>>115380
'preciate it.

Snoots and Shadows launch!
https://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/828311.html

Hey, everyone! So! I don't like simple majority/plurality systems - they tend to make a lot of people miserable. It sucks when you vote for something and it feels like it didn't count for shit.

That is why S&S is using a "level of certainty" system. Basically, any time there's a clear winner by a significant margin, then that result goes on just like in any normal voting system.

However, if there's ever a situation where the voting is neck-and-neck, then the losing vote modifies the winning result.

For example - at the beginning of the thread, "Try the back door" just barely squeaked a win. As a result, Aubrey still checked the front door since she was standing right there, and then headed over to the back... where she still had the option to go to the front again.

If "Try the back door" had won by a decent margin, then Aubrey would have just assumed the front door was locked, and would have ignored it entirely in favor of figuring out a way through the back. The choices at that point would have been different.

Tied votes are resolved on a case-by-case basis, but tend to favor whatever is more interesting/adds more conflict.
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tl;dr - even if an option you vote for still "loses", it'll still have an effect if the voting is close enough.

Okay, in the interests of not looking like it's a callout thread, argument posts have been moved to >>/meep/28651 instead of their own thread.

To make sure they don't miss it: 41c9bc is banned from Raptie threads at the author's discretion.

Hmm. If Khoros is able to hear suggestions we give to Aubrey then he's basically monitoring the investigation. It might be in Outissa's best interests for us to abandon Aubrey. It'd be nice if we could slip her some hints as to Khoros's true nature though. I'm just not sure how to do that without him blocking it!

Hmmmmmm... maybe if we sabotage the investigation repeatedly and in obvious ways she'll figure out that the suggesters are working against her. That might get her to start investigating the suggesters themselves, which would lead her to the truth.

>>115655
Naughty naughty.

>>115655
I don't see why we'd need to sabotage the investigation. I mean, if we can't talk to Amaranth directly, then we can simply tell Aubrey what she should tell Amaranth.

>>115665
I am pretty sure it's just the Khoros-tainted that can't communicate with Amaranth.

>>115707
I'm not tainted, I haven't pledged to Khoros.
naileD outright pledged to Amaranth.

I think we can safely conclude that Khoros is able to block all suggestions.

>>115708
We're perceived as thoughts in Aubrey's mind, not as voices like in XQ. So it's logical that Amaranth can't hear us.

At least at first glance. We were also Aubrey's thoughts in Aardvarks Need Love except that Amaranth was able to hear us there. So the thing that changed from ANL to S&S is that in S&S we're formally restricted to only being Aubrey's thoughts.

This restriction can be natural.
It can also be a result of outside interference.
Or perhaps we ourselves are imposing this restriction on us. The fact that we were parts of Khoros in XQ lingers inside us and as we get closer and closer to Khoros, the power of his domain becomes more and more influential.

> >>/quest/831115 >her lisp
So, we just learned that Aubrey has lisp and stutters. This opens up a theory that Aubrey may not be experiencing things as they truly are.
In her own mind, she has no lisp. But if we apply this sort of perception on other things, things could get quite interesting. For instance, it's possible that Aubrey's only imagining that she's a detective, let alone the best one, where it's only a coincidence that she got hired for the job. Perhaps Amaranth is the one in charge of the investigation and that Aubrey was supposed to help her, not vice versa as Aubrey perceived it.

>>115851
I doubt Aubry is that delusional. when you grow up with a lisp sometimes you just ignore that it is there because the brain precives it as useless information if someone actually pointed it out to her she might take note and realize she has it

Dog! Heaven(quest)! NOW!!!

Interesting if this works.

>>/quest/831988
I was somewhat surprised here at the fact that Amaranth says that Khoros doesn't have power over names. In XQ1 Outissa said that she "ate" her name with an attempt to hide from Khoros, which implies that he did have such powers. Although we never saw him directly demonstrate such powers. Something definitely doesn't add up. Either that part of XQ1 was false, or Amaranth does not remember correctly.

>>/quest/831989
It was frustrating to learn that Ammy could see a lie that was made in the post (>>/questarch/810047), while I myself could not guess what it was. Wasn't it Khoros who was there? Did Laetres perhaps exist at some point? Was Outissa really alone? There's unlimited possibilities of the things that could be changed.
Still, Aubrey's lisp and her clunkiness, where she almost drops the phone, made me grin quite a bit.
Other than that, a lot of important info was revealed here which made me think quite hard. Enough to make my brain hurt haha.

>>/quest/833605
Why did Amaranth allow us to interrogate her, but then she's so scant with her answers?! Such a trickster. Well, she still provides some very important answers. For instance, telling me that my theory (>>115851) about Aubrey being delusional is false. But more importantly, the clue about the Select Class Orbs. >>/questarch/827237 here Beatrix states "This ITEM will transport us to the 'verse in question!". But Amaranth flat out denies that. This proves that XQ2 has been tampered with as well! And that there may be a part of that quest missing.

