We won.

>>3899172
What was the prize?

>>3899203
A boner

>>3899235
Ruby got a boner?

I just had to cap this

Actually I think /tg/ as whole has lost...The furfags seem to now think because of RubyQuest they are tolerated here. Sadly, it seems there are many furfag sympathizers now with the proliferation of sergal and stupid dragon threads. Hopefully the Doobies will defeat them.

>>3899262
DOOBIES FOR LIFE

>>3899262
protip:It's not like that because of RubyQuest.

>>3899283
Keep telling yourself that Questfag.

>>3899289
Yeah, that red dragon thing was here way before Ruby quest

>>3899262
2/10

>>3899301
But the sergal-obsessed furfag, the Flarefag's purple friend, and the furry CCGfags weren't around before RubyQuest.

>>3899323

Sergals came before RQ

>>3899323

Are you certain of this?

>>3899262

You don't like it, learn to ignore them.

This only funny because /tg/ has other stupid obsessions, like 40k fan characters, kobolds, corgis, touhou, etc.

>>3899373
Can't forget tiny horses.

>>3899352
But not the daily sergal threads, almost every night we have at least one sergal thread. In fact a couple of nights ago a couple of sergalfags were talking about shoehorning them into Uberstat. Again, I pray that the Doobies will defeat them.

Sergals were on /tg/ before ruby quest. So were cutebolds, flare, CCG people, etc.

>>3899390
Oh for fuck's sake. A few days ago we had ONE actual sergal thread. It was the first actual sergal thread in two or three weeks.

We still kept having more threads, but they were all troll threads about "I HAET SIRGELS"

>>3899262
I will never succumb to the furry taint. FOR THE DOOBIE-TIME

>>3899390

> Doobies will defeat them.

Or Nazi Kobolds

Flare is older than /tg/

>>3899411
The thing is WE KEEP FUCKING HAVING THEM

JUST SAGE AND DIRECT PEOPLE TO ONE OF THE MANY ARCHIVED THREADS WHEREIN THEY ARE STATTED OUT

>>3899323
We had the furry CCG beforehand. They just didn't get as many replies, or were trolled into oblivion. Unless that's what happens now. It's not up more than a couple times a week, and I ignore it, so it might just be the same as always...

Some fuckers act like they get fined ten dollars for every thread that gets made. Like a thread about stuff they don't like is going to murder them.

>>3899438

> THE MANY ARCHIVED THREADS

Come again?

>>3899438
People posting "I HAET SIRGELS" don't want the stats. They just want more threads about how they HAET SIRGELS.

I think we lost. The ending reminds me of Cave Story's bad end far more than I'd like.

Not to mention that so many questions were left unanswered. So many. Even after we got Weaver to ask about some of them. Even then so many things were left mystery forever.

Last night the sergalfags were discussing Trancymick's equally fucked up friend, Chimerasphyix, and were talking about stating up that was well. That's right we aren't going to have just one baby-eating, tentacle-clitted, monster.

>>3899475
What.

We got the super good end where we not only got Tom and Ruby out alive, but Jay too.

Of course there's questions left unanswered, not everything is meant to be known.

Staying around to learn more would more than likely have just gotten us killed.

And that end would be even worse.

>>3899492
Huh? There was no sergal thread last night.

>>3899505
DAMN YOU WEAVER

>>3899492
I haven't seen anyone discussing that creepy abomination in months.

>>3899513
It was around midnight. It overlapped a bit with the awesome Doobie thread.

Looks like someone started a real sergal thread in response to this bitch-about-sergals hijack.

Frankly, I approve. Bitch-about-X threads suck.

>>3899494
>We got the super good end where we not only got Tom and Ruby out alive, but Jay too.

We escaped, but so many other lives were sacrificed. And Ace/Dummy still lives. I wouldn't call that "super good": Maybe "meh", at best. And yeah, I believe we could have ended it better.

>Of course there's questions left unanswered, not everything is meant to be known.

I don't know about you, but when a main character has an amnesia, I'm expecting to learn all about his or her past at some point. All Weaver showed was a little teaser that "Hey, Ruby and Tom might have had something going on in the past", and then nothing more. That's what bugged me the most here.

>Staying around to learn more would more than likely have just gotten us killed.

At that point, yes. But we could have done certain things differently much earlier, I'm sure.

>>3899505
Is that real?

>>3899492
Synx's creatures are very, very different from Sergals.

Sergals are an organized predatory race. Synx monsters are lone predators that strike only when you have your back turned, because they're so weak if they did anything else you could turn around and kill them before they cut your nerves with their claws.

Dealing with them depends largely on skill and luck.

>>3899538

Looks like the same art style, I'll give it that.

>>3899538
It is, but nothing ever came from it.

Ruby met John.

>>3899538

Weaver said we had the best ending. Because we saved a character that wasn't saveable in the first place (Jay).

There wasn't hope for Stitches, Filbert or Red. Ace was too corrupted from the start.

Kill the dummy with what? Canshovel?

Oh and yes. That sergal/Ruby/Ace thing is real.

>>3899538
They all died a LOT. A whole lot. Think Planescape: Torment a lot.

None of their previous lives, save the first one, really had any significance. It was all zombie hell after the first round of deaths and resurrections.

>>3899564
>>3899571
Oh, all right then.

But we really SHOULD have learned about their past. Why didn't any of you ask him that when we had the chance? Was I really the only one who was annoyed by it?

