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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 accidentally swallow the worm at the bottom of my tequila? — 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.

▶ I Heat Up, I Can’t Cool Down
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 After settling into your apartment, you notice a shiny silver indestructible mechanoid cube with a pair of tiny stag horns attached to it. The card attached says that it’s a gift from the Lunatian government. One touch of the cube makes it hover in place, light up brightly, and play the classic hit Last Firalia by Blam! on repeat. By the 7th listen, you get hot under your collar, beads of sweat forming on your temples and rolling down your neck, and your breath grows labored. By the 17th listen, you’re all but ready to burst into flames — a stark contrast to the plummeting temperature outdoors.

A bit of vigorous moonlacing should keep you from growing too hot and bothered indoors. Or you could simply decide to chuck the cube out the window and let it be someone else’s problem. That won't really stop it, though. The music only stops once the cube picks up enough Chroma in the atmosphere generated via moonlacing, so go forth, and spread the Firialia lust, love, and cheer!

▶ It’s the Moose Wonderful Time of the Year
City of Lunatia | top

In the city of Lunatia, the streets are emblazoned with beautiful antler decorations, gleaming gold and silver along every walkway. Snowflake holograms appear on shop fronts to announce their annual Firialia sales, and Prismals are all rushing to buy gifts and make preparations for the upcoming holiday.

According to legend, on one incredibly harsh winter, ancient Prismals were downtrodden and on the verge of starvation when the majestic stag king of the forest, Firi, emerged from his humble kingdom to bring them warm clothing, blankets, and gifts for surviving the biting cold. It is said that his spirit remains on the land even after the Calamity, appearing every winter solstice to bless the Prismals for the new year ahead. Every year, Prismals mount festive wreaths on their door, decorated with stag horns in Firi's honor, and exchange gifts to invite the benevolent spirit of Firi into their homes.

A Hanging fake deer antlers is a strong Firialia tradition that has endured for centuries — a success that can be attributed to its magical effects, which often compels two people caught beneath to share a bit of Firialia spirit with one another. One can find these trinkets everywhere, decorating even the most secluded of spaces. The antlers come in three colors:

RED: Causes a dangerous but intense feeling of desire to embrace the person you're with! You will want to roughly pin the closest person to you on a flat surface, passionately kiss, and/or aggressively hold hands.

BLUE: Causes people to want to kiss until they’re out of breath, hands liberally moving across each other’s body, and the errant temptation to go further, but no taking any clothes off in public or the Moon Knights will get you! You’ll simply be eager to tease and kiss beyond the lips and have difficulty feeling sated.

PURPLE: Causes people to want to caress each other's faces affectionately, steal soft kisses, and/or tenderly lace their fingers together. They may also feel compelled to offer up some sweet whispers and compliments!

B To combat the cool weather, Prismals will also be handing out cups of warm chocolate moose mousse. This light and creamy dessert is prepared in enchanted moose-shaped cups with a pair of festive graham cookie antlers poking out of it. Prismal traditions include taking a bite and passing it to your neighbor, enabling you to get a glimpse of one another’s Firialia wishlists left unspoken. Fancy a new fishing rod this holiday? Or perhaps that saucy leather subligar you’ve been eyeing since your arrival? The words and images that make up your list appear before whoever eats your mousse, so who knows? Maybe you might get it this Firilia...

▶ Are You Not Entertained?
Level 1, PrismaPlace | top

After the long wait and preparations, the League Match Action Online (LmaO) preliminary qualification rounds are now underway at the gaming hub in PrismaPlace in Level 1, as the city will be hosting the LmaO Grand Championship next month. Moonblessed old and new are welcome to take the game for a test drive and participate!

The award-winning VR MOBA boasts amazingly seamless first-person view graphics and a real-time combat mode almost as authentic as real life and guaranteed to wow and amaze. Players can explore and immerse themselves in the fantasy world of LmaO, where they can create their own avatars and either fight with or against players from Lunatia and the Kingdom of Lyestellus for glory and loot!

In co-op mode, you will be battling a selection of huge beasts chosen at random. The most notorious among them is Ogma the Dread Ogre, who has high defense and pesky unavoidable attacks. PVP mode pits you against other players, and getting KO’d three times in a row or having your base captured is a loss for you and your team. Fun mode featuring mini-games such as virtual basketball, rhythm step action, beat sword, and many more. Winning any of these modes nets you loads of in-game gold that can be used to buy aesthetic skins, cute in-game pets, fun game emotes, furniture for your in-game house, or weapon and skill upgrades to make you stronger for the next round!

