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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. After an hour or two of wandering through the crystal wilderness, a group of people find you worse for wear. They are the gallant Moon Knights from the planet of Prismatica. Because of the strange phenomena 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? — 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. You will then be escorted to the docks, and led onto a large transport vessel that makes frequent trips back and forth between the Iris moon and the planet. Faces onboard vary from both old and new Moonblessed as well as the local Prismals.

The next destination: Prismatica.

▶ There and Back Again
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 As a Remooning gift from the Lunar Scientia Headquarters, the dedicated team from the Amphoria Room has released their latest perfected technology: Amphoria Pods. These VR Pods, which can fit up to four people at a time, have been set up in the gaming hub within Level 1’s PrismaPlace. They allow users to upload sceneries of their world in order to create a realistic holographic landscape of their homes that others can access and play around with, granting everyone the means to relive past memories with their loved ones as well as interact with the bestiary of other worlds. The pods also use the same technology that enhanced the popular virtual game, League Match Action Online (LmaO), which means you’re liable to feel the chill of cold environments, the burning heat from boiling water, the hard slap of your ex-lover, or the biting sting of a stray wasp. All who use the Amphoria Pods for the first time this year will also receive a small amount of Chroma in case things get too real.

▶ God Save Us from the Queen
Level 1, PrismaPlace and Level 2, Greatmoon Groves | top

The first month of the year is packed with two of the most important winter events this season: Queen Elara’s birthday and the League Match Action Online (LmaO) PVP semi-finals. It just so happens that the Queen of Lunatia is also a huge LmaO fan. Coincidence? Definitely not! LmaO players and royal family fans alike can meet her at PrismaPlace, where she will be appearing in cosplay of her favorite hero, Ah-Kari, while holding a body pillow of Commander GareBear. You, too, can get an autograph or selfie with the birthday girl if you’re willing to fall in line! Her bodyguards will also be in LmaO cosplay, keeping the crowd under control during the long wait.

Queen Elara

Good day to you all! This may come as a surprise to our guests the Moonblessed, but I am a normal person despite my exalted position. Please do not think of me today as Queen Elara. Instead... my name is Ah-Kari, sorceress of the crystal! With my soul fan blades, through the darkness, I shall slice all who dare hurt my commander in twain!

But when she is not meeting and greeting...

Queen Elara

My comrades, we're going to make history today. We're going for a new record. Perhaps the highest kill counts or the fastest clear for this map — it matters not. We’ve practiced day and night for this tournament, so let us show everyone that we’re not to be taken lightly! Also, the livestream is going in the royal archive, so make your successors proud!!

... she will be furiously grinding her character and training her skills in LmaO in the hopes of qualifying for the finals. Spectators will see her bring her own team full of hapless palace attendants who are there to either serve as her practice match partners or provide support to the one-woman army that is Queen Elara.

PrismaPlace is packed with giant crowds, many of them also in cosplay. While the semi-finals are taking place, new and old LmaO players alike can participate in the game’s current campaign: players who form teams get an improved chance of spawning unique monsters as well as winning rare items and skins in those prized lootboxes! Teams can also try to clear the event’s story together, featuring an aerial battle fought on griffin-back, which is heavily inspired by the popular Lunatian epic, The Battle of Abraxas, a colorful and complex story about the conflict between two families fighting over the fictional land of griffins, Abraxas.

A Progression in the event requires acquiring a griffin mount and getting it ready for battle. You can lure a wild one to yourself with a special veggie pie on a fishing pole. Should the griffin reject the lure, your character will be caught in a wind gaol and can only break out with the help of other players. Should you succeed, raising the griffin is a tedious task that involves players training alongside their respective griffins, running laps with them, taking them to hunt monsters, and feeding them properly. Depending on their diet, the food you give them will affect the color of its plumage and their battle stats.

Or you can skip the hard work and simply moonlace with your teammates through all the progression bars and required materials to save time. Once finished, you’ll be able to battle one another through the thunderous aerial domain of Abraxas. Clearing the event will net you an event-exclusive skin inspired by the royal family’s shining celestial robes and a weapon skin of a body pillow with your favorite character, so do your best!

