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>>6102738 >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: Does your MC celebrate Halloween? What is their favorite Halloween activity? Are they a tricker or a treater?
>Player question: What would your favorite quest character dress up as for Halloween? What's their favorite Halloween candy?
>General question: Do you do anything for different seasons/holidays in the quests you read/write? Do you wish there was more of that sort of thing, or do you find it disruptive?
>Lurker question: Vote or you'll get tricked!
>Miscellaneous question: Got any Halloween plans?
StoryQM !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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>>6120952 New QTG!
>QM question: Halloween doesn't exist in the Versequest universe, so God doesn't. Fido however certainly does. I like to imagine it's one of the few times of year he can find any joy in life. It's also an excuse for him to talk about the macabre without looking as weird... He is most definitely a treater.
>General question I believe I made a little Christmas post in one of the Versequest threads, but besides that, I don't believe so. Maybe I will for the current Downerquest thread...
>Miscellaneous question Eat candy and watch horror movies. The same thing I do every year...
Anonymous
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>>6120952 Not only does the local analog to Halloween exist in the world of Cutémon, but her friend Ward has three undead-type mon friends who only come out one night a year on that date.
Anonymous
>>6120952 Loom where fore art thou? I want the adventures of Jet to continue.
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:Gv1CfUJx Fri 11 Oct 2024 23:02:35 No. 6120975 Report Quoted By:
>>6120952 >Does your MC celebrate Halloween? What is their favorite Halloween activity? Are they a tricker or a treater? Unfortunately, Lodestar does not have Halloween! The closest equivalent would be a holiday mostly celebrated in Voda, in which people leave out offerings rich with mana to dissuade a malevolent being, one described in ancient stories, from destroying and consuming them and their loved ones. The tradition has since shifted, with mischievous individuals going out and 'stealing' the offerings of people that have earned their ire over the past year. These targetted people, of course, have made a game out of making it increasingly difficult to reach the gifts. They don't poison the treats or anything though, because that would defeat the entire purpose of the tradition.
BANE !!NTsLgRM9VP0
If FMH knew what Halloween was, it would probably be his favorite holiday.
Anonymous
>>6120981 who's that baddie ?
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sat 12 Oct 2024 00:17:11 No. 6121025 Report Oh hey, new /qtg/!
>QM question: Yeah, probably. Walter's from a place and family that had the holiday as a tradition even before it was a widespread American thing so he'd probably have indulged.
His favorite activity is probably tricking others, funnily enough. He likes trying to figure out what scares the most people at once and how to scare them the best way.
To that end, he's definitely a tricker.
>General question: Yes, yes, a hundred times yes!
I'll probably get a bit looser with time a little later in the quest just so that I can indulge in this. I love this shit to bits and it's a shame more quests don't do it. It's really leaves a world feeling static if you don't indulge in some seasonal fun from time to time. Sure, it can feel misplaced if your characters are celebrating Christmas in summer, but what's a little holiday fun in a fantasy world going to do to your immersion if the rest of the quest is in on the misplaced timing?
I don't find it disruptive at all unless it's something like a beach episode interrupting a big climax. Which never ever happens in good quests. So kudos to every single QM who includes seasonal differentiation and progressive time mechanics in their quests, I love you very much.
>Miscellaneous question: No idea. I'm not a party person so there's no way I'm substituting for trick-or-treating with some kind of party. I might end up just staying at home in some neat homemade costume and playing vaguely spooky vidya or watching creepy movies, I don't know.
The holiday would be a lot easier if I wasn't such a wuss. I'll figure things out when I get there, I guess.
Also, obligatory shilling below as I've finally had the time to put out another entry for Poképocalypse.
>>6121015 >>6121016 >>6121017 >>6121019 I wish it didn't take so long, but the curse is real bros. Don't underestimate its power.
Anonymous
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>>6121025 I thought I'd be off for three weeks but it turned into three months.
Anonymous
>>6121000 QTMummy, new character
More art must be made of her I say
Anonymous
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>>6121047 I would accept her as a mascot.
>>6120952 >Does your MC celebrate Halloween? What is their favorite Halloween activity? Are they a tricker or a treater? Existing in a fantasy world, probably not. However...
>>Zith-Zi She would probably feel a little awkward about it, up until she realized she essentially had license to harass people for free shit. She'd absolutely go for a slutty/cute costume instead of a scary one, though, to show off the new bod, and get liquored.
>>Cara-Zi She'd be amazing at tricking or scaring people, being a demonic goblinoid shapeshifter. All the attention on her would make her self-conscious, though... if it didn't trigger her <WANT> and make her go berserk. She'd need minding, and ZZ would be in no state to do so.
>What would your favorite quest character dress up as for Halloween? What's their favorite Halloween candy? I'm genuinely not sure who my favourite character is, but I'll go with Hawthrone from GCBC and say... The Man With No Name, maybe.
>Do you do anything for different seasons/holidays in the quests you read/write? Do you wish there was more of that sort of thing, or do you find it disruptive? I've always wanted to do it in my quests, but rarely found a good way to shoehorn it in, in-universe. Whenever quests actually pull it off, let alone at an appropriate time IRL, I'm always delighted.
>Halloween plans I'd love to have some, but all my friends seem to be busy with responsible adult shit, so maybe the pub.
Anonymous
When was the last time there was a halo quest run here?
Anonymous
Obligatory one of these, too. WhatCHOO plain', /qst/?
>>6121130 I'd check if suptg wasn't down.
BANE !!NTsLgRM9VP0
>>6121130 iiirc there's a quest named Halo: Wolfpack or something like that
BANE !!NTsLgRM9VP0
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:Gv1CfUJx Sat 12 Oct 2024 05:18:01 No. 6121217 Report Quoted By:
>>6121216 >>6121216 >>6121216 Want to scratch that Halloween itch? Maybe you should see a doctor about that. But if you can't afford one, then there's always my latest quest...
Anonymous
>>6121130 Halo Wolfpack will return buddy, i trust in Thunderhead
Madoka Lust !!uMcIymkHwB1
Madoka Lust !!uMcIymkHwB1 ID:VSv2mdV8 Sat 12 Oct 2024 08:44:27 No. 6121314 Report Quoted By:
Capetians who can survive in a fantasy world?
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>QM question: The Hegemony does not practice non-secular holidays. Most of them serve an explicit purpose; and do to anti-religious autism Halloween would almost certainly be considered an anti-social behavior. However, if the Supreme Ruler deemed it useful to have a day of the year focused on fear; maybe it could be reinvented into a sort of "doomsday preparation" event. My other Quest characters are less defined. Captain Rich comes from a world which basically has no holidays because of how desperate everyone is. Max would 100% dress up and has extensive experience with making costumes from trash, as everyone does on Level 5. Probably the most wholesome Halloween celebrator.>Player question: For me? It's the humble one-bar fun sized Kit-Kat.>General question: I've attempted it once or twice, but I think it should be done more. Halloween is perfect for it as its aesthetic and can be made to be scary (as a horror off-shoot thread) or fun and wholesome (seeing characters dress up is the best). Christmas is a bit more typecast into being purely wholesome though, and I like it less for that reason. I also had/have a desire to run a one-off horror themed multiplayer quest every year in October, titled "Will You Survive" with players having to try and survive a night in some scenario. Unfortunately the timing was off last year and now THIS year too with me currently running another thread/being fucked constantly. I just get the feeling I'm never gonna get a chance to do it now. I suppose you could start it on Halloween but what's the fun in that?>Miscellaneous question: I'm going to a concert for the first time in my life around Halloween. Never been to one. I am packing ear-plugs because I'm a huge pussy.
Anonymous
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>>6120952 >Vote or you'll get tricked! Joke's on you, I already get tricked every day of my life.
>Got any Halloween plans? No.
I have no friends.
Anonymous
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>>6121377 >concert They can be a lot of fun, just try to have a good time and get in the groove of it. I hope you enjoy, Mr. Bananas!
Anonymous
does anyone know what's going on with the sup/tg/ archive?
Al-Kimist !Joa6/cTmpM
>>6121139 thank you again for reading my quest
Anonymous
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>>6121452 Thanks for running such a fun quest!
Anonymous
>>6121410 It got cancer from having an upvote/downvote system.
Anonymous
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>>6121506 >Upvote/downvote system An especially easily-abused one, too.
StoryQM !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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Things get real in this new Downerquest update...
>>6121561 >>6121561 Anonymous
>>6121145 >>6121146 >>6121273 Oh, I asked since I didn't wanna step on any toes/ to see the sort of dice mechanics/ rules were used for it, cause I've had a brain worm of a spartan 2 quest roiling inside of my head like a bad taco in the gut
BANE !!NTsLgRM9VP0
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>>6121609 Let it out! Run that Halo quest! (if you know what the questers like)
Anonymous
>>6121609 If you run a Halo Qst, lemme get ughhjjhh... boneless lesser used Covenant & unaligned aliens. Maybe some Killzone stuff included for offshoot human colonies.
Anonymous
what is a good easy quest to run for a new QM
Anonymous
>>6121666 Like the three fringe species and the October 10th aggressors?
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>6121667 Start with a one-shot with some major fixed points and a clear ending. Maybe something with a bit of simple combat or, alternatively, slice-of-life to hone your narrative chops. That's my advice, for what little it's worth.
Anonymous
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>>6121667 Sonic the Hedgehog x Jojo's bizarre adventure.
Anonymous
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
Anonymous
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>>6121809 Incorrect, you do not have the hate necessary to equal mine. Even as the anger has cooled off, a deep despising continues.
BANE !!NTsLgRM9VP0
>>6120981 Made a little quest for this little lady if you'd like to check it out!
>>6121718 >>6121718 >>6121718 >>6120952 >QM question: Does your MC celebrate Halloween? What is their favorite Halloween activity? Are they a tricker or a treater? I've got a few quests under my belt now. FMH, as stated before, would if he knew. Jack Jackson definitely does; he loves dressing up in costumes. He used to like trick or treating, but being a cyborg, there's little reason to. QTM knows of Halloween but doesn't care much for it. She would definitely play into it if someone she cared for wanted her to, though.
>Player question: What would your favorite quest character dress up as for Halloween? What's their favorite Halloween candy? This is tough. I can't imagine DIESEL CRASH dressing up as anyone specific. Maybe Batman. And man, candy? I'll have to ask Bones later, but I'll go with candy corn.
>General question: Do you do anything for different seasons/holidays in the quests you read/write? Do you wish there was more of that sort of thing, or do you find it disruptive? Before today, I haven't, but I'd like to do more! I love holiday specials... save one. I never thought I'd ever see Luke Skywalker with such heavy eyeliner.
>Lurker question: Vote or you'll get tricked! Yipes!
>Miscellaneous question: Got any Halloween plans? My girlfriend and I are throwing a Halloween party! We're dressing up, drinking a ton, and having a great time overall. Also making her a top-secret "boo basket". I'll take any suggestions on what to add to it.
Anonymous
>>6121818 Oh wow, a halloween quest, nic-
>It's a dyke hoe romance story Anonymous
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>>6121609 Won't be stepping on anyone's toes. More Halo is always good.
Anonymous
>>6121825 Does that FRIGHTEN you? OoooooOOOoooOOO!
Anonymous
>>6121919 Just not keen on playing as some manhating hoe.
Anonymous
>>6121825 >>6121921 It says she hates MEN. There's nothing to suggest that she doesn't like little boys.
BANE !!NTsLgRM9VP0
>>6121921 For the record, QTM doesn't hate men. In fact, most of her organization is comprised of competent men she respects. She wasn't a huge fan of being married because of a dower (I used the wrong term in the quest but let's ignore that), but she doesn't dislike the guy. She just doesn't find him attractive. I'm saying this now because this probably won't crop up in the quest.
>>6121929 Also, gross!
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sun 13 Oct 2024 04:10:03 No. 6122000 Report Quoted By:
God damn it, just as my update schedule gets back on track some madman decides to leak almost all of gen 3's beta pokedex. What the fuck lol. LET ME WRITE!!! I'm gonna go do that right now but god damn dude, what great timing. Fuck these three for absolutely making my day and justifying my eternal love of Mudkip.
XOM !!LyIGObuRQ3d
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>>6120952 DISFORTUNA continues. There will be a reckoning.
>>6121972 Also
>Miscellaneous question: Wait until after Halloween then get fat off of discount candy in bulk.
Anonymous
Does a Nightmare Before Christmas quest need a unique dice roll system? Im making one for a quest I’m whipping up based on it but I’m not sure if it’s worth it. Im making 1d20 roll system in which a 20 is a treat and a 1 is a trick. Both of which change the environment in ways, so always going for a 20 isn’t always the best option because the scenario goes to both the opponent and the player. Trick mean’s something negative happens to the environment. Of course it isn’t a fuck you level of good or bad more like both may get new rules to play and adapt by. should I go for stuff like this or just do 20’s are good 1’s bad approach? Maybe I asked too much first time here I just wanna know if the board cares about ‘tism and slightly schizo systems. Should I ramble about the power system? I just rewatched the film and saw the spiral tree and thought it’d be a cool idea for the holiday worlds to be alive in a literal sense.
Anonymous
I miss elf maiden quest :(
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6121609 GOD PLEASE DO IT I LOVE HALO SOB
Anonymous
I can't even think of a Quest to run.
