prismaticrap | ▶ TDM .009

Entry tags:

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.

▶ 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ he seemed more receptive than she imagined he’d be that’s for sure, and even just looking to him as he makes the effort to hold her hand seemed embarrassing. get it together girl, it’s just your dad in his heyday whatever. ]

I don’t think you’d even believe me if I just straight up told you, and you still haven’t told me what year it is for you. Because for me it was 2012, but given your looks.... maybe pre-90s, back when mtv was really taking off.

[ she could’ve just held hands with him, but it was probably better to make the attempt to help jotaro back up to his feet. his coming and going wasn’t something new to her, but having to explain things and constantly coming from a different time... she wasn’t sure if she could keep handling that much ]

See? Just holding hands can do quite a bit, now imagine how much hugging could do.

[ honestly, jolyne was doing her best not to look at him directly, instead just focused on looking at their hands before finally looking away completely ]

So listen, I have a certain birthmark... I mean, you could take that any way you want, but it’s probably better to start small with revelations or whatever.

[A certain...birthmark...oh for hell's fucking sake, this just keeps getting better and better.]

I'm gonna fucking kill him.

[But he doesn't let go of her hand, even after he gets up to his feet; it would've been easy to tug his hand away and shove it back in his pocket, but he doesn't — and whether that's from the moonlacing or from the mention of her birthmark is really anyone's guess.]

Let me guess. You're Josuke's twin, right? You look alike. I swear I'm going to kill that bastard of an old man...

[He sighs, utterly unaware that he's about to open up a Pandora's box of hilarity with one simple incorrect assumption.]

Your dad is Joseph Joestar, right?

[ this was definitely worth the reaction—although it’s concerning how he thinks she and josuke could be twins. don’t worry uncle, she won’t tell you about that, just like how she won’t bring up the pants incident ]

You should probably let him live, pretty sure all our lives relies on that much at least.

But Joseph as my dad... wow, that would’ve been something, right? Though I think I’m doing okay with just having him as my great grandpa. Let’s go get something to eat, I could spot you for now since you’re still building up on that chroma.

[Joseph...as her great-grandpa...]

...What.

Yeah, you see why I didn't just lead in with some reverse Star Wars situation.

[ she's trying to keep it cool, keep it steady... like okay, she's had to deal with being punched hard enough to be knocked out of a room. but somehow, having her hand being squeezed this much seemed more overwhelming. ]

Hey, big guy... I know you're excited and all, but can you consider that my hand was not made for that... No matter if you're dad age or twenty years younger you're still a huge guy. Like what the hell? Were you just born this big, or...?

[...Oh. Star Wars. Right, because what she's saying is, he's her father. Okay, that's actually sort of clever. Still impossible and earthshattering, but with at least a hint of something stupidly normal added to it. Like putting a band-aid over a severed arm.]

You haven't even told me your fucking name.

[He does, at least, marginally let up on her hand, but not enough that there's any possibility of pulling away. He's not about to let go of her, not until he's gotten this sorted out.]

You can't just say you're my daughter and not tell me what the hell is your name.

[He has a daughter? A daughter. His daughter. So that means — it must've worked out okay, right? He just wound up like Jiji did. Saved the world, got his life turned upside-down on the verge of adulthood, suffered and lost a friend maybe, but then — it turned out okay. He settled down. Married someone. Had a family. Had a daughter, just like Jiji had a daughter. It turned out okay. He ended up being okay.

Right?]

You know... I think I kind of like you like this, you're more personable.

[ a strange observation to be making at this moment, thankful that he let up on how tightly he was holding on, but also secretly glad he was still holding on at all. ]

My name is Jolyne Cujoh, I live in Florida because I guess that's where you decided to make your home base. I was nineteen when I first arrived here, I had a birthday a few months ago where I spent the night in space jail.

[ there was a wave of her free hand, bringing out sf in full form for introductions ]

This is Stone Free, I've only had 'em for the better part of a year.

[ she kept sf out for now, still reluctant to give him full details. it didn't seem like something she should burden him with at the moment, and honestly she still had a hard time with the idea of broaching the subject with him at all ]

While here I've gotten to meet Josuke, it took a while for us to realize we were related but we get along pretty well. That was my bad for not fully introducing myself, though I would imagine that Kujo is a common name for him it would've helped to hear it in conjunction with the fact that I don't usually have my shoulder covered up. I learned my lesson when I met great-grandpa though, we went with full introductions and I knew right away who he was, we also get along very well.

There's also quite a few stand users here as well, but they're not bad people.

[It's strange. He almost makes a biting remark about her comment about him being personable, how literally no one has said that about him ever and what the hell must he be like when she knows him if she thinks he's Mr. Congeniality right now — except that then he remembers something Josuke had implied, about how the older him didn't talk much and all but shut him out, and...yes, that's something he would do too, probably, but...

