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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(terror that flaps in the night)

[ Zenos can't help but mull over his own arrival. It had been a small surprise when coming around to some new place. The tall Garlean had taken his time in surveying different surroundings, making sure to take note of each little detail with an air of boredom and disinterest. Even the arrival crew had received the same treatment as Zenos had drawled out a challenge, some small hope in him wondering if one of this group could take him down. It hadn't ended as expected; there had been no fight, only a shot to the back of the neck before Zenos had lost all feeling in his body. Keeling over had added insult to (non) injury and it had taken a number of that group to grab a limb each and haul the seven foot six Garlean to the ship, kindly explaining the jist of the place as they did so.

No, never mind, he's not going to think too hard on that. Instead he's going to look around the outside of his "apartment", dignity still smarting a little at the idea such a group could take him down and leave before he could return the favour. At least the new place appears to be less inclined for such cheap shots and common sense would dictate that if he had arrived here then others from home could have also found their way. Wandering around is a good way to get the way of the land, to see if anything posed a challenge (doubtful) and such hopes are instantly dashed when a person nearby starts rambling about feathers.

The expression of disdain is plain to see, Zenos unable to keep his lip from curling as the messenger gets the hint and makes a run for it.]

Feathers. To wind up in such a place only for their own to fear such mundane things....

(got milk?)

[ Zenos yae Galvus comes across the culinary session by sheer chance. He's barely even listening to what is going on, too busy scouring the crowds as he looks for a familiar place, to see if that man is around. So when someone offers a piece of octopus to him out of the blue, Zenos only really hears how amazing it's meant to taste as he tunes out the rest of whatever drivel the chef is saying. There's a small scoff from the blond; nothing tastes of anything and as if to prove a point the Garlean eats the morsel. As expected there's nothing to it and the stern, unimpressed look the chef gets ought to (hopefully) ruin their day.

There's a few more moments of scouring the crowd before the effects suddenly kick in. Zenos hadn't been expecting it, unaware of the tricks this place can get up to and before he knows it things suddenly feel warm. The poor nearest person can expect to see a giant Garlean staring at them, slowly blinking as they try to figure out just what is going on. Why is his heart suddenly a pitter patter when there isn't a drop of blood yet shed? It's a similar feeling to battling that man and Zenos eyeballs the object of his current ire, blue gaze narrowing as he frowns slightly. This person isn't the Warrior of Light that he knows, but suddenly Zenos is all for picking one hell of a fight with them. Or something. Even he isn't so sure.]

If that was poison my only advise would be to try harder next time.

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Of those here who can fight, who chooses not to? What is it that stays your hand?

If you cannot fight, what is your pitiful excuse?

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[ooc: Anything is fine here!]

Mercy, sometimes, and reason, in others. Fighting only changes things in a very small number of situations.

Mercy is only a weakness; there is little benefit to letting those you have bested leave with their lives. Very rarely do they become of any use afterwards.

[ Having been one of the healers that has actually been heavily at work with attempting to aid others after the fallout of Majestas' attacks, she's been quite busy. Of course, this means making house calls, doing what she can to aid those that were traumatized by their own actions— and more.

She's somehow conveniently present, leaving a patient when the voice speaks up. Granted, she was in no way close enough to ever know Zenos— but it's not like she hasn't seen or been unfamiliar with his visage.

Or the rivers of death that have followed his steps. ]

You wouldn't be saying that if you saw what they were capable of. Try not to inhale—

[ She speaks up, when her gaze falls on the man, and her grip on her device tightens as the colour completely drains from her face. Though it's been a while for her since Zenos "died" back home, she hadn't accounted for him ending up here.

Her ears droop as she stills, not wanting to panic too visibly, but her heart is absolutely in her throat as she feels a cold sweat break out over her. Megumi is usually- nearly always brave, but right now, she's terrified. ]

.. them. When... did you get here?

[ Oh, Twelve. Oh Kami, anything— why is he here? ]

Edited 2020-02-10 18:53 (UTC)

[ [It's a curious thing, really. Zenos doesn't know this person, not enough to recognise them. The argument could be made that he doesn't take note of many to bother remembering such things yet this one isn't ringing any bells. The way she reacts is on par with that of others from their world on first glance; that dismay that normally comes from those who know before things even start that they're going to lose the fight (or so Zenos assumes). It's just that the words don't seem to match the usual dismay that comes from the ones not worth lifting a blade for.

Such words are quite blatant for someone who should be outright cowering and Zenos tilts his head, blond hair shifting ever so slightly with the movement as he narrows his eyes.] ]

When? And who is it that believes they should be privy to such information?

(ooc: apologies this is late, rl took a bite.)

Edited 2020-02-16 20:40 (UTC)

that would be you though ❤️

menphina - 2020-02-16 22:28 (UTC) - Expand

[ Emet-Selch was once again aimlessly plodding through the city. It had become something of a habit here, when napping had lost its allure and he was otherwise unoccupied. There was, after all, always the slightest chance that he might happen upon something, or someone, to take his mind off the tediousness of his eternal existence...

And it looked like he was in luck today, if one could call it that. The familiar voice caught his attention first. After that, it would have been impossible to miss that imposing figure, towering as he did above everyone else. But what of the soul..? How very interesting! It really was Zenos, after all.

He did consider ignoring his dear 'great-grandson' altogether. The boy really would likely be more trouble than he was worth, as usual... But, then, it was not as though Emet-Selch had any particular plans at the moment anyway.]

Well, well! Now here is a surprise. This is not the place where I would have expected to have a family reunion. As for whatever the locals are ranting about... Well, it may be less mundane than it would first appear. That is often the way of things here.

[ Look who the chocobo dragged in. Despite everything that has happened so far in this new place, this is one of the rare moments where Zenos pauses, allowing his eyebrows to raise just a little. Of all the people it chose this one. Sometimes Zenos simply doesn't have the luxury of feigning ignorance; they would both know how much of a lie it would be.

Still, it doesn't mean there will be any jubilation at knowing there is family in this world. Solus zos Galvus is old news in a way, just a relic of a time that has long since passed. Zenos has an understanding of things but not the extent of the ascian's meddling. Not quite.]

Well, well. What do we have here? [ The slow smile that crosses Zenos's face doesn't even reach his eyes. There's only a slight interest and nothing more.] You seem familiar with their ways here. Been here long, have you?

[ Right. Feathers.] They are quick to talk about the feathers yet seem content to let others do the work for them.

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