Previously on 100 Rule Quest:

In the western frontier town of Watership, amidst wild and bred dinosaurs, occasional undead, moonlit days, and the expansive desert kingdom of moon-wind rabbits warring with figs, Lifeforce Magic is part of the curriculum at Watership Academy, the finest institution for developing the skills necessary for deep sea expeditions.

Hanekawa Tsubasa is a perfectionist model student hiding her childhood training with the rare, scorned Natural Magicks. She was unaware of an estranged rival, Taiga Monday, who'd been stalking her. One morning, Taiga was rushing to class and the two collided. The legendary Phantom Rider attacked, targeting Taiga. Hanekawa saved her, fleeing to her mother's house, where powerful Natural Magicks dispelled the Rider. A mortal contract killer also targeted her, having killed the courier delivering a letter to Taiga's father, Professor Horatio Monday, who had vanished with his expedition gear. Hanekawa lead a rescue party into the northern wilderness consisting of Taiga, close friend Victor, ace student Etou, new student Chaika, and Deputy Cassie.
They're intercepted by Dar the Beastmaster, who warned them off the ruins and suddenly accused Hanekawa of being "inhuman" and attacked her. Elven archers attacked Dar, scattering the group; Etou partially understands Elvish and overheard a cryptic warning. At the ruins in a sinkhole of intact, geometrically bizarre buildings avoided by wildlife, the party found Professor Monday alive but traumatized, warning of "worn" humanoids that killed the rest of a prior expedition. Taiga saved everyone with a powerful ice trap spell. They escaped past dangerous plant life to find their camp under elf attack, Dar returning wounded on a T-rex, and the "worn" creatures swarming. The group fled on horseback while Hanekawa held the line with a borrowed magic pendant from Chaika, then fled alone on foot. She reunited with the others near a giant stegosaurus, deflected an arrow volley, then used a forbidden technique to drain life from nearby plants instead of herself in order to survive a stegosaurus attack, which launched her violently out of sight.
That night, the group camped and they all, even Taiga, were worried about the missing Hanekawa.

Elsewhere in the desert kingdom, Jasper, a put-upon Lunarian Lagomorph (intelligent rabbit-people using moon-wind magic) was tasked with escorting Edella Farn, an elf queen with self-resurrecting fire magic who fell into their world through a dimensional crack, along with a human healer named "Queen" to elves in order to investigate her powers. Their expedition found a crashed alien pod full of lethal wasps, clashing with human poachers, and encountered "Orphan," a strange superhuman being, and an aggressive black ooze that fused with Jasper's teammate Rosco, transforming him.
Upon finding Roscoe transformed and easily fighting off raptors, a megaraptor charges the group.

>>6473259
(You don't need to read these rules to play the quest)
The rules so far:

Rule Zero:
A. I, Apoc QM, will interpret the rules as accurately as I can, encourage feedback, clarify the rules as they will be set forth and implemented.
B. I might not research anything.
C. I will not write Slice of Life.
D. If the players attempt to create fan fiction, it may be inaccurate, poor quality, and possibly be subject to The Monkey's Paw.
E. I will not otherwise *purposefully* subvert the intention of rules, or Monkey's Paw the quest. Whatever chaos creates the quest, I will play it straight and commit to running the resulting quest earnestly.

0.1:
A rule someone posts isn't a "Rule" until I have understood it and clarified it by posting it with a number.

0.2:
If a rule would negate itself, it doesn't. No paradox.
Apparently this is how I am playing it.

>>6473262
1. The quest ends when the main character has consensual coitus.
2. The protagonist (and de facto main character) is Hanekawa Tsubasa.
- The protagonist's goal is to obtain the rabbit king's ring that controls demons and is causing the sea level to rise
4. The quest begins when Hanekawa Tsubasa gets a message from the government about a possible plan to stop the sea from rising
5. The setting is the Wild Weird West where cowboys and magic exist.

