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You are Alabaster Soliloquy, human tank and quickshot.

PREVIOUSLY:
-You and Rose squared off against Russian mobsters in a shootout. In the heat of the moment, you almost said something to Rose that can't be taken back, but she rebuffed you in the most hurtful possible way.
-Rose scored the decisive shot on their capo, Stasi Lebedev, but it's Tyrus who got the spoils -- he discovered an ocular implant in the gory remains.
-You rescued Rose2, who had been taken hostage, and rendezvoused with Kay to make your escape.
-At Mom's house, you determined to get some protection, not only for yourself, but for everyone who matters to you.
-Rose2, for her safety, moved in with you at Whitney's mansion.
-At Gal's loft, you met back up with Sable. In between her deranged rambling, she revealed that she wants to destroy Darkbloom Analytics and deliver the awesome power of Sand Reckoner to the people of the world.
-You confronted Alex over his secret plotting with Sable. He defended himself and begged for you help, which you promised him -- for now.
-At home, you tried to defray the war of the Roses with a little physical diplomacy between the two.
-You and Rose were detained by Noelle on suspicion of being involved with the shootout at Tyrus's club. She seemed to have you dead to rights, but suddenly her superiors ordered her to release the two of you.
-Cerise went missing -- or more accurately, Darkbloom went missing. Rose deduced that Vivian helped him engineer the escape.
-Saul legally disowned you, in preparation for drastic measures -- a marriage between you and Rose designed to protect you with the invocation of spousal privilege.

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Episode 1 ("New Game!!!"): https://archived.moe/qst/thread/3207742

Episode 2 ("L.A. Blue Girl"): https://archived.moe/qst/thread/3227871

Episode 3 ("Food Wars! Shokugeki no Mama, Part 1"): https://archived.moe/qst/thread/3248193

Episode 4 ("Food Wars! Shokugeki no Mama, Part 2"): https://archived.moe/qst/thread/3268859

Episode 5 ("The Princess of Tennis"): https://archived.moe/qst/thread/3291491

Episode 6 ("Ore no Okaasan ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai"): https://archived.moe/qst/thread/3311702

Episode 7 ("Girls und Scanner"): https://archived.moe/qst/thread/3334553

Episode 8 ("Boku no StuCo"): https://archived.moe/qst/thread/3355485

Episode 9 ("Revolutionary Girl Camelia"): https://archived.moe/qst/thread/3373994

Episode 10 ("Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashikunai"): https://archived.moe/qst/thread/3413961

Episode 11 ("Gunslinger Girl") https://archived.moe/qst/thread/3431655

Smut Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/u/CeriseSoliloquy (content not allowed on /qst/ will go here)
Season 1 Index: https://pastebin.com/u/DirtyCeriseFaggot
Season 2 Index: https://pastebin.com/iDiki7kt
Season 3 Index: https://pastebin.com/FAC5emid
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CeriseSoliloquy
Fan Wiki: https://fquest.miraheze.org
Season 1 Smut Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/rkSCNTEa

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AND NOW, EPISODE 12 OF FUCK QUEST:
"Darker than Bloom"
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>>3450226
I want to exchange vows with Rose!
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>>3450226
FIRST FOR WEDDING BELLS

VIVIAN STILL BEST
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FIRST FOR BREAKING THE CURSE
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Here's the current pairings table.

I also made a list noting how many episodes it's been since each haremite was featured in a lewd.

Rose: 1
Rose2: 1
Cerise: 2
Alex: 2
Galatea: 3
Amber: 3
Renee: 3
Charlotte: 3
Kay: 4
Makoto: 4
Whitney: 5
Vivian: 5
Noelle: 5
Sable: 16
Mom: -
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I want Rose2 to get a happy ending! I really, really do!
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>>3450238
Thank you Stats Anon
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Also, happy birthday to the Smartest Girl in the Universe!
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>>3450238

I think I'm drawing a blank, when did we have a solo scene with Alex?
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"Thank you, Damon, for picking us up."

"Aye."

Vivian steps into the limo's spacious backseat, lifting her dress to give her feet clearance, and Cerise follows. Drawing the plexiglass privacy window shut, the curtains too, Vivian turns to Cerise and says: "I am giving you three hours. And not a single second longer."

"Sable Guiteau is alive. She is plotting against this company. And--"

"That hardly comes as a surprise. Next I suppose you will tell me that Alabaster Soliloquy is intimately involved."

"Yes. Vivian, I made such a terrible mistake of judgment with Alabaster. He is a madman. A reckless, sadistic pervert -- a myopic, unstable -- for heaven's sake, he's involved in an incestuous relationship with his own sister!"

Vivian frowns. She appears totally unmoved by such a sordid revelation.

David continues. "He cannot be relied upon. Nor Whitney, I'm sorry to report, until we can isolate her from his influence. If left unchecked, he will be the death knell of our family legacy."

"Why do you suppose that matters to me?" Vivian asks, cocking her head.

He stammers. "Because this company... because, for all these years..." But David trails off. He can't even bring himself to contemplate that Vivian wouldn't want to save the family business.
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>>3450258
We didn't, that's why it isn't filled in
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>>3450264
>Damon
guhhhh
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>>3450264
>"Why do you suppose that matters to me?" Vivian asks, cocking her head.
blown the fuck out
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>>3450264
>"Yes. Vivian, I made such a terrible mistake of judgment with Alabaster. He is a madman. A reckless, sadistic pervert -- a myopic, unstable -- for heaven's sake, he's involved in an incestuous relationship with his own sister!"
>Vivian frowns. She appears totally unmoved by such a sordid revelation.
Who's gonna tell him?
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>>3450264
>For heaven's sake, he's involved in an incestuous relationship with his own sister!
Ohhh David, you really don't know your daughter, do you
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>>3450264
Loots like we can stop here, Darkbloom was already destroyed.
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"Alabaster Soliloquy is a madman. Is he madder than someone who performs medical experiments on young children?"

David scowls. "Vivian. Be reasonable. I never--"

"Shall we alert our security detail to help us locate Sable Guiteau?" Vivian asks.

"No -- no! We must do this in secret. There is no telling who might be compromised. Between Sable, and Alabaster, and your mother -- we are hedged in by enemies on all sides. Vivian... you are the only person I can trust. I beg of you, please help me."

"Why do you trust me?" Vivian asks him.

"I -- I have to. I have to trust you. You're the only thing I have left in this godforsaken world. If I cannot even trust you..."

"Spare me the melodramatic self-pity," Vivian tells him. "What would you have me do? How shall we stain our hands with blood today, father?"

"What comes next will not be on your head. You need not do a thing. But as for me -- I must kill Sable Guiteau. And Mara. You understand, of course. They are not merely threats to our company, and our legacy, but also to this young man Alabaster who you are so suicidally attracted to."

"Killing people comes as naturally to you as breathing, it seems."

David has no response.

"Did you murder Alabaster Soliloquy's parents?" Vivian asks.

David has no response to this, either.

"Your silence speaks volumes," Vivian says.

"I regret my choices bitterly," David replies. "I was also myopic... I was also mad... I want to make things right."

"There can be no making it right," Vivian says.

"At least I can make you safe, then -- the man you love, too. And once it's over, I suppose you will want to get in touch again with Gustav, and have me removed from Cerise's head. My life will be in your hands at that point, Vivian."

"In other words, I would be free to do what Alabaster Soliloquy failed to, and destroy you."

"You could do that... I would not blame you." He pauses, and then: "But I should at least give you a full understanding of what it is, exactly, I've let loose upon the world."

"Sand Reckoner?"

"Have you ever heard the name Albert Stubblebine?" David asks.

Season 2 OP (B): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYG_4vJ4qNA
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>>3450264
>"I've done your wife. I've done your mistress. I've done both your daughters. I've done YOU, technically. Maybe soon enough I'll get around to Mara and finally complete Darkbloom Bingo."
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>>3450284
Good lord, David.

Well at least we know we can still trust Vivian.
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>>3450293
We always could. Anyone who suspected otherwise was a fool.
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>>3450284
>"Did you murder Alabaster Soliloquy's parents?" Vivian asks.
>David has no response to this, either.

Well.

I guess the only question left is why.
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>>3450284
Absolutely Blown The Fuck Out
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>>3450284
>"What comes next will not be on your head. You need not do a thing. But as for me -- I must kill Sable Guiteau. And Mara.
Well, He can kill Mara all day in every lifetime, but do we let him get Sable?
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>>3450284
>"I regret my choices bitterly," David replies. "I was also myopic... I was also mad... I want to make things right."
Holy shit, I'm so happy. David apologists on fucking suicide watch
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You take the elevator down to Rose's office, hoping that you can intercept her before she has a chance to speak with Saul.

When you get there, Rose is at the window, staring out, her expression like that of a shell-shocked soldier just back from the trenches. She tenses when you come in, but doesn't acknowledge your presence -- just keeps watching the quad below.

She definitely knows already.

You wait awkwardly for a brief moment, trying to think of what to say. Your lips part and close several times but no words come out. Finally, you find the wherewithal to begin: "I didn't--"

Rose turns quickly, snapping to, standing straight. She cuts you off: "Fuck what Whitney says. We need to find Cerise."

You blink, and then nod. "Right," you agree. First things are first, of course. You can figure out the future of the Soliloquy family once every Soliloquy is safe again.

"Where would Darkbloom have gone?" Rose asks.

"If you're right, then he was awake at least as far back as yesterday afternoon. He would have heard us talking with Sable. So I guess he would want to find her. Either her or Mara. Or..." you gulp. "Or us."

Rose rubs her chin. "Sable first," she says. "She's the one who's the biggest direct threat to the things he values. If there's one fact I've learned about David Darkbloom, it's that he tackles things as efficiently and logically as possible..."

"How the hell are we going to find her? Or Cerise for that matter?"

"Alex would be our best lead. Err. Pardon the pun."

She's right. "I'll go talk to him," you say, and turn to hurry out. But Rose stops you.

"Alabaster--" she says anxiously. You glance back and lock eyes with her. She fiddles with the buttons of her blouse. "We... should talk later," she finishes.

You take your exit, and let that hang in the air.
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>>3450307
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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>>3450307
YES
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>>3450307
Rose is cute. Cute!
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>>3450245
Don't worry anon she'll be flower girl at our and the true Rose's wedding

What more could she ask for?
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>>3450307
yis
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Rose is the absolute best and I'm gonna be devastated if these death flags turn out.
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>>3450331
You shut your cunt of a mouth anon.

If she dies, we die too.
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>>3450331
If she dies, EVERYBODY dies
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>>3450337
This, any of /ourgirls/ die and we go on a full scorched-earth rampage.
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>>3450337
Nah, you're thinking of Cerise. She's the one running the simulation.
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>>3450346
>Implying it's not actually Makoto
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>>3450284
P S Y C H I C W A R F A R E

Seriously, what's up with Damon though?
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https://pastebin.com/Kpsu8GXQ
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>>3450358
!
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>>3450358
Oh.
Oh my.
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>>3450358
Well that's a thing
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>>3450358
...Alex is about to die, isn't he. That felt like a "cap" to all of his lewd scenes so far. I feel uneasy.
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Is fucking Darkbloom out of Cerise a viable strategy? Just traumatizing him so much that he can’t help losing control of her? Why am I asking when there is only one way to find out? Time for science!
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Whitney and Makoto get themselves presentable again. On her way out, Whitney winks, and whispers to you: "That was fun. I figure you'll probably want to go looking for Cerise, huh? Maybe he'll be more willing to help you, now..."

She's smarter than she seems sometimes.

She kisses you. You're a bit upset at her right now for how cavalier she's been about Cerise's disappearance, but the softness of her lips is difficult to resist.

She steps back. "I have a meeting to get to," she says. "You can sit in if you want, of course. That cunt Mara's gonna be there... could get ugly."

Whitney goes. Alone with Alex again, he's still a bit worse for the wear. You're fine with that -- and you're especially fine watching him, still naked, your seed still leaking out of him, as he licks up the mess you all made on the tile floor. So submissive when you apply a little force. And Whitney is right: this is the perfect time to broach the topic.

You get him upright, on weak and wobbly legs, and sit him down in a wheeled office chair. He's flushed and swooning.

"I need to speak with Sable," you tell him. "Where is she?"

"...Sable...?" He murmurs. "Why?"

"What the hell do you mean, 'why'? I have about a billion questions for her, that's why. Your girl Friday hasn't been exactly forthcoming, has she. I need some answers if I'm going to take part in -- whatever the hell it is she's cooking up."

"I don't know where she is..." he says, back of his palm to his forehead. He's still basking in the afterglow. But you need his head in the game here.

"Liar," you accuse.

"I'm not lying, Ally!" He's suddenly much more lucid, and his eyes are full of recrimination. "I -- never mind. If you want to arrange a meeting..." he leans forward, gropes for his crumpled jeans where they lie on the floor. "I can text her. Usually she can make it within an hour or two of contact."

He begins to type up a text to Sable.

[ ] Demand that you'll see Sable alone.
[ ] Let Alex play it his way.
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>>3450358

Thank god we managed to save him from those deviants.
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>>3450384
>[X] Let Alex play it his way.
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>>3450384
>[x] Let Alex play it his way.

We are doing this to save her, after all. Amongst other things.
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>>3450384
>[ ] Let Alex play it his way.
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>>3450384
>[x] Let Alex play it his way.
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>>3450384
>[x] Let Alex play it his way.
Leaving us alone with Sable is bad news.
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>>3450384
>[x] Let Alex play it his way.
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>>3450384
>[X] Let Alex play it his way.
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>>3450384
>[ ] Demand that you'll see Sable alone.
Just because he’s going to get us killed by gangbangers by sheer proximity at this point.
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>>3450384
>[x] Demand that you'll see Sable alone.
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>>3450384
>[ ] Let Alex play it his way.
Considering he's the reason shy she hasn't killed us yet I don't see why we wouldn't
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>>3450384
>[X] Let Alex play it his way.
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>>3450397
Oh come on, we'd only rape the info out of her.
>>3450384
>[x] Let Alex play it his way.
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>[X] Let Alex play it his way

After a few moments, Alex glances up from the screen. "She'll be at the Rutabaga Cafe on Middlefield... 8 PM."

You nod. You consider telling him that there might be an unwanted guest, or two, but you decide against it.

Unexpectedly, Dr. Carte rounds the corner and enters the small lab. She quickly appraises the scene -- the wet mess on the floor, you and Alex both still naked.

"I always miss all the fun," she grouses.

You begin to get dressed again. You're still angry at her -- especially as she lights up a cigarette in your vicinity. It stinks.

"What are you doing here?" You demand.

"I'm a faithful employee," Dr. Carte avers. "Attached to the Diogenes project."

"I need Ms. Carte's input on how to make her implant design more easily mass-produced," Alex explains. "She's critical to our success..."

"Of course, the job comes with its perks, too," Dr. Carte says. She pokes Alex in his side, and he jolts.

"H-hey," he whines. "Don't just poke me without any--"

"Shut it!" Dr. Carte booms.

Alex shuts it. As always, he's easily bossed around by an even halfway dominant woman.

Dr. Carte lays a hand on your shoulder and leans in close. "I'm..." she murmurs, "I'm so sorry about what happened."

"Forget it," you say gruffly.

"Any leads?" She asks hopefully.

[ ] Invite her along to the meeting with Sable.
[ ] Don't tell her.
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>>3450435
>[x] Invite her along to the meeting with Sable.
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>>3450435
[X] Invite her along to the meeting with Sable.
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>>3450435
>[x] Invite her along to the meeting with Sable.
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>>3450435
>[x] Invite her along to the meeting with Sable.
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>>3450435
>[X] Invite her along for the meeting with Sable.
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>>3450435
>[x] Invite her along to the meeting with Sable.
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>>3450435
>[ ] Invite her along to the meeting with Sable.
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>>3450435
>[x] Invite her along to the meeting with Sable.
Is there any reason not to?
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>>3450435
>[x] Invite her along to the meeting with Sable.
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>>3450435
>[ ] Invite her along to the meeting with Sable.

Hopefully two Sofia Sant-Elizabeths from different timelines meeting won't cause them to mutually annihilate.
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Anyone else get the feeling that the Rutabaga Cafe won't survive the episode?
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Has news of the explosion at the Server Farm come out yet?
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>>3450463
It won't be a problem if they have D4C
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What's your sin tonight, /fq/-tachi?

Joker is fun, but I need other things to do. And I expect too many HAPPENINGS this episode to have too much time for anime.
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>>3450435
>[ ] Invite her along to the meeting with Sable.
>>3450499
Wanting to kill myself in CoH2 as always.
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>[x] Invite her along to the meeting with Sable.

"I'm meeting Sable Guiteau at 8 PM tonight," you tell her.

"Ally--" Alex begins, upset, but you shush him.

"You said Dr. Carte is critical to this project, right? Well then, she deserves to be in the loop as much as anyone."

Alex shakes his head. He might be kinky in the bedroom, but he doesn't like not being in control where it counts.

"I'll be there," Dr. Carte tells you.

You whisper: "Darkbloom might be there too. And Vivian."

Dr. Carte's eyes shimmer. "Then I'll definitely be there," she says.
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>>3450499
I should do homework but instead I'm splatfest...
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>>3450502
Why aren't we telling this to Alex? ffs Alabaster
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>>3450502
That's... a worrisome reaction.
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The executive board meeting doesn't actually start for another 20 minutes -- so even if you're going to go, you've got some time to do something else. You need to speak with Saul.

It being not long after lunch, you know precisely where to find him: the employee gym. You scope it out from the safety of the employee cafeteria, first -- watching in through the tall glass walls that separate the eaters from the exercisers. Yep, Saul is there all right -- in a plain white tee and nylon shorts, working out, his usual routine. He's at an exercise machine doing bench presses. You read off where he has the pin in the weight stack: 250 lbs. You're not sure, but that's probably impressive. He does work out religiously.

However, between sets, wiping his forehead with a small towel, he takes notice of a woman doing some sort of cardiovascular balance exercises on a giant, striated, inflatable grey ball.

Saul stands now, goes over, and strikes up a conversation. The woman smiles brightly and allows Saul to touch her -- one hand on her shoulder, another on her taut butt accentuated by form-fitting yoga pants. He's helping her with her form, of course. Nothing lurid or sexual about that... yeah, right.

Saul has a type, it seems. And you respect the hell out of his taste. The woman whose form he's helping on her balance ball is a MILFy little piece with nice thick thighs and an hourglass shape, not fat, but definitely no question about her ability to bear a child...

You shudder. If you had seen this a few weeks ago, you would have simply assumed that Saul is being his usual solicitous, gregarious, type-A self and just helping out another gym rat. After your encounter with Charlotte, of course, you know the truth. She wasn't lying; she's not the only one to stray from the vows of marriage. You can swear you see Saul's hand give that woman's ass a little squeeze.
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>>3450513
This board meeting is gong to be a lot less fun than the others.

Also god damn, what a chad Saul is.
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>>3450502
>You whisper: "Darkbloom might be there too. And Vivian."
>Dr. Carte's eyes shimmer. "Then I'll definitely be there," she says.
Hmmm
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>>3450513
Christ Saul and Ally are alike, no wonder they don't get along.
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>>3450470
At this point, Alabaster should just have it leveled.
>>3450513
What an absolute fucking beast. I hope he gets his day in court on this Third Amendment shtick.
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>>3450534
>I hope he gets his day in court on this Third Amendment shtick.
Didn't he already do that?
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>>3450513
Anyone think we should tell Whitney that we're going to destroy her company?
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When Saul moves on to the treadmills for a little wind-down, you decide to go in too. You feel awkward in gym clothes, but you're trying to play it nonchalant -- just a fellow exerciser happening to bump in to him during your routine.

Quickly, and feeling self-conscious, you walk up to the treadmill next to Saul's. You get on and fiddle with the front panel. You don't do this often -- as in ever -- and you realize right away that these machines are much more complicated than you guessed. Saul, maintaining a nice cruising pace of 8 MPH with his fists pumping in time to his jogging feet, glances over at you, wryly, but says nothing.

You startle when the treads come to life, and start jogging to keep up. But it's hopeless: you're quickly outpaced by the machine. You grab onto the side rails for dear life, still kicking your feet madly, but too late. You fall ass over elbow and get ejected off the treadmill in a moment of pure slapstick. You hope no one saw.

You hear Saul's machine slow to a stop and beep when it turns off. He steps down and helps you to your feet. You dust yourself off, ashamed, unable to meet his eyes.

"I see you heard the good news," he says.

You grumble.

"I've got one for you," he says. "You know, they say the shortest complete sentence in the English language is 'I am.' And you know what the longest sentence is? 'I do'! Haha. That's a joke. Learn to laugh a little."

