prismaticrap | ▶ TDM .013

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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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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.

IMPORTANT ▶ As a reminder, writing sexual content with characters below 15 years old is a violation of the game's rules and potentially Dreamwidth’s ToS. Players caught doing this will be banned from the game.

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Make Hijikata do it...

[He was idly talking in his sleep when suddenly, someone's yelling at him? A voice he recognizes too. Maybe he was dreaming. But you're so loud that he can't go back to sleep; he sits up and takes off his sleeping mask. He's a little groggy, but upon seeing who's in front of him, his eyes widen. Surprise surprise, it's the main character with silver hair.]

Boss? The aliens took you too?

[He rests an arm on the top of the couch, scratching the back of his head with the other. He's also manspreading like it's his own apartment. It's not his own place, but it's familiar enough. And he can always play up the act if you're still annoyed at him.]

_{[ Why is he making himself so much at hooooome!? I didn't ask for this!
Gintoki makes this exact face (see icon.) ]}

Of course they took me..! I'm the protagonist! What I don't understand is why they took supporting characters like you.
Aa, what? Have they been paying attention to the spikes in merchandise? Do they know you're popular with the girl fans?

You're sitting where Kagura-chan and Shinpachi-kun should be sitting..!

[That's an amazing face. Keep fueling his sadism, Gintoki.]

Heh. Guess I beat China here then.

[He was smirking at the thought, but then he leans back on the couch again, looking more pensive.]

I dunno, Boss. Maybe they're preparing a Shinsengumi spin-off.

[To be fair though, Sougo's ideal Shinsengumi spin-off would be filled with a lot of great fight scenes, gore, and Hijikata bodies. Not...this. But perhaps his popularity with girl fans can help him here.]

That seriously doesn't make sense. Her voice actor is too well-known to just be replaced by someone like you! Oi, the team pays her enough..! Is that what is this is? They can't afford her voice actor anymore?

Don't be dumb. It's only a matter of time before your fan girls move onto something more interesting.. like the next new idol game or Chinese drama series. Nobody gives a crap about a Shinsengumi spin off.

You're a has been just like the rest of us. Just accept it.

_{[ Someone isn't coping with the end of the manga stuff well. Rather, he isn't coping well with being the only Gintama character here so far. ]}

Edited 2020-03-19 01:27 (UTC)

[He holds up an index finger, as if he's explaining something to a child.]

But SuzuKen is well-known too. Does it matter when we're not being animated anyways?

[He shrugs, sighs, and then puts his arms behind his head.] They're still making a lot of merch of us. I dunno, sounds like someone's projecting. If you really miss that China girl that much, you can find someone from those Chinese dramas, right? I'm not a cop here so it's not like I can arrest you for child labor here or whatever.

_{[ Are you ready for the worst part? ]}

I already tried that.

_{[ He did. ]}

Nobody here is gluttonous enough to replace her. Also, I can't find Pattsuan at the eyeglass store. They're completely out of sock.

[Poor Boss, so lonely...]

Huh. I guess everyone in a Chinese drama is pretty. So they can't work as her.

[Let's insult Kagura even though she's not here!]

But glasses boy should be easy. Just find someone with glasses and take them.

[You're really missing the most obvious situation here! Meanwhile, he's going to get up off the couch and walk to where your bedroom is. Just a little bit of curiosity is all.]

_{[ The other worst part? He doesn't correct Sougo. Look, Gintoki's love language is harassment. It just comes with the quirky protagonist deal. ]}

It's not, though. Even when I easily mistook someone for Shinpachi-kun, there just wasn't enough punchline. He's supposed to finish up all my jokes, you know.

.. oi, where do you think you're going?

_{[ In the bedroom there is nothing but a futon! Just like home. However, Sougo might notice the shelf next to his bedroom door that consists of his JUMP collection that came with him. ]}

[So is Sougo's! Peas in a pod.]

You just gotta train them. Or give them a lot of money. But training is more fun.

[And he's going to your room of course. Even though he still has his shoes on. The shelf piques his curiosity, so he's taking some of your JUMP volumes and flipping through them. For all your talk about being stealing your money, you seem to spend most of your money on JUMP...]

Boss, you don't really got a lotta space in here, do you?

_{[ Gintoki remains where he is but has a lazy, low effort way of trying to stop him: ]}

I didn't have a lot of space back home either. Any average sized apartment back home is small compared to the place you guys all lived in.

