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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.

▶ Rock Your Body Right
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Oh my god, they're back again. After taking more than a year-long hiatus, *BTSB (Backstay Sailor Boys) takes the planet by storm once more with their latest single, Anybody (Yeah). With an album out and a concert on the way, the five-man fox Prismal group from Amegahara has been busy with promotions. Their appearances on billboard ads, magazines, TV shows, et cetera make their worldwide handsome faces pretty hard to miss! Everyone and their pet robot in Lunatia can be found jamming to their songs, and every teenager on the street can tell you who their bias is and why.

B Be a part of *BTSB's Prismagram campaign and get a chance to win a physical copy of their album and backstage passes to their upcoming concert! Simply take a picture of you and your friends with official merchandise and post it on Prismagram with the hashtag #WeAreBTSB. Be careful, though: touching *BTSB merchandise tends to make people crush on the first face they see. The posts with the best pictures and stories will get their prizes in the mail on the 24th.

Why would a Moonblessed want to meet them, you ask? Community spirit! A sizable portion of the locals will start singing or dancing with you and your friends! “I want it another way. Tell me why? I never want to hear you say, I wish it wasn't that way. Don't be that way!” Play along and they’ll be willing to pardon your unpaid meal tab for one time or offer an incredible discount for one item you really wanted at the mall. The boys are also considered talented magic users in their own right. They might have some spells and magic tools to add to a Moonblessed's arsenal!

▶ What’s the Deal With This Pop Life?
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Before you meet these foxy boys, you'll want to do your research on them. Thankfully, their ridiculously huge fanbase (who refer to themselves as NAVY) has already done the work for you.

Suzaku is the leader and the brains of the group. Both his witty, rapid-fire raps and lightning-fast spinning breakdances are known throughout the planet. He is also a newscaster and likes making informative but interesting Prismagram posts. His brother is also an idol, albeit a washed up one-hit wonder.

Kaya is the group's down-to-earth mom friend and soulful vocals. He is the most responsible of the boys and handles their meals and laundry. A former delinquent in his youth, he now spends his free time cooking for schoolchildren and advocating fox rights. He does not support fox pelt products and owns an animal shelter for strays.

Lecter is a dancer who oozes with sex appeal. If not in the studio, he is always hitting up the gym. Once a member of the Little Moonblessings Club in his childhood, he has grown out of his boy-next-door image. Currently, he is #2 on Prismal Magazine's Top 100 Sexiest Men Alive for his well-built frame and photogenic looks. Contrary to his cool appearance and reserved demeanor, he is surprisingly personable. He is also a prolific actor. He likes cats.

Tarn is the baby of the group who maintains a gaming channel. He often does spontaneous livestreams where he does Let’s Play sessions, live Q&As, and encourages people to make memes of his face. He jokes about playing more LmaO than going to practice but he’s got clear and strong vocals.

Rasha is a narcissistic man who can’t get enough of his fans and himself. When hanging around his fans, he tends to ask if they have a mirror to look at himself with. Don’t let his vanity fool you! He’s funny, incredibly easy to be with, and willing to treat people to drinks. He writes most of the lyrics for the group’s songs.

C Every hour, you will receive a text from the official *BTSB fanclub with a link to a poll. The texts will not stop unless you answer the poll. Please answer it ICly, as the answers will affect the event later this month!

Upon voting on the poll, you will be redirected to a video and text chatroom where you will be connected to a random stranger who has also answered the poll. Both you and the stranger will then need to answer the following questions:

Do you think the other person in this chatroom can be your fire? One of your many desires? Tell me why. Be honest.
Among the Moonblessed, who do you think is tasty? The tastiest?

Until both questions are answered truthfully, it will be impossible to switch apps, close the app, or delete it entirely.

▶ Questions

If you have any questions regarding this test drive meme, please ask them in the Questions thread below.

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.

