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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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[Kaoru naturally gravitates to wallflowers and people who aren't comfortable at these things. So as soon as he notices him she's dropping into the chair beside him. Her hair sure is...very red. Like, fire engine red and it matches the warm smile she wears.]

What do you need to ask about?

[She blinked when her sleeve is suddenly covered in a thin layer of ice...

Oh...well...that's...

She looks up and her eyes are bright with excitement.]

That's so cool! How did you do that? Is it some kind of power? Is it magic? ESP?

[She doesn't even bother to shake off the ice before she reaches out to take one of your hands in both of hers.]

[Normally she'd just ask for a fee for the butter or something but given what happened a few nights ago what with all the billowing black smoke and the fact that every single thing here smelled like burnt food....]

Forgot it. Or did you burn it?

[Because hi, she's a psychometer and when faced with an uncertain future she'd actually checked it out to find the origin of all that black smoke.]

[ Finn didn't plan on liking him. The only reason he didn't want to confront him about the past was because of Rey and those seven months. A lot can change a person in an hour. Who is he to claim that Kylo's the same monster Finn always believed him to be?

But old habits were going to die very, very hard.

He twisted away from that line of thought by latching on to her last sentence, his eyes darting back to Rey again. ]

... How much time?

[ Despite himself, he was already kind of expecting this ever since Kylo was brought up. Hearing it was going to be a totally different thing, but... he could hold himself together. Sure.

He trusted Rey. ]

[Well, this contends for Asch's memories, but his are of course a tragedy on a more personal level, while this is clearly a little calamity. He hums an affirming grunt to her statement, but he could only guess to what a Miqo'te is, but he assumes he'll know when he sees it. Right now he's seeing a very...diverse selection of people. Some too tall in various shades from green to almost white and most in between, people that look almost like they've been put to the rack despite their inherent grace, even in the midst of chaos. Some that looked suspiciously like cats. Those were perhaps the most interesting. Finding lanky rabbits and beasts that looked almost like one of Arietta's ligers on two legs seemed the most jarring, maybe.

It was all jarring really, the mote of light in the distance that grew enveloped in blue, only to burst brightly forth and then the terrible fire that beings to rain...]

What are we watching? This is a memory?

[He's struck a bit on this because how could anyone survive? Though Asch also considers that perhaps the woman didn't, taking his own case as an example.]

[...oh, no.

She's never been able to be unmoved by people who are hurting and now is no exception.

Which is why she reaches out to pull this person into a hug.]

...if you don't want to tell me, it's okay. But I'll listen when you want to talk, okay?

You don't have to be mean about it! [Even Shiho hadn't been mean, she'd just been very firm.

And also she just has a general aura of "Don't you dare make me run after you" going.]

You're just going to show your griffin- [She gives hers another gentle pat and a smile.] -That every time it doesn't do something you want it to do, you'll smash one of its pies.

[If asked, Chang Geng would tell people that he's doing part-time work because he's poor. As the saying goes, people die for wealth just as birds will for food.

(Also, he has too much free time, and he doesn't like being idle.)

When he's grabbed, he doesn't flinch, nor does he look angry. In fact, he continues smiling a mild, polite sort of smile that is almost too perfect for customer service.]

Is the drink not to your liking, sir?

[ Ah, yes. Another inebriated mortal who requires to be carried to somewhere safe. She has been dealing with this all evening, so it doesn't even faze her to find his body prone on the ground, likely wandering between consciousness and unconsciousness. The edge of her boot lightly nudges his thigh, making certain he's at least alive, though he's breathing well enough. Maybe even mumbling something rather garbled that she can barely hear through the loud music.

Why can't his kind measure their own tolerance? Not that she's one to talk. She's absolutely incapable of being drunk so she has no idea if one can even tell when they've reached their limit. He should at least be able to tell when he's about to black out, though, shouldn't he? ]

Mortal, be not afraid of my presence. I have come in your time of great need.

[ Her arms slide beneath his body as she raises him up carefully as a groom would his bride only that is very much not the situation at present. ]

This would be far easier if you choose not to squirm excessively. Speak if you are in great pain at the moment. I can take you to a medic.

[ —a 'killer'.

Diarmuid's indignance sharpens the amber-gold of his eyes; his tenuous truce with the man in front of him threatens to break, but pride and dignity still his hand. ]

...Hollow words, from the mouth of a man like you.

[ one that refused to face his Master in a true fight between mages; one that would choose deception in favor of honor.

(or so Diarmuid thinks— he's every bit as obstinate and shortsighted as his Master is, really.) ]

What right do you have to pass judgment on chivalry?

[Shiho had been watching the glamour booths for a while and honestly this is all really fun??

So when she sees the poor shirtless person she, of course, comes up with a bright, cheery smile and a very helpful manner.]

If you'd like, I could undo it for you?

[Is this the smile of a liar who'd take advantage of this situation to put him in a maid outfit for her own amusement?

Yes, yes it is.]