>>3899390
Dude, you're not going to "defeat" anything with doobies. Doobies are hilarious and there's already plans to put them in the unified /tg/ campaign setting.

Somebody has taken to spamming the board with that fluffy picture of Rain, but that's about it for sergals these days. There'll be a legit thread soon hopefully.

Doobies are a hilarious parody of every new race /tg/ has done, from cutebolds to sergals to corgis. There's already ideas being thrown around like that doobies don't know how to give birth and they refer to their tails as their "prehensile sphincter cheek."

>>3899538
>Is that real?

It was originally posted by Weaver, with his tripcode. It was in the Surreality Hijack of a late Joan thread, before the Quests all began to peter out.

>>3899609
Whatever happened to Joanquest anyway? It had no real end. John up and left, Joan got TRIPPIN ON SHROOMS and then Weaver hijacked shit. Then Double-Faggot got all...weird.

>>3899626

/tg/ itself killed it because all they wanted to see was Joan/John sex.

>>3899648
Well I didn't. I just wanted to make hats.

>>3899626
Weaver was actually SDF. Did you see the "part 48" time jump?

Weaver is not SDF.

SDF is currently distracted by some game he bought and will continue Joan when he's done. Maybe.

And no, he actually likes John as a character and sergals as a whole, so John'll be back as well.

>>3899582

>But we really SHOULD have learned about their past.

The only person with information about the characters' pasts was Filbert, and we were initially uncooperative (which led to him becoming hostile, not unlike Tom but a bit more crazy) and antagonistic. Then we killed him.

Originally there was a planned set-piece with Fil trying to prevent Tom and Ruby from leaving by holding the information about their pasts over them. It ended up not happening due to dismemberment.

>>3899714
Yes, I heard of that. It wouldn't've stopped Weaver from telling us a thing or two, however. And in my book, amnesia is always an important plot point, and not telling stuff about important character's past is nothing short of very bad DMing and a huge stain in an otherwise awesome adventure. You may disagree with me, of course.

Call me a romantic, but I'd've loved to know exactly what kind of relationship Ruby and Tom shared before bad things happened, and during those earlier escape attempts - and how many times he fell for her, only to be caught and forget everything. And I also like the idea that after they fled the influence of the bad thing, their memories could now slowly return. Happy ending.

>>3899698
Would that game happen to be Prinny: Can I really be the hero?

>>3899492

The Synx would be kinda interesting to stat. It's kinda a fucking pussy, really. Nightmarish looks and can do some fucked up shit, but well, it's weak.

Your average fa/tg/uy could beat one in a straight up fight.

Which is why they eat babies. Babies can't push them over and stomp on their throat.

They're almost like the opposite of Sergals really. Sergals are physically powerful but about as bright as a teenage human. Synx are clever but could get their asses kicked by a teenage human.

>>3899609
>before the Quests all began to peter out.
Dorf Quest has been updating consistently every Saturday since it started. :V

>>3899884
And it always updates WHEN I'M ASLEEP.
FFFFFFFFFFF

>>3899898
Well, you know how to fix that right? Stop sleeping!

>>3899933
But I tried, I mean I even sacrificed myself, but now all I do is sleep.

>>3899882
The teenage human bit was a mistranslation that was meant to be applied to Rain, as she's childish.

http://4chan.wrathfilledhate.net/
Fags

>>3899989
look who bumped the topic

>>3899538
>I believe we could have ended it better.

Wrong, Weaver himself said we exceeded all expectations.

>>3900060
So? We beat his expectations, but that doesn't change the fact we could have acted better.

>>3900075
There is nothing we could have done better with.
>We could have learned more!
Not without dying horribly.
>We could have saved more people!
Like who? Stitches was long past sanity, we killed Filbert, Ace was going to lock us away, and Nook was too attached to the place to ever want to leave.
>But we never learned about their past!
The past they've entirely forgotten, the past that existed over a year ago, the past they'd never be able to return to, the past that has long been obscured by at least a year of horrible deaths and reincarnations? Learning more would have been worse for them in the end. This way they don't have a past to burden themselves with.

We did fantastic, stop whining.

>>3900075
We could theoretically have killed Ace by disabling his coffin and killing him again, somehow.

We couldn't have done anything to zombie hell. That place was pretty fucked up, nothing really left to do.

Explosions apparently lead to perma-death. Not enough body to move to a coffin to regenerate. Could have offed any number of people. I'm also pretty sure people would start staying dead after we kill Ace, since he was moving them to the coffins.

>>3900107
whining? I was talking about all over. We couldn't have done anything then, but if we weren't fucktards we could have done better overall.

>>3900107
You don't understand how the whole "treatment" thing works. Killing someone and resurrecting them wipes the slate clean of everything, no memories, no infection, no nothing. It would have been POSSIBLE, but not likely.

>>3900107
>We did fantastic, stop whining.

By any other standards, the ending we received was absolutely pathetic. Even if we exceeded Weaver's expectations, even if there was never any possibility of doing better to begin with.

The beast survived. The mysteries were left mysteries. The main characters didn't discover their past. All something that should have been dealt with differently: Even if our pasts weren't relevant, even if some secrets could have been left in shadows, even if it wasn't mandatory to kill the creature, they should have been dealt with. Just escaping is coward's ending. It's a bad end in any video game where it's presented. It's unthinkable in most movies and books. It's pathetic.

