I think it's a bit late for that.
Anyway, my handle comes from back when people used to LAN during breaks in high school. I decided to join in and needed a handle. I had just finished The Silmarillion, so I wanted something Elvish, nd I wanted something appropriately bloody for playing Quake (which we were at the time). Sereg is Sindarin for blood, and I stuck with it. Particularly as I went into Genetics.
My main project recently is my PMMM post-Rebellion Quest. I'm really enjoying it
. Rikalous participates often, so he can give you a less biased opinion on it.
Mine was the name of a character a made for MERP. I ended up adopting it because it was less generic and overused than my previous pseudo, which was the name of an existing character.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
I was very, very much into spy movies and stuff. I also wanted to make a jab at all the "The {pretentious word}" monikers that, as I thought at the time, were everywhere.
Also, I liked puns. And I still do. Nobody likes puns quite like I do.
Rather than smart, I'd prefer to be wise. It would let me be silly more often.
"EEEEK!!! CATS!!" "Setsuna? Chill out."
@Sereg 154 pages. Nice. I might have to read through that when I get time.
@Hyper I thought I had that quest of yours in my Watch list. Wondered why it wasn't updating. Turns out I wasn't Watching it. I suppose I could have flubbed a few of those saving throws if I had been, knowing my good luck.
...
Where to start?
I've had the nickname Nimrod since my college days, when I would visit a little game store. I made the fateful decision of taking part in a play-by-mail game that the store owner decided to run. Based off Master of Orion, it allowed you to decide the race and basic characteristics of whatever faction you wanted to lead.
I can't remember what I decided, other than naming my race "Nimrods" and my leaders name was "Grand High Poobah Nimrod." Picked because I had no idea what I was doing.
It stuck. Mostly because I was the only person who 'died' in that game.
That's been about 25 years ago now. How time flies.
Madman with a box? I'm a madman with a semi, a pretzel bender and a Heart of Gold!
@Uber Nimrod: Cool. I'd love to hear what you think. I'd certainly love to get more participation, or at least, more of an audience.
himitsu keisatsu
@Nobody
I would've guessed a 'The Who' based joke.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari
@Uber Nimrod: I think you were following my first attempt at a magical girl quest, where the players voted to make the character a witch during character creation instead of a magical girl and proceeded to be ridiculously evil. In The Cursed Armor of Magical Girl Destroyer Cupcake, the character is actually heroic. Or she tries to be, anyways.
World's Cutest Direwolf
I kinda suspect Cupcake went the way it did because your Ryouga quest primed people to assume that the main character was going to suffer for our amusement anyway, so why not roll with it.
(My handle, for the record, is a portmanteau of "Rick" and "Nicholas," with some weird spelling.)
@Uber: It shortens to twelve pages if you just read the story posts, but thread chatter informs the main character's personality (which is one reason we could stand to get some more traffic.)
"EEEEK!!! CATS!!" "Setsuna? Chill out."
At 154 pages, I would think you would have some traffic. Pages don't just happen by themselves you know? 
himitsu keisatsu
I'm actually genuinelly considering a quest. I find writing in a forum to be more than a bit annoying, though. Anyone have any recommendations for me?
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari
Keys.
Right next to that time she finally caught on Nagi bathing in that river.
"This," Maleficent coldly narrated, audible only because her spellwork was creating an artificial air bubble around the platform, "is the barrier between the universes, or at the very least, one of them. Within it lie forces beyond mortal understanding. Many have attempted to unleash them, and all have failed. The Wall has claimed them as eternal captives. Each realm that is aware of its existence has a name for the power contained in it. I believe your universe's elders call it...the Source."
Evangeline stared, with wide eyes and a slightly open mouth, at the comparatively tiny naked form preserved in a griamce of frozen pain among the imprisoned giants. She was naked, remains of shredded clothing preserved around her, and her right hand still clutched the hammer Evangeline had once presented her with.
