Weekdays:
Work: 6 AM-4 PM (Wed. Fri. Out at 2:30 PM)
4-5:30 PM Dorm Meeting and Dinner
(Monday Only): I go shopping, do laundry.
(Tuesday Only): Bubble Bucket: 4-11+ PM (Plus Daily Needs inside of this)
(Wednesday Only): Mass Clean-up 6-8 PM

(Friday Only): GM Tabletop Campaign 6-11 PM

Showers close at 9:30 PM.
Dorm Meeting and Chores: 10 PM.
Lights Out is at 11 PM.

Saturday:
I play two tabletop games, I GM one.

Sunday:
I play and host one tabletop game each.

tl;dr:
Insomnia is very busy, I am sorry I cannot host every single day, but the free time I do have I will be using to prepare for all four of my games, including this one.

I too was hoping it'd update more often, but I didn't want to be an ass about it. Just make sure not to forget and I'll be happy.

I also wanted to mention that the protagonist is very adorable. Except for in the close-up...

>>2318

That begs the question as to if she is unattractive, because of the spike shooting through her, or if it's because of her skin color?

I think its more "details kill cute."

>>2320
Yeah, I think that's the heart of the problem.

>>2319
The skin color was kinda odd, but neither of those were really the problem. Her head shape suddenly changed (from wider to taller), her eyes looked weird (thick black outline and really tiny iris). It wasn't a bad picture and I'm certainly not trying to insult your art, because it's great. I just didn't think she looked as cute in the close-up.

Insomnia 2009/09/09(Wed)10:03 No. 2323 ID: 1c907d
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>>2322

Artistic liberties for the usual gameplay art, vs. The very human and 'realistic' looking real version of her head. I made her look extra 'adorable' for simplicity's sake as well as some other reason, hard to place...

>>2323
I understand completely. I think it was just the sudden change in style that was rather jarring.

Anyway, it's still better than anything I could draw so kudos! ;)

>>2325

In your defense as well, it was the first time I did it. I think you guys are/will be used to those.

>>2320
>Details kill cute
Man, tell me about it.

Anonymous 2009/09/09(Wed)13:20 No. 2329 ID: 43d730
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>>2328
Yeah.

>>2329
All I can think of is "Son, it's not disgusting, it's just (un)reality."

I'm available to answer peoples' questions today for a few hours, if anything would like to know anything about Bubble Quest, sans giving anything out that might spoil the story.

>>312695
Are talking flowers a normal thing for most people in this world? Or just psychics? Or is it pretty weird for everyone?

>>312696

No, talking flowers is not common on the world. Psychics can't naturally communicate with plants.

Asali has never encountered a talking flower, and it's doubtful many people have, or even have heard of them.

Why does teleporting leave a shadow of an orange umbrella behind? What is that, exactly?

Is magic different than psychic ability?

What other races are there on the Rainbow Islands?

>>312698
Because the Sherbert clan surrounds the "Warp Umbrella" ability, and I figured that leaving a smokey umbrella was more sensible than having to pull out an umbrella and using that to do it.

The main six clans were listed in the beginning, although their names were not. Beyond the main six, here are some of the basic concepts of some of the other clans:
A leader/aristocrat clan which harness RAINBOW POWER.
A white clan which can revive the dead.
A black clan, shady and necromancy oriented.
Cyborgs.
Nature/Nymph-like.
A clan of martial artists with 12 distinct styles.

And of course the psychic nomad clan.

>>312699
So why are umbrellas connected with teleportation?

>>312700

If you've ever played Bubble Bobble, if you collected an Umbrella, you appeared in another area. The ability to travel through space in an instant is pretty much the definition of teleportation.

Anonymous 2009/09/29(Tue)05:48 No. 3466 ID: 1c907d
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Hello, fine fellows!

I just wanted to warn anyone who reads Bubble Bucket Quest that I've given up on trying to prepare all the maps in advance for several reasons that may become clear soon.

I really enjoyed how the Mine area looks in comparison to the ones I made a little too quickly at the start, so I wish to maintain that quality, but it will probably take longer to post a reply if and when mape changes occur that are not previous areas.

As a compromise for this, I will extend the time I host it to random updates, and a little more on the weekends to keep the story flowing at at least a similar pace.

Second on my agenda is looking at the start, and now, and trying to decide whether or not I should try and keep a consistency with the shorter and simpler version of my characters, Asali mainly, or if I should continue my accidental progression of detail due to habit.

On the whole, I've really enjoyed hosting this quest, and I am somewhat surprised at how well received my quest is as it's not as though I've older quests to have established any grounds here.

Thank you very much, and I will do my best to continue to improve my work, and to maintain your enjoyment.

Avatar Insomnia 2009/10/05(Mon)04:54 No. 4091 ID: 1c907d
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I've had at least three people ask me about my avatar, which is compelling being that I've used it a total of two times.

When I joined /tg/ near the beginning of the year I got involved with three campaigns fairly quickly. One GURPS game, and two homebrew RTD games (Roll to dodge, basic d6 game(s)). One of which starred, "INSOMNIA," which is this psychic googirl weasel.

It's pretty common knowledge I'm a furfag, if I was trying to hide it I wouldn't have opted to use her as my face. I'd rather see people more interested in Asali, but hey, if people are going to love me too, I'm all for it.

I'll do something soon with both Asali and Insomnia soon as this is rather old.

Insomnia's Abilities:
REFORM, DUELING, FOCUS, GODHAND, COUNTER, MERGE, PRE-COGNITION, NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID, SEDUCTION, PLASMA, ELEMENTAL RESISTENCE, POKEMORPH, STEALTH, CAMOFLAUGE, EXPERT MASSAGING

Equipment:
A masterwork towel (used as a psiblade)
Defenders.

P.S.: I know she is/was absolutely ridiculous. I played in every single session save for like two for the months it was hosted. As theta mentioned on IRC, her major goal was to smash a moon with a punch. She accomplished this goal.

Link was disappointed.

Schedule Changes Insomnia 2009/10/05(Mon)05:14 No. 4092 ID: 1c907d
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I noticed this weekend I could do my laundry at 4 AM while no one else in the building is even concious. Monday is now free. I may be rearranging everything I do just a little bit in order to avoid stress and losing my mind.

So far, hosting BBQ has been really relaxing and entertaining. (Although facepalming at some of you may seem bothersome, I'm usually laughing. Either way it's fun). I might burn myself out hosting so much, but we'll see.

