>>55017

That's one of those things you just kind of have to accept for the game's sake, really. For running a halfway coherent game, it's easiest to have actual flesh and blood people, followed by robots, followed by infomorphs. So... that's what people want to be, by universal fiat. Kinda like how we all just look the other way when it comes to D&D economics.

>>55017

I feel Eclipse Phase in general veers a bit too much towards 'Everything works perfectly forever!'. That and the designers didn't pay enough attention to the implications of some of the things they stuck in.

Cyberpunk needs a bit of grit and the easiest way to do that is dial the tech back a notch.

Healing vats not being a cure-all. Emergent glitches in your fancy neogenetic critters. AI psychosis. Pproblems with the energy and materials supply chain in fabbing.

Fun stuff.

>>55017

Depends on how long after the Exurgence conflict. There was a huge surge in Infomorphs at the time because everyone's bodies got kind of finely blended, except a few extrasolar colonies and the one on the moon that (somehow) didn't get dragged into it. Afterwards the proportion of Infomorphs went steadily down as equipment needed to be built and maintained outside the simulation, and people found existence sharing a limited set of computing resources rather tedious at best.

I think the awesome VR experience sort of thing would become more common as the proportion dwindled, so maybe 20% is the magic number where people are content to stay bodiless, but don't feel like they're locked in a data coffin all the time.

>>55048

Well the whole setting's founded on AI psychosis. I think it's flexible enough to accomodate grittier cyberpunk. Glitchy healing vats, running out of exotic elements (black hole farming might be needed there). It really depends how much you want to emphasize that. It could be anywhere from Star Trek level shenanigans to W40K scale horror.

>>55072

On AI psychosis, it's more the fact that expert systems can suffer from mental stress and their minds tend to be more fragile than the players.

If your party is packing a lot of automation, better take a robopsychologist.

It's a point that the GM advice doesn't seem to dwell on much. On one hand, your muses all going nuts could be really annoying. But on the other, it could make a really fun story.

But yeah, I definitely trend towards the gritty side of the street in running Eclipse Phase.

>>55105

That depends on the amount of redundancy. Anyway there are already rules in place for what stresses organic brains and cyberbrains can handle. In particular robo-brains are completely immune to the spooky psychic action at a distance, while goo-brains can't be appreciably hacked. You could... roll a robopsychologist character, if you want? It'd be more like a system admin though, eliminating viruses and reinstalling shit.

>>54977
Genderless rustle Tentacle Beast Jimmies. They can't get food from them.

We need more penis in this quest.
Preferably flaccid.

>>55101

no

>>55101
There's plenty of flaccid penis, have you seen anyone with a hardon?

The only one was the imp, all the other males have had flaccid penises.

>>55108
I like them free to feel the breeze.
Blame Flynn, didn't know I had a nudist fetish until I started reading his quests.

>>359292
>>359298
A sequel is pretty likely after Slissa Quest... I could certainly save it for then and have a more modern design........

A sequel is not likely to star these characters since Slumber Party ended the last character arc Tezakia had with 'em, but they'll definitely be showing up from time to time unless there's this huge decision to skip WAY ahead to adult jiniki quest...

ALSO BOATFACE Slinkoboy 2012/05/22(Tue)16:04 No. 55119 ID: d6ae01
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BY THE WAY YOU CAN USE THIS THREAD TO DISCUSS BOATFACE IF YOU WANT.

Boatface is meant to fill in the gaps in Fish updates, or otherwise be updated when I feel super productive. Fish is on a temporary Hiatus, so it'll be updating more quickly for now, mostly being slowed by me also working on a huge comic commission on the side.

In general it's a NO WORRIES quest. All the things I refused to do, even in Venji, because they were "just too silly" ... well, that's not stopping me this time.

Let's see how incredibly dumb this ends up getting.

>>55119
So this is going to be the porn quest, then?

>>55122
I hope not! There's a child on board!

>>55122
Not that kind of no worries!!

>>55064
This is awesome

Yes. Yes it is.

>>55064
Like ripe, glistening melons.

>>55064
She's so cute. ^.V.^

>>55064
Cool, it's nice to see the characters in color, at least once, to see it in our mind, as you see it in your mind.

