Cool start, Epsilon!

ALL HAIL YE BUNNY OF CHAOS,
UNHOLY SPAWN OF YE CHTHONIC OCTOFOX!
IA IA CJOPAZE FHTAGN

I don't remember a "Chloe" in Ruby Quest.
But browsing through 1d4chan recently, I found a fanart featuring some "Chloe" who looks like "our" Chloe!
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Ruby_Quest
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/File:FilXChloe.png

Can anyone tell me - who is "Chloe" in this fanart?
Where's this "Chloe" from - RQ, some other quest, fanfiction?
Is this "our" Chloe?

Same, from paintchat and the quests thereof. As to who... keep playing

>>313946
Thanks!
Are there any archives of those quests?

>As to who... keep playing
It's OK, I don't want to spoil the game :)
I was actually asking about the "fanart Chloe", not "our Chloe" (I thought they may be 2 different persons)

Epsilon 2009/10/06(Tue)17:36 No. 4193 ID: f21281
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>>313944
Of course you'd have to go and find the one done by Numbers :V

Some more Pchat Goodness from the ye olde days of CloneQuest, when it was mostly just dicking around.

Epsilon 2009/10/06(Tue)17:37 No. 4194 ID: f21281
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Aberration is essentially a more serious, in-depth take on CloneQuest. Although some of the humor from the original CQ may prevail here and there.

I remember Chloe teaming up with EFG and meeting Daisy in the floating garden.

Ahh, good times. Glad it has returned.

>>313996
You! Do you have an eMail or Instant Messenger account of some sort?

I remember none of this as I wasn't there.
Still, this looks awesome.

>>313996
It was someone called EGG, if I recall correctly. I think the first G was for Gun?

>>313997

Why yes sir I do. Something you need?

>>314003
So I can get in touch with you when I need to, since I never see you up on IRC :V

>>314004

I'll be more active in IRC then.

Σ:3c

>>313993
>>313994
Wow, this looks cool.
Thanks for the info.

Anywhere I can read that CloneQuest?

>>314020

I believe the Paintchat archives hold bits and pieces (although the art isn't quite as impressive as the fanart it generated, either someone can go look or I'll search for the start of it later.

Things will (probably) begin to run a bit faster than they have been - I'm going to start working on drawing the various plot-centric rooms so that way they're already done, and all I'll have to do is add the character(s).

That's a nice fire. Did you paint that in sai, or something else?

>>316951
10 second search on Deviantart for fire brushes, then gradient tinkering.

it's actually 3 different fire brushes. stacked on top of each other.

>>316953
In Sai, or photoshop? I haven't had much luck with sai brushes.

>>316954
Oh. Photoshop.

I'm drawing mostly everything in Sai now, but when I need effects I copy/paste it into Photoshop and dick around with it in there.

HURP.

Format change cuz TozolQuest is kinda going along the same vein Aberration was gonna go. 'sides, there's been too many quests that take place in freaky lab facilities anyways :V

Epsilon 2010/01/07(Thu)21:17 No. 8710 ID: f21281
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Also, because you all are a bunch of perverts:

Pick one.

>>318510
A. I don't like the slope of B...

>>318510
A

>>318510
B's size fits her character better, but they don't look quite right. If they're more rounded (and the right boob should have less of an underline) that'd be perfect.

A

A for favorites.

B for character.

A

>>318509
So no our task is also as a fixer-upper than just a survivor huh? Seems somewhat more challenging.


Also... 'B' seems to fit her character more for some reason.

...A, even if B seems more fitting.

Also, feel free to redline that image and fix my horrible attempt at proportions :x

Sorry, A. I can't not choose bigger teetees.

Anonymous 2010/01/07(Thu)21:31 No. 8723 ID: 74fd41
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>>318519
Here i fixed it

I choose E

>>318523
E.

>_>
<_<

>_<
...DON'T JUDGE ME

I think she looks fine how she is and her bust shouldn't really factor into the story to begin with

>>318510
A.
Small would be more fitting of the character, I think, but I like the way A looks better...
...And not just because they're bigger! :U

>>318526
A is the smallest one. Did you mean the first one? That'd be B.

Also I'm still voting for B.

>>318525
Agreed, she should only have big tits as part as Her shape-shifting disguise Powers. And only if she has no other options. [does she have shape-shifting powers?]

>>318529
If you're going to argue that, you might as well argue that her tits should have mouths and eyes and sing an unholy song that scars the minds of those who hear it.

>>318532
Why not?

Ashe!2.GjOKpoSU 2010/01/08(Fri)15:26 No. 8752 ID: 9891a9
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>>318532

Itty bitty titties.

So... destroying the world.. your ideas, thoughts, and suggestions.

I disagree with it on the principle that it would be trying too hard to please daddy and that it likely won't make her happy.. nor anyone else happy.

Besides, if we mutate the world.. then mutation no longer becomes strange and amusing... Xom would not approve so greatly of such a loss.

>>318558
Sometimes it's good to shoot for the moon. Who knows what we might be able to achieve?

>>318558
I think a continent should suffice.

>>318558
Well it's mostly about creating an environ in which Xom can flourish. The current ordered world is not one which encourages adventurers and strange stuff happening. And I doubt we can get every animalperson on the planet.

And as I see it it's not so much about pleasing Xom as it's about making the world a safer place for Chloe. I mean sure her notes hint that she can survive decapitation but that leaves alot of fates worse than death that she can run into. By destroying the world that supports her enemies we can destroy said enemies ability to follow her.