Around the 15th I will be going home due to a family medical emergency. Some of you already know the deal. Although slightly depressing, I don't get to go home very often, and beyond caring for the sick family member I will have loads of time to draw and host.

I want to see if I can try and finish BBQ while I am there. If I can accomplish this feet, then I will have to buy myself something nice (preferably liquor), and bask in a job well done...

...And then begin preparation for my next quest. Because I already have one in mind.

Anonymous 2009/10/05(Mon)11:37 No. 4104 ID: 7eda8b
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>>313891
>One of which starred, "INSOMNIA," which is this psychic googirl weasel.

Fuck. How can we do anything against an invincible whale ghost? Baron Von Blubba used to terrify me as a kid, by the way.

>>314022
Run.

I am amused at the reaction to Skel-Monsta (Baron von Blubba) already. It raises me to want to know your opinions on whether or not I should include more lore, such as Asali's religion, and information of the 12 Great Spirits in the game. All of which are pretty obvious Bubble Bobble references.

Wait. THAT was... We are so fucked.

Also I kinda like how the gif won't recycle even if you press f5. It's already woken up. You can't put it back to sleep, silly human.

Bonus Session: Today 1600 GMT -5 [Eastern]

Anonymous 2009/10/14(Wed)05:28 No. 4689 ID: e06ea4
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<%Insomnia> I pretty much said "This is the last post, going to sleep." And then /quest/ said to me, "Walk over mine." and I was like "ok"

As of tomorrow night I will be going HOME SWEET HOME for a minumum of two weeks. I plan to be updating BBQ Tuesday, Thursday, and Weekends. The intention is to complete a Chapter a week. If I end up staying the full 4 weeks, I may get at the very least near the ending of the game. I also may underexaggerate my progress as well.

Although this is a disappointment for people who are enjoying my set schedule game, I do apologize. I am pretty much enamored with the ability to run my quest at all. The only reason I hold off on doing it constantly is because I couldn't before.

So here's looking forward to crazy progress.

Control Anonymous 2009/10/19(Mon)12:49 No. 4867 ID: 8ca61a
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So... when I was writing Bubble Bucket, it was under the wing of my concept of the players/audience being Asali's schizophrenic psyche competing over her thoughts, and actions, in tandem with my own interpretation and her personality.

I also wrote all of this and came up with it before I even knew what the hell the Orb of Infinite Psyche was.

I never brought it up because once I started back into this community I realized that it's sort of... the same, minus the orb.

I thought I was being creative. I still feel a little more innovative because I don't directly use it. I was curious about peoples' thoughts of this element in my game, or others'.

Here is some board feedback.

>>314667
I think it is more a representative of the million ways a brain can go when under stress.

I know when I have a split second to react I think of about 20 things I can do at once until one completly overrides the others (usually "DON'T HESITATE!")

Other times my RP characters or my friends chime in with what they'd say when something relevant to their interests comes along.

It's a really subtle part of everyone's brain nobody really wants to admit but it helps us get attached to the characters; since they seem a bit more interesting when we know that they think crazy thoughts, even if it's us saying them.

But as you said this still should all be interpreted through the character, they aren't a lifeless puppet for us to use, they still need to think and consider the actions before they ... well here prolly hump everything, but just generally do something drastic.

Well, it's a natural sort of idea when you know you are going to be running a /quest/ sort of game. There WILL, after all, be a bazillion contradictory suggestions and things.

I had no problem with it and didn't associate it with the orb at all. Asali had a reason to be hearing voices, and you made it pretty reasonable.

As my ticket is now being processed for my long busride to my 'home,' I will not be hosting Bubble Bucket tonight. I will try to host tomorrow at the usual time, and thursday for sure. Sorry everyone.

Test Pattern 2009/10/20(Tue)21:50 No. 4954 ID: 7eda8b
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Don't say I never did anything nice for ya.

You've seen Honest Ikit's Quality Shop, Chilitown, and The Gardens.

I want to prepare for Tuesday so I can try and get my panels done quicker once you guys finish exploring the gardens.
I have some maps I am going to do (three or four) before my session if I can.

So which are you guys wanting to go to next, Forest or Graveyard? Once you guys opt to leave the gardens, I'm going to almost default to going there based on this vote.

graveyard, nothing bad could come from this.

>>314943
We have the necromancy book, which is likely used in the graveyard, and the shiny pinecone, which is likely used in the forest. Hmm.

I'm thinking forest, since we're least likely to run into the Baron there.

>>314943
Forest, but I feel like there's more we could be doing in the Gardens before we leave. (Checking the flies, for example.) Will we have a chance to do that?

>>314943
Graveyard sounds fun.
>>314947
This is a preemptive voting, for when we eventually decide to leave the Garden.

Totallynotsamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2009/10/28(Wed)19:09 No. 5284 ID: c75a95
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>[ INSULT DUEL BEGINS. ]

Podima!53qVr5UwCY 2009/10/28(Wed)23:33 No. 5290 ID: 3d26c9
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>>315084
>Rhyming 'punk' with 'filth'

:3

Totallynotsamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2009/10/29(Thu)00:41 No. 5291 ID: c75a95
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>>315090
you sir, can suck it. I got 3/4 of the winning Burns. And I won an act of god. I won't use it to save one of your screw ups either.

[ Unused Gamma Insults ]

List 1: Contempt and Loathing
1. Were you born this hideous or is it an acquired trait?
2. Scurry back to whatever hole you crawled from and I might spare you.
4. If you weren't so slimy, I might consider wearing your skin as a coat.
6. From the looks of you I am fortunate not to have olfactory senses!

List 2: RAGE TAKING OVER
1. You are a weak and pathetic excuse for VERMIN!
2. Your very presence makes me feel grimy!
4. Aren't you going to run, COWARD?
5. I have slain thousands! One more will be like popping a balloon filled with blood and guts!
6. I WILL DESTROY YOU, WORTHLESS SACK OF FLESH!

Psychic Voting Insomnia 2009/11/04(Wed)06:49 No. 5668 ID: 1c907d
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Let's say that hypothetically Asali gains another psychic ability. With that in mind, let's vote. I will call these votes a few hours before the next session, which is of course November 10th at 9:00~ GMT.
I will list the ideas suggested on the start up of the game. This does not limit your choices to what was already suggested.

