Folks there have some questionable ways of organizing charitis, but overall the ending to this saga was surprisinsingly positive.
No deaths! And barely any screaming!

Thank you for giving your weirdly endearing brainchildren a proper sendoff!

since the Pokemon Colosseum games are gen 3, does that mean Orre's an available location in Nostaliga Quest?

...hopefully no one has a snag machine

tippler 2023/09/21(Thu)15:37 No. 140744 ID: 9ea24b
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>>140742
hello comrade, this is a fine question that i answered many moons ago here: >>138862

tldr i never played the poke colleseum games so you could say i don't have nostalgia for them

thank you for giving an excuse for me to post a comic summarizing how i deal with everything in my life

Tippler it seems like you're just ignoring what people want to talk to Latios about and are cherrypicking bits and pieces out of suggestions to make him angry.

tippler 2023/10/01(Sun)20:06 No. 140809 ID: 9ea24b
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>>140805
my dear sweet myconid, i've missed you terribly, or i guess that's what i'd say if you were him. everyday i weep that i am separated by my greatest love. my biggest fan...one day i'll have to finish catalyst in the most egregious way just to get him to come back.

latios, latias, and deoxys are not currently your pals. any of them would have shoved stetson if they had been randomly selected to do so and latios was actively looking for an excuse to get rid of you in the most recent update.

if you had sought out latios and latias to befriend before the plan to catch deoxys, things would be different now. i think at one point someone had the idea to get latios or latias to volunteer to be caught by stetson, but in the end people went with the faster option of masterballing deoxys, thus the current animosity from those three.

(pictured, the yuri quest AU where Apple suggests reign supreme)

>>140809
You fucking jackass that's not what I was complaining about. Yes, Latios is not our friend. The problem is you aren't using our suggestions you're just picking them apart to fuel the fire, to make things more difficult for no reason. You don't want us to get what we want, even though we're barely asking for anything.

Oh and I guess other people are going to be like "why are you so hostile" so let me spell it out:
Tippler is being patronizing, while sidestepping the issue I brought up.

You know, I kinda get why you're being like this. This is the last thread, so there should be some sort of significant closing moment like the resolution of a significant conflict, but there's no more plot threads left to tie up except for our disagreement with the legendaries. So from a writer's perspective it's a good idea to make that into the significant conflict, right? Not something that can be resolved easily?

Except, in the process of doing this you're casting the legendaries as bullies with basically no empathy at all for humans, and Latios is weirdly bad at mind-reading*** if that last update is supposed to be taken seriously and not the quest author version of "Nuh uh I throw up a forcefield so your attack doesn't work".
If they generally dislike humans then that would imply bad history with humans, which would imply they know humans are a THREAT. If they know that then they know escalating the situation (by, for instance, almost killing a child) is a terrible idea. The conflict doesn't make any rational sense, even disregarding the credit card thing.

***:(by only reading bits and pieces and assuming the worst instead of, you know, mind-reading a bit more to see if it's that bad... or not assuming the worst because after living so long and reading so many thoughts he would know that people don't act on all their thoughts and people generally want to do the right thing)
IMO psychic types should be generally friendly towards humans, because by being exposed to their unfiltered minds they would be able to see the clear parallels between the minds of humans and the minds of pokemon.

Oh right, I should probably ask this here too:
Is there a reason behind blocking all my attempts at fixing/preventing the PC glitch? I have brought up several methods of doing so and none of them were directly addressed in-quest aside from the last comment which was basically "it's not a perfect solution". The goal is to prevent what happened to Gengar from happening to other pokemon. That's it. I don't care about the implication of legendaries being entirely immune to the stasis, because it's clear that they can handle themselves.

I don't agree with pokemon being put in stasis but that is a SEPARATE ISSUE, do you understand?

>>140813
The PC glitch is a nonissue as long as legendaries remain out of the PC box (which they strongly insist on) and no Pokemon are stored in adjacent slots to them. It's already solved. And that's aside from the fact that we already passed a decision gate months ago that put the kibosh to meddling with the PC system.

>>140815
I wasn't aware of the adjacency requirement. Got a link to that?

The decision gate revolved around whether or not to use the PC information to rebel against the humans, not whether to use the PC information at all. The latter case was proved possible when we were able to talk to Lanette about it.

Also, since there were no patches after Gengar's incident, that means the problem is not solved and could happen again.

Well I guess I don't know if legendaries got more aggressive about keeping eachother out of pokeballs after that...

Ok, I did a quick ctrl+f and found this post
>>/quest/1069156
but it's stated as a "theory". Do we have any confirmation of that detail?

>>140812
I understand getting so invested you take things personally, but you gotta chill.

The reason Latios cherry picked thoughts was explained already: he was looking for an excuse to get mad and end the conversation, so of course he's going to use our suggesters' worst intrusive thoughts as an excuse. The answer isn't to get mad, it's to watch our wording and kibosh intrusive thoughts by voting them down. To use discipline as if we were dealing with a literal mind reader, which we are.

