▶ 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

Arrival B-adjacent

[unhappy]

[ Emerald isn't the person he's talking. That's some stranger, but she does come out of the neighbor's door right at that moment because she hears that voice and as good as she's been doing at keeping herself out of trouble, it's a lot easier to convince kids who haven't been burned a thousand times before than it is adults who have experienced betrayal after betrayal.

Of course she's going to come out if she thinks she hears Ozpin's voice. Her eyes narrow at him when she sees that it is, in fact, him. In the flesh. In the wrong flesh? ]

Weren't you sporting a new "suit" last time I saw you?

[ She's super nervous about Ozpin existing near her, but she's not about to say body outloud and confuse the stranger who just wandered into the apartment ahead of him into thinking he's some kind of serial killer. Then he'd for sure end up with the apartment and she's not so sure she wants him as her neighbor, thanks. ]

[perspicaciously]

[ Ozpin will let said stranger into the apartment, before he shuts the front door, allowing the two of them to be alone in the hallway. He'll tilt his head a little to regard her. Ah, yes, Leo had announced that hadn't he? He was wondering if it might have gone unheard in all the commotion and fighting, but it seems not. He'll place both hands on the hilt of his cane as he stands there. His eyes narrow slightly when she uses that word. It sounds so...disrespectful in a way he can't fully pinpoint. Either way he doesn't look the least bit amused... ]

I would prefer not to use that term. They are not 'suits' Ms. Sustrai, they are still people. [ Ones he fully recognizes and shares his memories with. Perhaps at one point he would have seen it in a similar way, but that was when he was young, eager, unwilling to listen to them or take part in their lives. Oscar was certainly not a suit to him and he never would be. He says it with a stern almost admonishing tone as he still regards her with a calm expression. ]

But you are correct. I wound up arriving here like this, much to my own surprise. I don't know how, or why, but that's simply how it is.

[ He's also incredibly worried about Oscar? Because what exactly is happening and he can't find the young man anywhere. ]

[unhappy]

[ Even if Leo hadn't heard it, Hazel roaring about Ozpin at the top of his lungs certainly made it clear. So did Salem nearly killing him for informing her about it later. ]

You don't have to tell me that.

[ This version of Emerald has met an Oscar before she knew anything about him. They actually got along, back in Empatheias. He gave her her seeds for her first house plant, actually, which was the first thing that made her apartment feel like a home back then. The comment is more pointed at Ozpin than Oscar for her. Funny enough, she and Oscar never realized they were even from the same world until she was in another one and he was gone. ]

Anyway, I'm an obnoxious neighbor and play loud music all night so it's probably a bad pick.

[ She's actually a really good neighbor and roommate because she is terrified of getting kicked out, but she's not going to tell Ozpin that. Though if he peeks past her in her door, he'll be able to see that everything is really well cared for and nice. (And nerdy, but the anime waifu figures aren't hers..) ]

[perspicaciously]

I don't, do I? [ A curious hum from him as he tilts his head to the side to regard the room behind her with. Considering he's 6'6 he can totally see over her and into the space just past her. His brown eyes take in what little he can see. ]

You've no need to worry, Miss Sustrai. I am not here to start any wars or fights. A truce, if you will. I've already spoken to Mercury, so I know he is also here. But you have nothing to fear from me, if that's the concern.

[ Ozpin is just so tired, so like, he would rather not bring the war back home to this rather peaceful and content place? He's not about to create animosity for the sake of following through with his plans back home. ] This is a place of peace. I don't intend to ruin that for something that is happening back home and can't even be rectified here.

[ There's no point and Ozpin is hardly a man to create a division between people when there was no need for it. ] So you may rest easy, should I decide to be a neighbor.

[ He's not going to, but he's just kidding. Or is he?! ] Though I must say this apartment does look quite nice, doesn't it? [ Ozpin no!?! ]

[unhappy]

Great. We won't kill anyone or start anything if you don't try to ruin our lives here. Neither of us want to go back to Remnant, we're not going to screw things up for ourselves here.

[ They have enough obstacles with not being the greatest people in the world without the whole world knowing their past after all, so she's hoping he gets that ruining their lives here means telling people who they are and everything, too. They're staying out of trouble for the most part.

Well, really bad trouble anyway. Emerald is fairly certain that she's done things that violate public decency laws at this point, but she hasn't been caught and really, the chroma's benefitting this world so it doesn't even count as bad really.

She leans against her doorframe, crossing her arms. She's not going to talk too badly about her home, since it had really become that-- and that's something she isn't going to whole-heartedly be able to trash talk, so she changes directions. ]

Okay, it is a good place to live, but if you move in and I get annoyed I can't promise I won't break into your apartment and make kusaya in it with the windows closed.

[ Okay, her being a little shit when she gets annoyed isn't something she has to lie about. ]