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Prismatic Mods ([personal profile] prismods) wrote in [community profile] prismaticrap2020-01-08 09:18 am
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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.

 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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[personal profile] mcring 2020-02-03 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The kiss is unexpected, and though it doesn't help the warm flush under Noctis' skin to abate at all, it does relax him in an entirely different way. Her words are the same kind of reassuring, but they don't feel half as real as that kiss on his cheek had, or the press of her fingers as she lifts their hands, palms pressed together. She's right, and she puts it way better than Noctis ever could have. This is what matters. Just being here with her, together. Way more than a future that may or may not happen.

Noctis huffs a quiet laugh, eyes dropping briefly to her slender hand pressed against his, really there, warm against his cooler fingertips, before he lifts his eyes again magnetically, up to meet hers again. ]


Yeah. Just being together. For better or worse.

[ And just as magnetically, leans in, brushing his lips against hers again, voice gone quiet. ]

For forever, or as long as you'll have me.

[ The costumes track, and as they kiss, there are the bells and doves on the screen, though Noctis isn't paying attention to notice them. It doesn't really matter at all, just like Luna said.

Although it kind of matters a little bit when the camera flashes and the whole booth lights up with it as the picture's taken, and the next moment, there are actual white petals falling like rain in the both, a bird fluttering its wings in Noctis' face as it attempts to escape the small area, and the stiffness of a pressed suit hemming Noctis in uncomfortably from every inch. He looks down at himself in horror. What happened to his normal, comfortable clothes?? Has this thing been VR or whatever the whole time? And then back up to Luna, and she's— Wow. ]
luxoraculi: (pic#13056750)

Sorry for the delay. I was hit by, I was struck by, a smooth stomach virus orz

[personal profile] luxoraculi 2020-02-14 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ This is all Luna has ever wanted: a peaceful existence spent alongside Noctis. To finally be able to meet each of his friends and to finally have some sort of sense of normalcy. What hadn't been a possibility in the slightest at home is a gift freely given here, and one she will not let go to waste.

He leans in again, and she eagerly meets him half way. There's so much she wants to tell him, especially now that they've been so open about their affections. Now, she'll finally get that chance. ]


I would have you longer than forever, were it possible, I can promise you that much.

[ It's the truth, too. Forever at his side doesn't even seem long enough, especially after everything that they've been through. She's content to lean in and press her forehead against his, eyes closing for a moment as she thinks of what she wants to say next. How does one eloquently say 'I love you'? He's already managed it, and now she just needs to do the same.

That's what she'd intended to do, at least, but their photo is being taken. Which is wonderful! But when the flash fades, it's suddenly raining white petals and there are actual birds fluttering around in a panic, enough that there are feathers flying as one manages to get tangled in her veil.

...Wait. Her veil?

She manages to free the poor little thing from the lace, and her cheeks are suddenly a bright pink as she realizes that Noctis is dressed up in a very nice suit, looking every bit the regal groom, even with distressed birds and feathers and petals flying around. She knows that this is not what he'd have been dressed up in at their actual wedding, that he'd likely had a suit tailored specifically for him, royal insignias and all, but seeing him in a neatly pressed suit makes this far more real than she could have ever dreamed.

Except they are not getting married, nor are they at any sort of wedding venue. She's also one hundred and ten percent certain that they were just wearing normal clothing.

Well. That happened. ]


I am afraid that I've not seen technology like this before. [ Much like... the rest of the technology in this place. ] Or is this some sort of magic?

[ There's no way that they can just walk out looking like this. Not that she'd mind, of course -- Noctis looks very handsome, and she's extremely grateful that those outfits tracked back onto the right people, otherwise this would be extremely compromising.

She hasn't even looked down at herself yet, and when she does, it makes the flush in her cheeks deepen because this dress is far, far more... revealing than the one she'd had at home, that's for sure.

A bird lands atop the tiara that holds her veil in place, but she hardly notices. She looks back up at Noctis. ]


I suppose this means we are married now.

[ That's said with a straight face, clearly serious. Except that lasts all of two seconds before she can't keep the smile from tugging at the corners of her lips, and she leans up to kiss him again, placing a hand against his cheek. ]

Though I still maintain that you'd have pulled off this dress far better than myself.
mcring: (romance)

D: think it's going around. Hope you're feeling better!!

[personal profile] mcring 2020-02-20 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's definitely not the kind of wedding day he'd pictured. Those poor birds?? And in this cramped of a space, with the artificial lights and music... It's more embarrassing than anything, and helping the (probably fake? hopefully??) birds find their way past the curtain and out of the booth is at least a good distraction from everything else really awkward about this.

It's not enough of a distraction from how beautiful Luna looks in a white veil and dress, though. It has to be something like the VR video game, and Noctis opens his mouth to explain that, but he ends up just making a flustered sound and shrugging. It feels more like magic. Tingly. Kind of nauseating. Exciting. Electric. That's all got nothing to do with the VR, though, does it?

We're married now. Noctis' eyes lift only briefly to the dove that's perched on Luna's tiara, and he gently lifts it away, guiding it to fly out the curtains in a flurry of wind and feathers as he meets her in another kiss kept brief only for their breaking smiles. ]


Well, I forgot the ring this time, so. We'll have another chance.

[ He definitely won't be the one in the dress the next time, but it's easier to joke around that be serious about it, and he's grateful to Luna for that, too. He feels light, worry-free and happy in a way that's almost dizzying, and that isn't safe. Is he really allowed to be this happy? There's still so much left ahead of them...

Anyway, at least they got their picture. Noctis leans back, tugs at his collar, bats away some petals that fall out of his hair and then reaches past Luna to pull open the curtain. Hopefully this'll all turn off as soon as they're out of the booth, because if he has to walk around in this stuff... He really might die of embarrassment before they can make it anywhere to get changed. ]


Have you eaten yet, Luna? Come on, let's find some place a little, uh, roomier to sit for a while.