>>359606

This may sound like an odd question, but who's your dentist?

>>359290
What post is this referring to?

>>359615
Presumably they meant to write >>/questarch/383944 .

>>359493
>we don't retain memories for our first few sentient lives.

But you remember becoming sentient... are you an exception? Or is that simply the first time it happened that you can remember?

>>359624
she remembers the MOMENT she gained sentience. a BIG memory. everything else about that life is a mystery.

@Rynh and company. Not sure if this ones been asked already

It's hard not to notice the wide variety of races around the country you're in: Kobolds, Goblins, Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Minotaurs, Centaur, Cat-people etc. While Racism still seems to be around you guys seem accepting enough to still live in the same cities. Very kitchen sinkish.

Any reason why this is? Fantasy tends to be -full- of racial wars and hatreds after all. How'd you all end up in the same big melting pot culture?

Merchant city? A new world sort of deal? Inspirational leader? Or some big bad demon ages ago that forced it? Gradual economic dependence? Quests with similar setups feel free to answer as well.

Tommy, my main chaos god undead-cat-blob man
Just what is your opinion of your alternate self? I mean, look at how he failed and isn't even making sweet love regularly to a succubus right now. Just where are the kitty succubi/incubi children we've been expecting?

Do you understand what your other self has failed to contribute? He has not introduced and fathered Catgirl Succubi into the world. For shame. You had the excuse of being a giant soul eating abomination corrupting your form and genetics, but him? All he might even have is that undead constructs can't have children, but still somehow have your reproductive systems working normally beyond that. Just what is the dealio?

Well maybe I should ask Minci this, I know Tom wouldn't have been your first boyfriend, so I have to ask if you've had any kids or other mega sweethearts besides him? Who was your first seduction job?

Rynh 2012/03/05(Mon)22:56 No. 49952 ID: 14a1d0
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>>359741
Well, this area is kind of central to a lot of main roads, there's lots of farms all through here and there's a couple ports over here. The south is heavily forested, so there's lots of elves, goblins. Mountains to the north for dwarves, minotaurs, kobolds, more goblins. The central plains area has humans and centaurs.

It's mostly the trade and economy thing. People are more tolerant when they want each others stuff or money.
It doesn't even mean that they particularly like each other and a lot of places are still total dicks, but most major trade hubs are pretty diverse.

Rokoa 2012/03/06(Tue)05:01 No. 49962 ID: d6af4f
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>>359611
I'll take that as a compliment. I don't visit a particular dentist. Whoever is on shift is fine by me, and I don't visit the public clinics often anyway. I brush, floss and rinse with antiseptic mouthwash regularly. When I lose teeth, it's not because of bad hygiene.

>>359762
Dunno if this has been covered anywhere, but how articulate are a nuemomo's hands? No offense but they're quite large and seem incapable of finer motor function.

>>359769
I sorta wondered how big nuemono mitts were as well. Does it make finding guns and gear that fits troublesome?

Rokoa 2012/03/07(Wed)18:28 No. 50001 ID: d6af4f
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>>359769
>>359779

Our hands are more nimble than they look, and that's saying fuck all. We're not known for our fine watches, and we have a good deal of trouble with hand worked mechanics than humans or mikliks.

With a lot of practice, we're able to hook our claw in to pull a trigger without losing a great deal of accuracy for weaponry made for others, but that's another chalked in reason I prefer explosives. We have to have a lot of gear, guns and some types of armor custom fitted to use it properly. It's hard to mass produce hand related things for a wide range of our population.

Madame Lazinia, when you were a mortal, how did you earn your title? Either you were born as a noble or you ran a brothel, so which is it?

I mean, a lady of your class and hubris makes it seem obvious that you would be of noble descent, but Madames of brothels are pretty classy and prideful too, so I figure I shouldn't just assume anything. I mean, yeah, I did say that all vampires ARE notorious sex fiends and already thought that you ran a vampire brothel, but I do believe a confirmation is in order instead of mindless speculation.

There's no shame in running a brothel, in my opinion. So don't take my assumption that you're related to the sex trade as an insult please. It can be a very fancy business with much respect and taste involved!

I was wondering why Rokoa is so happy all the time. Living the dream?

>>359801
I'm guessing part of that is because your species has an extremely broad range of sizes among adults. I mean, Kappi's like, half your size if that, while the Twins looked like they were actually a little bigger than you (for all the good it did 'em).

So does the hive feed their soldiers Vitamin huge, or do the larger Neumoneumo gravitate towards the military?

>>359801
Speaking of weapons, you had a plasma blade implanted within your ear tissue without so much a noticeable bulge or incision. Just how thick are your ears (as prospectively all we see are two nebulous puffs) and how did such a crazy idea -not- go wrong?

Rokoa 2012/03/08(Thu)17:31 No. 50030 ID: d6af4f
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>>359804
Who said you had to be in a good mood to work the smile muscles?

>>359806
That's neumono. There's nothing unusual about bigger people being better in a fight, but I've seen small girls kick some ass. Anyway, the only 'vitamin huge' we get is a good diet of lots of food.

