I've been working on this quest diary to go with the dialogue system I posted above. The basics of the system are working, I just need to make the images that will come up once you select a given quest, which means I need to decide what those images will say. I'm not sure what to do with the dead space at the bottom of the screen; maybe a small preview of what's written on the main image or something like that? I'unno...
My test map is getting very crowded. So many custom menu systems. It's going to be hard to come up with a pretentious acronym for all of them (like a good RM2K3 user should)!