Quest
Original: Quest on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with glasses (sitting on a couch playing a video game with a controller, next to another woman): You ever wish dating was as simple as in video games?
Panel 2:
(Inside the video game: the green-haired woman now stands facing a muscular, rugged man with an open jacket and bare chest.)
The muscular man: You must collect twenty rat skins in order to complete the date-me sidequest.
Panel 3:
The green-haired woman: So I don't have to pretend your jokes are funny?
The muscular man: Nope.
Panel 4:
(Back on the couch, the two women playing video games.)
The green-haired woman: Sooo. Beautiful.
Votey:
A woman (close-up, speaking): You know what, I'm gonna go touch grass and backstab some real rats. For the feeling.
A woman with glasses (sitting on a couch playing a video game with a controller, next to another woman): You ever wish dating was as simple as in video games?
Panel 2:
(Inside the video game: the green-haired woman now stands facing a muscular, rugged man with an open jacket and bare chest.)
The muscular man: You must collect twenty rat skins in order to complete the date-me sidequest.
Panel 3:
The green-haired woman: So I don't have to pretend your jokes are funny?
The muscular man: Nope.
Panel 4:
(Back on the couch, the two women playing video games.)
The green-haired woman: Sooo. Beautiful.
Votey:
A woman (close-up, speaking): You know what, I'm gonna go touch grass and backstab some real rats. For the feeling.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: two women sit on a couch playing video games with controllers; the one with glasses says, "You ever wish dating was as simple as in video games?" Panel 2: a scene inside the video game, where a green-haired woman faces a muscular, rugged man with an open jacket and bare chest, who tells her, "You must collect twenty rat skins in order to complete the date-me sidequest." Panel 3: the woman asks, "So I don't have to pretend your jokes are funny?" and he replies, "Nope." Panel 4: back on the couch, the green-haired woman gazes dreamily and says, "Sooo. Beautiful." Votey: a close-up of a woman saying, "You know what, I'm gonna go touch grass and backstab some real rats. For the feeling." The joke: a transactional, rat-skin-collecting video-game quest sounds more appealing than real dating, to the point of wanting to leave and stab actual rats.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.