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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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[The cults, in his experience, do their witch-burnings in the street.]

Have you known many, then?

Some better than others, but yes, I have had the displeasure.

[He gets along with like... none of the other deities except for maybe Unn. Unn is fine.]

It's remarkably similar to that for me as well. Though there is somewhat more of an emphasis on performing rites for those that require it - administering to the ill and the dying, as well as those seeking baptism or purification from sin.

[...Sometimes the purification of the latter is a little extreme but hey, if it works.]

Huaisang has always dealt in shadows, so this new approach still needs some refinement. To be direct without revealing too much, to welcome the other in and to knock down whatever defenses he has. All the hesitation - the polite mannerisms they had never upheld between them.

"Xichen-ge, is being so formal." His frown is genuine, the way his amber eyes narrow in thought. "How long has it been since Da-ge died for you?"

[Good to see that some things don't change; granted, some things undeniably do, and those are things that neither of them have much time to focus on right now. Maybe they will later, maybe things will just continue on the trajectory they've decided to take in the past several minutes; it's hard to say.

It isn't as though Gray planned on Danny being here, if only because he's still getting used to the idea of either of them being anywhere right now.

It likewise isn't as though he doesn't know why this isn't the best possible configuration to be doing this, given that again, he spent the entire last time he was armed doing the polar opposite of trying to not hit Danny; when he approaches his demeanor is brisk, professional, but perhaps more importantly trying to get on more of a level plane with him so he isn't just shooting from behind. The crossbow is slower to load just by nature but he's practiced with it; getting a few bolts into this thing shouldn't be overly difficult, assuming nothing truly stupid happens.]

[Akira thinks about it for a long moment, and nods, looking down at his own hands.]

Humans aren't perfect. They fight and kill each other, they hate each other, and they do crazy things to each other when they're afraid. But...

[His hands ball into fists, and he looks back at Naoki.] They're just human. Everyone should work together to make the world better, not just throw it all away. Or worse, let the demons take over.

[It seems like, for all their worlds' differences, they're in agreement.]

My sympathies.

[That sounds like a total shitshow, if you ask him.]

Are they all as you are?

[...You know, giant fucking bugs and all.]

"Too long." His answer is clipped in a way it's never been before, his gaze fixing on Huaisang for a long moment, his hands at his sides. He doesn't want to be here, doesn't want to talk about any of this.

"..I know everything, Nie Zhongzhu." It's straightforward because he doesn't have time for talking around whatever this is.

[Congratulations, you get a smile from him, even if Pixie looks like she's about to barf from the good speeches (tm)]

Yeah. That's what I feel too. Even if it means that God will hate me and curse me...it means a lot more people get to live. I don't mind it.

If you mean 'visibly inhuman', then yes. I had not encountered a human before coming here.

[y'all are still pretty weird-looking.]

"Then you must enlighten me because I do not know." He punctuates each word of his trademark reputation, "Da-ge has been gone less than a year, and I have been... told so many stories here that I no longer know what is and isn't true."

He knows everything? Well, that made things simpler too, except for the fact Huaisang wants to know what he does.

[????]

Prismatica. I was not summoned here in my traditional manner - it seems that it calls individuals from other worlds without concern for if they wish to come.

[Akira ignores Pixie. He's a sentimental loser, he's used to getting reactions like that all the time.]

I'm glad I got to meet someone like you here. If you ever get into trouble, I'll protect you.

[He offers out a hand. Take the bro grab, bro.]

I wasn't sure how you would prefer for that to be addressed.

["Visibly inhuman" is adequate.]

Have you found them to your liking?

[To be fair 'are you all bugs' wouldn't be accurate. One is a tree.]

Indeed. You are endlessly fascinating creatures, to say nothing of the deligtful individuals I have become acquainted with here.

Arrival
A – HuaiSang continues to wonder if he has died, despite assurances to the contrary. He has been given care and housing, but he is still frightened to find himself in an unknown world surrounded by strangers. Loneliness has always been a plague to him, and his apartment has none of the birds or books that comfort him at home, so he wanders the streets, looking at everything but hiding shyly behind his fan and not entering any of the establishments. Strangers may approach him if they’d like, but he will hide shyly behind his fan until they’re proven friendly.
Canonmates or anyone dressed like they come from a historical Asian setting will be approached enthusiastically, however. Waving his fan, HuaiSang hurries across the street, glad for this sight of something familiar. “Excuse me! Excuse me!” Or, if you’re a canonmate, he’ll be calling out his typical form of address for you.

