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You awaken amidst the darkness with only a faint light to greet you. Your body is hemmed in by shards of crystals, gently sparkling and possibly pricking your skin. The surrounding landscape is dyed in the pinks and purples of the dusk filled with crystals protruding from the ground, some as large as a skyscraper. Even the few shy moon creatures you find in the wild have strange crystal growths on their hides. This is far from home— perhaps a dream? You pinch your skin and slap your cheeks, yet nothing seems to do the trick. Searching for answers yields nothing but an endless expanse of purple dust as far as the eye can see. You have four options: one, panic; two, soil yourself; three, admire it all then soil yourself; or four, go into survival mode. Eventually, you’ll realize that you’re not alone.

After a day or two of living off the crystal wilderness, a group of people find you worse for wear. They are the gallant Moon Knights from the planet of Prismatica. After the strange phenomenon during the past months when scientists observed the sudden appearance of rainbow crystals in the sky, the government has been feverishly combing through the moon for more Moonblessed to be rescued. You’ll eventually be brought into Iris’s moon government center.

You all may have your usual inquiries — Where are we? Who are you? What's going on? Why did I inhale all those permanent markers in the third grade? — and the Prismals are almost too eager to answer. They tell you about their world and about the first appearance of the Moonblessed as the medical staff give you an examination to make sure you’re not carrying any viruses or biological hazards. If you react violently, you may be restrained and nerfed with a specialized neurotransmitting gun that releases a numbing agent through the top of your spine. Once the examinations are over, you’re informed that you will be provided accommodations on their planet during your stay.

While waiting for transport to be prepared, you may freely roam around the government center. Eventually you’re called back from exploring, escorted to the docks, and led onto a large transport vessel that makes frequent trips back and forth between the moons and the planet. Faces onboard vary from both old and new Moonblessed as well as the local Prismals. The next destination: Prismatica.

▶ Whip It Good
Iris Moon, Government Center (Arrival) and Planet Prismatica, City of Lunatia | top

Welcome to Prismatica’s hub, Lunatia, the city of your dreams! A bustling metropolis lush with bright lights, vibrant colors, luxuriant plant life, and all the conveniences of technology absent from your own world… It seems like paradise to all the uninitiated. After a quick tour of the city, new arrivals can find themselves getting cozy in their new homes.

A Settle in your new home at Level 2 to find new roommates and say hello to your neighbors! City officials will give you directions to the designated districts across Level 2 and instruct you to pick out a unit. Each apartment complex has a different aesthetic, some may look cozy, some stylish, and some bizarre. The free accommodations have a basic living space that can only fit two or three people at most in one unit.

Starter Chromaspace furnishings are provided which can be controlled with the touch of a built-in panel. Examples are color-changing curtains, transforming sofa beds, cabinets turning into tables, etc. Customizing your apartment or moving out will have to wait until you earn more chroma. Until then, why don’t you check out your new neighborhood or explore the city levels? Maybe your new roommates or neighbors can give you a “hand” with allowance for dinner.

B At the Crystarium Moonports is a new family restaurant called Grapplebears, here to serve your favorite dishes from all around the galaxy at affordable prices! The menu ranges from the atomically hot and spicy Chamakshalan curry rice, delectable dragonsaur steak served with mashed space-tatoes, to the sweet and creamy Lunatian milkshakes that bring all the boys to the yard, all prepared by their handsome and huggable bear crew.

As you might have noticed, the restaurant staff is a ragtag group with members from planets unknown to both Prismals and Moonblessed. The waiters and waitresses in particular are tall, muscular, leather-clad bears who take your order by whipping you with a special riding crop that compels you to bark out your order — but only if you ask to be, of course! They might induce you to reveal other unrelated interests so make sure you’re not thinking about anything embarrassing!

If you chat up the staff or customers, you learn more about the restaurant’s origins. The bears say their planets* were also wiped by the Calamity hundreds of years ago, and life for them has been difficult for them since then…

*Further information about these planets is unavailable at this time.

▶ Night of the Living Dummy
City of Lunatia | top

The last vestiges of Geistnacht have officially passed and the first chilly autumn breeze ushers in the new season. The city is awash in giant piles of browning leaves that decorate every walkway.

