FRACTAL 2024/12/12(Thu)09:55 No. 143114 ID: 2620c6
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little concept doodle page to kick us off, featuring a bunch of idle font testing and a relatively bland veil design that i'm glad i chewed on some more lol. those dezzes are cute as hell tho

HOWDY! Sorry about the multiposting before, I´m new to questden and the posting etiquette. Excited to keep contributing and following along.

>>143115
no problem at all!! it's not really a firmly codified ettiquette thing afaik, and i think different quest authors vary in how they feel about it, but my threads tend to get very long (to the point where eventually they'll struggle to load) and i like them to not be TOO hefty for backreading, so i prefer to point people over to the disthread sooner rather than later! and in this case the disthread didn't even exist before today lol

FRACTAL 2024/12/12(Thu)14:23 No. 143118 ID: 2620c6
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i waffled a little on whether to drop these bc at first i was like ehhhhh but it's really fun and good that u don't know Anything abt the other techs BUT then i got really charmed by the idea that necrotech99 readers having access to the necrotech99 pinboards is kind of very lore-appropriate to the ossuary having really vague memories of a lot of the characters...!

plus if someone would rather go in totally blind they can just not look at them. it's all just for funsies anyway no genuinely important plot info will ever be confirmed or denied by a pin on a pinterest board lmao... BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY. i think the pinboards are fun and cute

so! consider this a repository of the ossuary's vague useless echoing memories and consider it fun but unreliable. wheeeee: https://pin.it/35VSAfHq5

kicking my feet having soooo much fun with this story!!!

i just want to say i love the idea of ossuaries so much! really cool way to involve the players and just a rad idea in general, having a bunch of ghosts in your head giving you advice/shit all the time.

BCheesecake 2024/12/12(Thu)18:24 No. 143121 ID: 84eb9d
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do you guys thiunk Vittorio is doing alright

>>143120
Yeah!! We're (a) character(s)! legit, in-universe! no fourth wall breaking stuff required (fun as that is). It's so cool.

I'm very excited to continue with this, the setting's fascinating, the characters are great. I like our protagonist, the ridiculous little idiot. (/affectionate)

Also, are you planning on aiming for any particular schedule, or just whenever you've got time and there's enough replies?

>>143121
still exactly as obsessed w this as i was when u first showed it to me. thank you

>>143119
TY!!! i am too >:3

>>143120
>>143123
thank u so much!!! yeah the ossuary/twitch-plays-quest-protag format is something i test ran a long long time ago in an abandoned quest but weirdly enough, despite it being the coolest thing about that story, it was honestly kind of the thing i spent the least amount of attention/energy on??? so it's very gratifying to come back to it but this time in a story where it's way more center stage

i'm also just fond of it bc it's woven into the lore/culture of the setting in a way very inspired by/affectionate towards how questers as a group tend to engage with stuff ime over the years doing this. everyone is focused on/prioritizes different things and that's GOOD and helpful to the protag ur guiding!

as for a schedule: optimistically i would like to aim for once every week or two, depending on what else i have going on irt my workload etc, but trying to pin down a strict update schedule for quests has never worked for me!

>>143121

He´s fiiiiiiiineeeeeeeeeee

>>143118

I can't help but feel like Appeal's pinboard is more or less just an advertisement for wetwork, lol.

I looove how graphic the panels are getting. the bold colors, the emphasis on expressiveness and mood. it sets the scene really well and I think it's a Great contrast to how clear and linear the text can be

Glaive pinboard is showing off a lot of very cool cyberpunk body parts. .....and we´re stuck in Dez instead now. WE NEED TO UPGRADE HER, STAT

I'm so jazzed I'm so excited about this thing. I've got to get a friend or two interested so I can chatter at them about it also.

Pinboard suggests Glaive was/is sexier than anybody else here. I hope they're intact somewhere, even though they're Mz.Caused an ontological mystery and an Incident for Reasons.

not just because I want to see glaive in more detail because hot. but partially.

very amused by the revelation that Glaive Cave is something she called us herself. I assumed that was a Vittorio thing.
(am I right to be she/theying glaive I don't know if I remember or made that up)

very Very excited to transfer between. whatever. hell yeah let's be in multiple places at once.

Rambling here partly in an attempt to not post *way* too many times in the main thread. Not sure if successful yet.

Also Desideratum is my new vocal stim. not familiar with the word, but very pleasant to say. Desideratum.

me reading about how we can travel between....who knows what. IC assuming its between Osspops but maybe its between....different iterations of Glaives osspop? Since it was noted she split us up.

