Blooming From A Seed To A Tree (Project Moon Crossover Quest)

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[X] A young man dragging a bunch of children with him..... Wait a minute....

This will be interesting, hoodie is tempting too, but this should come first
 
[X] A golden hair young man, already you feel great power and arrogance from him, however, there was also something else. What it was, you are not sure.
 
Aw yeah. New Project Moon quest. The influence groes.

[X] A young man dragging a bunch of children with him..... Wait a minute....

Let's break his knees and take the candy for ourselves.
 
WilyMachineKing1 said:
EH I don't mind any omakes that you have, post it right ahead. Will probably draft something up later for a proper system for it.
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has any author here on SV actually said "no you can't post omakes, fuck off" in a thread before? Never seen any. I personally love omakes, they mean more people in the thread and thus more serotonin in my brain
 
thenew said:
has any author here on SV actually said "no you can't post omakes, fuck off" in a thread before? Never seen any. I personally love omakes, they mean more people in the thread and thus more serotonin in my brain
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I can see a reason to hold off on them, at least at the start of a fic. So, you know, I asked first.
 
Arkio said:
I can see a reason to hold off on them, at least at the start of a fic. So, you know, I asked first.
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Understandable. Sorry if bothered you with it ant some point.
thenew said:
has any author here on SV actually said "no you can't post omakes, fuck off" in a thread before? Never seen any. I personally love omakes, they mean more people in the thread and thus more serotonin in my brain
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Same.
 
WilyMachineKing1 said:
EH I don't mind any omakes that you have, post it right ahead. Will probably draft something up later for a proper system for it.
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I would recommend just having them be omakes and nothing more, Metasystems like gaining advantages from them are eminently exploitable and prone to creating a bad experience. Especially since this quest seems to be narrative as of right now, so creating mechanics just for that is unnecessary.

People can enjoy omakes without rewards behind them.

thenew said:
has any author here on SV actually said "no you can't post omakes, fuck off" in a thread before? Never seen any. I personally love omakes, they mean more people in the thread and thus more serotonin in my brain
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I have never ever seen any Author ever say that, and I do like omakes myself, at least as long as you don't begin to have things like having half or more of quest's canon be omakes, people posting omakes with the only goal being gaining points to make their character overpowered, or worse, but fortunately I have only seen it once, having a system so swingy that you risk to break your neck due to a crit fail when lacing your shoes, and the only protection being omake points (said example died relatively soon after because people weren't writing that many omakes, decided to go scout what the QM thought of as an end game boss but made act as if they were the current boss to fight, and the voters got two crit fails in two updates in quick succesion: one in the scouting, resulting in them being very injured, and one when the enemy folowed them to the place where they were healing, they decided to stay and fight, and got another crit fail, that the QM rues as an insta death. Not a pleasant end.)
 
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Nyarky said:
I would recommend just having them be omakes and nothing more, Metasystems like gaining advantages from them are eminently exploitable and prone to creating a bad experience. Especially since this quest seems to be narrative as of right now, so creating mechanics just for that is unnecessary.

People can enjoy omakes without rewards behind them.
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Eh fair enough.
 
[X] A young man dragging a bunch of children with him..... Wait a minute....
Lets give him a big city welcome and tear out his jaw!
I don't think X would let something like this happen especially if Tiph A left a big enough impression for them to make her the base of their body.
 
WilyMachineKing1 said:
Eh fair enough.
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I dunno, over the years, my experience with omake-reward systems been mostly positive. A lot of real good quests still employ the systems. Like, off hand, the real popular giants like NN and the dorf warhammer quests get a lot of mileage out of it.

Just be conservative with your rewards. As long as it is one of many factors that determine overall success instead of the only factor that determines success, it is all good. Great for improving audience participation and thread health.
 
Canon Omake: First Steps
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    • First steps 1​
    Walking across the streets of this… not-City filled you with such strange emotions. These are your very first moments outside the Facility, wholly yours and separate from the lives and memories of A and Tiphereth A which you hold within you. From the sight of the pavement upon which you walk to the cold, fresh air flowing in and out of your lungs, each moment engraves itself into your memory. These are going to be your memories, after all, and though they may be small, feather-light pebbles now, they will, you feel, gather to be a mental anchor of your person, in time.

