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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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Got Milk?
[That sure is a huge, hulking figure of a man wearing...Basically nothin' at all! (Including nothing covering his ass, if you're unfortunate enough to catch him from the back. Or fortunate. It's a very, very nice ass.) Said behemoth is playing the flute with unnatural skill, though he looks overjoyed at the fact that he's able to make the flute make pretty noises somewhat lyrical to the ears. As far as weird aquatic moaning goes, I guess?? He perks up even more when the octopi draw close en masse, swaying to his own 'music' as they bob in the water--

And then he reaches out with a bare hand to grab one. While the one he grabs is duly restrained, the small mob he's attracted with his horny flute music all duly squirt white ink at Wamuu, both out of general excitement and agitation.

So. Uh. If you didn't catch him playing flute, there's a high chance that you'll catch him, stonefaced and holding a squirming octopus while streams of white roll down his cheeks and out of his nostrils.]

You. Is this some human thing? Or 'Moonblessed' thing? I grow tired of it. Lace with me, please.

Going Viral
[Look. If there's no reason for him to be completely antagonistic towards humanity, then why not help them? (Besides, do the Prismals count as humans? They're Prismals! Different, he's sure.) The point is that Wamuu is now helping out with the patients struck down by this crystallised illness; he's particularly taken by flower delivery and cleaning up all those crystal shards.

When said shards form monoliths, however, and threaten to ruin everyone's hard work by murdering the patients, that's just not jiving with Wamuu's stance on observing modern Lunatian culture. You might be staring down a monolith or trying to shield some injured Prismals from them, and that's enough for him to decide to come over and help.

Any spears that impale him get shrugged off with ease until he resembles a gem-speckled hedgehog instead of a large, almost naked man. That's fine, though. As long as he can keep hitting the monolith, pain doesn't matter. And any spears or risk to the patients he's currently protecting? Get blown off-course by...Wind coming out of organic, fleshy vents sliding out from beneath his skin. Gross. But effective! Still, even though he's more than capable of beating up a rock formation on his lonesome, that doesn't mean that he's willing to waste the possible resource that you provide.]

Either help fight off these beings, or prepare to remove these spears from me. I will heal fine once they are removed, but I cannot heal through them like I normally would.

[Sabo's not exactly in a position to judge who reacts to getting impaled like a normal human being would -- not when another crystalline spear tries to rip through his body and only manages to draw a bit of flame from him -- but this guy looking like a very sparkly pincushion is... well, a little out of the ordinary even so.

He's been wielding his pipe and martial arts skills against the crystalline enemies, but he can pause a moment to offer assistance.]

Here, let me give you a hand.

[Give him a moment to remember due human courtesy--]

Thank you. [Good job, buddy! And he does look relieved, even in the tiniest bit, despite how unflinchingly he's been taking the onslaught. But the monolith he's been beating on isn't quite dealt with yet, so Wamuu's attention returns to it and--

he has just sprouted a horn from the centre of his forehead like a unicorn. Damn it, Wamuu. One bespiked headbutt later, the crystal formation shatters harmlessly and he turns back to Sabo with an agitated sigh.] This is irritating. Going after the already-wounded and weak is distasteful.

[Hang on-- Okay, he's bending just a little so that even his shoulders and head are in reach, since there's a good few crystal points peppered around there as well. Thankfully, he also starts pulling them out; it'd be rude to ask someone to do all of that hard work alone, right??] ...I will watch your back in return for your help; you're fighting for these people too, so I have no qualms about allying with you for now.

[So, on the one hand, this guy's now got a crystal driven into his skull, and doesn't seem to be bothered by it. On the other hand, glittering unicorn headbutt is a damn awesome move, and Sabo can respect that.]

That, ah -- that doesn't hurt you much, does it? [It certainly doesn't look like it's hurting him.

It looks like they've got a moment of breathing room here, so there's no time like the present to reach out and get a solid grip on the forehead crystal, then give it a hard pull. He's not sure if he expects a fountain of blood to follow, or if this is already well past that point of evident not-normal-human-ness..]

[Being weirdly familiar with the practice of fishing for octopus, LB finds the techniques here extremely odd. However, she was also intrigued, wondering if the people here had a potentially improved method that the people of her hometown wouldn't have even considered. However, even with the oddities in display, it was very hard to ignore the giant stranger who was wearing considerably less than most of the other festival goers. However, with her own tight suit, she didn't actually mind the display. There was no shame in showing off your body, after all.

What actually impresses her, though, was that for playing a flute that made some sounds that were actually genuinely hilarious to her, he somehow managed to make it somewhat pleasant? She wasn't certain if that meant he was doing the ritual entirely wrong, or if perhaps he was the only one doing it correctly. Still, she silently watches - not wanting to scare off the potential octopi - until he grabs one directly out of the water and promptly gets squirted with ink.

