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.
mitorta: (☆ sometimes a shadow wins)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-06 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[It does help, at least. She takes his hand suddenly again and starts tugging him along, away from the holes in the wall specifically.]

Okay, we need to find Garnet and Pearl bef-

[But there she stops as quickly as she started, freezing in place for a moment. Amethyst hadn't actually considered what they might do if they encountered another kindergarten gem. Rose found her, not the others.

...would they even react the same? What if they just wanted to bubble his gem to put the problem out of sight?

Out of sight, out of mind.]


...actually, we're doing this on our own. I can tell them about you later.
myriades: (This is fucking bullshit.)

[personal profile] myriades 2015-05-06 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
[He frowns softly. There's something going on here for her personally. He has good instinct for these things.]

If something wrong? This place doesn't look dangerous...
mitorta: (☆ of somebody's lack of love)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-06 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[She gasps, drawing back a little at the sight.]

W-wait...you're saying you weren't a gem before?
cometkin: (melancholy | into your heart)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-05-06 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. Yeah. Let's go. [Greg can get them out the door--his gem's under his clothes somewhere but the door still responds to it--and it'll open to the cave that leads out to the beach.]

We can't get to other people's rooms with the door unless they let us, so I can't just take you straight to Pearl's. Sorry.
mitorta: (☆ the way that words do)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-06 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
...a place like this shouldn't be active anymore.

[She answers slowly, not looking his way but instead ahead at the many holes in the wall.]

But...you're fine, okay? There's nothing wrong with you. Don't let anyone tell you that there is. Ever.

[Then she mumbles, trying to tug him along with her again.]

You're just as important as any other Gem, homeworld or not.
kindaruledatit: (Wounded and worried)

[personal profile] kindaruledatit 2015-05-06 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Nope! [She says with a grin.] One hundred percent Human lumberjack girl.

[...Blink blink. Wendy's expression flickers for a moment. She holds out a hand towards the Crystal Gem.]

Hey, you alright?
myriades: (second runner-up is)

[personal profile] myriades 2015-05-06 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
[He follows obediently, very very confused. Everything she says is Greek to him]

I... don't really understand. But it sounds important.
mitorta: (☆ or you can start speaking up)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-06 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[She waves a hand dismissively as they walk, doing her best not to look around at the Temple too much.]

No, I got it. I know how that works.

So...you're sure Pearl and Steven are the only others here?

[So what on earth happened to Garnet?]
mitorta: (☆ the way that words do)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-06 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
[She flinches back almost immediately, but her expression betrays that she regrets it as soon as it happens.]

No- ..I mean- I'm fine! I just...I need to think, okay?

[Everything about all of this is SO messed up, she doesn't even know where to begin.]
mitorta: (☆ you can turn a phrase)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-06 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
It's okay, you don't gotta. Just listen to me and you'll be fine. First of all- don't worry about those holes.

[She can barely look at them now. She wonders just...how many others could be out there right now, wandering Earth.]

Second. I'm Amethyst. Third: if you run into anybody who calls themselves Garnet or Pearl? Don't talk to 'em just yet. Let me handle it.

...If you run into a kid named Steven, he's okay. But don't tell him too much.
cometkin: (concern | is my only home)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-05-06 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Well, the only Crystal Gems. Lapis Lazuli is here too. I, uh, haven't exactly talked with her much. Steven and Connie have, I think.

People keep showing up at different times too. And... time itself is kinda weird? Pearl and Connie were here weeks before me and Steven got here, even though they hadn't been missing from home.
mitorta: (☆ you can turn a phrase)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-06 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Lapis? ...oh boy.

[Well...if Pearl knows about that, then it should be fine. Maybe.]

Something really weird is going on here. Has Pearl been able to figure out what might be causing this, or do you know?
myriades: (Who the fuck is Souji Seta)

[personal profile] myriades 2015-05-06 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[All gemstones, like what she called him. Well, except Steven. He's pretty sure that's not a gemstone.]

...are you not getting along with them?
cometkin: (duckface | knowing i have)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-05-06 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Greg shakes his head.] She's still working on it. And I've got no clue.

... I don't think those other Homeworld Gems are around. I dunno, though. I'm not sure if I'd recognize them, even with Steven's descriptions.
Edited 2015-05-06 05:12 (UTC)
mitorta: (☆ when they settle 'neath your skin)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-06 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[No Steven is totally a gemstone, she promises.]

Not exactly. ...It's complicated.

[She doesn't want to tell him she's worried how they'll react to his...well, existence.]

Just don't talk to them until I tell you it's okay, okay?
kindaruledatit: (Huh? What?)

[personal profile] kindaruledatit 2015-05-06 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, if she doesn't want to be touched, Wendy would certainly comply. Didn't stop her from looking a bit worried.

...Until she tries to brush past all that. Gotta keep a mellow outlook on life or else you could have a breakdown and that's no good.
]

Yeah, sure. Don't think too hard, okay?

[She'll just... be here, looking at the hole Amethyst came out of.]
mitorta: (☆ or you can start speaking up)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-06 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
Best news I've heard all day. That's the last thing we need.

[She huffs, scuffing the ground with her foot.]

Man, all of this bites. One second I was in my room, and the next I'm...wherever here is.
myriades: (It means whatever the fuck)

[personal profile] myriades 2015-05-06 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Fair enough.

[He could tell she was trying to look out for him, even if he didn't really understand it. So he offered her a warm smile]

I'll take your word for it.
mitorta: (☆ or you can start speaking up)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-06 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
[She follows Wendy's gaze to the hole, feeling something inside tense. It's still not hers. Never would be.]

All of this is just...

[Amethyst sighs deeply, running a hand down the side of her face.]

...weird.

[personal profile] lambs_jiffy 2015-05-06 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
Well, meeting new comrades should be funski.

[He is a dog, after all. He likes making friends.]

...Room?
strengthinkindness: (That's awful!)

Here, have someone you know (but doesn't know at the moment what you look like as a human!)

[personal profile] strengthinkindness 2015-05-06 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
[With all that running, it's definitely no surprise that he might literally run into someone, especially someone who was on her way to the heart of the temple where the newcomers arrived.

What might be surprising though is that this figure might be a bit familiar.]


O-Oh...! I'm so sorry...I should have been paying more attention...Are you all right?
tsukurimasho: (Happy: Bridge to the castle!)

[personal profile] tsukurimasho 2015-05-06 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
Then I definitely have to meet her!

Neechan? How long have you been here?
strengthinkindness: (Thinking it over)

[personal profile] strengthinkindness 2015-05-06 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
I'll have to introduce you sometime.

Um...about...a month or so, I think...?
spontaneouscombustion: (I can see it now!)

[personal profile] spontaneouscombustion 2015-05-06 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah! Everybody gets their very own room when they get here, AND you can make it however you want just by thinking about it! It's really REALLY fun to play with!

[personal profile] lambs_jiffy 2015-05-06 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
Really? How can it do that?