6. Dentists are attractive.
7. Humans primarily populate the setting and use Life Force Magic.
8. The desert kingdom of talking Lunarian rabbits is ruled ruled by an old wise rabbit who has a magic ring.
9. A vast sea dominates the world, filled with wonders, wealth, and danger.
10. Hanekawa needs to bathe at least once a day and bathing with any of her clothes on is banned.
11. The sea is slowly but surely rising with no sign of ending
12. There are two moons.
13. Dinosaurs and the coolest prehistoric beasts replace many common animals. Elves predict the coming of Santa Claus.
14. The rabbit king's magic ring is causing the sea level to rise
15. Locust swarms eat all fibers and only fibers.
16. There is a pantheon of minor Gods based on stupid or minor things
17. All characters speak in zappai.
18. The Lunarians Lagomorphs and Figs
19. Humans drink cactus juice instead of alcohol
20. Current humanity actually derives from a necromantic race of skeletons.
21. The world has no sun. The moons cast a cycle of dim light on the world, evil beings are most active during the darkest hours.
22. Sailors are a greatly valued human profession. Lunarians are paid with moon chunks by the human governments to help sail. Ships wrought with life magic are passed down as heirlooms. The rabbits sail in fiercely coveted fig wood ships. Hanekawa’s schooling was nautical.
23. Monthly, a ritual must be performed by the Moon Shrine in order to Honor the Dead
24. The undead chud liches and the rabbits are mortal enemies because the liches hate the idea of their sexual reproduction.
25. Communism actually works in these societies.
26. Laws of physics apply. The planet is orbited by a godly corpse that gives off heat equivalent to the sun but no light
27. When the sea started rising one of the moons started to crack
28. Mysterious holes to vast tunnels and a new species with eyes that generate a gentle light are fleeing their underground network as the tunnels are beginning to flood. (See 46 & 47)
29. The liches develop and flaunt superior technology. The undead have a caste system.
30. Somebody should provide a map.
31. With a lack of a sun, fungus and tubers are cultivated as food
32. "Flood-Farers Guild" which lends their ferry services to anyone with coin.
33. Rarely, fig wasps are found in meteors. Life magic is quite effective at killing them, but lunar magic isn't.

>>6473264
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34. There is a rivalry between cowboys and sailors. A famed duel between a great pirate and gunslinger resulted in a necromantic dead zone not far from Hanekawa's school.
35. Hanekawa Tsubasa's best friend is the son of the local grocer Victor Noble.
36. Academies are available to the wealthy, but most young folks become apprentices
37. Fishmen eat humans, travel by submarines, and actively commit piracy. They serve the Mermaid Queen, the leader of all fishfolk. They are natural enemies of the undead.
38. Ghosts are fighting demons and nightmares threatening the core of the world, resulting in the events leading up to the quest.
39. Due to the growing level of industrialization within the human nation, magic is slowly becoming more redundant to most city-dwellers.
40. The moons and planet each have its own deathless gods. The moons act as a shared conduit for dreams. Divine orders risk attack from dream gods.
41. Rabbits traditionally reproduce using fig trees
42. The rabbits speak a version of early modern English that has no vowels and is interjected at random points with various non-english words that describe how they're currently feeling.
43. An old cowboy legend tells of a hidden fully automatic firearm treasure.
44. Due to an order from the Goddess of Naked Sleeping, every elf and young looking human female cannot sleep with clothes on.
45. Kitchen salt is enriched with various mineral salts. Undead can feel the taste of figs.
46. Human expeditions have long sought to explore these tunnels vast tunnel networks beneath the surface bored by long gone massive roots
47. The cave species with glowing eyes are demonically possessed humans
48. There are Leprechaun that enslave other beings by putting them into massive debt and a special binding spell, a geas.
49. Communism was implemented to counter the Leprechaun economic attacks.
50. There are male and female Leprechaun created with an artifact the Mermaid Queen stole from the first Lich King.
51. Some humans are unhappy with communism.
52. Guns and bullets when used nullify magics. Alien beaver dentists are attractive. The only sentient races are humans, lunarians, elves, gods, and Santa. The rabbit king’s ring commands demons. Quest uses Best of Three votes wins and same for rolling d20 for challenges. ; Rules need two votes to be altered or overwritten.

53. The rabbit king kneels to the rabbit emperor.
54. Hanekawa unexplainably has no game at all
55. Men find Hanekawa incredibly beautiful. Hot girls don't need game. She is not an exhibitionist.
56. Hanekawa grew up raised by a hedge witch for a mother before leaving for school. A necromancer must never ask the dead 'why wake'. Elves have a mistaken vendetta against the undead and hid the Tree of Life. Dwarves went extinct.

