>>763722
>Further examine surroundings

>>763794
You examine the space around you. You find that directly beneath you is a stone pedestal of some kind. It is curved. You briefly wonder to yourself how it wasn't uncomfortable. The walls and floor of the dimly lit room you have found yourself in are covered in tree roots/branches, but you're not really sure which it is. Off in the distance, you think you can see a door, but sadly cannot fully make it out in this lighting. Your eyesight has adjusted a bit, however, and the dim lighting of the room has turned into a comforting dull yellow shade across everything in it.

What do you do?
>Continue to ponder surroundings
>Wait
>Get up off the pedestal
>Write-in

>>763828
>Get up off the pedestal

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>>763837
The door off in the distance slowly opens and an older gentleman in a cloak of some sort slowly walks into the room.

"Ah, you must be the new monster master that Watabou brought us. I'm sure you've got a lot of questions, but I need to take you to go see the king now. If you would please follow me?"

Actions
>Oblige
>Demand more answers
>Write-in

>>763841
>Oblige
Ask where are we and who are you while walking.

>>763845
You decide on walking and talking. The outside of where you woke up is a bit more lit up compared to the inside of wherever it was you were before. As you're on your way out the door, you notice quite a few book shelves, and a few pedestals with glowing light on top of them. You decide to make note of all this for later.

While walking up one of many sets of stairs in between various citizens stopping the old man to ask if you're the new recruit, or something around those lines, up what you assume to be several sets of gigantic tree branches, you then find the time to ask the old man where "here" is, and who he is.

"Oh? Didn't Watabou tell you? This is the Great Tree kingdom. We had him bring you here to have us win the Starry Night Tournament. And the ensuing Starry Tournament that will happen after that."

>>763850
I guess it's late. Goodnight, Loto. Hope you continue it.

>>763916
Wow I am so sorry I flaked and forgot to add options. I'll be trying my best to do so. I cant believe I forgot to give a choice option to continue. I'm going to write up something and then probably call it for the night because sleep is starting to sound good.

>>763850
>have Slime give the succ succ boom boom

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I cannot believe I'm such a dumbass and forgot to continue this.

>>763850

After a bit of walking, and more citizens of the great tree introducing themselves, eventually you and the old man reached the top of the great tree. You were currently standing in/on a plaza, with a staircase leading into what you could only assume to be the throne room. There is also a path to your right, but currently, it is blocked off due to a gigantic blue blob with a crown in it's head... sleeping? in the path. There was also a man wearing red armor who looked significantly frustrated at said blob, occasionally kicking it, and if he wasn't so far away, you'd swear he was yelling at it to get up and stop being lazy. The old man spoke up at this point, as several seconds had passed, and as fun as watching the blob and man was, you did still have a goal to accomplish.

"Well, are you going to stand there all day staring at that sleeping king slime, or are you going to go on in? We can't keep his majesty waiting forever, you know."

The old man laughed just a bit and slowly nudged you up the staircase with his cane, not too far behind you. Inside of the doorway you had just been pushed through was a surprisingly well furnished castle of sorts. It was more of an entry hall with a few smaller staircases off to both sides and a massive staircase leading up to what you assume to be the throne room, if the red carpet on said stairs was anything to go by. You think to yourself about how nicely decorated this place is despite being inside of a tree as you walk up the grand staircase, eventually reaching the throne room. Upon reaching the throne room, you were met with a few people: The king himself, a young man with blonde hair and a short but well-kept beard, his advisor, a man with black hair and a slightly mysterious demeanor about himself, and two jesters. The old man let out a cough to break the silence and spoke up.

"Sorry we took so long, your majesty, but we stopped to smell the flowers along the way. That King Slime is sleeping outside of your... I mean the Medal Man's place again. I'll go take care of it now."

The old man then took his leave, leaving a bit of an awkward silence between you, the king, his advisor, and the two jesters, who were standing at position. The advisor coughed and then spoke up.

"A-Ahem, yes. Presenting His Royal Majesty, the king of Great Tree."
"Thank you. Merlin. I'll take it from here. Hello there. I am the king of the Great Tree, Artorius Pendragon. What is your name? Or maybe you'd prefer to just give me an alias instead?"

>Please enter a name. Or an Alias.

>>763947
>You attempt to tell your slime to use MegaMagic!
>It fails because your slime's stats are shit tier and you don't even have one yet.
>Besides, MegaMagic isn't even in the revised Slime skill set.

>>763952
>thrust into slime

>>763950
>"My name is Anne Ali Ass, the one and only!"

>>763950

Belisarius

>>763950
>Roto

>>763950
>My name is Gwyn, Mylord. How can I help you?

>>763950
>Roto

>>763950
>Loto
sounds vaguely familiar

We camelot now?

> Tristan

After Ser Tristan.

And I'm back. I really need to stop sleeping for 12 hours straight.

>>763959
>>763961
>>764280
>>764288
>>764370
>>764725
>>763950

You think about what your name is for a good few moments before realizing that it is indeed Loto. You consider using an Alias like Tristan or Gwyndolin instead, but come to the mental conclusion that the queen is probably named Gwyndolin.

