>>5644579
>>Player Question:
FORGED BY HOLOCAUST
TAKE BACK WHAT WE LOST

WHITE KNIFE TO KILL A WAYWARD FRIEND
BLACK KNIFE, HONORED FOE TO END

>>General Question:
I lowkey prefer an established MC. If there's chargen, it better be meaningful to the character or the plot itself.

>>Misc. Question:
>Physical education
>Also physical education

>>Just for Fun Question:
Trade secret. Can't let the enemy get ahead of the game >: )

>>Lurker Question:
Cause it's not a GOOD fantasy quest.

>>5644579
>Nazi header image

>>5644579
>Player Q
Repeatedly sacrifice criminals/undesirables for the sake of industry and pacifying various monsters. Yeah, it's justified, most of them probably deserved it anyways and the alternative could not be entertained. On that note. WHERE'S MY THREAD OVERSEERQM

>Gen Q
In both cases I tend to prefer established MCs/blank slate with options to build the character weaved into the narrative. One of my biggest turn-offs is CYOA-style character building where you select traits/backstories/whatever from a list. Always makes me kind of salty when a build I actually do take the effort to think about and make ends up losing, especially if the people who made it end up dropping the story early on (happens surprisingly often).

>Misc
Teach: First Aid, Fav: Home Economics.

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>>5644579

>If you could go back in time and change something in your quest, or even warn your players about the consequences, would you? If you would, what is it?

Cut out bloat from updates and go more depth with dialogue. My old dialogue was cringe lol.

>What's the most immoral or evil thing that's happened in a quest you follow? Was it justified? Can you still justify it?

Elf Maiden Quest 3. The femboy assassin maid in stone mask (Nikola / Zahra) throwing a dagger past the lady in red’s head (Rosenchild) because she deadnamed him.

What a petty asshole.
There’s no justifying it. But she is an asshole as well.

>Chargen aside, how much customization do you like to see in your quests? If you're a reader, do you want more frequent descriptions of the MC? If you're a QM, how often do you talk about the MC's look or loadout?

I don’t talk about their appearance much. Whenever I draw my characters, I leave out their expression.

I do occasionally describe their weapons. Not everyone knows what a sidesword or Katzbalger looks like.

>If your favorite quest character had to teach a subject, what would it be? If they're not the teaching type, what would their favorite subject be?

Elf Maiden Lagneia — PE teacher

I’m sure she would be laidback teacher that is very cute and funny.

>You have to pull off a heist. What quest characters do you assemble for your team?

The Greenhorn crew. Yes. Even the rat is included.

>>5644597
Here’s a GOOD fantasy quest
>>5629008
>gritty low stakes adventure
>draws inspiration from buddhist / SEA mythology
>set during the 1500s - 1600s (the most kino time period because of the drip)

>>5644604
*>nazi header image with delicious tummy

>>5644639
>There’s no justifying it. But she is an asshole as well.
i liked that it showed us how much of an unstable asshole he is.
also, new elf maiden when?

>>5644659
He says he’ll do it when he is able to find time again. Also says the thread will open with seggs.

if he does not return, I will take up the mantle. (once my current quest finishes, which will probably take 1-2 months) Cute and funny will return to this board, in one form or another.

>>5644659
>>5644669
The fact that I lost two of my cute and funny fae/elf quest protagonists in the last few months still chafes my balls every time I see people bring them up.

>>5644639
>delicious tummy
Still, why?

Bah, alright...

>>5644579
>If you could go back in time and change something in your quest, or even warn your players about the consequences, would you? If you would, what is it?
No. I'm usually pretty open about consequences, and it behooves people to do some thinking of their own. if they always know what's going to happen exactly and to the detail, it's almost as bad as having no way to tell. it removes the drama and replaces it with fiddly meta-gaming.

>What's the most immoral or evil thing that's happened in a quest you follow? Was it justified? Can you still justify it?
Probably the drowning of the Chosen One in local Lord. it doesn't mesh as well with the characterization Lord Charles has developed since, though it was an amusing sort of inciting incident, and justifiable given his ignorance and confusion.

>Chargen aside, how much customization do you like to see in your quests? If you're a reader, do you want more frequent descriptions of the MC? If you're a QM, how often do you talk about the MC's look or loadout?
Depends on the quest. I actually quite enjoy chargen and seeing what anons decide or come up with, and customizing outfits and loadouts/equipment can be fun so long as it doesn't get into the weeds with multiple votes of shopping/bartering.

>If your favorite quest character had to teach a subject, what would it be? If they're not the teaching type, what would their favorite subject be?
Why stick with one? Penny from Fork & Spoon would teach Home Ec. Jezyrene from Forgotten Realm would be a PE teacher. Wyald Honta and his crew from Dragon Ball: Legacy would be able to fill a whole host of roles, but probably are best suited to some sort of Ecology and Shop classes. Chris and Zeal from the Schizo QM-verse would teach biology and family planning. Kinja Dulioan from Space Monke would be a good History or Film prof, or maybe a principal. Nagata Miho from Matsuna Idol agency would be a long-suffering career counselor. Sir Charles could teach poetry and Comparative Religion.

>You have to pull off a heist. What quest characters do you assemble for your team?
The Dragon Ball: Legacy or Greenhorn crews or, and I know it's cheating and the quest's been gone a while, one of the Government-Issued GF nakamas.

>>5644609
Soon. I wanted to give the other facility management quest a bit to shine before returning. If you're not already playing it that is.

I'll say this much about the next update. It'll probably say a lot about the Admin you built so far.

>>5644691
What's the other one?

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>>5644604
That's just a Black lagoon reference.

>>5644604
I don't see it.

>>5644256
I was told it was a good idea to post a link to my quest over here, so here goes!

It's a superpower-based quest that's based on a tabletop game I'm currently creating from the ground up. I'm about 80% done with the tabletop and itching to do something fun with the mechanics, so I'm hoping to have a cool quest in the setting.

The main character is currently Sir Ashley Armstrong, a veteran of WW1 trench warfare who finds himself on the front lines yet again when aliens attack London in June of 1944. Armstrong is blasted with alien radiation and finds that he can regenerate from seemingly any injury. He has been joined by fellow WW1 veteran John Barbara Allen, who gained the ability to control fire, and a group of other civilians with new superpowers. Armstrong has successfully fought off his first squad of aliens, saved a soldier and progressed to Level 3, unlocking new barehanded fighting skills.

I'm gonna be sleeping, but if anyone's interested in reviewing my work so far or participating as the quest moves forward, don't be shy!

>>5644755
But she was a Soviet officer. Why is she wearing Hugo Boss fetish gear?

>>5644639
is this quest any good should I read it? (not to be answered by the QM himself)

>>5645078
Yes. Schizo QM quests always have sovl. Would heartily recommend. For best results, read Goblin Assassin Quest and A Dragon's Flash first, but they're not strictly necessary for the Sira Can't/Can Run a Brothel quest.

>>5645078
Up to personal preference but I’ve enjoyed it. SQM had original/interesting settings that aren’t just fantasy rehashes.

>>5644604
And?

>>5644737
>What's the other one?
EVQ. I archive read once the thread is finished so I didn't realize that the QM apparently died or something until recently.

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New quest
>>5644433

>>5644579
>QM Question
I'd just make the starts of Quest Within and my current one snappier. In particular, when viewed from the catalogue a particular size of summary fits best.

>General Question
The amount of customisation, well like anything the execution is what matters, large or small, when executed well it'll go well. I don't personally have a preference. For describing an appearance, once on debut, sometimes referenced when relevant and redescribed when a good amount of words have passed or a dramatic need arises.

>For Fun
Criminal Spiderman seems a boring but good pick for a heist.

Additionally, update for The Goblin King is Bored!
>>5645133
After a wild goose chase, the hunters turn out to be the goose that may be getting cooked.

>>5644579

>QM Question:
Maybe space things a bit more in time, but it is my first quest on QST and I think that it has gone mostly without major problems.

>General Question:
As a reader I prefer to have a small bit of customisation to change the character without touching his major characteristics.
I am not describing my characters very often (In a Quest or when I write other things), I try to describe them better when they tries to look after their appearance (like Charles before a lady or the Count's court) or if they are themselves stunned by what they look like (after for exemple not having slept in days and being in dirty conditions). Then it depends on the characters, some people are more obsessed by how they look like than others.

>>5644694
Lord Charles did nothing wrong, the witch had it coming (well she was clearly innocent since she drowned but still, there was a reasonable doubt).

>>5645120
I've got a bit of hope that it returns. Someday.

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I was writing a Zelda quest but there’s one right now and it’s pretty good and I don’t wanna steal any thunder or look like an asshole. Should I wait? It’s based around Koholint, not Hyrule, but still.

You ever get annoyed when you thought you were taught or learned the secret sauce for quests, but you started it on a Monday so its doomed?

>>5645207
How does being born on a monday doom it? I was also planning to start up today lol

>>5645215
Not sure, I do this many time and better outcome when start on weekend.

>>5645198
Do it. There's like three primarch quests. You won't be stepping on any toes

>>5645216
Eh i shouldn't worry about it anyways, i've always had low numbers.


For the guys looking for the villainous 30XXqm, i heard he'll start in about 30 minutes. I know he lied about saturday but let's see how if he can keep his monday promise

>>5645221
Nice

>>5645221

Hmm is this how i link to another thread? Anyways, my loyal readers as i promised, a post today! The new thread! To anyone new, you might be wondering, what am I doing inside this new thread? No idea.
>>5645252

Where's the star wars quest we were told would happen?

>>5645115
It's pretty cringe. This board benefits from not being some partisan culture war bullshit battelground. Stunts like this undermine that atmosphere.

>>5645108
>>5645083
Thanks anons

>>5645078
Here’s a brief summary of these quests if you’re interested

>Goblin assassin #1 and #2 (links are in the reopened wounds thread)
The original. Pine, a goblin restaurant owner, works as an assassin and goes on an adventure in the city of Serpents. This is when Cris and Zeal are introduced. Takes place during the early 1500s.

