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also haha im an asshole and ive been forgetting to crosspost quest inbox answers again. for a few months. heres another textwall
>ira....... when teddy.....
when teddy indeed
>Ira I’m a weed scientist and it’s doesn’t effect your cardiovascular system (no blood needed) so can Pascal smoke, weed. Does minmin own a goofy bong,,
vampires in fact can smoke weed. pascal has in the past but it’s hard for him to get it now because nobody will talk to him. minmin, surprisingly, does not partake
>do the vampires in tvrn ever indulge in Human Foods other than alcohol? if so whats the favorite human foods of the mains
if vampires indulge in solid food they will projectile vomit up all of the blood they’ve consumed in the past few weeks a la WWDITS. this is one of the reasons all vampires do is drink. the other reason is they, as a culture, have no coping mechanisms
>what about jello .......... or pudding ........
Risky
>Jello shots?
RISKY
>this answer is so upsetting. thank you
you’re so welcome
>tvrn question! what are minmin and bunji's favorite pokemon? (i would love to know the rest of tvrn's casts faves but i would be surprised if pascal knows what a pokemon is)
bunji doesn’t know what pokémon is even tho minmin has tried to explain it to him. minmin’s favorite changes every day but he keeps coming back to mew and skitty. ricardo kind of knows what pokemon is bc of the kids from his apartment complex who always climbed all over him when he was growing up and if you asked him what his favorite pokémon was he would hesistantly mispronounce pikachu
>are babenburg and the marquess, yknow,
i was goign to answer this in a jokey shitheaded way but actually i’m just staring at my phone feeling genuinely emotional that someone has read my shit attentively enough to have picked up on a detail this small and this briefly alluded to
>is dracula sexy
would i make him unsexy. why would you even ask me this. you should be ashamed of yourself
>do vampires need to drink water? can they die of alcohol poisoning? if you cut open a vampire that hasn't fed in weeks would their insides be totally dry? i came for porn and stayed to ask about annoying semantics
1. no 2. no but they can have an EXTREMELY unpleasant weekend 3. depends how old they are. younger vampires suffer starvation effects sooner 4. good because i set out to make porn and ended up neck deep in worldbuilding so we’re on the same page here
>What happens to blood solids? Like if you remove all the water from blood you get solid remainder, like with ice cream or something. You said vampires don't poop so do they like... Shed blood? Process it in its entirety with no waste?
to be one thousand percent honest i don’t think abt things down to this mechanical level bc it’s not interesting to me fjdkfjf so we’ll just say they process it entirely
>sorry if you've been asked before but what has inspired your art/storytelling the most, either currently or when you were younger? and sort of related but what attracted you to the quest format?
when i was younger definitely like....... courage the cowardly dog. and shoujo manga. now i’m inspired by all the stuff that i want to see done that doesn’t really exist, or exists but that i think i can do better. what attracted me to the quest format is i love attention
>What's everyone's karaoke song?
you only get minmin’s because i was literally thinking about this while walking home https://open.spotify.com/track/6H4Pxh91zUEbGWvRTUFcSW?si=j8pSyh3URsCO7QUgKLvJiQ (anri’s ‘last summer whisper’ except this lofi soundcloud shit version is definitely what he’d sing)
>Can lamb shift into a sheep
nope (her affinity is not shifting and for her One Slot she picked the bat like a normal person) but even if she could she would not
>How often does lamb get asked whether her shift is to a sheep?
actually never bc she only (reluctantly) hangs out with her covenmates, who all know the origin of her name + her affinity
>does surfing count as crossing running water. the bay squad needs your answer
a vampire can be on a surfboard for a while but this is a scenario that can only end in tragedy
>Lickbutt's one night only concert
the quest was so damn short that this might as well just be an alternate title
>How do wells factor into the crossing running water thing? Does it count as man made, or? Basically if a vampire is dunked in a well will they float
since a well is generally just tapping into an aquifer, the well itself is manmade but the water counts as a natural source, so a vampire who gets tossed in a well is gonna have an extremely bad time
>So like you said that vamps that fall into water really wanna get out of it right? So like are they fine if they find a shore and walk out or do they pretty much just die?
