In this quest, we take the reins of Vegeta, Prince of all Saiyans, in his quest to reunite the Saiyan race and oppose the rule of the perfidious Frieza and his Cold Empire. After four years of hiatus, I return.== Archive==https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=KingQM== Recap of our situation ==Vegeta and his crew have learned of a station used by the Saiyan resistance, a group formed soon after the destruction of planet Vegeta, over twenty years ago. While the station is derelict, it hosts intel and devices that could prove useful to the aims of the Prince. The Capsule Corp. Saiyan Spacebase Mark II crewed with Vegeta, Nappa, Turles, Raditz, the newly rescued Saiyans Kalabash and Calava, and the ship’s pilot and engineer, the human Bulma Brief, departed for Sadala Station and found it overrun by space pirates led by the mighty captain Zodd.Following tense negotiations, Vegeta and Zodd began a one-on-one duel to settle who would keep authority over the station. The battle continues…
>>6396484Hello /qst/. Many, many years ago I started a quest called Vegeta Quest, where we took control of Vegeta a year before his arrival at Earth.The quest had a good first thread, then I got taken by the QM curse. It was revived two times, once in 2021 and the other in 2022, each time it died out due to general personal issues and burnout. QMing required a lot of time that I didn’t have to spare. I hung around /qst/ for the next 4 years as a lurker/poster/one-shot QM afterwards and noticed that the board had slowed down quite a bit, which led me to think that I could actually handle the QM workload once again.So, imagine reviving a quest that died thrice already, four years after its last death. Why even? Because I loved Vegeta Quest, it’s my favorite quest I’ve ever QMed, and it’s the one incomplete personal project that still hangs on my mind to this very day, FOUR years later. I needed to come back to it eventually, and hopefully my eternally loyal playerbase remains and comes back with me for another adventure along with new players we pick up on our way.I spent two weeks rereading the entire quest, taking notes on characters, preparing for future arcs, and steeling myself for a prolonged, proper period of QMing.
>>6396485Year 761Vegeta, rightful holder of the title "Prince of all Saiyans" after the fall of his planet, has seen his life change in the past year. What looked like a simple mission to a low power level planet turned into a near-death situation and a complete disaster for Frieza's interests. After saving the life of his two servants, Raditz and Nappa, the trio set coordinates for Earth to hopefully meet Kakarot and heal their wounds with his help, exiling themselves from the Cold Empire.They found that Kakarot had become 'humanized', unwilling to let go of his friends to join your ranks. Still, your weakened state did not leave you many options. In exchange for healing by the earthlings, you swore to not destroy or harm the population of the Earth and train with Kakarot for a full year.After learning a variety of techniques from Kakarot and his reluctant comrades, Earth was invaded by the Crusher Corps, but through cunning and 'experimental' tactics, Vegeta was able to defeat Turles and destroy his ship, unaware that within were the seeds of the mighty Tree of Life. Turles then joined the Saiyans on Earth.Kakarot, angered by Vegeta's actions during the battle with Turles, asked to duel Vegeta. After a long fight, Vegeta smashed Kakarot's limbs and rendered him unable to move, not before an intervention by a particularly angry Gohan. Tensions are high as the fighting was bloody, but it proved that Kakarot and Raditz were capable of great feats when spurred by their compassion.Afterwards, in exchange for saving Earth from Turles, the Brief family designed a powerful new armor for the Saiyans and were constructing a spaceship for Vegeta and his servants in order to find out if any other Saiyan remnants still fight around the galaxy. While she completed the ship, Vegeta went out to meet Kakarot and reconcile as best he could with the humans of Earth.After the new Saiyan spaceship was completed, we gathered a crew out of our Saiyan warriors, Bulma as a ship technician and the Namekian Piccolo, who wished to help in exchange for a future visit to Namek. Bulma’s ‘galactic range saiyan radar’ was activated and after detecting the signatures of the Saiyans onboard and after a long wait, it detected five others in a far off world. Eager to include even more Saiyans into his growing princedom, Vegeta decided to send the ship on its fastest path towards the newfound signatures, obliterating a Frieza scout ship that was patrolling the area into space dust and training Bulma in the use of ki (in exchange for an eventual gravity room) along the way.