>Goblin assassin - reopened wounds
A slice of life story about Pine after her days as an assassin are mostly behind her. Has a bit of romance. This is when Sira is introduced. Takes place several years after Goblin assassin.

>A Dragon’s Flash
A oneshot story that takes place in hell during the 1600s. The goblin Xil tries to escape her monotonous life and goes on a journey through the layers of hell. I draw heavy inspiration from buddhist mythology for this one.

>Sira cannot run a brothel!
My current project. A lazy brothel keeper perform favors for his crime organization each month to keep his business running.

The fantastical parts in the setting are mainly inspired by buddhist and SEA mythology >>5614654 but I also draw from european history as well https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2023/5593108/#p5627619

(Because Sira is a HEMAfag)

>>5645473
Yeah, why can't it just be 40K or something?

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It is I, the dreaded IRSqm (definitely not another guy with a different trip don't mind me), come to plague the board with another Project Moon Quest!

>>5645488

Pay your taxes. It's theft, yeah - the City definitely isn't spending it for the people's benefit - but the alternative is that you die. Very messily, at that, so...

Just pay them. The City doesn't care how you do it. Get a job, rob some poor bastard of his wallet and/or organs, get a job involving robbing poor bastards of both their wallets and organs... In the City, everything is permitted, so long as you have the necessary strength and pay your respective dues.

Salve Your Tears. Pay In Blood.

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>>5644604
(You) draw a good OP for the general thread then.

>>5645448
>Kaz deadlines

>>5645533
Anon, I say this with no malice. But you should probably go back to >>>/tg/

>>5645052
same shit
like same exact same shit
socialists are mentally ill fascists
fascists are mentally ill socialists
same old shit again and again and again

>>5645570
Funny. the guy that complains about dumb shit is stirring up more shit than everyone else

>>5645570
>>5645572
>>5645557
Hey, do whatever. It's just kind of lame.

>>5645473
>>5645533
These anons get it.

It's a good looking OP for a thread that was supposed to drop last Thursday. If you feel like getting offended maybe twitter would be more your speed.

It's just one OP image, who cares? I'm a turbo lib irl and I can't even get outraged about it.

>>5645052
Because /pol/tards fap to nazis

>>5645606
This does seem to be the reason, in the end. it's just kind of lame. I'd be saying the same if they'd posted up some sort of obvious progressive or Soviet thing. But oh well. As >>5645594 and >>5645599 said, it is what it is now. it's just kind of lame.

>>5645570
Um, the fascists in Italy worked with the King and raised most of their money from powerful landowners, and they operated as a private militia to murder people who asked for a raise.

In Germany, the Nazi regime saw widespread privatization of resources, they purged anyone in their membership who was poor or felt bad for the poor, they were appointed by conservates, and they recruited exclusively from people scared of socialism.

There was literally large, powerful far left parties in Germany. One of which was equal in power to the Nazis, at the height of their power.

The reason why in France, Germany and other Western nations post war... there wasn't any conservative parties, just socialist and Christen parties... is because the leadership of all the conservative ones...were hanged... for working with the fascists.

Have you not seen Schindler's List. Do these people look like socialists to you?

>>5645207
Just save the first post for Tuesday, and post it then, for best results. If it's a cool concept, though, even missing the first post won't deter people who missed Monday from joining when you post your next update.

>>5645620
it's okay, it doesn't matter here what the actual truth is one way or the other. It's just /qst/. I guess as long as they don't start flooding the QTG with /pol/ memes, it's fine.

>>5645626
Well, I'm literally a history teacher. It's a reflex.
>Advice
Hmm, roger doger. Maybe things will be fine. I'll update tomorrow I guess. Maybe I should check the subfaction chart and really be ready.

>>5645626
>I guess as long as they don't start flooding the QTG with /pol/ memes, it's fine.
But leftypol talking points are fine and dandy, right?

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>Not jacking off to the regime that killed ten million people, is being woke/communist.

>>5645635
Don't bring fetishistic tendencies into this. Absolute degenerates.

>>5645631
>But leftypol talking points are fine and dandy, right?
No, hopefully that also doesn't happen.

>You have to pull off a heist. What quest characters do you assemble for your team?
I only need to pull from one quest. HFY. Gunny, Cylia, SHODAN, and Sanig can break into literally anywhere and get out, with only 50% casualties in their wake.

>>5645635
>t. 40konsoomer
>>>/tg/

Wow, I leave a few or several months, and someone's trying to take my spot for most annoying. Smh.

>>5645650
The people in this board really have a tendency to gravitate to the lowest common denominator. Don't mind the trolling. Out of curiosity, which quest is yours? Do you mind linking it?

I think I know which quest you're talking about, but do you mind linking it?

>Do you mind linking it
You do understand that I don't have a VPN turned on right now, right? You can see if I posted a link.

>>5645656
Oh OK my mistake. I think that the OP is pretty promising, but the prose is just a little too fragmented for my tastes. I would recommend going with a writing style that's a bit more engaging - like maybe a first/third person narration rather than a broad setup? That might help your quest attact more readers, even if it is posted on a slow day.

>>5645658
Uhhh, I used to do that and people hated it? Honestly, it's kinda hard to narrate what is happening, if we have no idea who the MC is going to be. Granted, I could just narrate it like some random British narrator guy for the BBC was describing it and maybe that could work. Or... Maybe a blog that's in setting?

>>5645662
Previously? Did you run this quest previously or did you run something different?

>>5645663
I think I've run this twice before. Last time I ended up recruiting two different people to play against each other on a Discord server, it was pretty fun. I think there was four different players fucking each over, with no idea who was who.

>>5645665
You're still on discord?

>>5645667
Well I mean, I switched from Skype, IRC and Teamspeak, and I refuse to change platforms again.

You're being weird now.

I think I'm going to make the fourth sub-faction for the KNG, Polish and Finnish.

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>>5644604
You are all mistaken. OP image is clearly homage to those erotic sten gun girls from Return To Castle Wolfenstein; they were very attractive and also quite hard to defeat. At least OP did not try to gore-illustrate Lichthammer from Clive Barker's Jericho (search this if you dare)

>>5645673
Then why no STEN and why no tiddies?

>>5645673
Oh, hi Souv.

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>>5645673
>>5645631
>>5645635
>>5645641
For those of alternative political inclinations you may prefer the new Wolfenstein. I liked the bit where you play as a handicapped person in a wheelchair

>>5645675
Ah, the insane guy.

>>5645676
Souv is back, yay

>>5645684
Souvarine's not crazy, probably. He's just very eccentric and eclectic in his tastes in media, experimental with quest concepts in a way not dissimilar from Bananas, and prone to tangents that inevitably lose us because most of us don't have the same ultra-specific niche interests and life experiences that allow him to make his (seemingly?) strange connections and leaps of logic.

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>>5645674
>Sten
This is the best in-game screenshot I made just for you anon

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>>5645691
Sten guns are a bit weird and phallic-threatening, playing all these military shooters recently including Arena Breakout the !notEscapeFromTarkov clone lol I am obsessed with 7.62x51mm in all these games the ammunition is more important than the gun, for damage I love the configuration of that DSA SA58 OSW the sawn off FAL, I liked the look of that gun ever since I used it in some really old xbox Rainbow Six game.

Anyway, I learnt recently that in Brazil, the FAL is called Fuzil Automatico Pesado, FAP. FAP rifle! This must be the onomatopoeic noise it makes, 7.62x51mm FAP FAP FAP... yay

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^Speak of the Devil, lol

>>5642742
I am currently running a multi-player (GOOD) fantasy quest. We're trying some unique mechanics based around dice-rolling with an emphasis on teamwork and simple rolls with no or limited modifiers. Each player embodies a class/race role that modifies how they can roll dice and contribute, based on dice sizes. For example, a Fighter is the strongest with a big d10 or d12 die, but is less able to roll a pair (used to sneak or perform a tricky maneuver).

I'd love to turn this into a larger discussion on game mechanics in quests in general, not just my quest, in which the ultimate goal is to create more interactive and interesting quests that aren't just brainless rolling. My ultimate game goal would be a game with little to no hidden information and RNG and allowing players to pick a tactical option with the same depth as a full dice-stat based RPG, but that's a bit beyond my scope and depth of experience at the moment. Does your quest have any unique mechanics?

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>>5645697
>Does your quest have any unique mechanics?
Um, I think so? Honestly I want to stray from this level of complexity to an even simpler hexgrid map, with far simpler combat. I believe I did that last time.

>>5645697
Mine is pretty bare-bones, though I've received compliments on the dice system and character leveling. I roll more dice as the player character gets better, critfails only on a 1 and only if no other dice were successes so that getting better increased chance of amazing success AND decreases chance of critical failure. Maxing a stat lowers over all DCs or adds specialty effects and options. Clever write-ins or more optimal choices can result in lower DCs, stacking relevant skills can bet a bonus die.

I'm also pretty happy with my anti-fraud measures, where I tally votes that have multiple votes or backlinks separate from single post IDs and, of I see a suspicious surge of new voters on a controversial vote, I request backlinks and disregard or demote those who can't provide them.

>>5645701
backlinks?

>>5645473
>implying this board has "culture"
>crying that a pic of a nazi chick "undermines the atmosphere"
Cringe

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>>5645696
The SA58 the sawn off CQB FAL looks like this by the way. It is apparently not a very good gun in real life (SCAR-H better, urgh call of duty urgh) but I just like the look of it and the intimidating sound blast.

>mechanics
An interesting one I picked up from Tarkov is on healing. In that game, there are so many stats, you have separate health for each limb upper lower torso etc and separate conditions like bleed, pain, broken limbs etc. What I found interesting is that there is also Hydration (water, thirst) and Energy (Food, stamina) etc. You cannot spam healing / medications / stimulants / combat drugs because doing so reduces hydration / increases thirst. Of course you can also carry more food / water but that takes up inventory slots in your rig and backpack, increases carry weight / reduces space for loot that you can retrieve / scavenge etc.