they want to but generally the pain is incapacitating. if they COULD walk their way out, they’d be okay, but they probably can’t even manage that
>augh i forget if you already talked abt this or not; can/do vampires feed from animals instead of humans
pascal mentions this SUPER briefly, like one offhand line — they technically could but they consider it absolutely disgusting. it would be like. the equivalent of eating banana peels for us. could u live on banana peels.......... i mean technically MAYBE. you’d definitely get sick tho. see now i’m really wondering about that
>interesting cos i assume that means vampires w/ an affinity for shifting steer clear of, like, fish. or dolphins or whatever. just picturing a vampire-shark just fuckin flopping around in the sea in agony
oh yeah no fuckin fish. no can do
>what does minmin do in the rare occasion that he breaks a nail
you would expect him to freak out but he’s actually been through it enough that he generally doesn’t bat an eyelid. the problem is that there are only three people on the planet earth that he trusts to touch his nails and he travels constantly so he refuses to touch anything with that hand until he can sync up his schedule with the closest person which can sometimes take like a week or two. bunji already opens all his containers and stuff for him tho so i guess that’s not actually that different than normal
>Has Pascal ever been to a concert, can Ricardo play call me maybe on the violin
pascal has been to Many concerts. ricardo can’t right now but he could learn
>with constantin, is the mark under his eye a mole and not a tattoo?
who knows! you’ll have to ask him! i want you to know my girlfriend was reading over my shoulder as i typed this and she quietly said “it’s the mark of the beast”
>pascal has that mark and he's not a beas— well, maybe in bed?
that’s spoilers
>Hey idk if you take requests, but during the training arc can there be a scene where Kel flexes so hard her shirt sleeves tear off and get shredded into nothing by her beautiful biceps
it’s not a request if it aligns seamlessly with my own desires
>When you say tvrn isn't a dating sim, does that mean riscal is the only endgame?
yep — well, KIND of, but the reason saying yes to that isn’t 100% accurate is spoilers — basically the most accurate thing i can say is there are other encounters you can have, but tvrn is a story about ricardo and pascal making it work.
>once a vampire drinks blood and it's in their system does it stay as warm as it is in a human's, or is it cold, as vampires are traditionally depicted
room temperature unless they’re being Active
>IRA im thinkin about tvrn ocs and i don't remember if you've already talked about this, but would a shifter choosing a form that's naturally venomous have any use in a fight or would it just be an edgy useless form
we didn’t end up getting into it in the minbun duel but: it’s useful bc it’s Vampire Venom. if pascal hadn’t severed his arm they would have ended up noticing that the bite was not healing or regenerating at all (the slow heal time is mentioned very briefly, and i was going to have the bite still remain on the severed arm looking nasty and necrotic but in the end having to badger minmin for an antidote in the aftermath would have overly bloated those conversations so i scrapped it).
>can a vampire have more than one affinity? if not, can a vampire dedicate themselves to study and foster a talent even if it doesn't come naturally to them?
most vampires can handle a little bit of overlap with practice and study. if they tried REALLY fucking hard, like hunter x hunter training arc dedicating their all to it and destroying their body for it, a vampire could learn to master an affinity they don’t have any predisposition for as if it were their inborn affinity
>if this isn’t spoilers, does tvrn have a lot of like possible bad ends (tm)? it just seems like... there’s so much that could go wrong and sometimes it makes me too nervous to suggest HFKSJFKDK
mmmmmm i think it’s more like..... things could Go badly and you guys could have a really rough time for a while, but i’m way more interested in giving you guys opportunities to fix your mistakes than i am in yelling GAME OVER, u know? and also i’m just like. fundamentally not interested in writing a story full of lgbt characters with a tragic/grimdark outcome, frankly. i’m very interested in the interactive part of tvrn being very Present, i want your suggestions to have weight and meaning and i Will enact narrative consequences when you fuck up, but i’m not interested in like. actually idk i think the best way to put this is i never want it to stop being fun. i will punish u guys for fucking up bc i think consequences are interesting and make for an engaging plot but i think that kind of punishment should always be followed by opportunities to fix things and get back on track
>In any of your quests, has there been a moment where readers did suggest something really bad that required big narrative punishment? What's the closest your quests have skirted to a Bad End?
tbh the thing abt it is that after katherine quest (which had, frankly, a fully railroaded bad end — there was no way for things to turn out well in that story), i ended up realizing that i don’t want to make any more stories with fully tragic, hopeless ends, like, ever. and honestly most of my quests that i’ve run over the years never really got Into the plot — even maroon quest had only just started to get into choices that really mattered bc i took too long on exposition. so actually the closest thing to a Huge mistake that’s been made so far is the teddy thing in tvrn, which has already been defused pretty much as well as possible (if you’d let it fester, and ESPECIALLY if you’d continued to get pascal to tell stories about him without revealing what you already know, it could have gone extremely badly.) the tvrn duel also could have been a complete disaster, which i’ve talked about briefly before. honestly tho my readers just generally don’t fuck up much
>Does minmin sticker all of his selfies? How often would he change his nails and hairstyle? being immortal, does vampire healing mean hair / nails grow faster or slower? Most importantly Does minmin know I love him
1. no. he leaves the really good ones alone 2. he has to change his nails constantly bc he chews them but his hairs been the same since 89 3. slower unless you shift it 4. yes he does
>ira!! your sketches always have so much vitality and movement (and when applicable, sex appeal lol, which is also really fun) - tips????
