Theta][Sigma 2010/01/15(Fri)20:31 No. 9171 ID: f21281
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>>318970

Lev 2010/01/15(Fri)20:59 No. 9172 ID: 8413b2
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So small, yet such a big heart...

Keeping fingers crossed for the next CSF chapter.

ALLOTTER 2010/01/16(Sat)22:00 No. 9200 ID: cf41a7
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I think Fredrick had a dream of a Knight's Blades move trailer or something.. his description of it inspired this.

Q 2010/01/17(Sun)10:46 No. 9219 ID: 44ad00
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player is displeased

Oh my god he looks like Pico wtf.

>>318802

Only the obvious ones had a different ID

>>318803
Unless you managed to use the exact same IP address as the quest author, you wouldn't be able to duplicate their ID. ALL of the impersonations were obvious ones.

>>318803
You seem to not know what an ID is.

>>318810

see

>>318804

> ALL of the impersonations were obvious ones.

>>318893
I can't tell if you're being retarded on purpose, or what you think directing my attention to that post will prove.

Maybe you're trying to cover your ass or something? I can't really tell, nor do I care at this point.

>>317133
Fund it.

>>317133
Yeah, I'm very okay with this.

Anonymous 2009/12/10(Thu)01:08 No. 7387 ID: 4553b2
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>>317133
You know, we could do those right here. In this very thread. Like so.

Tyler: "Of COURSE there's a conspiracy against lolcats. Nothing can possibly get so popular or widespread without some hate group or insurgency popping up. Normally, these sorts of groups are small, and stay to themselves, but they must've banded together this time, since Lolcats itself went entirely down. This is big, Nic. HUGE."

Nic: "Uh huh. Of course! It all makes sense, when you put it like that."

Simon: "What's a lolcats?"

>>317128

This. A thousand times this.

Anonymous 2010/01/13(Wed)13:39 No. 9015 ID: 12fc66
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>>317128
> Crisis Snapshot

George: "... and then she RIPPED IT'S ARMS OFF."
Driblis: "That's nothing. This one time I saw him..."

Well, that's not what my optomotrist told me! I needed miniblack holes the bend the light.

Thanks for the archive links.

Does cristine know about Cam's crossdressing? Maybe she's actually a dude herself.

>>318453
Yeah she's well aware of this

We need to become the alpha female in this unconventional 3-member sexual relationship. Let "Mom" and "Dad" both be our bitches :3

This is the best quest ever.

Rowan 2010/01/10(Sun)00:32 No. 8867 ID: c1b520
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Just about everything Deadpool says.

>>318462
I know, I just mean the needless racism that Lovecraft had.

>>318465
You mean we can't have a cat named Mr. Nigger?

>>318462
Just put "roll XdY" in the email field, where X is the number of dice to be rolled, and Y is the number of 'sides' each dice. You can add an amount by attaching "+Z" (no spaces) after Y to represent a flat bonus. I don't know if you can use -Z or not.

The racism in question is referring to Lovecraft's controversial racism towards blacks... but the question is pointless considering that was a matter of author style/taste, and not the genre he created.

>>318285
I'm a bit disturbed that roleplaying is only a possible inclusion at this point... This sort of game without playing a role isn't a story, it's just grinding like in some MMO. As in, mind-numbingly boring.


Also this guy >>318463 is correct, we need to decide a setting first and then create characters that make sense within the setting.

>>318465
Shouldn't be an issue unless someone decides to recite some of his limericks.
>>318463
Thank ye, and alright, let's define the setting a bit better. The actual village in which the quest starts is supposed to pretty isolated, up in the mountains, and out of contact with the rest of the world to such a degree that it is suspiciously like a cliche. Though maybe it would be better to start before that.

As for setting, for a settlement to be that isolated odds are we aren't talking about spaceage stuff, though for plot purposes it should not be high magic, with magic being either mostly unknown, highly difficult to get the very basics of, or maybe some damn good reason why people just don't mess with it (Perils of the Warp!).

I'm thinking something pretty close to modern with some fantasy races as well.
>>318466
Good point, that would suck. I've got at least one part that will be pretty much dominantly roleplaying unless someone decides they want to be Retarded Evil. I'll include another part that is dominantly roleplaying and add in roleplay situations throughout the rest of it. There will still probably be a few parts where roleplay is mostly between the players, something I like to encourage.

Alright, here's the refined setting so far. Tech level is set at the Napoleonic period. I'm not sure if I want to make it "earth" or "earth-like," and I definitely don't want it to be a one-climate planet, like a planet made entirely of deserts, ice, swamps, cities or lava (you get the the reference? I know you do.)

Magic exists, it's just incredibly hard to practice. A spectacular magic user is someone who can cast a fire spell that can do more than light a torch or start a campfire. However it can be used co-operatively, so most spells that are actually useful require a group of people skilled in magic to cast.

Races so far are humans, gnolls, and ogres for certain, and other races will be added to that list as they are suggested.

Before we actually get into the backgrounds of the races, I'd like to settle the whole earth, earthlike, or not bit, and I'd appreciate suggestions because I really can't decide, and it'd help me figure the rest of it out.

>>318613
Forget my name.

The DM.

>>318478
Not pictured: The fact that this is actually not a smile but a frozen expression as she moved to hug her love, right before the planet exploded. She's actually floating in space, long dead.

>>318486
I thought something was off. Those eyes look dull and lifeless...

>>318486
Also why she doesn't have legs.

