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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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[She's only human though and someone who very much wears her heart on her sleeve so there's still a blush on her cheeks and the play of emotions on her face were as easy to read as a book (one with pictures and big text).]

W-well, what girl wouldn't want to be called cute? And isn't it better to have it come from someone your age? If someone else said it, isn't it likely they're some kind of pervert or something?

[Kaoru's strategy to deal with potentially embarrassing situations: start trash-talking perverts, I guess...]

[Jin Ling is currently looking away, trying to not look embarrassed beyond words at what he'd just said. (At least he doesn't have to care about being caught crying anymore.) However, he glances out of the corner of his eye at her and sees all the redness blooming across her face.]

I guess...

[Even if that all does vaguely sound like it makes sense, he sounds a little distracted, because he turns to narrow his eyes and look at her directly.]

Hey, did you suddenly get sick or something?! Why is your face all red like that?

[The amount of times he's been in this situation could be counted on one hand. By holding zero fingers up. Even if he's a handsome man (son of one of the most handsome cultivators of the previous generation, at that) he's been all too busy trying to prove himself to cultivation society to actually say anything like that to a girl's face. So he doesn't know what's the deal with that kind of reaction, even if his own face is tinged with red as well!]

[She had almost calmed her pounding heart down (and how stupid! In all her years living, she's never been embarrassed by a teenaged boy! Usually she's the one doing the embarrassing!) but then she has to take a moment to stare again because...

What is with this dialogue!? She knows she's been dragged into some weird isekai bullshit scenario but did she suddenly get dragged into some kind of shoujo manga scenario too!?

Her heart skips a beat again but oddly enough her blush doesn't get worse as she realizes that, oh no. This guy is in trouble. A good-looking tsundere who accidentally raises flags with random girls...isn't this a recipe for disaster? (It's not that serious, Kaoru...)]

I'll have you know I've only ever been sick one time in my life. And your face is red too, you know.

[As if to prove it, she reaches out to poke him on the cheek.]

[The skin that's poked is hot to the touch, as hot as it is red! It earns a loud, sudden squawk that's rather unbecoming of a cultivator and sect leader, but how can he help it?!

Jin Ling quickly puts a hand between his face and her finger to stop her from doing it again, as if it was he who was the one burned here.]

I-It isn't! And even if it is, yours is surely redder!

[Even if it isn't, it's not like he's lying because he has no way of knowing.]

And if you're not sick, then why are you all red anyway?!

[She couldn't help but smile at that reaction. Haha...like this, he kind of reminded her of Mio a little. Not because of any actual resemblance but because Mio's always been so shy about these things too and even now didn't know how to handle being teased.

With that thought, any lingering embarrassment disappears and is replaced by fondness. Which is why she actually goes closer to link arms with him.]

Hmph! Isn't it because you went and called an unsuspecting girl cute? Who taught you to be such a flirt?

[Look, embarrassing boys her age is pretty much a hobby all girls in her canon share.]

[The fiery blush spreads from his face out to his ears, even creeping down his neck until it reaches the white collars of his robes.]

I wasn't flirting! I don't know about... about--

[Well, it's not as though he has no sense of reference at all. He's seen any times how people angle for the most beneficial alliances and strengthening of families. The halls of the Koi Tower have seen many a play with elaborately costumed figures and dramatic lines describing their love. But that's all he's ever seen, himself! Even he knows that none of that is to be used with actual girls!

Crossing his arms and turning his nose up, he turns his head to the side with enough ferocity that his ponytail whips through the air and nearly lands onto his shoulder.]

I mean... D-Do not misunderstand my words! I was only saying "what if", so I wasn't actually calling you cute!

[Fairy's ears turn down as she whines, as if to express her own disappointment with this ridiculous Jin heir.]

[Spoken like a true tsundere...

She turns to Fairy, then winks because it's fine! She's very fond of these kinds of people. Also, in her opinion, she'd much prefer him like this than how he was when she ran into him at first. That was an issue that would have to be addressed sooner rather than later but for now?

For now, she goes right back to smiling at him.]

Well, if you don't know how to flirt, I don't mind teaching you! It could come in handy one day, you never know!

[Jin Ling opens his mouth, somehow stammering before even saying anything yet. Still, perhaps it's something he inherited, or something he's learned from idly hearing about the machinations from inside the Koi Tower... be he knows that that isn't a skill that has no use. Even if he can barely imagine himself even knowing how to start! Ingratiating himself, and maybe it'll help when the time comes and inevitably the question of marriage is asked...

Still, as red as a tomato, he hangs his head and takes a breath. It's an attempt to gather his wits, which are about as steady as a litter of playful kittens and this lady is using a laser pointer. (He totally knows what that is.)]

... it could.

[That's about as close to a "please, I would like that very much" as he can manage right now.]

[This might be a mistake since she learned to flirt from a woman who's flirting is really closer to seduction. Otherwise it was from playing otome games or watching Sakaki's skirt chasing ways.

Either way, she'll do her best. Though what that may look like remains to be seen.

Also she blinks in surprise because she hadn't expected him to agree just like that? This is unexpected!]

[But she recovers quickly and beams at him again. She's fluent in tsundere speech so she knows that that's pretty much as entusiastic a response as she could expect at the moment.]

Then...it's a date!

[At that, Jin Ling's eyes go as round as the moon, and his jaw falls open.

Jin Ling has never been on a date, which surely no one could have figured out by now. He does know that it has to do with courting, and... and--!]

Y-You don't have to call it that!

[Fairy, at least, seems happy about it, doing that kind of smile that dogs do as she wags her tail.]

[What a great reaction. She couldn't help but laugh a little.]

See, Fairy likes the idea!

[Fairy is the cutest and so she goes over to pet her.]

Besides, there's nothing wrong with a date between friends. It can be a friend-date!

[Because you're friends now she's decided this and she'll fight you on it.]

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Sorry for the delay ;;

No problem! I'm happy to backtag forever! <3

Okay ;; but i hope to get his voice back down again and pick up the pace

Good luck! o/

Next thread will be more timely, if you don't mind ;;

1/2 I'd never mind! o/

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Miraculously a bit faster now

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