"Loto. My name is Loto, your Majesty."
"Very well, Sir Loto. It's a pleasure to meet you. As I'm sure you've already heard, we need you to clear the Starry Night Tournament for us as a representative. Now I can't possibly expect you to do it all at once, so we're going to have to jump through a series of convoluted, but still very rational hoops to train yourself to get there. To that end, we've opened up the traveler's gates in the basement, and you can use the monster farm as you see fit. Sadly we recently had all but one or two of the monsters escape due to reasons entirely beyond the caretaker's control. He's been appropriately reprimanded for not telling me sooner, but is otherwise in perfect health and still working his job. I would suggest you go pick up one of the monsters that didn't flee from the farm, and head down to the gate of beginning to start your journey. Now, if you'll excuse me, I am very busy. Busy, busy, busy..."

Artorius proceeded to get up from his chair, and scurried off behind the curtains to the left. You're sure you hear at least two doors open and close in the process. What a strange man.

"A-Ahem. Sir terry, I should probably give you these now. We've arranged for a few things to be given to you for your journey."

>You got:
A set of breeding wands!
An Egg Evaluator!
35 Tiny Medals!
a Wyvern Wing!
5 Sirloin Steaks! (Somehow, you will never run out of them, however)

And somehow, Merlin managed to magic up a floating coffin.

"However, you probably won't be needing this, so I'll turn it into something more portable for now. Just say a simple spell and it will return to it's normal size should you need it."

>You learned the monster tamer magic to resize the floating coffin!

"Now then, please hurry along. I'm sure our dear monster manager must be very eager to meet you."

>What will you do?
Go directly to the farm
explore a little first
write-in

>>766797
Go directly to the farm

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>>766797
Oh yeah, I forgot to put up a picture. This is who we look like, sans the sword and shield. The next step is to decide if we are a boy or a girl I guess.
>>766830
Righto, I'll write that up in a moment.

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>>766797
You decide to go directly to the farm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-VRbYMVlk0

As you leave the throne room, you head down the carpeted steps. Since you're not being rushed, you now have the time to realize, this is some really nice plush carpet, despite the fact that it looks like silk. You wonder to yourself, how do they keep it maintained? No, wait, now isn't the time to be pondering about this. You need to get to the farm. Shaking your head for a few moments and patting your cheeks lightly, you scurry down the rest of the stairs, and after asking a nearby guard for directions take a left, arriving at another set of stairs that head up this time. You pout lightly as you question why this place has so many damn stairs and no ramps as you ascend the stairs and find a wonderful pasture at what you assume to be the very top of the tree. Directly in front of you is a young man, not much older than you, in fact.

"Well, well, 'ello there chap. What might you be doing here in the monster farm today?"

"The king told me to come get a monster. I assume there's at least one here for me?"

"Ah... Yes. About that. Sadly we've only got a slime left behind by a previous champion of the starry night, and a metal slime left behind by the previous king. He's currently hiding however, and I haven't been able to find him yet today. So I guess you'll have to make do with the slime."

>You got a Slime! Would you like to name it?

>Y/N

"Now then, the travelers gates are down the stairs on the other side of the hall. Good luck!"

>What will you do?
Go directly to the gate of beginning
Wander around for a bit
Write-in

And like magic I have to switch to mobile because I have to run an errand

>>767066
>Y
Lili
>Go directly to the gate of beginning

>>767066
>Go directly to the gate of beginning
>Y
Slim

>>767136
>>767157
"Yes, I'd like to name the slime."

You stare at your new companion and think on the name for a few moments, Lili, or Slim...

"I think I'll call you Slilim. One day you're gonna be awesome."

"It's a pleasure to meetcha then, Loto! I hope you'll take as good care of me as Sir Terry did so long ago."

Wait? Who is this Terry? Based off what the monster manager guy said, he was a prior Starry Night champion, but the name in and of itself sounded familiar. Maybe you knew it from somewhere?

In any case, having settled the name, you quickly make your way to the gate of beginning. Yet again you get lost on what have been a simple walk down the hall and have to ask a guard which way you are going because damn is this place huge and you have not yet developed a sense of direction in it. Maybe you could teach Slilim to remember some of this stuff for you if you couldn't get it down eventually.

Once you get to the Traveler's gate, you casually walk into it, a light buzzing noise filling your ears for a moment before wraping you in light and sending you off to a wooded area overlooking a small plains clearing in an otherwise very mountainous area. Nearby are a few generic looking rocks and herb leaves, along with a log that looks like you could slide down it to get into the clearing area, which is full of generic rpg level 1 experience fodder monsters. It's almost wonderful to look at, there are flying black bat-like creatures, gigantic blue ant-eater-like creatures, some really strange platypus-like creatures, and more slimes that look just like Slilim, but probably aren't anywhere near as good.

>What will you do?
Immediately slide down the log and go to town on the monsters to level up for a bit.
Collect the items.
Look around a little more.
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>>767456
>Collect the items.
Need to prepare a bit.

>>767470
>>767456
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rfUXe5jjn4

You decide to collect the items before sliding down the log.

>You got:
5 Herbs
3 Pretty Pebbles
1 Tiny Medal

While you were collecting all the items around you, you noticed that off in the distance, there was this peculiar well-shaped object. Maybe it's the way forward? Oh dearest Zenith, what if you were stuck here?

