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NicQuest by Adept
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NicQuest is a quest set in the Rastin-Vresch Continuity. Its author is Adept.

Overview

NicQuest follows the adventures of a psychic black lawyer who gets annoyed when some douchebag nobody's ever heard of takes over the internet and replaces his memetically wonderful lolcats with rofldogs. Despite the absurd premise, the setting's actually a bit bleaker than Kara Quest from the same timeline, primarily because of the squishiness of the protagonist and the difference in drawing style and narration.

NicQuest is set in the Rastin-Vresch Continuity, along with Apocalyption, Kara Quest, The Protagonist Dies, and BlazeQuest.

Characters

This article contains spoilers! You were warned.

Protagonists

Nicolas Zere

The primary protagonist. Nicolas is a black business lawyer with no real combat skills and an unhealthy obsession with lolcats. His lack of combat skills makes the first few chapters fairly awkward, until his psychic abilities improve to compensate. Now he's more of a glass cannon than anything, and magic equipment helps bolster his pansy ass up to fighting gear.

Favors his recently-upgraded classy Derringer for combat.

Joel Grey

Joel Grey is a defecting MIB mook with a love for animals and a passionate interest for firearms. She speaks with a stutter and seems to enjoy dressing up in business suits; whether this is a side effect of living as a red shirt or simply a character preference remains unclear. She often winds up as a more level-headed foil for Nicolas' strange but genre-savvy behavior.

We later learn that Joel is a metal head; she carries a comprehensive collection of CDs with her, and has said she enjoys traveling, particularly in Europe.

Skimbles

Nic's pet cat. Has been used as a weapon in the past. Probably not appreciative of this fact.

Mappy

This... THING is not natural. It better resembles a freak attempt to animate a dustmop than a small yappy dog. Despite allegedly detesting dogs, Nicolas found himself saving Mappy from the antagonist's office in chapter two.

Hello, ladies~

Tyrael

'Prince' Tyrael is the perfect exemplar of modern man and everything one can aspire to be. You cannot hope to be as awesome as Tyrael. All units of awesomeness are, in fact, measured in units of 'approximate awesomeness in relation to Tyrael'. Nobody's ever gone above half a Tyrael. Ever. Owner of the Seven Deadly Sammiches.

In Chapter Four, Tyrael was spotted at a diner several miles from the location of his shop. After speaking with Nicolas, he wound up joining the party. Here, we find out that he drives an impeccably flashy car and isn't so hot about paying his taxes.

Antagonists

Rastin

The ultimate troll.

Here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. Simultaneously.

Charles/Bubbles

Allegedly a mook, though he certainly doesn't play the part. Repeatedly withheld from promotion, we are told, due to a refusal to stop chewing bubblegum on the job. Don't think too hard about that.

Fought Nicolas and Joel once. His body was never found, meaning he's definitely alive.

Victor Radley

Nicolas Zere's unknown rival, and apparently the SIC of the MIB. He professed to be controlling the demon of technology, Vresch, and made it clear that he very very personally 'hated' Nicolas.

Probably dead.

Other

Tamana

Some unimportant jealous bitch. Tyrael's assistant manager.

CZ and his Minions

Paranoid criminal mastermind. Played a role in chapter 3.

OH GOD MY SOUL

The Mustachioed Cat Pig Devil Dog

Allegedly nonmagical. Haunts Nicolas at night. It's pure evil.

Trivia

NicQuest and KaraQuest are derived from an online d20 Modern campaign that Adept and Reka took part in. Nicolas was Adept's character. He has been somewhat flanderized for questan purposes, and has since come to be more distinctive than the original character probably ever was.

NicQuest almost died early in its existence; the author had stopped updating until a random necro post brought it back to the top. Since then, NicQuest has been updating fairly regularly.

ITQ

Appearances by the cast Inside the Quest.

ITQ: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Gallery

Official

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Caption

Fanart

By TestPattern. Memeriffic.

