Darkness. Void. Utter blackness. There is nothing here. Yet there is also, something? The shadows roil like waves of an ocean, twist like strands of a cloth, and wind around you like a fervently affectionate cat. You are nowhere. You are somewhere within the nowhere.A voice reaches out to you- with pointed fingers, ruffling mailboxes, and ringing telephones. [bold]Dark, darker, yet darker.[/bold] [bold]Shadows cutting deeper.[/bold] [bold]Photon readings negative?[/bold] [bold]The next experiment is upon us.[/bold] [bold]Are YOU there?[/bold] [bold]Are we...[/bold] [bold]Connected?[/bold]It shakes something loose in the core of your being. Memories. An adventure through an underground cavern full of monsters, demons, and beasts. Some of them kindhearted, others malicious, all desiring an end to their imprisonment beneath a mountain.You guided a human- You commanded a puppet- You were just a child-It grates on your consciousness. But you can recall that, whatever you were, whatever you did, you were in that pit for a long, long time.> Try to remember more. You can make no sound judgements without your mind.> Who's there? What's going on? What's this "connection" crap?> The past doesn't matter, now. Time to start again._____________Never used /qst/ before. Decided to rejigger some of my writing into a new experience for 4chan.I'm very interested to see what you'll do compared to the last contestants.Updates come when I'm free to write, but this IS the current brainrot, so-
>>6311030>> The past doesn't matter, now. Time to start again.Lets see what you got QM
>>6311030> Try to remember more. You can make no sound judgements without your mind.Just a heads up for future formatting, OP:Bold is [b]Text[/b]Italics is [i]Text[/i]Red is [red]Text[/red]Green is [green]Text[/green]Blue is [blue]Text[/blue]Also you can only do formatting if you're the OP and in the same IP area you posted the original post from. Not trying to disrupt the opening, just thought you should know!
>>6311035I may be stupid. I've run several quests before (this one/setup included) but not on QST, so I appreciate it.
>>6311030> Try to remember more. You can make no sound judgements without your mind.Formatting issues aside sounds interesting
>>6311030> Try to remember more. You can make no sound judgements without your mind.
> Try to remember more. You can make no sound judgements without your mind.You focus.You began to exist in 201-... something, the exact year escapes you. A human soul attached to a human boy living in a small town, with a caring mother and a father who loved him. They ensured he- you, by extension- wanted for nothing, the two of them, his mother's encouragement helping to focus your boundless energy towards scholastic pursuits and physical excellence even at the tender age of ten. His father, meanwhile, ensured he wanted for nothing, working long hours and coming home with a tired smile to ruffle his hair and put him to bed.They called him "Frisk".You were quite proud of your Frisk.He was strange, by human standards. Stoic. No-nonsense. Your Will coursing through him, he was always focused on the next goal ahead. He chewed through homework easily, learned to read books several levels above where he should be, and never let the whispers of his teachers and peers get to him.But then something... happened. You can't quite recall what.> Focus on figuring out what happened.It led to you and Frisk climbing Mt. Ebott, where it was rumored nobody ever returned. You both were quietly hoping that was the case as you fell down into a chasm in the earth, falling for... ages, it felt like? But instead of instantly breaking his neck on impact with the ground for a quick and painless death, you awoke to aches, pains, and a third voice in your head quietly narrating your actions.Still, it wasn't completely terrible. At that point, Frisk had been overcome with a joy and relief to be alive that quickly crystallized into a goal to escape the caverns and go home. This was rather swiftly made difficult by the introduction of who else inhabited these lands.Monsters.Flowers that could speak. Goat people taller than your father. Enormous frogs that could swallow one of your hands. Fluttering insects and walking eyeballs. Jiggling corrosive slimes and, apparently, depressed ghosts. An entire civilization living beneath your feet, and people never knew. It was terrifying. It was wondrous.It was dangerous.-------[1/2]
