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.
intiiiiimidating: (Default)

[personal profile] intiiiiimidating 2015-05-20 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ If this were a quiz show, this would be the part where Gaston would be ringing as many bells as possible. ]

Correct! Would you have expected anything less?
npsleepy: (002)

[personal profile] npsleepy 2015-05-20 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Instantly her eyes light up.]

An- An actual video game...

[THIS IS THE BEST DAY.]

What kind of game were you? Who developed you? Um, what was the title of the game, maybe I've played it before!
intiiiiimidating: (Default)

[personal profile] intiiiiimidating 2015-05-20 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's a brief pause before Gaston speaks up again. ]

...Well. I never would have guessed.
pearl_chevalier: (You think you could beat me? *smirk*)

[personal profile] pearl_chevalier 2015-05-20 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Surprising, since almost no one has been mistaken before you. Have you considered glasses?
intiiiiimidating: (Default)

[personal profile] intiiiiimidating 2015-05-20 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Nonsense! My eyesight is perfect. Have you ever considered simply looking more masculine?
pearl_chevalier: (sly smirk)

[personal profile] pearl_chevalier 2015-05-20 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
No. I've only considered being more beautiful than I already am, if that's possible. Beauty should transcend the constrains that is gender.
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[personal profile] npsleepy 2015-05-20 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Heheh... Yay, I guessed right.

[She's gonna score all the point.

...There are points in her heart of hearts, okay, you can't tell her otherwise!]


You didn't seem like the unpopular type to me. So... I had a good feeling about that one.
Edited (how did I delete an entire line...) 2015-05-20 23:42 (UTC)
urmyanthyding: (eyeSparkle addValue 1;)

[personal profile] urmyanthyding 2015-05-20 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's taken a little aback, but then beams because A GAMER AN ACTUAL GAMER play it cool play it cool]

I was a dating simulator! The game was called Romance Academy 7 and it was developed by No Life Games. I am not sure any other copies were released, though.
revolutionfalcon: (the hell do you want)

sucks to be you reira

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2015-05-20 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[He probably wouldn't actively stop you clinging to him, but he certainly wouldn't be very pleased about it, to say the least. But the issue for you here is going to be that he honestly doesn't know anything more about this than you...which is not a situation he enjoys being in.]

I don't know. I only just got here. I was about to go looking for information before I found you.

[Frown frown. He really doesn't have much patience for you, does he?]
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[personal profile] hair_guitar 2015-05-20 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[He'll just have to settle for... polite conversation?]

I see. The town that I'm from isn't very big either but lots of things there too. Like the school and the concert hall.

There's a library too, of course, in fact I visit it quite a bit. I've found lots of very helpful books there.

[Although something tells her she's not talking to a very big reader here, but that's not a bad thing. ... Right?]
soft_focus: (teddy :[)

deer in headlights and the right eye is the headlight

[personal profile] soft_focus 2015-05-20 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gulping again. Staring.

THE EYE CANNOT BE RESISTED.
]
intiiiiimidating: (Default)

[personal profile] intiiiiimidating 2015-05-20 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
If you wanted to look more beautiful, you ought to look like me. Right now, you just look incredibly feminine.
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[personal profile] npsleepy 2015-05-20 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I see... I probably wouldn't have played it anyway. Um... I'm not very good at dating sims.

[...Wait, shit, is that rude? She's never talked to a dating sim before. Better be safe, though.]

Um. Sorry!
revolutionfalcon: (the hell do you want)

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2015-05-20 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah well, at least you didn't try to approach in his blind spot, and even if you are a little quiet, he'll pick it up. He turns toward you very quickly, like letting any voice go unchecked is a risk, especially one he doesn't know.

He looks you up and down, but he doesn't pass any comment. Appearances can be decieving, as he's learnt many times over by this point.]


I'm not in the habit of touching foreign objects. Especially when they look...alive.

[He was honestly trying to find another word there, but that was the only one that surfaced. In any case, it probably won't be hard to convince him to touch the heart; he's already been having to resist the temptation.]
pearl_chevalier: (You think you could beat me? *smirk*)

[personal profile] pearl_chevalier 2015-05-20 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
... I don't think so. Not only does your size look near grotesque, but your smell, stature, weakness are attitude and incredibly repulsive.

[1 V 1 HIM BRO. GIVE HIM AN EXCUSE TO END YOU]
Edited 2015-05-20 23:51 (UTC)
intiiiiimidating: (Default)

[personal profile] intiiiiimidating 2015-05-20 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course I don't seem like the unpopular type! I'm nothing less than the most popular man in my hometown.

[ Welcome to the game of 'Stroking Gaston's Massive Ego' - where everything's made up and the points don't matter. That's right, the points are just like his midget sidekick. ]

Surely a beautiful woman like yourself has heard of me before?
Edited (fff icons) 2015-05-20 23:59 (UTC)
revolutionfalcon: (hm...?)

rude reira he can't help that

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2015-05-20 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[What are you staring at, kid--

Oh, right. One hand goes up toward that eye again, but stops halfway. These 'veins' are crystal, surely he can get a reflection out of one of them...

...Well, he doesn't exactly recoil in horror at it or anything, but he can see why you'd find it disturbing, so that's something. But he's still turning back to you when he straightens up.]


Didn't you have anything like this after you came through that hole?

[He assumes you got here the same way as he did, after all.]
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[personal profile] npsleepy 2015-05-20 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I get that... [She pauses thoughtfully for a moment, complete with a curious headtilt.] It's a little unsettling. It looks like the kind of object that would trigger a trap or an angry monster when touching it.

[At least, that's what she thinks would happen if this were a game. She's not fully convinced that it isn't yet, actually.]

But it's actually pretty helpful. Um. I could give you the exposition myself, except... I'm not sure if I'm good at explaining it.

Since I only just got here myself.
intiiiiimidating: (Default)

[personal profile] intiiiiimidating 2015-05-20 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ How dare you - his smell is just fine! ]

Hardly the sort of thing I'd expect to hear coming from a pink-heard womanly shrimp.
Edited (icon) 2015-05-20 23:55 (UTC)
urmyanthyding: (tee-hee!)

[personal profile] urmyanthyding 2015-05-20 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
It is fine! I am not very good at being human so far, so it probably averages out. Or something.

I was not a normal dating sim anyway.
cyan_maid: (Oh my!!!)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2015-05-20 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Right. Um, well, I concur. It is much better to be alive than it is to be dead.
intiiiiimidating: (Default)

[personal profile] intiiiiimidating 2015-05-20 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ BUT WHERE IS THE CONSTANT PRAISE? ]

I doubt you could find truly helpful in those books. Nothing that you wouldn't be able to garner from practical experience.
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[personal profile] soft_focus 2015-05-20 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Slowly he shakes his head, still sitting. His grip on the bear is lightening a little though--so he might at least be willing to do more than sit and curl into a ball soon.]
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[personal profile] npsleepy 2015-05-20 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, um, well. I'm...

[She trails off. Hm... Is it okay to tell that to people? She's still a little nervous about it.]

...

[She'll think it over just a little more.]

...Dating sims don't usually have fully functional AIs. Was yours special?
pearl_chevalier: (You think you could beat me? *smirk*)

[personal profile] pearl_chevalier 2015-05-20 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's no shrimp!

And... is Akoya starting to glow? He's starting to glow, especially his hands]


I bet I could beat you in a fight.
Edited 2015-05-21 00:00 (UTC)