Deedeequest or The Wonders of Mundus: Be Careful Who You Pretend To Be - A Genderous Isekai Quest

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    • Character sheet is here.

    Dice rolls are 1d10 + Stat + Proficiency + any applicable bonuses, such as Boons.

    You may spend 3 Tension to Overdrive for a retroactive +5 to your roll (a Determination Overdrive), or +3 to an ally's roll (a Teamwork Overdrive). I will also automatically overdrive to avoid exhaustion or unconsciousness.

    It is possible to critically succeed (on +5 on skill checks and +10 on combat rolls) or critically fail (by the same margins), but rolling a 1 or a 10 does not automatically crit in either case. It is possible to crit retroactively by Overdriving.

    Your stat bonuses have names:
    • Vigor grants a Strength bonus.
    • Agility grants a Dexterity bonus.
    • Spirit grants an Aura bonus.
    • Mind grants an Intuition bonus.
    • Resolve grants a Guts bonus.
    Dice are rolled on a first come, first serve bonus. You only roll for Deedee.
     
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    • Proper Battledress, by Ruka
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    • Here we see Ruka's rendition of Ace in proper battledress.

    (She kept the old outfit, but only for special occasions.)

    This was going to show up as a scene if you went armor shopping with her, but that never happened; still, this is what she's sporting in battle now.
     
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    • No update yet - today was unkind to me - but I'm doing a minor tweak.

    I'm not afraid to retcon how something works if the new version is that much better thematically, so I'm going to rewrite a key part of the Aurora page - the way her Least Boon should always have worked.

    In Valor terms, it's an asset (that Alesha has) which now reads:

    Least Boon of Aurora: You lead by example. +3 to Leadership rolls when physically taking on the same burdens you demand of others.
     
    [happy paladin noises]

    I'm a huge fan of the thematics of refusing to be Above It All when it comes to Aurora's imagery - down in the dirt is where the work is.
     
    Talia B said:
    Siobahn Greenwood
    Pixie Ranger - Wyldwoods Warden​


    Our newest friend, scouting with the party for this trip, making it a party of 6.
    Art donated by Majayrick (on Twitter).
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    Pff, the look on her face. (also her earmuffs look like headphones, an aesthetic choice I can't imagine was accidental on her part)
     
    Permanent Discord, Scribblehub, and Patreon links
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    • This week has been unusually hectic, even for me. I also had to prepare for my papa's memorial service.

    Expect an update this weekend, and for updates to slow down to once a week in general (though I'll try to include some more side content as a bonus); between life getting weird and working with bii on Synquest this was honestly overdue.

    I will, also, now at the end of the month remind people both that I have a Discord for discussing this and other Quests the I/Ocrew do (including Synquest and @Fabricati's original quest Tomoflake), and a Patreon to defray the costs of putting up the fabulous official art for the project. I'll never charge to participate or influence a vote, but there are a few bennies available - mostly prereader access and side projects, like my game design work.

    I also am working turning the first volume of this Quest into a novella, at Scribblehub.

    Thank you for another month reading I/Oquest, and here's to getting it done, update by update, until every planned volume is complete.
     
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    • How about that Quest Pick of the Month huh

    I wish I had an update, but a minor medical emergency last night meant I had to sleep through the day. I'll put it up ASAP; expect it Soon.
     
    I feel like this quest would've worked better if we were a previously max level character starting to explore the new DLC and trying to reach the new level cap, instead of starting out as Level 1. It would've necessitated a longer character creation, but definitely have much more interesting character dynamics and story.
     
    EternityWarrior said:
    I feel like this quest would've worked better if we were a previously max level character starting to explore the new DLC and trying to reach the new level cap, instead of starting out as Level 1. It would've necessitated a longer character creation, but definitely have much more interesting character dynamics and story.
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    There are very specific reasons I chose to do the great reset instead.

    Begging your pardon, but you also don't know what kind of character dynamics I was going for.

    If you'd rather see a story with your premise than read this one, I'm sure you can find it. I recommend Log Horizon for the "max level; exploring new DLC" take on isekai. But if you're going to be in this thread, kindly don't tell me about the much better premise than this one you'd have preferred to see. You don't go into an Indian restaurant and ask for a hamburger: don't come in this quest and ask for a vastly different story.

    This is a warning.
     
    Talia B said:
    There are very specific reasons I chose to do the great reset instead.

    Begging your pardon, but you also don't know what kind of character dynamics I was going for.