I just thought it was clever as it is the first game I played where healing is not automatically "good", it lowers another stat etc, sometimes you have to think or prepare a bit before healing. Also the food you find sometimes increases energy at the cost of thirst etc (especially salty snacks like crisps, confectionery etc) I also really like how you have to equip ammunition and magazines to your tactical rig, really prepare as you do not want to be manually reloading bullets one-by-one during a firefight hehe.

I got a high level question for other players and questmasters. Do you prefer systems where characters have consistent or exponential progression in everything (Like Pathfinder or D&D 3.5), or systems where people get better at only a few things per level?

Or do you do some system that's like CoC or Elder Scrolls where skills just improve as you use them?
>>5645705
I have that weapon as a minor plot point of my setting and I had it statted in the RPG version.

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>>5645697
Incidentally BananasQM I have to admit I was slightly turned off by the Brombles name hehe you came up with for your quest race of minotaur people, it made me think of Wombles (?!) as opposed to Dragon Age horny Qunari beast bull ogre people. Or just minotaurs, minotaurs also fine hehe. Well at least you did not go for Robert Jordan Wheel Of Time Loial the Loyal Ogier the Ogre naming ingenuity

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I think this is less "spicing things up" and more "overloading the voters", but I guess I'll see.

>>5645697
A mechanic I really wanted to use is that Ironsworn interval roll mechanic eg roll 2d10, 1d6 + modifier and whether the d6+mod lands inside the interval span of the 2d10 roll or not etc. You can do so much with this system (think dice step sizes etc) but infuriatingly the 4chan dice rolls do not permit multiple dice sizes in one roll though argh argh. I have heard it said that the Ironsworn system is just a means of obscuring in a really complicated way a probability that you could better express as a percentage 1d100 though it feels good to roll 2d10 +1d6 when solo roleplaying though if you have different coloured dice etc.

Another good mechanic is the pushed roll you see in some of the Free League Alien / Blade Runner (did it originally come from Mutant Year Zero?) dice pool games, where you can choose to add a d6 to your roll for better chance of success but if ANY of the d6s then roll a 1 you get some stress or trauma inflicted etc. It could be more viable for dice rolls on 4chan and the good thing here is that it is always up to the player's choice whether they think a roll is worth hazarding the peril / additional exertion or not

>>5645448
Sorry I only had 4 hours of sleep yesterday and after work I passed out until now.

>>5645727
BASED.

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>>5645533
I read all of Dan Abnett's Gaunt novels, I only just recently watched one episode of Sharpe though (the Liz Hurley bosom one tee hee hee). I realised that despite the superficial WWII commissar stuff Bernard Cornwell's Napoleonic Sharpe is probably closer aesthetic inspiration for Abnett's vision of 40k, Gaunt's Ghosts and the Tanith regiment though

>>5645702
I think he means
>>5644755
This is me on the phone.

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>>5645754
I like how wh40k art has evolved over time. From those fevered John Blanche auto-da-fe fetish cybergoths with braziers on their heads, literary allusions (pic rel I believe is Inquisitor Karamazov) arco-flagellants and torture thrones to... whatever this is. Nooooooooooo

>>5645771
>they make the necron, who should be one of the most unsettling things to look at, look like grim from that old tv show
Nice. I hate it.

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>>5645771
>arco-flagellants
A lot of my cyberpunk quests feature flailing whip swords hehe. Well this is clearly inspired by those scenes from Abnett's inquisitor Eisenhorn novels, when they unleash the arco-flagellants (I think it is some Xanthite faction traitor inquisitor if I remember, inquisition vs inquisition battle) the concept of these is incredibly cool in my opinion. The idea with those arco-flagellants and their command words hehe always makes me think of Mean Machine Angel from Dredd, with the adjustable murder violence dial on his metal skull

***

Kill them! Kill them!’ Molitor screamed. I felt the immediate pressure of the psychic vice tightening to finish me. Then I reeled away, freed. The psychic blank of Bequin’s untouchable nature shielded me now she was at my side. The servant holding the Necroteuch took a step backwards in surprise.

Molitor, frantic with pain and anger, saw that his powerful psychic was thwarted somehow and yelled ‘Albaara! T’harth!’

Code words. Trigger words. The pair of servants who had remained by his side sprang forward, their robes shredding away.Arco-flagellants. Heretics reprogrammed and rebuilt with augmetics and bionics to serve as murderous slaves. The trigger words woke them from their calming states of bliss and plunged them into maniacal rages.

Out of their robes, they were foul, hunched things, encrusted with crude surgical implants and sacred charms. Their hands were lashing clutches of electrowhips, their eyes dull, bulbous orbits under the rims of the tarnished pacifier helmets bolted to their skulls.

Midas, Bequin and I fired our weapons together, raking them with punishment as they charged forward. The damage they suffered was immense, but still they came on, their bodies pumped with intoxicating adrenal fluid, pain-blockers and frenzy-inducing chemical stimulants. They didn’t feel what we were doing to them.
(...)

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>>5645689
Most of my quests convey a moral message. They are like bdsm Aesop's fables lol. Not morality in terms of right or wrong THE GOOD vs THE EVIL but more what choices and actions get rewarded versus those which get punished, because sometimes doing "THE GOOD" thing gets punished and doing "THE EVIL" thing gets rewarded hehe (you reach apotheosis and transcend into GODLIKE DUNGEONMASTERY when you can derive masochistic enjoyment from tragic downfall yay and witnessing your own character's suffering this is probably what Christianity or the Golden Bough or whatever Rene Girard scapegoat mimetic philosophy is about argh). Conversely a weak narrative which I dislike (it happens even in really fun games like Baldurs Gate, Pillars Of Eternity etc) is when the storyline just describes you becoming an actual god. But what those writers do not understand is that the point of the god-king is to be sacrificed etc (this is the recurrent imagery in Judaeo-Christian narratives). It is stronger to depict suffering (Oedipus, Orpheus, Gilgamesh/Enkidu, Beowulf, just look at every Western myth etc) than to endlessly narrate all-powerful godlike ascension.

I don't think a lot of anons imbue their quests with a moral message. All games in a way should convey a world view and pattern of moral instruction and sometimes with sci-fi or cyberpunk or swords and sorcery or gothic horror etc you can explore elaborate extremes of decision choices etc and worlds with different moral perspectives to your own. The most advanced games probably do not need to rely upon the genre embellishments the laser guns or robot girls or dragon castles and vampire sorcerors etc to convey this (very difficult to create and play these though). I think the moral instruction element of games is what I mean when I describe some game settings as possessing "the vision" etc.

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>>5645784
On the theme of arco-flagellants and metal tentacle whips yay, an example of solid moral instruction and "the vision" from Metal Gear Solid, or any Kojima game
>war, bad
>tightly hooded cyber girl with metal tentacles GOOD

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>>5645784
Unrelated to Arthur Rackham the Aesop illustrator here, but since a lot of anons like goblins and dwarves I strongly recommend the art of Paul Bonner who did a lot of the French Rackham Confrontation / Cadwallon etc rpg miniatures and world art designs. I don't know anything about the rules but I did just gawk at all the art and lore in their rulebooks which do have some good fantasy faction names for inspiration too.

You can search for those but his Rackham / Confrontation art has a sort of manic demented expressive feel whilst retaining a lifelike believability and a very traditional fantasy look. Often I imagine his art as looking more like warhammer fantasy (in my mind) than the actual warhammer fantasy art itself nowadays hehe

>>5645697
>Mechanics
Each goblin in mine is represented by at least a 1d6. In many circumstances rolling a 1 results in a KO or death of a goblin. As of this post I have three trials tied to most choices.

Fate: Goblins must beat the average result of the sum of their rolls. 1s and 2s are death, normally no KOs. Trials of fate give big results, but chew up goblin counts

Force: the goblins' rolls against an opposing roll

Talent: QM rolls 1d6 for a target that must be met or beaten, additionally the QM rolls 1d#ofGoblins for how many successes are needed. Normally only KOs result from Trials of Talent.

There's also Moments of Fate, where goblins must roll a 6 or die, usually tied to some great chance amid danger, but sometimes it's just exposure to something way beyond a goblin.

It is a work in progress, but hasn't caused too many problems thus far.

Speaking of that, The Goblin King is Bored! Update

>>5645806

A potential moment of fate as the goblins recklessly hunt the monster-whale in a True storm of emerald lightning, singing songs of storm and victory...

>>5645771
In the grim darkness of the far flung future there is only saturday morning cartoon villains fighting children

>>5645784
It's fine to just have fun, but then even trolley problem tier problems can be considered fun. Yes, it can be fun to bear one's spirit at others, to lure others into bearing theirs. If nothing else, it is interesting what choices people make and refuse to make when under the realm of fiction.

It's a lot easier to write without philosophies and religions weaved in though, often people just end up spoiled ham when the attempt is made. Still, games like Alpha Centauri or books like the Lord of the Rings prove the worth. It can lend an enduring quality to things, Aesop's fables are still beloved today after all.

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>>5645772
>>5645840
>Necron Saturday cartoon
Just looking again at that horrifying image art
>>5645771
The cartoon Necron gun reminds me nostalgically of that Venom gatling cannon thing in Return To Castle Wolfenstein, the ending where you fight that medieval skeleton knight man. This battle decided the outcome of World War 2

>>5645900
What do you think of the Tau?

>>5645707
I like organic leveling systems where the skills which improve are those you work on improving.

>>5645916
>Tau
I have to admit I don't know anything about Tau (40k trying to do anime mechas, they have some railguns? or culturally appropriate Indian caste system?), Necrons (some Star Dragon thing?) in fact I am not too strong on Orks or genestealers and tyrannids either.

My fascination with 40k is mainly the Abnett cycle of Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Pariah / Bequin and also Abnett Gaunt's Ghosts etc for me I prefer the imperium to be human only fighting against the Enemy Within (chaos heretics etc). I think actually Ravenor features Eldar if I remember but by then he is just a floating psychic gun coffin / not plagiarism of Captain Picard in a wheelchair from X-men (?) so it is not too much of an issue.

