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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

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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.

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Eh?!

[Head empty, just hugs.]

What do you mean by that?!

[He doesn't care about the poke either, he's clinging to Usopp as if his life depended on it.

Hey, at least he didn't cry like he did with Ace (then again, Ace was dead) so Usopp is lucky, really.]

I mean if there's one thing I know, it's that you're the first guy to expect to see in the middle of a crazy situation! [ Half-teasing, half-genuine. Shenanigans are such a big part of pirate life.

Honestly, he didn't have any plans lined up that could outweigh "see Luffy, get hug, tote around clingy Captain" anyway. Clinging is one of the oldest Usoppian hobbies there is. It's free real estate. ]

And this is definitely one crazy situation. Nothing makes sense and there are a bunch of scientists with vessels they can send through space! That's got our luck written all over it.

[ The transport vessel trip was cool, yet terrifying. Space is scarier than any ocean out there. ]

Hey! I'm not always in the middle!

[He could be on the side fighting Big Mom's kid instead of Big Mom, for example.]

Isn't it amazing!? Franky would love it here! Oh, Oh! You can turn into half animals here too! I'm a deer most times!

Haha, says you! [ Sniper's privilege is considering everything that's not 2 miles away the middle. Even though he can't judge just based on the amount of times he's had to end his fights by hitting someone with a hammer??

Note to self, Usopp: hypocrite. ]

Franky would love to see some of this stuff, huh? Maybe I'll be able to take good some notes for him!

[ He doesn't have to feel fully confident that any such notes or sketches will actually get into Franky's hands to put out the nice-sounding idea that they maybe could someday. ]

[ Franky whomst, bigger fish to fry here and they're all named animal transformations. ]

A-- a deer? Like Chopper or the Minks!?

[ A scientist earlier, probably: you're a Cordis, let's talk about moonblessings and transformations, if you'll look at this slide...

Usopp, pretending to take notes but mostly internally still panicking about the "different worlds" part of the seminar: ah, that's very interesting information and I am absorbing all of it :) ]

Yeah he'd have a blast! too bad he hasn't come around. Oh! Sanji was here before! [A small pause.] ACE IS HERE! he's not dead anymore! ...Oh and Sabo is here too, he's also not dead!

[Shishishi, He's happy ok?

Then he shakes his head because nooooo it's not like Chopper or the Minks!]

No, no, just.... Let me show you.

[He takes his weird phone device thing and opens a picture app, and shows Usopp a badly taken selfie, where Luffy has deer ears, freckles all over.]

T'is not in the picture but I get a tail too!

[ Usopp is gonna keep a nice running tally of all the not-deadening going around. He assumes, quite safely, that Luffy is not dead.

Kinda sucks to hear the past-tense on Sanji. The more of their crew around, the better, in his professional opinion. If he thinks that way, he knows Luffy probably feels that way times ten, though.

Usopp leans in to investigate that selfie with the most skeptical of eyes. It's not the clearest picture, but it does get the point across pretty well. ]

How are you so casual about getting transformed like that! It's your body we're talking about here!

[ Not that it doesn't look kinda cool. Even Usopp can't lie hard enough to pretend he thinks it's not kinda cool-looking. ]

I've been here a long time you know?

[He sighs.]

As weird as Wano is, I kinda miss it.

I don't know about missing it, but we've got a lot to do there still. It's a pain to have something like this happen right in the middle of everything. [ Missing the others goes without saying. It would be nice to all be together again. Feels like it's been forever. ]

How long is a long time, anyway?

[ Even Luffy's best guess at it is better than nothing. Long enough that turning into a freakin' deer man doesn't freak him out (or, well, Luffy being Luffy, maybe it never would. it doesn't seem like a new really cool transformation he found out about, either).

Usopp takes advantage of the Huggening to preemptively tighten his grip a little. Giving or getting, bad news goes down easier with an armful of important person. That's basically science. ]

Right? I can't fight the big bads if they take me away from them!

[Luffy laughs, and squishes Usopp back, shaking his head.]

some months? Let's see... I was here during last summer so... Almost a year?

A... year... [ Usopp takes the cool route of all well-practiced liars and lets his face freeze while he absorbs this knowledge. Almost a year. Almost a year? But almost a year is--

that's almost a whole year!!! Who approved that? Nobody approved that.

And he only mentioned Sanji being around for a while!

This isn't some horrifying isolated place to be hanging around, and it's not 2 years staying away for constant training, and Luffy's brothers are apparently here which is obviously good, sure. They aren't exactly on the books for sitting down to hang out back home.

Not as lonely-sounding as it could have been. He's sure he'll be thankful to anyone who made it that way for Luffy. Still pretty lonely-sounding as far as Usopp's concerned, because he has a very specific set of standards. It's a lot of time for a captain to not have his crew.

Usopp's struggle is, surprisingly enough, less trying not to freak out and more trying not to tear up. He's moderately successful. ]

[ What's the most important, here? What can he do that he can do, because there's no magically fixing what's already over?

If there's one thing Usopp knows he always has been really good at, it's-- ]

Jeez, so you're basically an old man compared to me now, huh?

[ Taking a breath, finding something to smile about, and getting through a day at a time, hopefully with a side of someone having fun. Also being obnoxious. Which is sometimes related. ]

I dunno if I signed up to serve under a Captain who could be my grandpa!

EH?!

[Luffy actually pushes Usopp away, but still holds onto him. HOW DARE?!]

I'm not old! If we're gonna talk about old, then Sabo is old! Not me!

[ It's too late, this moment is where he lives now. Him and his poor ancient friend. Truly it's heartbreaking...! So heartbreaking that all Usopp can do is laugh at him. ]

Older than you! You really went and turned 20 somewhere, Luffy! I'll have to get you a belated gift for a mature adult!

[ Okay that's a lie, he's absolutely gonna do something stupid and regrettable, like amp up a potato cannon. ]

Well, YES but Sabo is 22!

[He pouts because he's still Luffy ok?]

What are you going to give me? is it meat?1

[ HANDWAVE. ]

Yeah, but I don't even really know that guy. It's not as fun.

[ Give him time, he'll be obnoxious and dumb at everyone in the ASL brother set before too long. ]

And it won't be meat! Anyone could buy meat! It'll be something special!

Hey, it's not "that guy"! is Sabo!

[Luffy get's excited now, he can get something cooler than meat?]

EH?! WHAT IS IT?!

I'm gonna leave making fun of both of your brothers up to you until I know them better, is all.

[ Eh, give him like a week. It was easy to start messing with Zoro and Sanji because of all the life-threatening dangers they bonded through right away. ]

And I don't know yet! I guess I should see what kind of stuff they have here. Every town's got something I can put into an Usopp original.

... Fine.

[He's pouting! SO MUCH!]

So I have to wait?

Sorry, Luffy. Even if I carried around emergency birthday presents, most of my stuff is gone.

[ He's still salty about it. Not so salty that he doesn't try to give Luffy an apologetic pap on the head, but distracted enough by it that the head-pat is half face-pat.

If it turns out they stole it all before he woke up in that cave, he's gonna be pissed off. It's not cool to do that even if he's a pirate, wow. ]

You're gonna have to give me some good ideas while you show me around!

Oh, right, they get rid of everything here.

[He's lucky he still has his hat really.]

Sure thing! Let's go to my place first, so you can eat! We have lots of food!

[ Is Usopp not petty enough to be relieved that it's not just his stuff that fell into the ether-- nah. He's super petty and very glad it's not just his stuff that's gone.

It's so nice to have Luffy here. Luffy makes it easier to be excited for things. ]

Lunch first! Let's go!

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