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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[What about her shirt? Ah, nevermind, she can't seem to stop herself from tearing up and sniffing.]

I'm not crying. My eyes are irritated. [Well, it looks like crying, but she doesn't believe so.] I can't seem to stop...

[Wait.]

Why milk?

[Yeah don't question why Crim noticed the shirt problem first, he'd deny oggling Soundwave till the cows come home.

And he doesn't have a handkerchief to offer Soundwave, but he does put down the bucket and comes over to try and help? Or at least offer the hem of his shirt for him to use.]

Milk? ... You're not supposed to be crying milk th-- eep. [The shirt offer is being taken back as Crim pulls it down to cover his shame, as something downstairs of his is leaking.]

[To be fair to Crim, most people ogled the avatar's sizable breasts and most times Soundwave hardly noticed them.

Tears continue to streak down her cheeks while the stain on her shirts grows bigger and damp. She's such a huge mess right now, but still, he fails him to notice what's going on with her breasts thanks to the seemingly endless crying. Wiping herself off with someone's else clothes is weird, but screw it, she only has one arm to wipe her face off, so she reaches for the hem of the shirt... only for Crim to pull it back down.]

Are you... alright?

[Now it's Soundwave's turn to look concern, squinting through wet eyes.]

Y-yes I'm fine, it's you who isn't fine Miss!

[Being an angel sucks right now, as he's trying to hide his shame because he is pretty sure he's wet himself instead of the whole weird milk thing from the ink. Because why would he even think the milk is from the ink?!

What kind of octopus ink does that anyway?! With one hand holding his shirt down over his crotch, and he's dropped the flute by now, he offers his other hand to Soundwave.]

M-maybe we can find you a medic or something, I can g-guide you.

[She's having a bit of trouble seeing well. Though she could somewhat make out that the other is hiding something? Or maybe he's seeing things. Whatever, there's a bigger issue for him to worry about. The damn milk tears, for one.

Soundwave's face starts to become beet red, her body becoming increasingly hot, particularly around the chest area, almost like the times she was in heat... Which is odd seeing that it's not Iris!!]

A-alright...

[Soundwave holds her hand out for the angel to take. Guide the one-armed 'young woman' please.]

G-good, and maybe a new shirt for you. It's all wet looking.

[Oh but holding her hand and hiding his shame is going to be hard to do so... With a swallow, Crim is just going to have to face it. Even as milk leaks down his legs, he takes the offered hand and leads Soundwave off, to find someone who can help. Maybe one of the people who explained the whole catching octopi thing to them? No, wait none of them are around, augh.

... Prissy Polyp sounds like a Succu-Girl shop, but it's nearby so why not head right in and, shout for help.]

Um, excuse me someone, I need some help for this lady with me...

[Oh, her shirt's wet? Probably from the ink earlier, she's guessing. In any case, she ought to follow Crim as he guides her towards the nearest help. It's probably a strange scene for those around, a 20 or so woman crying milk being guided by a small angel. Such is Prismatica.

When they reached the store, a staff notices the two, Soundwave in particular in her messy wet state, and approaches them. A look of concern forms on the staff's face, but they ask what do they need help with, which Soundwave answers with:]

Just give me something to wipe my face.

A cloth or... Hankie! Yes and um...

[Before the staff can see if they have something like that, Crim grabs their arm and says in a quiet voice.]

And um, some tights for me, but that can wait.

[Off the staff goes, and while they wait Crim will be nice to and use his shirt to help Soundwave wipe up a little. Since they're now inside and he's going to get new tights to wear so hiding is just going to be ignored.]

I'm sorry I couldn't do anything better for you, Miss.

[Oh okay, good, she grabs the shirt and wipes his face all over. Now she can see a bit more a bit clearly now, still cloudy but at least she doesn't need someone to guide her anymore.

Soundwave breathes a sigh of relief. And her eyes seem to stop leaking, too, but the chest, however, remains to be a problem.]

It's fine. I didn't anticipate something like this to happen. That was the worst.

[And he thinks getting an arm ripped off was the worse thing ever... Nah, he still thinks it's the worst thing ever. Realizing that she's still holding onto the angel's shirt, she then promptly drops it as her gaze turns away, embarrassed.]

Sorry for the trouble.

[This is fine, just so long as Soundwave doesn't notice the milk going down Crim's legs, we're all good.]

You don't need to apologize, as long as you're okay then everything is good.

[Because suddenly crying milk is weird and hey, the staff is back with various hankies for Soundwave to choose from and a selection of pants and shirts. Good staff, seeing what the duo needed without them having to ask.]

Um... wow that's a lot of choices.

Right.

[Once Soundwave's vision is back to relative normalcy, she is an attentive bot, so she does notice the milk going down Crim's legs. ... She promptly averts her eyes away and not say a thing about it.

Anyway with the staff's back and with a plentiful of choices to pick, Soundwave simply goes for a blue-colored hanky and a plain blue shirt. She was ready to go change but is then stopped by the staff and advises to maybe change until their leaking stops completely, which may last up to an hour. They seem to be aware of it because apparently they weren't the only victims of this weird milky phenomenon that came to this store for a change of clothes.]