B In celebration of Queen Elara’s birthday, the office of the royal household is hosting a modest tea party in the Greatmoon Groves. Swiffy bots that are normally programmed to remind visitors to keep the groves clean are now playing a birthday jingle on repeat. For people who prefer to be away from the blinding neon lights and the thumping techno music of PrismaPlace, this is the ideal escape. Unlimited tea and cookies are being served!

The tea is a soft-colored lilac concoction made from Ehrysian tea leaves that are known to cause a huge spike of alertness and is popular to Moon Knights and office workers with long night shifts as well as gamers for those all-night grinding sessions. The assorted cookies have either Ah-Kari or Commander GareBear printed on them. In case it isn't obvious yet, both are the birthday girl’s favorite LmaO characters.

Any Moonblessed looking for extra income is welcome to be royal attendants for the day; the hours are paid by Demichroma. They must be properly dressed up as maids or butlers (outfits provided by the royal household) as they serve tables.

▶ Say Cheese
Level 3, Caihong | top

Meanwhile, Caihong is in the midst of Remooning festivities in celebration of the new year, and merriment usually lasts a fortnight, filled with fireworks in the sky. Upon entering the district, beautiful Prismals with rat ears and tails greet you with a Happy Remooning and eagerly tug you along to join in.

Those welcomed will receive a pack of multi-colored sparklers, mooncakes topped with cheese, and a glowing drink called Champagne Supernova, poured in a thin glass in your hand. If you are over eighteen, the rat Prismals will ask if you prefer your drink with a kick. If you say yes, then they will add flavorful ice that causes extreme intoxication and might leave you to be susceptible to all levels of suggestion. Saying no (or if you’re under 18) will simply leave it as a sweet drink.

A One of the party games being played by the locals is called Lucky Tail, which is basically pinning the tail on the holographic rat stand-in — with a twist, it must be played with a partner! Another participant will blindfold you, spin you around, then push you forward. The stand-in is located at the end of unsteady elevated platforms forming a maze, filled to the brim with distracting objects underneath. They’re long, they’re thick, and they’re vibrating furiously in an attempt to knock you off the platforms.

Your partner must guide you by voice to successfully navigate through the maze! The game is rigged with various mechanisms, so stepping on specific platforms will activate a number of traps against you or your partner: machines that may tickle, drop colorful slime, or cause the platform to repetitively spin, and who knows what else?

Should you manage to get through the obstacle course and pin the tail successfully, you and your partner will win copious amounts of Demichroma, courtesy of Buwan from Buwan’s Stop.

B Another attraction is a fun magic glamour booth known for its face or body swap features. The booth staff, clad in their festive rat paraphernalia, will encourage you and your friends to take aesthetic shots using an illusion generator. The effects last an hour. Photographed images can be instantly uploaded and shared in Prismagram. New year, new you! Why not take the chance to celebrate this momentous occasion in a unique fashion? It’s all in good humor.

There are two buttons to press: (A) CUSTOM or (B) RANDOM. Pressing A will allow participants to customize their desired effects. Pressing B will cause the illusion magic to randomly rearrange participants in questionable positions, new outfits (or lack thereof), and you may even come out of the booth looking like your best friend or your worst rival. The possibilities are endless!

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Oh, uh. [ was she actually thinking about a tattoo? who knows?? only venus, and she's too flaky to ever say. ] You know, it was sort of... A second pair of wings? But a lot smaller, and, um.

[ don't say above her ass. don't say above her ass. ]

On my back, right near my... hips?

[ what she's describing here is a tramp stamp. you've described an angelic, devilish tramp stamp, venus. ]

You should! Can you imagine what you'd have thought if this had been a few years back?

[...Seteth has absolutely no idea what he did to deserve this, honestly, he just sat down to try and eat something and this guy's just here. Talking. More than he can handle. Can he get a word in edgewise? Is that even possible? He was asked a question, but...]

...well, erm, what are your tastes, exactly? I'll admit, I have not had as much time to read for pleasure as I would like, though.

[ All right, he makes a face. ]

You'd have been no end of fussy. Complaining about how I'd manage to be useless at something as simple as holding your hand.