Anonymous
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>>6122049 >Does a Nightmare Before Christmas quest need a unique dice roll system? It doesn't. I haven't seen a system like that before. Will it be best of 3? If so, you need to think of the swings caused by critical rolls.
NBC is a setting I've never seen run before, would give it a try. Even though it's been a while since i've seen it.
>Should I ramble about the power system? Go ahead.
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>>6121992 Whether you say she doesn't hate men or not, if a quest started with a male nobleman character bragging about having affairs with servant girls, even if his marriage was arranged, that'd usually be a sign of him being a jackass womanizer and not something to be seen as positive. It wouldn't be a positive thing. Add that to her just not finding men attractive, and i fail to see a reason why i, as a man who doesn't hate other men, would be interested in such a quest.
Anonymous
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>>6122073 Run for president quest
StoryQM !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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I believe we need a tiebreaker in Downerquest if anyone is interested!
>>6122131 >>6122131 Anonymous
Anonymous
... Does anybody know what happened to suptg and when it's coming back up again?
DemBones !!ehWv9n5C1mz
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>>6122186 Folks checked into it and supposedly it's a hosting issue. Seems like it's just something that'll take a bit of time to take care of.
>QM question: Oh shit, where do I start?
>Stan Definitely. She's short and immature enough to still be mistaken(?) for a special needs child so she definitely goes ham on the candy. At least until Sybil wrangles her. Fave candy: Sour Punks!
>Diesel Dude gets invited to a few parties by his fellow classmates, but he usually works on Halloween so yea. He DOES have some scary movies he likes to binge every year, though!
>>6121818 here is right--CANDY KERNALS is where it's at for Diesel!>Anton Also tends to work on Halloween, but he has a bunch of scary games he plays to make up for it. Once tried to stream, but no one watched apart from someone who was clearly jorkin it to the crappy Vtuber avatar Anton wasted money on. Favorite Candy: FINNISH FISH!
>Player question: RALPH from DownerQuest would probably dress up like a WIZARD so that he could wear robes all day. Dude probably likes Root Beer Barrels
>General question: Do you do anything for different seasons/holidays in the quests you read/write? The BONERVERSE is pretty parallel to our own, albeit with a few minor changes, so yea--they've got similar holidays and whatnot. As for Zoral in Dark Quest, well... we'll just have to see, ey?
In general though, I've wanted to write seasonal one-shots, but with how long quests last on the catalogue these days I'd rather not commit... maybe some day!
>Miscellaneous question: Moved to a new state recently, but we're goin to a Halloween party. Vidya, movies, candy, the whole nine yards!
While I'm posting, looking for a DARK and (maybe) SPOOKY quest? Join us as we draw to the close of THREAD 1 of DARK QUEST--a rip-roarin' fantasy adventure where you help the erstwhile protagonist ANTON PEAS try to find a way back home from a dimension where everything is shrouded in DARKNESS!
It's DARK QUEST, people! Come check it out--it's seasonal, kinda!
>>6095278 >>6095278 >>6095278 Anonymous
>>6122140 >Humans having relations with their pokemons What a bunch of degenerates!
Anonymous
>>6122222 Not just that, but humans having children with pokemon is canon. And not even just the mammal-likes either, there's a story about a dude who impregnates an Octillery.
Wild shit, really.
Anonymous
>>6122248 >there's a story about a dude who impregnates an Octillery Kind of sounds like a Rule 63 allusion to the poem/painting 'The Fisherman's Wife'.
Anonymous
>>6122268 They're all basically allusions to native stories, like the one where Arceus turns into a human woman and becomes pregnant with two twins from a human man.
But that doesn't change the fact that there are actual official Pokémon stories about Octilleries, Lapras and Rapidashes getting impregnated by human men.
Anonymous
Did something happen to the suptg archive site? Can't seem to access it.
Anonymous
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>>6122281 Based??
More seriously, it IS Japan. they might bleach their panties for the Western market, but I'm not surprised at all that they have/had such stories in the original draft for their own culture. 'Animal bride' stories exist in many cultures, and Japan has some pretty famous ones in particular with kitsune and such, right?
Anonymous
>>6122073 Cat in a Haitian neighborhood quest.
Anonymous
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sun 13 Oct 2024 18:46:10 No. 6122328 Report >>6122140 already on it
though I will admit I don't think I expected to be reading THAT much about Pokémon-on-human rape and I have some uh
I have a lot of cat videos to watch and a lot of uncomfortable worldbuilding to do
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6122522 Thank you!
Any idea how long it should take?
Anonymous
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>>6122612 Nah, and I don't want to pester the man personally. It'll work when it works. Nothing he can do to hurry it along, by the sounds of it.
Anonymous
>>6122072 I'm currently doing some reading and lore diving to make sure I've got timeline and details right, and working out the choices for protag at the start and what'd make them special (Since every spartan has something, like John's luck)
Currently, the two I'm certain would be on the list are an asian girl whose incredibly stealthy, And Sven the big motherfucker who could to look down on an elite after their augmentation
Low Speed Anti-Divine QM
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>>6122522 Good to know, thanks.
I kind of wanted to look something up there before reviving my quest, but it can wait a little longer.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Mon 14 Oct 2024 03:11:46 No. 6122692 Report >>6121139 ah man I missed this
thanks a lot for reading my quest, anon! I'm very glad you like it :)
as for what i'm playing... not as much as I'd like to, honestly. Two of the quests I was playing most recently died on thread 1 with a whimper and the other one I just haven't had time to catch up on. The new Pokémon leaks keeping me busy alongside crazy irl shit has helped nothing, and I just hope that God lets me have some time off soon lol.
What's the "R" stand for? Never seen it as a ranking before.
CoreQM !HQdLRxFnaM
One more time. After some delays (hope the archive gets back up soon, seriously), Core of Steel is back for a finale!
>>6122691 >>6122691 >>6122691 Anonymous
>>6122692 >What's the "R" stand for? Never seen it as a ranking before. Pirate Tier.
No it basically means "me."
ReptoidQM
>>6122692 >>6122698 >What's the "R" stand for? Never seen it as a ranking before. "R" for "ReptoidQM"
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Mon 14 Oct 2024 03:24:33 No. 6122705 Report >>6122698 >>6122701 ah, got it, makes sense. Didn't realize your name was Reptoid lol, I think you lost your trip for that post.
Anonymous
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>>6122705 I don't usually
deliberately ear it outside my own quest, but some folks have learned to recognize the style of my ranking posts.
Anyway, your quest is great. Keep up the good work!
Anonymous
Is it autistic to watch several documentaries and read a 200 page history book solely in preparation for your quest idea that'll probably get like 2 voters max?
Anonymous
Anonymous
Low Speed Anti-Divine QM
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>>6122729 Lurking
Not writing and running a quest
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6122695 KINO ALERT
KINO ALERT
Anonymous
>>6122729 I have been bashing my head against the next part of my quest for several months...
and absence has not made the heart grow fonder. Anonymous
>>6122729 Sit on an idea for a quest but not have the balls to go through with it out of fear it'll flop instantly
Anonymous
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>>6122729 I've been putting off starting my quest for weeks.
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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funny, the new thread i created for part 3 of the Caretaker Quest (live now) pushed part 2 out of the catalog, poetic
anyway, as i was saying, part 3 of the Caretaker quest is now live!
your (not) girlfriend is VERY mad at you for being forced to grope a student right in front of her!
what will you do to calm her down?
vote now!
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 Anonymous
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>>6121609 >>6122645 thats fine, we all like spartans here.
i am waiting for thunderhead but halo wolfpack is a different beast from what you have in mind. The missions we have done are mostly in space, while we have also done operations on ground and boardings with full command of the whole thing. From what you are saying we would be using a spartan II so not the same thing of a human like Norman, different perspective and missions.
>>6121666 >unaligned aliens more enemies to kill ? i don't see them doing anything else but staying neutral or doing opportunistic raids against humans.
>Killzone stuff genocidal bald innies flavor to be glassed/nuked?
Anything else would change widely things, an actual power would be difficult to make sense of. Innies where being kicked hard, and hunted down even harder by ONI (even the highly organized groups of innies Cole fought didn't do anything more than salvage/steal and modify old CMA ships or civilian ships, they couldn't produce anything of their own). When you add the Covenant is full cleaning up of anyone remaining in the Outer Colonies, or in less known colonized smaller outposts and the like especially if they don't follow the protocol or before it was implemented.
Anonymous
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Forgotten, I summon thee! Bring back our quests! (Honestly, either one is fine)
Anonymous
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>>6122775 Which quest anon
CoreQM !HQdLRxFnaM
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>>6122754 Saving that, nice job!
Anonymous
The final post-weekend numbers are in. An even 500 suckers peeked in on the /qst/ board over the weekend for possibly the first time. 4 cents per newfag is not a bad rate IMO. I know I've noticed a few posts from anons who seem like they're new to the board.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Mon 14 Oct 2024 15:46:09 No. 6122991 Report Quoted By:
>>6122985 Thanks for your service.
XOM !!LyIGObuRQ3d
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>>6122985 Fantastic haul of anons, anon.
StoryQM !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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You try to calm down. You're the calmest guy in the world...
>>6123076 >>6123076 Anonymous
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>>6122985 Good work, anon.
DemBones !!ehWv9n5C1mz
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>>6122985 Doing god's work, anon. Atta boy
Anonymous
Easy addition to A-tier right here. Anyone in the mood for a spooky-season quest ought to check it out!
>>6121216 Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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>>6122985 i'll be honest, i never thought these could actually work, glad to be proven wrong i guess
Anonymous
>>6122729 I have infiltrated the spaces of the /qst/men. they do not know I lurk among them, a fake in their midst.
as a certain vampire sorcerer would say, tee hee hee
Anonymous
>>6123178 >Knows about vampire sorcerer >Still thinks he's not a /qst/man Assimilation was inevitable from the start.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Mon 14 Oct 2024 22:00:13 No. 6123191 Report Quoted By:
>>6123178 >>6123189 Yeah, congrat you're one of us now, wether you like it or not.
Now, show quest played.
Anonymous
>>6122985 shame it coincided with the archives being down
Anonymous
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>>6123206 Newbies wont know much about suptg anyway. Luckily, we still have archived.moe.
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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i hate to be a bother, but i could use a tie breaker for the next vote in ther Caretaker quest
>>6122821 thanks in advance
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:Gv1CfUJx Mon 14 Oct 2024 23:59:00 No. 6123240 Report Quoted By:
>>6123121 I knew you still loved me. Thanks, blud!
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>>6122140 SOUTHERN KALOS IS REAL
XY WAS COMPROMISED AND SOLD GANGBUSTERS SO THEY JUST KEPT FUCKING COMPROMISING
I NEED A DRINK
Anonymous
>>6122729 I've become too invested in my own quest characters and world and don't know if I want to relinquish control of them back to the players by starting a new thread. I'm half tempted to rewrite as a novel or make it a videogame instead of continuing...
Anonymous
>>6123292 Many such cases. You must be prepared to 'kill your darlings' to QM or DM, moreso than even as an author
Anonymous
>>6123292 You like the characters because of the choices the players made, no?
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>>6123292 You better not be Forgotten (though if you are I'd read that, but also, I want to finish playing)
Anonymous
>>6123292 From someone who also wrote a world of characters that were quite influenced by actions my players made in an older DnD campaign I hosted, it does get tough. Do write down your own ideas on the side if you get the spare time; there's always the possibility you might use it in your own project, or some nuance the players miss might come back to bite them in the butt.
Though yes; like
>>6123299 and
>>6123298 say, it could provide the more meaningful story for the players who made it possible to begin with as well.
Anonymous
>>6123314 For me, the fun of QMing is in the emergent, unexpected details that emerge. Do I sometimes wish players went another route? Sure, but there's a weirdly-poignant authenticity is the (admittedly sometimes meandering or inconsistent) way players take a tale and direct a player character. I'm experimenting with (slightly) more predetermined and fixed MCs in my current quest, but even then the write-ins and off-the-wall choices of the players have helped characterize them and direct their story in unexpected ways. Same with dice-rolls: sometimes the MC fails when I'd sort of had a plan for their success, or vice versa, but that lend undeniable dynamism.
Anonymous
>>6123322 Ahh, yeah. As someone who both wants to start my own /qst/ even though I'm relatively new here, though also having a good chunk of experience through other means in the past, I've been trying to read through various quests to see what that good balance of write-ins to predetermined courses is; I prefer being much more open-ended with my stuff, though my biggest fear is, give too many choices or don't give any suggestions and then, boom! Decision paralysis. Happened with a Battletech group I tried hosting once.
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>>6123324 As a little treat, go read Black Company Quest or especially, Sworn to Valour Quest (though ignore the anons infighting for the first dozen threads on that one lol)
Anonymous
>>6123324 >decision paralysis Very valid concern. I've seen it take down quite well-written quests
RIP Troll Quest, RIP Strogga . Mainly, I'd caution you to have some form of flow chart or similar device and to have a plan for every default option you provide, to vet write-ins you have no idea how to handle or genuinely do not like, and to NOT do "write-in only" choices until at least a few weeks in, so that players can settle upon a baseline characterization and solidify a short term and long-term goal. If they're wishy-washy, don't be afraid to just straight up put it to a blunt vote like "What is your short term goal? What is your long-term goal?" I learned that in my first quest, and while I tend to leave things open-ended and even give players a chance to "back out" of choices or directions (to mixed reception) it's a far cry from my fairly directionless, argumentative Quest 1 Thread 1.
