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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!

▶ Questions
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( why is it a question? raihan fixes sasara with a lazy grin that only seems modestly apologetic. he doesn’t mean to give in the whims or burglary but hey, a guy has to hunt for clues somehow. he’s never been the type to just sit around and wait for others to do his work or save the day. unless they’re leon, but— )

Dunno. Were you expecting me?

( his shoulders roll, moving from a stiff posture into something lazier. )

[Osomatsu has had a little taste of VR by now, just because he's been playing a lot of Prismatica games, including the LmaO. so when the chance comes up for him to peek into other peoples' homes, he's all for it.

he doesn't know Tanjiro, they were simply standing near each other in line, and now Osomatsu sees him exiting the pod. Osomatsu is... also pretty shaken up, after seeing his own family, in his house back in his Japan]

It's intense, huh?

[he offers the boy a bit of small-talk as they walk away, just trying to be comforting]

[Oh boy... he's not gonna get anything from this guy, is he? And here Haga thought he was the one who had an attitude problem.]

Alright so... are you looking for something or...? [Because he ain't leaving. Haga certainly doesn't like where this is going. He doesn't think he's ready to accept and anthro hedgehog in his daily life right now.]

[ They would reunite like this, with the tables of inebriation turned.

Sidling up beside him as quietly as she can manage so as to not spoil the big surprise, Sypha rests a hand on his forearm, gentle and just a wee bit wobbly. ]

As amusing as that would be, I think we ought to try earning some Demichroma first. [ The operative word here being 'try'. If he could see her now, there would be no hiding the telltale blush of a drunk. In spite of that, Sypha is going to try her damnedest not to be the latest vehicle through which God shits in Trevor Belmont's dinner.

The hard part, as far as she's concerned, will be getting him to spin, since everything is already circling in a tipsy orbit. ]

[ Rude, don’t assume things about your assistant. (He would agree with Jon as soon as he got past this initial freak out. The Lonely had been ... unhealthy.) ]

Almost nothing means something has.

[he's sturdy, the muscles beneath his hands strong in a way that reminds him of better times.] Ah, da ge... Such a simple challenge. Of course I can do that. [But no, it's not his 'da ge', it can't be, but for the moment it is. He leans in unconsciously, eyelids lowered in a dreamy, hazy look as he hears without really listening.

He forces himself upright and shakes his head to clear it--which does nothing to help, it only makes him dizzier, a bubble of giggling laughter welling up in his throat. He tries to clear his throat to hide it and turns away. Just a few steps? He can do that!

The alcohol makes his head swim and he takes one step, seems triumphant, and then tries to take another. The world seems to tilt drastically sideways and he immediately begins to crumple to the ground.]

[ Have they?

Actually... those old stories about Vader come to mind. ]

Some people don't deserve them. [ He looks to her, eyes hard and lips thin. But... he just as quickly looks away. ] If you think he does, though... I'm not one to question it. I trust your judgment, Rey.

[ Didn't trust Kylo, though, but he figured that wouldn't be expected. Or at least hoped it wasn't. ]

[Geralt made a noncommittal noise, neither agreement nor denial. He met goblins rarely. They kept to themselves.

He wondered what this one was. The smell reminded him of nekkers, but he was clearly capable of speech and thought. Maybe the man just didn't bathe often. Who was he to judge?]

Traveler, mostly. [He sat down on the edge of the street. Warriors were often one by choice.] Can't say I meant to travel this far, though.

[ All of that and he's still having an incredibly hard time figuring out if she's actually native to this world or not, what she says sounds completely foreign to him both compared to his own world and what he understands of this one. Except...

Except for that one thing: I was born a human. People here haven't been calling themselves human. They've been calling everyone "Prismal" or "Moonblessed".

Which means her situation is the same as his, maybe even being made (mostly) human again like he was, if everything she says was also true... except, she doesn't seem to know that.

Somehow he finds something incredibly sad in that, and it makes him hesitate for a moment. ]

Nike... [ It's gentle. Much gentler as he slowly gets back to his feet as well, like he knows what he's about to say is hard. ] This morning...

...did you wake up this morning somewhere strange? Covered in shards and surrounded by crystals?

At least, I do have one friend from home here. [ Battle brotherhood was a good way to put it. Maybe sibling-hood in this case. ]

No, I wouldn't. I sort of... assumed, though. I mean, it's the Queen's birthday. That sounds like a big deal.

[Shadow's gonna Shadow, sorry bug boy.]

I'm looking at rooms. [Don't worry, it's very unlikely he's going to stay in any of the apartments. Shadow doesn't trust anything associated with the whole "free" stuff.

Yeah he doesn't know that rent will need to be paid later.]

[She's such a brazen rabbit. Juno can't say she's stunned that she just plops down (up?) in a seat, not after watching her try to wrestle a box off a shelf once.

And yet there Juno goes, moving about to bring tea and silently a plump pillow from what she has of a living room so far. Without much Chroma yet beyond what Ocelot hefted upon her Juno is mostly relegated to a spartan and rather drab apartment until she can earn more for upgrading and decorating.

Judging on the frilly, ruffled and overall terribly girly pillows (including the one offered to Haru) plopped on the couch visible from the small kitchenette, it's safe to say that whatever design she does end up with will be kinda cutesy regardless.]

