I'm testing the waters here.
I can't be certain how long I'll be able to post art, or be able to respond, but I promise I will eventually see this through to the end, whatever that end may be.

>>1935351
>>1935357
So is this a prompt? You should indicate if it is.

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>>1935359
Sorry, working with technical difficulties.

Lying on the ground before you are twelve stranger in what appears to be the inside of a cave.
The all seem to be unconscious.

>Check person[]
>Examine cave
>Investigate pedestal
>Investigate opening
>Investigate smoke
>Switch role []
>Other

>>1935370
>>Check person[]
>>1935351
The guy who looks wounded in the corner. He seems to be in worse condition than us.
The others on the ground, are they just asleep?

>>1935370
>>1935373
supporting

>>1935373
>>>Check person[wounded guy in the corner]

As everyone else seems to be sleeping, or at least unconscious but okay, you walk over to check on the wounded man in the corner....

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>>1935377
It's not good.

He has severe burns, deep cuts, and he seems to have hit his head rather hard.
From the charring on the wall, you'd have to say he was hit with something explosive.
His external bleeding seems to have slowed but he needs serious medical help.

>>1935383
(Forgot prompts)

>Attempt medical care
>Search for supplies
>Check person[]
>Investigate cave
>Switch role []
>>Other

>>1935383
>>1935387
Well shit.
>Check person[]
>>Other
Look for anyone who looks like a doctor or is still conscious to tell us.

>>1935389
>>Check person[doctor or conscious person]

You cannot tell who is what, actually.
None of the people appear to have any object aside from the old man’s glasses.
Everyone seems to be wearing the same kind of uniform grey smock.
They appear to be a young blonde girl, a curly haired woman holding her, a round man with a mustache, a large man with black muttonchops, a woman with rather long brown hair, an average looking guy, a young woman with short black hair, a short man with red hair, a blonde woman, an old man with glasses, a dirty blonde boy, and the wounded man.
Aside from the wounded man, they all seem like they could be roused if disturbed.

>Wake person[choice]
>Wake everyone
>Investigate cave
>Switch role []
>>Other

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Now what the fuck is that?

>>1935408
>Now what the fuck is that?
There is only on exit and it is adorned with several small rocks.
An orb rests on a pedestal near the exit.

Through the exit, everything looks dark outside the cave.
You think you can see some trees and... shapes moving among the trees.

>Wake person[choice]
>Wake everyone
>Examine cave
>Investigate pedestal
>Investigate opening
>Investigate smoke
>Switch role []
>Other

>>1935407
>>Wake everyone
There's a wounded man who needs help, we need to mobilize the people! Anyone who's not injured or needs sleep should help.

>>1935351
>>1935408
Looks like a door and its control console, which is locking the room from whatever #rekt the wounded guy and the corner.-

>>1935411
Okay, let's not disturb the shapes moving among the trees.

>>1935412
>let's not disturb the shapes moving among the trees.
Check.

>>>Wake everyone
>There's a wounded man who needs help, we need to mobilize the people!

You shout out, waking everyone.
They all groggily get to their feet.
Many start asking questions.
Everyone is looking at each other in confusion.
Nobody can seem to remember anything, at all.

>Talk to person[choice]
>Examine cave
>Investigate pedestal
>Investigate opening
>Investigate smoke
>Switch role []
>Other

>>1935408
>Now what the fuck is that?
>>1935412
>Looks like a door and its control console
Your quick eyes and clever thinking has gotten your mind working.
You remember something
>Remember your name.
>Remember something about the people
>Remember something else.

>>1935383
>>1935387
>>1935422
>>Other
Confirm that we don't know anything either, but there's a seriously wounded man in the corner who needs us.
Get everyone to start look for supplies, see if they have anything else on their person, and investigate anything that might help us.

Warn the others not go outside the cave and mess with the shapes moving among the trees because it probably landed us in this mess.

>>1935423
>>Remember something else.
Supplies that could help save a severely wounded person? Where all our equipment went?

>>1935351
>"...almost out of time."
>>1935424
>>1935423
Actually we should mention that the last thing we know might be we're on a timer.

>>1935424
>Confirm that we don't know anything either, but there's a seriously wounded man in the corner who needs us.
>Get everyone to start look for supplies, see if they have anything else on their person, and investigate anything that might help us.
>Warn the others not go outside the cave
>>1935425
>mention that the last thing we know might be we're on a timer.

Everyone is informed.
The curly haired woman rushed to the wounded man and is applying rudimentary first aid, helped by the Doe-eyed blonde girl.
The mustache guy is trying to crack jokes to the long haired woman, but she is ignoring him while staring out the cave entrance.
The large man with muttonchops is sitting with his back against the wall, serenely watching everyone.
The average looking guy is looking back between the wounded guy and the orb, which is being closely examined by the old guy and the short black haired girl.
The black haired girl is hold her hand as if it's hurt.
The short red haired guy is twirling a blood stained sharp piece of rock he found on the ground while the blonde woman is hanging on him for no discernible reason.
The dirty blonde boy is wandering around the cave, investigating everything.

>Talk to person[choice]
>Examine cave
>Investigate pedestal
>Investigate opening
>Investigate smoke
>Switch role []
>Other

>>1935439
>>Other
>>1935408
>>1935370
What's this stick-like thing we're holding? Reminds me of a wand.