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suptg still down and the spam bs on the board. /qst/ has fallen, millions must goon to femcs.
Anonymous
>>6123332 Flow chart? Hmm, never really did that in any of my campaigns before; then again, for the most part even if I did offer choices and suggestions my main campaigns were mostly open-world settings. I always set up some basic worldbuilding as well as basic backstories if the characters are in some way predetermined, yet still looking for some last tidbits of advice before I finally start putting a quest out... actually, I should ask those right now.
For one, if the world that I've built has a 'magic' system that has a lot of specific instructions to it yet also allows for lots of fluidity, is it better to infodump the basic rules of various components as they're encountered and give the users a chance to explore each one, or just softly suggest some creativity through NPC interactions?
For two, I suck at art. Like, REALLY suck. I also don't believe in AI usage for my imagery (nor have the money to purchase subscriptions to the actually half-decent AI image generators), and fear that if I embrace the drawfaggotry too much, it'll ruin... iunno, it'd probably ruin something. Is that the case, or do I not need to force myself to learn FireAlpaca for now?
Thanks!
Anonymous
>>6123322 I guess a lot of character choices and development only occured because of unexpected player choice and rolls. Its just now that the baseline has been established and I'm invested its daunting that a drastic change could be made by the one or two anons that decide to vote or roll that day...
But if I don't offer meaningful choices I might as well just be writing a story or gameplay etc.
Anonymous
>>6123348 Just don't include directions you'd be fundamentally uncomfortable running, would be my thinking.
>>6123347 Lots of quests have no art at all, so you're fine either way. As for the infodumo vs. diagetic reveal, diagetic is almost almost preferable unelss its a very "gamey" (vs. CYOA style narrative focus) quest.
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>>6123371 >Lots of quests have no art at all, so you're fine either way. As for the infodumo vs. diagetic reveal, diagetic is almost almost preferable unelss its a very "gamey" (vs. CYOA style narrative focus) quest. Good to know I shouldn't need art except just some generic cover-photo.
As for diagetic, then it'll play out quite nicely. In the words of , I'll just 'let these newborn gods play with the tools I was gifted and let them mold the very universe that created them; that I created for them.'
Might begin to post it starting a couple days from now- just gotta finalize one important NPC.
Anonymous
>>6122729 Life got busy and I've been gone for a few months. I forgot some of the quests I liked.... Shame. Also why is suptg down?
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6123458 Any alternatives? It's kind of cancer trying to find all the threads I missed out on.
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>>6123466 archived.moe is the only one
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>>6123347 Is it better if you explain it step by step, and through the quest it self. If the info gets long, you can write a pastebin or more than one and put it at the start of your next thread for easy access.
Not an issue.
People will appreciate even if you use the draw function on your posts and make something basic, or even paint.
It will ruin nothing. You could make a basic stickman, and anons would appreciate that. A basic map with a river that is a blue line, its fine too. Most of the anons make simple images, which are still okay nobody will judge them for it.
No lmao.
And if you don't think you can make images, you can just search and post images that are close to what you imagine they don't need to be made by AI or perfect. If anons like your quest enough, they might make some images and post them. Provided there is enough info for them. You should check around different quests, for get a better grasp of what i mean.
Anonymous
>almost ready to make quest >can't actually start it because I can't find a single fucking good battlemap maker I hate it.
Anonymous
>>6123526 Wonderdraft/Dungeondraft depending on whether you want outside or inside
Anonymous
>>6123528 Something free, anon. Something free.
Anonymous
>>6123529 Piratebay anon, piratebay
Anonymous
>>6123529 Inkarnarte is also decent iirc and has a free (albeit limited) version
Anonymous
>>6123530 I wouldn't know where you can pirate wonderdraft. It's not in any of the "game" pirate sites. Also, who df uses pirate bay in this day and age?
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>>6123531 Though actually, that might only be for overworld maps
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6123534 >he actually uses piratebay That place is literally the most virus ridden site on the internet.
Anonymous
>>6123535 I mean... if you're smooth brained as fuck sure but alright anon, fuck me for trying to help. Gift horse and all that you know?
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi ID:bdBIuB8+ Tue 15 Oct 2024 14:50:50 No. 6123563 Report Quoted By:
The Prophecy Names Me, So I Post About A Recent Update In /qtg/!
>>6123553 >>6123553 >>6123553 >QM question: No Halloween in fantasyworld, enough demons as in. Were one to exist, Niklos would be the type to put a bowl of sweets outside the door.
>General question: No, it would probably be disruptive.
>Miscellaneous question: Too old and childless for that.
Anonymous
>>6123347 >magic I do not know how your magic system is structured and what you mean by "softly suggest creativity through NPC interactions", so it's hard for me to answer your question. Do you mean there's a set of predetermined spells and you'd offer them to your players while slowly introducing the option of changing the spells to their own tastes through NPCs' guidance? As opposed to infodump the rules and leave them to figure out their own methods themselves?
I think both approaches could work. There IS a subset of /qst/ autismos that love crunching numbers and optimizing builds, so you could get away with a rules-heavy system, but I'd say most would be scared off by the need to understand it to participate. Though you mentioned you'd introduce the rules as they're encountered, not all at once, so I think you're going to be fine whatever you do.
>art Art is not necessary. Neither collected images nor your own drawfaggotry. Though it usually raises the quality and attractiveness of the quest if present. If you decide to include them, it will take a lot of time, both drawing and searching for the perfect picture, be prepared for that.
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>>6123535 That's what the antivirus is for.
Anonymous
>>6123536 >say you don't trust extremely sketchy, virus-ridden site >anon immediately gets offended and acts like i insulted his mother Anonymous
>>6123580 >thinking you actually have to go to www dot the pirate bay dot com in order to pirate something Is this the zoomer incompetence I've heard so much about?
Anonymous
>>6123586 I'm not the one who said to use pirate bay and then acted like i was being "picky" when i said "no"
StoryQM !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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You have severe head trauma and don't know what to do. Fun!
>>6123574 >>6123574 Anonymous
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>finally have a day (that isn’t taken up by some unique event or a natural disaster and its consequences) free to do more work on the quest >don’t get any sleep I finally understand the value of caffeine
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>>6122985 Thank you for your service o great Spender
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>>6123457 >>6123457 >>6123457 The Graverobber's Daughter resumes! Chlotsuintha has lied and winkled her way into the common room of Cancer House Coachery, only to conclude that she cannot risk boarding stage or team here. Unfortunately, this was after the Keeper of the House was sent for - which necessitated folding herself up like a pretzel and hiding underneath an out of the way table. Where she is stuck for the foreseeable future, lest she let herself be discovered and have even more questions put to her that she cannot provide answers for. Currently, she is trying to listen into a conversation between someone she presumes is the Keeper and the concierge she herself sent to fetch the Keeper just minutes ago.
I need some anons to make some rolls. Also, a question for the general. If there are multiple rolls called for, would you prefer having them done all at once, then a big update, or would it be better to have updates for each of the outcomes of the rolls instead? I'm trying the latter at the moment, and I cannot tell if it is better or worse.
DDSQM
>>6123622 >>6123622 >>6123622 Aaaaaaaand were back, even if its a day or two late. Thread 2 starts with... Gay feelings? What the fuck, where is the murder and killing?
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>>6120952 >Does your MC celebrate Halloween? Mamoru would celebrate with his little brother every year. They would dress up in cheap costumes based on whatever show Masao was obsessed with that year.
>What is their favorite Halloween activity? Returning home and having dinner with the family before sitting down to watch TV together until Masao passed out.
>Are they a tricker or a treater? Treater, though once in middle school he did go out with some friends and egged an old man's house. He felt bad and cleaned the mess the next day.
He hasn't yet had a Halloween without his brother.
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>>6123627 Nice! Glad to see it back.
DDSQM
>>6121139 >>6122692 am i just retarded, that's just a B in a fancy font, right?
Anonymous
>>6123643 It's R because (R)eptoid is (R)unning the quest.
Anonymous
>>6123648 >>6123643 The bottom tier on my list does, indeed, have a fancy B. Now that you're on thread 2, you'll probably be an A soon enough. My personal, bespoke, kind-of-autistic ranking system goes:
>R, literally me >S, a quest I'd recommend without any reservation >A, a quest I really enjoy and would recommend with caveats (slow or sporadic to update, niche appeal even for this site, unusual writing style or odd pacing, lots of anons bickering and shitflinging, /pol/, etcetera) >B, a quest that I'm liking so far but which I'm not sure I'd shill too hard for just yet, because it's too new to tell if it will last, because it seems low effort/shitposty/ChatGPT-esque, it's pure coom, or some other reason Dead Site is good so far, and was only in B because it was new and had a few hiatuses. If it keeps going as it has been, it's easy A-tier. Which will be great! I keep getting invested in Digimon quests that just drop.
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>>6122729 I am partially if not wholely responsible for crashing several asoiaf quests.
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>>6122813 I feel the same way.
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>>6123653 oh thanks for the nice words, i just thought i was being a knuckle dragger reading a letter wrong i wasnt really questioning my grade. but ill always take a compliment
Anonymous
>>6122729 >Confess I've abandoned every quest I've ever run, even the successful ones, and I'm still thinking about starting another.
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>>6123766 Because it's fun and I'm an attention whore.
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>>6123588 No no, you're absolutely being a zoomer. As if pirate bay is some scary place chock full of viruses
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>>6123588 Any of the websites on torrentfreak dot com slash top-torrent-sites are generally safe so long as you have an ad blocker. Browsing the internet without an ad blocker is like fucking Tijuana whores without a condom. Don't make a habit of it.
Anonymous
>>6123586 >thinking you actually have to go to www dot the pirate bay dot com in order to pirate something how was he supposed to download the thing without entering the site ?
Anonymous
>>6123762 soj is that you ?
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>>6123774 I've been using p2p since 1999 and I've never used a website interface for pirating. Any decent torrent client has a native search engine that you can add sites to.
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>>6123775 no, but he may as well be
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:mMJlTIKH Wed 16 Oct 2024 01:00:25 No. 6123858 Report >Art: Jonathan Hickman >Alt-Text: A Diagram of concentric circles. At the center is labeled Nick Fury. Other circles bear the names of members of Hydra, the Secret Warriors, the Howling Commandos, and Leviathan. Five circles with Xs are labeled US Event, UK Event, Russian Event, French Event, and Chinese Event. The Map is the Territory Atlas Event in T-Minus 6
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Suptg web page is back up but still broken. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon.
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>>6123858 Avengersquest is go??
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>>6122729 I counted a vote early to get the result I want.
Anonymous
>>6122729 I sometimes samefag in a thread to avoid ties or meet a minimum vote threshold. I also occasionally change my legitimate vote to stuff I don't necessarily support for the same reason.
I can tell the QM gets extremely annoyed when delays like that happen and I don't want to see him pissed off when it feels like he really enjoys running the quest otherwise.
Anonymous
[b:lit]Testing[/b:lit] [i:lit]Testing[/i:lit] [red]Testing[/red] [green]Testing[/green] Is this correct? Would this be how i do it?
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>6124052 As long as you are the thread's OP poster, yes.
You can also do [blue]and[/blue] but sadly no strikethru or other colors. Wish we had more. You have no idea how many characters I want to have yellow dialogue text.
Anonymous
TercioQM !mnPIYfftks
>>6124057 >>6124057 >>6124057 My new quest here. After realizing i was being retarded and thinking of a map as a drawing, I realized i quite literally had professional cartography tools at my disposal.
Check it out, maybe?
Anonymous
>Player question: Considering that my favourite character is Pokepocalypse's Thomas J. Steele, I am betting on good ol' Uncle Sam. 100%
>General question: I love quests being a little festive. I do want this festivity to be seasonally appropriate to in-quest time. I dont want the characters be scorching during New Year's or something like that.
>Lurker question: Wish I could tbqh. Suptg is still having a hard time showing me any quests at all.
>Miscellaneous question: Might go to some party in a ridiculous costume with friends, but I'll probably go entertain my American friends by being unacquainted with the holiday. Such is life for a European in these months.
>>6122328 Average Japanese work of fiction, really. Just because it has been hidden doesn't mean they didn't write the gross shit.
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Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:Gv1CfUJx Wed 16 Oct 2024 14:58:15 No. 6124071 Report Quoted By:
>>6124053 I yearn for purple.
Anonymous
>>6124053 ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶s̶a̶d̶l̶y̶ ̶n̶o̶ ̶s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶u̶
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6124081 It's 𝘢 forbidden m𝘢gic, reserved for the wise.
Anonymous
>>6124088 It's 𝐚 hidden m𝐚gic, reserved for the wise.
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>>6120952 >Player question: If she had to, she probably would just dress up in her normal work attire, aka light merc armour. If that wasn't an option, she'd probably just get a weapon and look like some sorta slasher, the burn scar she has probably helps with that. As for her favorite Halloween candy? Caramel apples.
>General question: Not really. No.
>Miscellaneous Read the above.
Anonymous
>>6124091 I̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶d̶a̶n̶g̶e̶r̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶t̶f̶o̶r̶m̶,̶ ̶s̶p̶r̶e̶a̶d̶ ̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶h̶i̶g̶h̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶a̶m̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶o̶s̶e̶ ̶s̶a̶g̶a̶c̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶e̶n̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶r̶e̶h̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶t.