I... see. Thank you.

[An hour?! Crim's expression shows what he thinks of that, even as he looks at the pants selection. Which he picks a plain black short pant for himself, even as he mumbles about how this is all very inconvenient and why didn't anybody warn them about this and he might be crying a little and it's not milk.

And then, of course, paying for the items, which takes a moment with Crim because he has no idea how to use the device they gave him and all that, it'd be hilarious in a different situation, and he's even willing to pay for Soundwave's shirt and hanky.]

I think that's, ah, everything? Other then waiting that is.

[With the payment processed, and Soundwave certainly thanked Crim for it and the staff for the shirt and hanky, she'll go ahead and take her stuff in her own bag with her one arm.]

Mm. Nothing else we can do about it.

[And with that same arm, she tries her best to cover her chest with a flush and starts to turn towards the exit door. The pressure in them is strange and unfamiliar, but she'll figure out what to do in the meantime.

Soundwave breathes out a sigh.]

How inconvenient...

Y-yeah.

[Depress angel is looking depressed, although he does realize that it could always be worse. How? He's just not going to think about it as he leaves with Soundwave, doing his best to pay more attention to where they're going and not to her chest.

Just he recalls a review some of his friends had made and well, this is reminding him of part of it.]

Oh, um. We forgot about the octopi...

[You know... She was thinking about going back home and part ways and maybe not dematerialize the avatar until she stops lactating because no she doesn't want to know where her real form will be leaking milk.

But then the angel brought up something they've both forgotten about. There's a long silence from Soundwave.]

So we did... [She sighs, turning her head back to Crim] Want to go back?

Well, we did do our best to catch some, it'd seem wasteful to just leave them there...

[And he does honestly mean that unless someone else came along and took the bucket of course. Not that Crim knows for sure either way.]

And um, it at least something to do while waiting for the... Problem to go away.

You're right. Our work would go to waste if we just leave them there. [And so, Soundwave turns around and heads right back to Crystal Beach.]

I hope those creatures are still writhing around in the bucket... Speaking of the bucket, you don't mind carrying it, would you? I would do that instead, but-

[Eeeeeh, one arm.]

I don't mind!

[Said a bit too quickly, as he follows Soundwave back to the beach. And hey, when they get there they must be very lucky because there is the bucket with the octopi still inside and still well...

Grunting. Crim is going to go right over to it, keeping an eye out for stray octopi, and grab the handle.]

Haha, good thing no one took it. Right, Miss? [Although it looks like the flute is gone, probably the Primals who instructed them on how to catch the octopus came and picked it up.]

Mm.

[That's the only response Crim gets before she gestures him to follow. What? Expect anything more from a quiet 'lady'. Anyway, with the angel securing the bucket- she doesn't care much about the flute, anymore -it's time to bring the octopus to the Prismal chefs.]

There should be a chef somewhere, here. We're bringing the octopus to them to be cooked...

[Somehow he was expecting more than an "Mm", but at least this lady isn't rude. Just quiet.

And of course, he'll follow, he's a good angel after all.]

Oh right, they mentioned that earlier...

[It shouldn't take that long, right? A chef should be easy to find what with all the people doing the whole octopus catching thing.]

[Soundwave is good at social interactions with strangers, yes. Very good, in fact, that she doesn't start a conversation as she walks and the other floats side by side.

At least they didn't need to search for long until they reached wherever the chefs are holding a seminar. And it's until they're close that she finally speaks.]

.... I heard they're holding a seminar. Demonstrating their skills and how to cook an octopus. Are you interested in watching it?

[That's a... decent conversation starter.]

[It could be worse! Soundwave could be yelling at Crimvael.

Or doing something lewd.

And that is a good conversation starter! Just he has zoned out a little as they travelled so it takes a moment for him to reply.]

O-oh! Sure, it's learning something new and it'll pass the time as well.

[What with the milk leaking thing, still happening.]

[The chances of either one happening is close to zero. Maybe lewd could happen if Iris moon is up, but she tries not to act out on her desires.]

Right.

[Soundwave is trying to ignore the whole milk leaking thing, albeit with some difficulty due to how hot her chest is. She's trying.]

I'm more curious about the taste of their dish than anything...

[Crim has a healthy libido for an Angel, but he wouldn't with someone unwilling.

Or unpaid.]

Oh right, I hope it's tasty. I've never had octopus before, have you?

[Ignoring the milk is actually harder then Crim would have thought, thus why he keeps talking. It's something to distract, in a way.]

[Soundwave could pay him to milk the avatar's tits out if it helps to reduce the hourly long wait... But she's honestly trying not to think that while continuing this convo.]

Never. [.....] I've seen octopus served around before, here, during last year's Coiled Hearts festival, but I never thought to try them out.

[At the time, Soundwave just arrived on this planet, trying out the local's organic food is not at the forefront of his mind]

I hope it is tasty, as well... and that there aren't any weird effects from eating it.

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