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Prismatic Mods ([personal profile] prismods) wrote in [community profile] prismaticrap2020-09-08 11:33 am
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▶ TDM .019


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.





What’s Behind Door #1?
09/08 | Crystal Beach, Lunatia | Submitted by: [personal profile] machizumo | top

The recent torrential rains and showdown with the Viergian Queen Tempeste have shifted the sands of Crystal Beach and dredged up seaweed and flotsam from below. The slight mess coupled with the seasonal transition into fall makes for a quieter beach and a more open space, if you pick the right time of the day.

Kazuma Kuwabara ([personal profile] machizumo), one of Lunatia's Moonblessed, has done his best to pick the right moment. He's saved up his energy -his Chroma- as best as he’s been able to, and he's decided that he's going to give busting out of Prismatica a shot. He's not sure how good his odds are, but there are odds. While Kuwabara is only but a human fighter who won't really be able to stack up against the demons that he normally keeps in his company, he does have one thing that nobody else he's heard of has... the ability to slice through dimensions!

It's not easy to summon, but he manages it, reflecting on his home and how to best reach it, how to potentially help others reach theirs. It's just past dawn when a large, clean tear in reality rises up along the atmosphere just above the mostly deserted beach, as though the scenery were made of fabric being met with sharp scissors. Beyond the tear is a swirling vortex of color and more.

What more means, Kuwabara doesn't personally get to discover. His energy is expended almost instantaneously, and he grows solidly crystallized before he hits the ground. The rest of it... that's for Prismatica and the Moonblessed around to discover.

 B  The dimensional tear gives way to several more multicolored tears all across the planet. These strange rips have a strong gravitational pull that is near impossible to outrun. Find yourself close to one, and you may be pulled inside before you can even think to escape.

What’s on the other end? Inside, you find a scene of Prismatica ten years into the future, and the world is significantly more advanced. It is a time of great prosperity. The planet has been completely restored, flourishing with new life. Ten years' worth of memories flood your mind, and you have settled so deep into the culture and the world that you now think of yourself as a true-blue Prismatican. Maybe you have a good job. Maybe you have a spouse and three kids. Maybe you still think about home from time to time. Maybe you wouldn’t mind staying here with your loved ones. Hey, a lot can happen in ten years.





Fire and Brimstone
09/08 | Dimensional Tears | top

Not every dimensional tear leads to paradise. Some may pull you deep into the flames of a dying world, during the Calamity centuries ago. The first to greet you is King Majestas, his visage sitting on top of a throne built over a mound of crystallized bones. He fondly strokes his beautiful satyr lover, Lunae, as he encourages you to explore the vast wasteland. Attacking him is useless as he will disappear with Lunae after saying his piece.

 C  All Chroma has evaporated, and everything is covered in an endless diamond sheen. In the distance, you hear the screams of people dying and the constant sounds of crystals being ground up.

Eventually, shadows appear before your eyes. Possessing crystal horns and a crystal tail, these devil shadows are consumed by your worst sin and will not hesitate to hurt you and those around you. The slothful can put others to sleep and soon ravage them in their slumber, the lustful can awaken the darkest taboo desires in you, and so on. No matter what your worst sin is, the shadows will thoroughly enjoy committing vile acts until you submit yourself to them.





Closing the Gap
09/09 - 09/10 | top

A day or two after the dimensional tears start appearing, Lunar Scientia announces that they have finished analyzing the mysterious rifts and will proceed to seal them after rescuing the missing Moonblessed. They will be calling for the Moon Knights and any remaining Moonblessed volunteers to grab some dimension sealing equipment. Yes, you read that right. The tears will be sealed shut in nearly the same way one would vacuum seal food for extra freshness.

 D  These dimension sealers are not just any ordinary vacuums. They require an excessive amount of Chroma to power. Just hugging one person alone won’t cut it. Prolonged awkward and uncomfortable hugs with at least two or three different Moonblessed will do the trick.