Also, some very emotional backstory between Ammy and Aubrey. Ammy protected Aubrey from a storm. How cute! Oh. Ammy was the one that made it. She can control the weather. wtf :D

>>/quest/833622
Haha, I knew that Amaranth could steal PoV, but I laughed so hard to learn that she could also just leave it lying anywhere at any point.

>>/quest/833661
I really was speechless when I read this. Like, it took me at least an hour for my brain to go click at what just happened. Such a huge reveal all of a sudden! Why is there a noxan here? Why is she a female? Wasn't Outissa's mother supposed to be dead or missing (>>/questarch/814411)?
Anyway, this was super interesting. New character (which also for some reason looks so sexy). Lots of interesting info. And more brainfuck! Gah! Why is she here?! And why so soon! I hardly recovered from the past few updates and now this. It's just non-stop deep plot action. Don't worry, I loved it.

I don't think we're currently talking to Outissa's mother. It's Laertes.

>>116475
who knows they could be one and the same. :)
after all Laetes did lie to us in XenoQuest

>>116476
Outissa did more lying than anyone else in XQ.

>>/quest/834506
I like the sorta puzzled look Aubrey has here. Like she's thinking about how to handle this situation for maximum benefit. Altho she doesn't seem particularly lovestruck yet. Well, I think she's right to be cautious!
I don't like how Aubrey immediately reveals that she's a detective. Mostly because that way it's gonna be much harder to seduce Eurydice heh.
I wonder if Eurydice is snickering at the lisp, or at the collar. Because if it was me, it would be the latter!

>>/quest/834507
Haha, what was in the freezer? I'd really like to know!
Other than that, I find Eurydice's choice of words interesting, where she says what to call her, rather than saying that's her name. It would imply that that's not her actual name.

>>/quest/834508
A mind game. Seems like an interesting challenge. It doesn't seem like it's gonna be very easy to both seduce and gather information at the same time, but for now, there hasn't been any indication of any specific risks or a chance of "game over" heh.

There's a few things I'm confused about. Like, should we only be choosing pressure points, or should we be writing dialogue suggestions also? And what happened to "seducing" the lady? Will the seduction be done regardless of the pressure point chosen?

Anyway, I've already made some predictions since the start of the game. Let's see if they turn out to be correct, or if someone else is able to come to the same conclusions.

>>116475
Aubrey sensed that Eurydice wasn't lying tho.

>>116476
But Laertes was Khoros. That is pretty well supported by XQ.

>>116477
I don't think Outissa was intentionally lying? It was pointed out at the end that she didn't remember a lot of things. And in the recent update Eurydice says that Outissa forgets things.

(The following all pertains to XenoQuest, and is not a comprehensive list)

-Why does Outissa call the city a "prison"? In fact, later on she claims to not know what a prison, a zoo, or a pet is.
-If green is such an important color, then what was the significance of the woman in the tower with the green shirt?
>>/questarch/810442 - Outissa claims to never have had a name, but clearly she did!
-What is with her face marking showing up out of nowhere?
-Outissa claims to have never had friends, and that no one was allowed to touch her, but how did she have sex?
-In FACT, she mentions that she enjoys having sex - "It is a thing I have done before that I like doing" which rules out the possibility of rape being her only sexual contact.
-Amaranth was the first person in XenoQuest to use the name "Laertes"... where did SHE hear it from?

>>116491
You think I don't see that for the jab it is? Your grasp of "reasoning" killed two disthreads in a row.

We'll just have to wait and see if an in-universe explanation is ever found for these mysteries fallen by the wayside. Until then, nothing is true, everything is permitted.

>>116492
I wasn't.. Ok, let me edit my post.

>>116489
Some of the possible explanations that I could come up with (which I'm not directing at anyone - these are just my personal opinions as means of providing feedback to the author) for these facts would be:
-Prison: Association. The word "prison" may be associated with the word "home", so she may use the word even if she doesn't remember its meaning.
-Woman: We will never know if the green on that woman was anything more than a coincidence.
-Name: She forgot that she had it. It's common that, if you don't remember something, that you'd say it never happened.
-Sex: Doggy style
-Ammy: Laertes is a very popular (feared) guy. So she probably heard it from someone in his domain.

Oops, missed one.
-Markings: When asked to "show her scars", the markings appear. So my best guess would be that Outissa is able to hide the white patch of fur whenever she wishes. And that the white fur seems to be associated with something traumatic.

Aubrey fucked Outissa's dog, then her mother... what's next? Khoros?

>>116595
Probably.

And that'll end up being how Aubrey convinces Khoros to release Outissa and Beatrix! XD

>>11659
I am okay with this.

