A Quest For QQuality

A Quest For QQuality

Basic information
Release	July 2, 2016
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows macOS Linux
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"A Quest For QQuality" is a high quality Age of Empires II: HD Edition scenario by SiIvaGunner. It was released on July 2, 2016 for the second part of the Reboot ARGs event.

Overview

"A Quest For QQuality" is a campaign made for Age of Empires II: HD Edition. It focuses on the various memes of the SiIvaGunner channel, as well as the SilvaGunner: Rebooted event. The campaign tells of the story of Joel surviving after the Rippers have taken over. After completing the campaign, Joel will give out the next step of the ARG.

Additionally. the campaign also features:

• NPCs that are named after various team members at the time of the ARG or other SiIvaGunner memes.
• Various lines of dialogue also in reference to memes on the channel and outside it.
• Several locations throughout the map that reference memes on the channel.

Descriptions

The description of the file in the website's search results reads:

The Rippers took over the land, and YOU've gotta make the place high quality again!

The description of the file itself is:

A nonsensical story from an alternate alternate universe. Start off as a random man, end up as an army. Standard campaign stuff, am I right.
Be warned though, if you don't know about someone called GiIvaSunner and all the memes/jokes surrounding it, you probably won't understand anything that happens in the game. I hope you understand.
 
This campaign will only work for Age of Empires 2: HD Edition.
Do you know your memes?

Plot Summary

Joel and his Grand Dad have been doing well even after the Rippers took over the land. Joel has also heard rumors about the Rippers changing GiIvaSunner. One regular day, Grand Dad asks Joel to gather wood and take it to Budrock town to sell for food. After completing this task and arriving at the Budrock marketplace, Joel encounters GiIvaSunner. He asks if GiIvaSunner has "a selection of mostly Nintendo video game music," but GiIvaSunner is in his Reboot state, saying lines relating to the Reboot and seeming to ignore Joel's attempts at asking what is wrong with him, before walking away when Joel tries to ask further.

Upon returning from the market, Joel discovers that the Rippers, led by Triple-Q, have destroyed his house and killed Grand Dad. Grand Dad instructs Joel to find GiIvaSunner, who lives in the southern part of the map. After arriving at GiIvaSunner's house and avoiding the various Rippers along the way, Joel finds GiIvaSunner still in his Reboot state. However, after Joel tries to snap him out of it, GiIvaSunner quickly glitches back to his normal state. GiIvaSunner says they must kill the Rippers and offers Joel a place to stay since his house burnt down. GiIvaSunner then decides to train Joel in fighting the Rippers until he's capable of taking them on himself. Afterward, GiIvaSunner leads Joel to where he makes his "high-quality video game rips" and mentions he has lost his high-quality ripping software. He asks Joel for help in retrieving it. When Joel questions why GiIvaSunner didn't do it himself, GiIvaSunner reveals he had to escape from the Rippers after a previous failed attempt, hiding in the mountains to avoid detection, and that he has a plan to defeat the Rippers.

Returning to GiIvaSunner's place, they find the Rippers are burning it down. GiIvaSunner and Joel fight back. GiIvaSunner then reveals his plans to get help from Chad Warden, last seen in Hahlation. After finding him, Chad Warden shares that Triple-Q has Nozomi as an ally, residing in the Ripper base in the woods. Chad Warden considers forming an army to take on Nozomi and hopefully defeat the Rippers. They travel the land looking for others to join their cause. Once they have enough men and other camps, particularly those further west, they attack the Ripper base. There, they discover Nozomi is missing and instead find PSY, another one of Triple-Q's helpers.

After defeating PSY and destroying the camp, Chad Warden instructs Joel and GiIvaSunner to meet him south of Hahlation. There, Chad Warden reveals their plan to establish a base in that location. A scout arrives with news that Nozomi has captured Hahlation. Chad Warden urges them to quickly set up the base and form a large army to retake Hahlation. After reclaiming the town and defeating Nozomi, Triple-Q is seen fleeing. Chad Warden, GiIvaSunner, and Joel decide to pursue him, while Joel remains to take care of Hahlation.

Reboot ARG involvement

During the campaign, there are two hints given that can be found, the first one can be found in the Hahlation town when interacting with a random villager, which will result in this dialogue being displayed:

No, you won't find your ARG hints here.

jk check the audio folder

After finishing all the objectives and campaign, Joel will then tell the player this:

Oh hey, don't think I didn't see you there. Going through this, game, waiting for the time where the clue for the next step of the ARG shows up.

Well, that time is now. You better screencap this or some shit because I'm not going to repeat myself.

The music that's been playing during this campaign is all from the same game.

Can you figure out what game that is?

Now, from that game, there is a character that says he's too nervous to handle guns. What is that character's name? When you find it, it should sound familiar.

Lastly, when you get the proper name, switch the last A for a D. Look for an account with that name and you should be on the right track!

Good luck, and remember, the point of this ARG, and of course GiIva in general, is to have fun! So, enjoy yourself!

