▶ 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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Comments

... yifu...

[cssr]

[ Her eyes linger on the skies for a long, deliberate moment. Eyebrows twitching up, though her smile doesn't waver.

She does eventually look at the black clad man, who, she has to admit, is not bad looking. Not the one she's longing to see, but not bad looking. ]

Thank you. Though I wouldn't have thought you so deprived of appreciation to catch compliments not intended for you. [ One arm across her chest, she props her other elbow against that arm and tilt her cheek in her palm. ] Has this place been so rude to you, then?

[shiliu]

[ He chuckles, in a good-natured way. He has to hand it to her: alone on an unfamiliar moon, confronted with a stranger, and yet she's self-assured enough to tease him back.

He makes a show of tapping his chin, thoughtfully. ]

Hm... rude at times, and kind at others. I'm Gu Yun, called Sir Zi Xi.

[ That particular title is because he's here officially, after all. ]

To whom do I have the pleasure of speaking?

[cssr]

[ ... better. She unfolds her arms and gives a salutation, a polite one. ]

Cangse Sanren.

[ More title than name, that, but it's hers. She's earned it, and she's keeping it. ]

You seem like you know why you're here, Sir Zi Xi. Or is that for the sake of keeping people from panicking?

[shiliu]

[ He nods, acknowledging her salute. ]

Naturally, I'm here because I'm looking for you.

[ A beat. He smiles, spreading his hands. ]

Or anyone, stranded here on the Iris moon.

[cssr]

[ She laughs softly, though it's more out of being startled into it than much mirth. ]

So... we're not supposed to just stay here?

[ Obviously not. And no, she's not irritated at him. She hopes. At the whole situation, yes. At him... probably not. ]

[shiliu]

[ give it time ]

Did you want to? It is very pretty.

[ A soft zephyr rises, making the crystalline structures all around vibrate, producing a noise resembling something between singing and the tinkle of glass. A strange hedgehog-like creature pokes its nose around one of the larger outcroppings, its glass-like spines reflecting every color of the rainbow. Catching sight of them, it coils itself into a tight, spiny ball. ]

I can go and come back later, if you like.

[ With a grin, he turns from her, and with his hands behind his back, starts to make his way around that large crystal outcropping (avoiding the prismatic hedgehog). He's in no hurry, clearly hinting that she should follow him. ]

[cssr]

[ She snorts, and then first looks around, just in case there is something around her that she might have dropped, or left lying around, before stepping up, unhurriedly, after him. ]

Sir Zi Xi. Have you found many people here?

[shiliu]

I've found some, my brothers many more.

[ If she follows him around that large outcropping, she'll see a large white horse tied up.... no, not a horse. It's a pegasus, with its enormous golden wings folded at its sides. Its mane is gold also, and its hooves glint as if they were covered in diamond dust.

Subtle, the Moon Knights are not. He glances over his shoulder at her, and says with a smile: ]

Come with me, and you can meet them.

[cssr]

[ She considers his words, then nods. It makes sense to go, rather than to ask, but that is about the past - if he finds them in the future... ]

Mm. Well, if you do come across a father and son, dressed in dark robes, the boy around four, they might be might family, Wei Changze and Wei Ying. Tell them I will be waiting for them?

[ This is important.

... and then she pays attention to the.

The.

Cangse Sanren's mouth twitches up, helplessly. ]

It has wings!

[shiliu]

[ He'd had much the same reaction, when he'd first inquired about whether the Moon Knights had a cavalry, and been led to a stable full of these magnificent creatures. And then he'd had to clean the stables out for months before getting to ride one. ]

Wei Changze, Wei Ying.

[ He touches his chin, thinking. ]

I've met a Wei Wuxian before....

[ He looks at her face, and something clicks. But whatever that something is, he doesn't mention, nor let it show on his own face. ]

Oh, let me help you up.

[ The pegasus is big, standing about 19 hands tall. ]

[cssr]

[ Cangse Sanren, however, stills, the pegasus forgotten for a moment, her eyes very wide on Gu Zi Xi. ]

Wuxian, [ she says softly, ] will be Wei Ying's courtesy name when he grows up.

[ She breathes out, then. ]

He is here? Is he all right?

[ She spins, and - listen, she's a pretty high level cultivator, this is no trouble - jumps up on the back of the pegasus, too distracted to play pretend that she needs the help. ]

1/2

[shiliu]

[ His lips part as he starts to answer.... ]

[shiliu]

[ ..........and it's abundantly clear that she made it onto the pegasus with a bit more than natural leg strength. She's one of those mountain sect people, clearly. His brows furrow. ]

Madam, for now please refrain from using.... spiritual energy. In this place, your powers link directly to your life energy, which can get depleted quickly.

[ A beat. He exhales, as he moves to untie the pegasus. ]

I haven't seen him for a while, but he seemed quite well when we last met.