So how much further until Little One/Hatch goes insane

I just wanted to say - you're a communist for killing a merchant.

I can't find threads 2-4... Anyone care to help?

>>313918

It's the ultimate expression of free enterprise.

>>313922
look in questarch

>>313922
http://www2.tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/res/39593.html

>>313917
No idea. I don't think she will, but it all depends on what exactly happens in the future. I try to let the players decide on how she's feeling, which is why she didn't really react to the merchant until Ikar said something and people suggested she lash out at Ikar.

I don't think I'll be updating any more tonight just because I want to make sure everyone gets their votes in. Deciding to join or not join Clan Shigu is one of the major decisions Hatch and Liam will have to make. It doesn't have to be now, but what Hatch says to Ikar here is pretty key. She needs to choose her words very carefully.

This is gonna be just like Fallout 3. Do we give in and become just another part of the Crapsack World we're stuck in, or do we refuse and try to maintain some glimmer of goodness?

>>313926
So either way we get railroaded into a shitty ending that will require a retcon?

>>313927
Nope. I'm keeping this as free as it can be, if needed Hatchquest will go against canon, meaning anyone can die.

I'll include parts of it in a webcomic to do the "real" version sometime in the future, and that one will fit into the Sidestories canon if Hatch doesn't already.

>>313927

Well, it's not a PERFECT analogy, but you know what I mean.

>>313928
>If needed Hatchquest will go against canon, meaning anyone can die.

SIDE-QUEST ADDED: Eliminate the Brutal General.

>>313930
If that'll tickle your fancy.

>>313930
SIDE-SIDEQUEST ADDED: Don't get eaten, flayed alive, flayed alive and then eaten, deep-fried, or tortured into a quivering mass of fear and pain and then flayed alive, deep-fried, and eaten.

Hiro!J02Ujjg4Nw 2009/10/05(Mon)20:56 No. 4133 ID: ee0a11
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>>313932

AKA take several levels in badass.

>>313933
I think ninja training.

>>313933
And get the attention of the General. If she sees you as a threat or an annoyance YOU DIE.

YOU DIE HORRIBLY

Yeah, Rain herself is a really unrealistic idea. I kinda like the idea of going against Clan Shigu on a smaller scale if that's possible.
But Hatch is just a little kid, so I dunno.

>>313959
We'll just have to start the ninja training now.

>>313964
I'll draw a map sometime if you guys really want to train her to be a fighter.

There's a place near her hometown that would be ideal, but currently you're going completely the wrong way for that. It'd be best to meet Dad at the fort first. And, you know, without Ikar she's going to be pretty lost.

Keep in mind she IS a nevrean though, probably the weakest race on Vilous when it comes to physical strength. While not the worst path to go down, each path is going to have it's disadvantages that will effect Hatchquest 2.

Hatchquest will end once Liam and Hatch fulfill their goals or die. Liam's goal right now is to deliver his message that his town is joining Clan Shigu, if he decides not to do that after all his part will end when he gets back home safely or dies. Hatch's part will end when she gets reunited with Liam/gets back home or dies.

It is very possible to kill them both and you could have killed Hatch in that previous scene, had you done things a tad differently.

Keep in mind that currently, Hatch is relying on Ikar to guide her safely through the forest, she'll get lost without her, and they're currently heading towards the fort.

It is possible to reunite at the fort and not join clan shigu after all, but that would be tricky and possibly not the wisest decision, especially since the agudner have already heard that the town IS joining clan shigu and are trying to kill Liam to prevent him from delivering his message.

I don't think that a good ending is possible, and there is no faction I consider to honestly be villains, but I'm going to be very interested to see what you guys can do.

>>313968
Addendum: Hatch's part can also end if she goes off training under proper guidance and such like that. I'm sure you guys can figure that out.

>>313969
Addendum 2: Joining clan shigu and living peacefully under their rule might be considered a "good" ending, it sort of depends on how you view everything.

Joining Shigu is the only sane option at this point.

>>313971
Yeah for now, but we can harbor the memories of today and turn on them later. Hatch is just to young to do anything effective against them until she gets older.
>>313968
So what would be good for her. Some kind of rogue/tech user maybe. Could give her some edge against Sergals.
But if she becomes part of the Shigu clan she might be restricted in her choices, so we'll have to see then.

>>313957

You give her too much credit.

>>313988
Oh its not just her you'd be facing.

>>313988
It's this sort of thing that has me convinced that Hatchquest is going to be fun.

>>313975
Liam already uses a gun. I suggest she be some kind of ranged/rogue type.

>>313995

:D

>>314005

Well, considering that she's a nevrean, I'd guess that it'd be the best bet to focus more on the ranged and less on the rogue, since going rogue usually involves getting up close and personal, which can be extremely hazardous against something like a sergal.

Anonymous 2009/10/07(Wed)00:20 No. 4218 ID: b94893
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>>314006
I don't think you understood what I meant.

>>314018

:|

Sorry for the amount of dialog in recent updates, I've been trying to get some exposition out of the way as well as having no time this week due to papers and tests, and dialog updates are easy as hell to do.

Hatch won't be updating for a few days while Beakie fixes his computer.

