Cosmographia Monster/Event Journal ([personal profile] stigematize) wrote in [community profile] cosmoooc2015-03-22 10:30 am
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TEST DRIVE

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 [community profile] 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.

☆ 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.
wreckyeah: (I don't agree.)

[personal profile] wreckyeah 2015-04-30 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
There's gotta be one 'round here somewhere. Though, if there's one lyin' around the temple, it probably needs cleanin' first.

[However, the information he got from the heart gem indicates that there's probably more to this place than just the temple, there's probably better options for obtaining a teapot elsewhere.]
pearl_chevalier: (Default)

[personal profile] pearl_chevalier 2015-04-30 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a town nearby. I'll head there... Hopefully they do accept yen.

[HAHAHHAHAHA NOPE]
awesmazings: (☼ and all the gods)

[personal profile] awesmazings 2015-04-30 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"...you know. Some place you're held when you've done something wrong? Or been kidnapped by someone bad, maybe...I mean, that's what you seemed to think this place was...since you were asking about being assigned a cell," he says, rubbing his chin.
wreckyeah: (Proud to do my duty.)

[personal profile] wreckyeah 2015-04-30 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Good idea. Even if they don't, there's probably a machine or somethin' you can use to swap it for somethin' else.

[Between the machines in the arcade that changed dollars into quarters and the fact that many planets had a way to exchange money, he's rather optimistic about that possibility.]
togabito: (Default)

[personal profile] togabito 2015-04-30 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
The Sinner looks confused.

"...so, you mean, like...society?"
magistermentium: based on art by <user name=ryu-gemini site=tumblr.com> (▲ they say it started)

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[personal profile] magistermentium 2015-04-30 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
They sure are!

[As Lucca looks curiously about the area, she's approached by a tall, thin, tan or light brown skinned young man, with dark brown undercut hair and a goatee-beard. The way he's dressed is a bit odd, since it's not often you see people in yellow and black suits with brick patterning on the sleeves and lower coat, not to mention the bow tie, skinny top hat and patch covering one of his eyes.]

This is the Temple! I'd call it something like a home base!
sweetlynasty: (and we got all the balls we need)

[personal profile] sweetlynasty 2015-04-30 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
You think they'd let me run some tests?

[Sure, she doesn't have her usual equipment, but she can improvise.]

If these gems are a power source, I'd like to know what makes them tick...
inventornextdoor: (All of the exposition)

[personal profile] inventornextdoor 2015-04-30 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, this is certainly an... interesting guy. He does seem to be answering questions, though.]

So they ARE magic! Is this temple dedicated to them? I've never seen so many magic stones at once before.

[She and her friends had found several on their own adventure, the biggest and most potent of which had been the Sunstone. But those stones had been pretty scattered across the world and ages.]

And what do you mean by "home base?"

Er... I mean, I didn't intend to intrude if this place belongs to your people, or anything like that.
pearl_chevalier: (Default)

[personal profile] pearl_chevalier 2015-04-30 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably so. I carry some small change on me.

[Rich bastard. Well off to the market he goes]
inventornextdoor: (All of the exposition)

[personal profile] inventornextdoor 2015-04-30 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
They were monsters?

[Something like the Sunstone, then? She doesn't seem surprised or much fazed by this revelation, in any case.]

So were these gems originally a power source or magic amplifier before they were... corrupted?

[After all, that huge heartlike gem sure looks like some kind of power source to her.]
wreckyeah: (Really?)

[personal profile] wreckyeah 2015-05-01 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
That's a good idea, I didn't need money back at the arcade, so I'll hafta look into findin' a way to make some here.

[What sort of jobs would they have for a displaced soldier? He's not known anything else, but if he wants to survive here, he'll have to adapt.]
awesmazings: (☼ no no no)

[personal profile] awesmazings 2015-05-01 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
"...not...really?" Okay, now he's confused. "What do you mean, 'like society'?"
awesmazings: (☼ that David played)

[personal profile] awesmazings 2015-05-01 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm...maybe! These things are pretty important though...they might not wanna do anything that could damage 'em. They're pretty much like a lifesource for everyone who's got one.
awesmazings: (☼ run away)

[personal profile] awesmazings 2015-05-01 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no, these gems were people, once!

[He says, as...casual as one can say something like that.]
togabito: (Default)

[personal profile] togabito 2015-05-01 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
"The place where you're held when you've committed a crime or been abducted...that's society. The Panopticons."
awesmazings: (☼ without fear)

[personal profile] awesmazings 2015-05-01 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
...oh dear. "Well...that's not how this place is. You don't have to worry about that."
inventornextdoor: (Oh nooooooooo)

[personal profile] inventornextdoor 2015-05-01 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
People!?

[THAT WAS NOT THE ANSWER SHE EXPECTED.]

That's... then this is... a graveyard?

[Oh geez she hopes she hasn't accidentally desecrated anything by poking at the bubbles!]
pearl_chevalier: (I'm fucking disgusted)

[personal profile] pearl_chevalier 2015-05-01 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah... yes. Working."

[Like a commoner? Ew. Akoya has no skills besides being beautiful. At least Ralph could move boxes for restaurants or something.]
magistermentium: (▲ and trillions of stars)

[personal profile] magistermentium 2015-05-01 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Sort of...? We're supposed to keep them here until we know what to do with them!

[He laughs.]

Think ya mean OUR people! If you're here, it means you're one of us now!
Welcome to being a Gem, doll~
togabito: (Default)

[personal profile] togabito 2015-05-01 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Skeptical look.

"...you sure?"
inventornextdoor: (Hang onto your hats!)

[personal profile] inventornextdoor 2015-05-01 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay, NOW he just sounds kind of creepy. Lucca hesitates, tensing up a little. She's so not up to dealing with crazy cultists or whatever today... at least she can hold her own if things get intense, right?]

What are you talking about? A Gem? I sure didn't sign up for anything!
magistermentium: based on art by <user name=ryu-gemini site=tumblr.com> (▲ out of concaves)

[personal profile] magistermentium 2015-05-01 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Neither did I! None of us did, but here we are!

Don't tell me ya haven't realized yet there's a gem permanently attached to your body now!
awesmazings: (☼ on the roof)

[personal profile] awesmazings 2015-05-01 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no, nothing like that! Y'see...when a gem gets hurt, they'll go back inside their gem to regenerate. They're put in these bubbles while that happens.
inventornextdoor: (What are you guys even doing)

[personal profile] inventornextdoor 2015-05-01 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
["None of us?" There's a number of people who wound up here with the way he's talking... if she can trust him, that is. But that tidbit gets filed away for later consideration upon Bill's second comment.]

Th-that's ridiculous! I'd -

[But her hand goes to her chest as she gets defensive, and brushes something distinctly hard under her shirt, centered just below her collarbone. Hard and definitely not supposed to be there.]

...

[It's. Round and stonelike, sure enough, and without thinking she pulls her shirt collar out, moving her scarf aside with her other hand so she can glance down at it.]

The Sunstone...!?

[Well, a much smaller version, but otherwise unmistakably identical to the legendary stone they'd retrieved, charged, and made weapons out of.

...That's about when she realizes she's yanking on her shirt collar in front of a strange man, flushes, and hastily readjusts her clothing.]


W-well! I think you should probably tell me exactly what's going on here. I was exploring and went through this hole and... the way back is closed now, isn't it?
inventornextdoor: (Hang onto your hats!)

[personal profile] inventornextdoor 2015-05-01 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Whew! I mean... so uh, more like a hospital then.

Still, that means this is... an awful lot of people.