I'll agree that I wish we had confronted the dummy a bit more, found something out. It would be risky, but still.

>>3900120
>Explosions apparently lead to perma-death. Not enough body to move to a coffin to regenerate.

No, that's not it.

There were two parts to the treatment. The medication(substance scraped from STRANGE ORGANIC GROWTHS) and the coffins. Without both you can't resurrect someone.

The medication? HAS TO BE TAKEN REGULARLY to keep working. If you are off it long enough.. goodbye crazy zombie powers.

Even then, you have to get the body(or what is left of it) to a coffin within a specific time period after death. You can't wait a long time then stick them in.

>>3900163
>The beast survived.

How the fuck do you suggest we could have killed him? We'd have died in the attempt. Then Ace sticks us back in to the coffins and we go back around forever and ever cause memories don't carry over.

>The mysteries were left mysteries. The main characters didn't discover their past. All something that should have been dealt with differently: Even if our pasts weren't relevant, even if some secrets could have been left in shadows, even if it wasn't mandatory to kill the creature, they should have been dealt with.

THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT TO FUCKING DISCOVER.

ANY INFORMATION WAS LOST. COMPLETELY. OUR CHARACTER'S MEMORIES ARE GONE. THE PLACE WAS IN SHAMBLES. NO DATA WAS LEFT. THE WHOLE PLACE WAS COMING DOWN AROUND US.

WE DISCOVERED EVERYTHING WE COULD HAVE. WE FOUND OUT ALL THAT THERE WAS LEFT TO FUCKING FIND.

> Just escaping is coward's ending. It's a bad end in any video game where it's presented. It's unthinkable in most movies and books. It's pathetic.

No, that was all there was to do. We even made it out with someone. Weaver didn't expect us to get out with THREE people. Even just Tom AND Ruby was a fucking miracle and a half.

>>3900227
ALSO, ALL THOSE LEFT WERE SEALED INSIDE.

IT AIN'T GETTIN' OUT.

WE SEALED THE EVIL IN A CAN. THE EVIL WE COULDN'T HAVE KILLED ANYWAY.

GOOD END.

>>3900227
You know weaver lied to us, right?

>>3900227
YOU MISS THE ENTIRE FUCKING POINT

THE POINT WASN'T THAT THERE WAS NOTHING WE COULD DO

THE POINT WAS THAT THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SOMETHING WE COULD DO

If there was nothing whatsoever we could have done, then it only switched the blame from us to Weaver. He made an amazing adventure, true enough, but he dealt with those things in an extremely unsatisfactory way. That he didn't expect even that from us only made it worse.

>>3900234
>Sealed
>one closed door and a long-ass monorail track

>>3900236
What!? When?

>>3900234
Pff, for all we knew, it was an ancient evil god. It will figure out something. It's older than mankind, and it can wait long enough for that door to rust.

>>3899538
Yes, it is. Weaver hijacked a JoanQuest thread with some bizzare Alternate Dimension RubyQuest shit.

>>3900268
RubyJoanDorfQuest.

With Daisy! Swearing her face off!

>>3900249
That person was always meant to be saved, we have been had.

>>3900240
It was a survival horror adventure.

You SERIOUSLY expect all to just be revealed? Explaining absolutely everything is a perfect way to ruin the mystery and fun about the entire thing.

What the fuck did you think it was about? We were never playing super heroes or Sherlock Fucking Holmes. It wasn't about being so incredibly badass and saving the world.

It was SURVIVING HORRORS UNIMAGINABLE. SURVIVING AGAINST THE ODDS.

FUCK HELL. SURVIVAL HORROR.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

>>3900163

>The mysteries were left mysteries

The only mystery that was left was the exact, specific nature of the supernatural force that was controlling Ace.

>The main characters didn't discover their past. All something that should have been dealt with differently

The main characters COULD have discovered their pasts, but the path we chose didn't. What's more, given what we know, discovering their pasts would have precluded escape and led only to the immediate forgetting of said pasts.

>It's a bad end in any video game where it's presented.

No, it really isn't.

Also, it wasn't 'just escaping.' It was escaping and saving at least one additional person.

>>3900302
Channeling Mr. Rage, Fuuka?

>>3900302
No. No I don't understand at all. Weaver should have found a way to let us beat back an elder god with nothing more than a caneshovel and a scalpel.

Stories are dumb unless they involve badass motherfuckers completely triumphing over all evil. The 40k edit should have been canon.

>>3900322
If you weren't so obviously sarcastic i would weep great tears of despair for this generation of neckbeards

>>3900302
So I'm saying Silent Hill doesn't reveal anything about itself?

>>3900337
Are you disagreeing with yourself? I thought you got rid of those voices...

>>3900302
>DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

YES

Escaping an unstoppable foe? Sure, Lovecraft did that plenty times.

Leaving questions unanswered? Yeah okay, like that's anything new.

Leaving most of our friends to die? Sure, happens all the time.

Not learning anything from your past? Ehh, I know our pasts weren't really important in this case, not the main plot of the story like usual, but I would've liked to know something.

All those at the same time? Bloody unthinkable. You can't go and pile them all into a huge mess like that. It just doesn't work. Bad storytelling, it is.

>You SERIOUSLY expect all to just be revealed?

Of course not. I realized it was survival horror, and those always leave some stuff unrevealed. But some more, yeah.

And I fucking hated the romance bait-and-switch: "Yeah they probably used to like each other but you'll never know nyah nyah nyah!"

