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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[You'll just have to do your best, Tanjiro!]

Ah, so it's Inosuke-kun keeping you busy. [She tries to take comfort in the fact that he isn't completely on his own— although she does wonder if most of his time is kept keeping the other demon slayer's explosive energy at bay. Shinobu follows, sparing the beach only a brief glance before returning to the path before them.] Almost nine months is still a long time, Tanjiro-kun.

I don't suppose you've run into anyone else while you've been here? [Such as the other pillars or even someone of her household? A part of her isn't even sure if she wants him to answer. In fact, she's almost certain she merely wants to hear him talk right now. Just exactly what is she to expect here?]

[What a very extremely loaded statement. "Keeping him busy" is one way of putting it. He makes a bit of a face at the statement, chuckling with a nod, and some part of him is glad he's facing away from her. Inosuke was always a handful, but somehow even more of one, here.]

[He hums, raising his lame arm enough to wave it like a wrinkly little flag, tossing a grin over his shoulder.] It is, but it's good, since it means I can fill you in, right?

[He shakes his head, then, turning forward.] Zenitsu was here briefly, and apparently you've been here before, along with Giyuu-san. You two were here before I was, though, a friend I've made here knew you.

Tomioka-san was here too? [Somehow she isn't too surprised about that, or even about herself being here. Just by being here for a short while has already led her to believe that stranger things have probably happened.] How interesting!

And now you've come to live here. [She allows a moment of contemplative silence to linger there before she smiles at him.] You've been working hard, Tanjiro-kun.

But I can't help but feel as though there's more you need to tell me. [Considering the nature of this place, well... she has a few guesses!!]

[He nods, stopping to scratch at his cheek absently.]

I have to say, I'd be a little worried about Giyuu-san in a place like this. [Affection of any sort absolutely did not seem the man's strong suit. Or Shinobu's, really, but he figured it was probably only a matter of time before she designed some kind of medicine to emulate chroma, or something to make its generation not require contact. He wasn't sure which to expect first.]

[He scrunches his face, looking back over his shoulder at her again, and then it becomes a face-scrunching smile, accompanied by a laugh.]

Well, let me start off by asking what you already know. Just so I don't repeat anyone else. [He might be stalling.]

Let’s see, [She presses a finger to her lips.] From what I understand, this world is dependent on its inhabitants to produce a certain kind of energy? For some reason or another only us outsiders are able to produce it indefinitely, so they’re willing to offer us housing and citizenship in return for generating this energy.

Unfortunately... [She wrinkles her nose.] the most efficient way to produce chroma is through touching or other forms of physical affection.

Honestly, who thought of that? [She laughs but it sounds fase even to her own ears.] Now, if I’m not mistaken about anything I’ve just said... you’ve probably accumulated your own amount of chroma, Tanjiro-kun.

[She goes for the kill, poking at his cheek once with her finger. She might be teasing now, but her smile becomes sincere after.] But of course, that’s no ones business besides your own. Don’t worry about admitting anything simply for my sake.

[Not that she wouldn’t mind seeing him embarrassed but...]

[He nods, humming in agreement as she goes through her explanation of what she knows. So someone had pretty much filled her in already, that was... At least some degree of helpful.]

[That is, until her finger is pressing into his cheek and his ears are turning about the same color as his hair, because even if he's a fair amount more mellow about it now than he was even a month ago, this is still the closest thing he has to an older sibling or a mom, from home, basically calling him out on getting some. He recoils from her, waving her off with an awkward little laugh.]

I've been getting by, how about we leave it at that? Anything more might be oversharing. [Especially if she comes to live with them. Cough.]

[IF she does, which might be a bit of a stretch. Living with men… very unlikely!!] Sure.

But I’ll find out eventually, you know. [Somehow she manages to say that with a light, disarming smile. She brings her hands up to her lips, smothering a chuckle there.] It seems Tanjiro-kun really has grown up… I suppose you couldn’t remain naive forever.

Ah! [She perks up.] That’s right. Have you had a chance to practice your swordplay at least?

[Shinobu how do you manage to be so sweet and so, so very unnerving at the same time. He makes a quiet sort of squashed sound in the back of his throat, and the red creeps inward across his face.]

I'm still pretty naive, this place just... sort of guides you along, and it's a lot easier to learn about just about anything with the resources available. [A beat.] And I can tell you! It just..., is kind of awkward, I guess. [He'd maybe rather tell her himself than have her learn elsewhere. Because elsewhere would probably involve absolutely no tact or finesse. Not that he had a wellspring of it, or anything.]

[His expression pinches slightly.] Not... a whole lot, recently. [He picks up his left arm, letting it dangle uselessly from the elbow.]

▶ TDM .019

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beef jerky arm icon because i can

thanks!! i hate it :')

SAME... i say, as the one who canon updated him

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make a “swordplay” joke I dare u

oh my god, also return of the beef jerky arm