[ PREVIOUSLY SUGGESTED ABILITIES ]

Telepathy
Psychokinesis
Hypnosis
Offensive Aura*

[ NOT ALLOWED ]

Pyrokinesis
Hydrokinesis (or Cyrokinesis)
Electrokinesis
Healing
Animal Taming**
Status Alteration***

* The actual suggestion was "Physical manifestation of items," which could be said to be Psychokinesis. However I see this as a more refined ability to create objects, or simply shape your aura into something destructive or useful at the expense of your psychic well.
** Not sure if that could be a psychic power, just throwing it out that you can't do that.
*** I can allow offense/defensive auras, but these are generally used by Orachs(Green). I'm trying to discourage people from trying to use abilities to make up for their racial choice of Sherbert(Orange).

The offesive aura sounds cool. You would be able to kill a Naviabull... WITH MIND BULLETS.

>>315470
Auras are pretty much melee ranged. They're limited to self.

What, specifically, do you include/mean by psycokinesis? This word can be defined differently depending on genere.

>>315472
I think it's Psychokinesis in the traditional sense, which is moving objects with yer mind.

That and hurling stuff at people through psychic will. Kinda like the Force almost.

>>315475
Traditionally, it also includes things like psychic surgery and fixing watches and stuff like that, which is why I asked.

>>315476

I'm being general here. It's basically a power 'tree.' Something so refined would take some training/specification, and probably a higher level Psychokinesis. It's movement by thought. The difficulty of said feat varies, which should be obvious.

With the caveat/footnote on Offensive Aura (letting you make things! Neat!) imma choose that.

>>315479
Yeah, MIND SWORDS are almost as cool as MIND BULLETS.

More offensive power is good, yes.

Vanilla psychokinesis is tempting too for all the puzzle-breaking opportunities it presents but perhaps teleporation is enough for that :3c

>>315479
If it's actually MIND SWORDS, I'm in. If not, I say standard psychokinesis.

Emotional influence. Bonus if it's drug-based, like phermones or just lighting up something exotic to make everyone chill out.

>>315468
Technokinesis! Become a technomage.

using our Psychic ability to slow time, or increase our perception to the point where we can attack twice vs an enemies' one attack.

Mind control, dad gummit!

Vote so Far Insomnia 2009/11/04(Wed)20:55 No. 5724 ID: aba0a3
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Offensive Aura: ***
af3e6d, 204b9a, 9d41ab
Technokinesis: *
d7d478
Telepathy: *
1f66ea
Psychokinesis: *
43d730
Chronopathy: *
2a890a
Sensokinesis: *
7eda8b

-kinesis is generally manipulation or manifestation(creation).
-pathy is communication/feeling/perception types.

Sensokinesis seemed more appropriate than Sensopathy since it'd mean Feeling by Feeling, which doesn't make sense. Like how Telekinesis means movement by movement, and is only widely used due to a science fiction writer not using psychokinesis.

I'm voting for Offensive Aura too.

I'm thinking mind manipulation. Offensive aura sounds too DBZ.

Telepathy.
It may seem useless, but it's actually the infinity plus one sword of mind powers. Just gotta train it up, gotta work it harder, make it better, do it faster, make us stronger.

Force suggestion! Mind Crush!

Another vote for telepathy.

"sensokinesis" sounds more like something to do with illusions

emotion control sounds cool, though, so I vote for that

>>315704

Yes.

Illusions would be an offshoot of controlling peoples' senses.

Offensive Aura: ****
af3e6d, 204b9a, 9d41ab, 632862
Telepathy: ****
1f66ea, a21815, 276781, b8d544
+Empathy: **
7eda8b, 0b18ab
Technokinesis, Psychokinesis, and Chronopathy: *

Vote is mostly closed.

If new voters want to vote between Offensive Aura and Telepathy, be my guest.

I pretty much have to spend Monday getting ready for the game.

Offensive Aura and Telepathy are set in stone.


+I was trying way too hard with looking up root words and all that. I completely overlooked Empathy, which is reading emotions. Controlling them falls under this ability in the same manner mind control falls under telepathy. My bad.

Offensive aura!

Cool. Be prepared for some semi-retarded group micro-managing at some point in the future.

Thank you so much, readers for all your support.

Unknown Figure Insomnia 2009/11/19(Thu)07:30 No. 6439 ID: 1c907d
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Dear /quest/, and variants,

What are your thoughts on the Black shape/character of which has been involved in three moments so far in the forest?

Second, I might be railroading/cutscening tonight's mini-session with this figure. These two things are obviously related, and I would like to know what you think before I do it.

>>316239
It's a mysterious black figure which has been kinda helpful maybe. Personally, I cannot form an opinion on that alone.

>>316239
It is interesting and apparently sad. I don't mind a little cutscene, personally.

>>316239
I find myself fascinated by it.

I don't mind cutscenes for plot purposes, so long as they are marked as such. I only get annoyed when either they're too common or unmarked.

I'm thinking we should get these:
Precognition level 2
Telepathy level 2
Psionic Well level 2
We could need the leftover points for a different shop.

My vote is for:

lvl 3 psionic well
lvl 2 psi recovery
lvl 2 offensive aura
lvl 2 precognition

how often have we run into people with something to hide to warrant doing anything but read their mind?

The only vote I feel I need to cast is Telepathy 3.
>Control thoughts
"I should give Asali all my points... and make all my wares free for her. She's so helpful, after all!"

>>316263
Seconded.

level 2 Psi Well so we can actually use level 2 abilities.
level 2 Psi Recovery so it doesn't take forever and a day to get psi back.
Level 2 Precognition for extra not-dying-from-traps ability!

>>316263
Somehow I have a feeling that won't work on Nu.

>>316266
He's a psi-master, so prolly not. But that's no reason to avoid it! It can work on other things!

Mind Control is awesome and uses of it will be awesome.

Telepathy 2, any higher and you're going into evil psychic territory =(

Psi Well 3, She's got level 1 for all of these now, having 6 to pull out from gives her _WAY_ more versatility.

Offensive Aura 2, She's pretty weak combat-wise, we should probably try to correct that.

11 Points left for various stuff (Probably gonna help a LOT to have these)

Go for a 3 in Psi well, and a 3 in Offensive aura.

This quest is structured like a video game. When have you ever gone for the weird situational stuff in a video game?

well 3
recovery 2
offensive 2

Initial Psychic Shopping~ Insomnia 2009/11/23(Mon)04:40 No. 6541 ID: 1c907d
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Psi Well: 3
Telepathy: 2
Off. Aura: 2

Thank you those who voted.

>>316341
Psychic shopping
It's funtastic

Dear /tgchan/,

I apologize to anyone I have bothered with either my babbling or my jokes.

I know people keep saying 'that thread,' was non-sense and lies but I feel there is truth in it even if I am not particularly offended.

