NEPETAQUEST 2011 [T2]

[aceofspudz]

Thread 2!

Lynx:
THREAD 1 | MSPAFA MIRROR | FORMSPRING | TV TROPES | DISCUSSION THREAD

Fanart:

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Armada:


crepascularDissembler:


GemPadre306:


gingerale


lucidseraph


NitroGlyde:


pimu:


Sundrien

fanfic(!):
lucidSeraph and zombiitwo pesterlog


FAQ:

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Is Nepetaquest exclusively about Nepeta?
No. There are lots of (mostly original) characters, but Nepeta is a main character! Due to the adventure format there may be long stretches of time where we do not take her perspective. Please do not comment on this.

Sgrub?
The story will end long before anyone enters Sgrub.

Why isn't this as funny as Homestuck?
I try to make it as funny as possible, but in general I have different strengths as a writer than Hussie. I can't pretend otherwise! So the story is going to have plenty of dramatic and sci-fi elements.

Why isn't it all playable?
Some segments will be dramatic and are supposed to end a certain way. Rather than sifting through user commands until I get the desired outcome I will just take the wheel. Of course you are welcome to submit commands anyway during these sequences, and if they are awesome I may do that instead!

Is this supposed to be canon or something?
This is a fanfiction.

Is it alright if I offer criticism?
Of course, but please do so via pm or, if you must post in the thread, I ask that you be polite and forward.

Are you still accepting fantrolls?
Sprited up fantrolls with typing quirks and personalities are always welcome submissions, though we are to a point where the permanent cast is fixed. Cameos are always possible but be advised that fantrolls may not live.

Can we chat freely in the thread?
Sure! I encourage it. Ideas I see in the thread could be incorporated into the adventure.

Vokken: Flip out at Nezumi.

Vokken: If you couldn'7 get 7rollian ou7 of her I don'7 see the use.
Nezumi: Master Nereus would be surprised.
Nezumi: Scoria enjoyed being manipulated. Surrendering control to another can be a rewarding experience.
Nezumi: Even a strong person can be controlled if you understand their shadow.
Nezumi: Nezumi doubts she can be manipulated by anyone else. Nezu is proud of herself...
Vokken: I'm going 7o be sick. If you live I'm going 7o fully rese7 you. You're obsessed in every personali7y. 7ime to go to square one.
Vokken: I have pu7 up wi7h you for so long. Longer 7han you know.
Vokken: So before you go and po7en7ially die I always wan7ed to 7ell you 7his:
Vokken: When we 7ell you 7ha7 you aren'7 a real 7roll that isn'7 some emp7y insul7.
Vokken: 7he only Nezumi with a soul was frozen and sliced into 7hin shee7s 7o make a 7empla7e for the res7 of you.
Vokken: "Nezu", you don'7 belong in anyone's quadran7. No7 even 7rash like Scoria. You're like a robo7 made of flesh ins7ead of me7al.
Vokken: Assuming 7ha7 is flesh. Your skin is hard as a rock. I s7ill don'7 unders7and how you move wi7hou7 breaking up in7o pieces. One of the many unse77ling 7hings abou7 you.
Nezumi: Nezu is sorry. Her skin is a dilatant material. Nezumi is soft if you touch her softly.
Vokken: 7his feels grea7, I am glad we are finally ge77ing 7his all aired ou7.
Vokken: You are the saddes7 7hing. A weapon of 7error who 7hinks she is a weapon of war. A dead person who doesn'7 realize i7. A doll who 7hinks she is real. I even dressed you up like a doll, on a whim.
Nezumi: Nezu suspected this. She doesn't mind.
Vokken: I'll be kind of glad when you're gone, I 7hink. 7he sigh7 of you makes me uncomfor7able.
Vokken: Cu7e cos7ume, bu7 7here is jus7 no joy in i7 since you don'7 feel degraded.
Nezumi: Nezumi apologizes for displeasing you.
Vokken: Jus7 go. Win. Lose. I don'7 care. I'm so 7ired.


Scoria: Read Nezumi's sultry fanfic.

Wow. Nezumi really gets to you sometimes, but she is a good writer. It is kind of flattering that someone cares about you enough to do this, especially in light of recent events. You have got to show this to Nepeta. Is she old enough to read this? Are YOU?

She is five sweeps now. Hardly a wiggler anymore.

Nepeta: Head to tracking.

Pesterlog:

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abandonedFate [AF] began trolling arsenicCatnip [AC]

