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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

[noenvy]

"I'm a low level cultivator that doesn't train very diligently," clearly somewhat of a lie since he is using his sword when before he couldn't even handle it for more than two seconds. "And the things you would want I don't even do anymore. I don't think it even works here." he had noticed this place was a bit quiet in that regard....

He's so close to noticing something's off about wwx's memories but keeps juuust missing it

[noneforyou]

"Ah, but now you've assumed you know what I want. Senior Wei is a man of many talents. If demonic cultivation was all you could do, you wouldn't have survived very long, or gotten very far with it. Or did you forget that I'm the only other person who understands this path?"

Wow Xue Yang, catch up on your observational skills or you will be left in the dust always.

[noenvy]

Now he really is feeling a bit confused, what could he possibly offer that wasn't one of those two things?

"Then what is it hat you do want? My deductive reasoning skills? What do you even know of me outside heresy and our one encounter anyway? I promise you I'm nothing like the stories, and especially now," really! He had been turned into everyone's boogeyman when all he had wanted was to be left alone.

To be fair, the vomit is distracting

[noneforyou]

That's when something registered in Xue Yang's mind, and he lifted his gaze from his clothes to direct narrowed eyes in Wei Wuxian's direction.

"Senior Wei, you talk as if we're such strangers. Wouldn't you consider the two of us rather close?"

That is quite fair!

[noenvy]

"How could we be close? Though I did experience a lot of things regarding you, we had only known each other for a night before you died. That is hardly close," and he would not even want to claim any closeness of any kind with Xue Yang.

[noneforyou]

...

He didn't remember either.

Just when Xue Yang thought this place couldn't come up with something else to catch him by surprise, it somehow managed to. Xiao Xingchen came here not remembering finding out who Xue Yang was, and now Wei Wuxian had forgotten their encounters in this place. Come to think of it, the animal ears that he'd always seen Wei Wuxian with, even when Sanguis wasn't in the sky, were absent as well. Something had definitely changed, though he could hardly say what it was.

"We both walked the same path. We're the ones who best know each other. If that doesn't make us close, what would?"

If only he'd gotten more out of Wei Wuxian before he'd forgotten things, maybe Xue Yang could exploit more of that knowledge now.

[noenvy]

"We did not walk the same path, not even close, you tried to follow down a trail and got lost to the side. The person who knows me best is Lan Zhan," though now he was curious, did his previous self have some sort of relation with Xue Yang in this place?

"I know a bit about the comings and goings of this place, did you know me here before?"

[noneforyou]

If he wasn't sure already, that question would have certainly confirmed it.

"Maybe you should ask Hanguang-Jun, if he knows you so well. Surely he can tell you what you knew before." Xue Yang bent down to pick up a piece of the destroyed feather and turned it over in his hand. "We've met a few times. You've even helped me out before. It was very cooperative of you."

Though saying it really helped was a tenuously true claim at best. He'd asked Wei Wuxian to inspect Xiao Xingchen's soul again, and the next day Xiao Xingchen was brought here. Whether it had anything to do with Wei Wuxian was highly questionable, but the fact remained that the man had at least taken a look for him. There wasn't even that much duress involved.

[noenvy]

"Of course he would be able to tell me what I knew before, and I don't have to ask him if he knows me well, because he does no matter what," was this suppose to make him doubt? That wasn't going to work. "But that doesn't tell me anything of you and I. Even right now, though you have helped me, I find you unpleasant and wouldn't mind giving you what you deserve again."

Though he didn't exactly mean it. As much as his feelings towards Xue Yang were not positive, he didn't exactly want to murder him right now in public.

[noneforyou]

"I'd rather not be thrown up on a second time." But his grin was cheeky, acknowledging that it was a joke. "I told you. You've helped me out before. Wouldn't you think we're in circumstances where it's better to use each other when we can?"

[noenvy]

He couldn't argue against that logic. Especially in a world that was so different, having people that were familiar was better than having people completely alien.

But, the last thing he wanted was to be used by Xue Yang and no matter what he wouldn't allow himself to be used.

"I wouldn't consider these circumstances so dire that I would have to use you for anything."

[noneforyou]

"Tell me that again in a few months. How long have you been here? It can't have been long, and yet you've already found yourself in trouble that you couldn't get yourself out of. I've already helped you out. Like it or not, you can't take that back."

Yes, look at him being so helpful. Clearly Xue Yang didn't intentionally inflict additional distress at all.

[noenvy]

"You did, I can't deny that. Of course, you could have been better about it as well," he also didn't ask for help, it was freely given, so his statement still holds. He would not actively seek out Xue Yang for anything.

"I haven't been here for long, but I already have an idea of how many people are here. With so many other choices, why would I seek you out?"

[noneforyou]

"Because you know me, and I know you. Why risk stumbling across a criminal from somewhere you've never heard of whose capabilities you have no idea of when you can at least guarantee one you're aware of?"

[noenvy]

"I would rather seak out my family who hates me than deal with you who seems desperate for a connection," he'll gladly take a beating from Jiang Cheng than lower himself to aid from Xue Yang. "And I can even pick and choose a type, right? Since this place is so strange and mysterious."

[noneforyou]

"If you have the luxury of choosing. Since you hate me so much, maybe I'll keep helping you just to annoy you." And it would be following Xiao Xingchen's orders, meaning it was another win-win for him. Wei Wuxian was one of the few people that Xue Yang actually respected, after all, so helping him out was more palatable than most others.

[noenvy]

"That's your own volition," but a curious one. Why the focus? He didn't seem to actually want anything.

"How strange that you would want to help just to annoy," what's the truth Xue Yang, this doesn't fit your M.O. at all.

[noneforyou]

"If I have to help anyway, it might as well be someone who gets pissed off when I do it. If I have to be too nice, I might just throw up in return."

It was almost a good argument for him even helping Song Lan, but Xue Yang hated him most of all. Not even the satisfaction would be worth it.

[noenvy]

"Have to help?" Now that was curious. Please explain, whatever could make Xue Yang help anyone but himself.

[noneforyou]

Xue Yang gave a small shrug. "You won't believe me even if I tell you, so like I said, feel free to come up with whatever explanation you want."

[noenvy]

"Try me, give an explanation and I'll decide if you seem genuine or not," because even a lie could expose some truth, based on the content of the lie.

[noneforyou]

Xue Yang considered for a moment, playing with Jiangzai as if he were debating actually following through on attacking Wei Wuxian properly.

"A certain daozhang told me to."

He didn't look directly at Wei Wuxian, but the grin on his face made it clear he knew about the implications of what he said.

[noenvy]

The mild laid back attitude he had been giving went cold. That single sentence meant a lot of things, and none of them were good.

"You just can't let him be, can you Xue Yang?" his tone was just short of cursing and if he could have reasonably stabbed him he might have tried.

[noneforyou]

"I suppose you'll believe at least that much. You're the one who likes getting involved in others' business, Senior Wei. You know, things have only ever gone wrong when others interfered."

When it was just the two of them, or three with A-Qing, everything was fine. It was only thanks to others that problems happened.

[noenvy]

"I have no reason to doubt, I know how pathetic you are," and desperate for companionship from someone who had chosen death. "They went wrong because you don't know what even exchange is."