>>606293
>What's the hardest part about writing for you?
Trying to chain together the different ideas I want to put in a scene.

>Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
Yes, but only if there's something that can be done not listed in the prompts.

>What do you do while waiting for an update or for your players to vote?
Procrastinating. (Sorry guys, getting distracted is too easy)

>>606293
>What's the hardest part about writing for you?

Hardest part is definitely how much window dressing to include for this format. Like, how much detail to give the room, the location, the person, the beast, the this the that. Dialogue is easy as shit and so is writing the flow of things to keep the plot moving. Or even emotional responses and stuff. But straight up "how much time do I devote to describing this desk" fucks me up senpai.

>Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?

I think this is dependent on the QM and the style of quest. I definitely think write-ins should only be employed when appropriate. People that do write-ins for EVERY SINGLE CHOICE especially with the new problem of IDs quickly starts to develop this thing where I know someone has a reputation for write-ins and for every shitty write-in they offer up the less and less i give their next write-in even an attempt at getting my support for fear it will be stupid as fuck.

>What do you do while waiting for an update or for your players to vote?

Masturbat furiously.

>>606293
Qm question: Finding the right music

Bonus: Watch videos or look at weird shit

Hey, qtg, what are some hidden gems you know? Those quest you think didn't get the attention they deserved, even though they were actually pretty good.

Hard mode: It can't be one of your own quests

>>606293
>What's the hardest part about writing for you?
I worry often that I'm not living up to my player's expectations, and that the updates I find myself disappointed with are just as disappointing to the people who waited to read it.

>Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
Depends on the quest. Sometimes the options are more than enough, and I'm just along for the ride. Other times, I see something coming fairly early and submit write-ins to try and take advantage of it, or mitigate damage.

Typically those write-ins are met with people laughing or brushing it off for about 3 updates, before I get vindication when it bites everyone in the ass. Unfortunately I'm also a player, which means it bit me in the ass because of them.

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>>606293
>Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
i'm not keen on offering outside-the-box writeins, but i like to take a couple of lines to explain the thoughts behind my vote, because i'm a douchebag narcissist.

>>606293
>Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
Yes because sometimes there's a possibility that I would really take advantage of not being put to full use and I just HAVE to reach for it. Also the rails sometimes need to fuck themselves.

>>606325
The Laughing Dog, Senate Quest, Dark Spirit, Biopunk, Beacon hunter, Tank Princess.

Those would be the recent ones for /qst/. I could go back years and list all the Twen/IR quests but I want to pretend to be happy for the remainder of my evening.

>>606293
>Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
It's less write-ins and more additional tweaks to the primary option I voted for, since pure write-ins hardly garner any support most of the time.

If it does get support and a QM pulls it off, it's really satisfying especially if it contributes to fleshing out the story or the character interactions. If not, that's cool too since I got a primary vote put in anyway.

Most of the time, explaining the reasons or the intent behind the action would suffice. And I'd be happy enough with what the QM cooks up taking said explanation into consideration.

>What do you do while waiting for an update or for your players to vote?
Mess around with tegaki even though it's really shit.

>>606325
Valen Quest
Why the hell isn't it more known I don't comprehend.

>>606471
What's a "Valen"?

>>606471
Tell us about it anon.

>>606514
Valen is a very important noble family in the setting, of which the MC is a heir.

>>606521
Let me copy-paste a brief summary from the last thread:

>We are currently trying to save our daughter figure captured by a yandere supernatural phenomenon we have no chance against in open combat and have no idea how to parley with.

>We are also saddled with a yandere killer golem, bunch of superstrong sociopaths led by a retard, forbidden knowledge that might get us in trouble with another supernatural phenomenon, a ruined city we have no money to restore, and several artifacts we don't know how to use without tactical nuke-level collateral damage and/or ripping our own soul to pieces.

>And to round it up our country is a target of at least three different plots and is looking forward to a civil war and an invasion.

To this I'll add that playing it, at least for me, is an excellent intellectual excersise. There are mysteries to solve, clues to notice, people to persuade and manipulate, plots to unravel and more.
Also, the writing is great.

Look up the archives here: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Valen+Quest

>>606532
It's also ongoing.

>>606532
I've said my piece before, but I'll say it again:

it's too anime in the ways I don't prefer, and too LITTLE anime in the ways that grab other people.

It's like Valen and Beleaguered are foils or something.

>>606554
>too anime
Literally what
The only anime thing there is the end-of-thread picture

>>606560
you just used yandere to describe it.

And the first thing I remember seeing when I checked it out is playing nanny to a damn monstergirl.

>>606532
>Valen is a very important noble family in the setting, of which the MC is a heir.
And there lies my explanation for why it's not more widely read. If I'm looking at picking up a new quest I look at four things:
>Is it a QM I know?
>Does the image catch my interest?
>Does the title describe the quest in a way I understand?
>Does the first paragraph give me enough information to orient myself?

The fewer of those you have the less likely you are to attract a new player or generate any real interest outside the following you already have.

>>606564
Demihumans are as far from a monstergirl as you can imagine. Give it a second chance.

>>606568
Sounds like it's true. Let's see if Riz changes something.

>>606568
>Does the title describe the quest in a way I understand?
This has always been a funny one with me.

I like small titles that either say what the character is or a simple adjective for describing the character's immediate situation, as most of the time if it's an OC setting the title doesn't clear anything up until the second opening paragraph or at worst the full situation is only known 2-3 threads in. If it's a made up word that doesn't really help me get invested.

For /tg/, Gargoyle Quest, Shadow Quest, and Ruby Quest I think are good examples of 'what you are' names, and things like Banished Quest, Bladebound Retainer, and Dungeon Life are alright 'situation' quest titles, while things like Homeless Mutant Quest, Crusader Quest, Urban Warlock, Hive Queen Quest, and Mecha Space Pirate Quest are titles that imply both what kind of game and what kind of character up front.