    Each step you take is filled with a bounce that had never been there before, excitement and joy jumping through your body like an electric current. You can feel how your mouth curls into a smile that would have been comically out of place on your past body, your facial muscles jovially ignoring whatever attempts you try and fail to make to contain them.

    Still, reminding yourself of Yesod, you keep them restrained to just that. This newfound emotiveness of yours does not chafe, but it is good to remember that it is an all-but-open invitation to those seeking to harm others.

    Then again, you are no longer in the City - or, at least, you do not feel as though you are there anymore - so, who knows if there is a price to be paid for it. Should you even care if there is?

    Well, no, but you have to admit that even this much is just so… embarrassing in a way you have never imagined you could feel. Did this embarrassment come from the looks and whispers random passersby's directed your way? Attempting to form an answer to that question had you step into a territory far too unfamiliar for you to succeed. A failure you would gladly bear.

    If only that was the extent of the emotions you were feeling.

    The only name, the only past, the only identity you may rightfully lay claim to is that of your role as the Manager. X. One of the cogs in the machine of suffering that was the Facility, forever turning forward in the hopes of one day reaching a scripted conclusion.

    Yet for all the sheer evil it had caused, you could not extricate it from your world.

    Wherever you looked, you could not help but feel that the darkness of this night is cast not by the absence of the sun's light but by the fate of the Seed of Light. It was the ultimate justification shielding every atrocity committed, the excuse equally dismissing and accepting each sacrifice.

    It was the purpose of your life.

    Not knowing if it had succeeded despite Angela's betrayal or if she had truly torn down all hope of its realization…

    It was a return to an anxiety you were far, far too familiar with. That twisted, cold viper coiling itself around your limbs as the workday began, its fangs sinking deeper and deeper into your neck with every passing second of ominous quiet, the pressure paradoxically only letting up when everything finally started going to shit.

    A shuddering breath slipped past your lips, breaking the otherwise jovial tint your visage had taken.

    You had not given the sentiment of leaving the Facility serious thought, in retrospect. You were made for it, after all, so that may or may not be a coincidence. Regardless, even if it had not been your entire existence, that single thought banished all notion of simply leaving your past to be the past and embracing the promise of a future.

    "You were made for it, after all."

    What a terrifying thought to echo, and wholly yours to boot.

    The moon gently casting its light onto the world below felt like your only companion, beckoning you to spread your wings and soar in the open sky. But how could you, when your young wings were drowning in tar?

    Stopping your walk for a moment, you dragged your hands across your face, some indescribable emotion overpowering every other sensation. A part of you wished to once more wield the TimeTrack protocol, if only so that you could give yourself all the time you need to process this.

    You wanted - needed answers, if you were to face the world. There was simply no other option for you.

    Trying to argue with yourself about that would lead you nowhere, especially this soon.

    You simply had to keep walking forward, hoping that your path, whatever form it may take, would lead you to the outcome you were seeking.
     
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    • Nyarky said:
    Pretty good, are you sure this is your first omake? This doesn't feels like a first one, this fells like one from someone with experience.
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    I have literally hundreds of thousands of words worth of unreleased, aborted stories stored in my computer.
     
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    WilyMachineKing1 said:
    Agreed, this is better than what I am writing, and I am the QM!
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    It is much easier to insert one's own ideas into a stage set by someone else than making your own.

    That goes double for when your favourite writing is introspective scenes like these that usually get drowned in all the necessities of a full story.
     
    Arkio said:
    It is much easier to insert one's own ideas into a stage set by someone else than making your own.

    That goes double for when your favourite writing is introspective scenes like these that usually get drowned in all the necessities of a full story.
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    That is true. So much truth. Right so, right now I don't have a rewards system yet, debating whether or not the quest needs one, so sorry if I can't give you anything.
     
    Current Tally:
    Adhoc vote count started by WilyMachineKing1 on Mar 1, 2023 at 9:29 PM, finished with 101 posts and 23 votes.
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    ...I think you can close the vote, it is a 17-4-2-1, the vote in the lead has over 4 times as many votes as the second, and over the double of all the other votes combined.
     
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