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?You are Rosa Montagni, who woke up after binging on booze at the local Viridis casino to find Nemo and Craig missing! But Valencio filled you in on their adventures, which involves Liv, a long-time bounty hunter friend of yours. So, convinced that they're alright and headed to Hexbourne, you've decided to head there as well, even if you have to ride a Machine Men-made smuggler transport network on the ceiling.Once you've been intentionally crashlanded on Hexbourne, you find the splitting image of a certain cultist fox that you've helped capture way back at the Orphanage - but this time, he's only a lookalike. Then you find out you have another cousin enrolled in the magic school that is Hexbourne, and try a bit of scrying to check where Craig and Nemo is at the moment.But then... things went belly-up fast. Craig's been laid low by someone you thought was dead all this time -Sierra, your former mentor at connivery! Thankfully they're able to teleport. Soon after, you've been summoned to meet the principal of Hexbourne, which turned out to be the Eastern anchor's deity, Kagutsuchi AKA Homusubi...Wonder what he wants from you?
>>6428026Before you sits the massive form of Kagutsuchi, behind an equally large desk that you mistook for a small storage shed. The god of black fire coughs - just enough to break whatever awe or terror you might have been thinking about."A-hm. I'd usually engage in pleasantries, but there are urgent matters at hand."He raises a finger, as if showing you how dire the situation is."One: one of our 'existential threat' alarms was triggered recently, regarding a certain monitored entity's mana signature suddenly appearing in very close proximity to Hexbourne. In the same island, maybe just outside our campus."You still have no idea why you'd be called for this, until the hefty deity gestured towards one of the many screens behind him."Two: we detected these two escorting some of our presumed lost students... until they ran afoul of the threat entity I mentioned earlier."The screen flickers out of static, now showing a bedridden Craig. Nemo awaits by his side, watching over the unconscious boy. This sent you into panic."NEMO! CRAIG!"Anxiety abound, since you've seen him attacked by Sierra - thanks to the scrying you've done earlier."CRAIG! Is he okay?!"Kagutsuchi answers your fears."Not to worry, I had them teleported in as soon after they lost. The students managed to return via the back entrance. I am already acquainted by Nemo, and it is he who petitioned me to summon you, as a fellow surveyor of the anchors. Furthermore, as we scanned Craig's mana signature, we've detected a potential existential threat laying dormant within him. I was told you're his guardian - were you aware of this?"Now, was he talking about Craig's spirits? Or was it something else?Then again, there's some weird details about what he said, that you'd like to ask questions about.>CHOOSE ONE>□ Yes, it's about one of the spirits he has, isn't it?>□ No, is it because of that grimoire I bought for him?>□ No, did Sierra do something to him?>□ Other (fill in)>ALSO CHOOSE ONE>□ What is this threat entity of yours? Is it a person?>□ Why did you wait until they've lost the fight before teleporting them?>□ How are you outside your anchor? Wait, are we in an anchor now?>□ Why did you scan Craig's mana signature? Seems unnecessary for treatment.>□ Other (fill in)
>>6428026Whoops, almost forgotPrevious thread:https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2026/6370348/Gongallaverse:https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Gongalla%20Gaol
>>6428055>Yes, it's about one of the spirits he has, isn't it?And>What is this threat entity of yours? Is it a person?
>>6428073+1>>6428057Welcome back QM
>>6428055>>6428073+1 to this. And yes, welcome back, KING
>>6428073+1Welcome back QM!
>>6428055>□ Yes, it's about one of the spirits he has, isn't it?>□ What is this threat entity of yours? Is it a person?
