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[[Image:RubyQuest.gif|thumb|right|The Ruby Quest logo.]]'''Ruby Quest''' is a Choose Your Own Adventure game being run by a tripfag named Weaver. What initially began as a confusing puzzle romp has swiftly become a decent unto madness not unlike the best [[Call of Cthulhu]] game you have ever been in, but twice as fucked up.
{{Best|month=February 2009}}
''"Rubyrubyrubay aahahahaa"''
-Kaiser Chiefs


The archives of the game can be found here: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Ruby
'''''Ruby Quest''''' is a [[Quest]] game completed by a [[tripfag]] named Weaver. What initially began as a confusing puzzle romp has swiftly become a descent into madness not unlike the best ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]'' game you have ever been in, but twice as fucked up. One of RQ's main side effects, aside from a few new memes, is the generation of fan art. Unbelievably vast quantities of it. I mean seriously, we've got pictures of fan-pairings of the hypothetical children of a couple who, in canon, may have barely even met each other.


If you want to discuss the game with others, there is an IRC discussion available on the channel '''irc.rizon.net''', room '''#RubyQuest'''.
[[Image:RubyQuest.gif|thumb|right|The ''Ruby Quest'' logo.]]
[[Image:Ruby_meme.png|thumb|right|How most people find out about ''Ruby Quest''.]]


Also see: [[Ruby Quest Theories]].
This article has been split into various other articles due to its large size: [[Ruby Quest Characters]], [[Ruby Quest Summary]] and [[Ruby Quest Theories]].


==Characters==
== Information ==
'''WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS.'''
* '''Author:''' Weaver;
[[Image:Group-shot-finished-hueg.jpg|thumb|right|The characters of Ruby Quest.]]They may appear [[furry]], but it is uncertain whether this is just so Weaver can differentiate them from each other quickly, or as a tip off to their Animal Crossing namesakes. Contrary to what some people may say, no one's age has ever been mentioned ever.
* '''Length:''' 31 threads;
* '''Running Time:''' From December of 2008 until March 2009;
* '''Status:''' Finished;
* '''Categories:''' Mindfuck; mystery; suspense; violence.
* '''Original Art:''' Yes;


===Ruby===
== Threads ==
'''Ruby''' is the main character of Ruby Quest. Obviously. Her thoughts consist of the scrambled suggestions of the /tg/ community, and as such, she is both incredibly brilliant and surprisingly stupid. She is handling most of the monstrous happenings rather well, and has been declared a badass as a result. However, her psyche is starting to be strained as the world around her gets stranger and stranger. Ruby is known for having a GIRLISH FIGURE, but is flat as a board.
The archives of the game can be found:
* as [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/collection.html?collnum=0 archived threads] on [[Sup/tg/]];
* as [http://stuff.veekun.com/rubyquest/ a one, big, long page];
* as [http://nepeta.mozai.com/Ruby_Quest/ a series of flash animations];
* as [http://evilcorporation.com.br/rubyquest/ one big HTML compilation];
* as [https://mspfa.com/?s=17145 though it were an MS Paint Adventure];
* or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJkc_LUbmwA&list=PLHO1rc05qiGvvKw4wi9VePXQvTVEatX-HA Series of narrated youtube videos].


Because she is effectively our character, Ruby has been described as the PC to Weaver's DM. This makes the game very engaging, and it has become quite popular as a result. The largest implication of this is that /tg/ is now a herbivorous bunny girl. No-one has yet objected to this.
The side story John Quest can be found [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3354728/#3354965 here], in case you're feeling too lazy to check the first link on the list above.


Ruby is actually quite a good [[fighter]], and uses a Hook like no one's business. We no longer possess the hook, but wish we did. We feel safer when Ruby is a capable Hooker.
== How It's Played ==
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Much like other early [[Quest|quests]], Ruby Quest players would write suggestions, and the ones considered relevant by the Quest Master would be used to make the story move forward.
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Image:WarRuby.png|Warpaint'd and ready to go.
== [[Ruby Quest Characters|Characters]] ==
Image:Ruby doom.jpg|Ruby said "No! I must fight the demons!"
See [[Ruby Quest Characters]] for descriptions and fanart of each character. [[Ruby_Quest_Characters#Ruby|Ruby]] is the player-controlled protagonist of the adventure, and her companion [[Ruby_Quest_Characters#Tom|Tom]] is controllable much of the time as well. The cast has grown to over a dozen characters throughout the course of the story.
Image:Bazooka Ruby.gif|Ruby is some kind of McGuyver.
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===Tom===
'''Tom''' is Ruby's only friend in this place. He is a gentleman, strong and silent, but more than willing to offer information and suggestions about things he knows. He was initially detached towards Ruby, but after the two have repeatedly saved each others' lives, it seems he has grown quite a liking towards her. Unfortunately, it seems Ruby doesn't feel NOW is the time to act on any romantic intentions...


He is well known for his MANLY PHYSIQUE, and is needed for most anything that requires strength to accomplish.
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Image:Oh_Tom_why_you_so_blind.png
Image:Castqv9.gif|Weaver's listing of RQ cast.
Image:Group-shot-finished-hueg.jpg|The characters of ''Ruby Quest'' (even more outdated).
Image:Color_Cast.png|RQ The Movie!
Image:RubyConcert.jpg|RQ cast In concert...
Image:Piratehooker.png|Ruby
Image:Manlypose.png|Tom
Image:Hound_before.png|Daisy
Image:Trickstered.png|Red
Image:Stitches_before.png|Stitches
Image:Monitorface.png|Bella
Image:Grabbyace.png|Ace
Image:Happyemobird.png|Jay
Image:Filbertalk.png|Filbert
Image:Subject6.png|Nook
Image:Bloodydummy.png|The Dummy
Image:Watercooler.png|The Water Cooler
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===Red===
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'''Red''' <strike>is</strike> was a creepy motherfucker. He carries a cane with him, and is not too fond of personal questions. He is convinced that he is not trapped like the others, and that he is where he is entirely by his own choice. He has a very morbid sense of humor.
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==Abominations Against All That Is Good==
== [[Ruby Quest Summary | Summary]] ==
'''WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS.'''
[[Image:Ruby summary.png|thumb|right|The ''Ruby Quest'' summary.]]


