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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.
IT’S FINE Gladio bullies everyone, especially Prompto
Shigeru is one of the latter, it seems. Gladio smirks at him from under his arm, then resumes fooling around on the options. ]
Good point. Although I’m more of an outdoors kinda guy.
So how do people pay for these? Any clue?
[ Gladio, Shigeru isn’t your personal guide, although that’s certainly not stopping him from trying to glean from him any information at all. And yes, he’s using his charms as a weapon in this case. It may be in part due to his newfound affiliation. ]
But Shigeru can't handle it );
Though he's doing a terrible job as he almost drops his phone when he goes to type an answer to his question. ]
Chroma! Everything is paid with Chroma. [ Though Shigeru himself looks none too pleased with that answer as he types it out. Ugh contact, he's so not good with that, but this place sure is going to test his limits isn't it? ]
You get it via physical intimate contact... [ typing that as he looks dead ass at Gladio's body causing a blush to blossom along his cheeks, yeah good job Shigeru. ]
But it doesn't always have to be sexual, apparently non-sexual but still intimate forms of touch work as well.
He can suffer
[ Yeah, he’s heard of it, but there’s a lot to take in. At first he was a bit skeptical, but after a while he’s begun to understand that he’s nowhere near home and things work very, very differently here. Still, what was it about Chroma that is tugging at the back of his mind? He doesn’t put a lot of brainpower into recollection, not when it seems clear that Shigeru knows and he’s about to elaborate.
Watching Shigeru’s fingers flurry to type out a sentence while fixing his eyes on him with a blush on his face makes Gladio all the more curious to see what he’s about to tell him. When he sees it, though, Gladio tries to cover his mouth with his fist as he tries to pass off a laugh as a coughing fit. ]
Ah, hah, right. So paying rent in hugs and wrestling matches. [ Gladio, no. ] Sounds easy.
[ At least he doesn’t try to drape himself on poor Shigeru’s shoulder this time. Instead he rises to his full height and folds his arms across his chest. Rent paid with the power he gained from physical contact? Sounds like he could really do well here with minimal effort, allowing him more time and potentially resources to find his friends, maybe Noct if he’s really lucky. But as he returns his attention to Shigeru, he notices he doesn’t exactly look pleased about it. ]
...Although I take it you’re not much of a fan.
#poorcinnamonroll
I don't like people touching me. [ Ah, well, not untrue but not the whole truth either. He doesn't elaborate as he just leaves it at that for now. It's his problem and he doesn't want to bother this stranger with them, as gorgeous as he may be. ]
Is there anything else you have questions about? I can help, maybe, depending on what it is!
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That’s rough.[ Gladio can’t imagine how this guy is going to get by. ] Sorry. I mean about earlier. [ He had no idea. And yet despite Gladio being so physical, Shigeru is kind enough to offer his help. If he’s managed to get by a while even with his dislike of being touched, he must know something useful, maybe a loophole. ]
How long have you... [ Been in this condition doesn’t sound right, so he switches it around. ] ...Been here? Don’t tell me you’ve just arrived too.
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No! It's not your fault! I never told you, so don't apologize.
[ He's often left apologizing because of how weird he makes everything, so it's just a built in response at this point. He looks away at the question, his expression...worried and kind of uncertain. Of course he'd just arrived and he was trying to put it out of his mind how this place worked, but he can't really run from this, can he? He doesn't really know what he's going to do, doesn't know how he's going to manage it...but he'll think of something. It can't all be bad, right? Right. ]
I did just arrive like you. I just...wanted to find a place first. [ So he could think and not have a panic attack, which he is kind of close to having now that it's sinking in what he's really meant to do here. If there was anyone here that was not supposed to be, if definitely Shigeru. ]
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So yeah, he’s got no reason to ask him how he plans to make his rent — it’s none of his business and he doesn’t really have a horse (or chocobo) in this race — but nevertheless he asks with skepticism: ]
Uh huh. You got a roommate who can maybe float you for a little while? Until you can... adjust, or whatever?
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He's getting so stressed out and he's only been here for a day, wonderful start. ]
I...haven't really thought about that. So no.
[ Why is his life suffering? ]
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...Basically most Moonblessed, probably. ]
You might wanna. Or... I don’t know, figure out a way to pay someone back for floating you Chroma?
[ He hasn’t a clue how the economy works around here. Not one to just leave someone with a dead-end when they haven’t, by their own words, thought about it... Gladio tries to offer up a solution. ]
What did you do back... before you got here, I guess?