Is it, now.

[Grimm absolutely does not believe that. They might be hard to identify given that he's a giant bug person and not a human, but he does still have ears.

Rather than take Neptune's word for it that the path is safe, he spreads his wings out and lifts off the platform entirely, easily gliding forward and over the pit of slime.

No one said that flying was against the rules.]

Probably

[He hates himself for that, for how he'd acted. He'd been scared and insecure and had let it out in the worst of ways.]

So I'm just glad I get the chance to do it now.

[ All right, he'll stop ragging on you quite so much, then. Still. He sighs lightly. ]

Are you? Are you really glad, Jon?

( kaneki, returning from shopping, has no fewer than four or five books under his arm when flagged down by the beset-upon woman in the long coat in the hallway of the apartment complex. his expression is blank in a temporary "deer-in-headlights" moment as he processes being addressed by a stranger, but then he snaps into a geniality he wish didn't feel so carefully-constructed.

(wild how such common and casual things could feel fake after a few years of your life being anything but common or casual.) )

Yes, the Prismals do have a particular taste in aesthetics. I had to deal with a similar problem... I could probably help, if you wanted?

( he'd managed to find a way where, if you mixed the colors in just the right way, you could at the very least mute them into something a little less demanding on the eyes. but it would be easier to demonstrate than explain... )

Not intentional escape, at least. People do go home all the time, but who and when seems to be random. And some come back.

[Is that better news than 'no you're just stuck here permanently'?]

[ Finn's just having a hard time imagining it. There's no such conflict here, no single mission to get home, nothing to actually stand against.

He idly wonders, What's the point? ]

That's... good. That's good to know.

Sorry. I just wish there was some way home or something. I feel like- like I'm wasting time? I don't think I am but I can't shake the feeling either. Maybe it'll just take time.

You sound like you like it here, though.

[Poor Doppo. He was in for so many new experiences and information in this place. Luckily for him Ramuda doesn't want share his love life with the other. So there are some odds in the other man's favor today. Especially with all of the being dragged to a new planet and all that jazz. He was correct though they were rarely near one another without there being an air of tension and disdain for one another. It hadn't always been like that though and despite what the new rappers might believe they were once very close.

While there was more to Ramuda he wouldn't be showing that side...not anytime soon to Doppo unless he was pushed. He prefers to keep it more fun.]

Ahaha! You get flustered so easily! Wasn't rude just didn't expect such a straightforward question from ya? Well...with you here we are at eleven of us!

1) There and Back Again [B]
[Nadir was often too busy traveling to really experience any new technological advances back home, so he's pretty excited to have the downtime to try something new.

He has a good many memories he could share, though he's pretty sure no one would give a crap about anything personal and he's pretty keen on not thinking personal things anyway, so he brings up a memory of one of the prettier places he's been, a giant forest where most everything was huge, including wildflowers of intense colors towering above. A highly romantic place, cool and relaxing, also full of boisterous nymphs of all sorts, but that was currently missing from the memory. It's just him, you, and the sound of wind through petals.

If you're nice enough, he'll show you around, fly you up to a flower, you ever sat on one like a sweet little field mouse? Here's your chance. If you're not nice enough, well, have fun antagonizing a kitsune in VR.]

2) God Save Us from the Queen
[Nadir is extremely uncomfy in this large crowd, ears folded back slightly, tail between the legs, and he's watching the queen.....holding a body pillow....talk.

He leans over to you and asks, pretty unnerved:]

Uh, she's just, like, queen of this video game, right? Like a mascot? Not...not a real queen, is she?

[Hi, stranger, Nadir is obviously a newcomer.]

3) Say Cheese [A]
[Nadir is no stranger to innocuous things being tweaked to be weird or somewhat dangerous, so this pin the tail on the rat thing sounds pretty fun and up his alley. At least, he assumes so at the start. He forgets he has a pretty low threshold of patience...

Either way, he's standing at the start line of the maze, and he looks up at his partner down the way, and gives a very cheerful double wave of arms up in the air, tail wagging.]

Heyyyy!! We got this!!

