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Ruby Quest Collection

* Once upon a time, on /tg/, a drawfag named "Weaver" offered to run an adventure RPG. All of Anonymous could make suggestions on what action to take next, and he would draw the results. It's true he cherry-picked the answers, but it's also true that the momentum of the mob derailed his anticipated plot, which changed the climax and denoument that the author expected to have.

The main character's name is quickly established to be Ruby and the story in it's entirety was called Ruby Quest. It was so successful that it spawned a new genre of collaborative storytelling. It inspired plenty of crap, and many drawfag wanna-bes forcing attempts at being the next big thing, but some cream has risen to the top to become Dorf Quest ("dwarf quest"), Maid Quest, Problem Sleuth.

Update: Andrew Hussie's Problem Sleuth is mentioned early in Ruby's story, so Andrew Hussies Jailbreak and Problem Sleuth may be the progenitors of this genre.

Below are some flash cartoons that tell the Ruby Quest story, made by a Yoshi-obsessed artist named TekStation, collecting the story from the multiple forum threads where they appear, and editing out the shout-outs from the crowd until only the winning suggestions remain.

I wouldn't have collected them here unless I felt they were worthy of reading.

Ruby Quest; the collection

(You will need Macromedia Flash to view these, but nothing too fancy.)

var $disclaimer = "Just because I'm republishing doesn't mean I claim any ownership of RubyQuest or the flash animations collecting the stories. The original story is property of Weaver, or would be if he wasn't just another tripfag in the rampaging horde that is Anonymous. The flash animations were made by TekStation, a labour of love and generosity. If you claim ownership of any of this you are a jerk, unless you are Weaver or TekStation, but we have no way of knowing that for sure. I am implicitly endorsing RubyQuest as someting good that came from 4chan, but this does not equate to endorsing everything that comes from 4chan -- that place can be scary. 'I do not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' said Voltaire. Words are not deeds, thank goodness, because some fanfic scares me.";