>>3900317
A little.

I don't understand the mentality. We did accomplish a whole lot. We got out with everyone that could still be saved. We learned as much as we actually could about what happened there.

Hell, we DID learn everything that happened. Just because it wasn't laid out in a A to B to C format for us doesn't mean we don't know. The only thing we lack were EXACT day to day details, and that would be pointless.

1pm: Ruby took a shit

1:05pm: Ruby did not wash her hands upon exiting the bathroom

There is a year of shit that happened.. sure.. but that is really self explanatory. We were given as much detail as WE NEEDED. We kept trying to escape, got killed, and regenerated. Cycle repeated.

Really, I don't know what they expect.

Should we have found a secret stash of WMDS that the facility logically had no reason to have and blown up the Elder God?

>>3900354
So obviously, everyone who enjoyed it was just an idiot for not seeing the TERRIBLE STORYTELLING. Right?

>And I fucking hated the romance bait-and-switch: "Yeah they probably used to like each other but you'll never know nyah nyah nyah!"
Um... what?

We KNOW they used to love each other. Tom's simple reactions to her before Ruby went psycho on him showed that clearly enough. And even if they didn't love each other, would it make the slightest difference? Their pasts are essentially nonexistent.

>>3900354
>And I fucking hated the romance bait-and-switch: "Yeah they probably used to like each other but you'll never know nyah nyah nyah!"

We found out that we did.

That was made very apparent.

I think all your bitching is only due to YOU not PAYING ANY FUCKING ATTENTION to everything we were shown.

Fuck, the only thing Weaver DIDN'T DO is reorganize all the information he dumped in our laps and put it in convenient novel form.

Eat a dick.

>>3900370
>We KNOW they used to love each other.

Only once, but probably a couple times.

They've also probably killed each other a couple times.

Shit got crazy. There might have been a time when...fucking Daisy and Ruby tried to partner up and escape, but they were stopped by ZOMBIE Red and ZOMBIE Jay.

>>3900354

>Leaving most of our friends to die? Sure, happens all the time.

We left most of our friends to die? I mean, we got on pretty well with Stitches I guess, and we were sad to see him stuck behind. Everyone else we encountered was either already a monster and/or not terribly friendly, however.

>Not learning anything from your past?

We did learn -some- aspects of Ruby's past, but mostly only the ones that would make sense to be kept in the common records (Since, like you mentioned, character backstory wasn't actually the focus of the plot).

Speaking of bait and switch..

I like the two Tom switch Weaver pulled. Turns out the Tom being warned about in all the (year old) documentation was the one we were already with.

Funny thing is.. we drew the right conclusions anyway. Nook was pretty god damn dangerous and insane. If we had interpreted it right the first time (and going back.. it is obvious we all fooled ourselves.. we didn't want to think our kitty was evil and overlooked the obvious) we probably would have been killed by trusting the wrong people.

We didn't learn what Ruby's life was all about.
We didn't figure out exactly what the corruption was.
We didn't learn what the eye is for.
We didn't find out if Red is truly dead.
We didn't figure out who everyone really is.
All in all, though, I think we achieved one thing that counts above all else.

We learned that we can trust a stranger.

>>3900412
Ironically, when Tom uncovered "DON'T TRUST #7" we almost started suspecting Ruby. Which is completely crazy.

>>3900412
I whole heatedly agree

>>3900415
What? Were you paying any attention at all?

>We didn't learn what Ruby's life was all about.
She was a blind person receiving shady medical experimentation to restore her vision. Not sure what else there is to be "all about"

>We didn't figure out exactly what the corruption was.
Cjopaze.

>We didn't learn what the eye is for.
It's probably not "for" anything specifically, just an incidental mutation.

>We didn't find out if Red is truly dead.
He is.

>We didn't figure out who everyone really is.
Patients and staff of the research facility.

Jeez, a lot of this stuff was completely given away.

>>3900391
>
We did learn -some- aspects of Ruby's past, but mostly only the ones that would make sense to be kept in the common records (Since, like you mentioned, character backstory wasn't actually the focus of the plot).

We know quite a lot.

All the test subjects were blind for one reason or another. Ruby was BORN with her condition. Each subject agreed to be there in hopes of having sight. No one was kidnapped or fooled into coming. We can guess a lot about how Ruby's life was before the facility just from these facts. What do they want? Ruby's parent's names and occupation? A family tree? Other stupid useless bullshit like when she went to the bathroom each day?

As for the facility itself, we know the exact chain of events that lead to the situation we found ourselves in. We put it together from all the evidence. We know PRECISELY what went on. Again, the only thing that could have been done is an hour by hour log of what everyone was doing every single day the whole year.

I hate my poor communication skills. I can never really bring out what I think. And then you all take it to the extreme and take me some kind of an idiot, when all I'd've wanted would be some little changes here and there.

>I think all your bitching is only due to YOU not PAYING ANY FUCKING ATTENTION to everything we were shown.

I was, really. I just... Y'know...

...Fuck this, I give up. It's like midnight here, and you're going to interpret me wrong anyway.

I'm just telling you this: I'm a romantic. I love a love story. Give me a romance subplot, and I'm going all over it. Maybe that's why this all bugged me so much: I'd've wanted to know about their past because they used to like each other. For the same reason, I'd've loved to know about the lost year. And I'd love it if they could regain their memories, because then they could remember all those happy times they had together. And I'd've loved to know why, in the end, Ruby backed away from Tom's kiss. Was she just confused? Or did his breath stink? Or something else?