There is a cool Abnett story called Blood Pact in the Gaunt / Tanith cycle which is reversed, ie instead of the regiment assaulting a chaos enclave, they are resting in the barracks and this chaos cell tries to infiltrate their sanctuary / safe shrine world. It is also interesting because the loyalties are a bit reversed (the chaos infiltrators are there to kill this High Value Target, one of their own captured commanders - but then this chaos commander then decides to aid Gaunt / Imperium regiment and Gaunt actually starts using some weird demonic blood magic too as the battle unfolds). I like these stories which are mostly human and about conflicting loyalties, a lot of the Abnett Gaunt stories have a WW2 French resistance fighter feel etc.

In that Blood Pact story Abnett also does a bit of sly metacommentary because the novel is set on a safe militarised memorial world to an Imperial victory (like a massive war memorial victory cemetery monument world) and the regiment meet this diffident commemorative artist (see excerpt below). I think it is Abnett's metanarrative of how he as an author remixes old historical war narratives and repurposes them for wh40k:

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>>5645958
***

The Oligarchy Gate. The afternoon of the ninth day, at Slaydo’s left hand. Ahead, the famous Gate, defended by the woe machines of Heritor Asphodel. Mud lakes. Freak weather. The chemical deluge triggered by the orbital bombardment and the Heritor’s toxins. Molten pitch in the air like torrential rain—

Gaunt walked towards the bright vista. It was untouched. War-clean. It was Balopolis as it had been.

Wire barbs skinning the air. The thuk of impacts, so many impacts. Clouds of pink mist to his left and right as men were hit. Ahead, below the Gate, the machines whirring again—

(...)

Jaume brandished his props. “The assistant stands in a pose that matches the pose of the family’s loved one in an old pict, and then I match the face in later. It’s most satisfactory. The families are
always delighted to be reunited in that way, one last time.”

“How do you get the uniform details right?” Gaunt asked.

“To be honest,” said Jaume, “many of the old picts I’m given to work from are not in formal dress, or sometimes the uniforms just aren’t very… compelling. Heroic, if you like. The families are always keen to make their loved one look as dashing and martial as possible.”

“So you make it up?” asked Gaunt.

“I manufacture commemoration, sir,” said Jaume. “I give my clients a memento of the way things should have been.”

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>>5645754
>>5645958
>>5645961
I feel like this facially disfigured character from Sharpe's regiment is a closer aesthetic for the look of a commissar for the Imperial Guard in 40k. If I recall too Gaunt loses his eyes after being captured by chaos in one of the novels

Nazi free general? More like shitpost general.

>>5645771
why?

>>5646083
Money. Same reason Star Wars get infantilised. Gotta make it family friendly ya know.

>>5646087
It sounds obvious when it's said, but it just makes me strangely depressed.

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>>5646083
>>5646087
>>5646131
>infantilisation
The best depiction of this was demonstrated by Remedy, I had mixed feelings playing CONTROL (wish they just did Max Payne style real guns instead of the SCP style gunfights and silly transforming revolver) but we know they are masters of the "fictional in-universe TV programme within the game" genre ever since "Dick Justice" lol in Max Payne 1,2 and Alan Wake etc.

So in CONTROL there is a disturbing educational children's TV show called Threshold Kids, the music is very catchy

Here is a youtube I found that shows all the episodes found in-game linked together; hopefully this sample episode (begins 1min 47seconds please let my timestamp link work) gives a sense of the style of this children's tv show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAtWVCKKOHk&t=1m47s

https://control.fandom.com/wiki/Threshold_Kids

>>5645787
The B&B corps were hotter in the "beast" forms than the "beauty" ones

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>>5645992
Kek

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>>5646148
The most cringe part of MGSIV was listening to the narration of the Beauty And Beast backstories about how they had survived horrific war trauma and abuse, I remember the codecs narration being insanely long like everything in MGSIV lol it was so embarrassing especially that story about the war cannibalism
https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Screaming_Mantis

But then we got the MGSV Quiet (who is a plant, a photosynthesising bikini sniper vegetable plant) waterboarding / conveniently avoided sexual violence revenge ear-biting groin-stamping cutscene. I also remember Ground Zeroes had some sexual violence cassette tape controversy, but I completed MGSV first and played so much of it I never got round to completing Ground Zeroes, and I basically felt I had gotten everything out of the gameplay. Kojima is so perverted!

>>5644579
anyone quests you guys would recommend from the archives that are about being a General/military commander of some sort? Doesn't matter the genre. Been reading a lot of Napoleonic history lately and been hankering for something strategic

>>5645758
This is indeed what I do.

>>5645992
>>5646149
Did seem excessive, though the header character beig a Nazi waifu is super dumb. Is what it is, though.

>>5646219

New quest. Based around Koholint from Zelda: Link’s Awakening. Come check it out if you wish!

>>5646216
I'll agree that it's poor taste, but it's 4chan.

>>5645970
Gaunt gets like a pair of green eye prosthetics to replace them.

I admit I always liked how that author managed to tweak and have a different situation in like every book. It never really got samey to me, even as it technically was just one human regiment repeatedly battling across different planets.

Like they're doing a desperate last stand in one book, then trying to infiltrate and start a resistance on an occupied world in another book, then trying to siege a fortress in another. Even if the enemy was almost always 'heretics and traitors' rather than aliens, he always changed it slightly to keep it fresh.

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>>5645992
>>5646149
This is literally the most tame board on the website, and the faggots who throw a pissfit over the chick in an SS uniform are downright retarded.

If you don't like it, shut up and head back to r3ddit. Or stop making a piss-fit about it, cause then you'll actually *have* people doubling down on nazi headers just to get a rise out of the people making a fuss about it.

>>5646216
It's also very badly drawn. If you're masturbating to nazis at least masturbate to one that doesn't look like it was drawn by chris chan

>>5646149
You sure showed them Nazis when you made this screencap and posted it everywhere. Bash the fash sister

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This is the deadest /qst/ has ever been
RIP in peace

>>5646277
It's the tail end of finals season. I'd expect things to recover somewhat in a few weeks.

>>5646233
Turns out you can put genocide, necrophilia, craigslist killers and and every atrocity under the sun in a quest, but an image of a chick in vaguely nazi clothes? Too far man too far.

Before anyone complains that nazis are real and quests are fake, I'd like to say, the nazi anime waifus are not real.

Someone should do a murder royale quest with all the various political and religious groups that get people's jimmies rustled represented, it likely won't even get many people asshurt. It'd probably even be popular.

>>5646149
ffs why do you keep taking the bait

>>5646285
it's way down from last year anon

Is 4 posts for a new quests OP too much?

>>5646295
Make it short. Long openings kill initial engagement

>>5646302
Yeah, thanks, figured as much.

>>5646149
Insane anon desperately needs to go outside

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>>5646227
My favourite bit of Gaunt's Ghosts novels is when he meets the Marsh Man Eszrah (?)and his tribe, Dan Abnett shows off how he studied some Saxon etymology at Oxford lol. Also I believe from reading the Faerie Queene by Spenser I think the y- prefix is archaic akin to asunder, aboil, afire, aware, alike etc. eg yclad, yslain, yronne (i.e. "ran") yclept etc

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/yclept
From Middle English yclept, ycleped, iclept [and other forms] (i-, y- (prefix forming past participles)[1] + clepen (“to say, speak, utter; to call, shout; to name; to address; to appeal to, beg, pray; to ask, request; to appear; to send for, summon; to convene; to call forth, induce; to lay claim”

***

“Histye, soule,” Gaunt said, more deliberately now. “Ayeam yclept Gaunt of Tanith His Worlde. Preyathee, hwat yclepted esthow?”

“Cynulff ayeam yclept,” the partisan replied. “Of Geryun His Worlde.” His voice dripped like glue in the sweaty air.

“Histye, Cynulff,” said Gaunt. “Biddye hallow, andso of sed hallow yitt meanye goode rest.”

“Are you off your fething nut?” Rawne whispered.

“Shut up, Rawne,” Curth spat. “Can’t you see he’s getting somewhere?”

Gaunt dared another step forward.

>>5646295
I tend to start lighter, with one to three posts to get into the meat abd potatoes of choice-making and establish a tone and player expectations. If it's well-written and interesting, though, people won't mind (except brainlets, I guess).

>>5646286
To me, there's a difference betwren having threads about Nazis or alt right adjacent subject matter (I even played After the End, In the Land of Cotton, MAGA Civ, and Gay Wizard Ethnostate, and my quest has edgy elements and edgy/x/+/pol/ memes), and having our general's mascot-for-a-motnh be /pol/ themed. I don't care enough to make a secind general over it, but just like having a hammer-and-sickle or BLM fist or Trans flag in the header for a QTG, it's going to spur on this kind of friction.

>>5646277
saddest part is prolly half of those 800 posts are 1. /pol/cels triggered by tranny baiter 2. souv's schizo posts

>>5646277
It’s finals months for many.

>>5646313
>just like having a hammer-and-sickle or BLM fist or Trans flag in the header for a QTG, it's going to spur on this kind of friction
ya, shit like this is how a half dead board gets even more dead

>>5646319
so was last year, it's almost a 50% drop

>>5646319
Mid-April 2022 was 1600 daily posts. This year it's 600-800 posts

>>5646325

Monke Quest was unironically half the activity last month.

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>>5645771
>>5646087
>>5646131
>>5646142
>infantilisation, Warhammer Adventures introducing children to a grim dark future where there is only war
Well from my visual inspiration image folder I retrieved this picture. It is purportedly the graffiti scrawl of some children recalling the aftermath of a helicopter raid on their dwellings in Afghanistan. Somehow when I watch Escape From Tarkov raids or Arma combined arms milsim youtube videos lol they never capture this feel hehe

The style of this graffiti art is somewhat representative of postminimalist faux primitivism, perhaps also what in galleries is sometimes called Naive Art. I like to imagine these scrawled etched lines being rediscovered like prehistoric Lascaux cave paintings by Ballardian robot archaeologists of the future, wandering in the ruined, cavernous crater-hives of postwar civilisational debris; robots who try in vain to decipher and remember its lost human meaning.

/qst/ isn't dying because of Nazis, it's dying because there's no inflow of new people. Where are people going to hear about /qst/ from? Moving from /tg/ was a slow death sentence.

