>>4958545
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To any new readers, hello and welcome my quest, feel free to drop some criticism as im a fairly new QM

>>4958545
>>Y?

Y

>>4958545
>Y

>>4958545
>>N?


>>4958559
>>4958576
JEsus Christ anons, don't immediately go "sure whatever you say boss" to the techno-eldritch entity contacting us in our dreams

>>4958545
>Y
Cum in its eye to show your dominance

>>4958588
Anon, do you think people call us Lunatic Rich for our sensible decisions?

>>4958601
Anon, the TRULY lunatic decision would be stabbing the techno-eldritch entity, but seeing as that's not an option I'll go with telling it to fuck off for the time being.

>>4958609
>there isnt another option
>>write-in
Well you have one more hour of voting sooooo

>>4958545
>>write-in?
Shamk

>>4958622
Yeah I guess so, but at least where I am this thread started at 9 PM and all the dumbass anons seem to be coming out at night recently

>>4958555
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>>4958644
4 Ys vs one N shank, ill be writing up one last update for today

After contemplating stabbing the eye out of panic for a second you make your choice
"Yes?"
HMAOS:"CONFIRMATION-WELCOME_TO_PROJECT_HELLMINER_MR_RICH-PROCESS:UPDATING_RANK-FINISHED-OBJECTIVES:FILTERING_LARGE_AMMOUNTS_OF_DATA_WILL_TAKE_TIME-ENDING_INTERACTION
The red eye stares at you for several seconds before you're blinded by a flash of red light

You wake up much more calmly this time rising out of bed. Clayton is still standing there staring at you through his helmet
After getting all your equipment in check you notice something off. The ID card from the facility changed colour to a very dark gray with red lines decorating it [ID Updated] and Terry is making less noise than usual
Checking your PDA brings up many things, the scav scouts are back and keeping eyes out for very mediocre lootables. There are messages from Oswell talking that the settlement is finishing up soon, messages from Big Lary mentioning another meeting place to talk about contracts and surprisingly a message from Bill. He mentioned wanting to talk to you

What to do, what to do
>Go check out what the scouts have found
>Go to a previous known run location (Bat creature cave, Odd temple)
>Go to known location/person (where/who)
>Talk to (who)
>write-in

that's it for this morning. I was pulling an all nighter and had nothing better to do than actually deliver to you anons. I sincerely accept any advice or criticism

>>4958691
>>Talk to Terry

>>4958703
+1

>>4958691
And head out to meet with Bill.
Poke Terry in the nose hole.

>>4958703
+1

>>4958691
>>Talk to Clayton

>>4958703
>>4958711
>>4958715
>>4959044
time to write an update on pc

Before anything you look up to Clayton and ask
“Do you have anything you want?”
Claytons only response was to grunt and then to point at one of his AK’s, gesture widely with his hands and then smack his fists together. Okay it seems he wants a new gun with how he interprets it
After that you untie Terry from your side and remove the paper from his jaw
“You’ve been making way less noise now, what's up with that?”
Terry: “What sort of being did you align yourself with?”
“What?”
Terry: “Dont play dumb outsider, i may lack my body but i can still sense the flow of madness in the air, and this sudden influx on you means you were either hiding the power or you just bound yourself to a Improbable Being, so which was it”
“And why should i tell you any of that, you are in no spot to demand answers”
Terry shut up after that and refused to speak

After that you head out to Scav base to meet up with Bill about that talk he wanted to have. When you arrived one of the clerks waved you over and told you where Bill was meeting you. It was one of the back offices instead of his main one
Upon arrival you find Bill looking through some paper. He noticed you entering and calmly told you to take a seat which you did
Bill: “So Rich, I've heard the OP over at Nexus had some issues but was completed, good job. But i'm not here to talk about that, i'm here to ask you why one of my I-boarder scouts saw you exiting the I-Zone itself with no proper equipment and why are you carrying a live lich on your side” He asked calmly
UHHHHH…

Response
>Write-in

I fucked my sleep schedule, ill probably be posting more for the american time zone anons till i fix it, ill try to do some character writing i guess

>>4959275
its not a random lich, his name is Terry and he is an ok guy as far as i have seen
I found him while on scouting mission for a place to loot and i found his previous home
After a bad impression later i decided to keep him for now due to him being harmless for now
You don't have to worry about him he was easy to deal with and he's not that smart or dangerous and he wasn't affiliated with the guy who attacked us

>>4959275
"That's Just Terry, I keep him around because he's funny."