"Wow, but if it's Madoka!" Chachazero cackled, hanging from Eva's right shoulder, clinging on it with her diminutive hands. "I always knew that girl would get far in life if I didn't murder her first. I think she was clubmates with a god? That's what she mumbled in dreams that one time I snuck into her room anyway, to fantasize on the best way to kill—"
"Silence," Evangeline absently ordered, not looking at her as she pressed a hand on the doll's mouth. Now her studious gaze was traveling over the rest of the beings held along the Kugimiya-looking short haired girl, a collection of fearsome and bizarre titans, most of them as inhuman as possible. Several of them barely could be described in any human words and had shapes, physical traits and ornaments mankind has rarely if ever thought about, much less taken an effort as to portray them.
The most frequent trait shared by the vast majority of them was their overwhelming size and bulk, almost making Maleficent and Evangeline look like ants in the unmeasurable width of open space as they stood before them. Specks in the face of old conquerors as ancient as time or close enough; yet the scene that would have humbled almost anyone else did little to placate their own senses of self-importance.
Maleficent snared. "Fools, all of them, but as far as I know, your friend was the only one to suffer this fate because of self sacrifice, rather than a bid to obtain the ultimate prize. Not that it has made her hell any less torturous than theirs, apparently."
"Actually, it looks like they can't feel anything at all, right?" Chachazero commented casually now Eva's hand had slipped back down. Her legs kicked back and forth mischievously. "Although it'd be neat if she actually was suffering. Wicked cool!"
"She... She was not my friend, she only was..." Evangeline said in a small, faraway tone, before frowning and floating up, gathering energy in her hands. "Τὸ συμβόλαιον διακονῆτω μοί—"
Maleficent grew tense, her crow cawing and rushing to cower behind her collar. "Don't even think about—"
"ἡ κρυστάλλινη βασίλεια!!" the Shinso kept on chanting. "Ἐπιγενηθήτω, ταἰώνιον ἔρεβος, αἱώνιε κρύσταλλε. Πάσαις ζωαῖς τὸν ἴσον θάνατον, ὃς ἀταραξία!"
"You fool!!" Maleficent growled, summoning Darkness to shield herself and Diablo as best as she could. "You can't possibly break through the Source Wall itself!"
"Κοσμικη Καταστροφή/Κοσμικη κρύσταλλοπεγυα!!"' Eva shouted at the top of her lungs, and blasted the never ending wall, at least Karin's section of it, with her best Kosmikê Katatrophê, point blank, then making it explode, in an overwhelming, awe inspiring display less than ten living beings on all of Earth could have survived—
And yet, when the ice particles resulting from the impact finally cleared up, floating in the vacuum, the Wall remained untouched, Karin's shape still as well preserved as before, like a sexy butterfly in amber. "It... It can't be..." Evangeline softly said, ignoring Chachazero's whimpers and whines, the doll clinging on the edge of her Master's microskirt lest she fell into the endless abyss below.
Maleficent hissed, working back to her feet from the kneeling position the recoil of the blast had sent her into. She was well aware she'd have been shattered if not downright vaporized, even after imbuing herself with Darkness, if she had been the target instead of standing behind the vampire. After pushing herself back up on her staff and checking on her rattled, disturbed pet with a fond caress and pat of its head, the dark fairy lectured, "Even one as you cannot hope to put a scratch on the Wall without Kingdom Hearts or a comparable—"
Undeterred, her eyes black and golden, Evangeline formed a Dios Tukos on each hand. "Κενότητος ἀστράπσατω δὲ τεμέτω—"
"Don't tell me you're going to keep trying!" Maleficent gasped.
"Δίος τύκος!!"
Half a hour later, even Evangeline was panting, her every major spell tried at least twice, Maleficent, Diablo and Chachazero huddled together behind her under a black barrier. The Wall remained as flawlessly glowing and pristine as before, not even a single detail of it changed, not even the slightest section chipped away. "I can't fucking believe this..." Eva muttered, sitting down on the platform's edge with an angry pout.
"Now," Maleficent said, standing back and trying to regain her cool aloofness, "do you see why it is so important to me to gain access to Kingdom Hearts?"
