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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.
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 | topThe 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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There's distance between Yukio and Rin now and Setsura plants herself firmly in the space between them. Rin's exclamation tells her enough. That alarm ringing crystal clear in her ears tells her enough. ]
That's enough!
[ Her voice is deep and unflinchingly commanding in such a way that it would be impossible to mistake anything about her statement as a request. It's the sort that silences gatherings of rowdy mercenaries and chaotic spirits and turns eyes to receive orders, an indomitable will pressed and exuding from her voice, from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet. She isn't clear on the events leading up to the moment she walked in -- Rin had to be close to Yukio and Yukio utterly unafraid despite the state he's in of Rin's strength, which he must know -- but she is clear about one thing. ]
The two of you will compose yourselves immediately. You will not fight here, do you understand?
[ She turns her eyes between the two of them. Between the two, she stayed closest to Yukio, and with that alarm going on -- shouldn't there be a nurse coming in? What's taking them so damned long? ]
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Tries, but that alarm is going off for a reason. The hospital has technology far beyond Earth's, but Yukio was supposed to lay still and quiet for the rest of the day, and there are consequences for not doing that. Consequences like tearing open internal stitches and starting up internal bleeding again, and the subsequent drop in blood pressure.
No sign of nurses yet, but the alarm gets slightly louder.]
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He stared at Setsura, panting with tears starting up again, gaze flickering between her and the mess of his brother on the hospital bed.]
I didn't-- ! We weren't--!
[Shaking fists clenched, caught between a sob and a snarl, why was everything such a goddamn ordeal with Yukio, he stomped past Setsura not to get at his brother but to go to the door and throw it open.]
HEY! WE NEED A GODDAMN NURSE IN HERE! NOW!
[Can he get a redo on this day? Please?]
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There will be time to address the matter of who was and wasn't fighting later. Now isn't it. Once she's certain where Rin's headed, she turns to face the hospital bed proper and sinks her finger into the call nurse button, looking down at Yukio.
Why?
But she doesn't voice that question, not now. Wires and monitors and healing magitech -- healing anything, really, that isn't Chroma or advanced first-aid or so many tips accumulated over the course of her first human lifetime-- is beyond her. It isn't her nature. She destroys; and yet -- ]
Help is coming. Listen to the staff and rest.
[ -- she says it low and quiet over Yukio's form in that same voice with a tinge of something else, softer, and turns. If the nurses aren't coming through the door by the time she gets to it, they'll wish they had been. ]
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What happened? [They ask, brushing past Rin and Setsura to check Yukio's vitals. A frown as they consider the alarm, and hit a button on their pager.
Yukio doesn't look up at Setsura, but he hears... something.
A doctor comes in, looks at the monitors and frowns, and immediately starts the process of getting Yukio out of this room and back into surgery.
The nurse takes Rin and Setsura aside. They want some answers.]
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Is he ever going to be okay, or is this just how it'll be from now on?
He can barely explain his side of it, every word thick and awkward on his tongue, catching in a bruised throat that was only just starting to heal by his own abilities.
He tries, though. He says he's Yukio's brother, but that he has been gone from home for over two years and in Prismatica for almost a year of that. That Yukio found him via the network directory but was hostile and not making any sense. That he tried to talk him down but was attacked the moment he was too close, said the wrong thing. He swears through tears and held back sobs that he didn't touch Yukio before that moment, that the upset and lashing out was on him, all he did was put his glasses on to try and get him to see he wasn't the same brother that had been (apparently) pummeling the ever loving shit out of him back on the airship.]
I just wanted to talk to him, but everythin' I say is a goddamn trigger to piss him off anymore... I didn't want any of this...
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That is, until Rin says that, that he'd put Yukio's glasses on and tried to get him to see he wasn't the same brother that had been pummeling the shit out of him on the airship. It clicks, then. The puzzle pieces shift and several critical to the matter at hand fall neatly into place. Setsura turns her eyes on Rin, a slender brow raised.
The words come back to her.
im
still upset but if hes that hurt and swearing at me then ive already done enough
or will
... time is fucking confusing
Rin knew. Before he'd arrived at the hospital, he knew, had some inkling as to when Yukio might be from, knew he was in the ICU, drugged and furiously fighting to communicate with his injuries, that he himself was ultimately responsible for Yukio being there, and he -- he didn't think. No, that isn't right. He did. He gave her clear reasons at that time despite Yukio telling him to stay away from him and went to confront his brother, anyway. Talk to, confront -- in this sort of situation, with the decisions Rin made, was there any difference?
And yet, here he stands, crying, insisting he didn't do anything 'but' and wasn't in any way at fault for what transpired between himself and Yukio, who's consequently going back?? Back into surgery.
She should have caught this, pressed it, but she won't stand for this degree of childishness. ]
Then, with your knowledge, you should have considered the situation before making the decision to disregard your brother's wishes and come to speak to him immediately after some version of you fought and injured him so badly he wound up furious enough to fight through drugs in the ICU upon arrival to message you.