"Also what's the I-zone again? I don't think anyone ever explained what it was to me I just know shit gets weird and there's good loot there. Like Terry."

>>4959275
I beat up a nerd and took his lunch money. Say hi Terry.
This is also Clayton. I don't think you two have been formally acquainted.

>>4959275
>"Uhh, as far as I was aware, guns are as proper as equipment gets"
>"Also, this is Terry. He's not dangerous. Not more than me anyways."

does clayton have armor?

>>4959275
'uh... i don't know what you mean by proper equipment but i carry some guns and a melee weapon with me, i have decent armor i think and so does my buddy Clayton over here'

>>4959295
+1 to this regarding Terry

>>4959331
Yes, he has Heavy metal armor, his armor is actually better than ours, for example he's inmune to non-crit pistol or smg rounds

>>4959338
thanks frend

>>4959295
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>>4959337
Alright writing!

>>4959471
God I love how utterly oblivious we are

>>4959477
well, we came here a week ago and have been doing things constantly with little rest, it's kinda expected, we may have ro rethink visiting that temple if Bill show's concern for us, the Temple seems on the level of the first run we did with Ripper

>>4959483
The pre-madness facility was worse than that and we crushed it with skeletons. And we didn't have Clayton then.

>>4959483
I mean almost beyond the point of common sense. Like.

>Oh hello there LITERAL Frankenstein's monster, would you like to join the party?
>*tortured groans*
>Great! Come along and we'll get you suited up!

and the likes of

>Wow that was a good showing floating skeleton!
>I WILL DESTROY ALL YOU LOVE
>haha you're funny, come on I've got some empty space on my belt!
>PUT ME DOWN YOU WRETCH
>You're going to see the world with me, Terry!

>>4959500
correction, skeletons and a half a dozen dudes with guns, also the Giant was weaker than a ghoul imo, the giant had bigger HP but the ghoul was faster, i am also worried that it's gonna be a magic mumbo jumbo and we will fight something like Terry but with actual spells and less dumb

"The lich? Oh yeah you mean Terry right?" You pat Terry at your side and he wiggles around in anger
Bill: "Terry?"
"Yeah that's what he told me his name was"
Bill: "And how did you find terry?"
"Oh i was exploring the i zone and found Terry's place where he was building some giant armored zombie mag, i killed it of course and i may have decapitated Terry…"
Bill stares at you calmly and makes a long sigh
Bill: "well this will be added to the log of all your other scav runs, but here's a more important question. Why were you exploring the I-Zone with no equipment?"
"What? There's equipment i need for exploring the I-Zone, i just needed my guns to do it"
Bill: "Equipment as in items and gadgets that increase your maneuverability and safety there, like a grappling hook or in some cases shade repellent"
"Huh, I just had Clayton use his strength to help me around and he traversed it easily himself, Oh! I haven't introduced you to Clayton yet, Clayton this is Bill, he runs the place, Bill this is Clayton, He's my companion"
Clayton just grunts and Bill just nods at him
"Well your skills at traversing the I-zone… under equipped are noted but i suggest you don't do that, i've personally had only 2 long term expeditions there, that place is more insane than nevada normally is"
"Noted"
Bill: "Well anyways you are free to go"

After leaving you start pondering what to do
>Go check out what the scouts have found (more safe runs
>Go to previous discovered locations despite Bills warning (Cave, Temple)
>Go to a known location/person (where/who(locations included:Black market, regular market, ect.)
>Talk to (who)
>write-in

im glad you are entertained anons, Rich being an oblivious "newbie" is funny to me, but as the story progresses personality might change

>>4959513
>>Go to a known location/person (Black Market)
What's up with these people and their "procedures"? Just do what comes natural.
I was thinking we should keep the guns we got from the revenants, in case we get revenants ourselves. Get some new jobs and maybe find some of that damn equipment

