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▶ Tales from the Crypt
Moon Iris | top

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. Even the few shy moon creatures you find in the wild have strange crystal growths on their hides. This is far from home— perhaps a dream? You pinch your skin and slap your cheeks, yet nothing seems to do the trick. Searching for answers yields nothing but an endless expanse of purple dust as far as the eye can see. You have four options: one, panic; two, soil yourself; three, admire it all then soil yourself; or four, go into survival mode. Eventually, you’ll realize that you’re not alone.

After a day or two of living off the crystal wilderness, a group of people find you worse for wear. They are the gallant Moon Knights from the planet of Prismatica. After the strange phenomenon 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? Why did I eat those fifty cent street truck tacos last night? — 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.

While waiting for transport to be prepared, you may freely roam around the government center. Alternatively, you can ask the staff about the moon base. They suggest that you visit one of their excavation sites nearby: an enormous hole known as the Glory. The scientists have been excavating this site carefully for years, searching for a legendary ancient tomb sleeping within. They’re accepting volunteers if anyone is inclined to aid in their efforts. Perhaps the Moonblessed have the knowledge they need to make it a success!

A ⬤ A chroma-powered lift made of magically fortified crystal is used to access the lower grounds. Be careful not to fall off! On the way down, some translucent caterpillars and crystals light your way. Be quiet and keep an eye out for Queen Bowie beetles: these glowing neon bugs are attracted to music, and a single note will send them flying into your clothes and hair. Putting the beetles under pressure is not advised, as they will explode and send their sticky insides flying throughout the airspace, potentially stinging your eyes. This will make moving around in dark, cramped spaces all the more difficult! Thankfully, they get bored if no one tries to sing for one whole minute.

B ⬤ Scientists, engineers, miners, and archeologists are at the unearthed antechambers, hard at work. They will assign you to different tasks: recording observations and taking down notes, digging with advanced excavation tools, or collecting fragile relics with metal and crystal detectors. The Moonblessed may also assist with solving riddles the ancients left in the tomb’s doors, chests and walls. Solving them may lead to either treasure rooms or trap walls that close in on unsuspecting grave robbers. Others, well...

Golden jellyfish statues line the walls, encrusted with glistening jewels all over, some worse for wear. Tall pillars have numerous ancient runes which the Prismals are struggling to decipher. Soon, an eerie whisper reaches your mind: “Wander no further. A curse awaits all who enter our kingdom. Disturb not those who slumber in the deep.” True enough, the floor from this point onward appears to be blue sand combed in the pattern of ocean waves... Are you brave enough to continue drilling through?

C ⬤ If that is not enough to send you scrambling out with moist underwear, perhaps the seismic jolt to the ground will. A slimy substance begins to ooze out the tomb’s cracks, glowing lilac like the Iris moon... The Prismals are quick to usher everyone out before the shaking gets worse. As the lift may be too dangerous, climbing equipment will be provided. Watch out for falling debris or collapsing rocks while assisting each other out of cramped passages and up the walls to safety. Try not to get stuck in the slime!

This little adventure might leaving you wondering what or who exactly lies deeper inside, but the Prismals are just as clueless as you are. Cave-ins happen from time to time, but this might have been the strongest one recorded on this site.

Eventually you’re called to the docks and led onto a large transport vessel. Destination: Prismatica.

▶ Those Kicks were Fast as Lightning
Higher Lunatia, Level 1 | 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.

With the end of Harvest Boon, the city is calm once more. The streets of Level 1 and 2 are now sparkling clean as always, but Level 3 is still in the process of cleaning up. There are confetti and deflated balloons strewn all over the streets, but Swiffy bots are on the scene, sweeping up whatever waste they can get their hands on. Sometimes, they might even play tug-of-war with you for it. At one of the train stations, a Prismal doomsayer screams about the apocalypse returning. Passersby shrug at the conspiracy theory and move on.

A ⬤ In response to the unexpected rough events during Harvest Boon, the Moon Knights decided to hold free-for-all self-defense seminars at a large park near Lunatia Square. The live demonstrations include proper monster-wrangling procedures and how to efficiently keep a rogue moonheld (read: transformed under the moon) Prismal away. Participants are encouraged to learn and interact with each other to learn various safety practices and techniques. The training visors provided enhance the seminar experience, changing whoever your eyes focus on into a cerberus or other rogue moonheld Prismal on the visor’s display. Don’t use the visors for too long, or you’ll be seeing everyone as a cerberus well after you take the visors off! Fortunately, the effects only last for an hour. Energy drinks and free snacks are available to any worn-out Prismal or Moonblessed.

B ⬤ Virtual lunar conditions are also available via multiplayer VR pods in Lunar Scientia headquarters, simulating the Moonblessed/moonheld experience under full moons. Mental exercises and magic practice sessions are accessible in the virtual spaces, allowing people to test out their magical abilities and transformations. Simulation participants can either train by themselves, with a partner, or through a tutorial of instruction-based movements. However, the program is still in beta. You may experience errors or bugs like lagging, NPCs phasing into things they shouldn’t, weird physics, or body glitches.

▶ Meas Trees are the Bee’s Knees
Middle Lunatia, Level 2 | top

The rows of Meas trees planted this Harvest Boon are blossoming beautifully into view, painting the fields in Level 2 with colors of spring. Meas tree saplings each have a small sign next to them, displaying their owners’ written wish if they chose to disclose it. Interestingly, the color and aroma of each flower depends on the owners; fiery personalities might have red or orange flowers, those born in a coastal town might have flowers that smell like the sea near their hometown, and so on. Maybe you’ll encounter a familiar aroma if you’re lucky enough.

The Moonblessed who were most active with moonlacing the past few weeks have the largest trees, nearly rivaling the oldest Meas trees around. The older trees planted by Prismals over time can be seen in the next field, standing majestically with their swaying branches and flying petals.

A ⬤ Picnic grounds for flower viewings can be found near the fields. There are plenty of stalls selling homemade bruschettas, crostinis, sandwiches, wines, cheeses, and other enjoyable finger food. Notably, some wines may give you an insatiable desire to whisper things in someone’s ear. Sweet nothings, death threats, your secret kinks—no matter the words, you’ll want to kill someone softly with them.

B ⬤ The Swiffy bots that are assigned to the parks and gardens in Level 2 help keep things spick and span, but they’re due for maintenance and may attempt to sweep off any unfortunate picnics with their high-powered vacuums or leaf blowers. As they zoom across the paths, they chirrup about not treading on the grass and take off with picnic blankets, table cloths, and people’s clothes. Any nearby maintenance staff (who are all desperately trying to chase the bots) yell that a conk on the head will immobilize them. Once the malfunctioning bots are stopped, the staff approach to wheel them away while apologising profusely for the mayhem.

▶ Questions

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i; tales from the crypt (a)

[ A person with more common sense in their head would have found this whole otherworldly business quite worrisome, and sure enough she's aware that this is neither Chaldea nor the planet Earth itself. But all Marie Antoinette wounds up thinking about, upon living with shining crystals all around her for a few days, is how breathtakingly beautiful this place looks. It strikes her aesthetics in all the right places! The smile plastered on the Queen's face never waned even as she learned more about Prismatica, its culture, the moonblessings, and her supposed purpose here. If her services are going to make people happy, then it would be foolish to fight against her fate.

The descend on board of the magic lift is silent, and Marie looks like a bright-eyed child travelling inside an amusement park. It's difficult to stay still when there's a lot around her to explore. Those bugs also look like adorable living jewels, and she's tempted to poke at them to see what would happen. It's uncouth for someone her rank to do so, but she's not really concerned at the moment. When she doesn't try getting herself into trouble, Marie will shift her attention to her fellows in the lift, peeping up all friendly. ]

Have you never imagined you would have ended up in such a dazzling place?

ii; those kicks were fast as lightning (a)

[ Marie is best fitting for a festive environment that encourages mirth and pleasure. Taking all the time she needs to get acquainted with it, she can be seen walking down the streets with a regal air of confidence, pushing through with no fear of what or who might be of obstacle, and greeting everyone she sees with a delightful smile of hers.

When she finally does stop, not even a drop of sweat lining her smooth features, it's when she spots the self-defense seminars. She seldom needed to defend herself, leaving the job to knights who would shield her through thick and thin, but without the presence of her Master or her closest friends, she figures one session wouldn't hurt. There's so much time on her hands now, every option sounds acceptable to her. Fighting off monsters is normal administration for a Servant.

... It never occurred to her that training with other people could be so addicting! Her eyes ache a little when she finally removes her visor after hours of non-stop sparring. Blue eyes blink rapidly, however, when she still sees those cerberus monsters replacing the people she had been talking with just seconds ago! Fortunately, Marie reacts to the situation with the same amount of smiling as pretty much ever, and her hand reaches out to... pet the cerberus! They're not dangerous to her, so she can allow herself that much. ]

My, you're not so scary after all!

[ How would you react to a Queen patting your head and cooing like you're her pet? ]

iii; meas trees are the bee's knees (a)

[ A content sigh slips past her lips as she sits on the picnic blanket with the finesse of a noble born, plucking at the food sometimes but mostly watching the flowers with a peaceful gaze. Curiosity has Marie trying the available wine to have a taste of what the locals drink around here, but it's strange how certain urges flow her mind after merely taking a couple sips. She's not usually this weak to alcohol, is she?

Nevertheless, she soon leans into the personal space of the person next to her, and whispers softly in their ear: ]

Aside from being remarkably cute, what do you do for a living?

[ She snaps back with surprise, but the shock melts away quickly as she ends up giggling at her own shortcoming, curling a gloved hand in front of her mouth.

Well, she does think everyone here is cute. It's not unusual. ]

iv; wildcard

[ Tag me with a different prompt or reach me either via PM or on gaiamemories for plotting! ]

[Marie just happens to be next to her own executioner. At the sensation of her breath on his ear and the honeyed words that come from her mouth, he freezes like a deer caught in the headlights and all he can say is a soft and very bewildered:]

...What?!

[Oh no, now she's just laughing, enjoying this moment. Sanson's face flares into an almost violent shade of red and he opens and closes his mouth in utter confusion.

He just wants to fall onto the picnic blanket but that might be even more embarrassing than his current impression of a tomato.]

[ Sanson is so easy to tease. Though she wanted to apologize for the abrupt, cheap pick-up line, now she's immensely tempted to lay worse on him. ]

You do realize that your reaction just now makes you look even cuter, don't you?

[ He will explode and she'll be sitting there watching him burn. A good plan. ]

[To Sanson though, it was not a cheap pick-up line. Yes, it is also a source of overflowing embarrassment, but it is also attention that he doesn't deserve. Monsieur de Paris is not supposed to be cute.

Sanson just...buries his burning face in his hands and hopes that the blush has receded. (It hasn't, after he looks up at Marie again, smiling teasingly and having fun...at his expense.) Then he shakes his head, glancing away.]

...I think you have the wrong person. I'm not cute.

[Clearly someone should give him a cup of that magic wine.]

:^)

ringlette - 2019-05-08 14:54 (UTC) - Expand

MENACES!!!

painalty - 2019-05-08 15:00 (UTC) - Expand

FUFUFUFU ;^)

ringlette - 2019-05-08 15:27 (UTC) - Expand

Marie Antoinette | Fate/Grand Order

iii...for maximum death

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you guys are menaces btw

iii

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iii; step aside, sanson, this is how real men do it

swoons

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those kicks were fast as lightning

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1/2

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iii

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III!

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iv. a meas wildcard

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meas trees!!! late but i'm here

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