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Slime beneath me

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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.

▶ How to Train Your Dragon 2: Electric Boogaloo
City of Lunatia and Kingdom of Lyestellus | top

As the weather grows warmer and the skies around Lunatia clear up, the toxic fog that once clogged up the airways is dissipating. This is great news: air travel has now become easier, safer, and more enjoyable. The recent increase of renewed flora and fauna must have led to these new developments.

While a clean atmosphere benefits Prismals and Moonblessed, it invites dangerous predators to lurk closer to the border. Fortunately, friendlier creatures also start to flock to the city, including familiar faces from the Lyestellus Kingdom. Indeed, the baby dragons once raised and nurtured by the Moonblessed have grown into the mighty, noble scaleborn they are.

The dragons’ giant shadows blanket the metropolis as they fly overhead for a friendly visit. One of them carries their sovereign, King Shiryn Lyei Drastellus XIII. In light of the Nothing’s recovery and the Inari Highway’s success, the king says that Lyestellus is inspired to further deepen their relationship with Lunatia. He announces that the kingdom has developed a construction plan for a skyway connecting Lunatia and the mountains of Drasomnis.

The Moonblessed are welcome to join their efforts. Lunatia and Lyestellus will be sponsoring a labor exchange program to ensure that everyone is well-rewarded and kept safe on their way to Lyestellus. The dragons will be flying and protecting Lunatian locals and any volunteering Moonblessed alike. But as there are only so many dragons, everyone is expected to share seats.

Several of the dragons are known to be excitable. As they’re looking forward to inviting the Moonblessed back to the kingdom, some overly eager dragons may snatch even the most reluctant person in their jaws to carry the whole way. And when we say excitable, they might destroy a wall of your humble abode to reach you as they are particularly good at sniffing out anything hidden. But how long can you resist their puppy eyes and wagging tails?

 B  In Lyestellus, one of the available jobs is to wrangle and care for small chicken-sized dragonlets that seem to be especially attracted to Sanguis Moonblessed. Their parents are away because of the skyway construction plan, so someone has to babysit them. These wily dragonlets love to run around in their coops, leaving rainbow-colored droppings everywhere, pulling at your hair or clothes, and cutely singing to try and coerce the Moonblessed into spoiling them rotten or helping them get away with mischievous behavior.

They are also attracted to Chroma and will be attaching themselves to Moonblessed. If they are too excited, they might bite onto their arms, mouth, neck, legs, nipples, and just about anywhere they can reach to drink their Chroma-infused blood. If you experience excess blood loss, you can recover it easily with moonlacing, but it’s best to avoid getting cornered and overpowered by too many dragonlets.

▶ Rise and Wine, It’s Wine o'Clock
Kingdom of Lyestellus | top

Several job openings are now available at Lyestellus’ wine distilleries. The kingdom is famous for its Dragonfang Wine, a luxurious drink pressed from the fragrant wildflowers and aged in barrels of wood found only on the mountaintops of Drasomnis. The wine itself is a vibrant violet with a rich scent the locals describe as heavenly. It is traditionally served during special occasions. With the skyway construction plan in motion, they will be needing to speed up production in time for upcoming celebrations.

 C  One of the job openings is for flower pickers. This line of work is not for the fainthearted. As they climb up the Drasomnis mountains to pick flowers, they need to watch out for wild wyvern attacks. Their majestic wings are powerful enough to blow a person off the mountain tops and they are proficient in wind magic. Try to avoid fighting near flower fields, as their gigantic feet may end up crushing the poor flowers.

Another available task is to participate in wine tasting to ensure the quality is consistent in each barrel (spit buckets will be provided to each person) as well as to create a menu benefitting to serve for the celebrations. The goal of the menu is to bring out the best flavors of the Dragonfang Wine. For inspiration, the locals will be providing large platters of cheese and draconic mood music.

Be careful not to drink too much: the violet-shaded wine’s delectable taste could lead to overconsumption. Those who get drunk may display flirtatious “peacocking” behavior towards other Moonblessed. Watch out for the cheesiest of pick-up lines!