i draw extremely fucking fast and im horny. im struggling to come up w a Process or Method more coherent than this
[i made some offhand tweets about one of the upcoming characters in tvrn exhibiting "the illumi problem" and having vague anxiety abt how that character will be received due to that, which prompted the next questions; normally i wouldn't crosspost stuff like this that's incoherent without my social media posts but i think it's only fair to crosspost stuff that contains hints/vague spoilers.]
>Sorry if this is obvious but whats the illumi problem??
“this character is a victim of severe abuse and that’s why they’re Like This™️, but also, die” — esp when that character is placed in opposition to other abuse victims who are NOT Like That™️
>👀 i.... have an illumi bias, and a bias for similar characters...... who’s the tvrn illumi....
i’m not telling u but i will say that the character has already made an appearance which honestly makes it a little obvious i guess
>Is constantin the illumi?
NO constantin fucking sucks and has zero excuses or Extenuating Circumstances. please feel free to continue to liberally hate his guts and excuse nothing about him whatsoever
>Ira this is really important. How would Bunji do on Great British Bake Off
he would win
>How much prep do you do before starting a quest?
oh that way depends. maroon quest i launched into with nothing. tvrn i had rp’d riscal scenes with marina that pretty much cover the entirety of chapter 1 so i Kind Of had the plot prewritten but? not really bc once it’s in the reader’s hands anything could happen and in the end it ended up extremely different. the real prep there was fleshing out their characterization and learning how to write them. i have another quest that i’m going to be prepping for MONTHS before i release it, bc its going to have a battle system, sprites, icon portraits, etc..... it really just depends. but i think way more prep, if u do any, should go into characters and figuring out an art style that is fast and easy rather than into plot, bc u really have no idea how the plot is going to go once your readers get unleashed on it so save yourself the grief of going “NOOOO YOU WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO DO THAT AND NOW THIS ENTIRE SECTION I WROTE IS OBSOLETE” by only having extremely major plot points planned imo
>Can TVRN vampires hibernate?
noooo they’d get hungry
>IS pascal an idiot???
i refuse to answer this. this is the question tvrn as a piece of media sets out to pursue and i will not hand it to you
>IS pascal an intellectual.
uhhhhhh. UHHHHH. hm. yknow. in areas that INTEREST him, yes, actually
>idk what your understanding of japanese personal pronouns is but do you have an idea of what pronouns minmin, bunji, naotaro, noroi etc would use for themselves in jpn? i can see bunji and noroi using "ore" and maybe naotaro too but "boku"/"watashi" is a little more humble. personally as a trans person learning japanese, i feel like its such a power move to switch from "watashi" to "ore" so hell yeah for whatever pronoun minmin uses!
oh i def think abt this stuff bc i know like Just enough japanese to think abt it and not much more fjdkfjkd. naotaro and noroi use watashi, finn is welcome to correct me on this but i feel like bunji uses washi with people he’s not familiar w and ore w people he knows, and minmin. ok listen. minmin uses boku normally but he would straight up say shit like ore-sama when he’s in a Mood
>are there any old vampires? vampires that were turned in their 40s/50s/60s? grandma vampires?
ya but i mean i’m probably not gonna make any important npcs who look much older than 40ish bc im 25 and it’s porn and i personally only find ppl in my own visual age range sexy
>shdhfhdhffhcbchjfhfhgvcj i wasn't asking for horny reasons
oh well despite my investment in worldbuilding u do have to keep in mind that IM making all character design decisions for purely horny reasons
>all vampires are sexy and young. old people have no rights
i mean this could actually be a really interesting convo about how this is a vampiric social construct bc of the insistence on turning people In Their Prime even tho as briefly discussed already making people immortal when they’re like 21 fucks them up in extremely persistent ways but also again from a flat standpoint yeah this is bc i, the mid-20s author, am only attracted to people who look my age. old people have rights just not rights to be in my porn
[author's note: i saw spiderman into the spiderverse and [REDACTED SPOILER VILLAIN] changed my mind about this.]
