ohey i remember these fellows

are they in something else now

Yes. In the text quest I do, Sammy's Adventure.

gfhd I keep forgetting about that one

screwit gonna get on that tonight >I

It is a billion words

I am about halfway through

I forgot how much awesome the way you wrote when you really wrote

I had read the first few suggestions a while back and thought it was a silly joke-quest so I held it off but oh my goodness

like runway face said "it is very ara"

Haha. That is a good way to say what it definitely is. The writing quality varies though, unfortunately, depending on how much time I had for an update and how much I had to sacrifice artyfartiness for clarity for the suggesters.

I pretty much got off to the early description of the abandoned trainstation. It was pretty much porn. I'm about 2/3rds of the way to catching up. My internet is still super-crap though, so all the images show up more artifacted than a SBAHJ comic. 17 more days :I

I tried to make the images mostly uneccesary, and now I sort of cringe when I look back at them, so you aren't missing much there.

I am glad you liked the abandoned train station. I think there are probably plenty of other decaying structures sprinkled throughout the quest, also Sammy's hypochondria makes things sort of described in a grosser than strictly necessary fashion :V.

You should be able to catch up, I update SLOOOOOWLY

OKAY SO I am totally caught up now.

So much of the descriptions are just fantastic. Sammy's obsession with uncleanliness gives a great excuse to get into the details of how things smell and feel. There's a lot of really wonderful descriptions going on throughout it and I really cannot go through them all to pick examples so just take my word on it >:I

I love Sammy's internal conflicts with religion and how the quest suggestions work into it. I like how Sammy doesn't really entirely always go with suggestions, though, and his personality sort of overrides outlooks or opinions sometimes suggested, or he tries to do what a suggestion says but he lapses--like in the soup kitchen, where he just could not at all be okay with it no matter how hard the suggesters tried to come up with reasons for him to be okay with things.

The highschool drama and stuff and interactions with Katy and all that are just really good too. Dr. Browne is good parts shady and Mr. Exposition.

I love how the first suggestion after That Guy shows up is "Intend that it is immune to bullets and friendly." They are an adorable species and I am super-happy to see them again.

I can see how you mean the writing varies; I can kinda pick out what points you were just trying to get it done and which points you put more effort into, but the quest overall is just marvelous. It is totally brushing up against BiteQuest as my favorite quest altho seriously it is gonna be hard to knock that off there

so yes there is my nerding out over Sammy's Adventure there we go

I have some sadness that I probably won't be writing Sammy's mom or dad for the rest of the quest.
Sammy's mom was probably my favorite character to write. Oh I thought of that because you were talking about the uncleanliness and stuff which has become less of an issue over time obviously, but I tried to make it pretty clear where he got that from.

But yes I will take your word that some of the descriptions are OK for sure.

Yeah, I tried to make the way they suggested make a difference in the outcome too and incorporate all of them, and sort of make it to where they had to argue with him over time to get him to agree to some things. Of course, at this point it's kind of spare, both because of what's going on and also because of the infrequency of the updates and all (that kills suggestions).

I thought the high school thing could be an interesting angle and also give the suggesters a breather sort of - so they can basically suggest how they feel and it won't get anybody killed probably. Also I like supernatural horror that contrasts with a lot of normal everyday stuff, so there is that too.

Oh, as far as the suggestion for The Guy, I had not expected any of my suggesters to actually have read any of the stories on my FA :V. I was like WELP, OKAY THEN. They are obviously super fun to write too.

I think part of the variation in quality is just because it's a quest, and I don't spend that long on it. I mean, I do three revisions for most of the things I write, but most of Sammy is like, 20 minutes or less for an update, with some exceptions. I also try to be brief where I can, because I don't want it to get boring, but it's pretty hard to do that well I think, and a lot of the time it's pretty tepid. I try to make sure I spend a lot of time on the updates that'll really matter, at least.