▶ Slime Beneath Me, Slime Up Above, Ooh, You Love My Toxic Love
Kingdom of Lyestellus | top

Like their previous visit, the Moonblessed will be allowed to stay in bubble-shaped dwellings surrounding a breathtaking mountain springs known to have mysterious effects during the evenings.

Bathing in the springs during the day provides great relief, especially to any hardworking person. It has restorative properties that accelerate healing and the relaxing experience paired with gorgeous views can reduce stress and anxiety. The Lyestellus locals consider it as one of their treasures and will encourage all their guests to bathe in them at least once.

 D  Unfortunately, the largest hot spring in the center known as the Eye of Basti has turned disturbingly discolored for reasons unknown to the locals. It was reported that anyone who comes too close to the water will be swallowed inside. For public safety, they’ve closed the center area of the springs but there is a job listing that will grant access to it.

Those who investigate will notice that the discolored red waters have a strange, thick slime-like consistency. Standing too close will cause the waters to rise and form blood-like tendrils that will indiscriminately grab at anyone within the vicinity. They will repeatedly attempt to drag people into their watery depths. If they fail to pull their target into the water, then a curse will be cast on them. Cursed targets will be turned into translucent slimes which will mindlessly crawl onto any potential source of Chroma to suck their Chroma dry. This includes another Moonblessed, local Prismals, the nearest lamp post, or somebody’s car.

Nothing you try seems to affect the bloody tendrils. But fight long enough in the waters, the natural Chroma of the Moonblessed will gradually purity and restore it to its former beauty. Those who were swallowed, including lost locals, will be able to resurface safely and those who turned into slimes will transform back to their original forms.

▶ 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.

DO I HAVE TO PARTICIPATE? ▶ As always, all content is optional. You do not have to be affected by any of the prompts if you wish to opt out.

HOT SPRINGS ▶ As stated, only the Eye of Basti spring is badly affected. All other hot springs are completely safe.

TRANSLUCENT SLIMES ▶ Color, size, and appearance are all up to player discretion. Yes, you may choose to have only certain body parts to be slimed.

Comments

[tigerpoet]

Thank you. [He steps inside the toy shop, taking a good look around.]

That would be amazing. That kind of communication could surpass language barriers, too.

[depthsofdespair]

[She follows in, briefly brought to silence as she looks around. This world is amazing. And now, with the context of her friend being safe, Lucy can enjoy it. Just a smidgen.]

It would. An international language of colour. [Saying such things aloud feels nice.] Let's see. With how interesting these toys are, I wonder if they have colour changing chameleons? It's such a waste of technology not to.

[tigerpoet]

[Atsushi finds a chameleon and reads the label on it.]

It says it changes color if you hold it together with someone else to moonlace. [He reaches for her hand again, and the plush chameleon changes colors to a bright green.]

[depthsofdespair]

[Lucy lights up just like the plush. How could she not? This is amazing!]

Impressive. [But while her face hosts a bright smile, Lucy keeps her tongue tamed.] Moonlacing toys, huh. If I'm living alone, it's going to be pretty disappointing.

[Note that she doesn't sound sad to say this. Lucy sees some strange beauty in that sad fact. It's something that becomes more precious if she isn't alone.]

[tigerpoet]

I'm sure Atsushi will visit you all the time.

[He's the type to fuss over his friends, after all, he'll definitely check up on Lucy more often than not.]

Or you could visit me and Ranpo.

[depthsofdespair]

[She lets go of his hand again, flustered at the thought.]

No way. I don't moonlace with cats, so it wouldn't change. [Said to guard herself, but instead giving away the truth. Thinking of moonlacing with her friend will colour her redder than the chameleon just turned.]

You live with Ranpo? Why?

[tigerpoet]

Well, he used to live with Yosano-sensei, but she disappeared... and the person from my world I was staying with disappeared, so it made sense to invite him to live with me?