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>>1935424
So you've woken everyone, told them all that this man is wounded and we need to find something to help him but shouldn't leave the cave and that you don't remember anything else just like them.

Then you Remember something else.
>Supplies that could help save a severely wounded person? Where all our equipment went?
Welp, pic related.

I think that was significant of a trigger to Remember something again.
>Remember why you buried everyone's belonging and supplies and then built a fire over them.
>Remember something about the people
>Remember something else.

>>1935443
>>Remember why you buried everyone's belonging and supplies and then built a fire over them.
Either we knew the amnesia thing would happen, or we wanted to make sure it wasn't stolen for whatever reason or had us identified. It's probably related to the moving shapes.

>>1935411
>You think you can see some trees and... shapes moving among the trees.
Are we seeing shadows or silhouettes or them, or just figures we don't recognize?

>>1935443
>Welp, pic related.
lol. Huh, these all look like tribal or post-apocalyptic gear. I guess we didn't have that much tech to start with? There might be magic in this world.

>Then you Remember something else.
>I think that was significant of a trigger to Remember something again.
kek.

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>>1935442
>What's this stick-like thing we're holding? Reminds me of a wand.
You are still holding an intricately carved wooden stick with a blue gem on the larger end.
You've never seen anything like it before.
You guess it might be a letter opener.

>>1935448
>>>Remember why you buried everyone's belonging and supplies and then built a fire over them.
You remember taking everyone's gear and burying it so that none of them could have an advantage over any of the others, but you could still access it and your gear if something went seriously wrong before the time ran out.

>>1935448
>Are we seeing shadows or silhouettes or them, or just figures we don't recognize?
There are definite solid shapes out there.
They are very dark and there is no light besides your fire.
You see the occasional glint of an eye or shimmer of a spot of something wet and glistening.

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The dirty blonde boy is wondering what the smoking thing under the fallen stalactite was.

>Talk to person[choice]
>Ask everyone about the stick in your hand
>Investigate pedestal
>Investigate opening
>Investigate smoking debris
>Switch role []
>Share everything you remembered with everyone.
>Other

>>1935442
>What's this stick-like thing we're holding? Reminds me of a wand.
>>1935449
>You've never seen anything like it before.
After staring at it for a little while thinking, you start to remember something.

>Remember something about the wand.
>Remember something about a person[].
>Remember your last hand written letter you received.
>Remember something else.

After reading back through, technically by the "rules" I improvised, this should have awarded you a memory.

>>1935458
>>Other
Ask everyone if they trust each other. Then ask if they didn't or wouldn't if they remembered certain things, or perhaps concluded as such.
If so, then ask if they would be willing to trust each other or set aside their differences for the group and their continued survival. Especially that of the wounded man's.

Tell everyone to trust each other or set aside their differences, and promise to for the sake of the group, the wounded man, and everyone's survival because we remembered something very important to that. Everyone must before we can reveal it.
If they do so,
>Other
>Share everything you remembered with everyone

>>1935462
>>Remember something else.
>>1935451
>You remember taking everyone's gear and burying it so that none of them could have an advantage over any of the others,
Remember why we felt the need to disarm everyone, if we did so with their consent or resorted to other means. If the others remembering this would endanger this truce or what would. Then if there's a way to ensure everyone trusts, cooperates with each other, or maintains the truce.
In order of memory priorities or sequence.

>>1935462
>After reading back through, technically by the "rules" I improvised, this should have awarded you a memory.
Neat. Thanks QM.

>>1935458
>The dirty blonde boy is wondering what the smoking thing under the fallen stalactite was.
>>1935383
>From the charring on the wall, you'd have to say he was hit with something explosive.
It's probably the device or object that was hit by the fallen stalactite, then exploded. Severely injuring the wounded man and possibly injuring everyone else, knocking them unconscious and possibly giving them amnesia. It might actually be a piece of modern tech if it did explode.

>>1935351
>"...almost out of time."
>>1935443
>Welp, pic related.
If I had to guess, from the looks of the shoulder pads or armor, We're from at least 3 different tribes or groups. On top of this and everyone's individualities, there was either tension or we felt that there would be tension. To ensure tensions wouldn't become violent, we disarmed everyone consensually or otherwise.
The time limit was either the device itself, or the shadowy figures outside. We're probably composed of so many different people because of the shadowy figures, and banded against a common enemy. Alternatively they came after we potentially started tensions or got knocked out as targets of opportunity.

>>1935452
So silhouettes, got it.
>>1935411
>You think you can see some trees and... shapes moving among the trees.
Is this next to or on top of the trees?

>>1935464
>and promise to for the sake of the group,
Also promise to on the pain of being shunned or exiled from the group should they break this promise.

>>1935465
>Is this next to or on top of the trees?
Next to, in between.
The silhouettes are not taller, above, or necessarily climbing the trees.

Working on the reply to above.

>>1935471
Great.

>>1935467
>>1935464
For additional transparency, everyone will witness each other when making these oaths. Everyone may make a vote upon any future members we induct to see if they are worthy, and they must make similar oaths before they may.
>>1935408
For now everyone has to make this oath because we're all stuck together in an emergency situation.

>>1935473
>For additional transparency, everyone will witness each other when making these oaths. Everyone may make a vote upon any future members we induct to see if they are worthy, and they must make similar oaths before they may.
>Oaths and votes
Wounded man abstains. >>1935383

>>1935481
>Wounded man abstains. >>1935383
It's okay, he must've gotten cold feet because he's been burned before.

