Wombat's Quest

Wombat's Quest is an RPG made using RPGMaker 2000 based on the Pokémon Netbattle server Wombat's Burrow and its regulars. Similar to many community-based games, it's full of inside jokes that can only be truly appreciated by members of said community. Some critics of the game find it to be racist and discriminatory, as well, so it's not recommended for younger audiences. The current demo of Wombat's Quest is available for Rapidshare download at http://rapidshare.de/files/28456820/WQAlpha3.zip.html.

Wombat's Burrow
Wombat's Quest is based almost entirely off of incidents that occured in the server. However, the story doesn't cover the entire history of Wombat's Burrow, which goes back around three years. There aren't many exact dates for events, mainly due to Wombat's lack of care over happenings on the Internet.

Modest Beginnings: Wombat's Forest
The server's original name was Wombat's Forest, which was mainly because Wombat himself had no real notion of where Wombats lived. It wasn't very popular, and was regulared only by Duckman, Psycho_Dude, and Wombat. Wombat gave the former two the moderator power, and later promoted them to admins. During this time, a user named Hurricane paraded around as "Wombat Jr.", an alternate name he often used to ask Wombat, "Where's my mommy?" although it was without malicous intent, as Hurricane would occasionally frequent the server. Also of note was that Wombat's girlfriend at the time, under the alias of Sarah Wombat, would often sign in and bother Wombat, who inexplicavly didn't realize it was her at first. Eventually, Duckman researched Wombats and proposed a name change to either "Wombat's Burrow" or "Wombat's Warren", saying that the latter "has that aliteration thing going on". Wombat eventually decided to go with "Wombat's Burrow", as it was more conventional.

Scripts and Expansion: The Burrow
Wombat's Burrow slowly attracted more users as Wombat developed the ability to script, immediately copying a Coin script developed by another Netbattle user, and revamping it to be a Wombat Coin script. The coins were given as bonuses for defeating teams with certain kinds of particularly tough Pokémon in them. Wombat promised that the coins would eventually have a use of some kind, but he never created any script for using them, and eventually they became tokens simply for bragging rights. Slowly, the server began to grow as other users who weren't frequent regulars came more often and exclusively to the Burrow, such as MacerXGP and his younger brother CrapEaterXGP, Donut, Turkey Hill and his brother who went by [AZN], and VampKiller45, among others. It was around this time that Tahu began to make more frequent appearences as well, and became the "Burrow Kicking Sport", and was kicked at random by Wombat, Psycho_Dude, and Duckman. Eventually, Wombat developed an area script, and created "Wombat City", with four different sections. You could only challenge a user in the same section as you. Tahu eventually used this script to create a Code Lyoko script for his own server, "The Coliseum", which never took off.

Chaos Reigns: The Dark Tina-Chan Era
On a particularly busy day when Wombat was off the computer, he returned to find his server massively populated because Blue Heaven was down. Many of the users were roleplay fighting with a user with the screenname of "Tina-Chan", including MacerXGP and his younger brother. Tina's roleplaying was bizzare, as she would use it to engage in suggestive encounters with random users, and she appeared to have a chocolate fetish, as she roleplayed using chocolate syrups as an aphrodisiac. Many of the users were upset by this, but Wombat refused to ban her for some reason. He eventually called in Tahu from The Coliseum, telling him that he was needed to help "combat a great evil." When Tahu entered the Burrow, he typed his now-famous message to Tina: "guess what? I AM UR EXICUTER!". Donut popularized this phrase by creating a team based on an Exeggutor named "Your Exeggutor" and routinely pummeled much of the server with it. Wombat closed the server that night, not expecting to see Tina again, but she returned the next day, even though the server wasn't nearly as popular, and was at her antics again. Eventually, she would begin an Internet Relationship with VampKiller, whom she refered to as "Vampy". They would often engage in cybersex in the main chat, which drove users away, provoking Psycho_Dude to even leave Netbattle for good, and driving Donut back to Blue Heaven. Over time, Wombat befriended Tina and granted her moderater power, and eventually administrative power. Duckman eventually prodded Wombat about it, and suggested that Wombat perhaps was attracted to Tina, to which Wombat wouldn't respond. Around that time, a user named HKnux5112 joined the Burrow, and challenged Wombat to a battle for moderator powers. He utterly destroyed Wombat, who grudgingly gave him the moderator power.

The Game's History
The game has gone through many stages of development. The original had only two characters in it, and was actually quite a bit of a soap opera compared to the later versions, and could even be comparable to anime, which Wombat himself openly declares hatred of. However, the game matured in the second version featuring many more characters, and more length. This version was unable to be completed, however, due to many memory leaks. The third version is the current and up-to-date version, and is designed to have a more open feel to it than the previous installments, which had linear plots.

