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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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pink monday... celadon monday?

[In theory, she knew what to do. She was given all the necessary explanations. As she understood it, this city and everything in it was powered by a type of magical energy akin to aether. However, the appearance of everything around her looked more like magitek technology or relics of Allag, which she was not familiar with. She was also, of course, told how this power is generated, but decided not to think about it for now. Even without performing these intimacy based rituals with strangers far away from home she had enough to worry about here.

Oh, whatever it was that she pressed right now, that was not the right button, it seems. Ysayle sighs as all the furniture in the room around her changes color to neon pink in an instant. One more button and it becomes celadon. Ah well, she can figure it out later.

In addition to that she was starting to get hungry. Care to help this technology-challenged Elezen find the button combination close to Othard blue or ice blue and maybe take her out to dinner?]

every breath you take

[It was a mistake.
She should have known better than to familiarize herself with the crowd here, especially with an individual as suspicious as this peddler. Ysayle has seen through her share of traps before in her lifetime. After all being a leader of an organization of heretics that conspires against theocratic government is certainly a position where you cannot be too cautious. She knew that.

So why did she talk to this shady merchant and touch his weird dolls? She had no real explanation to this. She was tired, everything that happened during the past few days was getting to her. So much to take in, such a short time and when Ysayle barely had the chance to properly process what they learned about the origins of the conflict between Ishgard and Dravania.

She takes a quick look. It was still there. Persistent... Looks like she has no other choice.]

Get away from me!

[A well aimed kick sends the doll flying into the nearest wall. Oh, and some ice magic for good measure. Might have been a bit too much, but Ysayle cannot help the bad feeling she's getting. She wants the doll gone.]

What in Saint Shiva's name... is this...

[Ysayle's eyes widen as the doll, drenched in pink liquid appears in her field of view again]

wildcard

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magarula

[ooc: if your character is a WoL, let me know if you want her to recognize them as WoL or would you prefer being WoL from another world and a stranger to her because I am absolutely fine with either! ♥]

I wouldn't do that if I wa —

( ah, there's no stopping her is there as she attacks the doll with one swift kick and might he find that impressive — he does. they're a little persistent for being unruly creatures that have the voice of a viper, but caster cal tell that it's taken a liking to the female. he claps his hands together, showing his amusement in her efforts as he summons his staff to tap the end of it against the ground and a faint purple light shines and disappears all together.

in it's place, a pink flower appears and not too long after does one after the other begin to grow until the landscape is covered in flora, the smell thick but nothing to knock either of them unconscious as he makes his way over to ysayle and extends his free hand. ) Come with me.

( in fact, the skill is meant to halt the movement of the creature, but it'll be a shame if it decides to snap out the daze he's put it in. so he looks expectant, staring at her in hopes that she'll do as requested. lilac eyes glance back towards the doll bleeding its pink substance, the way it drizzles onto the flowers is nice to look at but time is not really on their side. )

[Her nose wrinkles as the alluring flowery scent reaches her nostrils. It is, without any doubt a pleasant fragnance. However, Ysayle's current situation was the direct result of an encounter with a shady but nice smelling individual. There was no way she was going to trust another one of that sort so easily, especially after this impressive display of magic she was not familiar with.

She glares coldly at the magus.]

And who might you be?

Introductions at a time like this? With some blasphemous creature after you? Time and place, my dear. ( caster doesn't find this to be the best place to exchange names so he beckons the female to follow behind him, dropping his hands down by his side since she doesn't seem so keen on taking it. he can understand her hesitation and wariness, but that feeling won't save them from.. that thing. he's looking back to the doll caught in his trap and then he turns back towards ysayle as he takes a step back. )

We can make a run for it and talk later, if you wish to be decapitated by a doll.. then that is an odd way to accept defeat. ( he's pointing towards a direction, an alleyway that splits into two paths so they could confuse the doll if the other decides to come along. )

[ Um.

That sure is something that she certainly walked into, and it wasn't exactly what she necessarily expected from anybody either, which is why she just finds herself glancing at the doll and then at the woman. ]

Did you just antagonize a doll. . . ?

[ She's not surprised. Not at all. ]

[She sure did.

That, right now, was an impressive display of the sad fate that awaits those who cross Lady Iceheart's path - only that she did it to get rid of what seemed to be a harmless toy.

No wonder this girl was looking at her weird]

Be careul, kid! This thing is no ordinary doll.

[She has no obligation to but the least she can do is warn her]

It definitely doesn't look like one, but what about it is weird?

[ It was the neon pink that initially drew his attention. The door was open, after all. Honestly, this pale lady with pointed ears was a lot like him in the confusion department. His own place was kind of a technicolor nightmare at the moment and he gave up once he realized that it really was an empty apartment for the taking but it also meant no food in said home. So despite wearing an oversized sweater that didn’t go well at all with his Ivalician pants and armor, he figured he could find a way to get food and figure out the tech later.

His stomach growled as he paused outside the door and he winced. Welp, nothing to it. ]

Uh, hi. Having trouble with the, uh, thing? I didn’t quite figure it out myself. Was thinking about asking the locals, wanna come with?

[Well, this certainly sounds like a person in distress. He, too, lets curiosity get the best of him and approaches to see what all the commotion is about, but... hmm. There is a lot going on here.]

If I didn't know any better, I would think I just happened upon the scene of a crime.

[He remarks casually, eyes on the sparkly pink liquid and the bizarre doll it seems to have originated from.

He's willing to help a hand, of course, with... whatever this is. (Or try to, anyway. He's not exactly sure what's going on in the first place.) But he's also testing the waters a little bit here. It's been a long time now, but he's pretty sure this isn't an entirely unfamiliar face.]

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