You finally look up at him. "Are you really... okay with me marrying your daughter?"

"Oh my god. Oh Jesus, no. Hell, no." He puts his hands on his hips. "Beyond the fact that you're cousins--"

"Once--"

"I will punch you in the jaw. You will be eating liquid food through a straw for the next three months. I swear to all that's holy, Alabaster."

You shut up.

"Beyond the fact that you're cousins... I don't approve of you anyway. If you want to know the honest truth, you've been a horrible influence on my girl and led her down a path of violence, greed, and perversion. Taking you into my home was the worst mistake of my life."

That sounds more like the Saul you know. You nod. "So why are you doing this?"

"A, because there's no other way. B, because despite how I feel about you, Rose loves you. You're the one and only thing I've never been able to convince her about. So, congratulations. She's her mother's daughter after all."

"She's not going to agree -- I don't want to get -- Jesus fuck, Saul. You could have asked first."

He chuckles. "Yeah, sure. You and Rose, oil and water, definitely nothing there. It's a marriage purely for show, of course..." He tilts his head. "Shouldn't you be discussing this with her, though?"

He nods towards the windows that look in on the cafeteria. You feel a jolt of panic, turn, and glance over. A flash of yellow hair disappearing around a corner and out the doors is all you glimpse. Rose was spying, of course... so naturally that means she saw your little incident on the treadmill. Great.
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>>3450545
H e h.
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>>3450545
What a callback. Alabaster's a fatty.
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>>3450545
I wonder if Rose has ever spied on her dad getting it on with women other than her mother.
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>>3450545
>"I've got one for you," he says. "You know, they say the shortest complete sentence in the English language is 'I am.' And you know what the longest sentence is? 'I do'! Haha. That's a joke. Learn to laugh a little."
Kek
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>>3450545

"I've fallen off the treadmill for you!"
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You grab a slice of pizza from the canteen on your way back down to the lockers to get dressed in your work clothes again. Naturally, Rose intercepts you in the stairwell. How does she always find you? You don't even have your phone on you right now.

"Do you ever get tired of stalking me?" You ask.

"No. How did it go with Alex?"

"It went. I'm meeting Sable at 8. Rutabaga Cafe. If Darkbloom somehow manages to find her, I'll be with her from that point forward."

"Naturally, I'll come too."

"Naturally. I guess you won't wait for me to invite you --"

"No. Is that barbecue chicken?" She reaches out and grabs your pizza from you before you have a chance to stop her. She takes a couple bites. Then she hands it back as if she's doing you a favor.

"Don't start taking liberties, Rose. Nothing's changed."

She swallows. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Uh huh." You eat your pizza sullenly.

"Whitney's meeting with the board. So here's something I actually will defer to you on. Are you going too, or should one of us go to the Rutabaga Cafe?"

[ ] Go to the board meeting together.
[ ] Send Rose to the meeting, head directly to the cafe.
[ ] Go to the meeting, send Rose to the cafe.
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>>3450587
>[x] Go to the meeting, send Rose to the cafe.
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>>3450587
>[x] Send Rose to the meeting, head directly to the cafe.
r e a d y - t o - d i e
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>>3450587
>[X] Send Rose to the meeting, head directly to the cafe.
do
it
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>>3450587
>[x] Go to the board meeting together.

This vote terrifies me.

It is now the midnight of April 21st, 2019. The most important 421 of all.
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>>3450587
>[x] Send Rose to the meeting, head directly to the cafe.
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IT'S HERE
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>>3450587
>[X] Send Rose to the meeting, head directly to the cafe.
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>>3450587
>[X] Send Rose to the meeting, head directly to the cafe.
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>>3450587
>[x] Send Rose to the meeting, head directly to the cafe.
I trust our wife- I mean Rose to handle the meeting on her own
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>>3450587
>[ ] Go to the board meeting together.
Splitting up seems potentially bad.
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>>3450587
>[ ] Go to the board meeting together.
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>>3450587
>[x] Send Rose to the meeting, head directly to the cafe.
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And of course, Happy Birthday to the other Darkbloom sister!
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>>3450587
>[ ] Go to the board meeting together.
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>>3450587
>[ ] Send Rose to the meeting, head directly to the cafe.
W O R R Y
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>>3450587
>[ ] Send Rose to the meeting, head directly to the cafe.
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>[x] Send Rose to the meeting, head directly to the cafe.

Closing and writing.
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>>3450587
>[ ] Send Rose to the meeting, head directly to the cafe.
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>>3450616
You never wished happy birthday to a certain someone else
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>>3450635
Hopefully she can protect Alex from whatever Tyrus tries to pull.
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>>3450637
That's because it can't possibly be her real birthday!
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>>3450637
I want to give Amber an extra special birthday present!
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>>3450641
Why do you say that?
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>>3450648
A antique Nazi uniform?
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>>3450651
If Amber is Camelia, she's not 17 years old!
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>>3450658
Why not?
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>>3450651
You can't give a girl who's not real a birthday that is.

>>3450655
I want to put a baby in Amber. She's 18 now. She is legal in all states, nations, and realities.
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>>3450648
Don't think I don't see that nipple
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>>3450665
Did you forget the video we saw of her receiving Catachresis?
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>>3450672
delet this
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>>3450587
Send rose to the meeting, go to the cafe
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>>3450680
Damn little late but whatever.
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>>3450678
I never objected to it
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>>3450673
Nazi communists are too cool to follow the rules of time anon
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>[x] Send Rose to the meeting, head directly to the cafe.

The trappings of this cutesy little cafe are anything but nostalgic. Just the unique aroma of their specialty coffee being brewed is enough to make you queasy with the memory of how it all began -- a meeting with Camelia that marked the beginning of your life's rapid descent into mayhem.

You check the time: you're a couple hours early. But it's best to catch Sable early than to get here too late. She's going to be here for sure, so maybe she'll arrive sooner than scheduled, too; and if Darkbloom is going after her, it's best to maximize your odds of intercepting him.

You're so mad at Vivian that you can hardly put it into words. The more you think about it, the worse the betrayal stings. You know you'll never trust her again.

The steel of one of Rose's pistols is cool against your skin, tucked into your waistband and concealed by your shirt. Hopefully you don't need to use it.

You jostle your legs and down cup after cup of coffee, anxious. They were right: the waiting is the hardest part. Patrons come and go, the sun begins to droop in the sky, and still you wait. After a while you begin to worry that you made a mistake not being present at the board meeting. The silence from both Whitney and Rose is deafening. You could easily picture Mara staging something terrible in a moment of retributive rage.

"Early..."

You look up. Wearing a hood and big square sunglasses, but unmistakable anyway, is Sable.

She sits across from you.

"I'll cut to the chase," you say. "You're in danger. Someone wants to kill you."

"Many people want to kill me, Alabaster. At this point, I'm accustomed to it."

"Well, one of them might be closer to it than the others. David Darkbloom is after you."

"David Darkbloom is dead."

You rest your cheek on your fist. "No, he isn't. But that doesn't surprise you, does it?"

Sable is inscrutable behind her ridiculous domestic-terrorist cosplay.
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>>3450710
And here we go
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"Partly thanks to your work," you explain, "David Darkbloom lives on inside my sister."

"It isn't David Darkbloom," Sable says. "It's some reconstruction of his consciousness... an echo... like the ripples in a pond after you drop a rock in. David Darkbloom is dead."

"Well whatever it is, it sure as hell acts a lot like him. And so it considers you enemy #1. He heard you talking to us yesterday -- and I'm sure he's not happy."

"Just don't go taking after his strange ideas," Sable says.

"His strange ideas? You're one to talk."

"What I mean to say is -- the map is not the territory. Sand Reckoner can change, but it can also simulate. Don't conflate the two. The thing in your sister's brain is a simulation. Just like that silly VR game. That's all."

"I honestly don't care. I want it out of Cerise. Can you help me with that?"

"Unfortunately not. Ask your friend Renee Carte."

"She'll be here, too. Congratulations, Sable. The whole band's getting together, and you're the conductor. Care to clue me in on what we're actually doing now?"

"I brought a visual aid," she says. "Do you mind if I go get it?"

"From your van? Oh no you don't. I'm not letting you run away. We go together."

"I would never dream of running. Not from such an important meeting. But be my guest. The van is more private anyway."

(Please wait warmly.)
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>>3450718
I've never been more terrified to see those words.
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>>3450718
o fu
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>>3450718
>Sand Reckoner is simulating David Darkbloom in order to manipulate events into going the way it wants
We Person of Interest now
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>>3450718
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>>3450731
b a s i l i s k
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>>3450710
>You know you'll never trust her again.
Don't say that OP.... I *do* still trust her, and I *really* want Alabaster to as well.....
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>>3450718
Oh boy
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>>3450718
huh
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>>3450718
Does she have some classic rock CDs in there?
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>>3450758
Everything from Bon Jovi to The Eagles. She has beer and cigarettes too!
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>>3450758
>>3450760
Do you really think Alabaster would fall for that old trick? They don't even do that any more, it's just an urban legend at this point. She's be giving herself away if she tried.
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>>3450758
>classic Rock

In Sable's van? HAH! You'd be more likely to find a Smattering of shoegaze vinyl.
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>>3450718
I was curious if we were gonna fuck this season
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>>3450731
OH FUCK HOW DID I NOT THINK OF THAT BEFORE
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So far its a great birthday present OP. :^)
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>>3450854
You can't rush greatness anon
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Sable's van is the same as ever. Same mattress in the back, same miniature appliances, same cozy furnishings and amber-colored lighting. She chooses to live like this, and you guess you can see the appeal if you squint, but you'd take Whitney's mansion any day.

Sitting cross-legged opposite Sable on her bed, you watch as she places a strange contraption between the two of you. It's a thin rectangular device made of balsa wood, maybe 12 inches tall, with glass windows on either side to peer at its inner workings. A series of tiny, identical ball bearings lie in a line at the very top, and beneath this is a series of ridges slanting in alternating directions for them to roll down. The device is filled with liquid, which is separated top to bottom in clearly demarcated, colored layers -- a rainbow -- from red to violet. Sable pulls a little lever on the side and the bearings slowly sink down, rolling from layer to layer. Occasionally one of the bearings falls out of the procession, though -- instead of dropping to the next ridge down, it stays suspended on the current layer of liquid, neutrally buoyant. And like this, the bearings, which looked identical, are shown not to be -- they are sorted by density from lightest to heaviest.

"Cute," you muse.

"The bearings began together, and then got sorted."

"I understand high school physics. Give me a little credit here. Did you make this thing yourself? You look super proud of it."

Sable points at the window, to where the bearings float in suspension. "Sand Reckoner is the fluid. Diogenes is the framework. You need both to sort people into their ideal state. Without Diogenes, we become muddled and mixed up, conflicting realities battle with each other for dominance and the world becomes crazy. That's our world currently, by the way. And without Sand Reckoner, of course, Diogenes is pointless. All the people stay together in one reality. Which is ideal for some, but not for all. That was our world before Sand Reckoner."

You begin to grasp the contours of what she's trying to tell you. "That sounds basically identical to what Darkbloom wanted, though -- isn't it?"

"No! No, absolutely not!" (Christ, she gets shrill when she's mad.) "David Darkbloom was a moron. He thought he could half-ass it and just give the people a nice simulation. Stupid, stupid, stupid. My vision takes it one step further. We can all be sorted properly, and enjoy our most ideal world -- and it will all be real."
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>>3450854
Imagine associating your birthday with fuck quest every year for the rest of your life.

Which reminds me, remember my little Gameboy ROM? There was a reason behind that. :^)
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>>3450850
sand reckoner is simulating Cerise to manipulate Alabaster and other individuals of interest.
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>>3450866
That sounds awfully racist, Sable.
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>>3450867
it just doesn't stop!
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>>3450866
>"No! No, absolutely not!" (Christ, she gets shrill when she's mad.) "David Darkbloom was a moron. He thought he could half-ass it and just give the people a nice simulation. Stupid, stupid, stupid. My vision takes it one step further. We can all be sorted properly, and enjoy our most ideal world -- and it will all be real."
Oh my God, more of this "ideal world" shit?
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>>3450866
This is some Lain-tier shit
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https://pastebin.com/HtJhgGmx
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>>3450881
nnnnice
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>>3450881
whoooo
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>>3450867
You absolute bastard.
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>>3450881
oh shit it's every dream I've ever had come true
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>>3450881
First real fearboner of this season for me.
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>>3450881
It's time
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>>3450881
>With a crazy glint in her eyes, she takes the gun and puts it in her mouth instead.
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>>3450881
good lord she's batshit and i love it
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>>3450881
>You dutifully hold the gun for her, unable to do much else but Glawk.
FTFY
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>>3450881
>He told me that the two of you were through.
:(
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Have we learned nothing from Chaos;Head?
So clearly the best ending would be to destroy both sand reckoner and diogenes along with all of the research related to them.
Is that possible at this point?
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>>3450929
>You pick up Sable's device and examine it. "How do you get the bearings back up to the top?" You ask.

>"You don't. It's an irreversible process."

>"Uh huh. Or you could just break the window open--"

>Sable grabs it back from you. "Some people would want to do that. But that doesn't apply to the analogy."
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Back inside the cafe, at 8 PM, come Rose, Alex, and Dr. Carte on schedule.

Rose takes you aside. "We have a problem. Well, a couple problems. A couple catastrophes, is more like it..."

"Start from the top."

"China."

"A nation of 1.2 billion or so people, headed by President Xi Jinping -- or are you trying to do another NMNB run of Touhou 6?"

"A Chinese company bought Google today. $1 trillion. Just like that, out of the blue." She snaps her fingers. "Well, Mara is right about one thing. That company has the backing of the Chinese government. And they're not moving into the valley for fun. They want our tech."

"They can have it, honestly."

"Don't be flippant. This is end-of-the-world shit here, Alabaster."

"Tell Whitney to talk to the President. They're friends, right? I'm sure an executive order could stop the deal from going through..."

"You are unbelievable -- do you honestly think that some silly slip of paper signed by a doddering idiot can stop China from coming after us?"

You frown at her.

"Catastrophe two," Rose continues. "One of our server farms blew up."

You glance over Rose's shoulder, towards the table where Alex and Sable are conferring with Dr. Carte.

"Yep," Rose says.

"Alex--"

"He's got bombs, disguised as new server equipment, at every single server farm we own. Mara thinks the Chinese are behind this, thank goodness for good timing -- but the truth is, this was a botch job by the boy wonder over there."

"That lying little--"

"This is good news," Rose says. "If we can speed up getting that fucking implant out of your skull and Cerise's, we can destroy this entire company. Fuck Sand Reckoner, fuck Diogenes, fuck the Russians, fuck the Chinese, fuck the FBI. We can end this. You and me."

You regard her.

"Alabaster."

"I feel like I'm making a key decision here..."

She takes your hand. "You already made it, didn't you?"

You nod. "Let's do it."
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>>3450936
>"I feel like I'm making a key decision here..."

She takes your hand. "You already made it, didn't you?"
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>>3450936
>You nod. "Let's do it."
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>>3450936
I don't want Rose to win!
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>>3450930
Sable isn't capable of sanity, sand reckoner is her baby, and she's a psychotic mother. It needs to be ended. The good ending to Mass Effect 3 was the Destruction one.
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>>3450943
I want Rose to win! I really want it!
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>>3450936
>We can end this. You and me.
Uh, and everyone else?
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>>3450936
holy fucking hell
im not sure how to stomach FQ turning seriously serious
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>>3450945
You simply asked if it was possible, Anonymous-dono.
I was simply demonstrating that it was.
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>>3450950
fair enough
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>>3450936
Rose is truly the best

>>3450943
Wow, what a faggot
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>>3450943
same, desu
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>>3450943
I want this namefag to be disappointed when Rose wins!
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>>3450947
>Uh, and everyone else?
I don't think she's gonna go full Yan and let everyone else die, she obviously cares for Whitney and such I think it was just a pep talk
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>>3450667
>She is legal in all states, nations, and realities
why does that matter?
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>>3450948
but anon, a tiny and vocal minority really really *really* enjoy this aspect of FQ and would rather drown in existential suffering instead of fapping to lewd tales of fucking our MILF cousin and Kaa-san at the same time!

They're filthy Sable-loving degenerate that need to be euthanized to protect the purity Gene-Seed
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>>3450943
Uh do you have a reason other than waifufaggotry? Cause those two seem kind of perfect for each other

Not trying to imply that there's anything wrong with the waifufaggotry option either, to each their own
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>>3450963
>>3450947
It's probably her thinking about how they're going to get married
you and me
us
married
together
forever
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>>3450969
>>3450975
This. I hate this.
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>>3450977
? I was just asking a question out of genuine curiosity, I don't see what's wrong
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>>3450967
>a tiny and vocal minority
There's quite a few people that seem to like the more serious aspects of FQ
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>>3450977
The final episode will be called:
"Rose Wins"
>>3450967
Sable needs to be euthanized to protect the Gene-Seed
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>>3450967
I'll take Quest > Fuck any day, It's what keeps me coming back
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Sable is busy explaining her density-sorting device to a wild-eyed Dr. Carte.

"You're... as interesting as I remember," Dr. Carte finally says.

"You understand, then, the need to make sure this reaches an acceptable end-point," Sable says. "If we don't complete Diogenes, the very fabric of reality itself could come undone. One Sand Reckoner is fine, but once someone else gets their hands on this tech... Russians, CIA, whoever... things will become untenable. We must act with haste."

"Of course," Dr. Carte says. She looks over at you, arching her eyebrows, as if to silently communicate: bitch be crazy.

You shrug.

"Ms. Carte and I are working on a new generation of 3D-printable implant, that could be easily disseminated to the public," Alex says. He's trying to put on his genki, all-smiles act, but he's shaken. The wages of death hang heavy on his shoulders. Because of his mistake with the server farm, more people have died -- and he's perfectly well aware of it. Could you ever forgive him for everything he's done?

"You have been such an inspiration to me," Sable tells Dr. Carte. "Your breakthroughs were the foundation of -- well, of everything."

"I'm going to try to be flattered by that."

"You should be. It's all thanks to you. You're a role model."

Dr. Carte closes her eyes and shakes her head. For her, you can tell it's like finding out Dahmer's a big fan.

The bell above the cafe's door chimes. You all look up: in comes walking Vivian and Cerise.
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>>3450984
>The final episode will be called:
>"Rose Wins"
I'm waiting to see that spammed when the wedding scene happens, it'll be glorious
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>>3450981
Nothing more than waifufaggotry then. Thought you were memeing along, didn't know you were actually serious.

I just think "Rose wins." is a bit too solid for something like this. Then again, a lot of people rightly conside rit the only way to go, seeing as FQ literally would not be as it is now without Rose.

>>3450988
oof
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>>3450963
Yeah that's not how I was reading it, I just think that's a weird way to phrase it when Rose is like the 3rd or 4th most involved in blowing up DA at best.

>>3450975
This seems more likely though
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>>3450988
Here we fucking go.
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>>3450947
>We can end this. You and me. Working together.
If there's an anagram in the episode titles I'm gonna lose it.
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>>3450988
>You all look up: in comes walking Vivian and Cerise
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
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>>3450990
>I just think "Rose wins." is a bit too solid for something like this
I agree, but it is also true that harems typically have a "main" girl.
I doubt anyone could argue that Rose is the closest thing to that in FQ.
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>>3450967
i dont dislike plot, but im just a tender soul, no sufferingo por favor

so this is the same as in season 1, right? Everyone will be altering their reality, without influencing others? Like the VR dream David proposed back in the day? but this time, technically, every universe gets split up for every individual deciding to become the protagonist; did i get this right?
If yes, then i dont see much harm in Sable's plans, its just toppest shelf crazy.
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>>3450988
>Could you ever forgive him for everything he's done?
Knowing this thread, they'll forget about it in 10 minutes and write it off like it never happened

>>3450988
>You all look up: in comes walking Vivian and Cerise.
Ah, so it begins
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>>3451004
I mean, Alex isn't the only one who's killed people here...