When he looks toward her and is seemingly excreting the white substance out of his nostrils, she's a little intimidated by the sight of it and the blunt way he addresses her.]

Uh, eheheh, it's not human! It's definitely not human. At least I never saw ink like that! [She doesn't respond for the Moonblessed, as she was all too new at the concept as well! However, his last demand leaves her hesitant.] "Lace"? That's like... physical contact, correct?

[She had listened to the rundown on that much, at least.] I'm- I'm not so certain that's a good idea, with me.

[LB wasn't fully aware of the extent of her touch based powers. She knew they served as a last ditch effort to subdue an opponent, without her armor, but she wasn't actually sure if she could control it or not. And though she knew she had to test it, eventually, she didn't know if testing it on a random stranger would be good or not.]

Not human...Possibly from the moons or the wildlife, then. Annoying.

[He snorts harmlessly onto the ground, veritable jets of white ink spattering everywhere, but at least it seems to stem the flow somewhat for a few seconds...That's enough for him to pay LB's words more mind, at least! It's hard to focus as much as he'd like when there's just. Weird ink coming out of his facial orifices and threatening to do worse.]

Will you not grow weak if you don't touch others, though? I thought that was part of our curse; we get brought to a strange planet, the moons grant us strange abilities to help restore it, and it's mandatory to touch each other to achieve that goal.

You are only small. You should not die because of fear; I won't hurt you, I promise. And maybe it will help restore me...Haha. [The worst joke ever, but...He's really trying to not seem too intimidating. What's the point of scaring women, after all? And that has to be the only reason that she doesn't want to lace with him, of course; the fact that he's a brick shithouse on tiny little feet.]

[Not quite certain of the effects of the white ink, LB takes a jump back as the ink splatters about, seemingly relieved when she manages to avoid getting hit.

LB frowns a little, because she's well aware that he's right. She would have to lace with others, sooner than later. She even wanted to, because it sounded nice! But still, there was still the pressing issue that had to do with her own lack of understanding of her own powers.]

Yes, I've heard the explanations about what was given to us. Eheheh... and it's not because of anything that has to do with you, I swear it.

[Or at least not really, because she was more afraid of unintentionally hurting him more than anything else. Still, his attempts to ease her mind gets a genuine smile out of her, though she still feels a little bad in thinking that she might have offended him.]

I'm not actually afraid of you hurting me. It's, um. It's the other way around, actually!

[At 5'9", she was fairly tall for a woman, but compared to Wamuu, she was still pretty small, so LB definitely knows how her words must sound.]

Edited 2020-02-13 02:44 (UTC)

[Welp, here he is, faced with this giant buff guy who has white shit coming out of his nostrils and down his face. Which is like-- yeah. He has nasty words for that, but Abbacchio is gonna mind himself here. He's not the idiot that goes blurting shit out, that's Mista's job.]

Pretty sure it's just their octopus thing. Never had that as a Moonblessed... feature, we'll go with feature.

Uh, here. [Abbacchio holds out his hand for lacing purposes. There's a pause, and he's digging out a handkerchief from one of his pockets.] And for your face.

What is it that-- Thank you. That's it. [If it's not a human or Moonblessed feature then...Only one culprit, right? Wamuu looks at the octopus still in his hand, then at both of Abbacchio's being proffered, before doing the only logical thing.

He absorbs the octopus right through his palm! Average shit, of course. That's going to kick his ass later, but he'll deal with it later. At least right now, he can actually take the hankie and start cleaning his face (a futile operation, but he's trying at least) and get to hand-holding. What's weird is that...The whole spiel about moonlacing on the way down to planet Prismatica? Not a crock of shit! He feels better than absorbing the life force of an actual sea creature made him feel! Weird...

Or maybe it's just this pale human. Hm.] You seem unfazed. [Great, now white shit's coming out of his mouth. And his pores, going by the way his skin's starting to look distinctly sappy. At least his palm's relatively dry, because wouldn't that make moonlacing weirder?] You have either seen stranger, or are accustomed to this. I'm not sure which thought makes me more apprehensive.

[ Isn't it cold, and also dangerous, to swim around with so little protection? His fishing skills are impressive though, he'll give him that. No, he didn't see him play the flute, it's hard to make out terrible flute playing with all the noise. ]

I'm new so I wouldn't know. But this is definitely not a human thing.

[ What a weird man. ]

Maybe let that thing go first?

[ He hands him a bucket. He's starting to feel a little sorry for the octopus. ]

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MILK i'm making this CR happen again

I WAS TOO SLOW TO TAG YOUR TOP LEVEL FIRST, FORGIVE ME...

NOT AS SLOW AS ME, I just got lucky that day

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