Hello Readers,
In the coming months, life's picking back up again for me. While I was able to thankfully put out a nice big update recently, regular updates are going to be slowing down as commitments fill my usual schedule. Mind you, I'll try to sneak in an update or two over time! Thank you for understanding.

Hey folks, thanks for sticking around with me throughout this year! It's been a pretty long journey to getting Chapter 1 completed, and I'm glad to have gotten it done. I'm still hoping to improve my speed and regularity of updates, but that'll come with experience. The next thread's going to be a bit of a departure from the main threads, but I promise it'll be short enough that it won't detract from Argine's little quest for freedom.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you all stick with me in future!

It's great so far! Keep it up!

Phew! Now that's a short interlude over. Hope you folks enjoyed it, we'll be returning to our scheduled programming quite soon. As usual, please feel free to theorize about the future events of the quest in here!

I'll probably hold back from elaborating on things in this discussion thread until the conclusion of the quest which I intend to see through. I feel like part of the fun of Last Trace is picking up on the multilayered references in the story, and the traces of important tidbits here and there.

Hope you folks keep on keepin' on!
-Cross

That was an interesting intermission. Looking forward to how things will play out.

Since Family History is happening before Family Business (At least, I think it is.) I wonder what you have planned for tie-ins. I know that is mostly dependent on what we do, but I do think it would be great to see the Taruvik name mentioned in the main story line. That does probably mean we not only have to survive but we would also have thrive to ensure our family would live on. However, I am interested to see how the mannerisms we display while handling the family during this war will be represented in Family Business, maybe if we take notice of other warriors like Deego the Taruvik family could have a tradition of noticing competent warriors and giving them opportunities to rise in the ranks. (Which would probably have the effect of increased troop morale as if the troops think that if they do good on the field of battle they'll be recognized and promoted to a more glorious standing.) Perhaps our family could provide a role by following it's ideal and end up placing a person or group under it's protection.
I guess what I'm trying to do is ask if you plan on including the Taruvik family into the main story.

>>135892
Expanding on that, Family History is like a gold mine of smaller quest ideas.

Do you ever see yourself turning any of the scenarios contained within into standalone threads or quests?

Baron 2021/07/22(Thu)03:57 No. 135895 ID: fd2dfa
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>>135892
>I guess what I'm trying to do is ask if you plan on including the Taruvik family into the main story.
Yes that is the plan, Taruvik may have an influence in the story as what they do in the past can affect Makag in the future in a small, or major way depending on the ultimate fate of the family.

>Do you ever see yourself turning any of the scenarios contained within into standalone threads or quests?
It's a possibility. I had a few ideas floating around, nothing concrete enough for me to work with yet; but it's getting there. Now will it have an effect on other thread? Eh, maybe, maybe not.

I do have a planned ending to it all, but the journey from here to there is not concrete so a lot of stuff can be fit into that.

Just so you guys know, I got an update ready and sketched out, but it will take two more days as I have an interview tomorrow that I need to drive a couple hours for, so my tablet and everything else will be stowed away until I return home.

Life comes first, as it should be.

Perhaps statues from Deem's bender would be a clever framing device? Also, more Alice is never remiss, new form new chest day.

>>135834
So, Ubergloom.

Deem, Deem, always Deem.

Does Deem still only have the one chest?

Maybe those Metroid prime ladies. Don’t think they’ve showed up for awhile.

Can you give us one from the weird fetish Alice's from when she was "experimenting"?

Gnoll 2021/07/19(Mon)04:30 No. 135887 ID: ca2950
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Carrying mail builds the pecs, I guess?

Sarcopholacooda 2021/07/19(Mon)13:30 No. 135890 ID: 11f77a
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"Couldn't you have just sent a text~?"

poltergeist ethanic acid (mobile) 2021/07/19(Mon)13:58 No. 135891 ID: 731206
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Magnolia is really grateful for the melatonin perfume gift she got from the Secret Santa gift exchange and is happy she wasn't forgotten >>135872 she decided to spray it on her body right away, but accidentally took a nap on the livingroom floor in the process... Whoops!

How does Ryhn manage to be alluring with the physique of a teenage boy?

The art style is absolutely adorable!

Cookiequest will be inspired by Madoka Magica and Silent Hill, with a bit of Doki Doki Literature Club. :)

Cookie, looks good and art is adorable

Puri 2021/06/25(Fri)02:25 No. 135742 ID: b1ffbb
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Fanart, comics, and memes based off Cookiequest are free to be posted here as well! Go nuts with Harvey in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and recreate scenes with the characters too, haha.

Oh just spotted this hadn't had a wiki page made yet! Set up a placeholder with the thread links now.

