Questions and Answers: Trivia

A collection of Question and Answer sessions with Deculture, collected from threads or from his Ask.fm. This page contains questions and answers about the quest itself--questions about quest decisions, clarifications, "what if we had done X?", and announcements about community-related matters (writeups, fanart, etc.). Questions and answers that don't belong in any of the other categories also go here.

Questions from Ask.fm

• I have been re-reading Yuma quest. What does Malal obvious transformation into Pinky at the end means? You have stated that Pinky is not Malal transformed, so why make Malal transforms step by step during her last conversation with Yuma? It will have some significance in Malal quest 2?
  • That will be revealed soon enough in Malal Quest 2, for sure! [1]

• "If you really want to take advantage of a world without it rising up to revolt against you, then you do it by gathering resources, rather than by force. The Incubators know this." Was the role of Incubators/Officios partly inspired by Shadowrun's Dragons/Corps or do they just share similarities?
  • I think a little bit of both, honestly, although they're more like Weyland-Yutani now [2]

• If Chiaki shoots down Wendy, who would she end up with?
  • No one. If she had shot down Wendy, chances are she'd snapped and also murdered Midori, too. Cue Max Payne 3 theme with the bass turned all the way up, and chromatic aberration to its maximum levels.[3]

• What would have happened if we have accepted the deal with TTO to return to our old life?
  • Hahaha!! [4]

• When you started MGNQ, what all did you have planned and ready to go? Characters, plot, what have you?
  • "Homura as Max Payne. Let's make this up as we go. POST POST POST" [5]

• Hydra dominatus?
  • "For the Blessed Lady." [6]

• Why is green hair the danger?
  • "The betrayal that will cut the deepest will always come from the hand holding yours. That is your fate, Warmaster. That is the fate of the one bearing your pathetic legacy." [7]

• How do you plan on completing MGNQ this year? Outside of Anon commiting sudoku or having you rush things, I don't see how it'll happen. I mean, yeah, Pinky told us very early on that someone had 5GW, but even if several people had multiple weapons I can't see this ending this year.
  • It sounds stupid and people will tell me I'm being too optimistic but with my new schedule, the progress will be faster! I'll concede that maybe it'll run until 2016 but I'm still hoping for a one-year resolution to this story! [8]

• How does it feel having so many people writing for MGNQ? Which ones are you MOST glad about writing for you, and 'all of them' is not an answer!
  • It is the best feel in the world!! And I really look forward to all of them! [9]

• What was the relation between the devil and strength shades that we destroyed and the actual Risa and Yuu? And were Risa and Best imouto (Yuu) affected by the attack on the shades?
  • Ahriman just used the immense power of the Golden Staff to summon shades of former Golden Weapon users, really. And they weren't affected, no! [10]

• how would things have gone if we hadn't chosen to return to being Chiaki and had chosen to remain like that? Also, was that us as the ribbon fragment, TTO herself, or someone other? Also, we keeping the dress as well as the wings then? Sorry for questionspam there
  • 1. The POV switches to Sayaka having to DEAL WITH AN ALL-KNOWING MURDERFACE. Magical Girl Rage Quest go.
  • 2. A combination of the Ribbon Fragment, TTO, and Chiaki.
  • 3. The dress is still there, yes, and the wings will still be there. You'll be able to ask the Three Stooges for help with them in the next thread. [11]

• We haven't locked Pinky out of redemption/purification by dallying around with idols, have we?
  • Of course not! The moment when she shuts up and stops acting friendly is the point where that has happened. [12]

• RE writeups- As someone who's never read them, while I don't see much of a problem with them, I think part of what people dislike about them is when characters from them become important, leading to "Who is this character, why are they important, why should I care, why is it like we should know them
  • I do agree that a writeup characer being involved in the quest does make people curious about them, but like I've said many times, the writeups themselves are backstory fluff. Chiaki won't know about them, and the decisions Chiaki will make involving them will never involve information that one can glean from reading the writeups. Writeups are all optional, and I've stressed to the writefags to always keep this in mind in their writing. [13]

• Would we have really gone back if we accepted the Transcendent One's deal?
  • That's a secret! [14]

• > Kaname "Law of the " Madoka > Her alternate self in MGNQ's world has a self-styled biker theme coincidence? or is it?
  • Hahaha! [15]

• What was, in your opinion, the finest moment of one (or more) of your characters?
  • Yuma doing nothing wrong is an easy answer for me to drop here, but I'll give another: Midori being able to put her trust in a homicidal maniac of a corrupted goddess to get Chiaki out of the nightmare she was in. And the players helping her enough to get through what should have been her death arc. [16]

• Suuuuure, blame Midori's survival on the players!
  • That is all on your heads! (Well,and impressing Malal enough that she was willing to take a gamble on Midori). [17]

• If 'Chiaki Matsuda' hadn't been chosen, what other names did you have in mind? Did you have a name planned if none of the posted ones looked right?‎
  • Not really! I was looking for a consensus with the name and it just fit! [18]

• Are you actually keeping track of all of the character relationship points we've been getting so far in the quest? Or is it more of a general "you did really well this time!" thing?‎
  • It's all tracked. Each point codified, tallied, and measured to compare against character point tables with cross-checked consequences and variables. [19]

• + HOW. MANY. MURDERFACE. POINTS. DID. WE. LOSE. FOR. FORGIVING. THAT. BARBECULEXUS? +
  • All the points! All the points.
  • (No, even if she's a broken psychopath Murderface kind of understands Yuma now.) [20]