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* DeadlyUpgrade: Even with the right species, bio-armor will kill you from the strain if you aren't resilient enough. However, a "30% mortality" bio-armor doesn't mean it kills 30% of those who try it on: It merely means that the weakest 40%[[labelnote:*]](the 10% difference is a security margin, not an error)[[/labelnote]] of the population know better than try.
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* DeadlyUpgrade: Even with the right species, bio-armor will kill you from the strain if you aren't resilient enough. However, a "30% mortality" bio-armor doesn't mean it kills 30% of those who try it on: It merely means that the weakest 40%[[labelnote:*]](the 10% difference is a security margin, not an error)[[/labelnote]] 30-40% of the population know better than try.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Rokoa's sniper [[BodySnatcher "clone"]] documents her transformation, mind-control and slavery to the Salikai as this.
** Averted for wild predators, whose victims merely suffer mental death over about a month of oblivious bliss. As a soldier from Rokoa's warhive points out, there are some ''much'' worse ways to die (or live through) out there.
** Averted for wild predators, whose victims merely suffer mental death over about a month of oblivious bliss. As a soldier from Rokoa's warhive points out, there are some ''much'' worse ways to die (or live through) out there.
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* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: Between neumono and salikai. The latter's actions tend to protect anyone killing them from guilt, and they seem [[TheSociopath incapable of feeling it]].
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* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: Between neumono and salikai. The latter's actions tend to protect anyone killing them from guilt, and they themselves seem [[TheSociopath incapable of feeling it]].
* ReluctantMadScientist: The science hivers living under the salikai's boot.
* TheReveal: In [[OriginsIssue Polo Quest 5]], the reason for Rokoa's broken empathy is revealed: [[spoiler:during her TrainingFromHell, she accidentally triggered the "needle trick", shifting her baseline empathy to the battle high she felt at the time and erasing her memory of the event.]]
* TheReveal: In [[OriginsIssue Polo Quest 5]], the reason for Rokoa's broken empathy is revealed: [[spoiler:during her TrainingFromHell, she accidentally triggered the "needle trick", shifting her baseline empathy to the battle high she felt at the time and erasing her memory of the event.]]
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* TheReveal: In [[OriginsIssue Polo Quest 5]], the reason for Rokoa's broken empathy is revealed: [[spoiler:during her TrainingFromHell, she accidentally triggered the "needle trick", shifting her baseline empathy to the battle high she felt at the time and erasing her memory of the event.]]
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** Biles's survival training -- especially the "final exam" part -- was also quite brutal, but wasn't nearly as bad psychologically.
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* DeadlyUpgrade: Even with the right species, bio-armor will kill you from the strain if you aren't resilient enough. However, a "30% mortality" bio-armor doesn't mean it kills 30% of those who try it on: It merely means that the weakest 40%[[labelnote:*]](the 10% difference is a security margin, not an error)[[/labelnote]] of the population know better than try.
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* ImAHumanitarian: A semi-common practice among neumono due to their religious beliefs. Pre-contact, this was a big problem for rogues, who were sometimes ''eaten alive'' to be forcibly reintegrated into the hive.cut
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* ImAHumanitarian: A semi-common practice among neumono due to their religious beliefs. Pre-contact, this was a big problem for rogues, who were sometimes ''eaten alive'' to be forcibly reintegrated into the hive.cut
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* ImAHumanitarian: A semi-common practice among neumono due to their religious beliefs. Pre-contact, this was a big problem for rogues, who were sometimes ''eaten alive'' to be forcibly reintegrated into the hive.cut
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* CuteKillingMachine: Three Stripes.
-->'''Anonymous:''' What are your favorite activities?
-->'''Three Stripes:''' [[SleepCute Sleeping with neumono buddies.]] Also [[TastesLikeFriendship eating with neumono buddies]] and also [[BreadEggsMilkSquick eating neumono buddies]].
-->'''EveryZig:''' He is like a big, mind destroying puppy.
-->'''Anonymous:''' What are your favorite activities?
-->'''Three Stripes:''' [[SleepCute Sleeping with neumono buddies.]] Also [[TastesLikeFriendship eating with neumono buddies]] and also [[BreadEggsMilkSquick eating neumono buddies]].
-->'''EveryZig:''' He is like a big, mind destroying puppy.
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* NotGoodWithRejection: Neumono hives towards "rogues" (those who leave them), developing murderous hatred towards them because of reflected and amplified feelings of rejection. Pre-contact, it went to the point of holding an unlucky rogue down to eat them alive.
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* CuteKillingMachine: Three Stripes.
-->'''Anonymous:''' What are your favorite activities?
-->'''Three Stripes:''' [[SleepCute Sleeping with neumono buddies.]] Also [[TastesLikeFriendship eating with neumono buddies]] and also [[BreadEggsMilkSquick eating neumono buddies]].
-->'''EveryZig:''' He is like a big, mind destroying puppy.
-->'''Anonymous:''' What are your favorite activities?
-->'''Three Stripes:''' [[SleepCute Sleeping with neumono buddies.]] Also [[TastesLikeFriendship eating with neumono buddies]] and also [[BreadEggsMilkSquick eating neumono buddies]].
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* NonMaliciousMonster: There are a lot of monstrous creatures on the neumono homeworld, that are only trying to eat: Windbeasts, motons, needleballs and even predators, which have been proven to need neumono flesh to stay healthy.
** Three Stripes does note however that the other two predators weren't very nice.
** Three Stripes does note however that the other two predators weren't very nice.
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* SleepCute: Three Stripes and his neumono buddies, brainwashed or not.
** Or ''any'' group of neumono.
** Or ''any'' group of neumono.
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* SanitySlippage: Averted. Polo is frequently thrown into harrowing, stressful situations, but even [[spoiler:having her memories and personality attacked by an implanted Rokoa clone]] has had little effect on her mental health outside of making her ProperlyParanoid. [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/498405.html#499037 Some suggestions are trying to play this trope straight, however.]]
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* SanitySlippage: Averted. Polo is frequently thrown into harrowing, stressful situations, but even [[spoiler:having her memories and personality attacked by an implanted Rokoa clone]] has had little effect on her mental health outside of making her ProperlyParanoid. [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/498405.html#499037 Some suggestions are trying to play this trope straight, straight,
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** Implied to happen to Polo's ''enemies'' on the other hand: Some of the salikai BigBad's underlings complain that his hatred of her has reached dangerously obsessive levels.
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** Implied to happen to Polo's ''enemies'' on the other hand: Some of the salikai BigBad's underlings complain that his hatred of her has reached dangerously obsessive levels.
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* HonorAmongThieves: Mimi cares for those who work for her, enough to call in a few favors to bail Hok and Miss out of jail.
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* ActionHero: Polo may be a {{deconstruction}}. She is incredibly good at what she does, but it's ''all'' she can do; [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/68983.html#72715 she has no hobbies and finds the concept of functioning in peacetime difficult to contemplate.]] The fact that her personality has little description outside of "soldier" is {{discussed}}, and [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/76582.html#80271 the resident psychologist character even points out]] how subsuming her personality into her role is a dangerous psychological risk.
