little prettier at least
Anonymous
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>>5960784 I don't know what he charges for backgrounds or the like, but it's $20 USD for a single character, +$15 for a second, I believe.
Anonymous
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>>5960653 More constructive criticism than the other anon is giving you might be this: spend a bit of time playing and observing some other quests to see how quests around here (especially opening posts) are usually constructed and presented. You seem to have a very 'RP forum' approach at a glance, which I could see there being an audience for her but which is decidedly not the norm.
Anonymous
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Not enough cowbell
Anonymous
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I'm a demon? is ending, I'm glad the QM gets to give the story a conclusion even if it's because literally nothing afterwards will be able to challenge the MC kek. I only started following it again after I fell off around the middle of the first thread 2 years ago. Kinda wish there could be a final battle though, but the anons seem to be
DetectQM
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Gotham City Beat Cop has a NEW THREAD!
>>5960920 Six threads and still going strong, hope you'll give it a shot if you haven't read yet. If you have read then feel free to tell me what you think.
Anonymous
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Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
After about a month of cooling down, Solarpunk Cleanup Agent Quest returns this next Monday!
Anonymous
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>>5961020 Nice! Excited to start back up. Thanks for the update!
Anonymous
As /qst/ gets older and slower and bleeds population, at a certain point the talent pool and population that cam create high quality quests, and the players who propagate and encourage those quests to thrive, will be worn down to where we can't create as large or important of a Quest anymore. There will still be GOOD ones, but they won't be GREAT.
Anonymous
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>>5961038 Pics or it didn't happen.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:FxzOZI8X Tue 26 Mar 2024 07:27:23 No. 5961072 Report Quoted By:
>>5961038 >BouHou gatekeeping cake competition I really want to call you a faggot.
Anonymous
>>5961038 I'm amazed that Valen has lasted as long as it did. It certainly didn't start out as big as it is now, it was kind of mediocre and unremarkable at the start.
Also, /qst/ is losing to simply better sites, besides other issues, it can't survive on having a monopoly on the genre anymore and not changing anything about itself. SB/SV/QQ/etc each have a group of staff members that have some control over how the forums are run and can iterate and improve on the design of things (for example, adding "Reader Mode", threadmark tabs, etc)..
From personal experience, the quality of the engagement I got was huge 10+ years ago (people had waifu wars, anons discussed over long-term plans, etc), it was still pretty good but lower 4 or so years ago, and now it's just terribly low. Meanwhile, running on those other sites gets me incredible engagement, a lot of discussion - including massive essay-length analysis sometimes, charts, etc, it's insane.
I'm not sure what could be done to save /qst/, but I believe that external tools that would allow it to compete with SB/SV/etc's progress would go a long way, I believe. No idea who would be motivated enough to make those though.
It's terribly sad for me to see Quest culture on 4chan die like this, I've been around since /tg/
Anonymous
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>>5961038 >Sworn to Honor, Valen What's so great about those quests?
Anonymous
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>>5961020 Heck yeah, will be waiting eagerly
Anonymous
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>>5961104 You still get the occasional original fanart and memes here. I've never seen fanarts on akun (they prefer AI slop there) and only in very popular quests in SB/SV.
Anonymous
>>5961038 Lots of quests still get engagement. Monke Quest gets fanart and debates aplenty. Disappearing Hogwarts ahs gotten multiple pieces of fanart and even fanFICTION, plus tons of speculation, theorycrafting, and discourse. Even my humble slice of /qst/ gets art and players coming up with plans and arguing about paths not taken and such, and I'm small potatoes.
It's all about what you want. Are you looking for a small, cozy amateur fiction-writing community, or for a bigger forum/chatroom experience with lots of banter. Both are nice, but I like what we have. Even the amount (and tone) of discussion in some of the most popular and heated quests here would likely be a bit overwhelming for me.
Anonymous
The Isekai Inquisition is going back to regularly scheduled updates. Starting with Lorina's first rise in mental corruption.
>>5961303 >>5961303 >>5961303 Anonymous
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>>5961038 I do hope you'll learn how to proofread before you embark.