>What will you do?
Slide down the log
Have a panic attack over possibly being trapped here
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>>767507
>Slide down the log

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>>767515
You snap yourself out of the panic attack you were about to have by slapping yourself in the face. What kind of hero are you? Real heroes don't have panic attacks this easily, and neither do you.

"Uh, Loto? Are you all right? You glooped terrified there for a moment."
"I'm... Fine. Just a bit of start of the adventure anxiety is all. I'm sure I'll stop shaking in a moment, too"

After managing to calm yourself down a little more so you can walk straight, you jump onto the log and slide down it. Moments later, Slilim comes sliding down after you. And then the fun starts. One of the black bat-like creatures notices you and charges you and Slilim!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc8ygFo6zos

"Uh oh."
"You'll be fine, Loto. If you want, you could probably scout this monster."
"Wait? Scout?"
"It might just be easier to show you. Artorius or Merlin gave you a Scout's Proof right?"
"Uh no?"
"We can do this the old fashioned way, too. If you've got any meat, just feed it to the Dracky while I'm fighting it."

>What will you do?!
Feed the dracky
Just kill it, please Slilim?
Have a panic attack because Artorius and Merlin forgot to give you something important that you probably could have used right about now
Write-in

>>767640
>Scout
I always did like Dracky.

>>767656
>>767640
Before you can actually realize what you are doing, you reach into your bag and hurl a sirloin at the Dracky. It eats it. And then the unthinkable happens: It comes up to you and nuzzles you.

"Boy, that sure was tasty, If I come with you, can I have a few more of those?"
"Uh... I guess?"
"Cool! I guess that settles it then. I'm Dracky, you can call me what you want, but know that my Crack and Sizz spells are unparalleled among all the Dracky here."

Slilim pulls you aside for a moment afterwards...

"Hey, Loto, You got lucky on your first go. Dracky normally only come in with knowledge of the Dark Knight and Agility Boost skills."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Head by the library as soon as you can and you can learn a lot more about a good deal of things. I think they might even give you one of those new-fangled dPad Touch tablet things that works like a portable library."
"Cool. I'll make note of that"

>Dracky Joins the party! Would you like to name her?

>Y/N

Now that the battle is over, you look around. The monsters that were directly around you seem to have dispersed, though there are still a few in the distance. None are around the well, though, so you could just walk straight over to it and look inside if you wanted.

>What will you do?
I didn't say I was done scouting monsters yet! Lets go grab a few more!
Continue on
Write-in

For clarity, by the way, the monster party size is four, not counting you.

>>767762
>Y
Mimi
>>767762
>I didn't say I was done scouting monsters yet! Lets go grab a few more!
Just one more for the road

>>767831
>>767762

"I think I'll call you Mimi."
"Fine by me."
"Alright then, let's go grab that giant blue thing and continue forward!"

You charge the Anteater with Slilim and Mimi in tow.

>What will you do?
Well, it worked once, let's chuck another sirloin.
Maybe fight this one?
Write-in

>>767884
>Well, it worked once, let's chuck another sirloin.
more friends

>>767884
>Well, it worked once, let's chuck another sirloin.

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>>767884
>MORE FRIENDS

You chuck a sirloin at the Anteater. It devours it instantly and joins your team after a very loud and mildly satisfying-sounding burp. Somehow you get the feeling this isn't always going to be the trend, and might just be because you haven't been given your proper job mechanics yet, but hey, you'll take all the free shit this world will give you.

"Hey. Gimmie some more meat. I'm Anteater."

>Would you like to name him? Y/N

>What else would you like to do?
Continue on
Grind for exp
Scout more monsters
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And I know Sir Kay didn't mention it, but you've got a hard cap on monsters set at 5 total until after you clear this dungeon because of renovations being done to the back of the farm. There's simply not enough room until then.

>>767997
>Y
Toby
>Grind for exp
Time for a workout

>>767997
>Scout more monsters
>Y
Yacob

>>768017
>>768046
Switch to this.

>>767997
>>768017
"I think I'll name you Yacob"

Now that you've managed to mostly assemble a team, you've decided now is probably as good a time as ever to train.

"Alright team, it's time to grind out some levels."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4

Ten minutes later, your team is 99% dead and you're pretty sure you almost died to a slime suffocating you just now before Slilim charged it to save you. Using the herbs you found earlier is starting to sound like a good idea.

But at least your team is level 5 across the board now, right?

>Actions
Heal your team up and move on.
Move on and pray to get either a pub or make it to the final floor healing spot, neither of which you actually know about at this point.
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Just so you guys know, you'll learn Zoom and a sub-version of it that lets you skip to the bottom of a gate once you have a focus to it here soon.

>>768107
>Heal your team up and move on.

>>768107
>>768117
You use your herbs up and against your better judgement, hop inside the well. Surprisingly, everything just fades to black for a few moments before your vision fades back in and you're standing in a marshland of some sort on top of a rather tall stump. There is a ladder to your right, and what you assume used to be a very sturdy branch to your left that leads to a cliff with a treasure chest on it. You can see a few exits to this area, one to the north, which would be your right, one to the south on the cliff with the treasure chest, and one to the east. Two of these exits would require you to climb down, but no matter, you've an adventure to continue on.