Warden !!GZu3fE9MaLA
>QM question I don't think there was ever time for Ford to do so. Not that there was much to go around given the post-post apocalypse environment they lived in.>General Question I did try to incorporate holidays into Enclave Remnant Quest. I think it's a good time to work on developing character relationships and most holidays are spaced out enough that on an appropriate time scale with good pacing they won't really be all that disruptive. That said depends on the setting ultimately.>Miscellaneous question Not really. Maybe watch some horror movies or play some horror games. A note to anyone curious about me posting here or the status of Enclave Remnant Quest, I've been weighing my options and trying to get my life together for the last couple of months and I think I have to admit that despite my desire to see it through to the end that there's just something that has intrinsically failed on my end. You don't burn out faster and faster each time you try to come back on something without there being something wrong. I just can't find any enjoyment writing it anymore, so with a heavy heart I will say it's dead. Thank you to everyone that did participate, and bless all of you who had the patience to take that journey with me, for what it was it was an overall great experience for me. Will I QM again at some point? A solid maybe. The itch is certainly there. I've actually been workshopping some ideas over the last month or so that have some promise, but I think there's still some ways to go with those.
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>>6124070 European folktales and mythology are not really any different in regards to weird animal/monster marriages. The Japanese are just less ashamed about the sexual parts of theirs in the modern era, while Westerners try to scrub that stuff.
Anonymous
>>6124186 Stay safe and thank you for running Enclave Remnant Quest!
I'm grateful you've told us about this instead of just disappearing quietly.
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>>6124056 I can't say, I've already given away too much.
Anonymous
God I just want the Exalted quest to continue
SpookQM !!a7Six4EVOK+
[b:lit]This[/b:lit] [red]is[/red] [blue]a[/blue] [i:lit]simple[/i:lit] [green]test[/green]
SpookQM !!a7Six4EVOK+
>>6124325 [vermillion]this[/vermillion] [fuschia]test[/fuschia] [chartreuse]has[/chartreuse] [cerulean]failed[/cerulean]
Anonymous
>>6124325 >>6124327 First of all, your notation was right on your first try. The issue is that you need to be a thread's OP in order for you to have perms to use things like [i:lit][/i:lit]. The only special text you can do outside of your own thread is
A spoiler Anonymous
>>6124329 Thanks very much Do you, personally, like fantasy or sci-fi better?
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>>6124336 Personally, probably fantasy. Both are good, though, and I think that sci-fi has more 'great' literature than 'fantasy' in the modern sense, for what it's worth
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>>6124386 >>6124386 >>6124386 Solarpunk Update! Where you find some very delightful yet unwelcoming guests - can you earn their trust?
>>6120952 >Does your MC celebrate Halloween? What is their favorite Halloween activity? Are they a tricker or a treater? Fiona is a southern German girl worshiping pagan gods (as revived by a nwo government) so the closest thing on the calendar would be harvest festivals. Though Walpurgisnacht is a German/Norse holiday of repute, it's also a Christian one and thus avoided like the plague and it's in the wrong half of the year anyway.
>Do you do anything for different seasons/holidays in the quests you read/write? Do you wish there was more of that sort of thing, or do you find it disruptive? I don't, though I might write doodle her in a halloween costume or something if I can, dressed up was my other QMC, Tristram.
>Got any Halloween plans? October has been and continues to be pretty packed for me as I just came back from a trip and will be taking a second trip starting the 25th past Halloween into November, so apart from Halloween festivities there, nothing really.
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>>6124068 I will be going to sleep now but I'd appreciate if someone were to break the tie by the time I woke up.
In retrospect, I guess the option was too open.
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Thu 17 Oct 2024 02:42:18 No. 6124430 Report Quoted By:
Obligatory spooky update for Poképocalypse as Halloween draws near!
>>6124426 >>6124427 Nah, just kidding, it's just convenient timing. I completely forgot the season when I was writing this lol, I just wanted to have some practice with trying to portray really primal fear when faced with the unknown.
Could've done better, but I don't think it's too terrible for a first try. Anyways, assuming my body stops waging war on itself and I can sleep well enough to drive again, updates should REALLY be back to normal from now on. Cannot believe the string of luck I've had the last 10 or so days, it's a serious shame. At least I can finally write again.
Assuming I didn't just jinx it. The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:sYzzfBtS Thu 17 Oct 2024 02:51:29 No. 6124434 Report >>6123858 >Writer/Designer: David Sexton >Alt-Text: Comic art of a psychedelic poster illustrating a chain of different dimensions. From highest to lowest: Cosmic Concordance (The Well Beyond the Worlds, The Sacred Suns of Cinnubus, The Many Moons of Munnipor, The Realm of Dreams,) The Archipelago of Anguish ( The Realms of Nightmare, The Splinter Realms, Otherplace, Veils of Valorr, Dyzzak, The Sevenfold Citadels of Sephiroth, The Winding Road), The Consecution of Colors ( Raggadoor, The Purple Dimension, Krimson Kosmos), Flickering Realm, Serpents Sea, Avalon, Astral Plane, The Crossroads, Earth The Inner Planes >Dialogue Sample: Mark Waid The Mystery Intrigues Me
Atlas Event in T-Minus 5
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>>6124434 Marvel Tarot? Interesting...
SuperBusy !!r0G0pXK2t+6
Quick question: WTF is going on with the Archive right now? I can't search anything and all I see on the page is an error message.
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T̶e̶s̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ m̶y̶ t̶e̶s̶t̶ w̶i̶t̶h̶ a̶ b̶i̶g̶ o̶l̶' t̶e̶s̶t̶
Anonymous
>>6124514 It's busted. The owner is working on fixing it, but there's not much he can personally do. If you need to look something up in the meantime, use archived.moe.
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>>6124531 RIP.
I take a short break from running Pokemon Trainer Quest and when I come back, it's to the archive being down. Figures.
SuperBusy !!r0G0pXK2t+6
Though, that does beg the question - how are threads getting archived right now?
Anonymous
>>6124535 They're not.
That is, outside of automatic archive uploads like archive.moe.
SuperBusy !!r0G0pXK2t+6
>>6124536 Guess I'll remain on hiatus for the time being then.
Anonymous
>>6124319 I've never seen any Exalted quest updated after page 3
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Thu 17 Oct 2024 07:59:18 No. 6124544 Report >>6124537 And I'll wait for your return. How's life in Stralia?
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>>6124544 Not bad.
Bit stormy last few days.
Work's been pretty damn dead.
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>>6124514 direct links to archived threads work, I haven't tested archiving new threads
Anonymous
>>6124186 Rip. It was a great quest, too bad it's over. Putting down a protest, killing NCRs left and right, prolonging the conflict between BOS and NCR, the ranger duel, killing tons of ghouls, all our deception, keeping heat levels low, the whole exodus plan, finding other cells, stealing and disrupting the Shi plans, the internal politics, the tactics, our squad, the Granite trial, our family. It was cool, i am glad i played it. I really liked us using all those tactics at the Red Rain base. From the mines and bomb, to using that police car, to killing that giant mutant beast. We cleared that place through every trick we could think of, getting a considerable amount of stuff for our people lots of weapons, equipment, armor and even some vehicles. We even managed to save somewhat the ZAX computer and get a brief talk with the enclave in the east.
And all the other plans we had in mind for future missions, fun stuff. We would have tear through that prison when it was time.
>Will I QM again at some point? A solid maybe. Doesn't really sound like you are in a great period for make other quests in the immediate future or future at all. Thats the impression i get from reading your post, maybe i am wrong. Good luck, whatever you end up doing and stay healthy Warden. Thanks for making Enclave Remnant and running it.
>>6124189 Its better that never saying it yeah.
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>>6124128 Z̶̡̧̧̧̨̛̞̫̼̟̙̝͚͕̜̤̤̝̹͍̝̜͎̤̭̜̳̘̮̪̖̺̹̘̥̪͉̭̯̠̝͈̹̘̥͓̣̯͇͊̈͋̐̈̄̂̽̀́̎͊̾̓̎͛͋̊͛͗́̃͒̾̀̐͒̃̃̏̀̄͛͊̄̓̈́͒͋̎̄̇̽̌̇̑͘̕͘͘͜͝͠͝Â̴̳̠̾́͋̑̌̀͗͑͗̇̓̊͋̄̾̃̏́̑̀̍͑͛̈́̈́̑̕̚͘̚͝͠L̷̨̧̨̢̧̡̡̛̛̼̱̗̫̣̫̙̱͖͖͙̮̘̙̦̹̝͚͙̪̖̩̜̠̹̟̠͓̥̤͇̙̜̰̙̩̠̭̱͎̘̬̤̭̺̭̫͇̈̈́̽̌͑̀͆̀̓́̃̀̈͜͜͝G̶̨̢̨̢̡̢̡̢̛̺̯̗̹̩͕̹̟̟͙̟̭͙̬̞͍̮̙̩̻̱̠͕̜̖̙͍̰͔̦̩͔̝̙͙̠͍̘̝̹̗̪̳̥͙̫̩̬̣͔̼̯͚͍͕͇̙̺̭͉̼̭̮͓̘͙̯̗͍̼̝̻̝̬͓̜̺̍͐͛͐̒̉̔̿̇̈̋̀́̈̔͊͊̓͊̃́̏̃̐̽̔͒̇͌́̀͒̒̋̎͂̎̀̊͛̏̎̄͗́̋̒̿͒́̀̑̊̄͑̐͆͑̽͐͑͌͗̆̑̿͒̉̆̓͛̒̋͋̋̿̀̐͋̿͐̐͐͛̈́̇̊̍̊̉̃͐͒͌̓̐̌̍͊͐͗̏̎͆̀̾̈́͋́̚̚͝͠͠͝͝͝͠ͅÒ̴̧̢̨̡̧̡̡̜͇̣͇͎͖̖͓̗̮̞̪̘̰̙͍̦̗̞͇̩͍͔̘̯̖̞͖̘̜͍̼͍͓̞̼̳̤̻̳̘̮͎̤̫̫͕̣̘̙̱͇͚̯͕͌͜͜͜͜͠ͅ
Anonymous
>>6124543 It had two good threads by Loom, which took an interesting turn. He managed to finish the second thread at a good spot shortly before it was archived. I just keep hoping to see the third, that this mfer didn't die in a hurricane.
Anonymous
>>6124591 I'd ask a link to archive, but...
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
Who is the most heroic /qst/ MC?
TercioQM !mnPIYfftks
>finally make the first proper update to my quest >mfw can't use the text colors because my IP is dynamic
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I've started a quest about an ill-fated space voyage and trying to make the best of a deteriorating situation.
>>6124601 >>6124601 PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:XPj3AEfR Thu 17 Oct 2024 15:28:48 No. 6124683 Report Apologies for the request, but would anyone be willing to give my quest some constructive criticism? I’ve got a few issues with it myself that I’m working to resolve, but I’m curious to know other peoples’ perspectives on it right now because my players have gone sort of quiet as of late so I’m somewhat out of touch. Would especially like feedback on the volume of information being communicated. I’m concerned i’m being a bit overbearing with the worldbuilding haha.
Warden !!GZu3fE9MaLA
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>>6124554 I wouldn't say never again, but the near future is very unlikely yes. This year has been very hectic at work, things have slowed down but God only knows how long that'll last. That having been said it's less my job being the issue and more personal struggles. I'm on an upswing in that regard at the moment, last couple of months have been pretty good in regards to me doing creative works. Actually started drawing again after years of not doing it and the tabletop game I'm running has been one of the most fun I've run ever.
So who knows if it will happen, but never is a long time, probably too long for my impulsive ass.
Anonymous
>>6124683 I like westerns, so your game has been a fun read.
I try to have an idea of what will happen after the next update for each option the players are given; i.e. if they have the choice between fighting and running away, I'll try to brainstorm the possible consequences of winning the fight, of losing the fight, and of running away, and frame the current update in such a way that each of these potential outcomes can flow organically from the current situation, and that none of the potential outcomes are going to be something I'm unhappy about.
Anonymous
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Any interest in a Emperor’s children loyalist trying to survive the istvaan atrocity
archivebro
>>6124683 For a quick pulse (since I happen to be one of said anons and I still have a backlog) I can confirm the level of worldbuilding is fine. You still have scope to go either more or less detailed to attract different subgroups of anons, so if you feel your personal worldbuilding fix vs. effort involved equation is unbalanced then you can adjust it and likely pull in a new anons to replace those who may lose interest. You only have two threads, after all.
If you’re personally content with your output then you can also leave it as-is.
Discussion does tend to die down at different points depending on the crowd. A narrative-heavy quest likely won’t get much talk during combat-related scenarios since anons as a whole will try to keep things on-topic for the quest. If the quest itself is goofy, open-ended, civ-style, or the QM shows they’re comfortable with shitposting then it might get more constant discussion since nothing is ever really off the table, but your quest is a lot more character-driven than that.
Anonymous
so what is the deal with the do your best quest? why are there so many threads up at the same time without hitting limit in any way?
Anonymous
So it seems the archive is back up and running. Everyone should check and see if it's on for them as well. Maybe let any threads about to fall off know.
Anonymous
>>6124717 This board has a "fun" quirk where threads automatically autosage after five days. Some people don't like this, because it filters out anons who use the default 'sort by bump order' catalog setting. I would guess that's part of the QM's decision.