Anonymous
>>5960698 >We have one or two don't we? The nat 1 one, and another with the "it's like having friends" slogan or whatever That's a paid ad.
Anonymous
>>5960696 >>5960698 >>5961348 What’s the best way to get in touch with /qst/ mods? IRC? Getting some free ads in rotation should be our #1 priority
Anonymous
>>5961292 Fanfiction (omakes) is common in SB/SV/QQ, I don't know why you find them so surprising.
Anonymous
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>>5961378 Because I run here, where it's slower and less common.
Anonymous
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>>5961038 Because I will never leave, that just means that there will come a time when I am the only QM remaining, and will have the board all to myself.
Anonymous
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If you like puzzles, come play Deus Novus!
>>5955470 Anonymous
>>5961362 >Getting some free ads in rotation Lol good luck with that.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
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Halo Wolfpack is up and running!
>>5958948 >>5958948 >>5958948 Anonymous
>>5961481 they're called ""banners"" anon
like this
/qst/ doesn't have these
Anonymous
>>5961543 No we do, and its been there for at least two years.
The issue is that it kinda sucks desu. Anonymous
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>>5961548 I have never seen it on any board.
Anonymous
can I post a quest about a tentacle alien that rapes people
Anonymous
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>>5961598 No, go to Akun to do that
RQM !!UCDxn1yqtzR
AurebeshQM !FFB4lyp4p.
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The Horus Heresy has updated! Discover the secrets of the Pyramid of Photep...
>>5961957 Anonymous
>Blood and Seed died before we could get a new generation
Anonymous
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>>5962025 Simple space empire?
Anonymous
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>>5962025 Space Monke is good for that... And there's a bit of that in my series of quests, though reptilian Infiltrator in particular was fairly horny at times.
Gacha guy !!2xXmWA15jwN
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Gacha quest has been updated
>>5962118 >>5962118 >>5962118 Anonymous
>>5961645 Don't qualify, best of luck to the participants though
Anonymous
>>5962189 If you have art you feel well-represents Strogga, she would techically qualify.
Anonymous
>>5961322 what's this quest about ?
Anonymous
>>5962220 Did that make it to three threads? In any case I don't think I have some appropriate art for a competition like that.
Anonymous
>>5962291 >must be from a quest which has either wrapped up OR has at least 3 threads and hasn't been flaked on It wrapped up, so it's allowed. One-shots, too, if they had a proper conclusion.
Anonymous
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>>5962295 Oh right, that went right past me. Well I can look, but I don't expect to find some good art for it, if anyone wanted her candidacy.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
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Halo Wolfpack is up and running!
>>5958948 >>5958948 >>5958948 Anonymous
I'm just waiting until souv discovers the tournament thread and begins summoning eldritch deities.
Anonymous
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>>5962387 All of Souv's quests reached conclusion, so technically almost any of his characters could enter.
Anonymous
>>5962223 Playing as an otome game antagonist after being kicked out of the academy and signing up to join an organization that hunts down isekai protagonists. Unluckily for her, a lot is happening behind the scenes.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
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>>5962494 New update in SATQ!
We're trying to put an end to this
probably much too long battle sequence, but Hippomedon isn't as good a general as he thinks he is...
Gacha guy !!2xXmWA15jwN
No updates or anything, just wanted to proudly say that one of my more persistent player had gotten a fucking 1000 in a d1000. 0.1%
Anonymous
>>5962425 I see, I'll give it a shot later
>>5963165 what's your quest ?
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Halo Wolfpack is up and running!
>>5958948 >>5958948 >>5958948 Anonymous
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>>5963184 >Gacha guy's quest Seems to be
>>5955470 if you search this thread.
>>5963229 You may wish to advertise in the new QTG,
>>5962533 (Also, you're welcome to join the King & Queen of QST tourney if you want; we're still taking applicants!)
Anonymous
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Rolled 46 (1d99) Take this
90s MG Villainess
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New post of Mahou Shoujo Villainess
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