I have to ask, this has been driving me nuts - is there anywhere I can find a collection of the fanart/bonus art for Will of the Undermind?

>>362246
Go through the main fanart threads.

>>362247
If you're feeling really enthusiastic while doing that, populate http://tgchan.org/wiki/Lunar_Quest#Gallery using http://tgchan.org/wiki/Help:Contents#...add_fanart_to_a_quest.27s_page.3F , since currently it only has a few things uploaded old-style. I was going through all the fanart threads migrating stuff into quest articles at one point but it was somewhere between "tedious" and "questionably worthwhile".

>>362247
Don't forget the [body part] Day threads, either!

>>52469
Will do!
If there is no objection, I'll also start uploading pics to /tg/booru.

>>54835
The real question is what the magical material cutlery does.
I mean, they were dicking around with piles of magic, it probably cooks the food while you cut while seasoning it to perfection and additionally makes a perfectly serviceable set of weapons in case you get jumped while eating AND lets you deflect social attacks by responding to the talking with a fork to the eye.

>>54841
Sorry, no pictures, just stats, a backstory, and a description. They're pants made of moonsilver that the moon used to try and seduce Gaia. They're described as very tight, thin pants that call attention to your ass and genitals and increase Appearance/Beauty by 4, which is rather a lot.

Biref summary and link to the book it's in: http://wiki.white-wolf.com/exalted/index.php?title=Artifacts:Moonsilver_Pantaloons

>>54841
Also, a link to download a pdf of the Scroll of Swallowed Darkness, which is a noncanon April Fools' NSFW book. It has a picture of the Scarlet Empress receiving a spaghetti breakfast from her husband, the Ebon Dragon.

http://www.4shared.com/office/s1E85rdD/Exalted_2nd_Ed_-_ExXxalted_-_S.html


I've heard that they plan to make a canon NSFW sourcebook if the Alchemicals one sells enough copies, but that could just have been a rumor, and it could be long past even if it was legit.

>>54937
I've read that awhile back! I still can't believe they did it.

I wonder if Jukashi will ever try to sneak in cameos from other quest threads here? Like, Maolla in a background or something?

Wow, that took me forever to draw!

I just wish I were a bit more consistent with Grunt's size and arms. Sorry guys, I'll make more of an effort in future attempts!

Actually, I haven't really got a height chart down. I think I'll do that sometime soon, because I know for a fact, Grunt isn't that bloody huge.

I hope you look past my errors and enjoy the comic, regardless of glaring faults and inconsistencies in updates and character size.

>>361228
>>361249
And thanks for welcoming me back! I appreciate that a ton!

Enjoying the quest a lot. I sincerely hope Sergeant Grenado survives long enough to get another promotion.

Truck 2012/05/20(Sun)02:41 No. 54999 ID: 4abc95
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Hey guys, thought you all might want to know that I've been very busy trying to move back to the other side of the earth. It's quite an exhausting expedition, and I've so many things to do before I make my departure! I'll try and squeeze in a few updates when I can, but I'm doing a lot of running around and not knowing really what the ever-loving fuck I'm accomplishing lately, which is all really, really dumb.

Also Dark Souls and XCom eat up a lot of my freetime (granted, a lot less now) because I'm retarded and can't manage time. As an apology for my shitty work ethic, I offer you quest updates (which will be along shortly) and some junk I decided not to use(???) in Minion Quest, explained a bit.

The Water Construct was originally supposed to be a familiar to the cleric (due to some weird story stuff that may make sense later if I ever get the chance to explain) and dickbutt around with the currently unknown healer, but I decided that it looked fucking retarded and made another, fairly smaller one.

Armed Grenades worked something like sticky grenades in halo. You toss it at something, it grabs on for dear life until it's life comes to an end.

The Necrojester was supposed to be a thing in The Spare Parts room, but I decided that the design was really dumb and since have done absolutely nothing to recreate it. The primary purpose of The Necrojester is to be very, very distracting to the point of the protagonist's frustration.