>>1935465
>It's probably the device or object that was hit by the fallen stalactite, then exploded. Severely injuring the wounded man and possibly injuring everyone else, knocking them unconscious and possibly giving them amnesia. It might actually be a piece of modern tech if it did explode.
Examining the debris, you reason that it had to have been a piece of really modern machinery, likely involving pressurized or combustible gas for it to have exploded upon impact of the stalactite.
You figure the device probably was hit by the fallen stalactite, then exploded. Severely injuring the wounded man and possibly injuring everyone else, knocking them unconscious and possibly giving them amnesia.
But something about the char marks next to the wounded man bother you.

>>1935464
>Ask everyone if they trust each other.
The young blonde girl, curly haired woman, a round man with mustache, average looking guy, blonde woman, old man, dirty blonde boy all say yes.
The large man with black muttonchops watches everyone very closely as they talk, “Trust is built in small moments. I agree to trust in this moment.”
The a woman with rather long brown hair, “I’m not interested in any of you enough to trust any of you. But I see no reason to work against you until we are out of here.”
The young woman with short black hair looks down at the hand she is holding, to the wounded man, and back to you, “No, I don’t trust any of you.”
The short man with red hair, “No way. Fuck that shit. I don’t trust anybody. I’m watching my back an that’s it.” After a pause, he adds “And maybe blondie here too.”, causing the blonde woman to again smile at him.
>Then ask if they didn't or wouldn't if they remembered certain things, or perhaps concluded as such.
The curly haired woman remembers that she was a nurse.
The little girl remembers the sky over an open field.
The mustachioed man remembers steak.
The dirty blonde boy remembers a chicken.
The rest are silent on the subject.

>If so, then ask if they would be willing to trust each other or set aside their differences for the group and their continued survival.
They all agree, with the short red haired man and the short black haired woman reluctantly agreeing.

>Remember why we felt the need to disarm everyone, if we did so with their consent or resorted to other means. If the others remembering this would endanger this truce
When sedating and abducting strangers against their will, it is a safe protocol to remove all their belongings as you can never predict what the objects they’re carrying will be able to do or how they will react when they wake up. Also, many objects can be used against the others or allow the individual to excel over others unbalancing the enterprise.

>promise to for the sake of the group, the wounded man, and everyone's survival because we remembered something very important to that. Everyone must before we can reveal it.
They all eventually agree, but Muttonchops phrased his very carefully, the short black haired girl only did so as she was the last, and the short, red haired man agreed immediately.

>Share what you remembered
>Ask group about a certain question[]
>Investigate pedestal
>Investigate opening
>Investigate smoke
>Switch role []
>Other

>>1935483
>It's okay, he must've gotten cold feet because he's been burned before.
Heh
I wanna give you a wounded man unconscious memory for that.

>>1935488
>>1935483
>>1935481
Oh, don't worry about him. Just because he's been burned before doesn't mean he can't get over it. Give him time, he'll come around eventually.

kek.

>>1935487
>ask if they didn't or wouldn't if they remembered certain things,
(On second reading, I didn't really respond to this one well, but they have no idea what they would or wouldn't do if they remembered certain things.)

>>1935485
>But something about the char marks next to the wounded man bother you.
>>1935383
>>1935408
>>1935458
FUCK. The position and direction of the char marks and wounds means it would have to come the left of the image. The way the stalactite fell from the top to the right of the image onto the crushed or exploded device.
It couldn't have been the crushed device because of this, and the only reasonable objects were either the orb for the door, the cave dotted door, or a person from that angle.

>>1935487
>They all eventually agree, but Muttonchops phrased his very carefully,
What did he phrase it as? Was he rules lawyering it?

>>1935492
True. Can't blame them for that.

>>1935495
>What did he phrase it as? Was he rules lawyering it?
He was careful to word it as such that if the group chooses actions that he disagrees with, he can disassociate himself from them immediately without having broken his word.
(He was totally ruleslawyering it, but in a "I'm not agreeing to anything sight-unseen" kind of way, not a "I'm being sneaky and plan to betray the group" kind of way. Hard to come up with that phrasing exactly.)

>>1935495
>The position and direction of the char marks and wounds means it would have to come the left of the image. The way the stalactite fell from the top to the right of the image onto the crushed or exploded device.
>It couldn't have been the crushed device because of this, and the only reasonable objects were either the orb for the door, the cave dotted door, or a person from that angle.
Your mind is working over the scenario faster and faster.
You remember something new
>Remember something about what caused the char marks
>Remember something about a person[]
>Remember something else

>>1935488
>I wanna give you a wounded man unconscious memory for that.
>>1935491
I'm now wondering if has a sixth sense for these puns and jokes we're making at his expense while he's in a coma, possibly manifesting in his unconscious dreams.
>Oh, don't worry about him. Just because he's been burned before doesn't mean he can't get over it. Give him time, he'll come around eventually.
And these were some of the words he heard that finally snaps him out of it. Maybe even hulking out in his dream to break these barrier.

>>1935487
>When sedating and abducting strangers against their will, it is a safe protocol to remove all their belongings as you can never predict what the objects they’re carrying will be able to do or how they will react when they wake up. Also, many objects can be used against the others or allow the individual to excel over others unbalancing the enterprise.
wut. Is this some sort of social experiment or are we some sort of criminal scientist or psychopath?
>unbalancing the enterprise.
Were we a part of some business or institution?

