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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[Regis blinks his eyes owlishly when that old saying flies over the poor woman's head. While different customs often have different idioms, he didn't realize until now that Re-L's world is devoid of such things. She hails from a world that is in the twilight of its waning years caused by a great calamity crafted by mankind's hands. Of course, the poor woman wouldn't know what a boar is. Hell, Regis suspects there's barely any wildlife left upon Re-L's world.

It's with this thought at mind that Regis thinks that a fun day at the local animal sanctuary might be in order after this ordeal. That is assuming that Re-L would be willing to humor him. However, that's a thought for later since Iggy is now fussing over him at Re-L's behest.]

You have my thanks, Iggy.

[He offers his wounded hand to the android with a smile of gratitude. While he's quite aware that Iggy isn't human, he still feels the need for pleasantries. After all, he's Re-L's guardian and friend, isn't he? Besides, Iggy has such impeccable manners. It's impossible not to grow fond of him.]

Wait, Re-L!

[Without so much as a thought, Regis jerks away from Iggy and rushes over to Re-L. The last thing he wants is for her to accidentally get injured. The Prismal in question already bit the hell out of him. The last he needs is for Re-L to be bitten as well.]

Come, come! Let us leave this to the professionals.

[Regis suggests while attempting to pry Re-L away. He's not hardly as strong as he used to be.]

[ Re-L's experience with butterflies is in the form of literal holograms - the idea of things like boars is well beyond her imagination. Creatures on her world are so deformed due to the radiation that they wouldn't even resemble anything she might have been able to find in some recess of a library, as well.

He might play hell getting her to agree to a day at an animal sanctuary but curiosity would win Regis' battle for him in her case. ]

Not at all. It's my job. [ Granted, he isn't quite as specialized as Daedalus' entourages when it came to health and wellness, but they very well wouldn't give Re-L's health care over to an autoreiv with nothing in the way of data on it. Iggy has quickly assembled a few things to sterilize the wound after ensuring it didn't, in fact, need stitches, reaching to begin wrapping when they're both trying to get their darkly clad woman away from the struggling patient.

Regis gets one of those hard-headed, petulant glares as he tries to dislodge her, almost like she's asking with a glance what the hell he's trying to do. ]

I'm fine - [ Insistent, waspish as usual even under someone's genuine concern.

The change in Iggy is near instantaneous as he notes the Prismal turning toward Re-L's pale wrist for a bite. His eyes go red and that pleasant voice of his turns on a dime to something deadly serious and robotic as he plants his body firmly in front of hers, moving to bodily dislodging his hard-headed mistress if she won't do it herself, those large, gentle hands suddenly less so when it comes to her bodily safety and forcing her to let go. ]

Re-L. Move away. [ Under Iggy's literal (yet unvoiced) threat of force, and Regis' insistence as well, Re-L finally relents. Of course it's not with any sense of being grateful, eyes rolling as her hands come away (somehow) unbitten and thankfully intact, already snarking at her entourage. ]

Iggy, I thought I asked you to focus on his hand.

[That petulant glare instantly reminds Regis of his son. Despite Re-L being quite different in mannerisms in comparison to Noct, there are enough similarities between them to catch Regis' eye. He returns her glare with one of his own, that signature fatherly glare that he often gives Noctis whenever he's misbehaving. Regis does so without so much as a second thought.]

Please, let the doctors tend to her instead--

[Regis trails off instantly once the patient almost manages to bite Re-L. He was prepared to put himself between her and the rabid patient but fortunately, Iggy stepped into the fray. The menacing red sheen within Iggy's eyes was enough to cause alarm. Regis couldn't help but worry once Iggy's large hands clamped down around Re-L's. He feared that the android would harm her and was just seconds away from attempting to dislodge him with a lightning spell but thankfully, it didn't come to that. Despite the two of them being well acquainted, Regis doubts that Re-L is aware of his ability to wield magic. Such a concept would be woefully foreign within a world comprised of machinery.]

There's no need to be cross with him, Re-L.

[He says in hopes of calming down her obvious temper. She reminds him of Noctis right now.]

Your safety is his top priority, correct? Therefore, don't lay blame with him. After all, he certainly did his job well.

And do what? Become next? [ After all, Moonblessed had so far avoided infection, and though she would probably never ever in her life say anything like that, her genetics don't exactly bend too humanoid anyway. In all honesty Iggy probably knows nothing about that too so that she wouldn't have any inclination until something like what happened with Romdeau Dome, but it doesn't stop Re-L from being a bit of a biting viper at the moment.

For her part Re-L is unmoved by the change in her Entourage - she's seen it enough to know that the one he's least a threat to is herself in that moment. ]

A bite wouldn't have killed me. If grandfather couldn't achieve that than this Prismal wouldn't. [ Confident for a girl who has no way of knowing that. Thankfully with Re-L out of immediate danger Iggy's demeanor switches back rather quickly, instead fussing over looking over her hands and arms.

She's glared at Iggy enough for the autoreiv not to notice it one bit, it would seem. He's lucky, at this point, that she hasn't cancelled his Turing application and not had any opposition at all. But after his meltdown in their own world.. she's trying to be kinder to her poor Entourage. ]

Yes, well, let's avoid another coming back nearly dead incident. [ Apparently Re-L's given her Entourage snark in his personality programming, too, and she laments to the room, half-hearted : ]

Why did I program you this way?

Your grandfather tried to have you killed...? [He questions with a look of sheer dismay.] How...why---

[Just the thought alone is almost inconceivable. While he doesn't know much about Re-L's relations with the Reagent, he never expected such bad blood. Truth be told, Regis knew that Re-L utterly despised her grandfather but never could understand why other than various disagreements. However, this bit of information paints their relationship in a brand new light. Ironically, it reminds him of his sordid relations within his own royal house. It's enough to make his stomach churn.]

Even within the post-apocalyptic future, treachery knows no bounds. [He mutters with a deep sigh.] Although, I cannot help but feel treachery is the price paid for power.

[Hoping not to dwell on the topic, Regis invites them to follow him out towards the commons in hopes of getting some fresh air and coffee. After that mess earlier, there's no need for them to linger. If the doctors require assistance, then they'll call for them.]

Or perhaps treachery is just the tool of weakminded individuals pretending to be powerful.

I was destroying his little gilded cage with truth. [ She's a hard headed little thing, Donov Mayer's Re-L. In retrospect it's almost laughable that he thought he might be able to control a being like her in the first place, but it wouldn't be the first deluded thought that passed through his mind, nor the last.

The how she would leave for another time - the hospital didn't seem an appropriate place to recount her stabbing and subsequent healing and faked death. It's a lot, and she'd rather discuss that in private if they had to discuss it at all.

Iggy and Re-L follow willingly, Re-L tucking her hands in to her pockets in a relaxed stance. ]

Grandfather didn't have to pretend to be powerful. Most citizens took his word as law. Everyone but perhaps Raul Creed, Daedalus Yumeno and I. But we were all.. the most influential citizens other than him, so perhaps it was our relative freedom that lead to that.

▶ TDM .012

You're fine! I'm just glad to see Re-L again ;-; <3

:) <3 suddenly Regis has two teenage kids..

you know, reggie always wanted a daughter too!

take this one back Regis she's A Lot

He can handle it!

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