I disagree. RubyQuest has been told. Set in stone even. I would rather just have it adapted into a Flash cartoon as oppose to a game. That would be hot.

Fappable even.

I enjoyed Ruby Quest immensely, even though i didn't interact in them, just read the story.

That said, I think it's done. Finished. No reason to keep dredging it up at this point.

>>3616923
Someone hates fun

To be honest, converting ruby into a sprite based adventure game like loom would be awesome.

>>3616898

But, the ending wasnt BEST ENDING

There is so many things we dont know or havent solved, like what exactly did they find at the bottom of the ocean. Also we managed to not rescue a bunch of people.

>>3616898
RubyQuest the feature-length animated movie would be pretty good.
sage because there's already an RQ thread going here and I'm just trying to avoid clutter:
>>3614060

>>3616976
We've answered everything that needs to be answered. All the big mysteries have been unraveled.
The loose ends are tied up, the thematic motif is explored, the atmosphere has saturated. As it is, we've got our answers and they've been delivered, for the most part, in a tactful and subtle way. Anything else would be overkill.

Also, sageing because I have nothing to add.

>>3617008
o rly....then wtf was with that ending?

>>3617017
Tom, Ruby, and Jay escaped to freedom. What's so hard to understand?

Peniscopter.

>>3617017

Weaver was mocking us for not doing better. Stitches, Red, Hound... all of them are dead and ITS ALL YOUR FAULT

>>3617052
cept shit was fucked up like they're still infected.... tom isn't the right tom, there's still someone locked in a locker, red could come back, shit can still go nutz

Tom, Ruby and Jay finally make it to the station at the end of the tram track. As the tram approaches they see a group of soldiers waiting for them. Ruby begins to step off the tram, telling the soldiers that there's still people left back in Metal Glen, but she stops in mid-sentence, gore splattering out from the back of her head as a bullet zips through her third eye. Tom and Jay look on in horror as she falls limply to the ground, and the camera pans up to watch the sunset as the sound of gunfire erupts from below.

BAD END.

>>3617076
I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that William Murdoch was hearing the voices calling long before Red ever arrived on the scene. There's no way the placement was just a coincidence.

When I realized that Stitches had found the picture Ruby had left behind and sacrificed himself so that Tom and Ruby could escape.... single manly tear. Thats the kind of stuff that wasn't very apparent in the original telling of the story that would be lovely to have seen more in depth through a retelling through a new media form.

You wouldn't need VAs. Just using flash to make a music-less, sound-less, bare-interface application to basically sort images would be fine. But that means Weaver would have to think up the new images and all possible responses all at once.

Even then, someone would easily just break down the flash panels to see the hidden endings.

>>3617017
The ending was... WHAT A TWEEST

>>3617082
>they're still infected....
Whatever caused the miraculous healing (and its subsequent mutations) has obviously worn off, because Tom's eye healed normally, like it's supposed to, instead of magically regrowing. No matter what form the infection took, it no longer affects them.

>tom isn't the right tom
It's irrelevant. It doesn't change who he is as we know him.

>there's still someone locked in a locker
1. What?
2. So what?

>red could come back
No he couldn't. He made sure of that. That was the whole point of his suicide.

>>3617126

>Whatever caused the miraculous healing (and its subsequent mutations) has obviously worn off, because Tom's eye healed normally, like it's supposed to, instead of magically regrowing. No matter what form the infection took, it no longer affects them.
Yeah cthulhu shit like that doesn't just stop for no reason

>It's irrelevant. It doesn't change who he is as we know him.
He could start killing again very soon

>1. What?
>2. So what?
story isn't over


>No he couldn't. He made sure of that. That was the whole point of his suicide.
the hand still exists

>>3617126
One of the charts stated that there where very specific circumstances for any of them to be revived, if memory serves me.

So the fact that they are out of Metal Glen means that they are removed from those circumstances.

>>3617207
>Yeah cthulhu shit like that doesn't just stop for no reason
Logical progression and cause/effect observations are not "no reason".

>He could start killing again very soon
So could Ruby, if they were still infected to the degree they were before, but they haven't been since the start of the adventure. They've had plenty of opportunities to turn murderous.

>story isn't over
It is for Ruby.

>the hand still exists
So what? It's a HAND. Not enough to clone from, and by the time Ace unearths what's left of Red's body he won't be able to reanimate it.

The story obviously isn't over. It may be from Weaver's point of view, but there are so many remaining questions that it could easily lead to another game.

/tg/=furfags

What the fuck, /tg/. I used to come here to read about TRADITIONAL GAMES, not OH FUCK ME I'M A KAWAII RABBIT DESU.

>>3617126
You have to remember though, it isn't the first time that Red has commit suicide, according to Bella anyways. The first time Red commit suicide was november 1st, a year prior to the time that the game takes place in. Who knows how many other times Red has taken his own life in a mad attempt to be freed of his hell.