>>1935462
>>1935449
Is this wand like a Neuralyzer or another sordid tool? Maybe it's related to the shadowy figures, the orb, or used as some sort of terraforming device or weapon?

>>1935498
>>1935487
So he's a clever one, perhaps even more selfish or experienced with this. Might have been involved with crime or laws before to have done it this way.

>>1935506
>wut. Is this some sort of social experiment or are we some sort of criminal scientist or psychopath?
>Were we a part of some business or institution?
Potayto, Potahto.

>>1935487
>They all eventually agree, but Muttonchops phrased his very carefully, the short black haired girl only did so as she was the last, and the short, red haired man agreed immediately.
Odd. Some people to watch out for.

>>1935487
>The young woman with short black hair looks down at the hand she is holding, to the wounded man, and back to you, “No, I don’t trust any of you.”
>>1935485
>>1935499
I get the impression she thinks we used to wand to cast a magic missile on the wounded man, which could be possible assuming we moved from the position to here.

>>1935495
Were this to be the case, it would instead be the magic missile struck the wounded man. The explosive force of which shook the cave, caused the stalactite to fall, crushed the device and caused it to explode.
The combined explosive forces of two objects and the mini-earthquake knocked everyone unconscious and gave them amnesia, or maybe the wand had a delayed amnesia spell on it that we casted.

>>1935509
Despite being in good humor, this only increases my concern.

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>>1935499
>>Remember something about what caused the char marks
>>1935510
>I get the impression she thinks we used to wand to cast a magic missile on the wounded man, which could be possible assuming we moved from the position to here.
>>1935510
>Were this to be the case, it would instead be the magic missile struck the wounded man. The explosive force of which shook the cave, caused the stalactite to fall, crushed the device and caused it to explode.
>The combined explosive forces of two objects and the mini-earthquake knocked everyone unconscious and gave them amnesia, or maybe the wand had a delayed amnesia spell on it that we casted.

You've remember something more, which triggers yet another memory.
You remember something else
>Remember something about a person.
>Remember something about yourself.
>Remember something else.

>>1935499
>>Remember something else
>>1935487
>When sedating and abducting strangers against their will, it is a safe protocol to remove all their belongings as you can never predict what the objects they’re carrying will be able to do or how they will react when they wake up. Also, many objects can be used against the others or allow the individual to excel over others unbalancing the enterprise.
Why we were doing these unethical practices, which probably ties into
>>1935499
>Remember something about what caused the char marks
>>1935462
>>Remember something about the wand.
>>1935462
>>Remember your last hand written letter you received.
>>1935510
It seems like a fight did break out over this.

>>1935487
>When sedating and abducting strangers against their will,
>>1935351
>"...almost out of time."
Either we were saying this as a villain or detached researcher, or there's something else to this. I'd imagine they actually could've simply been unconscious from the sedatives that took a while, and the fight broke out before they fully fell asleep.
Seems like we were doing this under orders though, so the silhouettes outside could either be monsters, researchers, or other staff members under this program. Seems like we got shafted with doing a field study.-

>>1935514
Yep, I was right.

>>1935515
>It seems like a fight did break out over this.
>>1935515
>Yep, I was right.
Partially right that is. At least we didn't do all the dirty work.

>>1935515
>>1935514
>>Remember something about yourself.
Seems to be what my command would've fallen under.

>>1935351
>Quest without Subject
>pic
>>1935487
>>1935514
>>1935515
I'm curious, is the quest's title not a generic title but instead a meta one? It's titled Quest without Subject in the thread, and Quest (without) Subject in the image.
In this case, it's a quest (without) [test] subjects? Seeing as how they all have amnesia and were supposedly abandoned by whatever institution imprisoned them? Alternatively being read as Quest Subject, or Quest [Test] Subject?

>>1935515
>Why we were doing these unethical practices
Your employers have found the greatest- no, the 2nd greatest discovery mankind has ever encountered.
In order to properly understand and utilize this discovery, they need to acquire dangerous resources.
You are tasked with obtaining these resources.
Your predecessors were sloppy and needlessly violent.
You pride yourself on being thorough, precise, and acquiring what is needed, the Subjects, without incident.
Until now.

As you are reeling from this revelatory memory, Muttonchops steps forward:
"Attention everyone, I have been watching you all very closely and there is something I feel you all deserve to know."

"I believe that our minds have been affected by more than just amnesia."

"That's not enough?" Mustache chimes in with a chuckle.

Ignoring the interruption, Muttonchops continues, "I have noticed that, aside from our nurse and the blonde miss, none of your lips match the words that you are speaking."

As he says this, and everyone mutters in response, you see that he is right, and that none of their lips are actually matching their words. You can't imagine how you missed it before or what this could mean...

>Other
(I'm not really stopping but there probably won't be any more art until tonight and I'll likely slow down the pace of my replies, but I'm gonna finish this eventually.)

>Yep, I was right.
Indeed.

>>1935519
>I'm curious, is the quest's title not a generic title but instead a meta one?
And again.
I did not expect that to be glimpsed so soon.
Well done.
I think that credits you another [b]memory[/b] of your choice.

>>1935525
>[b]memory[/b]
Ah, phone posting limits me from OP status?
Makes sense.
Can't be helped.