Something has gone terribly wrong hardware wise. Probably either the hard drive or the motherboard.

Okay, Beakie here.

I am really honestly quite, quite torn.

On one hand, I really like the colored updates I've been doing. I REALLY like how they look, especially the latest few.

But, they just take too damn long. Three hours for one update is too much. I have to update more than that in what free time I have.

My question is, what do you all think? I want a solid, honest vote on whether you want me to continue the colored updates or go with a more simple B/W style? The simpler style would look more like Journey or After Quest, though I don't know about shading just yet. The colored updates would mean that updates would, again, be quite slow, maybe only one or two frames a day.

And if you guys really don't care, I could always do sketch updates and have like twenty a day.

>>314676
Full color is overrated. A splash here and there works wonders.

>>314676
I've been telling you to do black and white since chapter one.

If it takes you three hours to do a frame, then don't do full color. Seriously.

>>314676
Simpler B/W on the whole, Full-Colour for when colour is important/when you feel like it.

>>314676
I agree with the four ladies/gentlemen above me.

Use a darker color for the background though, otherwise it will be too white and lines.

>>315016

So, what's this about us not going into the ruins and changing EVERYTHING EVER?

>>315017
Well, originally Hatch and Ikar were supposed to figure out where Liam and Aruuchi had gone off to, but the majority voted to just plain leave rather than stick around and investigate.

So now Ikar and Hatch are going straight to the fort and Liam and Aruuchi are stuck in the ruins on their own rather than with Hatch and Ikar, which is why Hatch and Ikar's parts are so much shorter than Liam and Aruuchi's parts now.

For those of you that want to get into hatch but don't want to read through the entire archive I'm going to make a few posts here describing the characters and what has happened so far:

Little One/Hatch is the protagonist, an eight year old nevrean girl.

Liam is her father, the town messenger and other protagonist. He wasn't around often when Little One was younger. He seems to be good friends with Aruuchi.

Aruuchi Nira is a Clan Shigu Scout, he and his family make up one of the scouting parties for the area the quest takes place in.

Ikar Nira is Aruuchi's daughter, currently guiding Hatch through the forest to the fort that Aruuchi and the other Niras base their scouting force out of. She's the one who started calling little one "Hatch" because she didn't like Little One's name and because "hatching" is the only thing significant Little One has done so far in life.

Dekustir is another nevrean a few years older than Hatch, these two played together often when Hatch was younger. When he became a full-time researcher he left the town to live at some of the ruins so that he could become fully focused on his work, learning everything he can from the Zess there, Radou.

Clan Shigu is the Sergal Clan commanded by Rain Silves. Years ago there was a war to unite all of the clans and tribes under one banner, this was successful and Rain now commands the largest and most powerful military force in the world.

The Agudner are the goat-like people currently not at war with Clan Shigu, but there are still several small-scale skirmishes while the bulk of Clan Shigu is focused on conquering the southern sergals of the Sailzane Desert. These people used to have highly advanced technology given to them by the alien race that created all the races of Vilous, but most of them were killed in a huge cataclysm. Nobody's quite sure how this happened. Their lost technology is now sought after by all races for either research purposes or because they fetch a high price to the right buyer.

Hatchquest started out in Hatch's hometown, where she met a funny southern sergal merchant that pretended to not understand a word she was saying. She got her dad to purchase a green hair clip from this person.

A few nights later she woke up to hear her parents arguing with someone she only recognized as a mean lady from down the street, and Liam quickly told Hatch to go back to sleep, Liam is going to take Hatch on a camping trip in the morning.

Liam is carrying a signed treaty annexing their town to Clan Shigu control. Dissenters from the town as well as agudner that don't want their town's researchers and artifacts to fall into Clan Shigu hands are now either actively hunting them or hiring people to do so. The first of such people was a talyxian mercenary, who held Hatch hostage in exchange for the treaty. Liam shot him three times and then slit his throat while Hatch decided to watch, despite Liam's protests.

The two were later seperated when Ikar chased Hatch into the woods and lost track of each other, though both parties knew their way back to the camp. Liam and Aruuchi got there first, gathering some supplies and carving a symbol into a tree telling the kids to meet up at some old ruins down the way, but unfortunately, the kids never saw this symbol. They are going directly towards the fort on their own, while Liam and Aruuchi take a detour through the ruins.

These ruins happen to be the one Dekustir now lives at, with a working video intercom system and several patrol drones in the shape of agudner skulls. These were activated when the rest of Aruuchi's group first went through the ruins. There's still some agudner wandering around the place, and Dekustir and Radou seem to be not too happy that they have visitors.

That's about all that's happened so far.

Oh yeah, and Hatch and Ikar came across the body of the merchant hanging by one leg from a tree, with the mark of the shigu clan carved into his stomach. Inside the tent were more marks of the shigu clan, along with the handprints and names of those proudly responsible.

>>315482
One of the hand prints being IKAR'S

>>315485
Aruuchi's is in there too.

>>315485

The fact that we're bandying around with sadistic bastards is common knowledge by now.

Okay can we agree that we met the BBEG?

