❀ itsanonyx ❀

Are you ready to ride? Pack your satchel of art supplies and join us in another round of the Icon Quest!

Round 34 brings back the Icon Quest! The icon quest was a huge affair, with several comms to have quests, battles, icon posts, and discussions. The concept of the icon quest meant that all challenges were "staying open indefinitely", and we'll take that literally and try our hand at them again now!

We already did a round wo years ago, and the participants from back then already have character profiles:






You can see the details here. Previous achievements are still valid. You can keep adding to them! If you're a new participant, welcome!

---

All quests were originally posted to theiconquest by thequestmaster in 2012.

---

The iconquest rules explicitly state that you can do each challenge up to five times, and you can do one challenge per week. We have five weeks in our retro_icontest round 09, so you can do five of the quests (or one of them five times, or mix and match). All the quests are listed here:


Iconquest Logbook (List of Quests)

Part of theiconquest was to do battles against other participants. If you would like to run a battle in the course of this round, there's an info comment below which explains how to run a battle. Simply comment with your battle idea. You can suggest themes and ask for battle partners. Then you each choose a number of screencaps, and your battle is ready to start! Feel free to expand the battle to other participants by posting it to iconbattles.

CURRENT BATTLES: (see comments)

> none yet <

I will tally the points at the end of the round, making you a Hero, Bard, Wizard or Rogue. \o/ Please check the Logbook above for points - usually, icons are worth between 2 and 5 points, depending on the quest and the mode (some quests have easy and hard modes). Battle icons are worth 4 points each. The class that you made the most icons for/the icons with the most points for will be your character class in the end.

I couldn't copy all the quests and adjacent posts, but here's a copy of part of the main info/rules post, concerning icon classes and variations:

( Excerpt from the Original Rules concerning Icon Classes and Variations )

FULL RULE POST (optional) : https://theiconquest.livejournal.com/369.html

---

NEW RETRO_ICONTEST RULES - mandatory

Consider the original challenge rules and try to stick to them in spirit. Each quest has its own rules, but don't be put off by the many quests and rules! Charge ahead and have fun!

♦ you may go on any quest or sidequest listed in the Logbook above.
♦ ♦ if you want to do the sidequest "paths" in chapter 4, you already have to have a class. Some of us do from the last round. If you don't, you have to do another quest first and thus acquire a class.
♦ ♦ if you want to do chapter 5 "weapons", wait for the next icontalking challenge post because that will be a mystery bag round - i'll simply allow you to use those here
♦ you can enter up to five quests (or one of them five times, or mix and match).

♦ you can participate in as many battles as you like. go wild!

♦ if you decide to enter Chapter 6, the Melée, there will be voting in the last week, so don't leave those to the very end. if there is only one participant, there will be no voting, and one icon from this maker will get points for first place for each class.

♦ you may enter as many icons as you like. minimum 1 icon.
♦ you would make my life easier if you classified your icons into the four classes yourself. otherwise I'll just choose one for each that I deem most appropriate.
♦ submit your icons for each quest as a new entry into the community. that means you can make more than one post this round! please note which quest they're for.
♦ if there are more than five icons in a post, put the rest under a cut or a link to your unlocked journal post. tag your post with round number and your username (or ask me to tag it for you).
♦ submit the URLs along with your icons. I'll only put the first five per post into the roundup post. either you only list five, or I'll take the first five.
♦ make an effort to leave positive feedback on other participants' posts. <3
♦ read the full rules here in our userinfo.

---

This quest challenge will run for five weeks. There is no voting (except for the Melée). I will make a roundup post containing up to 5 icons per quest, and tally your attributes at the end.

Deadline for Melée: Friday, January 09th 2026 your end-of-day (voting will run for one week)

Deadline for round #34: Friday, January 16th 2026 your end-of-day

If you'd like to promote the comm, please do! Here's a promo code:
<center> <img src="https://tinny.dreamwidth.org/file/320x320/670892.png"> @retro_icontest - Blast From The Past Icontests revisit old challenges from ancient iconmaking days </center>

And here's one specifically for this round:
<center> @retro_icontest - Blast From The Past Icontests - is embarking on <img src="https://i.imgur.com/2px2m.png" alt="The Icon Quest"> <a href="https://retro-icontest.dreamwidth.org/83296.html">Are you ready to ride? Pack your satchel of art supplies and join us in another round of the Icon Quest!</a> </center>