CYOA Discussion

>>25815743
First for Nip King.

>>25814135
>that name

>>25815802
Yes

>>25815763
No shitposter can stop him.
About twenty, that would do it.

>>25815643
Let me spell this out for you bud.
>Before you left, you had to decide something. What would you look like, act like, and what would your cover story be?

>Please design your whole character in one post with no guidence whatsoever from the QM.
You have set yourself up for failure already.

>>25815813
Also your name sucks desu.

>>25815813

Also we have no information what the Equestria of this universe is like other than that there are apparently two factions in some kind of state of civil war. So we have no idea what an effective cover story would be.

>>25815813
It's also contradictory in it's own opening. The MC is sent to diffuse any conflict, the conflict is being created by the Queen. Who is sending us to diffuse it.
There's apparently a war going on, but a single captured bug means the Hive is fucked.
If the bugs are 'crossing lines Chrysalis never crossed', it seems doubtful that there'd be a large sympathizer presence among the ponies. Invading a country and attacking your leaders doesn't garner sympathy and they're apparently doing worse than that.

>>25815849
This.

As per my solemn vow given in /cyoag/, I will now bump all eighteen CYOAs currently in the catalog to keep them alive through tonight.

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>>25815947
Doing god's work

>>25815816
There's no need to delete your post Anon. It's called criticism. If things don't work out you can try again.

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>The Check' Em Inn

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>>25816001
I feel the dubs overtaking me.

Luna has the biggest butt.

>>25812128
There, I just bumped every single CYOA in the catalog, just like I promised in the last /cyoag/.

Even the ones on page one.

>>25816091
Missed Lost, you scrub.

>>25816107
Shit, I forgot the ones that didn't put CYOA in their name. Gimmie a second.

>>25816120
There. Lost and Coltquest are safe for the night too. Anything else I missed?

>>25816150
Necroquest. You're not very good at this.

>>25816150
Threshold?

>>25816150
>Forgot Vampony

>>25816150
you missed alchemy.

>>25816164
>>25816171
>>25816189
Fixed.

Goddamn it, you try and do people a favor.

You can help too you know.

>>25816222
But you're the one that promised, not me.

>>25816222
Most of these don't even need bumping you butt.

>>25816205
And alchemy. That's twenty three fucking bumps to try and help out my local CYOA community.

You fuckers really need to put CYOA somewhere in your damn thread titles.

>>25816243
Thanks anon.

>>25816242
MY WORD IS MY BOND!

I know a lot of them didn't need it, but I wanted too. People were upset about their favorite CYOAs 404ing and I said I would help because nobody else wanted to do it.

Nyx quest in cutequestria when?

>>25816055
what the fuck did you just fucking say about my waifu, you little bitch?

>>25816324
He said that she has the biggest butt.

>>25816324
She has nice, supple flanks.

>>25816346
i'll have you know my waifu graduated top of her class in moon raising

>>25816359
Impressive! It must be pretty hard to raise that moon, considering how big it is. Since the moon is her butt. And her butt is biggest butt.

>>25816243
Half of the ones you missed have 'quest' in the title.

>>25816392
It's a good thing, right?

>>25816410
Well they're all bumped now, and I sure as hell aren't going to let /cyoag/ talk me into doing that ever again.

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Your favorite cyoa characters get into a card match
one uses this
what happens?

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>>25815743

Looking at the strawpoll for what race you would play.

>no changeling option

>>25816564
>letting changelingfags shove their autistic headcanon into every thread

>>25816564
>there are plane ponies and satyrs but not changelings
wew

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>>25816564

>having planepones, seapones, and mothpones, which are original races, yet not having cahngelings even though their a canon race.

>>25816591
>letting batfags shove their autistic headcanon into every thread

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>>25816529
We making cards now?

>>25816705
>normal monster card color
>has an effect
Get out of here you scrub.

>>25816705
You did it wrong.

>>25816711
>>25816724
I never played any form of card game so I wouldn't expect me to know this either
That's what I get for trying to be like the other cool kids

>>25816761
Back to the meme gym for training.

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>>25816785

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>>25816705
We are now!

>play the pack simulator, first pack has Confessor Paletress, one of the few cards I don't have and really want.