"What," the annoyed vampire asked, "is Kingdom Hearts?" She was too upset to even bother with a scathing added stinger, her tone conveying the whole of her frustration and contempt instead.
"It is," Maleficent explained, "the heart of all worlds, and the source of ultimate power and wisdom. It can be considered an aggregate of hearts. It is the drill that pierces the Heavens, it is the sum of all fears, it is the key that can unlock any door. With Kingdom Hearts, there is nothing that cannot be achieved. I firmly believe we can not only access, but to control, the whole Wall with Kingdom Hearts."
"It is vague sounding as hell, that is what I think it is," the unimpressed witch muttered. "Are you sure that thing even exists at all?"
Maleficent smiled. "All of what I needed to know is in the pages of Ansem's full reports. He was too weak-willed to carry his studies to a good conclusion, but somehow, he stumbled exactly into the keys to decipher Kingdom Hearts' greatest mystery. Through the Princesses of the Heart, we can grasp Kingdom Hearts, and with it, this, the greatest prize!"
She gestured towards the boundless Wall, with a dramatic flair Evangeline found highly puerile. "Just think about it! Help me in this enterprise, and you can not only free the lost soul who was taken away from you three centuries ago, but you can share with us power beyond your wildest dreams! The power to crush all your few remaining enemies, once, for all, and forever!"
"'Us'?" Eva snorted. "Interesting choice of a pronoun there, hag. Besides, how do you know about Karin in the first place?"
"The latest defeat of the Obsidian Prince was not an event that went unnoticed by the Fair Folk, Princess of the Darkness," Maleficent smirked wickedly. "Even the details and most related circumstances of it found their way into our knowledge despite your and the Crystal Princess' efforts. maybe you would have kept a better lid on them if the Moon Princess had been with you at the time, but alas..."
"There are," Chachazero quietly decided, "too many Princesses in this affair for my liking."
The crow emphatically nodded its agreement, ruffling its feathers.
Evangeline gave a low, raspy grumble from the most unfathomable depths of her throat, and once again looked up at Maleficent in supreme annoyance. "Okay. I'll admit that's likely to be Karin. I have no idea how she got there from blowing herself up to nothingness along the Obsidian Lord—"
"Isn't it obvious?" Maleficent asked. "The Lord, like so many others, was looking for ultimate power, and that only can mean—"
Eva raised a hand. "That still doesn't explain how she got there regardless! But alright, I'll admit it can't be a fake. If you were powerful enough as to build such a... construction, able to endure my attacks, which obviously you aren't, you wouldn't need my help in the first place. So, I'm not saying I'll go along with it, it's not like I care about that idiot or anything, but... exactly what do you need my help for? I'm now remotely curious...!"
"Before the unavoidable long-ass explanation starts," Chachazero groaned, holding up a hand of her own, "can you take the discussion back to some place where we aren't floating in the middle of the fucking space? Because I think we really could use some chairs, here!"
Again, the crow nodded several times.
Maleficent and Evangeline scowled at the suggestion, looked at each other, and then shared a shrug of shoulders, since it was, for a change, an actually reasonable thing to ask for, after all.
edited 29th Mar '17 6:49:26 PM by NapoleonDeCheese
You don't actually have to interact with the forums outside of the quest if you don't want to. I've seen people start quests with their first posts and never post outside them before.
If you do start a quest, I recommend reserving the post after the initial story post for announcements, rules, bios, or anything else. It's a lot easier to stick anything you want new readers to know in the second post than to answer the same questions over and over.
Some forums allow you to threadmark posts. This is useful in quests, as marking story posts causes the forum to index them for you. Then you can easily find them later if you need to reference them.
If you're looking for reasonably intelligent power-gamers who are admittedly somewhat bad at social, Sufficient Velocity is the way to go. That said, you do need to take care not to cross certain lines without clearing it with a mod first.
If you're looking for somewhere with gamers that are a mix of smart, strategic, jarringly stupid, and just there for the porn, Questionable Questing is the way to go. On the other hand, as long as you put the quest in the NSFW section, you can do whatever you want with it without fear of mod intervention. And if you do something inappropriate in the SFW section, it just gets moved to the NSFW section.