>>6473265
57. There is a book written by the first Gods lost somewhere in the world. The 100 laws written within are fundamental rules of the universe though any attempts to add new laws instead replace an existing rule at random.
This is the only way a quest rule can be overwritten..
58. Skills modifiers range from initiate +2, adept +4, master +6, heroic +8, legendary +10.
59. If someone gets dubs when rolling that adds another +1, trips add +2
60. NPCs roll opposing bo3 d20s. QM will roll for them.
61. The Fishmen and the Mermaid Queen are modified humans and are sentient yet inherently psychopathic.
62. Fishmen get treated as having the skill modifier for the next rank when fighting undead, ghosts have the same advantage against demons and nightmares
63. There is a powerful culture of strong ancestor reverence among Lagomorph Lunarians.
64. A full set of armor can provide a blocking modifier ranging from +1, +2, +3, +4 based on quality and material.
65. There's a buff hermit called the Beasmaster living in the middle of wilderness. He's got the secret to tame powerful creatures. He can teach the worthy his ways but the training requires wearing a flimsy loincloth and screaming like Tarzan; The wilderness exists.
66. Three characters of the quest are: Taiga Monday, Etou Fujiko, & Chaika Trabant
67. Evil cult magic exists and corrupts. Natural Magicks are the ancient original magics.
68. There are sealed ancient ruins made of indestructible metal. Nobody could ever get inside. Two years ago a girl called Marnie came out from one. She claims to have come from something she calls "the Digital World"; Marnie is now an 18 girl in Hanekawa's class.
69. Critical Fails result on a roll of 7 and Critical success results on a roll of 13. A roll of 1 is calculated as if it were a 7 and a roll of 20 is calculated as if it were 13 for mathematical purposes.
70. "Mamakawa" gave birth to Hanekawa when she was 21 and has the body and appearance of a 19 year old.
71. Hanekawa Tsubasa is the president of the working class, that is, she is the president of her class and her class is the working internship class, getting practical experience as they learn; Hanekawa Tsubasa is 31 (an extremely high rating in Lifeforce Magic); Hanekawa is less than 40 years old. She isn't immune to god influence. She can't be more than 40 ever; Chaika and Etou Fujiko are less than 20 years old; The naked sleeping induced by the Matron of Uncovered Dreams completely stops the female aging process from the age of 18 to 40.
72. PCs and NPCs don’t have plot armor and can die.
73. A rabbit's left hind foot can be burned to nullify a crit fail

>>6473267
74. Hanekawa is a Quarter Elf because her dad is or was a half elf; Quarter Elves are indistinguishable from humans physically, their bodies look the same, even the ears, but they age just a bit slowly and have increased magic talent. They aren't immortal and live to be 100 years old in average. Hanekawa looks from 20 to 25 years old thanks to her elven blood; The Matron of Uncovered Dreams regards quarter elves as elves and continues blessing of naked sleeping throughout their lives.
75. Whenever a fatal outcome falls over Hanekawa, a new MC or anyone on their parties, roll a 1d3. On a 2 or 3, No fatal outcome occurs, it gets replaced by ecchi anime fanservice of the affected character.
76. MCs of Apoc QM's previous quests will appear, having been isekaied into the world.
77. Every main character party, human or not, must have at least a cute human, elf or humanoid girl that's less than 30 in it.

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>>6473261
"SCATTER!" Jasper yelled to the others as he bounded off to the left, very aware of how visible his white fur was in the waning moonlight. Amy immediately followed orders, hopped, and bounded behind a nearby raptor corpse that Rosco had slaughtered. Rosco, listening to orders, leaped and landed in a feral position in the back, his strange new black ooze covering quivering with strange tendrils. Edella charged forward to face the charging megaraptor directly in the typical suicidally brave way the crazy red-headed elf always seemed to approach everything. "Amy and Edella, hit it with magic! Then Rosco? Pounce!"
Rosco grinned back with a mouth full of razor sharp teeth that weren't his. It was bizarre to see a familiar expression on his friend in such a twisted way. Jasper turned his back on his transformed friend, trusting him for the moment in the heat of battle at least.

Amy, as a skilled and highly trained Lunarian Lagomorph warrior, was the first to react. She very quickly fired off several spheres of destructive swirling Moon Wind Magic energy at the rapidly approaching enemy. The spheres glanced off the dinosaur's thick hide harmlessly, apparently doing no damage. Yet, it did succeed in getting its attention. It was now focused on Amy as it rapidly approached.

Jasper glanced at Edella who was still casting some elaborate other-worldly elven magic. Strange symbols glowed in the air in front of her in a way he hadn't seen before. He sighed and wished she'd just hurry up. His idea had been to levitate a raptor corpse and throw it at the beast but it was proving heavier and floppier than he'd expected. He couldn't get the balance right.
Just as he was beginning to panic, feeling the thunderous footprints in the sand, Edella released a massive fireball.
Jasper hadn't seen that kind of magical power level before. He had certainly heard of it but attributed most of the stories to typical two-legs bluster. It was the first time he'd seen any two-legs do anything that made them seem remotely capable as a species. It was vastly more primitive than Moon-Wind Magic, but it seemed effective.