>What will you do?
Oooh, shiny.
Go north
Go east
Go south
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>>768175
>Go south
Mystery Box

>>768175
>>768226
While not immediately drawn to the chest, you figure, sure, why not, let's go open it on the way.

>You got: Tiny Medal x1!

After claiming your prize, you decide to head out the south exit. As you're walking down the path into the next area, you begin to hear something... Something big. It's the sound of something really big moving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkpB3N4rRc
It is mildly unnerving. The monsters behind you are a little shaken, but continue to follow you, but Slilim speaks up.

"Gloop, I hope that's not what I think it is. If it is, we probably should try to avoid it."

>What will you do?
Ask what IT is.
Turn around and leave the room you just entered
Boldly march forward. Maybe it's a friendly big monster? Maybe the well is in this room?
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>>768381
>Ask what IT is.
>Turn around and leave the room you just entered
If they think it's a bad idea then I trust them.

>>768381
Fuck me, I used the wrong song. I meant to use the giant monster song. That song was supposed to be used on the next floor.
>>768387

"That sounds like a giant monster. It's one of the denizens of the Traveler's Gates, and trust me, for a long time you won't want to fight them. They're really strong monsters."

>You decide to make a full U-turn and go back to the entrance room.

>What will you do now?
Go North
Go East
Cry
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>>768411
>Go North

>>768425
You decide to go north this time. Thankfully the well is in this room. You could go explore more but rpg starting dungeon logic dictates that you've probably already found everything for this place anyway. Or at least as much as you can find in a randomly generated dungeon.

>Will you hop in the well and continue forward?
Yes
No, I want to go explore that other room on the off chance there are goodies in there.
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>>768459
>Yes

>>768459
>Yes

>>768459
You decide to jump in the well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STahp4WPCKE

Well, this is a very awkward change of pace. Now you're in a very green and very open grassland-type area. There only seems to be one way out of this room and that's to the north. However directly to your left is a glowing obelisk of some sort. You feel the urge to touch it well up inside you, but suppress it for the time being. There's also a tree off in the distance but there's nothing special to note about it, it's just a tree. I mean I guess you could climb up into it or something and take a nap if you wanted, the background music here is pretty calming after all.

>What willst thou doeth?
Sally fourth to the north. The boss awaits me.
That Obelisk has struck my fancy. I must touch it.
Taking a nap sounds good.
Write-in.

>>768530
>Taking a nap sounds good.
A little nap won't hurt.
Nice choice of music.

>>768545
Thanks. The remake's sound track and the OST released for the game itself clash horribly in actual content, so I decided to compromise and just use the best version I could find.

>>768530

You decide to climb up into the tree in the middle of the strangely empty plains and take a nap. Your monsters follow suit. While it's not the most comfortable bed, it's probably one of the best naps you've had in a long while. You wake up an undetermined amount of time later to the sound of another human yelling at you asking why you're sleeping up in a tree in the middle of a traveler's gate.

>What willst thou doeth?
Politely ask him to leave you alone
Inquire as to what he's doing here
Climb down from the tree and ask if he wants to fight
Climb down from the tree, ignore him, and progress to the well.
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>>768595
>Inquire as to what he's doing here

>>768595
>Inquire as to what he's doing here

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>>768595
"You know it's dangerous in here right?"

"Okay, but what are you doing here if it's dangerous?"

"I'm a scout from the Green Bays Arpeggio. It's a city just outside Great Log. I came here to scout some slimes to make a king slime with, I was on my way out when I saw you up there."

"Oh. Okay."

>What willst thou doeth?
Climb down from the tree and head to the next floor.
Tell him to fuck off and go back to sleep.
Climb down and challenge him to a fight.
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>>768674
>Climb down from the tree and head to the next floor.
Too weak to fight him now.

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>>768683

Oh yeah, his team is like four Metal King Slimes. Except they actually have disgusting amounts of hp and the best possible skill sets they could have.

>>768683
You thank the un-named protagonist who woke up you and head for the next floor.

As your vision fades in, you see a cave of sorts, and boy is it familiar. You still can't quite figure out why, but it's not really important as you now have a floating jellyfish slime staring at you. It approaches you and begins to speak.

"Hi, I'm Hale. I don't want to go back to the castle, it's boring. You'll have to make me come back if you want me to."

Oh god. Why did it have to have tentacles?

>What willst thou doeth?
Ask him to come back nicely.
>U WOT M8? THAT'S THE ENTIRE REASON I'M HERE. BRING IT THE FUCK ON.
Time to fight him.
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>>768726
>Ask him to come back nicely.
If he doesn't come back nicely then
>Fight

>>768726
>Ask him to come back nicely.

>>768726

"Nope, I'm not going back, and that's that."

You really didn't want it to come to this.
>But thou must.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsaHCXNbYPI

Slilim, Mimi, and Yacob move to be in front of you as a battle breaks out.

>Command?
Fight
Order (Must be given individually. For reference, for now, Slilim is your healer, Mimi is your caster, and Yacob is your beatstick.)
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>>768835
What spells do they know?

>>768835
move sets?

>>766797
>"Loto. My name is Loto, your Majesty."
And my suspension of disbelief has been broken. Any true DQ fan would know that Loto/Roto/Erdrick is a name reserved for true heroes by the gods, and that any children named such would be a blasphemous slap in the face.