The various fanfiction quests seem to have the right idea of simple, efficient, and communicative titles as well, at least as far as "I know whether I'm interested or not by reading that title" goes. If only because outliers tend to get ignored, and there's no reason not to use the established setting's language to draw attention in the first place.

Which quest is the sexiest?

>>606648
BFQ.

what I wanna know is
What QM is the sexiest?

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>>606652

>>606293
Two equally sized problems: 1 is making sure that writing doesn't suck in my entire life and I begin to miss homework for questing (i've done this many times, sadly). 2 is not going whole hog, 24/7 questing and getting burnt out on something (see: practically all my other quests on Akun)

Bonus Question: Play video games or attempt to study.
>>606652
Me, obviously 8^y

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QM Question:
What's the hardest part about writing for you?
> I've got a sandbox, so making sure that every character is as engaging as they could be.
Player Question:
Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
> Yeah, I think it helps keep quests organic and unpredicatable. I awarded a level up for a good write-in on my quest.
Bonus Question:
What do you do while waiting for an update or for your players to vote?
> Read other quests, play football manager, eat or errands.

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>>606325

Excellent question fellow quest player, I have heard great things about “Not so Glorious Quest”, who I am totally not the QM and I’m not trying to shill myself for no good reason. (I’m sorry)

>What's the hardest part about writing for you?

If I was a QM (and I’m not) I would say everything. English makes no sense. But if I have to be serious for a moment, it’s really difficult for me to make likeable characters or coherent sentences.

>Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?

No, I do not. I don’t feel confident that my contributions are good. So I just vote. But I love write-ins in my quest.

>What do you do while waiting for an update or for your players to vote?

Relax in my chair.

>>606521
You are Irue Valen, heir to the house of Valen, the most influential family in the country of La'fiel and its neighbours and has existed since before the country was even founded.

Her family dead, she was taken in by her aunt and placed in what was more or less solitary confinement for 10 years. Irue mistakenly thought they were simply her guardians until she came of age they planned to use her status as their ward to force her into a political marriage and take her inheritance. The quest begins when Irue has forcibly invoked her right to a Rite of Passage in an attempt to avoid it.

And the players immediately fuck it up. Without even trying to find out what the Rite is, we throw ourselves into it. Irue's aunt provided her with three slaves and was told to pick one as her Testament, and players being smug assholes we picked all three. This put 3 separate storylines in motion and Irue and her Testament's suffering only gets worse for each passing day. But things have been looking up these past 2 months though!

The setting is very interesting but my favorite part of the quest aside from the stellar writing are the Forgettings- sometimes after an update there is an option that says "Am I forgetting something... ?". Pretty self explanatory, players have a chance to remember something from earlier in the quest by looking for clues in the latest update and nailing them is a great success and are complete game changers.

I don't think I can do it justice by describing it, take 20 minutes and look at the first thread. If you don't care for it after that you can safely ignore it.

>>606564
>And the first thing I remember seeing when I checked it out is playing nanny to a damn monstergirl.
Demihumans are natural born sociopaths. It's in their nature, the only way they function is by manipulating and using others. They're like 5% furry using that handy old chart. The demihuman you read about is Kara and she was dropped on the head or something, her major malfunction is that she's an honestly good girl. I think I know the part you are talking about and it only came about because got mad that she decided to sleep through the day instead of coming with us.

>>606855
Ah, the forgettings.
It's like half the joy of this quest for me.

>>606293

>QM Question:
All of it is hard work for me (Thanks Dyslexia!), but the most nerve-wracking part is fact-checking/editing/spell-checking each post.

>Bonus Question:
Double-checking my lore in case I flip-flopped on something I has established earlier, checking my E-Mails, reading up on news, fapping sometimes if one of my Anons starts posting lewd write-in and/or images , making something to eat etc. etc.

Sorry to be a bother, but I don't really understand
how dice rolling and voting works. I'm new to this board and want to start a quest so any help is appreciated.

>>606803

Not So Glorious is my favorite new quest by far.

>>606937

You put down "dice+" in the E-mail field then type "XdY" after that, "X" being how many dice are being rolled and "Y" being how large the dice is.

So for example, when you roll dice in a quest, it should read "dice+1d20" (Or whatever the QM wanted).

Quests in general are set up like "Choose your own adventure books": You read a little bit, then decide where the story wants to go from a prompt of different options. The big thing, of course, is that there aren't any ways to really go back and redo an option if it blows up in the players faces or whatever...

>>606964
Also write ins are usually accepted as alternative options for a vote, provided the Quest master approves.

>>606937
Read some quests, play in at least one while it's live. Gotta watch how others do it, take notes on what you think they do well and what you'd do different from then.

>>606937
You also might want to adhere to some general ground rules like: Dont do character gen (or at least not unless you trust your userbase).

>>606937
>dice rolling
you roll some dice, if the result is above a certain value, you succeed at the task

>voting
you vote for an option. Judging from the votes, the QM decides what the MC will do.

>>606937
dice rolling is done by the board software, when you use the dice command (read the sticky!) in the options field and make a post, the board will insert the result of the dice roll in bolt text as the first line your post.
you don't get to preview the outcome of a dice roll.

vote prompts and vote counting aren't automated. you ask players to respond, and then count their responses manually.

>>606293
>Player Question:
>Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
I do, but I try to only do it when it feels like the options given don't quite match my understanding of the MC, and I'll sometimes include some thoughts with a pre-defined vote if I'm worried QM and I interpret the goal of that vote different

.Bonus Question:
What do you do while waiting for an update?
I'm trying to build my own quest, which brings me to...

>QM Question:
>What's the hardest part about writing for you?
So far anything related to the MC is really hard. World building and a creating a couple characters has mostly been pretty simple and I have a general idea of how I'd like the quest to go (is that a bad thing btw?), but I'm really struggling to include the MC in the story in a way that doesn't feel forced.

>>607031
>is that a bad thing btw
No, not really. Not every quest needs to be a sandbox.