Also, don't touch that. They're all mint condition. Who knows whats on your grimy government hands. I don't need to catch a corruption disease from you guys.

[In other words...not stopping him.]

Don't you wanna make this place bigger then?

[Look at him. He's touching all your volumes. He's rubbing his hands on all of their spines and flipping through all of their pages.]

How'd you get 'em here? And did you bring your porn stash too?

What good would making it bigger do? Just more space to worry about and clean.

_{[ Gintoki doesn't want to make it obvious but.. having a tiny place like this reminds him of home. And that is why he has it the way it is.. cause he's a nostalgic little fuck.

Finally, he walks over and snatches a volume that Sougo has in his hands. ]}

They just came with me.
The porn didn't come with it. Unfortunately.

_{[ Garbage. ]}

You don't have to clean it--

[Oh, so that's how it is. You take one volume away from him, he's going to grab another one off the shelf.]

Huh. But they gotta have some porn here. They want everyone to f*** after all. But I guess they don't have the kind of porn you like, then?

[Just normal stuff dudes talk about.]

That's sad. Maybe you can commission someone to draw something naughty of you and Hijikata-san. I know you loved those DVD covers.

[He's internally decided to not try and take over your house because there would be no room for him, but he does want to be able to hang out with you. He doesn't have his job here, after all. Now he's just staying to be annoying.]

_{[ SMACKS THE JUMP OUT OF HIS HANDS.. wait, I thought those were precious mint conditions. ]}

It's what the fans like, asswipe, not me!

_{[ Wow, he's getting a taste of his own sadist medicine. This is awful. ]}

Why don't you go pal around with that gorilla, huh? I'm sure he needs somebody to keep him on a leash while he's here.

_{[ Gin is just assuming all the Shinsengumi are here, especially since Sougo seems persistent it is a spin off. ]}

[Sougo looks a little bit surprised as the JUMP is knocked out of his hands, but he has another idea. He takes each volume one by one from your shelf and drops them onto the floor. Is this what you want, Boss?]

But you had so many, I thought you might like them. [Another one dropped on the floor.] Besides, it's why you're so popular with the fangirls. [And another.] At least you top. [And another.]

I haven't seen Kondou-san around, though. I wouldn't miss him 'cause he's very hard to miss.

[Yes, very hard to miss a gorilla walking around.]

_{[ flatly: ]} Really.

Mmm.

That's a bit concerning.
You think the pest control got a hold of him here? A gorilla running rampant could be dangerous. Maybe you should check the zoo to be sure.

Don't worry, Boss. Once I get more Chroma, I'll pay an artist to draw some hardcore GinHiji BDSM.

[He won't let that go. He would have said HijiGin, but he won't ever let Hijikata top even just to annoy you.

He also is continuing to take your JUMP volumes and drop them on the floor until you stop him explicitly. Don't think he'll clean them up.]

Besides, I'm sure we'll find Kondou-san anyways. He'll probably go to the zoo himself. He likes to be in cages.

[If you know what he means.]

_{[ By now, he's given up on reacting much to Sougo. Go ahead, dump them on the ground. As a fellow sadist, he knows you just want him to react. ]}

Can you maybe.. I don't know.
Go find him somewhere else?

I just don't think we'd work out as room mates. We..

_{[ Are too much alike. ]}

.. have little patience.

Eh? You wanted us to be roommates? I didn't know you felt this way about us.

[There was a part of Sougo that did want to be roommates, but there's not enough space in this apartment for two sadists. He stops dropping volumes for a while to flip through one...and then he finds a panel of Nisekoi featuring Chitoge.]

Found the gorilla.

[Then he's going to try and r i p the page out slowly. Excruciatingly. Hoping you react.]

_{[ yeah no. He's gonna try to take Sougo by the collar and drag him out of the house. Nothing a little tape can fix on that tear. Hopefully. ]}

What do you think this is!? T*toro..!? You're in a new place now and you can make yourself at home?! Ah? Hah..!? No cute forest spirit will ever come to you!! Get the hell out!!

Eeeh? Boss, you're so rude. You treat all visitors this way?

[He's going along with you dragging him, but he's still trying to give you some resistance. And he's holding onto your JUMP magazine with the half-torn page.]

Someone help me! A silver-haired demon is kicking me out my home!

[Sougo calls out to the hallway and his tone isn't entirely serious. But look at his cute face. He's in so much distress right now. Who wouldn't help him?]

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