>>6396487The ship arrived at an arid planet after six months of travel. Everyone except Bulma descended to the surface to help out four of the signatures, the lowest ones, from pursuing Frieza soldiers. There Vegeta met Kalabash, his non-combatant wife Gisa, their plucky daughter Rokka and their terrified son Oshe. Piccolo had laid a trap for the pursuing Frieza soldiers with his Hellzone Grenade, passing it off as a trap with conventional explosives for those who might eventually investigate the matter.With Kalabash and his family safe, Piccolo and Raditz stayed with them until the Attack Pods Mk. II could carry them to the safety of Bulma’s ship, while the rest led by Vegeta flew off to help Calava, a female Saiyan with a power of 5.000. There they met the Rosha Force, an elite team of Frieza’s.After a long and bloody battle, which included a Zenkai for Vegeta and Bulma almost dying in an attempt to save his life, Vegeta and company got the upper hand against Rosha and his team. They took Olond and Rosha, the two most powerful and honorable members of the Rosha Force, into custody aboard the Saiyan ship, and another prize was the Rosha Force attack ship, now untraceable thanks to Turles’ efforts, which would follow the main ship on autopilot during the three month trip home.=== THREAD 6 ===In the thread before this one, Vegeta spoke with Olond and Rosha. The two aliens, while imprisoned, showed disdain for Frieza and his methods and declared that they owed Vegeta their lives. In a now not-so-rare show of mercy, Vegeta allowed Rasha and Olond to go free, recruiting them as soldiers for his cause. Vegeta had another tense encounter with Bulma, but let the opportunity go due to the raw exhaustion from the battles on planet Vertes. He then met with Kalabash, the Saiyan warrior explained that a group of Saiyans formed a Resistance against Frieza shortly after the destruction of Planet Vegeta. This resistance group was based around cells that spread out among various space stations in the galaxy, they opposed Frieza for five years, but were eventually destroyed after one last raid on the group’s main base: Sadala Station.Kalabash said that the station had information on the last location of the Saiyans in a hidden room by the command center, while the information would be at least 20 years old, it would be better than nothing. The other great prize within was a communicator that could send a message to the scouters belonging to Saiyans, again, it would be difficult to know just how many Saiyans still had their scouters after so long, but such a communicator could be a boon in Vegeta’s project to gather the Saiyan race once more.
When they arrived at Earth, the Brief family began working on a retrofitting of the spaceship that took them to Vertes with what they learned in the trip. Bulma tells the group that the extremely efficient drives of the Capsule Corp. Saiyan Spacebase Mark II would get the team there in under a month, and thus Vegeta decreed that this would be their next step. In a private conversation afterwards, Vegeta promised Bulma to teach her to fly if she built a Gravity room in the ship that would help the crew train in harsher conditions.With 3 months of waiting coming up, the group trained and prepared. Kakarot offered Vegeta another duel after the Z Fighters’ long training regimen in King Kai’s planet. Vegeta instead offered a small “tournament” where warriors who desired to fight would have a chance to do so. The tournament ended in a 2-1 result in favor of the earthlings, thanks to some luck and power level bullshit.Soon after the tournament, the new spaceship was ready and the final preparations were made. Kalabash’s wife Gisa would stay at Earth along with her two children, her daughter Rokke, more predisposed to fighting, would train along with Gohan under Kakarot, Piccolo (who had made friends with the stoic and silent Rasha and Olond) and the rest of the Z-Fighters.Vegeta’s crew, composed of all the fighting Saiyans he had gathered (Nappa, Raditz, Calava, Kalabash), and his recruited alien fighters Rasha and Olond, departed for Sadala Station in search of relics from the past that could aid them in their new purpose. The trip began, Vegeta used this downtime to speak with