Yeah... [ In his experience, not knowing just lead to paranoia and walking on eggshells. So much stress. Hopefully, that wouldn't be the same fate here. ]

Well... other than that, have you at least found it comfortable here?

[He'd been content to observe the festivities more than participating in them.

So he didn't really have any plans to join in...and yet, he's good enough at reading people to know that this woman wasn't looking for refusal.]

Which one of us will be blindfolded then?

[He smiles and it's a mild sort of expression, patient and kind (but unreadable beyond that).]

[Oh, this is gonna be good. Ace snorts and rolls his eyes at the intimidation attempt, and points at the boar's head next to him.]

If that's the logic we're going for, gimme that. It's mine from the start.

[Ace doesn't mind sharing, but gods, he hates entitlement. And he's not going to start suddenly coddling brats when he could be teaching one a lesson.]

Yes. Something like that.

[Of all the things he expected to be on the list of things that just were too embarrassing to talk about, it was his relationship with Rey. With Finn, of all people, it only made things worse. He opens his mouth to elaborate, to actually get the words out, but decides against it. He clears his throat before trying again.]

If you plan on being the jealous, scorned, lover or some nonsense then you can take it up with her. Just don't- don't cut her out for it.

( eyeing yuri as she settles in, wen qing notes her clothes as unfamiliar, despite the knowledge she has of her world. yuri will have to forgive her if her gaze is just the smallest bit suspicious — she didn't survive for so long by not being cautious. )

Are you from one of the Sects?

[ doppo doesn't matter, not in the face of hifumi's currently inexplicable outpouring of emotion. he knows hifumi is trying hard to hold back, he can tell, which makes doppo hold on to him harder.

the heat of his tears burning into doppo's thin shirt -- his suit jacket was lost somewhere in the crystal wilderness -- is apparent, and he allows him to cry.

he's here, hifumi. he's here for him. hifumi doesn't need to be his sunshine all the time; after all, he's his best friend, the one person doppo loves most in the world. how can he not be here when hifumi needs him?

he buries his face in his neck, allows hifumi his moment, his space. answers can wait. ]

Hifumi...

[ She can't fight the color that rises to her face, not ashamed but somehow embarrassed. Defining what she and Ben were, exactly, was a task not easily accomplished in simple terms, but that's exactly what she needs to boil it down to. ]

We're dating. For about a month now.

Why would I want to kidnap you?

( it's a little bit of a snappish response, wen qing taking a notable step back from him. )

You're talking nonsense.

[The fluffy tail is actually a bit more distracting than he'd like to admit, but then again so are Selkie's ears.

However while adorable and charming these are not enough to lift Asch's mood and he shrugs in response, knowing she can't see it because she's blindfold and has her back turned.]Yeah, sure. [He then crosses his arms over his chest. Having accidentally been dragged into this and unable to say no, he just plans to try getting through it; fun is purely optional.

He glances away for just a second to actually study the course and flicks his gaze back to the kitsune, suddenly feeling like he's deal with this kind of attitude before.]

Hey! Don't step there!

[ That kind of innuendo floats right over her head, just between her twitching ears. Whatever Haru is, she certainly smells like a rabbit, but she definitely doesn't act like or is shaped like the ones she's familiar with. If anything, she's probably closer to a shapeshifter like herself, only stuck... in between?

This merits future thinking, but for now? ]

My father, of course! You know, a parent? I have a mom too, but I don't know where she is.

[ A beat, and then she moves around to stand in front of Haru, leaning forward. ]

Do you have a Beaststone, by chance?

Really?

[That does put some cheer back into his expression and he smiled at the mage beside him. Maybe they were some unbeatable combination. She'd been at his back so long that he had actually been afraid of that changing.

Her comment completely ruins it though, and for once some of Elsword's immaturity resurfaces as his smile flashes into a grin.]

You mean you are that scared I'll show you up.

I know they offered some kind of food to attract them, but... none of them wanted any part of me.

( probably because a cat that could rival the size of a griffin is probably intimidating, even to a virtual one? or maybe the programming couldn't handle a laguz? either way: )

When I thought I was going to go on a journey, I didn't expect anything like this. Did you?

( his tail sneakily snakes closer toward ike. )

[ Their mutual confusion only grows, Jiang Cheng going so far as to shake his head in incomprehension. ]

Your brother...? I apologize, but the last I heard of him you were searching for his whereabouts.

[ There's a troubled knit to his brow that deepens with each word, taking a half step forward and reaching out for her only to think better of it. Biting his lip, he ducks his head and withdraws. ]

Did something more happen? If I've done anything to offend you or dishonor your family, I, Jiang Wanyin, beg your forgiveness.

[ Stepping back to give her space, he offers her a low bow. ]

Hey.

[Elsword finishes that cookie finally and offers again to Martin].

Don't be like that. You seem like you're going through something, and... well, I don't have anything else but this cookie. It'll get better.

[Which is a bold statement since he makes a wild guess Martin is in the same situation he is; far-flung from home and no form of stability to grab onto. Elsword at least has a social nature for him, so it's hard to imagine other people's coping mechanisms.]

Or, if you need a break I could take over?

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