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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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I'm seventeen, ( he says with emphasis ) and I very much doubt that, thank you.

( that said — he does start magicking piles of feathers into his gifted trash bag, running a fun sword and the stone type of scene. shovel, psh. he lacks hermione's natural curiosity towards magical things, and generally sees it more cut and dry than it usually is. feathers bad, feathers go in trash. if he could toss out the dark lord voldemort, he might be inclined to do that as well.

he glances back at harry the duct tape fetishist with a somewhat amused look, unhappy with his own bewitching, but clearly pleased by the frustration in his every word. )

How're you so sure the tape will hold? I was more inclined to destroy them, then to stop them.

( thinking like a gryffindor, basically. )

It’s nice to get the fresh air sometimes, to wander around and not fear too much being brushed up against or anything. Most people crowd the stalls, not the beach itself—it’s still a little cool, she supposes, for sunbathing and splashing in the water.

But the people going about their day are interesting; she watches and quietly speculates about their lives. What hopes and dreams did they have, what heartaches and hardships? It’s Runyu’s robes that first draw her eye—even though he’s apparently trying to be nondescript, he stands out among the people.

Then again, she supposes she doesn’t too, the web of purple scars (fading now, thankfully, just not fast enough) spidering down her neck drawing more than a few glances from others. Yuri still looks a bit startled as hen approaches her though, making a soft ‘oh’ noise before she quickly mimics the bow back with a hasty, “well met,” before she straightens as well.

There’s a soft hum as she shakes her head, clasping her hands behind her back as she looks at him. There’s something— sad, almost, something that tugs at familiarity in her heart and she looks away to look out at the swell of the waves. “No, not often. I lived up in the mountains back home, and I never really came to the beach here before now. But it’s... calming.” She looks back at him, head tilted curiously. “Are you enjoying yourself?”

"Where I live is also distant from the sea," he murmurs, too new to this place to think of it as anywhere he's living, even on a temporary basis. Her polite inquiry of his enjoyment makes him smile, however, and he gives a slight incline of his head to indicate that he is, admiring the way the sunlight lights upon the dark brown of her hair into something nearer to gold. He's always enjoyed that about warm sources of light, like candle and hearth as well, so different from the distant shine of stars or the borrowed iridescence of the moon. The night he rules is made of ice and frost, moonlight upon the sea like shards of churning glass, the world a pale and lonely blue as he walks it.

There is nothing more diametrically opposed to him than fire, nothing which can hurt him more, and yet he is drawn to it in the way of lost children, the way of errant moths. He almost reaches out, able to imagine her sun-warmed hair beneath his fingers, craving to relive that tactile memory, but only just holds himself back. Strange, how his heart has filled with longing.

"I am. There is beauty here everywhere I turn, and people as kind as they are fair. There is a peace here I have rarely seen, and I wonder if it has to do with the vastness of the sea."

Objections to sitting down?

[ he's not saying this sarcastically; he's genuinely mystified! he's doing his best to be agreeable, but at this point he's starting to wonder to what extent zen might just be messing with him. (or maybe the aphrodisiac reacted badly with his physiology, and his brains are addled?) (...or maybe he's... also doing his best to be agreeable?) ]

No, none. It's lovely.

[ titus sits!! ]

...

[ He thinks he sees where Richard is getting this now and huffs out a sigh. ]

An archangel is actually a step down from a Primarch. But I find mortals seldom know of Primal beings in this realm. While a Primarch is a category of angel, it doesn't follow that all archangels are Primarchs.

[ Sorry Richard, artificial angels be strange like that. ]

Well, because I didn't lock the door! It's no wonder you didn't know someone lived here!

[ As she talks, Torako begins unwrapping cookies from the pile. She absent-mindedly stuffs five or six in her mouth before continuing. ]

Um! C- can I help you find a new apartment? I hate to think of you having this problem again!

Yeah.

It was definitely harder earlier on though, I have to admit. . .

[ for a moment, erik pauses, caught up in the motion. he had forgotten what it's like to do these things with other people and it shows, a flicker. erik quashes it immediately. ]

Sure. You know how to dice?

And what if it never does?

[ Well, he's got a long free afternoon ahead of him. Plenty of time to kill. Watching this meathead wasting his bullets is amusement enough as it--

He stops, holding his head as he supports himself against the doorframe. Apparently escaping the feathers in his room and heading over to investigate this noise has him in contact with a TON of those feathers. ]

For now, I implore you to keep the noise down. The explosions are echoing down the hall.