Most fa/tg/uys refer to them as [[zombies]], but all evidence points more towards shapeshifters of some sort rather than actual undead. Fortunately for our protagonists, these creatures are susceptible to standard methods of attack.
It is '''highly recommended''' that you [[#Threads|read the actual threads]] instead of the summaries. All of the content in this section contains spoilers. You have been warned.


===Bear Zombie===
To see all the summaries, read about the setting and verify the timeline of the story, check the [[Ruby Quest Summary]] page.
The '''Bear Zombie''' is a creature that was once a bear, and is now a pile of horrible organs and a spine. With the help of Tom, it was slain using the Z Hatch. Its body seems to have disappeared without explanation sometime during Part 2. The end boss of Part 1.


===Hound Zombie===
== [[Ruby Quest Theories | Speculation and Theories]] ==
The '''Hound Zombie''' is also referred to as the Hook Zombie and the Plant Zombie, based on its form. This horrible creature came through a broken mirror, and was killed with the power of Ruby's mean right hook, the purple vat of acid, and an electrical panel. The end boss of Part 2.
See the page [[Ruby Quest Theories]].


===God Zombie===
== Side Story: JOHN QUEST ==
The '''God Zombie''' has no discerning animal features, so it gets no animal name. Colloquially referred to as "Stitches," because he appears to have been torn apart and sewn back together. He was found nailed to a wall, and he was still alive and able to speak, in spite of his appearance. He also seems to have sent Ruby to a dream world, where impossible things happened that the world had never seen before.
The story of Tom's Twin Brother John, as told by Weaver. Was apparently written as a mere distraction.


Then, he vanished, and has not been seen again. However, it is common belief we have not seen the last of him. Found at the end of part 3.
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Summary of the side story.
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John was at his computer an office. Eh was carrying a Wepon, ID, and CANDYBAR. He Read the Note:


==The Metal Glen==
:TOM I MEAN JOHN
This is a poem by William Murdoch, supposedly. No one has been able to cite its source for sure, so some theorize it was written by Weaver himself. Regardless, the similarities to Ruby Quest are uncanny.
:UR A FAGET


'''The Metal Glen'''
:- ♠


:My mother told me once of when
Then John killed the Water Cooler and got the Orb of Infinite Psych, but he could not leave the room because he did not have the right Axis Card. He tried to open the door with his Wepon so he could go to the Cafiteria, but he had no Wepon. He pushed the Butan and the AC turned off. Tom I mean John read the AC. IT WAS BORING, so he threw his chair out the Windoh, but the Windoh ate the chair!
:A young hare ventured from her den
:And as she danced in field and glen
:The world sang joy about her.
:But wicked hateful things abound
:And that young hare these evils found
:Then whisked her up from off the ground
:And glen was left without her.


John tried to throw Self through Windoh, but he was too big! He looked through the window, and saw Ruby! He used the ORB OF INFINITE PSYCH to try to contact her! But her forehead only glowed with power, and nothing happened. He shouted some obscenities into the intercom, ate the intercom, put his shoe on his head, looked at the motivational poster, and then ate the poster too. Then John's Co-orker OPAL came in.


:The wicked power tore asunder
He thought about inviting her to dinner, and then thought about eating her. He decided to multitask, and ate her for dinner. Then he punched Gamera, and PROJEKTEIL VOMMITS the rabbit at the window. His funny DIJESTIVE JUICES made her a little strange though. Almost exactly like the Hound Zombie. Then he used his AXIS CARD to go out the door and go to the BATHROM, but he was too short to reach the handle! He tries to climb his desk, but botches the climb roll. His DENSEITY is so grate he falls through the FLOOR!
:And with this cruel and fateful blunder
:Cast her to a world of wonder
:Would she e'er see home again?
:And so hare flew that mournful day
:Over the sky and far away
:And down and down, beneath the sea
:To a place unlike the glen.


He lands in a WIERD PLACE, and follows a LIGHT to the EDNING! We missed a point, god damn.
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:A world of men and man's design
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:A place where God's light would not shine
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:A Hell of steel beneath the brine
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:Where misery's echoes boomed.
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:And all around her there were others
Image:John x Tom.jpg
:Beasts like her, all sisters, brothers,
Image:JohnvsGamera.png
:Locked up, all, with one another,
Image:SuperRubyWarsJohn.gif
:In deep sea-dark, entombed.
Image:Johneat.png
Image:JAWns.gif
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== Additional Information ==
If you want to discuss the game with others, there is an [irc://irc.rizon.net/RubyQuest IRC discussion available on the channel '''irc.rizon.net''', room '''#RubyQuest''']. You can also check out more artfaggotry at [http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=%22ruby+quest%22 Deviantart]. Finally, there's a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Roleplay/RubyQuest TVTropes article.]


:And in this crypt far from the shore
== Gallery ==
:The hare lay down upon the floor
This is a gallery for group shots and action scenes. See [[Ruby Quest Characters]] for fan art of individual characters and [[Ruby Quest Summary]] for images related to certain parts of the story.
:Imprisoned there forever more
:And left to all her sorrow.
:Her tender world was lost and gone
:So joy and happiness foregone
:She slept and cried and prayed for dawn
:To wait the coming morrow.


