We Are Monsters on a Spooky Quest is a Play-by-Post game created by DrNoPuma, hosted here on the TV Tropes forums. It's a Spiritual Successor to We Are All Pirates' Revenge, in that it takes place in a fantasy world with humans, talking animals, and all sorts of creatures living together, and it stars an unlikely group of heroes going on a quest to recover several precious artifacts.
This thread takes place in the Uberwaldian land of Grimmloch. Monsters and humans have long been in a feud with each other. Monsters scare humans, who send monster hunters to kill them.
Our story begins when a group of monsters wake up in the dungeon of King Royam, the elderly and eccentric ruler of the kingdom. King Royam tells the monsters that they have been gifted with a special, but mysterious, crystal dust inside their bodies. This crystal dust helps them locate other crystal objects and gives them other abilities as well. King Royam, and his imp assistant Cesspool, give the monsters a deal: If the monsters travel across the land and collect the Crystal Bats, ten living, bat-shaped gemstones that hold incredible power when combined, King Royam will ban monster hunting and allow monsters to live freely with humans forever.
The thread was started on Friday, May 13, 2022 and is currently still running.
This thread contains examples of:
- Bat Out of Hell: Averted. Crystal Bats, the Mineral MacGuffins, are living, crystalline bats. As MacGuffins, it is essential for the heroes to collect them.
- Fantastic Racism: Monsters and humans hate each other. Many humans are monster hunters who dedicate themselves to killing monsters.
- Giant Spider: In Spiderbite Swamp, a place already crawling with carnivorous spiders, the heroes are attacked by one the size of a car. Puma, the writer, admits that, because of the antiquated setting, the characters won't know what a car is, and that this comparison is intended more for the players.
- Gotta Catch 'Em All: The heroes' goal is to collect all ten Crystal Bats.
- Mineral MacGuffin: The goal of the thread is to collect the Crystal Bats, ten living gemstone bats that are the source of incredible power.
- Monster Mash: The thread contains a wide variety of monsters, including: A Frankenstein's Monster consisting of a rat and a cat, a swamp creature, a werewolf, a skeleton crocodile, a nekomata, a gargoyle, and more.
- Non-Malicious Monster: Although humans generally view monsters as evil creatures, the truth is that most monsters in this world are not one bit malevolent, and act just like normal people.
- Puppy-Dog Eyes: When Kevan tries to attack Senki, Tami tries to calm down the situation by doing big, cute cat eyes. Eleanor tries to do them as well, but her Black Eyes of Crazy ruin the effect. Then Melvin tries them, despite being a rat. Even though he has Black Eyes of Crazy too, he's much more genuine in his desire to be cute and innocent.
- Spiders Are Scary: Spiderbite Swamp is so named because it's home to hundreds of flesh-eating spiders.
- Swamps Are Evil: Zigzagged. Spiderbite Swamp, the location of the second Crystal Bat, is a dark and creepy swamp full of flesh-eating spiders. However, Patch and Jacoby come from different swamps, and they are good guys.
- Überwald: The thread is set in a dark, spooky land inspired by the works of Tim Burton. There is one character based on Victor Frankenstein, and another based on Frankenstein's monster.