A To deal with the mass collection of fallen leaves, many buildings across the city have been retrofitted with a new disposal system to help clean up. A sprawling network of automated vacuum tubes around the city will efficiently suck all those pesky leaves right up. While children love playing inside and using them to “teleport” around Lunatia, they have also been known to spontaneously suck up anyone who’s not too careful. You may find yourself falling on some hapless bystander on their afternoon walk, or crammed in a tube with your new neighbors. Lunar Scientia officials warn everyone to be careful of where you walk, else you might need to crawl your way to sweet freedom.

B A pop-up shop in Level 1 is attracting much of the locals' attention, run by a peddler who speaks in a low, elongated hiss and wears a hood over his face. He assures you that his face is of no consequence. What is more important is his selection of wares! In contrast to his cloaked, enigmatic appearance, his travel cart is a Barbie pink explosion of frills, hearts, glitter. He will tell all visitors he comes from the Valley of the Crimson Serpents, which Prismals and older Moonblessed arrivals find odd. Wasn’t the Sanguis moon uninhabitable?

Among the peddler’s wares are adorable, wide-eyed and heavily perfumed dolls in all sorts of clothes a child dreaming of rainbows and tea parties could ever ask for. Hug and squeeze a doll, and you will be greeted by a pre-recorded voice telling you how they’re your bestest friend ever. It’s like they were made for lovin’ you! But if you look away for one moment, you can almost swear you hear a snake’s hiss, its long tongue licking the shell of your ear… The next time you see the doll, its body will be in a slightly different position or location. Is it… following you? Fortunately, a minimal amount of moonlacing will make it leave you alone. You can wait it out too, but why would you?

Destroy a doll and it will later reappear wherever you are when you least expect it, good as new, but leaking from their porcelain heads is a strange pink, glitter-covered liquid. The peddler calls it the “love juice” giving the doll an extra dose of affection for you.

▶ Bird is the Word
Level 2, Greatmoon Groves | top

As autumn paints Lunatia with its golden hues, pumpkin decorations and desserts are now in vogue. This is thanks to Chroma-infused pumpkin seeds, which allow them to rapidly grow in all sorts of sizes, shapes, and colors. The Moonblessed are invited to visit one of the largest pumpkin patches in the city housed within the Greatmoon Groves, where they can enjoy the sight of oversized, colorful neon and sparkling semi-phallic pumpkins, expertly carved to greet you with their buck-toothed smiles.

A The pumpkin patch is full of toddler-sized creatures called hugbugs. When they are not tending to the pumpkins, they follow the Moonblessed around, requesting hugs and treats in exchange for their obedience.

Reward them and they will do simple errands for you and give you compliments. They will also be your personal hype men, talking up your strengths, talents, and physical assets to all those special someones you’re trying to impress. Once you earn their trust, they will be your friends for life!

Ignore them, hurt them, or bully them, and they will cry and place a curse upon you, reducing your self-esteem to nothing and magically forcing you to cry along with them. The effects of the curse may last for up to a week if you’re not careful! But how could you do such a thing? The hugbugs are sensitive and want somebody to love.

B If you manage to survive your encounter with the hugbugs, you are welcome to join in on the Prismal knitting group and enjoy creating your own fanciful scarf made of Galadrian thread, which is known for its bright, golden sheen and aromatic properties. Give it to a friend or wear it yourself, and you will notice a strange ability to attract animals and insects of all kinds. Live out your Disney Princess fantasy! Or a Hitchcockian nightmare. It’s all a matter of perspective as a whole flock of honking birds comes bounding towards you.

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( Well, the unsheathing of the claws definitely doesn't escape Rita's notice. If she thought the girl was part beast before, there's definitely no doubt remaining in her mind now. If only she could take her quill out to make a record of her present thoughts--! But best not to give her hand away just yet. )

The half-human girl with dreams of world domination! Why, it'd be a best-seller.

If it makes you feel any better, absolutely no one who's been here for months seems to have made much sense of it, either.

[ Did I mention that the hugbug she's got behind her has a toy ukulele that it's strumming on now? Because it has a toy ukulele.

Look, lutes are hard to find on their own without trying to find one appropriately sized for a hugbug. ]

( Her irritated gaze briefly flits to the hugbug; won't someone shut that thing up? Turning her attention back to the woman, her eyes narrow. She wishes they were sitting down so she could comfortably get her quill to work, but she will have to do with her own thoughts at the moment: mysterious, reticent, so obviously hiding a secret.

