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▶ TDM .012
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.
▶ 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.
▶ 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.
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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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[ wow, so blunt...
but hey, titus can be agreeable. (the etiquette as he understands it involves at least offering the option of staying awhile afterward, or if nothing else the chance to take a shower! but he's definitely gotten the idea that zen just sort of likes to be rude and high maintenance. and besides, he's possessed by sex food or whatever, and it would probably be unfair to blame him for that.)
(yes, he definitely interpreted "get to my apartment as fast as possible so I can get rid of you" to mean "get to my apartment as fast as possible so we can have a quickie and then I can kick you out.")
(why else would he still be taking titus with him??) ]
Oh.
Well...
What exactly did you have in mind?
1/2
[Though Zen can't deny the possibility of them becoming friends. He doesn't hate straightforward simpletons like Titus. And he can't deny that despite the blond's irritating inquisitiveness, he has been kind to Zen, even extremely so.
Zen clicks his tongue as his mind — now clear, unlike last time — dwells on the idea of opening up to the blond. But he quickly dismisses the thought.
As he keeps walking, almost reaching the building, he mulls over Titus' last question. That didn't make any sense, he had just bluntly expressed his intentions, putting it in clear words that they will part ways as soon as they reach his apartment and—]
Hm? [He halts, realization dawning on him a little bit too late.]
2/2
Is this another huge misunderstanding or is this what he was aiming for since the beginning?
By now Zen's aware that sex is just another way to moonlace, and he doesn't think of the act as something that should only be done with your loved one or that kind of romantic crap. But trust is key there. Could Titus really have approached and helped him for this purpose? After all his talk about trust developing over time?
If Titus intends to use him, two can play that game. Zen hopes he's the one misunderstanding the situation this time.
He turns around, his usual smile tugging at his lips. But there's something amiss about it.]
What do you have in mind?
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still, the question itself is easy enough to answer! ]
Oh, well! I'm not actually sure whether this is the type of thing one normally admits, but I'm pretty easy to please. So whatever you're in the mood for is perfectly fine, though I am happy to make suggestions, as well.
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[Beating around the bush will accomplish nothing, so he'll just come out with it clearly, purposely picking words that might sting.]
You seriously think I'm desperate enough to sleep with some annoying stranger I just met? [Aka option a: It's just a (justified) misunderstanding on the blond's part.]
Or did you help me just to use me for sex? [Aka option b: Zen's being overly suspicious of Titus' true intentions and is reading too much into them.]
So, which one is it?
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I—
Y-you—
Use you?! —No, use you? I thought you were the one who wanted to use me. I was just going to let you!
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However, excluding that one time Titus fell on him, nothing he ever did hinted that he had any sexual interest in the blond. And even then that was the food's effect talking. How in the world did Titus get the idea Zen wanted to use him for sex? Zen can't help but let out a dry laugh. He's not some disgusting animal—]
Really, now? I had better opportunities to have my way with you if I had really wanted to. Or did you forget already?
[—that would sexually force himself onto someone, using them solely for his own pleasure.]
But I gotta admit I'm amazed at how easily you'd let a stranger use you for their own pleasure. [His words only seem to get more venomous.] Maybe I should take you up on that offer if you're really serious about it.
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(it does occur to him, all at once, that he was the one who took zen's hand again after he said he was going home...)
(still, zen could have said something about it at the time! he just started leading titus there like it was normal...)
he can sort of understand now that it was just... a miscommunication, and that both of them played their parts in it...
...but then, after all that, zen finishes by saying maybe they should do it?! ]
I never thought you were some kind of monster. I just thought you wanted me! So do you or don't you?! Make up your mind already, you idiot!
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[As soon as these words come out of Zen's mouth, the smile drops completely from his face. He is the son of a "monkey" — so maybe that makes him part monster. The more his thoughts linger on comparisons of himself to his father, the more the voice that soothed him earlier starts to grate on him.
His fingers curl tightly, and he finds himself glaring at Titus in silent anger.]
To get out of my sight, that is.
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it's because his ass is too big, isn't it]I wouldn't stay a second longer anyway!!
You are awful!! And I hope—something really unpleasant happens to you!!
[ yeah he's crying. and he draws his wand... (to turn zen into a newt?)
(nah, to flee the scene, through the air, at high speed.) (he can fly, obviously!!) ]
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Don't be silly, it's (secretly) a plus!In the end, Titus never really meant any harm. Even those last words sounded more hurt rather than willing to hurt.
Unlike Zen. Although it wasn't his intention to make the blond cry, he simply wanted — needed — to push Titus away. Even though that hand in his felt so warm. Or perhaps exactly because of it: his defenses were breaking under the weight of that innocent kindness.
Like his body almost did under that butt!"That's what he gets for being so trusting." Is what Zen tries to convince himself of, but he can't help but feel a pang of guilt for being so cruel to someone who was so kind to him.
... But honestly, if Titus can fly, why did they walk all this way to his apartment...? Maybe he'll ask if they ever meet again.]