Anonymous
>>6124723 only a psycho would do sort by bump order on the catalogue setting on qst though
Anonymous
>>6124683 I'm still enjoying it, though I'm eager to see more of the world developing and our boys Buchanan and Steele making their place in the new paradigm. Keep up the great work!
>>6124599 There's a fair few. Buchanan from Pokepocalypse is a good shout. Reynauld from Kobolt Klan and Elliot from Disappearing Hogwarts are both solid options, too, since they're genuinely good guys in over their head and fighting ancient evils with the help of friends and loved ones. They often display pronounced unselfishness.
Or Hippo from Seven Against Thebes in the more classical sense.
Anonymous
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>>6124747 You'd be surprised at how many anons don't know you can change the catalog order, or the color scheme, etc.
Anonymous
>>6124608 Is there even any way to deal with this? Seems like you're shittoutta luck.
Anonymous
>>6124793 Formatting is nice, but you can run a quite serviceable quest without it. Software limitations are part and parcel to the /qst/ experience!
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>>6124722 Cheers for the PSA. Working again for me.
New Pokemon Trainer Quest later.
Anonymous
>>6124599 I daresay Avae. He's sacrificed a lot more for the Hegemony than other Supremes by staying in the closet. He consistently sticks to what is best for the whole when what's easy or desireable would be something else.
A quiet hero.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6124793 I wish i knew.
>>6124817 It's not going to stop me, but it does really put a damper on it because shit like bolding and italics are very much great for texts. Especially in a quest based on strategy like mine where readability is very important.
Anonymous
>>6124847 You are extremely lucky I don't wanna bring a thread specific argument into QTG because this is so wrong it actually offends me.
Like I'm not even talking about /qst/ as a whole since that would be too easy.
Anonymous
>>6124855 My nigga just spit your shit
What's this place for if not talking about quests, would you rather somebody bring up mousetraps as a tangent metaphor for something and then have Souv talk about esoteric bondage porn themed around mousetraps for five posts?
Anonymous
>>6124857 Alright then
>Oh WOE is me! I, the most powerful man of my race, am FORCED to be slightly careful about my fetish that violates the very legitimacy of my rule. The Supreme who willingly marched to certain death after finding out his society was being manipulated by an cyborg intelligence? The supreme who basically sacrificed his life for a woman he didn't even actually love? The Supreme that had to murder a grown adult as a child and then decide the fate of billions yet again as a literal child? They suffered NOTHING compared to the utter pain of not being able to have gay sex in public. Truly, I am the most heroic jaxtian to have ever existed. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go make my citizens be miserable and poor on purpose because an AI told me it'd give me some dank tech in the future. Anonymous
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>>6124793 >>6124852 As for changing to a static IP (so this won't happen again), it should be in your modem settings. Usually you can access these by dropping your own IP into your browser and logging in with your network's admin password.
Anonymous
>>6124683 I get a little confused on some of the "action" posts, I don't understand some of the movements even if I understand where everyone is when the vote comes up
Anonymous
>>6124862 >They suffered NOTHING compared to the utter pain of not being able to have gay sex in public. Who are quoting?
Anyways. Sure, there have been a lot of heroic Supremes, some perhaps moreso than Avae. I'm sure I'd find one or two if I went through and reread the whole quest. Akule would probably be one. Avae however has willingly sacrificed decades of happiness. That's certainly something.
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>>6124599 Probably Muna, her whole MO is exterminating evil in basically any form.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Fri 18 Oct 2024 00:16:09 No. 6124874 Report >>6124695 >>6124705 >>6124748 ah, alright, thank you for the feedback! I didn't know about the combat bit especially. Was under the impression that combat sections were actually where most of the discussion took place... I guess it depends on a quest-by-quest basis.
>>6124868 Thank you, too, though can you elaborate? I think I might know what you mean but just want to confirm
Anonymous
>>6124870 >Who are quoting? I'm making fun of how you're acting as though not being able to be a fag in public is some sort of great sacrifice on Avae's part. He didn't even stop doing it, he just did it in secret.
Like, fuck man, the entire legitimacy of the Supreme comes from being the "best genetic specimen" and he can't even be bothered to have a focken kid because he's too much of a prancing lala homo man. Not that he'd be able to raise one well given he's so selfish he refuses to so much as take a wife for reproduction purposes even though that's the literal sole "noblesse oblige" he has as a glorified high noble from a powerful family.
There is nothing heroic whatsoever about Anae. He's not even doing the whole "care for the people" bit well he was supposed to lately.
Anonymous
>>6124847 He's not even the first closeted monke, or the first monke to sacrifice romance for his position. I don't mind him at all, and I give no shits that he's gay, but the guy isn't even a good boyfriend.
>>6124870 >Akule I mean, he's sure a GREAT monke in terms of objextive achievements and level of influence. He's a CULTURE hero it that he is essentially worshiped by his species. I struggle to imagine a definition of heroism that encompasses Avae and Akule at once, though.
I'd be inclined to call Eoba II the most overtly, traditionally heroic Supreme. The other ones
>>6124862 referenced was Val Takar from Thread 2 or 3, I believe. Hass also has soemthing of a heroic arc, and even Wrix, is we're going by a definition of heroism that doesn't penalize genocide, torture, rape, slavery, etcetera, which is the only way Akule is getting in.
Anonymous
>>6124878 >no wife, no het-sex, no genetic continuity I always did find it weird that Kima and her predecesors needed to be groomed/steered/raped to preserve their super duper genetics in an authoritarian society with cloning. The Hegemony should really just be force-cloning or taking amndatory sperm and ovum samples to avoid issues with mate-selection.
I assume it's something to do woth flaws or imperfections in the cloning process, or something, to facilitate the narrative beats.
Anonymous
>>6124879 >Wrix, is we're going by a definition of heroism that doesn't penalize genocide, torture, rape, slavery, etcetera, which is the only way Akule is getting in Eh...I wouldn't call Wrix heroic either. He was literally just handed the Supremeship, then all he did with it was genocide hundreds of billions. He didn't even properly kill all the Hazaar, which was the one fucking race everyone wanted dead, while murdering the ones no one had an issue with. That's why he went out like a bitch begging for help because he didn't want to die of carbon monoxide poisoning while Akule the lad literally fucking set himself on fire after he got too old.
Anonymous
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>>6124882 >always did find it weird that Kima and her predecesors needed to be groomed/steered/raped to preserve their super duper genetics in an authoritarian society with cloning. The Hegemony should really just be force-cloning or taking amndatory sperm and ovum samples to avoid issues with mate-selection. Well first of all indigos only got invented during the game, by which point the houses already existed for millenia. Also, you're forgetting the issue of raising them. They're not just having children, they're raising them. At that point you might as well just do it naturally.
Also that was an option, I'm pretty sure. Making everyone an Indigo. We rejected it.
Anonymous
>>6124888 >indigo issues We had that tech by the time issues like Kima or, for that matter, Avae the Gay came up. And it's not about making EVERYONE Indigo... Literally just people like Avae who don't want to have reproductive sex and have the authority to not be forced to, or someone liek Kima who's genetics (not how she's raised, just her genetics) made her a super important specimen. There's no stated reason we couldn't just steal her DNA, stick it in a lady-monkey who actually wants to fuck our zombie ex-president and is a good mother, and still have our golden child. I assume there's SOME reason, but we don't knoww what it is.
>>6124884 Eh, fair. I don't really like him, but he WAS the first Blonde Supreme, the fiest Unsoekable since the OG, and struggled against the odds from a young age. He got handed the Supremacy and fucked up on certain key issues, but he also permanently (?) subjugated the rbeellious instincts of his species and created a new age fo monkey prosperity. I wouldn't call him a hero, but he has done more than Avae thus far.
Anonymous
>>6120952 How much is too much with roll modifiers? How far do you guys go and what do you like to see in quests? I wanna do something with simple RPG stats, the stats gatekeep spells but i also wanna give some incentive with roll modifiers so it feels like there's something more tangible there too.
Anonymous
>>6124890 >We had that tech by the time issues like Kima or, for that matter, Avae the Gay came up. And it's not about making EVERYONE Indigo Well it's kinda missing the point isn't it? Raising the next generation is basically like, the one fucking reason the elites even have to exist at this point. They create the next generation of high tier monkes to help the hegemony. And in exchange they get the best resources out of everyone else. Even if they could use their DNA, they're still kinda rejecting the literal only thing they had to do.
>WAS the first Blonde Supreme, Doesn't it kinda suck to you that the first blonde Supreme wasn't someone who deserved it but someone who got handed the Supremeship literally because he was the closest person? Like he wasn't even chosen for being good or anything Kima just went "Hey here's the crown, take it or whatever, I'm out"
Anonymous
>>6124890 I wonder if Bananas will give us an option to have Avae gene splive up a baby Monke with Fim?
Anonymous
>>6124915 >polluting an elite genetic line with some literal who homo Why?
archivebro
>>6124874 For an example of a quest where the combat provokes a lot of discussion then you can take a peek at the duels in Magically Challenged. It offers a good contrast.
The way to think of it there is the combat is a puzzle, where each side has a large variety of spells, the number of potential interactions is equally high, and the MC is too weak to have a simple “I win” combo. At least through the first thread, that is, as I haven’t started the second.
Puzzles, by their nature, are going to provoke discussion so long as the solution isn’t obvious. More complex combat systems have a greater chance of creating a puzzle out of encounters, driving discussion for those interested in “solving” them.
A fair number of quests I’ve read, yours included, are much simpler in what the best combat strategy is at any given vote. Write-ins can inject some chaos into the mix, but your system has to actively encourage and reward/punish such behavior in understandable ways if you want that to somehow be the sole engine driving combat conversations.
It’s perfectly fine to not have that though, you can get discussion going through non-combat scenarios such as when the sheriff kicked us out or we step into a town and try to decide what to fix first. You like your worldbuilding, focus on providing opportunities and depth to interactions with said world. Everyone wins that way!
Semi-related, I have no comment on how you do your action posts since I 100% skim them mentally even as I read every word. My brain makes zero effort to retain such knowledge unless I’m actively picking it apart for a clue or something. Not a knock on your skills, more a knock on mine.
Anonymous
>>6124916 As a singular act of selfishness later in his reign? Perhaps an expression of "I've earned this?"
Anonymous
>>6124918 >singular act of selfishness Lol. Lmao.
>Perhaps an expression of "I've earned this?" "Well, after a long life of purposefully impoverishing my people, I think I earned the right of going against the principles of my nation even more than what I already have"
Anonymous
>>6124920 >>6124916 We get it, you hate the gay monkey.
>>6124893 >Raising the next generation is basically like, the one fucking reason the elites even have to exist at this point. I thought they were arbiters of culture, and formed a managerial/administrative/officer class?
>>6124915 I'm not convinced Fim or Avae would be uniquely good parents, and Avae doesn't even seem to like Fim much anymore.
Anonymous
>>6124927 >We get it, you hate the gay monkey He's just an incompetent ruler in-universe.
>I thought they were arbiters of culture, and formed a managerial/administrative/officer class? They're noblemen. The hegemony denies it but that's what they are. But rather than having a "noblesse oblige" of being competemt honorable and fair, they just have to keep pumping out high quality kids.
Anonymous
>>6124933 Avae is only as competent or incompetent as the voting base. As for the second point, that's not been my reading of the social role of the noble families, personally, but I'll cede simply because I weary of discussing monkey-business
and have an update of my own quest to write .
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Fri 18 Oct 2024 01:43:56 No. 6124937 Report >>6124917 >Semi-related, I have no comment on how you do your action posts since I 100% skim them mentally even as I read every word. My brain makes zero effort to retain such knowledge unless I’m actively picking it apart for a clue or something. Not a knock on your skills, more a knock on mine. Nah, it's fine, I admittedly skim them while writing them lmao.
I've never been one for combat, I find basically kind of it to be boring to read and and it's quite hard to write. I like the puzzle-y combat that you mentioned the best since it's quite engaging, but I am nowhere near the level where I am able to make most combat encounters akin to that. I will definitely try in the future when there are more mon and more moves to play around with, though.
I'll definitely check out Magically Challenged. Everyone's been raving about it and my brain is giving me that fomo itch lol. A vote of confidence from you is just another selling point, so thanks for sealing the deal. :)
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>>6124927 They do seem to be growing distant. I suppose staying closetted had consequences too.
Anonymous
>>6124936 While he could have been less incompetent if the right choices won (mine) it is still how he acts. People cheered when Wrix died pathetically pathetically though he only became unspeakable because of a vote.
But fair enough. I've argued enough. This is kinda why I didn't want to start.
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>>6124937 If you made all your combat like MC duels then I’d probably burn out. Those are something you build up to. It’s like the difference between a wild pokemon battle vs. a gym leader battle, if everything were the latter then the only ones who could stick around are the romhackers.
Meanwhile I’m the weirdo who does pokemon quests when the last pokemon game I beat was Pokemon Yellow, and I last played Pokemon Silver. There are many anons who could contribute to high-level pokemon quest combat and team build strategies and I am definitely not one of them. I beat down the Elite 4 entirely with a Blastoise that had both Earthquake and Hydro Pump and no PP-restoring items, that’s how bad I was back then.
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>>6124940 I liked Wrix. Wierd how he didn't kill off the Hazaar. Sucked he went out like that.