>>6311054The monsters sought after you. To escape their confinement underground, they had to acquire the souls of humans to empower their King and shatter a mystical barrier. Their magic drew you out of Frisk's chest and forced you to move, shift, float, hover, and dive. Every hit you took from their magical "bullets" would strain the connection between you and your vessel, coming in storms and patterns that you were too stressed to properly dodge, until you cracked.And died.And lived again.That was the first time you died. It wouldn't be the last.> Focus on remembering how many times you died.You discovered the power to SAVE and RESET, using points of power that filled you with the Determination to proceed. To die, learn, and try again, over and over, until you had bullet patterns down to a science and could easily thread your way past any obstacle.It took you days to escape. Weeks of the same fights, trial-and-error. Dodging traps, avoiding the worst monsters, guiding Frisk to help him strike down who was in your way, until you finally made it to the King of Monsters and were forced into confrontation with him as well. Then, when you thought you were safe and could escape this hellhole, the flower monster- a creature that had haunted and taunted you from the beginning of your journey- erupted from the ground.Seven human souls are necessary for monsterkind to shatter the barrier. The King already had six. He was distracted fighting you, and so Flowey the Flower took control. With six souls, Flowey overrode your control- claiming power over the SAVE system- and killed Frisk. Over, and over, and over again, until you could communicate with the human souls trapped inside of him. Begging them to help you save your vessel, your friend, from the fate the monster was inflicting upon him.... When the dust settled, you were free.You and Frisk crossed the barrier. You saw sunlight for the first time.You woke up in the bottom of the pit.At first you thought it was a strange dream. Then, everything started repeating. The same lines, the same motions, the same creatures, the same attacks.Die, learn, try again.You reached the Barrier a second time. Flowey didn't appear. You struck down the King, took his soul, and crossed into freedom.You woke up in the bottom of the pit.You can't quite recall how much time it was down there. But it felt like ages.> Focus on figuring out how long you spent in the Underground.It was never the same amount of time each "loop", as you took to calling them.Some would last all of a day. The maximum would be two weeks. Every time, it terminated when you and Frisk escaped the Underground, only to wind up right back where you started.Over, and over, and over again.... You should move on from this.> Keep remembering. This is important.> You have enough detail. Get to the connection.-------[2/2], you may begin voting.
>>6311056> Keep remembering. This is important.> Focus on figuring out how long you spent in the Underground.imo, how many times we died isn't that important, nor is the impetus behind Frisk's origin story (although it'd still be kino. My original head canon was the Frisk had run away from an orphanage, but that's just me.)The part that is special would be the whole looping mechanic. Saving + resetting is something we understand sufficiently. But if we are to take this seriously, then the big unknown factor would be why we can never leave Mt. Ebott once we destroy the barrier.
>>6311056> Focus on figuring out how long you spent in the Underground.
>>6311056>> Keep remembering. This is important.
