Knight Blades



An imageboard-based RPG styled as a text adventure, similar in style and pace to the game to start the genre, Ruby Quest, created and run by a man who goes by the name "Reaver," which may sound familiar.

It begins with a leferran named Ridder telling a story of how Baron Malto's Kingdom collapsed.He then picks a fight with someone, but stands down because he heard that the person is needed for a harvest. He then asks for rumors of monsters, which points him to the direction of Salamander Tower. Once there, he learns that a paladin was butchering topiaries because of an overpowering evil. He then goes on to defeat this evil.

The archives can be easily accessed here. It shares a universe with Dive Quest.

This game provides examples of:

"TGChan: O.0"
 * Allergic to Evil - Timotei
 * Amazingly Embarrassing Parent - Ritari, who is Ridder's mother.
 * MOTHER, PLEASE.
 * A Man Is Not a Virgin - Averted. Ridder is a virgin when the story opens, and determined to stay so until he finds someone special.
 * And Now for Someone Completely Different - Chapter 7 (Black Fang), chapter 9 (Sticks), and chapter 18 (Grey Fang)
 * Art Evolution - The art was barely visible in early chapters. Now you can actually see it
 * Art Shift: The art tends to change depending on who the viewpoint character is.
 * PINCH
 * The Atoner - Black Fang
 * Author Appeal -
 * Baleful Polymorph - Ridder (accidentally) gives a potion, which transforms her into a catgirl.
 * drinks an aphrodasiac-ish potion and turns into a cat.
 * The Big Guy - Black Fang is this among Ridder's crew of course, and it looks like he was this in the Fang Mercenary Company too.
 * Blah Blah Blah - What Ridder sounds like to Coriander.
 * Muschio also fades into this when Ridder lays eyes on Ashedel.
 * Boss Subtitles
 * Boring Failure Hero - What Ridder thinks of himself
 * The Casanova - Ridder attracts female attention like a magnet. Too bad it's unwanted . ..
 * Catgirl -
 * Celibate Hero - Ridder.
 * The Church - Where Ridder's first base of operations was.
 * Chronic Hero Syndrome - Ridder
 * Cluster F-Bomb - Grek
 * Colorful Theme Naming - The Fangs Mercenary Company (Red Fang, Black Fang, Violet Fang, etc.)
 * The Comically Serious - When Ridder tries to smile, he nearly dislocates his jaw, and when he tries to laugh, he scares everyone.
 * Daydream Surprise - Sticks pulls a couple of these with her Yaoi Fangirl fantasies.
 * Deadly Curiosity is where Ridder
 * Disproportionate Retribution - Subverted. Ridder thought Timotei was going to get hanged for messing up a lawn. He was only put inside a hanging cage
 * Dream Sequence - Played with. Through the power of a couple of magic rings, Sticks was able to enter Ridder's Dreams
 * Early Bird Cameo - Sticks, in one of her Yaoi Fangirl fantasies, has Muschio depicted with Ridder. Muschio is the very evil Ridder and his group are fighting against.
 * Expy - Subverted with Iesgrip and Nakraska, who at first seem like Expies of Tislomer and Babrakus, but get very different Character Development.
 * Fan Service - Chapter 23 begins with a closeup of Iesgip's naked, muscular, sweaty back.
 * Flanderization - Grek's accent. She talked with a slight one in early chapters. Neh et's eht th' pent w'ere yeh cen' 'n'rstend whet she's sey'n'.
 * Full Frontal Assault - Grey Fang
 * Going Commando - Ridder doesn't wear a thing under his armor.
 * Heroic BSOD - Ridder suffers one after.
 * Heroic Self-Deprecation - Ridder on occasion
 * Hidden Elf Village - Wonderseed
 * Honor Before Reason - Ridder
 * Hot Springs Episode - Chapter 14
 * Innocent Fanservice Guy - Ridder is of the "doesn't automatically associate nudity with sex" variety. When he gets naked on stage at a club, he seems to treat it like a bodybuilding show, and doesn't realize until several minutes later that he may have done something inappropriate.