Terror that Flaps in the Night
B – HuaiSang was advised to destroy the feathers coming in through the air ducts. He did not. Lonely and homesick as he is, the feathers remind him of his beloved pet birds. None of them came with him to Prismatica, and his heart hurts every time he thinks of one of his feathered companions.

He hoards the feathers, lounging on his bed amidst them and toying with the soft quills, until the paranoia and hallucinations kick in. He begins to see his own birds from home, but when he reaches for them they attack him. All his sweet, gentle songbirds from home have doubled in size and become raptors, and they dive at him, pecking and clawing, until he flees out into the evening street and immediately bursts into tears.

So, here’s an elegantly dressed young man with elaborately arranged hair sitting on the front steps of an apartment building and sobbing.

Cephalopod Love
B – Becoming a little braver now that he’s been here a few days, HuaiSang has begun to try the restaurants, and he’s very curious about this octopus recipes seminar. He always prefers to eat with friends, so he usually reaches out to one of his canonmates in order to secure company for every meal, but if all of them were busy then he will approach anyone in the lobby who appears to be here alone.

“Excuse me.” He blushes shyly and flutters his fan in demure apology for having bothered you. “I have no dining companion tonight. Do you think… might you want to… are you also...”

Z. Wildcard, or contact me at Marlowe#2340 or

marlowe_tops for a starter.

Edited 2020-02-22 00:00 (UTC)

I find that I've often agreed with you. Humanity is...interesting, if nothing else.

[No real comment on the "delightful" one way or another. Individuals can be, on occasion. Not frequently enough to warrant agreement, not sparsely enough to warrant cynicism.]

[It's Pixie that talks first, still resting on Naoki's head.]

Naoki doesn't need protection, silly!

Heh, what Pixie said. I'll just say the same. If you need help, let me know.

[He'll take the bro fist for sure. It feels nice to have someone on his side that isn't asking him for macca or sucking his energy.]

That revelation leaves him staring, his fingers flexing at his sides because he didn't expect that, didn't know and now he knows the things that Huaisang had known for years and he hadn't.

And telling him... Would it do any good? He already carried the guilt of knowing he'd indirectly helped cause Mingjue's death and now...

"...I..Huaisang...." He looks trapped. "What have you been told?"

That's a pain. I thought this was earth reborn and I had been tricked at first...I'm glad to know it's not. Although to be taken to another world.

[CAN'T HE JUST CATCH A BREAK URGH.]

Wonder why.

If you're sure.

[That won't stop Akira from trying to protect him anyway, if push comes to shove, but he also won't argue the point. Naoki does seem strong, just from their conversation.

He moves a little closer to peer at Pixie next, hand dropping back to his side.]

Are you his sidekick or something?

[ a low throaty chuckle at that. ]

Not on a first date. I'm shy and I don't put out easy.

I'm sure.

SIDEKICK?!

[She's about to unlease a spell on him before Naoki grabs her by the wings and plops her on his shoulder.]

No, she's the one who stuck by my side during Conception. Her friendship is partly what kept me from going insane in that world.

It might generate confusion, in any case.

[ He'd prefer to avoid that much, given how much of a minority people who know of Primals have proven to be. Nowadays, he only knows of Megumi and Noctis, beyond those from his world.

But with the matter of nicknames tabled for now...]

Does physical distance affect your ability to draw energy?

[ He knows so little about how this fellow sustains himself. ]

A kingdom? How oldschool.

[At least until Nero hears that it's his kingdom, and the way Regis says it would leave it free to interpretation whether or not he means he was king or it was simply his kingdom in a way that Fortuna was Nero's hometown.]

Huh. Sounds familiar... [Maybe Prompto had mentioned some of that to him at some point, but the way the man spoke of the history lent Nero closer to suspecting that he was in fact a king. Even when he wasn't playing the part, Regis did have a certain air about him that might leave the younger man unsurprised to hear he was communicating with a royal.]

Yeah? This old thing? A friend made it for me to fight with. Before I got here. She's kind of a badass when it comes to weaponsmithing. Makes me look like an amateur.

[In a very delayed response after having missed the moment to say anything, he remembers Prompto having mentioned a similar place to the kingdom this guy was talking about. Though that conversation had mentioned no king, but instead his boyfriend's best friend Noctis, who was prince.]

Hey, random question, but do you know a dude named Noctis? [Oh god, was it blasphemous to call a prince "dude"? Was he going to be hanged?! It'd depend on how Regis chose to respond, ultimately.]

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