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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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[ listen... this ain't normal even on regular earth? maybe some people do it, sure, but... still... itaru's just appalled someone is putting anything prismals gave them in their mouth without a second thought, but this guy is clearly new. if he wasn't, he'd think twice.

that said, he's putting on that apron now, because now he's scared jonghyuk will bite him between the eyes if he doesn't move.............

he has no idea how to actually kill an octopus, but he assumes cutting off the head will work? tying the apron loosely behind his back, he approaches the bowl with the smaller octopus warily. wish they at least provided them with gloves or something... he's seriously hesitant to even touch these... ]

You sure you don't wanna bite another one, big guy? [ snickering, he grabs a big ass chef's knife and turns to jonghyuk. ] 'cause I can't promise this won't get messy. I've never done this before.

[ He bit it, not consume! Which is his only saving grace. To be honest, it should be a miracle that he's even here since he seldom eats anyone else's cooking... Let alone allow someone like Itaru be his assistant. This is definitely his off day and he's starting to really see it as seconds pass by. Whatever. Free food that he cooked and can take home. Never again is he going to eat food made by someone else.

Even the audience is waiting to see what Itaru will come up with? Can it compare to the show that Joonghyuk unintentionally gave? Is giving?? Considering how flashy when dealing with the tentacles, then every single piece is skinned for safety. The large octopus pieces are set aside when they're done, allowing him to clean his station so he can start on the vegetables. ]

If you do it my way, there wouldn't be a mess.

[ Just saying. Staying quiet, he watches Itaru before scouring his side of the kitchen and tossing some gloves—a very small kindness because he foresees tragedy. A milky tragedy. ]

You'll just have to clean up.

Edited (hello sorry i can't type) 2020-02-10 19:01 (UTC)

[ he'd clearly picked out the worst day possible for this, because itaru's kind of hopeless, in the kitchen -- he can make toast on a good day, maybe. normally, he just eats what other people make for him, protein bars or fast food, so... well. ]

Yeah, I'm not putting that in my mouth.

[ jonghyuk can deal with that all on his own, cause some must've gotten in his mouth anyway!!

anyway, since the other won't bite his octopus to death like a feral animal, itaru guesses he's got no other choice. he puts on the gloves jonghyuk passes him, and grabs the octopus from the bowl, slamming it down on the cutting board and raising the knife.

well... time to say goodbye to your little, octopus life... just stab it just like you do in the games...

so he does, with all of the strength he can muster (which isn't much, by the way), the blade sinking into the octopus' soft flesh and... spraying the milky substance everywhere. on him, on the apron, on his face, on jonghyuk's face too, probably. and on the chefs. and everywhere else. ]

... oops.

[ Joonghyuk, unfortunately, will now see Itaru as hopeless in everything now. As he watches him, he mentally criticizes everything from his form to the amount of strength he uses. The octopus is going to suffer and it's going to ink everywhere.

He's quick to save the vegetables by raising the cutting board to separate their stations, but. Yes, it's all over his face, dripping down along his jawline like he angrily finished someone off. He stays quiet, staring him down. ]

It's everywhere.

[ Disgusting. He hates it and... It makes him feel something he does not want to feel. The chefs get the full brunt, one of them already spewing a similar milky substance towards them. Joonghyuk is able to block that one with the cutting board completely, now entirely abandoning the food to the (what a waste).

This is going to hell so fast?? He drags Itaru down as the second chef shoots out their load from their nose. ]

If you feel anything coming, use this.

[ Gives him a pot. Better that than him. ]

[ STOP he's good at some things? like... playing games. and sleeping. and mooching off of people like jonghyuk, who agree to let him stick around despite his attitude.

he glances to the side and straight at jonghyuk, watching the... milk... slide down his face... it's a little funny, ok? his expression makes it even funnier -- ]

Yeah. [ he just confirms, grabbing ahold of his apron to at least wipe his own face. some might have gotten into his mouth... but that's probably the last thing making him sick right now. rather, watching the chefs lactate profusely from strange orifices is what causes his stomach to churn.

thankfully, jonghyuk's faster than the next stream -- he drags itaru down just in time to dodge it, and now that he's saved his life (?), he's got his very useless eternal gratitude. congratulations!! ]

Feel what? [ haha... coming... get it? cause it's white... ] Milk pouring out of my nose?