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:The hound was still, the birds said naught,
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:The fox denied he had been caught,
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:The bear cried "This is just our lot",
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:And surrendered to his pain.
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:But the cat stood up and shook his head
Image:Ruby Story time.png|Best. Fanart. Ever.
:And rising from his metal bed
Image:Angry Ruby.jpg|Mother of God
:He said "For now, I am not dead,
Image:Tom is now lava.jpg
:And I will not die in vain!"
Image:Goodenddw8.png|BEST END [drawn by Weaver, but non-canon]
 
Image:RQRubyTomSum.jpg|ALMOST BEST END
 
Image:Platonic_Ear_massage.jpg
:He cried aloud with much disdain
Image:Manly-physique.jpg
:And tore about his stark domain
Image:WhatisthisIdonteven.png|what
:And said "These walls cannot contain
Image:Unwarrantedruby.gif|This is not an uncommon reaction from many of the players.
:A force as strong as I!"
Image:Andthenrubywasazombie.png|And then Ruby was a zombie.
:And the fox just laughed, and the birds all cried
Image:DoubleHug.png|All the better to hug you with, my dear.
:And the bear knotted up himself and died
:But the hare looked on as the poor cat tried
:To break him free and fly.
 
 
:He shook his chain with all his rage
:And flew in anger 'round his cage
:Decrying this dark mournful stage
:And the hare stood up as well.
:With passion did she then respond,
:She chewed her ropes and broke her bonds,
:And freed the cat, they ran beyond,
:They ran to flee that hell.
 
 
:And what became of cat and hare?
:Did they break free to purer air?
:To guess their fate we shouldn't dare
:Perhaps their tale closed well.
:But for all the beasts trapped in the Nether
:All life from out the loch and heather
:The flock that could not work together
:Are sure still trapped in Hell.
 
==Plot Summary==
'''IT IS HIGHLY SUGGESTED YOU READ THE THREADS INSTEAD OF THE SUMMARIES. THEY CAN BE FOUND HERE:''' http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Ruby
 
===Part 1===
Consists of threads 1-4.
 
Ruby found herself locked inside of a steel locker. After escaping, we find herself in a room with very little in it. Ruby rips open a garbage can using a CAN OPENER, performs electrical repairs, and finds out we are underwater. Then, she heads down a ladder and meets Tom, trapped behind a wall grate.
 
Tom has a sculpture of random tools we need, but is unwilling to show us it, as we accidentally insult him. As an apology, we feed him fish [found to later be a Bad Idea]. After doing some weird puzzle shit, we open the way to the Z Hatch. We get a hatch to transfer items between Ruby and Tom, and with teamwork, we open up the closet in the Z Hatch Room. The Bear Zombie inside attacks us, and with Tom's help, we kill it.
 
A little more dinking around, and we finally free Tom from his cell. Ruby and Tom hug tightly, and Part 1 ends.
 
===Part 2===
Consists of threads 5-9.
 
With Tom's MANLY PHYSIQUE, we move a barrel and work together to open the way into the monitor room. Tom manages to sneak a peek at Ruby's panties while we are at it. We obtain the EYE DIAL, and then explore the Z Hatch room once more. With Tom's help, we find a secret door behind the couch. We send a hand we find there through the pneumatic chute we also find there.
 
We ask Tom for his condom, and he is disappointed to find we need it for more weird puzzle shit. Lots of experiments with purple acid later, we find out that Tom is not feeling so hot. He pukes up blood. Ruby quickly scrambles around, and eventually discovers, using an analyzer, than Tom had arsenic poisoning from the fish, and that we would get an antidote if we turned the power back on. While running around to find a way to get the power going, we do a Pirate Impression for Tom. He smiles weakly. All of /tg/ d'aaaws.
 
Eventually, we get the electricity and our antidote. Then we get locked in the back room, and poisonous gas filters in. Panicking, we break the glass of the pneumatic chute. This helps only slightly. We break the glass of the mirror in the room, and find the Hound Zombie on the other side. A brief scuffle with our HOOK, and we defeat the beast by flinging it through the glass acid dispenser and into the circuit board, but we take a serious wound to the head. The impact of the zombie on the circuit board powers down the room, and we flee with the antidote, running to where Tom is. Along the way we start to pass out, but manage to make it to the Brig. Unfortunately, we find Tom is gone, and in his place is a LOT of blood. Everything goes black.
 
===Part 3===
Consists of threads 10-13.
 
Ruby wakes up in a dark room wearing footie pajamas. After adjusting her eyes to the dark, she realizes she is in her room, and Tom is there- but he seems a little off. She opens a drawer and gets a key, then tries to turn Tom around. She finds that he has been stitched up, that he is very dummy like and that, in fact, its not Tom. After exploring her surroundings she exits the room and finds herself back in the Brig. The room she had been in was the one the Hound Zombie was in before attacking. She heads back to the locker room and gets a few items, including the Arsenic Antidote. She comes down to see a lever has descended. She then heads through the Z-hatch.
 
She sees a fox sitting on the couch with a cane in the Z-room. He introduces himself as 'Red' and answers a few questions:
 
He hasn't seen Tom. He doesn't know anything about the place they are trapped in. And he isn't trapped.
 
Ruby notices the cane and asks Red to help pull the lever. He smiles, disturbingly, and agrees to help. After pulling the lever she asks a "few" more questions. Red says he is very tired of her questions and if she doesn't stop he might have to bite her throat out. After an awkward pause, he says that he was just kidding. Ruby, slightly scared, thanks Red and heads back to the Systems Room. Red does not follow. She picks up a Wooden disc and inspects the computer. There are some hidden cameras inspecting the Locker Room, the Maintenance Room and an as of yet unexplored room. Tom is in this room, and so is the pneumatic tube.
 