 * The only times he shows shame with regard to nudity are when sex explicitly comes up
 * Knight Errant - Ridder is one of these.
 * Knight Templar - Timotei shows signs of this.
 * Loveable Rogue - Sticks is a thief and Not to mention she's a Yaoi Fangirl.
 * Love Dodecahedron - Ridder is the target of Sticks, Iesgip, and some paladin lady.
 * And then Ridder falls for Ashedel.
 * Luminescent Blush - Ridder and Sticks may as well be stoplights. For Ridder, it shows embarrassment; for Sticks, arousal.
 * Pretty much everyone has these, actually. Ridder is just the most common.
 * The Mentor - Ridder, to Black Fang
 * Mind Screw - One of Sticks's Yaoi Fangirl fantasies was
 * Mr. Fanservice - Ridder.
 * Nice job getting overeager to secure a base, causing yourself to loose both of your companions and even the base, Ridder.
 * Even nicer job, hero.
 * Non-Mammal Mammaries - Averted hard in Iesgip's case. Her breasts look more like pecs. Very ripped pecs at that.
 * No Periods Period - Averted with
 * Older Than They Look -
 * Orphaned Series - Weaver, creator of Ruby Quest will be taking over.
 * Out-of-Clothes Experience - As part of his quest to do as many nude scenes as possible, Ridder has one of these at the beginning of Chapter 24.
 * Panty Shot - Grek has one. The subsequent Pause screen strategically places its icon.
 * Raging Stiffie - Ridder gets these as an effect of a regenerative potion.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni - Ridder is blue, Muschio (of Dive Quest) is Red.
 * Riddle of the Sphinx - The answer of it is part of the church in Inizaire City.
 * Ring of Power - A pair of wedding rings allows people's thoughts and feelings to transfer to other people as long as someone is wearing the ring.
 * Ruins for Ruins Sake - Ridder's second(and current) base of operations
 * Scooby Stack - Here.
 * Shared Universe - With Dive Quest, leading to a direct crossover in Chapter 14. Interestingly, the characters are portrayed with different art styles in each quest, even when they're in the same scene.
 * Shout Out - "People say they can outsmart me. Maybe. But noone outsmart cleaver."
 * Also, multiple characters use the phrase "(entity) ill needs a savior such as you."
 * Later on, Reaver manages to sneak the lyrics to "Never Gonna Give You Up" into a couple of lines of dialogue.
 * Slasher Smile - Ridder makes one of these to intimidate an opposing army. He strains his jaw pretty badly in the process.
 * The Stoic - Ridder
 * Sure Why Not - In Chapter 20, Black Fang shares a bath with Nakraska.
 * Also, multiple characters use the phrase "(entity) ill needs a savior such as you."
 * Later on, Reaver manages to sneak the lyrics to "Never Gonna Give You Up" into a couple of lines of dialogue.
 * Slasher Smile - Ridder makes one of these to intimidate an opposing army. He strains his jaw pretty badly in the process.
 * The Stoic - Ridder
 * Sure Why Not - In Chapter 20, Black Fang shares a bath with Nakraska.


 * The Tease - Sticks
 * Title Drop - The titular Knights Blades aren't even mentioned until chapter 13, and in chapter 14.
 * Those Two Guys - The men at the two windmills
 * Tomboy -, so much that
 * True Companions - Ridder's group
 * Vapor Wear - Ridder in this shot.
 * Wholesome Crossdresser - Ridder's first armor originally belonged to a woman. This isn't an issue most of the time, but . ..
 * Yaoi Fangirl - Sticks, to an extreme degree, preferring Yaoi fantasies to interacting with men herself (an experience with a Duke's son convinced her it was "safer").
 * Yaoi Fangirl - Sticks, to an extreme degree, preferring Yaoi fantasies to interacting with men herself (an experience with a Duke's son convinced her it was "safer").