If I offended someone making jokes against Sergals, I must say that they were just jokes and I am sorry I hurt your feelings.

I will do my best to keep further distance from the community with my problems and, 'drama,' so I don't feel or seem so much like an attention whore.

I’m not here to fight, and it’s not my goal to be in the spotlight. I’m just here to tell my stories through Quests for those that enjoy them. If you don’t enjoy them, I can understand because I don’t think I am that talented. For those that love them, I again thank you.

For those that hate me, and have problems with me personally, my quests, or anything about me feel free to talk to me personally and tell me what I have done. I am one hundred percent of the knowledge I am not perfect, and would always welcome critique or advice.

I’m not angry, and I’m not going to leave sans a real life emergency. I am just disappointed that people are unable to come to me with their complaints and lash out in an unproductive manner drawing much more attention to me than any attention whoring I could have done on purpose.

Take care, I love you all. Both my fans and especially my haters.

>>316361

Aww, we love you too.

Hugs time.

>>316361
I believe I was in the thread you're talking about. Let me see if I can address some of your concerns.

>If I offended someone making jokes against Sergals, I must say that they were just jokes and I am sorry I hurt your feelings.
Pretty sure nobody actually cares. I wouldn't worry about it.

>I will do my best to keep further distance from the community with my problems and, 'drama,' so I don't feel or seem so much like an attention whore.
You seem unclear on what drama is. Talking about your problems on irc or whatever is not drama. Writing a huge post in response to somebody calling you a poopy-head on 4chan is drama.

>I’m not angry,... I am just disappointed
that's both patronizing and cliche.

>that people are unable to come to me with their complaints and lash out in an unproductive manner
Not really. It was just people talking about stuff, and you were among what was discussed, and people voiced there opinions on you. You are rather prominent on #tgchan these days, you know. Obviously it wasn't productive, but chilling on 4chan generally isn't.

>drawing much more attention to me than any attention whoring I could have done on purpose.
Now that ain't true. I haven't noticed you attention whoring in particular, but you it's not that hard, I'm sure you'd manage fine if you really put your mind to it.

Regardless, it's really not a big deal. I'd prefer to leave it that way.

Saging for not being related to /questdis/.

>>316368

I am aware of the hypocrisy of my responding being that of drama and continued attention whoring to a degree.

In most cases I'd rather, and will probably complete ignore besides a few chuckles in the future. This is the first time it's ever happened to me, and the main reason I reacted is because a good deal of it is right and I apologized, and will be amending my behaviors.

My mistake for dragging it out but this is a new experience.

I'm willing to bet that Mu went to the closest other place with someone he could ask for medical attention: Ikit's. He had quite a bit of money from Asali's training fees, after all.

I guess we'll be coming back to Ikit's anyway with the horn, so it shouldn't be too long before we can check up on him.

Totallynotsamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2009/12/06(Sun)09:25 No. 7167 ID: 4bca0e
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because we do.

Insomnia 2009/12/06(Sun)09:31 No. 7168 ID: aba0a3
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>>316967

I lol'd

Totallynotsamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2009/12/06(Sun)09:34 No. 7169 ID: 4bca0e
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>>316968
weee wooo weee wooo

Insomnia 2009/12/06(Sun)09:44 No. 7170 ID: aba0a3
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rolled 3, 3, 4 = 10

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>>316969

Roll for diplomacy!

Totallynotsamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2009/12/06(Sun)09:46 No. 7171 ID: 4bca0e
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rolled 6, 3, 5 + 2 = 16

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>>316970
2 Naked boobies! +2 to diplomacy.

Insomnia 2009/12/06(Sun)10:01 No. 7173 ID: aba0a3
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WOOH!

Diplomacy succeeds.

Lawyer Dog 2009/12/06(Sun)10:18 No. 7176 ID: 8ce2bf
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You can optimize gifs, making unchanged regions in frames transparent, to reduce the filesize drastically without any quality loss (there are programs to do this automatically and do a decent job at it.) Reducing colours further lowers the filesize, but the colouring you use suffers when dropped below 256 colours (background shading drops in quality and you use colours unavailable in 64 or 128 colours).
Various programs are capable of optimizing gifs, but the best one by far is GIF Movie Gear. It comes with a very good automatic optimizer and an easy to use GUI for manual editing individual frames if need be.

Hoppite's unreasonable attitude and unnecessary rudeness, to say nothing of that sniper, make Nu seem like an okay guy in spite of the creepy empath seduction and wanted poster.

>>317076
I bet Hoppite is just mad because Nu put roofies in his bacon n' eggs too, if you know what I mean.

>>317079
Well, being an evil rapist didn't stop John from becoming a beloved abusive sidekick for Joan...

http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/src/12604901315.png
http://www.tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/src/125913262636.png

That tattoo on Flashback Dude's wrist is the same one as Nu's. So unless that's a common tattoo among Shadows, it looks like Asali knew him before the Plague hit.

I thought I'd also mention that if this is Nu in the flashbacks, that means he's following Asali around psychically again like he did in the forest. He's probably trying to help her regain her memory, since he must've figured out she had amnesia during their conversation in his room. I can't help but think that Nu is partially responsible for Asali's condition, though. Not to mention the Plague.

Okay, so Flashback Dude was Asali's bf, and found her gravely injured in Chilitown. Did he carry her all the way back to her house after bandaging her up, before bandaging her, or did he 'take care of her' in some other way?

Who wrote the message in blood? Asali was out cold, so either Flashback Dude got Asali's blood all over his hands and wrote it intending Asali to read it, or (since shadow blood is black) he wasn't Nu.

I suppose a third option is that Flashback Dude didn't write on the wall at all, and someone else had been in that house before it was boarded up.

However, "I'm safer alone, it'll be much harder to find me if I have nothing to protect..." strongly suggests that it's Nu. He is a wanted man. An easy way to confirm this is to get the ring from out the chasm, and show it to him. We'll need to either find a way of killing the chasm monster, or sneak around while it's sleeping.

Theory- He used to be Asali's rescueperson, then he died and ended up as a shadow.
Is this possible from the rules?

>>317528

I will confirm that it would be possible to have died and come back as an undead.

Duke Hoppite III is an example, as he came back as a Wraith.

>>317528
I really doubt that, since his wanted poster showed him as a Shadow.

Fire Slider Liquor is a brew based in the Bubble Boil Desert. Its namesake is a large animal which lives in volcanoes. Its flavor is very rich, and warms you up when you drink it. It does not hold fire properties.