Jen sure has evolved a lot since her first incarnation.

because its just an unrelated picture i drew :V

>>318302
I keep forgetting to optimize my .gifs. GIMP has a .gif optimizer as well, although I can't attest to how well it compares to GMG.

>http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/src/126247512017.jpg

>.jpg
>.jpg

>>318303
It doesn't really compare. It's a lot better than nothing but GMG was made for GIFs and it shows.

>>318304
The image is a joke because the original image was like 150kb or something as a PNG and looked exactly the same as the 35kb JPG.

I just use SAI's default for PNG saves. It works relatively okay. Using a fancy program to optimize would add 1-2 minutes to each update.

I guess it'd make sense for After Quest, since those files could get pretty huge considering how small the actual panels were. Tozol Quest's files are already smaller than the thumbnails, though...

>>318309
Most image programs I have worked with offer at least the basic options for choosing bit, and if not GIF is the same thing as 8-bit PNG. Optimizing with another program is probably overdoing it for a static image (Going over some options in PNG compression make it clear that the gains are not very significant, topping off at around 10% reduction in size for a time sink of over two minutes for the best compression.)
Tozol is already using 8-bit PNG which is one of the best things you can do to keep filesizes down already.
AfterQuest pictures seems to lose nothing going to 8-bit but the filesizes remain pretty large, going from 280kb to 180kb on some. Some people are highly against jpeg because it isn't lossless but I don't see quest images as needing a lossless format for the readers and the quest creator could always keep original resolution PNG files if changes need to be made after uploading.
JPEG takes one of AfterQuest's images from 280kb to 80kb with no loss visible at 100% zoom. The less sharp and contrasting your image is the less suited it is for PNG.

>>317589
If I recall correctly, there's a ridiculous limit on the amount of threads that the board can hold before they start getting pruned - 99 pages or somesuch. Dylan would know.

So it's not something to worry about for the time being.

Anyone privy to the knowledge as to where "I can see infinity" comes from? It is mentioned in gnomequest as a suggestion.

>>318148
I think it's a variant on "I can see forever!" but I have no idea what that's from.

Upon further googling, it seems that "I can see forever!" may originate from Call of Chthulu when one is being brain sucked through the eyeballs. Can anyone confirm this for me?

>>318165
I'm pretty sure "I can see forever" is from the movie Event Horizon, along with the phrase "Where we're going, we don't need eyes to see."

However, since I've not seen the movie yet, although I dearly want to, I cannot confirm.

It's nice to have a wide range, to be honest.

I try to make mine as close to category A as much as I can, but I honestly just can't draw fast enough. If I could change it I would, the art isn't good enough to warrant such long pauses.

Both are equally fun to participate in.

I want to do at least a post a day, when I can.

However I am hibernating for the holidays so my quest is currently lurking on page 3 or so.

Category A, definitely.

>with the author going into hibernation
I am now imagining neckbeards wedging their hairy white bodies between granite crags, to spend the winter.


>What kind of quest do you like participating in most?
Fast quests are more fun if I'm present and have plenty of time when they're updating. If I miss too many updates, though, it ceases to be fun. Slow quests never have this issue.

Time travel ahoy!

I have one, continue it!
(The significance in posting here is that it is as likely to be read as the story is to actually continue. It's a rather nice touch.)

Ironic and appropriate, yes.

Uh oh I read it
that means it is continuing now right

That it would continue at some point.

I think Tozol Quest has gone pretty well so far considering that we spent three chapters in a handful of rooms with no one in them.

Wow. You guys are hilarious. But I get the drift. Im gong to try a new quest if this one dosent work out.

O.K. then. Author challenge. Flesh out Porridge quest. Go.

>>318053
EXTREME Porridge Quest.

>>318057
GRIMDARK to

First things first, there's not thing such as "one genre of quests is better/worse than the other, just because".

Secondly, I personally think that writing can be as much an effort as drawing. High-qualitiy writing involves as much concepting, redoing, correcting and so on as making a good picture.

Writing, on the one hand, has the benefit of updating really fast and reacting to suggestions well. Somebody who likes writing (and I assume such a person would run a textquest) will surely have no problem to give short responses almost as fast as the readers are F5ing, while taking of course a bit time to give a longer, high-quality response.

The benefit of a picture is obvious: Its beauty is revealed the instant it appears in front of one's eyes.

With writing, it takes more time to appreciate it. One has to go through all the little letters before the "beauty" is forming inside one's head.

So, if I personally had to choose between a nice picture and good writing, my first reaction would lean towards the pic, although it could later be revealed that the writing was really excellent and would have given me just as much enjoyment. But I'm talking about the very first reaction.

Also, I have to admit, that a textquest which contains a lot of details and information can be hard to get into, while a picture allows assessing a situation more quickly. It's easier to hop onto the quest while it's already running.

On the other hand, a dedicated readership, taking notes and gorging themselves on described details, will maybe have more fun and immersion than a quest whose participants are just "dropping in".

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If you are going to do a text-only quest, be sure that you can actually pull it off. With picture quests, much of the information is a lot easier to convey with nothing but, well, showing the thing. Reading requires a lot more time and, pardon me, effort. So if you go too verbose, many people can simply think "tl;dr" and move on. On the other hand, if you can't describe it well and in an intresting way, to say nothing of getting the message across, people won't like it since it's either dull or they can't get a good picture of it.

In short, you should know how to write. This is so very simple it sounds laughable, but seriously gauge if you are up to it. You don't need to be a master wordsmith, but at least know how to describe things efficiently and so that people will be intrested.
Also, even MSpaint sribbles can help to convey things if something really needs it.