The Lunar Scientia will suggest setting up camp with your chosen partners and dimension sealers near a dimensional tear. Spooning is naturally the most optimal of positions. The longer you moonlace and the more people you engage in contact with, the higher the effectiveness of the dimension sealers. A meter on the device will indicate when it’s ready to be activated, but beware of the sinful shadows from Prompt C trying to stop you from sealing the rifts.


Once the holes are sealed and everyone is rescued, the Lunatian government and mainstream media stations will start issuing friendly PSAs on all the public access networks about the dangers of cutting holes through the fabric of their universe.


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allthoughts: (pic#14296280)

[personal profile] allthoughts 2020-09-08 09:21 am (UTC)(link)
So you're not... Sen Lin'ly? Nagxian? Ishgardian of House Beaufort? Married to Sivert Dragoteur?

[ BUT YOU LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME??? Savia is confused as she pushes up her spectacles. ]

Hmmm. Curious.
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[personal profile] hoasen 2020-09-08 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
Sen Lin'ly? No, I am Vietnam, or known as Sen Linh Đoàn. From...Vietnam. But I have heard of Nagxia, as others from your world have told me, just like this Ishgard--

[...Hold on. HOLD ON. Ishgardian of House Beaufort?! Also--]

Married?! Married to who?
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[personal profile] allthoughts 2020-09-08 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Uhh... that's right, you're not Sen so you won't know who you're married to. Okay, let me think...

[ Savia goes looking around for a small jewelled box, hidden somewhere in her room. After a moment, she comes back with what looks to be a polaroid, handing it over. ]

Oh wait, not that one.

[ She takes it back promptly and replaces it with another. ]

Sivert Dragoteur. Warrior of Light. Your husband.
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[personal profile] hoasen 2020-09-08 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not Sen...other than sharing the same name, or...parts of it. Klair, I believe he is called, once showed me an etching of Sen herself.

[She wanted to say the appearance was uncanny, but she's also curious about this girl BEING MARRIED. YOU KNOW WHAT COUNTRIES ARE NOT. MARRIED. BECAUSE POLITICS AND IMMORTALITY. And some of them are downright jealous of it. She's not, she used to it. She's...

...

...

...Well, now she can see why this other Sen would marry this man. She quickly clears her throat, her cheeks heating up violently. She probably should notice that the girl there looks just like her, but you know. He's tall, he has tid, and he towers over that rather happy girl.]


O-oh. That is my husband. I mean! Her husband. [UGH UNFAIR. She's not jealous.] He's...rather handsome, no? And a Warrior of Light as well? My, how honourable. [Damn girl. You rolling. Look at this slice.]

A-and you just happened to have these photographs?
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[personal profile] allthoughts 2020-09-08 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Um, I have a bunch.

[ She takes out the tamatebako from atop her bed and picks up pictures at random. ]

This one is of me and you... then this one is with you and Francois...

[ She digs in a bit deeper, laying them out on the bed. ]

Here's me on my wedding day with my husband. Then there's Klair and Gareki being... themselves, I think. Here's Klair trying to put me into a new dress. Here's me carrying Fufu-san, here's... one I'm not going to show in polite company.

[ She puts that one back in the box. ]

Is that what you call them, photographs? These are memories imbued into Allagan holoplates.
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[personal profile] hoasen 2020-09-08 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[The bed that requires sheets, you know.]

My...she looks just like me, and we are close? [HOLD ON, THAT DUDE. She gestures towards it.] He looks just like an elven--ah, elezen version of my brother! [Something is up, here. Seriously.]

Ah, you look so happy on your important day! He's handsome too. [Not as handsome as the other fella.] But look at that, everyone looks happy. I'm guessing that smaller friend is also one of those Klair is looking for.

[Also did she take nudes. She totally took nudes.]

Yes. Here we call them photographs. I have not heard of this...Allagan. Holoplates could be familiar. Not something I know of, however.
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[personal profile] allthoughts 2020-09-08 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm. It's a long story, and not one I'm going to get to here but you're like my younger sister. This guy...