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* SanitySlippage: Averted. Polo is frequently thrown into harrowing, stressful situations, but even [[spoiler:having her memories and personality attacked by an implanted Rokoa clone]] has had little effect on her mental health outside of making her ProperlyParanoid. [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/498405.html#499037 Some suggestions are trying to play this trope straight, however.]]
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* FusionDance: Polokoa is a Composite, constructed by stitching giblets of Polo and Rokoa together.
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* HybridPower:
** Polokoa. She has both Rokoa's and Polo's abilities while being stronger in general. This applies mentally, too; she has Rokoa's unstoppable willpower and determination reigned in by Polo's stoicism and intelligence, giving her both of their personality strengths while canceling out their flaws. Granted, she does have [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/76582.html#78437 other]] [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/49496.html#82613 complications]] by virtue of being a hybrid in the first place.
** Averted with Dastrika, despite her creators' hopes. Her empathy abilities aren't nearly as impressive as a predator's on their own, and she requires technological augments to do the really impressive stuff. She's also quite frail physically due to her organs not working perfectly. Possibly played straight ''mentally'', as she has the social/communicative skills of a neumono while retaining the tactical/multitasking intelligences of a predator.
** Polokoa. She has both Rokoa's and Polo's abilities while being stronger in general. This applies mentally, too; she has Rokoa's unstoppable willpower and determination reigned in by Polo's stoicism and intelligence, giving her both of their personality strengths while canceling out their flaws. Granted, she does have [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/76582.html#78437 other]] [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/49496.html#82613 complications]] by virtue of being a hybrid in the first place.
** Averted with Dastrika, despite her creators' hopes. Her empathy abilities aren't nearly as impressive as a predator's on their own, and she requires technological augments to do the really impressive stuff. She's also quite frail physically due to her organs not working perfectly. Possibly played straight ''mentally'', as she has the social/communicative skills of a neumono while retaining the tactical/multitasking intelligences of a predator.
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** Mikliks in general tend towards this due to their weird reproductive system (they don't grow genitals unless they want or need them).
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** Mikliks in general tend towards this due to their weird reproductive system (they don't grow genitals unless they want or need them).them, and it takes months, so it's not like they can decide on a whim).
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* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: Between neumono and salikai. The latter's actions tend to protect anyone killing them from guilt, and they seem [[TheSociopath incapable of feeling it]].
* IWantThemAlive / IfIWantedYouDead: When Polo learns just how widespread the salikai's mind-control conspiracy is, she notes that they had lots of opportunities to give her an "accident"; an escaped science hiver tells her the salikai are obsessed with capturing her alive. Documents mention plans to use her for creating a "psi-bomb".[[note]]It is not specified what it's supposed to do, but speculation from the name lean towards either killing lots of (or ''all'') neumono psychically, or permanently destroying their empathic link.[[/note]]
* IWantThemAlive / IfIWantedYouDead: When Polo learns just how widespread the salikai's mind-control conspiracy is, she notes that they had lots of opportunities to give her an "accident"; an escaped science hiver tells her the salikai are obsessed with capturing her alive. Documents mention plans to use her for creating a "psi-bomb".[[note]]It is not specified what it's supposed to do, but speculation from the name lean towards either killing lots of (or ''all'') neumono psychically, or permanently destroying their empathic link.[[/note]]
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* WasItAllALie: Asked by Itcher to the "obvious HoneyTrap" whom he let seduce him anyway.
-->'''Itcher:''' How much of it was a lie?
-->'''[[spoiler:Whiskers]]:''' [[spoiler:Surprisingly little!]]
-->'''Itcher:''' How much of it was a lie?
-->'''[[spoiler:Whiskers]]:''' [[spoiler:Surprisingly little!]]
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* TheCameo: [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/src/137272976427.png Hello, Saluanna.]]
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* TheCameo: [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/src/137272976427.png Hello, Saluanna.Saulanna.]]
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* EnemiesList: A lot of people in the asteroid seem to have a hit list, physical or not. Hok is on most of them, to the point of having an enemies ''book''.
* HonorAmongThieves: Mimi cares for those who work for her, enough to call in a few favors to bail Hok and Miss out of jail.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Hok uses a neumono bioarmor to murder a police officer.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Hok uses tosses a neumono bioarmor to murder at a heef police officer.officer, killing him due to species incompatibility.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Within Waska's gang, almost everyone but him knew "Pip" was actually Hok, against whom he had a grudge.
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* PowerArmor: Bio-armor for neumono, which augments their already-impressive physical capabilities even further. [[LudicrousGibs Don't try it if you aren't a neumono, though]].
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* PowerArmor: Bio-armor Bio-armor, especially for neumono, which augments their already-impressive physical capabilities even further. further. [[LudicrousGibs Don't try it if you aren't a neumono, on one made for another species than yours, though]].
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* ExactWords: Father Zozu doesn't kill his sons. [[spoiler:But when they really cross the line, he can disown them first.]]
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* BoomHeadshot: Neumono are immune to this; many can even survive ''[[OffWithHisHead decapitations]]''. This is frequently used on other, less resilient characters however.
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* BoomHeadshot: Neumono are immune to this; many can even survive ''[[OffWithHisHead decapitations]]''.decapitations]]'' if treated immediately. This is frequently used on other, less resilient characters however.
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An imageboard-based RPG styled as a [[ChooseYourOwnAdventure text adventure]], created and DM'ed by Lagotrope on [[ImageBoards tgchan.org]]. Currently ongoing.
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An imageboard-based RPG styled as a [[ChooseYourOwnAdventure text adventure]], created and DM'ed by Lagotrope on [[ImageBoards tgchan.org]].Website/TGChan. Currently ongoing.
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It seems someone linked this page to AQ\'s discussion page and apparently I got a lot of things wrong, whoops! A few corrections.
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* HealingFactor: Neumono. They can suvive incredibly grevious injuries, including [[OffWithHisHead decapitations]] with modern medical care. [[FromASingleCell There are body mass]] [[AvertedTrope limitations, though]] -- they can't survive [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe being torn in half]] for instance.
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* HealingFactor: Neumono. They can suvive incredibly grevious injuries, including injuries -- including, if they're tough, lucky, and have access to immediate medical care, [[OffWithHisHead decapitations]] with modern medical care.decapitations]]. [[FromASingleCell There are body mass]] [[AvertedTrope limitations, though]] -- they can't survive [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe being torn in half]] for instance.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Red is the only villain so far whose aggression is sexual in nature, and much of the drama of threads 3 and 4 involve him trying to rape Jessica.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Red is the only villain so far whose aggression is sexual in nature, and much of the drama of threads 3 and 4 involve him trying to rape Jessica. He's also by far the most monstrous villain in the story.
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* DoomedHometown: [[spoiler:Rokoa and Ohidi claim that Polo's hive was nuked. Subverted in that it later turns out to be a lie.]]