P.S.: If it was what you needed for the ice cave, I wouldn't let you waste it on a drunken binge with Mint.

http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/96466.html#106192
I'm not arguing with you about that. I agree that Nu would like to see it. Hell I even said as much. What I was really talking about was that 'END' posting that stuff did not put the actual character in the quest, so Nu was not watching. Therefore, it's cheating. Or do you think "I would like watching you have sex with another girl" also means "I think it's fine if you have sex with girls on the side"? Relationships are complicated, bub. Someday maybe you'll experience just how complicated things can be, and then you'll realize how fucking stupid this decision was.
I'm not even mad that everyone got Asali to do this. Popular vote rules, that's the point of /quest/. I AM mad however about the fact that nobody seems to get that it was a BAD IDEA, some going so far as to INSULT ME for thinking it is. There are consequences for our actions in this quest. Happy fun time silly hijinks are not rewarded. Don't forget what happened when we tried to ride the Naviabull.

>>318448
I don't actually read the quest, so grain of salt etc., but I agree with what you say here.

If the boyfriend hasn't expressly given permission to fuck around, then it's cheating. No amount of rationalization fixes that.

>>318448
haha, alright sorry dude.

Seriously though, there's more to this than described in the quest, just trust me that it isn't that big of an issue.

PS: you do know what END stands for right?

>>318450
Yeah. Epsilon Nu Delta.

Totallynotsamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2010/01/06(Wed)04:48 No. 8652 ID: c79a69
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oh, and there was not much that we could have done since Mint demolished on her Seduction roll.

>>318448

I think that it was p. hot, and honestly if Nu was all like "hey, what the fuck brah?!" to Asali, she should just be like "Hey mang, you're dead and stuff. While that's cool with me, ya gotta respect that every now and then I'm gonna sex up a girl, you know, for the warmth and stuff."

I don't think we need to tell Nu we did her.

Alternatively, saw we were drunk as hell.

>>318474
Say, even.

Comment from Chapter 10.
>Dude I would salute you if you could get someone to bang you after two brief meetings and a drink. Fair-and-square, no date rape drugs or blackmail or any of that weird shit.

Done it, seen it done lots, and lots of time. Someone I know in real life did/does it all the time despite the fact he's hideous and annoying as hell. Although it's probably not the best practice, it's pretty commonplace.

>>318474

We should tell him, he would find out anyways. If he gets pissy, we just tell him that he can join in next time.

I don't like the current chapter. I am changing the direction slightly.

So everyone is aware. The introduction and the first [???] rooms (it's a small number, I promise) are pretty much a slightly interactive cutscene.

I held a game after Bubble Bucket started with a few of my closer friends/generous fans. Whatever you want to call them. It was in tandem with this quest, but after a couple of sessions of these side quests, their main campaigns resumed.

With permission and a lot of work I've implemented these sidequests into Bubble Bucket instead of just keeping those adventures to ourselves.

Soon enough full control of /quest/ will be over it, so I apologize for the drawn out railroad.

I'm not enjoying it very much, so I'm going to try to get past the intro as soon as possible. Thank you for your readership.

>>319493
So one of them mistook farting for approaching footsteps too? Huh.

Insomnia 2010/02/05(Fri)14:57 No. 10214 ID: 8d3380
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So I was going through my commissions and money earlier today to set up a list of things I need to do in order to be clear. I am over 30 pictures backed up.

Once I finish Tear, I will very rarely be throwing a Bubble Bucket update onto the quest, and I won't be hosting a full blown session til I clear this list. I'm sorry to anyone who really enjoys my quest(s).

This is stuff I need to get done, and it's my fault for procrastinating. Thanks everyone for your support.

ilu all.

Boo Canada!

Why yes, it is Canada's fault. How did you know

>>320101
It's always Canada's fault.

Dammit, Canada, you're really pushing it this time. One of these days... pow! right in the Quebec.

>>320103
>right in the Quebec

Incidentally, the rest of Canada would probably be okay with this.

>>320104
Maybe then they'd quit pulling shit like this.

>>320101

Yeah, you dirty Canadian. It's all your fault.

I'm not Canadian.

>>320115

NOW you are!
Enjoy your ice-hockey.

A good quest returneth, I am pleased.

I apologize to and give a thank you to my readers for enduring chapter 11 with little to no complaints. I can promise to never do anything like that ever again. I thought it'd be an interesting idea, and I did like staying true to the creators' characters, but it was not enjoyable to me, and I can only guess how little the players liked spectating for so many posts. I thought it would take less updates and go by much faster.

I will be hosting Bubble Bucket on Tuesdays like old times, and next weekend I will do the last couple of updates for Tear.

Sorry, and many thanks. <3

>>324097
Mostly I'm glad that this is continued at all.

>>324097

Aw, and I was just about to get everyone to dismantling the dungeon too.

Admittedly it's way too a restricting scenario for you, as you have played far too much video games to not let meta slip in there. As the saying goes when there is no ceiling people don't try to break it. Putting us in the unbeatable labyrinth of doom established by the king to punish his enemies naturally leads to us trying to break the game, simply because we care about your characters more than the puzzles you might think up to solve. I helplessly fought through Bubble Bobble, watched Labyrinth just wishing she would climb the damn walls already, and cringed as GLaDOS actually ridiculed me for being unable to cause any significant property damage.

To stay true to the spirit of those games you can't let the characters break "the rules" or find alternatives to the only path forward, but the only reason those games must be like that is because people have a bias against hackers. In this quest milieu you aren't restricted by corporate politics and information hoarding. While we can't approach you as equals (since you're the one drawing), we can contribute to the quest more than if there were a game with hidden, compiled, pre-programmed walls that cannot be broken, adjusted, improved or modified. Since we're all here to make the game fun, nobody is going to suggest anything that destroys our ability to play, which means less work for you (since you just ask us what happens next) and more flexibility in that you don't have to draw your next idea. You can change your mind freely, without worrying about any sort of a queue or backlog.

Alternatively it's late and I'm babbling again.

>>324890

I've dealt with some of the most intelligent game breaking tabletop players, so I am fully aware of what people can be capable of at times.

The 'introduction' without a lot of control is over. If people really want to figure out ingenious ways to break puzzles, traps, then feel free to do them.

Just like in the regular game, there are elements to prevent too much game breaking, but I've left other areas completely open to people trying them.

A high critical, or an Act of God could break an unbreakable wall. However I believe only one person has an Act of God right now.

Dismantle the dungeon, think, plan together. I don't mind in the slightest. The odds are against the characters, but if the remaining party, or some of them, make it out alive, then more power to the players.

It's in your hands now.