Thanks for nerding out all over the place. I will get some towels, but it was a good break for me to type this stuff instead of doing work :V

Yeah no his mother was great and the conflict between his super-possessive mother and Sammy trying to define his own personality was just fantastic. I like how, with Sammy, you took a traditionally reviled kind of character and gave him enough internal contradictions and depth to actually be really likeable. He can still be kind of an insufferable THING sometimes and even if his mother is out of the story he's still obviously trying to create an identity for himself against her ghost lingering over him.

Highschool horror is great, especially when the real-life parts are handled as well as here. I love the thing with Emma on the subway where she basically apologizes and says "Welp rumor's out there nothing I can do chief welcome to highschool." And Katy sneaking out for smoke breaks and stuff (she is my favorite character in the quest I think but she is a maned wolf so that is an unfair starting advantage when taking my interest into account :I) it is all just very lifelike and it makes Sammy traveling into other worlds more real by extension and also I hope Katy is okay oh no :C

I know, we've talked a bunch also on the difficulties of writing action scenes or whatev. A Quest has to be precise with what it's describing so the players actually know where things are before making a decision, and sometimes there's no delicate way to handle that and descriptions can sound a bit awkward because of the nature of the game or WHATEVER. It is not even that frequent do not worry your head over it. What stood out was when Dr. Browne was expositing the war-universe before they went through the gate and his dialogue was kind of an unnatural, voice-less description written more as a Quest-narrator POV than a character's. Stuff like that! I am just agreeing with your saying that the writing quality varies but really overall it is like a few hundred grades higher than McNeil always forever (fuck Graham McNeil).

GOD there was more I wanted to say but I can't remember all of it and some of the stuff would be about the mechanics and behind-the-scenes stuff and it probably would be totally best not getting into while the quest is still going on I guess!

Yeah, well, part of the push against his mother were those pretty great suggestions in the beginning. I think his bigoted classism is still tough to swallow. Man, you don't know how many people have refused to read it because they thought it was going to be jesusy. Can you believe that? Even after they found out I wrote it...

I think him being an evangelical made the whole story way, way more interesting.

Man, I was also super surprised when they didn't confront Emma at all. I mean, it was basically the worst decision, but the good things about the highschool parts are that messing up doesn't get anyone killed.

We will all find out if Katy is Ok together.

There were certainly a few times when I was just writing a bit to get it over with - normally somehting I would revise at least once but with a quest, the incentive to go "OKAY I WANT TO GET TO THE GOOD PART" is greater because there are longer periods between the good parts. Not that this is a good excuse.

But yeah. I'm glad you liked it so far.

Well, I thought it was just going to be Sammy bumbling around being an idiot trying to convert people, so :V

But yeah no him being an evangelist kid gave him a lot more to play with other than just being a generic highschool kid stumbling on ancient magic beep-boop. It gives the highschool parts more to work with and gives him a more unique POV reacting to this stuff that really hasn't been overused so it keeps things super-fresh, like some fly beats.

Do you mean confronting Emma or not confronting Emma was the worst decision! And at which part. They talked to her twice and they confronted her the second time was that the worst decision?

And that is totally understandable with wanting to get to the good parts. Of all the quests you have going, I want to see Sammy's get to a conclusion more than any others, it is totes my favorite ongoing. It also seems the most ~you~ compared to Lahamu or so. Survivors too. Karen's Quest was super-you but you've told me why you really started hating/regretting it.

I am really glad I went with it. It wasn't originally planned like that, with the evangelical protagonist. It was literally trolling because I said I was going to just end all of my quests and do a quest about a furry christian. :v It was a plot I was actually going ot use for a quest on tgchan, I just changed it to text and changed all the characters to furries and made Sammy christian. :v I think what worked best about it was that if he wasn't a christian, the suggesters probably would have just accepted the supernatural stuff insteaed of reacting to it, and also tried to fuck all the female characters.