Space battles also does questing, but I'm not as familiar with their questers. I do know they've got stricter content rules than QQ, comparable to Sufficient Velocity.
edited 29th Mar '17 7:29:06 PM by Hyp3rB14d3
World's Cutest Direwolf
Negima negima negima.
Plus, a lot of people dropped it after the first few updates as it's a little niche. (Part of the point is that a lot has changed post-Rebellion)
Anyway, I agree with the recommendations. Also, you can write elsewhere and then copy-paste to the forum. That's what I do.
Incidentally, you do get occasional Negima quests. I'm following one that is a crossover with Equestria Girls.
himitsu keisatsu
I might actually give it a shot. I probably wouldn't go for NSFW.
Then again, I might, just for shits and giggles...
I'll have to see once I'm finished preparing an auction for horses. Fucking horses.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari
I don't feel well tonight. No segment, sorry.
Keys.
Wherever that exactly was, that is.
Negi’s attention was at first tightly focused on that as he leaned onto one of the windows, his eyes scanning the skies of Symphony of Sorcery. Soon, however, he was distracted and awe struck by the vision of two majestic flying creatures heading the ship’s way. His heart gave a backflip in his chest, while his eyes grew huge and starry. The boy leaned further ahead, almost as if he wanted to pass through the unbreakable crystal, his mouth wide open.
“Keiichi-san, Lala-san!” he eagerly called out. “Gadget-san, Chamo-kun, you too, come see this!”
“Did you find the Yen Sid’s Tower already?” Gadget asked, perking up from Keiichi’s shoulder, on which she’d been sitting.
“What—No, no, but come look at this, anyway! It’s simply incredible! Pterosaurs!”
Keiichi did a violent and sudden spittake. “You mean, like pterodactyls?!”
“Oh, let me see!” Lala bounced from her seat, reaching Negi’s side in a single bound, and then grinning from ear to ear as she, too, saw the two big creatures hovering above the lusciously green wild lands, held up by leathery wings finished in sharp claws. They kept their distance from the strange newcomer into their sskies, which was why the Gummi Ship’s alarms hadn’t started blaring yet, but Keiichi and Chamo still felt a vague dread as Morisato turned the radars on and they, too, got a clear signal of them. “Uwaa! Reptilian animals long thought dead in your planet, Negi! What a breakthrough finding!”
“Fascinating, isn’t it?” Negi nodded eagerly. “It, this is my first time actually seeing dinosaurs! Wow, dinosaurs! I mean, technically, they aren’t dinosaurs, but still, reptiles from the Mesozoic Era! I, I always wished for a chance like this, I’m so happy to be alive…!” he began sobbing loudly, trying bravely to hold the tears back.
“… sometimes I forget he’s still a child, after all,” Keiichi pondered, slightly thrown off, as he glanced at him over a shoulder.
Chamo shrugged from the ship’s floor. “What kind of young man with no soul doesn’t love dinosaurs? Bro, I’m so happy for you! But, remember we’re on a tight schedule, we can’t stop by here!”
Negi looked back at the ermine, biting his lower lip. “Can’t we? Just for a short while? What if, um, another Princess of the Heart is down there?”
Chamo blinked, thought for a moment of a buxom nubile lady clad only in leopard furs and a regal crown on her scalp, and began chewing on his furry lower lip as well. “Th-That’s a certain possibility, I’ll admit it, but…!”
“What kind of uber-mage lives in a world populated by dinosaurs?” Keiichi wondered. “What is this, Conan the Barbarian? The Herculoids?”
“If this is the area of the planet inhabitated by prehistoric creatures,” Gadget cautioned, “then we possibly can’t be in Yen Sid’s domains yet. And our priority is finding him before thinking of locating any more Princesses!”
“What if he’s, ah, scouting the jungles down there?” Negi asked, poking a pointer finger towards the dense rainforests below.
“Why,” Gadget evenly asked, “would a reclusive sorcerer ever do that in the first place?”
Negi blinked. “Given any choice on the matter, who wouldn’t?”