That and it's fucking fun. Damn bunch of longhaired pacifistic hippies here. What would you do if she was followed by communist elfs?

>By destroying the world that supports her enemies we can destroy said enemies ability to follow her.

Yeah.. and create a whole new bunch of actually competent enemies (ie. wasteland warriors, adventurers, post- apoc technosorcerers) who will now likely have the skill to attack her (magic, madness, mutations, ect.)

She's been free six years... lets face it, Meta Glen are not the most competent bastards.

>>318575
Those are potential enemies. Just like every living soul is a potential enemy they're also potential allies.

MetaGen are known enemies. Simply because they haven't found her for 6 years doesn't mean they're incompetent. People who have had far more resources invested into finding them has managed to stay hidden for alot longer. I mean Mengele was hunted by Mossad until his natural death and they very much wanted to find him. He also lived out his days in constant fear that they would find him. Living the life of a fugitive isn't a very nice life.

Epsilon 2010/01/30(Sat)20:44 No. 9972 ID: f21281
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Keep getting questions as to what exactly the rabbit is able to do.

So here's some examples as to the malleability of her mutational prowess.

>>319772
>Hook hand
Prepare for platforming funtimes, gentlemen. It is inevitable.

>>319772
>Meanrighthook.jpg

Lockpicking?

SO. Many of you are probably wondering where the updates for Aberration are.

The answer is that I just haven't had enough time or energy to be able to do them.

I work as server at a restaurant, which gets less than stellar business during the day (which, is my shift). As such, I don't make as much money as I should (we're talking 10-20bux in tips for a 7hr shift - average amount of tables for said shift is like, 5), so in an effort to rectify that I've been taking up extra hours here and there - usually at night. Unfortunately this means that the times I could be updating Aberration, I am working, not by choice by rather by necessity (yay, poverty~)

Updates -will- come, and I'm not abandoning the project, but they just wont be like, wham-bam-thankyouma'am every day. Right now it's more of a luxury than a freedom to be able to update it.

>>319947
That's ok. Do them when you feel that you have the time. It's an interesting quest so I will look forward to updates.

Bump due to resurrection.

>>/quest/191721
"Keter-class", hmm? Is that a reference to what I think it's a reference to?

>>327124
>killer rabbit
>razor-sharp teeth
>long, prehensile tongue
>razor-sharp claws
>tremendously strong
>extremely sturdy defenses
>psychotic attitude
Yep, it's definitely a keter. Could give 682 a run for it's money. Maybe.

okaaay.. who the hell thought it was a good idea to accept... nay ask for boons from a psychopathic demon queen? If we keep this up Chloe is just going to get subsumed by The Crimson Queen or something.

She's basically 682 now. Only an immortal knight seeking a glorious challenge could stop her permanently, and even then a dimensional portal would just rip shit up and both parties become unconscious before anybody could die.

Luckily, Cloe doesn't hate life, in fact I may have referenced the wrong SCP. She may be Abel instead. Which means we are gonna go against a 682 someday

She's no 682. She doesn't come close. Neither does a Tozol. 682 is god mode.

would say she would be more Euclid in that she CAN be dangerous but is more likely not.

>>327153
Well okay, she can't really die per say beyond getting put back in a tank and just hoping she'll never escape... so what SCP does that qualify as?

No, no, she's keter-class. While she generally doesn't kill she has no real objections either and will kill to escape. Just likely not in a matter that will have their parts spew all over a wall. I think that's what shocked her the most. they all asploded.

>>327162
yes but the SCP has things that could easily kill them not keter because they are not ACTIVE threats. she is generally nice as long as you don't piss her off, with that listed she could just walk around.

If it were not for Queen Crimson's continued presence I would classify her as merely Euclid (rapid healers and such are fairly common among the SCPs).

However due to the fact that she may continue to accelerate personal improvement (ie: Mutation) and is tempted to engage in bloodshed... she's likely a solid Keter.

>Euclid class objects are not necessarily inherently dangerous, but they are unpredictable: for this reason, greater care should be taken around them. A wild animal, for instance may be considered Euclid, as it may have unpredictable responses to stimuli.

>Keter class objects are always inherently dangerous, despite the best containment procedures possible: the threat level may range from global armageddon to simply killing everything around it. A hand grenade with the pin removed may be considered Keter: a single mistake will cause casualties.

they still talk to keter class things.

hand grenades are great conversationalists

>>327169
i mean the ones that can talk. they even tried talking to 682, and learned it's motives.

>>327171
the joke



your head

Yes, the Keter classification is a nod to the SCP foundation. But that's all it is, MetaGenetics != SCP Foundation.

The thing is this was based on Delta Squads observations of the video, which, to them, they saw Chloe mutating her arms to scale a building. Right then she would have simply been an Euclid, but then when Twigs skipped ahead, she stopped right smack dab during Queenie's little rampage. So from that information alone, as Delta Squad has no prior knowledge of Chloe, they are in their right to classify her as a Keter.

Now, given everything that is known (so far) about Chloe, she'd probably be more likely to be classified as an Euclid, as she's able to restrain herself from going out and wantonly turning whole cities into slaughterhouses.

And in reference to the Chloe vs. 682...Chloe doesn't even hold a candle to 682. She's not even a fraction as resilient as him, and it's actually pretty damn easy to "kill" her if you know how to do it properly and avoid that pesky Deadpool-esque healing ability that lets her come back from even the smallest of drops of blood.

