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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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[Soren does not know what a 'hentai' pit is. For all he knows, that is another way to say 'lubed-up dildo-looking things'. Either way, he knows exactly what he's referring to, which forces him to spare yet another glance toward the trembling mass of slimy dick forms. He offers them the jaded and weary face of a man who must have both lived a life full of nothing but dildos and seen more than enough for one lifetime.

Anyway, it appears that his partner is directionally challenged. Or he's just pretending to be to make him regret his decision. Who can really say at this point. Soren sighs and pushes him gently toward the start of the maze.]

Fine. But I claim no responsibility for your inability to follow directions. [Okay, get ready, Ranpo! Soren's gonna take you by the shoulders and spin you!!! The mouse ~~laguz?~~ person is eagerly prompting him to do so with gestures, in case he forgets the important rules of the game. No cheating; the hat friend must start dizzy! Oh, and also, the platforms are rearranging themselves so that Ranpo couldn't have possibly tried memorizing any patterns. Great...]

The tiles have changed, so when we begin, you will not walk that straight line. [ spin, spin... ok, he lets go.] It is now configured in a complicated zigzagging pattern, so if you don't want to go swimming in... hentai, then you would do well to listen carefully to my next instructions. Think you can do that for me?

Sith did it more than the Jedi, I guess.

[ Rey watches him take the saber and ignite it, a warm smile on her face all the while. She usually doesn't like other people handling her saber, but Finn she trusts with it. When he hands it back she returns it safely to its' clip on her belt. ]

So you ended up here, instead of back home? Do you have any idea how?

[ Allen -- huffs a touch at that, actually. His expression flattening at the intended barb. ]

I have no problem whatsoever with touching other people. [ a beat ]

I just have standards. [ the standards being people who haven't tried to kill him. or jerks.

also joke's on you, he already made bank today in Chroma ~~because he's not an insensitive ass who thinks with his sword~~. Inadvertently. Wasn't expecting the girl to crawl into his lap and hug him or touch all over his face though.

in fact let's not talk or think about that or ever admit it to anyone ]

Edited 2020-01-12 05:01 (UTC)

"Call me Garp."

Damn, he just realized he knocked down a wall. He doesn't dare to look back. He probably was worst in his young days, almost like Luffy.

"I'll just grab a drink and snack. And get someone to fix that wall."

Yeah, get someone to fix his mess.

( wow, who's telling him what to do--- nevermind the fact that this is the whole point of the exercise and he's already hating it. closing his eyes, the berserker takes one deep breath through flared nostrils before following her instructions.

after all: the quicker he does this, the better. sadly with each step, the light flashes and they alternate from side to side, making left safe. then, the right. then, the left.

it's almost like the game is rigged. or, that there's a pattern. either way as he stomps his way to the right (wrong?) panel--- )

Oops.

( and from above rin, an opening makes itself very well known as it sounds like something is plummeting down with an audible (and somewhat stereotypically cartoonish) whistling noise---

it's him. )

[Garp just... sighs. No point on talking a pig out of this. He doesn't bother answering back about his age, age doesn't matter where he's from and the poor teen was about to learn the hard way.]

Fine, hit me with your best shot.

[He crossed his arm ready, he doesn't even give the kid a fighting stance, this was enough... or maybe a handicap.]

(Oh, this doesn't surprise him whatsoever. He rolls his eyes and looks away with some disdain. There's no way he wants to think about Allen touching anyone but the way their current conversation is going it's about all he can think about. It was a big scare for him, personally, when he first arrived but he's managed to make it alright himself. After all, there were alternatives to making chroma with others.)

Pervert. Your master would be so proud.

It isn't your fault. None of this is.

[Hifumi knows saying that won't change the guilt Doppo will feel, but it still needs to be said. Doppo simply isn't at fault for any of this and he will remind him every day if he has to. He hated that he even has to admit any of this, knowing that this will hurt Doppo to hear. Doppo wouldn't ever leave him alone for this long by choice. Best friends since they were kids, and always there for each other no matter what.]

It's this place... It does strange things with people. [More stuff he would rather not have to explain, but it was too important not to.] Sometimes people who know each other come from a different time, like their past or future. Sometimes people leave and return with memories of their time here, and sometimes without those memories.

[And it's clear as day which category Doppo falls into, but Hifumi didn't mind at all.]

Making chroma is also new and weird, but moonlacing isn't a bad concept. Making money from something as simple as patting someone's head... No one should ever have to be touch-starved. People as a whole learning to open themselves up to touch is really beautiful, I think. [He gives Doppo's arm a little squeeze.] And you might especially like it since it makes jobs unnecessary.

What do you mean 'looking like that'?! My hair isn't that bad...!

[You know, it contradicts his statement when the man didn't even mention his hair, and yet he assumes that's what he's talking about.]

And...Well, it's not like I'm trying to be noticed?

[ WHAT KIND OF TOUCHING DO YOU THINK HE'S TALKING ABOUT??? HANDS!! HOLDING HANDS!!!! PLATONIC, LIKE A GENTLEMAN!! ]

What?? There's nothing perverted about it! Don't be rude! [ Gross! Get your mind out of the gutter, that's where Lavi's supposed to live.

Look, he's been left rather blissfully in the dark with some very generously vague answers from people that haven't implied there's anything more embarrassing to moonlacing than the name. Or... what happens when the moons are out. Although his instincts certainly have had his hackles up and he doesn't like anything about the situation. ]

[It's a little bit like a quirk, yeah! He'd probably be interested to learn about quirks, in all honesty. He's quiet at Bakugou's suggestion, regardless, because... Well, that sure sounds violent.]

