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▶ TDM .011
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.
▶ 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...
... 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.
▶ 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.
▶ Questions
If you have any questions regarding this test drive meme, please ask them in the Questions thread below.
▶ As a reminder, test drive memes are for new characters only. However, current players are more than welcome to use these prompts for their own posts in the IC communities, personal inboxes, catch-all posts, etc.!
▶ As our test drive memes are game canon, feel free to keep any threads that happen here as canon for your character should they be accepted.
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 ElaraGood 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!!
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
If you have any questions regarding this test drive meme, please ask them in the Questions thread below.
▶ As a reminder, test drive memes are for new characters only. However, current players are more than welcome to use these prompts for their own posts in the IC communities, personal inboxes, catch-all posts, etc.!
▶ As our test drive memes are game canon, feel free to keep any threads that happen here as canon for your character should they be accepted.
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jin ling, though - a name, and an affiliation. this wei wuxian can understand, and he makes a small face. jin. lanling jin - the peacock, and his high and mighty attitude. poor shijie, in love with a man who deserves none of her sweetness and her good heart. wei wuxian sighs in despair at the reminder.
his hands have yet to leave the young man's shaking shoulders. no, jin ling's. the child has a name. a sturdy sounding name; pity that he's a jin.]
I can't remember all of you, there's so many Jins. But you're not the peacock, so that's okay. You won't make shijie cry. [wei wuxian sighs again, and this time, he leads jin ling aside, shielding him from the curious eyes now peeking at their little scene.] Let's get you cleaned up, do you want that? Your robes are really nice, and you're crying all over them.
SORRY I MISSED THIS there was no notif
And he hates that a part of him - a very large part of him - just wants to pretend too.
Can't he just pretend he never found out? Can't he just pretend that this is Mo Xuanyu, who is a little drunk and doesn't remember him, but was kind and smart and good? Why does this man have to be Wei Wuxian, of all people?
Why did fate have to do this to him?
So he just stares helplessly as Wei Wuxian for several seconds, before dropping his eyes down to his robes, indeed seeing the dark patches where his tears had fallen and seeped into the cloth. The despair rose in him again but he didn't sob this time. What was the point? He had nothing.
He didn't have his uncle.
He didn't even get to have his hatred.
He didn't know what the point to any of this was at all.
Shijie. He knew what Wei Wuxian meant and that just made him feel more helplessly lost.
He sniffed, loudly, and rubbed his nose and his eyes with his sleeve before finally letting go of Wei Wuxian's hand and looking away. ]
You're drunk. [ He decides. Look, he's a little slow on the uptake. ]
How old are you, anyway?
np my boo!
I'm twenty! An adult now. I can properly court any fine lady who might capture my heart - ah, but I'll still need Madam Yu's permission... oh no, what if she doesn't like my future wife... ah!
[wei ying makes a sharp noise of despair, and with hands freed he catches his face with them, sobbing dramatically. his poor future romance, already dead at his feet at the thought of madam yu's requirements! he'll die alone!]
I wish I was more drunk, baby Jin. You probably shouldn't be drinking, but I'll drink with you if you like, too. We should... ah, no, I can't lead juniors to disrepute, that's not good. I can't embarrass Yunmeng Jiang or else Jiang Cheng will kick me! And he kicks so hard! Did you know that? He's very mean and grumpy!
[wei wuxian's expression is as fond as anything, though.]
He's going to be a great sect leader one day, though. So! Listen, baby Jin, you should respect him. He tries his best! We Yunmeng Jiang may not be as big as Lanling Jin, but we're a strong sect, and Jiang Cheng is gonna be strongest of us all!
Wait, have you met him? Maybe he'll remember you, and then he can remind me!
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You're stupid. [ He pronounces, as if from on high. Wei Wuxian is an idiot: this is the truth that he has learned, tonight, and it does not make him happy. ]
Even he knows who I am, and you're still stupid. I'm not a baby. You're a baby!
[ He miserably crosses his arms tightly across his chest. ]
You're just lucky that Fairy's at home, or I'd show you just how stupid you are.
[ Maturity, thy name is not Jin Ling. ]
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That's no way to talk to your senior! And you're still a baby! You even have the fat cheeks of a toddler! And going about threatening your seniors with... whatever Fairy is, that's just asking for trouble! That's very rude, young man. Unbecoming of an upstanding gentleman cultivator, I'll have you know!
And anyway, if I'm stupid, then the rest of the cultivation world is filled with idiots! You're not an idiot, are you?
I decided I didn’t like the first version, have another lol
[ No he wasn’t. He knew he wasn’t. But that wasn’t important right now. He huffed. ]
Don’t start on me about manners! [ He warned, with a glare. ] You’ll say something you’ll regret! So just don’t!
[ He slumped unhappily in his chair. ] I know you’re smarter than most of them. I know that. That’s why you don’t make any sense. How can you be so smart and so nice and still—
[ He clamped his teeth shut. ] Whatever. You just better not hurt anyone.
aw yeaheh
[ wei wuxian sits next to jin ling and gently drapes an arm and hand across the younger man's shoulders, tucking his chin against his hand resting on the other's shoulder. ]
I am very smart, though. You're right about that. For example, I can tell you're hiding something deep in your heart, and it troubles you. Eh? Am I right? Tell your Senior Wei everything, baby Jin.
You can trust me.
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[ It’s almost heartbreaking, how nice it feels, and how much a part of him honestly just wants to give into it. To pretend Lanling never happened, that they’d just left Yi City, that everything between them was blossoming and warm and Jin Ling still had someone who he had grown to trust so much so quickly. He wanted it. He wanted it so badly he could taste it like acid at the back of his mouth.
How could his parents ever forgive him if he just let it go?
Could their spirits even reach him, here? ]
Don’t call me baby. [ Thickly. ] Jin Ling. Understand? That’s all you get to call me.
[ He hesitated and then looked away, red tinting his cheeks. ]
I’m bothered by a lot of things. This place, for one. The fact that no one remembers me. Not even you, and we were just night hunting together!
I just —
I want to know what I’m supposed to do when I like someone but I know they’ve done wrong. When I want to forgive them, but I can’t. When I can’t match up their kindness to me against what they destroyed. Tell me how to do that, and maybe I’ll call you Senior Wei.
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[ wei wuxian blows into jin ling's ear, laughs quietly as he mulls over the question. it's too serious for the mood, too heavy, but wei wuxian puts his brain cells together and attempts at an answer. ]
Are they a good person?
Because if they're a good person, and they just did something really bad, then you have to think about what they did and who they are as a person as two different things. You don't have to forgive them if you don't want to. That's up to you. But if they're trying to repent over what they did...
This is a hard question, baby Jin Ling. Some people are just evil, but most people are just people. They make big and small mistakes, and they have to live with those mistakes.
Yah, when did we night hunt? I should remember you, then! I love juniors, they're the best!
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Oh, if only the answer to that was easy. It had been, a year ago. He would have answered without hesitation. No. Wei Wuxian was the most evil person that had ever existed and a thousand deaths wouldn’t be enough for him.
But now...?
He withered a little. ]
Everyone told me he wasn’t. ... But I’m starting to think no one really told me the truth about anything. If they even knew the truth to start with.
[ Hanguang-jun, he thinks, might know. There had to be a reason he’d stood with him on the steps to the tower.
At the last, he made a face, forcing himself to derail his mind off of a question he’s not sure he could ever answer. ]
If you remembered me then you’d remember me!! You’re too young. I wasn’t even born at the age you are now. Of course you wouldn’t remember night hunting with me!! It just pisses me off!