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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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[Jin Ling is used to being reprimanded by his seniors, and though that feeling always sticks uncomfortably in his chest, he sets his jaw and shoots an angry look through eyes still blurred with tears. Quickly, he wipes his face off with his sleeve. He knows that someone from the Lanling Jin Sect, let alone the newest sect leader, ought to be more composed.

But it hurts!]

Haven't you seen the "manners" of the last Sect Leader?! What an example he's set for the rest of us! If I want to cry, if I want to yell-- it's not as bad as any of them have done!

[His voice shakes, on the verge of another bout of tears. It's been a mere matter of hours since that kind uncle of his held a wire around his neck! Whatever does it even mean to be a Jin? From what he's heard about his uncle and his grandfather, that's apparently a liar, a killer, and the lowest of all scum!

Once he sees the other man, however, the words dry up in his throat. He already figured from the tone of voice that he's of the same sect, but looking up, he immediately notices... something all too uncanny about his face.

He can only stare in sudden bewilderment.]

[zixuan was speaking more of the rudeness. the crying, the yelling...he's curious about the reasons for that too, except those are connected to emotions and he's Bad at that.

he does lift his brows at the boy's words though. is he talking about his father? there are things that could be said about jin guangshan, but he'd never heard a member of the jin clan who'd actually dared to say them.

zixuan places his arms behind his back and looks back down at the boy.]

Go on. Tell me what is it exactly that they have done?

What? Are you the last man in the world to hear about the news?!

[Gossip spreads like fire upon oil in this world, especially when it comes to someone who's been the subject of both respect and derision. Koi Tower must be on the verge of collapsing with how many are running to and fro, furiously searching for ways to limit the damage. Of course, so many will say that they never liked Jin Guangyao and never wanted him to be Chief Cultivator, how nothing else could've been expected from a prostitute's son--

What did it matter? So many in the family, regardless of their background, were all the same!

He tries to open his mouth to speak, but nothing else comes out. He still doesn't want to believe that his uncle would do such things. Nor that his grandfather, with as bad as a reputation he had, would be far worse than initially known. The rest of them are a lot of opportunistic vultures, and he never felt support as much as pressure from them.

But his father... his father was surely one of the good ones.

More tears start to form, threatening to fall if he blinks. He looks up and a little away, as if it would keep them from really falling.]

... If it wasn't for them, my father would still be alive.

[Planned or not, Jin Guangyao gambled with his father's life. More than anything else in this sea of thousands of questions that he's been left in, that sticks in his mind the most. It's selfish, but can't he be a little selfish right now?]

[ah. so he's lost his father. plenty of children have in the world that they're from. jin zixuan can't personally relate, but he can at least have some compassion. it's not like the child is crying over a skinned knee. this is surely a larger hurt. and by his robes, he is one of his own.

idly, he wonders who his father was.]

I don't know how the Sect leader fits into this, but-

[he clears his throat. how does one comfort a child? what if he just makes this worse?]

But I have no doubt that your father died bravely, and wishes for you to live the same.

[In as such a state of mind that he is, anger flashes in Jin Ling's eyes.]

Ha! What would you know about my father?! It's not like you're of the Jin family!

[Not that that means much either, since he hears only the vaguest of stories from even within the family, all only focused on how he died by the hands of the Yiling Patriarch and his Ghost General. He still doesn't even know that much about how he was when alive, and he was always told to move forward with his life-- after all, he's not the only one in the world whose parents have died, right?]

Are you some sort of guest disciple, or something? I've never even seen you around before!

[Even if the man is very strangely familiar - at least a relative he somehow hasn't met yet - he knows it's a strange sort of wishful thinking.]

[jin zixuan can't remember a moment in his life when he needed introduction. even if someone didn't know who he was, they still knew who he was. the servants and other disciples made sure of that before he even arrived, and sure, he hasn't been escorted by anyone here, but still-

a guest disciple what rock has this child been living under.

jin zixuan puffs up like a peacock, eyes narrowed on the boy as he flaps his sleeve and folds his arm behind him. very well. since no one else has educated this child, he will.]

I am Jin Zixuan. Son of Jin Guangshan. Sect Leader Jin Guangshan. Now you will tell me your father's name, so I can see to it that he disciplines you before you bring shame to the Jin name.

[Jin Ling also puffs himself up and opens his mouth to snap right back, uncouth as he is and unafraid to show it, especially with the wreck his life has become thanks to such responsible adults in his life.

But only after the man finishes does he recognize the name that the man had used, and his expression deepens into a glare.]

Is... is this some kind of trick? Some attempt to deceive me? Who sent you, and how stupid do they think I am? Because you have to be the worst imposter I've ever seen!

[There's simply no other rational explanation for what he's hearing and seeing! But surely a very strange, confused imposter, who must have forgot his act. And why act as a man that everyone knows has been killed years ago, just suddenly turning up again? Still, using his father's name and appearance so casually has him already trembling with rage.]

Don't go about pretending to be my father, and acting like you don't know! Get your story straight first!

[why would anyone try to deceive a mere boy. jin zixuan snorts at the very idea of it. he hasn't met such an arrogant youth since - well, since he was that age. but if that even registers, he'd never admit it.

but then the rest of his words tumble and out and - sorry, what? his grip tightens on his sword.]

Watch your tongue. Whatever game you're trying to play, do not ever accuse me of fathering children carelessly.

[it's something of a sore spot for him.]

[Jin Ling doesn't miss the motion, gaze shifting to the sword. It... looks all too familiar. Feels all too familiar, when he thinks about it for a moment, with his hand on the hilt of Suihua-- still, he can only see part of the hilt.

It could not be, truly.]

Then what's the name of your wife?

[Both a challenge of the man's convictions - if the soreness is caused by a hatred for the idea, or feeling accused of what he secretly does - and a question to truly know.]

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