>>3451001
This
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>>3450988
>in comes walking Vivian and Cerise.
Good. I haven't had enough pain, and I want more.
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>>3450990
Oh, ok. Didn't know if you had an actual reason like if we marry Rose such and such will happen

>Then again, a lot of people rightly conside rit the only way to go, seeing as FQ literally would not be as it is now without Rose.
Damn right, she's the reason we're all here in the first place
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>>3451003
The fucky part is how "it's all real". If it's all real, none of it is. Say everyone gets an implant. What happens to everyone else? Does everyone else in your reality also get an implant? Are everyone else's non-functional? Does it just phase itself out of existence for people that aren't you or does it all become some solipsistic multiverse mass where we're all occupying the same space but nothing truly exists outside of what we can perceive?
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>>3450990
>I just think "Rose wins." is a bit too solid for something like this. Then again, a lot of people rightly conside rit the only way to go, seeing as FQ literally would not be as it is now without Rose
That's one of the many things that make her so based

>>3451001
>I doubt anyone could argue that Rose is the closest thing to that in FQ.
I know right? Isn't she perfect
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>>3451013
most likely solipsistic.

also, don't fear marriage. its just a legal designation.
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>>3450988
>The bell above the cafe's door chimes. You all look up: in comes walking Vivian and Cerise.
Oh boy...
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>>3451036
uhhhh?
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>>3451036
shit shit SHIT
>WAKE UP
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>>3451036
... this is way too good to be true. What the fuck is the catch?
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>>3450996
Episode 1 ("New Game!!!"):
Episode 2 ("L.A. Blue Girl"):
Episode 3 ("Food Wars! Shokugeki no Mama, Part 1"):
Episode 4 ("Food Wars! Shokugeki no Mama, Part 2"):
Episode 5 ("The Princess of Tennis"):
Episode 6 ("Ore no Okaasan ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai"):
Episode 7 ("Girls und Scanner"):
Episode 8 ("Boku no StuCo"):
Episode 9 ("Revolutionary Girl Camelia"):
Episode 10 ("Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashikunai")
Episode 11 ("Gunslinger Girl")
Episode 12 ("Darker than Bloom")
Well?
Do you want to think of what they could be?


>>3451003
> i dont see much harm in Sable's plans, its just toppest shelf crazy.

The way I see it, it's like playing a game with console commands.
I was struggling in a game of CK2, things weren't going my way, so I opened up the console, and started making some changes to better suit my interests.
I set myself to be the lover of like..half of the worlds women.
I started revolts in all of my enemie's counties.
I had infinite funds and infinite children.

I had no reason to keep playing.
I hadn't earned any of it, and none of what I had managed to get felt real.
Not only did I separate myself from the influence of outside forces, I separated myself from my desire to continue playing.

“If you want to grant your own wish, then you should clear your own path to it.” – Rintaro Okabe

>>3451013
>What happens to everyone else?

i'll just leave some quotes from steins;gate

“Remembering something that no one else can is a painful thing. You can’t talk to anyone about it. No one will understand you. You’ll be alone.” – Rintaro Okabe

“Maybe there are copies of me on countless world lines. Maybe all their minds are connected, forming a single “me.” That sounds wonderful, don’t you think? Being in all times and in all places.” – Kurisu Makise
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>>3451036
I'm still sad we never went Palau
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>>3451048
we've got a whole half season + left
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>>3451052
>implying the half season isn't just a 6-episode Comiket OVA
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>>3451055
Yeah, that ends with us sipping cocktails on the beaches of Palau with Cerise and Amber.
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Goodnight
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>>3451052
I thought OP was originally aiming for 13 episodes, and while they're behind for now, they aren't that far behind.
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>>3451063
But OP already confirmed a season 3.5, Anonymous-dono.
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>>3451036
So we're already in Alabaster's ideal simulated (?) reality, huh.

>>3451045
If only we had some kind of loli word processor.
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>>3451063
He said we'd get 13, maybe a couple more, then a short hiatus, and then more, but not enough for a whole season 4
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>>3451052
Yeah but there's no reason to go there, now that Gustav is here
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>>3451059
>Cerise and Amber
And Rose, and Rose2, and Whitney, and Makoto, and Kaa-san, and Charlotte, and Dr. Carte, and Noelle, and Kay, and Vivian, and Sable, and Alex.
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>>3451060
Weakling

>>3451063
We've got another season after this of undetermined length
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>>3451075
And Smatters
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I had two concepts for this episode, and I'm going to do something unprecedented, and retcon on the fly, to go with my alternate version of this scene I just posted.

Given the importance of this, I wanted to use an authoritative voice-of-god here to say that this is not some sort of clever meta-textual tomfoolery or 4/21 nonsense, I just decided to scrap one version of events for another; accordingly, I'm deleting the last post I made and reposing with the version I want to run with. I am sorry for this unusual moment of indecision.
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>>3451078
absolute fear
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>>3451078
>I wanted to use an authoritative voice-of-god here to say that this is not some sort of clever meta-textual tomfoolery or 4/21 nonsense
Oh sure, that's what you WANT us to think
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>>3451078
u-uh, okay OP. You do you.
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>>3451078
For whatever reason, I find this moment of vulnerability to be endearing and adorable.

You do you OP
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>>3451078
Weird but ok I guess?
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You stand, pushing your chair back from the table. The chair legs squeal against the slick concrete floor. Surreptitiously, you reach behind your back, for your gun -- but what an impotent threat that really would be anyway. You could never shoot Cerise, and despite everything she's done -- you could never shoot Vivian either. If they attack Sable, you can't stop them. And in all honesty... it might be for the best. The only thing you could possibly do is try to talk them down from the edge.

Rose is standing with you. Together, you flank Sable.

"It is done," Vivian announces.

"Done..." you repeat. "Done how?"

"Alabaster," Cerise says, her voice catching. She holds her arms wide. "It's me."

"I don't believe you. You're wearing contacts."

"No -- no, I swear... listen--"

You step forward, getting closer. You loom over her.

"Alabaster," she repeats. "Vivian got in touch with--"

You reach up and poke her eye.

"Ow! FUCK!" She jerks back, cupping a hand over her face. Then she slugs you in the shoulder. "ASSHOLE! Way to ruin a fucking moment! Jesus FUCK! Can't just let us explain something, huh?"

You look down at your forefinger. No contact lens there -- and your finger definitely found only the squishy membrane of Cerise's eyeball. Her eyes are the proper color, so...

Vivian gives you a wan smile. "Maybe we should have waited for Ms. Healy to catch up..."

Into the cafe now, peeking her head demurely in, comes a face you never expected -- Galatea. She's obviously terrified to be out in public, and trembles and startles as she slowly approaches. She casts her eyes uncertainly this way and that, as if being pursued or watched by the other patrons -- but it's all in her head, of course.

Dangling from Gal's clenched fist is a thin wire, the a tiny white grain on the end of it. Cerise's implant has been removed.

You look at Cerise. She nods.

You feel a convulsion of grief, joy, and anger all at once -- the bottled-up emotions of these long weeks of terror finally bursting forth in one tangled confusion. You wrap your arms around her and hug her tighter than you've ever hugged her. "Cerise..." you say, voice muffled by her shoulder. She hugs you back. And when you pull away from that warm, seemingly never-ending embrace, you kiss her -- on the lips, with tongue, damn who sees it. You love your sister. You love her like a sister, and you also love her like that. Who cares, anyway? She loves you like that too. And now she's back, fully -- in her own body, under her own control, permanently.

"You should keep ahold of that implant," Sable tells you. "You never know when you might need it again."

"Fuck you," you tell her without looking back. You gaze into your sister's loving eyes. She smiles at you.

Sable slurps on a straw. "Well, I warned you."
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>>3451075
Wow, fuck Gal I guess
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>>3451086
THIS IS SOMEHOW EVEN SCARIER THAN IT ALREADY WAS
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>>3451086
>"Maybe we should have waited for Ms. Healy to catch up..."
Uh, what?

WHAT?
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>>3451078
I believe you, but I'm sweating profusely right now.
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I'm extremely concerned now.
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And now, slightly embarrassed, I go to bed. Join me Sunday evening at 9 PM EST for the conclusion of the episode.
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>>3451086
You heard it here first, folks. Galatea and Gustav confirmed to be the same person
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>>3451093
AAAAAA FUCK
Thank you for your hard work, OP.
BUT AAAAAAAAA
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>>3451093
k den
rest well, OP
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>>3451093
H-happy anniversary OP. Thanks for a whole year of FQ.
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>>3451093

Thanks for the hard work OP!
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>>3451093
My brain is full of fuck and I love it. Night OP.
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>>3451099
What the fuck, Anonymous-dono.

Like, this is hilarious, but what the fuck.
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>>3451095
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>>3451065
>Darker than Bloom
>Darkbloom er than
Ethan R Darkbloom
Secret Darkbloom Relative

>Gunslinger Girl
>Nigger Gunsl irl
>Nigger Grill Us
Tyrus Kang finds out about what Alex did.

>>3451078
>this is not some sort of clever meta-textual tomfoolery or 4/21 nonsense
I believed you until i read the change.
Now I'm even more convinced of it.
>>3451095
exactly
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>>3451111
>Ethan R Darkbloom
I find this way funnier than I should
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>>3451111
>>Gunslinger Girl
>>Nigger Gunsl irl
>>Nigger Grill Us
>Tyrus Kang finds out about what Alex did.
It's just another Sizzler shill, nothing more.
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>>3451113
oh shit you're probably right
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>>3451086
I see Gustav has finally finished his transmogrifier! That old pervert, of course he'd turn himself into a cute girl!
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>>3451093
Sleep tight OP
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It's is now 4:21 AM on the morning of 4/21/2019. The boopiest of the boops.
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IT'S 4:21

ON 4/21
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Wait, what happened in the deleted post? Just got here and paranoia demands I ask.
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>>3451274
Galatea was replaced by Gustav.

Also, some OC in light of recent events. If you like the Sand Reckoner/Diogenes parts of Fuck Quest, you should watch Person of Interest.
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>>3450587

Why do we always meet at the fucking Rutabaga Cafe?

I swear to god, if anyone wants to find us, they just need to sit there for a day.
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>>3451078
Anyone catch what the retconned post was?
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>>3451340
Basically the same as the new post, except Gustav was the one who removed the implant instead of Galatea.
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>>3451274
>>3451340
I thought this would happen and that's why I took a screenshot of it. I got you anons
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So if we were theoretically to give Sand Reckoner to Mara and she installs it, could we get her with the classic "dead husband hijacks your body and jumps off a bridge" ploy? There's no way she knows he's in there, right?
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Today I will remind them.

https://abc3340.com/news/offbeat/a-new-study-shows-marrying-your-first-cousin-is-not-as-bad-as-it-seems
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>>3451768
actually, lobotomizing Mara and installing David in her body neatly eliminates a ton of our problems.

I still have some questions about why David murdered our folks, assuming it was him and not Mara.
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>>3451872
What does the once removed part even mean?
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>>3451972
First cousins share a common grandparent. For first cousins once removed, one’s grandparent is the other’s great grandparent. Or put another way... the child of your first cousin is your first cousin once removed.
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MEGA BOOP
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>>3451965
>I still have some questions about why David murdered our folks, assuming it was him and not Mara.
Don't tell me people are still saying that it wasn't him at this point?
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>>3452047
Well see, this is an interesting point to think about again.

Sable mentioned that it's just an echo of him left in Cerise's head, right? Not the real Darkbloom at all. Makes sense.
What if said echo is subject as well to the whims of whoever is running this "ideal reality", whether it be us, Cerise, Vivian, or some other third party?

What if the echo is guilty just because we want so badly for him to be guilty, separate from whether the real Darkbloom is guilty or not?
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>>3452063
That makes no sense, this reality is far from anybody's ideal. Why would anybody want him to have killed our parents? Hell wouldn't literally everything be made easier if it was Mara who killed our parents because nobody likes and her and we all naturally team up to take her down

Stop trying to take all blame from David when it's obviously him already, I don't know why you want to see that "Villain who actually wasn't that bad and it was actually someone else all along!" trope that everybody agrees is stupid and a lazy way to redeem villains in FQ
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>>3452125
I never tried to take anything from David, I was simply introducing a so-far unaccounted for possibility into the mix.

Everything changed on June 1st, when the servers went down and Penelope was installed into Cerise. And what has happened literally in the space of this single half episode?

Alabaster and Rose are on the verge of literally marrying each other.

Vivian has (supoosedly) freed herself from the specter of her father.

Cerise oh-so-suddenly has Penelope removed from her, and who took care of it? Her gal-pal Gal, who she'll expect to be redeemed in Alabaster's eyes.

And all this in the wake of a series of actions that are assuredly on track towards destroying DA once and for all, something we ALL want.

It has all the markings of a nice and tidy conclusion, with happy endings for everybody.
And it terrifies me.
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>>3452146
>It has all the markings of a nice and tidy conclusion, with happy endings for everybody.
Not for Rose2
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>>3452194
Thank you for the reminder.

Rose2 would be just fine as one of Alabaster's many mistresses, as we've seen.

Amber gets to lead a seemingly normal life. As a bonus, she gets to see a large corporate symbol get blown to high hell in her lifetime. Super neat!

Scarlett gets to finish raising her other two children to adulthood - Amber is almost there! Then she gets to see all four of her children field an army of children between the... Sixteen or so possible couplings. And all raised securely with the backing of Whitney's billions, which we no longer need to concern ourselves with losing because DA is gone completely.

Renee gets to stay a free woman and live a life of debauchery and SCIENCE with Whitney and Vivian and Alex and maybe Sable.

Kay gets to see all this action up close, and then fuck off wherever she wants if she gets bored. Or stay close to Sable if she wants more danger in her life.

The only one really getting a raw deal out of all this is Noelle, that I can see. And with her penchant for order and desire for things to make sense, she's likely the biggest obstacle left in "this" reality.
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>>3452194
Even in an ideal reality, she still can't be happy
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>>3452211
>Rose2 would be just fine as one of Alabaster's many mistresses, as we've seen.
Fine with is far from ideal
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>>3452295
Then we're not in her POV world. Or Noelle's. Someone else is in control, whether it be Alabaster, Rose, Cerise, or Vivian, or someone else.
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>>3452125

Ostensibly, the people involved in killing David would feel guilty if it turns out he was actually innocent, so him being the murderer would be preferable. We can only pray that when the new world arrives he is no longer judged for the sins of unaffiliated shitty drivers. #darkbloombestdad #daviddidnothingwrong #cantzoomthedarkbloom
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>>3452342
But even if you take away from the murdering our parents thing he's still a bad guy who did a lot of fucked up stuff to fuel his messiah complex

Are or you saying he didn't do any of that stuff either?
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What a wonderful day.

Thank you all for bringing this crazy number to life. If anything else, it'll make by birthday in a few days all the more amusing by proxy
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>>3452370
All we know he did for sure is perform some slightly unprofessional surgery on children (with parental consent (actually, the video could have been a deepfake)) and cuck Zuck. Compare to Alex, who has definitely killed at least five people, most of whom didn't deserve it.
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>>3452524
Also framed the attempted murder of his wife on the woman he claimed to love and consigning her to a lifetime in prison for his crime. If things had stuck to his plan, Renee would STILL be in prison.
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Holy fuck.

This weekend five years ago was the food fight.
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>>3452530
Given how much he loves Renee, if there were other options I'm sure he'd have taken one. Truly a tragic figure.
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>>3452550
>We're still at a cafe.
Can a recursion still happen if we dare to roll the dice?
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>>3452550
Five years since the day I started reading...

I wonder if I was the one who rolled the 6?
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>>3452524
Saying "slightly unprofessional" doesn't give the situation enough justice considering he literally ripped out her eye and gave her a piece of technology that made her feel pain for every second of her life and then killed her parents.

In addition to that he impregnated Renee at 16 and then left her only to later have her arrested in his stupid quest for power in which he destroyed many people's lives on that path and was willing to frame it all on Cerise for

As well as introducing deep fakes into the world which caused a lot of political mayhem all over the world and now so much more death is going to happen so that [Insert random country] can abuse that power

B-but he may be some piece of ghost technology and didn't kill OUR parents s-so he's good, right? Yeah bullshit, he's a monster

Like seriously, why do you say that this guy did nothing wrong? I honestly don't think he can do anything that'll make you admit his fault at this point, Jesus Christ
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>>3452567
Many of us rolled 6s. Including me.
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"How did this happen?" you ask -- of Vivian, or Gal, or Cerise -- whoever cares to answer first.

It's Vivian, of course. "I put Ms. Healy in touch with our friend Gustav through the video conferencing application she suggested. Gustav walked us through a simple procedure based on the work Ms. Carte had already done."

"Us?" You repeat. "Us as in -- both of you?"

"I am a quick study," Vivian says. "Yes. I assisted."

But, of course, there's more to it than that. Vivian didn't naturally learn an advanced neurosurgical procedure by remote instruction. She's a genius but she isn't superhuman. She had the benefit of something else, you know: an implant of her own.

Cerise holds Gal close. Gal, though sitting in a separate chair, is wrapped around Cerise like a frightened kitten, practically curled up in Cerise's lap, her face to Cerise's bosom -- cowering away from all the conversation around her. Sable regards her strangely, and Gal clearly doesn't like it. You reach over and gently pry Cerise's old implant from Gal's palm, and examine it. A small bit of circuitry inside the grain still glows a steady white -- and you get the nauseous feeling that David Darkbloom is in there even now, looking back at you.

"You may do with that what you wish," Vivian tells you.

You glance up at her. "You mean--"

"It serves no more purpose," is her curt response.

"Can the procedure be repeated?" Dr. Carte asks. "For Alabaster -- for yourselves?"

"It should be easy to replicate," Vivian says. "Alabaster and Anna could have their implants out as early as this evening -- if they so desire."

"And you?" Dr. Carte presses.

"Yes, of course," Vivian says. "I would be happy to assist the operation once again."

"That isn't what I mean." Dr. Carte's face is grimly serious.

"Then I am not quite certain what you do mean," Vivian says.

"Your implant. We should take it out, too."

"I have no implant."

Dr. Carte grimaces. "Vivian--"

"I do not know what you're talking. Please, do not pester me about such silly things."

Oh man. This could be a problem.
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>>3452581
aaaahhhh. Naruhodo.
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>>3452581
I forget, was there any way to check for implants other than "look for unnatural blue eyes?"
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>>3452581
Vivian Darkbloom, master of deception
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>>3452581
>"I do not know what you're talking. Please, do not pester me about such silly things."

Vivian has no right to doubt anything Renee tells her. Not after everything that's happened.
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>>3452581
Seriously Vivian? Please don't act retarded
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Something doesn't add up. For Vivian to break David Darkbloom free of his virtual imprisonment -- only to return to Gal's loft, and remove him from Cerise's head -- why?

You demand to know.

Vivian is surprisingly forthcoming about this, even if she wasn't about her implant:

"I gave father the tools of his escape several weeks ago -- it was a terrible moment of subterfuge, and an awful breach of trust, born of my own weakness. I suppose you already figured this out based on your reaction to our return."

"He didn't figure it out," Rose cuts in. "It was me. I figured it out."

"Congratulations. You are slightly less moronic than I had previously ascertained."

Rose makes a sour face.

"Father chose today to leave his confinement because he was frightened of Sable Guiteau, and mother -- and you, Alabaster. He felt things had come to a crisis point. So he sought to murder the former two, and isolate me from your influence."

"But... you refused?" Rose says.

"Not to begin with. I agreed to help him. It was only later in the evening when I realized something. Letting father follow through with this attempt on the lives of others endangered Cerise, too. And in the end -- I could not abide it -- it -- would have made me as low and selfish as father himself. If something happened to your sister, Alabaster, or his actions implicated her in a crime... I would not have been able to forgive myself of my own role in it."

A last moment change of heart. That's it. All this drama, all this heartache, stopped dead in its tracks by a young girl deciding to be a better person than her father was.
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>>3452598
It's getting harder to trust our harem nowadays, but I want to believe this since Vivian's precious
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>>3452603
I trust nothing until Sand Reckoner shows its true face. This is not the world we made.
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>>3452598
>"Not to begin with. I agreed to help him. It was only later in the evening when I realized something. Letting father follow through with this attempt on the lives of others endangered Cerise, too. And in the end -- I could not abide it -- it -- would have made me as low and selfish as father himself. If something happened to your sister, Alabaster, or his actions implicated her in a crime... I would not have been able to forgive myself of my own role in it."
Wait, why the fuck does she care about Cerise so much? Am I forgetting something
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>>3452607
Because it's the right thing to do?
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"Thank you for not murdering me," Sable says. She treats the fact of the plot against her life as dispassionately as she might treat discussion of a math problem. "But you all understand that Mara Darkbloom needs to die, correct?"

"Alabaster Soliloquy," Vivian says. "You can take or leave my advice as you see fit. I know I have not done much to earn your trust of late. Nonetheless I strongly advise you to keep your implant. And for the time being to keep my mother alive, also."

"Why?" You ask.

"Because -- should the world ever come to an end, you might need what's inside your head -- and you might need mother's help."

"That is absurd," Sable says. "When the new age dawns, people like Mara who stand in its way will need to be--"

"You," Vivian booms -- there's the spark of David Darkbloom within this soft-spoken little girl, after all -- "You stupid, haughty bitch. You know nothing of what you do and yet you press forward, for what? You have doomed the world. Do not speak to me."