If we get to see it.

Nsfw quests forced into sfw renderings are cute, but get a little strained and tedious. Raptie is so good at detailed nsfw. Shame to lose all these moments to forced sfw silhouettes.

I can't believe Amaranth-So-Thicc is dead! And all because of a little head pat! That's so unfair! )-':>

So, Amaranth, how is death treating you?

Ammy isn't dead.

She's... uh... in a happy place. Yes. Exactly that. There's candy and ice cream and rainbows and puppies and all of the pats and pets she could ever want. She'll be in that happy place for a long, long time!

>>116603
That's exactly the kind of lie someone tells a little kid when their pet dies!

We are not little kids and Amaranth is not a pet!

>>116603
She's going to become Amaranth-so-Lonely :c

>>116603
SHE WILL LIVE ON WITH THE DANKEST OF KUSH IN HER CAVE! T.T

>>/quest/836498
Oh, a new thread. I was looking for the old one but it was moved to the archives too fast so I didn't get any notification of new posts therein.

Let's see. So Beatrix is narrating Snoots and Shadows to Outissa. And she's doing it in real time.
...
Interesting. So this new layer of abstraction tells us that no one's actually getting hurt, and that in the end, all the characters will be fine and may appear wherever they want in the future. This makes the quest more light-hearted. The important thing to note here is that it doesn't really matter who's writing the quest. Whether it's Raptie, or if it's from a PoV of one of her characters, the end result will be the same. An interesting quest with interesting characters.

Heh. I hope the next scene has Khoros entering the room and bringing everyone drinks.

>>/quest/836498
I laughed at how Outissa screams at Beatrix here, except that it's not screaming but chirping, and how Beatrix looks like an animal crossing a road and getting startled by car headlights.

>>/quest/836500
Back to the story, I'm not sure what to suggest here, since there's no options and we haven't gotten any obvious clues which we should follow. Any sort of decision would be based on conjecture. For instance, we know very little of who could be the gaslighter or how to reach them.

>>/quest/837455
I have a theory about the candy.

The theory is:
She brought precisely two pieces of candy for a reason. One for Outissa and one for Khoros. I bet it's their favorite kind!

naileD 2017/10/29(Sun)00:56 No. 117317 ID: 66a4ca
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Outissa getting cake from her mother for Outissa's birthday!
Even though Eurydice couldn't make the occasion in the quest, there's nothing stopping her from celebrating with her daughter behind the scenes. <3

Artist: Qaizer
Commissioner: me

Thank you again for those, Del. They are incredibly adorable!

>>117419
SUCCESS

I sincerely appreciate everyone who is a fan of my quests. Each and every one of you have been amazing and wonderful and I am so thankful.

Having said that, all of my quests are on hiatus until further notice. I think it's for the best for now.

If you'd like to continue to see my work, follow me on FurAffinity: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/caedere or feel free to watch me on Picarto, where I stream fairly often - https://picarto.tv/Raptie .

Don't worry - I plan to continue telling the stories of Outissa, Aubrey, Beatrix, and all of my characters. I'll still draw them! And I still have plans for comics.

And... hey, there may be intermittent quest updates too. Just, nothing on a regular schedule.

Thank you again to everyone; love you guys. <3

Hey! Should be clear that I'm still questing! While the previous quests are still on a semi-hiatus, my plan is to update XenoQuest at least once a day for 30 days.

...the fact that I go to a convention in the middle of this throws a wrench in things BUT OH WELL.

Also! If for some reason you haven't yet seen the new XenoQuest, it's right here! https://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/852936.html

>>/quest/854757
I can't notice any defects in the eye. Khoros seems perfectly whole. Hmm.
Could that part of XQ1 be false? Or did his eye heal up?

> >>/quest/854492 >Amaranth isn't dead.
> >>/quest/854757 >I do not know who or what Amaranth is.
Wait, what? One moment he knows she's not dead, the next moment he doesn't recognize the word anymore.
Is this what he meant with "remembering what has never been"? Or is something going on with his mind? Or does he perhaps present different facts to different voices?

>>/quest/854762
Why does Khoros recognize Siphon's voice? How could Siphon, who was never a fragment of Khoros, communicating with him?
Was she his fragment all along? Or is this just a game and she's one of the players?

>>119209
>Wait, what?

Oh, right. That Amaranth.

Fixed!

Really? You’re railroading us just because we didn’t want to go with the strange noxan we knew nothing about? And you’re gonna just blame it on “that noxan must’ve had an ability that did this”? Come on, don’t be like that, Raptie.

>>119797
Our suggestions weren't ignored.

Anyway, to me it seems logical that the noxan that approached Astarte had a backup plan in case she wouldn't want to come along. The backup plan being, knocking her out.