Event emcees will be recruiting anyone passing by for the preliminaries and showing them into fully-equipped private rooms for teams of two to eight players. Each player will be given virtual headsets and tight suits for immersion and communication. Prismal players may be recruited with Moonblessed teams if necessary.

A The scenario for the preliminaries is a majestic coliseum filled with gladiators of all ages and species. In LmaO, weapon choices are currently limited to any melee and ranged weapons you'd find in an ambitious fantasy RPG setting (read: you can find dual swords and grimoires but also gunblades), including an elemental magic system of water, fire, wind, earth, dark and light. Choose your weapon and, with your team, fight for the top spot!

As you begin to battle, you notice that the more you get hit, the more your physical body shows visceral reactions to the attacks. Outside of the game, you lose balance. Bruises appear out of nowhere and mar on your skin. You earn minor abrasions and bleed. It’s possible to feel the sweat or saliva of other players or bots, the sensation of their virtual hands grappling you, or their teeth sinking into your shoulder as they bite. It's a new, tantalizing world of virtual stimulation.

B For those of you more interested in the glamour aspects of LmaO, you are welcome to compete against other players in either the in-game or a real glam-a-thon. Festive LmaO cosplayers will be scattered around the venue, dressed in colorful costumes of characters from the game, such as the ridiculously cool cyborg Kenji and the flirty immortal fox mage Yeri. As for the in-game contestants, they are located on a bright sparkling stage. Large monitors at PrismaPlace can be seen livestreaming everything.

Some of the many competitors are dressed in colorful gear, including stylish himations, risque chitons, and a bevy of glittery, neon gladiator sandals. Challenge other players to a fashion walk-off on the raised catwalk. Score high enough on either contests, and you will win an ultra-rare Firialia plump moose mount in-game. You are welcome to invite others on a scenic moose ride after as the plump moose very slowly waddles across the virtual snowfields and exhibits its adorable built-in feature where it decides to take a nap every few minutes.

▶ Questions
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[ shopping, while fun, is an exhausting endeavor. ryuu has similarly taken to the park for a breath of fresh air, though really, it's no less busy here, is it - there are still plenty of people milling about, enjoying the cold weather, the decorations, the warm treats. naturally, this means all the seating options are pretty full up too...

eventually though, he manages to spot a free space on a bench, easing a quiet pardon out as he goes to take a seat, politely placing his shopping bags down between his feet. ryuu is not of negligible height (or width, bundled up as he is), but neither is his benchmate, it seems. and he's so... wolfy! not that the people of lunatia aren't all capable of having features as extreme as that, but ryuu's gaze does stick on him for a moment.

but ryuu shouldn't bother him, and so he goes about reclining a bit, stopping to check prismagram. only when he's being spoken to does he perk up, smiling. ]

Is that so? [ he lowers his phone and leans over. ] What is it?

( shopping was not something legosi did commonly. whether in school or out on his own, he didn't have much money to speak of; that he could afford a place to live and food to keep his stomach full was enough for him to be grateful for. he had left his apartment and wandered out into the city to explore, to see new things, smell new things... that the people here were so bizarrely generous was merely an unexpected bonus. the container of mousse in his hand was warm, which was a nice contrast to the chill in the air. steam rose from its contents, just as puffs of it appeared at the end of legosi's snout, whenever he exhaled.

the seat next to legosi might have been empty because of how unique he was on the city streets — even though people with animal features was nowhere near strange in lunatia, someone who was an actual, anthropomorphic wolf was... different. ryuu boldly takes that plunge, however, sitting down and placing the plunder of his shopping conquest on the ground. he's a pretty big guy, for a human...! legosi isn't sure if that makes him more or less nervous. it's just a general, weird feeling of swallowed butterflies (or perhaps, for him, that should be moths?).

the stranger doesn't seem beset upon when legosi addresses him, though, so that does work some of the tension out of his shoulders. he hesitates a moment, and then he extends his hands forward, revealing the warm treat. the mousse smelled sweet and pleasant, and two cookie antlers protruded from it. ) They called it... chocolate "moose mousse." ( a small smile twitches at his canine lips, and he continues. ) I'm supposed to take a bite, then share it with someone.

[ taking a glance into the cup to see the warm, chocolatey contents, ryuu's smile pulls a little deeper at the corners of his mouth. ]

Moose mousse... how cute. It smells wonderful, too.

[ to him, it's as good as speaking to anyone else in this city, no matter looks or origins or temperament. he's already seen enough impossibilities to last him a lifetime - crystal wastes on a purple moon, spaceships ferrying him to this wild city, magic in his very own human veins. but there's so much about this life he's come to settle into here that's normal, too. the jobs that have his face (and more) splashed on billboards, his ability to sing, to chase the dreams he has. why not treat someone who's just smiled at him with the same courtesy? ]

I don't mind if you don't! I wonder if this is a prismal tradition? I'm still learning about all of them, myself...