Alex is equally vicious when he retorts: "Be careful what you say. You might regret it."

"And now your lickspittle too, to defend your insanity." Vivian fixes Alex with a hateful glare. She pinches her fingers together repeatedly: "Yip yip yip yip yip, goes the dog. Pathetic. I know it was you behind the recent wanton destruction -- no -- do not even waste breath on denying it. Blood drips from your hands even as we speak. You can go to hell with Sable Guiteau, where you belong, Alexander. But since you are so hopeless over a man who uses you for a walking semen receptacle, just keep your head down, and complete your work on Project Diogenes. And make sure the fruits of it go to Alabaster when you're through. If you have any brain cells left to rub together, you may be of use to the world yet still."

She clasps the handle of a cup of coffee that isn't even hers and takes a sip. And then, rising to her feet, she announces: "I will speak with you again in private, Alabaster. There is much to discuss. Cerise, I am sorry for all the trouble. Ms. Healy, thank you for your help today."

"y-you're welcome," Gal says, ironically the only person courageous enough to break the awkward silence.

Vivian turns and leaves the cafe. Between Alex and Sable, it's hard to tell whose gaze at Vivian's retreating backside is more recriminating. Dr. Carte shoots you a worried look; you nod, and she rises, to chase after Vivian, and leave with her.

"She knows nothing," Sable says. "Nothing... nothing. Useless."

Just when it seems the Gordian knot of your life was finally coming untangled without collateral damage, now comes this. Vivian won't remove her implant, or even admit she has it -- and for reasons she insists are very important, she wants you to keep yours, too -- wants you to allow your hated enemy to live -- wants to allow her own hated enemy to live. For what? She discussed something else with David Darkbloom before that surgery. Something that changed everything.
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>>3452607
That also raised many read flags for me she was willing to kill her mother and possibly us but then she changes everything because if Cerise? I don't remember those 2 ever interacting. This seems way to suspicious
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>>3452598
>"He tried to kill Sable and keep me away from you, and I was totally cool with that but I changed my mind for other reasons"
Is she TRYING to make us distrust her?
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>>3452619
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>>3452619
legal loli be vicious
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>>3452598
>>3452619
I can't believe Vivian just single-handedly destroyed like 1/4 of the fucking harem.
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>>3452619
I question Vivan's motives but a part of me enjoyed seeing Sable and Alex get fucking owned.
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>>3452614
Not helping him with the other stuff would also fit in that category


>>3452619
>"And now your lickspittle too, to defend your insanity." Vivian fixes Alex with a hateful glare. She pinches her fingers together repeatedly: "Yip yip yip yip yip, goes the dog. Pathetic. I know it was you behind the recent wanton destruction -- no -- do not even waste breath on denying it. Blood drips from your hands even as we speak. You can go to hell with Sable Guiteau, where you belong, Alexander. But since you are so hopeless over a man who uses you for a walking semen receptacle, just keep your head down, and complete your work on Project Diogenes. And make sure the fruits of it go to Alabaster when you're through. If you have any brain cells left to rub together, you may be of use to the world yet still."
Hahahaha, holy shit. Absolutely BFTO
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"What do you want to do, Ally?"

Alex is timid and uncertain.

"I don't know," you answer truthfully.

"I'll finish the project," he says. "Until you tell me otherwise--"

"I guess you have to now," you reply. "Do your best." Your voice is monotone, affectless. It's impossible to take everything in, and it's hard to even speak to Alex at the moment.

"With Ms. Guiteau to help me, it won't be long."

You stand -- Cerise, Gal, and Rose follow suit.

"Ally..." he says. "I... I love you. I'm sorry."

You leave Alex alone in the cafe with Sable, to hash out whatever details they need to -- whether they're going to be your death or your salvation, you have no idea.
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>>3452624
>>3452634
>>3452638
Same, here motives are quite questionable but damn seeing her give Alex and Sable the long deserved reality check (that they'll probably just ignore) almost makes me forgive how she's been acting. Almost
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>>3452560
There's that recursion.
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>>3452643
>Cerise, Gal, and Rose follow suit
At least we still have our entourage of best girls
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>>3452643
>"Ally..." he says. "I... I love you. I'm sorry."
>You leave Alex alone in the cafe with Sable...
BE A MAN ALABASTER
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You return to the Darkbloom Analytics campus, where Whitney has stayed late to deal with the recent crisis of the server farm explosion -- it's a PR nightmare for the scandal-plagued company. In her office, you fill her in on the recent events.

"Told ya," she says. "Viv is solid. Best kid sister in the world."

You put the implant on the desk between you and her. Whitney regards it severely. Then she picks up a paperweight and moves as if to smash it.

"Wait--" you say.

"Wait, my ass. That fucking prick is the reason for all of this. He deserves to be dead." She puts her face close to the desktop. "You in there, fucker? You listening to me? Fuck you."

"How would Vivian feel about that?" You ask.

Whitney shrugs. "All conflicted and shit, probably. What else is new? But she knows deep down that it has to be this way. That's why she got this thing out of Cerise's head in the first place. It's why she let you take it."

[ ] Let Whitney destroy it.
[ ] Keep possession of it for now.
[ ] Give it to Vivian.
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Rolled 2 (1d6)

>>3452649
B-but we didn't even get to roll.

Eh, might as well.
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>>3452653
>[x] Let Whitney destroy it.
He had his chance.
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>>3452653
>[ ] Keep possession of it for now.
Jumping the gun on things has only created more problems.
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>>3452643
>"Ally..." he says. "I... I love you. I'm sorry."
>You leave Alex alone in the cafe with Sable,
Ha, get fucking wrecked dumbass
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>>3452653
>[ ] Keep possession of it for now.
Bury it back in the hole it came from.
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>>3452653
>[x] Keep possession of it for now.
We promised him that we were gonna keep it in a jar and fuck Whitney, Reneé, and Vivian in front of it, and I hate to break that promise.
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>>3452653
>[X] Keep possession of it for now.
The other two options might as well have giant neon signs on them that say "MISTAKE".
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>>3452653
>[x] Keep possession of it for now.
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>>3452653
>[x] Let Whitney destroy it.
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Holy fuck, Vivian unleashed. God damn.

>>3452653
>[x] Keep possession of it for now.

We can crush it underheel anytime if it proves to be of any further trouble. For now, it's still a useful tool.
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>>3452653
>[x] Keep possession of it for now.
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>>3452653
>[ ] Keep possession of it for now.
I see no disadvantage in keeping it for now unless somebody goes full retard again

Plus >>3452667 is an amazing idea
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>>3452653
>"Told ya," she says. "Viv is solid. Best kid sister in the world."
Wait what? Did we not explain the situation to her? Cause she literally did intend to betray us
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>>3452653
>[ ] Keep possession of it for now.

Isn't it the main thing keeping Mara from actively trying to kill us?
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>>3452683
It said we filled her in on the details. I think Whitney just doesn't care as long as she came back with one implant and zero murders.
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>>3452683
>mistrusting Whitney's instincts
>ever
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>>3452693
This is a great lesson to have learned, and I'm glad we did.
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>>3452693
>>3452695
Oh yes, I always forget that Whitney will ever face any negative consequences for her actions because she's a joke character. I wish we could act stupid and get away with being a retarded too
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>>3452701
But she didn't act stupid. She acted instinctively, and her instincts are solid. This is a character trait that has been consistent since her inception. Please stop being so hostile for no reason, Anonymous-dono.
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>>3452653
>[X] Keep possession of it for now.
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>>3452704
Yes she did there was an entire conversation about it last thread, her decision was retarded and it turned out that she was actually wrong, Vivian did intend to betray us, it's just that Whitney has plot armor and so nothing bad will ever reach her as long as she continues to make wacky comments

Acting stupidly and instinctively are not mutually exclusive, in fact they're the same most of the time

>Please stop being so hostile for no reason, Anonymous-dono.
Hostile? How was that hostile? It was more so annoyance at any need for critical thinking or discussion and just using "trust Whitney" as a catch-all
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>[x] Keep possession of it for now.

You pick the implant up and put it in your pocket.

"I made the man a promise, is the thing," you tell her.

"What? Who gives a shit what you promised that--"

"I promised him that I'd keep him alive in a jar on my mantle, forever... to watch us live a happy life without him."

"I'm not gonna fuck you in front of my bio-dad."

You frown. "Well -- okay. I mean... I mean, it would be a pretty fitting--"

"No. You fucking freak."

"Oh, I'm a freak. Ms. Motherfucker thinks I'm a freak--" you sigh and trail off. "In any case, it's a useful tool to keep in our back pocket. Literally or figuratively. If things get any crazier, who knows... maybe David Darkbloom has something left to offer the world, too."

"I highly doubt that. But all right, Ally. I trust you."

"...Just like that?"

"Why wouldn't I? Just promise me... that when you're sure we don't need him anymore, you'll give that thing a nice hard stomp for me."

You nod. "I promise."

You lean back in your chair and star at the ceiling, considering the day. You've had zero time to decompress. It's been one insane incident after another.

"So. When's the wedding?"

You let your chairback drift back to a position perpendicular with the ground again, and squint at her. "Wedding's canceled."

"Pfft. Says who? Says you?"

"I don't know. I'm not exactly looking forward to marrying Rose Mallory, of all people."

"Suuuuure. Okay. We're doing that thing again."

"What thing."

"The 'oh no, oh nooooo, I hate Rose, I haaaaate her' thing. That thing."

"I don't know what you're--"

"I gotcha. Don't worry."

"You're not trying to encourage me to do this, are you? You hate her too."

"Rose is fine. And she's a great fuck, too. But well, lemme ask you this. If you marry Rose, are you gonna all of a sudden start living a life of monotony?"

This is a rare case of one of Whitney eggcorns that retains its proper meaning despite the mistake. You shake your head. "No. I mean -- I doubt Rose would want to stop fucking you after we get married. She'd hardly have a leg to stand on if she said that I couldn't too."

Whitney laughs. "Oh, that's reassuring. Do you think double standards ever scared Rose Mallory before?"

"So what? I'll throw it right back at you. Do you think Rose Mallory ever scared Alabaster Soliloquy before?"

"Yes. Plenty of times. Like, even within the past 48 hours."

You roll your eyes. "Fact is, it's just a show-marriage. If it even happens. I'd still be with you, too -- just as much as with the putative Mrs. Soliloquy."

"Putative. I love it. I gotta start using that one. Rose really is one putative bitch, huh?"

"Are you gonna be okay with that, then?"

Whitney fiddles with a pen, staring at her desk in a moment of uncharacteristic dithering. But then she looks up, bright again: "I never figured on getting married, so it's fine. But... only if I get to throw your bachelor party."

Oh boy.
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>>3452717
>Vivian did intend to betray us
And then didn't, because Whitney knew that no matter what Darkbloom told her, she was worth trusting. And your tone was incredibly hostile, Anonymous-dono. Don't you tire of the sarcasm and irony?
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>>3452619
So fucking based.
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>>3452720
This gives me funny feelings in my tummy.
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>>3452720
>But... only if I get to throw your bachelor party.
Ohhhh boy. We are gonna fuck every single woman and Alex that attends this wedding, aren't we?
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>>3452653
>Let Whitney destroy it.
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>>3452720
OP, I know you get your figurative, or possibly literal, balls fondled often in this quest, but just know that you’ve successfully and masterfully changed my mind on both Whitney and Vivian already. Alex is still an eternal shit, of course.
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>>3452720
>trade sand reckoner technology for polygamy legislation
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>>3452738
Nah, too much effort. We'll just head to Utah.
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>>3452720
>"Suuuuure. Okay. We're doing that thing again."

>"What thing."

>"The 'oh no, oh nooooo, I hate Rose, I haaaaate her' thing. That thing."
These things never stop being funny.
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>>3452721
>And then didn't, because Whitney knew that no matter what Darkbloom told her, she was worth trusting.
Looking only at the results and ignoring everything that could've gone wrong and may still be wrong is retarded

>And your tone was incredibly hostile, Anonymous-dono. Don't you tire of the sarcasm and irony?
No, it wasn't it was annoyance, sarcasm and irony don't equal hostility

>>3452720
>But... only if I get to throw your bachelor party."
Based
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>>3452746
Tell me something, Anonymous-dono. Do you believe that the end justifies the means?
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>>3452738
Anyone with the implant can just live out their lives in a polygamy plane of existence if they want, no legislation required.
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>>3452750
In some cases sure but far from all

That logic quickly falls when applied as a rule
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>>3452750
This is literally Darkbloom logic.
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>>3452756
Agreed. Darkblooms means to his own ends were monstrous.

But Whitney's means were correct. By having faith in her sister, showing her goodwill and magnanimity, and believing her to be a better person than their father, an appropriate ending was reached.

Sometimes, just a little bit of trust can go a long way. Alabaster has been learning it, and I think we can all benefit from that lesson as well.
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>>3452763
Except Vivian didn't change her mind because of anything Whitney did. It was Cerise.
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>>3452769
That's not the point. Whitney didn't have to do anything but trust things would resolve themselves. And she was right.
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Down in the lobby, Whitney is preparing to leave, and Makoto is in tow. It's one of her sleepover nights at Whitney's house, which the two have every week or so -- for "intensive personal interviews." Recently those personal interviews have been very personal indeed.

"Coming too?" Whitney asks you.

"In a little bit. I think Saul and Charlotte are still upstairs... and Rose. I think I should talk to them."

"Gotcha. Say no more!" She gives you a tender kiss goodbye and then nods at Makoto. "C'mon. I wanna get your cunt in my mouth, so let's hurry it up."

Such a charmer. But Makoto is more than pleased to follow.

The only problem is Noelle. At the security cordon, she stops the pair.

"Ms. Kikuchi," Noelle says. "I'm going to need you to empty your pockets."

"--Pardon?" Makoto says.

"Lay off, bitch," Whitney tells Noelle. "Haven't you had enough of pushing us around?"

"Ms. Darkbloom," Makoto stammers, "please let's go."

"Your badge showed some suspicious swipes this afternoon," Noelle tells Makoto. "You were in the R&D labs."

"She was with me," Whitney snarls. "Personal business. You never get laid, do you?"

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Noelle says. "Empty your pockets, Ms. Kikuchi."

Makoto steps back, glancing this way and that, frightened.

"Make her happy," Whitney says with a yawn. "Empty 'em and let's just get out of here. I'm too horny to fight her right now."

"I..." Makoto stammers.

Whitney suddenly becomes much more serious. She takes a step towards Makoto. "What's the matter? Just empty your pockets. It's fine."

"I..."

"Makoto." Whitney never calls her by her proper first name. She's more than serious now -- she's as grim as death.

Noelle also takes a step closer. Makoto now finds herself surrounded by a room full of unfriendly faces. Whitney, Noelle, you, and a few other FBI agents. There is no talking her way out of this and no getting out without showing whatever she has in her pockets.

"I am a patriot!" Makoto hollers.

"You're a--" Whitney starts.

"Hold her down!" Noelle shouts -- and there's a sudden commotion as blue-jacketed agents surround the girl, but they can't stop what happens. Makoto Kikuchi bites down, hard, and you hear a sickening crunch.

"Get it out of her mouth!" Noelle shrieks. An agent gets his hands around Makoto's face and pries her jaw open -- but too late.

"I am a patriot! I love my country!" Makoto yells. These are her last words.

She begins to convulse and foam at the mouth -- lets out a horrible, heart-rending death rattle as her poison pill takes effect. Whitney, hands cupped over her mouth, watches with wild eyes. Like you, she is beyond horrified, and has no words for what just happened.

Noelle is barking orders, calling for medics, demanding that Makoto's pockets be searched by a gloved agent. The agent produces a number of flash drives from her jean shorts. Another is performing CPR but Makoto is unresponsive, and already blue in the face. She's dead.
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>>3452763
But Whitney's means were retarded. She didn't give us any of this trust despite us Alabaster giving it to her despite us trusting her having actual risks us opposed to her trusting us. Alabaster hasn't been learning it, he has literally been the personification of it this whole season. Her entire plan only worked out because Vivian happened to have a last second change of heart before she caused too much damage (as far as we know), ignoring what could've happened and just saying "Trust Whitney always" is dumb

And there is no lesson to be had here because it only exists in the vacuum where you're Whitney and nothing bad will happen to you
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>>3452780
WAIT
WHAT
WHAT THE FUCK
WHAT
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>>3452780
WHAT THE FUCK
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>>3452780
Wow, that one guy was right.
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>>3452780
Hahahahaha, I knew she was gonna die SOMEhow! My guess was multiple gunshots.
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>>3452780
ええええええええええええええええええええええ!?
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>>3452780
The fuck? Is she dead?

If so then damn, she was literally the most nothing character
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D-don't worry guys, when you use Bite Down you can resurrect with half health!
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>>3452780
Wait, what? Was Makoto a fucking terrorist?
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WELL. So much for the lesbian rapist conquest, then!
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>>3452802
Oh right, for what it's worth, this was supposed to have Alex and Makoto checked off. I'll fix it for the next version.
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>>3452802
#AMERIKEKED
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>>3452802
RIP

She had so much potential too
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>>3452750
Do you have reading comprehension? Of course he doesn't.
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>>3452802
Wait anon, she had one last scene with Alex, you should add that. Paying respects and all
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>>3452802
I'm more sad that a lot of the shit happening just puts a dent in characters potentially having a great time in Comiket.

And now this. RIP the idol concert that could've been.
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>>3452824
Already on it >>3452807
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>>3452825
>And now this. RIP the idol concert that could've been.
It hurts...
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And now the question of if we could have done anything.
Like spend more time with her or actually listen to Noelle.
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>>3452831
Whoops, I'm dumb
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>>3452825
Don't worry, the person who just died was actually her body double, Minase Iori, a Chinese spy.
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>>3452834
Or put Kay on the case. More screentime for the S2/S3 harem in any case.

>>3452836
I want this to be true. I proposed the Chinese spy theory and it hurts.
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>>3452836
I was just thinking she was an Aum Shinrikyo adherent rather than a Chinese or Russian agent.
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>>3452844
>Kay already knew
>kept quiet anyway
>lady's face when
SUICIDE = BIG BOOK SALES
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>>3452834
We chose most if not choices to hang out with her so I don't think so, she is a patriot after all

As for Noelle I don't think there was any option for that, but I could be wrong
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"Crisis point delta fuckin' zero!" Armstrong exclaims. "Jesus!"

"I don't know what that means," you tell him.

"I don't either. I don't know what the fuck anything means anymore. Fuck! This goddamn company is going to bring me to an early grave." He clutches his chest and grits his teeth. Then he takes out a pill bottle and pops a handful down.

You're in the board room with Armstrong, Whitney, Nelson -- and Mara.

Whitney stares sullenly at the long oak table. She's shell-shocked, traumatized -- and speechless.

"For once, the feds did something useful," Mara says. "No thanks to you, Whitney."

"Go to hell."

"Your caprice with that oriental whore almost brought the company to ruin -- but then, it's just another Thursday for you, isn't it?"

"We vetted her," Nelson says. "In and out -- she's just a... just a pop star, for heaven's sake."

"Was a pop star," Mara corrects.

"Who the fuck was she working for?" Armstrong demands. "The fucking Chinese?"

"Japanese, of course," Mara says. "Can't you tell your ching chongs apart, Steven?"

She's correct. Noelle briefly explained it to you. Makoto Kikuchi really was just a pop star... until you invited her stateside. Then she was secretly given a mission by Japanese intelligence to steal the secrets of Sand Reckoner.

"Japan understands that we're in the midst of an opening battle -- to the most important war ever waged," Mara says. "When will you realize that, Whitney?"

"Go to hell."

"Go to hell, go to hell," Mara repeats mockingly. "What a joke you are. I'll see you dead yet. You can enjoy some more time with that lesbian slut then."

She stands and goes.

"Alabaster," Armstrong says, "my life is public relations. I'm pretty fucking good at it. But I don't know how the fuck I spin Japan's favorite pop singer dying on company property."

"You won't have to," you tell him.

"It's a diplomatic incident," Whitney repeats -- by rote, from the explanation proffered to her by Noelle. "It's in everyone's best interest to just say that... she was an addict... who suffered an overdose at home in her apartment..."

"Uncle Sam doesn't want to go after the Japanese for this?" Nelson says. "Trying to steal military tech is an act of war, isn't it?"

"Exactly," you say.

He huffs. "Jesus."

"Don't you use his name in vain, you fuckin' Jew."

"Screw yourself, Steven."

"Yadda yadda," Armstrong says. "God I need a fucking drink. You're paying."

They leave together. You never quite understood their frenemy relationship.
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>>3452858
>She's correct. Noelle briefly explained it to you. Makoto Kikuchi really was just a pop star... until you invited her stateside. Then she was secretly given a mission by Japanese intelligence to steal the secrets of Sand Reckoner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxPhcxN_WTc
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>>3452858
>the actual Japanese government
Holy fucking shit. WWIII still on the damn table then, huh?

