>>133407

Someone's probably said it before, but honestly, it's very similar to running a tabletop game, like D&D, except everyone's controlling the same character. So really, the secret is remembering that the random elements in the game are the fact you've got potentially dozens of people coming up with things to do.

Pick what works, roll with the rest. And remember: you can always give characters agency. If people aren't playing along or just being butts, the character can point that out. If anything, it's a good way to handle it:

https://questden.org/kusaba/questarch/res/809939.html#862127

(I can't remember the shorthand for cross-thread references)

Don't mind me, new to styling the text.

Test, did I do it right?

Another test, pay no attention.

>>Newbie's first green text.

>>133807
for green text all you need to do is put > at the front of whatever you want to wright and the site does the rest for you

>like so

>>134204
Thank you.

>>135302
They might not even have chosen to leave her nothing. Perhaps they left her the mansion and everything in it, not anticipating that it would all be destroyed.

>>135307
What a shame.

>>135308
The place would still have had insurance (or ought to have had). I'm pretty sure Willamina just straight up got deliberately screwed. Whether it was for a 'good' reason remains to be seen.

I think we're on the wrong track on Dr. Trey avoiding people from the City - he's got Kazu as an assistant, after all, so his antipathy towards city-folk can't be THAT strong, whatever his reasons for wanting to remain anonymous.

If he's actively avoiding Cat now (as opposed to earlier, when he tolerated being in the same bar as Cat) it may be he's realized they've got some kind of past together, or because he already knows Cat can detect him (i.e. Isabella, Cannie or Iraphena told him and he's actually under the thumb of Nunitus).

Do fish people in Catalyst live on land or water if they exist in your universe, and if on land, do they have something that let's them breath on land?

Oh man so there’s a sub-type of Kin called Scale-Kin, they’re basically any amphibious race and reptiles, it’s a catch all term. You can find fish headed people (kind of like the cuphead lady) and also just regular fish people. But they need to be hydrated often. My headcanon for them was that they had these water headphones they wear on their gills that keep them hydrated. That or something like they could wear a fishbowl choker that’s full of water making it easy for them to be on land. I’m also down for other suggestions. Introducing a fish person eventually in the future could be neat!

>>134948
I approve!!! :D

T.Rowaway 2021/03/14(Sun)12:24 No. 135036 ID: 9c4453
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Favicon for Return to Sender - Thread 1
https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/991238.html

>>135036
I should note that the size of favicons/tab icons are 16x16, so when used this would get squished/compressed.

Buckwheat 2021/04/10(Sat)22:09 No. 135326 ID: 15a025
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Icon for SLEUTH POOCH (and this time I actually post the icon.)
https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/994198.html

>>135326
I'm teegee and I approve this icon

(thanks Buckwheat, very nice of you to do this!)

>>135265
I see a Tasteful Cloak w/Scarf, a Worn Poncho w/ Shawl, and Tattered Rags w/ Bandana.

Only one poncho here.

Say Heretic, besides healing items, what other things heals us?

>>135314
You can sleep damage off if the wounds aren't too grievous, maybe some other ways when I think about them.

I very much like whistle thing you did.

Really sets up a mood of eerie mystery.

>>135319
Glad you liked it!

Edmango 2021/03/30(Tue)01:36 No. 135254 ID: afe7de
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Arthurias, Magnolia, and Lilly from Enclosed Curtains :D

https://questden.org/wiki/Enclosed_Curtains

Anonymous 2021/04/03(Sat)19:41 No. 135288 ID: fd4d13
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The date weren't blown

Buckwheat 2021/04/09(Fri)22:55 No. 135320 ID: 15a025
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Tuna mouth from Acid Soup.
https://questden.org/wiki/Acid_Soup

Buckwheat 2021/04/09(Fri)22:55 No. 135321 ID: 15a025
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>>135320
Blaargfgfh.

Anonymous 2021/03/29(Mon)17:48 No. 135248 ID: 1869f4
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Didn't get to romance the Timmy.

