#the quag

[notsosavagecabbage-blog]

Bday present for my fren!!!!!!!!

HAPPY B DAY!!!!!!!!!!

[serenitywisp1217]

No thoughts, just Quagsire hand puppet

[pocketneophyte]

Day 8 Snicketober catch up: Quagmires for ‘Prufrock Prep’ prompt!

[bagofpikachus]

i was inspired

[harteofthehart-ayyy]

fucked up you're from the future

anyways i drew you this

IT’S HARTY TIME

[wherefore-whinnies]

lil guys

pattern by Haniscrochet!

[bwoahtastic]

My dudesss I need help and my roommates are asleep:

There is a guy here I really like and we have been going out for some dates but the vibe has been confusing, i don't think either of us know if it's friendship or more lol. He is moving to another country tomorrow and I am kicking myself for not making a move sooner cos I never had a connection with someone like I do with him. Do I message him and just go "don't know if you realise but I really fucking like you don't leave and if i had been braver i would have kissed you weeks ago"?? Like in person I never manage to say anything and he doesn't either, we just sorta hoover around and wait for the other lol and AHH! I still see him tomorrow morning before he leaves and I don't want to make him awkward in case I got it all wrong though 😭

[sharkselfies]

[hylidaes]

Oh my GOODDDDD

This figure is a targeted attack on my wallet personally 🥺🥺 LOOK AT THEM

[citrusinicake]

what would one call a hypothetical polyship between ash, red, and zam? cause i am having Thoughts

[ven10]

A drawing of my favourite aspiring journalist! :) (Duncan Quagmire!) 🗞️

[quaggyday]

Here’s a drawing I spent a little less time on cause I wanted it out quicker to explain Lang’s lore. Btw does anyone have tips for drawing hands.

Undertale gold au and Rover belong to @s0ckh3adstudios and knowing what she’s written beforehand helps in context for this story.

Also Tw for neglect, bullying, and violence that is at least sort of talked about.

Enjoy my word babbles!

Lang only recently moved into the town near Mt Ebott and they were really lonely and isolated. Their parents were pretty negligent of them and they had a hard time speaking and communicating with others. (I’m trying to write they have aphasia or some other type of disability, need to do more research though)

The only way Lang could talk to others was through their notebooks but because of language barriers and their tendency to scare other kids off little progress was made. So when they ran to the mountain to get away from bullies, Lang decided to go higher and talk to the monsters they had read about in books.

They reached the top and fell down, and from there Lang tried to mess around with the meta of Undertale. They tried to give themselves the ability to create dialogue boxes and talk the way monsters do, through written sentences in video games. Due to their lack of determination or possibly Tores influence however, they were unable to create a perfect box.

So when they tried using ACTS to talk, Lang’s words were extremely messy and jumbled and actively scared monsters away in the process. Feeling rejected by both humans and monsters Lang wanted to leave.

But as they stumbled through the darkness of the ruins to the snowy area, their anger began to rise as more monsters fled from them. They actively barked and screamed tand eventually they tried climbing a tree with their perseverance powers in the hope of reaching the underground ceiling.

They fell down for the second time that day and survived only with their invincibility. When they awoke their notebook was gone and Lang was pissed.

Racing through the snow, their SOUL beat with purple and actively created a ton of damage in their wake. Lang’s chase eventually lead them to Snowdin where the group of monsters who stole Lang’s notebook had given it to Rover.

Lang lunged forward, knocking out Axis for a couple seconds and scaring off the monsters. In their fury they prepared to attack Rover but only found the monsters apologetic expression.

This snapped them out of their rage and Lang finally tried saying what was on their mind- tried apologizing. But it was too late as adult monsters came to see a human had entered their home. So Lang grabbed their notebook and Rover’s hat by accident and made a break for it.

They ran to waterfall where they were cornered by Axis, but quickly beat them with raw anguish and threw the robot over a waterfall. Lang then only stumbled further ahead until they reached a dead end.

Feeling nothing but guilt for their actions, Lang chose to write one last message in their notebook before they were cornered by Dalv. One lightning strike was enough and Lang didn’t fight back. They let it happen, let themselves rest.

(Until Dalv and Chujin revived Lang and ended up pissing them off ten times more)

Anyway, tell me anything about the lore I’ve written since there is a possibility it might change. If you have any questions just ask in notes too.

Random notes!

-Lang talks in a weird way, since they use ACTS and dialogue boxes. They don’t open their mouth and instead sentences from them look like this

“Lang asks why monsters are underground”

“Lang agrees to the plan ”

“Lang explains that they are tired of people’s shit”

-Lang is Chinese and they also know English, sign language, morse code, and wing dings for shits and giggles.

-Lang is a very blunt kid, but they are genuinely polite and caring to those around them. Their emotions just tend to get the better of them though.

-They love comic books and comic strips, and they specifically talk just about them

[dndhistory]

45. Andre Norton - Quag Keep (1978)

D&D novels would be an ubiquitous and important part of the whole world building of the various settings with novel series like those set in the Dragonlance or Forgotten Realms setting selling millions upon millions of copies. In 1978, 4 years into the appearance of the game things were a little different and they would continue to be so until 1984's Dragons of Autumn Twilight which really kicked off in earnest the hundreds of D&D novels to come.

Before that happened we would still have fiction in the shape of the Endless Adventure gamebooks which would appear in the early 80s and before all of that, this book. Quag Keep by Andre Norton (real name Alice Mary Norton) is set in the Greyhawk setting, and it starts off in the city of Greyhawk as adventurers come together to understand what the hell is happening to them. They are all suffering from a sort of amnesia and glimpses of another world (out world), they also have these kinds of charm bracelets with polyhedral dice... what is going on?

Unusually for D&D novels this mixes our world with the world of the game, and it's a pretty fun read, most of it is a road trip as adventurers try to reach the titular Quag Keep to destroy the cause of their planar dislocation. Andre Norton is a good writer and there are a couple of cool references to Greyhawk elements, I particularly liked a mention of the Frog Temple from the Blackmoor supplement. Worth a read, more as a curiosity than anything, but still entertaining. 

[kaimukiwahine]

When one friend gives the idea of making a [hypothetical] small froggy print and another planted the thoughts of the Wooper line. Sprinkle in my beloved Clodsire. 

Hoping to finish this some time soon because I kinda love how it’s looking (along with the two who are responsible for the idea giving their thumbs up)

[beeemmmooo]

The silly quag was drinking nothing so I filled the mug with hot water for the good quag

[charoixluvr420]

:)