>>768873
Hey, Nobody ever said where he/she went after Dragon Quest 3, just that they vanished.
>>768853
>>768858
Slilim has Slimer and two other skill sets that you didn't get the chance to check. Mimi has access to Crack and Fizz along with Dark Knight and Agility boost. Somehow, Yacob has access to Materialist along with two other skill sets that you didn't find out but are probably the defaults for his race.
What this means for you is that Slilim has access to heal, Mimi has access to Crack and Fizz, and Yacob hits things really hard.

>>768887
Thanks you. Slilim and Yacob should attack and Mimi use crack.

>>768887
>Slilim heals either Mimi or Yacob if they get hurt
>Mimi cast Crack
>Yacob attack

>>768915
It's still the first turn, so nobody has been hurt yet, so I'll be going with >>768914

Mimi began to chant Crack as an icy aura enveloped the Heal Slime before momentarily coating it in ice. Yacob and Slilim then followed up her attack with physical attacks of their own. The Heal Slime was on the ropes, it seemed. Before it cast heal on itself and recovered a decent amount.

It's not going down this turn, it seems.

>Command?
Fight
Order
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>>768953
Mimi use Fizz and everyone else keep attacking.

>>768953
>Slilim attack along with Yacob
>Mimi use crack

>>768953
Second verse, same as the first. The heal slime looked like it took a lot more damage this time, however it was still healing itself, But you're pretty sure you've managed to put a massive dent in it.

>Command?
Fight
Order
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>>768977
Mimi crack and the others attack.

>>769017
>>768977
+1

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>>768977
Third Verse, same as the first. Except this time the heal slime collapses. The battle has met its end. You gained *** experience and *** gold! Your Monsters leveled up to level 7!

"Gh... Fine. I'll go back to the farm with you. But I'm joining your team!"

>Hale has joined your team! Would you like to rename it? Y/N

A good ten seconds after the Heal Slime joins your team, a strange round furry blue creature with white fur floats down from the sky.

"Wow, good job dealing with Hale. I'll take you back to the Great Tree now."

Your vision fades once again as the buzzing takes over, and before you know it, you're back in the Great Tree throne room again, in front of Artorius and Merlin.

"Oh, you're back already? Good job. I'm sure Sir Kay will be thankful too, because he's been hard at work to finish renovations before you get back. Anyway, I need to go now, because I am oh so busy. Busy... Busy... Busy..."

Artorius walks away and goes behind the curtains to the right once more. You swear you hear the same two doors open and close, too. Merlin coughs to break the silence.

"May the power of Great Tree bless Sir Loto!"

Your perception flashes between monotone black and white for a few moments, but suddenly you feel a lot better, as do your monsters.

"Sir Loto, might I suggest you go to the Arena now? You'll need to pass several tests in the Arena to open up more Traveler's Gates. You could instead go and visit the Ki-Medal man and drop off all of those Tiny Medals for some decent prizes if you want, too."

>What will you do?
Go to the Arena
Go to the medal man's house. (It was blocked off by a King Slime pretending to be a snorelax before, remember?)
Explore the Great Tree
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>>769170
>Y
Juno
>Explore the Great Tree
Let's see what the Great Tree has.

>>769170
>>769180

You decide to look around the Great Tree. You find that you can only get down to the Arena level currently, as there is a bratty child blocking your way from further going down to the town square and monster farm. As she's talking, you remember that Merlin and Artorius still haven't given you that damned scout's proof yet.

>What will you do?
Go to the Arena and participate in the qualifiers for the Starry Night
Go to the Medal Man's House
Go get Merlin to give you your proof already
Go meet the queen in the Arena
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>>769231
>Go get Merlin to give you your proof already

>>769231
>>769255
You decide that it's probably best you go back and get your fucking ring. Reality isn't going to continuously give you handouts forever, after all. You headed up to the throne room again.

"Merlin, isn't there something you needed to give to me so I could be a proper monster tamer?"
"Oh? I guess I did forget to give you your proof. My Sincerest apologies, sir Loto, here it is now."

And with that out of the way you set off out of the throne room once more.

>What will you do?
Go visit the Medal Man
Go to the Arena and participate in the qualifiers
Go meet the Queen in the Arena
Write-In

>>769394
>Go to the Arena and participate in the qualifiers
The time to fight is now. This is the beginners' match, right?

>>769404
Yes. It's the F rank match. I think I'm gonna call things for the night though, I need to be up early tomorrow.

>>769483
Thank you for running and goodnight.

wow so I tried to make myself available today and it backfired horribly enough so I think I'm probably just going to come back to this tomorrow. My apologies to everyone.

and no, nothing bad happened to trigger this, I just ended up taking a nap and sleeping through when I would have started today

>>772889
https://discord.gg/z4UKj
On the plus side, I've got a channel on a friend's discord for those that care. I was going to make my own discord for it but have postponed that for now.

This is really me just stopping in at the moment to say that yes, I will be running this today. It'll definitely be later in the day however since I've yet to go to bed despite the fact that it's like 8:20 am where I am as of posting this.

No way in hell am I wasting these perfectly good ideas I came up with for the end round of the starry night tournament

>>769394
>>769404

Hello, Hello, one and all, I'm ready to start the starry night tournament. I hope you're all having a very spooky evening!

