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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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In general? Not at all. He and I have already agreed to a truce of sorts, though there's little point when you consider the circumstances. We're completely cut off from Gehenna here, and his body appears to be relatively healthy and stable.

[Which brings up a whole litany of questions honestly, but they're ones Mephisto has already had a good year to ponder in another world, so he's hardly bothered at this point.]

I, on the other hand, am certainly not looking forward to inevitably being the one he'll come to for advice on chroma gathering, seeing as I'm the closest thing he could possibly consider an "ally" here.

[Is this karma? It's karma, isn't it. You can hear the suffering in his voice.]

Wait, completely? [He knew there were some pretty significant power caps going on, but that's still unexpected.]

Assiah and Gehenna are two sides of the same coin. It would be illogical for it to be accessible from a world as far removed from our own as this one.

This world does seem to have something similar -- "another side", if you will. But rather than demons, it appears to be comprised of the souls of the dead -- in addition to overlapping with this one. I imagine with the right spell, you might be able to see them. But even I have to squint a little bit.

[Somehow this is creepier than a realm of demons?? No one wants to know about the actual dead guy haunting your shower.]

[Well, that's interesting.

Does he keep a trump card or show his hand now?

But no, as much as he'd like to keep Mephisto in the dark this is an issue, this could put them at a disadvantage against Lucifer if there's a sudden, unexpected alteration to the balance of power between the King of Light and the King of Time.

He sets the dog down, considering the fluffy white form. (Is... is Mephisto stuck as a terrier???)]

You're gonna have to re-think your concept of illogical, I reckon. I haven't had any issues with summoning, other than it pulling on Chroma stores for power. Magic circles are more hit-and-miss, but that looks like it's just because they're too tailored for Assiah and don't do anything against the demons here. [The moon effects can't be contained, for one.]

You're totally cut off?

[Actually, he just enjoys being carried because he's a freak. He poofs back to normal the moment Lewin steps back.]

[But curiously, he's dressed a bit... different. He's always had a weird sense of fashion, of course, but his clothes are notably less bright than normal, seemingly forgoing his usual bright and gaudy colors for a more muted color palette... it's still a lot of pinks and whites, though. That'll never change.]

...well, that's not fair.

[Is it because of what the Natha did to him on Nysa? He's gotten so used to dealing with those restrictions now that he honestly hadn't thought to test it.]

[He really should be more mindful of his chroma usable. Any familiar he could summon would be powerful, save for the one he knows he still has with him on this side already-- his bat. But he's aware than Lewin was doing him a service in revealing something like that, when he could have just kept it to himself.]

[So he's just going to snap his fingers--]

[Lewin might know who's coming before it even appears. Shadows seem to stretch and darker as a chill fills the air, and from a pocket of darkness appears the oppressive form of Death--]

[Whose first reaction upon seeing Mephisto is to reach out a gnarled, bony hand and pat Mephisto on the head. Assuming Lewin isn't thoroughly distracted by all this, he might just catch that momentary look of surprise on Mephisto's face -- he earnestly hadn't even tested this. Though it melts into a grin and his signature fufufu soon enough.]

...now that's interesting. I wasn't lying when I said I can't sense Gehenna anymore, but perhaps our connection to our own world is more complicated than I assumed?

Oh! You can still summon! [Lewin doesn't get many chances to see Death up close, and it's always interesting to see two demons interacting, especially when one's a demon king.]

How does it feel?

[If he gets too close, Death will fade back into the shadows and reappear from another shadow further away. But if he gives it space, he'll be treated to the sight of another ghastly hand reaching out from the shroud that makes up its body and clinging to a bit of Mephisto's shirt.]

[But hmm, that's a simple and complicated question all at once. It feels different than summons in Nysa felt -- there, he was simply bringing them from the station where they were stored down planetside. Which means he must be summoning him from Gehenna proper-- somehow.]

[But for now, he'd rather keep everything about Nysa a secret.]

About as tiring as I expected, though the drain feels different than I would say it does back home. I thought it would be best to test it on one of the more powerful familiars I can summon-- ah, of those you'd be familiar with, of course.

[And then a third hand comes out of the shroud--]

--do you mind? I'm having a conversation.

[ALL HANDS GO BACK IN THE SHROUD how many does it have in there??]

[It sounds like it's muttering to itself as it slowly fades back into the shadows -- setting everything back to normal as it disappears.]

[There's Death getting really handsy there.]

Yeah, the Chroma drain sucks. You'll get used to it, but you'll have to find some real 3-d people to bang pretty soon. Your familiars aren't gonna count.

[Yeah, and he can feel it, too. But it's not visibly appearing to bother him just yet. Huh.]

My, bringing up my sex life up so brazenly-- I do hope that wasn't an offer.

[#Mephistofucks]

That depends. You get that skin condition fixed? [#Lightningfucks]

I'm afraid that's another mystery you won't be solving any time soon. You're hardly my type.

Your type is 2-d and everyone knows it. But don't worry, you're not my type. [a lie but that's just because Lightning doesn't have a "type" beyond "dtf".]

Still, if you don't find somebody to help get your Chroma back you'll get figuratively fucked over at the end of the month when shit goes down.

Ah, I see what this is! How cute! You're worried about me, aren't you?

[HE'S SO AMUSED]

[mephisto do you remember who you're talking to this is lightning he does not worry about people]

Yeah, I guess I am! It sure would suck if you died!

[Translation: he knows if you die you might end up complaining at him about it, and also he might have to deal with people bothering him about letting it happen or something]

[Worry born from personal feelings or simply a desire not to be inconvenienced is still a worry!]

Well, allow me to put your fears at ease and remind you I did exist well before anime ever did. Honestly, if you should "worry" about anyone, it should be Lucifer!

...frankly, I don't think he would even know what to do with a woman.

[He has no faith in u, big bro.]

I'm sure there are plenty of people here who'd know exactly what to do with him. [Just hand the pretty boy over to some sanguis moonblessed and see what happens.]

It would be more convenient that way, wouldn't it? Provided the body he has now remains stable, at least.

[What a nice, caring brother he is.]

From what I've heard, he should stay stable as long as he gets enough Chroma. Your body should too, for that matter.

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