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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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[ In Waver's defense(?) he really hadn't meant to get that sloshed. He only had one glass of what he foolishly had misunderstood to be champagne, and as a lightweight already...

Well. Suffice to say he has no intention of partaking in mysterious space alcohol again anytime soon.

Gilgamesh will find him after his unfortunate attempts at pin the tail on the rat (or, rather, after he's managed to extricate himself from the ridiculous game he doesn't even remember agreeing to play), where Waver has stumbled out of the crowd as much as he can manage, ducking into a smaller street in the hopes that it'll be quieter. It is. Enough, at least.

The voice that cuts through the background noise of the crowds outside nearly sobers Waver outright. His head snaps up, palm pressing against the stone wall behind him to shove off of it suddenly and face the approaching figure straight-backed and tense. Any relaxing effects the alcohol might have had vanish at once; his heart is in his throat, and his feet are frozen to the street. Waver opens his mouth, suddenly dry. ]

...Archer.

[The reaction doesn't mean much—it was normal, after all, to be intimidated by Gilgamesh (and he is pretty okay with that, that was definitely how things should be). But the way he addresses him says that it is more than that. He's not too bothered by that, either, though.]

Yes, I suppose you may call me that. [Technically, he had never been called that—or more like, he hadn't been called that yet, as he was not yet a Servant, but he didn't mind it.] If it really matters, I'm more of a Caster now, but I'm still every bit the Archer I always was.

[That's not even a little reassuring?? The arrogance probably doesn't help.]

You are right to tremble in my presence, but I'm not interested in whatever War you've tangled yourself up in, if that's what you're concerned about.

I- I don't--

[ But no. He does understand. In a way, Waver comprehends what's happening: this is the Heroic Spirit who had been summoned as an Archer in that War, but here, he's either been summoned to another class or brought here after being summoned as such from elsewhere, in another War or even another plane entirely.

Logically, Waver understands this. Logically, he knows they're not technically enemies here.

But theoretical alternate realities and split-off timelines and string theory and magical bullshit are kind of a lot for his brain to fully process right now, logic having gone a little sloppy with the booze and the shock. He can comprehend the words, and yet, at the same time...

He sees that face, etched into his memory. The searing red eyes. The bloody sword. That night on Fuyuki Bridge, his hands and knees trembling so badly it hurt, the caved-in feeling in his chest, the way his throat had been so tight and painful he could barely get the words out. So small and alone. He remembers looking up at Gilgamesh that night, just as close as they are here, wondering if he would die so soon after he'd promised Iskandar he wouldn't. And refusing to accept that.

He remembers Gilgamesh waking away. ]

...the War is over. [ Waver says at last, a little breathless, fingers curling into fists to keep his hands from shaking so hard. ]

And there's no War here.

[ Actually, now that he says that...?? he's suddenly not completely sure?!?? Hang on. ]

...is there?

No, there is not. You wouldn't know it with all the Servants running around here, though.

[It vaguely makes him wonder if something like that is even possible here... But he doesn't think too hard about it. He doesn't know, but he doesn't particularly care about all of that, either.

Actually, Gilgamesh didn't care in a lot of cases, about a lot of things—he didn't care to know much about the future he (or he as a Heroic Spirit) had yet to experience, or the lives of people he had yet to meet, so he usually didn't bother. He already knew so much, and to know all of that, too, would be overwhelming, even for him. Besides, it didn't matter to him anyway... It did not affect the life he currently lived. But he might be a little curious about this one. So perhaps he'll make an exception.]

This world's problems are far more mundane, but it is above the petty wishes of Masters and Servants and the like.

[Of course, whether or not that's more interesting is debatable... But you know how it goes. There's a brief pause before he continues, amused:]

I am a man of my word, you know.

[And also, he's far less likely now to just kill someone on a whim... But mostly he is a man of his word. If he had thought his was a life worth preserving in that future, then he thought so now, too.]

(( so sorry about the delay! I was traveling and wasn't able to get online much. I continued our thread in an overflow here if you're still interested! if you prefer to handwave and hash out what happened ooc, you can pm me or hit me up on plurk @ gunsandchocolate

thanks!! ))

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aaaa!!

he is here to ruin (read: mildly inconvenience) his night :')

being mildly inconvenienced is basically waver's entire life so why should that change here!

right? anything else would just feel wrong!

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