Pelvis Thrauscht. I misspelled his name in the image, whoops. I really wanted to name him "Elvis Goatee Flyingbutts", but that would have been immensely dumb. In fact, the character was immensely dumb and probably not very fun to interact with at all, so he got the axe in the most literal of senses.

Grunt Design. Ah, yes I originally wanted to make Grunt into a no nonsense eyebrow heavy homicidal maniac of a r

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So what I'm getting here is that originally the Cleric was going to be the PC and Grunt was going to be an NPC. Is this right?

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>>51576

Thank you very much, Yellow! Sorry for the slowdown. I've been very busy! Don't worry though, I'm nearly always writing for it. I'm still waiting for that to pay off, aha!

>>55009

Grunt was originally a midboss before I decided that it would be dumb and stupid and scrapped it entirely. You see, there are many different ways to tell this story, depending on the eyes of the body experiencing it.

Or uh, monitor, as this case may be.

I wrote a lot for the story and characters of Minion Quest. So much so, that I could tell the entire story through any of the NPCs, though their telling would be significantly more distorted than through the eyes (I mean monitor) of Grunt, and they probably wouldn't play along nearly as nicely. I grew to like Grunt after a while, and before I knew it, bam! The roles reversed. Don't worry though, you have the option not to hurt her (and better yet, a chance or two to recruit her!), should you so chose.

Though, every mage (full, complete, learned mage) has a familiar that relates to them in their field of magic, due to the world's (aha, this sounds like such a cop-out, but it's gonna sound better explained in the story itself later down the road, as opposed to right here) strange, magical properties. That one armed mage? Has a personal construct. The Necromancer? Many, maaaany summons, but only one construct. They're linked, so if the mage's mortal coil is cut, the construct will still exist, but there's a high chance it will go batshit insane. If the construct expires, the mage loses their ability to use magic. Usually forev

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Now, I'm not here to choose the new card that we're gonna be using as there's been much debate about it. I'm here to try to guess our new "black" best friend's magic spells.

And I'm guessing from M10,11,12 that Nicole gonna be using undead creatures, more specifically vampires, zombies and probably Black Knight. What two blocks she gets I won't guess, just no point in it.

>>364469
Nicole probably got our starter deck list choice options as well, five from Mercadian Masques and Invasion as well as 2010-2012. Possibly also the extra pick from 2010-2012.

Seeing as there's not been any real consensus, I'm shelving the pick until you get another card choice, or earlier if you all agree on something.

I also apologize again for leaving you all hanging as long as I did. Real life happens, unfortunately, and when it does I have to deal with it before dealing with imaginary magical girls. I hope you all understand.
>>54690
Because I'm a vindictive bastard, I'll tell you: Nicole is still sitting at "level 1", so she hasn't got a bonus pick yet. Her starting sets are the 3 core sets, plus kamigawa and ravnica blocks (a somewhat modern analog to your options - a generally weak block that had a few good cards but little that was extraordinary, followed by a very well-received multicolor block that sold like crazy.)

>>55026
>Seeing as there's not been any real consensus
There was fairly real consensus that by nuking the effectiveness of tutors, library manipulation, and card draw, a huge chunk of blue's cards are reduced to crap and more crap. There was general consensus that nuking has indeed occurred. Also that no other color can reasonably expect to beat an intelligent red player in this system. Just sayin'.

On what card to choose, I feel reasonably confident saying that either "hold the pick until we can choose from a set that isn't mostly crap" or Phantasmal Image were our unhappy mediums.

I don't know about consensus about the format being busted: I was doing most of the talking and not many people were saying much about it.

>>54814
Is it "Ged well soon" or "well wishes" in english? Well, whichever is appropriate.

>>54827
Get. It's Get well soon.
>>54814
i'm an anon!!! i'm an ANOOOON! suck my diiiiick!! I'M AN ANOOON!!

>>54776
>From the tone of the post it looks like you're fishing for ways to create Divine Servitors. Sake would probably know more about that than Davgon but I bet both have ideas.

I don't think I am. What I want is a little more than a divine servitor as far as I understand. Christian equivalent of a divine servitor is an angel, while what I aim for is more in the league of the holy spirit. An avatar without flesh would be another approximation.