Ruby heads to the Maintenance room. Red is nowhere to be found. She patches up the Pneumatic tube, sends Tom the antidote, and heads to the System's Room to see if he gets it. He does, and drinks it. But Ruby doesn't have enough time to celebrate, as Red enters the room. He smiles wider this time, and reminds Ruby that he doesn't want to hear anymore questions. Ruby understands and asks to excuse herself, but Red stops smiling and says he doesn't think so.
 
And then lets her know that he was once again just kidding.
 
Ruby heads downstairs, this time Red follows. She believes the Wooden Disc will interact with a mechanism she found in the Dummy Room, so she heads there. Red stops her before she can enter and asks for some coins Ruby was carrying. She gives them to him, and he heads in with her. Using the cane, Red takes down the tarp, all the while smiling even wider than before.
 
Underneath is a horribly disfigured, and then subsequently refigured, body (which would later be called "God Zombie" or "Stitches"). Red laughs at Ruby's astonishment.
 
And then he keeps laughing. His mouth opens up and is impossibly big, filled with sharp teeth and a tongue. He is, in fact, an abomination. As Ruby turns around, Red stops laughing.
 
Ruby then looks at a cross peg in Stitches's hand, and Red says he is bored and departs. Ruby is about to take the cross peg from the God Zombie's hand, and he wakes up. He says "Ruby" and everything turns to white.
 
She has a very strange dream, Tom was involved and so was Red. In the dream, Red makes a smile clearly not possible, as it curves up to the eyes. Tom complains that his eye hurts. Red uses the wooden disc to cut something and the dream ends.
 
Ruby wakes up. The disc is missing. She leaves the room. Tom is sitting on a barrel in the brig.
 
===Part 4===
Consists of threads 14-17.
 
Tom and Ruby catch up with each other, and both express gratitude that the other is okay. Red let Tom out of the room where he was being held. Tom's stomach is feeling better, but now his eye hurts. Ruby, worried, offers to examine him. His eye opens freakishly wide, and he suddenly turns into an Abomination and attacks Ruby.
 
Tom asks Ruby if she's okay: she had apparently been hallucinating. The room is suddenly completely free of blood and has a very wide chasm torn through the middle. She asks Tom to go to the other side of the room (suspecting that the gap is also imaginary), but he sees it too and declines to do so. He notes that it's been three days since he took the antidote, and that there were some intermittent odd noises coming from the walls.
 
They proceed to examine Tom's former room. Inside they see a closed door that Tom notes was open earlier, another ladder down, some flesh-like membrane in the corner, a SCRAP OF PAPER, and a foot from a pair of footy pajamas containing a KEY.
 
Ruby proceeds down the hatch - and emerges feet-first from the floor of the room below them, on the other side of the chasm. She attempts to pull the lever on the floor (ceiling?), but it's missing a part. She returns to the previous room, at which point she notices that Tom's eye is actually gone. He tells Ruby that he lost it while he was being dragged into the room by something which, because of his sickness, he couldn't see clearly. It's mostly stopped hurting, though. They hug.
 
After a short discussion, they return to the room where the bear-thing was, stopping briefly to note an eyehook fixed to the floor in the chasm room. This room has also been cleaned, and there is now a small, slightly indented safe on a shelf in the closet where the abomination had been. Ruby opens the WALL CABINET that had already been there using the KEY she found in Tom's room. It contains another SCRAP OF PAPER and a black leather MEDICINE BAG fastened with an indestructible TINY PADLOCK.
 
They return to the room with the pneumatic tube. It, like the others, is now blood-free. The mirror has been replaced with Plexiglass, the acid container is repaired, and the electrical panel has a safety cover with an outlet in it. Oddly, the inside of the pneumatic tube is still blood-splattered from the HAND sent through it several threads ago.
 
While leaving the room, the Z-hatch grate slams shut behind Ruby, leaving Tom inside. Remembering the command console, she returns to Tom's room to find that the door is open. Someone in the darkness with a Cheshire-cat grin tosses Ruby a THIN METAL ROD, and the door slams shut. She repairs the lever with the ROD, and pulls it to arm-s length - only to have it retract. She climbs the ladder with the handle in hand, surprised at the amount of slack, and attaches it to the floor hook down the other ladder. A panel behind her opens, and she takes the CROWBAR from it.
 
She attempts to smash the TINY PADLOCK and pry open the grate, but can't. Giving up, she enters the dummy room and notices a panel inscribed in Latin and a button diagram with a different layout. She applies her CROWBAR to the locked file cabinet, revealing a TINY KEY, which she uses to retrieve a PAPER SCRAP and a VERY SHARP SCALPEL from the medical bag. She returns to Tom's room and uses the SCALPEL to cut away the fleshy growth (which, unlike everything else here, doesn't bleed) to find a somewhat oversized EYE.
 
Ruby notices an unpowered keypad with an extension cord below it, and pulls the extension cord with her to the dummy room, where she passes Tom the CROWBAR through the drop slot. Tom, in a sudden burst of manly physique, returns to the bear room and smashes the hell out of the shelves and light in the closet. He then stands around awkwardly as Anon enters a thirteen-minute brain fart. Ruby, presumably tired of twiddling her thumbs, goes back to the lever room and tries pushing a few buttons. Button 1 causes distant water noises, and button 4 makes something far-off rumble. She decides to go check on Tom.
 