So! What was canon in Enchanting Encounters?
Feel free to guess, but I'll tell you some of the major things:
Aki lives with Pillow, and Pillow does do combination gaming+lewd streams. Other such relationships, like Jet and Kamma's, are roughly accurate. Anyone that first met during the course of the thread, however, such as Kamma and Jozi, probably have not met in canon... with one exception.
Those are Glinp's parents at the end.

>>132695
How many of the half dragons dragons yet live!

Ekwi has not done any public lewd dancing, but Lust has.

>>132821
The dragon hybrids are still alive... for now!

Anonymous 2021/03/04(Thu)22:48 No. 134967 ID: 05da7c
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oh I found another one, from thread 4
featuring a design that went unused, which was for the hallway robot that Jozi defeated. This was just intended to show the pose, which is why the one in the quest has a different design.

Toastline 2021/07/18(Sun)17:52 No. 135880 ID: 0a4a5d
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I figured this might be of interest to someone at least. It's assorted sigils of deities!

LW 2021/01/08(Fri)23:48 No. 134699 ID: 6f7a5a
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>>134619

Solia: "Oh wow earbuds, would be nice if we had any way to play music . . ."

Remia: "sisters it's the thought that count!"

Fason: "She clearly didn't put any of THAT in"

Mifal: "Yeah who would have five music players kicking around?"

Lareta: "I bet SHE could make nice music, with a little coaxing~"

Sarcopholacooda 2021/07/17(Sat)11:51 No. 135869 ID: 11f77a
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Ah, hello my good children! I'm happy most of you received your gifts--and according to my calendar you have two christmases per year! Christmas in July!

I thought it would be an appropriate time to bestow gifts for those who were unfortunate to not receive theirs.

Sarcopholacooda 2021/07/17(Sat)11:54 No. 135870 ID: 11f77a
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Ah! What do we have here for The Knife? I'm sure a sentient utensil may feel tired sometimes. So I made a comfortable scabbard!

Enjoy a rest when not stabbing things!

Sarcopholacooda 2021/07/17(Sat)11:58 No. 135871 ID: 11f77a
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Oh! Cybil dear! How's Vikta at work? I need to send a few toiletries and sun lotion for his skin.

But I see your armor is a little dirty. Your enemies should see their shocked expressions reflecting back at them! I found this armor buffer and I'm including some yak wax to let that armor show its true colors!

Sarcopholacooda 2021/07/17(Sat)12:09 No. 135872 ID: 11f77a
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Hmm, Magnolia. I hear your work involves sleeping on the job? Or daydreams? Well I think I may have something for you.

It was hard to collect, but the tears of a Gullwark has a very wonderful fragrance of melatonin! This melatonin perfume bottle will do wonders for your... uh... presence!

I believe that covers everyone then! I hope to see you all next half-year!

>>135823
Yiann and Baetriss.

Kayree and Ixander!

I haven't read the post but I saw a request on Discord so I vote whatever causes a tie or comes closest to it. Alternatively, Steve shirts, depending on context.

update: I have now read the post and I vote Ixander and Kayree.

Sempai and Joannifer

Anonymous 2017/04/15(Sat)12:21 No. 110679 ID: 4063a3
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Influence for A Little Town Called Coxwette (Left to right):

Bojack Horseman
Trainspotting
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Rehmeyer's Hollow
Twin Peaks
Animal Crossing

Sarcopholacooda 2017/04/15(Sat)21:07 No. 110693 ID: 1c6acb
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I felt like trying this. It was hard because there was only one MAJOR influence for Team Port Echo (which is the obvious Teen Titans vibe). And each character represents an alien trope.

(From left to right): Teen Titans, District 9, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, Ratchet & Clank, Titan AE, HR Giger,Generic Sci-fi Tropes, and Hitchhiker's Guide.

Θ][Σ 2017/06/29(Thu)03:46 No. 113025 ID: 8a204b
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Here's another one of these sorts of things I found on the interwebs.

I assume I can use this thread for shards?
Cuz I just had a thought on it charcuterie, Chi.
Back in the previous year it was mentioned that we were as strong as a human soldier, which was impressive since our kind are generally weaker than humans.
I thought, oh that's cool, we stronk.
It somehow didn't occur to me that we were A FREAKING NINE YEAR OLD.
We weren't even terribly more athletic than average.
Even with the ATHLETIC PHYSIQUE bonus it's kind of absurd!
At this rate of growth we could end up with HERCULEAN STRENGTH.

Normally I would be super gung ho about magic n stuff, but y'know...
If we got a gift, might as well lean into it.