I am pretty sure a divine servitor doesn't get to keep any parts of its divine creator's soul. I suspect they are made in a process similar to crystallization. The creator takes a soulless piece and oversaturates it with his power. For example by running his power through it and letting spillage accumulate. Once the piece is close to bursting from unorganized power, structure is imposed/offered and the entire piece falls into the new organization to relieve the pressure. Perhaps by a touching with soul to leave something like fingerprints to serve as seeds, perhaps by a binding.

>>54814
Let me add to the well wishes with another, Get well soon.

>>54814
get well soon and best wishes

Testing a thing

>>360757
And now you never will.

>>360758
You TEASE.

>>360757
I bet its pink with a poster of her boyfriend. ^.V.^

Ow, it finished :<

...a month and a half ago...

>>50952

>Slissa Quest

Will include characters from hugs?

>>54984
None of the Hugs characters are showing up directly... unless I decide to cameo Lyskir which i will not deny is a good possibility.

Fish is kind of the more serious quest Hugs was an unknowing testbed for. Slissa Quest itself will probably wait for Fish to complete before starting, since it's meant to be a high production major quest and I don't want to spend 8 hours a day having to draw both.

But I'm still leading up to SQ in ways that will be more obvious soon.

Naw, this is just his regular update schedule. Rapid-fire bursts of updates for 3 or so days before switching to another project. It'll probably come back in a few months.

Hi!
I made a little pause... but here is ch4^^
please comment if you like it!
Deviantart is free and fun!^^
http://dediggefedde.deviantart.com/art/Divequest-flash-chapter-4-293347283

And it's back!

Am I the only one wondering where they got the karaoke demon?

>>54985
they rented it at the bar.

hhhmmm a password you say, who has a password?

>>364354
Trout's usually on #tgchan on the Rizon network. He's not on right this minute, though.

>>364354
Um, yeah, if you're still here, I'm on #tgchan, but not on #rubyquest (though I probably should start lurking there at the least). I'm open to anything you might want to ask/tell me.

There's also the "ask the author" thread in /questdis/, but that might be the whole "meaningless contact" you want to avoid.

Thank you!

>>50872
so i guess that would make nan a........
scapegoat

worm

Avari, there's been enough bugs so far

Going with Avari

suffocating dogs

>Variacosa: ???
>>364441
>Variacosa are... well, maybe I shouldn't spoil it for you. You'll find out. ;)

But Samuel, I already have!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhVi4Z6CjZk&hd=1

Anon44!3UzRml1aAA 2012/05/12(Sat)12:12 No. 54519 ID: 1f8505
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Another reference sheet.

>>364319

is there a naked ref. sheet for him too? ;)

>>364472

...yes.

>>364496
well now you have to show us

>>364524

Nope.

>>362282
i regret nothing

>>362282

this is tgchan. if anything, they've been planning this all along.

>>362282

You are a genius.

Slinkoboy 2012/05/12(Sat)21:48 No. 54565 ID: d6ae01
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Ashela (from Venji) sitting pretty, by request. Boring plot stuff in the spoiler.

Venji's plot was hurt near the end, but I think the biggest casualty was Ashela's character.

I tend to start characters as "gimmicks" and flesh them out as the quest goes, and Ashela's "gimmick" was "near-blindness makes her very touchy-feely. It was meant to be ambiguous if she was attracted to Venji or if they were just BFFs and she's like that.

I was told to come up with a backstory for Ashela in the middle of thread 3 because I was told she was too much of a blank slate. The result was a character that 180'd because I had to write her to fit the new story, rather than letting her grow from her starting gimmick.

Fleshing out a character is never a bad idea, but it's something that should be done before they're introduced-- not after they've already established themselves as something else. In hindsight, I would have been better off keeping her cheerful... certainly would have fit a parody quest better than all the abloo bloo bloo.

This is one thing Tezakia actually did better. Kinasa is similar to Ashela's original concept, and while Kinasa has a really sad backstory, it isn't brought up or focused on-- it just makes her who she is.

This is a lesson I will try to take to heart for Slissa.

>>362282
This is great. You are great for thinking of and/or applying this idea.