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* DoomedHometown: [[spoiler:Rokoa and Ohidi claim that Polo's hive was nuked. Subverted in that it the inhabitants were later turns out revealed to have escaped, so the location may be a lie.gone but Polo's family and friends are still alive.]]
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* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:In the intermission, Rokoa and Polo join forces to assault the salikai-controlled warhive.]]
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* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:In In the intermission, Rokoa many of the salikai, normally feared as an enemy of the neumono species, are willing to ally with Polo to take out Rokoa. [[spoiler:Subverted in that most of them at least were planning to backstab her, as they were pulling the strings in Rokoa's hive to begin with.]]
** Also in the intermission, [[spoiler:Rokoa and Polo join forces to assault the salikai-controlled warhive.]]
** Also in the intermission, [[spoiler:Rokoa and Polo join forces to assault the salikai-controlled warhive.]]
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* TheManBehindTheMan: In the intermission, [[spoiler:the salikai behind Rokoa's warhive]].
* MetaphoricallyTrue: [[spoiler:Polo's hive ''was'' nuked -- Ohidi just left out the critical information that the inhabitants managed to evacuate in time.]]
* MetaphoricallyTrue: [[spoiler:Polo's hive ''was'' nuked -- Ohidi just left out the critical information that the inhabitants managed to evacuate in time.]]
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\"/tgchan/\" is not a board on 4chan, thus replaces by \"tgchan\" or \"tgchan.org\" respectively...
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Interspersed with Asteroid Quest is "Polo Quest", a story about a HumanoidAlien SuperSoldier who, on a routine hunting mission, ends up fighting for her life as she gets wrapped up in a colossal conspiracy involving the enemies of her species, long thought dead. Despite being considered an Asteroid Quest derivative on the /tgchan/ wiki, [[EnsembleDarkhorse Polo Quest has more than double the number of threads and frequently outpaces its mother quest in popularity]].
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Interspersed with Asteroid Quest is "Polo Quest", a story about a HumanoidAlien SuperSoldier who, on a routine hunting mission, ends up fighting for her life as she gets wrapped up in a colossal conspiracy involving the enemies of her species, long thought dead. Despite being considered an Asteroid Quest derivative on the /tgchan/ wiki, tgchan.org/wiki/, [[EnsembleDarkhorse Polo Quest has more than double the number of threads and frequently outpaces its mother quest in popularity]].
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Notable for making extensive use of "Inside the Quest", a thread on /tgchan/ where posters can have Q&A sessions with quest characters. Setting information and character minutiae abound, and Asteroid Quest characters eventually became so popular that a [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/49496.html separate thread]] had to be created to give other quest characters room.
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Notable for making extensive use of "Inside the Quest", a thread on /tgchan/ tgchan where posters can have Q&A sessions with quest characters. Setting information and character minutiae abound, and Asteroid Quest characters eventually became so popular that a [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/49496.html separate thread]] had to be created to give other quest characters room.
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* AudienceSurrogate: The compilation AI ''is'' the audience in the first thread; however, it was DemotedToExtra in following chapters and now simply serves as an AffectionateParody of /tgchan/ in general.
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* AudienceSurrogate: The compilation AI ''is'' the audience in the first thread; however, it was DemotedToExtra in following chapters and now simply serves as an AffectionateParody of /tgchan/ tgchan in general.
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tgchan is not 4chan\'s /tg/ section and far better ^^
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An imageboard-based RPG styled as a [[ChooseYourOwnAdventure text adventure]], created and DM'ed by Lagotrope on the /tg/ board of [[ImageBoards 4chan]]. Currently ongoing.
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An imageboard-based RPG styled as a [[ChooseYourOwnAdventure text adventure]], created and DM'ed by Lagotrope on the /tg/ board of [[ImageBoards 4chan]].tgchan.org]]. Currently ongoing.
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Read it [[http://www3.tgchan.org/wiki/AsteroidQuest here]] -- although, this being [[ImageBoards 4chan]], beware of NSFW things. The quest itself is tame, but fanart is less so.
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Read it [[http://www3.tgchan.org/wiki/AsteroidQuest here]] -- although, this being [[ImageBoards 4chan]], tgchan]], beware of NSFW things. The quest itself is tame, but fanart is less so.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Compilation [=AIs=], though not necessarily evil, have a tendency to be deranged, chaotic, and unreliable due to being {{Mind Hive}}s. This is a commentary on [[ImageBoards 4chan]] in general, as [=CAIs=] are a metaphor for them.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Compilation [=AIs=], though not necessarily evil, have a tendency to be deranged, chaotic, and unreliable due to being {{Mind Hive}}s. This is a commentary on [[ImageBoards 4chan]] tgchan]] in general, as [=CAIs=] are a metaphor for them.
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** Polo Quest 3 is one for Rokoa. [[spoiler:During the BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, Polo goes through all of Rokoa's early memories, so we see her early life and how she became TheBerserker.]]
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** Polo Quest 3 is one and 5 are this for Rokoa. [[spoiler:During the BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, Polo goes through all of Rokoa's early memories, so we see her early life and how she became TheBerserker.]]
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* TheReveal: In [[OriginsIssue Polo Quest 3]], the reason for Rokoa's broken empathy is revealed: [[spoiler:during her TrainingFromHell, she accidentally triggered the "needle trick", shifting her baseline empathy to the battle high she felt at the time and erasing her memory of the event.]]
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* TheReveal: In [[OriginsIssue Polo Quest 3]], 5]], the reason for Rokoa's broken empathy is revealed: [[spoiler:during her TrainingFromHell, she accidentally triggered the "needle trick", shifting her baseline empathy to the battle high she felt at the time and erasing her memory of the event.]]
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* NobleDemon: Three Stripes can probably be seen this way from a neumono perspective; he's a member of a species specifically evolved to hunt neumono, but he is very gentle and compassionate towards them.
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* OriginsIssue: Polo Quest 3 is one for Rokoa (and, to a lesser extent, Polo). [[spoiler:During the BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, Polo goes through all of Rokoa's early memories, so we see her early life and how she became TheBerserker.]]
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* OriginsIssue: OriginsIssue:
** Part 5 of the intermission is one for Polo, as [[spoiler:the hallucinogenic gas]] causes her to revisit her childhood memories.
** Polo Quest 3 is one forRokoa (and, to a lesser extent, Polo).Rokoa. [[spoiler:During the BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, Polo goes through all of Rokoa's early memories, so we see her early life and how she became TheBerserker.]]
** Part 5 of the intermission is one for Polo, as [[spoiler:the hallucinogenic gas]] causes her to revisit her childhood memories.
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* ArtShift: The rap battle is in full color.
* MostCommonSuperpower: Rokolo lampshades this in [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/src/137799076128.png her]] [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/src/138022952344.png shirt]] [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/src/139797843919.png choices.]]
