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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
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▶ 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.
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[ Konoha that's ... that's so bold?? You're going to make babies while Mikuni is in your kitchen minding his own business... ]
If you insist, then.
[ No, he's teasing a little, only because she does look so embarrassed. But he'll stop now. Her giddiness is absolutely precious and he wonders what Gonta's demeanor has been like too. Are they able to enjoy their lives together even in a strange place like this? He genuinely hopes so. ]
I did listen. I believe I understand the basics. But do you think there's something specific I should know about?
[ Mikuni is calmer than Gonta ... usually. He didn't need to be tranq'd at the very least even if it did occur to him once or twice that he might accidentally cause his captors a fair amount of pain. ]
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She still insists he stay with them, though! At least for a little while? Or at least... visiting a lot? She does insist!!]
Um...
[How to explain all that stuff, though... She wasn't starting at zero like with Gonta, but.]
Well to start, it's basically all true...
[Even the parts that she still found mindboggling, like despite how fancy and technologically advanced this place is, they all claimed not to know how the moonblessed got here, how they were supposed to get home...]
The moonlacing thing has to happen but- I checked! Just sitting next to each other or holding hands is enough... and it works on all of us.
[Which, okay, might sound weird, but a Lunar Scientia employee had questioned whether someone leaning against her flank or laying a hand on her withers would generate as much chroma as if she held someone in her arms, so she'd been too worried not to check. It worked!]
And the moon thing is... also really true, [don't mind the deepening, memory-induced blush] but you won't know which you are until it happens, so... you might want to wear jinbakama for a while...
[Because she definitely makes Gonta wear proper clothes (by her standards) during Sanguis... At least Mikuni had taken to them far better than her husband had?! No one wants a surprise erection with no pants on, right...]
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And he will stay for a bit! Or at least visit all the time. He can't possibly leave them to their own devices, now that they're the only jinba here and such.
To hear that it's all pretty much true is enough to get him to hesitate slightly. It had been a lot of information to take in. A lot of weird information, some of it even uncomfortable. It's not that he doesn't believe her of course, it's just that it's a lot to swallow. And that moonlacing thing... ]
Sitting next to each other? It's as simple as that? That's a relief.
[ Well maybe he can handle that. He's not sure how he feels about getting intimate with humans. And he can't very well bone Gonta or Konoha. Such limited options! Sitting is just fine though. Gentle hugs? He's got it. ]
Is it true you take on the traits of an animal?
[ He's curious as to how that works. Also, it seems rude to have to wait to see what might happen to you. But as for jibankama, he can't help but laugh softly. No, no surprise horse erections for him... ]
Don't worry. With so many humans around, I will try to be decent.
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It's really simple- See?
[Just to drive the point home, she falls back until she can sort of bump up along his side, withers to withers... well, height difference aside withers to withers, walking beside him close enough that their flanks stay mostly in contact, generating that distinctive warm, comfortable feel of platonic moonlacing.]
All you have to do is a little to keep from crystallizing... anything else is just... extra? I guess? It does make money, but there's real money we can get from working jobs like normal, so it's not like we have to do that... though it does actually heal people like they say, so that's... nice? If anything bad were to happen...
[But weird? ... Okay, it's all weird, she knows.]
The animal stuff happens to most people, but some people just change a little. My coat gets kind of doe-y... and one time my hooves split like a deer's too, but that's it for me... and Gonta mostly just gets really territorial...
[And not just in the fun, sexy kind of aggressive way...
But the talk of the amount of humans turns her brows inward in a little furrow of worry, despite her current excitement at his arrival. Ever since they'd first met, Mikuni had always been the better of the two men at dealing with and working with humans, but... even for her this was just so many people...]
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And before he can ask what she's doing, she's bumped against his side slightly and he feels that strange exchange of chroma between them. Definitely new. Definitely not something he's sure he would have understood from explanation alone, so the demo is nice so he knows what to expect.
It's really not that bad at all. ]
And that is really all it takes? It's so simple...
[ He's not used to "simple" solutions. But. Alright, he's 41 years old, he'll take it.
Although he has to try and rein in some laughter at the image of a territorial Gonta. It's not because he can't picture it. It's because he absolutely can. Oh, Gonta..... ]
My condolences. I hope he has not been too much of a handful.
[ Girl, he knows you got this, though.
It is a lot of people though. Without jinba scattered about to even it out, it has been somewhat daunting. But Mikuni is prepared to try and play nice. He's already been playing nice, for the most part. And he hasn't even thought about eating any of them. ]
You don't have to worry about me though. I will be fine.
