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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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[Moran feels and sees the sudden tension, and almost rolls his eyes at it. Why does everyone react this way even when he goes out of his way to explain.]

Lord Runyu, it is because he is my husband that he doesn't mind. And there is no scandal to be had here. No one cares. And even if they did I don't care, and neither does he, and our opinions on this are the only ones who matter.

[But really, who would have thought that a self-admitted god has never heard of these things? Do they never observe humans?]

XunXian and I have an agreement. He will always come first in my heart. And the bed that we share is reserved only for us, and no one else. However, I do not restrict him, and he does not restrict me. We are free to share our bodies we whoever we wish.

[Bodies and hearts are different things, after all. Some people don't like making the distinction. Moran is not one of them.]

If it makes you feel more at ease, I can ask him to talk to you, and he will confirm what I have told you. We share deep affection and sensual pleasure with many. But we love and respect one another very much. I would never do this if he did not agree.

[ It's a great deal to wrap his mind around, but he does listen. Moran is so indignant and insistent upon it that it's almost impossible not to. Runyu's own duties leave him with very little time to observe mortals outside of the occasional visit to the mortal realm, and in truth all those visits have really taught him is that mortals live short, brutal lives and that love is a rare thing to be found in any realm, especially the kind Moran speaks of.

One of harmony and trust, of mutual giving, of truly sharing a life and all that brings.

Such a rare and beautiful thing.

He should very much like a taste of it, however borrowed, however brief. Being who and what he is, Runyu has no delusions that such a thing will come for him, and so⁠— Against all better judgement, he nods.

Heart aching with want, he leans in for that kiss. ]

Edited 2020-02-24 02:41 (UTC)

[Harmony and trust and a lot of shaking and of 'why are you like that, Su XunXian?', Runyu. It took long enough for XunXian to accept that he was the first for Moran, because he was too sued to forgetting himself.

But it is indeed a rare and beautiful thing now. Fragile, as those things are, but one that Moran is always going to be ready to protect.

When the god leans in, so does Moran, pressing their lips together gently. And then he starts pecking and nipping and licking, asking for more with no hesitation or shame as the moonlacing starts flowing between them.]

.... Let me taste more.

[The hunger for Chroma is not less than the hunger for food.]

[ It's too easy to fall. It's so easy it scares Runyu a little, rattles him in ways he has not known in years. But he's already off-balance, already tumbling, already caught here in Moran's arms. He pulls the young mortal closer, tighter, leaning into him as he returns each kiss, each graze of teeth, unable to even speak his acceptance. He nods instead, releasing the fear in his heart into exhilaration.

Once he exhales that poisonous breath, he is free and he is trapped. He is in free-fall, hurtling to whatever consequences may come, no looking back. He lets go of it all, looks only at Moran, thinks only of the sweetness of his lips, the aching warmth of his touch.

It feels so impossibly good to let go. ]

[Runyu's lips are slightly cold to the touch, as are his hands that Moran can feel through the flimsy layer he is wearing. At least this time he didn't take one of the sheer ones.

This coolness to the other man's skin is intriguing though, and in between kisses, Moran nuzzles Runyu's cheeks and his neck, and wriggles on his lap contentedly as he's pulled closer.]

... You're cold. Let me warm you up.

[ The offer is met with an immediate nod, Runyu no longer able to hold anything back. Whatever Moran is willing to give, Runyu will take, will hold fast without question or hesitation. He wants it all, all at once voracious like the breaking of a fast. Loneliness comes crashing in, the quiet isolation, the solitude of night. He threads his fingers through Moran's hair, strokes hands over that thin, single layer, letting out a soft gasp of breath. ]

How do you want me, little star...?

[What part of this is Runyu's actual need and what part if due to the pheromones that are now out full force is a mystery... But the pheromones, while they do help, do not create desire out of nothing. Runyu does want something, but he might not be aware of what or of how much.

Moran makes a quick decision, putting a finger on Runyu's lips.]

Shhh.... let me take care of you.

[You were collapsed outside just a moment ago and you used your powers to make him food.

Moran's hands are already undoing Runyu's belt, and he slithers off his lap so he can kneel in front of him, his white tails fanning out behind him as he pushes layers away and brushes his fingers against his crotch.]

.... Do gods do these kinds of things?

We do, in fact. Such acts outside of marriage are strictly forbidden within the Heavenly Realm, punishable by banishment, even death, and yet...

[ They are very much like mortals in that respect indeed. Helping Moran with his sash as he answers, Runyu savors the sight of Moran in all his nine-tailed glory. He summons the illusion of a bright full moon above them with a wave of his hand, wishing to view silver moonlight dancing upon soft white fur, against pale, perfect skin. ]

I do not partake... often, but I am glad to make exception for you.

An exception for me? What an honor, Lord Runyu.

[There is an amused little lilt to Moran's voice as he keeps pushing layers away, at least until the wave of the hand summons another illusion and he stops to look up at it with his mouth open, blinking half in wonder, and half in frustration at how impossible it should be and yet is.