“Hmmm… Let’s agree on a compromise,” Chamo quickly reasoned, “first we find this old wise man, and if he tells us there are Princesses in this primitive jungle no doubt conductive to people wearing little to no clothing, then we can runa n in-depth search as soon as we can, if there aren’t, well, you still can make a quick stop afterwards to take a few selfies with a small dino or two before we run into any of the big scary ones…”
“I’d rather not take those risks at all!” Keiichi protested.
“Me too,” the ermine sighed, “but no way we’ll talk him out of it altogether, trust me, I know…”
“I wouldn’t place any of you into danger over my own wishes, I’ll just drop by alone!” Negi claimed.
“You won’t do that!” Keiichi denied him. “If a T-Rex eats you, then Chisame-san and Ayaka-san will kill me, and that’ll be more painful than being eaten alive by a giant lizard!”
“Dinosaurs aren’t lizards, that’s a gross taxonomic mistake,” Negi lectured, “they are—“
“They are horned and winged humanoids carrying pitchforks around?” Lala suddenly asked, frowning through the window. Negi paused. “What kind of—Of course not, Lala-san, that’s imagery associated with Christianity demons instead, it has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Why would you ever say that? You aren’t the kind to mix research books together!”
Lala pointed further away, as the Pterosaurs quickly flew away from the five gargoyle-like, loincloth-sporting hideous bipedal monsters approaching the ship from the distance. Negi gasped loudly, and Keiichi cursed as more blips appeared in the radar. “I thought so as well,” Lala continued, “but I wanted to be completely sure, since you are the experto n the subject. Oh, but look! They have tails just like mine! How fortunate, perhaps we have run into some relatives! Whoo-hoo!” she called out, waving energetically and twisting her tail around. “How do you do, brothers of the Devilukean bloodline!! I’m Lala, your Princess and future Queen, so nice to meet y—“
Then one of them shot a massive fire blast from his pitchfork that hit the Gummi Ship squarely on a flank.
himitsu keisatsu
A Negima AMV that sums up what it has become.
Surprisingly interesting to watch.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari
"EEEEK!!! CATS!!" "Setsuna? Chill out."
[applauds] Ok, that was good.
Madman with a box? I'm a madman with a semi, a pretzel bender and a Heart of Gold!
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
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... I was about to point out that there's nothing actually Negima in the video or the audio/lyrics, but I realized what day it is, and the lyrics kinda fit anyway. Kudos, IANCE.
“Don’t you think,” Shiina Sakurako asked out of the blue, as the girls rested on their backs on the grass, idly looking up at the clear blue sky after a hard day of work, “we might be turning into some sort of cult?”
Kasuga Misora, of course, was quick to move her head—and only her head, since she was otherwise too busted—around to give the unusually pensive cheerleader an upset look. “Now what are you talking about?”
Sakurako shrugged, still not looking at the short haired apprentice nun. “Just think about it. We’ve become an isolated, but quickly growning, tighly knit order of devoted followers to a young leader, son of a nearly mythical figure who vanished mysteriously. We have you and Cocone, nuns, and a honest, bonafide goddess in Skuld-chan. We’ve met ghosts and demons, we’ve received visits from other dimensions and gone to other dimensions. We’re pals with a devil-like princess from another world. We are so totally a weird cult of sorts!”
“Saku-chan,” Hakase Satomi sighed, laying by her side and keeping her arms folded under her head, “you aren’t thinking logically! Not only Skuld-san is nothing but a Sufficiently Advanced Alien, not only Misora-san and Cocone-chan belong to a faith different to yours, not only I’m an atheist, but Lala-san’s ‘devilish’ physical traits are only an incredible coincidence of evolutive convergence! Odds are her ancestors once visited Earth and eyewitnesses of their arrival gave birth to the myths of devils with spade tails. Think nothing of it!”
“Right,” Hasegawa Chisame muttered, folding her hands together and frowning while also just reposing there. “Our personal beliefs couldn’t be all the more different from each other, what are you trying to prove here, Shiina?”