PRISMAGRAM CAMPAIGN - The mods will not will not be picking any winners for this contest OOCly. Feel free to assume your character/s won (or lost terribly).

PLAY ALONG - The gifts you can earn from playing along with the locals, as mentioned, includes free meals or drinks, a good discount for a high-end shirt, and so on. Feel free to come up with your own prizes OOCly this as long as it’s reasonable. You may not have won the lottery, but you could get a small token of appreciation!

NEW SPELLS AND MAGIC TOOLS - Details of these will be released in the next event!

POLL - Please answer the poll ICly, as the answers will affect the event later this month!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I. MOON CRASH

I-A | AWAKENING:
[ so, dying. shouta's expectations for the experience were pretty low. yet that's exactly what he was supposed to have done, and the stunt he pulled had assured him that he'd have a nice toasty seat waiting for him in hell, if there was one. but all shouta has to remember is the rush of it. the adrenaline, the flash, the searing heat that was so consuming he'd never even felt cold, before it was all over. in the moment, he never really stopped to think about what came after the fact, which was honestly kind of the whole selling point - so when vivid blue eyes crack open to a topsy-turvy blend of sickening sweet colors, shouta immediately frowns. ]

...the hell?

[ his whole body hurts, skin being aggravated by the closeness of the crystals. and so, he lays there. for how long? who knows. minutes, maybe an hour. maybe there's someone nearby. maybe he's just talking to himself like a lunatic. whatever the case, he breathes out once he's sure this is pretty real, groaning like he's just had the worst night of his life.

he reaches up to dig his palm against his brow, through the fiery auburn of his messy bangs. ]

Put me back. Sooner rather than later, if you don't mind.

[ it's cool, he'll wait. ]

I-B | WANDERER:
[ eventually, whether he's prompted to move or just hauls himself up from his prickly corpse throne, shouta manages to get a move on in search of... well, he doesn't know, exactly. but he expects he'll find it, eventually. or it'll find him. he can defend himself if necessary, but only for so long. what would his vice captain say at a time like this? "Shouta-kun!! Play nicely!" ...something like that. wisely, he repositions his holster belt around his waist so that his pair of the most extra guns known to man lay crossed at his lower back, concealed beneath his jacket.

it makes his approach to someone who looks to be in similar dire straits seem less threatening. sort of. ]

Yo. [ an easy enough greeting. ] I take it you're not one of the locals?

I-C | DOCTOR, DOCTOR:
[ one grouchy encounter with the moonknights later, since even on a good day, shouta mikoshiba has issues with authority, and this is an absolute shit day, thanks, shouta finds himself being poked and prodded and regaled with the tales of the moonblessed, even if he's trying to interrupt and getting increasingly more aggravated as he does so. ]

Yeah, sure, that's great and all, but how about you answer some of my questions - hey!!

[ looks like poking around his left clavicle is just enough to work shouta up into trying to get the doctors to piss off, because next thing he knows he feels like he's been walloped in the spine with a cattle prod.

and so our protagonist lays on the infirmary floor like an unkempt bag of potatoes. ]

I-D | VOYAGE:
[ once he's gotten the all clear, said bag of potatoes has been hauled into the cargo ship bound for the planet below and propped up into a seat until his paralysis wears off. he still can't feel his limbs, so he's just... there. limply staring out the window, half-processing everything. the only thing to denote that he's awake is his brilliant glower. boy, is he scowling, pretty face pinched from brow to chin. if he senses attention on him, he'll bristle. ]

What are you looking at?

[ down, boy. ]

II. WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE

[ somehow, being planetside doesn't make things a whole lot better. lunatia is a lot. bright, bustling, full of people who look like they took a wrong turn trying to get to the convention center. but despite his temper, shouta has a good head on his shoulders when he remembers that he has it. his boomer ass will learn how to work everything that's not a flip cellphone once he's found a place to settle and regain his bearings.

at the starter housing, he seems to have found a pretty decent place. sizable, furnished. nothing like that his salary used to buy, but not a rollaway cot surrounded by unpacked boxes, either. instead of fiddling with the aesthetics, he goes for the fridge.

just his luck that it seems he has company. sighing, he rests his arm on the open fridge, glancing off behind him. ]

Unless you have food or beer, go find your own.

