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▶ TDM OVERFLOW .001
▶ Lisa Frank's LSD Fun House
anytime, anywhere on the moon Iris | top
Everything is darkness except for dim lights sparkling in the distance, a faint gleam that greets you as you start to unfurl from your dormant state. 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. Throat parched and skin dry and aching, you grope your body in alarm to make sure your possessions are still in place. 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 only rewards you with 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.
▶ Camp Nowhere
anytime, anywhere on the moon iris | top
Time moves strangely when you're trapped on a moon with no sun to guide you. Hours feel like days, and days feel like weeks. Travelling has rendered you weak and tired. Luckily, a few crystal formations in the shape of a cavern may offer you a small place refuge as you decide to nap. You notice a few artifacts left over from previous explorers.
▶ Interstellar Action Force Assemble
prisma, iris | top
Over a day has passed when a group of people find you worse for wear. Some are full of uncertainty and fear while some are full of curiosity and excitement. They claim that they are scientists from the planet Prismatica here to investigate the sudden appearances of rainbow crystals in the skies. That means you and the others they’ve located within the area. You are all a surprising find to them, and they are quick to load everyone in their transport vehicles for examination and questioning.
You all may have your usual inquiries — Where are we? Who are you? What's going on? Why are the pegasi so ill-tempered? — and the Prismals are almost too eager to answer. They do have questions on their own, so it’s only fair to trade. They tell you about their world as they poke and prod you, trying to understand what you are and how you came into their land. If they’re not trembling in fear, some of them may ask you odd and invasive questions in return, such as what the rate at which your body achieves thermoregulation is, how long your refractory period is, and if you would be willing to submit various kinds of body fluids to them. It's up to whether you wish to comply or protest.
▶ Wildcard
Lunatia, Prismatica | top
It only takes a couple hours for the ships to reach their home planet. The ships drop the characters off at the city of Lunatia, where they will be given their communication devices and a plastic card they can present to certain landlords at any residential district for their subsidized (read: absolutely free) lodging. Officials at Prisma instructed the newcomers to await further instructions from the government, but you have a lot of time to kill before then. Why not explore in the meantime? Learn the ins and outs of the world, get a job, transform under the full moon, and explore the many mysteries of planet Prismatica!
This is this TDM's overflow. Feel free to move your threads from there and continue tagging!
anytime, anywhere on the moon Iris | top
Everything is darkness except for dim lights sparkling in the distance, a faint gleam that greets you as you start to unfurl from your dormant state. 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. Throat parched and skin dry and aching, you grope your body in alarm to make sure your possessions are still in place. 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 only rewards you with 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.
A ⬤ As you traverse the near-barren landscape, you feel something sting your skin. It's small and subtle at first, then you finally catch sight of it: an elegant, crystalline mosquito buzzing around from the corner of your eye. However, a pest is still a pest. After a while, marks near your welts begin to form strange patterns on your skin, mimicking ancient runes. Each rune has with it a particular side-effect that may hinder you on your journey:✾ The Mark of the Enchanter: Hallucinations, hallucinations galore. Your character will see everything and anything their imagination can conjure and will have difficulty separating reality from fiction.
₪ The Mark of the Destroyer: Limbs start to cease their function, causing you to stumble or try and get around one-handed. Other certain body parts may be affected as well. Look at the bright side: you can stop worrying about jiggle physics and hiding your fear boner.
⍢ The Mark of the Sinner: Your hunger, your thirst, your fatigue and your desire are at an all-time high. Your impulses are rabid and uncontrollable. Maybe you experience only one of those symptoms. Maybe you experience them all. All you know is that you want relief now.
These effects will eventually clear up with a bit of accidental or purposeful physical contact with another person, making you wonder if there was anything wrong with you at all.
B ⬤ Hunger starts to gnaw at you vigorously. Perhaps you consider hunting the moon's creatures to sate your hunger. That's when you see it: a thick, meaty, juicy meal on legs.No, we're not talking about Alex Louis Armstrong. A wild silver-white pegasus runs across the purple landscape, its hair billowing in the wind as its hooves smack loudly against the ground. Try and shoot it, and you may find your efforts curtailed by its legendary rage. Eyes aglow and wings beating up a storm, this pegasus is no dainty horse. Two thousand pounds of pure muscle swoop down and charge at you, all blades and ammunition deflecting off its impenetrable skin. Taming appears impossible; it will buck anyone away and leave a sizable horn- or hoof-shaped hole in them for their efforts. Hunting it, however, should be easier. Relatively.