Just theorizing, I was thinking about similarities between awakening, Cat's power, and Magitech runes

Awakened people's power has an element affinity that are categorized by color according to Mint, while magitech's scripting manuals each represents by color what kind of rune it is as well.

Also, it seems whenever Cat awakens someone, they sometimes have a vision before receiving their power (Willamina seeing her great grandmother in her vision) and when Chi finished her rune, she had a hallucination of a node in the sky sucking up the light in a grassy field.

maybe these are just awakened powers in rune form or something.

>> 135733
Made an EDMANGO’s QUESTS thread. So feel free to speculate there now.
But, as clarification. The AVERAGE human soldier is like a normal human person who doesn't exercise at all in this setting. Just a normal person who was conscripted to be a guard for a town. Which, is still pretty fucking crazy for a 9 year old to be that strong. But you did pay for it, so you get what you paid for!

>> 135734
Interesting theory.

I have two questions for ya, Edmango.
First off, is there any overlap of concepts between Shards and Catalyst? Stuff like Karma and Soul quality and such, im wondering if theyre a thing in both, mostly just for artifact purposes.
And second, How do you feel about uh, Non character specific Awakened ability suggestion? Just like ideas for ones that might be around in the future somewhere.

>>135750

There’s overlapping concepts yeah. Soul treasures are just like extremely rediculously rare. And sure I love awakened power ideas. The more the merrier! And if you don’t mind can you suggest in the Edmango’a Quests thread? Wanna have that one be the main one convos happen in now if possible.

>>96158
I was a bit surprised to find 16-bit DLLs in this archive. The images are easy enough to extract, but the string tables less so (Visual 2005 gives me mojibake), and the order of strings in it is a bit weird, especially when I don't know how to access the string tables' resource IDs with my hex editor.

...I know what could help me: Does anyone have a link to the documentation that says which string ID is supposed to mean what?

>>96168
Whoops no wait, I found it on the old app's thread ( >>/questdis/5059 )

>>95430
You can just play them natively here with no issues.

For getting the strings out with a hex editor, it's good to note that the strings are packed in groups of 16, and the index of the block id is 1/16th of the string id.

>>96195
I know they're packed in groups of 16, the part that confused me was that the last two "stripping" quotes (936 & 937) are apart from the others.
(plus the fact the string bundles are stored in reverse order)

But now that I got the list of string IDs and what they mean, all became clear.

I feel like, just to avoid confusion, I should point out that this thread is out of date.

A new thread was made for a new version, over at >>95526

naileD 2021/05/05(Wed)18:12 No. 135462 ID: 26235b
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>>/quest/998927
Now that I'm done shopping, if only I could read what the text says...

>>135462
No hot takes? Then I'll see if I can make anything of it.

...

...so what I think the text says is this:
- In the bottom left it says CORE
- In the upper center it says EXTRA DIMENSIONAL TUNNEL
- In the top right it says UNKNOWN REGION
- In the bottom right it says... no idea. It looks like 3 letters so maybe an abbreviation. Or maybe the word is covered by the character's figure.

If the above is correct, then it would mean that the three figures are looking at a core of something, and at the core lies a dimensional passage to an unknown place.

>>/quest/998927
>... What ... find?

Message too long. Click here to view the full text.

i just want to say that this story is very good and i am enjoying it a lot

>>135505
hear hear

naileD 2021/06/08(Tue)04:17 No. 135699 ID: 2f43c1
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>>/quest/1002857
JPEG? That's going a bit too far :p

So in the memories here we see two figures. One seems to be extending the hand to the one that's, what looks like, operating some computers. And from the text, it looks like the guy sitting is named Hoefler. It might be an important name to remember... wait, that name...
> >>/questarch/890224 >Hoefler-Kurosawa corpuscles
Ah, the discoverer of "dust". And Kurosawa must be one of the other people that we've seen in these memories.

>>/quest/1002858
>I'M A LEGEND!
And now a word from today's sponsor, Raid: Shadow Legends! You too can be a legend in-*click*
Video games are a bad influence on some people, huh?

>>/quest/1002859
>You took everything ...! .... everybody! ... little fucking utopia?!
This seems to have happened a tiny bit later. The guy shouting at Hoefler seems to be upset about something he did. A research project turning into someone's personal utopia?

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Has an actual vote been held on the matter of Bayard?
Either way, I'm more in favor of introducing a musclegut character than changing one we already have.

We could just not have a musclegut character.

>>135574

This, totally this.

Enjoying the quest

>>135574
This.