>>607031
Generall if the MC is important, the story happens to them, if he isent, the MC happens to the story.

Dont worry if some things dont come about as you envisioned, one of the main reasons it takes so long between threads for some QM's is that their figuring out wtf to do now.

It might help to try look at it from the point of the world youve created, instead of from the point of a story.

>>607120
I like that advice, I even added it to my short list of things I've noticed successful QMs doing. Could I ask you to elaborate though? There are plenty of examples of the story happening to the MC but I can't think of one off the top of my head where the MC happens to the story. Would that be like you apply for a security guard job that just so happens to be at the the drug lord's mansion?

>>607191
MC happening to the story is when the world is spinning like it should and the MC is not a factor or even known to neither the Bad Guys or the Good Guys. It's when he takes initiative to fuck shit up because he bloody well can or because he wants to, not because someone tells him to.

>>607191
Generally a story happening to a character would be like the current running avatar quest:
Normal joe earth bender going about his life when suddenly, avatar and invading army.

In Re: Monster the MC was born in the woods and chose to go dungeon delving and came out of said woods.

In essence Shit is happening: a war, famine, celestial event, magicall accident.

The MC is either a witness to it or dealing with the after effects. But he does not cause it. His choices in the begining have no effect. Now he has to deal with it and inflict his will upon his destiny.

Said quest can have multiple "Setting happens to MC" events, depending. The MC can get involved, or just deal with it on the sidelines while doing their own shit.

E.g. Zombie apocalypse survival would be a good example of Story happens to MC.

>>606585
So I should be good with Escape from Earth Quest , Retiring Detective Quest and Revenging Survivor Quest as quest titles?

>>607224
Sorry got those mixed the wrong way round.

What it means from a QM's perspective is how much work your willing to put in, and how intrinsically important the MC is to the plot.

Island survive would be MC happening to story, since, being the only one (?) on an island makes them important for the story to continue.

>>607228
>Revenging Survivor
Sounds like a terrible 70s wuxia or martial arts movie

>>607270
Good point, might steal it for a one-shot to set upon my normal group.

>>607270
My first idea was aping the chapter naming formula off Akame ga Kill.

>>607207
>>607224
>>607232
So, just to make sure I have this right, if there is a conflict in the setting that would progress without the players, I should worry less about how and why they involve themselves, and more about how it impacts whatever direction they choose to go?

>>607302
how and why and if, rather

>>607302
>>607303
Pretty much.

Everything varies mind, but thats the nature of running quests. Players will fuck with your plans regardless, which is kind of the point for their enjoyment.

>>607302
Yeah. How, Why and If is up to the players. Don't plan these things, you'll just go crazy. No plans survive contact with players.
And that is why you plan for /everyone else/. Make sure your bad guys have a plan that they stick to. They have a Goal and a road map of how to achieve this Goal. The players get involved and throw monkey wrenches in every goddamn gear there is and you work out how the world reacts to their actions.

>>607311
>>607314
Cool, thanks again anons, this was super helpful.

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>>606325
>Hidden Gems

Check out BioArmor Quest! The only quest with actually monstrous monster girls!

I am in no way its QM!

>>606325
Your quest.

is it a shitty move to make a quest in the same vein to another quest currently running? It's not an original concept and their been previous iterations with the same formula.

>>607534
The answer really depends on the context. Are you talking about a quest you want to create or are you talking about quests currently going on?

>>607534
When in doubt, talk to the QM in the quest your running like.

And please dont be another naruto quest.

>>607534
Try to be original where you can.

How do you guys think a prologue quest would be received before i actually start the main quest?

I want to do the big bads backstory in a manner that makes you sympathize

>>607601
Don't tell anyone it's a prologue, stupid. Just do the thing and make it interesting on its own merit. What you plan to do with it in the future is exactly nobody's business and has no effect on its goodness.

>>607534
starting the seventh shipfucker quest, or the eleventy billionth magical girl quest isn't really gonna bother anyone, you're one shaken drip in the ocean of piss.

When would you say would be the most optimal times to run quests?

1. Morning, Noon, Evening
2. Weekdays, or Weekends

>>607676
Depends on your audiance timezone and how fast you want the quest to run.

>>607676
Evening on weekends tends to have decent traffic.

>>607676
The answer to this question has been in literally every single qtg OP for years by now. You should check it out. We made that exactly for people like you. It's at the top of the thread.

Magical Girl Bomber is alive and well.

>>607815

So I have an idea for a quest about bootlegging:

The MC starts out as a WWI veteran who ended up in New Orleans instead of New York because of a paperwork fuck-up. That was in 1918. It is now 1920 and he's homeless, and Prohibition has just been enacted. With the newfound market for illicit booze, combined with the emerging jazz culture and hard financial times in the Deep South, the MC has the opportunity of a lifetime.

So how bad is the idea?

>>607830
I'd read it.

>>607830
...are there cats involved?

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>>607840
No... But there will be pigs.

>>607840
I haven't checked the webcomic in awhile. Is it still good?

>>607843
You'll have another reader in me, anon.

>>607848
Eh, it stalled for a bit. Not sure I like how the characters are developing, but it's mostly interesting.

>>607659
>>607578
>>607544
>>607537

Its planetary governor quest, I guess I could wait a little longer and keep working on my system and story before running.

>>607879
So you want to run a sci-fi quest about ruling a planet? There's a lot of way to structure it to make it distinct from the other quest.

Tell us about it. Is it going to be like Dune with a lot of political intrigue and double crosses? Is it going to be very pulpy with blue skinned girls and ray guns?

How is the game world?

After the week from hell the third part in my A Song of Ice and Fire Quest continues. Hope to get out of King's Landing by the next thread or so and onto house management. >>604018

I want to run a Re:Zero quest.

>>607927
Do it

>>607927
Do it then. Not like anybody's gonna stop you.

>>607927
Aww yeeaah.

>>607927
>Re:Zero

If you're talking about Re: as in the quests in the Re:Monster family, what do you mean by 'zero'? Would we be playing as a sapient Japanese airplane?