his warriors and check on how they’re doing: Raditz, Nappa and Turles.The trip would indeed conclude within the month. Vegeta’s ship would arrive to Sadala station and find it overrun with a crew of pirates led by Pirate Captain Zodd, with whom he had an audience. Zodd told him of the news of the galaxy, that Frieza had put a bounty on all remaining Saiyans, and that he served under a certain Queen Zar’Ann, an alien of the same species as Zarbon who did not owe allegiance to the Cold Empire. Vegeta is accompanied by Raditz, Nappa, Calava and Kalabash, all of his Saiyan warriors, while Bulma remained behind on the spaceship that brought you here.After tense negotiations, Zodd decided to fight Vegeta one on one, leading to a duel that was not yet concluded…
Our Vegeta remains rather princely. Almost undefeated in battle, he enjoys wearing the upgraded combat armor that Bulma designed for him back at Earth, which uses black spandex and white lamellar bands, including a purple cape capable of blocking ki blasts. His left eye remains milky white following a hit on his back in the Rekar fiasco where his new life began. He has grown used to keeping that specific eye shut for the most part.When it comes to his personality, little remains of his ruthless and pedantic pre-Rekar personality. The trauma of his defeat at that planet, along with the lessons learned from Kakarot and the Z-Figthers of Earth has led to a new Vegeta. One that has grown wiser, sees the usefulness in mercy, and seeks true friendship with his servants and vassals. Still, his Saiyan pride remains, battle still is and will likely remain one of his greatest drives and urges, spurred on by the primal desire within Saiyan instinct.
== RULES == >system is a simple d100 vs DC. Application of 'best of x rolls' varies per roll!>votes will last for ~30 minutes. Since I expect a very slow start due to the nature of reboots, I can conclude a vote at anytime to keep the quest going during my writing hours.>dialogue choices are only there as guidelines of what I think Vegeta could decide on a single issue. Write-ins during dialogue options are highly encouraged.>choices during battle may have higher or lower risks, and often entail higher or lower rewards. Bear in mind that sometimes, higher risks does not mean it provides a similarly high reward. Try to see which move is best for a situation, or even provide a write-in with what you think is best!>Zenkai only occurs during a real battle for your life! You can't abuse it by being brought to near death during training, as you technically know your life is not in danger. Though if there is a real chance of death during training (for example, a gravity chamber crushing your bones) you may be able to increase even if not as much as after a real fight!>you are not expected to be goody two shoes, and you are not expected to be pure evil bloodthirsty Saiyans. Saiyans are unique in that their nature is to be brutal and to seek fighting, but they can mellow out over time as Bardock and Vegeta demonstrated in the OG timeline, though they can hardly reach levels similar to that of a human. Do what you think is best for character development!>don't feel obligated to stick to Earth! You have spacefaring vessels, there's a Galaxy to explore, and I can always come up with some interesting choices.>there will be a bunch of waifu options! Right now Bulma is currently closest to romantic involvement.>don't be paranoid! I, as the QM, am not competing with the player but seeking to spur the story forward. Don't worry about specific details. For example wondering if some small mooks are alive after leaving a battlefield and if they could be trouble and I'm hiding it. Whether they are or not is up to your headcanon but if I don't mention it, then they're not gonna be a problem anymore.>Please keep debating and making theories on DBZ power levels. I love that shit.>While Saiyans and other powerful races inherently grow faster and have a stronger baseline, weaker races such as humans can overcome anything through training. I don't think leaving the Z-Fighters behind is fun, they should have path to powers and I was given many great examples. Expect training humans who seek strength to reach it! Some day, I'm sure.