>>359812
Our ears act as fat storages around the normal cartilage. They can be as thin as half an inch plus fur, or as you put it, 'nebulous puffs.' Mine hover between 2 to 4 inches. There are no critical organs inside, so how could such a crazy idea go wrong? It was lodged in there for awhile, so any marks that weren't covered by fur were healed over.

how does neumono diet work anyways?

>>359830

I was considering the possibility of early activation of the sword inside your ear and damaging the lobe or just impaling your head.

I don't know how the weapon works though.

Rokoa 2012/03/09(Fri)02:03 No. 50042 ID: d6af4f
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>>359837
The neumono diet consists of food by the bucketload, unless you're a Kappi. And I mean [i]real[/i/] food. Most species can handle empty calories and filler mass, but a neumono can starve if they satiate their hunger with junk.

>>359839
Right. It was pointed down for my undying love of safety first, not like it would kill me either way. Even if my ear did flick the switch, the safety was on. It's as dangerous as a gun, after all, and the safety is under a convenient, inner ear-proof panel.

>>359842
Does this mean you can't really enjoy a good greasy burger n'fries or buttery popcorn snack? Or Chip's and french onion dip, or milkshake?

>>359846
sounds like they CAN but they SHOULDN'T

>>359830
A'ight, I misused the language, . Why are you SMILING all the time? To display those "nasty, sharp, pointy teeth"? Please continue to your actual motive for doing so, if any.

>>359848
She's just so proud of her CRAZY AWESOME GRIN, she has to share it with everyone, all the time, whether they want it or not.

Rokoa 2012/03/09(Fri)20:48 No. 50057 ID: d6af4f
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>>359848
"It's just my way of saying that I'm doing alllll right."

>>359846
"It's better to have a nasty meal than to have nothing at all, but we can't live off of that kind of diet for long."

>>359848

She's smiling that big toothy smile because she got her lips ripped off earlier. They're probably still healing.

>>359857
Why shouldn't she smile all the time? She seems to prefer intimidating folks, and the mixture of having a muzzle full of razors, and looking like she's having a ball (which is usually true) can be very intimidating.
She's in enemy territory every time she leaves the hive. That grin of hers probably halves the bullshit she receives.

Yanno what I'd like to see doodles of? The prehistoric/non-sapient ancestors of some of quest's races.

Iunno I just had this strange image of my head of the nuemomo ancestors being a buncha colonial psychic bunny/meerkats.

>>359857
Rokoa, since you seem to be quite proud of your species, why don't you explain the apparent bullshit of neumono biology?

>>392205
>I can take out a heart or two. His body will most likely pass out while it goes into shock as the other hearts pick up their pace.
How many hearts are we talking here? How big, and open-valve or closed-valve?
>Or I can take out a lung, which will be fine if not for some neumono's not passing out under that sort of damage.
Same question as above, plus the question of just what sort of material are neumono organs made of or could be compared to?
>Or I can shoot out his stomach. He will most likely enter hibernation for several hours to prevent starvation as it patches itself over.
>to prevent starvation
The fuck? I understand going into hibernation to prevent bleedout, but starvation? Do you guys have t eat constantly, or does the food 'sit' in your stomach as you digest it constantly for nutrition?

Rokoa 2012/03/12(Mon)13:37 No. 50144 ID: d6af4f
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I'll answer what I can, but I'm no doctor.

>Hearts
10. Various sizes from small to very small. They beat in unison as though they're one, but isn't fatal if one or 2 or are destroyed. Or 5. Maybe. Our blood does a good job of clotting. Sometimes too good. It's not unheard of for a heart to get fucked up when an errant clot goes down the wrong pipe. I don't know what you mean by open-valve or close-valve. Again, no doctor.

>Lungs
Just 2, but we can hold our breath for a very long time. It's possible to live if both lungs are temporarily neutralized, but if they're flat out removed or completely destroyed, the poor once-owner of them won't likely make it without some serious, immediate transplant of some sort.
Now, you want to know the kind of material? Hell if I know. I don't think it's anything special. Our bodies are made under the assumption that you're going to lose a limb or get a heart shot. Those things happen. The material of our organs aren't anything amazing, and rely on passing their buck to the rest of the body if they get in trouble.

>Stomach
The hibernation also helps against bleeding out, yes, but the eating constantly and sitting food are both true. Eating constantly is mostly what applies. We may not die if we go six or so hours without food, but it becomes very difficult to function depending on convoluted medical circumstances, and is why we store almost all the excess fat we come across. Most of our rations that are taken on longer missions are condensed formulas that we can quickly shove into our stomachs to maximize time spent eating vs nutrition gained. Looks like shit, and doesn't taste much better.

>>359944

Rokoa? I suddenly imagined you oh-so-delicately holding Kappa's head while licking along the top of it, and his face of rampant and unbridled terror at OHGODSWHATISSHEGOINGTODOTOME?!?!

... It's oddly cute. Perhaps it's because you always smile :)

>>359944
Sounds almost like Neomono arteries are wrapped in muscle fibres and are peristaltic, the entire circulatory system being a distributed heart.