While Ruby was gone, Tom says that the pipe in the ceiling had been clanking about every thirty seconds. Once again under the power of group narrative, Tom receives a flash of inspiration and bashes open the pipe under which he'd waited while Anon was trying to figure out what to break. A glass orb falls out onto the sofa, and the rattling stops. He unlocks the safe with it to retrieve the WOODEN DISC. He returns it to Ruby, who recognizes it and affixes it to the dial on the left. She points the dial to the top symbol, which opens the Z-hatch for Tom. They reunite, and Tom unexpectedly kisses Ruby.
 
A short but thoroughly awkward moment passes, after which Ruby turns the dial towards the lower symbol and walks over to the pneumatic tube room. On the way there, however, Ruby is interrupted by pain as a giant eye rips open the top of her head. She wipes the blood away and closes the eye, then takes another PAPER SCRAP from a new wall hatch, has Tom re-open the Z-hatch, and returns to him. He apologizes for being hasty, but Ruby dismisses it.
 
They plug in the extendable power cord, return to the keypad, and punch in the number from the completed PAPER. The hatch opens to reveal an aquarium, but Weaver uses a narrative shortcut to abridge the changing of the power cord and dial again, leaving Ruby and Tom in front of an open doorway. They enter together to find that the monitors have all been broken. Ruby uses the CROSS PEG as she'd intended quite a while ago, and a ladder comes out of the wall. They climb.
 
This room is short (more of an attic, really), and it's covered in insane scribblings with "RED" written in large lettering on the ceiling. There's also a circular diagram with a large bloodstain in the center, as though someone had recently slammed their head into it, and a box of cereal and teeth. They go back down and knock on the door, only to discover Red doing a Peach Wilkins impression: he won't let them through without the answer to his riddle.
 
Tom and Ruby decide to go open the box marked to the contrary. Tom crowbars it open to reveal a BOWL OF CLAWED FINGERS and Ruby's mummified body, which Tom doesn't see. While Ruby freaks the fuck out, Tom pockets the fingers, uses the nearby sink (which spouts blood, as they are almost unsurprised to find), and fills up the BOWL with blood. Both of them go mix the TEETH, BLOOD, and FINGERS and return to the monitor room - only to discover the door already open. The room has "NEVER CATCH ME NEVER NEVER NEVER" scrawled all over the back wall, and in the center of the floor is Red, propped up by the broken halves of a cane and shovel shoved up through his skull.
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==Gallery==
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Image:Ruby summary.png
Image:Redroll'd.gif|And thus, the Redroll was born
Image:JustKidding.png|Red says he is "Just kidding."
Image:Red in Blue.png
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Image:Ruby stands victorious.png
Image:Ruby Story time.png
Image:Ruby-and-Bearzombie.gif
Image:Keikaku dori Tom.png|Just as planned.
Image:H-hold me, tom.jpg|We will all be pissed if it goes this route.
Image:Doyoukissonthefirstdate.png|Tom is more resourceful than you'd think.
Image:Doyoukissonthefirstdate.png|Tom is more resourceful than you'd think.
Image:Dancing queen.gif
Image:RubyPaintchat.gif|pchat is a wild and dangerous place.
Image:Ruby_Map.PNG| The known map as of part 1-3.
Image:Ruby_x_Femace.png|Indeed, indeed it is
Image:Ruby_Map_part_2.PNG| The known map as of the end of part 4.
Image:Oh_Painchat.png|A bit more Paintchat horror
Image:Tom_x_Ruby.png | The ending most of us are hoping for.
Image:HAWTRUBYONSTITCHESXXX.png|"Awww, isn't that cute..."
Image:RubyxStitchesCriticalFailure.png‎|"...BUT IT'S WROOOOOOOOONG!"
Image:Ruby_escapes.png|Ruby escapes... but with whom?
Image:Dorf_Quest_Cosplay.png|Beardbeard and company are... waaaaaait a minute.
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Image:Puppet Show.png
Image:The ghost of Redmas past.jpg
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Image:Ruby_Red_sex_wat.png|OTP
Image:BEST END.jpg|ALTERNATE BEST END.
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Image:BFFs.gif
Image:ComfortTeddy.gif|"L-look at me! *sob* Look at what they *sniff* d-did to me! I'M A *hic* M-MONSTER!"
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Image:Magicact.png|Siegfried and Roy have nothing on these two.
Image:Bedsidemanner.png|There's a reason Filbert is the head doctor.
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Image:Xrubytom3.png|Tom is a very frustrated man.
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Image:Interrupted_nude.png|"B-but Tom, the c-cameras..."
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Image:TommyBravo.gif|Do the monkey with meh!
Image:Teenrubysquad.png|SO GOOD!
Image:RubyStory.png|Huzzah!
Image:Feetstobig.gif
Image:I'll kill you.png
Image:TTGR.png|WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I HUG!?!
Image:Rubymask.png|Ruby seems pretty legit, Tom, why not give her a hug?
Image:Nevermind.png
Image:1231904272266.jpg
Image:AceRed.png
Image:HoundStitches.png
Image:TAG.png
Image:1231718011207.png|Ruby likes to watch.
Image:RubyXTeadog.png
Image:DAT LINEUP.gif|Filbert's methods may be unorthodox, but they certainly seem effective.
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Image:PillowFight.gif
Image:PillowMASSACRE.gif
Image:Magicshow.gif
Image:Swingyz8.png
Image:OTPkids.png|Ad'awwwwable.
Image:HAPPYEND.png|Hopefully we can get this ending, eh?
Image:HAPPYEND2.png|ILLEGAL IN MANY PLACES.
Image:HAPPYEND3.png|We can only hope
Image:Ruby__.jpg
Image:Stepfurther.png|If Ruby's actions were determined purely by popular vote.
Image:Indirect.png|"Psst. Hey, Tom. Look up my skirt."
Image:FilXTom.png|Filbert's treatment was so effective, Ruby recommended it to Tom! As long as she gets to watch.
Image:Rubymaddiescissors.gif|I don't think that's what Six meant by "scissors," girls.
Image:Tomcure.png|I think filbert is a pretty cool guy. eh manipulates patients into sex and doesn't afraid of anything.
Image:Clipend.png|SEX END.
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Image:Weaver.jpg|The only accurate depiction of Weaver
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Image:PixelRQChars.png
Image:kids.png|Awwwwww!
Image:Deliciousmiscegenation.png
Image:Swingers.png
Image:MitchxTammydawwwww.png‎|You know it's bad when your fanbase starts to ship your characters' kids.  Who aren't even canon.
Image:RubySeesAllYesEvenThat.png‎|No one is safe from the all-seeing gaze of Ruby!
Image:YIP.png
Image:2ndGenCombined.png|RQ: The Next Generation: The Teen Dramedy
Image:2ndGenRescue.png|RQ: The Next Generation: The Teen Action Movie
Image:ManlyGirlyFigure.gif|Learn the difference. It could save your life
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Image:RedMedicine.png|Filbert has a rather loose interpretation of his orders to begin "secretly treating Red's rations."
Image:StitchesExam.png|"Hey, D-doc... just how--ah!--how much l-longer does this--hah!--exam t-take?"
Image:Mantrain.png|After all they've been through, you can hardly blame them for a little rowdiness after they finally escape.
Image:RQsixtythree.png|The next installment of Robby Quest will be on Thursday.
Image:Tickle.png|HOW IS BABBY FORMED
Image:SpeedoFil.png|As a doctor, Filbert knows better than to believe the old myth about not swimming right after you eat lunch.
Image:Filcomplaint.png|Filbert is like Dr. House, except with sex instead of bitterness.
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Image:FilAce.png|Sexual harassment is still a major problem in many smaller organizations.
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Image:FutureFamilyPhoto.png|>Ruby fumbles with the condom, rather unfamiliar with these things.
Image:FilSix.png|Assuming that the amount of "treatment" increases the degree of mutation, we now know how Subject 6 became so dangerous.
Image:Menageatrois.png|Ruby and Tom have developed their own way of inducting people into their SPECIAL FAMILY.
Image:HerosReward.png|Big Damn Heroes deserve Big Damn Rewards.
Image:DEADEND.png|EVERYBODY DIES BOXDOG CROSSOVER END
Image:Jayrubytominbedbyetc.PNG|Say what you want, this is my favourite GOOD END
Image:FilXJay.png|I didn't know you were a cowboy, Jay.
Image:JayBath.png|It's time for a little... BISEXUAL HEALING.
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Image:TheFourthSurvivor.gif
Image:MYPARENTISDEEEAAAAD.png‎|Not everyone gets to live.
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Image:Asspals.png|Their children will reclaim the Earth.
Image:RQGlowingPit.png|>You have broken into a peculiar chamber through the base of the ocean.
Image:FilRuby.png|Ruby's personality appears to undergo sudden changes rather frequently.
Image:Adoption.png|Ruby, you can't just take in every suffering abomination you find chained up in a water filtration system.
Image:BadInfluence.png|The kids love Crazy Uncle John, but he tends to be something of a bad influence.
Image:Rule_75.png|"If it is nonhuman, there is art of it as a human."
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Image:FilBella.png|Also, Bella, you really need to stop spying on everyone over the security system during their intimate moments, Bella.
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Image:MINDVISIONOHGODNO.png|Ruby sees what you did there.  And there.  And there and there and there and there...
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Image:Ruby_Fortress.png
Image:ACETIME.gif
Image:BLANCAQUEST.png|Goddamn shapeshifters
Image:FilXChloe.png|That Chloe is such a playful scamp.
Image:1235013967569.gif|Yes, Weaver drew this.
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Image:Not_Tommy.jpg|That's not Tom.
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Latest revision as of 14:12, 25 June 2023