Ruby's insanity predated her death and revival. I assume that was one of the things fixed during the process, but whole knows.

The Metal Glen "treatment" doesn't seem to regenerate missing parts very well. It'll make what's left of you alive, and whatever's missing will be replaced with horrible mutations. Red's hand would probably just grow into a hand with some tentacles and arms sticking out of it.

>>3617265

I see you posting in both threads.

Being a little ambitious tonight, are we?

>>3617113
I disagree. There should be sound, but it should be a rarity. An unnatural stillness shattered by Red's insane laughter is more dramatic than just seeing it.

>>3617238

>Logical progression and cause/effect observations are not "no reason".
Except that there's not a shit ton of logic behind growing a third eye which has supernatural vision or alot of the stuff.....whats the logic behind ace?


>So could Ruby, if they were still infected to the degree they were before, but they haven't been since the start of the adventure. They've had plenty of opportunities to turn murderous.
I'm sorry tom ripping fil apart wasn't murderous?

>It is for Ruby.
not if we don't let it be

>So what? It's a HAND. Not enough to clone from, and by the time Ace unearths what's left of Red's body he won't be able to reanimate it.
Who are you to say what's enough to clone from or how old stuff has to be?

>>3617317
>not if we don't let it be
...there are so many thing wrong with this.

Please shut up.

>>3617297
We didn't even have context to the insanity. Supposedly Stitches' death was an accident, we don't know why she slit Red's throat, but one can guess that its because of the shit he was doing to the patients, and we don't know why she killed Tom either... perhaps old tom was abusive, maybe she was trying to spare him of the horrible rebirth she had experienced, or maybe she truly is just psychotic.

>>3617265
>I'M A KAWAII RABBIT .
>KAWAII

...what?
What does this have to do with Japan / being weeaboo in even the most remote way?
You're just throwing everything you can at it to see what sticks.

in b4 "butthurt", "mary sue", etc.

>>3617238
>So what? It's a HAND. Not enough to clone from, and by the time Ace unearths what's left of Red's body he won't be able to reanimate it.

Ace got out of the room roughly intact by the duration of his disappearance after that scene and the fact he could get to his coffin, so it is possible he managed to secure Red's body before the explosion.

Also we know from one of Filbert's notes that he was slipping the medication that Red refused to take, but all the other patients received, on the sly.

>>3617113 You wouldn't need VAs.

I'd prefer to see some people butcher some attempts at voice acting than have none at all. So long as the audio quality is good and they don't scream and clip every line.

>>3617329

No! you can't let unfinished things go.....

This is and has always been better than world eater so it needs to end properly....we didn't get a conclusive ending

>>3617351
Ask Jean to do Ruby. lul

>>3617372
And Slashie to do Bella.

>>3617297
>Ruby's insanity predated her death and revival
So did Red's. Ten to one Ruby was hearing the voices calling, and the madness seeped into her mind. Whatever lay beneath the facility was infecting the minds of its inhabitants long before it had a chance to infect their bodies.

>>3617317
>Except that there's not a shit ton of logic behind growing a third eye
It was caused by the experimental treatment, which itself originated from toying with a power the doctors really knew nothing about.
There's more than enough evidence that the treatment has a limited effect and there are certain circumstance it works under, so though its exact nature is bizarre, its limitations are still definable.

>I'm sorry tom ripping fil apart wasn't murderous?
That was provoked. You're honestly trying to pin that on his mutations? Tom was in the right there.

>Who are you to say what's enough to clone from or how old stuff has to be?
It said so in the notes Tom found near the end that if a body is too far gone, it can't be revived.

>>3617362
No. Shut up. You got your goddamn ending. Don't like it? Piss off.

Wanna whine about not knowing what happened with Tom and Ruby? Or the others? Shut the fuck up, Ruby Quest wasn't about what happened afterwards. It was about getting the hell out of Dodge, and when you get the hell out of Dodge, the story is OVER. An epilogue would be nice, but is by no means needed.

Wanna whine about all the unexplained shit in the Metal Glen? Piss off. The unexplained mysterious shit is fun BECAUSE it's unexplained and mysterious. Part of the fun is in not knowing, so shut the fuck up and enjoy it.

Good stories END, get the fuck over it.

>>3617350
>Ace got out of the room roughly intact by the duration of his disappearance after that scene and the fact he could get to his coffin, so it is possible he managed to secure Red's body before the explosion.
Whether or not Ace got Red out of the room before the bomb went off is the only remaining deciding factor between whether he will be revived or not.

But given that we found his blown-off hand in the rubble, I think it's safe to say Red was caught in the blast and not retrieved.

>>3617389
>It was about getting the hell out of Dodge
Fucking THIS. Right after killing Bella, everyone thought the hatch would automatically open and they'd be free to go, yet some people still said WAIT WE CAN'T LEAVE YET I STILL WANT TO TIE UP SOME LOOSE ENDS JUST FOR MY OWN CURIOSITY.