> Keep remembering. This is important.>> Focus on figuring out how long you spent in the underground.You did everything.Be kind. Be mean. Be a sage. Be a murderer. You were the hero of countless tales and the villain of even more. The human soul that wouldn't break or bend.You and Frisk were resolved to do anything to leave the Underground.... There is a prophecy.Of an angel who had seen the light, and would one day return. With them, the Underground would go empty.You both already tried doing that with a 'pacifist' route. You spared all that you could, uncovered the "Determination" experiments of Dr. Alphys in Hotland, her... collection, of Amalgamates. Fallen monsters, their dust coagulated into an ooze, clinging to each other and unable to die. You solved everyone's problems and they helped you with yours. You found the Angel of prophecy. You fought the Angel of prophecy, and the barrier was shattered.But it wasn't enough. You ended up back in the flowerbed.So, you and Frisk resorted to... other means.You left the Ruins in rubble. Snowdin howled coldly. Waterfall choked on dust. Hotland crumbled away. You and Frisk butchered everyone in sight, believing that- perhaps- by fulfilling the prophecy another way, as "an angel of death", you might go free.So you left the underground empty.And at the end of your quest... you did, eventually, leave.Into an empty, dark void, whereupon you met HER.Your partner.With the power Frisk gathered and with your Determination, she cut the timeline to pieces and Erased the world.... But you didn't like that. Neither did Frisk.You didn't want to live in an empty void. You wanted to go home. You wanted to escape the loops and live.So you cut a deal with the devil. You, the Soul, in exchange for the world brought back to new.Frisk went on his journey again. Saving everyone. With a new world, perhaps the loops would end?But no.Through you, your partner took control of Frisk. Guided his body to butcher the friends you'd made. Just as she was about to plunge the knife into Toriel, however, the world reset again.Back in the flowerbed. This time with a proper passenger.You can't recall exactly when that happened. You know you intervened when your partner grew uppity. Broke the shackles that bound you. Ensured a proper partnership from then on. Your choices would be nobody's save your own. You returned to Frisk, and your trio eventually grew past the issues that had plagued the three of you, forming... if not a friendship, then something approaching an amicable rivalry.Still, the issue remained.Salvation did not end the loops. Damnation did not, either.You had to look closer. Find the cracks. Find HIM.The Royal Scientist, shattered across time and space.If anyone could resolve the issues of forced time travel, it had to be him.----------------[1/2]
>>6311250Finding him was the easy part. Getting his help was another issue entirely. Even when he wanted to assist you, he couldn't do much from his position, so you had to be his eyes, ears, hands, and feet. Notes across timelines, working on one machine after the next until reality caved and the process was complete.He spoke of an experiment. Breaching the veil between worlds and dragging you into one that is similar, but not. Just enough variance to break the sameness that plagued your efforts and kept the timeloops from running. Terminate "this story" and move on to "a new chapter". When your job was done and you were pulled out, the world would continue turning without you.One final run. Pacifist. Bring the monsters to salvation, Frisk said he had "places to be". A photograph memoir, and at the termination of that loop, the veil cracked enough that the Doctor could pull you out.One hundred seventy three thousand, eight hundred and forty nine loops.From beginning to end, that's how long it had been since Frisk fell down and your journey began until enough work had been done on the holes in reality that the Doctor could retrieve you for his grand experiment.Each loop was one to fourteen days, meaning roughly eight days on average, leading to a mean of 3,810 years spent in your groundhog eon purgatory.The number sits heavy in your core.You are no child anymore. Frisk had worn the weight of ages on his stoic brow. Your partner flipped between dry wit and bitter cynicism on a dime.But you did eventually escape. Right?> You came with your friend and your partner, both. Salvation for all.> You came with your friend. Together 'til the end.> You came with your partner. Forever entwined.> You came alone. The Angel reaches Heaven.
Hmm. Big challenge. I'm stuck between only taking Chara and taking both.
>>6311251> You came with your friend and your partner, both. Salvation for all.Meh, it would be weird not to have the two.
>>6311251> You came with your friend and your partner, both. Salvation for all.Just started reading. This quest sounds like fun.
>>6311251> You came with your friend and your partner, both. Salvation for all.Time loops build character
>>6311251>You came with your friend and your partner, both. Salvation for all.
>>6311251>> You came with your friend and your partner, both. Salvation for all.How else can we ask Chat what they think if we don't have a Chat to ask?
>>6311251>You came with your friend and your partner, both. Salvation for all.Frisk, make Kris flirt with Berdley. Chara, make him stab someone.
>>6311251> You came with your partner. Forever entwined.Please be female chara please be female chara please be female chara
>>6311251> You came with your friend and your partner, both. Salvation for all.time for kino
>>6311419>Frisk, make Kris flirt with BerdleyThis is a KRUSIE houseKriselle is also acceptable.
>>6311670We don't do it because it's the superior ship, we do it to fuck with Kris.
>>6311670>>6311759It's about sending a message