And its some psychic monster thing

You guys met the BBEG a long time ago.

Well, if you choose that path anyways...

Technically anyone could be the BBEG depending on what side you choose.

>>316712
Oh no mommy is the BBEG!

>>316712
Well its trying to kill Hatch with psyrape. We need to stop it.

Nameless southern sergal merchant was the BBEG. This is all epilogue.

>>316714
Well that is a logical course of action given the circumstances...

>>316716
Oh fuck, someone figured it out. brb, ragequitan gaems

Beakie 2009/12/07(Mon)02:45 No. 7257 ID: 964033
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Coming 2010.

There's still plenty Hatchquest I to go, but I thought I'd give a little preview image regardless.

(This is also assuming both Ikar and Hatch survive.)

>>317057
That's cute.

Maybe Hatch wouldn't be so cold if she wore something her butt didn't hang out of.

>>317058
I don't quite get what you're trying to say

>>317059

Does this help?
>>314999

>>317060
You're saying you hate all good things in life!

If anyone was wondering I probably won't be updating again until January.

I've got my last two finals to attend to and then I'll be in Walt Disney World for a week, here for two days for Christmas, and then I'll be in Arkansas visiting relatives through New Years.

So yeah, I'm going to be out of town or busy for the rest of the month. I'll have my iPhone though, so I can still check /quest/ and such, so if you have any questions for me or about the quest... ask them here and I'll get them answered in a jiffy.

aw

>>317219
God damn, your holidays are alternately awesome and horrific. Safe travels!

>>317261
Well it's not all bad. We shoot off fireworks at the farm.

>>318278
UGH. Don't break the damn tables.

++INQUISITOR'S NOTICE++ Anonymous 2010/01/01(Fri)21:40 No. 8483 ID: 87583b
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SUBJECT: SPACE MARINE BATTLE BROTHER BATAAR "BEAKIE-HELMET" KUSHI
CHAPTER: WHITE SCARS
STATUS: MIA

BROTHER KUSHI WAS RECENTLY SEEN IN THE OR'LANDOU SECTOR WITH UNCONFIRMED REPORTS PLACING HIM ON FOUKE XII UNTIL EARLIER THIS MORNING. LAST SEEN WITH A VENERABLE DREADNOUGHT OF ULTRAMARINE COLOURS AND MARKINGS AND ANOTHER VENERABLE DREADNOUGHT OF SPACE WOLF COLOURS AND MARKINGS,DRINKING GRAPE AND APPLE FLAVOURED MOONSHINE DESPITE WARNINGS THAT "HE SHOULD NOT DRINK THE BIG CUP" AND THAT IT WAS REPORTEDLY OVER 200 PROOF DESPITE THIS BEING A SCIENTIFIC IMPOSSIBILITY. FURTHER UNCONFIRMED REPORTS SAY THAT HE IS ON HIS WAY TO FRAY KLINTON TO VISIT A CAPTAIN OF SLOTHFUL NATURE, THE COLOUR GREEN AND AN ADVENTURE COMPRISED OF BITING. BROTHER KUSHI AND HIS DREADNOUGHT COMPANIONS ARE SOUGHT FOR QUESTIONING. REPORT THE FIRST SIGHT OF ANY OF THESE PERSONS IMMEDIATELY.

I have a feeling shit's about to get...

SAD.

Beakie 2010/01/20(Wed)21:31 No. 9419 ID: 62489a
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For the next chapter I'm letting you guys choose who the protagonist will be.

CHOOSE WISELY.

The next chapter starts tomorrow.

Oh man, can't they stay together? I liked the buddy cop thing they were doing.

I guess Liam.

>>319221
The other will still be there.

Fuckin' Aruchi
Look at that guy

>>319219

I vote for Arruchi.

Because of the sexy shoulders

Let's take the REAL bird instead of a sergal that just looks like one.

Coin says Aruuchi, I guess.

Aruuchi, we haven't had enough of him yet.

>>319219
Aruuchi if you promise to let us play Liam's part next.

I vote for liam and his quest to find more ammo!

>>319219
Aruuchi. He is such a dashing gentleman.

Liam.

Aruuchi.

>>319219
Liam.

Liam.

Aruuchi.

Aruuchi

Liam

Beakie 2010/01/21(Thu)10:57 No. 9455 ID: 62489a
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Aruuchi:9
Liam:7

The people have spoken! Work begins on the new chapter now.

>>319255

WHAT?! BULLSHIT! I DEMAND A RECOUNT! THIS WHOLE FUCKING THING WAS RIGGED! RIIIIIIIGED! LET'S FUCKING SMASH THIS WHOLE THREAD!

I am also saddened. Liam is akin to Han Solo. He's a good shot, has character, and knows a few good lines I'm sure.

>>319259
To use your analogy, people apparently prefer the wookie.

Liam's ammunition, and thus his usefulness, is nearly at an end. :(

Liam is great, but Aruuchi is sidelined.

>>319266
What does that mean?