I couldn't fucking believe it when people said that. No, you fuckers, curiosity is going to get you killed. It's what caused this shit in the first place.
GET THE HELL OUT AND DON'T LOOK BACK
THERE ARE SOME THINGS MAN WAS NOT MEANT TO KNOW
THAT'S KIND OF THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT

>>3617381
>It was caused by the experimental treatment, which itself originated from toying with a power the doctors really knew nothing about.
There's more than enough evidence that the treatment has a limited effect and there are certain circumstance it works under, so though its exact nature is bizarre, its limitations are still definable.
You really have no grip on anything lovecraftian do you?

>That was provoked. You're honestly trying to pin that on his mutations? Tom was in the right there.
Ahh I see him liking it was perfectly ok for a sane person who's trying to escape hell


>It said so in the notes Tom found near the end that if a body is too far gone, it can't be revived.
Stitches has been put back together time and time again i'm sure it took awhile to get him off the fan....just like it could take awhile to get red back togteher...hell ace could have even saved the body....

>>3617306
The fight scenes should also have sounds, but not the puzzle bits. Makes them seem more dangerous and chaotic.

>>3617389
no the mysterious and fun is only when it's happening
It's stll alive... it's a fun game

why so serious?

>>3617408
>You really have no grip on anything lovecraftian do you?
So did you just not read this story at all or what?

>Ahh I see him liking it was perfectly ok for a sane person who's trying to escape hell
EVERYONE liked it. It was a universal FUCK YEAH moment.

>Stitches has been put back together time and time again i'm sure it took awhile to get him off the fan
It's a fan, not a food processor.
Stitches might have lost an arm or a leg, and obviously received a massive laceration down his skull, but he wasn't turned into paste.

>>3617416
Certain bits outside of combat could do with sounds. Like a strange squeal(like an old door or something) when turning the disc dial.

>>3617389
>>3617402

what is samefag like 12? Christ where did your meds go? It's like dealign with a teenage girl who overheard I didn't like twilight

>>3617402

Besides, we found out enough to piece most of the rest of the story together. Granted, we didn't find anything about #3 Lucy, or any more details about Dr. S, but we found enough.

And we got out. That's the real big thing. For a while there I was terrified we weren't going to get both of them out alive.

>>3617408
Him and Red caused all this shit, it was coming his way eventually.

>>3617420
Chances are strong that if Weaver came out with definitive answers, it would not EVER live up to the expectations and speculation and people would just whine about it. People like you.

Piss off.

>>3617440
>Not wanting Weaver to sit you down and answer every question in a long and mundane exposition makes you a Twilight fan.

>>3617440
>what is samefag like 12? Christ where did your meds go? It's like dealign with a teenage girl who overheard I didn't like twilight
>>3617317
>not if we don't let it be

Lol, irony.

>>3617394

>Whether or not Ace got Red out of the room before the bomb went off is the only remaining deciding factor between whether he will be revived or not.

Maddie didn't come back because the treatment wears off after a while. That's why the treatment involved weekly doses of the medication.

The medication has certainly worn off on Tom (check that eye, yo!) and it wore off on Red, too. After all, Red was eating the cereal and the cure makes it so you don't need to eat.

Red blew himself up when the cure was no longer active. What's more, the fact that we found his hand shows that Ace DID NOT remove his body before the bomb went off.

>>3617441
>any more details about Dr. S
Weaver all but said the character in question is Doctor Shrunk, and chances are he was one of the staff members who escaped just as things were going to shit and the station was abandoned.

He's really quite fitting to the role, however small.
This quote is uncanny.

>>3617450
I mean there was alot of things we didnt' find out... like tom was manly but ruby was feminine not womanly....so i'm pretty sure there's a 50.50 chance ruby could have been a girly man

Hey! OP used my art!

I probably shouldn't feel as special as I do right now.

>>3617482

It's good art.

You do anything else of the RQ crew?

>>3617451
>>3617464

still same angry fag

I wonder if any of the escaped staff members were infected and didn't know it.

>>3617469
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Even if Ace eventually digs Red out, he'll be way too far gone to bring back.
Red finally got his wish. After almost a year of trying, he gets to rest in peace.

I DID like the final "twist" at the end where it's revealed that the Hound, "Daisy", is still alive. It's thematically poignant, provides great imagery for the cyclical nature of the nightmare that is the Glen, and even suggests that there may still be hope for those left, that they may one day learn to work together and escape as well.

I could see Stitches and Daisy, after a number of deaths/retries, finally teaming up and getting out, maybe even with a dazed Filbert in tow.

>>3617491
Look kids! It's a troll! Don't feed it like those retards over there.

>>3617394
True, but Ace was bending over Red right before Tom and Ruby made their action packed escape from the room, so whether Red was completely destroyed or just damaged is up in the air.

There's an opening if the quest ever has a sequel and Weaver wants to bring Red back.

