prismaticrap | ▶ TDM .019

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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.

▶ What’s Behind Door #1?
09/08 | Crystal Beach, Lunatia | Submitted by:

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 (

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.

▶ Questions

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NOTICE: We had a typo error on the log! Lunae is meant to be a satyr, not centaur. All typos have been fixed.

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[He turns and stares back at where they "came" from, but there's no visible rift anymore. But that doesn't mean it's not still there. It might have just moved.]

[After a few seconds, he sighs, resting his hands on his hips.]

...nope. It's possible there isn't one from this side, but since I don't remember this as the way we met, we must find our way back somehow. But it'll probably take a few days for the other side to figure it out.

After all, I doubt we're the only ones who have suddenly "taken over" the lives of their future selves. I have a feeling it's going to be a chaotic few days.

Well, now we're going to remember this as the way we met. [Which is a headache in and of itself, and one reason he doesn't want to ever be involved with time travel.]

Are you sure you're going to be all right?

Well, considering I just went from an aimless time in my life to suddenly remembering I have a daughter, a job, and a mortgage, and the dawning realization that this could very well have been a potential future that's now effectively impossible because of the way we've interrupted the flow of time-- no, actually.

[Something Yukio would likely know about his friend is the "price" of having such a perceptive mind. It's literally impossible for him not to overthink... well, everything. His biggest strength doubled as his biggest weakness.]

[Which is why he's just... gonna sit. Right here on the sidewalk. His brain is a little fried.]

But you were probably still new to this place, so it's probably not any less disorienting for you, too.

I arrived three days ago. [Three days and ten years.]

They just let me out of the hospital this morning, so I hadn't had any opportunity to get settled in. [Yukio isn't any less overwhelmed, because he's absolutely processing and overthinking all of this as well. He was just sixteen, dealing with the absolute lowest point he'd ever reach, and now--]

Do you want to go see your family?

Gee, your family has really bad luck when it comes to arrivals in this place.

[GONNA LEAVE THAT CRYPTIC MESSAGE FOR HIM TO THINK ABOUT LATER]

Ahh, but I don't know. Obviously there's a part of me that's screaming I should, but if I do, I think it'll just hurt more when I have to leave. So maybe I should start focusing on that instead.

[That said-- he has a phone in this world, right? Gonna just pull that out and see if he at least has pics... m-maybe he can transfer them across dimensions somehow...]

But what about you? Think maybe all of this will make settling in easier now that you literally know what to expect?

[By now he's used to cryptic Ranpo statements. Probably. That doesn't surprise him, at least.]

I don't think so. I was... difficult, at that age. [To put it mildly.] But it might help.

Maybe in the long run, then. Since I can see you denying that a future like this could even exist for you.

[He remembers Angstio okay]

Say, think I should try a little harder to be your friend this time around? I know it took us a few years last time -- but there's no reason next time can't be better!

Please don't feel like you have to, I was more trouble than anyone should have to deal with at that age. [But he'd appreciate it, absolutely.]

Well, if we're stuck here for a while, what would you like to do?

You say that as if it's a deterrent!

[It definitely isn't, Ranpo prides himself on being able to... mostly get along with difficult people. He may have a few exes who don't apply.]

But hm! Well, I guess I am pretty hungry... and now that I think about it, there's some great places I haven't been to in a decade! Come on, I'll treat ya!

[Yukio isn't going to push Ranpo to visit his family, and he isn't going to bring up visiting Rin or his family (family Yukio knows, somehow).]

That sounds good, where did you want to go? [Yukio isn't going to turn down free food, even outside of Cordis.]

I know the perfect place! It's a little nabe restaurant in the markets owned by a pair of koi prismals. Their sushi side dishes are some of the best I've had!

...I try not to think too much about how they got into that business.

[FISH SERVING FISH...]

[But that means off they go! It's weird that the city looks so foreign and yet so familiar all at once. Even ignoring the fact that he's clearly very happy here, there's something humbling about realizing just how much their presence really is helping this world. There's more birds in the air, weeds freely growing between cracks on the sidewalk as if it were completely natural, and the air smells so much fresher than it did before.]

[And true to his word, it's a very little place. In the ten years since, they've expanded to have a nice outdoor patio area, but inside, there's still only two tables of tiny proportions.]

[...but more importantly, the couple working behind the counter look like this.]

[FISH SERVING FISH.

Yukio doesn't have another set of memories to compare this city to, but he knows this one already, has a decade of experience with this world.]

Oh, this is nice.

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ah. the missing notifs.