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* UpToEleven / RefugeInAudacity: Yes. In addition to everything else, it currently holds the record for [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/503053.html#551594 the largest quest update ever.]]
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* TheDreaded: Polokoa. [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/503053.html#503086 Parodied.]]
-->'''Polokoa:''' Once I go anywhere with neumono, the alert will go up that I'm in the area. I'd like to go silent, but the last interstellar treaty says I have to give civilians a chance to run away.
-->'''Polokoa:''' Once I go anywhere with neumono, the alert will go up that I'm in the area. I'd like to go silent, but the last interstellar treaty says I have to give civilians a chance to run away.
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Father Zozu to Maklata at the end of the Zozu arc.]]
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*BladeOnAStick: Polokoa's WeaponOfChoice after her second TransformationSequence.
* {{Gunblade}}: [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/503053.html#551629 Polokoa's glaive.]]
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*EvilTwin: Rokolo, an AlternateUniverse Polokoa appearing in Inside the Quest. [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/68983.html#75783 She comments on the trope.]]
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!!Examples of tropes appearing in ''Polokoa Quest'':
*AllThereInTheManual: Possibly has it even worse than Asteroid Quest. Pretty much the entirety of characters' backstories, as well as the mechanics of the AlternateUniverse, are completely relegated to Inside the Quest.
*AlternateUniverse: It diverged at some point around [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/res/456418.html#457897 here]] -- Rokoa and Polo were both badly damaged in the explosion, and the only way to make them survive was to [[BodyHorror stitch the remaining body mass together into a single being]]. This created Polokoa.
**The multiple-worlds interpretation is apparently canon, going by Inside the Quest; the mechanics of alternate universes are frequently discussed. "Rokolo", an EvilTwin of Polokoa from another universe, has featured prominently in supplemental materials.
*AscendedMeme: Polokoa herself; the concept originally started as a joke on the discussion boards. Jukashi took the idea and ran with it.
** Rokolo originated similarly (a poster hypothesized possible other names for Polokoa immediately before she appeared), though it's possible [[JustAsPlanned Jukashi had her planned from the start]].
*TheCameo: [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/src/137272976427.png Hello, Saluanna.]]
*{{Cyborg}}: Polokoa, though it's out of necessity. Without her cybernetic enhancements she'd be a blind, twitching blob on the floor.
*EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:The asteroid.]]
*FanFiction
*[[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Neumono Hybrid]]: Dastrika is a predator-neumono (or "[[FanNickname predamono]]") hybrid. This gives her more powerful empathy abilities at the price of some physiological and psychological complications.
*HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Averted with Father Zozu. He exhibits this trope in his first appearance, but is clearly seen in his second.
*HiddenDepths: The quest itself. Who knew an absurdly over-the-top parody of Asteroid Quest would contain thoughtful commentary about societies, leadership, racism, and genocide?
**Dastrika. She barely appears in the quest itself, but Inside the Quest reveals a lot about her, from her scientific background to her political opinions. She was also important in helping Polokoa recover from the trauma of her "birth".
**Polokoa herself. In the quest she seems like a cocksure, unstoppable warrior, but [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/76582.html#78437 Inside the Quest]] reveals her to be a barely-living BodyHorror who had to go through years of intensive physical therapy and surgery just to become functional. [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/76582.html#76927 Then there are her political opinions...]]
*LighterAndSofter
*PowerArmor: Polokoa's neurosuit, which is bio-armor taken UpToEleven.
*ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Polokoa sees herself as this. Father Zozu disagrees.
*ScienceHero: Dastrika.
*ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted; Dastrika's one, and she helped Polokoa through a lot of trauma in the {{Backstory}}.
*UpToEleven / RefugeInAudacity: Yes.
*AllThereInTheManual: Possibly has it even worse than Asteroid Quest. Pretty much the entirety of characters' backstories, as well as the mechanics of the AlternateUniverse, are completely relegated to Inside the Quest.
*AlternateUniverse: It diverged at some point around [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/res/456418.html#457897 here]] -- Rokoa and Polo were both badly damaged in the explosion, and the only way to make them survive was to [[BodyHorror stitch the remaining body mass together into a single being]]. This created Polokoa.
**The multiple-worlds interpretation is apparently canon, going by Inside the Quest; the mechanics of alternate universes are frequently discussed. "Rokolo", an EvilTwin of Polokoa from another universe, has featured prominently in supplemental materials.
*AscendedMeme: Polokoa herself; the concept originally started as a joke on the discussion boards. Jukashi took the idea and ran with it.
** Rokolo originated similarly (a poster hypothesized possible other names for Polokoa immediately before she appeared), though it's possible [[JustAsPlanned Jukashi had her planned from the start]].
*TheCameo: [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/src/137272976427.png Hello, Saluanna.]]
*{{Cyborg}}: Polokoa, though it's out of necessity. Without her cybernetic enhancements she'd be a blind, twitching blob on the floor.
*EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:The asteroid.]]
*FanFiction
*[[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Neumono Hybrid]]: Dastrika is a predator-neumono (or "[[FanNickname predamono]]") hybrid. This gives her more powerful empathy abilities at the price of some physiological and psychological complications.
*HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Averted with Father Zozu. He exhibits this trope in his first appearance, but is clearly seen in his second.
*HiddenDepths: The quest itself. Who knew an absurdly over-the-top parody of Asteroid Quest would contain thoughtful commentary about societies, leadership, racism, and genocide?
**Dastrika. She barely appears in the quest itself, but Inside the Quest reveals a lot about her, from her scientific background to her political opinions. She was also important in helping Polokoa recover from the trauma of her "birth".
**Polokoa herself. In the quest she seems like a cocksure, unstoppable warrior, but [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/76582.html#78437 Inside the Quest]] reveals her to be a barely-living BodyHorror who had to go through years of intensive physical therapy and surgery just to become functional. [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/76582.html#76927 Then there are her political opinions...]]
*LighterAndSofter
*PowerArmor: Polokoa's neurosuit, which is bio-armor taken UpToEleven.
*ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Polokoa sees herself as this. Father Zozu disagrees.
*ScienceHero: Dastrika.
*ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted; Dastrika's one, and she helped Polokoa through a lot of trauma in the {{Backstory}}.
*UpToEleven / RefugeInAudacity: Yes.
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* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Woman]]: Rokoa. This is partially due to her neumono resilience, and partially [[{{Determinator}} just her]].
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Neumono can live for over two centuries [[StrongerWithAge without visibly aging]], so this is inevitable. Rokoa and Pilon, in particular, are well over a century old.
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* BoomHeadshot: Neumono are immune to this; many can even survive ''[[OffWithHisHead decapitations]]''. This is frequently used on other, less resilient characters however.
* NonActionGuy: Kappi, though [[TrainingFromHell that may change now that Rokoa has taken an interest in him]].
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An imageboard-based RPG styled as a [[ChooseYourOwnAdventure text adventure]], created and DM'ed by Lagotrope on the /tg/ board of [[ImageBoards 4chan]]. Currently ongoing.