Reasons why Hatchquest hasn't updated in a week:

-Schoolwork
-Aliens vs Predator came out and holy shit Beakie is a huge fan of the Alien and Predator franchises and Jesus Fuck killing people online as a predator is awesome oh my god I've already got like nine skins unlocked and shitfuck switching vision modes to hunt down prey in team deathmatch and guiding the disc to kill like five fucking enemies at once is fucking awesome and holy goddamn motherfucking Jesus in a portajohn ballsack! Christ!
-I didn't think anyone would actually notice.

I noticed. :(

>>321028

I noticed too. D:

Although I will admit the new Aliens vs. Predator game IS addictive as hell.

I dunno, there's this thing going around where people feel incredibly lethargic and unable to concentrate long enough to draw. I blame all this Vidya this week. Robot Unicorn Attack, AvP, Minecraft, etc.

<_<

>_>

*goes back to play even more AvP... Almost at rank 22...*

>>321045
:|

...

:(

>>321045
What're you on about? I updated two days this week, and might be doing so again tomorrow, you got no excuse >:0

>>321047
>more Riarda
:O

...

:D

>>321047
Uh... Uh...

LOOK BEHIND YOU! A THREE HEADED MONKEY!

GREEN!!IzZTIxBQH1 2010/02/27(Sat)22:54 No. 11252 ID: 9e9b47
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>>321051

OH MY GOD-

Oh wait that's not bad at all.

Sergals = awesome IJP290 2010/03/01(Mon)17:38 No. 11794 ID: 4815ad
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Sergals are cute and fluffy, and shouldn't be referred to as animals. Who agrees?

Considering that HatchQuest is about a Nevrean, I'll throw it out there that Nevreans are cute also.

I see that Hatch Quest has gone 1080p with the most recent post.

That's cool.

>>321594

I respectfully disagree. As far as I can tell, they're an entire race of Always Chaotic Evil psychotic thugs.

>>321662
Uhhh you'll find that a lot of random updates are 1080p due to me forgetting to resize the updates >_>

>>321664
The only good thing about sergals is their fluffy pelts. I imagine an genuine sergal fur coat would be very warm and comfortable, and fetch a very good price on the market.

>>321670
Hahaha, so true. In any fantasy setting, real humans would most probably fashion something useful from the other races. Pelts, feathers, soap...

>>321670

Seems like getting at the fur would be a hassle though. That'd be like, trying to harvest krogan testicles. You gotta down the krogan first, and they're tough hombres.

>>321672
Krogans have guns, Sergals do not.

>>321673

But they DO have weapons, armor, superior fighting capabilities, and an insatiable bloodlust. Still seems like dangerous game.

>>321672
>>321675
Think of it as the fur industry equivalent of alaskan crab fishing.

>>321671
Not unless it's a "Humans are assholes" setting.

Making something out of a sapient race is generally a no-no.

>>321677
So Sergals are furry crabs?

>>321677
>Googles it

...DAMN.

Anonymous 2010/03/03(Wed)12:21 No. 11884 ID: e51397
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>>321679
>Aruuchi
>complaining about "Making something out of a sapient race"
So how did that Trader taste?

Making fur-coats would depend on the relative strength of humans compared to Sergals and the question if any interest in diplomacy exists.
Making clothing out of people is normally considered a huge faux pas and kinda hard to take back.

Well, in a total war style conflict between Humans and Sergals I could totally see something like this happen.

>>321684
Excuse me for not dropping the in-quest moniker, and just because my own characters might do something related to this doesn't make it right :)

Anonymous 2010/03/03(Wed)14:13 No. 11891 ID: 5b76f8
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>>321686
>>just because my own characters might do something related to this doesn't make it right

Sigma 2010/03/03(Wed)14:29 No. 11893 ID: 8e18cd
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>>321691

SET HIM STRAIGHT RIGHT NOW!

>>321670
From what I understand, Southern Sergals are actually quite civilized! (They built Goldring, didn't they?)

Civilized creatures ≠ animals. And southern Sergals are still relatively fluffy, right?

>>321697
Animals=Sergals=Pelts=LATEST FASHION

>>321673
>Krogans have guns, Sergals do not.
Neither do humans in typical fantasy settings.

>>321697

Let me rephrase then. As far as I can tell, NORTHERN Sergals are an entire race of Always Chaotic Evil psychotic thugs.

>>321701
Always Chaotic Evil is a bullshit concept, I will say, as is any other race-mandatory alignment.

>>321664
>>321701
>>321702
They're more like chaotic hungry than evil.

>>321702

I know, it's pretty stupid. But that doesn't seem to stop fantasy settings from doing it aaaaaaaall the time.

>>321705
That's because the "Heros" need a guilt-free source of XP.

wizards of the coast kinda gave a screw you to alignments when they made 'Eludecia, the Succubus Paladin' a lot people think she was a drizzit thing but she is a 'anyone can be any alignment, but you need a VERY good reason for any that say 'always 'something'''

so you could probably make a sergal paladin but you need a great backstory.

>>321714
Hellknight.
Done.

>>321721
how does hellknight=paladin?

>>321714

You need a great backstory for a paladin of a honour-bound, highly organized military race?

Really?

REALLY?

Oh wait. I forgot Paladicks are human only

>>321723
i know you know what i meant. if a race is 'always chaotic evil' it needs a good back-story. a race that is 'always lawful good' does not. you are just arguing semantics.

