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Prismatic Mods ([personal profile] prismods) wrote in [community profile] prismaticrap2020-02-09 05:41 am
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▶ TDM .012


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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dereban: ❥ all icons are my own unless otherwise denoted. (Default)

[personal profile] dereban 2020-02-22 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

There's been ghost-related shit, loss on control stuff and last month we kind of had the whole 'getting stuck in a video game' and body horror bullshit. On a normal basis? Probably moonblessings and how to deal with them.
isntitsad: Defeated (under a pile of rubble). (appear in more stories?)

[personal profile] isntitsad 2020-02-22 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, what? I mean, I know everyone's been reading those types of light novels lately, but that's a little much for real life...
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[personal profile] dereban 2020-02-22 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep.

Welcome to Prismatica.
isntitsad: Determined. (...will they?)

[personal profile] isntitsad 2020-02-22 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, so leave anything resembling reality at the door. Got it. That's terrifying.
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[personal profile] runyu 2020-02-22 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Of course not. I saved it for Miss Jinmi," Runyu teases right back, a soft breath of a laugh escaping him before he shakes his head to show he's joking. "...just kidding. Hers is here."

He summons a second plate briefly, exactly the same as the dish Xufeng presently holds in his hands, then banishes it again to retrieve when Jinmi is actually around to claim it.

"The better question is, when do I not save some for you?" he goes on to challenge, lifting an eyebrow sharply as he reaches out to pinch his brother playfully on the arm. "We have shared everything our whole lives. This slander. I will tell Uncle of this insult yet."
runyu: (10)

[personal profile] runyu 2020-02-22 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"My position is more tenuous than his, so there is a limit to what I can do," Runyu elaborates softly, having nothing in particular to hide beyond not wishing to overly burden a relative stranger with the inner workings of his life. "The best I am able to manage for him is to keep my head low, but the heart wishes to to better for those we love..."

Listening pensively to Xichen's own tale, Runyu nods his head slowly, thoughtfully, inviting Xichen to speak more of his life if he so wishes.

"...families often are, by blood or otherwise," he offers, waiting to see if Xichen will go on.
dereban: ❥ all icons are my own unless otherwise denoted. (Default)

[personal profile] dereban 2020-02-22 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Yyyyep.

Pretty scary at times, but not always bad.
runyu: (15)

[personal profile] runyu 2020-02-22 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Xingchen..." Runyu echoes, leaning against his savior as he squints blearily into the darkness of his own living space, so new that it's still strange and unfamiliar to him. He uses his hand to draw out the strokes of Xiao Xingchen's name in the air, light trailing from his fingertips to form the words. He's still feeling disoriented and out of sorts, thinking nothing of using his powers in such a way to a stranger.

Stardust.

"Xing... chen...? Are you born of the stars, Xiao Xingchen?"
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[personal profile] ze_uwu_jun 2020-02-22 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mm. Sometimes, the limit of what can be done for younger brothers can't be altered. Not... in a conceivable way, though others may think of different paths."

Xichen is quiet for a little while.

"I suppose... one of them did not want to be - family. And I was fooled into believing otherwise." Quiet, almost quiet enough for the bitterness to stay hidden.
runyu: (13)

[personal profile] runyu 2020-02-22 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Y..yes.

[ Runyu can't refute that he does feel power flowing into him, warmth and energy flowing freely between them in ways that he's never known. He shivers, leaning into it in spite of himself, in spite of every instinct crying out for him to stop, to cast Moran to the floor, to put an end to this indignity.

His fingers lace through Moran's hair instead, the bewitching fox all that's held in the dark of his eyes. ]


You do not fear that we take this too far? We are strangers, yet not strangers enough to not know we are each beholden to our duties.
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[personal profile] runyu 2020-02-22 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"She?" Runyu asks, distracted, having completely lost the thread of who Kuanglu might even mean with that. His attention is on the task at hand.

"Make a list of items you will want for your quarters. We can work out how we will manage our new lives here together, in the morning."
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[personal profile] runyu 2020-02-22 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, not at all. I did mean much the same. It is a humbling, sobering thing, almost as much as the night sky," he replies, eyes turning up to the daytime sky and seeing only night. He smiles, picturing his domain, remembers walking across the Milky Way. "But poets do often call it its own kind of sea. A sea of stars, just as dark and infinitely wide. All of us someday return from whence we came."

Even gods.