>>6396493Regarding writing the quest:>I’m afraid real life will make it very hard for me to have proper “sessions” of many many hours. Writing is slow, the longer the quest has gone, the more things you have to take into account to keep it all coherent, the slower the writing inherently gets. Vegeta Quest has gone through a lot of things that make it diverge from the OG timeline, even if I have my notes handy, it won’t be easy to keep track of everything.>In any case, expect updates in different rhythms. Sometimes I may be able to actually keep a “session” going around 9 PM to 12 PM GMT+1, other times I’ll only be able to output one post per day, sometimes there may be pauses of various days or even weeks (which I’ll try to warn everyone about here) due to real life taking priority. I'm thinking of making some sort of social media to add updates to, but not sure which platform to use as it's been a long time since I've used any.>I want to finish the quest, so the one thing I’d like to do is thank all of you anons for your eternal patience with your flakey QM!
=== PASTEBIN WITH POWER LEVELS AND MOVES FOR VEGETA AND OTHER CHARACTERS ===https://pastebin.com/eQVstyrB
And without further ado... We return.“It’s called training, perhaps you should give it a try some day.” You taunt the pirate captain. The jeers of his followers echo in the hall as they also sing the praises of their captain “Zodd! Zodd! Zodd!”Pirate Captain Zodd smirks. “Of course.” His devilish smile widens. “Too bad you won’t be alive to teach me!”He launches himself forward. You take a deep breath and use the martial arts that the alien Olond taught you. You throw your limbs forward on wide and elongated arcs, spurring ki forward and mixing it with the air around you. Loud sonic booms echo in the hall, leading to many covering their ears, though you hear the cheers of Olond from behind you. Apparently, you have used the technique in a rather adept manner once more, and in the middle of a tense battle.Two arm swipes and three forward kicks launch the mixture of ki and air forward towards Zodd. The pirate captain’s taunting grin is swiftly removed from his visage when he realizes what’s going on. Unlike you, he cannot sense the ki coming straight towards him, and he takes the brunt of the first few hits on his face and gut. He then begins blocking the blows almost at random, and dodging from side to side.The large alien’s abnormal speed is his greatest boon here. The Way of the Wind is strong, but it is indeed slow, though he has taken big hits, he eventually realizes the weakness of your moves and disappears from one side to another, approaching you fast.You defend yourself from his physical blows, his three-clawed hands trying to break through your defence again. As you focus on the blows from the usual limbs, you barely have time to realize that the scorpion tail from Zodd’s back had swept forward and bit you in your left arm. You deliver a strong punch forward, knocking Zodd a few meters back, and jump back yourself to make some distance.It is poisoned, of course it is. You are already feeling an itch in your arm that spreads.“Bahahaha!” Zodd’s gravelly laugh spreads throughout the station’s command room, and his lackeys laugh along with him. “Foolish prince.” He says pointing at you from the very same position he was in before. “The poison in the tail of the Roddite race is quite deadly. I’m afraid you won’t have much longer.”You furrow your brow, striking your battle pose with defiance.“Now now!” Zodd says. “I am not without mercy, you see.” He takes a flask from under his battle armor and shows it off, the liquid inside swirling about within. “I have, of course, an antidote, which I may think of giving you.” He takes a hand to his chin, as if pensive. “If, perhaps, you surrender and serve me for the rest of your life!”You watch as Nappa, Raditz, and Calava almost jump forward to defend you and take the antidote from Zodd, but you splay your wounded arm before they do so. “He’s mine.” You grin. A battle to the death, it will be far more exhilarating this way.
