prismaticrap | ▶ 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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Oh, then I suppose the start it is.

You see... I came from a rather peculiar war. Rather fantastical for common men. However, I am a man who has long since passed. To participate in that war, I was summoned. It was quite an unusual summoning as well! The man who summoned me had already perished by then, and I ended up being taken care of by someone else.

[This explains nothing. Really.]

Edited 2020-02-12 10:32 (UTC)

Summoned. Like a Primal.

[ They certainly could be humanoid, and they could be called upon. What's more, the original intention for those lesser beasts was as weapons of war. But he doesn't sense that sort of energy from this man, where he would have regardless of damage were they of similar origin.

Not to mention, he wouldn't need an outside energy source. So there are a few commonalities, but not many. It may be enough for him to venture a guess, however. ]

I imagine you served as a weapon, then.

Correct, in both ways if your Primal is the same way. Though, it is what I would consider more of a contest between Servants for a prize that grants a wish to the winner.

... At least, that's what it is on the surface. A master, such as yourself, tethers us Servants in the world. We usually are not able to stay physical otherwise.

[He seems pleased that he understood so quickly too.]

Do not worry. I do not think the rules of the war are present here, so here should be no problem. I can also protect you should it be necessary.

A wish-granting prize. [ He repeats, tone flat. That sounds pretty suspect, if anyone asks him. Do people really fall for such an impossibility? Well, that's neither here nor there. ] It must be troublesome, being unable to sustain yourself without assistance.

[ At least, to someone like him, it sure seems that way. He isn't quite sure how this fellow could claim that he only needed temporary aid, when this is the case... Did he truly just become responsible for a less efficient Primal-like entity?

He'd ruminate longer on his life choices, were it not for that last suggestion. Did he truly just insinuate...? Sandalphon's shoulders quake, and he can't suppress a chuckle. ]

I am...truly the last person who could need protection.

[ What with an imposed limitation on their abilities in this world, nothing has yet proven a real threat, save for a creature none of them could damage at all. ]

Oh certainly. If I could do so myself, I would be able to spend all my fays listening to wonderful music instead!

[He is going to protect him anyway so he doesn't bother focusing on the other half of that.]

Though, honestly, your level of magic is much more than I expected. As I said though... I did take advantage of your kindness out of desperation, but if you wish to sever the bond, those seals in your hand would be handy. You can command me to end my own life, and I will demanifest and unburden you.

Though please, at least let me hear the music of this world first.

Edited 2020-02-13 08:10 (UTC)

[ No one asks for help and then casually offers to die. Sandalphon may have been locked away for most of his existence, but he's certain of this. ]

I fail to find humor in that suggestion.

[ This strange mark on his hand surely has no such power. Why would anyone yield that to a stranger, let alone tell them it could be used in such a way? It must be a joke that simply isn't funny in the slightest. The more he thinks about it, the more certain he is.

But he does believe the energy part, based on what he's seen. ]

Don't casually spout off such nonsense, someone might take you seriously.

I do not lie. There is no honor in a knight who lies.

[He might sidestep the truth and casually avoid answers. But lie he does not.]

I initially needed the energy to see if I could find someone I was with, but I do not seem to have a connection with her here anymore. In any case, I would take that as a sign. That said, I have already stated my reasons for the information I provided.

[ He's stated his reasons, he says.

His reasoning is nonsense, Sandalphon wants to say. Instead, he huffs out a weary sigh. What a day this has become. ]

If you truly require energy to live [ And it seems he does. Nevermind how to define living for someone who claims he has died already and was brought back as...whatever he is. ] then I suppose I'm among the few best suited to sustain such a being.

[ If recovery from grievous injury was the worst of it, he can handle that. A mortal, he suspects, would struggle to endure being taxed to such a degree, when this world demands chroma from them as well. ]

But do not waste that by speaking so casually of your own destruction.

[ Why take measures to live only to immediately volunteer to die? ]

You truly are kind. I was right in my judgement.

[No wars, at least, but...]

I could not focus on it so easily earlier, but this Chroma truly is within our systems, is it not? That would be a bit of a problem....

[ It's a little too soon to conclude that he's kind. Sandalphon frowns, but before he can protest, the current of the conversation has already carried it elsewhere.

Well, the matter of how this world works is more important than assessments of his own nature. ]

Rather, it's an energy only those from other worlds can generate in this place, apparently. It's a resource which this world requires, but can no longer provide for itself.

