Quests Primer

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Quests Primer

Unread postby serbii » June 4th, 2011, 11:31 pm

Aperture Science Primer on the Interactive Multi-Post Phenomenon

(Assassin Quest, Crossover Quest, Familiar Quest, Mage Quest Reboot, Necromancy Quest, Super Quest, TARDIS Quest, Untitled Quest, Vampire Quest)

We understand that a lot of you might be coming in while these Quests are in full swing, and might be a tish uncomfortable, or daunted, coming in. Not to worry! While we’re a bunch of lazy bums that don’t have up-to-date summaries on hand most of the time, we’re also incredibly insecure attention whores who would positively love more posters.

The easiest way (for us) would be for you to read through the quest thread. But that can be a bit much. Never fear though, just private message us and we’ll fill you in as best we can. Or refer you to someone who can fill you in.

Okay, so now you know what’s going on in a quest, and it’s time to post.

Except you have no idea what to do.

Now, this is no problem at all for those of you just coming into the Quests. It will take you some time to figure out your own rhythm or ideas for what to do during the course of a Quest. In the meantime, you can still post and show us that you love us by supporting the idea of another member in the case of a ‘what to do next’. Just watch the other members for a while, see what they do, and in time you’ll get the basics, and be able to approach the Quests with your own personality and ideas.

Writing “in character”. The player character generally fall into a personality somewhere in the first 10 odd pages of posts and the posters generally continue writing them as such. Don’t not post because you think you can’t write a character. This is important. We’ll tweak it, work it in or not use it. But don’t ever hold back because you’re not sure what they’d say, you are them after all. That being said we do understand some people have trouble thinking of what to say, with dialogue especially. Yes, we know a lot of people have trouble writing Kade, and that people tend to suggest actions for Lucy and leave the dialogue to others. But really it can’t hurt to try, we love it, and if you don’t want to write speech, suggest actions, plans or agree/disagree with people instead.

When a big reveal happens and you don’t know what to say, please post :O instead of silence. Remember how we said we’re insecure? Really, really insecure.

Now then, some of you, while getting acclimated to the Quests, might notice a poster in particular who seems to be in the mood to cause mischief. Some might say he borders on wanting to destroy the Quests entirely; we know this individual, we are friends, we find this individual rather amusing and know when and when not to take suggestions seriously. This is for fun, we don’t need or want everything to be Serious Business. (For God’s sake look at what you made of the poor player characters, how could we possibly make it such!?)

His name is Wittgen: commit the name to memory.

If you have questions about the quest, world, need a more detailed explanation or whatever else feel free to ask us in the topic or by PM. Just so you know the five authors of the above quests chat a lot, we’ve all discussed heaps of back story, mechanics and spoilers that may never make it into the actual topics. If you want to know too, just ask.

Now then, these were all things that we like. Here are things we aren’t so fond of:

-Fighting
-- Debating is fine, infantile insult slinging is not
-Insults
-Srs Business
-Hate Speech
-Asshattery
-Try to keep cussing to reasonable levels
-- Note that ‘reasonable’ can be subjective to what is going on in the Quest. If the PC is being eaten by wolves, then feel free to cuss like a sailor
-General antisocial behaviour
-If we do tell you things we shouldn’t have, no spoilers

Always remember:
-You, the collective you, make the player character
-New people have as much right to suggest actions as anyone else
-What gets used it up to the author’s discretion, however...
-We will use as many of the directions as we can
-- Unless it is a vote, in which case, the winning vote will be used. Whether we want it to or not. Which would explain our tendency to jump off of high things and get squished.
-Dice Gods will be consulted when required
-- If the Dice Gods decree that you all fight an Otter Bear, an adolescent bear, or other sort of bear, then tough luck. This also applies to other decrees of the Dice Gods, including the death of children, death of a loved one, pregnancy or death of the PC.
- We’re totally doing ongoing pregnancy rolls
-- Happy Fun Time is always an option, except when it isn’t.
--- We apologise for the Happy Science Time, but the story demanded their suffering
---- It isn’t our fault, really. They were totally asking for it. Besides, we did it for Science.
-I’m sorry what were we talking about? This also happens.
-- More often than you’d think.
---Author ADD is common. If a Quest isn’t updating, post in it and we’ll remember it exists, this goes double for crossover quest.
- Stories written by the authors that aren’t a part of Quest canon are just as linked to our tendencies as attention whores. Should we post a story in the ‘Quest Thread’, we would have a happy if you gave us feedback. No, not a happy, A LOVE!
-If we like it, we will make your Head-Canon, Canon.
-- It has happened before, and we guarantee you that it will happen again.
- Vampire Quest runs on rule of cool, don’t question physics.
- There is a mostly up-to-date bigass summary of VQ, PM serbii if you want it.
- Each Quest runs on its own variety of rule. You will learn them in time.
- We're winging it, so, so much more than it looks like.
-Collective posts will always end up longer than we planned, sorry about the wall of text.

Lots of love and needy clinging,
Arganaut, Darkandus, ewuvi, Magnificate and serbii

*The other Quests may run differently. This ad may be extremely misleading, product may not work, and it may burn your face off. If you think about the Quests for more than three hours after posting, please consult your desk, as it will have an appointment with your face, unless you are a quest author where this phenomenon is completely normal, unlike you.

And yes, we actually had requests for this guide. It's not some our less than devious plan to get more posters.
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Re: Quests Primer

Unread postby serbii » June 4th, 2011, 11:31 pm

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Authors of other quests: feel free to write up and add your own points. If you want PM me and I'll add a section to the top post.

Mods could this be pinned so new members can see it?
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Re: Quests Primer

Unread postby Darkandus » June 5th, 2011, 12:39 am

VQ does actually have consistant physics. They are called the unified laws of I.I.A. Otherwise know as If It's Awesome. Also, realistic convection. I would seriously advise avoiding lava because you will burn to death and possibly melt if you get within a hundred or so feet of it. That stuff is HOT. Plasma weapons also make things burn. Go figure.

Convection is awesome.
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Re: Quests Primer

Unread postby serbii » June 6th, 2011, 8:02 am

So the real laws of physics apply so long as they're the awesome laws of physics? Good to know.
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Re: Quests Primer

Unread postby ShonenHero » June 14th, 2011, 5:42 pm

Hey serbs, after looking at Dervon's Master List Quest thread and seeing how it's a bit dated (by almost a year, I think), is there any chance to convert the Quest Primer into a Master List Quest thread?
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