[ personable as ever! ]

III. POP LIFE

III-A | GLAM LIFE:
[ at the ripe age of forever-24, shouta is under the impression he's way too old for this stuff. glitzy billboards, long lines for merch everywhere in - what is this again, level one? - and this new phone that won't stop going off no matter what he does. out of sheer spite, he finally opens the one of many texts to see the poll pop up. he picks at random just to shut it up, only to be taken somewhere else? for a long moment, he doesn't understand what's going on or the fact that he's apparently been connected with someone. if he weren't annoyed, it's likely he could be quite handsome...

but alas, it was not to be. all he hears is the beginning question and he's already rearing back. ]

Look, it's best if you don't answer that either, alright?

[ he will swipe left. ]

III-B | OFFLINE:
[ if all else fails and he can't muster up the good grace to stomach the chatroom obediently, witness shouta peeling his communication device off his wrist, winding up, and throwing it into one of the luxe decorative fountains around prismaplace. problem solved!

aka (newly) local man loses mind, news at 8. ]

IV. WILD CARD

[ hit me with any other kind of nonsense, i'm game. ]

[ This one actually isn't new, but Ayer headed back to the Iris moon base to check their library and other facilities. From the moon base's reading archives, to the Tower of Whispers, and the Lunatian Archives — there are several places worth checking from time to time. He happened to come across this sight as he passes by, the commotion enough to cause him to stop and observe the ridiculous scene.

Ayer was about to keep walking, but another part of him can't. He sighs in irritation before stepping inside the room, assisting the Prismals to carry the potato sack to the nearest bed. The doctors shortly thank him, happy there's a thoughtful Moonblessed here. They seem reassured with the presence of a veteran Moonblessed, thinking maybe the rebellious new one would be more willing to listen with him around. ]

They'll get to it. Just let them finish this.

[ Well, Ayer would know. He went through this way back then. ]

[ shouta's undergone a lot of shitty life experiences, but somehow this one is even more alarming than most he can think of off the top of his head that don't require some intense soul-searching. awash in an unfamiliar place, barely grasping at the edges of understanding... alive. that's the big one. this could be a nightmare, but it feels too clinical, and above all else, shouta is a man guided by his heart.

somewhere between hitting the floor and coming to, shouta realizes he's been relocated. his orientation's all wrong. blinking once, hazy - then twice, he seems to come to, bright blue eyes sharpening. he looks like he's going to heave himself up but luckily, he cannot. so his gaze shoots futilely to his bedside company. great, a brat.

so he settles for gritting out a half snort, half sigh. ]

"This" is far from helpful. Are you my babysitter?

[ all he'd been hearing was moonblessed this, moonblessed that. christ.

(he has one critical weakness, and that's listening to jargon when his vice captain isn't there to feed it to him in digestible chunks.) ]

Whether it is or not, the situation doesn't change.

[ This man is already here with him, so he should start accepting that instead of turning to purposeless sarcasm. It's not like Ayer wants to be here either, and there are many who wants to return to their respective homeworlds. But in order to do that, they need to adjust and stop being so difficult on those around them. Because they obviously can't make it through a world like this alone. If this man becomes a helpful ally one day, then he'll look forward to it.

In addition, Ayer's not snapping at the man (yet), only because he gets it. He was very irritable on his own first arrival and it took him a little while before he was more accepting of this strange reality. So he'll try to be as patient as he can handle, as he recalls his own first time in this medical area. As they converse, the doctors are able to peacefully proceed with the examination, see any injuries and so on. ]

Fine. I'll answer what they haven't explained yet. Do I start with where we are?

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