Anonymous
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archives are back up
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:pUFd9+pG Fri 18 Oct 2024 02:47:04 No. 6124987 Report >>6124434 >Writer: Jonathan Hickman. Designer: Tom Muller >Alt-Text: A chart of 18 circles numbered 1-18, arranged around a central circle with an X inside. X marks the Spot
Atlas Event in T-Minus 4
Low Speed Anti-Divine QM
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In case any of the players who played my Fate Akeldama redux quest are still around, it's back on the board
>>6124998 Anonymous
>>6124937 >I've never been one for combat, I find basically kind of it to be boring to read and and it's quite hard to write. I know this feel as a reader, which is why as I writer I tend to be less granular or specific about action, reaction, play, counterplay, as a tactical ballet. Instead, I try to capture the feeling that always sticks with me in a good fight, drawn or written:
The particularly victorious blows or terrible, painfully-punished errors.
The rise and fall of confidence and anxiety as momentum turns towards or against the hero.
The sensation of losing track of a foe only to refocus, to react just in time to avert catastrophe.
To spot a chin in the proverbial armour and exploit it perfectly, or to miss the shot and curse a foe's escape to menace you again.
That sort of thing.
>>6124940 I think the difference in perception is that most of the controversial things Wrix did or didn't do weren't part of a direct vote. Avae hasn't ever really gone against a player vote like Talacent or Agori did, nor dramatically superseded and advanced beyond our initial decision on his own initiative. He also hasn't really gone against initial player perception of him as Hass did; when he went back on his "man of the people" thing, it was only because WE, the PLAYERS, told him to. Apart from being gay, Avae really hasn't done anything players haven't demanded of him, for good or ill.
>>6124987 Such enigmas!
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Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:Gv1CfUJx Fri 18 Oct 2024 05:44:07 No. 6125070 Report >>6120974 I'm friends with the nigga. It physically pains me to be the bearer of bad news, but Loom has decided to discontinue the quest. He's uninterested in the current climate of /qst/ and finds it unfulfilling to run quests these days. He was actually an old head from the glory of the /tg/ days. From his perspective, /qst/ is dying a slow and painful death and he no longer wants any part in it; running a quest is a lot of effort for minimal engagement and isn't particularly enjoyable these days as he described it.
I figured I should let you know since he doesn't want to announce the end of the quest himself, as he didn't care to post here any longer.
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>>6125070 Yowch. I can understand not really wanting to run here anymore, but not even wanting to post to say goodbye to your players of months or years? That sounds personal. My condolences to his players.
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>>6124937 >>6125049 The nice thing about running a Drawquest is the ability to direct more action-focused scenes to drawing, which is still not easy since you have to actually draw them, but it takes the load off writing them as much.
If you do insist on wanting to write highly physical and frenetic scenes; I highly recommend Robert E Howard's works, especially Conan, as much of the writing is directed to very physical sword based combat and I think is pretty good at that. But the strength of writing is in the senses other than sight and sound, so focusing on those is key to good action.
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New update for The Caretaker Quest is up!
and...is that *gasp* a hint of romance i see?!
how will you react to it this uncharted and slightly awkward scenario?
no votes this time, this time (You) have full freedom to chose whatever you want!
come and write down your answer for this (possibly) romantic scenario!
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
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Solarpunk update! You found children! It is a crime to adopt them because they're part of overpopulation! You hate the government!
>>6125149 >>6125149 >>6125149 DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Fri 18 Oct 2024 12:14:11 No. 6125182 Report Quoted By:
Normal cultivator quest is back online
>>6125175 TrashQM
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>>6124948 >>6124948 >>6124948 The Graverobber's Daughter continues! Chlotsuintha has avoided the search of the Cancer House Coachery's common room, and is now in a desperate bit to sneak her way to the stables before Machares, the Night-Keeper of the House works his way there, and speaks to the night-grooms. If he does, then getting out of the Coachery with your stage and team is almost certainly going to be magnitudes more difficult. Unfortunately, Chlotsuintha has gotten as far as she can with the limited concealment the common room offers on the most direct route to the door she came in through, which leads out onto the yard. She must either commit to making the final stretch without cover, remain in cover while heading further into the house, hoping for an alternate route to the stable, or take action against Lucullus, the unfortunate concierge who has been ordered to remain in the room and keep watch.
Before that vote though, I need some anons to make some rolls.
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:B10TbO4S Fri 18 Oct 2024 21:07:47 No. 6125373 Report >>6124987 >Writer (W): Jonathan Hickman. Pencils (P): Ed McGuinness. Inks (I): Tom Palmer. Colors (C): Chris Sotomayor.Letters(L): Dave Lanphear >Alt-Text: A chart of the Western Zodiac. Each sign is labeled with a person >Vasili Dassaiev. Alias: Magadan Title: Capricorn. Affiliation: Leviathan. >John Garret. Title: Aquarius Affiliation: SHIELD. >Shoji Soma. Alias: Hand Grandmaster.Title: Pisces. Affiliation: Hydra >Name Unknown. Alias Unknown. Title: Aries. Affiliation Unknown >Cornelius Van Lunt. Title: Taurus.Affiliation: Independent. >Nick Fury. Title: Gemini. Affiliation:SHIELD. >Baron Stucker. Alias: Supreme Hydra. Title: Sagittarius. Affiliation: Hydra. >Jake Fury. Title: Scorpio. Affiliation: Independent. >Timothy Dugan. Alias: Dum Dum. Title: Libra. Affiliation: SHIELD. >Name Unknown: Alias Il Professore. Title: Virgo Affiliation: Independent. >Name Unknown. Alias: Kraken. Title: Leo. Affiliation: Hydra. >Viktor Uvarov. Alias: Orion. Title: Cancer. Affiliation: Leviathan The World Turns on a Broken Wheel
Atlas Event in T-minus 3
Anonymous
>>6124892 Some of my favourite quests are those without rolls kek. They're hard to pull off though due to the need to introduce a high level of puzzle-strategy or drama to make choices meaningful, so I include rolling even in my own. With modifiers, I'd say so long as it's clear which modifier comes from where and they're built up gradually, it's okay to include as many as you like. I think your question is similar to
>>6123347 anon's in that regard, which I answered in
>>6123567 this post.
You have to be careful, however. I tried making complex systems in the past, but always ran into a wall of scaling with the power level of the character and relativity in regards to impact of the dice. Basically 1. making leveling up and obtaining new skills feel meaningful, introduce new moves/mechanics while 2. fitting them into a d100 roll and 3. making sure they provide equal power for high and low DCs. Because if you introduce e.g. +2 modifier from leveling up, for DC = 50 it means a 4% increase in success chance while for DC = 90 it means a 20% increase, you've got to keep it balanced somehow. And when they build up to large numbers, unless you do really small increments (which contradicts with "meaningful leveling") or do rare level ups (which I don't like because I want to provide constant dopamine +SKILL +NUMBER shit), the d100 roll is made irrelevant. I feel like progression in some of the quests I'm making is an aspect that is as important as the drama and plot, and I can only run for a few threads without the characters growing in power too much. I tried fucking with exponential modifiers and weird-sided dice but failed.
You have to keep these problems in mind and solve them somehow to construct a good system of modifiers. I myself have long since resigned to a simple Bo3 1d100 against a guesstimated DC, sometimes tiered. ig roleplaying systems solve it somehow but I'm too adhd to read rulebooks, browsing and taking note of their solutions to these problems lmao.
tl;dr this is all just me going off on a tangent about why I use simple rolls.
If you mind sharing your experience, have you made an elegant system and how? I'd like to hear more about the modifiers and skill+stat stuff you have in mind.
Anonymous
I wonder if there are QMs who use different IDs to discuss their quest like a player. I certainly feel the urge to do it, but refuse to do so because it'd be "cheating" since I know what exactly will happen.
Anonymous
>>6125409 I've done it in the past. Drummed up interest for my most popular quest by shitposting about it negatively in QTGs back in the day.
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>>6125412 What would you even call that? Shiltposting?
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Handler QM, Cleaner quest when?
Anonymous
>>6125409 I’ve done it simply to vibe with my players. It can be fun and stir up discussion if used correctly.
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>>6125450 I guess but in my specific quest it would be too OP.
I guess it'll have to wait for my character centric quest.
Anonymous
>>6125409 I did it in my old quest from time to time, but mostly to clarify a correct someone else's misinterpretation of an ambiguous event with the intent of canonically declaring anything. I think one situation was
>anon: so we're doing weird time bullshit? how are we seeing our own character from the start of the quest >me(anon): weird space bullshit. this place is an instance, whenever nobody's looking it goes back to normal, and normal is us being here. we are outside of it because someone else removed us from it. I haven't done anything with my current quest yet. Any clarification would be spoilery.
Anonymous
>>6125408 my idea is just a simple RPG stat system so strength, speed, defense etc. The points are allocated like any old RPG. Lets say you have 1 strength, well you have a +1 modifier for rolls that require strength based solutions, max out the modifiers at +10 and keep it situational so the incentive for modifiers stays.
I am thinking of doing either a power level thing like Dragon Ball or maybe a simple level system from RPGs, something to show differences between an opponent so lets say the gap the gap is like 5 levels well now you have to roll a 3d100. You have to win 2/3 DC to get a minor victory, meeting all the DCs is a major victory, meeting only 1 of the DC is still considered a loss, crits are still a thing but only apply to the first dice. Multiple DCs means the probability is not in the PC's favor. I'd still keep the simple Bo3 1d100 from time to time. I might also want to figure out how the PC might lose the modifiers if the battle is hard enough but maybe not as the multiple rolls would make having modifiers more valuable and maybe the DCs would test for different stats so anons won't just minmax one stat and actually have to spread out the points.
If i wanna do the level or power level thing i can either use the level difference or use a percentage difference formula to calculate how hard a fight can be so if it's a difference of 10% then anons have to succeed with 2 DCs or i'll just roll a 4d100 that anons will have to beat with a simple Bo3 1d100.
I don't wanna overcomplicate it and force everyone to take out a calculator, i want this to be on the backend and make it clear to everyone how these DCs are coming out
Anonymous
Saw a guy with this hairstyle tonight.
>>6125506 Why go anon instead of clarifying as qm?
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>>6125635 Honestly that reminds me, I spent the better part of two or so months working on developing a system for the Nasuverse that was meant to simplify the act of rolling while also providing built in progression. Strong characters were meant to feel strong, but it had means to overcome them under the right circumstances. Or at least that was the intention. I even made an encounter and experience tables, as well as got around to mapping out every potential unique skill/talent that I figured could be applied generally.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mX9WWpztD36Q9Ke833tnkEq7hr0JtcPTLDqpj8dL7QE/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1csnzWIetsrqWNFJWAmwsRL_OjLuOrXMbRgCKjShv96w/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hd74oqdTTi30_2V08pUIMyln1A65F9TvtqLxYspbgzs/edit?usp=sharing This was the thing I was rather excited to try out but held back on back earlier this year when I was trying to finish Enclave Remnant Quest. Mind you it probably could use a good bit more refinement, but I did do some numbers crunching and built some characters from the actual setting and most of them fell where I would have expected them.
I'd say the skills document is probably the weakest of them, mostly because it's incredibly difficult to define all those skills within the constraints of a single gameplay system, at least when you're just one person that is. I think the way skills work in the system is fine, I just never quite got around to smoothing out the specifics for each one from the setting specifically. Honestly would probably be better to ignore them and just come up with a more limited set of skills within the bounds of whatever quest is being run.
Now to be honest I'm still tempted to run a game using these rules, but if I never get around to I'd prefer them to be out in the wild so that if someone takes a liking to them wanting to try them out they can do so. The whole point was for them to be used to have fun so if someone can that's great either way.
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>>6125671 For reference to the links the first one is the rules in general
the second one is the experience charts
the third one is the skills.
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>>6125070 Jesus Christ this breaks my fucking heart man, he felt like a really good writer. I can't fucking stand how short some of the updates of other games are I wanna read progress for God's sake not choose breakfast cereal. That first thread I was breaking out the custom prompts left and right with suggesting Kaya stay with Jet's fiance instead of just running off and we got that nat20 on the letter with the bonus it got. Another for bargaining with the little demon bug for a secret which led Jet to getting the demon summon paper, his altered destiny revealed, and ultimately to being a GSP. I could tell he really wanted Jet to be a Green Sun Prince and switched my vote to make it happen lol. It did end up having some really fun payoff too.
The Szorney powers were really great, combining it with the weird exalted gun thats almost more like a flamethrower he could reload with the extra limbs. Trying to design his outfit and Loom was thinking along the same lines with longer sleeves so Jet could hide the limbs, or how his alchemy would be good for smoke for cover. Couldn't get as many custom prompts in cause it takes a bit but managed a couple like calling out the shapeshifter on being an escaped slave. Even though I had pushed for enslaving the fae I didn't really have any idea what to actually do with it. Could perhaps have made the shepherd boy into a full on antagonist. Tried to get people to go for Lilith since she seemed fun. I was looking forward to whatever deal Jet was hopefully gonna make with Lilith so he could secure some support after the fight with the other GSP in Hell, which was excellent.
How depressing. Atleast he didn't die in a hurricane so thanks for letting me know. Tell him I really appreciated it. Perhaps discord really is the way to go.