>>1935525
>(I'm not really stopping but there probably won't be any more art until tonight and I'll likely slow down the pace of my replies, but I'm gonna finish this eventually.)
That's fine, I think this is a good note to end the session on for now. A lot of progress, time, and surprisingly twists were made. Neat cliffhanger.

>>1935529
>>1935351
Yep. Only the original ID of the OP works.

>>1935351
>>1935357
>>1935370
I would suggest you make the opening post better next time, and merge the prompt with the first post. You should also consider shilling this on /qtg/ with a short advertisement or blurb on this.
It's a shame that an interesting OC quest like this could've been missed so easily because of it, and there were indeed only a few posters. I mostly noticed it by the virtue of the drawquest OP image.

>>1935532
>I would suggest you make the opening post better next time
Just a better image or text too?
I kinda rushed into it tonight as I've been procrastinating this idea for months.
I figured out how to whip up art as I went.
I usually take a very long time to draw.
If the text of the OP could be better, how so?

>merge the prompt with the first post
Good advice.

>You should also consider shilling this on /qtg/ with a short advertisement or blurb on this.
Shilling is against my nature, but I could do it.

Also, I was considering starting up again tonight.
Is there a reason I would start another thread instead of continue this one, if it's still about?

>I mostly noticed it by the virtue of the drawquest OP image.
Just as planned.
>shilling would've been a better plan
True, but shush brain.

>>1935525
>(I'm not really stopping but there probably won't be any more art until tonight and I'll likely slow down the pace of my replies, but I'm gonna finish this eventually.)
You should state what time, timezone, and length you'll be running your sessions.

>>1935535
I'll answer some of these the next time I'm on.
>Is there a reason I would start another thread instead of continue this one, if it's still about?
Bump limit is 3 days or 750 posts. 250 image limit.
Not really, you've still got nearly 3 days worth of time on this thread. Feel free to once it's reached its bump limit, but threads can last up to 10 days around here.

>>1935532
Otherwise, I'm off now. Thanks for the session, QM.

>>1935538
>You should state what time, timezone, and length you'll be running your sessions.
I plan to return at 12:30am EST Saturday, or in 14.5 hours.
I should run for 4-7 hours, pogs willing.

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Everyone reacts differently to this newest revelation that their words aren’t matching their lip movements:

The little blonde girl began fearfully asking what was going on while the curly haired Nurse tried to calm her down as her patient, the wounded guy has been bandaged as best possible.
The Mustache guy and the dirty blonde boy started watching each other ramble and marveled at how the sounds failed to match.
The long haired woman finally took an interest in the others, but still just sat near the cave entrance, staring at them pensively.
The average looking guy is asking questions to the large man with Muttonchops, who is responding with wise words but little new information.
The old man has returned to closely studying the orb on the pedestal by the entrance.
The black haired girl, while still holding her hand as if it's hurt, has backed to the wall and is glancing at everyone with a thoughtful expression.
The short red haired guy is fashioning a belt out of a strip of his smock, using the blood stained sharp piece of rock he found on the ground earlier.
The blonde woman is sitting beside him and staring into the fire.

And you stand observing.
None of them know that you’ve just remembered abducting them all for your employers as Subjects for… some reason you can’t quite recall.
They also don’t know that you’ve buried all the useful items under the firepit.
You’re no longer certain what you should do, but you still feel that time is running out.

>Share what you remembered with everyone
>Ask group about a certain question [QUESTION]
>Closely observe someone [PERSON]
>Investigate orb on pedestal
>Investigate entrance
>Investigate smoking debris
>Switch role []
>Other

>>1939311
This was me, obviously.
Sorry I was a little late.
The image, as crappy as it may be, took longer than I'd hoped.

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Perhaps 2am on a Friday night might not have been the best time to continue, but I'm still here.

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Little Girl, Nurse, Wounded Guy

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Orb on Pedestal, Old Man, Black Haired Girl

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Long Haired Woman, Mustache, Kid

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Firepit, Blondie, Ginger Guy

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>>1939719
>posted wrong image

Firepit, Blondie, Ginger Guy

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Flattop (You), Average Guy, Muttonchops

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Last image of the night
I'll still be around.

Like before, I'll keep checking up on the thread, but I'll be away from the OP IP.

I'm not giving up.

>>1935578
>>1939316
>>1939817
Woops, sorry. I wasn't available for yesterday, quested too much shortly before that.

>>1939962
No worries.
I'm still about.
I plan to be offline from about 1pm to 3pm.

>>1939990
>I plan to be offline from about 1pm to 3pm.
But online besides that.
I have had one hour of sleep.

>>1940000
You can go sleep now, I won't mind. You really should, to be fair. You might burn yourself out otherwise.
>>1939311
>>1939500
Were you waiting the entire night for questers?

I'll go answer some of your other questions and remark on your /qtg/ advertisement while you're gone.

>>1940012
>Were you waiting the entire night for questers?
Yep.
But the being around to wait and the not-sleeping would have happened anyway.
I probably won't sleep until 6pm anyway.

>I'll go answer some of your other questions and remark on your /qtg/ advertisement while you're gone.
I appreciate it.
I even tried an advertisement elsewhere, although I either managed to be too subtle, or, more likely, I only reached a handful of anons who didn't happen to care.

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By the way...
>>1935351
>there is a sharp pain in your left side.
That pain is still there.