0/10. Railroad. Choo choo.

tippler 2021/03/30(Tue)07:02 No. 135255 ID: eedbeb
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a few words on the interlude:

le interlude was basically covering everything that I thought up for pt. 1 choice options that y'all didn't choose. If you had hung out with Margot or Kibble, you would have gotten their backstories, if you had visited your sleeping body while you were a soul the first time, you would have seen Body's soul, which used to have a weird design (see attached.)

i also wanted to give a bunch of exposition more actively rather have the characters just tell evelyn everything. it helps to have the experienced character as the narrator, since she actually knows stuff about the magic world.

anyway, now that that's out of the way we can go back to the good stuff, hating duck's head

tippler 2021/03/31(Wed)17:23 No. 135267 ID: eedbeb
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update frequency will be low for the foreseeable future due to the binding of isaac repentance release. i know it's just the antibirth and revelations mods made official but i never played those when they came out so it's good enough for me

boy those mobsters sure look familiar, I wonder where I've seen them before

off topic but Stay Inside was a really fun read

tippler 2021/04/08(Thu)20:10 No. 135318 ID: eedbeb
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>>135316
glad you liked it. stan carl marks

Can we see the unlock requirements for skills that we've seen at least once?

Here are my guesses:
MOVE MOVE MOVE(double move has no penalty while using heavy weapon): use a heavy weapon during a mission.
Area Denial(burst fire aoe): use a heavy weapon during a mission and hit multiple targets in one turn?
Hit The Deck! (explosion resistance, but go prone): take explosion damage and live.
Medic(3 uses of medkit): use a medkit.
Nimble (extra CQC dodge): get hit multiple times by CQC attacks.
Presence (ranged calm, adjacent calm is 100% accurate): calm a unit
Shotgun Surgeon (extra damage with guns at point blank): shoot something with a shotgun at point blank? just realized this applies to ALL guns.
Headlong Charge (dodge enemy lookout): move when enemies are visible
Steady (extra damage when aiming): aim then shoot, may require a kill.
Walking Fire (aim bonus after a miss): miss multiple times?
CQC Specialist (melee damage bonus): defeat an enemy in CQC
Heavy Hitter (armor piercing): shoot an enemy with high armor multiple times? kill heavily armored enemies?
Eagle Eye (lookout with sniper rifle costs 1 action instead of 2): kill things with a sniper rifle? might require going on lookout at least once, but Baetriss never went on lookout with the sniper rifle, only with her shotgun.
Tough As Nails (resist panic once, Wounded at 1/3 health instead of 1/2): complete multiple missions without being wounded.
Guts (death/injury resistance): take a large amount of total damage during a mission?
Efficient Stowage (carry an item in addition to heavy weapon ammo): use a lot of heavy weapon ammo during a mission? or use heavy weapons in multiple missions?
Adrenaline High (excitement lasts longer): get excited a lot

MOVE MOVE MOVE(double move has no penalty while using heavy weapon): use a heavy weapon during a mission.
✔️

Area Denial(burst fire aoe): use a heavy weapon during a mission and hit multiple targets in one turn?
>>Use a heavy weapon with burst fire.

Hit The Deck! (explosion resistance, but go prone): take explosion damage and live.
✔️

Medic(3 uses of medkit): use a medkit.
✔️

Nimble (extra CQC dodge): get hit multiple times by CQC attacks.
✔️

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>>135294
My bad, "Nimble" is get _missed_ by CQC attacks from enemies, not hit multiple times.

>>135294
>Survive a 50%+ death check
Oh god. Well, we should probably not try to get that one on purpose.

>Bring a sniper rifle and not be eligible for anything else (but high priority against non-sniper-rifle skills)
I guess the high priority overrode CQC Specialist.

Does Cold Weather gear take up the item slot?