C ⬤ Or you may decide that you'd like to take a drink in the prismatic waters. A small pond can be found just a few miles away from where you first awoke, but gazing into it reflects what appears to be a window into your own world. You see the faces of loved ones or at least someone very close and familiar to you gathered around your prone body, shaking it frantically as though to try and rouse you, yet your image lies frozen and unresponsive, not even a whisper of life running through you. Did you die in your world? Is this your afterlife? The questions start to pile up along with the gnawing dread that you may never return home again.
▶ Camp Nowhere
anytime, anywhere on the moon iris | top
Time moves strangely when you're trapped on a moon with no sun to guide you. Hours feel like days, and days feel like weeks. Travelling has rendered you weak and tired. Luckily, a few crystal formations in the shape of a cavern may offer you a small place refuge as you decide to nap. You notice a few artifacts left over from previous explorers.
D ⬤ A comm unit abandoned within the cavern will display the former owner's idol obsession. As you tap the buttons indiscriminately, a holographic screen will appear, and you will see a fabulous recorded concert featuring three bubbly young ladies in animal print, singing to you about something called Cordis, a cat, and a bag of gems. Does this make any sense to you? Probably not, but the beat is catchy. You may even find yourself tapping a foot along to it. Don’t worry. We know it’s plastic love.
E ⬤ There's a small cooler-like container of preserved powdered food bags labeled with only the word “Edible” that can be safely consumed. Although the powder tastes as bland as you’d expect, it’s oddly filling, sating either hunger or thirst. But who will be the first — and the bravest — to try eating them?
F ⬤ A strange, pointed instrument is among the effects found in the cavern. It's silver, long, and thin with a curved end and a light. When you grip it with warm hands, it seems to vibrate enthusiastically and comes in three settings indicated by a frowny face, a neutral face, and a happy face. What could it mean exactly? No one knows, but you can fiddle with it to your heart's desire. Just don't ask yourself where it's been before. You don't want to know.
▶ Interstellar Action Force Assemble
prisma, iris | top
Over a day has passed when a group of people find you worse for wear. Some are full of uncertainty and fear while some are full of curiosity and excitement. They claim that they are scientists from the planet Prismatica here to investigate the sudden appearances of rainbow crystals in the skies. That means you and the others they’ve located within the area. You are all a surprising find to them, and they are quick to load everyone in their transport vehicles for examination and questioning.
You all may have your usual inquiries — Where are we? Who are you? What's going on? Why are the pegasi so ill-tempered? — and the Prismals are almost too eager to answer. They do have questions on their own, so it’s only fair to trade. They tell you about their world as they poke and prod you, trying to understand what you are and how you came into their land. If they’re not trembling in fear, some of them may ask you odd and invasive questions in return, such as what the rate at which your body achieves thermoregulation is, how long your refractory period is, and if you would be willing to submit various kinds of body fluids to them. It's up to whether you wish to comply or protest.
G ⬤ If you react violently, you will be restrained and nerfed with a specialized neurotransmitting gun that releases a numbing agent through the top of your spine. They came prepared, so have fun with that! In any case, conscious or not, you’ll be brought into one of the transport vehicles. If you choose to peacefully cooperate, you’ll be provided any necessary first aid and a refreshing drink to help you recuperate after the rough time you had for the past few days. Each transport vehicle has a few small rooms to rest in, but due to the limited space, you’ll have to snuggle up with someone else on that bunk bed. Unfortunately, the moonshine fruit the ship is also carrying in its cargo has an extremely sweet smell that’s been permeating through certain areas of the ventilation system… Taking a whiff of it may inebriate you for the rest of the trip.
H ⬤ It’s a bumpy ride as terrain vehicles draw over various crystal formations until you see a large dome-like structure up ahead. Within its confines lies the seat of the Prismatica's government, Prisma. It’s a bureaucratic wet dream: skyscrapers practically touch the upper surface of the dome, windows glimmer with a prismatic sheen as daylight hits them, and small ships can be seen flying to and from its spaceport. The scientists, members of the Lunar Scientia, usher you into their facilities for tests. Arrivals are likely to twitch, tremble, and panic as Lunar Scientia fellows take and broadcast every embarrassing, unfiltered detail about you — height, weight, age, strange odors, estimated frequency of sexual activity —- to one another. These scientists will ask you politely to undress, too, but understand if you don't want to. They're especially fascinated by the readings of pure Chroma inside you, whispering among one another excitedly about the possibility of the new arrivals being a new moon species. What should they call them? Moonborne? Moonblessed?