Yay point by point arguing against those who don't pay attention.
>We didn't learn what Ruby's life was all about.
She was a blind rabbit who was admitted to the glen for treatment. Does the rest of her life really matter at all? No, not really. Her life story is unimportant.

>We didn't figure out exactly what the corruption was.
Yes, we did. Its the red flesh Red found underneath the facility while they were digging it. Its some elder thing that Weaver decided would be best not to name.

>We didn't learn what the eye is for.
It sees the elder thing.

>We didn't find out if Red is truly dead.
He is, you just have to piece bits together to find this out. 1) The treatment needs to be taken regularly, and you don't need to eat while treated. 2) Red had a box of cereal he'd been eating - the treatment wore off. 3) Even if he was still on the treatment, Ace would need to put him in a locker within a short time. It would take him maybe a full day to dig Red out of the rubble, and within maybe an hour he was already chasing Tom and Ruby. Tl;dr: There is no possible way for Red to survive. He killed himself for seriously.

>We didn't figure out who everyone really is.
We knew all their names, what more is there to know? Their subject numbers? Weaver released a list of those somewhere; its probably on the wiki.

>>3900412
>>3900429
>>3900363
I AM SO CONFUSED THERE IS ONE PERSON SPEAKING AS TWO FUUKA WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

They were two lost and confused individuals up against a fucking ELDRITCH HORROR, of course they weren't going to defeat the damn thing with a conveniently-placed rocket launcher or some horseshit.
We learn very little about their old lives, but it's implied that their old lives were'nt particularly interesting to begin with. They were ordinary people, and they were blind. There are some clues to their past (Ruby and Tom were romantically involved) which are dropped here and there, but they're insights into the past, not teasing and unfinished tidbits.
The goal from the beginning was to just ESCAPE and SURVIVE which was quite a challenge considering everything that had happened. We succeeded there, and that's an accomplishment.

Essentially, what you're asking for is a Hollywood ending where two ordinary people defeat an ancient and supremely powerful evil entity by sheer pluck and rescue everybody. This story does not work that way.
Your other complaint seems to be that we weren't at some point sat down by Ace or some other character while they threw plot at us. The unknown was one of the biggest central themes of RQ and the point is that, like Ruby and Tom, we only know what we can piece together.

But in the end, all of it -- their past lives, the truth behind the evil, the purpose of the infection -- none of it MATTERS, because they got out alive.
Their past lives don't matter anymore. They don't remember them, they don't mean anything. Their old selves are dead.
All that matters now is what lies ahead. All that matters is their new lives together.

>>3900448
>Jeez, a lot of this stuff was completely given away.

Yeah, I'm going back to reading BLAME! because it is obvious everyone complaining hasn't actually bothered to pay attention to the information already dumped in our laps.

At best they can complain they are too lazy to put the information in order by themselves.

>>3900481
You do realize I don't have a tripcode, right?

I do hate when everyone starts freaking out about this. They act like it is impossible to type what you want in the name field.

>>3900412

>and going back.. it is obvious we all fooled ourselves..

No, it isn't.

In fact, without advance knowledge of the massive timeskip, it would be criminally stupid to assume that Tom(cat) was #6.

YES. There was a note stating that #6 was moved to the brig.

HOWEVER: There was another note at a later date stating that #6 was moved FROM the Brig to Upper Lab B. It isn't even possible for the notes to have been separated by the timeskip due to timing issues with the 'Spade' symbol's appearance.

It was not a twist that could have been seen coming before the information we didn't have was handed out, and the only way to come to the correct conclusion with the information given would be to be a fucking moron who got lucky.

Further, logic dictates that, even WITH Tom being the 'wrong' Tom, we made the right choice. #6 was moved from the brig to Lab B because he was too dangerous and needed to be isolated. The fact that Tom was in the Brig and Nook was in Lab B when we found them means that, at the time of the actual game, Nook was more dangerous than Tom (so choosing between the 'Toms' we still landed on the right one).

>>3900486
>Essentially, what you're asking for is a Hollywood ending where two ordinary people defeat an ancient and supremely powerful evil entity by sheer pluck and rescue everybody. This story does not work that way.

No I didn't. You take it to the other extreme.

You know, I think we really got the best ending. Because, in case you're not familiar with lovecraftian horror stories, the characters usually end up losing their sanity, lives and/or souls.

You CAN'T win a fight against an abobination from beyond time and space. They're lucky to be alive and with their psyche relatively unharmed.

Also, they don't need to know their past. Their past probably sucks. They had no family and friends, and were desperate enough to sign into a unethical experimental center to cure their blindness.

They probably were about to kill themselves before being admitted in the Metal Glen.

>And I'd've loved to know why, in the end, Ruby backed away from Tom's kiss. Was she just confused? Or did his breath stink? Or something else?
You mean the first time Tom kissed her? There is a popular theory going around that its because she didn't want to hurt him, and the LAST time they kissed she scalpel'd his face off. She probably backed off more from subconscious fear/nervousness than anything.

>>3900459

Yes, I already know that you insufferable cunt.

>>3900505
THE NOTE AT THE END OF THE GAME CLEARLY DESCRIBES TOM NOOK AS BEING #5

BY DEDUCTIVE LOGIC, OUR TOM WAS SIX.

>>3900525
He meant before that, obviously.