The megaraptor was completely caught off guard by the blast and took the entire fireball to its face, instantly charred and still flaming, it shook its head, staggering, keening, and seemed disoriented. Edella stood proud, her magic clearly speaking for herself. It had been undeniably impressive. She glanced back at Amy and Jasper with a look of genuine camaraderie. She seemed to be smiling at having helped to save her friends, or traveling companions at least.

Then, the megaraptor's jaws lunged forward and clamped down on her, nearly cutting her in two. It picked her up, shook her back and forth violently, her bottom half torn and flopping sickeningly. Then it tossed her to the side with a savage roar, sending her body tumbling into a nearby dune. Jasper concentrated both on his Moon-Wind Magic and on not vomiting his dinner into the sand at his feet.

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>>6473270
Amy gasped and cried out. Rosco was making some kind of growling sound drowned out by the megaraptor's terrifying roar. Jasper felt the deafening vibrations of the roar in his bones. Even Rosco seemed to be somewhat cowed by the sound. The roar was cut off by Jasper shoving a raptor corpse down the predator's throat, gagging it.

It staggered again, still not recovered from the fireball, but it started gagging and chewing, grinding the corpse with a disgusting display. "Didn't anyone ever tell you not to chew with your mouth open?" Jasper quipped, his forced chuckle doing a poor job of hiding his concern with humor. That worked but he was unsure what to do next... His thoughts were interrupted by Rosco bellowing and leaping over thirty hops, manifesting his glowing green mace in midair, and striking downward in its eye socket.

Immediately upon hitting the ground below, he hopped straight up, striking its jaw upwards then latching onto the underside of its neck with snake-like tendrils, pulling himself to it and slashing and tearing its throat with savage black claws and sharp teeth. The massive dinosaur flailed as blood poured from its neck but it quickly collapsed. Rosco kept slashing and biting. Worryingly, Jasper noted that his friend was swallowing bites of the dinosaur's flesh.

"I, uh, didn't know he could do that. The tendril stuff. That's uh...something..." Jasper said, struggling to deal with the odd events of the night as Amy approached him. She pressed her furry body against him, comforting herself as well as him.
"Do you think he's still our Rosco? He seems different but still ...goofy?"

Jasper's reply was lost by Edella stomping from the dune, more covered with sand stuck to blood than scraps of her feather dress. Passing them with barely a nod, she approached the dead megaraptor. Producing a knife, she starting carving into the hide of the dinosaur. Rosco looked up at her and grinned a bloody smile. She nodded in a perfunctory way, as casually as if joining a fellow in a chow line. He wiped the blood from his mouth onto his black arm, where it was quickly absorbed, then bounded back towards the other two.

Amy tensed but Jasper remained relaxed. Either this was his friend or someone he couldn't stop. Either way, there was no point in bristling.
"That was great! We're so glad to see you guys! Did you see how strong we are?"
Amy and Jasper glanced at each other and began asking questions.
Rosco explained that the black ooze was a sentient symbiote that'd been "on a savage world" that made the Wilderness seem like a bunny picnic. It and Orphan had been there together. It was telepathic and had always been looking for a partner, another creature with intelligence to bond with. Apparently Orphan had been incompatible, treated it like a pet, and named it "Squishie". Squishie seemed to mostly hate Orphan but both of them had been captured by some humans in a metal can and had been dropped from the stars through a black tear.

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>>6473271
Jasper thought that insanity sounded very much like the way Edella had come to the world. Glancing at the elf as she continued whatever she was doing with the dinosaur corpse, Jasper asked Rosco and Squishie if they could share any more. But unfortunately, Squishie had been deep within the metal can and Orphan was, according to Squishie, a complete idiot who didn't understand anything. Squishie couldn't glean any information from him.

When Amy suggested that Rosco and Squishie separate for a while, both of them were strongly against the idea. Jasper was concerned but Amy was even more concerned. She tried to convince Rosco that the weird two-legs women that he seemed to like so much, for whatever reason, wouldn't want to pet him if he was covered in black ooze.
Squishie commented that they should as he was glorious. He used the same modified voice Rosco did. It was confusing. However, Rosco admitted that Amy was probably right. Reluctantly, Squishie retracted himself within Rosco, returning him to his previous appearance although he still seemed a bit stronger, more confident, and fluffier.