>Before I dive any deeper into the this wolf pup OC, what are the rules for the TVRN werewolves?
normal human lifespans; generally normal abilities when in human form (sturdier, stronger, heal faster, but it’s not Vampire Level); they are not normal sized wolves they are HUGE wolves; can transform at will whenever they want but transform compulsively on the full moon, whether or not they’re actually in moonlight; can keep their wits about them during the compulsory transformation with an immense amount of practice and concentration but it’s more usual for them to just find ways to isolate themselves; easier to keep themselves conscious during compulsory transformation if they’re around other werewolves; live in packs of 3-20; generally nowhere NEAR as malicious, violent, petty, or interconnected as vampire society; the vast majority of werewolves are turned by accident and are welcomed into their pack as a “sorry about that, we’re gonna help you cope” deal but in some cases it’s a family tradition. transmission is through non-fatal bites
>If cryptids are real in tvrn are the muppets real? Is kermit a cryptid?
why the fuck are you implying muppets are cryptids i’m shaking with rage
>Acid soup question! How does "having" something work when it comes to crime? If I wanted to steal the Mona Lisa, I'd have to disable the alarms, get it off the wall, and then would it disappear into hammerspace? Or would I have to carry it out while the cops chased me?
for a physical object you’d have to be able to touch it, so you’d have to disable any security measures disallowing touch! but then you’ve Got it and nobody can get it from you unless they kill you and then essentially pick through your rolodex, or somehow otherwise make you choose to Give it to them
>do vampire psychologists exist? like is there a network of them?? given how screwed up vamp society is im pretty sure vamp psychologists would be getting a lot of work.
not in the cradle which is why we’re in this mess
>if minmin shapeshifted into a tsuchinoko just how emotional would bunji get
bunji gets weepy any time minmin shifts into Anything but tsuchinoko would kill him for good
>ira when do we get to cagefight pascal’s sire
the answer to this question is extremely variable depending on actions taken in canon
>ira i’m sad about pascal :(
i know
>are any of the vampires who have been introduced but whose affinities we don’t know yet specialists?
i am not going to answer ANY questions like this you silly bitches. you little sneaks
>sorry if i just missed it, but i was rereading and noticed that east coast is mentioned, but nothing else. what city and ricardo and pascal actually in right now?
that’s actually on purpose! because the first location isn’t important, and i didn’t want readers to overthink it or look too deep into it. also, to a lesser degree, i knew i was going to let readers choose the second location and i wanted to leave things as open-ended as possible (like, if i say he’s in massachusetts, then suddenly u guys wouldn’t be able to choose any cities there as a location, etc.) since u guys decided to go clear across the country it ended up being a non-issue, but in the beginning that was my thought process.
>What Hogwarts houses would the tvrn cast be in?
oh hell yeah i still love houses even tho jkr can eat shit. of the introduced characters:
ricardo - gryffindor
pascal - slytherin
kel - gryffindor
lamb - gryffindor
minoru - slytherin
bunji - hufflepuff
teddy - hufflepuff
rex - gryffindor
jonquil - ravenclaw
jonquil is the only ravenclaw and there’s a severe gryffindor surplus because vampires are dumb as fuck
>Pascal minmin slither-pals....
minmin is head boy and wildly popular and knows every student by name and nobody sits with pascal at dinner
>when are we going to get to see pascal turn into a fucked up bat
i’m being dead serious when i say it’s going to be extremely hard to get him to do that in front of anyone bc he knows he’s going to be mocked for it
>RICARDO IS A GOOD BOY HE WOULD NEVER MAKE FUN OF PASCAL’S BAT :(
are you sure about that. like are you really sure about that
>does the bat look like a stuffed bat with googly eyes
yeah but like ugly, and if it was made by someone who had only heard a Description of a bat
>to be fair to pascal i'm pretty sure every vampire looks like that when they shift into bats because thats exactly what it sounds like vampire society would do. also to be fair to vampire society: even most real bats don't look like bats
fair and true that most bats look extremely made up
>That video where the guys like “MA. THERES A WEIRD FUCKIN CAT OUTSIDE”. That cat. That’s what Pascal’s bat form looks like.
it evokes the same emotions, yes
>bunji’s a noble??? does he have a cool culturally significant vampire job too?
yeah, p much the same rank as minmin! and this hasnt really come up yet but most vampires are happily unemployed
>The vampires that are employed - are their jobs seen as "hobbies" or is every vampire job vital to society, like minoru's?
it’s a mix! some work specifically within vampire frameworks, like minoru (there are other vampire-specific jobs that will come up later) but vampires who work among humans are considered weirdos with weird hobbies
>hi ira! im sorry if someone already asked this or if you talked about this and im not caught up so i havent read the latest phone updates but would vampires have trouble working touch screens because of the blood and body heat thing?