As pointed out by Joel, the scenario has a custom soundtrack featuring music from a different video game. A hint to what game these tracks are from can be found by looking through the scenario's audio folder, as told by the villager NPC.

All of the audio files with the in-game music are credited to Jeremy Soule. Additionally, the files also contain two other pieces of audio that are not played within the scenario itself.

The first is a .mp3 file titled "reward for whoever bothers looking through the folders" and has the track title of "Kabuto". The second is a .wav file called "key 1 of 3", which will be needed later on in the ARG.

The hints given point at the game Giants: Citizen Kabuto, as it contains the music used in the scenario and has Jeremy Soule as one of its composers. The character from it that fits Joel's desciription is Timmy.

The last part of this step requires some background knowledge on SilvaGunner (spelt with a lowercase "L"), a now defunct VGM channel that GilvaSunner, the channel SiIvaGunner parodies, got its name from. One of the two people who founded GilvaSunner also ran another VGM channel called "TimmyTurnersDad".

Factions

There are 5 different factions that are in the game:

• Budrock [Japanese] (Yellow) ~ The color of the player character and their controllable allies.
• Budrock [Japanese] (Blue) ~ The town next to Joel's house.
• Rippers [Goths] (Orange) ~ The main enemies of the game.
• GiIvaSunner [Japanese] (Purple) ~ The character itself as well as the house he resides in.
• Hahlation [Koreans] (Green) ~ The town to the south nearby GiIvaSunner's house.

Music

The various custom songs are various different songs of Giants: Citizen Kabuto:

File name	Giants: Citizen Kabuto title
cos-fight music	Flight of the Meccs
cos-fight music2	Meccs at the Ready
cos-fight music3	Kill, Crush, Destroy
cos-intro music	A Mother's Love Lost
cos-music	Les Nuages
cos-music2	The Four Elements
cos-music3	Majorcan Voyage
cos-music4	Baz's Adiago
cos-music5	A Creature of Legend
cos-music4	Baz's Adiago
cos-ripper music	La Mer Agitée
cos-ripper music3	Delphi's Journey

Anti-Cheat Messages

There are two separate anti-cheat messages that can appear if the player attempts to use various cheats with the campaign abruptly ending in a game over. The first one can appear when attempting to cheats such as "ninjaconnor" which grants the player 100,000 for all resources:

wtf dude don't try to cheat this out
Low quality cheats get the kicks
l m a o

The second one can appear when using the "marco" cheat that reveals the whole map and heading to a spot on the map that resembles "Loss" which isn't visible without using the cheat. Doing so will result in this message popping up before a game over:

"is this loss" more like your loss for cheating, fuckwad

Characters

There are various characters that be found throughout the game with most being various team members at the time of the mod:

• Joel
• Grand Dad
• GilvaSunner
• Chad Warden
• CorBond
• Weeaboo Leader
• Omniputance
• Quadruple-T

Rippers

• Triple-Q
• Nozomi
• PSY

Found in Budrock town

• Boss of This Gym
• JC Denton
• Paul Denton
• Lobster
• /r9k/
• Chaze
• ZVAARI
• turtl3
• Sylvysprit
• Toonlink
• Loud Nigra
• Ethan Bradberry
• KinkyOats
• Cheap Aladdin
• Haruka Amami

Found in Hahlation town

• Chad Warden
• Blazephlozard
• MatrixMarioX
• Le Ruse Bird
• Happy Happy Cultist
• Metalik
• Xarlable
• Avolience
• NBG
• Dvon
• BotanicSage
• CaptainComedy
• Willie Weasel
• Uncle Fill

Other characters

• Ripping Software
• Morpheus
• Illusive Hannibal
• Joan the Maid

One off Dialogue

Throughout the game, various characters can be interacted with that will only say one off lines, most of which reference either the scenario itself, other memes, or the character themselves.

From a character with a name in Budrock

Line	Character name	Reference
These berries are SSSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMIIIIIIINNNNNNNNN	Ethan Bradberry	"SCREAMING SLAMMIN PRANK IN PUBLIC" by MoeAndET
The quality isn't good	Sylvysprit	A discord message from them that would also appeared during the next step of the ARG.
You either slam with the best, or you jam with the best	ZVAARI
lmao it to make it since I was using audacity	turtl3	Reference to a comment by the ripper.
Family Guy theme trumpet note.	Toonlink
My trademarks are the ribbons on my hair.	Haruka Amami	A line said by Haruka Amami in "Danketsu" from Beautiful Katamari
Did you listen to 5 nights of snop dog yet?	Chaze	References to a community in-joke regarding a comment left on Chaze the Chat's SoundCloud: "I have a request - its five nights of snop dog".
That's because I'm a wizard. You normies will NEVER EVER get this power!! RREEEEEEEEEE	/r9k/