[ There's a touch of disappointment visible in her eyes. It isn't that she lacks empathy for Rin. She thinks, perhaps, she knows better than anyone on this planet how much Yukio means to him, but that's all the more reason not to coddle him about the matter. If Rin had died...? If Yukio does from pushing himself because Rin put his own feelings and desires ahead of logical consideration? His brother's well-being? His own? Or did he really think this could go any other way? That Yukio would just shrug off a fresh battle with the person who'd put him in the hospital sitting at his bedside?
She turns her attention to the nurse. ]
I arrived and found Yukio choking Rin. I removed his hands from his neck carefully and he collapsed into the bed. Rin raised his voice to challenge him as I got between them and the alarm began to go off. That's when I hit the nurse's button and he called for you.
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Except that any keen observer would have noticed the temperature of the immediate area raising bit by tiny bit as a low growl of two words left him.]
Shut up.
[Pale blue was beginning to radiate from him, those shaking hands holding the most of it, very nearly flames. His head jerked up before anyone could even consider asking him what he had mumbled, face remaining damp and tears no where near gone but his eyes dangerously close to warping into those eerie blue twists that indicated he was quickly losing stability.]
SHUT! UP! You have no idea what it's like bein' related to him! How much bullshit I've dealt with because he never tells me anythin' then calls me a fuckin' idiot for not bein' able to read his goddamn mind!
[The center of his chest began to glow brighter, a familiar place to Setsura as she had been the first one to see him back from his trip home.]
All I've ever done is love him like brothers are supposed to, but he acts like everythin' I do is a fuckin' burden on him! You think I wanted to hurt him?! Ever?! I've let him punch me over and and over again and never once lashed out back at him so if I really did this to him I had to have a fuckin' good reason for it!
[He wobbled, caring not for those who were staring at him, for the nurses and even doctors who were inching away the blue glow increased into actual licking flames across his shoulders, hands, hair. He pressed a hand to his forehead as more tears slipped free, but rather than a sob it was a broken laugh.]
You think I'm just gonna wait while he sits there and insults me for somethin' I haven't even done yet? You really think... after all I've done... to live through that hell world, to make my life better I'm just gonna keep puttin' up with his bullshit?!
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She can hear it. There's anger, hatred, resentment in his voice, words. Pain, too, and frustration -- a plethora of negative emotions born from a complicated history spiraling into a tantrum before her very eyes. No, it's more than a tantrum and, really, it would've been one thing had he simply raised his voice to her, but to raise his flame, chest aglow as he continues his impassioned speech --
She'd told him to compose himself, that there would be no fighting in this hospital. She told him and he refused to listen.
If it was just the two of them, if they weren't in a closed environment, a hospital filled with injured people and medical personnel who could not possibly hope to remove themselves from the situation and secure their safety if things were to go awry, she might further entertain the idea of trying to talk Rin down; however, that isn't the case. It isn't just her health and well-being she'd be gambling were she to choose that increasingly dismal path because he keeps going, keeps talking, feeding that negativity, allowing, encouraging his heart to become more and more erratic until those licking flames spread, until he laughs and hurls those questions at her like stones.
Her reply is deceptively simple. It's with the same indomitable will exuding from her that Setsura steps forward and, mindful of the nurse's position, resolutely, skillfully draws her fist and drives it directly into Rin's face with supernatural speed and every intention of robbing him of consciousness. She doesn't pull it, curb it. She doesn't hold back near as much of that bone crushing strength as she might were he simply human and if he should move, retaliate, she's prepared herself for that as well. If this is the most efficient, cost effective way to force stability in him, she'll shoulder it. ]
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And then--]
You? [They say, pointing at Setsura.] Out, before I get both of you thrown into the Lightless. You can come back later today, once the kid's out of surgery.
He [they point at Rin] can wait until his brother is released from the hospital to talk to him. The kid doesn't need to go into surgery a third time.
[Before Rin can do that though, he is going to be staying to get looked over. Not in the ICU of course, but with an injury like that (a punch directly to the face, instant unconsciousness) he needs to be checked by a doctor.]
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I understand. If you mean to have a look at Rin, I'll exchange contact information with the receptionist and escort him home afterward.
[ With Rin in this state, it shouldn't be an issue for hospital staff to sedate him should he wake up and it prove necessary and with her strength, transporting him physically won't be a problem. ]
I'll return once I've confirmed Yukio's out of surgery.
[ She pauses very briefly now, with a deep bow -- ]
I sincerely apologize for the trouble.
[ She'll erase any doubts as to the sincerity of her apology later with an offering of some kind of food when she visits. For now, it's best to get moving. Yukio is going into surgery. The nurse has things to attend to and she needs to call Kohaku, affirm her next steps. ]