>>327188
for one thing i doubt she can live through the being submerged in acid, which only slows 682 down.

Allotter 2010/06/11(Fri)16:15 No. 17397 ID: 2a421d
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>>327188
Don't worry... you missed mine and Starburst's discussion last night on how to possible drive our pesky neighborhood Queen Crimson into remission.

Via the use of Coconuts, experimental oxygenated perfluorocarbons (Oxycte and Perfluorodecalin specifically), full spectrum antibiotics, and SCIENCE!

Anonymous 2010/06/11(Fri)18:20 No. 17418 ID: 67c611
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Aberration needs a favicon.

cut/pasted/cropped & scaled from OP image.

>>327130
That would be me. I don't really think Chloe can be subsumed by Queenie.They might get closer though. Which fits in very well with my plans and goals.

Also, nice to see that the quest is going again and that you're experimenting a bit with your art style. I kind of like the new style of it.

S̢HE C͏O͝MES

Θ][Σ 2010/06/16(Wed)00:55 No. 17783 ID: f21281
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Better?

>>327583

Muc͏h͘ ͘b̨ett҉er

Is this quest going to continue anytime soon?

Chloe 2010/06/22(Tue)08:43 No. 18177 ID: f21281
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>>327975

>>327975
>>327977
It is? Awesome.

>>327991
Yes.

But not this week. I'm going to be out of town in two days until Tuesday of next week, so you'll have to wait a bit longer for updoots.

Aw, I wanted to see what happened.

>>328694
The images are still going to be used. I just didn't like the dialogue, or the setup.

>>328695
Then hurry up then! The anticipation is killing me!

rabble
rabble rabble
rabblerabblerabblerabblerabblerabblerabblerabble

So I just got caught up on this and had a thought. From what we've seen, Queenie can manifest whenever she feels like it, and she can almost certainly "hear" our suggestions. With that in mind, I'm beginning to thing it'd be better to keep planning and discussion (i.e. deciding what to do) to this thread, and only post in the actual "game thread" with stuff that's safe for both Chloe and her passenger to hear. Giving a thoroughly evil ally of opportunity info on what we're planning seems like a bad thing.

We don't really have enough information (or insight) to make plans directly against the queen. We're just running to keep in the same place, for now.

One thing we do know that she doesn't is that the weird mutatey stuff is contagious. Or, continues autonomously by feeding on and reanimating corpses, or something. Yeah I guess we don't know much.

>>328887

Interesting concept though, scaring questers into the discussion thread.

Unless she DOES know. She might've been controlling those critters who got nuked.

Now, if only we could control monsters.

>>328909
Or she fed the corpse some "medicine" while Chloe was asleep.

Or it was that symbol they had on their forehead. Or some strange combination of it all. Whatever it was we should learn to use it for ourselves.

I think we should distinctly be trying to keep the abberation under control, instead of figuring out evil ways to make reanimated mutated minions.

>>329171
But that doesn't sound very fun or chaotic. Or like a good way to take over the world.

well i don't want the world, i want chloe to be safe and get something of a happy ending.

This, if Chloe keeps abusing the power of the Crimson Queen they'll become one and the same. Remember how she said that first little power boost was 'on the house"? Don't you think it implies there will be a price next time.

Power is addictive and Chloe is already on the drip feed.

Queenie is likely to just twist and turn and spin her flesh and soul into something so unrecognizable that there won't be anything left of the Chloe we are trying to help.

In short it 'won't' be her sitting upon that throne overseeing a globe of mewling whimpering creatures all is sway to her slightest whim, it be the blood bitch behind that fanged smile.

>>329195
>In short it 'won't' be her sitting upon that throne overseeing a globe of mewling whimpering creatures all is sway to her slightest whim, it be the blood bitch behind that fanged smile.

And this is bad how? :3c

Treating Queenie like a lesser protagonist than Chloe even though both can hear us equally just because she happens to be some kind of incarnation of evil, horrible death and what-not...you're so prejudiced, tgchan.

Θ][Σ 2010/07/10(Sat)21:10 No. 19610 ID: f21281
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Current Abilities List.

Anonymous 2010/07/11(Sun)10:11 No. 19629 ID: 315b01
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Guess Chloe might have a few problems if she ever went to Singapore.

Θ][Σ 2010/07/11(Sun)17:43 No. 19656 ID: f21281
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HERE IS THE

MAP.

Just wondering Epsilon, is Xom here the same Xom that we know elsewhere? Im asking because you know how he tends to break the 4th wall.

>>329718
Call me Theta. Numbers goes by Epsilon on here.

And the Xom in this universe is not the same exact Xom seen elsewhere, but he shares traits.

>>329726

Not Epsilon. I go by Sigma

>>329746
Mah bad then~

Okay, now im even more confused. WHO IS WHO? Each of you please name your aliases so I dont mix you up.
Please

>>329886
Θ][Σ is Theta, who is also Epsilon sometimes.
Sigma is Numbers, who is also Suule sometimes.

On an unrelated note. Theta: The next time you have a guy with an accent, just tell us they have an accent. We'll believe you.
It's not that you write accents poorly. It's that everyone writes accents poorly. Except Mark Twain.

>>330320
I dunno, I rather like accents. Then again, won't deny I probably do mine poorly anyhow.

>>330320
>Except Mark Twain
And Brian Jacques.