From a character with a name in Hahlation

Line	Character name	Reference
Rock My Forum was a fucking mistake.	Xarlable	References the ripper creating the infamous "Rock My Forum" YTPMV.
I love my Senpaisamachansan.	MatrixMarioX
Soulja Boy tell 'em	Avolience	References the ripper making multiple rips featuring "Crank That".
нет	Le Ruse Bird	Reference to the ripper being responsible for the infamous "Puzzle Room" rip.
h	Happy Happy Cultist
кояıваll кояıваll кояıваll кояıваll кояıваll кояıваll коя	Metalik	Reference to the ripper being the creator of "KORIBALL".
rip again, dumbass	memer	Reference to videogamedunkey's video "CS:GO Rip King".
i didn't die for this i didn't die for this	TUWieZ
gib da pusi boss	Uncle Fill

From a character with a name in the Overworld

Line	Character name	Reference
Want some heals?	Cheap Aladdin
Morpheus: Are you sure you'll be safe during the trip? Man: Morpheus. Dorpheus. Orpheus. Go eat some walruses. If anything happens, I'll be drinking a forty in my death basket. Morpheus: Going to the buffet and walruses... Huh? You need a supplies for you army? Sure, just check my market out.	Exchange between Morpheus and a man.	References the "Morpheus Buress" skit from The Eric Andre Show.

From a non-named character

Line	Character name	Reference
There is no denying it It's hip to fuck bees.	Villager from Budrock Town.	Reference to the Fuck Bees meme.
Op	Warrior enemy from Budrock Town.	Reference to "Gangnam Style"
...or better than kings... GODS... ...But what's a God to a non-believer...	Villager from Budrock Town.
I miss the old GiIvaSunner Straight from the rips GiIvaSunner	Villager from Budrock Town.
I love listening to birbs early in the morning.	Villager from Budrock Town.
Wanna buya crossbow? It costs 360 gold.	Archery from Budrock Town.
Sorry, I'm out of gunpowder.	Gun Smith from Budrock Town.
Where did these guys even come from?	Villager from Budrock Town.
Forgive me father For this fine piece of ass I'm about to decimate	Villager from Budrock Town.
I have a request It's 5 nights of snop d-o-single-g	Villager from Budrock Town.	Reference to the "I have a request - its five nights of snop dog" comment by crimpsonfang9.
Did you hear about the reboot? Worst. Thing. Ev... Hey! Snooping as usual I see? Get lost!	Villager from Budrock Town.
Rippers really have it for GiIvaSunner, but why?	Villager from Budrock Town.
Shoutout to Simpleflips	Villager from Budrock Town and Hahlation Town.	Reference to the phrase of the same name.
Kids these days don’t care about lore. What a shame	Teacher from Budrock Town.
DOOR STUCK. DOOR STUCK.	Long Swordsman outside of Budrock Town.	Reference to the video "DOOR STUCK! DOOR STUCK!" by KinetiK001.
Commit sudoku	Elite Samurai outside of Budrock Town.	Reference to the "Commit sudoku" meme
aaaaaayyyyyy	Monk in the overworld.	References the "Ayy LMAO" meme.
lmao	Imam
I'll be grand dad, you'll be snow halation	Villager from Hahlation Town.
I heard GiIvaSunner has been corrupted. That's crazy.	Villager from Hahlation Town.
Hahlation was a mistake.	Villager from Hahlation Town.	References the disclourse around "Snow halation" which led to the Reboot.
Hahlation was a mistake. Personally, I blame the dislikes for all of this.	Villager from Hahlation Town.
Wake me up when september 1960 ends.	Villager from Hahlation Town.	Reference to "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day and the month that The Flintstones first aired on televisions.
succ is dead	Lumberjack from Hahlation Town.	References a line from "[Vinesauce] Joel - Destroying Rollercoaster Tycoon: Multiplayer Mod Disaster" by Vinesauce Joel.
no succ	Lumberjack from Hahlation Town.
There's someone screaming inside, but it's no loud nigra	Pikeman from Hahlation Town near the Howie Stronghold.	References the Howie scream.
Bus? Haven't seen one. Are you sure that's not just a meme?	Villager from Hahlation Town.	Reference to a meme where people over analyze things.
...So, you know what he said next? "I only upload high quality rips. "Ha! Never gets old.	Samurai from Hahlation Town.
I get it! i dont get it	Villager from Hahlation Town.	Reference to the video "Plug and Play Consoles - JonTron" by JonTron.
The bird is JonTron. The bird is JonTron.	Monk from Hahlation Town.	References a line from "THE JONTRON RANT" by videogamedunkey.
Invest in a 401(k) account for a stable retirement future	Monk from Hahlation Town.

Trivia

• When GiIvaSunner is rebooting back to his normal state, he plays the AOL dial up sounds.
  • Also during this, one of the lines he says can be viewed in a spectrogram. This is hinted by Joel saying:

What's... What's going on? Is this something I'm supposed to use a spectrogram on?

Using a spectrogram on the "cos-ypw hnhpu kbtihzz" file results in a image of what appears to be two people dancing and a school bus in between the people.

• The spelling of "Hahlation" could be based on the way Chad Warden is sentenced mixed to say "Snow halation".
• The hidden audio file titled "reward for whoever bothers looking through the folders.mp3" consists of a mashup with an unknown song and the vocals from the rip "DK Rap (Gorilla Version) - Donkey Kong 64".