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▶ TDM .009
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.
▶ 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.
▶ 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.
▶ Questions
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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.
▶ Questions
If you have any questions regarding this test drive meme, please ask them in the Questions thread below.
▶ As a reminder, test drive memes are for new characters only. However, current players are more than welcome to use these prompts for their own posts in the IC communities, personal inboxes, catch-all posts, etc.!
▶ As our test drive memes are game canon, feel free to keep any threads that happen here as canon for your character should they be accepted.
Gundham Tanaka | Danganronpa 2 | Iris
[Wow, it's a lovely day, isn't it? Not a cloud in the sky, the perfect crisp breeze, all those autumn leaves turning beautiful colors...]
FOOLS! Who dares attempt to bind The Forbidden One?? Such a paltry enchantment shall not hold me for long!
[Man, that dude sure is loud. And dramatic. And--now he's banging on the side of the tube, trying to get your attention.]
YOU! Mortal! Heed my cry! Set me free of this foul snare and I shall reward you with wisdom beyond compare!!
[I mean. Seems pretty legit, right?]
[MINION GATHERING 101]
[This pumpkin field sure is beautiful. And also infested with those toddler-sized critters. Although maybe not so much this corner of it, huh? In fact, you haven't been harassed for hugs in a good fifteen minutes, at least. Not that you haven't seen any, but they all seem to be scurrying somewhere in quite a hurry. If you decide to follow one, you might after a moment or two notice there seems to be some sort of chanting drifting back towards you, a chant that gets louder the closer you get to...what looks like some kind of pumpkin throne?
There is an extremely extra-looking man perched atop this pumpkin throne, a small crowd of hugbugs at his feet as he gestures theatrically. From here, you can finally make out the chant:]
'Ta! Na! Ka! Sa! Ma! Ta! Na! Ka! Sa! Ma!'
[The man seems pleased by the chant, bowing his head at the accolades, gesturing a bandaged hand at the crowd as if to silence them.]
My children! While I delight in the sounds of your adoration, there is no need! For I, Gundham Tanaka, have heard your prayers! With your dark powers, we shall rise up and sow chaos upon the land!
Let us start--with them! Bring them to me, my army!
[Is he pointing at you? He's pointing at you. And that sure is a lot of hugbugs coming your way...]
[DISNEY PRINCE]
[Knitting is a worthy pastime, and Gundham has enjoyed crafting this scarf, but it's not as though he needs it. Which might be why he's holding it out towards you.]
Here! Take this. But beware--it bears a mighty charm upon it. Few have the spiritual might to carry such a heavy burden...take care, lest you be crushed beneath its sheer power! It took me years to master my own shroud, and that mastery did not come without a price...
[Is he talking about his own scarf? He's talking about his own scarf. This is totally normal, probably.]
[WILDCARD]
((dealer's choice.))
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[Having hearing like a hawk was both a blessing and a curse. For example, you could hear you're prey from a mile away, but the same could also be said for the ramblings of madmen and other weirdos.
Gavril couldn't stop herself from following the odd trail of noise, and upon arriving at its origin rolls her eyes just a bit while shaking her head.]
You and those fluff balls are really gonna come after me? Well come on, Let's do this then.
[She just stood there in defiance of any approaching "threats."]
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Such bravery, from a mere mortal...I commend you for that, foolhardy though it may be! Very well--face the might of my horde!
[And as the hugbugs swarm closer, they're going to...try to hug her??? Well, it is in the name, after all. And they're very enthusiastic about it.]
Prince of Scarfness
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...Um... did you sew weights into it, Tanaka-kun? Like, as part of a training exercise?
sjk that title
[What is he actually talking about. What.]
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[She accepts! And she puts it on, trying to wrap it around her neck the way she's seen other people wear theirs--namely, Gundam. Then she smiles.]
Ah, it is warm! And it smells nice, too.
[DISNEY PRINCE]
it feels glossy and nice but — ]
I don't want your old clothing!
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As if a mere mortal such as yourself could stand the dark power of any of my own raiments! No, this is a newly crafted object of power. A mere trinket in comparison, but still powerful enough in the hands of a novice. Perhaps you're right, and I should find someone more suitable to wield it...
[Give him the scarf back, if you're gonna be mean about it...gosh!!]
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A what — ? [ dark power? well, in that case maybe he's interested. perhaps he can send his san-ge a cursed object by accident in future. maybe this scarf would do the trick.
now, huaisang clings to the scarf with his tiny gremlin hands and refuses to let go. ]
No! You gave it away, it's mine now. This dirty old scarf.
Minions
And at the beginning, it was difficult, as she was stopped every few steps by the field's attendants. They have all been thoroughly hugged, and she has a few trailing behind her like her retinue back in the palace of her home. However, she hasn't been stopped in a while and she is curious as to why.
Until she hears the low humming chant. Carefully, Sonia and her party make their way through the rows of pumpkins until she comes to the source. A part of her ins't really surprised to find out who is responsible for this, but... the fact that he is here is definitely enough to make her very surprised.]
Ta...naka-san? Is that truly you?
[She's not worried that he's sending a group of hugbugs her way. In fact, she half-expected it.]
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He stands atop his pumpkin throne as the hugbugs scurry towards Sonia, reaching up excitedly for her hands and talking over each other in their attempts to explain just how cool and amazing Gundham is, and how lucky she is to be here, getting an audience with him. If she'll let them--and maybe if she doesn't--they'll lead her over towards him, chattering excitedly until they nudge her forward.]
It is none other than I, Tanaka Gundham! Who would dare to impersonate one such as I? My wrath would be swift and terrible if I were to discover such blasphemy! You of all people should know, Princess: take my hand, if you are brave enough, and see for yourself.