afaik touch screens work via electric charge, which a corpse can still conduct, so nope! no problems
>do vampires HAVE to get their blood directly from people. I might have missed something.
mmm this will be covered. technically, no. it has to be human but it depends on what u mean by Direct
>in the lamb interlude will we be able to fuck kel because im gay for her
maybe. kel is elusive to her wards on the fuck front for very good reasons
>what was kels sire like? except if it's spoilers, but I'm very curious!
kel killed him the second she was strong enough so i have put precisely zero thought into him tbh
>Which of your protagonists (from any of your works) would you get along the best with? Which would you get along the worst with?
oh man when you narrow it down to protags only..... id get along best with maroon for sure. we’d chill. pascal i would kill with my bare hands bc he is a blatant projection of everything i dislike about myself
>which in the tvrn cast would stan ryo asuka and who would want to punch him
stan: minmin, pascal
punch: ricardo, kel, lamb, bunji
>Which of your characters are cat, dog, bird or rodent people?
cat: minmin
dog: ricardo, bunji (but he loves all animals, also he’s not mine but yknow. he gets included), kel, pascal
bird: uh. nobody, probably just bc i personally do not like birds and can’t really imagine having predominant affection for them
rodent: lamb
>who would be pascal's favorite la squandra member
oh shit. uhhh. probably risotto bc he finds him the most attractive and the [pascal voice] Most Cool!!!! his least favorite would be prosciutto, despite the fact that prosciutto would be the second most attractive to him, bc he thinks prosciutto’s nagging is annoying
>who would be pascal’s favorite jojo? :o
JOSUKE!!!!!!!! and u didn’t ask but for the record, ricardo’s would be jolyne
>does the existence of mermaids mean that there are Fair Folk in general? are we never allowed to meet them because thats just a whole new layer of Extreme Fantasy Bitch Politics but sunlight flavored. can we feed constantin to a bog hag and possibly spark a massive supernatural war between vampires and the fair folk?
pretty much everything exists in tvrn, but as pascal said — why worry abt them when vampires are the uncontested top of the food chain
>*o* are we going to meet mermaids in tvrn...
are you going to make our protags, who are creatures with a fatal weakness to natural bodies of water, go fuck around by natural bodies of water
>will there be catboys in tvrn? like, do they exist in the universe for us to potentially encounter? is there a possibility of us meeting catboys? because I will steer pascal and ricardo in any necessary direction for catboys
hm. hm. there are genuinely, this is not me fucking with you, a lot of ways to answer this but all of them are things i want you guys to find out yourselves in canon
>Technically we've already confirmed that Ricardo Could be a catboy if we want him to be, we could totally meet other shifters who would also be catboys
i hate to say it but it goes deeper than this
>How much of Vampire Depression is to do with the fact it's always dark out?
very, very little
>What is Noroi's vampire ability?
i cannot tell u that bc there is a very slim chance that if u make very good friends w minmin u might get to visit the higuchi estate in which case there is then a further slim chance that u might duel him and SO, i can’t spoil it
>Yo! I’m an old quest reader - was there other quests you thought about rebooting? I always was a huge fan of how you wrote a more spooky/horror genre and I’d love to see it again one day! (If you don’t want to answer no worries - I don’t want to take away from the work you’re doing now!!!!)
mmmm tbh not really! most of my dead quests i’m now completely disinterested in or in worst case scenarios embarrassed by — maroon quest is the only one that i think still holds up. the villains win is basically like wild/weary reloaded, tho
>On the topic of dead quests, is there any chance you would be willing to write like a short "ending" or notes on the direction you would have wanted it to go? I mostly ask because I hope Loretta and Paris are okay. That said, I get it if you rather just leave it and move on
i can tell you that i never would have written an ending where paris and loretta aren’t okay. there’s a lot of stuff about loretta quest i don’t want to touch anymore though bc i was in an awful place and the way i was using lq to cope was harmful to me - i was just reliving shit through different lenses instead of processing anything. i’ve said i don’t want it to be left without an ending but i also don’t know when/if i’ll ever want to touch it again
[i mentioned that most of the gore in tvrn will be more of the kill bill variety where someone's head gets chopped off and there's an absurd geyser of blood that lasts two minutes, rather than the saw franchise variety of lingering shots on things that are genuinely stomach-churning, then mused, "but the clowns will be bad." which led to the following messages]
>ira i literally can’t tell if you’re joking or not about scary clowns being in tvrn
i would never fucking joke about something like this
>Will the clowns be kinda sexy tho
of course. obviously. why would you doubt me
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