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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.
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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.
gasps softly... no UR cute
You're right. There are so many of them that it's more realistic to assume that a majority will have to stay overnight. We can stop by my apartment first, and then... Ah, no, they shouldn't be left alone at a time like this in an unfamiliar environment.
If I stay with them, you should be able to go pick up all the things we'd need, right? [He looks to Mika now, suddenly serious. This is an important task!!] Would you be able to handle that?
[The task itself as well as the currency involved there, but Iori accidentally isn't warning him properly about the risk of using too much chroma... Hopefully Mika can afford enough kibbles and toys and milk. Honestly, the way money works has slipped his mind for the moment... he's just thinking he can pay him back later.]
just reflectin it back at u!
Nn? Yeah, it should be fine. I'm used to runnin' errands a lot.
( and he's impressively stronger than he looks; carrying things back won't be a problem for him either. it's reluctant, but after a moment of lovingly admiring it, mika does let down the small calico from his arms, seeming pleased as it approaches iori instead to rub against his leg. good! it will be well taken care of. and as for his imminent errand: )
I think I saw a pet store a li'l ways over, but before I take off, do ya wanna let me know how to get to yer place? So I know where to bring 'em.
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[He's reluctant about it himself, but having the calico move up to him and nuzzle there makes Iori feel safe about letting the cat in his own arms down to the floor. Sure enough, it immediately starts trying to get back up, and when he ignores it and stands tall, it rubs against him, too. The others that have been following are all crowding in, since he's still holding the string, but he pauses nervously and turns to Mika.]
You received one of those devices for your wrist, didn't you? Let's exchange information, and I'll send you the address while you're here, just in case you'll forget.
In the meantime, do you see this cross street right ahead? If you move down it and pass a store with a bakery that focuses on cute animal shapes in the window, there should be an apartment complex. That's where I'll be.
[One of the cats mews fairly loudly, and Iori looks down at it before letting the tiniest smile crack. He wipes it away near immediately and starts tapping at his own wrist device. He will send his info right away once Mika gives him his contact...]
Then, I'll meet you there?
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oh, and as for the directions, of course he turns his head in the direction iori indicates, mentally trying to map out the route for himself in case he can manage to remember it. it should be a simple enough task. gently assuming that iori will hand the phone back, mika stands up once he does. )
Yeah, I gotcha. I'll see ya in a bit then, Iori-kun.
( standing up and straightening himself out, mika offers a wave and a smile before heading back in the direction of the pet store he'd seen earlier — though he's not too subtle about his glances back at the rather impressive group of cats either as he does. and skipping ahead a little, he'll make his way back to where iori had indicated to him, a bag full of cat food and toys in each hand, and a much poorer wallet as he does. that's not the point though! the point is that, luckily, it's easy enough to find iori's place. knock, knock, iori. )
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The knock is quickly answered from inside with a muffled:] I'm coming!
[After a minute or so passes, Iori answers the door, and it's clear that he was in the middle of quite a lot. He has the string Mika had given him out of sight, so it looks like the cats have all taken to claiming the apartment, instead. There are a handful of bowls of milk laid out neatly on the floor, with most of the cats drinking from it, tails flicking. A few are on the outskirts, some on furniture, other under it, and one brave one is curling around Iori's legs and meowing at Mika.]
Kagehira-san, this is perfect. Ah, here— [Iori is in the zone right now, so he's more gentle, reaching out to take the bag of cat food to help him, urging him inside.]
Come in carefully, so none of the cats run out. They seem comfortable enough, even without the string, though... [He clears his throat as he moves inside, expecting Mika to take care of following up. He's going to go put this cat food in the kitchen area, close to the doorway.]
With this, we should be able to feed all of them for now, though I'll probably have to run out and get some more tomorrow. [He catches himself on that, though, glancing back at Mika in brief surprise.] I-if we haven't found all of their owners by then, that is.
Did you have any trouble?
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Yeah, it was expensive, but there's a lot of 'em so they'll prolly burn through it pretty fast, huh? If ya want, I can help ya run an' get 'em again while ya look after the little ones.
( look at that... they're like parents already. but mika continues conversationally as he hands one of the bags to iori, parting with it willingly as he steps inside, slipping off his shoes and excusing himself for the intrusion. he eyes iori curiously for that last comment he'd tacked on, but lets it slide nonetheless; he's imagining things, maybe. )
Anyway, nah. Wasn't any trouble — 's kinda my fault they're all away from their owners to begin with, yanno? It's the least I could do to make sure I'm doin' my part to take care of 'em.
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[He catches himself on that, too, as he sets the cat food bag on the counter and turns to Mika once more. One of the smaller cats is already trying to see if it can measure a jump up onto the counters.]
Wait, the currency is different here than Japan. I remember them going over Chroma being not only an energy source, but the form of currency. You had enough?
[He's definitely giving Mika a onceover now, to be sure...] I'm sorry... I'm not sure how paying you back would work, exactly. Chroma transfers... there must be some way. An app, maybe?
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( nodding along, mika confirms it as the kitten decides to make its leap — tiny paws manage to make it all the way to the countertop, but not all four of them. scrabbling for a hold in the smooth surface, it realizes quickly that it isn't going to be able to find one, mewling loudly as it begins to fall backwards again.
as for the polite offer though, mika appreciates it, he really does, but... no, when he thinks of it, isn't that kind of thing a little embarrassing? there was one thing that stuck out to him about chroma, after all: you generate it through physical contact. he's a little transparent as the slightest traces of a blush begins to colour his cheeks, but he waves it off sheepishly. )
Nnah, yanno, come to think of it, isn't it fine if ya don't pay me back? Since they're sorta my responsibility an' all, 's only fair that I oughta do my part to take care of 'em.
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