Asteroid Quest is a somewhat episodic tale about the exploits of a cutthroat trade organization in a technologically advanced world, blending {{Noir}} crime drama with a ScienceFiction background.
The titular asteroid exerts a powerful gravitational effect that sucks in nearby ships and prevents escape. Over time, many people have accumulated on the asteroid, many of them criminals and fugitives. Some prefer the seclusion and anarchic setting, while others are searching for a way off the rock. A SwitchingPOV follows various members and employees of a trade hub on jobs around the asteroid. Complications always ensue.
Interspersed with Asteroid Quest is "Polo Quest", a story about a HumanoidAlien SuperSoldier who, on a routine hunting mission, ends up fighting for her life as she gets wrapped up in a colossal conspiracy involving the enemies of her species, long thought dead. Despite being considered an Asteroid Quest derivative on the /tgchan/ wiki, [[EnsembleDarkhorse Polo Quest has more than double the number of threads and frequently outpaces its mother quest in popularity]].
Read it [[http://www3.tgchan.org/wiki/AsteroidQuest here]] -- although, this being [[ImageBoards 4chan]], beware of NSFW things. The quest itself is tame, but fanart is less so.
Notable for making extensive use of "Inside the Quest", a thread on /tgchan/ where posters can have Q&A sessions with quest characters. Setting information and character minutiae abound, and Asteroid Quest characters eventually became so popular that a [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/49496.html separate thread]] had to be created to give other quest characters room.
Has also spawned a [[http://www3.tgchan.org/wiki/Polokoa_Quest fan-quest]] by Jukashi, of ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'' fame. See also Roleplay/UnnaturalSelection, which is in the same {{Verse}} according to WordOfGod.
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!!Examples of tropes appearing in ''Asteroid Quest'':
*ActionGirl: [[TheDreaded Rokoa]], [[{{Cyborg}} Sharpa]], and [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Pilon's daughters]].
*{{Asexuality}}: Hok. It's unclear if this is just because he's currently genderless or if it's a general preference.
** Mikliks in general tend towards this due to their weird reproductive system (they don't grow genitals unless they want or need them).
*AIIsACrapshoot: Compilation [=AIs=], though not necessarily evil, have a tendency to be deranged, chaotic, and unreliable due to being {{Mind Hive}}s. This is a commentary on [[ImageBoards 4chan]] in general, as [=CAIs=] are a metaphor for them.
*AllThereInTheManual: There's a ''lot'' of character and setting information in the discussion thread and Inside the Quest. Most of it isn't relevant to the plot, but it does answer a lot of lingering questions many readers have.
*AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Parts 3 and 4 center on a different organization than the trade hub, and follow a single protagonist for the entire ride, a departure from the prior SwitchingPOV format.
*AudienceSurrogate: The compilation AI ''is'' the audience in the first thread; however, it was DemotedToExtra in following chapters and now simply serves as an AffectionateParody of /tgchan/ in general.
*TheBerserker: Rokoa is on the edge of this. She is still capable of functioning on a normal level, but her empathy is "broken", causing her to feel constant battle-lust.
*BizarreAlienBiology:
** Neumono have a decentralized nervous system, multiple hearts, and abnormal diets and growth rates due to their HealingFactor.
** Mikliks are just ''weird''. They're ''plant-based'', for starters, with a bizarre reproductive system involving seed-like eggs and genitals that can be grown and discarded at will. They have an incredible rate of mutation, resulting in a wide (and bizarre) variance of traits, such as multiple skin layers.
** {{Discussed}} at some points, especially in the Inside the Quest posts. The variety of alien allergens and toxins has given the culinary and medicinal fields no end of grief. Some restaurants explicitly serve only certain species, others carefully prune their menus to accomodate everyone.
** Yich eaters have three genders -- males, females, and "carriers" that serve as incubators during pregnancy. Their genes are not passed on to the child they are incubating, so they gain no evolutionary benefit from this, a fact that was boggled at and discussed in Inside the Quest.
*BloodKnight: Rokoa.
*BornLucky: Hok, possibly. He has an amazing tendency to both get in and get out of extremely dangerous situations.
*{{Cyborg}}: Sharpa.
*CurbStompBattle: Rokoa versus [[spoiler:Red]] in part 4.
*DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The "needle trick", performed by impaling a certain nerve cluster in neumono. It temporarily shuts off empathy, allowing for stealth and combat advantages against other neumono, but is a fast track to insanity. Rokoa is fond of it.
*{{Determinator}}: Rokoa. [[MeaningfulName Even her name essentially means this]].
*TheDreaded: Rokoa. Not only is she a nigh-unstoppable tank of a soldier, neumono say her empathy is "broken", radiating constant bloodlust and a desire for battle.
*EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first thread has a lot of this going on.
** The use of the CAI as a viewpoint character. This placed more of a focus on resource management of the base (as opposed to the characters' stories). This was scrapped in later threads for the more standard approach of following single protagonists.
** The tone is [[DarkerAndEdgier darker and grittier (and bloodier)]] than later threads, which are somewhat more madcap and lighthearted.
** Rokoa's statement that neumono {{Cyborg}}s are impossible due to their HealingFactor is explicitly {{Retcon}}ned four threads later.
*TheEmpath: All neumono broadcast their emotions and sense others', constantly. It's actually a biological signal that can be amplified, modified, and translated with various technologies, though it only applies to other neumono.
*EnsembleCast
*FollowTheLeader: Using the compilation AI as the physical embodiment of /quest/ was a clear {{Expy}} of [[Roleplay/DiveQuest the Orb of Infinite Psyche]]. However, after thread 1, the story uses the more traditional approach of following single protagonists, [[DemotedToExtra with the CAI as a background character]].
*FragileSpeedster: Mikliks are highly agile with quick reflexes, but can't take many hits.
*FromASingleCell: Averted with the neumono's HealingFactor; there ''are'' body mass requirements of at least 50% or so. Beyond that, even they can't recover.
*GoryDiscretionShot: Frequently, most notably for [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the effect of the bio-armor on the police officer in the prologue]]. The majority of [[spoiler:Red]]'s NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and death is also out of frame.
*GroinAttack: Rokoa's final blow against [[spoiler:Red]] is a ''full-body canonball'' centered on his pelvis.
*HealingFactor: Neumono. They can suvive incredibly grevious injuries, including [[OffWithHisHead decapitations]] with modern medical care. [[FromASingleCell There are body mass]] [[AvertedTrope limitations, though]] -- they can't survive [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe being torn in half]] for instance.
*HumanoidAliens: Everything except yich eaters. Curiously, [[WordOfGod the author]] has said he has difficulty drawing actual humans, and [[FurriesAreEasierToDraw prefers these stylized alien races instead]].
*ImprovisedWeapon: Hok uses a neumono bioarmor to murder a police officer.
*KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Red, after spending two threads being an amoral, womanizing psychopath, is beaten within an inch of his life by a GroinAttack issued by Rokoa, a woman he claimed he had humilated in battle before. He is then finished off by Jessica, a woman he abused since his first apperance.]]