>>324892

>> I've dealt with some of the most intelligent game breaking tabletop players,

>> It's in your hands now.

...riiiight. I myself try to be more flexible instead of making those guys my adversaries. If they want to run the campaign, well have at it I'm going to go get a soda! Different strokes I guess.

>> If people really want to figure out ingenious ways to break puzzles, traps, then feel free to do them.

We can suggest anything we want. The way to deal with the most intelligent game breaking players is to simply ignore them. In a way though you have to ask yourself why are they trying to break the game? Are they just self interested opportunists, or is there something wrong with the game itself that they're trying to fix?

how do you decide the if an action succeeds or not?

Anonymous 2010/05/06(Thu)09:53 No. 15180 ID: ca670b
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>loss of a party member through no action or inaction from suggestions

>>324980

>Three suggestions out of four suggesting to do what happened.

>no action or inaction from suggestions

>>324979
DICE!

>>324980
Also DICE!

I'd like to point out that this is an actual game system. Nic completely botched her roll, then Jasper failed as well, but Jack managed to rescue Jasper. Yes, I confirmed that theory with Insomnia. No railroading here, just bad luck. If it makes you feel any better, our good suggestions made it easier for everyone to get past. They just... didn't all make it.

>>324979

I roll 3d6 vs. a Difficulty #, or against an opposing roll if something or a character resists.

then i'm gonna have to bail on this chapter, i loath luck based death traps. horrible maiming traps are fine, but death are a no go.

ಠ_ಠ

It's a place where people are sent to get themselves killed. Why would anyone make a trap other than to kill. Traps that maim someone horribly were more than likely intended to kill in the first place.

I don't expect this to please everyone, and I've been getting more suggestions than I believed possible for this chapter to begin with. The teetering hand of chance has always had a huge hand in the quest, but these folks are much less durable.

Definitely seems pretty arbitrary to me.

I wish Insomnia would run a quest that's more open and sandboxy instead of "You're all in the Tomb of Horrors. Which direction would you like to die in?"

>>324989

All tabletop systems could be considered arbitrary. All the characters have a character sheet that's used for mostly everything they do.

Tabletop mechanics always have some kinks in them, and I have been working on them considerably, which is why everyone's not dead. In addition, It's not as if I didn't warn that it's what was going on in the chapter. Nobody should be blindsided.

>>324988
Understandable. But I think what he's getting at is that he doesn't like systems wherein random bad rolls will destroy something you've worked to protect, no matter what, but rather bad luck should make players have to try that much harder to get out of a bad situation it created.

I.E. you get a horrible failure on a random occurence = situation occurs that you need to think/plan/work your way out of that otherwise wouldn't have happened/been AS bad is the roll made it.

Was in a DnD game once where my DM decided to create a skeletal champion encounter. First attack of the first round of combat, it crits the fighter for his entire hitpoint total + negatives, oneshotting him.

The tank of our group died through no fault of his own, and a few of the other players got pissed to hell and back and threatened to quit out.

So I guess some folks are confused as to what the timeline is. Here's my theory:

Epsilon died, became a Shadow. Then he became a detective and got sent to investigate a disappearance on the islands. His family and friends got murdered, so he killed a dude in retaliation. The Duke captured him and got bitten in half just before Epsilon got thrown into the Labyrinth pit (shown in a pre/postcog result).

Then he died again.

SOMEHOW he came back to life afterwards and met Asali.

I think people are forgetting something here.

Asali is the main character of Bubble Bucket. Not Epsilon, not Nick, not any of the other current party members.

Those are just supporting cast. And it's a flashback to boot.

Supporting characters are not immune to the noose, especially ones which are fixed in the "past" of a story.

Now, you're free to bitch if Asali gets killed, but until then, shut your trap and play.

>>324994
If I had to guess, I'd say people might be a bit unhappy (? upset? disappointed? whatever the mood is here, I'm just speculating) that a long, non-interactive segment is being followed up with a sequence in which everyone involved (apparently) dies.

That and the last time we told Asali to do anything was in January.

if jack dies I swear to god I am murdering a nun.

DAMN YOU, MAKING CHARACTERS I CARE FOR!

man, if and when jasper dies, this quest will get much more heart breaking.

"next room, I walk forward"
"cool, no-eyes is eviscerated and her skull torn out"
"fuck"
"also, that trap triggers an other trap that sets armadillo-girl on fire, from the inside."
"seriously?"
"oh, and jack is eaten by a grue"

>>325002
Well Insomnia -did- run GrueQuest back on /tg/...

>>325005
If this is a segue-way into continuing Grue Quest I won't mind.

>>324996

While that might be true, it wasn't false advertisement.

I am working on this segment to finish it so we can get back to the main story.

People have mixed opinions and that's cool and all but I still need to complete it. I don't have their fates planned and if the players are careful and think things through/more thoroughly as they just did blazing through the last room then all of them could survive.

the best way to help people to be cautious is to:
A. reward caution, a + on checks OR A SECRET ANCIENT ARTIFACT THAT IS BOTH SHINY AND COOL
B. make DC's not insta-kills for cautious actions.

for instance, when nic fell in, when hugging a beam, it is very difficult to fall; moreso than if you charge across. this could be represented as adding to her roll to avoid slipping, saying "oh no! nic nearly slips, but rights herself at just the right time, she doesn't think she'll be that lucky again!", or having her fall, but is saved just as her arm touches. she is now crippled, but has survived miraculously because of her added caution.

honestly, I would love to play a quest like this BY AN OTHER NAME, but it is very jarring when coupled with rave flowers and robot rap battles.

>>325040

Nic wasn't a playable character. The only character /quest/ controls at the moment is Shula. So we can't make any other of them to be "cautious". At best, we can make Shula tell them that, but we don't have direct control of how they act. Or how they die.

And anyways this is just an Intermission, I think we'll go back to the regular story soon.

i tried reading it some more, but knowing that just a slip up of luck and someone could die has made me unable to FEEL for them anymore, in my mind they are all already dead.

I'm feeling bad for insomnia, everyone is saying, midway through this chapter, that it is terrible and not good. must get annoying after a while.

honestly, I'm enjoying this chapter, and if insomnia or an other author did an entire QUEST of this, then I would play the FUCK out of it. I think I like it for the same reason a lot of people do not. these are characters with a PAST, but are extremely fragile, and a single mistake can end them. this seems extremely realistic to me.

>>325072
i don't mean to say it's bad, i just can't read it. them having a single 'whoops' leading to explosive death just hurts. if i tried reading it anymore i would probably start crying cause i couldn't handle knowing that.

