General fanventure thread

i sifted through a bunch of pages just to find a mspfa thread... im glad people talk about them. i gotta recommend crossmound to anyone who likes the feel of early hivebent. it's still ongoing but there's a good chunk of pages to go through and i looove the characterization and character designs so much.

https://mspfa.com/?s=45123

Yo what up im back i got more stuff (1 for 1 deal as always)

IRIDIAN by Kazukinsha
https://mspfa.com/?s=64029
this started out as a generally pretty solid mspfa with some unique visuals but then it got to page 46 and it immediately became one of the coolest fucking things ever. think everyone should read this just to get to that part. before that though it's still really nice; i like the writing in particular it's pretty nice and the unique css textboxes compliment it super well. But like, everything past page 46 might just be generational kino. I just love how those parts are vibe-wise shit gets Crazymode with like every potential avenue of creation. Super excited to see what really be going on story-wise

necessary self-shill:
i just finished my own adventure called Food For Four! it's a relatively short (72 actual pages) fanadventure about someone cooking for they friends. thought it came out nice and it probably takes like 20 minutes max to read all the way through. overall i had a lot of fun making it and i even learnt a couple of cool things along the way (like krita's animation functionality, which i didn't even know existed until i started working on it). Also there's a live laugh love sign somewhere

i'm working on a fanventure called TenMod, if you like people with shapes for heads this is for you

https://mspfa.com/?s=60256&p=1

Gonna promote my flijam adventure from last year's theme that i'm still working on (my motivation to update has been spotty 😔) called Purified Paradise! https://mspfa.com/?s=58370&p=1

I have had this story idea for years, but decided to take the plunge of actually doing something with it for 2024's flipjam prompt. It's based off of an old wigglersim save i no longer have access to, but i've resprited all the characters so i'm not just using farragofiction dollmaker sprites. I've been using it to try to improve how i make panels, and i've even been able to draw some panels that look pretty alright. I'm also getting better at spriting rooms, which i'm still not a fan of but practice is important. I'm almost at 100 pages, and i'd say i'm about halfway through the story i have drafted out. I also did an update today!

crud spade is a certified classic and i'm only mostly saying this because i'm a big intermissionhead

My main adventure is None Pizza With Left Beef, but the one I'm really proud of is actually a bonus Q&A threadventure mirror called Ask Dylan. It's best read after completing the wintermission retcon route in left beef, for the sake of context.

The main adventure starts out as an in-setting (kinda) engineered epilogues food option, and then quickly dives into a completely different post-session world, exploring a breadth of what is possible beyond the limited expectations of homestuck as most know it, mostly with days and days of slice-of-life in order to introduce the setting and its new characters.

Here's the link to it: https://mspfa.com/?s=38989&p=1

Ask Dylan show an entirely different side of things, from the point of view of the apparent antagonist, driven to boredom while waiting for left beef to resume updating (this was during a flash pause). Guests and other anomalies appear in his office to ask questions and cause mayhem. It is complete, and the plot of HyacinthHeld will draw directly from it.

Here's the link to this one: https://mspfa.com/?s=45532&p=32

Eventually I will return to working on left beef, but I've got a game to work on first. (don't expect updates for another year unless you can send a compelling command)

I'm writing a fanadventure called Bildungscaught on MSPFA. It's hard to recommend because it feels like it's still kind of just "sburbventure-y" at this point, but I want to get really in depth with the character development and with playing around with meta-narrative, so if you want to get in on the ground floor, check it out

As if I'm gonna miss a chance to soullessly shill out my own mspfa. It's called Once in a Blue Moon and it updates whenever I get a spark of motivation.

Also, Spiralfracture is pretty good.

i can’t believe i came on this thread and didn’t talk about either of my adventures. just one of my favorites (honorable mention to Jack Noirs Get a Proper Ending Not Clickbait!! it’s a super good mspfa but also im a bias because jack noir deserves a proper ending. esp spades slick. he righted his wrongs.)
but!

Recover Voyage is my child! i am so close and yet so far from actually getting to the bit where sburb is introduced! i love a fun little adventure where only problems are happening!

Mansion’s Secret is a lovely little comic that starts out as a sleepover, but ends up devolving to a murder mystery at the end of act 1. i also have massive plans to have sburb be an escape room esc game, which is how the gates are now!

