/cog/ - Traditional & Video Gaming

>Be Quo
>Quo Tir
>Doing biological studies on the Earth Continent known as ‘North America”
>The Bright cousin world contains so many strange Biomes and Fauna!
>You couch down to examine some strange white fungal growths
>It will take us many eyes to fully document the inhabitants of just this one conti-
>A Loud Bang rings out in the forest.
>You freeze but all the fauna around you scatters, obscuring the direction of the sound
>You decide to remain still, unsure of the cause of the sound. Is it some predator you have yet to see, and natural event, something else entirely?
>Your thought halts as you hear rustling in a nearby plant, curiously you peek your head over.
>You observe a Bright cousin, having just emerged from a bush it was previously occupying.
>Its dress in a odd tunic, a mix of contradicting colors, some that blend seamlessly with the colors of the local environment, while the other is a bright orange hue.
>It even has stripes of some highly reflective material. How curious!
>Is it trying to blend into the environment or not, I must ask!
>You stand up fully and face your new friend.
>Its freezes as soon as it makes eye contact with you, eyes wide and a facial expression you have yet to observe.
>You pull at your non-existent neck as you shift your translator into something it can understand.
>”Hello Friend! Were you the source of that big sound earlier?"
>No verbal response.
>New bright friend remains motionless barring one step back.
>In its hand you notice some sort of long tool, some contraption of dead metal and fibrous “wood” as they call it.
>Before I can remark about it, the Cousin turns heel and sprints off into the forest.
>Is there something he is running from? Should I be running from it? I can answer both questions by following my friend!
>You give chase.
>Bright cousins aren't the best runners, but they make up for it with endurance!
>You are catching up, you wonder where it is running too?
>It notices your approach and speeds up, is it trying to race you, or is the thing he is running from gaining lead?
>You speed up as well, trying to match its heightened pace.
>Seemingly, in its urgency to flee whatever it is fleeing from, it drops its tool.
>You scoop it off the ground, not even slowing down, as you continue your fun little run.
>”Friend! Friend! You dropped your tool! Do you want it back?!
>No response, just a faster pace as some sort of response.
>Is this one perhaps deaf or hard of hearing, surely I will get my answers once we reach our destination!
>Soon we reach a big rocky train, and at the end of it sits a square dead metal machine
>Its one of the bright cousin walker equivalent’s, How fascinating
>The cousin doesn't even slow down as it approaches the transport, but quickly dives into an open hatch off the side of it.
>Your pace slows as you hear the dead metal machine roar to life, it emanates a loud, vibrating growl as it wakes up.
>It wastes no time and starts rolling down the road at an alarming pace.
>But the cousin forgot his tool!
>You wont possibly catch that transport at this pace, so as a last attempt you wave the cousins tool in the air and try to shout to get its attention.
>However, as you do so, it seems your finger slips a catches a small lever on the middle of its ‘grip’
>You nearly lose your hold on the tool as a loud BANG emanates from one end of it.
>Very reminiscent of that first loud sound you heard earlier.
>The transport does not stop and you watch it vanish into the forest.
>You stop to examine the tool further, after fiddling with a few more small levels, the tool rops open on a hinge, spitting out two empty canisters of some sort, slightly hit and emitting a faint odor.
>On a piece of hardy leather connecting to the two ends of the tool, you find more of those strange canisters, but these ones are unspent, so curiously you slot them back into the now empty cylinders in the device and close it up
>It locks back together with a hefty click.
>You find the lever that that you hit by mistake earlier and click it again, to your delight the tool recoils back with a loud noise and an unknown force
>What a curious device! I must study it further!
>It was about at this time you noticed a small leakage emanating from the side of your torso.
>Further investigation reveals you appear to have been stabbed by something, as there is now a small hole leaking corru.
>I wonder how that got there!
>You leave the trail and start heading back to your vessel with your new Bright cousin tool to go repair your mysterious injury.
>You will give it back once you find that cousin again, but its eagerness to return to wherever it came from shall remain a mystery to you, for now at least.

[Local hunter tells report of Giant ‘fae’-like cryptic in forest, more at 11].

>>436988
>Canonically? unsure: how they reproductive is never really brought up and the situation if Qou can do it is even more unclear.
>Fandom wise? oh they fuck NASTY. they fuck like they're population is small and and they want doubleddgit kids because their population IS small and they wanna change that.
>Also, expect nails, teeth, and whatever they can figure out what to do to you with their receptors

Extremely niche thread, very well i shall post some of my art

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Might as well try to prompt some discussion here, because the only two other places this game has any form of present community is their discord and tumblr:

>discord has people who'll scream at you for not knowing what plural system is.
>Tumblr is the same people, but at least you have a better system for blocking.
>game too niche for reddit somehow.
>twitter pressence being held up by a singular nsfw artist.
>dont bother with anything youtube related besides the music.

Which fucking sucks because i do find these wierd ass aliens rather fucking interesting but the only place i can have good discussion about them are private discords and me harassing my friends about it:

Obesk:
>give startrek TOS vibes.
>live on a deathworld(moon), but are surprisingly friendly somehow.
>have caste system reminiscent of hive incest without a hivelord/queen role.
>have wierd horn shaped antenna receptor things that shape depends on said caste.
>where hunter-gatherers that lived in cave citys till they accidentally sidestepped the entire techtree and invented corru tech that got them from stone tools to ftl tech and immortality in like 150 years.
>said stupid fast techprogression means their culture is still very litterly stuck in the dirt still.
>so now you got Qou (obesk that 'die' and but their minds in immortal robots) running around the galaxy in search on some wierd signals that leads them to earth in the early 00's-10's
>stick down a giant oblesk on an island in the middle of the ocean.
>suprised when humanity finds it fucking immediately.
Ill continue this at work atm-

>>436997
>7 years of radio silence while they figure out our language and shit
>first contact happens, surprisingly chill.
>have like a good 5-7 years of decent relations
>one day something goes apeshit, alot of qou die, they cut 9ff contact with humanity and mostly leave earth entirely.
>game itself takes place 30 years later, your a government contractor looking through old alien tech recovered from wrecks at the bottom of the ocean.

