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: (☆ or you can start speaking up)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-09 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
[WENDY.]

...the other one.
hisheadintheclouds: (Wat)

[personal profile] hisheadintheclouds 2015-05-09 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
It felt like it was made for me, which is weird cause you'd think I'd avoid something bizarre like that. But I had this strange compulsion to go in it.

...

Where am I anyway? What is this place?

[personal profile] amicablyambling 2015-05-09 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
[It's something like a cat, and something like a weasel, maybe. Its big, blue eyes are innocent, and its long, rabbit-like ears lay back flat against its head as it sniffs at the armour-clad person swearing under her breath.]

Are you all right in there, miss tin can?
colorblond: i'm feeding a raccoon cereal from my bedroom window ((248): Dude i'm still drunk and)

[personal profile] colorblond 2015-05-09 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Blugh. Stupid robot guy, see if I let him into my raves anymo- [She lifts her head, her visor'd gaze fixing on the pokemon. She falls silent, staring for a long minute, presumably with her mouth hanging open inside her helmet.]

Holy shit, weird talking cat. Where's Tucker's weird honking dog when you need it?
Edited 2015-05-09 02:38 (UTC)

[personal profile] amicablyambling 2015-05-09 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
[He blinks, and sits down, tilting his head. Humans were kind of weird...]

I don't know? Can you breathe in that thing? Did you hit your head? This is where I wish I had hands...

[Because, you know, the flesh tendrils kind of weird people out when he tries using them like humans use their hands.]

Do you need a healer?
colorblond: you could send with a selfie stick (Default)

[personal profile] colorblond 2015-05-09 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Healer? Like what the purple medic guy? Nah, I'm good if you don't count the hangover. This isn't even the worst trip I've ever been on. [Yeah, she's pretty convinced she's tripping on whatever Lopez gave her (it was pez candy) and talking to a weird cat-weasel in the middle of a temple surrounded by floating rocks isn't convincing her otherwise.]

Can I, like, pet you? Is that a thing I can do?

[personal profile] amicablyambling 2015-05-09 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Oh sure! I like petting! [And now you've made him super happy, lady-in-a-tin-can!]

What's a hangover? I'm glad you're not hurt, then. You have a name?

[Well sure, all humans have names, but he's wondering if he can know yours.] I'm Amias.
colorblond: i'm feeding a raccoon cereal from my bedroom window ((248): Dude i'm still drunk and)

[personal profile] colorblond 2015-05-09 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[And now pettings are happening because no, he's so cute and she hasn't had anything cute to pet since Tucker left. Her touch is surprisingly gentle despite the heavy gloves and she's very generous with chin scritches.]

A hangover is what happens when your team leaves you alone in a canyon with a robot and an old guy but you still get to have sick raves and raid the liquor cabinet they left behind.

Kaikaina! But pretty much everyone just calls me Sister. [Scritchy scritchy scritchy.]
burningbrighter: (setting sun)

[personal profile] burningbrighter 2015-05-09 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. And like this.

[She has to tug her shirt down slightly, but there's a glint of red]

It's fused to us...become us, in a way.
4thdimensional: (what)

[personal profile] 4thdimensional 2015-05-09 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Let's consider this rationally. Dreams have certain distinguishing elements...inconsistency in minor details. Somewhat dulled senses. And...of course, we could try jolting ourselves awake, though I don't necessarily advise that.

[He looks over at Marty. No, that lump in his shirt is still in the same place.]

...of course, it might be the only way.
thepoweroflove: (2)

[personal profile] thepoweroflove 2015-05-09 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
It... it can't hurt, can it? Ah, too badly at least?

[After all they've gotten shocked before, it's not like they'll die if they do it in this "dream world".]
4thdimensional: (what)

[personal profile] 4thdimensional 2015-05-09 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. All I need, then, is an electrical source...

[As he's imagining ways to create a shock, he suddenly yelps. There sure was shock jumping between his hands, slightly singing then.]
thepoweroflove: (9)

[personal profile] thepoweroflove 2015-05-09 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Marty stumbles back once he sees the electric shock. Did he just imagine that?]

How the hell did you do that?!
4thdimensional: (oh god they found me)

[personal profile] 4thdimensional 2015-05-09 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not entirely sure, but I felt my forehead burn. Perhaps that's the key.