>>6396501You return once more to your stance as your warriors return to their positions. “And if I defeat you while poisoned, Zodd?”“Bahaha!” Zodd shakes his head. “Then of course you’d take it.” He entertains before returning to a more serious tone “Don’t be a fool, prince.” He says. “Take the loss, serve me.”You feel the itch turn to numbness near the area where the tail bit you. You spit some blood, then wipe your mouth. “No.” You grin, and fly forward again.Vegeta (PL 25.125) VS Pirate Captain Zodd (PL 30.000). The battle continues!>Galick gun! You will teach Zodd the meaning of humility, and end this battle swiftly!>Tail slicer! Zodd’s scorpion tail is too dangerous, you must destroy it now that you can.>Energy blast volley! Zodd is fast, and that can be countered by simply firing too many ki blasts to dodge!>Saiyan martial arts! The venom is beginning to affect you, perhaps you should take it easy for this round and try to get the upper hand through sheer martial prowess.
>>6396502>Energy blast volley!
Rolled 24 (1d100)>>6396572There was no other way to start.>Roll 1d100, best of three. I'll roll the first one to get this thing going.
Rolled 3 (1d100)>>6396950Classic vegeta move. Never works
Rolled 82 (1d100)>>6396950
>>639695582/100Great success.
>>6397067Zodd is fast, but he’s taken a few blows already from your gusts of ki-infused wind. You watch as he stands ready to take on your blow, a devious grin still on his face, he is patiently waiting for his poison to take effect.It is true that the venom is affecting you, so you don’t have much time to take the pirate down. You have to take Zodd down, fast, and that could only be done through overwhelming power.So you begin firing a few ki blasts, which Zodd handily blocks or dodges, allowing you to rush past him and take flight behind his position. You don’t think twice before you begin firing an unending volley of energy blasts towards him, their color a mix of pale blue and purple.He begins to deflect the first few blasts, which land uneasily close to his soldiers. Zodd’s laugh rings out in the room once more. “Really? You’re going to use such a pathetic technique on me?” He says as he continues to deflect your blows. You smile. Of course the demon pirate is proud. You don’t let up, instead intensifying your volley, the light emanating from them becomes so overwhelming that many in the room have to shield their eyes.Zodd continues to dodge and deflect, but soon his smile begins to disappear, little by little, unexpected blasts reach him in the chest, some he deflects poorly and instead singe his arms, others he’s forced to straight up block and you begin to see his armbands creak and crack under the weight of your power.“Tch.” Zodd is now using his tail to slice some of the blasts, he is no longer dodging, far too overwhelmed by the raw power coming towards him. You yourself have no intention of stopping, you’re pretty sure that your concentration on outpouring energy is the only thing allowing you to ignore the poison. Zodd’s armor has now cracked, and the red flesh exposed beneath was burned by your blasts, you watch now as he simply crosses his arms and yells in a booming voice to hold off your attack.More. You think. More. But your poisoned arm is now starting to tire itself, you feel how poorly your energy is flowing through it, the ki that comes out of your hand clearly debilitated by your situation. Eventually, you decide to let up and watch the result of your efforts, breathing heavily.Your foe is also out of breath, blood seeping from his mouth from the internal damage caused by the continuous impacts on his chest. His arms are burn, and a toasty smell permeates in the air. His tail’s tip looks almost cauterized from the many times he had to use it.“I see now how Saiyans got their repute.” He says, he spits blood and still has a hard time controlling his breath, but his grin returns. “Still, it is only a matter of time.”Once more he strikes a defensive pose, though you can see his energy flows irregularly. His speed and reaction times will clearly be hampered.
He seems to have no intention to go after you, so you have to take the initiative once more.>Galick gun! Zodd's beat, he won’t dodge this one!>Tail slicer! If you get rid of his tail, perhaps the blood loss will do the rest.>Absolute focus (Offense)! You will pummel him where his energy flows weakest.>Saiyan martial arts! Zodd clearly hasn’t fought that many Saiyans before, show him what their Prince can do!
>>6397071>Galick gun! Zodd's beat, he won’t dodge this one!
Rolled 72 (1d100)>>6397182Purple kamehameha is it.>Roll 1d100, best of three.I'll roll the first one again.
Rolled 58 (1d100)>>6397537
Is Vegeta aware of the dragon balls?
Rolled 52 (1d100)>>6397537