Perhaps she would not find her answers in an interview, but that's fine, just fine. She has her other methods, of course.

For now, she maintains her cool, answering: )

There's nothing about me that's second-rate.

( The truth of the matter was that she hadn't even considered the hygienic aspect of it all. )

I simply meant that it's quite ... mundane, don't you think?

This appetite is what all true warriors strive for.

[ She sounds so much like Dapo or Tali right now, but she's got a terrifying look of determination in her eyes. ]

If I die, I die proud.

I didn't exactly have much reason to think that opinion was unique to that version. You've treated me like shit the entire time we've known each other.

[A few Prismals are stopping to stare at the confrontation, and Akechi mutters something under his breath before holding a finger to his lips in a shushing motion. A simple spell, but a useful one that will keep anything they say from now on from ending up as coffee shop gossip later.

Then he sighs and rubs a hand over his face.]

I'm from before confronting you in Shido's Palace, all I know about that is secondhand. It made perfect sense to me that learning what I was involved in would take you from pissy to actually hating my guts.

...Just needed to make sure.

[Specially because, well, he had left Sandalphon stuck in a cradle and then died off somewhere. He's not entirely sure Sandalphon remembers their last interaction.

He smiles sadly at the thought, but changes his demeanour to something more... Appropriate, and picks up whatever is laying close to him.]

Where do you live?

[She growls, ears going flat. She almost wants to get out her electric stick, the standard Horde armament, but... No, she wants to claw this woman's smug face off.]

It isn't just dreams, old hag.

[Ryuji might feel as though he has the unsettling sensation of being watched, maybe even followed, with a familiar voice mumbling under their breath somewhere behind him as they do so.]

A lone man wanders a cityscape, as lost as when the first man was cast out of paradise...! Bewildered and alone, with none to depend on... Hahaha, yes...

[...Well, that's not creepy at all.]

[Crowley shrugs.] Maybe so, but I'm hardly going to blame people for using the means at their disposal.

[ sorry genya, this is just how things work out sometimes. if only miwako knew better, but she didn't honestly. instead now she was just feeling a sense of relief, but only on one matter. ]

I thought Miwako was just overreacting... No one's ever said it's good to trust your instincts with this kind of thing.

[ it's kind of strange that he's looking away though, right? did she do something wrong? ]

... Is it bad if I was from around here? Miwako definitely isn't, but... Are you upset about something? Is it just the doll?

[ when mista leaned in to close the distance that much miwako couldn't help but instinctively look up at him. there was a tilt of the head, not fully understanding what was going on ]

A joke...? Miwako doesn't know anyone here... why would this be a joke?

[ a small gasp ]

Unless...! I'm so sorry! Miwako made a bad assumption--maybe it's not a girl, right? Is that it? I didn't mean to be rude...

People had been crashing unceremoniously into T'Challa all day. The first time had been an older woman who was profoundly apologetic. The second time was a teenage girl who wasn't. The last one had been a child, who managed to tell T'Challa that his parents had been at the pumpkin patch when he stepped out and was sucked away. T'Challa took him back, not wanting to let him go alone, even if he insisted he was fine. and didn't need any help.

Since he was there already, he ventured in once the family was reunited. He was amused to see a few little groups of people being led around by enthusiastic little creatures who were extolling their virtues. Of which they apparently had many.

He laughed when the nearest one, accompanying a good looking blond man, informed him of his skill as a Captain. "That is a high claim around here. We have a few other Captains. Though none with Starfleet as of yet, so you may be safe making it," T'Challa said.

[ She raises her eyebrow, and honestly...well, she's already deathly pale, and being red with frustration requires biological processes that she no longer really has as an undead abomination. ]

...right. I've no way of ascertaining that and a lot of things I'd rather get done today, so if that's that, the bard and I shall be taking our leave.

[ If she finds out about the part where Rita multiclassed into the world's shittiest druid just for the wild shape, she swears to Pelor... ]

[ Yeeeeah he can't say he's ever chatted about shogi, but the mention of that and then her name? Yep, that clears some things up! ]

Oh, right... You're from Yusuke's school.

[ Let's just blurt out we know this, sure. He frowns a little over the last part, but doesn't say anything else. ]

So, you uh... You've been here for a while, too, then?

[ He looks away. ]

How did I just... up and disappear? Does that kind of thing just happen?