>>3617496
> I wonder if any of the escaped staff members were infected and didn't know it.
Even if they were, the 'infection' clearly isn't contagious the way we first thought and it has a limited period of activity away from the source. I figure even if they're still under the effects of the meds, everything will return to normal once they're outside Cjopaze's sphere of eldritch influence.

>>3617490
I've done a couple of sketches I never posted, but this and an unfinished comic are the only other things of note.

>>3617505

Hey kid why don't you just gtfo before your heart explodes

>>3617490
Oh crap, I did EmoAce too. Forgot.

>>3617531
Because I'm not angry?

Good job confirming troll status there, buddy.

FUCK YEAH
CROWNING MOMENT OF AWESOME

>>3617589
That's the second-last battle. But it's still cool.

Also, I like the idea that we could've saved Bella. That we could have found a way of getting her off the machine without killing her, like some portable life support or something. Unlikely to happen, kills some of the drama, but a nice idea to play with.
*Bella rises from her desk*
*Ruby and Tom stare in astonishment as it's revealed that her lower body is entirely cybernetic*
Bella: "...Let's face it, this is by far not the strangest thing you've seen."

>>3617629
Just as she says that, Red walks through the door. He is wearing a bikini and carrying a bullwhip. This is the strangest thing Ruby and Tom have seen.

>>3617372
>>3617376
yea yea what ever keep fapping fan boy. But no one I can think of could do a good Red cackle.

>>3617554

does it feel good when ruby touches you there?

>>3617629
>>3617638
And then this happens. /tg/ quits playing.

>>3617629
For me, I wished they would have found a way to keep her alive just long enough so that she could see the sun rise outside one last time and die happy. :[

>>3617655

>>3617655
Goddamn, I was just listening to that song.

>>3617655
That color scheme reminds me: I like how our expectations were played with. Everyone was coloring the Hound like she was Daisy, then we find out there was a patient named Maddie, and everyone assumes she's the Hound we met.

...then at the end it turns out Maddie was permadead long before the adventure even started and we really DID meet Daisy.
The fanart galleries are going to look weird, with this brief period of brown-colored Hounds interrupting all the yellow/blue ones.

So, the afterlife seems to be populated by Red, Maddie, and Bella, since pretty much everyone else either isn't dead or could be brought back.

>>3617655
I very nearly choked on my potato chip.

>>3617629
But then she'd be intentionally going against her orders. I don't think that'd've worked.

>>3617655
Let's be honest,
>And then this happens. /tg/ starts fapping.

MOAR ART

>>3617684
We don't know if it was Maddie or Daisy in the coffin at the end(?)

>>3617655

is that the largest version?

>>3617724
Which coffin? The one next to Ace's that we didn't bother to open?

>>3617734
The one she woke up in.

>>3617709

Your real life pal here Ichabod. GREAT INKING JOB.

It really looks much better than the original sketch. F-ing excellent.

>>3617782
Goddamn I was trying to hunt you down from your signature, but never found a way. Haha, just loved the sketch and had to see it finished!

>>3617724

We know it had to be Daisy. Maddie was never revived, and her body was disposed of. In a medical facility like the Glen, that means cremation.

So let's have some Alignments!

rolled 15 = 15

>>3617856
>>3617851

>Alignment?

No.

>>3617863
Oh you.

>>3617856

Definitely not Neutral Good.

Probably more Chaotic Neutral.

Also, we've seen Ruby as an Angry Commissar, and Tom as an Angry Marine.

If we could get Jay as a sanctioned Psyker, it would complete the trifecta of escapees.

>>3617868
Chaotic Neutral's taken already by Red. I think Stitches was pretty Neutral Good before he was fucked up. He's genuinely trying to be nice, and that's what matters.

rolled 17 = 17

>>3617851

The best you have is that ruby doesn't ditch whatever?

>>3617856

Okay, so sane he's not villianess.

>>3617876

Point.

>>3617876
>>3617887

You should stick to using in-game pictures.

>>3617655
Lawful evil is this picture of Filbert, with a line of Help Me Doctor Dick lyrics.

>>3617891

I agree, but there were no good solo pictures there of neither, really.

>>3617894

>>3617894
(Whoops, forgot my response for you.)

Fil's neutral evil, as you see.

>>3617909
Yeah, that makes more sense. Who's chaotic evil?

>>3617915
The Dummy

>>3617895
Wow Red, looking real feminine there.

>>3617900
Needs less words and more "..." imo

>>3617895
dem hips

>>3617918
He should be saying something that reflects the fact that he is the container of the inflected elder god flesh

>>3617923
More like Chaotic SEXY, am I right?

>>3617806

Sorry, I thought YOU were Ichabod, who is my IRL friend. You inked this? Who is you be? You should prolly like... have left the signature in there, and put an inked by secondary signature. Ichabod Turiel is the name he's leaving attributed to his sketch. I don't know how much he wants to expose his identity beyond that on THE CHAN.

>>3617926

This is what he's THINKING.

