Jail Quest: a text adventure occasionally illustrated.A night of drinking and a failed attempt to cheat on cards had landed you the strangest job slash community service sentence you've ever had: ensuring Gongalla Gaol survives the reality storm called Singularity.Now you travel around with your employer and a handpicked crew to survey the four Reality Anchors. Hey, beats being tarred and feathered, right?Previous thread:https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2025/6274911/Gongallaverse:https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Gongalla%20GaolYou suddenly jolt wide awake in an unfamiliar room, with no recollection of the past few hours. It even took you a few seconds to remember you are Rosa Montagni, and another few seconds to realize the other person in the room is your crewmate, Valencio. Slowly, hazy recollections piece together a loose narrative of previous events: you've reached Viridis, the first leg of your journey to the East's Reality Anchor, when you receive news that your go-to destination slash transport, the walking city Freeport, had problems with its engine. Then you were sidetracked into a casino, where you played cards and unwittingly aided a truant Hexbourne student against a haughty twin Hexbourne students sent to retrieve him. Then you got entangled in a complex emotional... something with the casino owner, Don Bosco. Something about your mentor, Sierra (no relation to Sierra, the deity of the South anchor) and copious amounts of drinking? That must be why your memory's so hazy.
>>6322745"Hey, you're finally awake."Valencio leans in. Had he waited for you by your bedside? You look around the room, and it's just him and you."Hey, Valencio - where's Nemo and Craig?"You just hope they didn't repeat what happened at Pinewatch."Uh, well... about that..."----------THREE HOURS EARLIER...You are Craig Snorlison, and you are absolutely bored. Since you've entered a pact with one of your spirits, Scholar, you've been stuck reading and re-reading the grimoire Rosa bought you."I'm tired of reading the same book over and over again..."Scholar pops up beside you, sensing a logical solution to your problem."Then, you might want to acquire new literature."Is there even a bookshop around here?"But I can't leave on my own! Rosa told me to stay here...""There is a myriad of solutions currently available to you. It is up to you to select one."True... you rack up your youthful goblin brain and soon enough, several possibilities are made apparent.>CHOOSE ONE>□ Sneak out the hotel and find some kind of bookstore>□ Find books to read inside the hotel, there must be some, right?>□ Ask Nemo to accompany you to look for books in town>□ Wait, what if you write a new book for you to read?>□ Other (fill in)
>>6322747>□ Sneak out the hotel and find some kind of bookstoreOf course.
>>6322747- Find books to read inside the hotel, there must be some, right?
>>6322749+1
>>6322747>□ Sneak out the hotel and find some kind of bookstorewe are SO BACK
>>6322747>□ Sneak out the hotel and find some kind of bookstoreAdventurr awaits! Huzzah!
>>6322747>>□ Find books to read inside the hotel, there must be some, right?
>>6322747>□ Ask Nemo to accompany you to look for books in town