I ⬤ At long last, the questions and physical examinations are done. They’ve decided to call the arrivals as the Moonblessed. They’ll take you under their care until they understand more about you. You're allowed a very refreshing hot shower and a warm meal for your efforts. Don’t worry, the meal was imported from their planet. “Planet?” you might ask, but you won’t need to wonder for too long. The ships are preparing for their next destination: the nearby planet Prismatica, where you will be dwelling for the time being. You're free to explore the government center until then.
▶ Wildcard
Lunatia, Prismatica | top
It only takes a couple hours for the ships to reach their home planet. The ships drop the characters off at the city of Lunatia, where they will be given their communication devices and a plastic card they can present to certain landlords at any residential district for their subsidized (read: absolutely free) lodging. Officials at Prisma instructed the newcomers to await further instructions from the government, but you have a lot of time to kill before then. Why not explore in the meantime? Learn the ins and outs of the world, get a job, transform under the full moon, and explore the many mysteries of planet Prismatica!
This is this TDM's overflow. Feel free to move your threads from there and continue tagging!
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All right.
Well... first and foremost, I wanted to test myself as a performer, I guess. I mean-- even my teacher had told me it would be a waste if I kept to the little town I've been so used to. The best performers always spend some time traveling, she said.
I suppose you've been adventuring too, Taako?
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Fuck. His life is so weird.
But Fish's story made sense. Bards liked to travel, right? It was kind of necessary for them to learn new songs and not suck as bards. The only one Taako spent any real time around was Johann though and that guy was stuck on a moonbase taking care of a giant space jellyfish. Kinda hard to travel that way. Maybe he did it before? He was a half-elf, who knew how long he'd been around the block before The Director picked him up.]
Well, ch'yeah, natch. Got myself a band of idiots, a job I can't talk about, and this nifty little irremovable and now completely useless bracer.
[He lifts his left arm to show the seamless silver metal bracer on his arm.]
You? Or did you just travel around by yourself?
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I guess... it's complicated? I was traveling on my own at first. Then, I met someone. He took me to another continent. Then, we parted ways.
[The way Fish shrugs and rolls their eyes at "parted ways" is easy to read as... something much more than that.]
And then suddenly, while I was at a tavern, I just got roped into this unbelievable party of weirdos and a whole mess of political intrigue.
[Insert big dramatic sigh.]
I was just about to get thrown into a dungeon when I came here.
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He barks out a laugh at the rest of the explanation, shaking his head.]
What is it with taverns and idiots, huh? It seem like every story starts with "I was at a tavern" and then ends up with dragons or, apparently, dungeons. How the fuck're you gonna get out of that one? You got a plan?
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[Somehow, Fish's demeanor turns a little somber... very different from the flirty playful bard interacting with Taako earlier.]
I nearly got killed by arrows... I could have gotten beaten to a pulp on a whim... and... I saw a king killed, right before my eyes. I wanted to just... bolt. But I don't know. I guess four days was enough to feel attached to a bunch of weirdoes.
[They shake their head.]
Anyway, as for that dungeon situation my sticking around got me into... my plan is to just use all my charm, darling.
[A little shoulder shimmy and a wink and Fish is back to being, well, Fish.]
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He laughs a little at the shimmy and shakes his head.]
That tracks. I guess not everyone can go murderhobo and just kill their way out like my dumbass trio probably would.
[Honestly, he probably wouldn't get thrown in a dungeon, but if he did? Knock was a surprisingly useful spell.]
Did you all get locked up separately or what? Can't your wizard just, I dunno, blast you all out?
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[Fish shakes their head.]
Unfortunately, we don't have a wizard in our party. There are only three people who can cast spells... our cleric, who's a bird; A tiefling kleptomaniac rogue; and me. If I remember correctly, they have the cleric, our monk, and the tiefling's brother in custody.
I got caught up with our paladin and the kleptomaniac elsewhere and we were in the middle of being apprehended. And our fighter is nowhere to be found!
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[Yes, he loots dead bodies. No, they don't always have to be dead bodies he's made. It's just fair game once they're gone, right? Taako obviously needs it more than whoever the dead guy is.]
Holy shit you guys are bad at this. Even the rogue? Aren't rogues supposed to be, y'know, rogue-like? All stealth and sweet flips and whatver?
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Hey, we've only been a team for four days and we don't even feel like a real team!
[Fish sighs, shoulders slumping slightly.]
The rogue brothers are actually extremely good at being stealthy, but it just... didn't quite unfold that way. I don't know how the younger brother got captured, but the older one with us-- the kleptomaniac-- was with the princess.