>>607947
Re:Zero is an anime about a darker take on the isekai genre with a Groundhog Day twist

>>607947
it's a recent anime, Re:Zero, Starting Life in Another World

>>607893

It's a world recently reintegrated to the Imperium after the whole sector was cut off and most imperial institutions have long collapse into vage memory. Religious tensions are building up as different cults of the emperor are clashing and competing for official recognition, the nobility (already old and well established before contact was lost) is resentful at being impose an outsider and the imperium is struggling to re-establish his control over the sector with many world in open rebellion or in control of xenos and chaos. The world itself is a borderline death world with very dangerous beasts and plentiful unexploited resources. That's the basic run down without any spoilers, I am also working an a extensive list of planetary upgrades, I might post it after I get home.

>>607964
do it, i'm interested

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>>607964
Dangerous beast training and breeding better be one of em

>>606325
You should totally come check out Symbiote Quest (™) by Maleficar

http://anonkun.com/stories/symbiote-quest/T6xYtac9nx29Tsec6

>>607972

I considered it, now I will be sure to implement it.

What's the best way to have a battle system in a quest?

>>608003
Something light and easy to understand. Get bogged down in mechanics and it won't be fun.

>>608003
Streamline whatever system you have in mind as much as possible on your (the QM's) end. The last thing you want to have to do in the middle of a fight scene is keep track of a lot of little but important things such as resources. It's very easy to underestimate how much that can slow down your writing until you're already too deep to change it.

>>607972
Live now

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>>608003
keep the player-facing game mechanics somewhere between coin flip and tic-tac-toe

if you want to gather an audience of military sim autists and collective-play a massive scrimmage, consider a twitch stream rather than an imageboard

Does a QM shitposting in /qtg/ and developing a known personality increase the number of viewers their quest gets?

>>608074
At the very least it makes you acutely aware of the vast number of lurkers you possess.

I highly recommend be a caustic tripfagging cunt. I see why planefag does it.

>>607228
>Revenging Survivor Quest

I need a better descriptive title than this, that doesn't sound EngRISH.

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>>607927
>Isekai genre quest

How about doing Masoukishin? It's less cheat-y in ways that the Re: series don't.

>>608163
I doubt he wants to run Re:Zero just because it's isekai.

If anyone wants to look away from MGNQ for a bit, Dog Days Quest is up!

>>608156

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Gonna pimp out the quest once again.

I run a Gundam quest set during the One Year War in a setting much like 8th MS Team. As a matter of face, you are the leader of the 16th MS team.

We are in the 'Nam and doing grunt MS things. Eating army noodles and pulling rank in the rain.

I will be putting it up for the second thread tomorrow afternoon. Hope to see some of you there.

Finishing off the second session of Alchemical Blade Quest today!

>>599108

Hey, so is it just me or are QMs putting people named Dan or Daniel in their quests? I keep seeing that name.

>>608270
Pffhaha, it's an inside joke

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I created a quest earlier and I don't know how to delete it. Please help. I feel terrible for starting something and not having the ability to Finnish it.

>>608276
Have you tried to Danish it instead?

>>608276
What is it? Someone might be able to take it over f you. Or tell you how you can save it.

>>608274
It is? And here I thought my finger was on the pulse of /qst/ culture...

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>>608276

>not having the ability to Finnish it.

>>608280
>>607363
This thing here. Sorry for leaving a mess.

>>608270
>>608274
>>608280
Can confirm, it's a Discord thing.

Originally the plan was for /qst/-tan to show up but only Melancholic Quest did that. It seems making cameos of known discord peeps seems much easier than the fucking board-tan.

Looking for a good quest to read, having just finished catching up on hive quest and re:monster. Know of any ones, past or present? Or any other site that has some decent ones on it?

>>606293
>What's the hardest part about writing for you?
The writing, dyslexia and fine motor skills mean my hand writing is so bad the exam board let me have a scribe for English and just assigned zero points for spelling and handwriting. My typing is slow too.
Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
Often, even if it's just rewording what the QM wrote because I think it flows better.
What do you do while waiting for an update or for your players to vote?
I have other tabs.

>>607445
What is this? A .jpeg for ants!?

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>>606293
>What's the hardest part about writing for you

Seeing how I was infamous among my audience for misspellings or writing the wrong form of a word, I'd probably say that. Many a dramatic moment lost to silly spelling mistakes.

So on the off chance any of my old readers are still kicking around who haven't seen via Twitter, Sith Apprentice Quest will probably making its dramatic return soon.

>>608398
Go away skeleton

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>>608407
U wot mate

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>>608416
Brine died years ago

Prove your him

>>608381
What do you like? Have you read Death among the Stars? Do you want finished or on-going, long or short, ect?

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>>607972

>>607971
>>607972
>>607893

Here's what I have been working on, its not finish yet. It needs some corrections, price re-balancing. Some Mechanicus and Adeptus Ministorum stuff will only be obtainable through diplomacy or will get done without the players' input. Any input or ideas are appreciated like the great beasts training and breeding.

It should go without saying that I am using TheGameroom's work and quest as a base to build on.

http://pastebin.com/DpStBNgY

>>608425

Cross reference that trip comrade, I return from the grave more powerful then ever before

>>608443
I have read death amoung the stars and eagerly await its return.
If you know of an finished one that is good, and that I haven't read, that would be awesome. As for current quests, I would like one that is original, or deviates heavily from the sorce material. Something where I don't have to know the source material to know what is going on.

I will be honest, I have spent the last 6 months off and on going through the archives and reading what is finished and looks interesting. I want to know if what I skipped is interesting or not.

>>608450
Is it as good as exulted? I have just caught up with it, so I am willing to check it out.

>>608512
Well somebody asked me if I'm the new crusty

Don't know if that means I'm a knock off crusty or near to his level

Ima go with the first one

Its alright/10 in my opinion family

>>608493
Ryukuza Quest is excellent, but if you don't like yuri you probably won't have a good time.