( legosi's smile gets a little wider. his tail begins to wag through the slats of the back of the bench. ) It does! And the mug, too... ( it's kind of hard to see, because his hands are so big, but he manipulates it a little bit to show ryuu: the ceramic was shaped like the face of a moose, so that the cookie antlers seemed to protrude from its head. it was a very cute dessert. he can't believe they just gave it away to him, a stranger on the street! )

I think it is... They seemed very adamant about it, which is why I asked. ( though he's had his moments, legosi is in general very polite — he observes customs and tries not to rock the boat. he would've eaten this treat alone, but it had been a gift, and the prismal had seemed so sincere when telling him about how it was supposed to be shared... and here he is.

it's a comfort to know they're all kind of new to this, even though the natives here seemed so welcoming and happy for them to be among them.

legosi takes the spoon in one hand (it's laughably small in his huge, clawed mitt, and he feels a little silly) and takes a bite of the chocolate mousse. it's delicious — rich and light, without being so overpoweringly dense and sweet. he hums happily, tail still wagging. he reaches out to hand the cup to ryuu, then saying, ) One moment. ( he licks his nose as he sifts through his backpack for a moment, producing a clean handkerchief. he cleans the spoon (he'd only been given one, after all...) and then hands it over to ryuu with a smile. ) Okay. There.

[ it's funny, how ryuu is certain they've come from such wildly different walks of life, and yet he understands, in some small way, that this boy who happens to be a wolf is minimizing his presence quite a bit. maybe ryuu had also been like that, once upon a time. with a laugh at the make of the cup and the ensuing bite, so gentle for that mouth full of teeth, ryuu watches with bright eyes as he goes about wiping off the spoon. ]

Thank you! That was really kind of you. [ though he doesn't mind sharing silverware - he's a country boy from a closely knit community, that kind of genial closeness doesn't scare him off. ] Let's see...

[ so far, ryuu has taken a very "when in rome" approach to lunatia, and it's mostly turned out in his favor. so he reaches out to pluck the spoon from legosi's impressive claws and dig in for a bite of his own. the taste alone is worthy of a tail wag (based on his own experiences, anyway) so maybe the energy is still there.

it's only when the chocolate flavor dissolves on his tongue that something else supplants it - the sudden inexplicable vision of an egg pan? puzzled, ryuu glances down into the cup. ]

That's strange!

( legosi was himself considerate, but bits and pieces of his manners and mannerisms were inherited from his grandfather. because of what he was, he had to be very cautious of himself and how he navigated the world — if he wasn't, it could be dangerous for those around him or for himself (due to discrimination he would face).

legosi did not inherit those dangerous traits from him, but he did take after how conscientious he had always been. he thinks that he could let ryuu eat his half of the treat, clean the spoon with the other side of the handkerchief, and then finish the rest. it's not that the wolf is a germophobe or anything... he's just being thoughtful.

from what he can see, the stranger seems to enjoy the dessert, though his exclamation... that wasn't really what legosi was expecting. it had just tasted like a chocolate mousse, when he had had his first taste. )

Hm? ...Does it taste odd to you?

No, no, nothing like that... it tasted amazing. It's just that -

[ with a thoughtful wiggle of the spoon, an intermediary motion between his thoughts and his words, he turns to legosi, eyes bright with curiosity. not bad, just different! which is something that ryuu has come to expect from many prismal traditions and maybe just lunatia itself, yet he still maintains a sense of wonder at every new thing that comes along that's not overtly dangerous. maybe his tolerance for the inexplicable is just growing. ]

How do I even explain it? It's like I took a bite, and then I couldn't stop thinking about egg pans!

[ ...he knows. it sounds completely nutty, and he really doesn't want to scare this poor boy off, but also he's really curious. ]

It wasn't that way for you, was it?

( legosi takes a moment, blinking a long and slow blink. the gears and cogs slowly turn in his head, trying to sift through what ryuu had just said, as odd as it was.

in the end, he settles on what makes the most sense to him. )

No... Hm... It's an odd coincidence, though. Do you need one, too? ( his ear flaps as he places his hands on either side of him, holding onto the edge of the bench so he could lean forward a bit. ) I was thinking earlier I needed one... My apartment doesn't really have a good one.

( and eggs are an important cornerstone of a carnivore's meat-free, protein-rich diet, so it was important for him... )

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