2019-08-29 2:59:31 ¶ ●

So we’re getting 14 episodes of Pesterquest, with a standard of two characters per episode. That means 2 episodes for the kids, so we’re left with 12, which is enough episodes for 2 sets of 12 characters.

Are we getting the Alpha trolls as well as the Betas? That probably wouldn’t make much sense if we weren’t also getting the Alpha kids, but they wouldn’t fit unless at least four of the troll characters where pushed into double-character routes like Kuprum and Folykl, and that seems impractical and unlikely. The concept of the Scratch might also be pretty difficult to explain easily to a newcomer to the franchise.

Are we getting the ancestors? That would certainly serve as both exciting fanservice for existing fans and as something easy to digest for people who only know Hiveswap and/or the Friendsims, and it doesn’t require any unnecessarily complicated timeline jumping beyond travelling to the past of an Alternia already familiar with the player.

On the other hand entirely, it would be deceptive at best and inaccurate at worst for the game to be called Pesterquest and yet feature only 1/5 human characters. Going with the above assumption, we are also to assume the protagonist has travelled back to their home planet to meet with four kids only to then just go back to Alternia for the rest of the adventure. A plot like this could well have been simply called a direct sequel to the Friendsim.

EDIT:

Show’s how much attention I’ve been paying!

Still, that leaves us with between 6 and 10 mystery characters, depending on whether we assume Alpha kid involvement or not, and that’s both an unconventional amount for human characters and a significant amount of trolls to potentially be included in a game called Pesterquest.