I'm kind of surprised they have problems with the cold, what with the massive amounts of heat they must put out from consuming that much food. Or it might just be an exceptionally cold blizzard.

Polo: Rikek seems to think the ship you saw is a sign of a particular group's return. Who's return was he talking about? Also, what sort of religion is most prevalent among neumono? Given the militaristic bent of your culture, I imagine it to be something like Asatru, the warfare-heavy religion of the Vikings...

Polo 2012/03/14(Wed)07:19 No. 50188 ID: d6af4f
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>>359978
The cold wasn't much of a problem until it began snowing, and still, it is mostly that Rikek simply isn't used to the cold.

>>359979
I believe Rikek was simply asking if that particular ship would be coming back, as he likely caught on that it wasn't the friendly sort.

We don't typically have religions. The closest thing we have to an object of worship would be a hive's queen, if applicable.

>>359988
Huh. You must have a very high view of your queens! How does one become a queen? And are there any other hierarchical positions in neumono society?

Polo 2012/03/15(Thu)17:01 No. 50266 ID: d6af4f
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>>359989
A neumono becomes queen by blunt force of personality. She, or rarely a king, is one with such a strong empathic link that other neumono are drawn to her and form a hive, to make a simplification. The hive shortly becomes self sufficient, and will continue even if the queen should die or somehow be unavailable.

If there is no queen in an already existing hive, then another neumono may take the lead again, by sheer personality force, but also by how well she matches in with the hive already. Usurpation of an existing queen is possible, but very rare.

No matter what, the queen acts as the baseline for the entire hive's personality and thought patters. In many ways, she is treated as the entire hive in a single embodiment. In compassionate hives, the queen is amongst the most generous. In combat hives, the queen is among the toughest of our race.

There used to be other heirarchy positions in previous ages, but those were purely ceremonial and artificially made. At present, there is only the queen or king, and everyone else.

Tory Sinclair 2012/03/15(Thu)17:51 No. 50267 ID: ceed65
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I guess there are few questions I never answered! Bah!

>You're 23 but your hair's gone grey and your body's giving out? Why is that, is it all the Void radiation/regular radiation?
Yes, I have small troubles with my health. I don't believe it's radiation. It's... complicated, really! My own habits, frequent accidents, few hereditary diseases of sorts, and so forth. I might need to abandon this body at some point... Which is quite a shame.

>blah blah uplifting a world
>I mean, you are awesome, but all you build is things that go boom, and things that go un-boom. Maybe a gifted child in your hypothetical technocratic empire will be the one to develop FTL drives!
Nah, I don't feel like uplifting a world. Shitty and long process. They'll probably just backstab me. It's just so much more fun handing them weapons they don't understand and watch them to incinerate the fuck out of eachother!
I am doing fine progress by myself! And it's no fun when someone else invents and builds it!

>dear tory. if you could use energy-matter converter to MAKE psykonium, you would basically become king of the scellor.
Easier said than done. And I am not very interested in being a king. I want to be Maximum Emperor Overlord of Absolute Annihilation.

I gotta agree with the floppy-ears. Smiling is good! Everything is good! Spirit Kernel prototypes ready, all fun, all good!

>>360066

This is most fascinating :D

>>360067
What's your new robot body gonna look like?

>>360077
Well we know it will have a hat.

>>360066

>> blunt force of personality

So kind of like Rokoa-

>> other neumono are drawn to her

never mind...

Rokoa: What's your hive's queen like?

Rokoa 2012/03/16(Fri)06:34 No. 50290 ID: d6af4f
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>>360082
I only attract idiots who confess their undying love to me and then die.

>>360088
A sentimental wimp.

So Musashi, how does Manewis stack up against other male-type robots, appearance wise?

>>360090
And her hive still puts rogues to death instead of trying to help them and causes enough of a political controversy when a third party shelters them to create actual conflict.
Wonderful. A sentimental hypocrite.
This is why I like you. Your honest, brutal, and not a hypocrite.
If it helps, you also attract neckbeardy personalities and AI. So maybe you can find a good bunch of neckbeardy Neumono that are actually kind of kickass. The neckbeard comes in many varieties. Not just nerdy ones that stay inside all day and are squishy.

>>360090
What you do is, right, you start collecting those idiots, right, and stow them somewhere safe, like I dunno a nearby friendly neighbour fortress or something. And then, when you have enough of them, you pour them all into a big room all piled like, and then jump in and roll around or swim in them or whatever like some sorta scrooge mcduck thing

then you become a queen

Really though, if it's such a problem, have you tried changing your deodorant or something?

Tom/Duke: Ponder the fact that you exist in the very world that you rule over as one of the gods. Keep aspirin handy.

Also, today is the only day you can pinch everyone you meet and not fear the consequences. Just thought you and your omni-dimensional tentacles might want to know that.

I envision Tom reaching through time and space to pinch characters in other quests. Tgchan: Make this happen.

Rokoa: Would you say you were more mentally stable before you started using the needle trick?

>>360119

Yeah, this needs to be a day. (Tom) Tentacle Day or something.

By the way, aren't we overdue for starting a new "Inside the Quest" thread? This one's got over a thousand posts.