I am working on something! It's just a preview for now, but I hope you all like it.

https://mspfa.com/?s=64408&p=1

@katrinasis
Thanks! Im the author of crud spade. I think it gets a lot more credit than it deserves, for being the defacto midnight crew adventure on mspfa. I'm genuinely surprised there wasn't one before crud spade. There's been more fanadventures using the existing dynamics of problem sleuth than any genuine attempts at a midnight crew mspfa.

There are midnight crew/spades slick adventures, don't get me wrong, but they're more like... Intermission fandom comics? Not that I'm belittling these adventures, but emulating the intermission was never their intent.

It's sad! I wish I wasn't the one that had to do it. My artistic skills weren't where they needed to be, and in general I wasn't very inventive with the sleuthlike formula. And like, there's barely anyone for them to kill. I think that's what I regret the most. One of the best parts of the intermission is how it's basically just the midnight crew working together to kill a bunch of guys, but I only had the creative bandwidth to come up with a handful of new characters, who I didn't have the heart to kill...

You should consider checking out my forum adventure here on FRAF. The main character is basically just PSC from crud spade

=:ve got a fanventure of my own, tra:nee detect:ve (https://mspfa.com/?s=59517&p=1), ðat a:ms to blend homestuck's and problem sleuþ's narrat:ve mechan:cs w:þ eachoðer, plus some fandom shenan:gans of m:ne and an alternate alphabet for flavor

also going to pin this as another general thread. carry on.

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis it self absorbed to link my own work wake up? its not been talked about as much recently cuz i took a bit of a break from updating it (#depression) but im still super proud of it! its gotten me to experiment with my art in a really fun way.

a liiink HERE (https://mspfa.com/?s=22166&p=1), and like, i know its a lot of pages, but my writing style is pretty simplistic and a lot of the pages just straight up dont have any writing on them so no worries!

also take this panel that i have always really liked

Guess I'll follow in my buddy Lupa's footsteps and also shill my own MSPFA: Hoxxesbound! It's about a bunch of alien dwarves, Homestuck-styled and set in a (highly) creatively-interpreted version of the video game Deep Rock Galactic's world. You don't have to be acquainted with DRG to understand it! Features a Dave-flavored main character and some old men.

Here's an early panel to like, sell you on it ig

Anyone else find it is REALLY HARD to speed a fan-session type story up? I mean, you're there at the start going, "This time it'll be different. This time they'll go straight in no messing around and start playing to win." 20 chapters later, half your characters are still outside the game faffing around with endless side-quests. And it feels like they're right to do that. Like Sburb is using you, the author, to provide the obligatory roadblocks the game needs.

Regarding this problem, I'd advise people to just skip pre-Entry, or to reduce it to a VERY LIMITED number of dynamic scenes. The Acts 1/2/3 pre-Entry antics have already been done for 1300 pages by Hussie and for an immeasurable number of pages by various SBURBdventures in the last 16 years.

Pre-Entry stuff can be done extremely well (hello Edgebound 2013, sburb.EXE or, "in a way", Wake Up), but personally I always found it long. In 2011, I kept the pre-Entry scenes relatively short, but if I was starting the Alabaster session from scratch in 2025, I would skip them entirely. I would start IN the session, or even mid-session.

You may think the pre-Entry scenes are necessary to establish characters and subplots, but they aren't. You have a thousand ways to develop all of this post-Entry. As John W. Campbell (the author of the 1938 scifi/horror masterpiece Who Goes There?) once said, "if you feel a story is slow, you're probably starting it too soon. He then proceeded to cut dozens of pages out of his novella, making it start in media res, with the discussion around the block of ice.

it is NEVER EVER self absorbed to link your own work. this is a space for general fanventure discussion, which includes your own adventures. here, ill prove it. read ROOTBOUND: https://mspfa.com/?s=53786&p=1

I recently finished a land entry flash and im super proud of it. let me know what you think!

@anomaletix oh shit i did one of those tracks on iridian im enjoying it a lot so far :)

my big shill thing is CROSSMOUND because i also did music for that :)

its been on hiatus for a while (the creators are unfortunately quite busy Working because of Economy)

theres currently 698 pages and its a good lot o troll fun :)