>>321722
There are LG hellknights.
I was noting that the absolutism of the post-rain mindset is strikingly close to the hellknight's credo.
Anyway, none of this is about hatchquest.

>>321726
Or is it?

>>321727
You mean Hatch and Ikar will end up becoming champions of truth and justice in a Post-apocalyptic Nightmare of a world?

>>321729
Ikar's Justice is that the enemy of the General is to dealt a swift death.

Hatch will be going SCARY RED EYE MONSTER THING IS OUT THERE... SCARY RED EYE MONSTER THING IS OUT THERE... SCARY RED EYE MONSTER THING IS OUT THERE... SCARY RED EYE MONSTER THING IS OUT THERE... SCARY RED EYE MONSTER THING IS OUT THERE... SCARY RED EYE MONSTER THING IS OUT THERE... SCARY RED EYE MONSTER THING IS OUT THERE... SCARY RED EYE MONSTER THING IS OUT THERE... SCARY RED EYE MONSTER THING IS OUT THERE... SCARY RED EYE MONSTER THING IS OUT THERE...

As she curls into a ball holding a pistol...

Dogmeat 2010/03/04(Thu)08:21 No. 11931 ID: 4144db
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>>321730
Really? I think hatch will more likely end up like this.

>>321691
Lets see what John had done
KILLING ELVES: RIGHT
HAWT LESBIAN SEX: RIGHT
Mucking about: RIGHT!

John is Always right...
except:
Having proper ears: FAIL

>>321732
John had to sacrifice her ears to get her Remarkably Prestigious Hair.

>>321733
well she got screwed in that deal.. Her hair is artificially huge. Probably using hairspray all the time to make it bigger

>>321723
>Sergals
>honor

AHAHAHAHAHA!

OH THAT SLAPS ME ON THE KNEE!

>>321735
So what dishonorable things are Sergals doing?
Being "mean" or not following our modern ideas of morality doesn't make em less honorable.

>>321738
Generally Sergals as a culture don't have a concept of 'honor' thus the idea of them being honorable (even when measured by their own standards) is ludicrous. They simply have "effective" and "ineffective".

Kills for skills and all that, and if you can pull it off in an amusing manner, all the better.

Very practically minded... but not honorable by any measure...

>>321739
>>321735

They were thought up by a Jap. They have a different meaning of honour.

PLUS. If you read the actual canon stories...

Argh.

It seems as though I'll probably have to go on Hiatus again due to exams and spring break, for which I'll be outright gone for about a week and a half. On the plus side, I'll probably be drawing all spring break, just without an internet connection.

So I'll probably get a lot of practice in as well as maybe some more promo images, though I'll try to do some of my, you know, current quest this time as well.

IJP290 2010/03/07(Sun)23:03 No. 12164 ID: 4815ad
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>>321916
Just make sure Aruuchi kills something! 8D Nice and bloody like.

Dogmeat 2010/03/07(Sun)23:16 No. 12165 ID: 71edca
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>>321964
>Sergals are cute and fluffy, and shouldn't be referred to as animals. Who agrees?
>Just make sure Aruuchi kills something! 8D Nice and bloody like.

>>321965
Humans kill things nice and bloody like. That's war. We always have Especially back when we had the technology of the Sergals.

>>322018
Today's wars are way bloddier than ye olde ever were. Back in those days famine and disease claimed most.

Cyborg sergals are the way to go, really, and Aruchi should try to steer towards that goal.

>>322018

We don't eat our enemies.

>>322086
Maybe you don't.

>>322030
wars today may be bloodier deathcount-wise, but back in medieval days you had arms chopped off, beheadings, and the like. Personally, seeing a guy in 3-6 pieces (sword) is much more gruesome than seeing him in either a million, or one piece with holes (grenade/rocket launcher/rpg/other guns and modern stuff).

The only real reason wars are bloodier today death count wise is because there are more people.

>>322091
Modern weapons cause some pretty fucking gruesome wounds as well. Most modern assault rifles bullets will start to tumble when they hit someone, making palm sized exit wounds where everything in between has been liquified. Grenades and explosions do rip people apart, and not just into small pieces. You will get arms and legs along with organs littering the place along with the occasional intact head, as well as people who are still alive with their guts strewn all over their place, screaming like the damned. Combat related death is almost never pretty, the ones that get killed by the concussive force of large artillery shells will die without a mark on them, but their internal organs will be fucked up.

I'd argue that brutality isn't just about wounds inflicted. We guide missiles onto targets from miles, possibly thousands of miles, away, through little TV screens. Back in the day, if you wanted someone dead, you had to walk over and kill him. (Arrows would sometimes kill, of course, but would usually wound. They were much less lethal than even early firearms.)

But, of course, this is an unquantifiable argument. In either case, people still inflict a lot of brutality, even close-up, in too many places to list.

The bottom line is that sergal brutality is in no way outside human capacity, or even human norms for much of history. I guess Aruuchi likes painting with blood instead of setting people on fire, but that's a rather trivial distinction.

