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.

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welcome to the jungle

Oh, hello.

[ Gyu-hyuk has been staring at an apartment door for awhile now. It's entirely possible that he missed whatever was said to him before, that someone else has been standing here for awhile too and he's just now noticed them.

He looks a little dazed, but then, this is a whole new experience for him. Everything is so exciting, so new. He tries to focus on the person standing next to him instead, but how he is supposed to make decisions? The apartment on the left or the one on the right? ]

Did you want one of these? You can take whichever.

[ And, after all, that would make the decision for him, and wouldn't that be nice? ]

what's behind door #1?

[ Ten years into the future is surprisingly nice, all things considered. While he'd never reach the height and acclaim of *BTSB, Gyu-Hyuk has made a quite a name for himself in the pop scene. It's slowed down some in the last couple years -- he's getting older, now! But he still regularly does concerts and has plenty of trouble wandering around downtown Lunatia on his own.

Of course...he hasn't learned. Hat? Sunglasses? Who? So maybe you find him accosted by fans and slowly drowning, pleading with you to please, hero, save him! Or maybe you find him darting down to an alley for a moment of peace before he goes back out there.

But really, even if he were smart enough to go incognito, there's part of him that wouldn't. All of this...he has to give back to his fans. To the people that got him here. It's only right, after all. So maybe he doesn't have much time for sneaking a coffee break, and maybe he's in the public eye and on social media all the time, but it's how it should be. And he's really, really happy.

(But please seriously save this poor boy.)]

fire and brimstone (spoilers possible in this prompt!)

[ It's hard to stay sane with all the screams. But someone has to, someone has to remain calm. It's the same mantra they'd all had to keep when they were stuck on the stage. Getting scared wasn't going to do anyone any good. Even as the sounds of crystals grows louder. Even as the diamonds seem menacing.

Two shadows appear before him, one grabs his hand and pulls him -- Come, sleep it suggests, don't listen to all of this, and what a nice idea that is. He leans on the shadow, closing his eyes slowly. It's not your fault, Lee Gyu-Hyuk, you can't help those crystals now. Yes, of course, the shadows are right, he can't help this.

But then the other grabs his other hand and pulls the other direction. Gyu-hyuk's eyes open, widening. This one looks far angrier, its claws digging into his wrist. The wicked must pay for their sins, it tells him digging harder still. He tries to pull away, crying out from the pain but he can't escape.

He's caught between the two, uncertain and unable to move, searching beyond them for anything besides the screaming voices of the dying prismals but with no luck.

Damn, he should not have come through this portal. ]

[ gimme that sweet sanity up, gyu-hyuk. ]

What, you mean you don't want the one that's bright pink?

[ oh, do they both have their eyes on the same room... oh darn... wouldn't that be a problem..... ]

You alright, Gyu-hyuk?

Edited (icon) 2020-09-20 00:22 (UTC)

Do-yoon!

[ Gyu-hyuk's face brightens up immediately upon seeing him, like the clouds have parted and the sun shines through. He's just so happy!! Rapport up just for being stuck in this place together! TOGETHER!! ]

It's -- it's really you! I can't believe --

[ He laughs a little bit, giddy to see they're still together. he steps closer, putting his hand on Do-yoon's shoulder. The touch feels so nice, when he does, is that the moonlacing they told him about? It feels so warm, how could he ever stop touching him if he's going to feel like this?

Belatedly, he sort of realizes Do-yoon asked him a question and he's giggling like a school girl with a crush and hasn't answered. Whoops ... ]

Oh, yes, I'm fine, sorry! I'm really glad you're here, too.

[ Ah... his smiling face really lifts Do-yoon's spirits. Boy, nothing restores sanity like talking to Gyu-hyuk. ]

It's me. It's good to see you too.

[ Which might be lip-service to anybody else, but Gyu-hyuk really is the kind of guy that makes Do-yoon want to smile. The touch might freak him out if it was anyone else, too, but this must be that moonlacing he heard so much about. It's nice...

Ah. Right. He's getting distracted. Let's try and learn more, shall we? ]

I'm really glad you're okay, after... you know.

[ Do-yoon looks away. He'd rather not think about "that," obviously, so he shrugs. ]

Did you wake up on that weird crystal place, too?

[ He wants to ask "are we dead?" but that seems.... like it'd be Sanity Down, u know. ]

[ At the mention of that, he frowns. It had been so difficult on everyone. The fact that they'd ended up here...did that mean the others were still trapped? It's not a fate he'd wish on anyone.

But he nods when Do-yoon asks about the crystal place. On the moon, they'd said, but he had sort of zoned out on the airship ride back to Lunatia proper. And now...here they were. ]

It felt strange, didn't you think? All those crystals?

[ Do-yoon can tell it's a subject neither of them wants to tread. That's a discussion for another time... ]

Yeah. It was weird. I'm still kind of expecting to wake up from this place like it's a dream, you know?

[ He pauses. A dream is about the only thing that makes sense. (Unless it's the afterlife, but again, we are not presenting that particular keyword.) The thought of leaving everyone else behind doesn't sit well with Do-yoon. ]

Maybe the others are here too...

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