>>5646330
Hey souv can you do us a solid and post 1000 more times a day so we get back to our 2022 level traffic?

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>>5646330
(Obviously, these robot archaeologists of the future look like the Armored Core VI trailer)

>>5646337
You mean to tell me you don't go to other boards and shill our collective interactive fiction to them? Such wanting dedication my friend.

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>>5646338
Sorry I am wearing my silly gun fetish videogame tactical metal bucket helmet I am pretty safe and protected but I just cannot see or hear you sorry sorry

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Every /qtg/ there is the -->
>Crying about low activity guy
>Failed QM talking about how he will run soon (he wont) (or it will fail thread 1)

>>5646340
There was a internet board game made in flash called The humans are dead that I played a lot when I was younger, about robots creating a new civilization. You just made me reminded of it.

>>5646337
Nazis are one of the reasons why there isn't inflow of new players. If a ""normal"" person comes in and sees Nazi header they'll leave. What's happening here is a slow exodus of normal people, leaving only trolls and shitposters like the tranny spammer

>>5646352
Most people don't even look at /qtg/ and this is 4chan. Go on /k/, a blue board, and you'll find a video of Ukrainian nazi blowing a Russians face off with a drone.

>>5646352
In 2024 half the catalog will be tranny spam because most normal qms will have left the board

I'm pretty sure this "Nazi" in header isn't even a Nazi, I'm pretty sure it's one of the characters from Panzer Commander quest wearing the uniform of one of the nations in the setting (which is probably loosely based on WW2 Germany).

>>5646337
I’m gonna be real. There’s been an influx of really bad quests starting like winter of last year. Either a dumb bait thread like the three maga quests currently active, a generic fantasy quest OP made with zero plan and will abandon instantly, and the every so often AI quest that of course gets laughed off the board because having AI that doesn’t understand long term context write your quest for you is retarded and lazy. What remains is a bunch of long running series with dedicated playerbases, but only updating once a day with threads once a month. Board activity is slow because the output is slow. But doomposting helps nobody nearly as much as playing and writing quests will.

>>5646358
Gorefags aren't gonna write quests anon

>>5646370
With a larger userbase shit quest like them would be quickly kicked off the board. I personally I think its the lack of new players rather than the lack of QMs, as some players will always mature into new QMs.
>>5646373
You are missing the point, edgy shit is normalised here.

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>>5646350
>The Humans Are Dead
I thought this was a Flight Of The Conchords comedy song. wow this youtube upload is 13 yrs old, I am so old nooooo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BcFHvEpP7A&t=19s

There was also a series of Love Death Robots episodes exploring post-civilisation robots / posthuman theme I think. I am not too fond of NFLX or those particular cartoony episodes, but I did watch the opening awe-inspiring hyperviolent CGI Love Death Robots episode, Sonnie's Edge, the biohacker pilot controller / mutant monster fight one, the military pilot sentient gunship one, the Cthulhu crab / 19th century whaling ship one, the alien pyramid / military soldier one, the delusional space station one etc, the cool desert mercenary gunfight one, the weird Hong Kong (?) time loop one, the Spanish Conquistador psychotic jungle lake one lol, basically all the short episodes with realistic videogame CGI I enjoyed, not so much the cartoony ones. In fact some of those Love Death Robots episodes establish atmospheric if somewhat predictable ttrpg scenarios and encounters

>>5646383
Sorry for poor engrish, phone posting.

>>5646370
>doomposting helps nobody nearly as much as playing and writing quests will
I'm gonna be real too anon. This board is a lost cause. The smarter writers have already cut their losses and migrated to other websites. Every year activity will keep going down until it's just nazis and tranny spammers left

testing

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>>5646393
Holy fuck I can post now, testing images

>>5646383
>I personally I think its the lack of new players rather than the lack of QMs
Objectively wrong. There's enough players for some quests to cross 3000+ posts. The problem is 4chan culture (nazis, trolls, edgy shitheads) keep chasing popular QMs off to other websites (see fate quest, bastard of westeros, trojan war)

>>5646395
>There's enough players for some quests to cross 3000+ posts.
That is over a month, I've not seen any quest on this board go into autosage in three odd hours like in the glory days.
>The problem is 4chan culture (nazis, trolls, edgy shitheads) keep chasing popular QMs off to other websites (see fate quest, bastard of westeros, trojan war)
Don't know their stories, but I doubt it. That culture has always been here, and the decline only happened after we left /tg/ and lost our inflow of new players/QMs.

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>>5646277
>>5646395
I killed both bastard of westeros and trojan war. This decline is my triumph

>>5646402
>That is over a month, I've not seen any quest on this board go into autosage in three odd hours like in the glory days.
I've only ever seen that happen in one quest. You make it sound like it was normal and it most certainly was not, even back on /tg/ where the autosage was much stricter than here.

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>>5646349
>Souv talking about games, movies and history that he's interested in and vaguely tying it to /qst/

>>5646348
Kek.

>>5646345
I try, but >>5646352 is actually sort of right: the reputation of 4chan (and those anons whonencourage it by being aggresively political or just abrasive and rude) puts off even most of my terminally-online friends. I've been here on 4chan over half my life, but if I hadn't been so desensitized to the edgy behaviour here at a young age (and in fact made nostalgic for it) I'd probably be the same way.

>>5646367
It is a fetish Halloween costume version of an SS uniform. You can be okay with that, even think it's based, but don't be obtuse about it. Come on, anon.

>>5646402
4chan DID become much more polarized around 2015, and again in 2020, same as everywhere else in the Anglo-American world. /tg/ became a cesspit and neraly creatively sterile. While /qst/ being excised to a containment board hurt membership and activity, it ironically preserved our civility and mellow atmosphere.

>>5646422
I've seen it in a fair few, names that come to mind Shadow Quest, Princess Guard Quest, Fuck Quest, Mahou Shounen, Strike Witches etc.

When will Elf Slave Quest come back…

>>5646447
Around the same time as Rage Across Pennsylvania, Elf Maiden Quest and Star Wars: Interregnum. IE, never, or long enough to feel like it, anyways.

I suspect the KNG Eastern European faction is most popular, because it reminds people most of 40K, or because we have people who vote multiple times.

>>5646295
Struggling to cut it down to two, not happy with my writing either.

I said it last thread and I'll say it again. A small userbase isn't bad. We have a Trump quest and Femboy quests. Both are given a fair chance with minimal bitching. The Dog busters march died after the original op dumped his waifu images, a anon has been running it for months now. The population is small but actually gives a fuck about the subject. Compare to /tv/ where the Mario threads argue about politics and whether it's woke or not.
>>5646474
I choose them to get the game started and smuggler sounds fun. Don't accuse me of samefagging, you dismissed my review of your old game and now this insult?

>>5646474
I found the possible standard slav corruption to be interesting, which is why I went for them.

Oh for fuck's sake.
To get this out of the way-
>>5646367
>I'm pretty sure it's one of the characters from Panzer Commander quest
No, it isn't. At all, whatsoever.

Anyways.

So, in the case of every other picture I've done for the OP in an effort to have the image mixed up a bit from being plain text on color, I have chosen not to say why I've either posted or provided that particular picture, because I thought I could respect people's intelligence enough for them to either figure it out on their own or at the very least not have it be important, yes I see that in this case this is, sadly, a necessary explanation. The position that is held by the people I'd want to convince is likely so ingrained into their way of thinking that I doubt I'll change any minds, but at this point it's getting really annoying for the point to be missed this hard.

I'll have to break down each point laboriously.
>Is this a Nazi?
The design is heavily inspired by SS uniforms, yes, but it is fictitious, and the intent is completely different from certain uncharitable assumptions. You see, I don't know how many people know this, but World War 2 was the most significant event in the last century for many of the people who lived through it, and the imagery of the Third Reich and both its war materiel and its political aesthetic have been made into visual design short hand for BAD GUY ever since. There is a shit ton of media that uses blatant design inspiration this way. Which leads into the next point.
>Is this an endorsement of German National Socialism?
I don't know why this even has to be explained, but apparently it does. No, no it is not, you reddit-brained retard, and you know who you are without me having to go back and quote posts. This is such an utterly absurd premise that it belongs in a hearing on how metal music corrupts children, or how video games influence violence. This is not a political statement, it is not a call for arms, it is a cartoon broad. The cigar is just a cigar, and that's not a dog whistle you're hearing, it's tinnitus.
>But why is cartoon girl dressed like this and not like anything else?
Because the original date of posting was going to be the twentieth of April. By complete coincidence, International Smoke Weed day is the same day as the birth date of one of the most infamous people in modern history. This is very funny to point out to people who don't know.
That's it. The base is a joke, the rest is a hopefully neat picture. Whether or not you think the joke is funny or the picture is cool is besides the point, but it highlights why I think takes like-
>This board benefits from not being some partisan culture war bullshit battleground.
> I'd be saying the same if they'd posted up some sort of obvious progressive or Soviet thing.
Are just foolish. Where are we, again? Are we not allowed to make light of this thing that is as far back in history as the American Civil War was at the time of World War 2?

>>5646560
Now since I've stated my case on why something that really ought not to have to be explained is the way it is, I want to say why I didn't want to explain it, as though that has to be articulated on a board made to express creativity. When you make something, you want people to look at it, to analyze it, to think about it. You don't explain every single bit of it and insist on your exact interpretation to the dot, not unless you're in this game for reasons that you'll quickly grow dissatisfied and disillusioned with. Whenever I make an OP image with a scene or a character in it, the intention hasn't been for people to ask "what quest is this referring to" or, for God knows what reason, "Is this a show of support for some movement I disapprove of?" It's been to make people look at it and come up with a story based off of what they see. You know, a creative exercise, for a creative writing board. I feel like for a messy gathering place of /qst/'s denizens, a particular showcase or reference is in poor form, so when I make something for the OP image, it's always its own thing. The idea is for it to be the quest OP image for a quest that does not exist. It isn't from anything, it isn't a quest reference, it's standalone, and with just a bit of imagination, you can make it any story you want.

