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Prismatic Mods ([personal profile] prismods) wrote in [community profile] prismaticrap2019-03-05 11:10 am
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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.

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!
highsteaks: (om nom)

[personal profile] highsteaks 2019-03-21 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Here goes nothing."

Chie rips open the top of the bag and pours the powder into her mouth. It really doesn't taste like anything... but it's oddly filling anyway. She's only halfway through before she rights the bag and rolls down the top, stashing it in her pocket.

"Thanks," she says.
asaqueenshould: (the next move)

[personal profile] asaqueenshould 2019-03-21 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
"You're welcome. Until we can figure out what's edible and what's not here, or someone turns up with other options, there's no point in ignoring a resource that's right there and evidently harmless."

Even if it does taste like nothing at all. It's... disconcerting.
highsteaks: (think)

[personal profile] highsteaks 2019-03-21 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," Chie says. "You're probably right about that." She pauses for a moment, in consideration. "And if I want something tasty... well, I think I've got most of a pack of meat gum left."
asaqueenshould: (strategy)

[personal profile] asaqueenshould 2019-03-21 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Meat... gum? I think I've seen that in a convenience store before."

And couldn't fathom why it was there, but here's the market for it, apparently.
highsteaks: (blithe)

[personal profile] highsteaks 2019-03-21 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
"It's great stuff," Chie says, blithely. "You should try it."
asaqueenshould: (Default)

[personal profile] asaqueenshould 2019-03-21 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not usually one for savory snacks, or I might."

(Also she doesn't see the flavor of 'meat' and the texture of 'gum' meshing all that well.)
highsteaks: (listen)

[personal profile] highsteaks 2019-03-21 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
(It's her loss. Meat gum is the best gum of all.)

"Oh. I guess that's fair." Chie wonders briefly what the other girl likes instead. Probably sugary things. That was what most girls like. Just another way that Chie failed at being a girl, she guesses.
asaqueenshould: (the next move)

[personal profile] asaqueenshould 2019-03-21 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
It depends on the situation, really. And she doesn't tend to think of katsu curry as a snack so much as a good-luck meal.

"Did you still need something to drink? I'm afraid I don't have anything on hand, but there may be some water back at the shelter where I found the protein packs."
highsteaks: (think)

[personal profile] highsteaks 2019-03-21 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Chie considers this as well. "Is it weird that the protein powder made me feel less thirsty too? Because it kind of did."

Honestly, everything in this situation is pretty weird. And this is from someone who used to run around inside televisions. Inside the world inside the televisions. Anyway, the places there were pretty weird in general. Especially the one that jerk who'd been creeping on Yukiko had made--mostly because it was all pixelated--but not one of the places inside the TV world had been normal.

Chie wonders for a moment if she'd fallen into the TV world unknowingly... but no. She's pretty sure that this place doesn't have the right... what's the word... the right aesthetics for her mind to create it around her. She'd have made a dojo or something.

Also, it's not really maze-like enough.
asaqueenshould: (i concede)

[personal profile] asaqueenshould 2019-03-21 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"No stranger than the very real possibility of alien abduction." Or the mess that downtown Shibuya was in before Hifumi found herself here.

"Still, we're probably better off not lingering out here if we don't have to. There are too many unknown dangers."
highsteaks: (sketch)

[personal profile] highsteaks 2019-03-21 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," Chie says. "You're probably right." She bites her lip. "Do you know where there's shelter?"
asaqueenshould: (togo kingdom)

[personal profile] asaqueenshould 2019-03-21 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Just the cave where I found the protein packs, but it's better than nothing and there wasn't anyone using it yet. I'm choosing to think that means they were rescued, since that's... more reassuring than the other options."

Granted, she didn't find any traces of a dead body, either, but still.
highsteaks: (gotcha)

[personal profile] highsteaks 2019-03-22 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Chie winces. Her hometown had an active murder investigation. She can guess what the other options are and dying of exposure is probably the least sinister.

"Maybe if they got rescued, we will too if we go there?"

It can't hurt to try.
asaqueenshould: (a gambler's spirit)

[personal profile] asaqueenshould 2019-03-22 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
"That was my thinking. It has the highest odds of someone else knowing the place is there and might have people in it."