>>330320
It was an online english to scottish translator. Even I had some trouble understandign wtf it was saying.

In your latest update your character opted to do nothing and get frustrated with the audience not 'making up their mind' which is something virtually impossible for /quest/ to do. Ever.

Not only that you had 21 suggestions to guide your hand. Instead of having your character get frustrated at the audience for not making up their mind, pick one of the choices and go with it.

You shouldn't be trying to satisfy everyone who made a choice, because by not doing anything you've discarded all the suggestions in spirit, and are asking the same question from the audience a second time.

The FAQ has(or had) a small thing about tiebreakers like this. Pick one and go with it, roll a dice, or something. Never a good idea to flip the table of every single suggestion and expect different results.

We're a bunch of people with completely different ideas, don't be afraid to go with something more fitting to the character for a tiebreaker or something.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah~

>>330425
In a way, the author did follow the suggestions (going for the bird). Just that it was not the protagonist, but the NPC who, uh, complied and solved the situation.

That's how I'd interpret it, anyway.

>>330429
I'm not arguing with that, and I talked to him directly as well outside of here for more clarity.

He did do it, in a roundabout way, but the RAURGH YOU GUYS MAKE UP YOUR MIND part was pretty uncouth to me. Maybe it's a pet peeve of mine alone but I cannot stand when the game yells at us for playing the game and not being hive minded, I guess.

>>330430
An interesting point of view.

I would have just thought of it as another way of reacting to the suggestions (environmental reaction instead of personal reaction) and dismissed the "WHY DON'T YOU MAKE UP YOUR MIND" as a quirk of the protagonist.

However, since you already talked to the author directly, I probably shouldn't derail the questdis thread anymore.

>>330430
>the RAURGH YOU GUYS MAKE UP YOUR MIND part was pretty uncouth to me
It's not just you. I mean, it's fine when a character points out a contradiction, (doing drastically different things in similar circumstances) because that can be funny or interesting. But getting upset because not all the votes are the same? That's just silly.

Theta, did you intentionally break the fourth wall?

>>330549
The Fourth Wall means nothing on /Quest/

Also I really don't understand what you mean. Explain, please?

So for the next chapter... Θ][Σ 2010/07/26(Mon)20:28 No. 20799 ID: dad664
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...do you guys want to stick with Chloe, or did you want to switch over to Cpt. Rick of Delta Squad?

Other guy!

Chloe.

Cap'n Rick!

Chloe

Option C!

>>330599
We need more info on metagen. I say we should stick with cap'n lone soldier.

>>330611
We can't find out stuff from Rick and then tell Chloe. That's metagaming.

>>330613
can't tell her directly, but we can give her strangely detailed directions.

>>330599
Chloe. We need to use that tongue for some killing and maiming. And she's a fun gal to be around. So much crazy in that bunny brain. And she's got the Red Queen, primeval gods of blood are the best gods.

>>330599
The diagonal line!

>>330552
More like breaking the fourth fourth wall. She wasn't talking to the headvoices. She was talking to the people at their computers pretending to the the headvoices.

<Chloe> "Feels a lot better in reality instead of playing it out on some forum, huh?"

>>330640
Oh. That wasn't intended, that was Chloe talking to Amelia.

>>330640
The bird chick mentioned going to forums.

>>330650

Oh, unintentional burn! :D

Need moar votes! Tied at 3-3!

Chloe.

I'm here to be an abomination, man.

army dude.

The military fellow

Cpt. Rick.

Vote Chloe

Cpt. Rick. Zombies up the hell right here. We don't have time to smoke a bold. Press A, Cpt. Rick, press A.

Chloe

Delta Squaaaaaad

Let's go with Rick.

6/9, next chapter will focus on the last surviving member of Delta Squadron.

I'll get crackin' on it sometime soon, recently upgraded to Windows 7 and I'm still trying to get all the kinks worked out.

Would probably help if I posted with my name, wouldn't it.

So yeah, I was totally going to start working on the next chapter, but then when I started drawing I noticed my tablet was making wavy lines.

When I was drawing perfectly straight.

On further examination, it appears that the point on the end of my pen has somehow been sheered off, meaning that I can no longer draw straight lines with it anymore. And before anyone talks about replacing the nibs, it's a Graphire3, the Pen itself is a solid unit.

So until I can figure something out, Aberration is on indefinite hiatus.

>>331219
Aww.

Those pens are a bitch to replace, though. My Graphire pen is currently held together with scotch tape, since the apparent replacement has been on back order literally every time I've checked in the past year or so. :c

>>331245
It's double suckitude since I don't have the funds to spare on even a new -pen-, much less a new tablet.

Damn shame that. Bastards at Wacom are all over that "planned obsolescence" thing. Why make it so you can use a new pen on an old tablet, when they can force you to buy a new tablet instead! Anyway, best of luck getting something working. This quest is a really interesting take on Chloe, and on mutant adventures in general!

Θ][Σ 2010/08/10(Tue)20:53 No. 21621 ID: dad664
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So while trying to whittle my pen nib back into shape, I found out that it does indeed slide out after some tugging. Intrigued by this revelation, I went in search of something suitable to act as a temporary measure.

I found a toothpick.

So now I'm going to go see if I can even find any replacement nibs for it. Wacom has the original Graphire ones on back order, so maybe the nibs for the newer tablets will fit, I don't know. We'll see.

>>331421

I don't think a toothpick is very good for your tablet.