[He intentionally tries this time, concentrating his mental energy up there and picturing it jumping out...and it takes an embarrassingly long time, but another bolt dances between his hands.]

Great Scott. I'm a generator.
ceasetoexist: (Grumpy grump)

[personal profile] ceasetoexist 2015-05-09 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
And what was the last thing you remember from Ponyland?

[He is trying to get some bearing on at least a rudimentary timeline. It'd help if he knew if where and when Kafei was from...because.

Well. Okay it's not that helpful in the end, but he wants to know. If the manchild kid came from the future or something, hell, it'd...be something else Pokey knew.

God. He doesn't know why he's asking this crap either. Maybe because there is some weird, awkward sense of comfort in speaking with someone he knows, even if it's someone who hates him.]
thepoweroflove: (13)

[personal profile] thepoweroflove 2015-05-09 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Marty's just going to stare in awe for a bit, don't mind him.]

So these rocks give us powers then?

[He might have already forgotten that they technically are the rocks now. It just sounds really weird that way, okay?]

[personal profile] amicablyambling 2015-05-09 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
[And now he's got his eyes all closed and he's making happy Sylveon noises, which probably makes it even cuter...]

I don't know what raves or liquor cabinets are either. [Human stuff. And nothing his trainer ever got into...probably because she was underage...]

Kaikaina's a pretty name! Why do they call you Sister? [Full of questions, he is...]
keaton_mask: (twenty-four)

[personal profile] keaton_mask 2015-05-09 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[That's a strange question, what is he even implying? He was there, too, wouldn't he remember? Kafei raises an eyebrow, unsure if this is some kind of prank or not. What, is Pokey just going to make him look stupid for not knowing something he might know?]

Everyone was preparing for the Gala, last I recall.

[It was a pretty big deal and all, it'd be hard for Pokey to go about not hearing anything on it.]
4thdimensional: (some serious s***)

[personal profile] 4thdimensional 2015-05-09 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
I recall the large gem mentioning something about that, yes.

[He sighs, rubs his fingertips, then starts rummaging in his pockets for something]

Then I'm convinced this is reality. But I'm definitely not going out with a target on my head.

[Is it normal for this world? He doesn't know. But his reflection still weirds him out, so he is tying a bandana around his forehead to hide that thing.]
thepoweroflove: (3)

[personal profile] thepoweroflove 2015-05-09 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Heavy...

[Marty soon starts to see if any sparks shoot out of his gemstone. It goes about as well as you'd expect.]


So how do you know that going out with that gem is a target, anyway?
4thdimensional: (cool uncle brown)

[personal profile] 4thdimensional 2015-05-09 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
I don't, but it's a fair assumption. It's like traveling to a new time period: we do our best not to stand out.

[He sighs.]

Perhaps everyone out there has an easily visible gem, but...I look quite alien. And that's not likely to be a good thing when establishing contact.]
colorblond: the paramedics started chasing me. You win again tequila. ((512): I thought I was at a rave until)

[personal profile] colorblond 2015-05-09 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Ohhhh my gooood, what a cute. She wants like 6 of him and wishes he wasn't a drug-induced hallucination. She knows she's probably petting some kind of rock right now but whatevs.]

Awww, you're totally sweet. [Gotta smoosh that sweet baby face.] I 'unno. I guess 'cause that's what Grif always called me, back home and at the canyon so it kinda stuck. [...] Wait...I don't think any of those assholes even asked what my real name was!

[Sister, don't swear in front of the impressionable young pokemon.]
thepoweroflove: (2)

[personal profile] thepoweroflove 2015-05-09 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Hey man, he got by semi already in his 80's clothes when he was trapped in the 50's.

Well he didn't die or anything at least.]


Right. There has to be other people though, right? Why would this.. gem [Gestures towards the floating gem.] want just us?
4thdimensional: (reading minds)

[personal profile] 4thdimensional 2015-05-09 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. But whether they're all...fused with rocks as we are, I don't know. I suppose there's only one way to find out.
thepoweroflove: (6)

[personal profile] thepoweroflove 2015-05-09 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
You're right. We can't just sit here anyway.

[That would just be boring, honestly.]