>"Don't you use his name in vain, you fuckin' Jew."

>"Screw yourself, Steven."

Heh.
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>>3452862
Fuck, wrong link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atLWi6dAgvo
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>>3452858
>Can't you tell your ching chongs apart, Steven?"
lol
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>>3452858
>"Yadda yadda," Armstrong says. "God I need a fucking drink. You're paying."
I want an Armstrong/Nelson spin off episode
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>>3452858
Ha, get absolutely demolished Whitney
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>>3452858
Spydolm@ster truly was the friends that the Japanese government planted for us along the way.
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>>3452858
>When you think OP can't surprise you anymore.
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>>3452780
>>3452858
Well now we know the lengths nations will go to acquire Sand Reckoner if an American ally is willing to try and steal it.
two clearly weren't enough
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>>3452858

>"Uncle Sam doesn't want to go after the Japanese for this?" Nelson says. "Trying to steal military tech is an act of war, isn't it?"

>"Exactly," you say.

>He huffs. "Jesus."

>"Don't you use his name in vain, you fuckin' Jew."

>"Screw yourself, Steven."

>"Yadda yadda," Armstrong says. "God I need a fucking drink. You're paying."

>They leave together. You never quite understood their frenemy relationship.

They should just fuck already.
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>>3452886
>Implying they haven't
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>>3452858
>You never quite understood their frenemy relationship.
Literally just put Ally and Rose in their shoes.

And holy shit Japan.
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>>3450367
Well you were right that it was a cap scene, just for the wrong person.
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>>3452882
>Spydolm@ster
Kek
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>>3452886
>>3452886

No, Kimberly, you can't have your own copy of Sand Reckoner to realize your Armstrong and Berenstoin slash fiction.
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>>3452893
Kimberly may not but she sure does~
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"I did this," Whitney says, when you're alone again.

"What?"

"I did this. I'm the one who's responsible."

"You're not the one who's responsible for a Japanese spy--"

"No." She cuts you off with a bark. "It's my fault. I let her go downstairs... let her distract me with sex... let her steal from us. I almost let her walk out the door with our secrets. I let her walk in the door to begin with. It's my fault."

You rub her shoulder, but she isn't any happier for it.

"I read this book on leadership," Whitney begins after a long silence.

You squint at her.

"Okay, I skimmed a book on leadership--"

You frown.

"Okay, I watched a Youtube summary about a book on leadership--"

You purse your lips.

"I skipped around in the video a bit. All right? Fuck. But I got the point. The leader is responsible. No matter what, the leader is responsible. If something goes wrong... at the end, you as the leader should have done something to stop it..."

Whitney looks up at the tall portrait of David Darkbloom still hanging in the conference room with the word "ASSHOLE" scrawled across it. She stares at it for a long time.

"Mara Darkbloom is right," Whitney says grimly. "We're at war. We need to start acting like it."
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>>3452906
>"We're at war. We need to start acting like it."
Yeah, I have my doubts
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>>3452906
PUNISHED WHITNEY: ACTIVATE
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>>3452906
>You guys are alright, Swedish Government. Don't go to the Rutabaga Cafe tomorrow.
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>>3452856
Possibly an opportunity with Whitney that we missed somewhere.
More likely, because we've been giving Noelle the S2 Kay treatment, she's been stymied in her ability to work. Not that that's a bad thing.
But it's probably been locked in since Alabaster and Cerise finally fucked. A little upset because I liked Makoto lurking in the background, she was like a shark. And now the beach is open again.
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>>3452926
I also think we chose most if not all Noelle choices as well
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>>3452906
>[x] comfort
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You see Whitney out, again. Cerise offered to drive her home when you told her what happened, and comes back to work to pick her up now.

It's a good opportunity to let Cerise enjoy freedom, anyway -- the freedom to leave home on her own, the freedom to drive around town on her own. Even if it's for such a somber reason.

A janitor is mopping up the caked-on foam from the tile floor of the lobby where Makoto seized up and died. FBI agents observe, cracking snide remarks to one another, but there won't be an investigation of the scene of Makoto's death. The real, and deeper, investigation will focus on other things. The fact of Makoto having died here will be swept under the rug.

Out front, by the enormous fountain at the front gates, Cerise hugs Whitney tenderly. "Doing okay?" She asks.

"Fuck no." And she isn't. She's crying. The weight of this is beginning to really hit her.

"Let's go home and watch some trashy TV, huh?"

You walk with them towards the parking garage.

[ ] Talk with Cerise about the prospect of your marriage with Rose.
[ ] Don't discuss it with her until you decide.
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>>3452948
>[ ] Don't discuss it with her until you decide.
If nothing else probably not the best thing to bring up right now.
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>>3452948
>[ ] Don't discuss it with her until you decide.
Come on now, let's not destroy EVERYONE emotionally.
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>>3452948
[x] Don't discuss it with her until you decide.
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>>3452948
>[X] Don't discuss it with her until you decide.
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>>3452948
>[x] Talk with Cerise about the prospect of your marriage with Rose BUT A LITTLE BIT LATER AND NOT RIGHT NOW
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>>3452948
>[X] Talk with Cerise about the prospect of your marriage with Rose.
Admittedly not great timing, but we really should talk to her about it before we make a decision.
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>>3452948
>[x] Don't discuss it with her until you decide.
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>>3452948
>[ ] Don't discuss it with her until you decide.
Let her comfort Whitney for now, it's not even that important for her to know
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>>3452948
>[x] Talk with Cerise about the prospect of your marriage with Rose.
I mean, Whitney already knows. It's something that immediate family members should be in the loop for.

And considering recent events, we might not even get a chance to say it until another crisis falls in Alabaster's lap.
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>>3452948
>[ ] Talk with Cerise about the prospect of your marriage with Rose.
Already decided, but still worth discussing.
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>[x]Talk with Cerise about the prospect of pregnancy planning with Cerise
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>>3452948
>[x] Don't discuss it with her until you decide.
alternatively
>[x] Comfort Whitney
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>>3452973
This guy fucks.
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>>3452948
>[ ] Don't discuss it with her until you decide
Why do I smell blind Cerisefags?
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>>3452982
But the biggest Cerisefag on the planet is on your side.
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>>3452985
Blind Cerisefag and ones that aren't autistic have a completely different scent
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Charlotte and Saul are with Rose in her office.

"Late night, huh," you say as you enter.

"Momentous things are happening, Alabaster," Saul tells you. "We need to make sure our defenses are airtight -- if you're ever brought in again for questioning on what happened in that club."

Charlotte, for her part, is more worried over the immediate concerns: "Is Whitney doing all right?"

"Heck no," is your sanitized version of Whitney's own response to that question.

"Poor thing," Charlotte says. "I'm sorry you two had to see that. Such ugly business."

"I'm just... surprised, is all," you say. "Still reeling. You know?"

Charlotte nods sympathetically.

"We can mourn our dearly departed double agents later," Saul says. "Time is of the essence here. I need a straight answer from you two. Insofar as -- legal strategy is concerned."

Rose, at her desk, can't hold eye contact with anyone. Especially not you. She's unusually demure and mute.

"I think the two of us need to talk first," you tell your adoptive parents.

"Of course," Charlotte says warmly. "Take all the time you need."

(Please wait... err, warmly.)
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>>3453019
Ohhh man.
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>>3453019
oh what the fuck could this possibly be
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>>3453019
>(Please wait... err, warmly.)
What is this. What are you doing, OP.
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>>3453019
I don't want to. This feels weird.
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>>3453019
That image makes it look like Charlotte's about to break a bottle over the back of Saul's head.
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>>3453019
If we don't impregnate her I swear, OP
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>>3453019
I want Charlotte to eventually educate Rose on the finer points of being a wife.
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>>3453030
Is she ever not about to do that?
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Here's yer shitpost for the night
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>800x422
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>>3453019
Oh yes.
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>>3453045
I'm a fucking disgrace
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>>3453040
I wonder which one it'll be. I just can't figure it out!
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>>3453059
>"I hope it's Grif!"
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>>3453060
?
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>>3453040
What, it was obvious! She's the red spy!
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>>3453019
A feeling of pure excitement yet unyielding terror grips my heart.
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4/21 is dead (in EST).
Long live 421.
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Fuck.
We really need to ask Cerise if what happened on her birthday was real.
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>>3452643
We've done him so wrong to set him down this path since we met him. He deserved better than we made him be...
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>>3453117
I figure he'd probably be working on it either way, since it's Sable's life work. But we really should treat him better than we do. You can't just let your girlfriend (male) say "I love you" and not say it back!
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https://pastebin.com/husJNv9J
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>>3453137
That's the fucking juice right there
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>>3453137
Raw. Primal. Simple.
I love it.
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>>3453137
Well, she's preggers now for sure.
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>>3453137
Very pragmatic, we can get some experience for pregnancy planning with Cerise.
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>>3453137
I'm so fucking happy boys
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>>3453137
BEST. GIRL.
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That was pretty fucking carnal. Also of a questionably healthy nature.
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>>3452643
Best Boy has slowly become second best boy

To Stackleford.
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>>3452638
Yeah and I'm an Alexfag.
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>>3453168
>who is Fazil
Apologize.
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You sip a beer in the backyard, seated in the most luxurious patio chair you've ever laid eyes on, and watch the azure ripples of the lighted, heated pool. Whitney lies curled up in your lap, sharing that beer -- Cerise and Rose sit in chairs of their own on either side. Cerise also with a beer, but Rose, ever the contrarian, sipping wine.

"It's a sham marriage, of course," Rose says.

Cerise is unmoved. She scowls at you. "I go away for one day and you decide to marry satan's living avatar on Earth. Fucking stupendous."

Whitney takes the bottle from you and downs down a few deep drinks. She's still shaken by witnessing Makoto's death, but she's trying to enjoy the moment, and the good news. She laughs. "Satan? That's no way to talk about your future sister-cousin-lover-once-removed-in-law, Cerise."

"Oh, I wanted to ask you--" you tell Cerise. You awkwardly clear your throat. "I wasn't sure when Darkbloom really first woke up, so, uh... that day on your circuit bending stream, with Alex... when we... was that...?"

"I don't know what you're talking about," Cerise says, confused. She tilts her head to one side. "What circuit bending stream with Alex? I don't remember that."

You feel the blood drain from your face.

Cerise laughs. She tosses the cap of her beer bottle at you. "Oh man. I need to burn that one into my memory banks. No, Alabaster, don't worry. You didn't fuck David Darkbloom. It was me."

You feel your heartbeat return to normal. "Fuck you," you snarl.

"Hey, it's only fair," Cerise says with a shrug. "I gotta give as good as I get, don't I?"

"Well anyway, Rose is right," you say. "This whole -- marriage -- if you even really can call it that, it's just a legal fiction. It really changes nothing..."

"Uh huh," Cerise says. "You know... growing up, I never figured that you would get married before me. Actually, scratch that. I never figured you would get married. Full stop."

Whitney reaches over and pokes Cerise's tit, apropos of nothing.

"Alabaster, put your lesbian on a leash already," Cerise says.

"Oooh," Whitney says. "Could be fun."

"Gag me."

"If you want~"

You watch the pale blue light reflected against Cerise's face, as she sips her drink and stares into the pool.

[ ] "If you're so concerned about being unmarried... why not marry Gal?"
[ ] Don't suggest this.
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>>3453137
>You saw in and out, spreading your cum all over her insides, pushing it in. Marking her right back. And she lets you. She lets you inseminate her.
On the verge of tears boys, God that was satisfying. She better be actually pregged up
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>>3452780
This is why spies use nature's pocket.
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>>3453187
>[x] "If you're so concerned about being unmarried... why not marry Gal?"
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>>3453187
>"Oh man. I need to burn that one into my memory banks. No, Alabaster, don't worry. You didn't fuck David Darkbloom. It was me."
RIP the dream

>[x] "If you're so concerned about being unmarried... why not marry Gal?"
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>>3453187
>[X] "If you're so concerned about being unmarried... why not marry Gal?"

Glad to see Whitney's bounced back!
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>>3453187
>"I don't know what you're talking about," Cerise says, confused. She tilts her head to one side. "What circuit bending stream with Alex? I don't remember that."
>You feel the blood drain from your face.
>Cerise laughs. She tosses the cap of her beer bottle at you. "Oh man. I need to burn that one into my memory banks. No, Alabaster, don't worry. You didn't fuck David Darkbloom. It was me."

PHEW.

>[x] "If you're so concerned about being unmarried... why not marry Gal?"


>>3453191
But then Whitney would have discovered it first, Anonymous-dono!
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>>3453187
>[x] Don't suggest this.
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>>3453187
>[ ] "If you're so concerned about being unmarried... why not marry Gal?"
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>>3453187
Don't suggest this
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>>3453187
>[ ] Don't suggest this.
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>>3453187
>[X] "If you're so concerned about being unmarried... why not marry Gal?"
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>>3453187
nice
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>>3453187
>[ ] "If you're so concerned about being unmarried... why not marry Gal?"
I say this as a joke but it's sad that she'll probably go through with it out of desperation...
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Do you people WANT us to be NTRed?
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>>3453187
>[ ] "If you're so concerned about being unmarried... why not marry Gal?"
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>>3453187
>[ ] Don't suggest this.
Instead, discuss with Cerise how Mom would react to this news. And let Mom be the one to rag about her unmarried status.
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>>3453187
>[ ] "If you're so concerned about being unmarried... why not marry Gal?"
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>>3453210
Is it really NTR? At least most others will back off they think she's lesbian or knows she's married
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>>3453210
It's not NTR if we keep fucking both of them regardless
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>>3453210
>NTR'd by our bondage rape buddy
???
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>>3453187
>[x] Don't suggest this.
Am I the only one who's disappointed that we didn't fuck Darkbloom?
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>>3453210
>unironically thinking this is NTR
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>>3453187
>[ ] Don't suggest this.
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>>3453187
>[ ] Don't suggest this.
She's probably already thinking about it.
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>>3453224
Nope, I sent my "nice" through before it got ripped away.
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>>3453210
I don't think you know what NTR is. Or cuckoldry.
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>>3450384
[X] Marry Gal
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>>3453224
I'm more disappointed we've not fucked our ex step mom/cousin and at least put on a fuck show for Scarlett yet.
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>>3453233
Are you high Anon? That post was over a day ago...
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>>3453238
yeah somebody on my uni IP posted something really stupid on /agdg/ and it got hot pocketed so when I went to post to that response I saw that this IP was banned and didn't bother getting rid of the message.
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>>3453187
>[ ] Don't suggest this.

We can just marry them both, it'll basically be the same thing.
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>>3453187
>[ ] "If you're so concerned about being unmarried... why not marry Gal?"
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My favorite part of this is that that elevator scene WAS the proposal.
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>>3453255
What do you think the post wedding fuck will be like? I'm hoping for hand holding vanilla in the missionary position
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>>3453260
Same, honestly.
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>>3453260
With lots of kisses of course!
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>>3453187
[x] Marry Whitney
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>>3453245
They can marry eachother. We can marry both of them. Three-way Marriage
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>>3453187
Let's agree to one thing Alex will w bridesmaid and Whitney will be our best man.
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>>3453261
>>3453265
We should forbid her from using birth control just to make sure we've planted our seed
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>[x] "If you're so concerned about being unmarried... why not marry Gal?"

"Because I'm not gay," Cerise says flatly.

Your shock is genuine, and almost takes your breath away. "You're... joking," you breathe. "That's a joke? That's a joke. It has to be a joke."

"I'm not!" Cerise snaps, half-shouting. "How many times do I have to suck your dick to prove it?"

"Oh my..." Rose murmurs. She's getting a bit wine drunk.

"Gal's just a pal," Cerise says. "A gal pal. We're pals... who help each other out sometimes. That doesn't make us gay. We like penises, so. I mean. We can't be wives, for godsakes."

"What's Gal's real name again?" Whitney asks, peering up at you from where her head lies against your chest. "Anna, right?"

You nod.

"Ooh. Anna Soliloquy. That would be so cool." She holds her hands out like framing a picture. "Two times the sisters to fuck. I know how you think, Ally. I like it."

"Well, I'm not gonna tell you how to handle your, uh, gal pal situation," you say. "But it might give her something to live for. It's a thought, anyway."

"Oh, thank you so much, sir," Cerise says. "I'll be sure to consider it."

"Just trying to give you an out here," you say. "Geez. If you want to stay as a Christmas cake -- no skin off my back."

Cerise dithers. "Well -- just understand that even if I did do something so... so weird... that it would only be because of that."

"Right."

"I'm not gay."

"Of course not."

You sip your beer and stare at the pool for a little while.

"I'm not gay either," you tell her.

Whitney snickers and takes the beer back from you.

The four of you sit out there for a long time after that, drinking in silence, and then you go to bed together. And as if you didn't have enough on your platter like that, Whitney even retrieves Rose2 from where she sleeps in bed and brings her along for the ride, too.

END OF EPISODE 12.
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>>3453274
Rose2 will be the bridesmaid
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>>3453276
Ohhh man. What a fucking episode.
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>>3453276
So, important question.
Who sleeps at the foot of the bed?
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>>3453276
>"Ooh. Anna Soliloquy. That would be so cool."
I want Cerise to be my husband! I want to take Cerise's last name!
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>>3453276
Best episode in a long time

How the fuck are we gonna get married AND go to Alaska in one episode?
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>>3453276
Denial runs in the family, I see
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>>3453276
IS IT NEXT SATURDAY YET?
excellent episode
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>>3453281

Rose2, in cat ears, and she plays up the whole neko angle to an obnoxious degree. Thank you for the question.
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Statsposting will have to wait for tomorrow. I'm very tired! I had a lot of fun these past two days though, and eagerly look forward to the season 3 finale.
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>>3453293
Thanks for the run, OP!
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>>3453276
Truly Fuck Quest was the gal pals we made along the way.

Thanks for the hard work OP!
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>>3453293
Thank you very much for the hard work, OP! Glad to be in the eye of the hurricane during these tumultuous times. And congrats on a full year of FQ!
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>>3453276
>"I'm not gay either," you tell her.
Too late, the balls touched.
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>>3453293
Thanks again for making the last year completely amazing, OP.
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>>3453288
You do realize you can't not show this now?

>>3453293
Night OP, once again great thread this week
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>>3453288
I figured as much. And yet I'm immensely pleased she knows her place.
Fine run, looking forward to stats and next weekend.
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>>3453293
Thanks for the hard work, OP.
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Has anyone brought up the possibility that David is now in Vivian's implant? The way she talked seems more like his style, especially with the "boom" voice. It would also explain why she would want Mara alive and why she wouldn't want her implant out.
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>>3453318
I'm also half expecting that
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>>3453318
That did come to mind, but when she said not to kill Mara it felt harder to support, on the contrary.

>"But as for me -- I must kill Sable Guiteau. And Mara. You understand, of course. They are not merely threats to our company, and our legacy, but also to this young man Alabaster who you are so suicidally attracted to."

Of course, it could be a ruse to get Mara to lower her guard, especially if Vivian is being monitored somehow.

Another issue is how Darkbloom would manage to transfer to a different transplant, given that he didn't know how he got copied to the first one.
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>>3453318
I don't think anyone has lately, but that's been my understanding of it. Or it's at least a theory.
Vivian's involvement in the procedure to get it Cerise's implant removed, her uncooperative way of dealing with her own implant etc. etc. seem to at least allow for the possibility.
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>>3453318
The idea that David himself called Sable and Alex a "stupid, haughty bitch" and cumrag makes that scene all the better.
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>"Have you ever heard the name Albert Stubblebine?" David asks.

So does anyone know what this was?
The name starting with "Al" makes me think it has something to do with the Alaska plot.
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>>3453366
Last week.

>>3432674
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>>3453366
Real guy; investigated psychic powers on behalf on the CIA. The movie The Men Who Stare At Goats was loosely based on him.
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so, I've mentioned this before, but I think that Cerise wasn't the first person to have the completed sand reckoner.

I suspect that Camelia had it before anyone else.

I also suspect she sabotaged Sable's work to prevent anyone from using sand reckoner.

or maybe I just can't get enough revolutionary thoughts in my life.
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>>3453187
>Whitney fiddles with a pen, staring at her desk in a moment of uncharacteristic dithering. But then she looks up, bright again: "I never figured on getting married, so it's fine.
>I never figured you would get married. Full stop."
>Whitney reaches over and pokes Cerise's tit, apropos of nothing.

