The Divines are fickle. One minute you were racing toward the border into Hammerfell on a stolen horse, with glimmering hopes of a new life. You were going to turn things around. No more gambling. No more thieving. You were going to become a respectable Nord. Instead, you find yourself clapped in irons, not for the horse you stole, nor for the debts you've left unpaid, but for a rebellion you were never a part of.Ulfric Stormcloak, THE Ulfric Stormcloak, leader of that same damned rebellion, just told you to take heart and have courage, but at sight of the executioner's massive ax, your nerve fails you. You make a run for it, somehow managing to pull away from the guard attending you.The captain does not bother sending someone on a chase. He gestures to another guard wielding a bow to fire. You were going to be executed anyway, it makes no difference if it's by ax or arrow. You make it as far as the eastern gate when pain explodes from your right shoulder. The guard, having missed your heart, clicks his tongue, and lines up for another shot.But he never gets the chance to loose it because just then something completely impossible happens. A dragon, an actual, flying, fire-breathing dragon, appears overhead and begins burning Helgen to the ground. You don't stick around to witness the carnage, you hightail it as fast as your legs (and your wound) will allow. Through the eastern road, south until you come to a fork and the sound of the fighting and the burning and the screaming begins to fade.>Keep running, you need to make tracks before more Imperials show up>Look around for a place to hide until the hubbub dies down>Tend to your wound before it worsens further>Write-in
>>5964804>Write-inMeditate about your current situation and the philosophical implications of your existence and current condition.
>>5964805Supporting, let’s see if this is a shitpost you or a real quest. I notice that the doomposting in /qtg/ has ramped up again…
>>5964808> SupportingSame as well, the amount oof text hopefully suggests it isn’t a shitpost, but it’s hard to say desu, since it’s 4chan and all. Besides that, man has ES fallen off a cliff, if this is the newest quest I’ve seen from /qst/ on ES stuff in general.
>Use the lockpicking tools we have stashed on our person to free ourselves & tend to our wounds, then ponder our situation & the world at large.
>>5964804>THE Ulfric Stormcloak, leader of that same damned rebellion, just told you to take heart and have courageHow?Isn't he supposed to be gagged, so he doesn't use the Thu'um and escape?Fake fan.
>>5964994Ah, my bad, I meant Ralof there, not Ulfric, as in the opening cutscene. Got messed up while editing. Anyway, it seems like this quest is a non-starter anyway with these nonsensical write-ins (wtf does "Meditate about your current situation and the philosophical implications of your existence and current condition." even mean? How exactly am I supposed to turn that into an update? And why would you need or even have lockpicking tools if your hands are bound by rope?)Waste of the two hours I spent prepping this quest. Smdh. Seriously, fuck /qst/.
>>5965005Haha. Knew it. Fuck you.
>>5964804>Keep running, you need to make tracks before more Imperials show upkeep an eye out for any way to cut our bonds loose
>>5965009Fuck off. You killed the quest before it even had a chance to take off. Go ahead and explain to me what exactly you (and the other two posters that supported--assuming they aren't samefags) intended with your write-in other than to troll. This wasn't a troll quest (as should have been obvious with the OP post--which besides the gaff with mixing up Ulfric and Ralof--was otherwise written with care).
>>5965022I just assumed it would lead to us hiding down somewhere and rethink about our life choices in how we got to this point in our life where we became a thief and then fucked up all of it by trying to run away after trying to steal a horse and get brought into a political shitshow.Honestly, I would have defended your choice to not make a quest 1 post in, it is a QMs right after all. But if you wanted to start flinging shit at other people and immediately start a fight over a dead quest, with you deciding to kill it and no one else forcing your hands on it, then that blame lies on you pal, no matter what you try and shout about it being otherwise.
>>5965058>hiding down somewhere and rethink about our life choices in how we got to this point in our life where we became a thief and then fucked up all of it by trying to run away after trying to steal a horse and get brought into a political shitshow.Explain how I'm supposed to get all of that from "Meditate about your current situation and the philosophical implications of your existence and current condition."? Maybe I'm just retarded, but I wouldn't for life of me have made the leap in logic that you just made. And hiding down somewhere is literally the second choice, so what exactly was the point of the write-in? Yes, I decided not to continue quest, but how exactly was I supposed to continue it given what the players voted for? One guy wants to conjure a lockpick out of nowhere to get out of rope bindings. And the rest want to ruminate on "philosophical implications of existence". Yes, I am absolutely seething and starting a fight because I wasted two hours on prepping what I thought might be a fun quest only to have it destroyed within the first reply. And then have the guy act smug about "knowing that I was trolling all along" when I clearly wasn't. This kind of thing is incredibly frustrating.