>>608493
Wait.... Mr.Smiles, is that you?

>>608526
Ryukuza is great for drama.

XS writes the best drama on the board.

Even if you just skip past the lesbian sex, it's great just from a shoujo-manga perspective on interpersonal relationships.

>>608537
Sorry, but no. That is not an alias of mine. I am mearly a lurker who spends more time on suptg then on 4chan.

Why did my id change?

>>608526
There are still porn quests?

>>608526
I will check this out, thanks! Also, my wifi keeps dropping on my phone, so I think that is why my id changed.

>>608578
Ah, sorry. Thought you were someone else who just catching up on HQQ.

Well, I guess you could always try the other quests by the same QMs. Ghouls Civ is good but still on hiatus, and I hate to shill my own stuff but Cyberpunk Detective is both finished and quite short. Probably an afternoon's worth of reading.

>>608596
Ryukusa is very, very careful to not put porn anywhere except pastebins

So until mods decide that kissing and nipple-teasing is verboten, then it's fine.

>>608381
Go read Pallys back catalog, also Headmaster, GermanSchteel and audit quest (audit quest is only 4 threads and only included because I like it but the others will kill your free time).

>>608493
>If you know of an finished one that is good
Try Robot Decommissioner Quest.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Robot%20Decommissioner%20Quest
Miniseries are good.

>>608676
Hey, i have seen your name in a bunch of quest. Seemed like you were in a lot of the older ones.

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That feel when you have two quests on hiatus and want to run both but both need overhauling with resources and tech trees

>suffering

>>608493
Go read Banished quest, it's pretty damn long and has tonnes of detail and lore and is totally OC

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Are there different schools of thought on dice? How would you categorize the?

How do you use them in your quest?

What's the worst use of dice you've seen?

Bonus question: What was the most bullshit you've ever seen from RNG?

>>608770
>>608672
How the hell did I skip over these?!?!

>>608276
>>608286
Never mind, false alarm.

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>>608758
I feel ya.

>>608746
I'm an old lurker, sometimes poster, sometimes QM, although most of my quests got terminated by real life dropping in.
Started and moderated a long-running evo game turned civ game, though the real credits go to the players of Primordial.

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How bad would it be if instead of a quest finale thread to resolve a cliffhanger, a QM ran a joke one-shot instead?

>>608909
beautiful for anyone not involved. Irredeemably frustrating for players.

Do it.

>>607534
No way. If you're worried about doing another fanfic quest, just go for it.

There are so many tones and flavors and ways to run something, that it's easy to be unique. Plus one tends to promote the other so you both benefit.

I'm thinking about running either a Warhammer Fantasy Chaos Warband Quest or a Marvel Superhero Quest. Which do you think would be more interesting?

>it's another magical girl/fan fiction quest

Fuck, where's the originality? I didn't expect all these stupid Naruto and SAO ones to clutter the board.

>>609133
See that's the biggest problem with the split. People ran the popular naruto/dbz/anime fanfic garbage on /tg/ for the ratings because that's what people who pander to large autistic fanbases always do - they find the best place to get maximum attention.

/qst/, as a small board, was destined to get the authors willing to write stories that weren't going to get them large fanbases filled with autists and losers. People who write alternative, harder to parse, greater than "entry level" type quests. Because if you're willing to sacrifice big crowds of drooling retards you care less for exposure.

Now with the merger, we're stuck with all these quests absolutely wrenched of any artistic talent.

>I want fanfic quests gone.
>I want /a/ garbage gone

/qst/ is much like the white race - perfect, destined to wither away to nothingness due to savages and now horribly infested with the "niggers" of the questing world.

>>609143
Huh, you actually went back to your old self. Almost had me thinking the change was an actual thing.

>>609144
You don't understand. I've evolved again - much like a three-generational stage pokemon.

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>>609146
So what would your final form be like?

>>609143

I actually didn't mind the Naruto/DBZ/anime fanfic quests. If the people who make them enjoy it and the people who read it enjoy, why is it a problem that they exist in the first place? Yea I wonder how they're so popular (I mean before the Exodus we had like 3 DBZ and Naruto quests each?) but at the same time who are we to complain if such a thing is someone's guilty pleasure?

>>609147
So at first I would be like, a ticonderoga pencil.

Then i would be a pencil with a dulled tip.

Then the third form would be a sharpened pencil, like razor deadly sharp.

And then my mega evolution would be a pen.

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Mfw Trick's entire presence on /qst/ has been one big shitpost.

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>>609152
That's about the size of it, yeah

>>609151
>And then my mega evolution would be a pen.
You'll break and blow your ink everywhere?

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>>609144
>you actually went back to your old self

I'm . . . sorry. I had a relapse. Alright. I'm trying to improve but the temptation . . . ugh, I'll get back on the wagon tomorrow. I promise you I hate myself for being too weak to resist much more than you're disappointed than me.

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>>609198
Uh huh, yeah, sure

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>>609198

what do you think of deeper ideas in quests? most quests seem to stay in sort of the comedic zone for the most part, but what if a quest where to delve deeper into something like philosophy or psychology? would it lose your attention or gain it?

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>>609223
You'd risk going into faux-philosophical navel gazing that'd make even /lit/ wonder what the hell you're talking about

>>607947
Im trying to decide if that would be fantastic or if it would burn out and crash without accomplishing anything

>>609223
Why do you think they don't? Thing about such ideas is you keep them under the surface because nobody came here to read about your views on existentialism, they came to read the story you promised them.

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>>609223
Plenty of people try it, few pull it off with anything resembling competence, mostly because anon doesn't give a fuck

>>609223
Just avoid Dadaism. Never works

What happened to nanoha quest anon?

>>609223
I'd probably avoid the quest. However I've seen QMs take really deep ideas and have one side character constantly tackling them, for both reasons of humor and insanity. I think that works well.