[ he doesn't feel that. yet. he does feel strangely warm, though, so who knows... it might just be coming. he takes the pot anyway, though. it's a weapon? ]

Do you think you can get us out of here before they drown us in -- [ and as he says it, another chef shoots his load somewhere above them, the white... substance... splattering right next to itaru. ew. ] ... this?

[ ??? Why is Itaru expecting him to save them both? Joonghyuk, unfortunately, is only (mostly) thinking of himself right now. The milk showers don't stop and the rest of the audience is infected... The fluid is staining the floors, slowly pooling up in massive amounts where they can see it beyond the corner of the counter isle. ]

I've helped you enough. [ By giving him instructions and dragging him down. He saved his Maybe Virgin Life. ] You'll have to think for yourself.

[ Or follow him? Because he hasn't exactly ditched yet. His sword won't work well here and he wishes that Hyunsung was around so he can use his shield form, but... Yes. He, too, will wield a pot. As he inches to the corner closest to the exit, he steals a glance over his shoulder to check if Itaru is right behind him or not.

Because he's gonna go right here, right now, and this pot will block every single squirt that comes his way. All Itaru needs to do is stand directly behind him and move along. ]

[ umm... because jonghyuk's a good guy? probably? itaru doesn't know and honestly, he doesn't care, but look... good or bad, they're both stuck under the onslaught of octopus milk, so they might as well work together??? ]

Aw, come on -- [ but he follows after jonghyuk, because what other choice does he have?

at least the other seems to allow this... and itaru understands now, that this man must be a............. ts*ndere. which is fine, he's used to these? so without another word, he slowly peeks around the counter to check their way. it's kind of... covered in milk, really; everything is white and still very much pouring out of all the innocent bystanders, getting infected with the? disease? like it's a domino effect.

... this might be his fault. oh well. ]

Hey, watch out -- [ jonghyuk's doing a great job blocking every... squirt, but there's a man charging right at them, now, milk pouring out of every orifice on his face, including the ears. he clearly can't see where he's going, but itaru instinctively slinks back behind jonghyuk, gripping onto his cape.

help him jonghyuk you're his only ho ]

[ What he wants to do is throw the pot at the man charging at him, then use Itaru as a shield until they make it out, but that takes too many abrupt movements in the short amount of time he has. Instead, he slams the pot into the man's face and knocks him out before he can spray them with his milk.

This NPC is his replacement for Hyunsung, except the meat shield instead of the steel shield. He holds the limp body to soak all the cannons shooting at them until they're out of the vicinity, then dumps the poor and soaked NPC right by the door. His steps do not stop there—no, he makes sure he's a good distance away from the resort before he stops walking to look at his clothes. ]

Attending was a mistake.

[ LOOK. AT ALL THESE STAINS. HIS CLOTHES? Your clothes, but most importantly HIS CLOTHES? ]

[ for what it's worth, he's a little impressed. jonghyuk managed to get them both out mostly unharmed, with itaru as a deadweight? that's at least worthy of praise. something tells him jonghyuk wouldn't care to be praised by him, though -- so maybe covering the dry cleaning bill will do, instead.

because, well. itaru tends to dress in lighter colors, so it doesn't look nearly as bad as it does on jonghyuk's edgy, dark clothes... ]

Sorry, sorry. [ he raises both arms up in apology, wondering just how far he should go to recompense the other. hm... ] I'll pay for the cleaning. And I'll treat you to some food.

[ he's not that rich so this is probably the best deal he can offer the other right now........... ]

And, uh. [ he stares at the white stains on jonghyuk's clothes. that looks kind of like................................ ] You can take a shower at my place?