Either way I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE

i'm glad u guys are having fun sniffing at the pinboards lol...! they are very fun for me to work on. i sit around on pinterest to unwind all the time so over time these boards will def grow

>>143126
thank u!! i'm having a lot of fun playing w color and finding ways to keep the art style expressive and (relatively) fast lol

>>143178
omg thank u... makes me smile to imagine ppl chatting w friends abt this story. :D

FRACTAL 2024/12/21(Sat)12:38 No. 143183 ID: 0b3a9d
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pulling back the curtain on a necrotech99 thing: the audience is essentially creating the character of glaive's ossuary as we go (via me putting the tone and personality of all suggestions into a blender and then adjusting the tone and characterization of the narration accordingly)

and to keep that consistent over time (vs it fluctuating update to update based on what i immediately remember lol) i have a little document where i'm jotting down broad observational strokes about how nt99 questers are Playing the oss as a collaborative player character. im not showing you everything but here's some first impressions from these first few updates so far

thank u to the suggestor who first referred to individuals in an ossuary population as "geists" btw. i love that and i'm slurping it and making it canon terminology

>>143183
Any quest that let's me be both pragmatic and fucking unhinged makes me a happy suggester!

Also, I still wanna eat Vittorio! If only so Dez can gain the from-the-ground fisheye perspective disco-walk energy I like to imagine he possesses!

tippler 2024/12/27(Fri)12:37 No. 143211 ID: f1368b
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zeurel animated icon dez

>>143211
WHAT!!!! WHAT!!!!!!!!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!! THIS IS SO COOL

>>143211
THIS IS SO COOL

>>143183
this is so so cool to get a peek at and also makes me feel better for not being particularly consistent in my individual response tones all the time like. it's fiiine we all meld into one big cacophany!!! ugh this is so fun

FRACTAL 2024/12/31(Tue)08:35 No. 143252 ID: 46aad3
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oh i should be porting over other doodles i've done. nt99 makes up the bulk of my warmups lately. here's some vitos (and some bosses)

FRACTAL 2024/12/31(Tue)08:40 No. 143253 ID: 46aad3
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also, fun fact, dez began life as a tiefling-adjacent fantasy oc!! for a webcomic idea i kicked around for a while but never did anything with, about a romance-obsessed bard college dropout who decides to make their masterwork by traveling all over the world collecting love stories

FRACTAL 2024/12/31(Tue)08:40 No. 143254 ID: 46aad3
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i do miss the horns. just a little

FRACTAL 2025/01/09(Thu)08:10 No. 143291 ID: 46aad3
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song sketch warmups! (drawing for only the duration of a song, on shuffle. fun)

i've been on holiday break but i'm back now -- a little swamped w comms etc so i have to get some chunks of those done but i hope 2 update again soon >:3

FRACTAL 2025/01/09(Thu)08:10 No. 143292 ID: 46aad3
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mas

[low-key but still audible hype for future updates]

just caught up on this, so fuckin' cool

on a more serious note. https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1099846.html#1101160 noting the 'necrotechs are criminals' comment in there cuz I imagined they were at least quasi-legal, I think?

also does dez have a day job? does dez NEED a day job? enquiring minds want to know

>>143383
I drop by twice a day looking for an update for this.
So good!

yeaaaah we're back babeeee!!!
Vittorio is so much. (derisive, positive) he's so annoying and fun and huh he actually is perfectly happy to rip Dez's legs off huh!!

Veil may have threatened to splatter everyone in the club but at least she's like. goal oriented. sensible. neurotic and unstable, but, Good. roguhly. now we've got mr lawful horny evil here.

Y'know what he reminds me of? Now that he's said vampires?
A minor Hellsing villain. (this is a compliment to you and an insult to him.)

AFFECTIONATELY: oh i know that man fucking REEKS i just know he is fogging up the air in his vicinity with patchouli incense marijuana and musk (both like frag note musk and like the natty kind) to the point of condensation. & boss is sooooooo cute igi unfortunately i would probably also be hopelessly pathetic in pursuit of his approval. & old news but yay theres another varlet in this quest for my varlet collection :D i always like the varlets im a big varlethead

I must join the masses expressing their love for Vittorio.

He is a sleazebag. A dirty corpo fuck. A shitty lil man.
And I do adore him, even if my "character" doesnt!

Veil, Vittorio and Dez are three corners of a political compass/alignment chart. One of the axises is definitely murder. The other one is probably being a good person???

ANyway Vitt is awful, horrible, I love him

Lol I just realized that fucking disco ball gif in Vittorio's head is permanently affixed to be in his line of sight.

I already fucking love this team-rocket ass dipshit. Plus we get to kill him as many times as we want?!?