I dunno, I think this is pretty good.

But then, I think that all these characters are going to die, and were always meant to, so any of them getting out at all is a triumph for the players.

>>325072

I could do another quest based around this concept unrelated to this story if people really wanted me to. I really like things like this too.

>>325098

I was planning to, but I'm not sure if I would be able to.

would you mind terribly if I gave you the planned characters? or would this be set in the same universe? hell, I imagine that none of it is planned as of now.

consider me a vote for doing an entire quest of this... with a few tweaks.

If you guys haven't figured it out yet, I bet Insomnia is just trying to kill all the characters off as quick as possible so they can awaken from their NIGHTMARE OF TRIALS and go back to the awesome island they were on before.

And Jack is a shape shifter.

1ac39d awarded an Act of God for deciphering the tile room without me even having to post lore information to help with the order. Get on IRC or something if you don't know what an Act of God entails, and definitely if you want to discuss using it. They are applicable to any quest of mine.

TotallyNotSamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2010/05/16(Sun)19:41 No. 15699 ID: e6f8de
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>>325488
Booooo
Booooooooooooooooo

Chapter 12 Voting Insomnia 2010/05/23(Sun)22:21 No. 16143 ID: 8d3380
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Voting between Epsilon and Asali as the main character of Chapter 12. Whichever isn't chosen will be Chapter 13 instead.

Vote will end when I get off of work on the 28th.

I fucking love epsilon but I'm going to have to vote for asali.

ASALI.

Asali, she hasn't been here so long.

Yeah Asali. Not arguments there.

>>325943
Sorry Epsilon, but you got to be in a chapter. Asali's turn.

I'd have to vote asali, I haven't seen her in like a year.

Yep, it's like we haven't seen Asali in forever.

Asali.

was too unanimous and I'm pretty sure nobody else is voting since there's not a single vote for epsy. So we'll see him later. Thanks very much for participating.

(Glad I did this too since I was originally going to just cut to Epsilon).

Anonymous 2010/05/26(Wed)11:31 No. 16264 ID: 6550ad
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Gonna point out that the art improvement since the quest started is awesome. Kudos to Insomnia.

My schedule is a lot different than it was when I started this quest, and I would like to host it on days that my readers can make it. The previous schedule used to be after work til I went to bed on Tuesdays.

What two days would be the best for my readers. The aim would be to host it two days a week, and do about 10 updates each day. I'm not entirely sure if I can manage this since I'm going to completely redo all the backgrounds we've already explored, or just continue with the ever changing drawn per post version. Either way it takes more time than changing the background per actions and redrawing Asali.

All days are pretty much acceptable except Wednesday.

tl;dr

Pick two days for sessions, preferably not Wednesday for updates. kthx.

>>326404
lol i dunno

Any day is fine.

>>326404
Tuesdays and Thursdays

>>326404
Tuesday and Saturday.

>>326404
Thursdays and Saturday

Ffff... I still count the current votes towards the Sessions, but I want to make it clear that the, "Update whenever the fuck," like a lot of questers do here is a choice beyond the two sessions a week since a lot of people are always ready for more like drug addicts.

However, I was just informed today that the voucher for my next Computer Technician certification is being ordered, and I need to study for the next couple weeks pretty hard. I'll start the sessions after I take the exam, and will just update whenever until then.

However if less people want devoted sessions than they want random bursts, I will adopt the /quest/ way of chaos.

I guess Tuesdays and Saturdays is fine. You can also ninja some update between those days if you feel like it.

Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday will be how I try to run sessions as of next week.

Tuesday and Thursday: 13:00 GMT - ???
Saturday: 4:00 GMT - To be continued posted.

Theory: Asali fought the source of the Dark Plague, and out of desperation sealed it inside herself. She has been half corrupted by it because of this.

"Don't let them" is actually... Don't let them out. The Dark Plague manifests itself in the voices she hears inside her head.

>>326707

This actually makes a lot of sense.

Okay, guys, does anyone know what the hell happened to our Wire?

>>330236
Upon perusing the archives, I personally think it was stolen in the forest by Chu the thief.

...Which doesn't help us much.

>>330242
how could it get stolen out of a subspace pocket thing?

It disappeared sometime between us letting Duke Hoplite out and finding Epsilon's room.

Tomorrow I take the bus back to lame town.

I am trying to finish the session for the chapter, which is 1/2 the chapter instead of 1/3 like before. I will be taking a week break after the session end, and will be taking a hiatus upon the day I get a date for my certification when I get it.

Once I get my stuff back in order on dorm, I'm going to try that schedule I had people vote for over a month ago.

kthx.

[06:30:16] <MrQ> okay som look i know the overarching plot to bubble bucket and what it will result in u rdy
[06:31:05] <MrQ> alright after finding the fuses, asali and her pal mint will go and open the door to the darkness
[06:31:24] <MrQ> in the darkness they will find a cozy reading room, stocked with books, alcohol and a quaint fireplace
[06:31:36] <MrQ> also in the reading room they will find epsilon, toking up
[06:32:02] <MrQ> now from here epsilon will see jack and realize 'aw fuck my bro' and integrate some porn modules into his head
[06:32:16] <MrQ> then jack comes back and is like 'yo whats up'
[06:33:03] <MrQ> so you got the four people in this cozy reading room, hidden from the world with self-replenishing alcohol, books, a fireplace and a nice Shaq rug
[06:33:19] <MrQ> as in epsilon murdered shaq at his own game and made him into a trophy the sick fuck
[06:33:59] <MrQ> so you've got these 2 girls, 1 space shadow shark from beyond the veil and a robot with a penis
[06:34:36] <MrQ> so they start to do the touch, grasping hands and moving all about like rolling around and touching genitals together
[06:35:18] <MrQ> and there is a big explosion
[06:35:56] <MrQ> it makes a lot of rocks fly fucking everywhere, taking out the books, the fireplace, Jack's lower body and the alcohol
[06:37:13] <MrQ> standing there, bare for all, is skraig
[06:37:51] <MrQ> he shouts, in broken backwaterville english, 'HA HA WELCOME TO NEW SEXY STORE, MAYBE HAVING FUN TIMES YES"
[06:38:26] <MrQ> and epsilon ain't having any of this
[06:39:01] <MrQ> he gets up from the pile of sexual orgificated people and points enthusiastically at skraig's weener
[06:39:42] <MrQ> 'my name is epsilon nu delta, you have killed my alcohol. your dick is small' and then just straight headbutts him in the penis
[06:40:41] <MrQ> so skraig and epsilon are fighting, leaving asali and mint on the floor next to the broken bodied jack. 'i have only one life to give for my country so put your ladyparts on my face pls i'm dying'
[06:41:31] <MrQ> so asali is like 'uh no' but mint is like 'well okay' and asali decides she's had enough of this shit and bails on the violence-slash-cunnilingus party
[06:43:15] <MrQ> asali goes back to epsilon's hut and has had enough fun for one day, tucking herself into bed
[06:43:22] <MrQ> she dreams
[06:43:54] <MrQ> and wakes up in the mental hospital, puppets of these characters made out of socks and her clothes stuck onto her toes
[06:43:57] <MrQ> the end
[06:44:49] <MrQ> (p.s.: bees)

>>330421

great, now nothing insomnia can come up with will top this. I hope you're happy.