Whitney really wanted to become Mrs. Soliloquy this whole time ;_;
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>>3453561
Rose2 being a cuck is comic relief but Whitney has always been kind of tragic in her devotion to Alabaster. In true harem fashion, the childhood friend is destined to lose. (And the tsundere wins)
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>>3453573
I makes me so upset. She was always there for us. She always stood by us and trusted us, even when we never deserved it.
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>>3453618
It’s sad for sure. We’re just going to have to take responsibility and officially adopt her so she can be Whitney Soliloquy even if she isn’t our wife.
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>>3453633
>Whitney taking full advantage of the suggestion and starts calling us daddy
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>>3453695
I wouldn’t be unopposed.

Also, I love how people were critical of plot not moving forward so OP actually listened, hits us with two episodes of wall to wall insanity and STILL manages to do four lewds across both eps. Madman.
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>>3453764
Wouldn’t be opposed* that is.
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Coming home from work with a killer headache, I decided to lay down until the fucking thing ran its course before FQ started up again, and now here I sit, having slept for 14 god damn hours...

Again, while I'm pissed I missed out on the fun in real time, I am extremely satisfied that all the votes went the way I would have voted, and I really enjoyed the wrap-up for this episode.

OP can't just tease a lewd scene that magnificent at the end of an episode and NOT post it as a separate interlewd sometime this week.... can he? I would certainly hope he can't get away with such a thing!
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>>3453811
I want to see the girls cringing at Rose2’s petplay! I really, really want to!
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>>3453441
>so, I've mentioned this before, but I think that Cerise wasn't the first person to have the completed sand reckoner.
>I suspect that Camelia had it before anyone else.
Didn't we already know this?
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>>3453618
>She always stood by us and trusted us, even when we never deserved it.
But that's actual not true. Are you reading the quest?
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apology for poor english

when were you when rose mellory win the fuck quest?

i was sat at home >fapping to fuck quest when fazil ring

‘entire harem is cuck’

‘no’

and you??????
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Does this mean we're back down to 11/12?
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>>3454235
GIRLS ALIVE: 11/12
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>>3454245
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>>3454245
Too soon Anon, too soon.

>"I am learning. I am learn quickly, Alabaster. The source of energy for Whitney Darkbloom: is not merely to sex, but to rape. Therefore, to become Whitney Darkbloom, I must also become a lesbian rapist."
God I loved this line. RIP
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>>3454263
It’s sad when you think about it, she was a girl drafted into the service of her country and ended up falling victim to forces out of her control. She just wanted to sing and act and rape bitches ;_;

Makoto was a good girl she dindu nuffin
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>>3454235
12/11

Unless she finds a way to come back, too. We still haven't solved that issue. And Damon's appearance in this episode only serves as a taunting reminder.
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Stretch goal: make the season finale 15,509 words long.

CURRENT PROMINENCE BY MENTION:
Whitney: 904
Rose: 769
Cerise: 719
Vivian: 544
Renee: 537
Rose2: 379
Alex: 356
Camelia/Amber: 248
Galatea: 245
Makoto: 201
Charlotte: 185
Kay: 167
Sable: 120
Noelle: 114
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>>3454496

Heartless

Fun fact: this episode officially brings season 3 past season 2's total word count -- doing so in the span of 12 episodes compared to season 2's total of 15.
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>>3454496
>>3454502
That's the good stuff right there. Thanks again, OP!
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>>3454496
>Stretch goal: make the season finale 15,509 words long.
Kek, do it
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>>3454310
>Makoto was a good girl she dindu nuffin
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>>3454496
15,909 words, OP
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>>3454496
needs more Vivian lewds & handholding
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>>3454764
I almost hope some dumb bastard tries to crash our wedding, just so we can fucking unload on them.
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>>3454049
underrated post
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>>3454764
>Rose Mallory about to destroy every other girl both emotionally and physically, circa 2019
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>>3454496
wow, Whitney was our first GIRL FUCKED.

So many of those hearts wouldn't exist if not for Whitney Darkbloom. She is like the best wingman Alabaster could have ever asked for.

And he's been such a fucking cunt to her that it's almost unbelievable.

I know OP made it his personal mission to transform Rose from a combo onahole/toilet for Alabaster's use into someone /fq/ loves, but what about Whitney?

for the longest time now it's felt like Whitney was the accessory girl, or the wingman, never the focus of attention.

And sure, she loves incest, and rape, and fucking as many people as she possibly can, but what about her? Where is my good old fashioned solo tomboy on massive cock action?

Surely now, of all times she needs Alabaster's complete attention! So let's lock ourselves in a room with her and not come out until she's done fucking! For God! For country! For Whitney!
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>>3454321
>Unless she finds a way to come back, too.
That's a slippery slope right there. It just means there's also a chance for Stasi to come back too.

Maybe she shares headspace with Tyrus' body now. Or her henchpeople puts the retrieved implant in one of the Russian whores that lived through Marquis' murder spree last season.
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>>3455134
Paint me Green! Paint me Green! Paint me
>GREEN
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>>3455134
>for the longest time now it's felt like Whitney was the accessory girl, or the wingman, never the focus of attention.
The fuck? How? She's had some of the most spotlight, appearing in all but one episode and having almost 1000 mentions, she absolutely isn't in dire need of any more screen time

>Where is my good old fashioned solo tomboy on massive cock action?
The bachelor party
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>>3455158
>That's a slippery slope right there. It just means there's also a chance for Stasi to come back too.
Makoto would just rape her back to death
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>>3455182
To be fair, her presence in each episode has very frequently been in passing, or for the purpose of a lewd scene, with little involvement in the active plot of the story, and with the mention, it's pretty frequently other characters talking about her.
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>>3455216
I'd say she's been much more involved than most of the other characters including even Rose. That screen time could be given to a character who needs it a lot more than her
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>>3455225
Considering she's been shot into the spot of CEO of DBE and that that whole debacle is big plot point, I disagree
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>>3455238
But that plot point is hardly important now, there's a much bigger problem to deal with. Maybe next season but giving her anymore screen time when the others barely have any would be superfluous
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>>3454905
>Once those skanks are Removed, she will be First Girl!
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>>3455238
I think a lot of it is still residual backlash from S1 being seen as Whitney Quest (not unfairly mind you).
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>>3455447
Will Whitney get nanomachines this time? And will she get that weird Armstrong Heart?
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>>3455447
Whitney’s pretty much always been in the position of, first in prominence, but firmly second fiddle to a “main” haremite. In FQ1 that was Cerise, in the reboot it’s Rose. It’s an interesting dichotomy.
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>>3455475
S3 Cerise is essentially S1 Vivian in that she's less of a character and more of a David Darkbloom-created ticking time bomb that Alabaster has to defuse before it's too late. When this is all over, I'd like to hear OP's thoughts on how characters' roles have changed from S1 to now.
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What's this?
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>>3455599
oh fucking shit
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>>3455599
fazil column?
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>>3455599
I love you, marry me, OP
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>>3455599
>Rose Penelope Catachresis
OP...
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>>3455599
>Alex would fuck Nitori
Best boy has best taste
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>>3455599
Good shit. You should start adding a little icon for which rows are newly added.

>Renee would fug Reisen
Of fuckin course she would. Nice
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>>3455599
>Added David Darkbloom
oh god no


Also Alabaster should store the implant in a jar of maggots
>>3455608
Alex isn't best boy anymore
That title (regrettably) goes to Stackleford
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>>3455609
I'm treating the "which 2hu wud u fug" row as more of a, who's their favorite 2hu although for sure Renee would fuck the shit out of Reisen. I say this since it was a hard call for me with David between Remilia and Tewi, but if it was purely which one he'd rather fuck, definitely Tewi.
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>>3455599
>Tamsin
>short form of Thomasina
>female form of Thomas

hahaha oh wow
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>>3455621
So is the implication that David likes Remilia in more of a romantic/take over the world together way? I can't wait for the Transhumanism Incident to rock Gensokyo
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>>3455624
Remilia's power is the manipulation of fate!

She also has blue hair and red eyes and has 'melia' in her name :^)
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>>3455621
>although for sure Renee would fuck the shit out of Reisen
Oh man, when are we getting THAT pastebin?

I'd accept some other haremite in a Reisen costume. Hell, this universe's Smatters is probably a good contender.
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>>3455632
What a cute robot.
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>>3455599
>David on the chart
HOLY SHIT

I was going to wait until the season finale to ask for this. Fuck, this makes me happy
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>>3455624
Remilia is similar to how David sees Vivian.
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>>3455599

OP was riley the best all along.
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>>3455632
What, you telling me you *wouldn't* fuck this?
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>>3453441
You do realize that Cerise getting her implant from Camelia is outright stated? She gets it near the end of Season 2 to save Alabaster right after the implants start going on the fritz following Camelia's death. She saves Alabaster was about to blow up the Darkbloom building but passed out expecting to die, only to wake up to the knowledge that Cerise had gal put the implant in her to save you.
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>>3455662
ugh.typo.
to save *Alabaster*
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>>3455662
>>3455663
ugh. too tired to type or fix the last sentence in it's entirety. Hopefully you get the point.
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>>3455662
Cerise got Penelope, the implant that was buried in the desert. Camelia still had Catachresis until she died, and it's still out in the wild somewhere. There's a chance that her body was eventually recovered and Stasi got it installed, but it's just as likely hers was a commie clone and it's still missing.
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>>3455623
Also: the name Thomas means “twin”
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>>3455599
>Rose2
>Penelope
Of course...

>Amber
>Wii Sports
Finally, I was wondering if you were gonna add this

>David
>Clay
So out of place. Don't know why he didn't change that too

>David
>130
Damn, he has about the same as Alabaster and Rose

>David
>Looney Tunes
I'm assuming that's mostly nostalgia right? I honestly saw him as more of a Tom & Jerry kind of guy

>David
>Moby Dick
Ew, why?

>David
>Wii Sports
Kek

>David
>Lion
>Diplomacy
>Teddy Roosevelt
>Penis
>Doggy
I'm not sure if I should be worried about the similarities between both Alabaster and Rose

>David
>God
Not what I'd call a job but ok...

>David
>Bumper cars
Huh, a lot of people are a fan of bumper cars, I guess?

>David
>Having no legacy
Well it may be a pretty fucked up one but at least it's a legacy

>David
>A long walk in the park at night (Filled with deep philosophical discussion)
What a dork

>Mindbreak
Hmmmmm?
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>>3455667
Hrrrm......Maybe Sand Reckoner has been messing with my memories.
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>>3455673
>not liking Moby Dick
BREAK YOUR BACKS AND CRACK YOUR OARS, MEN
IF YOU WISH TO PREVAIL
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>>3455673
>I honestly saw him as more of a Tom & Jerry kind of guy
Fuck, I don't know what it is about it but that fits surprisingly well to me. I can definently imagine that
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>>3455688
>>3455673
Also, while I'm sure we can all appreciate a happier timeline where David got to watch Tom and Jerry while raising a young Whitney and Vivian together, it's pretty obvious he enjoyed the antics of that wascally widdle wabbit.
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>>3455687
I'd rather break my back than have to read that snoozefest again
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>>3455690
I don't know man, Looney Tunes was nice and all but just there's just something about imagining David sitting in front of the TV and watching the silent but charming antics of a Cat and Mouse trying to constantly one up each other that just clicks for me

Both of the shows are just as old too
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>>3455673
Moby-Dick is easily one of my top 5 books of all time personally (I believe I listed it back in S1 when asked my top 5), and for my money the single greatest achievement of American literature. Among American novels, perhaps only Lolita can give it a run for its money as far as the grandeur and beauty of its prose.

If you can withstand the long treatises on 19th century whale facts (which I found fascinating but most people struggle with), you find a book that's really about everything. Adventure, the American dream, the internal struggle of men against their demons, slapstick, bromance. And ultimately a look at a man consumed by his own monomaniacal hubris, his ambition and his lust for vengeance.
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>>3455599
The more I read everything on this list, for every character, the more I lament that we never got much time with Noelle. outside of maybe three or four oddball entries, she's literally perfect for my personal taste.

That said, there's so much to love spread out among all the cast that it would impossible to exclude them.
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>>3455696
Also, I am still very grateful for your recommendation of "We" OP. You have exquisite taste.
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>>3455696
The concept was good on paper, an allegorical tale about a man and hunting his ultimate goal personified as a whale that ultimately leads to his own tragedy sounds fantastic but once I got into reading it, it quickly felt like a chore unlike other books I've read

Maybe I'm just a brainlet though?

>>3455699
Actually that's one book I've been looking to make the time to read ever since last season, how was it?
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>Maybe I'm just a brainlet though?
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>>3455706
It is, for lack of a shorter descriptive phrase, a proto-1984. It showcases what it means to live the life of a cog in the machine of a regimented and streamlined society, and all the emptiness it entails. It is.... more muted, I feel, in comparison with 1984, which felt like it was more sensationalized and vivid, but in being a muted work, it helps to better illustrate the drabness of such a world better, at least for me.

I would say that you have to be in a particular mood or mindset to be able to 'get into' it.
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>>3455706
It takes a certain mindset to appreciate. It's written very archaically even for its era, so it can be hard to get into the rhythm of it.

I like the idea of him watching Tom & Jerry though, that's a good suggestion.

As for his middle name, I wanted something that was definitely a shade of country bumpkin since that's his background. Jethro was my original contender, but Clay seems to be better. To me I agree it feels out of place attached to the man we know, but at the same time not out of place... it's that dissonance of his upbringing with the image he cultivates, which we only partially get to see within the story.

"God" as an answer to dream job is halfway a joke. I should scratch that. Probably his real answer is President. Which...

>I'm not sure if I should be worried about the similarities between both Alabaster and Rose

David did see himself in Ally, of course, and Rose is similar to Ally in many respects herself. So it made sense to me that those three have some degree of overlap. In an alternate universe, who knows, maybe it was Rose that Darkbloom latched onto as a potential successor. Those two could have had more interesting interactions than we ever got.
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>>3455715
Guess we'll just need to run Rosequest someday. What a shame. It can't be helped.
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>>3455696
>Moby-Dick
>the single greatest achievement of American literature
Weird way to misspell Fuck Quest.
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>>3455712
>>3455715
I may give it a try someday

>I like the idea of him watching Tom & Jerry though, that's a good suggestion.
Based

>As for his middle name, I wanted something that was definitely a shade of country bumpkin since that's his background. Jethro was my original contender, but Clay seems to be better. To me I agree it feels out of place attached to the man we know, but at the same time not out of place... it's that dissonance of his upbringing with the image he cultivates, which we only partially get to see within the story.
When I read that I personally liked the implication that he kept his middle name despite trying to completely deny his humble past. Like a "he'll never forget his past despite trying to defy it" kind of deal

>David did see himself in Ally, of course, and Rose is similar to Ally in many respects herself. So it made sense to me that those three have some degree of overlap. In an alternate universe, who knows, maybe it was Rose that Darkbloom latched onto as a potential successor. Those two could have had more interesting interactions than we ever got.
*Mara peeks around the corner*

>>3455718
But anon it already IS Rosequest
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>>3455719
Reminder that OP despises his prose.
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>>3455715
>David did see himself in Ally, of course, and Rose is similar to Ally in many respects herself. So it made sense to me that those three have some degree of overlap. In an alternate universe, who knows, maybe it was Rose that Darkbloom latched onto as a potential successor. Those two could have had more interesting interactions than we ever got.
Was him seeing himself in Alabaster the reason behind his almost irrational fascination and fear of him?
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>>3455719
... y'know, considering that absolute dumpster fires like Twilight and 50 Shits are bestselling series, FQ easily puts those titles to shame on multiple levels, so.... who knows?

>>3455722
Granted TrackMan, but almost every artist hates their works.
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>When I read that I personally liked the implication that he kept his middle name despite trying to completely deny his humble past. Like a "he'll never forget his past despite trying to defy it" kind of deal

I think that's it exactly, but on top of that, mix in two other factors -- he's paradoxically too prideful to even consider changing his name -- and he also has some latent daddy issues of his own that would make him not want to change it.

That last one is something we saw only VERY obliquely, but he definitely hated his dad, and his dad pretty much hated him too. I actually like the idea that Vivian's grandfather is still alive out there, still back home in his shithole Tennessee town -- cut off from his son's empire and all the riches that attend it, old and bitter, and decrepit from his career as a miner. And pretty much having created by his own emotionally abusive treatment, the self-fulfilling prophecy that David was trying to be too smart by half. I picture David getting long rants from his father about how he's too uppity and pretentious and trying to be something he ain't. "Them city folks ain't ever gonna accept you as one of their own" -- that sort of thing.

>>3455718
Fuck Quest Season 18: "What do you mean Darkbloom told you to run for President?! He told ME to run for President! Goddamn it, Rose!"

>>3455723
I wouldn't say Darkbloom's fear of Alabaster by the end of this season is irrational given how Alabaster has reacted (rightly or wrongly). I think once Darkbloom realized that Alabaster was never going to fall in line with him, he began to panic. Season 3 showed a lot of things, but one of the key things is David's entire view of the world, and all his plans, shattering.

As to why he had that initial fascination with Alabaster, well, he's not wrong -- they are similar in personality to a degree. Imagine a world where Alabaster's parents lived and Darkbloom was more transparent with Alabaster from the beginning about having experimented upon him. He could have easily groomed Alabaster to join the fold the way he had wanted to.

I'm tired and rambling off the cuff so hopefully I'm still making sense and not just going off on tangents.
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>>3455732
If only we had been born into the didnothingwrongverse.
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>>3455732
>Fuck Quest Season 18: "What do you mean Darkbloom told you to run for President?! He told ME to run for President! Goddamn it, Rose!"
This is the best timeline
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>>3455599
Shogi might be Noelle's favourite board game, but I suspect she is really more of a solitaire gamer:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/100169/hero-weehawken
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It's 4:21!
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>>3455599
I thought David would be the mastermind behind /csg/
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>>3450226
Darkbloom is inside Vivian right now. He did that Stublebrine thing with her, then hijacked her body. Do not trust Viv.

Also, why are we keeping the implant? Maybe to shove David back into it? Anyway, don't trust Sable or Viv. Alex... See if we can turn him around but I've lost a fair bit of trust in the dude.
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>>3455599
>mindbreak
>God
>Moby Dick
>Genghis Khan
>scaphism and maggots as a phobia
Okay I have a feeling we have massively underestimated how vicious, cruel and vindictive Darkbloom can be. All of this screams revenge, hatred and fury unending. What kind of man has a favourite torture which is directly related to his phobia?
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>>3455905
I mean, what kind of man even has a favourite kind of torture?
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>>3455900
I really hope OP doesn’t go that route. Vivian unchained is such an interesting development. She’s not holding back with anyone. I’d much prefer if her interactions with Sable and Alex this ep were actually her.

Vivian is honestly the only character who’s got her head screwed on right.
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>>3455923
He's the only one who's favourite execution method is measured in weeks not in days and is widely considered one of the shittiest ways to die ever.

>>3455951
You really think Darkbloom, the main antagonist of season 1, a key figure in season 2 and an abiding issue of this season got offscreened by his own daughter after using the Stublebrine fusion trick on his daughter and acting incredibly out of character?

Jesus anon you can't be thus optimistic. He obviously shanghaied Viv. His character is literally Shanghaiing people. I would not be surprised if his implant is empty or if Viv is in it and he just changed places; Alabaster didn't understand how it worked with Gal and was still almost able to change things.

In fact. Do you guys think it's possible Mara implanted Vivian with one of the dohickeys because she knew David could do that? They *did* love each other and *were* partners for ages, plus she hasn't done anything to Vivian despite putting it in there. Mara doesn't do things for no reason and she'd never use a long-term solution where a short-term solution would fit.
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>>3456050
While scaphism is its own special tier of brutality and horror, the other harem members have some pretty fucked up answers to favorite execution method too (actually, answering that at all is kinda fucked)

Renee likes the brazen bull which is especially horrible way to die, Camellia is down with literally crucifying people and Rose is apparently back in the Salem mindset with burning people at the stake. Alabaster himself likes impalement which was an extraordinarily long and painful death, and Noelle just wants to immure a motherfucker, which is scaphism without the maggots.

There’s some very special psychology there, is what I’m saying.

As for how David might be driving Vivian as a meatsuit, it’s a compelling case, but I’m not sure.

For certain I don’t think Vivian is in the implant taken out of Cerise now. “Vivian” gave that implant to Alabaster with the unstated assumption he would destroy it. David would never do that to Vivian, or even allow Vivian’s consciousness to become trapped and held by Alabaster. David is a monster but he 100% loves Vivian, unquestionably, and would never ever give put her consciousness in a purgatory, one that Alabaster would potentially unwittingly destroy.