Out of all the articles of this wiki, this one stands alone, comrade.
For the month of February 2009 it was chosen by a popular
vote to be a shining example of all that is right about /tg/.
Ergo, this article is awesome.

"Rubyrubyrubay aahahahaa" -Kaiser Chiefs

Ruby Quest is a Quest game completed by a tripfag named Weaver. What initially began as a confusing puzzle romp has swiftly become a descent into madness not unlike the best Call of Cthulhu game you have ever been in, but twice as fucked up. One of RQ's main side effects, aside from a few new memes, is the generation of fan art. Unbelievably vast quantities of it. I mean seriously, we've got pictures of fan-pairings of the hypothetical children of a couple who, in canon, may have barely even met each other.

The Ruby Quest logo.
How most people find out about Ruby Quest.

This article has been split into various other articles due to its large size: Ruby Quest Characters, Ruby Quest Summary and Ruby Quest Theories.

Information[edit]

  • Author: Weaver;
  • Length: 31 threads;
  • Running Time: From December of 2008 until March 2009;
  • Status: Finished;
  • Categories: Mindfuck; mystery; suspense; violence.
  • Original Art: Yes;

Threads[edit]

The archives of the game can be found:

The side story John Quest can be found here, in case you're feeling too lazy to check the first link on the list above.

How It's Played[edit]

Much like other early quests, Ruby Quest players would write suggestions, and the ones considered relevant by the Quest Master would be used to make the story move forward.

Characters[edit]

See Ruby Quest Characters for descriptions and fanart of each character. Ruby is the player-controlled protagonist of the adventure, and her companion Tom is controllable much of the time as well. The cast has grown to over a dozen characters throughout the course of the story.

Expand to see various portraits of the cast of characters.

  • Weaver's listing of RQ cast.

