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TEST DRIVE - Part 2

Maybe you've been here for a while, or maybe you just got here. Either way, you're all in the same situation - you've been turned into a magical gemstone and stranded in a foreign world! And all you've been left with is the clothes on your back, stripped of all powers except one.

Clearly, you’ll just have to make the best of it.

How this works:

☆ This is a test drive for

cosmographia, which means you should get a little familiar with the setting and premise.

☆ Otherwise, this is just meant to help you feel out how you may play and serves mainly as a chill interest gathering and get together kind of post! No app necessary, and you don't need to play in this post to apply - or vice versa.

☆ Everybody is welcome! There are no character limitations; pg au oc canon pigeon whatever. Just toss up a topcomment and/or jump any threads that pique your interest.

☆ This post will remain open until it begins to approach 5000 comments! Then a new test-drive post will be made.

☆ Rules-wise: Be cool to yourself and others, and keep in mind the other game rules too.

☆ If you do apply to the game and are accepted, and you want to keep the CR, you may so long as what you did isn't setting breaking and everyone involved agrees.

YOUR OPTIONS:

☆ You find yourself in the Heart of a ruined temple. There is a large glowing gem that thrums with some kind of rhythm, and jewels scattered all over the room, kept in strange bubbles. At the very least, touching the large gem will give you a standard info-dump, but some of you might be a little cautious about touching weird luminescent gems. Good thing that there are other people there too!

☆ Or perhaps you already know everything there is to know, and are there in the Heart of the Ruined Temple to greet new arrivals. Or perhaps you simply had business there already, like storing away a corrupted gem from a monster, when someone new seemingly dropped in from no where.

☆ It's Farmer's Market day in the plaza of Waverly Bay! Perhaps you're there perusing the goods and strike up conversation, or accidentally bump into someone and get to know them that way. It's a fairly standard day.

☆ There's an event! You don't really know what else to call them - missions, perhaps? But something in the temple was triggered, and the glowy Heart gem has something new to "tell" you: If you want a new power, you should try telling other people two truths and a lie. Those who you interact with must try and divine the lie from your statements.

You have no idea how something this simple will get you a power, but hey.

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Connie could make a pretty good argument for why punching things didn't work: in Jasper's case, you wound up punching the wrong person, and then you wound up looking like a jerk. Still, that beat Jasper from their world by a mile.

"Don't do that, Amethyst, she's been through a lot. There wasn't any of you guys here, so she'd been trying to help all these would be gems learn their powers. The stress caused her to turn into a gem monster, and when that happened, Lapis and another jerk fused to try and, well, kill her permanently. Steven had to fuse with someone else to fight the fusion off."

Luckily, Pearl was recovering. Sort of.

Amethyst looked like someone had punched her in the gut. Her eyes widened and if someone didn't know that a gem didn't really need to breath they might worry she wasn't.

"She...she what!?!?" Her bark of shock was so loud the locals jumped startled and spun around to see what was wrong. That was so much worse then what she had imagined! So much worse then Garnet and Pearl not talking to each other! Pearl was supposed to be the organized one. Sure she got stressed out a lot but she never let it get that bad!

"Where is she?" This was clearly something that had to be dealt with right away. No time to think about it or consider the best way to handle things. That wasn't Amethysts style. "Pearl or Lapris, I'll deal with either of them!" She declared torn between uncomfortable worry and anger which she was much more comfortable with.

"Ok, Pearl is in the temple, probably. She moves around, so she could be just about anywhere. Se's better now, but um.Pearl is not the only thing to keep in mind. I don't know where Lapis is though."

And she would continue not knowing because that meant not having to see Bill.

"Mr. Universe is here too, you know. And...and Rose. I'm not sure how, but she's here too."

As soon as Connie said that Pearl was at the temple Amethyst was turning to head that way. Then she had to go and say something crazy and it made Amethyst spin around so fast she lost her balance and fell on her face.

"Wait...wait no. You said Steven was here and Steven can't be here if Rose is here that...that's not...no." She babbled picking herself up slowly as her brain tried to cope with this new information. She had grieved for Rose! She had raised Steven her life was not prepared to turn such a sharp left turn!

"Amethyst!" Ok, Connie is helping you up now. Why did she have to go and say that to Amethyst? This was definitely a lot to take in!

"He is here...well, sort of. That's something else that needs explaining. The point is, somehow, he and Rose can both exist here. When you're brought to this place, somehow you're made a full gem. It's all a bunch of strangeness that really has no rhyme or reason to it. I've been here a few months and I still don't understand why I'm here in the first place."

Once she's on her feet she's got both hands on her head as if she's trying to keep all the new information crammed inside.

"I...I just saw them! We were in this old gem ship chasing Peridot and everything was...well it just was and now I get here and all of this? Seriously!?"

But then a thought tickles the childish part of her and she relaxes a little hanging her head and trying to push everything else out but that one glistening gleaming thought that makes her smirk.

"So...how did Greg and Pearl take it seeing her again?"

"Sorry. I know this is a lot to take in. When I was first brought here, it was just me, Pearl and Lapis from our world, dealing with people from OTHER worlds who have their own stories. They've dealt with wars, demons, witches, just about anything you could imagine, and yet they're still here, taking in being a gem. So when Steven, Mr. Universe and finally Rose got here, all bets were off about being surprised."

Because there didn't seem to be any sort of pattern in who was brought here, or why, Connie couldn't even begin to try and formulate who was powerful enough to turn them all into gems to begin with.

"Well, Mr, Universe is pretty happy, and Pearl is floored, of course. I don't get to see Rose much myself though."

"Sheesh...I never woulda put the three of you together." Amethyst smirked with her usual blunt honesty. Because seriously who would have thought those three should be on a team?

