prismaticrap | ▶ TDM .012

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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.

▶ I am the Terror That Flaps in the Night
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 Your new flat is covered in a sprinkling of feathers here, there, and everywhere! They appear to be coming through the air vents. This seems to be a city-wide problem in all buildings, as many news outlets are informing people to stay alert. They believe the feathers are from the masked seraphim, King Majestas, who attacked the Elaran Amphitheater a few weeks back.

You are advised to destroy the feathers on sight. Prolonged contact with these feathers cause hallucinations and paranoia. You will feel as if winged creatures are always after you, be it one-winged angels or dark-winged ducks. Other side effects include hearing the chanting of voices in an indecipherable language out of this galaxy. These hallucinations may cause headaches, dizziness, or nausea. Thankfully, a bit of moonlacing will heal these symptoms away.

▶ Got Milk?
Level 2, Crystal Beach | top

With the Coiled Hearts Festival fast approaching, local fishermen have already begun procuring food across Crystal Beach’s clear waters to meet next month’s demands. Around this time of year, the popularity of octopus dishes dramatically rises. The Lunatians have an annual tradition to prepare flavorful octopus dishes for the romantic season, such as the much-lauded dark chocolate-coated octopus or the mouth-watering octopus braised with red wine.

Everyone is welcome to join this heart-throbbing affair. During the Second and Third months, everyone is encouraged to give your loved ones something special for a long, successful relationship. Friends, family, and new acquaintances are traditionally given a small amount of Demichroma in tiny cute cases, while lovers are given something that reminds the gifter of their homeland.

A Interested in catching your own octopus? Horned taurus octopi very frequently migrate to the shorelines to perform their elaborate mating rituals. It’s easy to find clumps of taurus octopi participating in a vigorous dance, filled with undulations and strange moaning noises that octopi should not be making. You can lure the octopi by either using a special flute which mimics their moans to gather them in heavy droves. It’s ideal to have a partner with you to scoop the octopi quickly into water containers once they’ve become entranced enough.

Play the flute carefully! If the taurus octopi grow too excited by your music, they will squirt white ink. If you are spritzed with the thick substance, you will start either randomly puking or uncontrollably secreting a milky sweet substance from any body part that secretes liquids. Luckily, the high-end boutique Prissy Polyp is nearby in case you need a change of clothes due to any sizable stains. Effects will naturally wear off after an hour.

B Come with a friend and enjoy learning some octopus recipes together. The Crystal Beach Resort has opened a seminar where several professional chefs will be demonstrating and teaching how to cook various dishes of different flavors and ingredients guaranteed to impress your date, and taste-testing is free!

One dish makes use of horned taurus octopi skin as the star ingredient, renowned for its irresistibly delectable scent. The chefs explain the palatable skin is a potent ingredient in various love potions and aphrodisiacs, so add or mix them to your dishes in moderation! The effects have a significant delay, so you may feel fine for a while, but when it hits, it hits hard. You will become enamored with every little thing — hey, you just met them and this is crazy — but that person’s smile, the sound of their voice, or the way they say your name will make you unable to resist the urge to shower them with your affection.

▶ Going Viral
Level 2, Moonlight Medical Center | top

“Help Wanted” posters can be found on virtual forums and announcement boards across Level 1 to 3. The Moonlight Medical Center has put out a call for volunteers due to a recent shortage of medical staff. The work involves filling in for overworked nurses, performing tasks such as feeding patients their meals, wiping away their sweat, changing their clothes, encouraging their spirits, and so on. Any volunteers may directly walk-in at the hospital. You will be provided a nurse uniform and any necessary equipment while on the job.

The shortage has resulted from the hospital recently taking in a severe number of patients from a nearby small village to the west of Lunatia, Port Sylvel, a known shipping and freight destination. The number of patients worryingly keeps on rising by the day and will soon fill all available rooms.

A Some of the patients are experiencing varying degrees of paralysis. The worst cases have crystallizing parts of their body. The hospital staff will stress that you should be careful around patients with crystallized limbs. Patients like these have a history of aggressively biting anyone who comes close hard enough to draw blood. Those bitten will exhibit similar symptoms as the victims, including crystallization on their bodies, and experience a steady drop in Chroma. An uncomfortable heaviness will cause you unable to move without the aid of others as well as an uncontrollable urge to aggressively bite someone.

While affected Moonblessed can cure it by moonlacing, the Prismals can only be cured by a gluteal inoculation the Lunar Scientia has recently managed to develop. The sick and beleaguered will probably hate you less if you aren’t the one trying to stabbing them with injections in the hindquarters.

B Aside from nursing duties, other available tasks to be completed include making coffee for fellow nurses and doctors, delivering flowers to patients, and general housekeeping. Specifically, disinfecting medical equipment, tidying up rooms, and cleaning the spaces around the hospital. As a result of the current situation, many crystal shards can be found decorating multiple surfaces, such as floors, walls, toilet seats, and so on. These will have to be swept away!

