The Quest For Dirt

**The Quest For Dirt** is a scratch kat show fan-game set on Erytel Island by Scratch user Mr-Damington. Often abbreviated as **QFD**

## Development

**QFD's** development started somewhere late 2022 to early 2023. Damington feels like it started early spring 2023 but YouTube watch history says November 13 2022, despite that being way too early for such a high quality project. It's unknown whether the idea for a SKS fan-game or just watching griffpatch's tutorials came first.

During the summer of 2023 the game saw little to no development. **The Quest For Dirt** wasn't really touched until the start of December 2023, it was finished Dec 26th 2023.

## Story

scratch kat is flying in a biplane when he notices that the sky is changing to a blue color, shortly after a brown cat flies up and grabs scratch kat's dirt. scratch kat being angered chases the cat named Erytel Erkelton to Erytel Island. When landing he finds himself in a lush plain filled with palm trees, the soil is brown colored but isn't dirt, but the same stuff a the rest of The Void is made up of.

At the end of the adventure scratch kat meets Erytel in an empty room; he states that scratch kat ain't getting his dirt back and starts a boss fight. When done Erytel flies away and scratch kat chases him into Erytel's airship. Erytel fights scratch kat again, then scratch kat leaves the airship and Erytel gets so angry that the airship explodes.

After this a short ending cutscene plays which is followed by the game's credits.

## Characters

* scratch kat
* Erytel Erkelton
* Red Squares

## scratch kat

* Normal Appearance
* In-Game Appearance

### Character Creator(s)

Scratch Foundation, bruh\_thats\_so\_epic, griffpatch (In-Game character appearance)

### Level Debut

Tropical Plains

**scratch kat** is the protagonist of QFD, and the character you play as.

## Gameplay

At the beginning of the game, scratch kat will spawn at the beginning of the Tropical Plains biome, along with 5 lives, losing one every time you die. In the first boss fight, 3 hearts will appear at the top-right corner of the screen, scratch kat will lose half a heart each hit in the boss fight.

scratch kat can be controlled by pressing arrow keys or WASD keys.

## Trivia

* There are unused costumes in scratch kat's sprite where he appears to be irritated, which was probably supposed to be used when idling for long.

## Erytel Erkelton

### Voice Actor

Mr-Damington

**Erytel Erkelton** is the main antagonist and boss of QFD.

## Gameplay

In the intro cutscene, they appear out of nowhere and swiftly steals scratch kat's dirt, before flying away and disappearing.

In-Game, Erytel makes their first appearance at the end of the Overclocked Factory, inside of an airborne machine. During the first boss fight, Erytel will fire explosive baguettes, with the baguettes either being fired at scratch kat or sent at a random direction and bouncing off the walls a few times before exploding.

Erytel can be attacked by touching hammers that occasionally drop from Erytel's airship, if this is done enough times, Erytel will seemingly explode and be left out irritated and burnt, Erytel leaves shortly after.

Once encountered again, Erytel will start another boss fight, firing shock beams inside around the room, which are alerted by a red hue in the location of where the shock beams are going to appear, there also will usually be safe spots to evade to.

Hammers will also appear in the second boss fight too, if enough hammers have been touched, the boss fight will end along with Erytel becoming exasperated, exploding the entire ship shortly after out of anger.

## Trivia

* Erytel Erkelton is French, as stated by his costume titles.
* Erytel shares a personality with Dr. Robotnik from Sonic games, as stated in his info in the project "Erytel for battle o' lean".
* Erytel plays the Sonic games and knows them all.
 Note: This section is conjectural, as the official name for the characters in this section is not yet revealed.

## Red Squares

* Careless
* Dual Hit
* Fast Boy

### Level Debut

Tropical Plains (Careless), Blistering Volcano (Dual Hit), Overclocked Factory (Fast Boy)

**Red Squares** are the main enemy of QFD, they take the appearance of red squares with faces and purple outlines.

## Gameplay

Red Squares will wander around the level that they spawn in, if the player jumps on a red square, the red square will die.

Careless are the most common type of red squares to appear, they take one hit to die.

Dual Hits make their debut in the Blistering Volcano biome, however, what makes them unique is that they don't immediately die when you jump on them, as it takes two hits for them to die. Dual Hits look the same as a regular red square, but with squinted eyes.

Fast Boys make their debut in the Overclocked Factory, they travel faster than the other red squares. Fast Boys look the same as a regular red square, but with an unstable expression. Fast Boys only take one hit to die.
## Trivia

* **The Quest For Dirt**'s final release is a lot smaller than Mr-Damington's original vision
* The majority of **QFD** was made in a few days
	+ Of **QFD**'s almost whole year of being in development, only around 1 month of time was actually spent working on the game.
* **QFD** takes place after Gobo's Arc, according to the Notes and Credits of the trailer.

## References

1. ↑ Erytel for battle o' lean
2. ↑ QFD Trailer