In a disappointing show, a few of you see it and have decided that it is a secret taunt from your real life enemies, or a potential banner for them to rally around. This is not the thought process of a "normal person", let alone a creative, this is how Paranoid Schizophrenics think. It's a step away from being Terry Davis, God rest his tormented soul, and believing that when things go wrong it's because of a government agent of particular luminosity and skin tone.

TL;DR-
>>5645052
>Why is she wearing Hugo Boss fetish gear?
Because it's eye catching and it's a fake OP for a quest that doesn't exist, presumably about Imperialist magical girls or whatever you think the character would be from.

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>>5646560
You don’t need to explain a goddamn thing. If these retards can’t figure it for themselves and them stay retarded.

The mods already took care of their retarded attempt of a qtg.

lmao qtg sucks

>draw image of your Quest waifus and characters
>slap "QTG" on it
>ship it / "look what I did for you guys appreciate it"
>get mad that people think your "not a nazi" uniform character looks like a nazi

ok

>>5646295
Use votes to break up your wall of texts

>>5646560
>>5646566
>post Nazi-inspired character to commemorate Hitler's birthday on a site famous for its abundance of white nationalists
>why do people think it's related to Nazism? Must be the schizophrenia, or maybe Reddit
I'm glad you're not a Nazi, I guess. Carry on.

>>5646402
>That is over a month, I've not seen any quest on this board go into autosage in three odd hours like in the glory days.
This never happened even back then. Closest I could think of is Fate quests getting autosaged in 24 hours.

>>5646588
>C1tiUD5
>CHUD
Pottery.

>>5646611
If he just admitted that he faps to nazis it'd be less cringe lmao

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>>5646560
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>>5646560
is this what the youngsters call "cope, dilate and seethe"?

If two people vote for one option and two vote for another option... like in terms of class... Is just mixing the two classes together a good compromise?

>>5646184
Well, you could read mine. Most of my are about being a military commander. We literally had a wargame simulation in a few of them.

That includes the Post Apoc one, we literally used wargame stats for our units.

>>5646295
No, it's okay.

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>>5646616
>site famous for its abundance of white nationalists
Don't drink the media kool-aid, anon. The vast majority of them are larping. I know because I am white and I live in a nation.

>>5646670
Depends on how compatible they are. If you think you can combine them in a manner that's acceptable to both camps, do it. If they're just incompatible, flip a coin or request a tiebreaker to bait out a lurker.

>>5646087
Have you not seen how much the OG starwars made in toy sales?
>>5646233
Saying something is cringe, is not the same as throwing a piss fit. So far the person most upset appears to be you, like you're totally overreacting and hallucinating a reaction that never happened. Stop losing your shit bruh.
>>5646263
Totally true. Doesn't even have tiddies. Also, shouldn't the outfit be like tight leather or something?
>>5646317
>I'm doing my part!
>>5646337
>/qst/ isn't dying because of Nazis, it's dying because there's no inflow of new people.
I've heard that /qst/s had to update like four times a day in the old days. That seems too much to me. However, this current situation is also bad.
>>5646345
Yeah, I've been better off recruiting from RPG discords and having a server, than trying to get people to even look at a quest I have on here.

>>5646685
>I've been better off recruiting from RPG discords and having a server,
Jesus Christ. What a bummer.

>>5646685
>Stop losing your shit bruh
Man literally wrote 1500 words defending his nazi waifu. All shit has already been lost

>>5646670
Ask your players. If they're cool with it, combine the votes

>>5646689
If you're running a /k/ quest like he does then yeah. The nerds here can't tell the difference between a T-62 and a T-64.

i want t play an imperialist magical girl quest

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>>5646670
What are some settings that are underutilized?
>Didn't combine the two classes that weren't picked
Sad.

>>5646698
Setting meaning whawt?

>>5646693
I can only imagine "They're both sets of power armor in the fallout universe" being uttered with extreme confidence.

>>5646701
That was a general question not just for you. Whatever you want it to mean.

>>5646693
Air Wing Commander quest has been chugging along for almost a year

>>5646698
I want to see someone do a real effort on a Cyberpunk quest that doesn't die in one thread.

>>5646693
No, I do that if I do a Dark Ages kingdom running play by post thing that resembles a /qst/.

Something I learned, is if you want to be able to do combat or wargaming, of various levels of complexity, you need to know a lot of systems and be able to convert between them at will.

For example, I can do 1 v 1 combat with just two sets of dice rolls, that's it. No ACs, No DCs, no rolling Inititive, no nothing else.

>>5646277
You can see the day Trojan War Quest died on that chart.

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>QM Question:
Hmmm... Sometimes I get some flake for the prison setting, maybe id have stuck with something more slice of life and less strange.

Or even stranger and just done a Fantasy Quest.

Mostly though I guess id have introduced more rivals and less friends.

>Player Question:
The players killed a succubus that was nice to them in cold blood litterally cause one dude vote brigaded it to piss off a guy who liked waifus in QTNG. It was not justified cause the game fell apart immediately after cause the people who wanted to play lost their waifu before the game started and the people who actually voted got their scalp and stopped caring.

>General Question:
I like customization a lot, because it makes it feel more like a quest, since the difference from it and a fanfic is your voting on a story.

I really do avoid writing description a lot, probbably to my detriment, and especially of Gurie. I think it makes the quest seem less waifuy but maybe itd be easier if i showcased more that your playing a gremlin.

>Misc. Question:
Smirk. That's up for my beloved voters!
(It's Pokemon Theory because its a free period mostly)

>Just for Fun Question:
Remember the black necromancer lesbian from Dungeon Life? She's really good at breaking through guarded entries at this point id just leave her to it.

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>>5646730
Does everything need to be simulated? Does it slow you down?

The fact you are asking this question, after I said there was only two opposing rolls of dice, for the entirety of combat.... With no other numbers being involved, makes me think you're either retarded or fucking with me.

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>>5646794
>you're either retarded or fucking with me.
But does everything need to be simulated will you not create your own outcomes to direct the story in a way you want?

>>5646698
>underutilized settings
Cyberpunk or biopunk settigs, age of exploration style stuff, the modern or near-modern era without fantastical embellishments (or without MANY, even). Also, more trippy, illogical "Wonderland" or "Oz" style settings. Most stuff here seems to be farflung future (space empires or post-apoc), wuxia/cultivation style Asian stuff, D&D fantasy, an established property, or some world event (often WWII) plus magic or scifi. I always enjoy checking out the stuff which breaks this mold.

Though thebpopular gwnres are popular for a reason, and I also play my fair share of those.

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>>5646690
>Have you not seen Schindler's List
>breasts
>outfits
The more influential fashion film reference is actually The Night Porter (1974); this article from Dazed And Confused explains it
https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/33523/1/nazi-chic-the-stylistic-legacy-of-the-night-porter
basically all fashion is this. Also, apparently goth is too

I have not watched this film, I know of it but I watched Dune tee hee hee look at the naughty naughty things that old lady actress from Dune got up to when she was younger, yay

>>5646820
>the modern or near-modern era without fantastical embellishments
So how do you do cyberpunk then? Or am I misunderstanding?

How far flung is the Post Apoc that you dislike?

Would fantasy be more bearable if it was more Dark Ages or Roman?

>>5646831
Stone age fantasy or bust.

>>5646831
>Or am I misunderstanding?
Yes. I don't dislike any of the common settings for find them unbearable. I even said as much (in the spoiler, with lots of typos, but still). The popular genres are fine, I just would like to see more temporal and cultural reference-points.

>how do cyberpunk in modern setting without fantastical elements?

These were all DIFFERENT settings I'd like to see more of. The -punk settings and modern realism or near-realism were two different things I enjoy, though verh near-future bio or cyberpunk could probably bridge the two in some ways.

>how far-flung an apocalypse?
Interesting question. If it's far-flung ENOUGH, it ceases even to really be "post-apocalypse" in a way, and just becomes a whole new setting with the real world and present era merely a footnote in the lore.

>Dark Ages or Roman
Roman or otherwise Bronze Age Mediterranean quests being more common, with an emphasis on the big trading networks and strange cultural hodgepodge on exoanding or established empire could be pretty rad. Maybe senatorial political shenanigans, or gladiator and olympics athleticism, or establishing and maintaining a mystery cult, or subjugating barbarian/rebelling against the empire in a distant province?

>>5646839
>stone-age fantasy
Also a very cool idea.

>>5646820
I think the least used genre is the "Scrappy kid finds X" kinda movies.
Even in kids media shows like the pokemon ones... Gurie and Penny are adults.

We have space, fantasy, modern, but few with a actual kid, and theres a whole genre of ETs, Iron Giants and Stranger Things we dont bother with, or only do from a adult lens.

Also... Gothic seems relatively underutilized for how successful it can be when its done.

I also think most of the Leader games are about being a bad man in a bad world (that MAY be worse than you). There isnt something like Star Wars Rebel leader stuff.

The most relatively unused stuff tends to be in the less edgy/gritty section of the spectrum.

Besides that... idk innerwar?

>>5646820
>more trippy, illogical "Wonderland" or "Oz" style settings
what quests do you read already

Well I have a Dark Ages Britannia kingrunning thing available, but the issue is that you kinda need to dance around previous player factions or work for one of them.

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>>5646839
>paleolithic setting
hmmmm some sort of Ubisoft Tom Clancy Far Cry Primal crossover ooohhh Neanderthal warriors versus some tactical Gerber tomahawks or something. Mixing too much tech though and you get that Horizon: Zero Dawn videogame though urgh

I mentioned before the Acheulean axe, flint biface achieved via lithic reduction and hammerstone, apparently they were made by protohumans for over a million years
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acheulean
This would make for a cool relic or object of primitive veneration (the sacred "first axe" etc)

There is that Paleomythic storytelling rpg it is actually very well written. I thought about synthesising some sort of FERAL TACTICAL aesthetic, I really like the idea of Tom Clancy tactical operator people except they have reverted to some shamanic tribal mysticism as their gear and technology have degraded. I think Degenesis rpg and Metro Exodus have already established some of this though

>>5646858
>Night Without Stars
>Supreme Space Monke Ruler Quest
>Matsuno Inc. Idol Agency
>Hex Maniac Prison
>Sira can run a brothel!
>Local Lord Quest
>Pokémon: Fork and Spoon
>Forgotten Realms Adventures
>Dragon Ball: Legacy
>Wanted Dead: A Western Quest
>Goblin Chieftain Quest
>Batquest
>MAGA Civilization
I run Dragonborn Antipaladin Quest

>>5646874
Oh! And...
>True Alt. History

Thinking of checking out Fall of Hyrule, too.