The choice was made to take the easy route with the Masterball a long time ago instead of trying to befriend Deoxys before catching him, in hypocrisy to the things we've claimed to be striving for. This is the consequences of our actions.

>>140821
>The choice was made to take the easy route with the Masterball a long time ago instead of trying to befriend Deoxys before catching him, in hypocrisy to the things we've claimed to be striving for.
You might want to think about that a bit more. We're not trying to get trainers to befriend wild pokemon before capturing them, we're trying to get them to treat their captured pokemon better. We made zero effort to prevent Deoxys from being set free, and an attempt was made at getting them to socialize. That's in line with our stated goals.

Regarding the Vaporeon situation:

Well personally I think the main problem with this situation is we don't know exactly what the trainer is planning to do about Vaporeon. The fact that she did anything at all at least means she is at least willing to do something for the sake of appearances, which is probably the best we can do at the moment for the more stubborn trainers.
Secondly, mistreatment like this is happening all over the place. Attempting a direct personal intervention will mean we are likely to be seen as truly stepping outside the bounds of the law instead of just associating ourselves with pokemon that do. That reputation will make it much more difficult to do any of the social outreach or negotiation with human authorities, which means less overall prevention of mistreatment.
Even if talking to Flareon results in more bad news, within the bounds of the law all we can do is try to talk to her again, and she's the kind of person apparently who will complain about harassment to the authorities so that's a brick wall. That's my reasoning anyway. We will find more opportunities to engage directly with misbehaving trainers in the future; those who are earnestly willing to listen are the best case scenario.

>>140809
I WANT TO IMPREGNANT BUG DRAGON BUTTS!

....Were you going to let me know I was getting names conflated? I feel like an idiot.

>>141168
It was such an in character thought for us I never considered you might be confused.

tippler 2023/11/14(Tue)15:54 No. 141176 ID: 9ea24b
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>>141168
>>141171
i also thought it was in character, and the suggestion never used any specific character names so i had no way of knowing.

don't worry though, it could have a sizeable impact on Steven's impression of you and that's why i put it as an option in the most recent choice

pokemon quest should finish up in a week! im extremely excited. i have promised to finish this short vis novel game im working on (mc pictured) and then i'll start my next bigger quest series which will be as graphically violent as i can stomach

> as graphically violent as i can stomach
This frightens me

>>141176
I am intrigued and wish to know more of this VN

tippler 2023/11/15(Wed)16:01 No. 141190 ID: 9ea24b
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>>141184
it'll have to follow the constraints of suiting the world/setting, so while it'll be gore for gore's sake it'll be within reason(?). at the very least there won't be any sexual violence or any sex at all.

>>141186
short visual novel will be short, made in renpy, and have fairy waifus. i have like three themes in all media i create so it'll have those three themes. it is all ages but incidentally it's set in the same setting as edgy quest so it's been a good exercise in planning the magic system out a bit beforehand.

>>141190
who was your most submissive and breedable character?

Got caught up after taking a break, looks like we passed up smooching Vaporeon like three or four times??? What is even happening.

>>141196

We've been busy!! There's lots of stuff to do!

tippler 2023/11/20(Mon)09:23 No. 141223 ID: 9ea24b
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feel free to ask questions about nostalgia quest since it is over and i can dish all of my opinions and secrets. in the meantime i will be grinding fairy lore so i can finish game hopefully within a week

> I can finally kill
god ain't that ever a mood

>>141223

Did we miss out on some sort of really big plotline that would've furthered our goals?

I'm feeling the Q&A spirit, so here are some questions for ya:

What is your favorite Pokemon from a later gen that you would have liked an excuse to draw if not for the gen 3 cap?

Who was personally your favorite 'mon to write for?

Do you think the Friendlies get up to anything else interesting down the line? Maybe some grand heists or other big plays to try and change society?

Do you ever wish the audience had picked a different Pokemon for the protagonist to become, or were there any you are incredibly happy not to have been stuck with?

If we were doing Nuzlock rules and you HAD to nickname all your Pokemon, what would you go with? (You can just stick to the most important ones, say Flygon, Smeargle, and Gengar)?

Thank you for running the quest!
What kind of obstacles would there have been if the more violent revolution route was chosen?

tippler 2023/11/21(Tue)07:13 No. 141228 ID: 9ea24b
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>>141192
from nostalgia, definitely vaporeon by default. i spent a unmerited amount of time thinking about what submissive constitutes outside of an intimate relationship or a bdsm setting but she still counts as submissive because she does what vania says.

do that mean all captured pokemon are submissive? do we live in a society? i cannot answer these questions.