>>3900525

Yes, he was.

I don't take issue with 'Tom being #6' is workable with the evidence we received. It makes sense and, in hindsight with evidence available at the very end of the game, is obvious. I take issue with the oft-touted 'WE FOUND THIS NOTE SO WE SHOULD'VE KNOWN THAT TOM WAS #6 ALL ALONG,' which is bullshit.

>>3900542
Well that's just bollocks. Tom never bothered to read all the notes (there was a dozen of the damn things) and we didn't ask.

>>3900465
>I'd love it if they could regain their memories, because then they could remember all those happy times they had together.
That's one of the real tragedies of the story. Their memory may never return.
It's implied in some cases that it MIGHT, though: Ruby has a flashback to when she murdered Stitches, Tom's crush on Ruby suggests he subconsciously remembers their feelings for each other, some of the residents remember each other's names even after dying.

But I agree, it's definitely one of the more depressing aspects of the story. They may never remember. Their ENTIRE LIVES up to that point would be lost. I know if I forgot my entire life up to this moment, I'd lose a lot.

I dislike it because it sucks so much for the characters, not because it's a bad plot element. I think it does a good job of conveying the aura of misery and hopelessness the plot provides overall. However, I also think that, in a way, it gives all the more value to their escape.
Their old lives are gone. All they can do now is make the most of their new ones.

>>3900517
Oh man, that guy made more of these pictures?
I've only got the first three.
Link me, bro!

>>3900551
This here wraps up the entire problem I have with the story. You expressed my own feelings far better than I could ever have done. Kudos to you.

>>3900542
Weaver was shocked we didn't figure it out, and reviewing the notes we found more objectively reveals the truth. By the time we found it we were too attached to Tom to admit he could be bad. You have to purposefully misinterpret the early notes to reach the conclusion we did.

I myself went "wait.. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-" when we found those notes concerning the subject being moved about, but I immediately forced the thought out of my head because I couldn't stand the idea of Tom being dangerous to be around. I wasn't the only one to do so, either.

>>3900549
>Tom never bothered to read all the notes (there was a dozen of the damn things) and we didn't ask.
I always got the impression that Tom had read that particular note and downplayed them specifically so we wouldn't go through each one. That the story (e.g. Weaver's posts) specifically downplayed the importance of reading the notes because Tom, who was holding them, did the same.

Then again I've just got a thing for authors who use character influence on a meta level. Even simple stuff like unreliable narrators.

>>3900549
I DID

I ASKED ALL ALONG TO READ THE REST

NOBODY FUCKING LISTENED TO ME

>>3900559

Sorry to disappoint you, but that's the only new RQ pic that has drawn.

Here's the link anyway:

http://hikaru-nekomimi.livejournal.com/

Bonus pic: Valentine RQ.

>>3900551
They were utterly normal blind folk with no stand out qualities other than being blind. Their lives were like any other person till they came to the Metal Glen.

The End. There really isn't anything to remember.

>>3900581
>This here wraps up the entire problem I have with the story.
But... my entire point was that it's not a problem with the story. That even though it's just really depressing diegetically, and that's a downer, it's not bad storytelling.

>>3900559
That is the cutest gaping wound I've ever seen.

>>3900600
>Valentine RQ.
Pic related.

>>3900601
>There really isn't anything to remember.
Even utterly normal folk have a lifetime of memories.
I'm not an outstanding individual in any sense and it would still suck if I lost my memories.
Still, that doesn't prove bad storytelling, it just proves "wow, that really sucks". Unless of course this guy can't stand sad things happening in stories.

>>3900581
Your problem with the story is its depressing? Wow.

>>3900602
It's not bad storytelling, sure, it's just so damn depressing. I'd've loved it to end in a bit sweeter note on that point. So even when it wasn't bad storytelling, it was still a bad point in the story. Get it? ...No? Poor communication skills, all right?

>>3900624
POOR COMMUNICATION

I TOLD YOU YOU'D UNDERSTAND ME WRONG

>>3900602
What he said.

It is sad. Not bad story telling. It is no one's "fault". There is no blame to lay as someone wanted to so desperately do earlier.

Not our fault. Not Weaver's.

That doesn't make ruby quest bad.

That doesn't mean we didn't get a really good end.

BESIDES, PAST THEM GETTING ON THE TRAM THERE IS NO ONE STORY. WHO KNOWS, MAYBE THEY REMEMBERED THEIR PAST LIVES EVENTUALLY?

>>3900584

>Weaver was shocked we didn't figure it out,

No, he was shocked that we didn't even question the 'there are two toms?' thing and immediately went to 'this motherfucker is crazy.'

>You have to purposefully misinterpret the early notes to reach the conclusion we did.


No, No you FUCKING don't. That's my entire point here.

People like to point out the HOLY FUCK LOOK THERE'S A NOTE THAT #6 WAS MOVED TO THE BRIG AND THAT'S WHERE WE FOUND TOM IT WAS SOooooooooooooooo OBVIOUS, but those people are goddamned retards who weren't paying attention to the dates.

There were two notes concerning the movement of #6. The first eas when 6 was moved to the Brig. Another note, dated LATER, stated that #6 was moved to Lab B due to being to dangerous. Without the year of undocumented time including the decision to relocate Tom BACK to the Brig, the early notes actually make it roughly IMPOSSIBLE for Tom to have been #6. And, at the time, we had no evidence of the massive timeskip.

WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN ALL ALONG is a fucking stupid stance made by people attributing evidence that we didn't even HAVE until later (which even then is specious, as it only allows the CHANCE for Tom to have been moved back to the brig, since we never actually found any documentation of the transfer) to our earlier theories. At the time that morons like to claim that we should have known Tom was 6, anyone concluding Tom was 6 would've been functionally retarded and only having been a lucky guesser.

>>3900584
I still don't follow how that would've worked.
Without the year long gap, those notes led us to logically conclude that "Subject 6" was in "Upper Lab B."

Tom being moved BACK to the brig implies another swap that was never mentioned.

Why the hell Jay was kept in the water filtration unit? What made him so special for Ace in order to stay hooked inside a water tank?

"K..I...L...L M...E..."

>>3900639
I think what Weaver was surprised about was that we didn't consider it after he mentioned #6 was in the videos.

Those notes earlier on definitely implied that #6 was in Lab B.

>>3900588

>I always got the impression that Tom had read that particular note and downplayed them specifically so we wouldn't go through each one. That the story (e.g. Weaver's posts) specifically downplayed the importance of reading the notes because Tom, who was holding them, did the same.

That was possible, but he was also specifically still holding the handful of notes that we only ever read 'some of.' It's hard to say for certain whether or not Tom actually knew who he was by the end.

Though Tom discovering that he was actually #6 would provide a cute reasoning for his decision to trust Ruby again.

>>3900662
forgot the pic

>>3900634
The guy that was trying to blame the players (then tried to blame weaver) for a crappy end and a crappy story posted as anon. As I have no way to confirm who said it, I shall blame you. He'd only deny he is the one that tried to do it anyway.

SO EAT A DICK. You outright said it was a bad story and weaver made a bad game and that it was ALL HIS FAULT.

>>3900625

I keep saying that learning about their pasts would've been more depressing than the forgetting it all.

Think: how bad could your life be that you'd be willing to sign into an unethical and probably illegal treatment in a secret lab?

Also, they probably chose subjects with no friends, family or anybody who could miss them in case of the treatment going wrong.

>>3900662

Current theory is that he was functioning as a contaminant in the water supply, possibly allowing the 'medicine' part of the cure to be spread throughout.

Since the characters are only mutating when they are A: Alive and B: Receiving the treatment, people need to be kept on their medication. If someone is wandering around the facility long enough for it to wear off, they're going to need to start eating/drinking again (Red was eating the cereal, for example, despite the 'cure' making it so that people no longer needed to eat). If they are drinking the water tainted by Jay, that MAY serve as a means of reintroducing the 'cure' to them so that they will continue to mutate according to the malevolent entity's design.

>>3900676
Good point.

Then there is a year of the whole cycle repeating who knows how many times.

Would you want to remember it?

We learned as much as we needed.. and as much as was good for us.

>>3900671
>SO EAT A DICK. You outright said it was a bad story and weaver made a bad game and that it was ALL HIS FAULT.

FUCK YOU AM I REALLY THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND

I only said the ending was kinda bad, all right? All fucking right?!

>>3900676
I think I would want to remember anyway.

You can't repress your bad memories. It's unhealthy. You'll have to remember them, and accept them as a fact, possibly with liberal amounts of hug therapy, and be even more happier.

>>3900625
>It's not bad storytelling, sure, it's just so damn depressing. I'd've loved it to end in a bit sweeter note on that point.
I get what you're saying. It's really depressing to think that this could happen and not be considered a bad end.
But for all the shit that happened to them, lost memories included, I think the ending is really a happy one.
For one, Tom and Ruby (and Jay?) are happy just to be alive and be together. Ruby and Tom have obviously grown closer and if Ruby didn't care about Tom to begin with -- which she may have anyway -- she certainly does now. They've put their past behind them and though that may be a high price for their freedom, they're fine with it, because they have so much hope for the future. Their lives together are what matter now. I for one think that's an incredibly happy note, especially contrasted to the aura of gloom and utter hopelessness suffocating most of the story.
And secondly, Ruby and Tom may yet regain their memory. It's implied subtly and through inference, which is how most of the story is conveyed since, short of Bella, we never had anyone just sit us down and tell us the facts. But it's still implied, and perhaps the longer they're away from the influence of that dark place, the longer they're clean of the infection, the more they'll return to normal. So there may be hope of that yet.

Considering they rode off into the sunset with a third survivor in tow and shared a bottle of champagne, I'd say it was a damned cheerful ending.
Especially since Weaver admitted that if only one of them had survived, the last panel was them going to be sadly pouring themselves some champagne, alone.

On a lighter subject, browsing Deviantart I found this "I Reject Your Reality and Replace It With My Own" pic of Ruby Quest.

I think that now we can consider RQ a Internet Phenomenon.

>>3900725
>I only said the ending was kinda bad, all right? All fucking right?!

NO.

YOU SHALL BE PUT TO DEATH FOR YOUR MINOR ERROR.

>>3900749
I'M GOING TO GO TO BED NOW.

WHEN I WAKE UP, I'M GOING TO TAKE LESSONS OF HOW TO ARGUE IN THE INTERNETS WHILE TIRED AT MIDNIGHT WITHOUT MAKING MYSELF LOOK LIKE A TOTAL IDIOT

Because man, do I need those lessons. I usually can't make myself understood even at daytime.

>>3900776
I wonder if such lessons actually exist.