>>4959513
>Go check out what the scouts have found (more safe runs)

>>4959513
>Go check out what the scouts have found
>ask around the Scavs about where you can get this 'Equipment' that Bill mentioned
i think we can easly do both seeing as they are in the same location

>>4959517
they have those procedures to stay alive, we have been taking risks but we also make plans to even the odds with the resources we get to escalate to bigger risks, it kinda snowballs, i also think we should sell those guns, we don't need that many like really we have more guns than an average scav group, besides with tensions after the attack i don't think it's the best time to Necromance and that's besides the point that we don't know how to make revenants, revenants are just zombies imbued with magic mumbo jumbo to make them semi-inteligent, there's no wild revenants i think

>>4959540
We've all agreed to keep Terry to strong-arm-strong-hand him into teaching us necromancy, revenants are the obvious goal.
And why do we want safe runs, leave them for the noobs. We have limited time for sessions, we shouldn't waste it on easy shit.

>>4959554
i mostly wanted to check about that equipment, none of the merchants sold what Bill mentioned so we would probably need to put a request for those items, besides that, maybe we could grind our Melee in one of those safe missions while we get a quick buck

Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>4959517
>>4959529
>>4959540
Seeing what the scouts got and asking some questions about equipment
Well this will be my last post for today because my sleepyness is actualy hitting hard atm so
Roll 1d100+10(cha) vs my dice (reminder lower is beter for opposition in this system)
hope you enjoyed the session and why is my capcha full of SV4GG?

Rolled 55 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>4959633
cmon, gimme a perk.

Rolled 70 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>4959633

Rolled 17 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

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>>4959637
Shouldn't we be getting equipment?

>>4959665
We are asking first. I wanted to do that in the black market but it's whatever.

>>4959635
>>4959637
>>4959646
80 vs 21, being a local legend has its perks it seems
Writing
Capcha says Sg4ay heh

First you check the PDA on those scav scouted lootables, they are usually safe and are good for newbies, scouted targets also have the problem of having to kinda give a small amount of loot to scav base because their scouts need some payment and they need to earn some money on the side outside of being generally paid for clearing things that may be threats to cities
Well anyways the current available jobs are

-A random crate was spotted a bit close to the I field border region, there is a large group of bandits trying to move it to no avail
-An old military supply truck ruined and fused to the earth, its contents seem to be unharmed, problem is the small group of bandits trying to gather the loot
-A locker stack, it has a small group of bandits trying to pick them

That is a suspicious number of bandits, you checked 4grunts for any info, turns out one of the local big bandit groups moved in after hearing about the Horde attack and decided to go around stealing loot while the city was recovering, the location of their base of operations is unknown

-New small threat discovered: Bandit Thief activity- Scouted lootables have bandits appear more commonly until bandit camp is destroyed

Outside of that you walked around the scav base mess hall asking where one could get proper I-Zone exploration equipment, surprisingly a lot of the more veteran scavs gave you good answers, either get lucky in the marketplace or check online for corporations that sell I-Zone grade equipment, you could also try to sign yourself up for the Helldiver scav jobs where they give you some gear but you still have to pay ahead because in case you die they don't lose any money and helldivers are not well known as the most survivable job

Well that answered most of that, what do you do?
>go on a scav run (where?)
>Personally scout for lootables (where?)
>Go to a known location/person (where/who)
>Talk to (who)
>write-in

>>4960250
>go on a scav run (where?)
-An old military supply truck ruined and fused to the earth, its contents seem to be unharmed, problem is the small group of bandits trying to gather the loot
>Talk to (who)
-Our boys to tell them to start preparing to assault the bandit camp and if that they want to leave town they need to go in groups of 2 or more

>>4960282
+1

>>4960250
>go on a scav run (where?)
-An old military supply truck ruined and fused to the earth, its contents seem to be unharmed, problem is the small group of bandits trying to gather the loot


>>4960282
Should we really attack the camp just because?
Besides the fact that the bandits should have tons of firepower, is the fact that we could talk to either Bill or the Mayor and get a proper reward for taking care of the problem and also intel about the bandits

