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▶ TDM .003
▶ 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!
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.
▶ 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.
▶ Questions
If you have any questions regarding this test drive meme, please ask them in the Questions thread below.
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
If you have any questions regarding this test drive meme, please ask them in the Questions thread below.
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So having to make a point of it to this impostor seems wrong, but a sharpness enters the stranger's eyes and his voice that has Steve wondering if there's more to it than some kind of mistaken identity.
Strange as it is to not be recognized, that's also been Steve's goal for the past few months. More than that, some kid who's apparently in the midst of World War II wouldn't necessarily be able to place him, not with the beard and extra years added onto him.
He squares his shoulders, almost instinctively. ]
Steve Rogers.
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Not to mention what the stranger actually says, a reference that a random soldier from the front wouldn't know to make. Steve mirrors that huffed exhale, confused but also coming to the slow realization that this might be a strange, unexpected opportunity. ]
I don't get it. You're him, but you're not him.
[ Does this have something to do with where they are and how they got here? ]
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[ And it's clear Bucky isn't going to encourage this weird tangent right at this minute. There are bigger fish to fry than "Buck, I'm acting weird again as if we weren't just together doing a thing!" ]
Let's pick one crisis, for now, and stick with it. Personally, I vote for "where the hell are we."
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If you're Bucky, you're not the Bucky I know from home. You look different, for one thing, and you obviously didn't recognize me immediately either.
[ What could it mean? Did wires somehow get crossed when they ended up here? Steve's never had much cause to consider the possibility of an "alternate reality," but this entire situation is making a good case for it. ]
That, and... [ He redirects his gaze forward for this part, because he can guess how it'll come across. ] It's been a long, long time since the Second World War, for me.
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So you're from the future. [ He says it like that's totally a normal thing that happens in the real world. For the Invaders, it is. ] What year? Two thousands? No wonder you look so, uh... worn.
[ That's his best attempt at diplomacy. From what he knew of the future during the new millennia, Cap hadn't been around. Another took his place, someone far too familiar for comfort. ]
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What's more surprising is how Bucky announces that he's from the future like there's nothing at all strange about that. It's a concept that would have thrown his Bucky off, if he'd heard of it back then. ]
2016. But how is that concept not weirding you out at all?
[ Maybe the truth is that they come from very different places after all. ]
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You're not the first man from the future I've met. Long story short, we got caught in New York City in 2009. It, uh, didn't go too well at first. But no cause for alarm, of course! [ His cheeky grin dimples both cheeks. ] I saved your butt like I always do.
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That cheeky comment does strike him as very much Buck-like, though. One way or another, he's going to have to accept what's in front of him. ]
I think I might need the longer version. How'd you end up in 2009 in the first place? And I'm guessing you returned to '45 after that?
[ Or thereabouts. Tracing timelines is bound to make his head ache. ]
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Anyway, their leader tried to handle the situation. It didn't go well for him.
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He's distracted by that thought the moment that this other Bucky says the word "Avengers." It's almost enough to make Steve stop in his tracks again, but he manages to keep up a steady pace. ]
I'm a member of the Avengers. [ Some would even say its leader, but that's definitely not the case anymore. ] When you say leader, who do you mean?
[ He needs a name, though he already has a sinking feeling he knows what it's going to be. ]
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Spoiler Alert: It was him!]Some hot shot, Tony Stark in a tin can. Is he still swinging his johnson around?
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Me me.
[ The moment that Bucky says Tony's name, Steve briefly closes his eyes and lets out a sigh. Of course. Who else would it have been? It's surreal to be having a conversation with Bucky about Tony for a whole host of reasons. ]
Not sure about that, but yeah, he's one of the Avengers.
[ More so than Steve, really. He frowns to himself, wondering if he should get into all that right now. It probably isn't relevant, nor does he feel like rehashing it. ]
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Granted, that might be the case anyway. This wasteland of crystal doesn't seem to end. ]
By "we," you mean who, the Howling Commandos? And what year is it for you, anyway?
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[ Nick Fury didn't even exist in 1945, and it seems like the more that Steve talks to this strange other version of Bucky, the less any of it makes sense. He drags a hand across his eyes even as he continues walking. ]
All right, Bucky, listen. [ Even calling him by his best friend's name is strange, but Steve's making an effort here. ] It was in '45 that in my version of things, I crashed a plane, was presumed dead, and got left preserved in ice until... 2012.
[ He glances over, wanting to judge Bucky's reaction with a close eye. ]
That's how I ended up with the Avengers. That's how I know Tony.
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You're a doll, Cap, but your jokes never land. [ But, uh, his expression never cracks. There's none of that boyish embarrassment to be found on his weathered face. ] You're... not joking. You're not, are you?
So, that's why... No, no, that still doesn't add up!
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Either way, this is the first instance of Bucky's casual nature slipping a little, and Steve doesn't know if that makes him feel better or worse. He slowly shakes his head to himself. ]
It seems like a lot of things aren't adding up about all this. But believe me, I wouldn't joke about something like that.
[ His voice tightens as he keeps his gaze pointed ahead of them. ]
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Jeez Louise... I thought I wanted a Flash Gordon life, and now I'm seein' that it's really a pain. A pain!
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[ Steve can't help but ask that much, at least, but beyond that he doesn't say anything else or press on the point. He realizes that this is a lot to take in and they don't have to figure it all out at once, especially when they've still got a very pressing predicament to worry about on top of it all. ]
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[ That was Bucky's dream definitely. Someone whose existence and actions effectively shaped the world for better or worse. That kind of power would leave his head spinning. ]
Now I've been shanghaied to a planet in a different time and space! With a version of you that isn't you-you. You know what I mean? And every time I think things can't possibly get any crazier, it does.
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Well, I can agree with that last statement.
[ Steve glances to Bucky, tentatively reaching out to clap him on the shoulder. ]
I know this is weird for both of us, but I think we can both agree we can have each other's backs. Now come on, let's get to work.
[ They don't yet know what that work is, but he's confident they'll figure it out one way or another. ]