Anonymous
> there was a rapeman quest last year where joker gets the crazy raped out of him > todd philips made it canon meme magic is real
Anonymous
>>6125070 something weird happened in july. /qst/ lost like 50% users and never recovered
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>>6125070 >didn't even tell people nah, he's a bitch. a little bitch. If you can't even have the common courtesy to tell people who've been reading your stuff for such a long amount of time you're gone and it's not even for any reason other than 'I dont feel like it', then you're just a little bitch.
t. didn't even read his quests
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>>6125694 I stopped running price *dabs*
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>>6125408 I essentially took Simple D6 and scaled it up to a d20. DC 15, sometimes modified by circumstances, and leveling up a skill means rolling additional dice. If any of them beat the DC, it's a success; higher rolls or 20s are critical/exceptional successes. If none of them pass the DC it's a failure, and a 1 with no successes is a crit-fail. It's worked pretty well for a few quests, and has the added benefit of making crits more likely and crit-faiks less likely the more skilled a character gets.
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>>6125409 Closet I did was launch a quest with a different OP name to hide the twist it was in the same universe another one of my quests
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>>6125409 Closet I did was launch a quest with a different OP name to hide the twist ending that it was in the same universe as another one of my quests
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>>6125657 It's an odd matter of reader autonomy and freedom to have interpretations. If I clarify anonymously, I am encouraging discussion and having people explore the ideas mentally because that "anon," to the readers, has just as valid an interpretation as theirs. He could be wrong, but what if he is right? This gets people thinking about it, and that's nice.
If I clarify as a QM, I am shutting down the conversation and leaving it open only to questions and comments because my word is law in this context. The readers get their answers, and the mystery dies. Useful, but you shouldn't shortcut around things that develop useful skills, that just makes lazy and dumb people. I already try to write in a very forward and clear fashion, so I don't want my own commentary doing the thinking for people when there's so few things they can sit down and wonder about.
Of course a lot of it swings around what is being clarified. Literal moment to moment happenings and room structure and shit is done as QM, but insights into a character's actions or words need to be handled with care as to not spoil any developments.
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>>6125693 He didn't get the crazy raped out, just the happiness and the fight. :( Arguably it started with realizing how badly he affected his coworker, anywya. The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:k7eny20P Sun 20 Oct 2024 00:51:53 No. 6125997 Report >>6125373 >Map: Ta-Nehesi Coats & Manny Mederos >Alt-Text: A Map of Wakanda, an African Nation to the west of the lake Nyanza. It contains several fields rivers and lakes and mountains including Mena Ngai, The Great Mound From Above it Fell
Atlas Event in T-Minus 2
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Heads up for anyone following Disappearing Hogwarts, we're updating again! Elliot is ever closer to going hunting dragons with his girlfriend!
>>6125956 >>6125956 >>6125956 Anonymous
can I make a quest about gay vampires
Anonymous
>>6126053 You can make a JJBA quest, yes.
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Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k ID:d3kvGa8v Sun 20 Oct 2024 03:17:51 No. 6126094 Report Quoted By:
A brand-new character who no one has ever seen before is introduced!
>>6126008 >>6126008 XOM !!LyIGObuRQ3d
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>>6126119 COMBAT IS OVER!
I learned to not use TRPG rules on /qst/ - hard earned lesson bought with wasted time.
We're back to the narrative at least.
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Guh. Gonna resume Star Wars Interregnum tomorrow evening. Didn't want to do it yesterday when I've got a business trip out of town and I couldn't immediately update.
>>6120952 >>QM Question...gonna answer as "Testament of Tatamu" >Does your MC celebrate Halloween? Sinleq gets a bowl ready for trick-or-treaters, but doesn't do anything too extraneous nowadays beyond getting a pumpkin-flavored beer at the neighborhood potluck. But Babylonia at-large does have a very strong All Souls Day.
>What is their favorite Halloween activity? As a child, making costumes with his father, Sinbad. He has a fond memory as a child of being the "pilot" to a PUEXO costume that his father wore. But they haven't done anything like that since the death of Sinleq's mother, Itani.
>Are they a tricker or a treater? Treater. Sinleq is too straight-laced to be a tricker, even if he does like to tease his friends.
>>General Question Nothing insomuch as a side-story about observing the holiday that may or may not see the light of day.
>>Misc. Question Gonna watch either a horror movie or the last of the Rurouni Kenshin films with BolivarQM on the weekend of. He used to run Gantz Quest DC back in the day.
Day itself, probably finish the last of my Oktoberfest beer and hand out candy to the kids.
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>>6126056 It's more of a bisexual vampire story.
Anonymous
>>6122729 I run a degenerate yuri quest on akun, baiting civ autists with the civ tag. Except at this point it might be more like baiting yurifags and myself into spreadsheets.
Send help
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>>6125070 If that's how he feels, then may he find happiness on his new path.
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>>6126053 Sure, I recently gave up on being a homo so you can take my mantle
Anonymous
I wanna run my first ever quest here, but I have no engaging ideas that would require little priorhand knowledge or too much effort from me. I can try and run something like capeshit, but something tells me I can fuck up even that without providing sufficient mechanical depth.
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Anonymous
>>6126244 That one looks like the easiest to run. My other idea was running a V20 VTM, but I don't know if anybody cares for WoD properties anymore.
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>>6126053 any quest about vampires is a quest about gay vampires. but yes you can, and should.
Anonymous
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sun 20 Oct 2024 16:11:27 No. 6126303 Report >>6125694 I thought you were pulling this out of your ass for a moment but i've noticed spots of time where /qst/ is just dead. Properly unmoving.
Just this morning the entire board had no messages for nearly 20 minutes straight in any thread, and my thread (with the last response having been 10 hours from the time) was still in the second row of "last replied". The third or fourth row had threads in it that hadn't been posted in for over a day.
It's especially odd because isn't summer supposed to be /qst/'s downtime? From what I understand the place is most active during December/Winter break times and least active during summer breakish. Yet somehow the board seems significantly quieter now than it did even back in July.
Weird.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6125997 >mfw it turns out Wakanda are also colonizers >>6126180 Sounds like you've got things well in-hand.
>>6126239 >>6126246 I'd play either. Vampire-themed capeshit sounds kino, if you merge them. Urban Dhampir Quest when?
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>>6126308 Yo, that reminds me of that Crimson Bat greentext, where the Malkavian acted like a classic noir esc super hero. That shit was the bomb
Anonymous
>>6126303 Stv isn’t running.
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sun 20 Oct 2024 17:58:28 No. 6126371 Report >>6126365 I can't tell if you're being serious. Is a single quest really that big of a draw(/has it been in the past)?
Anonymous
>>6126371 STV is the biggest quest on the board. That and monke.
Anonymous
>>6126308 The idea was more sandboxy - everybody votes on a starting difficulty that determines your EXP and Generation, then select a general archetype and a clan from which the character evolves and shenanigans occur. I am making some plot hooks before trying anything, but I think it's more interesting if the quest would be player-driven with the occasional plot happening to get involved in.
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I just realized all I know about gay vampires comes from a gay vampire quest I played on the other chan. I need to find something else to run a quest about. I don't wanna put up a quest and drop it after forty replies because I don't know what to do next, so it'll probably take a few months until I have enough material to run something.
Anonymous
>>6125694 This isn't just /qst/. You can go to 4stats and check the activity of every other board for the past three years and you'll find the same decline. 4chan is dying.
If you ask me why I think it's because Zoomers prefer to have brains melted on TikTok rather than on Bhutanese basket weaving forums like us.
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>>6126414 I think its discord too, lots of people leaving 4chan to join discords
Anonymous
>>6126402 Worth a go, but my personal advice is beware of being TOO sandboxy at the start of a quest. Sometimes, new quests get players with very different directions for where they want to go and how they want to play, and inconsistent vote attendance can lead to a MC behaving (put mildly) erratically. I, personally, would suggest a vote or two early on to establish a baseline personality and a broad objective. Just my personal experience.
>>6126414 4chan also developed a reputation for being a right-wing political space in the big dumb culture war, at the same time more modern and mainstream alternatives like Twitter/X and even Telegram or Truth Social were competing in the same sphere. I think it's a market-share/attention-share thing.
Anonymous
>>6126436 Yep, that's what archetype is for. The idea is having a loose plot with little railroading.
>reputation for being a right-wing political space Politics in general made this place lose users because it slowly infected other boards and refused to be contained. People take discussions on /v/ as an excuse to argue about stupid shit, and a lot of people don't really wanna waste time.
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>>6120952 >QM question: I don't have a current MC. Perhaps for the next quest idea I have, they might. I don't know.
>Player question: Good question, but I don't have a favorite. I guess the MC from Banished Quest comes to mind. He strikes me as a candy corn type of guy. His costume? Probably a Rhynian.
>General question: I tend to write whole stories/quests based on the current holiday theme. I actually DO wish there was more of that, whether whole quests like me, or little nods and winks in-thread otherwise.
>Lurker question: I rarely vote.
>Miscellaneous question: Plans? Doomscroll, practice Spanish, write. Rinse, repeat.
Anonymous
>>6126246 I'd play WoD, just with something other than vampires. Especially if it's redone to give werewolves the edge for once. I hate how in MOST vamp vs wolf media, the former has main character powers and the latter is the whipping boy.
That being said, I had an idea for my own quest. Just not sure how I'd go about it. I know I wanted to do something involved dreaming/lucidity/surrealism, but I don't want it to be too open like
>>6126436 said, but also not a railroad (
>>6126440 ). So far, I only have the power system written up. I think it's farily original or at least not-too-often-done-here tier. But I'm mostly concerned about my shit writing talent. If I get no bites or feedback on this post I might just pay Kaz to run it. IDK.
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>>6126454 >>6126454 >>6126454 The situation turns for the worse in Fog of War as your artillery is destroyed by enemy mortar fire.
Anonymous
>>6126459 >Especially if it's redone to give werewolves the edge for once. Werewolves are rapists on WoD, though their strength may depend on the edition. In V20 at least, their war forms are immensely powerful, with ability to tank damage and regenerate mid-turn. They become less threatening for low gen vampires who have OP stats and disciplines of their own, but they can quite easily scare the shit out of neonates, and appropriately, have to fight tougher enemies.
Anonymous
>>6126459 Wolves fuck up vamps in OWOD. Saw a cocky, munchkin'd to hell combat beast gangrel decide to pick a fight with a baby, literal starting character wolf, glassware I think, who had just underwent the first change while the gangrel had somewhere over a hundred xp + bonus dots
Gangrel only survived cause the wolf didn't realize a torn in half vampire melting into the dirt wasn't dead
Old world of darkness wolves shat fury on all but the creme de la creme of vampires
It was funny seeing the power gamer shit themselves when the ST told them the wolf healed all of the damage they had dealt them in the first round immediately though, especially cause I and everyone else told him not to fuck with the furry
Anonymous
>>6126466 Tell me more, anon. Can you lay out the mechanics of this for me?
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>>6126474 The post above tells you everything. Garou in OWOD have multiple forms they can shift into, all with a different purpose. There's the semi-wolf that looks like a human with animalistic features, war form that transforms you into a traditional werewolf, and the wolf form that turns you into the animal.
They all confer different advantages, but war form is easily the most dangerous one. Being able to casually inflict aggravated damage (Supernatural damage in game terms) is huge, and these motherfuckers are also tanky, fast, regenerative, and can use a form of disciplines of their own that are basically spirit powers given to them.
Their weakness against silver is insanely debilitating, however. They're also rare because they're terminal retards either fighting each other or failing to protect Gaia from Wyrm.
Anonymous
>>6126466 >>6126471 Not sure if you're both memeing. If not, then based, but I recall vamps > wolves because of the following... (keep in mind, I'm applying general vamp vs wolf convention; not just WoD)
- wolves die of old age (vamps do not)
- vamps can sire more vamps easier than wolves can gain new pups (I think they have to bang a non-wolf as a human?)
- vamps don't NEED blood (wolves NEED food)
- in later works, vamps typically don't have sunlight weakness (you know the one; ironically in that though, the wolves are actually OP as hell to the point that vamps had to genocide them all)
But at least in WoD, wolves get to control when they transform, rather than being at the whims of the moon. Just don't like seeing vamps get all the cool shit. Even in later works where they each get a special snowflake ability, and regen as good as or even better than a wolf because silver wrecks wolves (and only not having blood for a million years wrecks vamps). But I'm not as well-versed in WoD as I once was, so set me straight if I'm tarding up my knowledge.
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>>6126474 While it's technically a werecrow power, werewolves can learn it as well. The power is summoning a miniature sun in your palm
That effects vamps just like the real thing, and can be used like a laser. This is just one way they dunk on vampires, who stay in cities partially because the wolves just fucking kill them if the go into the boonies.
Werewolf the apocalypse is just several power levels above vampire the masquerade until the wacky, ancient blood god levels of bullshit you only see if the ST is feeling funny or decides to throw some fucker who saw the great flood to punish the Malkavian for being too annoying.
And don't get me started on the were coyotes and their forced gay rape bomb magic power that they are mentioned in universe as using it for cheap laughs at the expense of innocent fuckers. The were coyotes deserve genocide
Anonymous
>>6126479 Bigger numbers or immortality doesn't matter when Garou can kill you right now and here, and in order to deal with their bullshit, you need to gorge yourself on your brethren until your funny gen number gets low. They're described as killing machines for a reason.