>>3900725
>You'll have to remember them, and accept them as a fact, possibly with liberal amounts of hug therapy, and be even more happier.
>hug therapy
Well I think if more of their memories ever do come back, Tom, Jay, and Ruby have that pretty much covered.

>>3900749
SAUCE

>>3900776
But... I already tried making a reasonable response:
>>3900742

>>3900746

It has its own TVTropes page, even.

I'll just dump some uncommon RQ fanart.

>>3900789
If not, then I will self-learn. Or find someone to teach me.

KISSES

>>3900776
You only need to know one thing about arguing on the internet.

Your first mistake is your last. Internet Justice will make sure you are hung for your transgression. Don't even make a simple grammar error. It will come back to haunt you.

Be thankful that 4chan threads just go into the void. If this were a traditional forum instead of an image board, that simple spelling error from a slipped finger from last year would be used to disprove every single argument you ever made.

When you slip up.. bail out.

Has someone saved that weird picture of Ruby hooked up to some machine?

>>3900834
And never back down. Take one view, and hold it, come hell or high water. Anything else is seen as weakness.

As a fan of motifs and recurring images, I loved the so-called Barbed Wheel, which I can only assume is the symbol of whatever dark power inhabited the depths of the facility.

cunthunder fagturtles that fucking bird better not be messing with my goddamn cat

Crossing Pals Redux!

>>3900837
> Has someone saved that weird picture of Ruby hooked up to some machine?
It depends. Do you mean a life support machine, or one of those automated-fucking machines?

>>3900850
And if that fails.. deny.

Deny deny deny.

Deny you ever said it even shown the archives.

>>3900878

I think this one was the brainwashing one

Ruby Crossing.

what is this i don't even

Wallpaper tiem!

>>3900852
>Barbed Wheel
A thought occurs.
Weaver also made that World Eater campaign, set in a worldgen he'd come up with.
In the mythology of that worldgen, there is a Fallen God named Perogra. Perogra is specifically a god of forbidden knowledge -- that which man was never meant to know -- and due to Her mythos, has heavy ties to mutation.
The Fallen God's symbol is also strangely familiar.

Coincidence?

>>3900898
That's actually pretty awesome.

>>3900990

With Weaver? I'm not willing to call anything a coincidence.

>>3900985
saved twice

>>3900990
Most likely not at all.

>>3900921
I'd play it.

All your neighbors are insane horrors mutated from something beyond reality.

They won't stop giving you stupid inane quests.

I remember some drawfag showing this on #RQ once..

...never got finished

>>3900990
MY GOD.

heh

>>3900990
Good god, that is AWESOME.

"Perogra" is a cooler name than "Cjopaze" anyway.

>>3901038

(NOT SEXUAL)

Well, now that everything's been solved, let's keep the flow of art steady.

>>3901039
Oh, hey, I always wondered if World Eater had something like that.

Mystery solved.

Cjopaze returning to its rightful place as a jumble of letters, I guess.

>>3901066
>everything's been solved
The hell it has.
We still don't know what those footprints in the cave are for, or what the STRANGE DICE is for.

>>3900990

Probably not a coincidence. The symbols on the "clock" were also cameos from World Eater.

>>3900990
The "barbed wheel" seems to be an iconic representation of that thing's spiky head.

>>3901107

>>3901107
SIGOURNEY IS THAT YOU

>>3901114
Incidentally, I don't remember turning the dial to "destruction"...

Wonder what it would've done.

Also, remember this fake pic? It looks like Weaver's style. I'd bet he was trolling us at that moment.

I have to say I definitely like Ace more as a sidekick/protagonist than as an adversary, I'm glad we finally got him converted, and he seems pretty trustworthy, but what about Tom?

>>3901107
>dice
>singular
ಠ_ಠ

>>3901162
>>3901168
Weaver fucking with us?
Well I never.

>>3901136

The dial was (eventually) turned to all four of the symbols on it.

Here's more "Weaver fucking with us".

>>3901132

More weaver fucking with us

This would've been pretty awesome if it had really happened.

What about that Red 63?

TOM KISS RUBY

>>3901193
It was? I can't for the life of me remember when though.

Power turned the power on in the other room (hurhur)

Chaos opened the Z-Hatch

Life turned the console in the starting room on...

...I just can't remember the 4th.

>>3901202
Somebody needs to do an image dump of all the images that has been shooped into.

>>3901263
Destruction opened the aquarium door in the starting room. The plaque in the aquarium which originally had the room number on it later bore the destruction symbol instead.
Opening it inevitably led us to the bomb Red had planted.

Aaaaaand autosaging!

Shit, a month after RQ ended and still we can fill a thread with discussions and fanart.

One more, for the old times.

MERCHANDISE

Does this mean it's time for Ruby porn?

>>3901342

Or just in general... fucked up shit?

>>3901294
Oh, right, there it was. That's been bothering me for a time.

Heh, the bomb. The symbols were definitely a good way to keep track of what did what.

>>3901342

The ending also implied that the other prisoners may yet escape, since Daisy and Stitches aren't permanently dead, they may yet have another adventure and escape like Tom and Ruby did.

>>3901391
Haha, I wish I had quick enough thinking to save two-handed filbert.

THE REAL ENDING

>>3901452
Impossible. He is cat. She is rabbit.

Is Weaver going to do a sequel?

>>3901636

Don't count on it.

>>3901712

Here, have a version with Ace.

This one gets me every time.