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This Must Be...

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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
Lunatia | top

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?
Lunatia | top

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:

1. Do you think the other person in this chatroom can be your fire? One of your many desires? Tell me why. Be honest.
   
2. 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!

Comments

[hynobius]

[ He's talking to the twenty year old who crushed four phones in a row and had to wait a day to get another, this guy will live. ]

I just picked the first name I saw. I didn't know it'd be this annoying.
Maybe if I crush it it'll stop for both of us.
:/

[anemoneae]

[ That's powerful. Shogo would die, he can't give up technology... ]

Yeah I pretty much did the same thing.

I guess it's worth a shot. But I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't work. That would be too easy.

[hynobius]

Where are you?
I'll crush your phone for you.

[anemoneae]

[ Stranger danger........... Shogo's puny, he could not take a guy who crushes phones. ]

Uh, no thanks. I'm good.
Did you try crushing yours yet?

[hynobius]

I'll get scolded if I do that.

If you want we could try answering the questions but...
I've only really tasted a few people here.

[anemoneae]

So breaking my phone would be OK?

It kinda seems like we'll have to.
Hold on, *what*?

[ He really hopes it's a sex thing. ]

[hynobius]

I doubt any of them would care.

[ Because he's a stranger -- which shouldn't be taken seriously, especially when he's going based on the fact that he doesn't particularly care whether or not they'd scold him for it. ]

It's a long story.
Depending on which moon you're under you may experience the same thing.
Has anyone told you that you're a Sanguis?

[anemoneae]

Wait, who is "them"? You mean like the people in charge or what?

[ Is crime not punished in this weird simulation? Well, stranger things have happened... ]

I did hear about the moons and the "blessings" but none of them mentioned tasting people.
I dunno what I am yet. Sanguis is the red one, right?

[hynobius]

Don't worry about it.

[ Han "I'll do whatever the fuck I want" Yoohyun doesn't listen to the law... He listens to webnovel protagonists who could probably beat his ass. ]

That's right.
The moon can effect your mood, and for Sanguis a person can become more aggressive. Depending on your traits you might develop a big appetite, y'know.

[anemoneae]

[ That sounds fair tbh. Shogo will drop it because he doesn't want to make an enemy out of a guy who wrecks phones. ]

An appetite for... Oh.

[ Hm. Yes. That. ]

I've barely been here a week though, how am I supposed to answer this question?

[hynobius]

Not like that.

[ ... Okay... Actually... ]

Partially. I mean, a little.
You'd get in more trouble if you end up biting someone's arm off than that.

I dunno.
Eat someone.
Have sex.
Figure it out.

[anemoneae]

I'd sure hope so.

[ Getting into trouble, he means. Even if this world's rules are kind weird, there should probably be repercussions to eating people? Wait, why did his thoughts go this route, ew. ]

I'm not gonna eat someone!
But... I guess...

[ It's been 13 long years for Shogo... more than that, because let's admit it, you never got past first-base with Ichika, did you? ]

In the meantime we're both stuck with this annoying app.
Can't we just lie and hope it works?

[hynobius]

You might not be in the right mind so don't that with confidence.
Though I heard from others that theirs isn't half as bad.
It really depends on the person, I guess, you seem mild enough that nothing would happen.

[ DAMN ]

We can try.
What's your name?

[anemoneae]

I seriously hope not.
Did you get Sanguis? Is that like, the one where you get super aggressive?
I hope I don't get that, no offense.

[ But if that's the case, then okay, I guess that might explain why he makes it sounds so awful. ]

Shogo. Yours?

1/2

[hynobius]

Yeah.
No offense taken, I personally don't see anything different.

[ That's because he's insane but that's beside the point -- ]

Okay.

[ It takes him a few minutes, but soon enough he's making an attempt at the questions asked: ]

1.) Maybe. He seems like a herbivore man so I might end up eating him, but I guess that's the point. Sorry.

[hynobius]

[ A cheerful sound comes out of his device, cheering him for answering one question. Honestly speaking it was too easy to seem honest so long as he didn't feel anything at all, hallowing his feelings out so that the system believes him.

-- Now how about the second? That might be a bit harder for him to lie about. ]

Han Yoohyun.

[anemoneae]

Hey, what the hell? Do you seriously eat people?

[ Does he want to know the answer to that? He can't even take the herbivore thing as an insult, if the opposite is... well. ]

1. I'm gonna go with no, considering he might eat people. I'm really not into that.

[ Well, at least it's an honest answer. ]

[hynobius]

There's two meanings to it, so I guess it'll be a mystery until you figure it out.

[ anyway ]

Pity you don't know how to lie.
:/

[ he's OFFENDED ]

[anemoneae]

Great. Have fun with that.

[ Alas, Shogo is too much of a virgin to get on Yoohyun's level.... ]

Look, I don't know how this shit works. Maybe lying pisses it off or something!

[hynobius]

[ Well he can't say that he straight up lied in case it goes against him so -- ]

You can make anything sound honest if you try a little.
You sound old.
Forty?

[anemoneae]

Ouch. Do I seriously sound that old?
I'm thirty.

[ Should he be telling people his age when he doesn't look it? Not like he asked to look like a teenager. ]

[hynobius]

I wasn't too far off.
You're only ten years my senior...

[anemoneae]

"Only" ten years? You're just a kid.

[ No wonder he's such a pain in the ass...

[hynobius]

I've been legally drinking for a year now.

[anemoneae]

Congrats.
I'm sure you're super proud.