*KudzuPlot: Averted; the plot is fairly simple and straightforward. [[Roleplay/UnnaturalSelection This is highly unusual for Lagotrope]].
*LighterAndSofter: Later threads to thread 1, slightly. Thread 1 portrayed a gritty and cutthroat world with a lot of GreyAndGreyMorality, and had an alarmingly high body count. Later threads are more madcap in tone, characters display more compassion and companionship, and there are far fewer bloodbaths.
*LightningBruiser: Rokoa.
*MadScientist: Downplayed by Ben, who, though eccentric and brusque, is sane enough to provide useful and practical services to the trade hub (and to provide a wealth of scientific information to curious readers in ITQ).
*MightyGlacier: Neumono are strong and nigh-unkillable, but their decentralized nervous system means they have the poorest reaction time out of all the alien species.
*MindHive: Compilation [=AIs=] are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin conglomerations of countless sentient AIs]]. This gives them incredible processing power, but [[AIIsACrapshoot can also make them mentally unstable and unreliable]].
*PettingZooPeople: Neumono (dogs), belenos (sheep), pomi (fish), and heef (birds).
*PlayerCharacter: The compilation AI in thread 1. Later chapters follow other characters in a SwitchingPOV format.
*PowerArmor: Bio-armor for neumono, which augments their already-impressive physical capabilities even further. [[LudicrousGibs Don't try it if you aren't a neumono, though]].
*RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Red is the only villain so far whose aggression is sexual in nature, and much of the drama of threads 3 and 4 involve him trying to rape Jessica.
*{{Retcon}}: The BadEnd in part 2. Part 3 starts at an earlier point in time, and posters took different actions that led to a better result. The new ending became canon for the larger storyline.
** In the {{Pilot}}, Rokoa says that mechanical augmentations for neumono are impossible due to their HealingFactor. Part 5 introduces a {{Cyborg}} neumono with little fanfare; WordOfGod says he simply changed his mind.
*SlasherSmile: Rokoa.
*SwitchingPOV
** Averted in [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent parts 3 and 4]], which followed a single protagonist for the entire journey. The story returned to SwitchingPOV in part 5, however.
*WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: As an interactive medium, this is pretty much inevitable. It occasionally leads to continuity snarls and {{Retcon}}s such as those mentioned in EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, above.
!!Examples of tropes appearing in ''Polo Quest'':
*ActionGirl: Polo, Rokoa, Rakae, Marra, and Rokann.
*AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The Three Stripes intermission.
** Polo Quest 4 is also from the perspective of Biles instead of Polo.
*ArtShift: When [[WhamEpisode things get serious]], pictures are shaded using hard shadows (like [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/src/133511516181.png this]]).
*BadassAdorable: Pilon has giant puppy eyes and ''enormous'' fluffy ears. He's also an elite soldier.
*BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler:Polo has one with a Rokoa clone after being injected with a brain dart in Polo Quest. The actual battle takes place during parts 3 and 5.]]
*BloodKnight: Rokoa is obsessed with fighting Polo. [[spoiler:She cooperates with Polo towards a greater goal only on the condition that they fight a rematch at a later date.]]
*ColdSniper: Played with. Polo is extremely [[TheStoic stoic]] and goal-oriented, but she frequently displays compassion and sympathy for her friends when they need her.
*DarkerAndEdgier: To mainstream Asteroid Quest.
*DoomedHometown: [[spoiler:Rokoa and Ohidi claim that Polo's hive was nuked. Subverted in that it later turns out to be a lie.]]
*TheDreaded: Polo gains a reputation as "The Ghost" for her empathy invisibility, an unusal power that makes her strange and dangerous. Taking down [[spoiler:a group of maniacal salikai]] and [[spoiler:a powerful warhive]] almost single-handedly probably earned her some points too.
*EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Some of the setting information provided in the intermission (especially about neumono empathy) is at odds with later chapters and supplemental materials.
*EnemyMine: [[spoiler:In the intermission, Rokoa and Polo join forces to assault the salikai-controlled warhive.]]
*EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Well, not really "evil", but Rokoa had numerous children she cared about very much, even in her BloodKnight state.
*FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:After the intermission, Polo is officially stated to be dead by the authorities.]]
*{{Foil}}: Rokoa to Polo. Rokoa is a giant, emotional ProudWarriorRaceGuy obsessed with battle who grew up pre-contact; she is also disillusioned with her hive and in danger of going rogue. Polo is a dwarfish stoic who uses stealth, knowledge, and sniping to win her battles; she also grew up post-contact and has an obsessive sense of duty to her role and hive. Both are skilled warriors with a strong sense of honor and duty.
*GentleGiant: Three Stripes and Katzati.
*LighterAndSofter: The Three Stripes intermission.
*LotusEaterMachine: The salikai's hallucinogenic gas.
*MadScientist: The salikai.
*MindRape: Creatures known only as "neumono predators" are capable of this by broadcasting false empathy that overrites a victim's and turns them into a mindless slave. Rikek briefly falls under the sway of one early on.
*NonActionGuy: Rikek, Lucera, and Kort.
*OriginsIssue: Polo Quest 3 is one for Rokoa (and, to a lesser extent, Polo). [[spoiler:During the BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, Polo goes through all of Rokoa's early memories, so we see her early life and how she became TheBerserker.]]
*PintsizedPowerhouse: Played with with Polo. She is actually rather poor at hand-to-hand combat, but she is incredibly skilled with {{Sniper Rifle}}s and can silence her empathy, giving her numerous combat advantages. All of this allows her to routinely defeat enemies twice her size.
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*ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Rokoa.
*TheRival: A dark version; Polo is quickly possessed by a murderous obsession with Rokoa, [[{{Foil}} perhaps because she sees herself in her]]. [[spoiler:This eventually subsides and they [[EnemyMine work together]] for the FinalBattle of the intermission, but Polo still feels an enmity toward Rokoa for a long time afterwards.]]
*TheReveal: In [[OriginsIssue Polo Quest 3]], the reason for Rokoa's broken empathy is revealed: [[spoiler:during her TrainingFromHell, she accidentally triggered the "needle trick", shifting her baseline empathy to the battle high she felt at the time and erasing her memory of the event.]]
*ScienceHero: Korli.
*SniperRifle: Polo's WeaponOfChoice.
*TheStoic: Polo. There have been some theories that this contributed to her silencing ability.
**NotSoStoic: She does not take [[spoiler:the total destruction of her hive]] well. [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/res/399207.html#403265 At all.]]
*SuperSoldier: Polo. She can turn her empathy off at will, a feat managed only by a few others who were in the same training program as her. This allows her to perform stealth missions (normally all but impossible for neumono) and gives her an advantage in combat, as opponents cannot predict her moves.
*TrainingFromHell: [[spoiler:Rokoa suffered this at the hands of her mother in order to survive in her ruthless hive.]]