That I am, that I have - several months now - and... sometimes it does, yes. I haven't asked the locals if they know what happens when people disappear, but considering they don't seem to know how we're arriving, either, I don't know if they'd have a satisfactory answer.

[She might ask soon, though, especially after Chie's abrupt disappearance.]

[Tommy has mostly been avoiding the HugBugs by virtue of just speeding around too quickly for any of them to catch him. They're kind of cute but things here tend to not be what they seem so he's just being cautious. And watching while a couple other people get little pastel colored weirdos playing wingman. It's cute. And it's creepy. Which may be this place's tagline?

But the whole little army of the things gathering up catches his attention and he finally holds still long enough to go take a look.

And abruptly his world view tilts. Because he doesn't need a little army of things telling people he's great. Tommy can absolutely do that for himself. But if they can get him free shit?!

Plus the girl running the scam was cute.]

Shit, that'sthebestideaanyoneeverhad. Did they just get it, or are you just running a tab somewhere? [Tommy crouches down to peer and see if he can spot labels or prices or something.]

[ He sure does feel that, and the look he gives Yusuke matches the words. ]

Seriously, man...? That's your hello?

[ ... But it's so painfully Yusuke it's somehow comforting. He sighs and approaches. ]

Good to see you, too.

They do. Oh, look, there’s a candy store right ahead!

Yuri... thank you... I'm Miwako.

[ it was easy enough to be swayed one way or the other honestly, for now she simply offers a little nod and a smile ]

I'd be more than happy to... but if you don't mind me asking, what kind of stuff did you do back at your home?

I see... That’s a pity.

[Nods again.]

Thank you and no, I haven’t been told how to tell without actually trying to open the doors.

[Her lips pucker when the kiss is abandoned, not satisfied with ending it there just yet, but not a second longer does Hazuki hits her with something that brings her utter enjoyment in another way.]

Nggh! Ngh--

[Soundwave cranes her neck upwards as Hazuki's works her way up with her tongue, suppressing her moans but still relishing greatly with the bites. She truly lucked out with this person.

While Hazuki deliberately holds up her decision, Soundwave continues to suppress her moans over reddening cheeks and bitten ear. At the rate her emotion is brewing, focusing only on the pleasure, she fails to realize she's being lifted up and up until her soles are no longer touching the ground anymore, kept up with only the leg pressed up again her and her toes, which are just barely touching them.

Then, she wants her to tell- no beg judging by her tone. Beg for where she wants to be touched. It's utterly humiliating to be in the position to beg, but that's what turns her on.

It's somewhat cruel though, especially when her nipple is being teased mercilessly around it by the wet finger, twitching as it yearns for affection and attention. And her pussy too, she tries to grind against her leg but finds it too difficult to move as much as she's like. She's trapped... Both her nipple and pussy demand for them, but Hazuki only has one working arm. She has to make up her mind fast... before the teasing makes her go crazy.

It doesn't take long. In a quivering, hushed tone:]

My... My pussy. Please, touch my pussy.

Well, it certainly looks as if someone's popular.

[ Says the woman who also has a blue hugbug behind her, holding a toy ukulele and strumming on it while singing praises to...mostly her looks and brains. ]

[If Kanata really had consciously chosen to make five of these little creatures for the suspected reason, then he’s certainly choosing to keep that knowledge to himself. It is somewhat of a pity though – seeing the pile of amigurumi together like this reminds him that their own "set" is not quite complete…]

Hm~ I can "translate", if you like. They are all saying that they would like to go home with you.

[He lets himself drift slowly to the side until his shoulder is resting lightly against Natsume’s. Just enough weight to feel eachother’s presence and share a little warmth on a cold fall day.]

And that they worry you are not eating enough "fish."

Do I really know you though? I have to wonder...

[ what was this act she was putting on? hand to her cheek and all ]

Though I think it should be obvious what I was after, that was you not landing on top of me. I mean, look at you, you're like a fuckin' tank man. If SF weren't as fast as she was that would've been a very uncomfortable situation.

[ at this point, she just holds out a hand to jotaro ]

Listen, from the looks of you all that chroma talk didn't seem to sink in during the introductions--let me guess, did they knock you the fuck out too? Because that sure was a greeting... but more than that, I can help you gain a little bit by holding hands.

But if you want enough to get Star going at full speed you're gonna have to find someone else to do more extensive moonlacing with.

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