In all honestly, everything is just a mess. Apparently the prince died as well. Maybe getting thrown in here was a blessing in disguise.
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[Okay, fair. No one would be a well-oiled machine after only four days. The Tres Horny Boys had taken a lot longer than that and at least Fish and his group had only gotten a prince dead and not an entire damn town.
RIP, Phandalin.
Even if no one would ever remember them.]
Okay fair, fuck-ups within the first, uh, let's say week to two weeks? You get a pass on that. Princely deaths included. Shit happens, towns gets fucked up, whatcha gonna do but move on, apparently get elf-and-or-fishnapped and keep going?
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I should learn from you. I must be a novice compared to however long you’ve been adventuring.
[ Fish won’t lie though, their hands clasped feels really nice now. It’s almost tempting to get closer. But they’re off walking to god knows where... is that an oasis of sorts out in the distance? ]
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[That said, he's been doing it for what...? Months? He's not really paid attention the time.]
I've been at it for--
[Oh shit, is that a place? A place with things that aren't just crystal?? Holy shit! Taako jumps at the sight ahead, leaving his sentence hanging as he points ahead.]
Do you see that? Hey! Am I going crazy or is that a rest stop up ahead?
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[And they trail off as Taako excitedly points out to the place ahead of them. It takes a while for Fish to notice. At first, they're squinting, trying to see it in the distance. And then, they blink and they see clearly the shape of a pool of water and, indeed, no crystals!]
I see it, too!! Oh, oceans, let's go!!
[And Fish tugs on Taako's hand to run with him towards the oasis.]
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He's also not running quite as fast as Fish is, not wanting to be the first to an area with water in an otherwise barren landscape. Monsters and people gather where water is and Taako? Taako doesn't rush in.
As they get closer though, it's clear there's no one else here - just the pool of water in an open space.
Weird.]
Huh, so, uh....this a thing. You'd think there'd be other people here.
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...
[At Taako's comment Fish looks around, and it's only then that it hit them.]
... this is so weird.
[They're genuinely unsettled by this, now that the realization's set in.]
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[He holds a hand up and then casts a quick Detect Magic over the area.
The crystals are fairly dull, but those waters? Yeah, that's bad. He blinks the spell out of his eyes and groans.]
Well dunk. Bad news for you, my dude. That water? Dunno what it is, but it's definitely magical.
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I rolled for Fish's common sense-- a straight Wisdom roll with no proficiency, gave it a DC of 10. If they got at least a 10, they'd have enough common sense not to drink the weird water but...
... that's a 5. Minus 1.
Too late Taako, while he was casting the spell, the idiot merfolk was already cupping some of the weird water in their hands and having a sip.]
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Because while Magnus and Merle aren't here, Fish is more than making up for it. As Taako shakes the spell, he glances down and stares in shock as they drink the water without even waiting for the warning.
It's too late, but he still uses Mage Hand to slap Fish's hands away fromt their face.]
Can you not drink the potentially magically poisoned water, you dumbass?!
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W-what?
[Fish looks at the wizard, just... genuinely... naive. Or possibly they had been too parched to think properly, really. There's a bit of cloudiness in their eyes that belies a lot of fatigue.]
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[Gods, he looks wrecked already and they haven't even been in this wasteland for a day yet. How much longer can he last? Do merfolk need more water than regular people? Fuck. Will Taako need to start thinking about conjuring and transmuting food and water soon? He can't exactly let himself die here of all places and it's not like he's seen many other living souls in this place.
Shit.
Shit shit shit.]
Didn't you think it was weird there's no one else here? Y'know, like any animals or plants or anything? Fuck, how are you still alive even? That shit might be poisoned.
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It is weird. Uh... I felt nothing from the water. But...
[They glance back into it.]
I can see my world in it.
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[What? Forgetting caution, Taako walks forward and stares down into the water, noting the rippling rings still spreading out. It's hard to make out with the distortions, but there's definitely an image in there that doesn't match him and Fish staring down into it.
But that isn't Fish's world - it's Taako's. And he can see his unconscious body lying in the Bureau of Balance's quad with Merle and Magnus standing over him, looking both concerned and nonplussed.]
...Well dunk. That's one hell of an illusion spell.
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[Fish meanwhile saw their own body unconscious during the stand-off against the Hand of the Conjurer. Their unconscious body was in the arms of their group's paladin while the tiefling rogue in the room across seemed to be yelling yet unable to move as these elite fighters of the kingdom were holding all of them at swordpoint.]