>>609198
so what's next? Trick depowered? Trick relinquished?

>>609368

Let's go with this.

>>609371
>PUNISHED TRICK
So you're some guy brainwashed into thinking you're Trick?

I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

>>606293
Which QM do you want a daki of?

Which QM do you want to be your imouto?

Hoping this is the right place for it, does anyone happen to know if Some_pervert is still around?

>>609469
Everyone wants a Hexmouto.

A daki of me would be a long thin silk bag filled with broken bones and ashes.

>>606855
>her

Did Irue get sex-change or something?

Did /qst/ produce any good quests yet?

>>609518
I like lamplighter quest.

>>609518
Lamplighter is bretty gud.

>>609518
Lamplighter quest and northern beasts quest are the only ones I've read that I consider good. Surely there are others though.

>>609518
Lamplighter is shit

>>609540
t. sword art online fanfic quest player

>>609223

I've been trying to slip these in more and more and haven't had any complaints yet. It's also why my players want to fuck the BBEG. Speaking of which, how do I stop them /qst/?

>>609557
....why do you want to?

A question for you, /qst/: Power armor or nanosuits?

>>609557
Can't stop the dick, anon.

>>609223
There was a Scooby Doo quest which apparently had some really deep shit going on in it
I'm totally serious

As for me I found it best to include any deep, philosophycal stuff in a subtle manner.
Those intelligent enough will get and apreciate it and those who don't give a rats ass about them won't notice that it's there.

Also, it's fun to mess around with it but you have to be careful you don't trip over your own inflated ego and show the world what a huge fag you actually are

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>>609557
Why contain it?

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>>609557
>how do I stop them /qst/?
>pic related

It's already too late. Take a page from Exabutt's book and use their love against them to the point of their self-annihilation.

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>>609582
This, let them do it and royally fuck them for stupid choices

>>609557
You don't.

You screwed up.
No matter what you do it won't change their mind.
And if you resist they'll instead vote to rape her.

There's only 1 thing that can save you from this fate, give them something better they can put their pee pees in

>>609582
>Take a page from Exabutt's book and use their love against them to the point of their self-annihilation.

explain

>>609571
POWER
ARMOR

Ryukuza Quest Begins: >>609605

>>608381
>Re:monster
Lamia daughter quest and scorpion girl quest are my nearest match suggestions

>>606325
Start Over Quest is comfy as fuck and very nice, the QM is good and chill, and the characters are likeable.

>>609600
Situation: MC is in the in-loves with the villain.
Response: Villain uses this to their advantage.
Result: MC makes bad to badder choices for the sake of love at behest of their special friend.
Conclusion: Read Psion Quest.

Custom Conclusion Taken from assorted other quests: The MC is made into a lapdog doing almost-evil shit that always results in bad things for other lots of innocent people, and then at the ultimate moment of reveal the waifu drops them because now they're useless to their grand plans. Throw in some sideplot where the MC tries to "redeem" them and "succeeds," then getting invited to have a good romp. Except, they go to the bedroom and are spell thrown into an extra dimensional hellscape until their soul withers into nothing, cue 10/10 villain waifu laughing in the background.

Probably going to be shot down for this, but I decided to take the chance.

For the past couple of years (on /tg/ prior to /qst/) I've been following and playing a vast array of quests, I love this format for a form of RP/Storytelling is essentially what it boils down to, and throughout that time of playing I've tried writing, and have written, probably a dozen different worlds and plots for quests.

To preface this, no, I don't have any mental health issues.

The only issue is: I get some weird crippling anxiety when I actually get close to posting the quest, and the few times I went through with it I panicked and dumped the quest before any had a chance to get a following.

Had anyone gone through this themselves? Any advice on how to get over being a complete pussy on a damn quest board? I really want to see my ideas come to life, and I know I have the competency to do it somewhat well, it's just this weird block I can't seem to move past.

>>609643
I dunno man, ive been a pussy about all my quest ideas and gave them to qtg instead.

I still have the drawfagging of a harpy pizza deliverygirl for the pizza racers i never ran.

>>609643
It's pretty normal. I'm in the same situation you are in, in fact I made 25 different quest concepts before running one.

At the start of this week, I actually started writing one. You just have to dive in, and hopefully you'll be so happy that you're actually moving your planned storyline along that you'll be able to stick with it.
I'm three sessions in and it's going well, I'm gaining players.

The biggest thing holding you back is the fear of failure. You're emotionally invested in your quest pitches and you want them to be successful. But they can't possibly be if you don't run them.

Once you're running, the only thing you risk is QM burnout. Past that you should be fine, so long as you keep spicing the material up to avoid player attrition.

So my advice for you is. Write an opening post. Force yourself to post that opening post, then write a second post. When players show up, you'll know what to do.

>>609643
Force it.

I promised I would run the quest and had no choice but to do it. And trust, after you've done it once, you'll never be nervous again.

>>608455
Do it mate. I love quests like that.

>>609643
Absolutely. Starting a quest can be terrifying. Do what the other Anons said and just jump in though. If it works, great for you. If not, hey, you tried and you can come back stronger next time.

>>609518
Starship Idols but I'm biased towards people who know one of my favorite series

>>609643
I had a very long response to this but the above anons have the good points.

But,
>Probably going to be shot down for this
Try to avoid prefacing your desires with your doubts. A lot easier said than done, of course, but it's worth trying.

>>609143
>People who write alternative, harder to parse, greater than "entry level" type quests. But if you're willing to sacrifice to big crowds of drooling retards you care less for exposure.

You sound like a quest you like isn't getting a lot of attention. What's it's name Trick?

You got a point though. My BioArmor Quest takes influences from 90's anime (and even more from 1920's science fiction, but don't tell anybody!) but its 100 percent original and it gets like a third of the players a Sword Arts Quest gets.

>>609152
Westeros broke him. He is a broken man. Think of him as the old bitter guy in the corner of the bar whose rants are projections of his broken dreams.