Sakurako pouted, trying to concentrate harder. “I’m not too sure myself. Just something that came to my mind, I guess…”
“Look, I’m not going to tell you ‘if you have the time to think of that crap, better use it on something else’, because I’d be a hypocrite then,” Sakurako’s close friend Kakizaki Misa lectured, in nothing but a flimsy top and short shorts, reaching down to scratch herself on a bare foot, rather lazily. “But as long as we’re taking a break, why don’t we think of more relaxing, enjoyable things like, I don’t know, boys? Or girls in your case, I suppose.”
Satomi stared at Misa. “Why should she be thinking of other girls when I’m right by her side?”
“Then think of each other and, I don’t know, make out a little or something,” Misa waved in their general direction. “Right here if you want to, I won’t mind.”
“You want to watch,” the third cheerleader, Kugimiya Madoka, mused aloud, eyes half closed and hands resting under her own chest.
“What if she wants to?” Saotome Haruna grinned salaciously, turning around as to lie on a side now, adjusting her glasses as she edged closer to the mismatched young couple. “Is it that wrong, to find joy from watching two dear friends find solace in their mutual company? But seriously, Saku-chan, I thinking you might be on something concerning that cult thing, there.”
Chisame sighed in frustration. “Not you, too!”
“Eh, if anything, you’re the High Priestess, don’t try to deny it!” Haruna accused. “You were, after all, the first acolyte of Negi, and remain the most faithful one to this day…”
“Excuse me?” Yukihiro Ayaka finally deigned to join the conversation, raising an eyebrow.
Chisame glared at Haruna. “Okay, Saotome, I’m warning you, cut the crap already! Don’t even think of treating me as if I were Negi’s—“
“Of course not, Saotome-san!” Ayaka indignantly said, bolting up to a sitting position on the grass, a loose crown of fragant wild flowers clutching onto her light gold hair. “If anyone is to be considered Negi-sensei’s High Priestess here, that’s me!”
Chisame facepalmed. “Don’t you have any limits, Iinchou? Don’t tell me now you’ll seriously start thinking of Negi as some sort of Messiah!”
“Oh, she will, why would you doubt that?” an amused Kagurazaka Asuna asked, rolling down on her stomach, sandaled feet mischievously kicking up. “I’ll bet she has a church ready for him when he gets back!”
“Be quiet, you heretic!” Ayaka commanded, pointing a finger at the laughing redhead.
“Shouldn’t we be the Church of Skuld-chan, anyway?” Sasaki Makie innocently asked. “She’s the actual goddess in our church, and—“
“She’s not an authentic deity!” Hakase snapped.
“We aren’t a church!” Chisame added.
“Our Lord and Savior is Negi-sensei, not Skuld-san!” Ayaka protested.
The other girls stared at her.
Ayaka huffed. “What?”
“Okay,” Madoka said then, “now that level of blind devotion did convince me. You are the High Priestess.”
“Of course I am!” a smiling Ayaka agreed, nodding and placing her fists on her hips.
“She didn’t say it so you’d take it as confirmation!” Misora snapped. Regardless, that was the most commonly accepted starting date for the existence of the Cult of Ala Alba as such.
"EEEEK!!! CATS!!" "Setsuna? Chill out."
Christianity started off as a cult in the Roman Empire days, so why not? All you need now is a symbol of sorts for members to draw on the ground, so it can be erased quickly if the need arises. Like the symbol of a fish was for Christianity.
Madman with a box? I'm a madman with a semi, a pretzel bender and a Heart of Gold!
To be fair, it's not like QQ accounts are particularly hard to make. You just click sign up, put in an email address, put in a user name, put in a password, set your age and gender, verify that you are not a robot, and the system sends you an email. You click the link in the email, and you're done. I'm moderately certain you don't even have to do anything to get access to the NSFW section afterwards. Just be logged in and over the age of 18.
Edit: Just realized this post detailing how to get a QQ account was a page-topper. That was an accident, I swear! It's not like I want to drag you all into depravity or anything!
edited 29th Mar '17 12:08:23 AM by Hyp3rB14d3