Quests by Adept

TGchan: Solo quests: NicQuest | Squirrel Quest Collabs: MultiQuest

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+NicQuest is a [[quest]] set in the [[Rastin-Vresch Continuity]]. Its author is [[Adept]].
-[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/1101.html Discussion Thread]
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+==Overview==
-==NicQuest Summary==
-A psychic black lawyer fights an oppressive regime to save a humorous captions website. Shit blows up. Authored by [[Adept]].
+NicQuest follows the adventures of a psychic black lawyer who gets annoyed when [[Rastin|some douchebag nobody's ever heard of]] takes over the internet and replaces his memetically wonderful lolcats with rofldogs. Despite the absurd premise, the setting's actually a bit bleaker than [[Kara Quest]] from the same timeline, primarily because of the squishiness of the protagonist and the difference in drawing style and narration.
 NicQuest is set in the [[Rastin-Vresch Continuity]], along with [[Apocalyption]], [[Kara Quest]], [[The Protagonist Dies]], and [[BlazeQuest]].
-=Characters=
+==Characters==
 {{Spoilers}}
-==Protagonists==
+===Protagonists===
+====Nicolas Zere====
-===Nicolas Zere===
+The primary protagonist. Nicolas is a black business lawyer with no real combat skills and an unhealthy obsession with lolcats. His lack of combat skills makes the first few chapters fairly awkward, until his psychic abilities improve to compensate. Now he's more of a glass cannon than anything, and magic equipment helps bolster his pansy ass up to fighting gear.
-Nicolas is a business lawyer with no real combat skills to speak of in a setting involving zombies and a hostile government takeover, which of course means that he'd be the quest's main character and primary protagonist. Nicolas' primary traits are his genre-savviness and his ability to somehow combine the traits of being a total geek with having a charm score that doesn't feed off the bottom of the fishtank. During the first chapter, he winds up bound to a bizarre crystal... thing, which grants him some psychic powers, primarily the ability to make illusions and use telekinesis. His weapon of choice is a <S>CLASSY DERRINGER</S> DAPPER DERRINGER.
+Favors his recently-upgraded classy Derringer for combat.
-===Joel Grey===
+====Joel Grey====
 Joel Grey is a defecting MIB mook with a love for animals and a passionate interest for firearms. She speaks with a stutter and seems to enjoy dressing up in business suits; whether this is a side effect of living as a red shirt or simply a character preference remains unclear. She often winds up as a more level-headed foil for Nicolas' strange but genre-savvy behavior.
-We later learn that Joel is a metal head; she carries a comprehensive collection of CDs with her, and has said she enjoys travelling, particularly in Europe.
+We later learn that Joel is a metal head; she carries a comprehensive collection of CDs with her, and has said she enjoys traveling, particularly in Europe.
-=== Skimbles ===
+==== Skimbles ====
 Nic's pet cat. Has been used as a weapon in the past. Probably not appreciative of this fact.
-=== Mappy ===
+==== Mappy ====
 This... THING is not natural. It better resembles a freak attempt to animate a dustmop than a small yappy dog. Despite allegedly detesting dogs, Nicolas found himself saving Mappy from the antagonist's office in chapter two.
-=== Tyrael ===
 [[Image:Tyrael.jpg|thumb|left|Hello, ladies~]]
+==== Tyrael ====
 'Prince' Tyrael is the perfect exemplar of modern man and everything one can aspire to be. You cannot ''hope'' to be as awesome as Tyrael. All units of awesomeness are, in fact, ''measured'' in units of 'approximate awesomeness in relation to Tyrael'. Nobody's ever gone above half a Tyrael. Ever. Owner of the Seven Deadly Sammiches.
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-==Antagonists==
+===Antagonists===
-=== Rastin ===
+==== Rastin ====
 The ultimate troll.
-=== Charles/Bubbles ===
 [[Image:Bubbles.jpg|thumb|left|Here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. Simultaneously.]]
-The most fucking badass enemy mook ever. Repleatedly withheld from promotion for flagrant displays of bubblegum chewing. Has been described as 'stupid but loyal, like a dog' by Joel, who apparently used to be his MIB partner. He fights with dual revolvers, and though he was clearly caught in a grenade blast during the last encounter with Nicolas and Joel, all signs point to him having survived the blast and fled. Current whereabouts unknown.
+==== Charles/Bubbles ====
+Allegedly a mook, though he certainly doesn't play the part. Repeatedly withheld from promotion, we are told, due to a refusal to stop chewing bubblegum on the job. Don't think too hard about that.
+Fought Nicolas and Joel once. His body was never found, meaning he's definitely alive.
 {{-}}
-=== Agent Logan ===
+==== Victor Radley ====
-The scrubber who interrogated Nicolas in chapter one, only to be interrogated after Nicolas turned the situation around. Only named MIB underling aside from Joel and Bubbles.
-=== Victor Radley ===
 Nicolas Zere's unknown rival, and apparently the SIC of the MIB. He professed to be controlling the demon of technology, Vresch, and made it clear that he very very personally 'hated' Nicolas.
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 Probably dead.
-== Other ==
+=== Other ===
-=== Tamana ===
+==== Tamana ====
 Some unimportant jealous bitch. Tyrael's assistant manager.
-=== CZ and his Minions ===
+==== CZ and his Minions ====
-CZ's a paranoid criminal mastermind who's way too gullible for his line of work. He runs a fake ID business, as well as an underground market for trading psionic equipment. His only named henchman is a chick with knives known as Roxie.
+Paranoid criminal mastermind. Played a role in chapter 3.
-=== The Mustachioed Cat Pig Devil Dog ===
 [[Image:MCPDD.jpg|thumb|left|OH GOD MY SOUL]]
-The Mustachioed Cat Pig Devil Dog is a strange figurine that may or may not be a lovecraftian horror in sheep's clothing. Its stare haunts Nicolas at night.
+==== The Mustachioed Cat Pig Devil Dog ====
+Allegedly nonmagical. Haunts Nicolas at night. It's pure evil.
-It has a knack for showing up in places it makes no sense for the thing to be in without any reasonable explanation. In chapter three, Nicolas explicitly throws the thing out the window because it creeps him out, only to find it on the dashboard of his car at the chapter's end.
-After being examined at an Ignometics branch, the object was reported to register at 0.0 Thaums; IE: It has no magic, Holmes. Nicolas is hardly convinced.
 {{-}}
-=Trivia=
+==Trivia==
 NicQuest and KaraQuest are derived from an online d20 Modern campaign that Adept and Reka took part in. Nicolas was Adept's character. He has been somewhat flanderized for questan purposes, and has since come to be more distinctive than the original character probably ever was.
 NicQuest almost died early in its existence; the author had stopped updating until a random necro post brought it back to the top. Since then, NicQuest has been updating fairly regularly.
-=Gallery=
+==ITQ==
+Appearances by the cast [[Inside the Quest]].
+'''ITQ:''' {{post|1968}} {{post|2303}} {{post|2711}} {{post|3321}} {{post|5700}} {{post|5830}} {{post|5836}} {{post|5850}}
+==Gallery==
-== Official ==
+=== Official ===
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-== Fanart ==
+=== Fanart ===
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-Image:Imagename.filetype|Caption
+Image:NicQuest_Kitties.png|By [[TestPattern]]. Memeriffic.
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-[[Category:Quests]]
-[[Category:Running Quests]]
+{{Adept}}
 [[Category:Image Quests]]
+[[Category:On Hiatus]]