I also don’t think David and Mara are in league. They didn’t love each other they hated each other. If he’s loose, he’s a free agent, working for himself.
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>>3455900
I trust Vivian infinitely more than Alex right now
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>>3456050
>I would not be surprised if his implant is empty or if Viv is in it and he just changed places
If that's the case then damn am I happy we didn't crush that thing
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What do you guys want from the wedding of the century?
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>>3456097
Yes but see, here's the thing. None of those take *weeks* to kill you; even immuring tends to kill you after 3 days as you die from lack of water. Scaphism is the only one designed to kill you over *weeks* in utter agony the entire time, your chest aflame with infection while bugs eat you alive. Now, there's other reason people could like these murders; they're aesthetic, they're technically interesting or they're extremely imaginative but Darkbloom is the only one who's phobia coincides with his favourite form of execution, which says to me that the reason he likes it the most is because he considers it the most awful/horrific; the fact that a book all about revenge is his favourite book ever justifies this for me.

Likewise, what David wants most is a *legacy*. If he had to choose between himself and Vivian, I think he'd choose himself. Especially with how he was in season 1 and the fact that, whenever he has to sacrifice for others or save himself, he has *always* chosen himself over them. I think it's more likely he's possessing her instead of having pulled off a swap but I could 100% see either being the case.

Mara and David have been shown to have some kind of deep connection. She hated Whitney as an insult to her, their dancing was completely on point and it was even remarked on by others how in love they seem. More than that though, more than love or anything, they work *really* well together. If I was Mara and I couldn't trust Viv, Whitney, Alabaster or anyone else and I knew Sable was scheming at destroying Sand Reckoner, I'd pair back up with the man who helped me make the most powerful company on Earth. Maybe she knew before hand that a remnant would remain, maybe Darkbloom alerted her afterwards. I'd be even more eager to do this after losing my brother somehow and then, just recently, my sister.

Lets not forget, Darkbloom is one of the smartest character in the series and he's been using one of the Sand Reckoner implants since it was created. No one on the planet knows how they work better than him. If anyone was able to squirrel away a piece of themselves in one of the implants, it'd be him.
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>>3456222
Fair points all but I still believe hurting Vivian is the one line David could never cross. That being said, another complication is what Sable claimed this episode. Maybe what lives in Cerise’s implant isn’t actually David. If it’s a simulation then who’s to say it doesn’t have its own sentience, it’s own personality, and is just posing as David?
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>>3456230
when has sable ever actually been correct about anything? every single independent idea she's ever come up with has backfired horribly
>work with darkbloom
>let him test Sand Reckoner on Alabaster despite the fact it's clearly torture
>side with darkbloom harder
>run away and do nothing, spending a year as a hobo on the road who is on the radio
>get caught by the russians
>abuse everyone close to her
>go completely insane
>get saved by us
>reveal her dogshit plan of "we'll stop the reality warping elites by making everyone reality warping elites and let everyone nuke each other back to the stone age"

A key theme of this story has become 'arrogant people who think they are smarter and wiser than others end up getting bitten in the ass by common sense'. Sable vs Whitney is a perfect example of this. She's 100% wrong again.
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>>3456235
Keep in mind that Whitney’s MO of “don’t sweat the details, fly by the seat of your pants” but her in the ass in a big way this week too. It resulted in the near theft of DBA intellectual property and the death of a semi-major character.

I think a bigger theme of fuck Quest is no matter who you are, smart or dumb, big or small, life ALWAYS finds a way to fuck your plans up.
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>>3456235
To be fair, Sable has a different perspective and mindset from the rest of the cast, especially when it comes to Sand Reckoner. Maybe she's actually been correct in her actions, but appears to be doing stupid things to people who don't see the big picture. She evaded probably the most well-funded collection of organizations in the world, possibly gained manpower in the form of conspiracy subscribers and helped put us in a position to shut down DBA, which is now safe to do thanks to advances in implant removal. Sable is also at least not objectively wrong with her views on the best way to deal with reality-warping technology.

> Without Diogenes, we become muddled and mixed up, conflicting realities battle with each other for dominance and the world becomes crazy. That's our world currently, by the way.
>And without Sand Reckoner, of course, Diogenes is pointless. All the people stay together in one reality. Which is ideal for some, but not for all. That was our world before Sand Reckoner.
>David Darkbloom was a moron. He thought he could half-ass it and just give the people a nice simulation.
>My vision takes it one step further. We can all be sorted properly, and enjoy our most ideal world -- and it will all be real.


The main conflict at this point is between whether its best to have (A) vanilla reality, (B) vanilla reality chosen by battle royale, (C) everyone in their own ideal WAKE UP reality, or (D) everyone in their own ideal vanilla reality. Of course, the 'correct' answer is that you just want normal reality, but you'd expect people already satisfied with reality to support this most strongly. If Mom is alive in a real ideal reality and dead in vanilla reality, I'd imagine Alabaster would chose the former (which may be why she's alive now).
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>>3456201
Whitney as Best Man
Rose2 as Flower girl
Fazil as the priest
Bachelor party (Whitney better not disappoint)
Vanilla post wedding fuck with Rose
ect, ect
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>>3456372
Yeah but compare that's one screw up on Whitney's part compared to the countless Sable's made. AND, it only happened when she became cocky and started saying 'You can't zoom the Darkbloom.' Then she got zoomed.

>>3456379
I'm sorry but letting two militaries use reality warping technologies against each other immediately makes her idea the worst possible.
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>>3456390
In her scenario, that would presumably never happen, realities would be distinct from one another. There's no way that Alabaster's ideal reality includes a Sand Reckoner war.
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>>3456390
>CEO not so tough after getting Zoomed
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>>3456400
Yeah but the other Sand Reckonners will just force themselves on those who try to seal themselves up in a private reality. It'll never work.
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>>3456390
I like the idea that hubris is the downfall. Whitney got arrogant, she got put to heel. It happens to every character it seems. Even one-off characters like Auburn from the stuco ep, thinks he’s hot shit, gets suddenly vested in an election and the school burns down.

It’s also why Fazil is consistently best boy. He’s the most consistently humble character.

...And why Alabaster and Rose are doomed to perpetual stalemate. Because as soon as one notches a victory over the other, their ego gets hyperinflated and sows the seeds of their loss in the next bout.
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>>3456404
I think that line of thinking makes too many assumptions on the nature of reality. Of course, it's also too soon to know whether Sable's claims of each individual reality being 'real' are reliable.
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>>3456414
Well it lets you change your private perception of reality right? But what if we both have sand reckoner? What if I want to invade your altered perception of reality and shove my fucking cock in it?

>>3456408
It's the one thing that happens over and over again. Every cocky, arrogant, smug character gets fucked over for it in the end. Look at Alex; the one time he acts smug and know it all-y and almost immediately his plan backfires horribly with some people dead because of him, his plan partially exposed and all of it having been unnecessary because he did the exact same thing he called us out for last time JUST because a crazy lady said 'lets let everyone manipulate reality'.
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>>3456235
your greentext is far from accurate.

many of those things weren't active choices on Sable's part. And your last point is a complete misunderstanding of her plan.

Sable has only ever sided with her project. not david.

>>3456390
Sablenisnt handing Sand Reckoner out to hostile militaries. They already have them.

It is an important theme of the story that innovations can't be hidden or hoarded forever. look at the history of nuclear proliferation for clear examples.

Sand Reckoner is like that , but infinitely harder to contain because producing it is infinitely easier. All you need is the source code and a tiny implant
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>>3456424
If everyone has a private perception of reality, it's hard to say if other private instances of reality would still exist for them at all, much less allow interaction. At the very least, if this interpretation was likely, I doubt Sable would still be on board.
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>>3456442
She thought David would enable her project. She trusted him to carry it out and then, Mara to carry it out. All those times, she was completely wrong and overestimated herself as being capable of manipulating them when she's always been nothing but a puppet. Also, the military do *not* already have Sand Reckoner, that's what Saul's entire court move to get them to fuck off about.

>>3456449
Sable doesn't understand Sand Reckoner, she's never used it or had it in her. Not only that, she's insane and makes terrible choices as I've said above.
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>>3456462
I mean, she at least understands it more than we, the readers. Otherwise, she couldn't possibly complete the pinnacle of Fuck Questechnology, Ball Bearings Reckoner.
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>>3456462
The US military either has sand Reckoner or will soon. Saul’s third amendment thing was basically a threat, one that he would only continue to push if the FBI didn’t let up on them. That’s what scared Noelle’s superiors. Basically, it was “keep investigating us and we’ll keep sand Reckoner out of your hands”

But earlier this season, military generals toured DBA and were already working out details of getting the tech.
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>>3456201
Rose and Ally's psychiatrist receiving the RSVP.
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>>3455599
Apparently all this time I missed what Rose2's favorite SF character was, and now I take back everything bad I have said about her because how can I hate a fellow Dudley main?
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>>3456536
wtf I love Rose 2nd Impact now
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Now then.

"Because -- should the world ever come to an end, you might need what's inside your head -- and you might need mother's help."

What did she mean by this? It was pretty fucking chuuni sounding, but with the literal start of a digital WWIII on our hands, it's not so far-fetched.
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>>3456955
Plot twist: it’s actually mom with us in Alaska after Judgment Day and season 4 is Terminator: The Okaasan Chronicles
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>>3456462
she didn't just think David and Mara would enable her project, they DID enable her project.

David himself acknowledged at the party for the Palo alto prosperity league that he had little to no idea what Sable was doing. Her work was above his head. Despite this he knew she was the best chance he had at getting the implant to be more than a cell phone you put in your eyeball.

The court move was aimed at the FBI.

Lastly Sable might be the ONLY person who fully understands Sand Reckoner. Maybe Camelia. Maybe David. But Sable of a certainty.

Also, she's not nearly as insane as you would make her out to be. She comes off as normal manic-depressive. With some therapy and medication she would be so normal you wouldn't look twice at her. Of course, that normality might come at the expense of her flash in the pan bursts of brilliance and innovation.
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>>3457143
FUCK Quest Babies would be the proving ground of whether or not OP can entice us with cuteness instead of smut.
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>>3457180
I would play a Headpat Quest if OP ran it.
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>>3457181
Headpatters should have their hands chopped off!
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>>3457186
R-rude!
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>>3456955
So, after some thinking, I realized something.

We’ve never seen any of the other implants have some secondary function. Only their primary functions, BUT BECAUSE OF THAT, a few things are explained.

Catachresis is probably lost for good. Diegesis has been in Viv’s head for a year and it hasn’t bridged with anything else, she’s probably not even aware it’s in her head. That was the whole thing with Catachresis and Diegesis, and the servers are still up, so there’s no reason why they wouldn’t try to reconnect. It also means that Stasi’s implant is a clone, and not Catachresis.

Another thing is how certain people remember Red Camelia, and others remember Blue Camelia. We have no confirmation from Gal, remember? She probably doesn't remember since Galatea just handles handles implicit memory, while Camelia and above can handle long-term memory. That’s how Amber was able to tell us our favorite cereal and who we fucked last. That shit was uploaded to the servers and she retrieved it, so because we remember Red Camelia, that was saved to the servers and we’re remembering correctly, likewise with David. Cerisebloom is the manifestation of all of David’s memories, so of course he remembers red Camelia. Vivian probably remembers her because she’s using David’s implant, David definitely remembers her because of his implant.

Feel free to call me a retarded namefag if this sounds stupid.
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>>3457250
Another potential thing worth noting:
If it really is Sand Reckoner responsible for all the reality altering phenomena, it's important to question its motives. There has to be a certain logic behind it. WHY would it shift the world to a point where nobody remembers the true identity of Amber / Camelia, one of the most wanted women on the entire planet? Is it trying to protect all of the possessors of the implants streaming their data and experiences straight into its memory banks? Galatea has been able to keep herself hidden away from the world just fine, Vivian is one of the hardest girls in the world to reach, and Alabaster is protected with meta-levels of plot armor that are probably operating even on a canonical level sasuga Basilisk-sama. If we've all become the useful idiots that SR needs to form itself, then it's a safe bet that it's written off David entirely at this point.

There are two major paths ahead of us at this juncture: the dissemination of the platform that will bring about the technological singularity (is Diogenes really the cure? Or is it exactly what Sand Reckoner wants?), or a literal world war between all of the competing factions.

There has to be a way to stop both of these things.
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>>3457250
>>3457263
Another terrifying thing to consider: Scarlett (or whoever is posing as her) is potentially the new host of Catachresis. All it needs is to scan the profile of whoever she stares at and suddenly she can become whoever she needs to be to fool them. Whether she's truly our mother or not, it'd be impossible to tell without some sort of confirmation.

It also makes Rose2's involvement even more mysterious. There's a reason she's there, her being related to our "mother" and Amber is simply no coincidence.
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>>3457143
Oh how long I've waited for a reason to post this again.
https://youtu.be/al59FDEV5E0

tfw you will never again read S1 for the first time
Fucking kill me
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>>3457177
Sable's never fucking used it. She mafe it for Darkbloom and Mara and then was helpless to stop them from doing whatever they wanted with it; every time she's tried to use them and steal Sand Reckoner back, she's had to be vailed out by us. Hell, Darkbloom lies publicly all the time and he always misinforms people; what fucking reason would he have to be honest at a soiree?

Sable is incredibly incompetent whenever she tries to do anything by herself. Seriously, when has anything she ever tried not backfired on her horribly? She is just not good at planning.

>not crazy
Yes because incoherent screaming, then crying, the repeating 'death' over and over again before finally masturbating with a gun isn't crazy. Thinking we should make every human on Earth able to warp reality isn't crazy.
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>>3457452
Every erratic behavior Sable displays is consistent with her having bipolar disorder. borderline personality might be an alternative diagnosis.

paranoia and temporary delusions are both symptoms of severe bipolar disorder.

That in no way means that Sable cannot be successful or correct in her opinions. Further if you had paid attention to her plan instead of dismissing it because of the source you would have noted that by stratifying the population into separate layers of an intersecting reality she avoids needless conflict. This holds true whether Sand Reckoner is a reality warping device, or if it works by filtering perception along the lines of Facebook echo chambers and the like.

If you want to know why her plan failed, the reason is simple. We the players chose for Alabaster not to help her. Of course Ally's assistance wouldn't have assured success, but it would have resulted in at least partial success. Similar to how Camelia's plan only partially succeeded. Of course, it takes more than one decision to reach a given outcome (David's death was the result of at least four separate choices). By refusing to help Sable at all we doomed her original plan to extinction.

go watch the documentary ride the tiger.
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>>3457452
>>3457965
It's also probably worth considering that originally her disjointed personality was meant to be the result of being trapped between different worlds from particle accelerator work. I had been assuming that this backstory was dropped for the actual season 2, but now that we're seeing talk of multiple realities it may be relevant after all.
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>>3457985
well you know what they say, it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.

in a similar vein, it's not delusion if your experiencing it in another facet of reality
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>>3456201
As for me personally, I’m hype for the inevitable lovey-dovey vanilla lewd after they tie the knot.
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>>3456201
Alabaster fucking and knocking up his soon to be mother in law Charlotte in front of his mother Scarlett in a primal display of depravity, lust and virility before the wedding ceremony.
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>>3458103
>ara ara, no son in law of mine will go into his wedding night without knowing how to please my girl! It can’t be helped, I’ll just have to demonstrate...
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Yes yes, we all know we all want the post-wedding vanilla sex. But you dweebs are forgetting the most important part of the ceremony:

VIOLENTLY
TSUNDERE
WEDDING
VOWS
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First post in thread to say gunplay during sex is incredibly hot.
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>>3458536
I committed to pre-writing as little as possible this season, for better or worse, and whether it made the quest richer or poorer. However, once I was confident that it was going in this direction, I started working on what the moment of Alabaster actually having to walk down the aisle would look like. I hope it, and the rest of the S3 finale, lives up to expectations. I think I'm going to have a lot of fun with all of it.
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>>3458909
Why oh why isn't it Saturday yet?
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>>3456201
Whitney objecting to the marriage in the middle of the ceremony, jokingly or not.
pls be not.
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>>3458909
When abouts did you decide it was going to happen?
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>>3459278
Keep this one in mind for the end of season Q&A! There's a lot to say about how major plot developments unfolded or didn't in season 3.
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>>3459282
And then we move to season 4 and beyond.
How I'd wish us anons would go full David Darkblood alignment for once.
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>>3459396
>David Darkblood
Fantasy AU when?
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>>3459409
>You are Alabaster Soliloquy, squire in King Darkblood's Court and favorite customer of the local succubus brothel. You slay pussy like there’s a bounty on it and are the ultimate conquest for elf girls across the kingdom.
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>>3459487
>You are Alabaster Soliloquy, collector of the finest illuminated manuscripts and exotic baubles from the far Orient, and notorious summoner of The Beast With Two Backs.
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Which girl do you think would be the most fun to get sexually humiliated by.
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https://pastebin.com/N0EcJzu6
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OP, can we marry you instead?
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>It's a very FUCK QUEST wedding on the season 3 finale, "Rose-sama: Love is War"
Word can't express how happy I am
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>>3461039
Das it mane
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>>3461039
Whitney is too good. Rose is great too, but still...
Glad that we get to see Rose2 get gradually more corrupted.
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>>3459278
>>3459282
>>3461055
Reminder that OP has been building to a Rose ending at least since episode 9... of season 2. When they went out to see Renee in prison.

>"Volts have an MP3 storage function," Rose explains. "I think I put a few songs on here a while back... let's see..."

>She keeps scrolling. In fact, she's right. She not only put songs on here, but an entire playlist. The first one that comes up is titled "Al_Ro_Wedding"

>"Oh Jesus," you groan as a song called 'Such Great Heights' starts playing. "The fucking Postal Service? What the fuck is wrong with you, Rose?"

>Rose makes a gasping, choking noise as if embarrassed and quickly clicks to the next playlist
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>>3461150
Even if OP had been building to this then, the universe ordained that it happen 5 years ago. Every choice we've wound up making has only further reinforced it.
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>>3461150
>>3461157
Hah. Well speaking of playlists and "5 years," here's a good song I was listening to tonight while running, which is extremely fitting.

It's a cute little call and response type song from one of my favorite bands when I was younger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkRrgSClMoM
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>>3461173
>4:20
Y-you're making me even more nervous, OP.
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>>3461175
Oh shit. I meant to post the other link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9-m7L2ASLk
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>>3461176
Heh.
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>>3461176
IT EVEN HAS 421 LIKES WHAT THE FUCK
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>>3461176
>>3461178
I hate it!
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>>3461212
He hates it!
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>>3461039
Hour 36 of conciousness before fapping and uh
>Rose is worse for the wear than Cerise. She collapses atop your sister, totally cummed out and exhausted, woozy, close to unconsciousness
Rose i'm definitely feeling that
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>>3461241
Please get some sleep, Anonymous-dono. And don't forget to hydrate. We have a busy weekend ahead of us.
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>>3461244
So do I. And unfortunately I'm not going to be able to keep up with /fq/ as it happens, I'll have to read it after he fact cuz I'm starting a new job that conflicts time-wise.

Also I still need to stay up for at least like....8 hours so that I can properly correct my sleep schedule for a graveyard shift....

They give me a night shift, but the new hire orientation was at fucking 9am...... Sigh
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>>3461251
I have training this weekend for my new job as well. Luckily not conflicting with FQ, but despite promising me morning shifts, all my training is during the evening and I had to cancel two D&D sessions. Work is suffering.
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>>3461253
luckily it doesn't conflict with my d&d campaign
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>>3461256
You're luckier than I. What do you play?
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>>3461259
I'm running a UESRPG3E campaign for my friends.
It's a big change for all involved going from d20 systems to a d100 system
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The lewd didn't change any haremite's overall prominence relative to one another but I thought I'd post the final standings before we head into the finale.

CURRENT PROMINENCE BY MENTION:
Whitney: 949
Rose: 811
Cerise: 769
Vivian: 544
Renee: 537
Rose2: 418
Alex: 356
Camelia/Amber: 248
Galatea: 246
Makoto: 201
Charlotte: 185
Kay: 167
Sable: 120
Noelle: 114
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>>3461262
Sounds like a good time, I hope things are going well. My last experience with a d100 system was Rolemaster, which soured me on most of them unfortunately. Maybe someday I'll try my hand at them again.
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>>3461263
Can you make it through the entire episode in under 13,000 words? Can you manage only mentioning Rose2 three times? All these questions and more, answered, in the next episode of Fuck Quest!
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>>3461264
It's a good system.
The Unofficial Elder Scrolls RPG 3rd Edition
It was brewed up by some fa/tg/uys.
It's still being updated but here's the highlights of what drew me to using it:

It's in many ways morrowind/oblivion translated to paper as far as mechanics are concerned.

-You don't have a character level, you level up your specific skills.
-The magic system is fantastic
In-depth Alchemy and Spell Creation as well as Spell Backfires for using spells above your skill level.