Gnoll 2021/04/04(Sun)07:53 No. 135297 ID: ca2950
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Oz from Chinzebeth VII

Anonymous 2021/04/04(Sun)14:32 No. 135300 ID: 67181a
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Dart from Last Call

Gnoll 2021/04/04(Sun)19:34 No. 135303 ID: ca2950
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Liriya from Inhabiting Malevolence/Twilight Star Saga

>>135303
Thank god there's at least one character that we can lewd in a Gnoll quest that hasn't been lewded yet

>>135305
I have tons of unlewded characters.

...Except Amiel became a majibeast again in Tezakian Slumber Party but the joke doesn't work if I tell you that part.

(She's considered imperfect)

I must sadly report that due to the loss of an animal companion and dear friend, all questing activity is paused for a little while. I will keep you posted on when things will resume.

Thanks.

How many types of dragons are we going to see on Dragon Day?

So how bout dem slinkos ey

Slinko 2021/04/07(Wed)10:47 No. 135312 ID: 2451c3
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exploitable Ceri???

Holy fuck that was incredible. You need to, at minimum, give Sleepless Slander a handy-J.

XenobenerHund 2021/03/27(Sat)14:49 No. 135227 ID: 164e20
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By popular demand some lyluk walk cycles

>>135227
This is my favorite

>>135227
These are giving me some strong vibes of the videos on YouTube of the results of AI neural nets learning to walk via genetic algorithmic selection. (Search for CodeBullet on YT for example.)

>>135257
Yeah, but we should know her a little better, I mean she doesn’t even know herself. As a name I propose either Torio or Cesio.

>>135257

Maybe in a sequel when it isn't forced!

>>135257
Yeah but it's weird for a blank slate to name themselves.

I feel like it should be realized through habit, claimed through achievement, or given by someone else.

Or at the very least held off on until we have some more context into this world and our existence.

Yesss time for tozol and radioactive bro adventures! Seriously, I am loving this so far.

>>135283

Really happy to hear that! I'm trying hard to avoid dumping too much information now, since I feel like I may be overwhelming readers with too much information.

>>134739
Just because you follow a god of death doesn't mean you hate the god of life. Life does not exist without death, and vice versa. I don't really get the whole "anti-life" thing especially considering Ndepthteph is depicted as a worm, which is a living organism, but I do know that if the worship of her revolves around the fact that life as we know it came about in opposition to her, it'd be more like worshipping the concept of emptiness, or wishing that life did not exist to begin with. And that's not exactly a religion that would inspire fanaticism without also inspiring mass suicide or open war. A religion that wants to remove all life would outlaw reproduction, as well, which means their numbers would go down fairly quickly over time.

Yeah, sure, clues. I'm sorry but that's just not a good method of explaining lore that gives needed context to an existing conflict when the lore involved is something the main character should know. We should at least know the basics, and despite my repeated attempts to get ganymede to fucking SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT, I don't know the basics. For example, before you explicitly said that Ndepthteph is the goddess of anti-life I just thought she was the first to be born. The first life, not some kind of paradoxical life that is also anti-life.

>>134736
I’m really enjoying this worldbuilding
I wonder, do Arthocobs have cults placing emphasis on specific deities, such as the Romans had? The preacher from the first thread being crazy and clearly unwelcome in the village makes it seem that the worship of Ndepthteph is a fringe belief if not outright heresy, but he could still just be an outlier in a larger, more moderate religious faction.
though, granted, the nihilistic worship of inevitability and death itself probably doesn’t have broad appeal.

Sarcopholacooda 2021/03/31(Wed)22:42 No. 135269 ID: 11f77a
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Today may or may not be a coincidence.

So when are we going to finally get back to the dating part of the quest?

>>135277
I promise there's only... 3% left of the current thread. And then the actual dating part will happen.

I understand how dumb it may be now, I couldn't help myself but try and establish a looming conflict that will affect everyone as the story rolls on. I've had readers who both like the direction it's going--but still speak up about its misleading title.

Arthocob Date began as something out of the blue with no thought for its future. But as all things I create--I start piling stuff on top to give it more... life?

Anyway, Ganymede will be able to date next thread. And it won't have to be exclusively to Eudora. Promise.