She smiled though hearing that Greg was happy and hearing Pearl's feelings on the subject made her grin broader.

"I wish I coulda seen that." She added wickedly. "Come on let's go back to the temple I gotta see them!"

"I would have never thought it would happen either, along with any of the other things that happened," Connie admitted. "But Garnet is here now along with everyone else, so it'll be great for Steven to have all of the crystal gems together...assuming he ever remembers everyone.

And is a kid again.

"Sure, ok? From what I saw, they're pretty lovey dovey now!"

"Better late then never." She mused following Connie back the way she'd come towards the temple.

It sounded like she'd missed a lot, and knowing their lives there was plenty more on the way.

"What do you mean ASSUMING he remembers everyone? Who could forget me?"

Because seriously, she had emotionally scarred some people.

"No one even knows when they get pulled in. So yeah, I'm glad that you're finally here!"

Right. Explaining this. Always fun.

"He's forgotten everyone, Amethyst, aside from glimpses. He's even forgotten me."

Her jaw falls open and she stares in puzzlement. As if the words that connie is saying just can't actually fit in the same sentence together.

"No way! What happened? Did he get hit on the head? I saw on TV if you hit a human on the head that happens! But if you do it again it comes back!"

Logic! Science! Sitcoms!

"That would make sense, if the only thing that happened was that he was hit on the head. What happened to him is much more puzzling. See, one day we were in someone's room, watching this duel. The short end of the story is, some things went wrong and there was a weapon that was activated that could have caused everyone to go back into their gem. Steven bubbled it with him at the last minute and it exploded, him with it, and no one could find his gem. I looked, over and over, from the room to the temple and then I started to look through the whole beach. Finally, he came back somehow, but older, with no memories of us except what small fragments he could remember."

She paused, taking a breath. "It was hard for all the people he made friends with. Rose blamed one of the people who's duel we watched, and when Jasper came, she was so angry she started to beat up that same guy, who was so distraught he let it happen. But Steven's back now, so...we're making do with what we can."

"I...he...uh..."

Really, what could she say to...any of that. Groaning she put both hands to her face rubbing it in frustration and stretching the soft purple skin around her cheeks and eyes.

"I can't leave you guys alone for a minute." she complained as if she could have helped with any of that. "Is it too late to crawl back in my hole?"

Connie was a little quiet for that. She was, after all, young and knew that this was something she was having to deal with as best as she could. But it still was awful and frustrating at the same time.

"I don't know," she finally said. "If any of the gems want to try and fix him, you're more than welcome. I was just looking for him for days and keeping the faith that he wasn't...gone. It's not like I don't wish this wasn't happening."

Oh...whoops. Amethyst may sometimes have the emotional density of a normal non-sentient rock, but even she realized that she might have been a little harsh on Connie with that last bit.

Casting a glance around she confirmed that no one was watching them, especially no one they knew.

"Hey, hey, I was just messing around. You know how I am." She apologized barely and then in what looked to be a very awkward and difficult thing for her, she held her arms out offering a hug.

Amethyst had a hard enough time hugging Steven, Garnet and Pearl in sappy emotional situations. Connie hadn't really gotten to that point with her yet but clearly the kid had been holding her own for this long.

It was hard to hear Amethyst say that, and Connie was definitely prickly about the situation: Steven meant a lot to her, and she was hoping that the gems would have her back in this situation of getting him back. She was glad enough to get the apology: she knew Amethyst could sometimes lack tact.

"I just...I want him to get better. I want him to remember us, remember me. Is that so selfish?"

She went into the hug though, and quietly let the tears gall, save for a sniff or two. This had been much harder than Connie had ever thought it would.

"Nah, and even if it was, you deserve to be selfish."

Of all the gems to hug, Amethyst was the softest. Her surprisingly warm body seemed to absorb the sun and radiate it back out into the hug as she held the skinny former human.

"If anyone's gonna get him through this it's gonna be us." Connie wouldn't have to go it alone. The whole team was here now. And she was a part of that team.

"It must be hard for him too," Connie murmured from atop of Amethyst's head. "He only remembers us in small flashes, and he has this whole other bunch of memories of surviving in the jungle. It's like something out of that movie Jumanji."

She sighed, then managed a smile.

"And now that you're here, I don't have to get scared of something happening to Pearl again!"

"Heh, don't count on it. I'm still me." She joked half heartedly. But Connie had her pegged. Finding out she'd missed so much had really slathered on the guilt even though there wasn't anything she could have done about it.

But Connie and Pearl had held their own for this long. That was impressive to say the least.

"And if you ever tell anyone we were all sappy and huggy I'll throw you in the ocean." She warned with a laugh.

"You're not as lazy as you say you are, Amethyst," Connie said, giving her a smile. "And when it comes to Steven, I know that you'll have his best interests at heart."

It was lucky Connie'd made so many friends. That had definitely helped!

"You'd have to catch me first!" Connie said, giving her a look that was clearly daring the gem.

With a wicked grin Amethyst wasted no time in transforming into a large purple snake and wrapping around Connie's arm and around her shoulders.

"You shouldn't say stuff like that in the middle of a hug you little dork." She teased flicking out a forked tongue.

"And you shouldn't underestimate what I can do, Amethyst," Connie retorted, looking Amethyst in the eye and giving her a good dose of confusion. The girl was already wriggling out of Amethyst's grip, and the moment her feet touched the ground she'd be more of a handful.

"Bwaaaah?" She flailed in a perhaps slightly over dramatic fashion before shifting back to her regular form and giving chase drawing out a whip. With Connie as fast as she was now she'd had to wrap up those legs fast.

Connie was off running, and grinning. The moment Amethyst touched the ground it started to shift, bringing the purple gem up and then stopping suddenly to have her fall harmlessly back in the same spot on the sand.

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