>>5965058This is me. >>5965107I mean, you could have waited a day to let anyone else try to come in and vote, or have asked for them to change the vote for something else so it would be less difficult for you to write. Yeah, I can understand that something like this can be frustrating, but you’ve got to at least learn to control it and focus it on something else first, before you start calling names and saying it’s everyone else’s fault that something they didn’t know you didn’t like just flat out killed the quest in a single 1 hour vote. That’s the type of shit that gets other anons pissed off at you, and labels you an anti-fan and a liar when this is how you present yourself to others. And if I can think of something like that response in less then a minute, after trying to figure out where and how it could and would make sense to have a vote about breaking down and realizing just how much of a fuck up you are, which is kinda the whole point of this now dead quest, then what answer do you have that makes it any more logical that the options you gave, would have been easier for you to write?
>>5965123>I mean, you could have waited a day to let anyone else try to come in and voteI waited 4 and half hours. I wanted to get a couple more updates in today, since it's the weekend and my day off and it's the literal start of the quest. I personally dislike it when QMs just throw up an OP and disappear for a whole day before the next update and didn't want to do that here.I could have asked to change it or for elaboration, that's true, but the accusations of trolling before we're even two updates in really put me off. I wanted to wait to see how other anons would vote. I waited four plus hours with no change save for another nonsensical write-in. >that makes it any more logical that the options you gave, would have been easier for you to write?Every single option that I wrote actually follows from the situation (at least in my mind). You're a fugitive so you have to keep running (not to mention the dragon), but you're also injured. The first choice is to power on, the last one to stop where you are and tend to your injury and the second one a middle ground. Each one moves things forward. Ruminating brings everything to crashing halt and makes no sense given the urgency of the situation--and it's something I would have done anyway, filling in the backstory and giving exposition as you go. My immediate sense was that it was a troll write-in, trying to immediately break the fourth wall (since Lokir dies in the game--that's how interpreted "philosophical implications of your existence", which doesn't make any sense since how would Lokir know he was supposed to die?) which is why I didn't bother asking for elaboration, not wanting to feed the trolls.
>>5965139Well, I can see that point of view, but why not just try the quest all over again, but on another site if not 4chan for the moment since your worried about trolls fucking things up for you. I know a couple of good sites that would be a great place to start off fresh without a lot of bad baggage around something if you want to still try and have a fun time writing this quest you came up with.
>>5965159>why not just try the quest all over again, but on another siteYeah, that's probably what I'll end up doing. Honestly, don't know why I bothered with /qst/ in the first place.
>>5965185I’ll see you in your next bait thread OP :D
>>5965185I mean, qst isn’t honestly the worst place to do it, at least this one doesn’t mean you need to have a prerequisite in wanting to write porn in order to generate a quest to write about on this site. Anyway, probably the best one where you could have complete tonal freedom that can allow yourself to write a lot without having to either deal with ADMIN bullshit or trolls would be Fiction.live. Spend a couple of minutes looking around on how you can make a quest with the sites functions, make a dummy account for yourself, and just start off fresh from their. And if there are any other problems you have with working on the software, you can ask other people for help on your problems and they’ll gladly help out.
>>5965190Here’s a link to get it started up if you want to still write it all up, but somewhere else: https://fiction.live/
>>5965186I really don't get this. What about my OP in any way suggested that I was posting bait? Here's some of the notes I had in prepping this quest (summarized):Since Lokir is from Rorikstead, I had a bit of backstory for him where he was the brother of Lemkil and part of the quest would have been patching things up with him and helping him deal with the death of his wife (and to help him with his drinking and to stop abusing his daughters). Erik the Slayer is also from Rorikstead and I was going to use him as a possible hook for adventuring if anons were interested in that. I also had some backstory about Lokir owing money to Brynjolf in Riften and being forced to steal for the Thieves Guild to pay it off (that is, until he ran away). Also there was a whole bunch of stuff I had about Stendarr/Vigilants of Stendarr, since Stendarr is the god of mercy, luck, and justice. And making it up to the person he stole the horse from by coming clean and repaying him. I really don't what merited being accused of posting bait.
>>5965201Ah, he was saying that, because it was a 1 post to a thread, about a character that almost nobody either ever remembers or cares about, and how because of that, it clearly most have been a joke to raise interest before the person in question pulls the rug behind them and lets the quest die out. I’ve experienced it a number of times, and it is never pleasant, not that you were clearly going to do that, as I never got that since that you were just going to make a quest, and then abandon it a day in. Anyway, what’s your thoughts about hitting it up at fiction.live instead of QST?
>>5965209Whoops, wrong words, I meant not that I thought you were going to do that, as you clearly cared about more then just making it a 1 post item, and then abandon it immediately afterwords. It’s cynical for many to assume that for the perpouse of making a quest, but I jhave unironically had experiences where a QM will straight up abandon a quest from the start, and then another Anon comes along to try and keep it alive because they cared about it more then the original creator themselves. I’m sorry you had to go through this man.
>>5965209God this place is such a shithole. So because some troll kept making bait quests--usually obvious because of their low-effort OPs--mine is immediately dismissed as such despite the OP clearly not being a five minute shitpost. And then when I elaborate that I did have notes and it wasn't a troll quest, anon doubles down on the accusation. So fucking frustrating.>>5965214I appreciate your help. I'll check out fiction.live. God this all just left such a bad taste.