AF: I just looked you up on the viewport.
AF: I could flip out about what you are doing but it is probably it is probably going to get worse and I need reserve flip outs for when that happens.
AF: Anyway, you have some time. That lava is really, really slow. You could you could say it's got good poise!
AC: :33 < *purrplexed*
AF: Ahem...sorry. Here is something that that you CAN appreciate.
abandonedFate [AF] sent file nezumifanfic.txt
AC: :33 < oh wow!
AC: :33 < i f33l like i n33d purrmission to read this :33
AF: Shh. Don't tell pounce! We don't we don't want her deciding I'm a bad influence.
AC: :33 < she must really like you
AF: Well...
AF: I don't know what to do with Nezumi.
AF: Lately she has she has been really frightening.
AF: I mean I liked her! She was so she was so aggressive and resolute. And incredibly charismatic and self-confident.
AF: And even even playful, sometimes.
AF: Everyone else thought she was a HUGE BITCH. I guess they were right.
AF: I thought she was my friend. It was it was all a lie I guess, a big joke to her.
AC: :33 < well i think
AC: :33 < being a good friend is kind of like a fight!
AC: :33 < people are always purrtending that they're STRONG and trying to push you away
AC: :33 < but that is just the right time to pounce
AC: :33 < don't you think if someone is suffering you can try to understand and thin it out a little
AF: But Nezumi is just is just so...ugh.
AF: I am the I am the one that's suffering! Suffering her.
AC: :33 < she could be reaching out to you!
AC: :33 < nezumi may be nasty and mean and all of those things
AC: :33 < and maybe all she is is all she'll ever be
AC: :33 < but maybe it isn't!
AC: :33 < you taught me that, fate
AF: I ...I did? I am pretty sure I am sure I didn't.
AC: :33 < yuh huh!
AC: :33 < you told me in the end nothing is inevitable
AC: :33 < the future isn't just a series of events happening in a box somewhere
AC: :33 < its us!
AC: :33 < if the future can change then so could she
AC: :33 < but if you let your pride or your anger or your fear get in the way then things never get better
AF: I never I never thought of it that way.
AC: :33 < you taught me that we don't have forever
AC: :33 < since the pawsibilities become fewer the longer you wait
AC: :33 < so we should make the right choices right now​​
AF: By the way I didn't think I didn't think you were absorbing any of that.
AF: You were just doodling on the blackboard like a ditz!
AC: :33 < i guess it didnt hit me until later :33
AC: :33 < fate people like you have something really valuable to give to people like her
AC: :33 < and maybe she has something to give you too :33
AF: She would just laugh her ass off if I said anything like that!
AF: I would look like a fool.
AC: :33 < then look like a fool!
AC: :33 < but don't be one

[Plankman]

Skip to 10 seconds in the future.
Nepeta: Wonder why the lava is being so slow

[lucidSeraph]

Thought we were renaming this Alterniaquest? Aww.

Still. NEW THREAD. *BURIES FACE IN*

[aceofspudz]

We are! But we were going to wait for EOA1.

[I'm]

Nepeta: Go up the stairs.

[lucidSeraph]

We are! But we were going to wait for EOA1.

OH OKAY I understand now. :3

[Runic]

Nepetia > Accidentally cause something to happen by doodling on the black board

[Brickman]

Who are you and what have you done with Nepeta? Just kidding, it actually makes sense that the one time she would become intelligent and competent is when she's shipping people.

>Scoria: Nepeta's right, but Nezumi won't be going anywhere in the next twenty minutes. Might as well talk with Nepeta some more about her current situation.

(Dramatic irony intentional, could probably be played up even more).

[Zombiitwo]

YES NEW THREAD YES!

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>Nepeta: Ask permission to share fanfic with everyone.
OR
>Nepeta: Contact Zander about all this weird military shit.

[BlueYoshi]

In b4 Zombiitwo overtakes Ace in post count here.

>Nepeta: Examine the red blip on the tracking screen.

[Zombiitwo]

Don't tempt me. I'm going to try to post less. Don't know if I'll succeed.
Also done.

[Armok]

Finally found the new thread, the links everywhere really should be updated, and it doesn't belong in the cradle either.

all the new scifi stuff about Nezu.

How does those space ships stay in formation? Those right angles should deform rapidly in orbit until they are unrecognisable! The amount of energy needed to keep them like that must be astronomical.

[ArchmageFestus]

Ah, gotta love that new thread smell.
It smells like...
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SHIPPING!
D'aww, Nepeta's adorable. :33

[Zombiitwo]

dlArmok, we know nothing of Alternia, maybe it has a porous core and a small gravity well. Hell, maybe the Alternian military has inertial suppression technology.

Phone typing uhg

[Armok]

Alternia has enough gravity for things like walking to look reasonably earth like, and Aceofspuds doesn't seem like the kind of person to things like "inertial suppression technology" without going all

[AuthorX]

Wow, yep, finally starting to feel bad for Nezumi despite the BLUH BLUH. Maybe it's just the fact that she's self-aware of her situation, and how fucked up it is

How does those space ships stay in formation? Those right angles should deform rapidly in orbit until they are unrecognisable! The amount of energy needed to keep them like that must be astronomical.

Perhaps they just spend astronomical amounts of energy to stay in formation, because they are a DISCIPLINED MILITARY FORCE, DAMMIT

[Armok]

Hmm, oh another thing forgot to point out tat was REALLY good writing: The way it was implied he has never touched her softly, but have touched her violently.

[Armada]

IDE/Theory: Vokken is bitter because he had feelings for the original Nezumi and he wants her back.

I'll think of a productive command when I decide where Ace wants to go with this last update.

[Armok]

IDE/Theory: Vokken is bitter because he had feelings for the original Nezumi and he wants her back.

FURTHER IDE/Theory: He is also miserable because some recommendation on her abilities by him unintentionally doomed her.

[Zombiitwo]

Hmm, oh another thing forgot to point out tat was REALLY good writing: The way it was implied he has never touched her softly, but have touched her violently.

I caught that too. Really good writing.

[Brickman]

Well it flew right over my head until you guys pointed it out, so, uhh, thanks?

[aceofspudz]

armok--it was originally at L4 lagrange but then I thought it was more important to visually convey proximity to the planet without clunky dialog about where they were. So I just dropped the planet in without thinking about what that would do to the gravity. Now it is bugging me. Thanks a lot!

[FlyingFrogSlash]

Have your self a cookie

[Brickman]

It takes some serious insanity to fly your military spaceships in a formation involving right angles under any circumstances if you ask me. Have history and Ender taught them nothing?

[Megafire]

Was there a troll Ender?