Edella walked up and scritched Rosco on the top of his head between his ears, commenting that he had very good but very strange battle armor. Rosco beamed happily and hopped into her arms. Amy sighed, defeated.
Jasper seemed to be the only one who noticed that Edella had just expertly crafted dinosaur leather armor in the time that they'd been talking. Also, it hadn't escaped his attention that she had somehow concealed a knife she'd obviously gotten from the poachers. She was exceptionally capable and it was somehow more worrisome than Rosco growing black tendrils and razor teeth.

They returned to the camp and explained the entire night's events to Queen and Wilhelm. Rosco demonstrated his new form only a little, transforming his right front paw. Wilhelm found it unsettling but accepted it with a noncommittal shrug. Rosco was disappointed to find that Queen only found it scientifically and medically fascinating and started treating him more like a specimen that a cuddle pillow.
Jasper sighed. The night had been wildly insane but the plan remained the same. Morning would come soon and they'd proceed to the human town, get any news, resupply, and head towards the elves to see if they could understand anything about Edella. Seeing his discomfort, Amy sat next to the troubled leader and stroked his fur while he ruminated. Unexpectedly, he didn't rebuke her affections this time. He was too tired. Even more unexpectedly, he fell asleep quickly and slept long into the next day.
He had slept so deeply that he woke up stiff, only rising because of the yelling. He opened his eyes and sighed.

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>>6473272
Taiga Monday was furious. That alone was not unexpected. She'd spent so much of the last few years positively fuming at Hanekawa that at times it almost seemed a natural state. She had been mad at Hanekawa. She had been mad at her father. But right now, she was furious at Etou.
They'd finally been rid of the know-it-all bossy Hanekawa when that stupid dinosaur swatted her off into the distance. And she was definitely fine with that and not even remotely worried about her. But now Etou was being just as know-it-all and bossy!
Victor and her father had changed their minds and wanted to go back east, further into the Wilderness, to search for for Hanekawa. Etou and Cassie wanted to stick to the plan and head west, toward the frontier town in the river valley before the Great Desert. And Chaika... Well, the odd girl wanted to go off north to explore a strange square clearing in the trees they'd spotted. That meant that Taiga herself had the deciding vote.
But the bossy older girl said it didn't even matter since *she* was second in command after Hanekawa. Taiga couldn't believe that Etou was being such a bitch.
She was in the middle of screaming at Etou about where she could shove her authority. Victor and her father were interrupting, trying to get her to calm down but they didn't understand. Etou wasn't even recovered from trying to fix the wagon they'd ended up losing anyway and draining herself of magic in the process. She'd fainted from the strain, missed the entire escape, and slept most the time since, giving them all an accidental eyeful. Meanwhile, Taiga had gotten them out of the underground away from those gross creatures and plant thingies almost entirely by herself. And she was back at full strength. Taiga knew she should be in charge, damn it.

After a bit of talking, they'd gotten her to calm down and stop shouting. She really didn't mean to start yelling and she knew it might attract beasts or elves. She folded her arms and grunted, definitely maturely accepting the situation and not pouting. There really wasn't anything she could do anyway. It just really pissed her off that her opinion didn't even matter. Reluctantly, they all packed up and kept moving west, walking the two horses. They walked for most of the morning until they were going down the hill and spotted a rough stream flowing down into the river valley below. It hadn't been on the simply map Cassie had. They'd need to cross it to get to the town.

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>>6473273
They had a good vantage point and could see a massive fallen tree they might be able to lead the horses across but it might not hold the weight.
They could also try to cross where it looked to be thinner and slower up to the north, near the clearing. Chaika seemed to like that idea for some reason.
They could also head through the denser forest to the south and definitely avoid the river until they got out of the Wilderness. But there was no way to tell what was in those trees.
Oh sure, *now* Etou wanted to hear from everyone.
Taiga smirked smugly.
She knew exactly what they should do.

What exactly should they do?
[A]. Cross over the fallen tree
[B]. Go through the southern forest
[C]. Head north to the shallow stream
[D]. Go back east and search for Hanekawa
[E]. Something else

>>6473276
>C
Taiga Monday

Based, I thought you weren't coming back. I'll read it later.

>>6473276
>[C]. Head north to the shallow stream
Water always means baths and FUN. Let Hanekawa be so Taiga can have the protagonism her fans want her to have.

North seems like the plan.
I'll likely get a chance to write tomorrow
It's good to be back.

>>6473276
[C]. Head north to the shallow stream
TAIGA
FUCKIN
MONDAAAAYYY