[ She points to Francois. ]

For all his faults, and his...

[ Savia sighs. ]

His propensity to bed people Francois Beaufort is a good man. I think.

[ UNSURE. ]

You call him... esteemed older brother in Nagxian? And me, esteemed older sister. Though you're not related by blood, he just adopted you when you were young.
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[personal profile] hoasen 2020-09-08 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[She nods,] Understandable. It is a long story and we've only just met... Ah? A sister?

[Parts of this sounds familiar. Being taken in. Having others be older siblings that you refer to them as such. And even his description was uncanny.]

It's...I am in a similar situation. That man looks just like my older brother. Someone who took me in. Even being a serial... Lover. One could say. And for you to be my other's esteemed older sister? I regret that I do not share her memories. It sounds like... You all have good relationships.
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[personal profile] allthoughts 2020-09-09 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
Good enough I suppose. I want to stab Francois until he realizes that he still loves his husband Arthur, but that's neither here nor there.

[ Savia offers a shrug. ]

So you're like my Sen, but not exactly.

[ Her eyes look down to that chest. ]

Are you also Doman C's here?
hoasen: (DEAD)

[personal profile] hoasen 2020-09-09 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[She has to pause for a moment, because if she's guessing correctly, Arthur would be very similar to...

Ah.

There is so much to unpack. What also needs to be unpacked is the fact that someone is looking at her chest, and now she's feeling self-conscious. Also. Doman C's?!]


I...is that the same...as Asian...

[C's...she wants to die.]
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[personal profile] allthoughts 2020-09-09 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
I'll take that to be a yes.

[ Noted, this Sen is exactly the same as the one she knows. ]

So you are... Vietnam? Not Nagxia?

[ moving the conversation swiftly on as she packs the photos away, but not before taking a picture of Sivert with her new phone and sending it to Sen. ]
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[personal profile] hoasen 2020-09-09 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
I...perhaps.

[AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Why is this happening.]

Yes. Vietnam. But I have heard of this Nagxia, a Cid once asked me about banh xeo. It is exactly the same.

[She hears the ding of a new message, and looks at it. And may have set it as her wallpaper.

She's not blushing. What makes you think that?]
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[personal profile] allthoughts 2020-09-09 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Cid?

[ It's like Savia's whole demeanor change. She's got a blush on her cheeks now and she's trying to not look embarrassed thinking about the other love of her life. ]

Cid Garlond?
hoasen: (over where?)

[personal profile] hoasen 2020-09-09 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! Do you know him? Yes, Cid Garlond. About...this tall. Strong, silver-haired.

[Is she blushing? Hold on, girl, why are you blushing? Aren't you married?

Ohhhh is this an open marriage??]


He was here, for a little while.
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[personal profile] allthoughts 2020-09-09 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She tries and gets her composure back. Trying, being the operative word. ]

My boss. And someone I admire a great deal.

[ Savia is trying to move swiftly on. Trying. ]

You'll have to tell more about Nagxia, sorry, Vietnamese food.
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[personal profile] hoasen 2020-09-10 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
[It's too late. Being what she is (a hot mess), she recognises this kind of fluster.]

A good boss, no? Ironworks? [See, she picked up from his business! But also she knew that someone needed to be good at money. That was her.]

Vietnamese food and this Nagxia food might be the same. How to say, we centre around five different flavours and senses. And also is influenced by my brother's cuisine. [HMMMM.]

I can always cook something for you.
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[personal profile] allthoughts 2020-09-12 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I'm hired by the Ironworks as an engineer in its Experimental Aetherology Division.

[ Pause. ]

I do things with energy.

[ She pauses again. ]

It's hungry work. Even though I don't eat a lot, I think I gained a taste for it when I had my child...
hoasen: (crystalline)

[personal profile] hoasen 2020-09-12 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[She nods firmly, how interesting.] Cid tried to open a business here related to Ironworks. Perhaps it would be a good idea to take it over?

And I can always make you more food if you require--...

[Hold on. HOLD ON.]

You are a mother?