>>141225
For the peaceful route naw, I didn't think of anything super different outside of the ideas brainstormed by the suggestors.

tippler 2023/11/21(Tue)07:27 No. 141229 ID: 9ea24b
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>>141226
>Favorite poke from later gens
Chi-yu from scarlet violet because pretty fish and also a very good mon.

>favorite mon to write
Gengar. i like large fruity bastards in fiction

>Do the friendlies get up to anything interesting after the end of the quest?
they keep doing their usual rescue team activities. the members you recruited for the school would help with that

>do i wish flygon had been a different pokemon?
that evolutionary line is about on the cusp of being a little too complicated for my liking since i am very lazy. otherwise i didn't have any problems with it.

>pokemon nicknames off the top of my head
Flygon: Golf
Smeargle: Brush
Gengar: Big Momma

tippler 2023/11/21(Tue)07:35 No. 141230 ID: 9ea24b
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>>141227
>violent revolution, what would it have been like?
here was my vague gameplan:

1. tell friendlies about the PC glitch

2. recruit a legendary out of deoxys latios or latias

3. decide how to make your demands whether by holding lanette hostage or storing a legendary to mess up the pc, or something else

4. shit hits the fan and the league, scott, and steven tell tracy to put smeargle in her ball, stetson to put you in your ball, and/or catch your friends to hold counter hostage.

5. ???

6. you come out on top because you have the numbers advantage and superpowers, but at varying levels of cost

it was alluded to in the first thread that pokemon can actually get permanently injured and die if they keep getting hit after they've fainted, so death was on the table.

humans could also be killed by getting out of badge range and dropping a sufficiently deadly object, say, a rock, on them. i doubt people would have been into that though

What's with the sexy bug ladies?

Is it for a new quest you're planning or are they for a quest that already exists?

tippler 2023/11/23(Thu)09:30 No. 141243 ID: 9ea24b
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>>141242
if you read back a couple tippler messages i mention i am working on a short VN game with fairy waifus and also creatures that occupies the same setting as next quest, which will be grimdark edge and will start once i finish game.

i only have 3 scenes left of game write and i have all the logic figured so hopefully i can bang it out in ren py pretty quick and get it playtested by an unlucky patron and ready on itch by next tuesday

How many more concessions could we have gotten in the nonviolent route had we played perfectly?

>>141243
Grimdark bugs is a vibe.

tippler 2023/11/24(Fri)14:17 No. 141251 ID: 9ea24b
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GAME IS LIVE ON ITCH BECAUSE I HAVE NO LIFE LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO:

https://tippler.itch.io/march-time

It is not at all edgy. Please play it would make me pleased and also give you context for the edgy quest i am starting tomorrow

That was nice, I enjoyed that. Thanks for sharing.

I second that. The VN was lovely, and the protagonist felt very suggestor-driven haha. Will the characters also appear in the quest?

I'm curious about the Pokemon Rights stuff that happen after the end of the Pokemon quest, any thoughts on that? Like years later and such?

tippler 2023/11/27(Mon)19:23 No. 141270 ID: 9ea24b
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>>141246
for the pacifist route you could have gotten another minor legal concession if you hadn't tried to resolve the vania vaporeon situation, which is a short term/long term hand off since none of the long term impact of the legal stuff can really be shown in quest.

honestly from my point of view it was pretty ideal, being friends with unethical rich people like scott is worth it because money and helping vaporeon was a good thing to do because preventing exploitation.

>>141269
the quest is over and it's up to you to interpret what would happen to flygon and his work for pokemon rights years in the future based on the info in the quest.

>>141267
sadly no, the events occurring in quest have little to do with
rural forest fairy politics. only character with overlap is mysterious red guy on horse. thanks for playing the game!

So, were Pliny's traits determined by the things we threw in the well? If we hadn't dumped corpses in, would Pliny lack their toxic oozy qualities?

tippler 2023/12/01(Fri)19:36 No. 141295 ID: 9ea24b
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>>141293
yes, the character creation was inside us all along

>>141295
That's pretty neat! I guess the orc's paintbrush is why Pliny came out so vain. Did the wishes have any influence, or just the things tossed in?

tippler 2023/12/15(Fri)20:29 No. 141401 ID: 9ea24b
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>>141296
this may have already become clear but wishes were based on the characters making them, and pliny is going to encounter the ones that are still alive so they'll influence the story in their unique way

I love our perfect gross rotten century-egg cinnamon bun.

tippler 2024/01/01(Mon)12:29 No. 141492 ID: 9ea24b
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the patrons are already coming to grips with this terrifying revelation but 2024 is when i will become completely unmarketable by only drawing hotted boobs ironically or when under existing contract.

i think it is pretty evident that my default state is drawing my fictional women without feminine traits so this is barely a change. thanks to everyone who's reading worm quest so far! im having a good time with the different art style and slower pacing

I'm disappointed we didn't get to see Pliny use a pile of corpses as a protective shell like Legion from castlevania.