[ So it seems, anyway. It's not unlike this fellow requiring what he calls mana, really. ]

Same as you for me then.

[He can understand that.]

I do not fully understand it, but in that case, I will keep my escapades to a minimum. I would not wish to deplete you so much.

Unless you wish to hug?

I-

[ He begins to say he'd be difficult to wear down, but that train of thought it effectively derailed. In lieu of actual, intelligible speech, have some sputtering. ]

I just met you!

[ Yes, this is where he's drawing the line. Not at being a contracted living battery, but being asked if he wants a hug.

This is the Master Richard has found for himself.

But also, give him something to call you, buster. ]

You accepted a contract with me, does that not mean we are bound?

No matter. I will not push if you are uncomfortable.

[For now. He did just meet him.]

You mentioned a name earlier. Who is he?

Helping you and invading personal space are separate matters.

[ Except when they aren't, like when people run the risk of turning to crystal, but he's not going to mention this despite being aware of it.

Hopefully, this fellow won't get to that point. ]

As for Lucifer, he resides here with me. We come from the same realm. You'll meet no one who surpasses him in kindness in this world or any other.

[ Which is why he felt compelled to deter any potential demands placed on his predecessor. By his very nature, Lucifer would give of himself even to his own detriment. ]

Yet to invade one's space seems to be the way to help avoid the crystalization. Does that mean it is fine if you do it with this Lucifer?

[No judgment, just an honest question. After all, it is worrisome if he is so touch-aversed that he might not help himself.]

I don't go about holding people whose names I don't even know.

[ He'd helped Gwendolyn when she was in dire straits, but there too he had known her. Knew enough to be alarmed when she was willing to die for the sake of a dragon's egg, and when the first hints of crystal manifested on her body.

This fellow ought to be in prime condition, simply from borrowed energy of another sort, surely. ]

I've known Lucifer for over two thousand years, and I hold no one in higher regard. So long as it's acceptable to him, of course it's fine.

Right. Since you are my Master, I have no reason to hide my name.

[And this place is safe enough so...]

Richard I. King of England, Duke of Normandy. I am much more known by my epitaph, "Lionheart". That said... all those details do not mean anything outside of my home. You may simply call me Richard, or a nickname if you prefer. I hear Dick is a suitable nickname?

[ Just as Richard surmises, titles and epithets don't really mean much across worlds. If they did, he wouldn't need to explain what a Primarch is, or what being Supreme Primarch signifies where he and Lucifer are concerned. The latter identifier seldom comes up anyhow, but they do indeed hold little significance in a place like this.

Well, aside the enduring reality that they are both immortal, nigh impossible to destroy, and boast power to suit... Not that they can bring their full strength to bear, either. ]

I understand such titles usually signify one's deeds, though I've no idea what a lion's heart has to do with anything. [ He is but a pretty, painfully literal creature. ] But very well, Richard it is. I don't mind nicknames either, if you wish to call me by one.

[ So long as it doesn't offend him, anyway. ]

Then... Sandy?

[Asked very innocently and all too seriously. He is very good at nicknames, yes. So unique.]

[ As it just so happens... ]

People commonly go with that. Always have, in fact.

[ So far back as the days when he was known as "Sandy from the garden" because Lucifer visited him there so often. ]

Then Angie it is. I would not wish to be a copycat.

[Yes, okay. That works.]

Oh, do not worry about me, by the way. I do not require sustenance and I do not normally need sleep. In case you worry about having to feed another mouth.

[ He doesn't need food or sleep either, and he'd state as much, but a more pressing matter comes first.

That being: what in the blue Skies did Richard just call him. ]

..."Angie".

[ He repeats, tone flat, like he's been called something offensive. Where does that even come from? ]

It was that or Archie. I like Angie better.

[This is such a useful answer, right? He smiles a winning smile, one that is of pure innocence because he is trying to connect and not to offend, yes.]

...

[ He thinks he sees where Richard is getting this now and huffs out a sigh. ]

An archangel is actually a step down from a Primarch. But I find mortals seldom know of Primal beings in this realm. While a Primarch is a category of angel, it doesn't follow that all archangels are Primarchs.

[ Sorry Richard, artificial angels be strange like that. ]

Ah, so that would be an insult instead. No, we could not have that.

[Teasing is fine, insulting not so much. Hmmmm.]

I suppose I will figure it out when the time comes. Perhaps I will be inspired when we become closer as companions!

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now I have Call Me Maybe in my head...

you only have yourself to blame

Lies and deceit!!!

cold hard facts

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