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[She gets it. Even with as simple-minded as it could be said that she was, when it came to this sort of thing, being magically? kidnapped to a different planet with a whole bunch of other people from different worlds (and finding out there were different worlds) with no sign at all of how they might ever get home, plus these crazy moons and everything else...
She really expected something even more complicated.... Not that she's complaining (for fear it would get worse)!
And sure, she could handle Gonta, even when he does get a little aggressive and starts trying to fight with everyone who even gets near their patch of grove, but...
Konoha shakes her head emphatically at the idea that she didn't have to worry about him.]
I know Mikuni is my senior... but that's back home!
[Putting on her best tough face, she puffs up as big as she can get.]
I've been here the longest, so... I'm the senior jinba! That means you have to rely on me, alright?
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[ He agrees, nodding. It's a little suspicious, but if Konoha has really been here as long as she says ... it's possibly alright? Not that Mikuni will just stop being cautious, but it does help. As for that whole "other worlds" thing, he'll need time to absorb that.
As she mentions him being her senior only at home, he blinks a couple of times. Now, he knows she hasn't been here for 20 years and --
ah. ]
... Alright.
[ Like he can even say no to that face. He bows his head humbly. ]
I place myself happily in your care.
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[Content with his acceptance of this new seniority system she has just invented, Konoha lets her tough face fade back away in favor of a far more natural look for her- a smile.
After all... Mikuni was here. And even though it was probably not something she should be happy about... They should all be back in their world where they belonged, not on some weird world...
She's still happy to see him. Gonta will be happy to see him. So... it's time for a change of mood. Maybe it's a little childish, but-]
Now... follow me, Mikuni!
[Konoha rears up a bit, clapping her hands together in excitement with a little flail of hooves before she hits the ground running. Well, trotting, for just a few steps to make sure he's following her before she kicks up into a canter deeper into the Groves...
Until they arrive at a farmstead with a name he might find very familiar.]
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Honestly, he probably isn't as bothered as he should be about being here, knowing that Gonta and Konoha will be here with him as well. He can make a home out of anywhere but it's a bonus that they're right there along with him. Although he is a little disappointed that he probably can't continue his search for the others here...
Enough of those thoughts though, since Konoha is just suddenly running off from him. Or trotting off, and then running. ]
Wait, when did I agree to run all the way there?
[ But he follows her along closely anyway, deeper into the Groves, further away from the hugbugs and all the humans, to a place that is so different and very familiar at the same time. Ah... its name... Konoha and Gonta have worked hard for this place haven't they? ]
Konoha...
[ He stares at the sight before them a little longer, before smiling at her. ]
It's wonderful that you've made such a home for you and Gonta.
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But it wasn’t the same for Gonta, she knew that. He’d tried, he had, but when he’d voiced his desire to do this... how could she do anything but enthusiastically support it?]
Mmmn, it was Gonta’s idea.
[For the future, the chance they might be stuck here a long time, the children she hoped to have and was beginning to fear may never come.]
The name was his idea, too.
[It was where she was apparently going with him, after all. Mt. Tsurugi.]
t took us a while to get everything ready, to build, and to plant... and I know it’s more like my village than it probably is on the mountains like you two are used to, but...
[But it was world’s better than the neon lights and the bustle of metropolis, the shine of crystals and the constant movement of trains, cars, and feet. So she beams proudly upon it, a little slice of peace and quiet that made sense to her... that looked like home to her.
That felt more like home, now, too. Even though she’d only known Mikuni a few months since Sha had sent him to her yard... he was practically family now.]
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Eventually though, he could probably do alright.
Especially if he had a place like this "Tsurugi" to come back to. ]
Of course.
[ He smiles. Leave it to Gonta to do something so sentimental and so very much like home. ]
You two have done well I think.
[ He can see all the hard work even if it's more like the village and not so much the mountains. It makes him a bit nostalgic. They're missing a couple of key players but it's still got that sense of home. ]
I wouldn't mind staying in a place like this for a while.
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Things were just a bit better than they were moments ago. She and Gonta weren't the only jinba here any longer... and more than that, it was Mikuni. Even though she's not supposed to be happy other people get stuck here...]
Good.
[Because even if it was just for a while, just while he settling in... Her hand lands briefly on Mikuni's withers, resting just a moment before her hooves start prancing again and her smile grows broad again, radiating excitement.]
No... let's go get ready to surprise Gonta!
[With a little leap into a canter... Konoha happily leads him to the farmhouse designed for jinba, ready to tell him whatever he needs to know and help him get comfortable in Lunatia as best she can.]