yFi
Anonymous12/03/25, 14:22No.6341880Great ambitions
Your name is (name), you are from a small unknown village, in some forest nobody cares about. Your village has a small church where you and your family visit every weekend, your father is a farmer like most people here, wheat's the largest export in this village and what keeps everyone fed when there isn't a drought.
You have 2 siblings, your older brother and your older sister, you never really connected with them, and you think they may actually dislike you, you are quite a bit younger than them.
Your mother is too weak to farm and so she is the village weaver, she learned how to weave from your late grandmother, your mother has also inherited some books from your grandfather, so you and your siblings are one of the few literate people in the village.
When the taxmen come every half-year some merchants also follow them due to the taxmen's guradforce, you like to borrow and read some books from the nice merchants before they leave, you are too poor to afford to buy books, so you are quite grateful that they let you just borrow and read some books, you think it's a novelty to them to encounter a literate villager.
Aside from all of that, you are quite a loner, you never really connected with anybody in the village, not even your parents, but you aren't bothered with that, you prefer being alone with your books.
You always dreamt of leaving your backwater village, you always thought higher of yourself than most of your peers, that could be a contributing factor to your isolation, but nontheless you held that belief your whole life.
When you were a child you already hoped for something better, 'how could no one here aspire for something more?' you've asked yourself time and time again, there had to more to life than farming and praying.
You never had the opportunity to leave the village, your father would always shout at you that "It's too dangerous to leave! you'll die out there!", of course you never believed him, but rules are rules, you wouldn't want to incur your father's wrath by going out.
So you waited and waited, you farmed the wheat, prayed at church, and read what little there was until that opportunity came one fateful day.
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yFi
Anon12/03/25, 15:20No.6341894
It was a couple months after your 18th birthday, some rumors were starting to get around about some sort of war happening between your nation and a neighboring kingdom, you didn't really understand what was going on or why this war started but it was pretty exciting nontheless. You started imagining to yourself how it would be like going to war, joining a battalion and going on an epic adventure like in the tales written in the books, looting the enemy for treasure, and perhaps even gaining a name for yourself* in the world.
You were buzzing with energy, but your father still wouldn't let you out,
until that one fateful day that finally came.Recruiters came to the village, a squad of men, clad in army clothes, and armed with large flintlock muskets, at their helm was an imposing mustached man, he shouted for everyone in the village to gather around near the church, and when everybody gathered he started speaking:"The King is looking for brave men to join the Fight against the treacherous Galamads! They have attacked and slaughtered our people! So answer the king's call and join the army!"
He pointed his hand to a large tent "Go there and sign up for the call! We are looking for young able bodied men to join up!" he puts his hand down "And if anybody here is or knows a magician, please come and speak directly to me, magicians get better rations and salaries." As he finished speaking the small crowd of your village broke into shouts and murmurings, and everybody started scattering everywhere, you saw many people you know including your brother go the recruiting tent.You aren't particularly attuned to magic, but still, being able to get out of this wretched village was good enough for you.What do you do?1) Go back home and collect some of your things, your mother is there, she didn't bother going to the village gathering
2) Go straight to the recruiting tent to sign up
3) Go talk to your father about leaving the village finally
4) other (preferred, If I see a good other option I'll choose it)
yFi
Anon12/04/25, 12:13No.6342337
go home to talk to mother and get some of your things before moving forwards got the most votes, lets go then
yFi
Anon12/08/25, 10:39No.6344105
Okay, option 3 it is
XkB
Anon12/12/25, 01:02No.6345763
QM, are the lights too bright for you?
Gco
Anon12/12/25, 01:22No.6345769
Supporting small creators
bfC
Anon12/12/25, 17:40No.6346044
Might steal this quest as a chrismas break one-shot then if the original QM doesn't feel like keeping it going.
CPy
Anon12/16/25, 09:45No.6347586
almost forgot boud this quest