>>331422
Depends on whether or not the tablet has teeth.

Y

>>331422
If it's a plastic one, it's probably not that far removed from the original. I'm more surprised that it fits properly in the pen.

My Bamboo is covered in scratches from the official nib, and I tend to use a light touch (I have the pressure sensitivity turned up when I actually use it). Thankfully none of them are noticable grooves.

>>331421
Y

>>331421
I read that your "penis is a toothpick".

If your wood, ah, your pen-substitute draws better than it writes, go for it.

Anonymous 2010/09/26(Sun)20:20 No. 23642 ID: dad664
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New Favicon.

one question. WHAT THE HELL?!

>>333446
something something mutant rabbits :3c

>>333447
You skipping ahead an unspecified time to something new is like, totally jarring. Was that part of the plan? What of the rick votes? Holy shit this is confusing.

>>333449
I wasn't comfortable at all as to how the quest was turning out. I had added things I thought was cool to the point where the whole thing was a mess.

Originally I was going to do a straight reboot, from the start, but TestPattern convinced me to find a way to start over but not start over...if that makes any sense.

TL;DR: I wrote myself into a corner.

>>333450
You wrote yourself into a corner, so you said 'fuck it' and blew up a wall?

>>333461
I...guess that's an appropriate analogy :U

>>333450
Sup dawg, we heard you leik facility quests, so we put a facility quest inside your facility quest so you can escape while you escape.

Fnnhrrgh, too many interruptions derailed me this weekend, will update tomorrow.

Θ][Σ 2010/10/04(Mon)22:24 No. 24377 ID: dad664
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Today/Yesterday marks the 1-Year Anniversary of Aberration!

...goddamn has it really been a year already x_x

>>334177
Aw, she's cute. I'd pat her head and tell her happy birthday.

>>333462

Did this wall you blew up happen to have manacles on it? :3c

Θ][Σ 2010/10/05(Tue)20:20 No. 24451 ID: dad664
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Because people are apparently confused.

All hallways not mapped due to obvious reasons :U

Green = Proposed Path
Red = Actual Path

huh, that dodge to the left must be important.

>>334253
It's based on what Chloe has "seen." From her perspective she knows there's a hallway that goes down that way, but doesn't know what is down it.

i mean, why would the map she got take a longer path? something must be there that should be avoided.

Oh. The path we were given probably has all the guards vacated or something.

i vote stats put as 4/3/3

>>334465
You have 5 points TOTAL. Your stat values all have to add up to 5.

2/2/1, 3/1/1, 1/3/1 as examples.

>>334467
whoops! in that case the preset is fine. 2/1/2

keep stats balanced for now.

Mneme!AACRITtEr. 2010/10/09(Sat)21:39 No. 24672 ID: fd6d7e
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Defense and Speed both work well together, plus we don't exactly know who to kill and who not to kill at this point. So I'd say 1/2/2 as long as Defense and Speed don't conflict with each other. If they do though, 1/1/3 is mighty tempting. But maybe that's my stinking cheating inner JRPG hacker talking.

We might have to fight the Queen actually, so maybe 2/1/2 would be better after all. Just remember, once your speed increases enough to attack twice as fast, your effective attack power doubles.

Plus if we put too many points in Defense Chloe will start looking like this

voting 1/2/2

>>334467
I'm gonna be boring and say balanced.

Θ][Σ 2010/10/14(Thu)18:03 No. 25034 ID: dad664
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Have a thing that amazed even myself in how good it came out.

>>334834
That is badass! And...looks...-vaguely- Eldarish...

My tablet just died, it had been intermittently powering off starting last night, and right now it just out and out went kaput. Wire inside the USB cord is probably broken.

So the Quest is on indefinite hold until I can save up the spare cash to get a Bamboo Pen.

you check the battery?

>>335352
It doesn't run on a battery, it's a USB plug hardwired to the tablet. It's an old Graphire3, doesn't have the newfangled detachable mini-USB cord that the Bamboos have.

Updoot: Early morning hours brings about crazy ideas.

Tablet cord is now pinched together and taped down with a fuckton of masking tape. No amount of shaking is causing it to malfunction.

Now I just need to find some duct tape instead.

>>335378
Got any friends handy with soldering irons? They might be able to fix it in a more elegant way.

Cool quest, by the way!

>>335397
It's not an issue with the internal soldering. It's an issue with the cord.

>>335399
he means strip the case off the wire and melt the break back together.

>>335401
Yep. Either just patch the break in the cable, or do the more complex thing and open the entire thing, trim the cable to the break, and re-do the solder points on the circuit board inside. Eats away a fair bit of cable, dependending on where the break is, but ends up looking like-new. Quite involved though, obviously.

Quite awesome, can't wait for the next part!

>>336204
I've been derailed by a cold all week, so once I'm done hacking my lungs up I'll start up Act 7.

!DReamEr2eU 2010/11/09(Tue)12:06 No. 26433 ID: 55c4cf
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Happy birthday sweetie.

>>336233

I would blow her candle, if you know what I mean.

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>>336233
D'aaaaw, thank's darlin' :3c

(If anyone was wondering, I turned 24 today)

>>336235
Congrats then.

Happy late birthday then

So it's sort of come to my attention that Aberration has its fair share of failings. That there's places where it could improve, and things that are either broken or horrendously cliche can be fixed. Obviously we don't have an official criticism thread, so this is the next best thing.