Expl... Please be careful, explosions in such a small area could hurt someone...! [Was he using bombs? Tanjiro is actually standing there sniffing at the air, confused by what he's picking up. There's a person, but there's also a distinctly sweet smell, like nitroglycerin. What the hell.]

Wh-- no, but...! [But, he came from a big family that lived in the mountains selling charcoal for a living, and feeding seven mouths on what you could make from charcoal wasn't always easy.]

[...Oh, this just escalated to a weird place. He makes such a face.]

No, it's his, why would I eat it...??

[ Nier, fortunately, does not tread further than this. For now. The girl does watch him flailing around in panic like that inquisitively, her head tilts to her side a bit. ]

Then... why did you mutter those words... earlier? Why would you think... nothing is going to kill you here...?

[ For a grim reaper, she does really do a weird take on it.

Thankfully. ]

[He frowns a little at wanko, but supposes he can't deny the likeness. Regardless, he raises his nose a touch, sniffing the air and looking thoughtful.]

...hm, well there's a lot I'm not familiar with, but the smell I'm picking up most attached to a person is... Sweet, sort of like candy?

[ He didn't mean to lose it, at least. Finn shows his hands with a little shrug as if he was physically trying to channel some "my bad" energy. ]

Thanks for the advice... but it is good to know this place has been more or less peaceful. [ He hadn't outright asked anyone, but it seemed that way. Also, look at him, making an effort to not hold on to grudges. ]

I was.

Garp, Vice--ah, retired from the Navy. [He salutes with a huge grin. Okay maybe she didn't specifically ask who he is, but he didn't seem to mind. Regardless, Garp motioned a hand gesture, the beast had an idea what it meant. Alarmed and excited, the Griffin trotted to the Doctor. Sometimes, he can't beat a woman.]

I keep forgetting this isn't my world and weak birds. [He laughs again while the Griffin just... stares. Did 'he' just called him weak?!]

[Meiniang doesn't have many court manners either by any stretch of the Court's own imagination. Simply looking, she thinks, shouldn't be a crime and she sees his politeness and responds to it with quiet politeness of her own. Though she's much less polite than a proper concubine would be, wary as they are of their status and of being seen as engaging in untoward behavior.]

...Did you not receive an explanation on the "moon"? [Or does he not understand it in a different context?]

Or are you unsure of it in terms of your own self?

[This cat (laguz?? are they laguz or) person manages to fluster him a little more with a comment like that, but it's kept fairly well-contained beneath his composure. He raises his eyebrows a little in tight shock at the snub he just received for his efforts before scowling in mild frustration. Hmph!]

Don't get ahead of yourself. That wasn't what I was suggesting. I'm only here to try making some Chroma.

[To be fair, he kind of deserved that. And he could have stood to word his request a little less... stiffly... because if that really was a pick-up line, there was absolutely nothing sexy about it. Can you blame her for being put off? And for all he knows, maybe there are connotations to this whole moonlacing business he's not even aware of yet! Smooth moves, little tactician.]

All I need is your hand. Nothing more.

Don't lecture me!!! I can create a small one that will still be loud enough to hear.

[Fuck, why'd he get stuck with someone with a stick up their ass? He probably smells like a mix of nitroglycerin and gunpowder, and whatever sulfate free organic shampoo and conditioner he uses.]

Stop wasting time and move!

[ That response of Els is quite refreshing and pure to see. To normal people, of course. Nier is unfortunately definitely on the faaaaar end of the opposite side. The black haired girl just eyes her apparently-new-partner-for-the-game with DOUBT.jpeg.

For a while, that is. Until she finally subjects. The faster she can rid herself of such guy - the type of person she's never been good with - the better. ]

...Very well... But please do not blame me, if things... went wrong...

[ Basically the politest way of putting it. ]

[Watching with some amusement he is curious if he can actually do this...or if he's bullshitting. Then he mentions candies and that was a little impressive.]

That might be me~ Good job, Mister Wanko!

Ah... Oh... Is that so...? [ Nier makes a small nod to Ayer though he'd definitely unable to see it. The Erune takes the hint and while she does understand the communication device and how it works, Nier doesn't really trust the Prismals so she's going to roll the traditional way. ] ...Then...

[ The girl takes a deep breath, before she's... Er... basically raises her voice TO THE MAX. ~~Thanks Noriko Shitaya~~]

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW!? AM I DOING THIS RIGHT!?

[ ... Oh. That... doesn't help.

Finn grimaces but sees nothing wrong with things right now. Rey would be able to sense something bad, right?

... Yeah. Probably.

Anyway. ]

No. [ Well, kinda, but his theory is complicated and depressing so- No. ] I haven't seen anyone else from there so I have to assume I'm the only one. Maybe I did something wrong when I was trying to get back.

[From Teddy's perspective, they've still been apart— but only for a very short while, so brief that he was still deeply feeling the guilt of having to walk away in the first place. It was temporary, or so he truly wanted to believe, but here and now, going off to find himself is starting to sound pretty stupid in retrospect.

Unfortunately, there's no undoing the past.

He settles in once they reach their location, taking the offered cup of coffee between both hands as he furrows his brow.]

I just—

[Left the team? He doesn't want to phrase it that way.]

I was on my way to Texas.

[ well, that reaction gets a raised eyebrow. ] I could ask you the same thing. My name's Yukari Takeba, actually. No one's ever called me Katherine before.

[ she tilts her head to koromaru, her eyes not leaving vincent for a second. ] Down, Koro. I think he's okay. [ the dog reluctantly backs off with a growl still deep in his throat. ]

Don't worry about him. He's just protective, [ she says while leaning down to ruffle his ears. ] Did you just arrive? 'cause I'll be honest, you kinda suck as a thief if you're not.

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tanj is a bit dramatic sometimes

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