Hell yes!

my brain is only able to read vittorios lines and thoughts in the voice of steve from the show China, IL

vito's a bigger sleazebag than I dared imagine and unfortunately i still need him carnally. idk if it was intentional but i love how his hair looks like devil horns a little in the last panel of https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1099846.html#1103747 :3 excited to see if we can get him killed lol
also i am so hyped by the cesare appearance, i remember hearing whispers of him from TVRN days and now he's here!!!!!!!

>>143388
they're quasi-legal in the sense of "the cops have no idea what to do about them and never have." more about that will probably be revealed over time thru the plot, but it's also just not particularly important lol!

as for dez's day job: they have several! their most reliable/best paying one is helping out at their friend's bespoke fetish gear atelier, but predictably that's also the one that offers the least hours, and the rest of the time they are a thrall of the gig economy (they refuse to monetize their blog). none of this is enough to maintain their lifestyle of different outfits every night and 14 buck cocktails

>>143456
looked up a video of him so i could appreciate this comment and now my wife and i can't stop nasally quoting "i forgot my whalletttt" "sucks to be you." "but I'm really huhhuuuuuungreeeeee" at each other

>>143458
not intentional, he's just so pointy that things like this happen lmao. BUT YEAH i was always very sad that i never got around to cesare, now he finally gets to Live. in a sense

ANYWAY THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR THE VITTORIO LOVE/HATE as always with my quests i cobble together a bunch of ideas and characters from stuff i make with my wife — vito's my wife's oc, i've just been given custody of him and now i'm allowed to draw him in bad colors and grind him up into sausage. smiles

FRACTAL 2025/02/16(Sun)04:42 No. 143461 ID: 0b207b
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>>143447
hm!

Kinda vibing with Veil's position on this chart. Heh, and I guess that means she was bluffing about killing the partygoers.

Lol Bikky is ✨magical✨. 🤣
Twas a fantastic way of illustrating the absurd horror of the scene.

Also, Hey-Zeus Cristo. My character that's little more than an invisible blip in the background is gonna end up being traumatized by all this, lol. This feels like two quests in one sometimes. I love it!

Current mood: swirling between terrified I've fucked everything up in my very first individual action, and choosing to trust the process/story/GM.

feels a little bit like I stepped on a landmine on behalf of all of us. I'd apologize for poking Delve but maaan I had no idea she would (or could!!) slurp us all in here like that. but of course you know that. trusting the process.

This has thoroughly distracted me from helping kick the shit out of Vittorio en masse, that was fantastic I enjoyed that a lot

and bikky! bikky: good.

>>143544

lmao dont worry about it, we cant know what will be "messing up" before we do it, cause the story is being partially told in reaction to us. You´re just telling the story with us and its making a good one! I´m sure Ira had a blast with you poking Delve and went "hehehe" or somesuch all mischieviously.

Also hey guys. All else aside. We did help kill Vit at least once. Here´s to killing him many more times!

helllooo i have Questions !
1. did glaive have a predetermined gender or was that determined by hivemind?
2. is the vitpit dead ? or just the two of us that went over there? i assume hes gonna undie but idk how it all works yet
3. not a question just wanna say i love bikky take picture :)

BCheesecake 2025/03/09(Sun)12:02 No. 143573 ID: 5491d7
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i hope dez is gonna be okay from the oss-concussion. Con-oss-ion.

>>143544
not possible to fuck things up!!! we are all here to tell a story together and have fun :) my GM/quest author philosophy is "me and the audience are not adversaries." sometimes i might dole out "punishment" for "mistakes" but that's really just a different flavor of fun from getting "rewards" from "solving my murderdyke puzzles"

additionally deadestgal is correct abt my hehehes

>>143555

1. glaive's gender was always destined to be "lesbian fuckboy"
2. this will get covered ingame as we continue!
3. bikky take picture :)

please forgive my huge pile of text there's a lot going on and I'm Excited.

also

"dez fez"? no. desideratum consortium.
...okay possibly someone else could do better still.

It looks like the ID that's currently in Veil last responded in December.

Is that person even still around?

>>143583

yeah ive been wondering tbh

I don't check poster ids when collecting suggestion results/writing updates! that would be way too much to keep track of for me lmao, plus ids can change very frequently for a lot of reasons (posting from different places, using cellular/mobile data, etc). i just rely on you guys to let me know if you're specifically cashing in on ur individual hops, in the content of ur replies. in cases where someone goes inactive like this i kind of subtly shift it back to majority rule: i left the geist hanging there bc there had been a few suggestions expressing approval of having the iv drip of intel, and for example now there are some suggestions wanting that geist retrieved and so they'll get yoinked next update.