Anonymous
>>6126479 Doesn't matter, wolves have ways around it through spirit pacts
Wolves have to breed with wolf blooded (man or wolf) or they produced sterile deformed offspring there by RAW are the strongest choice between human, wolf and werewolf born PCs
Vamps need blood in Wod or else they frenzy/ torpor
Unless the vampire has enough fortitude dots, sunlight kills them dead quick
And wolves can control it, in wta, but death rage is a thing and has killed a lot of vampires who thought "hurrrr, ill ambush and alpha strike the lone werewolf what could go wrong?!?"
Anonymous
>>6126485 >>6126487 I see. So then, which is stronger out of the two: Garou or Ananasi?
Anonymous
>>6126488 Ananasi have poison strong enough to instantly cause aggravated damage that cannot be healed in combat, and may leave permanent injuries if untreated for too long.
Anonymous
>>6126488 Spider. Their abilities are whack even amongst shifters. Swarm form makes them practically immortal in the true sense of the word, and having a blood pool in addition to the standard Wta mechanics makes them goofy broken
Like that one exploit using human sacrifice to turn a high gen anarch lick into the equivalent of a fucking anteduvelian
Anonymous
>>6126492 >>6126494 >vampires getting rekt by wolves and spiders Why do we not have a quest of either of these two up yet? Why no love for anything other than vamps if the shifters go THIS hard?
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>>6126499 We had Rage Against Pennsylvania...
RIP Anonymous
>>6126499 I dunno? Running vampire games in OWOD is easier, and it helps a lot that character are far less broken and grounded than the bullshit some other races pull.
Shifters are also mostly jobbers compared to mages, the true munchkin race. These motherfuckers go from being D&D tier to ascending into Buddhahood and erasing your pathetic existence with a thought.
Anonymous
>>6126503 >Buddha I've changed my mind. I want MtA now. I very much like the "put in the work, become god" trope. Some Cradle series type shit.
Anonymous
>>6126499 Because Garou are team killing fucktards who ruined everything and are the reason the world of darkness is such a shithole. And spiders are glowies working for an insane and abusive mother in a huge fight with her on and off of.
Wererats are Irish car bombers. We're snakes tricked everyone into think Gaia needed dancers (they're actually gaias assassins), the were lizards are sad cause ancestral memories and can be kaiju if they want to be or dragons, were cats are every flavor under the sun and also oppress and kill themselves and other shifters like the wolves, were coyotes can go fuck themselves, werebats got killed because werewolves got racist at seeing something bat like, were bears got killed because they refused to give the rage tard wolves the power of resurrection, the wereboar got killed because they could cleanse wyrm corruption and wolves didn't want to admit they had a lot of wyrm corruption in their ranks. The were crow are the get of fenris' bitches. Weresharks are autists who just do nothing but swim and kill normies
And the were foxes are gaias perfect princesses who burst into fucking flames if a vampire bites them, killing them both and are canonically the creator of the shifting breeds favorite children
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>>6126510 Oh yeah and there are also were hyenas. Who are oppressed by the lion strain of werecats, that's all they have really
Anonymous
>>6126507 It's entirely possible, and low-level MtA is easy to get a hang of.
>>6126510 Real gigachads play Abominations and roll willpower checks everytime they want to walk or breathe.
Anonymous
>>6126515 How do mages attain enlightenment?
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>>6126515 Reminds me of that one werecroc abomination that's employed by pentex as an expy of barney the dinosaurs.
He eats children
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>>6126507 MtA is great, been running it for the last couple months. That said everyone kind of has to agree on what each level of a sphere does when mixing and matching to make spells. Or at the very least I guess in a Quest the QM has to lay out very clearly what they do.
Be interesting to see what kind of paradigm qst would come up with.
Anonymous
>>6126516 They achieve such great understanding of their sphere that they ascend to dot six, becoming an Archmage. Other bullshit follows, like additional dots and the Golden Path, and I frankly forgot most of the lore on these things. But, in essence:
>"Man, I don't like these limits. I know I am capable of more." >Ascend with help of your paradigm >Become insanely strong, to the point that one-shotting a Methuselah or an Antediluvian becomes an actual possibility with a degree of preparation >Also realize that Consensus works even worse on you, and the next Paradox you'll roll might be your last Anonymous
>>6126518 >>6126521 Man say, y'all better come up with some MtA in here. For real. You all missing out on ALL this heat. Maybe you not ready for that. I dont know. But you're missing some fire with MtA not being on the board.
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Captain Gāo has to make a decision about priorities... or not.
>>6126539 >>6126539 >>6126539 Warden !!GZu3fE9MaLA
>>6126522 MtA is something I'd be interesting in doing a quest of, but there is no way I'm running one while I'm also running it on Table top.
Mage is not something I can handle a double dose of, great system love it to death, would drive me utterly insane if I had to run more than one game of it at a time.
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>>6126558 I will say though I am working on my own setting that's inspired by WoD, and specifically focused on Mage the Ascension as the point of inspiration, and it's one of the things I'm workshopping for a quest.
That, Nasuverse, and a Heian era JJK quest are the ones I'm workshopping.
Anonymous
>>6126522 What is MTA? I assume it's not a game about trying to keep those damn vandals away from your Redbirds.
Anonymous
>>6126574 Mage: The Ascension
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>>6126156 Tagged you on Twitter/X.
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>>6126522 Like the poster above pointed out, MtA can be quite heavy just on GM due to amount of tardwrangling you need to pull. I ran some games and feel like it's achievable in a form of quest, since it'll be multiple people potentially trying to pull off something stupid or fun.
You can always try the meme approach and limit Arete to 2 for a while and watch your would-be mage fail every roll.
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>>6126471 >Wolves fuck up vamps in OWOD. Saw a cocky, munchkin'd to hell combat beast gangrel decide to pick a fight with a baby, literal starting character wolf, glassware I think, who had just underwent the first change while the gangrel had somewhere over a hundred xp + bonus dots >when the ST told them the wolf healed all of the damage they had dealt them in the first round immediately though, I dunno, this smells a bit fishy.
was the gangrel not dishing out aggravated damage using protean? because garou can't auto-heal aggravated damage. if the gangrel player was a 'power gamer' and as high level as you're saying and had popped their claws, even a moderately strong garou is going to have a bad time.
garou are tough but there's no way in hell that scenario should be happening in that one-sided a way unless everyone involved was running combat wrong.
Warden !!GZu3fE9MaLA
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>>6126614 They could come back from that, but it's not exactly likely that they would, I'd be surprised if a no exp werewolf had enough rage out of char gen and the luck to actually survive a Gangrel with 100+ exp and bonus dots. Would just be extremely lucky if they did.
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Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:Gv1CfUJx Mon 21 Oct 2024 01:09:40 No. 6126660 Report >>6126576 This is why one must abbreviate it as MTAs or MTAw. Because MTA alone could refer to Mage: The Ascension or Mage: The Awakening.
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>>6126660 >Magic: The A-gathering The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:pUFd9+pG Mon 21 Oct 2024 02:44:32 No. 6126705 Report >>6125997 >Chart: Jonathan Hickman >Alt-Text: A chart detailing a sequence of labeled circles. In order: Machine, Hive, Intelligence, a dividing line, Tehnarch, Worlmind, and Phalanx. A line connects The Technarch and Phalanx circles. [Come/Together]
Atlas Event in T-Minus 1
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>>6126614 Oh the power game rolled like shit lol
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>>6126705 Doing anything with the "One Below All/Green Door/Eldest" cosmology expanded by the last few Hulk runs?
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>>6126371 It's pretty damn big yeah. It's one of the only games I play here these days (though I acknowledge there are definitely other good ones). But yeah STV draws in huge amounts of players and posts
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>501 posts >574 posts >568 posts >525 posts >566 posts Grim
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>501 posts >574 posts >568 posts >525 posts >566 posts Grim
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>>6126371 Not really. Last thread ran from July to September and had 1250 replies spread over 2 months. That's 21 replies per day. Nothing game changing
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>>6126375 Monke is 26 posts per day. Better than stv but nothing impressive
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>>6126246 I quite enjoy WoD. Bloodlines was very enjoyable
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I had to take a week off because my ankle was killing me, but I'm back and updating Al Kimia Story again.
>>6116909 Anonymous
>>6126765 Oh it's like an anthology where the MC changes somewhat often? That's cool I dig it .
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>>6126780 Run a quest, invite your friends. if you're in other roleplay circles, let them know what you do here.
buy more ads Anonymous
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>October 21st >No updates on UTUTU Quest Kaiju bros, it's so over...
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>>6126308 Well, yeah. Strong empires will usually push outward, even if only to secure their borders, then to prevent bandits from beyond those borders, then to provide law and build security for those communities outside their borders to stop the re-emergence of Banditry; then to secure their new borders which incorporate this newly wealthy area and defend them from the next bandits further on..
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>>6126879 Nah not quite, we accidentally got the MC killed in the first couple of threats because of a hubris and the QM not pulling punches.
I'd say we learned out lesson but we still do a ton of crazy shit and just barely scrape through sometimes. Still though, Emile (the current MC) is going strong and has really developed as a character. It's been an exciting, wild ride and I can't wait to get back into it.
I genuinely recommend you check it out.
It follows 1 MC and his retinue, various people that come and go depending on what the goals of those characters are. There are a few mainstays (including our squire especially) but really, no one is guaranteed to stay with us forever
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>>6126879 If you like anthologies with multiple MCs, I'd suggest:
>Simple Space Empire >Supreme Space Monke Ruler >Untamed Civilization Project Technically, my quests do this on a more gradual scale, with:
>Reptilian Infiltrator starring the OG
>Dragonborn Antipaladin focused on her son
>Seekers of the Esoteric wherein players control the boyfriend/research assistant of the last two MCs' cousin
>Cambion starring Reptilian Infiltrator's other kid and her doppleganger who was created during Seekers
Lodestar also has multiple MCs, but simultaneously active and alternating between threads rather than sequential.
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
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Solarpunk update!
>>6127062 >>6127062 >>6127062 After many warnings and murmurs, whispers and stories, you meet the faces of they who are why you are here in this pit. It finds you in its chambers where peace must be unbroken and spares your soul and body its immediate just wrath. Do not press Lorppo's mercy, overdweller.
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:Ituaesy4 Tue 22 Oct 2024 00:24:40 No. 6127081 Report Quoted By:
>>6126705 >Design (D): Jay Bowen >Alt-Text: A stylized logo reading "Marvel Ultimate Universe" ATLAS EVENT IMMINENT
ATLAS EVENT IMMINENT
The Great Wheel is Broken
The System has Fallen
The Age of Marvels has begun.
Who will be The Ultimate Civilization?
>>6127076 Anonymous
this is a test post do NOT respond
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Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k ID:d3kvGa8v Tue 22 Oct 2024 05:09:27 No. 6127241 Report Quoted By:
The number of human-type mons in the party has doubled!
>>6127236 >>6127236 Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
does anyone else style up their offline docs for their own pleasure I cut the margins thinner and set the page format to legal because I like having long pages, as well as made it dark and blue I wonder if some gigachad writes their fantasy quest in a script font on a fellum background or something
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>>6127286 i did what i could with my google doc, mostly because i dont have microsoft word in my laptop and i dont want to reinstal it just for this.
i made the pages a dark-ish gray to minimize the blinding white that google docs has by default and wont let you modify, i also have a couple of colored lines at the bottom for reminders
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>>6127286 Google docs
Black background
Grey font
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YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi ID:Czq1C9uT Tue 22 Oct 2024 12:57:04 No. 6127335 Report >>6127286 I use Scrivener, this is how it looks:
XOM !!LyIGObuRQ3d
>>6127286 Notepad
Black view
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>>6126156 >Gonna resume Star Wars Interregnum tomorrow evening Bathic !!1oQZB1czRDh
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>>6127286 Funny how everybody else uses dark backgrounds to write, too. I use a program called Q10 which by total coincidence looks a lot like YouAndYourWaifu's setup
>>6127335 . Widescreen yellow Courier solidarity.
>>6127390 I used to use Notepad way back in the day. Check out Notepad++ if you haven't already-- adds a lot of functionality (including autosaving and the ability to have multiple tabs open at once).
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>>6127286 I use Notepad++ with khaki theme, except text made 11 size and changed to black for better readability. Consolas font. I think dark theme is harmful to eyes in spite of popular opinion being the opposite. iirc from my time reading stuff about this topic, it's better during nighttime hours because it lessens the contrast between bright screen and surrounding darkness, but light is more readable in general.
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>>6127434 Notepad++ user here; I like that khaki theme. Might try that out.
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Any chance someone knows the No Talent Cultivator QM? Very sad if it just dies after such a fun and lucky run
XOM !!LyIGObuRQ3d
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>>6127471 >>6127471 GAME 1 END
Choose the modifiers for the next run...
The Merchant QM
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>>6127286 Gigachads don't write ahead of time, we respond to the needs of the moment!
In the Merchant Zombie Survival Quest: chapter 2
>>6087641 You too can join at a moment's notice to participate in the buffet of ultraviolence this week as we search for an old friend amid a sea of blac- . . . ahem, Zombies.
A question arises
>Merchant QM: Are you using Zombies as a metaphore for for something else? They sure do!
So join in the mayhem!
Create your own character and run amok, or pretend to be a regular worker inside a survival camp. It's your apocalypse, so play it the way YOU like it!
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https://kadw.neocities.org/souvarine Wow, Souv really made it.
Nobody's ever made ME a fan-page, anyway Anonymous
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>>6127214 That's exactly what a VATNIK would say! You're all Russian hackers on steroids!