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Asteroid Quest is a somewhat episodic tale about the exploits of a cutthroat trade organization in a technologically advanced world, blending {{Noir}} crime drama with a ScienceFiction background.
The titular asteroid exerts a powerful gravitational effect that sucks in nearby ships and prevents escape. Over time, many people have accumulated on the asteroid, many of them criminals and fugitives. Some prefer the seclusion and anarchic setting, while others are searching for a way off the rock. A SwitchingPOV follows various members and employees of a trade hub on jobs around the asteroid. Complications always ensue.
Interspersed with Asteroid Quest is "Polo Quest", a story about a HumanoidAlien SuperSoldier who, on a routine hunting mission, ends up fighting for her life as she gets wrapped up in a colossal conspiracy involving the enemies of her species, long thought dead. Despite being considered an Asteroid Quest derivative on the /tgchan/ wiki, [[EnsembleDarkhorse Polo Quest has more than double the number of threads and frequently outpaces its mother quest in popularity]].
Read it [[http://www3.tgchan.org/wiki/AsteroidQuest here]] -- although, this being [[ImageBoards 4chan]], beware of NSFW things. The quest itself is tame, but fanart is less so.
Notable for making extensive use of "Inside the Quest", a thread on /tgchan/ where posters can have Q&A sessions with quest characters. Setting information and character minutiae abound, and Asteroid Quest characters eventually became so popular that a [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/49496.html separate thread]] had to be created to give other quest characters room.
Has also spawned a [[http://www3.tgchan.org/wiki/Polokoa_Quest fan-quest]] by Jukashi, of ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'' fame. See also Roleplay/UnnaturalSelection, which is in the same {{Verse}} according to WordOfGod.
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!!Examples of tropes appearing in ''Asteroid Quest'':
*ActionGirl: [[TheDreaded Rokoa]], [[{{Cyborg}} Sharpa]], and [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Pilon's daughters]].
*{{Asexuality}}: Hok. It's unclear if this is just because he's currently genderless or if it's a general preference.
** Mikliks in general tend towards this due to their weird reproductive system (they don't grow genitals unless they want or need them).
*AIIsACrapshoot: Compilation [=AIs=], though not necessarily evil, have a tendency to be deranged, chaotic, and unreliable due to being {{Mind Hive}}s. This is a commentary on [[ImageBoards 4chan]] in general, as [=CAIs=] are a metaphor for them.
*AllThereInTheManual: There's a ''lot'' of character and setting information in the discussion thread and Inside the Quest. Most of it isn't relevant to the plot, but it does answer a lot of lingering questions many readers have.
*AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Parts 3 and 4 center on a different organization than the trade hub, and follow a single protagonist for the entire ride, a departure from the prior SwitchingPOV format.
*AudienceSurrogate: The compilation AI ''is'' the audience in the first thread; however, it was DemotedToExtra in following chapters and now simply serves as an AffectionateParody of /tgchan/ in general.
*TheBerserker: Rokoa is on the edge of this. She is still capable of functioning on a normal level, but her empathy is "broken", causing her to feel constant battle-lust.
*BizarreAlienBiology:
** Neumono have a decentralized nervous system, multiple hearts, and abnormal diets and growth rates due to their HealingFactor.
** Mikliks are just ''weird''. They're ''plant-based'', for starters, with a bizarre reproductive system involving seed-like eggs and genitals that can be grown and discarded at will. They have an incredible rate of mutation, resulting in a wide (and bizarre) variance of traits, such as multiple skin layers.
** {{Discussed}} at some points, especially in the Inside the Quest posts. The variety of alien allergens and toxins has given the culinary and medicinal fields no end of grief. Some restaurants explicitly serve only certain species, others carefully prune their menus to accomodate everyone.
** Yich eaters have three genders -- males, females, and "carriers" that serve as incubators during pregnancy. Their genes are not passed on to the child they are incubating, so they gain no evolutionary benefit from this, a fact that was boggled at and discussed in Inside the Quest.
*BloodKnight: Rokoa.
*BornLucky: Hok, possibly. He has an amazing tendency to both get in and get out of extremely dangerous situations.
*{{Cyborg}}: Sharpa.
*CurbStompBattle: Rokoa versus [[spoiler:Red]] in part 4.
*DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The "needle trick", performed by impaling a certain nerve cluster in neumono. It temporarily shuts off empathy, allowing for stealth and combat advantages against other neumono, but is a fast track to insanity. Rokoa is fond of it.
*{{Determinator}}: Rokoa. [[MeaningfulName Even her name essentially means this]].
*TheDreaded: Rokoa. Not only is she a nigh-unstoppable tank of a soldier, neumono say her empathy is "broken", radiating constant bloodlust and a desire for battle.
*EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first thread has a lot of this going on.
** The use of the CAI as a viewpoint character. This placed more of a focus on resource management of the base (as opposed to the characters' stories). This was scrapped in later threads for the more standard approach of following single protagonists.
** The tone is [[DarkerAndEdgier darker and grittier (and bloodier)]] than later threads, which are somewhat more madcap and lighthearted.
** Rokoa's statement that neumono {{Cyborg}}s are impossible due to their HealingFactor is explicitly {{Retcon}}ned four threads later.
*TheEmpath: All neumono broadcast their emotions and sense others', constantly. It's actually a biological signal that can be amplified, modified, and translated with various technologies, though it only applies to other neumono.
*EnsembleCast
*FollowTheLeader: Using the compilation AI as the physical embodiment of /quest/ was a clear {{Expy}} of [[Roleplay/DiveQuest the Orb of Infinite Psyche]]. However, after thread 1, the story uses the more traditional approach of following single protagonists, [[DemotedToExtra with the CAI as a background character]].
*FragileSpeedster: Mikliks are highly agile with quick reflexes, but can't take many hits.
*FromASingleCell: Averted with the neumono's HealingFactor; there ''are'' body mass requirements of at least 50% or so. Beyond that, even they can't recover.
*GoryDiscretionShot: Frequently, most notably for [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the effect of the bio-armor on the police officer in the prologue]]. The majority of [[spoiler:Red]]'s NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and death is also out of frame.
*GroinAttack: Rokoa's final blow against [[spoiler:Red]] is a ''full-body canonball'' centered on his pelvis.
*HealingFactor: Neumono. They can suvive incredibly grevious injuries, including [[OffWithHisHead decapitations]] with modern medical care. [[FromASingleCell There are body mass]] [[AvertedTrope limitations, though]] -- they can't survive [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe being torn in half]] for instance.
*HumanoidAliens: Everything except yich eaters. Curiously, [[WordOfGod the author]] has said he has difficulty drawing actual humans, and [[FurriesAreEasierToDraw prefers these stylized alien races instead]].
*ImprovisedWeapon: Hok uses a neumono bioarmor to murder a police officer.
*KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Red, after spending two threads being an amoral, womanizing psychopath, is beaten within an inch of his life by a GroinAttack issued by Rokoa, a woman he claimed he had humilated in battle before. He is then finished off by Jessica, a woman he abused since his first apperance.]]