[ There isn't even a look of surprise in his face. Of course his brother would refuse. Of course. ]

It's never so simple with you, is it...?

[ They're demons. Making deals is what they do but... making deals with each other? He has to admit, this has to be some kind of first in Gehenna.

The absurdity of it all does cause the softest chuckle. ]

A contract for a deal between demons. Perhaps it would only be right that we lay down terms... preferrably somewhere away from these blasted feathers.

Edited 2020-02-21 13:21 (UTC)

Fjord. It's nice to meet you.

[ No handshakes or anything, but Jim does lift his glass and clinks it against Fjord's, then takes a sip. ]

I don't think the chip is the problem. It's just... not going to do what it's supposed to do, but it's fine. It's not a big deal. [ Well it's a big deal in the sense that if he can't contact anyone on his crew, it's because they're just not within range, and he really did somehow land himself somewhere very, very far away. ]

Well, I'm used to strange, new places. So I have something of an unfair advantage in that regard. [ A pause. ] Never found myself in a place powered by cuddle crystals, but... uh, first time for everything?

Never done it before, but-- [ He shrugs. ] Cut it into cubes, right? I can figure it out.

[ He takes one of the sharp knives, doing a much slower job than Erik, but he is careful and thorough, wanting to get it right. ]

[ RIP weird little device, in that case. He arches a brow at the comment about adventuring taking Jim strange places, relating a little. ]

Cuddle crystals. That's definitely one way of putting it. [ Cursed gems in his opinion but that's got no basis anywhere but his instincts and would put a dour note on their meeting. Instead, he clears his throat and selects a lighter tone. ] You don't have to cuddle, necessarily. A simple touch produces Chroma, as long as you want to be near the other person.

[ erik glances at kirk's handiwork. ]

Gotta cut inwards or you'll lop up a finger, dude.

[ Oh well, what can you do? On the plus side, if it ever works it means there's someone from Starfleet nearby. Hopefully with a ship that can get him out of here. ]

Oh, I know. But why settle for the basics when you can have so much more fun? [ Bit of a crooked grin, he winks at Fjord. ]

Oh.

[ He knits his eyebrows a little, then shifts the angle and position of his hand slightly. Cutting a few pieces, he looks back to Erik again. ]

Like this?

"Yes, exactly."

Best to learn the layout of this place before looking any deeper into anything. It'll be easier for them to investigate once they don't draw as much attention to themselves. And yes, it would be nice to get to know her a little better too.

"Well, whenever you're settled in and have the time, come find me. We'll figure out where we can start."

[ erik nods approvingly. ]

Yeah. If you cut outward, it gets too close to your hand. Always got to work your way in, unless you're dealing with peeling stuff like potatoes.

[ It's happened: he's found the first human Mollymauk in this realm. The flat look he gives Jim is the tested expression of a half-orc who has been flirted with half to death since his arrival, not unappreciative but knowing. Yellow eyes flicker Jim's way again as he sips his whiskey, willing his cheeks to remain the same green. ]

You're really going to flourish here.

[ Oh it's fine, he doesn't need Fjord to blush to insist a little more. Really, he's very persistent like that. ]

Well, I was kind of hoping I wouldn't stick around that long... but you could always help me acclimate to the place, if I do. [ Ahem. ] Who knows, we could even flourish together.

[ Jim lets out a short laugh. ]

Let's leave that for lesson number two, shall we?

Yeah?

You wanna keep this up?

[ He shrugs. ] Why not? It seems fun, so far. Besides, I probably should learn how to cook at least a few things.

I mean, unless you're busy or you don't want to. That's fine too.

[ There's something about the bars in this realm. Every time he sits down at one, somebody with blue eyes flirts with him and every time he's surprised, persistently unused to the attention whether it comes from an undead minotaur or a regular human. ]

If you need Chroma I'll hold your hand.

[ Cuddling with a stranger isn't appealing but even Fjord was low on Chroma once too, hungry and anxious about turning crystallised. Prepared to hit the fighting pits rather than sleep around. He offers his hand, still damp from the whiskey glass that his attention remains on. ]

You'll at least be able to buy me another round, this way.

Edited 2020-02-21 13:55 (UTC)

[ a careless shrug. ]

Nah. I ain't busy. Honestly, I doubt anyone is in a place like this.

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