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>>5646871
(Metro Exodus visual inspiration art reference) FERAL TACTICAL GAS MASKS

>>5646874
1) wew, impressive

2) if you "enjoy checking out stuff that breaks the mold," have I got a post-post-apocalyptic early-20th-century underwater dream-logic purgatory for you buddy le shill link:https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=drowned%20quest

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>>5646857
>Scrappy kid finds X
For some really bizarre reason, I read a novelisation of the Goonies first as a child before ever seeing the Spielberg production, the film had less of an impact on me afterwards. It is weird seeing that gentleman from Sicario as a child now

>>5646894
Drowned and Bones are both ones I always mean to catch up on, but the backlog intimidates me from starting since I already have so much on the go. Maybe when I finish my cirrent quest, and before I start my new one.

If I do. Haven't decided yet.

>>5646857
>no kid quests
I think people get self-conscious or weirded out when they imagine a group of 4channers piloting a child around other children, especially if romance may rear its ugly, horny head.

>>5646871
True Alt. History has a bit of that flavour at the moment, though as we exit the stone age we may lose it I suppose.

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>>5646900
>the backlog intimidates me from starting
Can't blame you, kek. I estimate ~15-20 more threads left in the Redux tank, so you have time to catch up if you ever get around to it. We also have lizard people :v)

>spoiler
I feel that, considering the workload. I have no idea if I'll ever run anything else after mine ends.

>>5645667
what's the next big thing?

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>>5646698
>underutilised settings
MANNERPUNK
Corsets! Petticoats! Jane Austen wife simulation! hehe

Something I realised recently watching two Scorsese films, the Edith Wharton period piece adaptation The Age Of Innocence (1993) and rewatching Gangs Of New York (2002) is that these two films are set within a decade of each other 1860s, 1870s. I remember not liking Gangs Of New York when I watched it the first time round, I found it just ridiculous and the violence confusing (simultaneously too violent... yet not violent enough, like when Daniel Day Lewis in butcher cleaver knife maniac mode mutilates DiCaprio's face as a gang punishment... it is fine, he is literally fine afterwards, not really even much of a scar lol).

This time round, I still do not really like the film, but it feels politically prescient, released around 9/11 and very profound (it has an interesting demonstration of immigration, racial tensions, democracy electioneering... with knives. Also, naughty historical use of the special n word that Mark Twain likes very much). Cameron Diaz is somehow not very attractive or desirable in this film, but Daniel Day-Lewis gives a mesmerising bloodcurdling Shakespearean-tier performance. There is a memorable scene where some character accuses him of "you do not know what you are doing to yourself!!" and in response, Daniel Day-Lewis uses a knife to tap at the glass in his own eye socket (he gouged out his own eye lol). I don't know if this was some Scorsese cinematic homage to the notorious Un Chien Andalou (1929) eye-cutting scene, but it was pretty dramatic. If you listen to Daniel Day Lewis and the Titus Andronicus style rambling he delivers near the end of the film, it is pretty obvious that he is meant to embody America:

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Bill: No, I don't never sleep too much. I have to sleep with one eye open, and I only got one eye, right? How old are you, Amsterdam?
Amsterdam: I'm not sure, sir. I never did quite figure it.
Bill: I'm forty-seven. Forty-seven years old. You know how come I stayed alive this long? Fear. A spectacle of fearsome acts. A man steals from me, I cut off his hands. If he offends me, I cut out his tongue. He rises up against me, I cut off his head, stick it on a pike. Raise it up high so all on the streets can see. That's what preserves the order of things. Fear. That one tonight, who was he? A nobody. A coward. What an ignominious end that would have been. I killed the last honorable man fifteen years ago. Since then, it's... You seen his portrait downstairs?
Amsterdam: Mm-hmm.
Bill: Is your mouth all glued up with cunny juice? I asked you a question.
Amsterdam: [angrily] I said I seen it, sir.
Bill: [smiles] Oh, you got a murderous rage in you, and I like it. It's life, boiling up inside of you. It's good. The Priest and me, we lived by the same principles. It was only faith divided us. He gave me this, you know. That was the finest beating I ever took. My face was pulp, my guts was pierced, and my ribs was all mashed up. And when he came to finish me, I couldn't look him in the eye. He spared me because he wanted me to live in shame. This was a great man. A great man. So I cut out the eye that looked away. Sent it to him wrapped in blue paper. I would have cut 'em both out if I could have fought him blind. Then I rose back up again with a full heart and buried him in his own blood.
Amsterdam: [pause] Well done.
Bill: He was the only man I ever killed worth remembering. I never had a son. Civilization is crumbling. [places a hand on Amsterdam's head] God bless you.
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Anyway my point contrasting these two films is because I was trying to think of a way in which to combine some videogame violence with MANNERPUNK costume / period drama. I don't think this is it (Age Of Innocence and Edith Wharton is super dull, do not watch this unless you are hardcore fascinated by 19th century costumes and mise en scene) but maybe it is a start

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>>5646936
Also, before anyone mentions it yes I am aware this film Pride And Prejudice and Zombies exists, I watched it, it was not as good as I imagined it could have been. hmmm maybe the genre mashing is just too difficult to achieve

>demented obsession with creating TOM CLANCY JANE AUSTEN
>BONNET, PARASOL, CORSETS and GAS MASKS
>MY TEA CUP has PICATINNY RAILS

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>>5646934
>>5646936
I know some anons like Dishonored here. When playing those games I immmediately recognised Slackjaw design resemblance to the character and fashion attire of Daniel Day Lewis in knife butcher mode from Gangs Of New York. I think in most of my playthroughs I sacrificed him to the Grandmother witch lady though hehe

https://dishonored.fandom.com/wiki/Slackjaw

>>5646941
>souv would rather kill slackjaw instead of granny rags

Typical retard behavior

All that bitch ever did was poison the distillery. Slackjaw was making and selling diluted health potions to people. His crew even helped corvo if he got attacked by whalers (assuming they spotted them)

He was a real one.

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>>5646942
hehe I did all the endings I played both Dishonored games so many times (only did Death Of The Outsider once though, I did not like the levels as much in that addon, also the lore ending on the Outsider just felt wrong, it eliminated all the mystery). My first playthrough of all Dishonored games usually super noblebright I killed no-one, used no weapons and stealth choked everyone for the happy happy ending. All subsequent playthroughs were murder maniac playthroughs, I did things like no gun, no magic, no runes, sword only, only magic, only bombs gadgets etc etc.

The true enemy of Dishonored (first game) is those INFURIATING RIVER KRUSTS what the hell is this Half Life 2 style rage-inducing spitting acid enemy doing in the game, all I want to do is knife dismember humans I cannot knife dismember a stupid mollusc. Also you know because of stupid game completionist pearl collecting you have to fight them all even in a no gun no gadget sword only run etc.

>>5646948
Dishonored fell off.
Dishonored DLCs were the peak of the franchise. Dishonored 2 was alright, but the magic was lost. The plot doesnt exactly makes sense (a few weeks into her reign and delilah already fucked the isles beyond belief)

I just use the explosive shot on my pistol to take them out. A sticky grenade also works.

I do take some inspiration from it, though. Their swords look similar to sidesword designs and their wheellock pistols are definitely something people in the 1500-1600s would use. so why not make a quest during such a time period?

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>>5646953
dishonored 1 dlc I completely agree was amazing, the witch mansion level, the whale factory and the Daud gang battle versus the Overseers etc. I would also agree that Dishonored 1 had the more compelling storyline, but Dishonored 2 had AMAZING levels the time travel one (the dual past-present mansion with that mirror device thing), the Jindosh puzzle, the incredible folding rearranging mechanical inventor mansion level, that Hypatia island throwback to Thief hehe and Bioshock, and my favourite level which is that Royal Museum one that hints at the Pandyssian continent with all the witches, the stuffed animals exotic taxidermy etc - I like that one best because if I remember it is one of the biggest contiguous levels with no loading screen from the canal to the streets to the museum interior.

I also admit I do not usually play as female protagonists but Emily voice acting is really good (especially if you go high chaos murder maniac, she delivers some cruel revenge voice lines when encountering random map objects) also I think her gun is slightly cooler (I like the Target Pistol blended flintlock look) and also her Blink / creepy shadow crawl arms looks slightly better to me. Incidentally if you like that Dishonored Shadow Walk ability from Emily I recommend checking out Vampyr (maybe just youtube it, the overall videogame is not that good, but I still completed it) which has a few abilities that look even more amazing

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>>5647013
Also a lot of people no longer remember it but there was this videogame called Prototype (I think I actually played Prototype 2) where you play as Tetsuo Body Hammer or something basically imagine that scene with the meat arm from Akira lol except as a videogame, a transforming human flesh sword which sort of fits the theme I mentioned earlier about wh40k arco-flagellants hehe.
>>5645775

I am trying to find a gif of it, there was one ability that made you shoot out all these flesh bomb tentacles strands and pull in all surrounding helpless bystanders it never really got old lol. This was a repetitive but fairly fun game

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>>5647014
Obligatory gif of Emily creepy shadow walk for comparison

>>5647013
Loved the soundtrack to that game.
https://youtu.be/_xhE7D1ZAs8

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>>5647014
Oh and on the theme of flailing shadow arms and dual wielding desert eagles hehe, there is also the Darkness 1 and 2. I remember the endearing girlfriend sofa scene in those games, there was also some long world war 1 section (why?) and I remember several times I thought the game ended... except it carried on lol and then went on and on even further slightly outstaying its welcome. So maybe the whole body gun tentacle theme has been fairly well explored by videogames already.