So please, feel free to speak your minds. Where can I do better? What sticks out like a sore thumb about it? I don't enjoy entertaining the prospect of running a quest that doesn't provide an enjoyable experience to those who read it.

I'll start with the obvious.

Update more frequently.

>>339928

This a hundred of times. You know, most flaws can be forgiven as long as you update frequently.

>>339912
I actually liked the whole supernatural aspect of it. I always find supernatural horror to be more scary than science horror. But it would be kind of hard to retcon the retcon and it's your story.

Other than that, yeah frequent updates would be nice. Possibly a clearer map. Makes it easier to actually get stuff done. And maybe an earbud comlink to the Red Lady so we have a nice in quest way to gain clarity in things.

>>339912
Besides the slow update speed, I'm not sure I like this new direction you're going in. You were going somewhere interesting with the previous chapters, then all of the sudden it turned into Tozol Quest v2.

I think it's fine as it is. If we didn't like it we wouldn't be participating. Regular updates attract suggesters. One a day is all it needs.

>>339944
In all honestly, I don't know what the new direction is. Too many reboots, too much scenery-chewing writing at the start of the last one (...or was it the one before by now?). I just dropped out paying attention to the words.

As long as we're giving feedback about anything, I'll tell you:

This

http://quest.lv/kusaba/quest/src/129160306912.gif

Is one of the worst OPs ever. I'm sorry man, but when you scroll down it's so easy to miss the quest because it looks like just a black square. It's a lot of wasted space and tiny stuff.

Even when it's said "don't judge the book by the cover" people are always going to do it. So try to at least have the title of the quest in big, visible letters, preferably in the center of the image.

You know, the OP for this discusion thread is a more decent example of a good OP.

>>339940
>>339944
>>339951
I agree completely. Aberration was one of my favorite running quests up until around the point where you threw out everything. I can\'t even bear to read it now. You killed its soul when you rebooted it.

Hmm. Alright then. Well, the quest is going to go on a little hiatus then so I can tweak a few things regarding the storyline (no, it is NOT a reboot) to address the issues brought to light in here, as well as work on simplifying the art style so it is faster to draw without sacrificing quality, so I can crank out more updates (1-2 per day sound good?).

Thank you for your assistance in this matter though! Criticism is always welcome, as I wont know where to improve if it's not brought to my attention.

Θ][Σ 2011/01/30(Sun)19:38 No. 30498 ID: dad664
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Penny for your thoughts (again)

Is this visually pleasing, or is it too noisy/messy/sketchy?

>>340298
Not sure. I'd have to see a little more of that style before I can decide.

It's a bit crowded, but in this case that works to make it seem like some writhing mass of chaos, which is what I assume was intended. I like it.

Θ][Σ 2011/01/30(Sun)20:47 No. 30504 ID: dad664
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>>340300
>>340299
Better example?

>>340304
Those are fine.

I think it looks ugly because you don't draw any actual lines. Everything that looks like a line in those drawings is actually a mess of line segments pointing in similar directions. It's not aesthetically pleasing to me to look at something that resembles a mess of dirty twigs.

>>340298 is an especial offender in this regard.

Θ][Σ 2011/01/30(Sun)23:42 No. 30514 ID: dad664
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This is a fair bit more time-consuming than the previous example, but it's shiny and clean.

I guess I'll just have to end up putting it to a vote or something.

>>340314

If you'd ask me, Plantigrade looks a hell lot better

I like the first one

Fine, good, acceptable, sufficient, to par. Always has been in my opinion no matter what style or effort you've been using.

Work on arm/leg size in proportion to the torso. Shortening the two lower segments of legs would help.

>>340315
Digitgrade is when she's got her body's focus on speed. More springy for goesfast-ness.

Also I have a habit of drawing things in their current iteration :V

>>340317
limb proportions are fine. She is a bunny standing on her toes. your standard human anatomy proportions no longer apply. :U

(if you cover the picture up at the ankles, she looks quite normal)

The sketchy ones actually look quite a bit better.

Simple character design is almost always the way to go. It is effective, and expresses the character. The digitgrade legs could work fine if you can handle drawing them in weird angles all the time which i'm sure you could handle. That crazy horror design is far more than noisy, it's awful character design for almost any standpoint.

However, it's not bad. Just not good for constant moving protagonist, you could still use the concept for special circumstances/horror times because if it's only a small amount of the time, it's far more jarring.

Keep the design simple, streamlined, and expressive, but that doesn't mean she can't go batshit from time to time.

>>340311
Don't listen to this guy, slightly scribbly is better, especially when she's shapeshifting

Seven is right that if even a small portion of a beam weapon's output were reflected back at the user it could blind them, burn their face off, set clothing on fire, etc. You shouldn't get angry at him for pointing that out. It and the following arguments should stay out of the main thread.

There is no lens and focal assembly to the weapon so it may not be beam based.

>>340978
Except it's been established that Tozol Quest has developed laser-like weapons with none of those side effects, and until stated otherwise it's safe to assume we have access to that same tech.

>>340978
>Seven is right
See, you started off on the wrong foot here, and it just got worse from there.

Sci-fi. He can go show off how S.M.R.T. he is that he can read Wikipedia pages (then flake out at the maths) elsewhere, because it's all totally irrelevant.

>>/quest/281157
Test firing those would make gunshots and gunshots are loud and attract security forces. That's a no-no.