>>322091
Why the heck would anybody hack his enemy into 3-6 pieces? The peasants run forward, hope to stab the others a bit and run for their lifes as soon as a knight or a professional turns up. And the two latter wouldn't waste valuable strength by doing something gruesome to the enemy on the battlefield. Noblemen were more valubale alive anyway, since you could demand ransom.

As somebody already said, being "peppered" by thousands of tiny metal shards which are piercing your body with ~800km/h is not very nice and regular rifle/gun ammo can do nasty things too, if you're unlucky. Also, thank god the use of igniting and/or exploding ammo against soft targets was banned...

If we're talking about punishments / massacres against the enemy after the battle is already won, you're right, though. Parading your enemies' heads through the streets seems to be out of fashion.


But turning back to the quest: Aruchi found signs of clanmates. Who places bets on them being already dead? I know I would.

>>322096
Well there is someone talking down there. The guard bots would hardly talk, but it could be more Agudner or other people allied to asshole bird. Probably clearing away corpses. Or there was a holding trap and the other sergals are stuck.

So guys, should we diplomacy or BATMAN?

>>322202
Why is this even a question? When the choice is between anything and BATMAN, then BATMAN is clearly the way to go. And that Sergal we would land on might not die. But still, it's cooperating with an agudner and neveran, clearly it's a traitor.

>>322208
Unless there are more of those guard drones and well they don't got armor (but the sergal does) and well they don't want to sacrifice themselves. So why not give the 'hero' a weapon to kill the 'demon'

>>322202

Diplomacy? HA! HAHAHAHA!

I like you! You're funny!

Any updates soon

>>322818
Uhhhh possibly? It depends on how soon I can catch up on schoolwork and stuff like that.

And how much HeartGold and Chaos Rising I play. Which shouldn't interfere with updates as much as AvP did.

BeakieHelmet 2010/03/27(Sat)03:05 No. 13219 ID: f0ceda
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For those of you who don't know yet, Hatchquest will be ending the chapter within the next few days and we'll start a new chapter for sure by Thursday.

In the meantime, have an OC doodle I drew during a session with Numbers and Kiki-UMA.

Aruuchi 2010/04/26(Mon)01:24 No. 14833 ID: f0ceda
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>Aruuchi: Lift up your skirt.

>>324633
hehehe. rape time >:3

BeakieHelmet 2010/04/26(Mon)01:38 No. 14835 ID: f0ceda
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It's that time again.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh................. hatch.

Hatch

>>324635
Little Hatch. We must make sure she survives until the time skip.

>>324635
Hatch, otherwise we're going to spend the whole time trying to eat Hatch.

>>324635
Ikar, because we're going to spend the whole time trying to eat Hatch.

Ikar! I wanna see what makes her tick.

Hatch

>>324635
Ikar!

>>324635
Hatch, so we can try to keep her alive until a timeskip.

>>324635

Hatch. I miss being able to control the actual protagonist.

>>324638
>>324656
You guys realize that would be easier by directly controlling Ikar, right?
I mean like in not killing and eating her.

So I'd say Ikar

Uh, Ikar, just for the fun of it.

Although I think the votes are pretty heavily tilted toward Hatch as it is.

I vote Ikar as well.

Hatch!

AIR MAN

err, wait. Hatch.

There is VOTING in this thread?

i did not see it :o

so I will VOTE for THE BLUE ONE

Lets go with Idar, I want to get in her head.

>>324938
You maniacs. You blew it up.

add a demented old man in the background and it will be perfect

>>325103
holy shit fuck!!

>>325103

...I'm okay with this.

>>325103
D:

>>325103
oh god what the hell happened!
......*fapfapfap*

RML 2010/05/11(Tue)18:12 No. 15500 ID: ab583e
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FEELING LUCKY KID

>>325300

NOBODY FUCKS WITH HIS LITTLE GIRL

HATCH FTW

Actually, Hatch is going to have to be delayed a little longer, I was really expecting to get better today when nope, coughing up goo again and sneezing constantly all over everything... Not fun and can't draw for shit while this is going on.

Update anyway! You can hold a stylus!

>>325578

Don't sweat it.

Get a sneezeguard, power through it.

Anonymous 2010/06/19(Sat)21:33 No. 18024 ID: ab583e
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Place your bets!

Anonymous 2010/06/19(Sat)21:46 No. 18027 ID: 8c0848
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>>327824

Anonymous 2010/06/19(Sat)21:47 No. 18028 ID: 10c20a
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>>327824
I think this is a bit better a place for this than Inside the Quest, personally

Anonymous 2010/06/19(Sat)23:13 No. 18033 ID: ba41e5
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>>327828
Yeah, I agree.

Anonymous 2010/06/19(Sat)23:27 No. 18035 ID: 158c5c
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I think we know who it is.

>>324938

Wait, I just realized that she is not weeping in this picture. What gives.

>>327836
NES box art is rarely an accurate representation of the game content.

>>327843
Ooh, I see.

>>327919
oh god, what have you done?