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bonus: dawn comapred to adult poner
she's gonna be a big mare
UUUU

>>25817203
She's gonna grow up to be a really nice reverse trap.

Does anyone know what happened to the Peter Rabbit guy? He just dropped off.

>>25817272
who?

>>25817335
He gmed the "Away from home but not alone" cyoa.

I think he dropped it after three threads because he was green.

>tfw posting in the wrong place
just kill me
http://i.imgur.com/697Px1C.png

in any case
suggest cyoapone pairs?

>>25817372

Fruit flank - all 12 sisters

BetaWave - Quick Fix

Raiden - Orrie

Emerald - Sundance whew lass

>>25817387

Sundance pegging plz

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>>25817372
Blitz and Threads and incest

>>25817387

>Fruit flank - all 12 sisters
He has has more than 12.

Nigga we only seen two. You expecting him to fabricate 19 half changlings?

>>25817411
iirc, Fruit only has a few blood relatives, but his dad adopts a lot of kids

>>25817411

Oh that's right I forgot. Regardless that's a ridiculous number of pones to sex at once. Noone would survive.

Also it'd be a nightmare for ANYONE to draw.

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forgot to post.
a status update of
>treads getting gangbanged by btliz, gar, and little star

it'll get colored, hopefully
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>>25817436

Who's the 4th stallion?

>>25817448
pot luck

>>25817436
How can tiny tank commander take so much?

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>>25817436
>blitz deep between gar's cheeks
10/10 highjiggles

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>>25817436

So I've been tossing around ideas for a story, but also find the idea of a working it into a CYOA pretty attractive. The problem is that I've never run one, and I'd hate for everything to go flying off the rails and be forced to bin a lot of plans for events and such down the line if things don't go a certain way.

Do any of you anons think that a "light" CYOA (one that reserves reader/player input for large decisions) could work? Am I just being a faggot control freak?

>>25817390
>incest
why do i have all these fetishes?

>>25817575
You are the arbiter of what decisions the player is permitted to make. If you give them control over meaningless things then they will not consider control of things beyond that.

>>25817203
She got it from her momma

>>25817372
Who are they?

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In Don't Fuck Up, Jolly Joists was deadpan most the time, especially when she was making jokes. It was the juxtaposition between her matter-of-fact attitude and her insane antics that made her interesting and fun.
She was confident, direct and sincere in her seeming insanity.

In Butt Quest, Jolly is still eccentric, but it's in a wink-wink-nudge-nudge sort of way. She's a self-aware joker, who's intentionally teasing those around her.

When DFU Jolly made a joke, you couldn't tell if she was being serious or not.
When BQ Jolly makes a joke, she then smile, ruffles your hair and says "I'm just messin' with ya."

DFU Jolly wore a treasure chest as a suit of armor because she genuinely thought it was a good idea, and she didn't care if anybody thought otherwise.
If BQ Jolly ever wore chest armor, it would be to entertain others as part of a gag.

DFU Jolly wasn't playing a fool, she WAS a fool. A brilliant, insane and wonderful fool, but a fool nonetheless.
She's the kind of fool who wholehearted believes the insane ramblings a crazy hobo, whereas BQ Jolly seems like the kind of person who, when confronted by a crazy hobo, would whisper "get a load of this guy."

They're basically two completely different characters.
To me, BQ Jolly seems like a fun, good-natured pony with a cheeky smile.
DFU Jolly was an insensitive, single-minded weirdo, whose smiles were rare and mostly maniacal.

Jolly isn't a comedian — in fact, her jokes are terrible. They're so bad it took the entire quest for Jolly to make a single pony laugh.
Jolly isn't amusing because of her witty quips, but because of her personality. She doesn't give a fuck about personal safety, social rules or even the laws of physics.
Her insane logic baffles those around her, and the fact that her bizarre ideas usually work turns the joke back onto her skeptics. It makes you wonder; "Who's the fool now?"

Perhaps I'm over analyzing a meme-quest, but Jolly is my favourite CYOA MC; I'm invested in this shit.

>>25817650
They're two different takes on the same character. If you're expecting Hijack to get any character as you think they should act you're going to be sorely disappointed.

>>25817676
I normally wouldn't care, but seeing Jolly Joist yell "HOOAH!" triggered my autism.

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>>25817372

Steel and Keys from Hijack. I'm sure she'd want to check his pulse again. I'm sure she could check it just fine from inside her vagina.

>>25817387
>>25817411
>>25817414

I've only seen the little red filly with glasses and that other one with white or whatever color hair it is. Yes please, sister-brother incest is my fetish

>>25817726

>filly fondling.

Degenerate as fuck. She wouldn't even know what was going on, why would you want that?

>>25817372
Shade x Tara :^)

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It's always nice to wake up to the sight of lewd.

You know what we never see? colt/stallion cuddles

>>25818264
That's gay.

secret club is open.

https://picarto.tv/HappyHorseAdventures

Active threads

Good Feels: >>25793055
LOST: >>25803908
M&M: >>25736386
Threshold: >>25768252
Space: >>25711865
Rock of Love: >>25810334
Alchemy: >>25611490
Crystal Warlock: >>25799433
Vampony: >>25813216
FOE: >>25801461
Necroquest: >>25791542
Long Name: >>25817609
YRWYS: >>25734405
JAD: >>25813539
Along the Way: >>25773669
Coltquest: >>25780963
Across the Ocean: >>25686232

>>25818264
There was some in JAD recently when Pot anal crusaded Cutie Swirl

>>25818295
>He doesn't hug his lads when they need it

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When are we getting a character as developed and deep like this one?

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>>25818342
I'd like a deep pony like her alright.

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>>25818365

>>25815743
>The thread's Edition is about a tripfag
Can this general circlejerk any harder?

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>>25818404

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RPG quest SOON. I'm gonna wait a few hours to catch a few more people perhaps, then I'll start it. Rev up those dice.

>>25818446
Oh you're that guy.

>>25818467
Heya, yeah, last few weeks have been relentless. I would have liked to have started earlier, closer to when it was being discussed, but I had zero time to myself

>>25818409
So not liking circlejerkers is bait now?

>>25818552
Keep trying champ.

>threshold died and I did nothing to save it
:^)

>Colt quest fell off the board
>couldn't get 20IPs in three days
Killed by butt touch.

>>25817372
Who are these two?

>>25818590
Not like they were ever going to figure out those filenames anyway.
Hopefully more angry pone is next.

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>>25818744
Oops.

>>25818404
Except nips don't even use a trip you potato

>>25818791
or the same name in different quests.
Or a name at all when he's not updating.

>>25818591
It's also holiday time so less people are on. Coltshan was actually showing improvement with this last quest.

>>25818877
>Colt Quest
>Coltshan
wew

>>25818890
Oops, misread.

>Even with that anon vowing to bump every cyoa that changeling quest died
fucking savage

>>25818931
At least 5 quests died on his watch so I'd say he was quite a failure.

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So are we all in agreeance that Nightlight has an ass that just wont quit?

>>25818799
Wrong and wrong again.

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>>25818971
Da.

>>25819004
He's kinda right though.

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>>25818971
That booty is criminal.

>>25819091
Well, yeah, she's a bat after all

>>25819091
Is that why I want to ride it like I stole it.

>>25818971
>>25819023
Getting Shiro to read is the best thing that has ever happened to urban.

>>25818613
>>25817640
Don't quote me on this, but I think that might be Napone and Aryanne.

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Nightlight needs a strong stallion to give her a litter of little batlings

>>25819144
>Batcancer

>>25819144
I want Nightlight to drain my dick for all the batlings she wants.

>>25818971
>Shiro drawing things you will never have

>>25818446
I can't wait for lucha-dragon-knight.

>>25819023
He's trying hard to be right, but everything he says is wrong.
>Same name different quests
Nope, he has a different name each quest.
>Or a name at all when he's not updating
Only time I've seen him use a name when he's not updating is when he's updating people about quests or responding directly.

There's a valid criticism in there in that we jerk Nips off to the moon, though we still criticize him, but he keeps stating incorrect things to try and get there.

>>25819258
That's what he was saying lad.
You should read the post he was responding to.

>>25819271
That's what he was trying to say. Incorrectly.

>>25818877
>Coltshan's last quest had a decision system designed to ignore players input outright.
>His last quest ended with people wanting to help him, which he whole-heartedly ignored.

Oh year, So much improvement. That is if instead of a CYOA you wanted a schmaltzy green about some fantasy setting anon finding his was to Equestria with a dog.

>>25819280
>Except nips don't even use a trip you potato
>or the same name in different quests.
>Or a name at all when he's not updating.

Do you understand yet?

>>25819289
He's a slow one.

>>25819284
fuck you, it's working

>>25819289
Oh. So that was a supporting post instead of a contradictory one. It's always odd when a reply chain has a supporting response that could be taken either way. My bad.

We got a live one!
25819345

>>25819370
fug my shit up
>>25819345

>>25819289
>t's okay when nips does it!

>>25819388
>reading comprehension

>>25819388
I'm confused
What are you guys complaining about?

>>25819370
>>25819379
And so we begin!

>>25819443
Someone complained that the OP mentions a QM explicitly, saying that the board is supposed to be anonymous and that this contributes to circlejerking
Someone else then argued that said QM actually rarely uses a name, only when relevant (running a quest or replying)
After that, I don't know

Treads is such a qt horse
Tara has a stupid face

>>25819486
Treads has a stupid face

>>25819493
Tarafag detected

>>25819500
Nice try Shiny.

>>25819477
But we've had QM editions of the thread before, why is it a problem now?

>>25819526
Because some people can't get through the day without whining about something.

>>25819526
It focuses on one single tripfag instead of everyone as a group.

ignore shiny posts.

>>25819526
I wouldn't have even noticed if he hadn't pointed it out. I never look at the edition thing. There hasn't been a good joke there for months.

>>25819535
So?

>>25819543
>thread editions need to be jokes
huh

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>>25819465
Not even one minute in and already it's kekekek.

>>25819557
If it's not amusing then what's the point?

>>25819573
Then I guess you should kill yourself.

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Scene: An imageboard. One tread is occupied by a group of /cyoa/ lurkers with bat-ears on. Anon and Shiny enter.

>Anon: You sit here, dear
>Shiny: All right
>Anon (to thread): Morning!
>Thread: Morning!
>Anon: Well, what've you got?
>Thread: Well, there's memes and lewds; memes waifus and lewds; memes and bats; memes lewds and bats; memes lewds waifus and bats; bats lewds waifus and bats; bats memes bats bats lewds and bats; bats waifus bats bats lewds bats rolls and bats
/cyoa/ (starting to chant): Bats bats bats bats..
>Thread: ...bats bats bats memes and bats; bats bats bats bats bats bats canon characters bats bats bats..
>/cyoa/ (singing): Bats! Lovely bats! Lovely bats!
>Thread: ..or an elaborate quest with rich lore, enticing character design, regular updates with plenty of lovely pictures in color, freedom of choice without railroading by an eloquent questmaster with funny memes on top and bats.
>Shiny: Have you got anything without bats?
>Thread: Well, there's bats memes waifus and bats, that's not got much bats in it
>Shiny: I don't want ANY bats!
>Anon: Why can't she have memes lewds bats and waifus?
>Shiny: THAT'S got bats in it!
>Anon: Hasn't got as much bats in it as bats memes waifus and bats, has it?
>/cyoa/: Bats bats bats bats (crescendo through next few lines)

>>25819737
>Shiny: Could you do the memes lewds bats and waifus without the bats then?
>Thread: Urgghh!
>Shiny: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like bats!
>/cyoa/: Lovely bats! Wonderful bats!
>Thread: Shut up!
>/cyoa/: Lovely bats! Wonderful bats!
>Thread: Shut up!
/cyoa/ stops
>Thread: Bloody /cyoa/! You can't have memes lewds bats and waifus without the bats
>Shiny (shrieks): I don't like bats!
>Anon: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your bats. I love it. I'm having bats bats bats bats bats bats bats canon characters bats bats bats and bats!
>/cyoa/ (singing): Bats bats bats bats. Lovely bats! Wonderful bats!
>Thread: Shut up!! Canon characters are off.
>Anon: Well could I have her bats instead of the canon characters then?
>Thread: You mean bats bats bats bats bats bats..
(but it is too late and /cyoa/ drowns her words)
>/cyoa/ (singing elaborately): Bats bats bats bats. Lovely bats! Wonderful bats! Bats ba-a-a-a-a-ats bats ba-a-a-a-a-am bats. Lovely bats! Lovely bats! Lovely bats! Lovely bats! Lovely bats! Bats bats bats bats!

