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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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Yeah but it's different when you give yourself a tail than when you just wake up with a new one. I wonder if you can just shapeshiftyoursaway here anyway.

[Huh. Tommy hadn't thought about that. He didn't know any other shapeshifters here. If so, it was definitely cheating if Teddy could just get out of the weird shit.]

Tommy also didn't think Noh-Varr compared. And they didn't have anything in common except both having appreciated Kate (which, who wouldn't unless they weren't into girls at all?) and having light hair. But he still resented the hell out of him. He was starting to get over hating his guts irrationally. Starting.

Yeahhedoesn't. Too slow. But yeah. So that wasn't you. But you were the same one we know? I guess. What's your favorite kind of pizza?

[The pizza test - probably not definitive. But neither was asking about details from his world since it could be some tiny difference until they figured out later that there was one giant one. Like a purple sun. Or Jimmy Carter was never president, or something. So whatever. Worth a shot.]

Worth trying once I have the chance, at least. If I can shapeshift into things, don't see why I couldn't shapeshift other things away.

['Too slow.' Well, yeah, at the very least.]

Pizza?

[It's a simple question, but he feels a mild spike of panic anyway, the way he always does when he suddenly feels put on the spot. This situation being what it is in the first place definitely doesn't help.]

Pepperoni and mushroom. Tommy, it's me, I promise.

Maybe. If so, that's sucks and everyone's gonna wannathrowshit at you since they can't get rid of theirs. But there's other stuff that goes with it. I don't know if that goes away.

[To Tommy, speed is usually the most stand out thing about him, so it's his go-to reference. Which is why the fact that it's not a unique deal is annoying.

Tommy cocked his head. Okay, well. That sounded right-ish. But it could still not be him. But. It could be.]

Okay. But if you end up being evil or anasshole or something, I'm gonna be pissed.

[Tommy looks him over again, a little more concerned.]

You really okay?

Yeah, well, if I turn out to be evil or an asshole or something, you’ll have every right to be.

[He knows there’s something of a frame of reference for that now. He exhales slowly, shaking his head once as he sinks his hands into his pockets.

He’s really not okay. How could he be, knowing what he does now?]

As okay as I’m gonna be. Just... taking things one step at a time. I talked to Billy. Heard all about... you know.

[His gaze drops away. He can’t even bring himself to say it.]

... it’ll take awhile to get my head around. Doesn’t make sense to me.

[God Tommy really hated the idea of that. For Billy, yeah, but just in general. There shouldn't be worlds with fucked-up Teddies. It just didn't sit right.]

Yeah. It's alot. I get it. But there's a lot of other bullshitaroundhere so that'll probably seem like a drop in the bucket pretty soon, if ithelps.

[Most likely it did not. But it was all he had to go on pretty much.]

Billy's been here longer than me. But we both know enough to knowhowstuffworks, sort of. So you'll be okay. Plus there's versions of some of the Avengers and a bunch of other hero types around so ... guess it's kind of like home.

Versions of some of the Avengers, like there was another version of me?

[A half-hearted smile pulls at one side of his mouth; it’s meant as a joke, but it definitely falls flat.]

Yeah, I’ll be okay. I’m good at taking things in stride, and it’s not like I’m alone. You guys are here— and in case I didn’t make it obvious, it’s really good to see you again.

[The team didn’t feel quite right without Tommy, much as he liked Noh-Varr.]

Nah ... like from another universe? Like obviouslynotsupposed to be the same as ours. Most of them are way younger than any of the ones we know with the same names. But same basic things about them, you know?

[Tommy smiles back a little too, if a bit uncomfortably, just because this was a weird situation and Tommy was never great with emotional moments.]

Yeah ... you too.

[Tommy reaches to clap him on the shoulder with a mild little rush of chroma.]

Alternate universe editions. That's kind of neat.

[He's read enough fanfic to know how to put that in perspective, at least, on top of all the actual inter-dimensional travel he and the gang have done. Besides, maybe it will help bring some levity to the situation and make the emotional part of it a little less awkward.]

I hope that— you know, whatever happened with Billy, where he was before... you and I are still friends, right?

[His smile fades, because it's a genuine concern, but as Tommy claps his hand on his shoulder, it pulls at one corner of his mouth again, and he reaches up to clap his own hand against Tommy's wrist.]

Yeah. All pretty hot that I've seen too.

[Which figured, Tommy guessed. It wasn't like they were trolls in their universe, either, mostly.]

If we end up with five different versions of people though, I'mstartingapool on who bangs their double first.

[Tommy's smile flagged a little as he put together what Teddy meant.]

I wasn't with Billy there. Where the other you was. So yeah, we're friends. I mean I was still pretty pissedoff at you guys for calling it quits on the team, half the time. But I get it. I look just like the guy so if you and Billy fight enough that you turn into epic enemies who pine for when you used to bang, or something, then I'm gonna have to take his side. But in a friendly way.

Someone would come out of that with a whole lot of money, I'd bet. That's how it always works in multiverse fanfics.

[He Knows.

He nods, folding his arms across his chest.]

Can't blame you for being pissed about that. That's fair. But as for all the rest— I don't think you have to worry. We're not going to be enemies, we're not even really fighting, we're just...

[He sighs.]

I don't know what we are. Not what we were, but I still care about him. I don't see that changing, whatever else might.

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