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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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[How terrible, he was making a scene, he was being embarrassing. His sister would definitely scold him if she saw him now! He was almost twenty and acting like a child.

He took a deep breath and held it, trying to push down the feelings and stop the tears. He supposed it only made sense, he had no good recent encounters with armed members of the Lanling Jing Sect.]

I... I was j-just following the instructions....

[He lifted up a sheet that had a map of available homes on it.]

[ He didn’t even recognize Wen Ning’s robes, since by the time he was old enough to remember, the Wen sect had been completely wiped out. ]

Don’t apologize when I’m the one acting badly! [ He scolded him, feeling very stupid. He stepped over to take a look at the sheet. ]

I just moved in so they must not have updated it yet. Whatever, it’s fine. There’s multiple rooms, right? If you stop crying you can stay here until you find another place.

No, i-it's alright Young Master. I sh-should have checked. I was o-only curious how these s-strange buildings look inside.

[Having calmed down a little from the initial fright, he could see that the person before him would be considered young. He tried to offer a smile to lighten the mood.]

[ The smile just made Jin Ling frown, half wonder if he was being teased for having been such an ass earlier. It wasn't like he didn't know when he was being badly behaved. He just couldn't help it. ]

You look like you're from my world, maybe. [ He said, gesturing at Wen Ning's clothes. ]

So I can guess why you find this place weird. I do too. So relax, okay? If you don't want to stay here, Fairy and I can help you find another place instead, okay?

Th-that may be so....

[Even if they had a bad start, he was being offered help. He shouldn't be rude. He raised his hands up in solute, he had completely forgotten to introduce himself.]

I am WWen Ning, c-courtesy name Qionglin.

Thank you for your k-kindness young master.

[ Jin Ling immediately swung his hands out to make an answering bow, but then stopped dead at the sound of the name.

The colour fled his face before quickly returning in blotchy patches. ]

Wen Ning? As in the ghost general Wen Ning?

Wh-what!?

[What sort of ominous title was that!?]

N-no! I have n-never heard of such a t-title before.

I am the y-younger brother of Wen Qing, the d-d-doctor.

[ Jin Ling’s face twisted, his hands balling at his sides. Not again. Not again. What kind of torture was this, that he kept having to find the men who destroyed his family before they committed their crimes??

How was he supposed to take vengeance, then?? ]

I know who you are! [ He snapped. ] You’re friends with Wei Wuxian. Aren’t you.

I... I-I do rather admire y-young master Wei....

[But it felt to presumptuous to think of them as friends. He hadn't even seen him in at least a year or more.]

I haven't s-seen him s-since before the s-sunshot campaign though....

[ He breathed out, hard, glaring off to the side. Ugh. He hated this so much. He hated everything about this. ]

Fine. Fine, you don't remember anything. How am I supposed to-- [ He grimaced. ]

He's not even the Yiling Patriarch, then, is he. In the time that you're from.

[He couldn't help but smile awkwardly unsure of what was being talked about.]

I have not heard of s-such a title....

[But, he wouldn't neccesarily know either.]

[ Jin Ling glared at him for several seconds and then let out a huff. ]

Fine. Whatever. It doesn't matter.

[ He stepped up closer to Wen Ning, lifting his chin to stare him down. ]

We're going to make a deal, alright? I'll call a truce with you-- [ Jin Ling is it really a truce if one person is just hella confused?? ] -- and you promise that you will never, ever, ever hurt Jin Zixuan. Ever. For any reason, no matter who tells you to.

Do you understand?

[Oh what an unfortunate person to run into! A person he didnt even know existed....

Trying to make the situation a little better he stopped down to help Jin Ling stare him down, otherwise it felt just... a little silly since he was rather taller]

I promise to n-never hurt him. But-but, young master, I would like to say I have n-never hurt anyone b-before.... I-it would be a-against all that is my b-being.

[ Jin Ling glared at him, especially when he stooped, a flush travelling right up his face. ]

Stand up properly!

[ Ugh. He hated this. He hated this so fucking much. But he was finding it really hard to stay vengeful and wrathful with this stuttering creature. ]

Fine, good, then it won't be hard for you to not hurt him, right?

[ And then something occurred to him and the anger melted from his face a little. ]

... Maybe it's a good thing you're here. That means you're here and not home, right? So maybe this way you don't have to hurt anyone at all.

I-it is nice to be here....

[He stood back up, feeling whatever choices he made were ultimately wrong.]

Th-though... I don't understand... I-I have no f-future past the m-moment I last remember....

[ Jin Ling’s face pinched. ]

What’s that supposed to mean? Of course you d—

[ Oh. He’d forgotten. In order to become the ghost general, Wen Ning had to have—

He flushed a little, unsure if he felt embarrassed or ashamed or sympathetic but he disliked all of the above. ]

Just— don’t worry about it. You’re here now, aren’t you? You have another chance to have a better life, don’t you?

Th-that is true.

[He smiled meekly at the positive thought. Though a moment later he looked down again.]

I wish my s-sister were here though....

At least you have a sister!

[ An irrational flare of anger. After all, this was the man who had ensured he would never have any siblings at all. ]

But how do you know she isn’t here, huh? I keep running into so many people from home it makes my head spin. So why wouldn’t she end up here, too?

[He flinched at the outburst. The second statement was a good point though, but he felt that if she had been here, she would have found him already.]

Jiejie would have d-definitely scolded me by now....

[ Ugh, it was like kicking a puppy!! He hated this!! ]

Well, whatever, I can scold you plenty until she gets here.

[ ............ Jin Ling... ]

You’re too meek! You should be standing up to me if I’m being mean for no reason!! Come on, say it. “Young Master Jin, I think you’re being unfair.” Say it!

I...

[It was a bit too forceful, it was a bit too much, though there was a point. Wasn’t he the elder here?]

P-perhaps this situation has b-been a b-bit... intense, and... young master has... needed t-time to adjust to the s-strange and unfamiliar....

[He found a perfectly valid reason....]

[ Jin Ling turned a bright shade of pink. Somehow that made him feel worse about his behaviour than actually telling him off would have done. ]

I said stand up to me, not defend me!!

Don’t be nice to people who are mean to you!!

Ugh, whatever!! Let’s just find you a place to stay, okay? Then maybe I don’t have to feel so bad about it. Have you eaten? Or slept? How long since you got here, anyway?

[But being mean in return didn't really accomplish anything! He could also understand.... Though he didn't have the full picture, he did know that the person in front of him did not seem bad.]

I-I'm sorry....

I... Th-this morning they gave me the map... and I did have b-breakfast.

[ Angry, yes, upset, yes, confused and conflicted, definitely. But bad? No, it would be hard to argue that Jin Ling was inherently bad. Even if he really did feel like he was betraying his family by even letting Wen Ning just stand here in front of him. But what was the point on seeking vengeance on someone who remembered nothing about it at all?

He huffed. ]

Alright, well, come on then. We'll check the other places listed on your map. Then we'll get lunch or something. Do you know how money works, here? Have they told you about Chroma?

Th-thank you young m-master.

[He was ready to follow him, even if just because it was nice to have someone a bit familiar, even if he did not actually know him before.]

Th-They did explain a l-little....

[He had the basic idea of it.]

It’s the energy of th-this world. It’s c-cultivated between individuals.

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It’s alright.

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