*KudzuPlot: Averted; the plot is fairly simple and straightforward. [[Roleplay/UnnaturalSelection This is highly unusual for Lagotrope]].
*LighterAndSofter: Later threads to thread 1, slightly. Thread 1 portrayed a gritty and cutthroat world with a lot of GreyAndGreyMorality, and had an alarmingly high body count. Later threads are more madcap in tone, characters display more compassion and companionship, and there are far fewer bloodbaths.
*LightningBruiser: Rokoa.
*MadScientist: Downplayed by Ben, who, though eccentric and brusque, is sane enough to provide useful and practical services to the trade hub (and to provide a wealth of scientific information to curious readers in ITQ).
*MightyGlacier: Neumono are strong and nigh-unkillable, but their decentralized nervous system means they have the poorest reaction time out of all the alien species.
*MindHive: Compilation [=AIs=] are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin conglomerations of countless sentient AIs]]. This gives them incredible processing power, but [[AIIsACrapshoot can also make them mentally unstable and unreliable]].
*PettingZooPeople: Neumono (dogs), belenos (sheep), pomi (fish), and heef (birds).
*PlayerCharacter: The compilation AI in thread 1. Later chapters follow other characters in a SwitchingPOV format.
*PowerArmor: Bio-armor for neumono, which augments their already-impressive physical capabilities even further. [[LudicrousGibs Don't try it if you aren't a neumono, though]].
*RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Red is the only villain so far whose aggression is sexual in nature, and much of the drama of threads 3 and 4 involve him trying to rape Jessica.
*{{Retcon}}: The BadEnd in part 2. Part 3 starts at an earlier point in time, and posters took different actions that led to a better result. The new ending became canon for the larger storyline.
** In the {{Pilot}}, Rokoa says that mechanical augmentations for neumono are impossible due to their HealingFactor. Part 5 introduces a {{Cyborg}} neumono with little fanfare; WordOfGod says he simply changed his mind.
*SlasherSmile: Rokoa.
*SwitchingPOV
** Averted in [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent parts 3 and 4]], which followed a single protagonist for the entire journey. The story returned to SwitchingPOV in part 5, however.
*WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: As an interactive medium, this is pretty much inevitable. It occasionally leads to continuity snarls and {{Retcon}}s such as those mentioned in EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, above.
!!Examples of tropes appearing in ''Polo Quest'':
*ActionGirl: Polo, Rokoa, Rakae, Marra, and Rokann.
*AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The Three Stripes intermission.
** Polo Quest 4 is also from the perspective of Biles instead of Polo.
*ArtShift: When [[WhamEpisode things get serious]], pictures are shaded using hard shadows (like [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/src/133511516181.png this]]).
*BadassAdorable: Pilon has giant puppy eyes and ''enormous'' fluffy ears. He's also an elite soldier.
*BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler:Polo has one with a Rokoa clone after being injected with a brain dart in Polo Quest. The actual battle takes place during parts 3 and 5.]]
*BloodKnight: Rokoa is obsessed with fighting Polo. [[spoiler:She cooperates with Polo towards a greater goal only on the condition that they fight a rematch at a later date.]]
*ColdSniper: Played with. Polo is extremely [[TheStoic stoic]] and goal-oriented, but she frequently displays compassion and sympathy for her friends when they need her.
*DarkerAndEdgier: To mainstream Asteroid Quest.
*DoomedHometown: [[spoiler:Rokoa and Ohidi claim that Polo's hive was nuked. Subverted in that it later turns out to be a lie.]]
*TheDreaded: Polo gains a reputation as "The Ghost" for her empathy invisibility, an unusal power that makes her strange and dangerous. Taking down [[spoiler:a group of maniacal salikai]] and [[spoiler:a powerful warhive]] almost single-handedly probably earned her some points too.
*EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Some of the setting information provided in the intermission (especially about neumono empathy) is at odds with later chapters and supplemental materials.
*EnemyMine: [[spoiler:In the intermission, Rokoa and Polo join forces to assault the salikai-controlled warhive.]]
*EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Well, not really "evil", but Rokoa had numerous children she cared about very much, even in her BloodKnight state.
*FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:After the intermission, Polo is officially stated to be dead by the authorities.]]
*{{Foil}}: Rokoa to Polo. Rokoa is a giant, emotional ProudWarriorRaceGuy obsessed with battle who grew up pre-contact; she is also disillusioned with her hive and in danger of going rogue. Polo is a dwarfish stoic who uses stealth, knowledge, and sniping to win her battles; she also grew up post-contact and has an obsessive sense of duty to her role and hive. Both are skilled warriors with a strong sense of honor and duty.
*GentleGiant: Three Stripes and Katzati.
*LighterAndSofter: The Three Stripes intermission.
*LotusEaterMachine: The salikai's hallucinogenic gas.
*MadScientist: The salikai.
*MindRape: Creatures known only as "neumono predators" are capable of this by broadcasting false empathy that overrites a victim's and turns them into a mindless slave. Rikek briefly falls under the sway of one early on.
*NonActionGuy: Rikek, Lucera, and Kort.
*OriginsIssue: Polo Quest 3 is one for Rokoa (and, to a lesser extent, Polo). [[spoiler:During the BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, Polo goes through all of Rokoa's early memories, so we see her early life and how she became TheBerserker.]]
*PintsizedPowerhouse: Played with with Polo. She is actually rather poor at hand-to-hand combat, but she is incredibly skilled with {{Sniper Rifle}}s and can silence her empathy, giving her numerous combat advantages. All of this allows her to routinely defeat enemies twice her size.
*[[spoiler:{{Prequel}}]]
*ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Rokoa.
*TheRival: A dark version; Polo is quickly possessed by a murderous obsession with Rokoa, [[{{Foil}} perhaps because she sees herself in her]]. [[spoiler:This eventually subsides and they [[EnemyMine work together]] for the FinalBattle of the intermission, but Polo still feels an enmity toward Rokoa for a long time afterwards.]]
*TheReveal: In [[OriginsIssue Polo Quest 3]], the reason for Rokoa's broken empathy is revealed: [[spoiler:during her TrainingFromHell, she accidentally triggered the "needle trick", shifting her baseline empathy to the battle high she felt at the time and erasing her memory of the event.]]
*ScienceHero: Korli.
*SniperRifle: Polo's WeaponOfChoice.
*TheStoic: Polo. There have been some theories that this contributed to her silencing ability.
**NotSoStoic: She does not take [[spoiler:the total destruction of her hive]] well. [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/res/399207.html#403265 At all.]]
*SuperSoldier: Polo. She can turn her empathy off at will, a feat managed only by a few others who were in the same training program as her. This allows her to perform stealth missions (normally all but impossible for neumono) and gives her an advantage in combat, as opponents cannot predict her moves.
*TrainingFromHell: [[spoiler:Rokoa suffered this at the hands of her mother in order to survive in her ruthless hive.]]
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