    Weaver's listing of RQ cast.

  • The characters of Ruby Quest (even more outdated).

    The characters of Ruby Quest (even more outdated).

  • RQ The Movie!

    RQ The Movie!

  • RQ cast In concert...

    RQ cast In concert...

  • Ruby

    Ruby

  • Tom

    Tom

  • Daisy

    Daisy

  • Red

    Red

  • Stitches

    Stitches

  • Bella

    Bella

  • Ace

    Ace

  • Jay

    Jay

  • Filbert

    Filbert

  • Nook

    Nook

  • The Dummy

    The Dummy

  • The Water Cooler

    The Water Cooler

Summary[edit]

The Ruby Quest summary.

It is highly recommended that you read the actual threads instead of the summaries. All of the content in this section contains spoilers. You have been warned.

To see all the summaries, read about the setting and verify the timeline of the story, check the Ruby Quest Summary page.

Speculation and Theories[edit]

See the page Ruby Quest Theories.

Side Story: JOHN QUEST[edit]

The story of Tom's Twin Brother John, as told by Weaver. Was apparently written as a mere distraction.

Summary of the side story.

John was at his computer an office. Eh was carrying a Wepon, ID, and CANDYBAR. He Read the Note:

TOM I MEAN JOHN
UR A FAGET
- ♠

Then John killed the Water Cooler and got the Orb of Infinite Psych, but he could not leave the room because he did not have the right Axis Card. He tried to open the door with his Wepon so he could go to the Cafiteria, but he had no Wepon. He pushed the Butan and the AC turned off. Tom I mean John read the AC. IT WAS BORING, so he threw his chair out the Windoh, but the Windoh ate the chair!

John tried to throw Self through Windoh, but he was too big! He looked through the window, and saw Ruby! He used the ORB OF INFINITE PSYCH to try to contact her! But her forehead only glowed with power, and nothing happened. He shouted some obscenities into the intercom, ate the intercom, put his shoe on his head, looked at the motivational poster, and then ate the poster too. Then John's Co-orker OPAL came in.

He thought about inviting her to dinner, and then thought about eating her. He decided to multitask, and ate her for dinner. Then he punched Gamera, and PROJEKTEIL VOMMITS the rabbit at the window. His funny DIJESTIVE JUICES made her a little strange though. Almost exactly like the Hound Zombie. Then he used his AXIS CARD to go out the door and go to the BATHROM, but he was too short to reach the handle! He tries to climb his desk, but botches the climb roll. His DENSEITY is so grate he falls through the FLOOR!

He lands in a WIERD PLACE, and follows a LIGHT to the EDNING! We missed a point, god damn.

Expand to see images related to this side-quest.

Additional Information[edit]

If you want to discuss the game with others, there is an IRC discussion available on the channel irc.rizon.net, room #RubyQuest. You can also check out more artfaggotry at Deviantart. Finally, there's a TVTropes article.

Gallery[edit]

This is a gallery for group shots and action scenes. See Ruby Quest Characters for fan art of individual characters and Ruby Quest Summary for images related to certain parts of the story.

This section contains PROMOTIONS! Don't say we didn't warn you.

Expand to see a huge-ass gallery of images.

  • Best. Fanart. Ever.

    Best. Fanart. Ever.

  • Mother of God

    Mother of God

  • BEST END [drawn by Weaver, but non-canon]

    BEST END [drawn by Weaver, but non-canon]

  • ALMOST BEST END

    ALMOST BEST END

  • what

    what

  • This is not an uncommon reaction from many of the players.

    This is not an uncommon reaction from many of the players.

  • And then Ruby was a zombie.

    And then Ruby was a zombie.

  • All the better to hug you with, my dear.

    All the better to hug you with, my dear.

  • Tom is more resourceful than you'd think.

    Tom is more resourceful than you'd think.

  • pchat is a wild and dangerous place.

    pchat is a wild and dangerous place.

  • Indeed, indeed it is

    Indeed, indeed it is

  • A bit more Paintchat horror

    A bit more Paintchat horror

  • The ending most of us are hoping for.

    The ending most of us are hoping for.

  • "Awww, isn't that cute..."

    "Awww, isn't that cute..."

  • "...BUT IT'S WROOOOOOOOONG!"

    "...BUT IT'S WROOOOOOOOONG!"

  • Ruby escapes... but with whom?

    Ruby escapes... but with whom?

  • Beardbeard and company are... waaaaaait a minute.

    Beardbeard and company are... waaaaaait a minute.

  • OTP

    OTP

  • ALTERNATE BEST END.

    ALTERNATE BEST END.

  • "L-look at me! *sob* Look at what they *sniff* d-did to me! I'M A *hic* M-MONSTER!"

    "L-look at me! *sob* Look at what they *sniff* d-did to me! I'M A *hic* M-MONSTER!"

  • Siegfried and Roy have nothing on these two.

    Siegfried and Roy have nothing on these two.

  • There's a reason Filbert is the head doctor.

    There's a reason Filbert is the head doctor.

  • Tom is a very frustrated man.

    Tom is a very frustrated man.

  • "B-but Tom, the c-cameras..."

    "B-but Tom, the c-cameras..."

  • Do the monkey with meh!

    Do the monkey with meh!

  • SO GOOD!

    SO GOOD!

  • Huzzah!

    Huzzah!

  • WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I HUG!?!

    WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I HUG!?!

  • Ruby seems pretty legit, Tom, why not give her a hug?

    Ruby seems pretty legit, Tom, why not give her a hug?

  • Ruby likes to watch.

    Ruby likes to watch.

  • Filbert's methods may be unorthodox, but they certainly seem effective.

    Filbert's methods may be unorthodox, but they certainly seem effective.