>Your choices are as follows:
G Class (You'll be doing the curbstomping here)
F Class
E Class
D Class

>>776787
>E Class
Git gud or get rekt time.

>>776816
Are you really sure you want to do that? It might not cost any money after being restructured by the remake, but the party is still only level 5 across the board. I mean, people have done it before.

>>776832
Is it really hard as you say it is?
If so I'm fine with bumping down F.

>>776843
Monsters is a special kind of meta-gaming hell. You can literally skip over half of the gates in the game once you gain access to breeding.

>>776787

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_g-lqFvxqg

You decide sure, why not, let's go with hard mode and pick F class. The old lady at the counter begins to question your logic, but then, after a sharp inhale says that it's not worth the effort. You step into the Arena and find yourself surrounded by a crowd of people!

"And now presenting Great Tree's newest scout, Loto!"

In front of you stood some no-name tamer from somewhere in the tree you hadn't been yet, and his four tree stump monsters.

>Command?
Fight (Roll 4d20)
Check tactics

>>776787
>F Class

Rolled 7, 11, 3, 2 = 23 (4d20)

>>776872
>Prays silently to the bait gods

>>776872
Oh and I forgot
>Fight

>>776884
Just rolling was enough to tip me off since it's the only action that has dice in this case.

>>776872
Wow, you suddenly aren't sure you were ready for this any more, Mimi was the only one that hit anything. I mean sure, she took out that tree stump like it was nothing with a single Fizz spell, but still, the rest of your team missed pitifully. Thankfully the training montage you had in the traveler's gate meant that your team actually had defenses, so they all stood strong after getting hit by the remaining three stumps.

>Command?
Fight (roll 4d20)
Check Tactics

Rolled 8, 12, 3, 8 = 31 (4d20)

>>776900
>Fight
Maybe rolls won't suck this time

Rolled 15, 9, 10, 20 = 54 (4d20)

>>776900
>Fight (Roll 4d20)

>>776913
>>776907
>>776900
Wow, never mind, you were totally ready for this. Your team manages to slaughter the remaining three stumps, though Juno seems to have gone a bit overboard... It tore the last stump clean in two before it poofed. That probably hurt a fair amount. Good thing monsters go poof instead of dying forever, right? Right?

>You won!

You continue on to the next match, because the text boxes won't stop scrolling and you can't really leave between matches because of that rather intimidating Wild Slime guarding the doorway. The next competitor comes out. Another no-name tamer. Has a team littered with what looks like zombies and more of those god damn tree stumps. Two of each to be exact. This doesn't look like it's going to be all that fun.

"After a spectacular first match, it's time for round two!"

>What will you do?
Fight (Roll 4d20)
Check tactics

Rolled 13, 13, 3, 7 = 36 (4d20)

>>776949
>Fight
Remov trees

Rolled 3, 12, 2, 9 = 26 (4d20)

>>776949
>Fight

>>776952
>>776962
>>776949
Slilim and Mimi are suddenly your most competent monsters as they remove the tree stumps from existence with magic. Yacob and Juno on the other hand flail needlessly at the zombie and only manage to scratch them, if you could even call it that. And then Yacob managed to get himself focused by the two zombies. He's looking pretty low on health, but Juno seems primed to heal him next round.

>>776969
Fuck me I forgot to include the command box


>What will you do?
Fight (Roll 3d20)
Check tactics

>>776969
>Check tactics
Maybe we should actually strategize now

>>776969
>Check tactics

>>776976
Actually changing your tactics is starting to sound like a good idea now.

>What will you do?

-Slilim

>No Mercy
-Weaken Foes
-Support
-Watch Health
-Don't Use MP

-Mimi

>No Mercy
-Weaken Foes
-Support
-Watch Health
-Don't Use MP

-Yacob

>No Mercy
-Weaken Foes
-Support
-Watch Health
-Don't Use MP

-Juno

>No Mercy
-Weaken Foes
-Support
-Watch Health
-Don't Use MP

>>776997
>Juno
Support
>Slilim
Weaken foes
>Jacob
Watch health
>Mimi
No mercy

>>776997
-Slilim
>Support
-Mimi
-Weaken Foes
-Yacob
No Mercy
-Juno
Watch health

>>777014
>>777011
>>776997

You decide to put Slilim on support, to have Mimi be on debuff duty, to tell Yacob to watch his damn health but otherwise go to town, and to have Juno switch to full healing duty.

>What will you do?
Fight (Roll 3d20)
Change Tactics

Rolled 14, 10, 5 = 29 (3d20)

>>777054
>Fight

Rolled 15, 1, 3, 18 = 37 (4d20)

>>777054
>Fight

I'd like to formally apologize for taking so long to post, I'm grinding on metal king slimes in the 3ds remake of terry's game

>>777069
Heh
>>777076
>>777054

Wow, Yacob can't catch a break today. But that's fine because Slilim and Mimi have got this in the bag as they slam the zombies with magic. Juno proceeds with healing duty and restores Yacob to full health somewhere in the middle of the zombie slaughter.

>You win!

Proceeding to the next round...