Another small update. Going to be taking another break from the herd after I manage to finish the next update. Just haven't had a ton of motivation or inspiration to work on things lately. Hopefully should have the ball rolling again sometime in September.

Giving the thread a bump, how did everyone enjoy thread 10?

It's been cute and fun as always! I'm liking Candy's new outfit, I'm glad we got that opportunity.
My main critique would be that there were a couple of updates where there wasn't really a decision or guidance by the readers wasn't needed. And there wasn't enough energy happening in the scene to give comments on.
Still, you've got good intrigue going on and I'm looking foreward to the next thread

Chaos is the spice of life

Buckwheat 2021/04/02(Fri)10:57 No. 135275 ID: 15a025
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Oh no! Something happened with Candy and Marsh's enchantment stones and their souls ended up getting swapped. Now they're stuck in the other's body!

Gotta admit, for a tutorial fight, I'm not 100% sure how we win this.

Also great art.

>>135237
This is the DIE fight

>>135271

Aw man, I hate RPG fights you're supposed to lose!

De agony of Die Fight

https://strawpoll.com/cko21x4z6 and now that the suggestions are in, a poll!
select as many options as you like!

How the heck does a snake do a kickflip?

Bonus Image LonelyWorlds 2021/03/25(Thu)22:37 No. 135202 ID: 1d109c
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Poll image in coming!

in the mean time enjoy another bonus image courtesy of one of my other very generous patrons!

Looks like Nethaar has lost a game of strip poker!

Bonus image LW 2021/03/31(Wed)01:01 No. 135262 ID: 1d109c
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Azzeki doing a sick kick flip

The most radical and tubular of snakes.

>>134890
Best of luck with the jobhuntening, teegee.

I forget, do you have a Patreon or Ko-Fi account or something? Might want to toss a dollar or ten your way.

>>134935
Thanks! (Sorry for being literally a month late to reply to this, things got busy again lol whoops, turns out interviews are a lot of work)

Now that that's all done with and I've got a job, my schedule is a lot more regular and predictable, so with any luck that'll translate to posting updates more regularly again.

>Patreon or Ko-fi
I don't at the moment, but I might open something like that up eventually. Even if I don't do it, I really appreciate the thought regardless, so thank you.

Gladdening news on both the successful jobhunt and the (hopefully) more regular updates.

>No plans for Patreon or Ko-Fi atm
Keep us informed! I'd be happy to toss you some tokens of appreciation for all your fine work thus far.

(And, as an aside, nothing you set up has to offer commissions, special party favors or anything like that. The main benefit of supporting you is already you having put your interactive stories up here for us to play with.)

>"Those Orchid fuckers wanted us to zap the samples into our dust. To hide 'em inside us until they give the all-clear signal. So fine, they fuckin' win. I'm ready for this shit to be over."

So maybe Mint was probably the one who gave the all clear symbol then. But then there would still be the question on why her reaction was apologizing and crying as Penny was falling unconscious. Maybe she was tricked in some way?

>>135261
The Orchids definitely delivered a signal through Mint - triggering some sort of command or killswitch. I'm not sure that was an 'all-clear' signal, though, since the situation doesn't seem very 'clear' by anyone's definition.

It could be a failsafe thing, something intended to make Penny go buh-bye as if she'd ingested raw taffa and / or restoring her old sense of self as Ciobhan (hence the flashback chapter) or just a handy way to extract the dust samples Ciobhan's body got loaded up with (at least judging by the way things are going).

Nobody 2019/11/23(Sat)13:16 No. 131493 ID: 853489
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I checked back here out of curiosity and it seems like someone bumped this thread. I don't know if anyone is still curious, but if you are, here's a status update.

The tech stuff went more or less according to schedule. I didn't finish what I intended to do, but I was progressing along at a good pace and I didn't hit a road block or anything. Still, it's clearly a losing proposition to try and make environments in CGI, since it takes too much time to prepare which nullifies any time savings down the road- I think it would be a smarter idea to switch the workflow and instead prepare the characters in advance and render them, while drawing the environments myself.