  • Ad'awwwwable.

    Ad'awwwwable.

  • Hopefully we can get this ending, eh?

    Hopefully we can get this ending, eh?

  • ILLEGAL IN MANY PLACES.

    ILLEGAL IN MANY PLACES.

  • We can only hope

    We can only hope

  • If Ruby's actions were determined purely by popular vote.

    If Ruby's actions were determined purely by popular vote.

  • "Psst. Hey, Tom. Look up my skirt."

    "Psst. Hey, Tom. Look up my skirt."

  • Filbert's treatment was so effective, Ruby recommended it to Tom! As long as she gets to watch.

    Filbert's treatment was so effective, Ruby recommended it to Tom! As long as she gets to watch.

  • I don't think that's what Six meant by "scissors," girls.

    I don't think that's what Six meant by "scissors," girls.

  • I think filbert is a pretty cool guy. eh manipulates patients into sex and doesn't afraid of anything.

    I think filbert is a pretty cool guy. eh manipulates patients into sex and doesn't afraid of anything.

  • SEX END.

    SEX END.

  • The only accurate depiction of Weaver

    The only accurate depiction of Weaver

  • Awwwwww!

    Awwwwww!

  • You know it's bad when your fanbase starts to ship your characters' kids. Who aren't even canon.

    You know it's bad when your fanbase starts to ship your characters' kids. Who aren't even canon.

  • No one is safe from the all-seeing gaze of Ruby!

    No one is safe from the all-seeing gaze of Ruby!

  • RQ: The Next Generation: The Teen Dramedy

    RQ: The Next Generation: The Teen Dramedy

  • RQ: The Next Generation: The Teen Action Movie

    RQ: The Next Generation: The Teen Action Movie

  • Learn the difference. It could save your life

    Learn the difference. It could save your life

  • Filbert has a rather loose interpretation of his orders to begin "secretly treating Red's rations."

    Filbert has a rather loose interpretation of his orders to begin "secretly treating Red's rations."

  • "Hey, D-doc... just how--ah!--how much l-longer does this--hah!--exam t-take?"

    "Hey, D-doc... just how--ah!--how much l-longer does this--hah!--exam t-take?"

  • After all they've been through, you can hardly blame them for a little rowdiness after they finally escape.

    After all they've been through, you can hardly blame them for a little rowdiness after they finally escape.

  • The next installment of Robby Quest will be on Thursday.

    The next installment of Robby Quest will be on Thursday.

  • HOW IS BABBY FORMED

    HOW IS BABBY FORMED

  • As a doctor, Filbert knows better than to believe the old myth about not swimming right after you eat lunch.

    As a doctor, Filbert knows better than to believe the old myth about not swimming right after you eat lunch.

  • Filbert is like Dr. House, except with sex instead of bitterness.

    Filbert is like Dr. House, except with sex instead of bitterness.

  • Sexual harassment is still a major problem in many smaller organizations.

    Sexual harassment is still a major problem in many smaller organizations.

  • >Ruby fumbles with the condom, rather unfamiliar with these things.

    >Ruby fumbles with the condom, rather unfamiliar with these things.

  • Assuming that the amount of "treatment" increases the degree of mutation, we now know how Subject 6 became so dangerous.

    Assuming that the amount of "treatment" increases the degree of mutation, we now know how Subject 6 became so dangerous.

  • Ruby and Tom have developed their own way of inducting people into their SPECIAL FAMILY.

    Ruby and Tom have developed their own way of inducting people into their SPECIAL FAMILY.

  • Big Damn Heroes deserve Big Damn Rewards.

    Big Damn Heroes deserve Big Damn Rewards.

  • EVERYBODY DIES BOXDOG CROSSOVER END

    EVERYBODY DIES BOXDOG CROSSOVER END

  • Say what you want, this is my favourite GOOD END

    Say what you want, this is my favourite GOOD END

  • I didn't know you were a cowboy, Jay.

    I didn't know you were a cowboy, Jay.

  • It's time for a little... BISEXUAL HEALING.

    It's time for a little... BISEXUAL HEALING.

  • Not everyone gets to live.

    Not everyone gets to live.

  • File:GangstaQuest.png
  • Their children will reclaim the Earth.

    Their children will reclaim the Earth.

  • >You have broken into a peculiar chamber through the base of the ocean.

    >You have broken into a peculiar chamber through the base of the ocean.

  • Ruby's personality appears to undergo sudden changes rather frequently.

    Ruby's personality appears to undergo sudden changes rather frequently.

  • Ruby, you can't just take in every suffering abomination you find chained up in a water filtration system.

    Ruby, you can't just take in every suffering abomination you find chained up in a water filtration system.

  • The kids love Crazy Uncle John, but he tends to be something of a bad influence.

    The kids love Crazy Uncle John, but he tends to be something of a bad influence.

  • "If it is nonhuman, there is art of it as a human."

    "If it is nonhuman, there is art of it as a human."

  • Also, Bella, you really need to stop spying on everyone over the security system during their intimate moments, Bella.

    Also, Bella, you really need to stop spying on everyone over the security system during their intimate moments, Bella.

  • Ruby sees what you did there. And there. And there and there and there and there...

    Ruby sees what you did there. And there. And there and there and there and there...

  • Goddamn shapeshifters

    Goddamn shapeshifters

  • That Chloe is such a playful scamp.

    That Chloe is such a playful scamp.

  • Yes, Weaver drew this.

    Yes, Weaver drew this.

  • Everyone has always known Tom was a mushroom head.

    Everyone has always known Tom was a mushroom head.

  • That's not Tom.

    That's not Tom.

  • Oh god how did this get here I am not good with computer.

    Oh god how did this get here I am not good with computer.

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