But it nags at him. It's not like they sound as though they're expecting him to be as boisterous as Jiji or as exuberant as his mom. But that's two people now who've been surprised by him as he currently is, and both times it's because he's more sociable than they would've expected of him.

Why would they think that? If it was just Josuke, okay, maybe he caught him at a bad time or something, maybe he saw him when he was pissed about Jiji or focused on something else and clammed up because of it.

But Jolyne, supposedly, is his daughter. A daughter should be different, shouldn't he? Maybe he wouldn't treat a daughter of his with the sort of smothering affection that Jiji shows to his mom, but...

But...

Oh, fuck it. He doesn't know. He doesn't even know what he's supposed to do with himself tomorrow, much less trying to guess what his future self is probably doing in probably twenty-odd years. How the fuck is he supposed to know?

And actually, speaking of that timeframe —]

...You're older than me. What the hell, you're my daughter and you're older than me.

[.........]

Doesn't mean I don't still get to tell you what to do, though. If I'm really your dad.

[THIS IS A MATURE AND REASONABLE RESPONSE TO THIS VERY WEIRD SITUATION.]

Did I name you? Jolyne. [...Wait.] ...Kujo Jo— Jojo — actually, I changed my mind, that better not have been my fucking idea.

Yeah, that's why I told you it was 2012 for me. Time's all kind of fucked up in this place.

[ getting sf put back away she brings her free hand to her hip as she looks up at him. this much hasn't changed about him, even just finding out he's a father in the future he's trying to lay down the law ]

Yeah, well, we'll see if what you're telling me what to do is reasonable or not.

[ she's not going to argue about it, because despite whatever differences they had she still had feelings towards him that weren't all bad. but there was the fluster as he was trying to sort out her name ]

... Mom is the only person who calls me Jojo, but I'm pretty sure Jolyne was your idea... Who knows, maybe a part of you just wanted to keep up family tradition.

So I won't have you for [math lady meme redux] four more years.

[Okay. That's...acceptable. Four years is sufficient time to figure out how to be somebody's dad, probably. There have got to be books on it. He'll just read a bunch of books. Plenty of time. Okay.]

And if you've only had your Stand for a year, then you weren't born with it. Unless you always had it and it only came out a year ago. But I would have checked. ...I think.

[He's more talking to himself at this point than he is to Jolyne, and probably the only reason he's saying it out loud at all instead of keeping it to is own thoughts is because it'd be even more awkward to just stand there thinking and not saying anything while he's holding her hand and she's looking at him.

Speaking of which. He lifts their still-joined hands carefully, tilting his head at them in a half-nod.]

Someone told me you can't use it if you don't have enough of that..."chroma" stuff you were talking about. Is that true?

[ as he's trying to sort that out she thinks this over carefully, should she tell him about that much? the locket with the arrowhead was still in her possession afterall, but it's not something she'd shown to anyone else given the importance he'd placed on it back at home ]

I definitely wasn't born with it, but I did get pretty sick and almost died at one point when I was younger... You couldn't be there because you were busy. It didn't seem like you were too worried about it, but it certainly freaked mom out. I think that's how you knew I'd be able to have a stand at some point.

[ she could give him at least that much, right? there was the question about chroma and she just gave a bit of a nod ]

But yeah, that's right... chroma is necessary for a lot of things, you can earn demichroma by working or doing other things. But I think that's only good for currency, because stands use a lot of chroma and the chroma we generate with each other is supposed to be a lot more powerful.

I don't really worry about it much since I have my ways of getting my chroma, but you should consider your options.

...So what's the best way to get it? If you need it for your Stand.

[This is a dangerous conversation to be having with his own daughter but fuck man it's not like Jotaro knows any better.]

How do you get a lot of it in a hurry?

[ she's going to just stare at him for a good long minute ]

[ okay, maybe two... ]

[ holy shit is she going all red? ]

Umm... I have... had a guy I would do things with... It's complicated.

[A guy...she would do...things...with...]

I'M NOT DOING THAT WITH YOU!

[area man fucks it up yet again by assuming that people just automatically understand what he's talking about and/or getting at without actually spelling it out because he's a COMPLETE DUMBASS when it comes to SHIT LIKE THIS]

I meant me! So I can help you — I meant if you need it from me!

[Bury him here, he can feel himself going beet red, so he sinks down deep in his jacket collar and yanks down his hat, turning away to try to disguise as much of it as he can.

And conspicuously still doesn't let go of her hand.]

Yare yare. Forget it, I'll just figure something out. Don't let yourself get...low on it. I'm not going to let you run out, so say something if it's a problem.

(no subject)

getstoned - 2019-11-17 01:03 (UTC) - Expand

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

▶ TDM .009

no subject

no subject

no subject

1/who knows, standby

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

okay i think that's enough

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

1/3?

no subject

no subject

no subject

okay, we got to the end

1/3

no subject

and done

(no subject)