>>25819744
It's good to see people still appreciate this sort of comedy.

>>25819776
I was raised on it.

>>25819568
>>25819744
Gotta love how this general would rather drown itself in an ocean of shitty batmemes than stop posting so much retarded batshit in this general.

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>>25819744
>monty python

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Odd quest names.

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>>25820143
Normal Quest.

>>25820143
The Nine Lands

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>>25817750

>She wouldn't even know what was going on, why would you want that?

I think we all know why we fondle fillies.

>>25820143
Don't Fuck It

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>>25820185
Yes.

>>25820185
>implying he only fondles them

>>25820143
Caracole

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>GCucks
>nipclucks
>hicuckers

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>>25820768
>frogposters

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>>25820779
>(you)

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Whoops, forgot to update.

Friendship is Tragic is live!
>>25820886

>>25821033
wow inept

>>25821051
Sorry, I need a bit for the coffee to kick in.

Also, >>25820653 thank you for this! It still amazes me that people make fanart of what's basically blocks of pixels.

>>25821088
It's a cute bunch of pixels.

>>25821088
Well technically any form of digital image is basically a few blocks of pixels

>dive quest is slow as shit
wew

>>25821649
>Update speed of two hours

Might be a little excessive.

>>25821177
Well technically your mother is a whore

What's an acceptable update time, Anon?

>>25821736
now

>>25821736
less than two hours

>>25821736
An hour at the most.

>>25821736
Any time you like. Greater than an hour will lose a lot of people though.

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>>25821736
10-20 minutes text quest. 30-hour for image quests.

I say 10 minutes for text quests because usually 5 minutes is too fast (and not too realistic of a goal). Try to make sure that in your updates accomplish a lot of things in one post too. Don't just do action-reaction (>you did the thing >other thing happened >what do) or your CYOA will move painfully slow

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>>25821987
>Don't just do action-reaction (>you did the thing >other thing happened >what do) or your CYOA will move painfully slow

What should I do instead?

>>25821987
>implying it's ever single action
Players like to weave fucking batman gambit when given the chance. Half an hour isn't enough time to really show the scope of the whole action string

>>25822018
Give up.

>>25821987
>10-20 minutes for text quests
Nigga you serious? Do you actually read any text quests? Any update with a decent amount of content in it, text or art, should take around 30 minutes to an hour, and that timer starts once there's a usable suggestion or once there's a consensus.

>>25821987
>10 minutes for a text quest.
Jesus dude what are you on?

>>25822052
The usable suggestion is honestly the biggest thing for me here.
Comedy quests like ButtQuest or Urban Survival can start after the first suggestion that has any sort of merit to it.
Serious quests like JAD, Hijack, Shooting Stars, etc, require a lot of time for discussion and communication among players.

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>>25822052

>>25821649

Drawing such fancy pics, while visually nice, isn't helping things move along. Current room has a lot of possibilities, so that's okay as long as players explore them; if they just move along, though, it's just a pretty picture for the most part.

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>>25822045
Not in my vocabulary.

>>25822074
>>25822069
>>25822052
Hmm, yeah I probably should've added that the timer starts when you/the players decided what actions to take. Still, I think 20 minutes is plenty of time for a decent paragraph in a text only quest. Or maybe I'm just autistic and can vomit out text like a mad man

>>25822074
>Hijack
>JAD
>serious quests

>>25822216
Half hour+ is probably a more reasonable expectation.

Especially for text QMs that use the majority of the 2000 characters or even go on to a second post.

>>25822268
Hmm, even then the average person can type 200 characters a minute, and likely people who shit post on 4chan have above average typing speed. 30 minutes seems a bit much for most posts

>>25822397
Trying to translate raw typing speed to appending to a narrative is retarded.

>>25821987
10-20 minutes is only reasonable if you ARE doing action-reaction. If the quest is going to involve significant progress with every post, it's going to take a lot longer. Here's some of JAD's time between posts for last night's session.