>>5965219Yeah, because once an anon realizes that they fucked and made a mistake, they either have already left and don’t want to see it again to reslize their wrong, or they just don’t want to admit they were wrong and made a terrible mistake. It’s retarded, but that’s how people with no need for responsibility act like a lot in these situations. At least you won’t be having to deal with anons that will not except that when you make an apology, you are secretly lying because they can magically see what the structure of your sentences are actually like, and how your acting like a snob from behind your computer. Something I unfortunately dealt with on a quest that fibbed out after I and another anon had an argument about the quest in question. Also glad that this helped put this all behind you man, I can at least say that with Fiction, you’ll have much more control over where and how you can run your quest like. Like, their are actual options to mute comments from anons that can pop up if you want, so only named accounts can interact with text, or be the ones to make choices or texts for the people watching your quest to use as a proxy to decide to vote on.
>>5964805>MeditateI don't think we've acquired x10 levels in our major and minor skills combined to ensure a level up... MAYBE this nord has never meditated on his life to ensure a propper level up. Maybe that's why his life is stuck in gambling and drinking; for he is a little level 1 nord.Alright motherfucker, choose your birth sight. No you are not allowed to pick a passive one like the apprentice, atronach or the steed. Only cool ones like... The Lord.-----Lokir was born in the first day of First Seed, being a nord he was already strong, hardy and healthy but his birthsign left a mark on him since young. Aways a little taller, always a little more enduring... all that vitality wasted in Hammerfell, he tried his hand at the long blade, the mace, the axe, even the spear... but his redguard friends were always two steps ahead.He lagged behind, but instead of trying his hand at other skills which he had plenty of, if he tried, he threw himself into a life of carousing. Too bad for his parents, Lokir became a commoner.That's what he MEDITATED ON, while HIDING in a cave tending to his wound. With no way to pull out the arrow and dress his wound he called on his birthright [Blood of the North]. The shaft was stuck for now, but the wound stopped bleeding and it didn't ache...
>>5965432Are you taking over? I vote for “The Serpent” if you want us to select a birthsign
>>5965448I don't feel like it. I have only played daggerfall and morrowind so idk & idc about skyrim lol. QM would have continued his quest if they weren't a bitch.
>>5965107>Maybe I'm just retardedMaybe. Starting a quest as essentially "Skyrim happens, wut do?" is pretty low effort IMO, and abandoning a quest in a huff rather than just saying "anon, what did you mean? can you clarify?" is pretty silly.>>5965432>The Serpent
>>5965666I disagree. The QM has every right to drop a quest where the players vote to "meditate" while badly wounded after escaping execution.
>>5965666 Digits. I am not allowing the serpent.>>5965719 If QM can abort a quest on a whim I et to call them a fag.
>>5965005Any good thief knows to keep his tools in nature's pocket.
>>5965005Basically this, you saved yourself a lot of time OP despite losing 2 hours. The reality readers have no idea what they want, and interacting with your readers is the worst part of quest 2020+.
>>5967714Weakness.
Imagine getting anally-annihilated by one offhand comment in your Skyrim fanfiction.
>>5965219If you literally can't handle an anonymous rando being slightly rude to you, or a single unusual write-in vote, you are ill-suited to this website. I wish you the best of luck.
>>5968159Yes, he should leave this shithole and move to better questing websites
>>5968162Where are all these other perfect questing sites I keep hearing about?Whenever I ask about them, all people can respond with are assumptions about me, instead of actually providing an answer.
>>5968238There are several sites with better and more modern interfaces. These include Sufficient Velocity, Space Battles, fiction.live, and a few others. The trade-off is they have username registration (an upside and a downside), voting isn't anonymous, and they have stricter moderation (SB & SV) or an overwhelming focus on smut production (fiction.live). Some of the other chans have quest boards, too, but when I last had a glance it was all fetish porn all the time, and weren't any more active than 4chan's /qst/.
>>5968162YEAH! Like SpaceBattles, MSPFA or Sufficient Velocity.
>>5968472Or like, Questionable Questing, maybe.
>>5968289May I also interest you in some Omegaupdate?
>>5968289>stricter moderation>smutfagsSo they aren't better, then.
>>5965804You also have the right to kill yourself.>>5968747>less hostile spergs>less hostile discord community>quests that are actually good>more chill culture/voters overall>somehow not better than /qst/What on God's green one are you smoking, anon?
>>5984524>oh, hey, there's a new post made on this long ditched thread. Maybe this dead quest got picked up by a new QM!>fond memories of Spooky Girl Quest flood back>takes a look>it's just one of the anons who keep bitching about /qst/ dying trying to advertise>againAlso, fiction.live's interface is so bad that when Elf Maiden moved there I gave up on following it after I couldn't parse it.Just... think about how bad that is.
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