Quests

A quest is a special writing challenge that allows your character to embark on an adventure, face unique challenges, and explore their own backstory and personality. By participating in quests, you can deepen your character's development and provide interesting reference points for your ongoing interactions in the game. Quests are typically individual challenges, but group or pair quests are also possible!

Quest Styles

Interactive Quests:

• Description: Interactive quests are designed to offer a more immersive and customized experience for players. Instead of receiving all quest prompts at once, you'll get one prompt at a time, allowing you to delve deeply into each stage of the quest.
• Advantages: Interactive quests provide a slower-paced, in-depth exploration of your character's journey. They allow you to focus on each prompt, develop your character's reactions and decisions carefully, and engage in meaningful interactions with NPCs.
• Considerations: Since interactive quests unfold gradually, they often take longer to complete compared to other quest styles. However, this extended timeline enables you to invest more in character development and storytelling, making the experience richer and more tailored to your character's growth.

Open-Ended Quests

• Description: Open-ended quests provide all the quest prompts up front. Players have the freedom to reply to these prompts at their own pace, taking as much time as they need; in many cases you can even shuffle the order of events/prompts if you need or want to.
• Advantages: Open-Ended quests offer flexibility, allowing players to manage their time and responses as they see fit. This style is ideal for players who prefer a more relaxed approach to questing and have varying availability for posting.
• Considerations: While open-ended quests provide freedom, they may not offer the same level of immersion and immediate engagement as interactive quests. Players should be mindful of maintaining the continuity of the quest's narrative and character development throughout their responses.

Types of Quests

Below are just some of the types of tasks you can take on by questing.

• Artifact Quest: Seek out powerful and ancient artifacts. These artifacts could have magical or technological properties, and finding them can be a significant achievement.

• Bounty Quest: Collect bounties on dangerous creatures or individuals. These quests involve hunting down specific targets and bringing proof of their demise.
• Assassination Quest: Characters are hired to eliminate a target, whether it's a powerful enemy, a rogue faction, or a dangerous criminal. These quests often involve careful planning and stealth.
• Dungeon Quest: Characters are tasked with navigating through perilous dungeons, caves, or other treacherous areas, braving traps, monsters, and hidden secrets in order to claim the potential rewards within.
• Elimination Quest: In these quests, characters must clear dangerous areas of hostile creatures, such as wildlife or aggressive monsters, to make the region safer.
• Escort Quest: Safeguard NPCs, settlers, or valuable cargo during their journey; includes land and sea trips. Protecting them from threats and ensuring their safe arrival is the primary objective.
• Fetch Quest: Characters are tasked with retrieving a specific item, artifact, or resource from a particular location or individual. It could be anything from a rare magical herb to a valuable piece of technology.
• Rescue Quest: Characters are called upon to rescue a character, group of settlers, or even a stranger in distress. These quests can lead to unexpected encounters and alliances.

Process

1. Fill out the template below to initiate this catalyst; this can be done on #ic-requests or #catalysts-and-games on Discord.
2. Support will generate your quest and provide you with your prompt(s).
   • Due to the heavily creative nature of this catalyst, it may take Support longer to formulate responses and set tasks than the average mini-game. Your patience is appreciated!
   • Support may reach out through your support channel on Discord to ask clarifying questions, ask about possible plotlines if more than one option seems plausible, etc.

Template

Character Name:

Quest Style:

Quest Type:

Requests/Goals:

Item(s), Offers, Notes: