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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 was a small part of her that was pretty sure Hijikata might have been stretching the truth a little though, not about them being safe, but... when it came to Sougo, she knows the two of them can be a bit rough with each other. It's how they bond after all. (or how she always took it anyway)
She laughed a little, her eyes falling onto the table for a moment. ]
And... you don't look ill, that is a blessing as well.
[ She was warned that not abiding by the world's strange touching rules, it could spell danger, and Hijikata could be rather stubborn sometimes. ]
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You don't have to worry about me. I'll live through anything.
[Like he lived through his rough adolescence, through ambushes and raids with the Shinsengumi, through the night he killed her fiancé despite being shot in the leg and cut up in various places... he'll always walk away alive. Mitsuba, though, is a more fragile existence. There's a part of him that's screaming at him to use his chance to finally hold her, apologise to her, tell her what he really felt for her all along, before it's too late again, but despite the years that passed it's not a single bit easier to do any of that now than it was back in Bushuu.]
...
[He just keeps eating and drinking, hoping she'll do the same. Making sure she gets some sustenance is all he can manage to do for her, it seems.]
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[ She let out a soft laugh as she reaches for her drink to take a few more sips from it. As soft as a woman as she might be, she still had that Okita stubbornness flowing through her veins as well, and even if she believed Toshirou, Sougo, heck even the rest of the Shinsengumi would be fine without her fretting, she wasn't going to stop fretting anyway. her heart just wouldn't let her. ]
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Hah... without you looking after us back then we might not have survived long enough to even hear about the Shogunate needing swordsmen.
[Is he even exaggerating? As the sole woman who went in and out of the doujou she wasn't just a treasured companion to the men but also someone who knew better than most of them how to treat a sickness or how to make the most of what sparse meal ingredients they sometimes had for everyone. A small genuine smile appears on his face, and he doesn't fight it.]
Thank you for taking care of us.
[This is probably what Kondou would say if he were here. As the vice commander he has to stand in for him! (Excuses, excuses.)]
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[ She let out a soft sound of amusement, trying to hide her smile behind the drink she was holding. It's true though. She spent so much time watching over Sougo, and making sure the boys had enough of what they could get, but really... ]
Being able to see you all every day, it was for me too. For that small bit of time I felt like I was free to laugh and play with you all as well.
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There are many good people here, Mitsuba. I think you will feel happy here.
[When no disaster is happening, that is. God, he needs to warn her about all the doujinshi trope traps and shenanigans... but then again why shouldn't he leave that to Sougo? He can deal with that awkwardness! Hijikata is already struggling enough right here and now. But this line of thought brings some other important pieces of advice to the forefront of his mind.]
I'd be glad if you mainly kept to the upper levels as much as you can; those are safest. Level 3 can be dangerous, and Level 4 is pretty much off-limits for any law-abiding citizens.
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[ because she knows for a fact Even if there weren't more personal feelings behind it, Hijikata would still worry. And if Sougo really was here, he would too, and become rather upset if she fell into a dangerous situation like that. ]
What about enjoyable places? Is there anywhere you enjoy to be when you aren't working?
[ Was... he working too hard like back home? ]
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Hm... I like the Roman Holiday. It's an Italian-style bathhouse. I go there several times a week after work; it's very relaxing.
[Also Caesar works there, so once Mitsuba has gotten to know him she'll be greeted with a smile each time she visits! But Hijikata isn't thinking of that right now.]
There's a petting zoo here in the Greatmoon Groves; they have lifestock and small animals like rabbits and such.
[Come to think, why are so many Prismal animals and plants so similar to those on Earth?! It's really too convenient! But he doesn't want to wreck his brain over this right now.]
Luntatia is as packed with entertainment as Edo, but even more varied, I'd say. There are themed cafés, virtual reality pods for playing games or just reliving memories, communal kitchens, 4D cinemas... pretty much everything you could want.
[Since Mitsuba never had the opportunity to truly explore and enjoy Edo he wonders..]
Is there anything you would like to try in particular?
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[ She says as if she's all that old. ]
Oh, but the petting zoo sounds delightful as well, but it would be a shame to go to such a place on my own...
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[That was sincerely the first thing he thought of - Sougo likes to visit the petting zoo, especially during the Iris cycle, it seems -, but just a second after the words leave his mouth he feels searing regret strike him like lightning. Did he just shoot her down?! Again?! Or wait, wait, maybe he's completely overthinking this - who says she meant to imply that she wants to go with him?! Why is he so presumptous?!]
O-otherwise I can show you around, too. As a long-time resident.