>>609207
Toshiro Mifune?

>>609223
I'm trying to do some serious stuff with BioArmor about war and honor. And in Sibella Quest about trust and family

>>609236
It worked in Doom Patrol. It was amazing.

>>609573
That's mine. It's still going on.

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>>609730
>trick is one big shit post
What do you think happens when your most succesful quest was stolen from another, shittier person's best quest?

Magical Girl For Hire Quest will be resuming in about an hour!

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>>609735
This brings me too much joy

>>609760
Anon we all have his tripcode, let it die

>>609766
He actually gave his tripcode away? Why?

>>609821
Good question, if his goal was to make everyone stop talking about him, it worked, made a shit-post about "killing the trip" and then Trick imploded shortly after

>>609832
...When I finally get around to doing that Cape World Quest where everyone in the thread plays a super powered rat belonging to a hive mind the bad guy is going to be a swarm of robotic insects.

Would it be in bad form if I named the swarm VE-L 0? Virulently Emergent Lifeform Zero?

>>609874
Better to have done it first and then tell us.

>>609874
>>609885
Yeah, what the second anon said, now it isn't funny, it's just a meme you wanted approval for

>my quest is being considered the lowest common denominator

That kinda stings, I get it, but still, ouch.

>>610021
What's your quest anon? Haven't been keeping up with qtg gossip the last couple of weeks

>>610023
He runs SAO Quest, Based off the abridge and its gone wayyy the fuck off track. All and all if you don't plan on being serious its a good time. Hopefully soon we get back to fisting.

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>>610059
>SAO
Pandering confirmed, sorry anon

>>610104
I'm having a blast in it, Its a total cluster-fuck and I can only hope it keeps happening.

>>609885
>>609895
Your right, I fucked up.

>>610059
>>610104
>>610021
Sword Arts Online? Is that the anime where everyone is trapped in an MMORPG and the main character is a teenage twink hacker?

...So what's your quest like? What's the plot?

Can I review it? I haven't doe one in a while.

>>608032

Are you Crusty Jones under a new name?

>>610160
No, he's a teenage twink who was "destined to be the best player ever" and for some reason got special abilities in the video game along with becoming an utter emo

>>610160
The original is pure garbage, which is why I run the quest in the abridged version. Feel free to scour suptg for it and review it.

>>610021
To be fair it's an isekai trapped in an MMO harem anime fanfic quest filled with memes. The mc even has meta knowledge. That said, it seems like your players have fun and you seem like a nice guy so don't let us rain on your parade.

>>610194
>For some reason got special abilities in the video game

Why don't other people hack the game and get special abilities?

>>610245
>Which is why I run the quest in the abridged version

What does that mean?

>>610258
People dubbed over the original audio to make it comedic.

>>610258
I think he means the abridged series version of SAO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6kJKxvbgZ0

>>610160

I got a quest you can review if you want.

The QM said it was okay on Twitter.

>>610361
What is it?

>>610258
The vastly superior comedic take on the show: SAO Abridged.

>>610160
>Can I review it?
This is a meme at this point huh?

You haven't done one in months, don't pretend you are going to do this one.

>>610436
Is this your quest? There's quite a few SAO quests.

Why is it so damn popular anyways?

>>610469
The chances of anything coming from QG are a million to one they say.

The chances of anything coming from QG are a million to one-

But still

It comes

>>610495
And of course I forget the link.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/555691/

>>610495
Yes, that's mine.

Speaking of which, next update SOON™

>>609643
Short, small things first. It has been proven that trying to adhere to an ideal plot is hard for QMs.

>>610411

Shinobi Quest, by Wargle

>>608455
Someone actually read the links I posted!

Huh, Hiro tweeted sorry through the 4chan update twitter. Can't imagine what for.

>>610188
Trust me, he is definitely not Crusty Jones.

Man, this board is depressing as fuck.

>>610653
I think we know what for.

>>610665

He's pretty good, though.

>>608155
Try Avenging Survivor, anon.

>>610740
>>610665

Just read that he's from Brooklyn. So unless Crusty made a big moving decision at some point, yeah it's not him.

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>>609623
That's good, senpai.

How do you guys think a person with heightened but still slow regeneration that could basically pull them back from death would deal with WW1 trench-warfare? I imagine several suicidal charges where all your comrades get gunned down by entrenched machinegunners or getting killed by chlorine gas several times over would be extremely not fun.

>>610740
Not really.

>>610160
>Sword Arts Online? Is that the anime where everyone is trapped in an MMORPG and the main character is a teenage twink hacker?
Not a twink, twinks have actual muscles.

>>610682
I don't. What's he apologizing for? Giving people false hope for better moderation?

>>610817

Except he is.

>>610825
He doesn't become a trap until season 2 though

>>610842
He's alright.
He needs to run more halo tho.

>>610021
this >>610249

but I don't want to judge your system as well since I don't know if you've changed anything in the last how many threads/posts

SAO QUEST REVIEW

THREAD 1

WRITTEN AS IT IS READ

DISCLAIMER:

I know very little about Sword Arts Online or the Abridged Sword Arts Online. All I know is that its supposed to be a really terrible anime about kids that get stuck in an MMORPG for poorly defined reasons and the main character has super powers because he was a beta tester called a "beater".

I watched like three episodes and had to stop is what I'm saying.

Fortunately the QM seems to feel the way I do. He calls it a "shitty anime" in the OP, which of course begs the question:

WHY?:

If you don't like SOA why run a quest based on it? Its premise is hardly original. You had stories about people trapped in computers sense the sixties. Why doesn't OP just make his own original trapped in a computer story?

I'm sort of leery about this quest already to be honest.

QM PLAYER FRICTION:

Maybe I'm jumping the gun here, but warning lights went off when anons voted our name to be "xxXsauskatheuchihaXxx". It's clear the ones that voted on the name don't want to take the plot seriously, but the QM seems to want at least a semi-serious plot. He writes that we enter it as our name ironically.

