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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Haven't seen anything like that here, but there were some Chinese places that had it.

["--back home," she would say, but Chicago suffered enough just by having Rey there that she feels guilty considering the city a home once, even if it was only for a few fleeting years.

[Definitely Asian, though.]

[LB hadn't really had a chance to try many dishes from Asia, in general, so she at least feels a little pride in being able to be on track at least. And from the comment, she figures that they must be from the same planet. Though she wondered just how many people from Earth there really was here. Thinking about it made her feel more lonely, but at the same time it was a little relieving to think that there would be no one here who really knew who she was. Or all the things she had done.]

I see, then it's too bad that it won't likely be easy to find somewhere to try it. Asia was one part of the world I really didn't get to see at all.

[Though in the state of mind she had been in, it wasn't like she remembered much from other parts of the world either. And it wasn't like she got much of a chance to explore anyway.]

Oh, er. Never actually been, either. There was just a really great authentic Chinese place in this neighborhood in Chicago... Even butchered their own poultry.

[Despite it being a favorite of hers, Rey might have ninja'd into the back rooms and set free some ducks on accident. Not that you can make her feel sorry about it.

[Now that she thinks about it, would this woman even recognize the city she just mentioned? She mentioned Asia, so she knows that much, but when Rey's met someone in this world who didn't even know what a civilian was... she can never be too sure what assumptions to make.]

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Ah, Chicago. Heheh... I've heard of it, but I've never been there. The only time I was in the United States was when I was training, and for a couple of missions.

[Which might sound odd, when her accent was American, but she had a penchant for being able to adapt her voice pretty quickly. Even if she did wish she had her original accent back, at times.]

Was that your hometown? I'm originally from a, uh. A small village in Norway. [She avoids mentioning the actual name, just in case she had heard of the Devil's Village and the incident that had taken place there. She had been the only survivor, so it wouldn't be hard for others to connect the dots.]

Oh. [This is awkward.] It... hasn't been the United States in a long time, actually. Some of the old government's landmarks and cities haven't changed too much aside from usual developments, but... other things have changed a lot since...

[She isn't sure if she wants to finish that thought, but she's at least glad to hear that this woman isn't from the parts of the globe completely decimated by the the Long Winter Wars, so that's marginally less awkward.]

But no, wasn't from there. Just lived there for a while. [She rubs the back of her neck.] Have been to a lot of other places though, including some of the Nordics...

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Oh... [Well, LB feels a little silly for assuming, blushing a little in embarassment as she idly scatches at the back of her head.] I never knew the country too well at all, so I suppose I wouldn't be able to tell regardless.

[With her own hometown demolished off the face of the Earth, she can empathize with the idea of losing a place you were familiar with, but still doesn't seem bothered at all as she mentions it.]

I've been to a lot of places myself, but never really got the chance to really experience them, if that makes sense? Haha... [Or was even in the right state of mind, really.]

It's fine. Might've been made there, but it's not home. Don't really have a home.

[Depressing words aside, Rey just shrugs. She's had her head messed with enough times that she doesn't have any such loyalty to a country anymore. Many she knows weren't even alive when the US split apart, so there's no need to worry about sensitivity.

[Hesitantly, Rey goes ahead and asks it:] Were you... military? Or something like?

[Because it would both explain what she just said and her mannerisms.]

[LB tosses her a sympathetic look, but the words hit her hard too. Her home was wiped off the face of the Earth. And as far as she felt, she was part of the reason for it too.]

Something like that, yes. Haha... I think they called it a "private military company"? From my understanding, there were quite a few, throughout the world.

[LB didn't know a lot about it, so when she stops there, it wasn't because of trying to withhold information, there just simply wasn't much more she could add on.]

How about you? What did you do, before being brought here?

[It would be easier to claim that it's "complicated" and brush off the subject, but that'd be a copout. So instead Rey offers a calm shrug.]

Same, more or less. Or, well, it was something similar to a private company.

[Very private. As in she did most of her missions solo because it's hard working with a team when you're a walking WMD.]

Ah, it's a little comforting to know that there's someone else who was in a similar business.

[She doesn't even mind that she doesn't elaborate on it, because she just assumes that perhaps she too didn't have the frame of mind to remember a lot of it.]

Maybe it's silly, but being brought here is like a vacation. Heehee, I'm not sure if I'd mind not being brought back to my original world.

[In fact, she desperately hoped not. There was nothing for her there.]

Think there's a surprising number of people here in similar business...

[Rey doesn't have confirmation for certain, but she tends to have a sense of scoping out people from that background. They have a distinctive way of standing out, for certain.]

Honestly? Same. Things weren't exactly... stellar, before ending up here. [Like being stabbed and then impaled with a rebar not long after. Fun times!]

Really? If that's the case, I wonder why they pulled so many of us, if this world runs largely on some form of intimacy? Haha?

[Because she didn't know if her case was universal, but she didn't think that soldiers or people similar to soldiers would be the best candidates for that kind of thing. Or perhaps that was precisely why they were brought here, it was hard to say.]

I believe I was in a similar situation. [She's... not actually certain if she was about to die or not. Perhaps this could be some sort of afterlife, but LB didn't want to believe in anything that might be affiliated with the idea of religion. Not when she had to suffer so much through some warped kind of version of it.]

Good thing we're both here though, right?

Couldn't say. A better person might think of it as a challenge to one's limits...? [Rey just views it as a nuisance.] Of course, it doesn't just rely on getting intimate with someone.

[That's been the one saving grace of the catch that comes with being here. On one hand, she's forced to physically touch anyone if she wants her meal ticket. But on the other, that doesn't necessarily mean you have to get cozy with them.]

But if you want to look on the bright side of it all... yeah. Good thing.

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