34 56 35 46 35 39 45 50

Good writing takes time. And there's all sorts of factors that can make you take even longer. Having to look up references to describe something, introducing a new character, players making suggestions you didn't account for, etc. etc.

30-60 is perfectly reasonable. And if you go over, it takes as long as it takes. Just as long as you're taking a while because you're working on it and not trying to play vidya inbetween updates.

>>25822397
Typing speed =/= writing speed. You need to take time to think about what's going to happen and how to most effectively describe it.

>>25822397
That makes no sense. If I had a book in front of me that I had to copy onto the computer, then sure. However, telling a story is not just spewing text.

I hate to break it to you, but I can't think of any text quests I follow that have a regular update speed of less than 30 minutes.


GS: About an hour
M&M: 45 minutes to an hour
Urban: 45 minutes
JAD: Half hour to upwards of 45 minutes


When I first started, I could do 15-20, but I felt like I exhausted myself really quickly. Also, the quality of the updates wasn't great.

I shoot for 30, but don't worry if I go a bit over. That gives me:
A: Time to really think about where I want the update to go
B: The ability to think about what the characters will do and how they will respond.
C: Edit my notes/inventory if need be
D: Time to look back over the update and fix errors in grammar, wordiness, and anything else.

>>25822397
When I was GMing, at absolute peak I could poop out a solid post every 40 minutes. Typically that turned out to be 20 minutes to build a consensus from responses, 5 minutes to brainstorm a response, 15 minutes to turbowrite a reply. That was only possible when I had posts where the outcome was relatively simple each time and there wasn't much that needed to be invented based on player reply.

More common was 60 minute responses being a fast pace: ~30 minute for replies, ~10 minutes to brainstorm the outline of a post, ~20 minutes to get it actually down. Towards the middle-end I noticeably burned out, so that posts often became dramatically slower (90 minutes-2 hours).

>>25822523
I remember when both M&M and Urban would do 25-30 minute updates. Nowadays it seems both of them take 50 minutes to an hour.

>>25822593
I usually wait 30-35 minutes for responses now days. Anything faster than that takes a toll on you after months

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>>25822523
no wonder text quest fags have to keep themselves entertained with shitty memes if it takes that long to get an update

>>25822609
I want to get mouth-fucked by your girthy smelly cock

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>>25822660
>image quests need to rely on preset backgrounds to come close to those most of the time

>>25822712
Keep dreaming turbo fag

>>25822804
Talk dirty to me! I get hard when you verbally abuse me!

>>25822804
>>25822842
Piss in my mouth and tell me that I'm pathetic!

>>25822891
M&M is up by the way

Seems like M&M is up
>>25822891

>>25822755
That or they just don't have backgrounds.

>finally get to the Medusa's
>Still no Mazes

Come on Hero.

>>25822891
It would seem, through intensive study, that M&M has began to continue.

>>25823244
There is a new thread up by the way:

>>25822891

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>>25822804
Hi guys. I don't visit this thread, but I saw the OP's pic and my OC Velvet Violet, >pic related
came to mind. Is this pony part of your story normally? Who is she? I'm curious now.

>>25819284
I meant minor improvement in comparison to his other train wrecks.

>>25823315

No

>>25823315
She's cute, tell us more about her.

>>25823315
Are you retarded?

>>25823315
I fucking hate her colours, ya faggot. And her horn too.

Besides that, she a qt.

>>25823315
WEW

>>25823315

How the hell does Choosie remind you of your OC? There is literally nothing similar.

>>25823315

She likes to blind other ponies with her coloring and then violate them in their stupor.

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>>25823385
He's talking about this. Notice who he was replying to?

>>25823385
It's a copypaste from a post in Res's thread

>>25823429

This explains alot.

>>25823429

I was oddly triggered by the thought of someone going "muh oc!" In a thread were almost all the characters are ocs. What is my life?

>>25819737
But I like bats..

>>25823315
le ebin ruseman

>>25823513
I like sucking massive bat cock.

>>25823513
I LIKE BIG BATS AND I CANNOT LIE

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>>25823530
BIG

>>25823543
Need moar big bat booty pl0x

>>25823543
Poor proportions and anatomy are synonymous with big booty now?

