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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.

▶ Welcome to the Jungle
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.

▶ Let’s Do the Time Warp Now
Lunatia | top

Time is relative, but the days do seem shorter — or longer — than usual. A minute passes like an hour. An hour passes like a minute. Everything appears to be moving along as normal, but the numbers and hands on clocks flicker and spin with an unusual and worrying slowness or quickness. Eventually you notice that the darkness of the night barely lasts long enough for you to fall asleep while the sun seems to glare down upon you for an eternity. The temporal shifts disorient your body, which now grows lethargic from being overworked and underslept. Soon, the temporal abnormalities reach a critical point…

B Due to the temporal distortions, Prismals and Moonblessed new and old feel their bodies sporadically transform in the strangest of ways. Your joints ache like they’ve carried a lifetime’s weight of misfortune and regret. Your voice turns high-pitched like a certain pair has yet to drop. You turn into a confused infant in one moment and the seasoned fighter you always wanted to be in the next. Your memories also shuffle around along with your apparent age, leaving you confused and unsettled. The transformations can occur and last for as long as the 11th, when everything turns back to normal without incident. That time your baby self peed in your pants? Never happened. Until then, moonlacing seems to stabilize the weird abnormalities.

▶ Starlight, Star Bright, First Star I See Tonight
Lunatia | top

The city’s landscape is not spared by the erratic flow of time. Buildings and streets continuously flicker between the beautiful and vibrant paradise it has become to the ruins of glory days long past. Your eyes may struggle to adjust as you try and convince yourself of what is real and what is not. High rise towers one moment will become wreckage the next, filled with technological debris and the echoing cries of the terrified, and the mighty wingspan of an unknown creature continues to hovers in the distance. The illusion will only last but a minute before you’re back in the present, going about your daily business. However, your trip from the future and back is far from over.

Soon, breaking news reports will inform the city about the sudden vanishing of certain celestial bodies in the sky. Though the moons remain where they should, the nights grow longer and darker as the stars in the sky start disappearing one by one until only the sun remains, eclipsed by some mysterious force. Lunar Scientia has already sent capable teams to investigate the abnormalities, so they ask the public to be patient as they wait for the reports. Until then, they have issued safety guidelines and measures to effectively light the city. The Caelus Tower appears to burn brighter than ever.

C For these dark hours, Lunar Scientia releases their latest Chroma-powered technology for Moonblessed use: star lanterns. When a star lantern is held by two Moonblessed, it absorbs newly generated Chroma from them, enabling it to light up the missing stars in the sky as you travel from place to place. The light’s color and intensity will depend on you and your partner’s bond, the spectrum ranging from a violet of hatred to a red full of love. Indifference, however, will not light the lantern at all. It also comes with a float function so that it can be released into the atmosphere without needing to carry it everywhere. Since the technology is limited in stock, Moonblessed may only have one star lantern in their possession.

One of the issued guidelines is to never walk through dark alleys alone even with the lanterns, as the crime rate has increased lately due to those taking advantage of the chaos. This is especially rampant in Level 3, at the mouth of the Lightless.

▶ Oh, They Just Can’t Wait to be King
Outside Lunatia, Port Sylvel | top

On the ides of the third month, an emergency broadcast appears from Captain Natela:

Captain Natela

Greetings, Prismals and Moonblessed.

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that Port Sylvel has been completely crystallized. The Moon Knights are currently recruiting willing explorers and scientists to investigate the cause. Investigations are still pending, but the outlook is grim. The only survivors were among the few we carried out of the city last month. The rest perished from the crystallization.

Our heart goes out to those affected by this plight. There is no cause for panic. There is no sign that the crystallization is spreading beyond Port Sylvel. We Moon Knights stand with the people of Prismatica, as we have done for centuries. We are not mere defenders of a city but protectors of a planet. We endeavor to find the cause of this tragedy and bring peace and justice to the lives it claimed. Until then, we ask for your cooperation. Stay calm and press onward.

Those who volunteer to participate in the expedition will be rewarded for their efforts. They will be assisted by experts from the Lunar Scientia as well as the bear Prismal and Moon Knight Fahrouk, who looks worse for wear after hearing the news.

Officer Fahrouk

Oh, Moonblessed. It's you. Yeah, Hala is doing good. Won the spelling bee! I think she might make the nationals. ... I… I don't think I ever told you. Port Sylvel was our hometown. My wife is buried there. We’d go there every spring. Hala loved picking the flowers there. Did you know that different flowers grow in Port Sylvel compared to Lunatia? Haaaah...