It is a little much, isn't it? It was for me too at first.

[So many new scents.

At least the tea Juno brings is warm to combat the cold still lingering outside. And it has the bonus of being in a smaller mug too. Granted Lunatia doesn't exactly have different equipment for small herbivores and such but it seems Juno has at least tried to have a few different sizes either way. You never know who might visit, yeah?]

Edited 2020-01-09 23:35 (UTC)

[He starts, because he was so zoned out he hadn't even noticed Osomatsu, but stands a little straighter and folds his arms into the sleeves of his haori. He clears his throat, nodding.]

...yeah, it is.

[ Well, it didn't mean a lot, but it was something to go on. Sorry, Aqua. This one has some trust issues. ]

It's good to know, anyway.

I'm sorry. It must be frustrating. A year's a long time to not hear anything.

[Jon shrugs; he can't really deny that.]

There have been a few incidents. But nothing awful.

[it's a cool haori, too! very retro! or maybe it isn't. Osomatsu isn't sure, yet. the kid is dressed way more differently than him]

...Did'ja see something good, at least?

[ Well, she gets a smile out of him at least. ]

They're right over there. [ He turns and points behind him. In between them and a group of people sits a table piled high with all kinds of sweets. ] There are workers handing out some, too, I think.

Ah, sorry. My name's Finn.

...are... you sure?

[ Wouldn’t it just be awkward? That he knows what knows about them but they don’t know him. He figured that might just creep them out, in fact. Well, okay maybe not Ryoji but probably Yukari. ]

I think I would just make things awkward.

[ ... Wait, isn't he-... This man looks familiar, but Finn can't actually place him.

But he recovers from the pause quickly. ]

I guess you could say that. I was paying more attention to the crowd than where I was going. This place is... active, and I'm still sort of new.

Yukari knows about you. I was... actually pretty insecure about you for a while, after Mitsuru and Shinjiro told me...? But they wouldn't just turn their backs on you. And you'll have me backing you up.

[ she nudges his side, grinning. ]

Besides! Me and Yukari have been taking care of Koromaru, and I bet he's missed having you around.

Edited 2020-01-09 23:47 (UTC)

Aaah, ahh, I'm sorry! I'm sho--sorry. [ the backhand is scary!! except not really, because it's jiang cheng, and a drunk huaisang is not scared of jiang cheng at all. in response to being "lost", he just squeezes his arm tighter around his so he doesn't drop him, and allows himself to be dragged off. he leans into jiang cheng's side, too, swaying and generally making this very difficult on him.

at least he's light as a feather. nie huaisang stumbles, and he lifts his hand to wave it around in the air. this is where he'd be gesturing with his fan, normally. ] Sect - Leader - Jiang. Are you sure? I'm Sect Leader Nie. You're... yes, yes. [ another giggle that explains nothing. he realizes, upon looking away from jiang cheng and at his hand, that he's not actually holding his fan? where did it go?

he stares at his own hand for a moment, open mouthed. this expression changes to a sad little frown a minute later, and he tugs on his arm. ] Jiang-xion... no, Sect leadeeerrr Jiang-xionggg.... It's missing.

[ He glances down at the blindfold with a stormy expression until he realizes what she meant. Right, okay, he can do that.

Mingjue's expression clears with a nod and he takes the blindfold with one hand and gestures for her to turn with the other. When (or if) she does, he steps forward from behind and gently but securely puts the blindfold on her. ]

How's that?

[ He huffed a small laugh through his nose, cheeks maybe turning a little pink at hearing that Mitsuru and Shinjiro told Minako good things. He wasn’t sure they would purposefully say anything bad and honestly, had their roles been reversed he couldn’t say he wouldn’t have been insecure too. But it was still good to hear all the same.

Of course, Makoto just about lights up at hearing Koromaru. Well, lighting up for Makoto anyway. ]

Koro-chan is here too? Then, uh... can I see him?

[ What? It didn’t hurt to ask first! ]

Edited 2020-01-09 23:52 (UTC)

You and me both. This is definitely not where I was going, and it's fucking stupid.

[ No seriously, when he said he wanted to get away from it all for a while, he meant something like chilling in Gadgetzan. Not another damn planet full of technology he didn't understand, and way too many living people for him to show his face. ]

Gabriel. [ He then huffs as a 'greeting', like he's at least trying to be more civil than usual. This wasn't the place to go in daggers first, and even undead assassins understand that.

Plus this man? Looked human, but Gabe would bet all his gold he wasn't. Humans did not have eyes like that. Not even Gilneans. ]

[ the other huaisang nods, turning his head slightly towards the plain spot of ground beside him. little fortune seems pleased with this development, and squirms around on the ground like an oversized cat so he can drape properly across this nie huaisang's lap and stick his tummy out underneath the other one's hands.

pet him please. it's a nice distraction for huaisang, who glances over his companion when he reaches for the raspberries to continue serving his griffin. that feeling remains...a strange want for honesty he's not sure he's felt in years. slowly, still on guard, he looses a tiny bit of information. nothing dangerous. ]

I've always had a hand for them, admired them. [ he scritches underneath the griffin's chin again. ] Though, I never imagined I'd be able to ride on one. I've no sword or saber to fly on - imagine the stories that would be told if I showed up to one of those conferences like this!

[ the headshaker and his bird. ]

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