>>1935525
>I think that credits you another [b]memory[/b] of your choice.
>>1939311
>None of them know that you’ve just remembered abducting them all for your employers as Subjects for… some reason you can’t quite recall.
>>1935514
>>Remember something about yourself.
Remember the reason, gotta make sure we aren't a heartless bastard.
>>1935525
>Your predecessors were sloppy and needlessly violent.
>You pride yourself on being thorough, precise, and acquiring what is needed, the Subjects, without incident.
At least, we sound more detached than sociopathic.

>>1935525
>Indeed.
Neat. I feel proud that I somehow managed to deduce all this by tinfoil hatting super hard. This must be what it feels like when you're a conspiracy theorist who's right.

>>1942203
>I feel proud that I somehow managed to deduce all this by tinfoil hatting super hard.
You should be proud.
You did amazingly well.
Being determined to help the wounded guy led you to the buried gear right away when I wasn't even sure it would come up.
So that was altruism fueled serendipity.
The rest was top-notch quality conspiracy theorizing.

I am ready to go btw, But no art for about an hour.

>>1939311
You’re no longer certain what you should do, but you still feel that time is running out.
>Share what you remembered with everyone
>Ask group about a certain question [QUESTION]
>Closely observe someone [PERSON]
>Investigate orb on pedestal
>Investigate entrance
>Investigate smoking debris
>Switch role []
>Other

>>1942203
>>None of them know that you’ve just remembered abducting them all for your employers as Subjects for… some reason you can’t quite recall.
>Remember the reason, gotta make sure we aren't a heartless bastard.
Your employers discovered what was, until very recently, the greatest discovery in mankind’s history:
The existence of parallel worlds and the ability to travel between them.
A number of the worlds they discovered were inhabited with people.
A number of those people had strange skills, abilities, and technology that could revolutionize your world, or destroy it.
Through careful trial and error in previous enterprises you were not briefed on, your employers found that passive observation can be subverted and that the safest way to learn the true capabilities of these other people was to test them after removing their ability to deceive.
The Subjects are found, retrieved, brought to a loading area, and then processed to the test site where their world’s true dangers, assets, and ultimate worth can be determined.

You have been abducting people to determine if they threaten your world or can benefit it.

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>>1939606
>"Fascinating!"

>>1942563
>>1942834
Oh, so we're like the Men in Black. That makes sense.

>>1942509
>Being determined to help the wounded guy led you to the buried gear right away when I wasn't even sure it would come up.
I would've gotten them straight to unburying it too for the wounded guy had it not been said that there was a risk of infighting.

>>1939549
Wounded Guy seems stabilized, but could use some more care.

>>1942971
And he's getting clues to his memories back, well then.

>>1935498
>>1935487
>>1942509
Get Muttonchops to cut the rules lawyering mentality. We're supposed to be working as a team here.
Give him a more straight answer on how the promise is so that any memories or clues which could relate to any grudges or misgivings are dropped to prevent infighting. At least until the immediate dangers, the wounded man, the cause of the accident, are dealt with and everyone can safely return to their lives.
If we haven't already, make the same promise.

Once Muttonchops does so:
>Other
Share the location of our gear with everyone to ensure wounded man's and everyone's safety and health. We'll explain more details of what we remembered if they don't kill each other by then.

>>1942971
>>1942990
>And he's getting clues to his memories back, well then.
There is the sound of loud gasp, followed by the the exclamation, "Fascinating!".
Ignoring earlier words of caution, the Old Man has touched the orb on the pedestal, causing the image of a woman, two young children, and a dog to appear within.

>>1942995
You were speaking with Muttonchops and he was agreeing that what you propose is for the best and he is now onboard.
Before you could share your memories, the Old Man made his exclamation >>1942999

>Share what you remembered with everyone anyway already
>Chastise Old Man
>Investigate orb on pedestal
>Investigate entrance
>Investigate smoking debris
>Switch role []
>Other

>>1943006
>Before you could share your memories, the Old Man made his exclamation >>1942999
lol
>>Other
Thank Muttonchops before turning to the Old Man.
>>Chastise Old Man
>>1942999
While we can appreciate the curiosity and investigation, he should've at least informed someone what he was going to do and tried testing it from a safer distance with a stick or something first. For all we know, it could've been a shield or locking system for the cave against whatever's outside.

>>1942995
Then
>Share the location of our gear with everyone to ensure wounded man's and everyone's safety and health. We'll explain more details while they're working.
Assuming they don't kill each other by then.
>Share what you remembered with everyone anyway already
Specifically, try portraying ours in the more positive light of from what we remembered, we weren't going to get anyone harmed, and it was basically a secret recruitment program of which we would of certainly pulled anyone out had any serious danger come to them. We would've compensated them fairly and mostly let them live their normal lives under something like a NDA had they failed.

Aw shit, diplomancing is hard. Especially without any memories.

>>1935487
>The young woman with short black hair looks down at the hand she is holding, to the wounded man, and back to you, “No, I don’t trust any of you.”
>>1935514
>>I get the impression she thinks we used to wand to cast a magic missile on the wounded man, which could be possible assuming we moved from the position to here.
>>1943032
Also, acknowledge black-haired girl's distrust of us, attributing to perhaps subconscious memories or instincts, and then avoid vilifying her on how she pretty much caused this entire mess which spiraled out of control. Maybe it was just a heat of the moment reaction and she didn't mean to potentially kill Wounded Guy, or something related to an earlier grudge.