>>25823568
>Not liking Shiro's art and wanting to make sweet sweet love to him.

What are you, gay?

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>>25823568
>Jealous he don't have a big booty bat

>>25823568
Check this fagtron out.

>>25823628

That was an interesting experience.

>>25821649
>>25822124
On the one hand I enjoy doing the colouring, on the other if it's getting in the way of ~fun~ then I guess I can drop it. It should speed updates up by about 15 minutes at least.

>>25823672
Just color important things.

>>25823803

If there are any available artfigs, I'd appreciate it if you could draw the top two from this list (http://pastebin.com/eSW5Hevs) lounging on a couch in a drab, plain apartment. A title somewhere in the corner would also be nice, but isn't by any means necessary.

>>25823808
RELEASE THE MEMES

>>25823829
>She's slightly below average size for a pony
SMALL MARE

>>25823976
No! Mares are only for big

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>>25823829
I'm not actually a drawfag by any stretch of the imagination, and the quality on this is probably too low to be of any use to you, but I felt like doodling.

Have a crappy sketch made with colored pencils.

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>>25824010
>This mare will never protect you.

>>25824227
>hugs him tight when he has panic attacks

>>25823976
>>25824010
Big mares and small mares are good.
Normal mares are alright, but they should consider becoming big mares or small mares.

>>25824172
Mind if I ink that?

>>25824340
Go for it m8. I'll be impressed if you can make legitimate art out of something that literally only took me three minutes.

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Short sekrits club going up

https://picarto.tv/TheBirdieBin

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>>25824251

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Okay I think I got most of this shit together. I could always keep preparing, saying I got more to do. But honestly I would just be running away from actually stating the damned thing. Forever making excuses. Lets not do that.

Well see some of you tomorrow hopefully...

>>25824493
get in the secret club
we must give you your meme permit

>>25824508
>Forced meme

>>25824493
J
U
S
T

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>>25824493

>>25824525
They're real!

>>25824525
More like
>using "IT'S ALL A FUNNY MEME FUN CLUB" as excuse for extreme circlejerking and namefagging

>>25824493
>Tomorrow

>>25824549
>Namefagging on a website that forces you to namefag is wrong
Gee anon, how come your mom lets you suck two cocks?

>>25824172
Well, thank you kindly Anon. It's a nice doodle.

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>>25824562
buttquest resumes for a shot while

>>25824572
>going to a website that forces you to namefag
^:)

>>25824608
>As he posts on Leddit

tarra has a pretty face

>>25824677
Anon, don't tempt the memers.

>>25824631
>Oh y-yeah? I.. I bet you go to reddit!!
nice try, kid

>>25824677
______No______

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>>25824677
>Pretty

>>25824340
Post it when you're done.

>>25824701
>As he posts this to r/4chan under the title "under age b& gets BTFO by anon xDDD"

>>25824708
>implying she's not pretty

>>25824677
>>25824708
>>25824734
Yeah she is pretty
Pretty stupid that is

>>25824726
>>25824701
>as we're both faggots w-were going to keep sucking dick

>>25824749
>s-some anon said she was pretty, so i-i'm going to meme!!1

Are you faggots seriously doing this?

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>>25824795
doing what anon-kun?

>>25824774
Tara has a face only Shade and Steel could love.

>>25824833
And Blitz, apparently.

>>25824849
Nah Blitz was drunk and thought it was Eve.

>>25824867
But in order to mistake Tara's stupid face for Eve's, Eve must have a similarly stupid face.

>>25824833
Right after the scene cut Steel punched her for kissing him

>>25824876
He didn't even look at the face, He just saw the bat booty and hopped on.

>>25824935
>The end of many a stallion

>>25824924
>hitting Tara
Hitting dat ass maybe.

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What quest do you hate with every particle of your body?

>>25824998
My body isn't made of particles ponk.

>>25824998
Yours.

>>25824998
All of them.
Especially the ones I don't read and yours.

>>25824998
coltquest

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>>25824172
>>25824366
>>25824712
Now someone improves on my changes.

>>25824998
Threshold
Hijack
JAD
Don't worry fäm I'm hanging myself right now

>>25824998
The one you like the most.