The world building of this setting is fucking neat to me and learning this shit is so old the first drafts of its story predates shit like homestruck is FASCINATING.
I want to talk about it more but as previously stated, only two areas with any form of population arent good places for unrestricted discussion: hence why this thread exists.

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>>437052
Boys and girls of all shapes and sizes

People only draw the girls because you know why
Well, them and cavik because the twink alien is still a twink

>>437055
and when i say 'all shapes and sizes' i mean it

>Visual novel
The aliens look absolutely sexo but I just can't stand through pages. Of only it was an animation...

>>437058
There is also combat in it anon, multiple kinds like 4 different games stuck togehter

>>437060
NTA But depending on where you go you can find one of the hardest fights in the game about 10 seconds after finishing the tutorial.

As for the lore, first chunk of info they give you is overwhelming but then they spend the rest of the game spelling it out for you without dumping it onto you too quickly to understand.

Dont want to compared it to things like death stranding but its got the same kind of feeling of "lore seems bullshit till it clicks"

>>437063
Thats moth. the fact i already know who your talking about with that SINGLE bit of info says all you need to know.
Unfortunately hes important and that grammar dosent stop

dont really know what to hell ya, at least hes the only one that talks like that... Besides one bastard

>>437068
I know a few people who can do art for this thread but are lacking the incentive which is understandable

As for greens, im down for writing some, just kinda curious what people would want here

I got characters but unsure if I should start writing stuff like that here when theres nothing else going on and just stick with canon characters

>>437069
> im down for writing some
Waiting for the inevitable human on obesk green

the gak

i need to lewd cavik more

>>437071
Guh

>>437079
jutboy got the femoids acting unwise

Whatever Telyu cloaking skin seggs go

Whoever Designed telyu both was a freak and knew EXACTLY what they where doing
From her mindspike log:
>vaznian surrealist influence
>vel receptors, curled, performer paint pattern
>cloaking skin representation;tuvazu heritage tail
>self-designed signature

they gave this alien too much sauce, save some for the rest of them godDAMN

>>437090
Glad to hear your enjoying yourself.
Whos your favorite character sofar? i got art to share that needs an excuse to be shared

>>437091
not a bad theory, lord knows we like throwing ourselves into underwater caves to die horrificly

>>437090
>it has a LOT of overlap with my own experiences and knowledge.
Hunter: The Parenting - Chapter 3.3 | Marckus Goes Pubbing with his Weirdo Friends (gets in a brawl) (@50:56)

>>437095
>Too human
You know Akizet explicitly states in her interview that larval obesk almost exactly look like humans in their larval state. You even see that akizet and the other obesk keep their larval faces on stands to wear, which is a bit creepy but its there

>>437097
Yeah both how qou look outside of signatures and larval obesk is still mostly up to individuals interpretation

When it comes to signatures it might vary widly from what they look like in reality due to the signatures basically acting as a artistic 'profile picture' for the collective.
The closest thing we got to what an actual qou might look like is drowned and MAYBE wakizet.
But take that with a heavy grain of salt because both are lucid thoughtforms who potentially altered how they looked, intentionally or not.

Larval obesk best we got is the memory holes.

>>437099
Think its all non-afflicted qou had their visual data corrupted.
Things like golems, aggressive furniture and anything afflicted seemed to be correctly displayed, even if it was still low res.

Explains why geli is one of the only charicters we see have actual facial expressions and receptor movements visualized, shes a golem/echo and didn't have a collective signature to work off of.

Im bored so im going to post some of my NSFW corru drawings, Not comfortable enough to post my oc stuff yet tho

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Thats enough for now lmao

>>437095
I think Telyu character-wise has alot of weird stuff going on with her that shapes both how she looks and how she acts:
>Looks wise she from a separate continent from the rest of the cast
>Obesk/qou usually have Continent specific design choices and mannerisms
>Ethnicity basically, its why gakvu/tozik share some design similaritys with eachother and so do Akizet, Cavik, & Kazki
>Most of the cast is from one of two continents: Ekiva & Vazni
>The exception of that rule is Telyu, which comes from Tuvazu, a now abandoned continent.
>We dont know why it was abandoned, but considering how fucking horrid that planet is NORMALLY, it was nothing good.
>It makes her Signature design concepts different from the rest, it also explains why she has a tail, obesk from that continent just... had those sometimes there apparently.
>Personality wise, from the wiki and how Karik described her she used to be alot less cynical before the timeframe of the collapse, and just seems to have a personal dislike of Akizet for possibly causing all this.
>I don't actually think she had any ulterior motives despite how shady/reserved she was, but her being a damn good fighter and having a damn invisibility cloak while being all that wasent helping her case.

Oh, whats your opinion on Bozko? people always have wierd takes about him so im curious of what yours is

>>437109
kinda surprising because most people ive seen play ether forget bozko exists or dislike him for a few reasions
Personalty i like him because he carried my ass through the collapse and can tank absolutely stupid ammount of hits for the team

imagine grabbing cavik by his boy rings...

>>436986
If you input a password after opening the moth menu in the memory hole the memory hole gets stuck.

>>437118
that shouldent be necessary unless your avoiding the list of memory hole imputs already found

...unless your looking for any undocumented ones which... good luck?

Starting to work on some OC stuff if anyone cares: Making a security team for a future story possibly