>>1943032
>Assuming they don't kill each other by then.
>>1943039
This is after Wounded Guy's treated and protected, to gauge how much they can be trusted with the rest of the memories. Get ready to intervene for him if it goes downhill.

>>1943032
>While we can appreciate the curiosity and investigation, he should've at least informed someone what he was going to do and tried testing it from a safer distance with a stick or something first. For all we know, it could've been a shield or locking system for the cave against whatever's outside.
"Hmmm? Yes. Well, the device is clearly raised at eye level to be viewed, emits no heat, and bears no obvious mechanism for activating it.
"Touching it seems to be the way to activate it, and if it had "unlocked" that doorway, I would have simply toggled it back.
"What I can't suss out is why it displays this one image, but does not change..."

>>Share the location of our gear with everyone to ensure wounded man's and everyone's safety and health.
You tell everyone that you recall burying gear under the firepit.
They all respond differently, and pretty much at the same time.
Little Girl – “Why would you do that? I don’t understand.”
Nurse – “Well, if you think there is some medical gear under there, we should dig it up.
Old Man – “Perhaps there is some sort of equipment that could help us answer some questions.”
Black Haired Girl – “Why are you the one remembering all this? And aren’t you the one who was awake when we were all sleepified?”
Long Haired Woman – “We don’t need gear to survive, but we might need fire. Do what you want.”
Mustache – “Do you think there’s food under there?”
Kid – “Are you… Do you think you’re the bad guy?”
Blondie – “Well, we should do something. We can’t stay here.”
Ginger Guy – “I knew there was something off about you. Taking everybody’s stuff is probably how you got stabbed.”
Average Guy – “I, uh, just want everyone to keep getting along. Like we said, right?”
Muttonchops – “I see now why you were so insistent. Very cautious. Good. We may yet survive this thing.
>Put out fire and dig up gear
>Investigate orb on pedestal
>Investigate entrance
>Investigate smoking debris
>Switch role []
>Other

>>1943058
>Long Haired Woman – “We don’t need gear to survive, but we might need fire. Do what you want.”
Good point. Thank her for that.
>Other
Try carefully putting out the fire so it can be put back on again, then moving it.
>Dig up gear

>Other
While we're working, explain how we did this because we remembered infighting between the others earlier. Which is why we're holding this confiscated wand a certain someone used to put us in this mess, we don't remember the full details though.
>Little Girl – “Why would you do that? I don’t understand.”
>Muttonchops – “I see now why you were so insistent. Very cautious. Good. We may yet survive this thing.
Yeah. We did this as a safety precaution. It might've gone poorly otherwise. We didn't predict it going this poorly anyways.

>Black Haired Girl – “Why are you the one remembering all this? And aren’t you the one who was awake when we were all sleepified?”
We were the first one to awake, then found the wounded guy, then woke everyone up. Everyone was awake earlier, from what we can tell.

We're just remembering the most because we bothered to. Muttonchops and Old Man showed promised for remembering.

>Kid – “Are you… Do you think you’re the bad guy?”
>Ginger Guy – “I knew there was something off about you. Taking everybody’s stuff is probably how you got stabbed.”
We'll explain more later, focus on the wounded guy for now. We don't remember much specifically besides there's gear and important stuff.

>>1943081
While you work, someone remembers something.
>Who remembers what?

>>1943058
Congratulate the Old Man for his inquisitiveness. He'll likely be the one to figure out how everything works.

>>1943081
>>1942509
>You’re no longer certain what you should do, but you still feel that time is running out.
Also tell them we still feel time is running out for something, it's probably until the possible monsters try investigating us. So the faster everyone works, the faster we'll explain everything we remember.

>>1935488
>I wanna give you a wounded man unconscious memory for that.
>>1943101
>While you work, someone remembers something.
>>Who remembers what?
Clearly, wounded man is having a vision quest while unconscious.

>>1943081
>>1943101
Can we get the others who are idling to help us out? The faster the better.

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Working quickly, you all put out the fire, move the logs, and unbury 13 parcels wrapped in a water-proof brown cloth.
Unwrapping them, you find:
A musical horn made out of a ram’s horn
A high-tech First-Aid Satchel
What seems to be a Satellite Phone, but you can't understand how it works
A strange device with a glass jar attached
An old book with blank pages
A heavy green cloak
A heavy black case with a handle, that won't open.
A red ballcap
A set of keys
A small black leather jacket
A set of clothes including a T-shirt, jeans, boxers with cartoon elves, sock, sneakers
A book you can't read wrapped in a blue sweater.

And a pack of survival gear containing:
A large coil of light rope
A set of four knives
A compass
A hand weapon that appears to fire darts.
An odd water filter-pump and canteen full of water
A high strength light tarp mottled in green
A small cooking pot and a spoon
A lighter inside a box of matches
An entrenching tool
A tan towel
A small mirror
A large glass marble
A full compliment of survival ration bars.

The Nurse immediately take the first aid kit and starts using it to help the wounded guy. She pulls out a number of odd electrical devices and waves them over him in ways you don't understand.

>Start fire again
>Hand out gear []
>Investigate orb on pedestal
>Investigate entrance
>Investigate smoking debris
>Switch role []
>Other

>>1943162
Woops, sorry. I forgot to mention I'll be off now. Thanks for the very sporadic session.

>>1943385
You're welcome.
I'll be here.
Ready to apply to any and all.
More or less quickly.

>>1943395
>Ready to apply to any and all.
>apply
What are you applying?

>>1943399
I am applying replies, or what the kids are calling "replying".

Later I will apply my head to a pillow.

>>1943403
>Later I will apply my head to a pillow.
You can do it now, you don't have to do what those kids are doing these days, "replying" and all that nonsense.

>>1943413
No pillow for me yet.
Might as well monitor like a lizard.

For any and all interested:
The quest will return again tonight, Sunday night or Monday morning, at 12:30am EST and run for at least four hours.

Sleep is for the weak!

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>>1943162
While the Nurse is working to further help Wounded Guy, everyone quickly works to rebuild and restart the fire.
Once that is done, everyone puzzles over the buried items.

>Hand out gear []
>Investigate orb on pedestal
>Investigate entrance
>Investigate smoking debris
>Switch role []
>Other

>>1947167
>Switch role [Wounded Guy]

>>1947295
Support. Time for vision quest.

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>>1947295
>>1947298
>>1947295
>>Switch role [Wounded Guy]
You are now the Wounded Guy.

No, wait.
That's not your name.
Your name is Victor.
Victor Mundis.
And this is not your office.

You can't remember exactly where you are or how you got here.
After wandering aimlessly for what seems like ages, you come upon a bottomless cliff.
You stop to think about your next move.

>Jump into the bottomless cavern.
>Explore the mountains
>Find someone and ask for directions
>Write in

Sorry for the delay.
I checked right before you guys posted and then I wasn't planning on a vision quest.

>>1947380
>>1947394
How would you feel if we switched right back to Flattop after the vision quest started?

>>1947415
I'm good either way.
I just had to improvise a vision quest.
Player's choice.

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>>1947380
Searching a bit more, you've found a strange green box.

>Open green box
>Jump into the bottomless cavern.
>Explore the mountains
>Find someone and ask for directions
>Write in

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>>1947495
>>Of course you open the green box

The green box dissolves as you touch it.
In its place, a man stands before you in a drab, black suit. He has the expression of someone who needs more from you than they expect you want to give.
You’re used to seeing such expressions.
The man seems to be saying something, but it difficult to make out.
“…and the energy signal your men detected was my entry. I’ve come to learn about your people and society. But most of all, I need to learn the extent of your technology.”
“I think I remember this conversation.” you reply.
“No, my people seek only to trade with those we can confirm are friends.”
The man didn’t seem to understand you.
“That’s right, sir. An individual. We require a person of extraordinary worth as an example of the best your people can provide.”
You open your mouth to respond and hear your voice emerge without moving your lips.
“I’m certain our people can find you a worthy candidate. We often recruit-“
“That won’t be necessary, sir.”
Suddenly you remember now, this is a memory. The man is about to pull out a strange weapon and shoot you with a dart.

>Attack Flattop
>Accept fate and take the dart
>Run
>Write in

>>1947380
>>1947495
>>1947573
Was this being auto-run? I'm wondering what was going on there.

>>1947436
Neat.

>>1947578
>Was this being auto-run? I'm wondering what was going on there.
Kinda.
I worked up some art waiting for a reply.
The finding of the green box wasn't much of a development.
The opening of it was as far as I wanted to go without input.
And besides, who doesn't open a mysterious box in a vision quest?

>>1947591
Basically, I simply thought better of how I began the vision quest so I moved it along to another point with more direction.
I'm still dedicated to a player run quest.

>>1947573
>Attack Flattop
>Write in
Also say hello to the thing in the horizon and politely ask for help to kill Flattop

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>>1948325
>>Attack Flattop
>Also say hello to the thing in the horizon and politely ask for help to kill Flattop

You are in a strange, alien landscape attacking the memory of the man who tried to abduct you and a terrifying thing looming Over the Horizon is reaching its deadly claws towards you...

This sounds like an excellent networking challenge.
Stepping forward and striking the flat top agent in front of you, your powerful fist slammed into his jaw and his whole body begins to break up slightly like cotton candy in the rain, yet you feel nothing at all.
Turning your head to the behemoth, you exclaim, "Greetings friend!", using your most charming voice to the black being on the horizon.
The shifting mass of darkness freezes and gives you a puzzled look.

"Would you mind giving me a hand with this fellow? You seem like a capable one and I think working together we can sort this troublemaker out in short order. What do you say?"

After a brief pause, a nervous, hesitant voice booms from everywhere at once.
"Do... do you think I could? I'm really not supposed to. I'm not supposed to be able to talk, even. I'm just supposed to, you know, grow and spread and claw and, you know, kill you. You think I can get him? Um... O-okay! Mind the hemorrhage!"

A fist of claws like a Hovertrain made of twisting tar and smoke flies toward you and the agent.

>Stand your ground and pummel the Agent
>Leap to avoid the fist
>Ask the beast to wait for you to get clear
>write in

Btw,
I will be gently riding this thread as it slides off the board, updating it in response to player input, until I start a new one at 1am EST Thursday morning.

>>1935351
>>1935538
>>1949929
The thread autosaged, you can start a new one if you want to.

Wait, that bumped the thread.
Either way, I shall carry on.

>>1949935
>you can start a new one if you want to.
I want to wait until I can make a decent title card.

Technical difficulties have arose, bit I shall persevere...

>>1957080
RIP.

>>1957098
No, just all my prepared stuff got deleted.
Asspulling comencining.

>>1957191
Continued as "Quest Subjects" here >>1957216