[ White is a horrible color. Black is superior. Joonghyuk looks at Itaru when he starts apologizing and listing offerings. While he does blame the mishap on Itaru, he also did nothing to stop him... In the end, it is also partly his fault. Closing his eyes, he accepts the apology at least. The rest? He doesn't need it. ]

Forget about the cleaning. [ Itaru looks unreliable, anyway. ] I also don't eat other people's cooking—taking even a bite of that octopus dish was a mistake, too.

[ Usually, he would reject cleaning up at someone else's place. He has his own? He can just return home, but... The sickening feeling he has been fighting off is uncomfortably settling in his stomach, slowly spreading from his core. It might be better to address the problem as fast as possible. ]

Is it nearby?

[ he wouldn't be the one doing the cleaning, anyway...............
but if jonghyuk wants to pass, itaru's not going to nag. the less he has to do the better -- ]

Yep. If it wasn't, I wouldn't be here.

[ at least he's honest. if a place is too far from his apartment, then he's very unlikely to wander there... listen, he just hates walking, ok?

to be honest, he's pretty tired, too, and would rather just sit here and keel over, but unfortunately... he's covered in sticky, white liquid, he feels like he's feverish, and going home sounds nice right about now. jonghyuk unfortunately doesn't look like someone who'd agree to carry him... even if he might be strong enough to... so with a long-suffering sigh, itaru shrugs off his dirty jacket and starts walking in the direction of their apartment complex. ]

C'mon, it's just a few minutes from here. [ he throws over his shoulder, nodding. ] And if you need a clothes' change, you can borrow some of my roommate's. He's... bigger than me, so they should fit. But, as a warning, he only wears camo. There should be some black camo too, though --

[ Joonghyuk can't trust his SSSSSSSSS-grade fire resistant coat to a random person, sorry. Quiet, he considers it... Black is okay and he doesn't hate camo. It reminds him a friend. That is acceptable, but wearing someone else's clothing? Then having to clean them and return them— ]

That's also unnecessary.

[ Even on this point, he's particular... He doesn't want to owe someone he doesn't even know? Even if Itaru is leading him to their living space and he wouldn't need to exert too much effort to hunt them down, it's still too bothersome. ]

I only need your bathroom. [ So take him there, quickly... Speaking of stamina? Itaru has negative stats in that, doesn't he? Joonghyuk notices as he follows him. ] You should work on your stamina.

[ If Itaru just fell onto the ground, he would carry him out of annoyance and duty. That is my guarantee to you. ]

[ well, up to jonghyuk. itaru shrugs and moves along, heading towards their apartment complex. look... he doesn't need to tell him this; he might not know his actual stats, but, yes, when it comes to things like stamina and strength... they're probably in the negatives.

still. unnecessary. ]

Trust me, I've tried. [ but his body has never been particularly predisposed to sports and athleticism, so... he gave it up.

he's got other talents to make up for it, like... uh... killing people in csgo. ]

Almost there. [ he might not fall over, necessarily, but he is dragging his feet like a grandma. that's a lot of walking... but at least he can already see the building, and soon enough, they arrive. itaru leads jonghyuk up and to the right apartment, and then gestures for him to wait. ] My roommate is... peculiar, so... I need to disable the traps first. Hold on.

[ he types in the code, puts the key in and twists, and upon opening the door, reaches in to disable the trap before actually getting inside. ]

... okay, should be fine. C'mon.

[ Itaru wouldn't survive an apocalypse is his passing thought, but maybe he would? Coins can be allocated into stats as long as he played the clown to the Constellations for a bit... One can also benefit from a training regime that suits them—does Joonghyuk want to own that? Not today.

However, he does kind of follow pretty closely to Itaru until they're finally at the apartment complex. Joonghyuk stays quiet the whole time, even as he enters, and politely takes off his combat boots before he takes another step. Finally, he speaks up. ]

Make sure the windows are open by the time I'm out.

[ The bathroom isn't the first place he looks for. He looks for a regular room... So he can steal clothes hangers—he might have peeked into the roommate's room, but found it ominous and intuitively chose the less spooky room to steal from (Itaru's). Now he'll use the bathroom.

Sorry, the only polite thing he did as a guest was take off his boots... ]

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