>>327919
I always thought Hatch had an "adventurous spirit"

Quest Momentarily Interrupted BeakieHelmet 2010/06/24(Thu)09:39 No. 18319 ID: 9cb4b3
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AUTOBOTS WAGE THEIR BATTLE TO DESTROY THE EVIL FORCES OF THE DECEPTICONS

when is hatch quest coming back?

I'd think the answer to that would be obvious: WHENEVER THE AUTOBOTS FINISH WAGING THEIR BATTLE TO DESTROY THE EVIL FORCES OF THE DECEPTICONS

>>329279
Autobots are the Decepticons. That's why they're called DECEPTICONS: they deceive and con!

>>329279
So in other words, never.

The family business has been swamping me with work lately, I've been trying to find time to update all week but unable to find a time when I both A) have time and B) aren't about to go to sleep.

The fact that I haven't even been updating SILVERMOON should tell you how busy I've been, or the fact that I haven't even been in the chat much at all.

This is basically my normal day:
Wake up
Shower
Breakfast
Work on the family website and/or whatever busywork needs doing for 5 hours
Lunch/Dinner
Spend 3 or 4 more hours explaining what I did to my father and working on it further with him
On alternate days go to the gym around 6 or 7
Watch The Daily Show and Colbert Report with the family (Not so bad at all)
Come back upstairs around 11 PM, watch Transformers G1 until I pass out.

It's not the worst schedule in the world, but it leaves me very little time to do much of anything, and the few days I get to skip the 3-4 hours of explaining/further working I usually spend playing some game with Lucid or Slowpoke or somebody.

Oh, and no, I don't get paid.

I think I discovered the key part of your schedule that's messing you up.

>>329291
>Come back upstairs around 11 PM, watch Transformers G1 until I pass out.
>until I pass out.
>pass out

See that? Stop doing that. Sleep is for the weak.

>>330362
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>330362
Liam is a beautiful bird.

oh goddammit I'm going to have to miss my updates this week because I'm sick and I have a thousand things that are due like monday

So I guess I'll use this instance to ask this question:

do you guys want some honest to god fetch quest puzzles or do you guys want to skip this and get on with more plot?

>>334398
Depends. If the fetch quest puzzles don't take too long, then they might be fun.

But if like five months from now we're still in the middle of a fetch quest puzzle then, y'know.

I would like to get on with it.

Get on with it. I want to see adult hatch and ikar before you kill the quest for good

>>334416
Adult Hatch and Ikar are not going to appear in this quest, they'll appear in a sequel quest if I ever get around to it.

>>334417
Also, I'm going to try to have this quest done by December, but I dunno how that's going to happen at this rate.

>>334418
Alright, just get on with it then. That's probably easier.

Hey peeps, post in this.

Liam 2010/11/17(Wed)07:17 No. 26950 ID: a4b4e3
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>>336748
>Hey peeps
You can't use that word! That's our word!

>>336750
So... Peep is like "nigga"?

GREEN!!IzZTIxBQH1 2010/11/17(Wed)11:27 No. 26959 ID: 2044df
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>>336758

>>/quest/257491
Speaking of Jingles:
>>/questarch/81238
>BOTH MUST DIE, OR NONE WILL LIVE.
could, despite our paranoid little birdy thinking it means her and Liam, well refer to Rain and this Radou character.

>>336763
that... that is pretty good. okay kill the crazy leaders of both sides.

>>336773
>a lot of pairs
- Hatch and Ikar
- Liam and Aruuchi
- Aruuchi and Makuri
- Tienaye's twins D:

I'd just like to point out that there are plenty of pairs in Hatchquest. Liam and Hatch, Liam and Aruuchi, Hatch and Ikar, Jingles and Tienaye, Radou and Dekustir, Rain and Lord Zyn, Shigu and the insurgents or whatever you want to call Dekustir's group, just to name a few.

You can always ask people in the quest as Liam or ITQ here to get some answers, too.

I don't get you, tgchan. You find a brightly colored girly bird man with purple stockings and you SHOOT HIM IN THE HEAD?

>>337067

He wanted to hurt sergals. Off course it'd bring tgchan in an uproar.

>>337067
Brightly colored girly genocidal bird man with purple stockings. I'm sure some people would have tied up Sexy Hitler if there was a chance, but he was armed.

Now the problem is going to be steering /quest/ away from their natural desire to explore mysterious underground facilities and focus on getting the doors open and beating their messenger to Rain. I'm guessing Nevreans can cover ground faster than Sergals over distance, so that pretty much means it's up to Liam, against a head start.

>>337074
good thing liam has been a messenger for years and so has tons of practice rather then some random guy.

>>337077
Assuming that your opponent is an unprepared idiot is a good way to get soundly trounced.

>>337068
I think the uproar was more over that he wanted to hurt Aruuchi, in particular. And by extension his entire family, including Ikar.

So is Aruuchi worth the lives of the thousands they would save by killing Rain?

Hatch's village was tiny, it looks like it barely has a hundred people in the first thread.