Moonblessed! I know you think I'm not cool enough to hang out with you, and all I do is ask for your help, but please let me go with you! Please… This is something I have to do as a soldier, a husband, and a father.

… What? You always thought I was cool?

Finding strength and resolve after the participants tell him he's supposed to assist them on their mission anyway, Fahrouk distributes LIFE suits to the participants as he briefs them on what they're about to do. He and the participating Moonblessed will then be transported via a large transport vessel.

Port Sylvel is hardly recognizable. What was once an idyllic coastal town is now a site of tragic beauty — crystal formations encase buildings and Prismals like jagged glass coffins, as if preserving life in its final moments. Readings from life detectors tell you that everyone in the crystal has passed on, but you and your fellow Moonblessed think you can still hear their cries of distress carried along by the wind, warning you about the Prideful King.

D Gigantic crystal lions flank the passage of the port city, their wings spread open and blue flames pouring forth from their mouths. You hear rumbling guttural noises, and if you approach them, their roars will escalate to warn you about proceeding any further. Beware: a single bite from these lions can easily tear through the LIFE suit and cause your body to crystallize quickly unless someone rushes in to moonlace with you to halt the effect. These lions are unlike the beasts you’ve fought before: their otherworldly strength is overwhelming, and nothing seems to wear them down. Destroying them seems pointless, as they quickly regenerate the minute they are obliterated.

Eventually, transmissions from the LIFE suits announce an order for escape. Buildings collapse and shatter in your wake, and the ground quakes violently as something awakens in the far distance...

▶ questions

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WHO CAN POST? ▶ Test drive memes are for new characters only. Existing players may not post starter threads in the test drime meme. However, current players are more than welcome to use these prompts for their own posts in the IC communities, personal inboxes, catch-all posts, etc.!

IS THIS CANON? ▶ As our test drive memes are game canon, feel free to keep any threads that happen here as canon for your character should they be accepted.

ANNIVERSARY ▶ Happy first anniversary, Prismatica! Thank you to all of you who have been with us since the beginning. We appreciate it immensely! Remember that we always welcome input and suggestions from players. This event is a little out of the ordinary because of our anniversary celebration.

OPT IN AND OUT ▶ For current players, please do not be alarmed! As always, you do not have to be affected as there are safe areas across Lunatia that remain as is.

AGING UP AND DOWN ▶ You have free reign over how long and how many times your character will be affected. If a character doesn’t have a canon appearance from the past or future, you are welcome to provide one of your own from imagination and use your own PB. You are allowed to speculate on how they’ll look, act, their potential future, and so on. All of these will be temporary to this event. The intensity of the effect is also up to you: whether it will only affect appearance alone and retain their current memories.

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((ooc – I’m still making my way through the series, I’m on episode 42 and plowing through as fast as I can, but no spoilers for late canon events please!))

welcome to the jungle – sun lamp
The apartment he’s been given is very nice, but it’s cold! He hasn’t yet learned about the thermostat and he doesn’t have any heat-producing magic on him, so he goes out in search of a warm place to take a nap. Soon he finds a lantern shop selling sun lamps in varying sizes, which Yanyou is pretty sure is the greatest invention of all time. He desperately wants to buy one (or several), but doesn’t yet have the Chroma, so he’s been “testing it out” by napping under one for an hour. The shop clerk is starting to get desperate, so she’ll be approaching any moonblessed or moon knights who come near the store to ask for help dealing with this sleepy immortal in the display window.

time warp - baby’s first rebellion
The shifting sands of time have lurched suddenly under Yanyou’s feet, and he finds himself a teenager. Immortal as he is, ‘teenager’ is more of a state of being than an actual number in years, but he appears to be about seventeen, and he is incredibly nervous. The last thing he remembers is sneaking out from home to explore the realms, but he’s not sure what realm this is and he can’t remember how he got here. He’s going to be in so much trouble when he gets home! And yet… as long as he’s here… how can he resist adventures?
He’s dazzled by this wondrous new place. So many bright lights! So many new foods! So much bare skin on display! He wants to look at everything and try everything. If you exist, he wants to make friends with you. If you’re carrying anything modern or unusual to a Chinese fantasy setting, he’ll be drawn over at once, curious. “Oh, what is that?”

starlight – ruins of the future
When the world suddenly shifts into its own future, a place of desolate ruin, Yanyou is horrified. The tragedy of the ruins makes his heart ache. All that color and celebration! The theaters! The food! But far worse than the desolation is the threat of wings in the distance and the echoing cries of some distant, frightened victims. Yanyou knows enough about enormous winged creatures to have an appropriate amount of terror of them! He needs shelter at once, and so do you! Yanyou may not know you, but you’re here with him in this strange place and there is every likelihood that the enormous winged thing wants to eat you both. So he will grab you by the wrist, trying to drag you toward the nearest structure for shelter. “We have to get out of the street! It’s coming!”