The Story
The game is not yet finished, and as such much of the story remains to be seen. So far, however, Wombat recieves an e-mail from the Smogon server on Pokémon Netbattle telling him that he has been accepted for a server moderator examination, despite having never applied. Upon his arrival, he discovers that Kaiba has been granted Moderation powers, and therefore he accepts the examination on the terms that Kaiba loses his power if Wombat succeeds. Chaos visibly has other plans, and Wombat follows along with him despite recognizing it quite clearly. Wombat is directed to go to Sheddy's Village in pursuit of Jumpman, Chaos's right-hand Aryan, where he eventually is forced to save trapped Mexican miners after an explosion, in a parody of the recent incident which resulted in the deaths of several miners (This parody is verified by Wombat saying "Don't worry, it's not like there will be reports that they're all alive but actually all of them except one are dead".) Along the way, Tahu joins the party, and is revealed to be the source of the explosion as he had attempted to shoot Dark Lugia after he stole a Code Lyoko fanfiction Tahu had just picked up, and accidentally shot a large crate of dynamite. It's also possible to recruit Ludicolo, a Pokémon who was spotted illegally crossing the border from *POKEMON-STATS* (One of the premier Spanish-speaking servers on Pokémon Netbattle), and forced to hide in the mines. Wombat eventually comes across Dark Lugia, complaining that the fanfiction has no dragons, and a fight ensues. After Wombat wins, the fanfiction is recovered.

The Characters
Wombat's Quest features an unorthodox character design in that the characters don't have any extremely deep feel to them. Because of this, many critics have found it to be unimaginative and unengaging. Wombat's claim is that he's "trying to make a computer game, not a movie." The characters are generally more on an even-keel, and display as much apathy as possible.

Wombat
The game's namesake and main character. He has an exceptionally high opinion of himself, and as such is highly smug all the time. It's almost impossible for him to be ruffled, as he has the luxury that many of his enemies don't in that he can "leave the Internet at any time and not have a social meltdown". He uses logic in the face of the imaginative nature of the Internet, and as such he's not overly well liked. He often complains that people steal his scripts and use them without giving him credit, and as such has stopped releasing his scripts after using them to create the interactive server bot named Aura. Wombat utterly abhors anime, claiming it's not American, and constantly telling people to remember Pearl Harbor. In battle, Wombat fights with a sword, despite it being equated with many anime characters. He can acquire various different sword skills as well as skills which demean the enemy, such as "Mock" and "Fat Jokes". His best attacks target only one enemy, so he isn't as effective against large groups. He has especially high attack and speed ratings, with average defense and low special.

Aura
Aura is the last program Wombat designed before stopped. Aura is oddly enough, the exact opposite of Wombat, putting her compassion before her logic. Because of her intricate designing, she is capable to think for herself as opposed to requiring special data to control her actions. She does, however, side with Wombat on most of his judgments, but more because she considers herself to be more of a logical creature, as a server bot. She is able to calculate math problems perfectly because of this. She appears to have somewhat of a schoolgirl crush on Wombat, but realizes that he'd only resent it, so tries her best to hide it. Aura uses mostly healing magic and offensive Light-based magic. Her offensive and defensive ratings are exceptionally low, but her speed is solid and she has excellent special. Because of the versatility of her magic, Aura is useful in many situations and is always a good character to fill out your party with.

Kioku
His original screenname is the same as his real name (Zac), but he uses the alias "Kioku" around Netbattle. He's the owner of Ph00kedUp, a web page where he designs Web Comics and keeps various logs of online conversations. Kioku has a very strong distaste for furries, whom he considers to be perverts. He has an exceptionally sharp wit, and has the same advantages as Wombat in having a real social life, but still using the Internet. He has his own small Netbattle Server, Kioku's Hideout, which he themes around the Soviet Union, perhaps because he knows RPGMaker 2000 translator Don Miguel so well. Also, many of his enemies seem to think he's a girl for some unknown reason. Kioku is able to steal items from enemy monsters in battle with his Pilfer technique, and is also able to provide speed boosts to the party. His offensive abilities generally consist of Fire-based moves and Asshattery-based moves, similar to Wombat's. He is weak to both Water-based and Ice-based magic, but has decent all-around stats and a great speed rating. He has relatively low HP, however.

Tahu
Tahu is a young boy who has known Wombat for a considerable amount of time. He's treated as somewhat of a village idiot about the Burrow and is made fun of for his liking of Code Lyoko, Star Trek, Legos, and The Matrix. He obviously spends far too much time online, considering spamming someone equivalent to an attack against one's person. He is a member of many Blockland Clans, including [AL], or Anime Lovers, which he is also made fun of for. Tahu is in love with Aelita from Code Lyoko, and often argues with frontlinewar over whether she is more attractive than Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Although Tahu is, in reality, fourteen, all of the party members believe he is twelve simply because he acts twelve.