Okay, wow. I really didn't know what the fuck to do about this since four people basically had the same kind of outfit set up going on. I took ideas from four of the entries mainly. So I'm awarding the prize as follows.

The Act of God:
The four winners need to get my attention, or just one of them when they want to use it. 3/4 of the winners need to agree something is a good idea before it can be used.

In other words, you four need to (mostly) agree on something before applying it. One issue is I don't know who one of the winners is, so please let me know soon.

The drawing:

I am going to do a group picture bubble bucket art style of a character for each winner, and put them together like a party or something. So all four of you need to communicate with me through e-mail or irc.

[ Winners, Ideas used, Entry picture. ]

cfcd96 (???)
Totally started off the basic idea rolling. Belt, rubber glove(s) combo on the bone arm, magnetic armband used.
http://quest.lv/kusaba/quest/src/127964389358.png

8368cf (Sam)

Suspenders, short shirt, cargo pockets on the chest and pants.
http://quest.lv/kusaba/quest/src/128053123434.png

110e9f (Jake)
Used the pinstripe sort of appearance of his independant version of the jumpsuit he had going on.
http://quest.lv/kusaba/quest/src/12805999563.png

512caa/43ba0b (Starit)
Following along with the suspenders/enginner look going on, with some practical armor going on, and the tail collar with a bell on it for the pirate outfit I tacked on for little to no reason.
http://quest.lv/kusaba/quest/src/12801458665.png
http://quest.lv/kusaba/quest/src/128053073563.png

Jukashi!!WzMJSzZzWx 2010/07/31(Sat)21:35 No. 21103 ID: 611633
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>>330901

cfcd96 was me. My code flips around a bit. Since I don't go on the chat often, I will split my vote amidst the other winners.

Now, with the contest over, I can share this silly reference.

ALL THE LEVELS

Anonymous 2010/08/15(Sun)10:53 No. 21845 ID: 5f5548
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~

FFffffuuuuck.

My tablet is dying and barely usable. I am struggling to do anything with it and it is becoming far more frustrating than it is worth.

My e-mail and paypal are PanWyatt@gmail.com

Donations, commissions, any manner of help is appreciated right now.

I thought I fixed my computer. I have tried several computers with my tablet, and the problem is consistent. The tablet itself is on its last leg and dying. I will try to update my quest when I can struggle enough to lay out an update despite the tablet doing its best to prevent me from doing so.

The tablet I have my eye on is the Intuos4 Medium. This is a step down in size (Current is an Intuos3 12x9, comparable to the Intuos4 Large). I know that is mildly excessive but I am used to a larger surface and fully mapping it to the screen. I don't like tiny tablets and have tried to use them before.

If someone is willing to help me out, I would be glad to repay in any and all ways possible. My quests are pretty much all paused until I can resolve it. Several people told me to ask for help, so I'm hoping someone cares enough about it.

The tablet is purchased, updates resumes when it arrives.

<3

Jake 2010/08/23(Mon)05:54 No. 22208 ID: 110e9f
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HNFGDFRHTJDFTH

If any of the people/artists in the community who have experience with flash would help me out I would appreciate your time. I just started working with the program rather recently. I would like to learn it but I am a pragmatic learner. This is a nice way to say I learn things slowly and have to actively work with shit a while before I have it down.

I am trying to put together a flash for Chapter 13 (which is a chapter I am not even on). I figure if I can get some help learning and putting it down in advance I will not slow down the quest more than I already have/will trying to figure it out.

Thanks for anyone who will work with me in advance.

I haven't been keeping up with any discussion, so don't mind me if this has been said. I mentioned it to Insomnia and she suggested I mention it in here.

I've been thinking about who "them" are. As in the "Don't let them" we've been seeing everywhere, and recently, "Let them" written on the note at the marina.

So here's my question, though likely not relevant in the slightest. What if "them" is us?

>>332385

But why wouldn't we let us?

>>332398
You have been paying attention to our usual advice, right?

i think everyone that survived the plague is undead. except river, cause she was in a ice cave when it happened.

Mint doesn't look undead to me.

>>332485
well nether does asali. the skele-arm looks like a big deal but without that it would be impossible to tell.

rolled 2, 2 = 4

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I am debating between sleep and drawing an update.

First d6: Odds I sleep, Evens I update.
Second d6: 1,2 = bubble bucket. 3,4 = I can feel it. 5,6 = Last Words.

Feel free to hold me to this.

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i lied, i am sick and my roomie leaves friday so i did something with them.

I made this as a copout, i will update twice tomorrow as my sorry.

I have done my best to avoid announcing my Hiatus, and I was just getting back into the spirit. I was setting up updates and drawing.

The last month has been a series of loss, tragedy, and sadness. I thank all my friends, readers, and chastisers for your support one way or another. I love you all very much. You all mean a lot to me, and this computer and tablet I am using speak as a testament to how much I mean to others.

I am taking a hiatus. I do not know how long it will be. I want to spend time in order to do three things.

1. Feel better.
2. Work out more of the stuff I should have set up for Epsilon's chapter, work on Last Words, and prepare a final run of I Can Feel It's final verse.
3. Get my tabletop campaign groups finished up and get them running again.

This could take a week or two, or a month or two but I will be back hell or high water. This will be my last real entry in this discussion thread too. It's not full, but it's been over a year and I don't like seeing some of my early interactions and mannerisms every time I need to post something related to my quests.

Consider the pause in my work the turning of a new page in the book and I will see everyone when I am ready.

- Insomnia

>>334038
:<

Hang in there.

>>334038
I hope you feel better soon.

>>334090

Yeah, feel better soon. We'll be waiting.

>>334038
We love you Som! Don't feel rushed or anything, come back whenever you like.