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If he can't wake up, wouldn't calling the hospital have made more sense, this Moon Knight wonders as he gazes down, bemused, at the man in the window. Or perhaps he's just drunk. Gu Yun steps inside, clad in his usual uniform: blue jacket with a cape and over-the-knee shiny armored boots, with his long hair tied up. The first thing he does is inhale. He can't smell alcohol, so the next thing he does is reach out and touch the man's shoulder, giving it a gentle shake.

"if you'd like to sleep somewhere, there are any number of fine establishments nearby that cater to that very desire. Alone or with a partner or several."

Yanyou yawns as he is disturbed. Lifting his head, he smiles up at the handsome stranger above him.

Yanyou is not drunk, being not yet able to afford alcohol in this world, but he is very warm and contented from his nap. "Warm," he points out, indicating the lamp over his shoulder. But he's very willing to be persuaded, especially at the mention of a partner or several.

Yawning wide as he deigns to wake up, he hops to his feet and slides his arms around the soldier's shoulders. "How handsome you look in your uniform! Very appealing. Tell me about these establishments. Are you paying? I haven't yet got any money."

He is such a very tragic penniless snake! So cold, so lonely. Please dispense immediate cuddles.

He looks over his shoulder. Yes that lamp is indeed very warm, and he's a person that's always cold. He even stretches out a hand to pick up the pricetag and glance at it. Fifty chroma. Not exactly cheap, but not very expensive either. Thus when the formerly-sleeping gentleman reaches for him, he returns the embrace, even turning and pressing a kiss against against the man's cheek.

Dispensing emergency moonlacing is absolutely one of his duties, after all.

"No money? Look again. You've enough to buy that lamp, now."

The way he says it, the clear implication is that it isn't a suggestion or a request, but a clear command to stop wasting this poor shopkeeper's time.

Yanyou brightens happily when he gets held in return and a kiss to his cheek! How sweet!

When he checks his chroma again, he does indeed have the required funds. Thrilled, he kisses the knight's cheek in return and then quickly picks up the lamp, arranging to purchase it from the bewildered shopkeeper. The time he spent under the lamp has energized him, and he's extremely bouncy now.

Vanishing the lamp into his sleeve to be used later, Yanyou hugs his arms back around the moonknight's neck, full of gratitude over having all his problems solved. "My hero! You really did come to my rescue. How can I possibly repay you?"

Given how they're starting with hugs and kisses, he's really hoping that repayment will involve blowjobs.

It's the shopkeeper's lucky day indeed, because he too motions to her that he'd like one also. After he sends her his address for delivery, he glances up just in time to see the man vanish his purchase into his sleeve. His expression twitches, even as the other draws him into an embrace again. Moonlacing affects him deeply: a light embrace makes him desire a deeper one, and a kiss on the cheek only makes him want a kiss on the lips.

Involuntarily, his cold skin grows warmer.

"Um... you should be more careful of using your powers. They can rapidly consume chroma." He pauses, absentmindedly sliding his arms about the man's waist. "You are... you're one of those mountain sect people?"

Mountain sect people being his term for cultivators. This is because "soul cultivation" is a bit of a joke where he's from, basically only practiced by old people afraid of dying.

"Do they?" Yanyou draws one of his hands back to look at it, turning it over as if its use of magic and the chroma drain will be explained to him. It was explained to him, of course, but it failed to actually sink in to Yanyou that the powers he'd taken for granted his entire life might have costs and limits in a place like this. He's very low in terms of power among immortals, but he still is an immortal, so he'd never for a moment consider little tricks like vanishing things into his sleeve to be a use of power. Adjustments to be made.

Mountain sect people. What an interesting phrase. No, he's pretty sure he's not anything mountains or sects. Honestly even 'people' is a stretch for him. "Am I?" What a helpful question-answering snake you have in your arms right now. "What are mountain sect people like?"

Yanyou | Ashes of Love

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Sun lamp

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sorry the sun lamps let me judge you the most so

don't be sorry that's one of the greatest prompts i've ever written it deserves to be used

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RUINS BABEY

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Starlight

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