ATK/DEF/SPD
POWER

1st choice (soldier)
4/3/1
bone darts
kill everything. no survivors. no prisoners.

2nd choice (pacifist)
1/1/6
paralysis venom
run, paralyze, run, paralyze, run, paralyze.

>>342722
3/3/2 Ogre Rock Artillery. Specialize in carrying around a sack of boulders are throwing them at anything that moves. If something gets close enough despite BOULDER RAIN, hit them with your sack.

>"ending"
: |

I am highly displeased with this. May as well lock the quest thread. Discussion should be in here anyway.

rage lvl: 1000%

Well that's disappointing as all hell.

Yeeeeaaaah. I'm kinda done with Aberration. I know people liked it but I didn't really end up caring much for it since I fucked it over so many times and made the plot just as schizophrenic as its main character.

TL;DR: Too many ideas caused it to pile up harder than a de-railed train.

would rather it of just been dropped then it being all a dream. AGAIN. all a dream means that everything that has happened so far was completely pointless, while an open end would mean that while it isn't going forward we had some impact on the character.

>>345831
Not to mention it originally started out as a spin-off/rip-off of RubyQuest back during the Pchat days, and basically was that way when the quest first started. Then I go and switch it into the Tozol Quest universe for some reason which I don't even know anymore.

I mean fuck, it got to the point where there was hardly anything in it that was actually mine. Goddammit.

So yeah. I'm just extremely apathetic about the whole thing right now. Is it ended? Maybe. Fuck if I know right now.

Well, I was going to make threatening gestures in IRC until I realized that that was actually an end. Response reduced to flipping a piece of cardboard. (ﾉ-_-)ﾉ━

>Then I go and switch it into the Tozol Quest universe for some reason which I don't even know anymore.
The universe seemed cooler before I forgot how to update?

I think the main problem with this quest was that it tried to tie-in to too many other ongoing or completed quests at the same time. I was okay with the Ruby Quest style myself (I mean the Barbed Wheel is like one of the main symbols of the quest right?) but when it suddenly went OHBTW IT'S TOZOLQUEST NAO I think the real problems started.

I'd like to see more of this quest myself, but only after an overall theme/style is finally figured out. (Though preferably more like when the Quest started as opposed to the TozolQuest stuff imo)

As always I'm sorry if I stated the obvious or said anything really stupid. xnx

>>345836
Naw, that had (has?) nothing to do with it. Just me being stupid and ripping off of other people instead of just doing something of my own creation.

Damn it, now how can I destroy the world, or worlds? Now I'm going to have to do it in another quest, which I was adimitedly planning to do all along anyway. But now I get out less potential for world destruction.

>>345832
>It was all a dream again
Iunno, that seems an entirely fitting way for this quest to end. :V

So, quick question.

If I did another quest (something new), what kind of setting would you all prefer? Fantasy? Modern? Science-Fiction?

I've got ideas for all three kinds but I want to see what the public is more interested in.

Fantasy.

let's stay away from sci-fi for now. think fantasy would be best.

>>345893
Depends on the sort of ideas you'd be pursuing in those settings, really.

>>345893
I'd like to see a modern setting (maybe 2020-ish?) as long as it contains HORROR.
I want to feel that feeling of looming evil. I want something to keep me up at night. I want Eldritch abominations, high octane nightmare fuel, violence, paranoia, fast-paced bloody action, creepy places, scary animated gifs, ghosts, hard-to-solve puzzles, let me see the cutest girl ever having a psychotic rampage, Shyamalanic twist endings etc. I want to read the most disturbing thing ever!!



Yeah, I'm not a fan of sleeping...

I have to admit though that you were doing an exceptional work with the first two chapters of Aberration (which actually got me hooked)... but I slowly started to loose interest with so many changes every time we got to the next chapter, man.
I want you to know that I like your art (your style is very attractive) and that I like the way you narrate the story, but you lost me between chapters and the fact that it got a lot like Tozol quest. But hey, I'm still reading it and I'll try to keep up with the next chapter, but if you're feeling like staring a new quest I'll look forward to it!

Pre-historic, no one tackles that shit. It'd be badass to be UGHUGH the caveman swinging his fucking club at a raptor.

But seriously, let's just get with the fantasy.

>>345893
Already been through modern and sci-fi. Lets go with fantasy, some world shattering spells can surely be found. Or world dominating ones.

I'd like to see more Chole at some point in the future.


But at the moment - modern or futuristic stuff sounds the best.

Futuristic, but none of that "Escape from the Military Facility" stuff. If it's a futuristic setting then maybe have it take place in a city over an old city, and have the unfathomable horror lurking beneath the streets in the old city or something. :V

I'll vote fantasy,
cause last time I voted Sci-fi I got "lost planet"

>>345916

Why are you complaining :<

>>345902
I'm interested to see what you could do in a fantasy setting.

I vote fantasy, too. It's fun to mix it up.

Fantasy it is then :V

Already have a few ideas floating around, I just need to settle on a plot for said quest. ETA, eh, at least before the end of the month?

Chloe in a fantasy setting.

>>346028
Is this an invitation for plot suggestions?

Boy meets girl, becomes infatuated. Girl swallows sun, becomes tyrannical magical overlord. Suggesters define the rest.

Something with Dark Paladins.
Need more lawful evil characters in quests, i tell you.

I vote Sergals.

Plot suggestions?