Oh when they first met Emma on the train and didn't respond or defend themselves in any way or say anything at all. It just made Sammy look super redic guilty! I mean, it might have happened anyway, but they guaranteed it to happen. It is probably literally what their parents IRL told them to do when people picked on them though.


SOmetimes it makes me update less because I want it to be good so I don't want to do a bad job, so when I feel like I am shitty and being able to write (like, most of the time) I don't update. :v

Ahaha oh my god that's right. His being Christian stops pretty much any romance from going overboard. It just does so many things so great. It also kind of limits him being allowed to just Main Character his way through things by lying his butt off. Crazy-God-Warrior Mother and a reluctance to lying (which the suggesters are basically self-enforcing and the narrative is making Sammy guilty over when he does lie) add a bunch more, like, "game mechanics" things to worry about that a non-Christian-evangelist character wouldn't need to be limited by.

Also it gives him more of a personality rather than just sort of a blank-suggestion-slate more like what Clara has (although Clara has some of her own inclinations and things her personality isn't as distinct as Sammy's so her suggestions have a wider range as opposed to Sammy's which are usually much more focused and in unison with each-other). It makes him a more memorable character I guess because of how distinct his personality is :U He is not Default Protagonist Insert Objective Here.

And oh yes of course. I still imagine him getting all defensive would have just let her believe he was totally lying about stuff too maybe. It is highschool there are no good options but at least no one dies from it. And it allowed for the cute scene where Emma kinda-sorta-apologized!

I just hope it does not peter out and die away at least!

Basically it started as a joke but I realized those things you're saying once I started actually running the quest and it turned out to tbe the best possible idea. I think Jim Crow had a decent personality but that's sort of a hard row to hoe because on the one hand you want suggestions to matter, but on the other hand it's more fun to write a character with a voice. I like writing Sammy like I do because I think with a smaller suggester base it's more interesting if they actually have to write out decent suggestions to convince him instead of just picking a simple choice.

And it sort of let him meet Katy too, which is pretty nice.

Don't worry, it wont peter out. Even if there is a period where I don't update for a while, I will always come back to it.

Oh right Jim Crow was the most charming protagonist ever. How I could I forget him! Terrible.

Sammy is really good for the whole voice/freedom thing, you give the suggesters a few clear options and it plays out more like a focused game than an all-over-the-place what-are-we-doing deal. It is basically the total opposite of Lahamu. Although flirtatious trade-talk was adorable.

I keep wanting to participate in quest suggestions but I get so nervous I'll do something wrong. I am so alien to this strange community you come from yiff-yaff

Some of Lahamu was fun. I also tried to incorporate their egotism into her personality to make her really snotty :v

Well, I will not pressure you into suggesting, but if you see a terrible idea looming then it's totally ok to chime in and be like 'Okay maybe that is not the best idea.'

ur face is the gay

Oooh, so this is what he looks like.

I didn't imagine him so cute :V

It keeps talking about his big emotional eyes.

Well yeah, but I still didn't imagine those super sad puppy eyes. Not a bad thing, pretty cool.

Also, I think it's kinda funny. Because if this was a drawn quest, people would've suggested Sammy to hug him like in every update.

Haha, I know. There are some advantages to text :V

Their eyes are supposed to be extrememly emotive.

I imagined them being bigger :V

He's more than 8 feet at the shoulder if he stands up straight. :o

hello I like this yes

ssexcellent it is a good thing to like

So awesome to finally see this dude. :V

I'm going to have to go back and do more /questing soon. I'm sad that I've been so busy that it hasn't really been an option for the last few months (and I fell into something of an addiction last time, oops). Picking one or two quests and just following them every so often shouldn't be terrible, right? ... right? D:

There is no harm in doing that! That is the best thing to do! Also, I didn't even know you read this quest. :v

I made a few suggestions here and there, but it was monnnnnnnths ago. I haven't read it since then, nor any other quest. I'm going to be off work for a while starting at the end of this month, so I will have plenty of time to catch up. :)

Sexcellent