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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.
▶ 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.
▶ 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.
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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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No. No, not his enemies. Of Palpetine's. The moment passed. Eyes reopened.
Time changes, things move forward, the past dies. So he turned. Those bloodshot eyes observed this. Hm. Man. Nothing more than a man. How adorable. It was man who were often the bane of his existence, weren't it? ]
Don. [ A slow speech, heavy and dark even when he wasn't trying to be. That particular trait was simply who he was, nothing more. Though a certain malice was not found in it. No need, yet. Calmed as he turned fully to greet this Don as it were. ] So it would seem, yes. I am Maul.
[ He took that hand, and surprise. It's a normal handshake. ]
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Keep calm.
Keep calm. The guy at least seems comfortable and peaceful. Don't smile is a little too plastic - a little too fake but it eases off as he takes the figure in. So...the guy hasn't eaten him. He hasn't murdered him. So far this is going off to a great star.
Then he says his name.]
Maul? Like uh - the weapon people used in the middle ages? ...Good name. Very good name.
[It must be an alien thing. Dressed in a well fitting suit and looking like something out of the past - he's very aware of how strange he might look. this guy is almost normal here.
Hmm.]
...So- I was taught that there's no better way to get to know a man then with a drink. I'm out at the moment so if you have...some way of getting to know people I'd be ...interested to hear it.
[The fear is still there. A rich undercurrent of it filling him but outwardly? He is totally and absolutely calm]
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A roll of laughter caught in his throat. Thoroughly amused. Come now, look at him. He was old. He had a cane. Don't let the hornr lead you astray. Certainly Maul was harmless. ]
I do not know of these middle ages you speak, but I accept the compliment.
[ Gladly. He was quite fine with being compared to a weapon, all things considered. And yes, for the record Maul did indeed think the way this man was dressed as awfully strange. He'd seen many a human from many a planet but none looked quite like this. ]
Quite simple, my new friend. [ A hand rose beckoning the man to join him at the window, casually looking outward to what lie beyond. ] We talk.
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It spurred his imagination too. By default he was solid. Grounded. He preferred cowboys to spacemen and aliens like this but moving slowly, slowly over he stares out at the sky and the world in awe.]
...In my world we're only barely going into space.
[His voice is soft] people are thinking that we're going to go to the moon but this...this doesn't hold a candle to it.
[There's so much space and technology. reaching into his pocket he pulls out a cigarette and stops.]
You mind if I smoke? The transport-thingy left me with a pack.
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How curious. A world in which travel was mostly inaccessible? Even the outer-rim planets had access. Some abandoned the notion, some hadn't the resources or money, but their entire galaxy had the technology to travel. Now whether anyone had traveled outside their mapped territories was an entirely different matter. ]
Wondrous, isn't it?
[ A beat.
He was not so impressed. Had seen things like this before, but less dolled up. Maul wasn't really someone who hung out on the core planets and surrounding areas of space very often. Nevertheless, a touch of small talk hurt no one when there was potential opportunity to be had. He did not know this man yet, and while an average human might seem rather useless, Maul did run a syndicate now didn't he?
Humans had an impressive ability to cheat, lie, and swindle their way out of anything and an incredible sense of survival that made them oh so easy to manipulate. If nothing else, they were disposable muscle and pawns. Useful for certain tasks but weak enough to snap in half. At least men like this one. He sensed no force in his new friend Don. ]
From which planet do you hail?
[ A casual wave toward the last request. Yes, go ahead and poison yourself as you please. ]
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[He inhales. He's not a strong person but he is a thief by nature, a creature made of lies buried underneath a wall so thick no one might be able to get through it. A secret that he'd kill to protect.
He sighs, exhaling.]
This is the kind of stuff we dream about. Back on earth you know? It's tame but if we get to the moon and build stuff like this one day...
[it captures the imagination. Turning to Maul, Don raises an eyebrow and he brings up that strong male persona a bit, a little more relaxed.]
What kind of work are you doing here Mr. Maul?
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[ He had turned to the man for a small moment. A hand placed itself on the other's shoulder. Friendly were it not for the hidden looming threat. What type of threat, who knew. Perhaps a quiet warning. Don't cross me. Subtle, but maybe the subtle intimidation tactic was well known to his dear friend Don.
He let go shortly after. ]
I'm not sure yet, but I am certain opportunity will come. [ The way he spoke resonated with a knowing. It always did. No matter how dark the path was, he found a way to see. Given he now had a whole knew playground? Well, it wouldn't take Maul long to go right back to old habits. What else was there to do? ]
Your galaxy I feel is different from mine. I've never heard of this Earth you speak of. What is it like?