>>3617933

I reckon that's what most elder gods would say if they knew English.

>>3617926
Use the dialogue in Ace's picture for the Dummy

>>3617923
>>3617932
>>3617936
Guys, we might need a new Red picture. One where he isn't sticking his butt out.

>>3617946
Use the just kidding face on this image

>>3617946

>>3617943
In all honesty, I think the most terrifying thing about Ace is that we will NEVER know exactly what he's thinking.

Even the briefest glimpse into his supposed thought process makes him somehwhat less frightening.

ELLIPSES DAMNIT.

>>3617971
His mind is probably a swirling mass of chaos

>>3615418
Given the open-endedness of RubyQuest, it would be very difficult to recreate a flash game faithful to the original. RubyQuest was easy to design since you never had to make a branching point in the story, but a full game would have to incorporate ALL possible paths in the game (ie. what would happen if Ruby & Tom decided to split up? Or befriend the doctor?) and still make them just as interesting as the 'true' path (or at least worth the trip).

>>3617971
I guess you have a point. Those are his inner emotions, then, I suppose. He has never cared about anything but his orders.

Just plain ellipses would be far too uninformative, and imply that he'd be true neutral or something instead, unless you had seen the story and knew better.

>>3617959
He looks like a sergal in this art style and angle.

>>3617988
Which means that doing this thing correctly would be much trouble and effort, but if someone was willing to do it, damn it would be worth it and make so many people happy.

I think there might be more possible endings here than in Chrono Trigger.

>>3618015
There might be somewhere near an infinite number of endings. I think the flash movie idea would be easier to do. If people are going to work with weaver and /tg/, the infinite endings could be added over time.

sorry to ask but I've been out of the loop for a while. did ruby quest end? and how so? 1d4chan doesn't exactly make it clear and I don't want to read a shit load of post just for a simple explantion.

>>3618059
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Ruby
It ended pretty well

>>3618043

As oppose to adding more endings there should just be some pop-up video style commentary or something. It'd be easier and better.

The best, ultimate ending could unlock some information and videos about how the whole thing started, the Lost Year, perhaps even how the Old God ended up down there to begin with (okay maybe not the last one). I'd like to see some critical moments of Ruby and Tom's earlier escape attempts: Like how they met Bella for the first time, for instance.

Or maybe I'm just raving.

>>3617895
Improved

>>3618090
Hm. I do like the picture better, but I think that the text should contain some "NEVER GONNA CATCH ME", since that is one very critical part of Red's personality.

Theory about Ruby's rampage: the Idol was using her as its puppet before Ace, but upon being CANE'd to death by Red her mind reset and the Idol lost the work he'd done on her. But it's only a temporary setback: he switches over to Ace immediately afterwards.

Ace wasn't "lucky" enough to get killed, so the Idol ended up in complete control and at some point steered his body into Cold Storage and turned him into the Oogie-Boogie analogue we all fear.

As for obeying Bella, that was either the Idol making him act naturally or it was just a coincidence that both she and it wanted similar things. Either way, it began acting on its own (in Ace's body) when it became clear that Ruby and Tom were close to escaping.

>>3618121
I think Ace also went insane after he survived the bomb, think about the regeneration toll on his mind

>>3618100
But so was the fact you really had no idea whether or not he was a friend or a foe.

>>3617988
I'll be honest, RubyQuest was really, really good- but it wasn't that open ended.

Sure, you COULD do some things, but most everything you could do had some significance on the story, and what you could do was limited in the way you would expect in an adventure game.

Remember the door we busted down? Remember the other way to open it? There was only one way to open it, with Tom and the crowbar.

The only REAL open-endedness wouldn't have THAT much of an impact on the story. Say we take Filbert's body and chuck it into the fan. What happens then? He doesn't interfere with us again.

Some things would either kill us immediately, or change the ending (perhaps the same could be said of all horror games). Some things MAY uncover new information- but that's it. There wasn't too much we could do differently.

>>3618121
Been done. Play Five Days a Stranger.

Weaver won't go copying other people. He's too much of a genius to do that.

>>3618153
Point.

I'd much prefer a movie over a game. Still, none of it matters if Weaver doesn't give his approval. Going against his will with his own characters would be faggotry and heresy of the most severe kind.

Also, recolored fanart for your general reaction image needs. (to the artist: hope you don't mind.)

>>3618121
Ace went insane after the bomb, it was then that he decided to go after every living thing (all two of them).

He regenerated, came after us, we shook him off, he found us again, he got SPEARED, he fucked off for a bit then came back. Belle wasn't ever someone who tried to kill Tom and Ruby, Ace was.

>>3618166
We could have saved Nook, if we hadn't been so paranoid. We might also have had a shot in destroying the evil being stuck down there - if it wasn't too powerful. Saving Stitches would've been possible.

If we had had the guts to go through the Elemental Plane of Teeth -door, we might have died, sure, but we might also have survived, and discovered some crucial stuff.