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>>5647018
Olivier Deriviere is indeed a very unique composer. I do not remember the music he did for Vampyr so much, but I did really like his cyberpunk glitch orchestral (?) music he did for Remember Me (the Neo-Paris combo fighting game, also it had very interesting futuristic fashion and concept art).

Remember Me - Madame Boss Fight Theme (Soundtrack OST) [HQ]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nQMnvsDgULo

Remember Me OST full (this is a lie, it is incomplete there is so much more music than this)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TOtsjFg69g
The Fight (glitch music!)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0TOtsjFg69g&t=26m45s
Neo Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TOtsjFg69g&t=12m32s
Fragments
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0TOtsjFg69g&t=10m12s

Also, there was some amazing music I remember not on the official OST release, it ia the song that comes on during the Kid Xmas punching combo fistfight
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EOxWeF0TY2E

I think I really like this genre of futurist orchestral because of Unreal Tournament and ut2k3, ut2k4 lol basically it sounds like Unreal Tournament menu music, I loved those games so much. Nobody remembers this they are all playing Fortnite now instead nooooo

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>>5646936
Anyway too much knife dismemberment shadow tentacles here is the most tender and famous lighthouse scene from Edith Wharton The Age Of Innocence. What is happening is that Daniel Day Lewis / Newland Archer is contemplating infidelity to his betrothed May Welland / Winona Ryder (how could you?!?) with the scandalous Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer, I am sorry she just looks frizzled and unattractive in this film. Please try Batman Returns catsuit version instead).

The Countess has her back turned to him in the pier; she has not seen him. So Daniel Day Lewis makes a bet with himself to approach her if and only if she turns round and sees him before the boat in the distance passes the lighthouse.

It is this scene from the novel:

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"She doesn't know—she hasn't guessed. Shouldn't I know if she came up behind me, I wonder?" he mused; and suddenly he said to himself: "If she doesn't turn before that sail crosses the Lime Rock light I'll go back."

The boat was gliding out on the receding tide. It slid before the Lime Rock, blotted out Ida Lewis's little house, and passed across the turret in which the light was hung. Archer waited till a wide space of water sparkled between the last reef of the island and the stern of the boat; but still the figure in the summer-house did not move.

He turned and walked up the hill.

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The scene is actually reminiscent of a more famous literary short story, by Henry James called The Beast In The Jungle. You would think it has a promising Lovecraft Cthulhu title but in this story nothing happens it is just about a young man who fails to ask out a young lady companion. He just fails at courtship for his whole entire life
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_in_the_Jungle

So I wonder if there is a way to juxtapose this sort of tenderness, the psychodrama minutiae inner emotional turmoil dynamics with ASSAULT RIFLES VIDEOGAME ULTRAVIOLENCE SHADOW ARM TENTACLES and create Tom Clancy Jane Austen wife simulation MANNERPUNK. hmmm hmmm

>>5644579
>There is no question. Vote.
Make me.

test

>>5647102
Which quest are you going to samefag in now?

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Rolled 3, 2, 1, 1 = 7 (4d10)

>>5647048
Somehow I am almost convinced that if I can manage to unify Jane Austen with tactical military shooters like Hegelian synthesis in a creative genre setting, or whatever Baz Luhrmann did in Romeo+Juliet, transcendental peace contentment and understanding will be established throughout the world. Because fundamentally it is about reconciling how all of modern governance begins with Enlightenment Classical era 18th-19th Century Locke Stuart Mill convoluted exposition and ends in the A2 flash hider of some ar15. Having analysed my limited cinematic recollections of films like
Green Zone
Tears Of The Sun
The Kingdom
The Unit
The Hurt Locker
Zero Dark Thirty
Black Hawk Down
Sicario
Shooter (2007)
Rambo (2008)
I have determined the optimal title for this setting to be
BLACK ZONE: ZERO TEARS DOWN The Green Dark Hurt Unit.

The titular hero could be called something like, "Monsieur Raimbeau"

Maybe what I can try is to take some basic narrative units (narremes?) from both genres and just mix them randomly, hmmm like this

1 An eligible bachelor arrives in town
2 A scandalous message is delivered
3 A ballroom dance with a romantic rival
4 A young lady is introduced into polite society
5 An elderly relative dies, leaving a bitter inheritance
6 A picnic gathering on a hill
7 A romantic encounter outside in the rain
8 An unwanted confidence from an aggravating acquaintance, awkwardly swearing the listener to secrecy
9 After seeing his MASSIVE MANSION he becomes quite handsome and appealing after all
10 A secret elopement from disapproving relatives

(...)

1 A helicopter crashes because this is just how levels transition in Call Of Duty
2 Time to GO DARK in Low Visibility Operations, knobbly night vision optics yay
3 Firing a massive Barrett rifle at a distant target, then just... waiting. And watching
4 Triggering a webbed wire tangle of IEDs whilst perspiring and panting in a bulky EOD suit
5 The helpless refugee you are protecting is actually wearing a hidden transmitter to the enemy
6 Sorry Matt Damon, but our weapons of mass destruction are in another country
7 It is the predictable rescue the jungle NGO missionaries but at least the charity lady is quite attractive
8 Some sort of SERE scenario in the wilderness goes awry
9 A highway shootout and carjacking as part of extraordinary rendition against the Cartel
10 One of the operators has gone renegade, and is now hunting their own

Nigga shut the fuck up.

How many quests have you flaked, QTG?

7

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>>5647190
Rolled 3, 2, 1, 1 = 7 (4d10)

3 A ballroom dance with a romantic rival
2 Time to GO DARK in Low Visibility Operations, knobbly night vision optics yay
1 An eligible bachelor arrives in town
1 A helicopter crashes because this is just how levels transition in Call Of Duty

Ok well this failed, it is beyond my abilities, it is just too difficult reconciling these genres, please see the Fifty Shades Of Grey helicopter ride film scene where he cinches her seatbelt very tightly, that was the most erotic portion of the film for me

Fifty Shades Of Grey Helicopter Scene
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u7T_-7wgLIc
(weird coincidence, I think the actor who plays her chauffeur / bodyguard ? driver is one of the main tactical guys from The Unit. He was quite good in that TV show. And bizarrely Pride and Prejudice lady from zero dark thirty is also in this film, pretending to be American)

Anyway maybe you can try the narreme / narrative unit recombinant technique with more viable settings in an attempt to create new genres, I think Tom Clancy Jane Austen tactical military shooter is just too difficult

>>5647127
Prince of drag

>>5646936
A mannerpunk quest based around courtship and family politics would be sort of based.
I tried to icnlude some fo that in the Wevenore and Hawksong arcs of Dragonborn Antipaladin

>>5647195
0.

>>5647345
I thought it was Manor? Also what is Manor Punk, is it Steampunk but set even earlier?

>>5647383
Souv called it Mannerpunk above, and I believe it's his idiosyncratic term for what is kroe ocmmonly called the "fantasy of manners" subgenre, which focuses on comedies and tragedies centred around social heirarchues, conventions, and obligations (ie. manners, not manors, though the events which spiral out may indeed involce manors and estates of various sorts). I can only guess contextually that mannerPUNK would emphasize the grittier, more targic aspects of the subgenre, such as doomed marriages forced upon missrable people by familial arrangement or social convention, mistreatment of the servants or the indebted, etcetera. I guess Merchant of Venice is sort of mannerpunk, with Shylock's misery and fury and his vindictive attempt to use the court system to tear a chunk out of a guy. Django Unchained might qualify as well, or even something like 50 Shades of Grey, Trading Places, or Ex Machina, since they prominently feature social elites playing cruel games with underlings and fellows, though there sems to be annimplication of a Victorian time period in the way Souv presents it.

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>>5647190
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>>5647444
I just really like those L3Harris GPNVGs, though my intention was mostly satirical. But it is also funny to compare the V&A Victorian corsetry museum collection to the Escape From Tarkov wiki of real-life tactical warfighter chest rigs, bizarrely convergent functional form and purpose

>Trying to get into QMing
>Hate my writing so much I dont post anything
JUST

>>5647505
If you ever feel discouraged, look at my writing or even better, look at my first posts, they bad.

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>>5647504
To the anons making trans identity quests lol here is some proffered exploration of gender semiotics just for you. Tactical corsets yay

Read my quest

>>5647505
Well to the world of artistic expression. You will never grow if you never move past the "I hate every part of this" phase.

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>>5647525

Continuing updates on Awakened Diversion. We eat some barely-okay breakfast and get ready to take on the day in our newly amnesiac life…

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>>5647190
>>5647211
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>>5647508
oh nooooo I just worked it out anons I solved it, I know where Tom Clancy Jane Austen tactical military shooter genre leads I have even seen this film noooo

It is appropriately even called GI JANE and it involves Demi Moore with an M16 and a shaved head, it may provoke some consternation indeed this film even has a SERE scene argh

well this was a disturbing genre destination to have arrived at argh noooooo my invented fantasy genre is now utterly ruined

>>5647505
The really cool thing is that when you try to fix your stuff you can't tell what's wrong exactly, it'll never stop. Rewrite after rewrite. You're stuck in this hell boyo!

>>5647505
Perfection is the bane of performance.

>>5647505
Everyone knows this place is populated by ameteurs and they can overlook it if it's "fun."

>>5647574
>GI JANE
>Flashback to that slap.

>>5647650
Poor pussywhipped Will. Silly little man.

>>5647643
ye especially when the normal revisions to perfection ratio can be as high as a billion to one. often, good ideas don't get better with more intention tossed on them. just like glorious japanese katana, folded a mirrion times to achieve the incredible height of metal strength that is slightly less than that of a karas bolt pen.

refinement is limited to perspective, and easily it follows, it's more useful to expand ones depths and reach to enable refinement that matters than it is to pour over a page for sixteen years. it's why real writers use other people to bounce off of to help their own ideas mature, using feedback checks from people who understand similar material etc.

the harder it is to write something, usually the more serious its writer treats the material. this is bad juju, lacks adaptability, and kills motivation. it's the acid residue of applied passion, corrosive and ass smelly. you didn't ask for advice, but identifying dislikes in what you've written means your mind is performing as it should to the critical extent. it's just one step of a necessary many.