>>4960352
The longer the bandit camp stays there, the more powerful it will become over time and it will be a bigger problem to eliminate
>is the fact that we could talk to either Bill or the Mayor and get a proper reward for taking care of the problem and also intel about the bandits
this is a great idea actually

>>4960282
>>4960352
>>4960312
Truck looting and assault questioning is a go, writing

Deciding that cutting this bandit business out before it becomes a problem would be a good start you ping Bill and Brosco about it, they do ping back, Bill says that CT meat already are already making agreements to pay for a raiding op to scare or wipe the bandits out of the region,he will ping you when the preparations start, Brosco says that he's already set up more guards at the gates and the walls are manned with more sharpshooters, the city militia is still recovering from their overall losses from the horde attack, you decide to go to the Bonehead Comms and tell them to prepare for the assault ahead of time, Josh and most of the Boneheads started discussing plans immediately

Putting the PDA away you head out of city with clayton towards the trucks location
After some time you arrive, there are about 10 bandits there, all armed with guns, 2 single barrel shotguns, 3 scrap smgs, the rest with various Pistols, four of them are currently moving the loot out of the back of the truck while the others guard. The truck is in a plain covered by some random boulders around providing cover. They have not noticed your presence

Plan of attack?
>All out assault (rush)
>Cover to cover assault (Careful approach)
>Try to get as close as possible and then strike (ambush)
>Write-in

>>4960609
>Write-in
SUMMON THE SKELETONS! Ut worked last time and it'll work again. Let's start gathering a horde of skellies to throw at the bandits.
The skeletons will be the violent charging meat shields while anyone else with a gun with fire from a distance.

>>4960609
>1)Cover to cover (have clayton start engaging them from cover at a medium distance)
>2)Try to get as close as possible and then strike (the dudes with the shotguns first then the remaining bandits)

>>4960614
>>4960619
hey what if we combine the 2 plans?
the skeletons first then clayton and at last us

>>4960609
>>Try to get as close as possible and then strike (ambush)

>>4960614
>>4960609

Try and scare them off with skeletons or something.

>>4960614
support

What gun do we have again? A shottie and a pistol? If we want to keep using skellies like this we might want to invest in a long-range precision weapon to take out high-value targets that could hold up the skellies or hurt us past them.

>>4960667
Your current arnaments by inventory and msot used listing
Kel tec KSG for shotgun
M4A1 for rifle
MP5 for smg
Beretta 92 for pistol
Theres also the prototype pulse pistol

These are the best avaiable weapons you have in inventory, the ksg is currently the most used

>>4960614
>>4960619
>>4960621
>>4960625
>>4960648
>>4960667
Getting some skeletons and ambushing the bandits with them is a go
Since this is gonna be my last post for today
Roll me 1d100+20 (will+cha) Bo3
Also roll me 1d100+24 (dex+awe) Bo3

Rolled 38 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>4960724

Rolled 21 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>4960724

Rolled 25 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>4960724

Rolled 55 + 24 (1d100 + 24)

>>4960724

Rolled 89 + 24 (1d100 + 24)

>>4960724

Rolled 90 + 24 (1d100 + 24)

>>4960724

Sorry anons but no update today, irl buisness and i need to go sleep early

>>4960822
Well, those bandits are properly ambushed for sure.

>>4960736
>>4960726
>>4960756
Skeleton finds not so successfull
>>4960791
>>4960820
>>4960822
The ambush on the other hand was way more successfull with what you had, one off from getting dubs
Writing

Rolled 50, 49 = 99 (2d100)

>>4962970
Im gonna just do an aditional skeletons vs bandits roll to see how well they do and if any survive (roll 1 is skeletons, roll 2 is bandits)

Rolled 79 (1d100)

"Skeletons" was the first thought that came up when you thought up a plan, so you left to quickly gather some. It wasn't great… you only managed to find a group of four skeletons and that was it, one even lacked an arm. Well something is better than nothing and you orchestrated a plan. You send out the skeletons in the direction of the bandits, you and clayton veer slightly of course faster than the skeletons

