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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...

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A. -- Welcome to the Jungle --

[ To say he wasn’t expecting this would be an impressive understatement.

Having recently attended his middle school graduation, then suddenly having absolutely no memory waking up here in a place he had no memory of being in whatsoever? Well. That’s enough to put him on edge, and had Karma venturing out to see what else might be here but with no sign of life for almost two hours? It didn’t look promising.

Sure enough those Moon Knights had found him and he’d almost lashed out because hey. Who would take kindly to being kidnapped?! However, he wasn’t an idiot and stopped himself last second, mostly because he wanted to know what information they had and so he was well-behaved enough to get what information he needed before being sent off to explore what he supposed would be his home for a while.

No, he’s still not happy about any of this… but… whatever. He’d make do for now.

Eventually Karma found an unoccupied place and settled on the couch for a while. At least until he heard the door open and someone was coming in. Normal people would just greet them and be like ‘oh hey, you’re my roommate?’ but he was NOT normal and as such, people would only get a scant warning that consisted of one thing. ]

Heads up~!

[ Then there’s what appears to be a knife - he always had a pocket knife on him so that was a thing - being thrown at them so they better act fast. The action lacks malice and Karma’s just smiling as if he hasn’t done anything wrong. ]

If you still want to try and stay here after that, be my guest.

B. -- Time Warp --

1-A. Only in Body, not the Mind

[ One may note that this whole time-shifting stuff was already chaotic enough, but even moreso for one Karma Akabane. Mostly because now, someone will at some point find that if they’re around Level three, at Mond Mart? There’s a frustrated looking, red-headed child about six or seven trying in vain to reach something on a higher shelf and making annoyed noises. ]

Why’re these so far up?!

[ He makes a jump for it and his tiny hand grabs onto the shelf, but his legs aren’t on the floor anymore. Help? ]

1-B Just a Child

[ Maybe it’s already weird with all the shifts, but even moreso is if you find yourself in Level 3. Where a very frightened looking seven year old child is wandering around, looking a little bit close to tears. Especially where he ran into some sketchy looking guy in his thirties who rounded on him suddenly, getting in his space and grabbing his wrist, holding him up to where his small feet can’t even touch the ground. ]

Gimme back my wallet, you damn brat! I know it was you who took it!

[ Karma whimpered, trying to get his hand free and shaking his head. ]

I didn’t take it! Lemme go!!

[ The guy just shook him, starting to yell and seeming like he was seconds from getting violent. Very clearly drunk, too. ]

2. Years pass me by..

[ The first and VERY notable difference to him being not quite his normal self? Had to be that unlike Karma and how he was normally? There was now a well-dressed, taller red-head walking around who looked to be in his early twenties, hair parted to the side and a softness almost lingering in his orange hues.

It’s as he’s passing by someone struggling to buy something with Chroma that he just laughs and wraps an arm around their shoulder, leaning in close with a lazy, almost sensual looking smile on his face as he laughed. ]

If they can’t pay for it, why don’t you let me?

[ This world was so strange but he learned easily. Even if he was unhappy at being away from his home and his job. At least he was willing to help someone else out. ]

Better than causing a commotion, isn’t it?

C -- Starlight, Starbright.. --

[ In one hand, Karma held onto one of the lanterns but hadn’t quite gotten around to asking someone if they wanted to try one but hey that’s just how he was. The unusual darkness wasn’t anything new and he could find his way around things not horribly without the light being present, so it didn’t matter where exactly he ended up. All kinds of people were out at this time as he wandered down an almost empty street, and perhaps he looked a little too calm or at ease, as someone out there had decided he looked like an easy target.

He wasn’t an idiot. He could have fought them off as they pulled him aside and towards the alley, but allowed them to pull him aside.

At least long enough to where he realized he wasn’t alone here and there was at least another two guys. Karma slowly smiled as he shifted in a quick movement and released himself from the one man’s grip. ]

Oh. I’m just a helpless kid, aren’t I? Surely you all can take me down, yeah?

[ His tone is outright mocking and the guys? They don’t take that and come at him… which would be a death sentence if it wasn’t Karma they were dealing with. Which meant anyone nearby would be privy to coming across this… which ended up being one fifteen year old easily beating down three adult men.

All without looking like he’d broken so much as a sweat. Maybe even grinning as he did so. ]

D. -- Wildcard --

[ If nothing else worked for you, come up with something and i’ll roll with it~ ]

Edited 2020-03-11 04:02 (UTC)

[Osomatsu left work that night in a hurry. he wanted to get home as soon as possible to catch a television show, so he did not even bother changing out of his maid outfit. as he is running down the street, he hears a little commotion, and stumbles upon a frightening scene.

there is a boy with bright red hair, and he is standing over three fallen men. it doesn't take a genius to figure out what happened. these guys... might have been trying to take advantage of the darkened situation, and the boy must have defended himself. probably? Osomatsu's eyes are wide as he looks from the men up to the boy with gold eyes]

........

[a nice first meeting!]

[ Staring down at the last man on the ground, Karma blinked and looked over to find that he actually had a spectator for this. He seemed entirely nonplussed by the other's reaction, laughing softly as he walked over to pick up his lantern. ]

Don't worry. It isn't as if I picked a fight with them first. They figured I was an easy target and I proved them otherwise.

[ He turned to look at the other, letting off a soft, amused noise as he saw the outfit properly now. ]

I'm supposing there's a good reason for the outfit.

[so... it was what Osomatsu expected. he lets out a relieved sigh. he knows that there are some people around who are doing crimes because the lights are out now. hopefully, this kid is telling the truth about his involvement.

he almost comments on it, but then the boy brings up the outfit. Osomatsu jolts, becoming red]

I-It's for my job! But that's none of your business! Shouldn't you be more worried about what happened here?

[ Ah. So it was one of the blushy types. How fun.

Karma laughed a bit, clearly amused as he cast a singular glance towards the downed men briefly. ]

What? You mean those guys trying to take advantage of the darkness to attack other, unsuspecting people who won't see it coming?

[ He took this moment to casually walk over to where the other was standing, still seeming unbothered by this whole situation. ]

Why would I be worried about it?

[Osomatsu sputters. why should he be worried about it? because he... he...

he handled everything on his own, like a pro. and that was super cool]

I...... Don't know? 'cause you should? You can't just take down three guys like that.

[what was the alternative?]

Why not? Doing that just ensured not only my safety but deterred them from attacking more people for a little while. I wasn't just going to let them hurt me when I have the skills to fight back and they had it coming.

[ It sounded like reasonable logic to him and he didn't hold back in expressing such a thing as why bother holding anything back or sugarcoating his words? ]

They have to realize that not everyone they go after is just gonna let them have their way.

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jungle bby!

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