Rescuing Bella, Filbert, Daisy, or even Red, would take very, very much stretching, and require that we took a totally different route almost from the beginning and had information about the game already, but it's not compeletely impossible - perhaps for the Ultimate Ending?

>>3618167
[wikis it] ...huh. Not quite the same; I was just referring to the idol because it's the thing most closely connected to whatever Outer God is doing all this. Guess I wasn't that clear about it.

>>3618168
>his own characters

you mean Nintendos.

>>3618185
He wasn't really trying to kill them at first, though. He just kept coming for Ruby and ignoring all attacks.

>>The Playstation 2 game Shadow of Destiny had five different endings (actually six — two of them have the same ultimate result, but achieve it in different ways), determined by the choices you made at certain junctures and whether or not you'd witnessed certain missable events. Each ending filled in different detailis of the overarcing plot, so it was necessary to play to all of them to get the full picture of what was going on.

This might be a good model to go on. I think the best way to do is to just have two endings: One 'Good' ending explaining half the story, and a 'Bad or Evil' ending explaining the other half. I also like how SoD forces a time limit to solve puzzles, which is not unlike RubyQuest.

>>3618209
Please. Only names and a bit of appearance. They became entirely different characters from that on.

I mean, wasn't Tom originally a bit more rude?

(I know I know, feeding the troll, but still.)

>>3618193
Two things early game we could have done differently:
Pushed skull button
NOT PISS TOM OFF AND FEED HIM FISH

>>3618227
DON'T GIVE RED COINS.
MAKE GODAWFUL SMOOTHIE BEFOREHAND
DON'T PUT FILBERT'S HAND IN THE CHUTE, SAVE IT TO SEE THE RECORDS (Okay this might've made things worse)
GET RID OF DUMMY AND FETUS STATUE

Among other things. I'm sure I'll make up more when I think about it a tad.

>>3618220
the weaver has actually used a lot of animal crossing characters as his on other boards while being a drawfag. The only difference is that they lack the finer detail of what they are based off of in this particular series of his.

>>3618267
Those other boards, and what else he might have posted there, are irrelevant. What matters here is the characters of Ruby Quest. If Weaver had named them differently, no one would ever have seen the connection.

>>3618210
He was definitely trying to kill us.

Whatever Weaver's new thing on Thursday (tonight?) happens to be, ARCHIVE THAT SHIT. Even if it's just an official discussion thread. Some of us have university in the morning.

>>3618168
I dont' mind at all, in fact, thanks for coloring it

Any Drawfags here?

I like to request RubyQuest Gantz crossover.

The Dummy is Gantz.

>>3618305
so why didn't he just give them original names in the first place?

>>3618335
>I like to request RubyQuest Gantz crossover.

I would like to ask for art about Ruby and Tom's final adorable kiss. And Tom drawn as the Fourth Doctor.

>>3618352
It was a shout out. A reference to another game.

I honestly can't see this being the same Bella who was hooked up in all kinds of machinery and begged to die:

>>3618193
>We could have saved Nook, if we hadn't been so paranoid.

I doubt it. Well, do you mean at the end? That wouldn't have changed much. So we get Nook on our boat. What then? He leaves. The end.

>We might also have had a shot in destroying the evil being stuck down there - if it wasn't too powerful.

We're not even sure where to BEGIN. I mean, its possible I guess...I think it was left ambiguous on purpose.

>Saving Stitches would've been possible.

No. He went insane. He was insane when he attacked Ace at the end (he wasn't doing it out of gratitude. He had no brain, only another mouth)

>If we had had the guts to go through the Elemental Plane of Teeth -door, we might have died, sure, but we might also have survived, and discovered some crucial stuff.

...Yes? I'm thinking "died"

>Rescuing Bella, Filbert, Daisy, or even Red, would take very, very much stretching, and require that we took a totally different route almost from the beginning and had information about the game already, but it's not compeletely impossible - perhaps for the Ultimate Ending?

Doubt it. Bella would need a portable life support machine, Filbert was always crazy, so was Daisy, Red wouldn't have tried to escape- it would have validated the fact that he was captured.

>>3618243
>DON'T GIVE RED COINS.
He wouldn't have pulled down the tarp, and he may have killed us right there. But this is probably the second part of the story that could feasibly change the outcome.

>MAKE GODAWFUL SMOOTHIE BEFOREHAND
If you think of it like a game, the second you put everything in the blender is the second the bomb starts.

>DON'T PUT FILBERT'S HAND IN THE CHUTE, SAVE IT TO SEE THE RECORDS (Okay this might've made things worse)

We would have lost it after falling unconscious after Daisy nailed us.

>GET RID OF DUMMY AND FETUS STATUE
Both of which were just collected by Ace. I don't know why. We tried to get rid of the Dummy, but Weaver resisted pretty hardcore.

(Deluge spotted, Area disposed)

>>3618314
Actually no, he just wanted to lock us in the lockers again. Its all explained in the Q&A session Weaver did earlier today.