I predict bad things down the road. We shall see if I'm right to worry this soon.

POOR START:

We walk around a poorly described world as a poorly described avatar killing animals for quests.

I am having bad flashbacks to The Island Quest.

I find it rather disturbing that with cutting edge VR technology the best the humanity of the future can come up with is a wolf punching simulator.

Is this secretly Idiocracy Quest?

ABRIDGED:

The QM informs us that we aren't just trapped in SAO, we're trapped in the Abridged SAO. And we aren't a character in the world. We're a person from the "real" world trapped in the Abridged SAO. Which means when we see the main character he's arguing about a magic pebble or something and there are funny pop up ads and really it amounts to nothing. This is more Wolf Puncher Quest so far than anything.

Also for a normal guy that's just been trapped in a youtube parody series of an anime we sure are taking things in stride...And now I'm having bad flashbacks to Velo Quest and that Trapped in an MMORPG Quest I reviewed...

I just want to remind you /qst/ that you said this was good. I just want to remind you of that.

WE LEVEL UP

We brutally murder wolves with our bare hands and level up, caked in their innards.

>You grin, and go into the menu to use those Attribute points on your... two fucking stats, because SAO is a shit MMO.
Current STR: 1
Current AGI: 1

Seriously? Two stats? That really is shitty...but then again if its so shitty why don't you change it?

If this is supposed to be a satire of SAO I'm not getting the humor. Like at all.

We get a wolf mask that lets us steal life with our punches and that seems oddly powerful for a drop form a pack of wolves...And now I'm getting flashbacks to Joker Quest power wank...

-cont

>>610880
oh no he's actually doing it

>>610880
God damn it mate.

>>610880
what's on the plate now gene?

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>>610880
Hey, what about the other quests in your list?

Still waiting for my private review.

>>609515
Irue is vaguely and ambiguously gendered, but wears female clothes and was going to be married off to 'disinherit' her in a way reminiscent of women, so...I usually just assume Irue is a she, even if Irue's humanity is vague. Riz's other quest, Foxfire, also had an androgynous MC. Take that how you will.

>>610956
And to think I was actually considering reading this quest

>>>/qa/687788

>>610995
More interested in Gene's HARD NO RECOMMENDATION to be perfectly honest.

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>>610817
Where do I need to improve?

>>610989
I read it and didn't realize that Irue wasn't definitely 100% female until a character got confused about it around thread 40. It's not a big deal.

>>610880
We punch more boar asses. In fact we spend three in game hours doing so while the QM desperately tries to get the players to talk to Kirito and begin the plot. But the anons aren't having it. We need more power. They're already talking about going Kenshiro on everybody and soloing group bosses...And now I'm having flashbacks to Velo Quest plan wank.

These quests hurt me /qst/. I just want you to know that.

PLOT HAPPENS

The mysterious wizrobe reject running the game shows up and explains everything.

Offscreen.

Our only interaction in the event is when we yell to the bad guy as he vanishes that he's a faggot and should give us our money back.

He spams a youtube video of Team Rocket laughing in response. And I'm sure its all funny to someone. Then we say "I'M GOING TO SHOVE MY FIST UP YOUR ASS INTO YOUR STOMACH AND BREAK YOUR GOD DAMN SPINE! I WILL FIND YOUR IN GAME AVATAR AND RAPE IT WITH MY FISTS I SWEAR ON MY GOD DAMN SOUL"

Again. I'm sure this is funny to someone.

Unless you've seen SOA you know jack shit what's going on. And any role playing or emotional content to be gained by being involved in this critical plot changing scene is gone as everything meaty happens off screen.

The big evil guy shows up and explains the plot to all the innocent players and this has less description than us punching animals to death. Even if you're playing it for comedy you can't use what you don't describe.

What I'm trying to say is the scene was actually handled better in SAO. And that's saying a whole lot.

WAIFU ALERT WAIFU ALERT WAIFU ALERT:

Things are very stable. You'd think they'd be some sort of panic we'd have to RP through sense everyone just found out their lives are effectively over and they're stuck inside a shitty MMORPG where losing means death. Sure, its a grim subject but you could mine some gallows humor out of it. You could do something with everyone's avatars being forced to be what they look like in real life. You could have Otakus be humorously fine with everything as they had no life to begin with.

You could do SOMETHING.

Instead our options are: Kill people. Kill animals. Go on Quests.

We pick go on quests.

I pick shake my head.

We run into a blonde catgirl named IncogNegro How was that graphic novel anyway. I've been meaning to check it out for awhile .

Half of the anons freak out and want to skin her for crafting material. They scream NO WAIFU. ONLY MURDER. Others scream to find and touch fluffy tail.

I want to take a moment to thank my player base for not being the kinds of people that lose their shit when an attractive female NPC shows up. Sincerely, honestly, thank you.

IncogNegro is incredibly calm even though she just found out she's trapped in a virtual deathtrap, but I'm sure her character is charming enough so that we can jump over the plot holes and get right to adventuring with her.

-cont

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>>610188
I'm nowhere near the crustiest jone

More like the excessively cheap Chinese knock off

>>611014
Start by not running on anonkun.

I don't have a problem with your quest other than not personally enjoying it. But from what I've seen of it, you're not as good as Crusty. Which is fine, Crusty was literally the best writefag I've seen.

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>>611021
>-cont

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>>611025


>>611028
Honestly, the only reason I went to AKun and didn't start on /tg/ when it was still viable was because I fucking hate paste bins with a passion

>>611021
>Half of the anons freak out and want to skin her for crafting material.
Actually on second thought that's pretty metal.

>>611040
Where the FUCK was that? That fucking gook bastard.

>>610741
>Avenging Survivor

Damn, I don't know if it works with the tone I want to work with.

>>611040
Oh shiz.

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>>611040
>That image

>>611040
Christ fucking apple shit face! Hand it to a mod? Which goddamn mod!? Is there even a trustworthy mod currently available?