Treads is for cuddles

>>25825041
When did lilac become baby blue?

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>>25825123
treads is for billy

mfw i haven't read that quest
this device lacks my reaction images

>>25825123
Treads is for bully

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>>25825157

>>25825050
>Threshold

Harsh, but again, it could help me to know. So, can I ask why?

>>25825050
>Hijack
here we go

>>25825255
He's probably dead by now.

>>25825363
BIG MARE

>>25825390
Marriage when?

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>>25825482
Looks like Innkeeper is starting JAD back up soon

>>25825034
What's so wrong with /ss/ quest?

>>25817272

Pretty sure he's dead senpai

>>25825901
Called it.

QM from Across the Ocean here. It seems that the thread for the story was archived, so I guess Imma call a hiatus on it until after the holidays. That'll give me time to work on a better cover image anyway I suppose now that I have my tablet again.
Just wanted to thank everyone who participated so far! It's been a fun experience and I hope I can keep improving.

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>>25826017
>a hiatus on it until after the holidays.

Why must every quest I follow die?

>>25826017

Enjoy your holidays. Just please come back/don't die family

>>25826094
Quick, follow mine. It'll either stop me from making a huge mistake or break the curse.

>>25826111

Tell me which and I will consider lending you my unique talent

>>25825255
Already posted it a few threads ago
It's not all your fault though, mostly the players decisions

>>25826160
Spellthief.

>>25826187
Oh, were you the "bang or a bone" Anon or the character interaction Anon?
Thanks for not killing yourself.

>>25826197

Pretty sure that isn't a quest.

>>25826218
>>25823803

>>25826187
I thought you were hanging yourself.
Why aren't you dead yet? Did you break the rope?

>>25826222

What is it about? If you keep getting trips I guess I'll have to read it.

>>25826241
You wake up in a forest with no memory and immediately decide to start masturbating.

>>25826017
your quest was pretty enjoyable. enjoy your holidays and i look forward to going on sea adventures.

>>25825041
>>25825212
Huh. I actually think I'm liking that first one more. Thanks Anon.

>>25826098

Oh, I don't plan on dying out soon. I was originally planning on running till Wednesday (and maybe doing some kind of q&a or whatever) before taking a small hiatus, but the archive kinda gave me a head start on it. I'll be back shortly after Christmas, and I'll let ya know when I pick things up again.

Enjoy your holidays too, anon!

>>25826254

Eh, I've heard worse. I guess I'll see about adding it to my killcount.

le replied to the wrong post face

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>these last few posts in M&M

>>25826504
I was really hoping he was a good guy.

>>25826504
I still don't really see how we were the tipping point. We showed up for two seconds, got teleported out, and that was apparently enough to get Discord stoned.

Was Discord's door guardian the only thing stopping Discord from being screwed by medusas?

>>25826592
The easy answer is that Hero is a shit writer. Things were clearly never planned out this far and he couldn't come up with anything to save it.

>>25826654
kek

>>25826654
I have the feeling that this was meant to be some big M Night Shyamalan twist.

Like: Holy shit, the nice old man who saved you at the start was actually a medusa out to destroy the whole pony race!

But then you think about it for a few seconds and it stops making sense.

>>25826681
Ehh. I wouldn't call it that big of a twist. Ever since we got that bestiary and read that medusas can alter their appearance, there's been that suspicion.

>>25826712
yeah but he could have been a medusa that was just not a complete cunt, or he could have had the selfish argument that the grand medusa was going to get them all killed if she kept canterlot because of pony backlash.

instead we get some hamfisted 'oh, we just needed to distract discord. by that i mean getting him to say a sentence and snap his fingers was all we needed'

>>25826723
This. I was perfectly willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, let him say his piece and we could resume our quest and help him out in the end.

But no, it turns out that he's just a dick. Big missed opportunity for a twist that makes no sense.

>>25826723
To be fair we still don't know how exactly things went down after we got teleported. It doesn't necessarily mean "he snapped his fingers, turned around, and suddenly looked into a medusa's eyes."

That said, everything is just falling apart and I don't know how things could get better.

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rip Hero
rip M&M
everything is ruined

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>>25826765

>>25826765
It's RGS all over again