However, as your work day progresses, some of the shards can be seen suddenly moving on their own. These crawling shards will start clustering together to turn into elaborate, floating monolithic formations that will then begin attacking anyone nearby. Their main ability includes shooting diamond spears to impale any unfortunate victims in their line of sight. In the midst of the chaos, nurses and doctors will beg the Moonblessed to please protect the sick and wounded. The crystal formations can be destroyed by any method, though because of their incredibly sturdy composition, they require multiple hits before they shatter into dust.

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[She remains in her stance for a moment or two before she starts to feel awkward and straightens up, clearing her throat a little.

Not liking vegetables gets a strangled indignant noise out of her though and she rests her hands on her hips]

What's wrong with vegetables?

She pulls the stick back as he speaks, looking pleased. "I'm glad to see you too! At least it's nice to know there are some familiar faces around! And much nicer ones than the grumpy Phoenix..." Jinmi trails off, pouting a little.

But Jinmi perks up again as he brings out the octopus pieces, making a delighted noise as she leans over to oh-so-carefully inspect the pieces. Of course they're the best choices, because Runyu was just Like That, and she can't help but feel pleased about it.

It's also too bad that Runyu's smooth talk, while it might have had most girls sooning to the ground, has absolutely no effect on Jinmi. She just grins at him and nods. "Eating with people makes the food taste so much better than eating it alone! Come on, let's find a place to sit and eat!"

She grabs at his arm, looping them together to begin tugging him along in...some random direction, she doesn't know.

They're considered archaic. Guns are far more commonplace. However, I dislike the finality of them. They're destructive, and pointlessly so.

[His angels don't, and that's fine. But he's always found them a bit impersonal for his liking. Entirely too simple to take a life, with not enough deliberation behind it.]

Crossbows allow the wielder to decide whether there's going to be a fighting chance or not.

...

[ "Trials." It's a little like he's heard enough of that word being tossed around... But that's neither here nor there, is it. ]

Well, it is certainly something we can both adapt to.

I have faith in you to accomplish that much.

[Fallen angel or not, the fact of the matter is that Shin is here now. As such, that's what will be focused on; the rest can be handled later, should it need to be handled at all.]

Oh, that's a very interesting way of looking at it! Your aim's probably really good, huh?

[So you can either shoot to kill or you can just incapacitate! Fun!!]

I've never seen one in person before. It's pretty cool!

Uhh... [You know, despite working for him for quite some time (how much time?? who knows, what is time when you're immortal?)] I don't really know! I guess you'd have to ask him. But I don't think it's quite that dramatic... Probably. I guess the string just breaks and you find your reincarnated love some time? Or maybe a new one?

[WHO KNOWS. She doesn't really get it so she shrugs, then blinks owlishly at him for the comment about her health. Already it had slipped her mind again that she was supposed to be dying here.]

Oh, yeah. Well, I do feel better! I bet its this dual cultivation stuff! [She waves their joined hands for emphasis a little, before acknowledging it might be awkward, yes. But his suggestion for a fix has Jinmi looking a bit skeptical, before she lets him how and shifts to rest her head in his lap, looking considering. She wiggles around for quite a bit before she settles comfortably and grins.]

Getting magical prowess this way it so much easier than it was back home.

Haven't seen anything like that here, but there were some Chinese places that had it.

["--back home," she would say, but Chicago suffered enough just by having Rey there that she feels guilty considering the city a home once, even if it was only for a few fleeting years.

[Definitely Asian, though.]

[...This isn't quite reaching the level of Bizarroland Conversation as talking to Cathy tends to be, but this is getting up there. Not that Gray minds it, per se, though he does glance over at Ryuunosuke from time to time. Considering, but not judging.]

You won't be permitted to shoot it. I would like to conserve the bolts I have for it. But it's not often I meet someone with such appreciation for it, thank you.

[You say this as if Danny being petty is new, Gray.]

... I don't know. Probably something that didn't involve seeing you here at all right now.

[Because even if Danny has remained calm enough to not start yelling at the guy, he was never exactly prepared for what he would do if he ever saw Gray again. What do you do in regards to someone that you still resent quite a bit, but also had missed having there despite what happened? And that somehow hurts more than any hate he has for Gray having essentially signed his death sentence.

Did he really expect Gray to be emotional or something about seeing him again? No, of course not, that would be ridiculous, but the cool appearance of indifference doesn't exactly make him happy either, despite how familiar it is. It used to be a relief to have, even, but after Rachel...]

... You know what, never mind. Do whatever you want.

[Like Gray always has. Like they both have, really.

Danny turns to leave before he can potentially embarrass himself further or give into the seething urge under his skin to scream or something... and freezes because hey, there's that crystal abomination heading this way down the hall. Right. Forgot that thing was around. We should probably be doing something about that.]

[He's particularly fascinated by Gray's eyes - not to Danny levels, but he's definitely not attempting to hide his interest any. He doesn't say anything about them, though, and instead holds up his hands as if in surrender.]