Upon arrival you and clayton hide behind some boulders and wait for the skeletons to arrive. They did arrive a bit later but the plan worked. The bandits noticed and put up a formation aiming their weapons at the skeletons. They didn't even notice your and Claytons careful approach. The skeletons did better than expected and the bandits were both competent and incompetent at the same time somehow. 2 of the skeletons were gunned down before reaching the bandits. One missed 3 shots with his shotgun at near point blank ranges and got his head saved in by one arm before it got shot by a nearby bandit. The other skeleton tore a bandits face off before said bandit panic fired with his smg killing the skeleton, he still died after that
While things were calming down and they counted how many bullets they spent no one noticed that the four guys behind the truck were dead. It was easy with all the noise. They didn't even stand a chance against your ambush, both your and Clayton's carefully aimed shots killed the leftover bandits with minimal expense [-9 smg bullets, -4 rifle bullets]

This went better than expected, but you don't need to congratulate yourself. You collect the dead bandits stuff and put it next to the neat pile of loot they left behind.
Lets see what you found:
-2 shotguns
-3 scrap smgs
-2 single shot pistols
-1 Makarov
-1 Colt 1911
And… oh sweet lord who would use such a thing
-1 zip 22
The other loot was way better
-40 rifle bullets
-8 buckshot
-60 smg bullets
-20 machine gun bullets
-10 mre

That was slightly disappointing but not unexpected

Returning to town you immediately report to scav base to deliver the loot [-5 mre, 4 rifle bullets,-1 buckshot,-6 smg bullets, 2 machine gun bullets, -all looted weapons… they left you the zip, mother fuckers]

After that's all done you exit the building and head into town
Wat do?
>go on a scav run (where?)
>Personally scout for lootables (where?)
>Go to a known location/person (where/who)
>Talk to (who)
>write-in
ignore the roll, nothin to worry about :)

>>4962991
>go to the market
we really go there a lot but i want to sell our guns we don't need so many and the bullelts could help us get shiny's on the black market where the gud stuff is

>>4962991
>go to the market
Meanwhile
>Talk to Clayton (learn and teach him sign language so he can communicate)
Tell Clayton that we plan to create a system of gesture-based communication to help him talk, and we'll stop at nothing to do so, then realize that there is alredy a sign language for mute people, then facepalm.

>>4962991
I knew i forgot something

>>4962991
>>Talk to (Clayton)
We already know he can vocalize, and we already know that he understands us, so we just need to line those up (like try and get him to say a few words) and it'll roll from there.

He's clearly intelligent, but his language centers are probably messed up from whatever it was that made him... him.

>>4963012
He never speaks because 1 he lacks stable vocal cords, 2 look at those lips

>>4963021
Image didnt post, what in the god damn

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>>4963021
Okay it doesent want to post my images from gallery, seems to be a technicaly issue from my end since i believe this happened before but i payed no mind, using alternate source

>>4963021
>>4963023
>>4963025
Rip that Idea I guess, I thought he couldn't speak because of medically induced brain trauma.

If it was just the vocal cords or the lips he'd probably be able to speak eventually but yeah, I don't think he can talk properly without normal vocal cords or lips.

>>4963025
Bruh he looked like that the whole time? fuck.

>>4963041
We prolly forgot because we stuck a helmet on him and left it there.

>>4963025
He just needs some chapstick he'll be fine

>>4963025
Voting for market to sell some shit, and asking around if we can hire someone to fix Clayton so he can speak.

>>4963086
I don't think that would be easy, the only people who seem to have G03LMs are the NMR and the NERDs and maybe some companies, i think we would have more luck asking the organ merchant at the black market

>>4963104
Organ merchants sell the organs yes, but I dont think they explicitly offer to implant them. Plus I doubt its ver sanitary to conduct surgery underground in a sewer system.

Hence why we ask around to find some leads to people that might know a guy that can help us out. If we're fixing Clayton, I want the best guys working on our bro, not some two bit college dropout back alley doctor.

>>4963113
i mean they sell organs, surely they have a contact than could do the implantation job

>>4963116
That much is true, but wouldn't a legal doctor be more trust worthy than a back alley's contact?