>>337083
But it was OUR hundred people, man! Everyone knows that if the end justifies the means, you're officially Evil. And then later you get destroyed by a bunch of people crowing about love and friendship and you wonder just where the hell it all went wrong.

i want to know exactly how his plan saves lives. they piss off the sergals, they strike back really fucking hard, killing not just liam's village but all the villages in like... let's say 500 miles. how many birds is that? and it will leave them without the goal of CONQUEST and the hundreads of tribes will then switch to full on 'do whatever the fuck we want' mode and just kill and loot as they please. just cause they are not unified doesn't mean they aren't dangerous.

>>337085
The most charitable interpretation I can think of is that the sharkwolves may actually despite Queen Rapealot and would be notably more chill when out from under the grip of her iron crotchtendril.

Yeah...no.

That red bird guy was a stupid overidealistic shitfuck. Queen Rapealot will get what's coming to her someday since apparently she's a normal tactical general and shit and will probably fall on her own.

All are overly aggressive shitfucks, we keeps our friends and family alive and not become aggressive shitfucks, the overly aggressive shitfucks will all kill each other or weaken each other enough that the weaker and less aggressive fucks have an actual chance.

It's all fucked anyway. Fuck it.

>>337089
It was also established Dekustir was young. Barely an adult, and it's also established he was the follower of someone else. You don't think it's possible he could have been misled, as many young late high school/early college age folk are?

>>337372
Oh, right, that totally gave us an alternative course of action t---no, wait, no it didn't. Fanatics are fanatics whether they're Hitler Youth or not.

BeakieHelmet 2011/01/18(Tue)08:30 No. 29684 ID: 9cb4b3
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjYSERaXEGI

Anywho, in more actually quest related stuff, I think this chapter will be the last time we follow Hatch and Ikar, the plan is to do this chapter, one more with Liam and company, and then maybe an epilogue. It may stretch further than that depending on how things go.

So yeah. Two and a half chapters and the quest should be wrapped up pretty nicely.

Okay, my analysis is this. Mr. Jingles has had a vision in which the possible events transpire. In a Shrodinger's Cat moment he (I think it's a "he") has spotted Hatch and Ikar as being involved in the chain of events. Both of them are easily recognized by the fun-loving plant guy because Ikar's feather-pattern is as distinctive as any male nevrean and Hatch has her characteristic hair-clip. If he doesn't know who the two who have to die are, shouldn't he be able to give a description of them? At least such simple things as species and gender? Is it possible to pin him down on these kind of important specifics, or am I taking the "vision" part of this too literally?

>>340206
He saw Hatch and Liam and recognized them. Nobody else. Jingles sort of lived near the outskirts of Hatch's town for a while, as you can see on the shitty map from the very first thread.

The two who have to die aren't known. One of them could be himself, for all he knows. No gender, no description, no nothing.

There's a LOT of pairs in this quest, as discussed a little earlier in this very thread. Figuring out who those two are is something you guys are going to have to do.

Dekustir might have been one of them, and if he was, you only have to kill one more, if he wasn't, then you might have killed someone unnecessarily, though it's really too late for Liam to turn back now.

I'm also not going to say if both of the "required" deaths will happen on Hatch's side, Liam's side or one on each. There's no telling if only one is required, though the vision did say both must die, and that's rather ambiguous.

Oh, and the fort is not the ruins. The fort is an actual fort on a river. The ruins are an old agudner bunker from before they fucked themselves over.

>>340221
>you might have killed someone unnecessarily
I can say killing a dumb shithead faction leader (or whatever he qualifies as) that was a viable threat doesn't fall under the category of "unnecessary death". The guy just screamed douchebag throughout that entire part anyway. No loss.

>>340224
Unnecessary in that "you didn't have to, and you could have gotten away with not doing it overall" but the way things turned out, it was either him or Liam, so you guys did really good. I really thought you guys were going to get Liam killed there.

Unnecessary also as in not one of the necessary deaths for the good end, not actually completely unnecessary.

Welp, by the time most of you read this I'll be on my way to Orlando, leaving my home town of Houston at around six in the morning. I'm not sure when I'll have a non-iphone form of internet connection next, so until then, have a blast guys.

Made it to Orlando about midnight last night, staying at the pop century resort until check in day tomorrow. Looking like I won't have real Internet until tomorrow night or possibly Thursday.

Not to be a Rules Lawyer, but...isn't that info that Hatch doesn't have? All her father told her was that this was a camping trip, unless I'm losing my mind, again.

>>340405
She doesn't know about the surrendering part, no. She knows her dad is a messenger though, and that they were attacked followed by the Nira tribe scouts being attacked.

The Nira tribe scouts being Aruuchi and co, who are all members of the Shigu Clan. And just to clarify this, the fort they are all trying to get to is a shigu fort, and this is a shigu army before them.

Got it. Thanx for the clarification.

BeakieHelmet 2011/07/18(Mon)13:31 No. 40203 ID: 9cb4b3
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Choose your character, for the last time.

>>350003
Liam

>>350003
Liam.

Assuming we're picking the person who WEARS the hat I pick Liam. Although getting to play as the hat on the right would be pretty cool.

As much as I would like to vote Arwing, Liam is probably a better way to finish the story.

...are you sure we can't pick Makuri?

>>350003
Liam.

Aruuchi!

LIAM

>>350006
Hatch Quest!

ROUND HAT MAN. Liam.