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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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Terror B

[liveandforgive]

[ The feathers that sprinkled their way into Cloud and Panty's apartment were more than enough to set the blond on edge. For a couple of reasons, one relating back a particular King that had laid waste to everything before him. The other? A far more personal matter once it was confirmed that the angel had nothing to do with the feathered mess. When they received the notification to destroy them on sight, the young swordsman wasted little time in that regard. In fact, once their apartment was cleared?

He couldn't help but worry for the state of the city, let alone his friends elsewhere. He checks on the motorcycle shop and the feathered Prismals he befriended that built Sköll for him. This was a problem all over, it seems like. And just around the time that newcomers would be arriving to this planet. The Iris Moon hangs high in the sky, its usually soothing presence a stark contrast to the tension he feels creeping up his spine. Voices, incoherent though they may be. Figures from the corners of his vision, and black feathers that dissipate to dust in his hands. Cloud is seeing things again, much so to the point that if he were to encounter a certain silver-haired man at this time...

There was no telling what he would do. Realizing he's letting Majestas' feathers get the better of him, messing with his head and recalling far too many unpleasant memories, he decides he needs to take a break. Even for five damned minutes. As he enters the cafe to get a drink and recharge, he realizes some of the patrons are getting up to leave. Feathers are slowly floating their way down from the ceiling, from the air vents and only getting flung haphazardly when caught on the slowly spinning fans. They're here too...

He sighs, shaking his head as he realizes that he's going to need to eliminate them here too. The one time he wished that it was the Sanguis cycle, least he tapped into his fire abilities. He can't exactly go busting out Limit Breaks, can he? He'd burn through his Chroma before he even got started. ]

I wish it was one.

[ Cloud closes the distance between himself and the, justified so, irritated Miqo'te woman. He's befriended a couple in his time here, but he doesn't recognize this lady. It felt like the number of people from Eorzea kept growing by the month sometimes... ]

You get the message to destroy any feathers you see?

[ Or avoid them anyway. ]

[matoya]

[ Fortunately for her, none of the falling feathers have settled in her tea, or she'd be decidedly less indifferent to her surroundings.
Cloud's voice does succeed in diverting her attention from the network, however, or at least enough that she spares him a sidelong glance to see if his is a familiar face from home.

So many alien races with new and strange energies contained within... quite frankly it's a bit overwhelming - like discovering a handful of new colours only to have the entire palette shoved directly into one's eyeballs with no prior preparation.
Sort of. A bit dramatic, but you get the point.

Once Y'shtola has had her fill of studying the interesting shade of blue steaming off of what she's going to assume is a young Hyur man - from stature and voice, she's rarely wrong nowadays - she turns her attention back to the device settled on the table before her.
Still oblivious about the feather still balanced on her head, of course. ]

I was not privy to that message. Was there a reason for their destruction?

[ Firstly, they're just feathers. Some savvy entrepreneur could easily make a hefty chunk of Gil, if they only gathered up all the quill-worthy pieces and sold them at a premium to the right audience. The Arcanist's guild, perhaps.
And since they don't seem to have any latent magic for her to zero in on, asking a blind woman to destroy something that makes no sound and has no scent is a bit silly. ]

'Twould be wiser to check the vents for wayward dodos or chocobo chicks, would it not?

[ Have a few skinny fellows climb on up into the ventilation system with a sack, a generous helping of patience, and a head or two of Gysahl Greens to entice the feathery fiends out of hiding. Easy sidequest material! ]

[liveandforgive]

[ Her eyes are unlike any Miqo'te he's seen before. This does, admittedly, stem from the fact that he doesn't register the fact she's physically blind. And for now, Cloud would remain unaware of that, only raising a brow when she quietly studies him. Placing a hand on his hip, the young swordsman watches as Y'shtola turns her attention back to her device. ]

Mm. They're connected to a guy who calls himself Majestas. Showed up last month and caused a lot of destruction.

[ That's a very brief version of it all. But now Cloud can't take his eyes off the lone feather nestled atop her head between her ears. ... .... ..... he's too tempted. They are supposed to dispose of them. And she's not the only one whose had to deal with flapping in the corners of their mind. ]

Maybe.

[ This is Cloud, bending over a little, and casually yet slowly reaching for the top of her head in a bid to grab the feather. ]

If chocobos were a thing here.

[ And not just brought along as companions from Eorzea. ...or summoned by Prompto only to get wrangled up by two blond chocobo 'experts'. ]

[matoya]

[ Admittedly, Y'shtola's presence and the manner in which she carries herself often makes it difficult to remember her disability, even for people who know about it; Cloud can't really be blamed for assuming otherwise. Force of personality is a hell of a thing.
He should absolutely be wary about putting hands on her, however. That staff? Not just for show. When the magic stick comes out, fireballs often follow.

And she rarely misses. ]

That name, I have heard. [ She's apparently decided Cloud isn't a threat considering she's still sedately scrolling through the news feed on her device, blissfully unaware of him stealthily reaching out for that feather. ] Pity a simple solution is never an option.

[ Frankly after the kind of bizarre field trip the Scion bandwagon has been through, a relaxing time feeding chocobos or patting some other cute, innocuous animal would practically be a vacation.

Cloud will have to be cautious the closer he gets to snatching his prize. Whether aware of his presence or not, the sense of unease that comes with her fancy new "hat" is making her antsy, those catlike ears swivelling this way and that as if to try and pinpoint the source of the noise she keeps imagining. ]

A connection to this "Majestas" does not explain the sudden urgency in destroying feathers, however.