>>4962999
>>4963001
>>4963012
Market it is, but you also go around asking for medical professionals so roll me 1d100+10 (cha) to get some leads Bo3
sorry for the slow updates, irl work around the village amping up

Rolled 63 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>4963296

Rolled 20 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>4963296

Rolled 65 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>4963296

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>4963296

>>4963296

>>4963303
>>4963335
>>4963341
All right hiden dc passed, writing

Thinking about claytons inability to speak, you think of your options. You opted to ask the more well known scavs and scav workers about places to hire a doctor
Most talk about types of doctors, the cheap but reliable doctors that fix wounds or those expensive pricks that are good at their jobs. You said the latter due to specific circumstances to which they responded that you would have to look in the big cities for such doctors due to their rarity

After that's done you go to the market to see what merchants are available
A gun merchant looking to acquire wares
He is willing to buy:
-40 Bullet Worth per M4A1 Rifle [you have 2]
-30 BW per grease gun [you have 3]
-20 BW per single barrel shotgun [you have 2]
-15 BW per PPK pistol [you have 3]
-20 BW per M1911 [you have 2]
-20 BW per HP browning [you have 2]

And the usual material salesman
-1 leather piece-10 pistol bullets [5 in stock]
-1 metal sheet-15 pistol bullets [13 in stock]
-1 spare circuitry-20 pistol bullets [5 in stock]

But that was all your luck this cycle since there were no other merchants of interest

Do you buy anything?
>Yes (write a shopping list and payment/earnings)
>nah

When that's all finished you?
>go on a scav run (where?)
>Personally scout for lootables (where?)
>Go to a known location/person (where/who)
>Talk to (who)
>write-in
>God what's that headache?

sorry for the delay, had to eat dinner, but we are off!

>>4964114
40 Bullet Worth per M4A1 Rifle [you have 2]
-30 BW per grease gun [you have 3]
-20 BW per single barrel shotgun [you have 2]
-15 BW per PPK pistol [you have 3]
-20 BW per M1911 [you have 2]
-20 BW per HP browning [you have 2]
Sell all of these but 1 of the HP Brownings.

>God what's that headache?

>>4964114
Sell all HPs
Sell all PPKs
Sell 2 grease guns
Sell one M4A1
Sell one Single barrel shotgun

>Go to a known location
Scav Base for more high risk jobs

>>4964118
+1

>>4964114
Sell:2 grease guns,1shotgun,2ppk,1 m1911 and 1 browning
>God what's that headache?

>>4964118
>>4964128
Win but ill need you to pick what ammo youre getting
You have 315 BW (yes i counted only one Browning pistol which you voted to keep)

>>4964167
If we only have 1 pistol and clayton 2 aks then 2/3 in rifle ammo and the rest in pistol

>>4964182
I didnt list the weapons he wasnt buying, the ones you primarily use
Your KSG, beretta 92, MP5, the pulse pistol prototype

>>4964210
what about the zip 22?

>>4964210
then in that case 2/3 in pistol ammo and the rest 3/4 in rifle ammo for clayton and 1/4 in shotgun ammo

>>4964210
100 for rifle ammo, 50 in slugs, and the rest in pistol ammo.

>>4964418
+1

>>4964215
die

Sorry to say this anons but im droping the quest, im not gonna ghost like a faggot
Im just not QM material, irl work and trying to keep some updates drains my drive to run it so im stoping, im just more content being an anon who votes and enjoys reading the other amazing quests made by more talented QMs
I am completely okay if someone takes over, ive made a preety neat premise no ones done before but its a mess
Im sorry anons, goodbye

>>4964464
Good on you for not ghosting and I'm sad to see you go. If ever you come back, know that I'll be right there reading again.

>>4964464
It's a bit of a shame, but understandable QMing is kinda hard and stressing for many, thanks for not ghosting without advice like many other QMs, the quest has been quite fun and it reignited my interst for the Madness Combat series, overally thank's for running this quest Improbable

>>4964464
Thanks for trying.

>>4964464
post nudes

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>>4964464
Based.

>>4964464
Thanks dude you provided an enjoyable experience and also thank you for clarifying the end of the quest instead of ghosting.

Putting a call out for a necromancer here and in QTG. Let's hope we get a power lich boyos.

>>4964464
let all know qm was based

>>4966006
Yeah lets hope somebody takes over (currently catching up with the quest, its great so far)