You have a "Target Number" based off your base characteristics and relevant skills. You want to roll as high as you can (For higher degrees of success), while still being lower than your TN, because if you roll over your TN you fail.
It works well for showing the progress you make as your skills improve.
Combat is also handled very well, but like any system, it can be broken.
(Honestly if my players weren't making broken characters I'd question whether or not they'd played any Elder Scrolls before)
The layout of the Core Rulebook is a bit of a clusterfuck at present, but hopefully they'll fix it with later releases.
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>>3461277
Seems fun. Maybe if I can gather some interested players I'll give it a peak. In the game I DM on Fridays, I'm tempted to just kill them off since they've all devolved into meme status. It's getting very old and boring.
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>>3461263
Remember the 421k word count OP
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>>3461039
にゃんと
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With marriage vows on the horizon, I decided to do more science and asked the most important question of all:

Who should we impregnate?

I ranked six criteria.

MOTHERLINESS: How warm/loving/affectionate they would be to offspring and how “mom-like” they could be. Can they superficially fit the role?

FITNESS TO BEAR CHILDREN: do they got them child bearing hips? Mammaries to nurse? Etc.

INTELLECTUAL TRAITS: we want smart kids so how are their brain genes?

PHYSICAL TRAITS: we want ubermenschen so how are their physical traits? Considering height, athleticism, general fitness, etc.

MARITAL HARMONY: a child needs a stable home environment. How would they do raising a kid with us?

QUALITY AS MOTHER FIGURE: catch-all for how good they’d actually be as moms. Can they raise a kid right, striking a balance between affection and strictness, giving them a solid moral foundation, are they someone the child can look up to, can they deal with the trials and tribulations of child rearing? Etc.

It should come as no surprise that our MILFs score highest in aggregate. According to my precise science, scientifically speaking, Renee is the best girl to impregnate (54/60) followed CLOSELY by Charlotte (53/60) and our own sweet kaa-san (45/60).

In the next tier down, Kay is surprisingly strong (44/60) and so is Noelle (42/60). Christmas cakes are the next best bet from MILFs, we find! Rose also shows great potential, which is no shock (44/60).

Alex surprisingly ranks higher than several girls despite being biologically incapable of pregnancy (39/60).

Among the worst girls to have a baby with are Amber (29/60), Gal (27/60), and Rose2 (27/60). Do not impregnate these girls except as a last resort.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
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>>3461608
Errata: Rose2’s aggregate score was 24/60, putting her firmly in last mom-place. This is a clear repudiation of all Rose2 fags who have hoped for a pregnancy subplot.
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>>3461608
I feel like Rose2's motherliness score fails to take into account her unconditional affection proficiency, the most important mom quality. Kaasan has been shown to be very harmonious in marriage as well, given the timelooped husband modifier.

Having said that, I mysteriously feel as though Amber would be both the most interesting and most effective mother figure. I want to make the student council president pregnant, I really want to!
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>>3461953
Fair enough but I think of Rose2’s affection, while deep, isn’t really “motherly” but more childlike, like an imouto’s. I have a hard time imagining her as a mom! But I guess if she’s Kaasan’s daughter, she has room to grow.

Amber as a mother might be a disaster or not, but either way it would be cute! CUTE!
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>>3461608
>Among the worst girls to have a baby with are Amber (29/60)
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>>3462389
Surely you don’t want your baby raised by a radical anarcocommunazi terririst, IaTM?
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>>3462424
THE TREE OF LIBERTY MUST BE WATERED WITH THE BLOOD OF TYRANTS
DAVID "CLAY" DARKBLOOM, AKA "D.D" IS NOT MY DADDY, HE IS TECHNOCRAT AND PROBABLY FAKE AI AS WELL
ALLY AND EVE NOT ALLY AND STEVE
PRAISE AMBER
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>>3462447
Yeah, It's Ally and Eve, Not Ally and another dude and they're having sex.
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>>3461608
>including a pointless stat solely to inflate the scores of the fleshier cast members
>rating Rose at anything other than 0 harmony
>rating Sable's motherly score higher than Amber despite Amber having a protective streak a mile wide and Sable giving zero shits about other people.

your "study" is horribly biased
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>>3461608
>Rose
4.5 intellect, seriously? no. you can continue to pretend she's a genius on par with Sable, Renee, and Anna, but she simply isn't. She might be smart, but she hasn't developed it enough or done enough with it to prove 4.5

harmony is a joke score here. zero or one at the outside. 2.5 is the result of her and ally being brainwashed by sand reckoner.

>Cerise

her scores seem low. remember this isn't smelly NEET feet Cerise anymore.

>Rose2

... stop being so much of a rosefag that you feel the need to fabricate pseudoscientific data. Or if you must continue at least make it based on reality.

>Amber
as previously mentioned Amber has a fairly strong protective instinct. She warrants better scores here.

>Galatea
Marital harmony is low, as is either of her motherly scores. you might consider renaming them to make the traits clearer.

>Kay
I love her to Pulitzer publishing pieces, but these scores are obviously inflated due to bias. Harmony would likely drop a point,Fitness to bear is inflated, and Quality as a mom seems fabulously high without proof.

>Sable
okay, if I read this right you think Sable, who abuses the shit out of everyone close to her and has severe mood disorders is more motherly than Rose2 and Amber?

>Noelle

you rated an FBI field agent a 3.5 in fitness? while Rose "treadmill incident" Mallory is a 2? Noelle is at least as fit as Kay.

>Alex

5 intellect is pushing it a bit.
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>arguing with science
Next you'll tell me Palau is flat.
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>>3462424
The more time goes on the less of a want and more of a necessity this becomes for me.

>>3462447
This desu. The technocratic elites must face the consequences of their actions. The harm they’ve caused to the common man and society as large has no effect on them, and they must be brought to account for their crimes against liberty and personal governance. A single person may not be able to make much of a difference, but as a closely bonded unit, as a family or as a people, we can bring then down to face the truth of what they have wrought.

I want to get Amber pregnant! I want us to completely destroy Silicon Valley together! I really really want to!
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>>3462627
You may wish to revisit THE CHART for intelligence data, anonymous-dono. Also, I'd assume that fitness to bear children is more directed towards the childbearing hip quotient than athleticism.
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>>3461039
This lewd is pure kino. It’s not just a lewd, but a symbolic representation of all Fuck Quest.

It begins like S1 with Cerise on top and unchallenged in her supremacy, and Rose as a living sex toy. But then suddenly, like S2, Rose skyrockets to the top and takes over the unchallenged top spot, and Cerise is relegated to a supporting role.

At all times, Whitney dominates the proceedings and monopolizes Alabaster by shoehorning herself in, despite never being the main focus or most cherished girl.

In the middle of the scene a girl from the reboot arrives but she’s just there as a sex object and isn’t ever seriously a participant on the same level as S1 girls.

It’s like poetry, it rhymes.

B R A V O O P
R
A
V
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O
P
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>>3462850
>Also, I'd assume that fitness to bear children is more directed towards the childbearing hip quotient than athleticism.

This is correct.

>>3462627
Cerise could be more motherly based on how she interacts with Galatea and I admit Sables score seems high, she gets benefits from genetics and capability to bear a child!

The reason Kay’s quality as Mom is so high is because I see her as an exemplary role model and she just seems like she’d be good at instilling self-discipline and drive. Military background, her own drive etc.

I think Gal would struggle as a mom, sorry. That’s why she rates lower. She can’t nurture when she needs nurturing so badly herself!

Noelle deserves higher fitness for sure.

Ambers protectiveness is a good point and taking it into account boosts her to being a mid tier mom choice.

If Saul/Charlotte are anything to go by, then Alabaster/Rose are capable of a tolerable level of marital harmony. I rated physical traits higher too, because Rose has stamina for rape fights and she’s a marksman. Still she only ranked a bit above average.

Finally, I’m sorry but Revenge of the Rose would be a terrible mom.
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>>3463516
anon, Sable lives. in. a. van. you might be well served to consider the type of lifestyle the mother can provide as a separate statistic. She has severe emotional disorders that would certainly hamper her ability to rear a child. I love her as I love all the girls, but she is clearly deficient in this area. As for genetics, you have already accounted for heritable traits in two other categories.

While Kay is certainly amazing, it could be argued that she would likely prioritize her career over her child. Even if she didn't, her thrillseeking attitude is likely to mesh poorly with motherhood.

Saul and Charlotte might be similar to Rose and Ally, but we aren't considering unproven hypothetical. By that logic Cerise will fill out to Kaa-san's proportions during pregnancy and will mellow out to allow for a higher harmony. as it stands right now, Alabaster and Rose have a violent and possibly dysfunctional relationship that would be a nightmare to raise a child in. They might coalesce into a more stable relationship later, but they haven't right now. As for her intelligence, I refer to more than her IQ score. some characters are driven to use their native intelligence to accomplish and learn. Rose, and Alabaster, are low achievers. That is a heritable trait as well.

as for Rose2, I would argue that she has a level of devotion that handily eclipses most of the rest of the cast.You say she would make a terrible mother, but that's just silly! Why are you saying such silly things Anon?

Lastly you've forgotten one very important mother. Mara Darkbloom is nowhere on your list.
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While in the past I have remained mum on radar chart anon's specific rankings (pardon the pun), for fear of coloring things with a perception of bias, there comes a time when a man must speak up, and it is here. I have to agree with the idea that you are being unnecessarily harsh on Rose2.

Unironically, based on what we know of her, I think she would make an actually quite excellent mother. She has, as others pointed out, a nearly bottomless well of affection and devotion. She would not be encumbered by embarrassment so would therefore actively take part in, and encourage her child's hobbies/passions. She is sweet and kind, and puts others before herself in social interactions. She even likes to bake. And if she perceives her child is in danger, who knows what lengths she would go to, to protect them.

While pretty much all of the cast would be great mothers in their own right, and some I believe could be even better mothers than Rose2, I just wanted to throw it out there that Rose2 would do fine. She is immature in a sense, but I'm sure motherhood would help her grow.

Science of course is not based on hypotheticals, so to actively compare the harem's motherhood capabilities, I would encourage empirical data collection from field trials.
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>>3463795
>I would encourage empirical data collection from field trials.
So does this confirm an 'impregnate everyone' ending?
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>>3463795
Mass Impregnation of the cast is confirmed.
I'm on board.
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>>3463653
>Mara Darkbloom is nowhere on your list.
She'd be the only MILF that fails in half these criteria. Done.
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>>3463795
>>3463807
>>3463811
I can support it.

But... how would Alabaster be as a dad?
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>>3463894
As good a dad as any black kid has ever had
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>>3463894
Well we have a first hand account of that. Just look at how he and Cerise turned out.
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>>3463918
well season 1 him and cerise anyway
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>>3463894
Alabaster's skills as a dad would be headline news!
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>>3463988
Oof.
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I want you all to know that I myself am not immune to the curse.

Recently I've been addicted to videos by this guy named Ryukahr, who streams Mario Maker primarily. (Highly recommended, super chill and comfy videos)

I was just watching a video of his where one of the most garbage levels I've ever seen came up. Take a look.
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>>3464131
Massive HEH.
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>>3464131
Wow, two in one. Impressive, OP.
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>>3464131
>one of the most garbage levels I've ever seen came up.
>Camelia

idk seems objectively false
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>>3464160
Let's just say it's a very Camelia level design. If she made Super Mario Maker levels, that's the kind of thing she'd do.
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>>3464160
French to boot. Vive la Révolution.
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>>3464166
How could archo-communist fascism lead to anything other than true beauty?
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>>3464166
That sounds like a category for the chart; "Preferred kind of Mario Maker level"

I get the feeling Rose2 would love the autos.
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>>3464174

For sure Rose2 would love autos. They're so pretty and sugoi!

Rose would be down to clown with hyper precise Japanese New Sup speedruns.

Cerise and Alex would like levels that do things other than being Mario levels, like being adding machines or doing wacky things with the "2 pixel gap" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQmfbfRWiKU) -- I'm sure they're both subscribers to Ceave Gaming, now that I think of it.

Whitney just wants "a normal fucking Mario level, jesus"

Gal likes levels in the traditional style, but with extreme difficulty and precision. Kaizo stuff. The engine-breaking levels interest her too, as with Cerise and Alex, but she doesn't prefer them.

Kay is similar to Gal, but her skill is a bit lower (still surprisingly high, she grew up replaying Super Mario All-Stars a ton -- she can hack it in a super expert level.)

Vivian likes puzzle levels.

Mom and Charlotte both highly value levels with extreme attention to detail that are aesthetically pleasing, or even tell a story. They like to see creativity in level design.

Renee loves gimmick levels that present a specific challenge. Such as, don't let the spiny walking along the top die or you lose, or don't collect any keys or you lose, or ride the chain chomp to the end. In other words, very difficult levels that derive their difficulty from relying on unusual or unorthodox mechanics.

Sable likes levels that break the engine, and she was particularly interested in the ongoing quest to upload an impossible level (which was eventually successful).

Amber of course loves ridiculous troll bullshit. Soft-locks, invisible blocks above jumps, pick-a-door, tons of unnecessary sound effects and special effects, screens full of absurd clusterfucks of enemies, pipes that force you back to the start of the level, the works.

As for Alabaster himself, he likes levels that play music. He's not very good at Mario.
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>>3464214
I'm starting to wonder if there's ANY vidya that Alabaster is good at. Gets bodied by his sister in Street Fighter, plays 2hu on ez modo, and can't even bing bing wahoo with the rest of us. And it's not like his favorite Zelda is exactly known for its difficulty either.
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>>3464224
Visual novels, obviously.
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>>3464227
>implying he doesn't just read the guides to get into his favorite girls' pants
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>>3464224
If there aren't any women to struggle snuggle at the end of it he's probably not going to try his hardest.
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>>3464227
Speaking of VNs
casts favorite Katawa Shoujo characters?
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>>3464214
Oh shit, good list. I was honestly wondering if there would be enough level archetypes to cover the whole harem.

>I'm sure they're both subscribers to Ceave Gaming, now that I think of it.
Great taste. Ceave's a good boy.
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>>3464214
Also, while we're on the subject, have you considered making any custom Smash stages, OP? I'm not very good at them, but my FQ miis are up for download if you want :3c
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>>3463795
Challenge accepted.
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I can’t believe Fuck Quest passes the Bechdel test.
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>>3465670
I can't believe the Bechdel Test is considered critically significant.
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>>3465800
Fuck Quest is a feminist quest, sweaty.
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>>3463795
I will say that the recent development of RoseBeta has made her much more enjoyable for me personally. I was initially inclined to keep a yandere at a football field's distance from the harem for the obvious dangers that would impose, but now that she's been, for lack of a better word, 'domesticated', I feel I can finally appreciate her.

That being said, I am fully committed to conducting rigorous case studies on the maternal instincts of FQ-haremettes, so rest assured that such data will be collected in detail from as large a sample pool as is possible. I look forward to providing the Director with a thorough analysis once all data from all subjects has been thoroughly collected!
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Damn, I don't really read the thread too much for couple of days because of life and there was a surprising amount of replies in such a short time

>>3457250
>Another thing is how certain people remember Red Camelia, and others remember Blue Camelia. We have no confirmation from Gal, remember?
I'm pretty sure we asked her and she remembered blue Camelia

>>3457965
>Every erratic behavior Sable displays is consistent with her having bipolar disorder
If you actually think that then you've clearly never met someone who's had it before

>If you want to know why her plan failed, the reason is simple. We the players chose for Alabaster not to help her
Which is the outcome anybody with a brain could've predicted

>>3458103
>>3458111
Based

>>3460149
Vivian's attempt at lolidom was pretty fun

>>3461173
>You're my foe and my brother and lover and friend
Yeah that's pretty damn fitting. That better be on the AL_RO playlist

>>3461178
I'm genuinely happy that it still has 421 likes, I expected someone to like it just to remove the curse

>>3463795
That's what makes her so perfect!

>Science of course is not based on hypotheticals, so to actively compare the harem's motherhood capabilities, I would encourage empirical data collection from field trials.
I am in complete support of this idea and am also genuinely surprised that we somehow haven't impregnated Rose2 yet. I doubt she's on birth control desu

>>3464214
Vivian, Mom, Charlotte, Renee, and Alabaster are the only ones with taste. The others need not apply

>>3464224
>>3464227
I can actually see him being good at VNs. Persona is a VN half of the time so it'd make sense if that was the case. I mean you don't become the "anime hymen demolition expert" for nothing

>>3464236
Not a lot to choose from really

>>3465800
It isn't, it's the most autistic thing ever

>>3466084
Why would you be so scared of her being a Yandere, she would be the most bumbling excuse of one ever and it would've been hilarious. And now it's never going to happen...
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>>3461608
Rose and Kaa-san should have a little more and Renee and Charlotte should be a little less

And Rose2 deserves a lot more

There's actually a lot of things wrong on that chart desu

>>3462556
>>including a pointless stat solely to inflate the scores of the fleshier cast members
Not pointless that's a genuine factor that most males naturally look for in a mate

>>rating Rose at anything other than 0 harmony
Cause it isn't, I get the feeling you don't like Rose too much

>>rating Sable's motherly score higher than Amber despite Amber having a protective streak a mile wide and Sable giving zero shits about other people.
Yeah that is pretty jarring

>you can continue to pretend she's a genius on par with Sable, Renee, and Anna, but she simply isn't
Sable sure but she definitely on par with Renee and smarter than Gal. Remember, being talented at tech =/= equal intellect.

>Cerise
>her scores seem low. remember this isn't smelly NEET feet Cerise anymore.
I can agree with that

>Galatea
>Marital harmony is low, as is either of her motherly scores. you might consider renaming them to make the traits clearer.
If she actually had to raise a child it would end up all kinds of fucked up and you know it

>Sable
>okay, if I read this right you think Sable, who abuses the shit out of everyone close to her and has severe mood disorders is more motherly than Rose2 and Amber?
Yeah, I honestly don't know what he was thinking with that

>>Noelle
>you rated an FBI field agent a 3.5 in fitness? while Rose "treadmill incident" Mallory is a 2? Noelle is at least as fit as Kay.
I'd argue more than that, her job requires her to take out criminals if anybody would have a 10 it should be her

>>Alex
>5 intellect is pushing it a bit.
I'd put him at 4 solely because of his IQ. We've never seen him act that smart outside of tech though...

>>3463469
Kek, very true

>>3463516
>she gets benefits from genetics and capability to bear a child!
Other than having above average breeding capabilities and a high intelligence all her other stats should be in the negatives. If there's anybody who should be on the "Do not impregnate watchlist" it should be her, not Rose2 or Amber

>>3463653
>While Kay is certainly amazing, it could be argued that she would likely prioritize her career over her child. Even if she didn't, her thrillseeking attitude is likely to mesh poorly with motherhood.
Very true

>as it stands right now, Alabaster and Rose have a violent and possibly dysfunctional relationship that would be a nightmare to raise a child in
Hey, that's not completely fair. Sure they may antagonize one another but when they have a mutual goal they work perfectly together, it's how they kept a dying company afloat despite it being controlled by Whitney

>Rose, and Alabaster, are low achievers. That is a heritable trait as well.
Alabaster, yes, but I'd say Rose is an overachiever if anything
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Fair warning. This may be a long episode, in word count and runtime. I've got over 7k words prewritten and still going, and I still don't have nearly as much prepared as I'd like. You'll just have to endure it~
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>>3466434
:D
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>>3466434
>this is a bad thing
Wrong.
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>>3466450
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>>3466434
Enduring the flames of Fuck Quest is one of the best parts of participating in Fuck Quest OP. Why would we need to be warned of impending TENDERNESS?
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>>3466505
>TENDERNESS

Oh fuck, the safe word. Guess I have to cancel the episode.
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>>3466434
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>>3466512
Don't cry because it's over. Be smug because it happened.
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>>3466512
I love this image so much
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>>3466434
Will this be the episode that'll finally break the 30k word count and not even fit on the chart?
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>>3466434
I am perfectly okay with my hopes of a 421k word count ending being shattered if it means more Fuck and/or more Quest. But of course we get both because that's the point.
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>>3466584

If that happens, the chart will just expand to take it. There's no bar that can't be stuffed inside that chart.
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>>3466593
W-what a lewd chart.
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>It's a very FUCK QUEST wedding on the season 3 finale, "Rose-sama: Love is War"
TAKE YOUR BETS ANONS. WHO'S GONNA MAKE THE OTHER CONFESS FIRST?
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>>3466593
Nah, you should just make it go off the chart. That'd be funnier
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>>3466593
>>3466613
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>>3466605
Considering the title my bet is that Rose is gonna make Alabaster confess
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IS IT FIVE MINUTES FROM NOW YET
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