Dive Quest



An imageboard-based RPG styled as a text adventure, similar in style and pace to Ruby Quest (which was the genre codifier of imageboard RPGs, if not the original). Both were created and run by a man (or little brown girl?) who goes by the name "Weaver".

It starts off with a Volto ex-prince named Muschio Malto going on a "dive" in Red Fang's Dungeon. He ultimately succeeds in killing him and claiming Fang's dungeon for himself. He then strives to complete his goal of becoming the devil.

The chapters can be easily accessed here. It shares a universe with Knight Blades.

There is also a flash version in progress, which can be found here.

This game provides examples of:
"Who on earth would put any manner key inside a can and seal it? What sense does that possibly stand to make?"
 * Affably Evil: Muschio. We hope.
 * And Now for Someone Completely Different: Chapters 9 (where you control Finesse's father), 10 (told through Charmedfrightened Tislomer's point of view, and chapter 17 (told through Babrakus's point of view).
 * Artifact Title: The quest began with Muschio doing a dungeon dive, hence the name. He's moved on to much bigger things since then.
 * Art Shift: PINCH
 * Also the entire chapter from Tislomer's point of view.
 * Ashedel's POV too.
 * Atomic F Bomb: This is what finally happens after Muschio's finished examining both maps
 * Big Bad: Muschio. Again, we hope.
 * Big Damn Villains: Happens twice in chapter 12.
 * The Big Guy: Dompag, who's an ogre or something. Can hit people real hard and eat lava.
 * Boss Subtitles
 * Brainwashed: Everyone who wore a mind control bra at Salamander's Tower.
 * Brick Joke:
 * Buried Alive: Muschio does this to a person who teased him a long time ago.
 * Chekhov's Gun: The Mimic.
 * Chivalrous Pervert: In spite of the trope below, Dompag is pretty gentlemanly around women and doesn't rush toward sex.
 * The Collector: Dompag's goal is to have sex with as many "weird" women as possible.
 * Deus Sex Machina: There's only one cure for Nymph's Jinx . ..
 * Disaster Dominoes: More or less the only way Muschio succeeds at anything. In Chapter 13,
 * Dismantled MacGuffin: Played with. The Orb automatically heals damage to itself, allowing shards to be broken off and implanted in infinite numbers of Muschio's employees.
 * Disproportionate Retribution: See Buried Alive above. Muschio also got his girlfriend locked up away from humanity.
 * Dramatic Irony: Knight Blades is a parallel quest involving one of the knights of the fallen Lord Malto. He fights evil, such as this "Boss" character who seems to be making such a fuss. No one has told him.
 * Evil Laugh: Muschio is good at it. So is Finesse.
 * The Evil Prince: Muschio, the heir to the extinct throne of North Piacevole.
 * Expressive Hat: The skull on Ona's hat usually mirrors her facial expressions.
 * Fallen Hero: Lord Malto, which led to his son wanting to become the devil.
 * Follow the Leader: Many quests began using The Orb Of Infinite Psyche or similar devices after it was introduced here.
 * Flash Back
 * Freudian Slip: "Butter safe than sorry."
 * Funetik Aksent: Dompag. He's damn near impossible to decipher when he initially starts talking to the players; when he notices they're having trouble, he suggests some of the various personalities he affects depending on the situation; first the Hulk Speak big dumb ogre act, then a refined gentleman. By the time he goes to talk to Finesse and Tislomer, he settles on a much more casual one, heavy on contractions but otherwise legible.
 * Groin Attack: Female version: "AAAAAAAHHH! OH GOD! RIGHT IN THE TACO! HNNNNGH!"
 * Heal It With Fire: Muschio did this to himself
 * Hot Springs Episode: Chapter 15
 * Huge Guy Tiny Girl: Finesse was propositioned by Dompag, an ogre three times her size.
 * Dompag protests to the reader that he absolutely knows how to handle a girl he could accidentally swallow (hopefully he means with great, great care).
 * Hurricane of Puns: Chapter 12 has a "Carpenter's Pun-Off".
 * If you can read this, please reload the spear trap
 * Incredibly Lame Pun: Chapter 12.
 * Interspecies Romance: Muschio is a Volto and Finesse is a goblin. Also, Tislomer (a kobold) went on a date with a human and Muschio had sex with both Ashedel (a Nedynvor) and Arabella (an orc).
 * Intoxication Ensues: "Why does everything taste soft all of a sudden"
 * Invisible: Chapter 8
 * Visible Invisibility: Through Finesse's point of view.
 * Lampshade Hanging:

"[[color:green:>How the hell do you know what an automatic vendor is?
 * Long Pants: Muschio wears them.
 * Lovable Sex Maniac: Dompag.
 * MacGuffin: The Monster Portal Gem.
 * Mood Whiplash: Happens somewhat often, even from characters that aren't taking orders from twenty different people at once.
 * Noodle Incident:

>Or cardboard?]]

[[color:brown:Those dwarves, my friend.

Those dwarves.]]"


 * Nosebleed: Muschio gets one in Chapter 14.
 * Nothing Is Scarier: Muschio arrives back at his lair, and none of his minions can be found. He eventually stabs water from a well out of paranoia.
 * Older Than They Look:
 * Overly Long Gag:
 * Red Oni Blue Oni: Muschio is red. Ridder (of Knight Blades, a parallel quest), is blue.
 * Red Right Hand: Or rather, Giant Right Hand, in Finesse's case.
 * Running Gag: Muschio wearing hats.
 * Shared Universe: With Knight Blades, leading to a crossover in both of their Hot Springs Episode. Interestingly, the characters are portrayed with different art styles in each quest, even when they're in the same scene.
 * There have also been slight hints that the Rubyverse may be the future of Diveverse, such as the painting (and cross-peg) from the High Roller's house which resembles the one from Ruby Quest. When asked about it, the High Roller explained that it "was salvaged from the Cult of the Barbed Wheel in the Southeast, before their altar sank into the sea and they vanished from the face of the earth".
 * Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Muschio. Not so much recently, though.
 * As of Chapter 20, it's back with a vengeance.
 * Shout Out: One of your first foes is a children's author named Mabel Syrup, who sics "Commander Corriander" on you.
 * Smoking Hot Sex: Muschio and Ashedel.
 * Soap Opera Disease: Nymph's Jinx.
 * Strip Poker: Ashedel does this with Muschio to get his guard down.
 * The Loins Sleep Tonight: Muschio has some trouble with this when trying to cure Arabella's Nymph's Jinx.
 * Those Two Guys That Guy and Girl: Tislomer and Babrakus were formerly this (especially because everyone though Tislomer was a dude). Now subverted, as both have recieved character development...
 * Through The Eyes Of Cloudcuckoolanderness: Chapter 10, where the viewpoint shifts to Charmedfrightened Tislomer. It seems she has a very loose grasp on reality.
 * To the point that commentors weren't aware until after the chapter was over that it was related to Dive Quest at all!
 * There's a couple of hints if you're looking careful. Tislomer refers to "Finnie" (Finesse) and "the big boobied bird lady" (Ashedel). There's also the three "dolls" that "Big Boss" throws into the "swirly thing" (Muschio got three Odd mannikins from Commander Salamander).
 * Verbal Tic: Nya~
 * Viewers Are Morons: A pause screen has Ashedel hold up a sign that says "Not Deme". Demesi is a character in Journey Quest.
 * Villain Protagonist
 * Wretched Hive: Sepia Town.
 * Yandere: Finesse has some shades of this, what with
 * She seems to have pulled back a bit after the
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Muschio does!
 * Your Head Asplode: Muschio throws an explosive potion at a monster. Guess what happens.