[Also they're boyfriends. There is that.]

[depthsofdespair]

[Yosano was also here once. People can come and go. Lucy files these facts away for later. As much as she'd like to ask about the other agency members, it isn't Atsushi's job to keep tabs on her world. Lucy doesn't want to use a kind person like that.]

Yeah, that makes sense. [It does make her lonely, but that's fine. Lucy isn't close enough with anyone to even imagine living together. As long as she has Anne's Room, she will be fine.]

Ranpo seems [childish,] like he might appreciate a neat item from here. Maybe we should get him something to puzzle over.

[How naive of Lucy to think any puzzle toy would entertain Ranpo. In fact, she barely knows him at all. Likely evidenced by her suggestion.]

[tigerpoet]

He'd figure out a puzzle in two seconds, but he might like a stuffed animal...

[There's a brown cat plush with a little hat that catches Atsushi's eye.]

What do you think of this one?

[depthsofdespair]

Would he...?

[Note to Lucy: Find a puzzle that stumps Ranpo.

She looks at the cat.]

It kinda looks like him, doesn't it? Especially with its eyes sewn like that. It's cute.

[tigerpoet]

It's perfect for him, then. I'll go ahead and buy it.

[If Lucy catches a glimpse over Atsushi's shoulder while he's buying the toy, she might notice that the amount of chroma displayed on his device is a pretty absurdly high amount.]

[depthsofdespair]

[And Lucy takes her new chameleon. As she passes it, she does snag a small tiger plush too. Hopefully she has enough chroma for these. She isn't sure how to make a purchase, so watches Atsushi very closely.

Which means that she does see the absurd amount of chroma.]

Huh? Is that broken?

[tigerpoet]

Is what broken?

[???]

[depthsofdespair]

Your thing.

[She gestures to his device.]

Your number is waay higher than mine.

[tigerpoet]

You just got here. I've done a lot of moonlacing, so...

[Despite being a nerd, Atsushi has a very active sex life, which helps considerably.]

[depthsofdespair]

But what do you even spend that kind of chroma on?

[Lucy is beginning to imagine that this currency system is broken. And biased towards people who have relationships. It is now occurring to her that she may have an economical problem on her hands.]

[tigerpoet]

Food, mostly. Feeding two Cordises, with their higher metabolism, gets expensive.

[depthsofdespair]

That's... troubling.

[Lucy recognizes the term 'Cordis.' She didn't realize it could affect someone's metabolism, though. Is she going to have to budget for something like that too?]

I'm 'sanguis,' I think. Am I going to be eating my own wallet too?

[tigerpoet]

No, you'll just get a little more aggressive. It's not that bad to deal with.

[Iris is hell, though.]

[depthsofdespair]

Hopefully not the kind of 'aggressive' where I have to pay for damages.

[She can picture some ability users who would be a lot of trouble with even an ounce of temper.]

... I hope you're treating yourself too. It must take a lot of work to get so much chroma.

[Because disclaimer: Lucy hasn't even considered something like sex as a way of earning chroma. Tell her a kiss might pay her and she'll fluster at this point. Her physical contact bar isn't very high.]

[tigerpoet]

I'm not sure 'work' is the right word...

[His face is red. Please do not call him on this, he's a terrible liar and will have no choice but to be honest.]

[depthsofdespair]

It's something you do to earn currency, right? That's work.

[Sorry. She'll regret it if he does manage to say it, though.]

[tigerpoet]

I mean, yes, that's technically true... but some people have sex as their primary form of intimate moonlacing? And I don't know if I want to know what that would say about them...

[he doesn't want to be a prostitute]

[depthsofdespair]

Excuse me?!

[Lucy now realizes that she has walked into a landmine. At whole field of them. She hadn't even considered using sex for chroma...!]

Hah... Yeah, actually. "Job" is such a strong term. It's a hobby! Profiting from hobbies!

[Not much better.]

[tigerpoet]

...Are you alright?

[He's broken this poor girl's innocence, he feels awful.]