    If you'd rather see a story with your premise than read this one, I'm sure you can find it. I recommend Log Horizon for the "max level; exploring new DLC" take on isekai. But if you're going to be in this thread, kindly don't tell me about the much better premise than this one you'd have preferred to see. You don't go into an Indian restaurant and ask for a hamburger: don't come in this quest and ask for a vastly different story.

    This is a warning.
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    What Talia said.

    (And as it happens, it's made pretty obvious as the story goes on that Deedee was, actually, at that point in the game immediately prior to the the Isekai Incident—but got nerfed when she got stuck in the game, for reasons that will, actually, make sense when they come out.)
     
    It's actually stated really early on that the entire guild was a clearing guild and only Ace is new as well.
     
    I'm new to this quest, so please tell me if this is already something people have talked about, but the premise is stuck in my head and I can't stop theory-crafting about it. And there's one particular thing I keep coming back to.

    All of the Mundanes are Turing Complete Artificial Intelligences now.

    This isn't just 14 TCAIs running a server on behalf of a company, this is an entire world of TCAIs. Population of ... what, tens of thousands at a bare minimum, more likely hundreds of thousands, and possibly millions? And this world clearly respects AI life at least to some extent. Even if the characters we saw in the interlude are outliers, they're the ones with the most direct authority over the server and they view the TCAIs they made on purpose as their children.

    So this server isn't coming down.

    Even if they find a way to bring neurolinked people back into their bodies (assuming the bodies aren't effectively brain-dead already) it is not an option to shut down the server. Doing so would be genocide on a scale for the history books. (Not that the details and maintenance wouldn't be hideously complicated, but I'm at least hoping mass extermination of virtual people isn't on the table.) Which means staying in this server will, I think, likely be an option even if returning people to their bodies becomes possible.

    Maybe my chain of logic is wrong somewhere, but this is giving me all kinds of thoughts of what might happen with Deedee and I can't wait to see where its goes for her.
     
    Sengachi said:
    Even if the characters we saw in the interlude are outliers, they're the ones with the most direct authority over the server and they view the TCAIs they made on purpose as their children.

    So this server isn't coming down.

    Even if they find a way to bring neurolinked people back into their bodies (assuming the bodies aren't effectively brain-dead already) it is not an option to shut down the server. Doing so would be genocide on a scale for the history books.
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    Hopefully, the Other Worlds Tourism Bureau will be able to persuasively make that argument to DARPA and other government agencies inclined to call study of this incident a "threat assessment."

    Hopefully.
     
    Talia B said:
    Hopefully, the Other Worlds Tourism Bureau will be able to persuasively make that argument to DARPA and other government agencies inclined to call study of this incident a "threat assessment."

    Hopefully.
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    Well, what with op access to the servers being blockaded at present, it's not like OWTB can shut down Chimaera at the moment even if they wanted to. Somehow I suspect that blockade will continue until DARPA et al's... stance on all this becomes more clear. :）
     
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    Sengachi said:
    I'm new to this quest, so please tell me if this is already something people have talked about, but the premise is stuck in my head and I can't stop theory-crafting about it. And there's one particular thing I keep coming back to.

    All of the Mundanes are Turing Complete Artificial Intelligences now.
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    Given the size of the population, it's unlikely that they were all personally programmed and awakened the way the fourteen gods were. Procedurally generated, however, using mind-prints that OWTB already had access to...

    :3
     
    bii said:
    Given the size of the population, it's unlikely that they were all personally programmed and awakened the way the fourteen gods were. Procedurally generated, however, using mind-prints that OWTB already had access to...

    :3
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    Oh lol all this time I had assumed Io's mistake was based on accidentally slicing its own mind up... hadn't even considered that it might have been trying to crib off of the Chimaera playerbase, despite that being pretty much perfect training data just sitting there waiting to be used, and explaining better why Deedee & co would wake up in the test instance when Io crashed...
     
    There are peices of the puzzle y'all don't have access to yet, of course, but I am excited that the Rampant Speculation has gone in this direction.
     
    Oh of course we're missing stuff we'd need to put the full puzzle together. But I can still enjoy thinking about what will happen when the players finally realize the implications of a world full of TCAIs. Because whether or not they can come to all the right conclusions, they can still go through the same thought process we can about the implications of so many sapient AIs existing on a server. AIs who the players instinctively reacted to as real people, and went so far as to put their own lives on the line (potentially) to save from slavery.

    I can't wait for the moment it kicks in for them that they aren't the only sapient people trapped in server-space, the Mundanes are too. With even fewer ways out.
     
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