((
Title: Icon
Names: <Puppet>
Notes: Us
color=#00ffff

Title: Avenue
Names: System Itself, Contractor SI, Avalon Utilities and subsidiaries, Unwinding Thread
Notes: Has a "storefront" in the hole under Abbot's bed (after entering "turn RIGHT, LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT") who's hours are when the drawer isn't present (unless "THE URC ARE BUSY WITH SOMETHING/ONE ELSE")
Him color=#128e58

Title: Grey Gash
Names: Lovely
Notes: The Drawer
Her color=#8d8d8d

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((Life's just been a bit hectic lately, and I want to take some time to get everything back in order. I'll try to be back at the start of May.))

>>135330
Dang. See you then. Maybe some of the past readers can catch up so it's not just me and Thk!

>>135330
Sorry to hear it! At least I'll have some time to get my lore straight :)

Should we discuss our attack plan for the meat demon because that's kind of important.
One very important thing I wish to note is that we should not focus on physically attacking it at all. It's kind of an embodiment of the hunt and rage so I feel a physical fight would be in it's favor.
Maybe we can do something to attack it from a distance or perhaps use evoke on it in some way, either way we really need to prepare ourselves.

>>135431
Aye. It's a damn shame we never saw an end to this, but far as reasons to stop go "raising a kid" is pretty up there.

Every time I think of this quest, I see a tiny glimmer of hope.
'Soon, Brom's kid will have school to go to, and he might finally have time to finish Static on the Line and Enemy Quest."

But then I remember it's been half a decade, and he's probably moved on with his life.
C'est la vie.

>>135433
this is one of the most depressing things you could have posted on this imageboard

>>135548
Also yes he said on the Discord in January that he has no interest in finishing EQ and that probably goes for SotW too. Gave his blessing for someone else to pick up the torch.

>>135549
well i gave my blessing if someone beat my WPM on that typing test thing and nobody did

so for now no successor has revealed themself

I'm guessing that fey, elementals, and mortals can't interbreed?

Is there a missing chapter or do we actually jump from chapter 2 to 4?

>>133903
I would say that there’s some degree of interbreeding possible. Mostly between fey/elementals and fey/mortals. Though fey and elementals are so long lived, that its fairly rare for them to have kids in the first place. Cross planar children would be even rarer but still possible!

>>133997 chapter 1 and chapter 2 are both in one thread, it’s possible thats where the confusion is? The wiki has links to every thread

>>134091
Aaaaah yes indeed!
Because I was just adding the latest thread on the wiki and saw the discrepancy so I wanted to check.
If you guys are ok with it I might take a minute to fix the numbering

Can the flames from the marriage festival accidentally create a baby fire elemental?

>>131652
Bug Fables, came out the other week

>>131652
>>131655
Saw Cirr was also a backer in the credits. Thought I'd give a shoutout.

Well I did really love the game and totally forgot I backed it for some reason so it was a very nice surprise.
also whee nice fanart

>>131659
Not my fanart, of course.

Sure hoping a sequel isn't out of the picture, considering the stuff I've heard about the publisher screwing over the devs.

I just wanted to say that I really like Vessel and All Else is Noise so far ::]

>>126821
Lich Clock? I like it!
...
That begs the question, what kind of Lich?

Hey guys, back again. I think this time I'll be taking an indefinite leave from TG. I've lost a piece of myself, and I don't think I'll ever get it back. If this is the last post I ever make here, I'm sorry.

>>127088
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/719916-cowboy-bebop

>>127088
I'll keep it positive and say there are probably better places to reaffirm your humanity. I sincerely hope you find one of 'em.

As this thread is periodically a spambot target for reasons known only to spambots, locking it.

XenobenerHund 2021/03/27(Sat)14:49 No. 135227 ID: 164e20
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By popular demand some lyluk walk cycles

>>135227
This is my favorite

>>135227
These are giving me some strong vibes of the videos on YouTube of the results of AI neural nets learning to walk via genetic algorithmic selection. (Search for CodeBullet on YT for example.)

XenobenerHund 2021/04/21(Wed)15:36 No. 135392 ID: 164e20
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Made by validguy

tippler 2021/04/20(Tue)06:27 No. 135386 ID: eedbeb
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>>135385

it would have been cool, but given Evelyn weird vibes, so you could have chosen to split apart or stay together. If you'd stayed together i would have had to draw a more complicated character design for several panels but the fly me to the moon ending would have been the same.

Wait.... What happened to Vlad?

Vlad can make for a good spinoff quest imo

tippler 2021/04/20(Tue)12:00 No. 135389 ID: eedbeb
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>>135387
>>135388

Vlad is fine, mostly unaffected by the apocalypse and still struggling with his chronic illness of lycanthropy.

you're right, he would make a good spin off quest. it would be about monsters in the city with the cats as peripheral characters. if you're not careful i'll end up making it

You, sir, are a gem and mean writing drawing machine!