Anyway, problems with the tech stuff aren't why I haven't been updating the quest. I'm a very private person and I don't want to get into personal details but this has been an extremely difficult year for me, beginning from around February and going straight through to now. In all honesty the difficult circumstances have been going on for longer then that, although it progressed to a worse stage in February. I tried to write it off as time consuming 'hobbies' in one of the first posts in this thread. I'm not entirely sure why I did that except that I really don't want to depress people or involve them in my personal life... although it has the unintentional effect of making me look like a lazy, good for nothing asshole, instead of a stressed out asshole that's in a bad place. Anyway, that was responsible for a lot of the slow down last year, which progressed into a total stoppage this year.

I'm sorry for not coming back on here to give an update until now. I am still interested in continuing this, although it won't be for awhile yet. I still need to take care of a few things more before I can settle back into updating this. I think I'll also have to change my plans a little for the ques

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Nobody 2019/11/23(Sat)13:17 No. 131494 ID: 853489
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>>131493
(For comparison, this is the same village from the christmas comic I did awhile back.)

Sorry to hear you've been going through a rough patch lately and hope it get's better soon. Just remember though that you should worry about yourself first and if life is kicking you in the groin don't feel bad for taking time to try and let things sort themselves out. While I wouldn't mind seeing this quest come back the idea of a quest is to be fun, for both YOU and the reader. So don't feel the need to force yourself to do something if you're not enjoying it.

Again though, glad to hear that you're alright even if things haven't been going to smoothly and hope that it clears up soon. The 3D looks great.

Well, even if it didn't solve the problems you hoped it would, the work you did in 3D looks amazing. I hope what life throws at you sorts out, and remember interest in ROCK is not dead.

>>131493
Hey it's pretty stellar seeing you around again at the very least

>>135240
Do you honestly think that I am rushing through this part of the chapter? Especially with everything else that has happened in it? Not to mention that this part of the chapter is still not over.

>>135247
Yes.

>>135249
I see....ok then...I don't know what else to tell you...I will have to think about my responce

>>135250
Oh, I got it a perfect response. I am going to bed good night.

>>135249
Where else can we go? You’ve already taken away most of the autonomy we had, and expressed vehemently that we’re not going back to Ana before, still haven’t really forgiven or forgotten that one by the way. Here’s what is probably going to happen, I bet money this is what is going to happen knowing your track record.

So we’re dead, and something is going to come along and either resurrect us which is a long shot, but who knows maybe Laura and Dreamwalker will show up. But I’m willing to bet something else is gonna show up, offer us ANOTHER deal, because you seem to love that trope so much where the option is live or die, which you know, isn’t really a choice it’s just another railroad option. How’s that? That somewhere in the ball park?

>>126820
I think you quality for lichdom at the very least.

>>126821
Lich Clock? I like it!
...
That begs the question, what kind of Lich?

Hey guys, back again. I think this time I'll be taking an indefinite leave from TG. I've lost a piece of myself, and I don't think I'll ever get it back. If this is the last post I ever make here, I'm sorry.

>>127088
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/719916-cowboy-bebop

>>127088
I'll keep it positive and say there are probably better places to reaffirm your humanity. I sincerely hope you find one of 'em.

>>70727
Perhaps if you don't like the ideas, you could post something yourself? It's rather annoying to have ideas shot down (even stupid ones like this) with no alternative presented.

>>70729
I did, it was dissected point by point as being stupid and then I deleted it.

Also, I am the first guy who came up with the idea of summoning grigori. You heard it being discussed on IRC most likely? Thing is, you just said "summon X" without saying HOW to do so

Armas knows somebody that almost certainly knows what to say to scare the shit out of everybody here, has enough schadenfreude to do so, and can communicate mentally with him.

Unfortunately, it's Amen.

What happened to this quest? Has it fully transitioned into an irc-game, died, gone on hiatus, turned invisible? Are there any more interesting irc-logs?

>>74811
Indefinite hiatus. So yeah, it's dead.