Before anyone freaks out, I intend to post it in its own thread as soon as I finish cutting out all the gibberish posts. For those who want to see the gibberish posts too, I intend to include a link to the extended version.

Even if we had saved Nook, to what end? He's been blinded and was essentially a quadriplegic, not to mention the resulting injury if he had cut himself down with the scissors.

>>3618428

Much obliged.

I totally saw the Tom is subject #6 coming, although for a while (before we met Nook) I thought it was Ruby.

I had reasons, good ones.

>>3618415
>>3618420
So many things were left ambiguous, that you may never be completely certain of any of these. Unless Weaver tells us exactly how it is, we may never know.

At the very least, I'm sure it was possible to get to know exactly what happened and how, and what was responsible. Weaver wouldn't've given us all those weird hints if he hadn't written the entire story, and he'dn't've written the story in the first place if he didn't have any intention of telling it to us, if we worked it out.

Also,
>Both of which were just collected by Ace. I don't know why. We tried to get rid of the Dummy, but Weaver resisted pretty hardcore.

We could've dumped them back to the Brig pit. I think. Eh.

>>3618428
Yes, thank you immensely.

>>3618428
Were there any big questions answered?

>>3618445
There were no scissors.

>>3618456
All this means is that the transition from /tg/ to a flash game (or even an older school, more traditional text) wouldn't be too difficult.

Kill Tom AND Ruby if skull is pushed (close everything and gas)

Red kills Ruby if she refuses to give him the coins.

Ace FUCKS EVERYTHING UP SHIT YEAH if he catches up to you. The only way to escape him is:
1) Climb up the tube
2) SPEAR HIM

Filbert kills you if you don't lock the closet.

If you somehow kill Tom and still manage to escape (I think it's possible, replace MANLY PHYSIQUE with PSYCHIC FUCK YOUR SHIT UP) Worst end

If you don't save Stitches: RONERY end

If you do what we did: BEST END

With extra points for saving Jay or Tom.

>>3618458
>>3618473
Very yes.

>>3618456
>We could've dumped them back to the Brig pit. I think. Eh.
Yes, that's a great idea. Throw the Eldritch Totem into the chaotic rift being caused by some Eldritch Horror.

The Brig's pit opened because it was the original resting place of whatever ancient horror we awakened, and that power was starting to leak through.
Returning the idol to its source would not have done anything good.

>>3618708
Actually, going on the assumption that Ace was under Eldritch control, the fact that the dummy WASN'T tossed into the pit says a lot.

>>3618890
nope. It was asked during the IRC, and the consensus was "A name would be boring; don't ask Weaver that." So, Weaver never answered.

I'm not sure, perhaps you should ask him.

Somewhere else.

>>3618415
While I agree on most of your points, I don't think Stitches was entirely insane. He might not have had full control over his actions, but he was not fully insane.

And hell, if Daisy was recoverable, so would have been Stitches. He might have still been a reincarnation or two away from enough control over his sanity to be safe, but I don't think he was an entirely lost cause. As far as we can tell, it is possible to regain your form and sanity after being even mutated as bad as Daisy.

>>3618090
Use the picture in
>>3617530 or one of the ones of him laughing in >>3615418

>>3618193
Tell me at what point Nook was savable? By the time we found him he had already become a terrible monster.

Also saving Stitches would have had less of a powerful impact than the regretful monster who loves his former friends and wishes them no harm despite his paper thin control over his monstrous side. Whom finds the picture of his friends that Ruby left behind for him, and gathering up the last ounce of his control waits to take down ace in a blaze of sacrificial glory while his friends make an escape for the surface.

>>3620950
>Tell me at what point Nook was savable? By the time we found him he had already become a terrible monster.

Well, I might be reaching a bit here, but... Stitches was cured very fast, even from beyond death. Twice so, even, just during the last few days before escape. I think it could've been plausible to cut Nook away from those vines of his, and if it turned out to be lethal or otherwise hurt him, we could've put him to the lockers to heal. No more madness, either.

And whether we could save him or not, he might've been a very valuable ally. Or at the very least, having him on our side would've meant that there was nothing to be afraid of him anymore, giving us more time and freedom to investigate around the facility.

And yes, saving Stitches would've had less emotional impact, but if he hadn't showed up and Tom had died buying time for Ruby, I'm sure it'd've been rather emotional too. The point being, emotional =/= good.

On an unrelated matter, I also think that with enough information, and by putting a bit more weight upon finding the truth, and less upon simply getting out, we might've been capable of destroying the BBEG, which would've been pretty much the best possible ending (unless either Ruby or Tom died while doing it). We could've thrown something at the Teeth Door, like Filbert's corpse: If it had reacted favourably, as in not eat him, we could've investigated further. Surely Red's room might've contained some crucial information about the beast?

