Quests are missions given to The Union by Apocalypse every three months. Failing to complete them results in a penalty of some kind, while completing them within the allotted time staves off penalties and earns them various rewards.
Quest Rules[]
There are several rules that must be followed when it comes to Quests:
- Only members of the Roundtable may go on quests under normal circumstances. Non-roundtable members can assist as mission control, such as providing items and communication or locating the quest target, but may not interfere otherwise.
- Quests can only be taken by a specific number of people, called the Participant Count.
- Once signed up to a quest, the member may not participate in other quests until their first is completed, seen in Shen's absence in all other quests as he was signed up to defeat Spoil.
- When the deadline arrives, Apocalypse gives the rewards for each Quest that has been completed.
- If any Quests in a set are not completed, a Penalty is imposed.
Quest Types[]
There are three types of Quests that can be given. Common variants include:
Quest Rewards[]
There are several types of rewards that a quest can yield. Some common variants include:
More unique rewards also exist, such the addition of a more helpful UMA or a new seat on the Roundtable.
Reward are not always positive, and sometimes may even be detrimental to the Union as a whole, such as the unification of languages which makes it difficult for Negators to exist in secret or the defeat of three of the Four Seasons starting a phenomenon close to Revolution, which would have been the penalty regardless. Apocalypse mentions that the quests don't exist to make the world better, only for God to play with Negators and their suffering.
Rewards for completed quests are given even if not all quests were completed.
Rewards and Penalties are consciously arbitrated by Apocalypse, as he was able to make the call that the Sick quest was completed despite him not being defeated due to Move's interference.
Quest Penalties[]
If all Quests in a set are not completed, a penalty is imposed; so far every Penalty has been the addition of a new UMA.
The new UMA is expelled from Apocalypse's mouth; until their Rule takes effect they appear to benefit from a kind of intangibility or other protection, as they are able to reach their habitat despite the Roundtable's location deep underground - also explaining why the Union don't attack the new UMA. However the exact reason of this has never been stated.
Once the new Rule takes effect, history and the memories of all non-negators will be altered so that it seems as if the new rule has always existed - the opposite process occurs if the UMA is slain, leaving the world as if the rule never existed. It is worth noting that this alteration is not retrocausal and actually rather limited: the past isn't changed, simply all evidence of it but the change does not seem able to prevent the births of people or bring new people into being, altering the technology level of the world, its organization (seen in all the same countries existing) or even the current position of people. For example, the death of Summer led to Winter being the dominant season but its not as if the buildings or clothing people used changed to something fitting for such a world - everyone would have still frozen to death had Winter not also been killed.
Known Quests[]
Assorted Past Quests[]
Quests given to the Union at various points in the past
Quests and Results | |||||
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Quest | Participants | Results | |||
Capture UMA Information |
Successful: Information of the past and future bestowed into the G-Liner artifact, later discovered by Akira Kuno. |
100th Loop Quests[]
99th Penalty Quests[]
Quests given to the Union in Chapter 9 sometime in August with the deadline of August 31.
Quests and Results | |||||
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Quest | Participants | Results | |||
Capture UMA Burn |
Successful: 11th Seat Acquired. | ||||
Successful: Unburn location revealed for seven days. | |||||
Neutralize UMA Language |
Successful: All non-Negators now speak English and believe they always have. | ||||
Capture Unseen Negator |
Failed: Unseen was not found and was instead taken by Under. | ||||
Capture UMA Past |
Successful: Rebellion's location revealed. | ||||
Capture UMA Spoil |
Successful: Location of Unrepair revealed to be in Brazil. | ||||
Penalty | Deadline | Overall Results | |||
Addition of UMA Galaxy |
August 31, 2020 | Failure: 5/6 quests completed. UMA Galaxy released on September 1st |
100th Penalty Quests[]
Quests given to the Union during Chapter 31 on December 1st with the deadline of December 31. Unlike previous quests, everyone on earth can participate.
Quests and Results | |||||
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Quest | Participants | Results | |||
Neutralize UMA Spring |
Union Under |
Successful:
Aegis's location revealed. | |||
Neutralize UMA Summer |
Union Under |
Successful:
Location of New Unchange Negator revealed. | |||
Capture UMA Autumn |
Union Under Negators |
Successful: UMA Ghost added to the world. | |||
Neutralize UMA Winter |
Successful:
Remember's location revealed. | ||||
Penalty | Deadline | Overall Results | |||
Addition of UMA Revolution |
December 31, 2020 | With the completion of the quests, Revolution was avoided. However, the neutralization of three of the Season UMAs caused an effect similar to UMA Revolution to take place. |
101st Loop Quests[]
Quests given to the Union during the 101st loop; many were passed on by Fuuko or completed off-screen so several of them are totally unknown.
1st Penalty Quests[]
Quests and Results | |||||
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Quest | Participants | Results | |||
Neutralize UMA Spoil |
None | Passed | |||
Neutralize UMA Stop |
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Capture UMA Kindness |
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Penalty | Deadline | Overall Results | |||
Addition of UMA Ghost |
~October, 1972 | Fuuko passed on these Quests,
leading to the addition of Ghost and skipping 1 year |
Other Passed Quests, in the end Fuuko skipped 26 Quest Sets during the first meeting.
Quests and Results | |
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Quests | Penalty |
??? UMA Summer ??? UMA Eat |
Addition of UMA Insect |
Unknown Quest Set | UMA Crab | Addition of
Unknown Quest Set | UMA Tornado | Addition of
Unknown Quest Set | UMA Thirst | Addition of
Neutralize UMA Burn |
Addition of UMA Shark |
27th Penalty Quests[]
Quests and Results | ||
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Quest | Participants | Results |
Neutralize UMA Autumn |
Successful: 3rd Seat Acquired. | |
Capture Negator Unavoidable |
Successful: Location of Remember Revealed. | |
Penalty | Deadline | Overall Results |
Addition of UMA Tyranosaurus |
October, 1998 | All Quests were completed, so Tyranosaurus was not added |
An Unknown number of Quests take place during the Unmove Arc. All of them are completed.
??th Penalty Quests[]
Quests and Results | ||
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Quest | Participants | Results |
Neutralize UMA Sick |
Seated Members | NegatorsSuccessful: Location of Unburn acquired. |
Penalty | Deadline | Overall Results |
Unknown | Due to outside interference, the Quest was considered cleared despite Sick's survival. |
Quests and Results | ||
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Quest | Participants | Results |
Neutralize UMA Beast |
Successful: 14th and 15th Seats Acquired. | |
UMA Language Party Limit: 3 |
Neutralize Successful: 16th and 17th Seats Acquired. | |
UMA Summer Party Limit: 4 |
Capture ||
UMA Burn Party Limit: 3 |
Capture ||
Penalty | Deadline | Overall Results |
Addition of UMA Revolution | October, 1998 |