But asking him again how he does it would be fruitless. he'd just be told again that this is a thing gods - who, technically, should not exist - can do, and then it's just endless frustration at trying to comprehend. And on normal day, he'd definitely go down that route, but right now, the hunger in him for the physical is stronger than the thirst of knowledge and he comes closer to nuzzle Runyu's crotch though the last layer of white cloth, mouthing his shape through the underpants.]

[ Though Moran sounds as though he means his words in jest, Runyu only smiles, gaze briefly flicking downwards in deference. His words are spoken in earnest, soft and solemn and heavy with insistence. ]

No, you honor me.

[ Rare that Runyu is able to offer himself like this to anyone, least of all one who speaks his name, who has some glimpse of his true self no matter how doubtful Moran's heart is in regards to Runyu's status. The friction of Moran's mouth through the thin fabric of his underwear makes him gasp, tensing briefly at the unfamiliarity of such intimacy. It has been an age since he last allowed himself such base and shameful pleasures, been an age since he allowed himself to chase any kind of joy at all.

With a low noise of encouragement, he carefully pushes Moran's hair over his shoulder and out of the way, allowing his little star to set their pace, remaining reactive and demanding nothing as is his nature. ]

[Moran hadn't had that many partners himself before coming here. As a member of an Imperial household, his marriage would have been decided for politics, not love, if it had ever come up in other circumstances than FeiFei falling from the sky. In a way, being removed from the line of succession thanks to his brother having descendance allowed him to not need to make a political marriage too soon.

And then... well things happened, and back in their world, Moran would just be fine never being actually wed, as long as XunXian is by his side.

But all in all, his sexual experience was certainly not non-existent, but relatively limited, due to both lack of time and limited interest at some point. he did read up on the subject quite extensively though, and through being here, he has experimented rather a lot, trying things out that he'd only pictured before. And because he is always eager to learn, he watches for any reactions to what he is doing.

He's had lovers who make a lot of noise, and others who are more quiet, people who feel like they suddenly cannot control themselves and others that feel like they have a hard time letting go. Runyu feels more like that latter, tightly wound up, guarded. Moran has managed to peel a few layers away only, he knows.

He savors every noise and gap, looking up with his gold colored eyes whose pupils are now slits, and grasps the waistband of Runyu's underwear, pulling the now wet fabric of so lip and tongue can meet heated flesh, finally.

he's not sure what he was expecting, but in his opinions gods do not taste any different than anyone else he's had as a partner, and he goes to suckle on the head of Runyu's cock softly, tongue playing with the slit to tease.]

[ As wet heat envelops him, Runyu groans readily, tensing at the sound of his own voice filled with such want ringing in his own ears. He's more than a little repressed in this department; all his status and considerations aside, he too was raised by his father, on his father's reputation, on the fighting, the strife, the death it caused. His instinct is to lean away from his wants, to deny them, to give himself only enough to survive on and nothing more.

This feels like excess, the sheer sweetness of it. Moran's otherworldly beauty, his attentive nature, his willingness to give Runyu these pleasures of the flesh. The tension in him winds, tightens, muscles pulling taut in the effort to keep from pushing himself deeper into that willing mouth. His hands clench into fists, breath seizing in his chest as he bows his head. ]

You... are a wonder, little star.

[ However tight his voice, he manages these words, a trembling hand moving to tangle instead in Moran's hair. Surely this is the finest he has ever had. ]

[Moran feels the shiver of muscles, the way Runyu is holding himself back for... no good reason that he can discern? What use is there for it now?

But of course, Runyu was acting all proper earlier, shocked that a married man would offer him this - although it obviously was the 'married' part more than the 'man' part that shocked him, it seems.

Moran pulls himself off Runyu for a a second, pushing his head into that hand like a cat looking for more affection.]

Don't hold back.

[And he nudges one of Runyu's thigh to come rest on his shoulder, giving more access and allowing him to take him in fully this time, pressing his tongue against the underside of the shaft. And of course, with one foot of the ground, it's going to be harder for Runyu to control the movements of his hips.]

[ By the time Runyu discovers Moran's trick, it's too late. He's so relatively uninitiated in physical pleasures that he's easily steered, and it comes as a complete surprise to him how his composure unspools all at once after Moran does something as simple as shift the placement of his leg.

His lips part in surprise as his hips twitch with the next rush of pleasure, this time unable to stop himself from pushing into Moran's mouth deeper. The heat of it opens up to him, and base instinct overtakes Runyu's discipline, his sense of propriety, his princely etiquette. With Moran's permission the last words off the man's lips, Runyu groans softly and tightens his grip in the other man's hair, rocking his hips into that sweet, willing mouth as his pleasure builds.

When he's close, he gives Moran's hair a single sharp tug in warning, a cry upon his lips. ]

Moran⁠—

[Moran is more than happy to let Runyu move as he wishes, enjoying the flow of moonlacing as it keeps mounting, his own body hungering for the Chroma it brings. At most, he makes one or two soft noises of encouragement, working his lips and tongue and stroking Runyu's thigh soothingly.

He feel the tug in his hair but he ignore it, letting the hot, slightly bitter liquid hit his tongue and throat. When he finally pulls back, with one last lick, he looks up with a cheeky smile and licks his lips, smacking them as if he's just eaten a fine treat.]

Even more delicious than the food.

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