Oh and, what about the amnesia? Did the creature eat their memories or something? Or were they just pushed away into the depths of the patients' minds, by the treatment? Could they ever be recovered? I think we should've asked Weaver about this.

i know pretty much nothing about ruby, but if you guys are trying to make a game, you can make it with static pictures and a tree of multiple choices/paths, y'know, like old fashioned h-games, like true love, divi-dead or seasons of sakura.

Wait wait... If the treatment wears off, won't Ruby and Tom become blind again?

>>3621047
The whole point of the game was that we didn't want to feel safe. Making everyone out ally would mean that the game would be no fun. Sure there is a lot left in the air, but I would rather the environment have always felt threatening than just walking around like shmucks with not a care in the world.

>>3621097
This... is a good point. But I guess it's better than the alternative.

>>3621097
No. They just can't re-heal. So if say the looked at the sun for too long and went blind then they wouldn't be able to re-heal, as evidenced by Tom's eye.

What they have, they keep, but if they lose it, its gone for good this time.

how about a text adventure?

"use CLAWED FINGERS, EYEBALL, TEETH, BLOOD on BLENDER"

>You combine ingredients in BLENDER and make GODAWFUL SMOOTHIE.

"use THIRD EYE on dummy"

>You use THIRD EYE on DUMMY and see OH GOD WHAT THE SHIT IS THAT!

"RUN SHIT RUN FUCK"

>you and Tom get the fuck out of there. it look like you're sa- OH GOD DAMN IT'S CHASING YOU

> Flash game

THOUSAND TIMES NO.

Best be an AGS game that's ALREADY IN THE FUCKING WORKS.

There's someone in IRC working on a game but not using flash; I'll PM him now.

blah blah

Now that Ruby Quest is over we have Ruby Quest: Spinoff Hell.

I don't have any problem with Ruby fans but this isn't going anywhere.

>>3621327
Dorf quest as already going; we've had crap spin offs for ages. We've not had any -more- since it's been gone.

shame we still have these retarded threads

Just to ask...when is the topic tonight? At 3 a.m. or actually at night?

>>3621370

Lolwut?

RQ is over. There's no thread tonight.

>>3621382
See
>>3618318
But I dunno, might be lying.

If it's gonna be a Q/A, ask him about them memories. I want to know if Ruby and Tom will ever remember.

They could go for a hypnotist. "Yeah we've sorta forgotten our entire lives, and were wondering if you could dig up all the old memories. Oh and, the last year or so could be a little bit weird, don't mind about that."

>>3621351
I mean direct spinoffs. It screams "NO IT CAN'T BE OVER GUYS LET'S SQUEEZE THE LIFE OUT OF WHAT'S LEFT RATHER THAN DO SOMETHING ORIGINAL" to me.

>>3621387

He said something like "Next Thursday, Thursday Quest, starring: Thursday".

But I think he was just joking. When someone joined the IRC channel and asked about the next RQ session, everybody always answered: "Next thursday". It was a recurring joke.

I wouldn't put my hopes too high on another session tonight, guys. Or any other night.

>>3621351
Are you insinuating Dorf Quest is bad?

Death and subsequent treatment in the lockers pretty much restores the body to normal. Mutations possibly start to emerge, and with continuing treatment (while alive) the mutations grow stronger. After a short time without treatment the mutations no longer grow.

That explains a lot of the weirdness in the game. Why Ace goes around putting people back into lockers. Every time they go through a healing cycle they become closer to whatever the ancient evil wants them to be. Also why Stitches and Daisy came back mostly normal-looking after we killed them, and why Stitches always looked worse after each stretch of time we didn't encounter him.

That explains Ruby and Tom's mutations, too. They likely died (again) shortly before the game started, so they were starting fresh. At most, Ruby went through one cycle of living treatment during the backout period. So she grew the third eye but it never got any worse because they avoided being stuffed into a locker during the game. Tom's arms were probably developed during his last cycle of death/treatment (whenever that was--we don't know.) It can be assumed his missing eye (which I think was removed by Filbert, I don't completely remember) was starting to mutate, too, but since it was removed and he was never treated again it didn't grow back.

>>3621486
Thursday, not thursday.

But no, weaver did say he was doing something for Thursday. The Q&A session has already gone mind

>>3621486
Spiak never said "next thursday" he only ever said Thursday. Remember the session before last WAS on a Thursday.

sorry, just reading a little about ruby on 1d4chan...
man, this drawfag is god! i almost pissed my pants.
and in off-off-topic, yeah, the angry marine version was good too.

So when do we see Ruby and Tom confronting the mysterous and evil "Board", that has by now devolved into a gang of horrible demonic horrors?

>>3621472
Personally I'd like to see a direct translation of Ruby Quest to game or animation for the purpose of sharing with others. I've had my fun, I'm more than happy to let it be, I don't want anything more than what we already have. But it'd be nice to have some sort of medium that could be shared with other people.

As much as I think the archived threads are awesome, to people who never experienced Ruby Quest it might not be as palatable.