A dragon hunter that gets turned into a dragon.
>>346057
Plus nice girl goes blood drunk
>>346058
Plus Dark Paladins

There, basic plot ready to serve :)

>>346084
Yesssss

I vote against sergals. There's too much baggage. Preconceived notions etc.

Chole in a fantasy setting.

>>346084
Upon closer inspection, the sergals turn out to be made of sergals.

>>346112
Upon even closer inspection, the entire universe is made out of microscopic sergals

doobies are the only correct choice here

>>346132
Now, that would be fun.

>>346086
>Dragon hunter -> Dragon
The dragon's long dead, but died in seclusion. You head up into an empty lair, fall asleep on the hoard, whose latent magical potential chooses you as the new owner.
SHENANIGANS ENSUE.

>>346136
>latent magical potential chooses you as the new owner.
The normal way of it isn't just lolmagic, but that coveting the dragon-less hoard causes you to become the dragon.

I would not be opposed to another dragon quest. Or even another half-dragon quest.

>>346140
Yes, but this lets us play the hoard.

Here's a bit of plot for you, expanding on the blood drunk girl, dark paladins and the dragonhunter turned dragon. Spoilered to hide the plots, in-case any are picked up.


You being turned into a dragon is a plot by an order of dark paladins
Reasons?
Revial of a Dark Dragon
For the Evulz
Some nebulous plan
For immortality/invincibility(apparently good things happen when you kill a dragon, unless you are in Tale of the Guardians)
To get a source of dragon's blood

Alternatively the Dark paladins served a dark dragon and think you are their master reborn, you have to play along so as you aren't killed. hjinks ensue...

Now for the Blood drinker...
NOT A VAMPIRE! Have her cut open beings and drink the gushing blood.

Now you can have it that;
She is evil and enjoys being blood drunk
She is a nice girl but she just sometimes gets so HUNGRY!!!!
She is mindless completely drunk on blood.
Or go the multiple personalities route... or Yangire

Amnesia is good for fun with this person

For added horror, make it unclear who the blood drunk girl is (have multiple suspects)

Now as to why?
She is a walking sacrifice, instead of collecting people to be sacrificed, she drinks their blood, so when the time to revive the dark whatever comes only she needs to be caught

Or Somebody is trying to make a god/demon
Or she is...

Or Food for the dark dragon.

For added horror, have it that she has as many 'lives' as those whose blood she has drunk.

Dark Paladins being related to her is optional.
Also Cult of BLOOD!, who have the usual world destruction fetish, have them be chaotic stupid, in contrast to the fallen paladins who are not stupid, also have the paladins range in evilness, and lawfulness Call it DRAGONBLOOD!
Include much navel pondering about blood and how it changes things and connects things

Throw in a mysterious wizard/witch whose's motives are nebulous, other dragons, dragon hunters who knew you and UNCORRUPTED paladins too. Oh and smart sentient sapient skeletons. Cause talking, moving skeletons are awesome!

>>346143
oh, that's actually a quite nice idea. I still feel the coveting is important, though. And the problem with the hoard being us is that hoards are very non-portable.

>>346145
Most of those are combinable. In particular:

>She is evil and enjoys being blood drunk
>She is a nice girl but she just sometimes gets so HUNGRY!!!!
She is a nice girl but she enjoys being blood-drunk. Sort of like how nice girls in real life enjoy being normal-drunk. This can function as a sort of a sex metaphor thing as per older vampires. And she gets a bit crazy when drunk on the blood.

also
>Walking Sacrifice
>Food for Dark Dragon
Fuse these. She collects the blood for the dragon. He drinks the blood from her body, and it increases his power. I don't know what for of power would be increased, exactly. I guess it would be the same style of dark magic used by the paladins. Presumably the dragon's eating of things directly would also be related to this, but far less efficient since the girl is designed for the purpose.

Also the two were a couple before this, the Dark Paladins serve the dragon but I like that hoard idea. So maybe they served the old dragon, and then a new guy became the dragon, so they serve him, and turned his girl into the sacrificial vampire, with or without the Dragon's permission.

I reckon the game should start with the main character just having become the Dragon, with the Paladins appearing shortly after some initial character creation and monologuing about the tragedy of having become a dragon. The girl would have remained at home while her man went to act out his greed and seize the dragon's treasure.


However note that Theta has not actually answered the question "Is this an invitation for plot suggestions?". Maybe he doesn't even want these ideas.

>>346147
While I already have something quite different in mind for my next project, I still find this all amusing. Might not go remotely near the way you all are theorycrafting but some elements I might utilize.

>>346148
Good that you're getting some ideas percolating... I might do something with some of the stuff I mentioned myself.

I'm interested to see what you come up with anyway. :D

>>346147

The combinableness is deliberate, it's the whole pick and mix idea, or pick and don't mix...

I like the 'they were a couple' idea, but, I myself would make them some form of husband and wife, cause there is a dearth of that pairing as main duo

>>346148
In that case I may run something of this nature myself, when the summer rolls around and I have a bit of time. Because this seems like an awesome story to me.

I figure these vague combinations of story ideas could make a good running joke in the real quest. Everyone is concerned with some crazy ass mix-and-match legend like the above while the real hero is getting the important shit, whatever Theta comes up with, done.

The Dark Paladins end up being nothing more than the medieval equivalent of nerds. The dragon is a cat dressed up as a dragon. The blood-drunker is a prostitute. And crazy hijinks ensue as they all get mass publicity.

>>346156
Nah, this deserves better than that. See:
>>346157