I wasn't going to ask! I mean, look at me. [waves his hands a bit!!] I'm preeeetty sure I'd break something if I tried to fire it.

[are you seeing these noodle arms??]

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[ ... He smiles. ]

Thank you, and I'm confident in your ability as well.

[ Nothing is more important than seeing if you've found an equal in videogames. That's objectively correct. Joonghyuk doesn't even think twice about the damage they left, considering that the Prismals should at least take care of everything while they're guests.

He follows after Ye Xiu to the closest arcade and, once they're in, idly watches players enjoy rounds of many different games. It's almost pleasant, but that is what makes it somewhat unsettling to him. ]

We can start with one match.

[ His attention returns to Ye Xiu, thinking that they might be on the same page on this, too. Why would they need more than one? ]

Crossbow recoil is minor to minimal. Though that still doesn't change the situation.

[Like, you're a noodle, yeah, but you'd probably be able to shoot if you were allowed, which you aren't. Gray isn't exactly the strongest, either, but he manages just fine.]

Huh, really? Well, if you ever change your mind, definitely let me know! I'd love to try firing it at least once!

[But he's not going to press, and it's not like he expects Gray to actually change his mind about it, so whatever!!]

Perhaps. That will depend, however.

[...You know, there are so many things he could say to this right now, almost all of them along the lines of pointing out that this is precisely why he did not want to have this conversation now. But he won't, he'll just...prime the crossbow again and when he speaks his voice is tight.]

If you're armed, you have the clearer shot. I suggest you take it. If you aren't, stand aside.

[There are several layers of irony present here, all of which he doesn't feel like getting into right now. Just. Shoot if you're going to, if not move it so he doesn't hit you, yes he is aware that last time we spoke he was doing the polar opposite of trying to not hit you.]

Depend on what?

With each fall, their fable also crumbles. [ To put it simply: ] You only need to keep killing them when they come back.

[ Joonghyuk's eyes almost gleam a light. He may not have the power of the Apocalypse dragon that can destroy half of the stars with one flick of its tail, but he has vanquished gods before. Doesn't mean he can't do it again. Disinterest takes away that shine when Ozy asks if he wants to challenge him for something so trivial. Maybe this man would covet the [Absolute Throne], though it would mean his story will eventually end.

Cooking is much more interesting, so he starts without an assistant much to the chefs' displeasure. They let it go because they're quite enjoying the tension between the two, maybe even rooting for Ozy. ]

... Unless it gives me benefits, I see no reason to be "king" in this world.

[ Never one for grandiose titles, he was only called the "Supreme King" or "Iron Blood Supreme King" because the scenario played around with that narrative. ]

What you plan on shooting with it.

[...I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU EXPECTED.]

[..........a person???]

A target or something? I'm not exactly going to try my luck with any weird crystal monster things!

[Of course he's armed, this is Danny we are talking about here, though even as he's drawing his gun, seeing Gray prime the crossbow momentarily gives him a sick feeling of unease. Not that he thinks Gray is actually going to shoot him right here in the hospital ward, but it's still an unpleasant reminder of the last time he saw Gray armed and he's wary about having his back to the other man here.

Thankfully his attention draws back quicker to the moving crystal, and despite having only one working eye, Danny has used a gun enough times to know how to aim properly in order to shoot something. (Or someone, as we all know too well.)

However, it looks like this mess of crystal isn't going to immediately stop just from his bullets, so it looks like he will have to stand aside to let Gray try to shoot the damn thing as well.]

It's a practical answer.

[I mean, given the company he keeps he would not be surprised if you straight-out told him "a person", "a target" seems almost reasonable.]

Xichen blinks at the display of transfiguration. It is not something that he has seen done, but it is not something inconceivable, either - but the ease with which it was done is impressive on its own.

"Ah... you did not need to." But his fingers wrap around the band still, even as they arrive at the residence. "It is very beautiful."

For all Xichen's hairpiece is elaborate, simple, unadorned things please him well, or ones with subtle detail rather than very obvious. So his appreciation is honest.

"I have little which I can give to return that, other than showing you how to reach me through the device that we are all assigned. If you are in need - of information about this place, as much as I have gathered, or of contact for chroma, or simply to talk - you can reach me that way."

He knows that by now Shuangyu should have recovered enough chroma to stand on his own, but ...

A little more is never a bad thing.

[ Wow. He's having deja vu and an out-of-body experience when she calls him Kim Dokja. It's been three years since he paraded around with that name... But that's not important right now. He doesn't need to use Sage's Eye to catch even a sliver of crystal on her legs, frowning at that instead of the fact she accuses him of being her keeper. For the record, he isn't her keeper, either. ]

I won't be joining you.

[ Should he try talking to her? Maybe it would help her...? But he knows better than anyone that words don't always reach someone. The [Dark Heavenly Demon Sword] starts emitting a black aura as he rushes in, hoping to close the distance before she can take advantage of her bow. The only solution he has is the force behind his blade. ]

Surrender.

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and she's like wow you're all so fucking stupid