[He shouts as loud as he can, cheerfulness at an 11, right before a blindfold is put on him and he's spun around.]

4) Wildcard
[If you want a unique starter feel free to hit me up! PM this journal or ping me on plurk. Also feel free to write a random starter, I'm open to almost anything and will reply, even if you don't touch base first.]

((OOC: Nadir is a kitsune original character, and you can get some quick info on him here if you're interested.))

Edited 2020-01-13 02:02 (UTC)

I'm still holding your hand aren't I?

Maybe. Poe was back home, and I was trying to get back to him. Maybe it changed and I got sent here to you instead. [ That actually makes sense to him. Something about connections or whatever.

But Rey's presence here makes him wonder if she really is also back home- That's too many questions for right now. ]

People coming and going happened there, too. For the most part, it was just left up to- fate maybe? We tried to force our way back home once, but it didn't go well...

I don't know. Wish I did.

[ Martin reddens a bit. ]

W-well - yes. Willingly, even. But that's a lot for you.

[oh my god.]

Oh my god.

[Her eyes go wide beneath her blindfold, and her peal of laughter is all sorts of delighted.]

Venus. Venus, you skank! I never knew you had it in you.

[She kinda wishes the bonfire captain could hear them now. He'd have some kind of heart attack while strumming the chords to a shitty gospel song and then die. God, what she'd pay to see that.]

Okay. Fine! You got me. I'll play along. But only because we WILL be getting you that tramp stamp.

Haha. I mean. I am the devil? So.

[ plus, it's not like she was any good before that. definitely not "tramp stamp" bad? but not tramp stamp good either. that made more sense when she was thinking about it earlier. um. ]

Okay, so, um... you're going to want to go left first?

[ her left or neptune's left? nobody knows. ]

[ ... He lets the pronunciation thing go for now. ]

I haven't heard of your forest either. I'd like to hear more about it... unless you'd like us to get this nonsense out of the way first.

[ Mingjue motions at the game, but his voice actually doesn't come out annoyed. ]

For the demichromas--or whatever the heck the currency here is called? Money, basically.

[The true motivator to get anyone to do anything even in moon furries world, apparently.]

I like it. When it's someone I trust, it's quite nice.

I hope things haven't been too difficult for you.

[genuine concern. nie huaisang is unlike others. he seemingly has no use for the sword, leaving him vulnerable. but perhaps there really isn't much use for it here. if that's the case, the other man might be better equipped to deal with this world than he is.

he looks in the direction of the flowers helplessly, unsure of how to answer that. things are still...so very much up in the air.]

She's not hiding. [a good start. honest.] I can't speak for how long the wait might be.

[nothing is certain. he feels like everything he tries...fails, and worst of all at his own hands.]

[ He's doing his least favorite thing this time of the month, which is strolling around in his full Gallant^TM Moon Knight regalia near the starter apartments, on the lookout to see if any of the recent arrivals are engaged in a delayed-reaction, post-arrival freakout.

"Least favorite thing," because in all honesty, he's not that good at calming people down (outside of certain, very specific circumstances). Riling them up, now that's where his talents shine.

So when this girl bumps into him groggily, going on about Death, he gazes at her with a sort of fixed smile, hiding his discomfort. ]

Um...

[ He clears his throat. ]

Haha, I haven't! Not for a few more years yet, I hope!

[ Because a stupid joke is exactly what this situation calls for. ]

[ Redder. Looking away. ]

What about - what about hugs?

[now -that- is something worth toasting. there's an amused quirk of jin zixuan's lips before he lifts his glss and downs its contents. just as he suspected, it's worse than stale tea.]

It seems as if a good deal of my home arrived here before me.

[he's met several, surprised at who and how well they're doing.]

What are you looking forward to getting back to the most?

[ Hmm. He also does his own version of a proper bow, cupping his hands in front of him and bowing from the hip. It's not too terribly often he does this, but they have only just met-

Wait. ] Journey to the West. [ He stands straight again, not even once considering that she actually is the character. ]

It's an honor to meet you, Sanzang. I am Nie Mingjue, leader of the Qinghe Nie Sect.

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