"...but to speak with such sorrow⁠—" He turns to her once more, expression open and inviting. "Have you troubles on your mind?"
runyu: (02)

[personal profile] runyu 2020-02-22 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Careful⁠—" Barely able to get the warning out before the young man he addressed fumbles, Runyu quickly catches Huaisang by the arm to keep him from falling, grasping the fan lightly in his opposite hand. Once it's clear Huaisang is not about to take a dive into the sand, Runyu releases him with a reassuring smile and starts to give back his fan, then unfolds it out of curiosity so long as he has it. He turns it back to front and back again, admiring its brushwork.

"A fine fan," he compliments, folding it carefully once more to offer back to its owner. "My apologies, I did not mean to startle you so. Are you alright...?"
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[personal profile] in_his_service 2020-02-22 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Your fiancee? The fairy Jinmi?" Kuanglu gives him a faintly confused look, her expression turning concerned.

"Did something happen to make you forget her?" Totally disregarding his comment about the list, although she'll work on it later.
fanoperator: (oh no)

[personal profile] fanoperator 2020-02-22 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
HuaiSang watches with embarrassed pleasure as the elegant stranger admires and compliments his fan. He's as gracious and kind as he is elegant. HuaiSang is about to die on the spot from awe.

"Thank you." HuaiSang can't help his blush at the praise from some prince as beautiful as this. Up close, his presence is even more impressive, and HuaiSang feels dizzy. He's beautiful enough to be a god.

Oh no. Is this an immortal? He's embarrassing himself in front of an immortal. Oh no. "Please, it wasn't your fault. I startled myself. I was overcome. I've never seen anyone so elegant."
isntitsad: Watching nervously. (maybe i'll stop being the butt of jokes)

[personal profile] isntitsad 2020-02-22 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I suppose some people dream about that sort of thing...
dereban: ❥ all icons are my own unless otherwise denoted. (Default)

[personal profile] dereban 2020-02-22 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Some people certainly do.

[ Not her, though. ]
isntitsad: Closed eyes. ([takes a deep breath])

[personal profile] isntitsad 2020-02-22 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you. I'll try to be careful. Well, first things first, apartments before worrying about what else might happen, right?
raduga: (♥ x 8)

[personal profile] raduga 2020-02-22 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
That's my initial plan, but it's hard for me to comfort them if they block the room.

[Carefully she holds a desk upward and starts to pull out the empty bed out of the way. It's like a giant puzzle and she does want to avoid structural and furniture damage to some degree. When supplies are becoming tighter, you need to work with what you have.]

Some want to return to their parents side. Others just want to left alone. While I may be just a mere stranger to them... My heart could not bear the pain if I did nothing for them.

[Children definitely hit a weak spot in her, she has been a lonely child before so she understands their pain to a degree. Hazen's words that remind her that she cannot fix every problem still stings, but she still wants to try...]
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[personal profile] raduga 2020-02-22 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you very much! It makes my heart flutter to hear that you enjoy them.

[While she hasn't met everyone on the ship, she does know a big handful thanks to Raduga and people spreading the word on her work. Lucio is mysterious yet beautiful, doesn't talk much about himself yet something just draws Ladiva to him. Perhaps it's because his heart is in the right place, despite the mystery about him.]

I have not had experience with the more aggressive ones, but most of the poor dears seem exhausted and stressed. I believe as long as you are careful, it should not spread to you... However, I could have sworn I saw crystals moving on their own.
lotus_of_rage: (agu you don't get to know)

[personal profile] lotus_of_rage 2020-02-22 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
To be honest, he hadn't been in the best frame of mind for proper decisions at that time, but there was really only one thing that he could say for certain.

"Because you were my brother. That's why."

He'd cross his arms, annoyed he had to actually say it, but he's still holding an octopus. Really? Why is he still holding this thing?
lotus_of_rage: (agu than give up the fight)

[personal profile] lotus_of_rage 2020-02-22 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"We have at least one from every sect here. Most, more than one. Sometimes, more than one of the same person."

He was quiet for a moment at that before speaking.

"I and Lan WangJi each have another of ourselves."
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[personal profile] noenvy 2020-02-23 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Because he was his brother....

What a time to decide to show that kind of thing! Jiang Cheng was his Shidi, of course it was his responsibility to protect him! To play hero, just because... because of that....

He wanted to be mad, but these feelings should have long ago faded. He had accepted the events and moved on. But, it still hurt a little. Where was this brotherly loyalty later? Where was it when he was falling apart alone? Where was it when he came to slaughter everyone in his path going up the burial mound?

“And now?” What were they now? He didn’t even know. He didn’t dare hope or speculate on what could be.
scarcastically: (there was nothing but my life unanswered)

[personal profile] scarcastically 2020-02-23 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Like I said, just checking. In this place, people know different shit, that's all.
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[personal profile] justhungup 2020-02-23 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Why's that? Don't people have special abilities where you come from?