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Ruby Quest; Oh god... what WAS that?!?
Topic Started: Aug 20 2009, 09:20 PM (415 Views)
Halfwing Aeon
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I've been meaning to post this here for a while...

Ruby Quest was something that happened on 4chan a while ago, where someone named Weaver started a text based adventure. You know, like those old text games played on computers long before graphics existed.
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Go North
> You were eaten by a Grue.
(though i doubt anyone other then chris or gunny would get that joke.)

It's pretty good and i think everyone here would like it. I don't want to go too much into detail, that way i don't spoil it, but after it gets past the part with the bear, I don't think anyone would be able to stop reading it.


I also recommend reading the discussion threads as you work your way through the arcives, one of them even had a poem that Ruby Quest was "based" on.


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The Metal Glen

My mother told me once of when
A young hare ventured from her den
And as she danced in field and glen
The world sang joy about her.
But wicked hateful things abound
And that young hare these evils found
Then whisked her up from off the ground
And glen was left without her.

The wicked power tore asunder
And with this cruel and fateful blunder
Cast her to a world of wonder
Would she e'er see home again?
And so hare flew that mournful day
Over the sky and far away
And down and down, beneath the sea
To a place unlike the glen.

A world of men and man's design
A place where God's light would not shine
A Hell of steel beneath the brine
Where misery's echoes boomed.
And all around her there were others
Beasts like her, all sisters, brothers,
Locked up, all, with one another,
In deep sea-dark, entombed.

And in this crypt far from the shore
The hare lay down upon the floor
Imprisoned there forever more
And left to all her sorrow.
Her tender world was lost and gone
So joy and happiness foregone
She slept and cried and prayed for dawn
To wait the coming morrow.

The hound was still, the birds said naught,
The fox denied he had been caught,
The bear cried "This is just our lot",
And surrendered to his pain.
But the cat stood up and shook his head
And rising from his metal bed
He said "For now, I am not dead,
And I will not die in vain!"

He cried aloud with much disdain
And tore about his stark domain
And said "These walls cannot contain
A force as strong as I!"
And the fox just laughed, and the birds all cried
And the bear knotted up himself and died
But the hare looked on as the poor cat tried
To break him free and fly.

He shook his chain with all his rage
And flew in anger 'round his cage
Decrying this dark mournful stage
And the hare stood up as well.
With passion did she then respond,
She chewed her ropes and broke her bonds,
And freed the cat, they ran beyond,
They ran to flee that hell.

And what became of cat and hare?
Did they break free to purer air?
To guess their fate we shouldn't dare
Perhaps their tale closed well.
But for all the beasts trapped in the Nether
All life from out the loch and heather
The flock that could not work together
Are sure still trapped in Hell.

--William Murdoch
♪ Always~ I wanna be with you~ and make-believe with you
And live in harmony, harmony - OH, LOVE ♫
♪ Always~ I wanna be with you~ and make-believe with you

And live in harmony, harmony - OH, LOVE ♫
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- I really enjoyed it. Not something that I expected from a 4chan thread. Especially the end of part 1 where everyone started freaking out once they figured out the puzzle. I just finished part 2.
- I think if I grew up during the text based/point-click games era, I would've enjoyed them. It leaves a bit up to imagination as opposed to just seeing it. There's a lot of detail and it explains all my actions instead of just taking them for granted. But nowadays...I don't think I'd be able to enjoy them.
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Jan Medi
Aug 21 2009, 08:17 AM
once they figured out the puzzle.

ಠ_ಠ

reminds me of that time in Resident Evil... where i fought that zombie.
♪ Always~ I wanna be with you~ and make-believe with you
And live in harmony, harmony - OH, LOVE ♫
♪ Always~ I wanna be with you~ and make-believe with you

And live in harmony, harmony - OH, LOVE ♫
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I wasn't eaten by a :censored:in' Grue, I had my lantern on.
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luminary uprise
Aug 21 2009, 07:20 PM
I wasn't eaten by a :censored:in' Grue, I had my lantern on.

yah someone got that!
... did you actualy read this or are you just replying to that?
♪ Always~ I wanna be with you~ and make-believe with you
And live in harmony, harmony - OH, LOVE ♫
♪ Always~ I wanna be with you~ and make-believe with you

And live in harmony, harmony - OH, LOVE ♫
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Halfwing Aeon
Aug 21 2009, 10:13 AM
Jan Medi
Aug 21 2009, 08:17 AM
once they figured out the puzzle.

ಠ_ಠ

reminds me of that time in Resident Evil... where i fought that zombie.

um... point and shoot. if you hit the head you win!
Stop reading this...... You dont listen do you?
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i read the archives and went damn thats crazy and i thought we should do a forum based game what do you guys think
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Zork!

and uh, sites blocked for mehZ 0.o
Through Chaos Comes order.

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Well, you're on a military server, so they can't have you spending all of your time online.

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