"And that's two victories down! But can Loto defeat the next challenger? He's been making a name for himself lately in the monster arena as some kind of spooky necromancer! Presenting Master John!"

A man in a spooky looking robe wearing some kind of skeleton mask slowly walks into the arena in front of you. Four different kinds of undead shuffle in behind him. You see a Skeleton of some sort, more of those zombies from before, some kind of haunted armor, and a very freaky looking ghost. The man in the costume speaks up. His voice betrays the spooky demeanor in that it sounds surprisingly normal. Maybe he just isn't feeling the spook today?

"I'm honestly just here because they asked me to come in. Normally somebody else is supposed to run this difficulty."
"Without any further ado, let the battle begin!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ej_jb9Ry0

>What will you do?
Fight (Roll 4d20)
Check Tactics
Marvel at the spooky for a few moments before doing one of the other two options here

Rolled 17, 15, 1, 11 = 44 (4d20)

>>777121
>Fight
For not acting spooky

Rolled 10, 18, 9, 4 = 41 (4d20)

>>777121
>Fight (Roll 4d20)

>>777131
>>777183
>>777121
Yacob still can't seem to catch a break. He goes straight up to the suit of armor and immediately snaps part of one of his claws off. Thankfully it's not too serious, save for a massive blow to his ego. Slilim, Mimi, and Juno have his back though, with Slilim and Mimi blasting away the Zombie and Skeleton with one spell each, and Juno casting heal on Yacob when the ghost and armor nearly kill him.

>What will you do?
Fight (roll 4d20)
Tactics
Call this guy out on not being spooky enough

Rolled 8, 15, 14, 16 = 53 (4d20)

>>777222
>Call this guy out on not being spooky enough
>Fight

Rolled 17, 4, 15, 6 = 42 (4d20)

>>777222
>Fight (roll 4d20)

>>777248
>>777240
These rolls combined just won you guys the fight. I'm glad they decided to stop directly hating on Yacob.

>>777222

"Common man, at least try to play the role."
"Sorry man, I'm really just not feeling it. They randomly grabbed me at the tavern. I'd only just gotten back from traveling. Honestly all I want to do is go back to the inn and sleep for a while."

You can't really fault him for his reasoning. But you can still be mad that he's not being spooky. Which you are. You're visibly pouting. Your monsters see this and psyche themselves out.

Yacob finally gets his shit together and fucking dices the ghost somehow, though honestly, Mimi had softened it up first. Juno follows suit, slapping the shit out of the armor after Slilim smacked it with magic.

>You win!

"After a rather wonderful performance, the first time Master Loto has managed to clear not only the F class, but he managed to clear it before even attempting the G class! We've got a truly great master on our hands here, folks! That's all for today however, thanks for attending!"

The Wild slime that was guarding the doorway approaches you and escorts you out of the arena. Once you're back at the front desk, Merlin is already somehow behind you and begins talking before you can even turn around.

"Sir Loto, great job with winning the F cup before even challenging the G cup. The last person to do that was Master Terry, at least according to the records we have at the castle. But he challenged the D cup and won with some sort of eldritch castle monster. Nobody's really sure where it came from, or where it went afterward, though. Anyway, the king would like you to come see him as soon as you can, but can wait a little while, since you now have access to the starry shrine for synthesis."

Merlin inhales deeply. Somehow he'd said all that without breathing between words.

"And with that, I'll take my leave."

And like that, you blinked, and he was gone. Wizards man. The old lady at the counter hands you some prize money, making a comment about how you've got a decent amount of talent.

>What will you do?
Explore the Great Tree since that brat isn't in the way anymore
Go directly to Artorius to report in
Write-in

>>777313
>Go directly to Artorius to report in

>>777313
>Go directly to Artorius to report in.
We're apparently gud.
That's nice.

>>777330

Good dice rolls helped a lot, but it helps that Mimi is actually really good for a Dracky. You could make her better if you caught some more monsters once she hits level 10.

>>777313

You decide it's probably best to go see Artorius. On the way up to the throne room, you notice a suspicious pillar, and get shoved into it by somebody who's in a rush. In a struggle to regain your balance, you end up activating it by accident.

>You've learned the Zoom and Beacon Zoom spells! Now you don't have to walk everywhere forever for the most part if you don't want to as long as you have a focus to where you're going!

With that out of the way, you continue on your way to the throne room. When you get there, you find a happily surprised Artorious, whose face-spanning grin, while a little creepy because he looks like he could kill a man with that expression, is sincere enough for you.

"Good job Loto, you managed to clear two difficulties at once. Not many people are capable of that right out of the gate. I think I'll reward you by opening up two sets of travelers gates instead of just one set. Now then, I need to get back to work. I am quite busy after all!"

Artorius wanders off into his room again. You hear the same two doors, as always.

>What will you do?
Explore the Great Tree now that you have free reign to do so
Check out the new Traveler's Gates
Go back to the Starry Shrine
Write-in

>>777412
>Explore the Great Tree now that you have free reign to do so
Let's see what they have to offer.

>>777412
>Explore the Great Tree

>>777412
>What will you do?
Going to the medal man's house sounds good
Let's visit the queen!
Time to go to the Library.
That second counter at the Arena looked promising.
We could go shopping, I guess?
The starry shrine sounds fun
Monster farm??
Puff-Puff.
Write-in

>>777497
>Going to the medal man's house sounds good

>>777497
>Time to go to the library.
Books are nice

>>777502
Switching to Library. Need to read about monsters.

>>777502
>>777497

You consider visiting the Medal man for a moment, but then decide you want to go read up on monsters. Upon arriving inside the library you have a tablet of some sort thrust at your stomach.
Roll 1d20 to not get smacked by it/to just catch it!

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>777525

>>777533
>>777525
Good job. You caught the Tablet. You've got an Archive now. No more will monsters be a mystery for you, you can just hold it up and use the camera on it to get the information. Kind of like a pokedex... Whatever that is. The man behind the counter in the library that thrust it at you from across the room also tells you that, along with being surprisingly aerodynamic and relatively indestructible, that you can use it for a good number of things that a modern scout would want to do.

>List of things you can now do:
Use the dPad Archive to scan a monster to find out what it is.
Use the dPad Archive to get a free monster every so often. You'll have to fight it first, though. And it will be subjectively strong. You're not going to want to do this for a while.
The dPad Archive serves as a way to store your items responsibly. You can use it to play tetris with your item bag, store gold on it, and it serves as a place to keep your monsters when they're either unconscious, or not on your main team.
After clearing a rank in the Arena, you can come back to the library and download more information on monsters. Otherwise, you'll have to find one for the first time to register it in your codex app.

>What would you like to do next?
Going to the medal man's house sounds good
Let's visit the queen!
That second counter at the Arena looked promising.
We could go shopping, I guess?
The starry shrine sounds fun
Monster farm??
Puff-Puff.
Write-in

>>777553
>We could go shopping, I guess?
We have money, right?

>>777565
We've got like 10k in gold through the combined results of our training montage and winning the F-Rank tournament.

>>777571
Sweet

>>777553
>>777579
So what do you want to buy? There's some gear in the gear shop at the Shopping Area across from the town square, the meat shop is pointless since you've got an infinite supply of the best monster meat in the game already, you could buy some healing items I guess, there's some kind of odd shop that won't service you until you've done something to do with this thing called Wi-Fi, and then there's this gigantic steak on a grill off in the distance.

Oh and I guess there's a bank off to the side but do you guys even believe in using that since there isn't really a benefit?

>>777601
Does the Gear shop sell potions to recover MP? If so, go there. If not, healing shop.

>>777608
I'd like to apologize for taking so long to reply, I got caught up in a few things and then I had to restart my computer. My attention span got the best of me. I think I'm probably going to call things for the night here. But the healing shop is the place that sells mp potions.

>>777752
To the healing shop it is. Thank you for running. Happy Halloween.

My apologies for not running tonight, but I am a massive idiot who needs to stop being nocturnal and slept in too long again. Blame my friends for being attention hungry at the wrong time of the day. I need to sort some stuff out though so this may be a blessing in disguise.

>>763722
>>763828
>>763841
>>768107
>>768726
>>769231
>>776900
QM please do NOT let this quest die, I know how much it can be trouble to set up a quest. But, this game was like my childhood. My physical copy of it died years ago due to battery death and I lost my monsters or ability to really save or start again.

I seriously hate that the new 3ds games will never come to the US because babbies first monster was all pokemon. Which is just a bunch of formulaic tripe that is totally boring for 90% of adults.

Ohwell, enough drunken emotional shit, I love this quest so far, at the very least because I love the material and how you are handling it so far. That said, feel free to take all creative liberties you want, it can't get worse than DWM3 from what I have heard. Also, considering the two good ones are a gameboy and gameboy color game I gotta say there is a LOT of room for story enhancement.

>>781228
I promise I'm not going to let this die until at least after the starry night tournament, I'll say that much for sure. It would be a waste of a perfectly good plot. I'll ruin my sleep schedule three times over before I let that happen.
Pop by in about... 14~16ish hours and I should be up and running the quest though. I try to run from about 5~6PM until I run out of steam for the night, which is typically around 4~6 hours later at 10~12. It's 3:39 AM right now for me, for reference.


Also my physical copy of the gbc game is dead too, but the 3ds games are great so if you've got a hacked 3ds or the means to run the patch somehow and play the game anyway, I'd say give it a shot.

I'm heavily basing a good number of things in this great tree off of the 3ds version's great tree. There's even a portal to the blight tree somewhere in town square if the players can figure out where it is. You'll have to roll to find it before the post-game though.


All that being said though if somebody could archive this thread when the time comes and get the url to me somehow, that would be fantastic, because I'm still new to this questing thing.

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>>781278
>tfw My copy still works but I don't play it that much
You're making me want to, though.

>>781528
do it. break the goddamn game because those recipes aren't all in the remake.


Also I'm running this today 100% but might start at a different time.

Okay, I'm up after a nap, and after troubleshooting my internet. Where were we again..?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFgRjAt2Bog

Ah, yes. Last time, we'd just gotten the F License after a struggle against a spooky, but not very scary gentleman, and we were currently exploring the shopping district of the Great Tree. Something about buying what mp potions we could get our hands on?

>What will you do?
Buy MP Potions
Something else
Write-in

Alright, so we're in auto-sage. Jumping ship and starting the next thread I guess.
>>782622
>>782622
>>782622