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.
pearl_chevalier: (Default)

[personal profile] pearl_chevalier 2015-05-26 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
But that's it, really. New place, new start in life. Lots of people will help you if you ask them. I will. Fighting is really rare though, but at we at least have gem powers to help.

[Maybe you should just yell and ask questions]
spontaneouscombustion: (Heheh...)

[personal profile] spontaneouscombustion 2015-05-26 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Aaaaand congratulations you're the FIRST person here who's actually scared her!]

Ahaha... nice meeting you gotta run bye!

[Yuuya! There's some kinda psycho not-friend of yours here!]
revolutionfalcon: (the hell do you want)

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2015-05-26 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
[What an honour. He inclines his head at your sudden statement.]

Goodbye, then.

[Hmph. Get a little serious with people and they run away. He watches you go; he's at least partially aware that he scared you off, but he doesn't seem to care that much.]
weiss_nine: <user name="iconsbyafangirl" site="tumblr.com"> (it's funny how some distance)

[personal profile] weiss_nine 2015-05-26 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, martial arts figure skating totally sounds plausible and so does punching watermelons so obvious it's palm tree head. Really, everyone knows the weight of a palm tree couldn't be supported by a human neck NEVERMIND THAT IT'S PROBABLY IMPOSSIBLE TO DO MARTIAL ARTS ON SKATES. In the world of Remnant, people laugh in the face of physics.]

I suspect the roots of anything growing out of someone's head would eventually crush their brain, so I pick that as the lie.
uncutetomboy: (listening)

[personal profile] uncutetomboy 2015-05-26 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, I'm not sure Principal Kuno has a brain to crush.

[There are lots of days it seems really unlikely.]

Want to try to guess between the other two?
weiss_nine: <user name="iconsbyafangirl" site="tumblr.com"> (a kingdom of isolation)

[personal profile] weiss_nine 2015-05-26 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe he's a plant with human characteristics.

[Like a plant Faunus WAIT NO THAT MEANS THE TOTALLY PLAUSIBLE ONES MIGHT BE A LIE. Hmmmmm. If the palm tree is true, then the kung fu skating must also be true because why would it not be and therefore!]

This feels like a trick question, but I'll guess you don't go around punching watermelons.
uncutetomboy: (listening)

[personal profile] uncutetomboy 2015-05-26 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Like trying to become Hawaiian.

[Wait, is that a human characteristic?]

Only when I'm at the beach and there's a competition. The guy who does it compulsively is one of the upperclassmen at my school.
crapfully: (the criminal element)

Strong Bad | Homestar Runner (+ MLJ CRAU) | Apatite

[personal profile] crapfully 2015-05-26 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[One day, there was a formerly human-like pony. He trotted through a hole on an impulse...and on the other end, found himself currently human-like. Awesome. He spent the first little while checking himself out in the reflection of the heart gem, until his glove accidentally brushed it. And then a world of information came pouring in.]

...okay, hold up. Pony, I could almost believe after a while. But you're telling me I'm some rock?

[He's looking cross-eyed and annoyed at the blue gem decorating his mask. It's the same shape and color as ever, but...brighter. More solid. And he feels connected to it, in a way he wasn't before. Also, it apparently has some kind of superpower. So he's gonna puff up his (awesomely ab-tastic) chest and stride out confidently. Yes, folks, that is a rather odd-looking little wrestleman strutting out among you.]

Okay, magic rocks. Do your worst.
Edited 2015-05-26 17:25 (UTC)
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[personal profile] terrificathlete 2015-05-26 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Thank you for asking politely, Strong Bad! The magic rocks are happy to oblige in the form of Homestar Runner popping right out of nowhere.]

Oh, hewwo, Stwong Bad! Glad to see you came to my rock-collecting pawty!

[ Of course, he has a a gem embedded in his own forehead. It's pretty fancy, ey? Though he seems pretty concerned with greeting Strong Bad at the moment, he's positively beaming when he next begins to talk about the gem in his forehead. ]

Look, we even match! We could pwobably start a magic fowehead club.
foodalchemist: (Cherries jubilee)

[personal profile] foodalchemist 2015-05-26 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
WAIT WAIT WAAAAAAAAAAAAIT-- [She pushes him with her elbows. fortunately, she's very light?]

You... how...

--HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT LIKE IT WAS NOTHING??
npsleepy: (003)

[personal profile] npsleepy 2015-05-26 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
That's cause I've got lots and lots of experience.

But I have to be good. If I weren't, I couldn't be the Ultimate Gamer.
npsleepy: (014)

[personal profile] npsleepy 2015-05-26 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought there wasn't much of a difference between dating in games and dating in real life. Ah... I'm not good at either of them, of course.

But are they really so different?
crapfully: (uh...no.)

[personal profile] crapfully 2015-05-26 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[...he totally didn't mean that literally. But of course the universe took it literally, it always does. When he had the fleeting thought that he'd miss his friends, this wasn't what he meant.]

Your party? Yeah, you just keep telling yourself that. And I ain't starting any club with you.
icebutnice: (Icy demeanor)

[personal profile] icebutnice 2015-05-26 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[There wasn't much around Akane, just the interior of a strange temple she likely had never seen before.

As well as an old man currently investigating the wall of holes she had probably come out of. There was some mumbling under his breath as he poked his white-haired head into one of the holes - not his size, but still big enough. That lasted for about a minute, until he pulled away... and finally noticed the new girl.
]

Oh! Uh, pardon me. Are you new here?
urmyanthyding: (and this is where the tentacles live!)

[personal profile] urmyanthyding 2015-05-26 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Well I have not actually dated anyone since I became human, but... from what other people have said to me they seem different. If just in complexity.
npsleepy: (004)

[personal profile] npsleepy 2015-05-26 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
...Hm. People are complicated. I don't really get them, a lot of the time.
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[personal profile] urmyanthyding 2015-05-26 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[She sighs]

Tell me about it. So unpredictable.
npsleepy: (014)

[personal profile] npsleepy 2015-05-26 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, exactly...

That's why... I'm better with games. They're more precise. Whatever result your actions have is predetermined from the start. But living beings don't have any kind of "trick" to them.
urmyanthyding: (aw shucks)

[personal profile] urmyanthyding 2015-05-26 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
That's true. But a lot of people still like other people more than games, apparently.

[Bitter? Nooooo, not her.]
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[personal profile] terrificathlete 2015-05-26 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Way to disappoint. Have a super sad Homestar Runner, just super disappointed with that response. ]

Aw, c'mon! You nevew wanna do some kinda fancy fowehead cee-lubs with me.
crapfully: (so...boring...)

[personal profile] crapfully 2015-05-26 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh geez, Homestar, don't do that. You might awaken his new friendship instincts and other icky stuff. He's still annoyed, but he drops the hostility just a little.]

But you didn't even qualify for a hypothetically awesome forehead club until today.

[He's just going to stare a bit. That gem thing...his normal one changed a little, but man is it weird to see Homestar potentially with superpowers. Actually, the thought's a little unsettling.]

You got any kind of fancy power with that?

[Not that he's likely to be smart enough to figure it out, but...it's a remote possibility. He guesses.]
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[personal profile] terrificathlete 2015-05-26 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
But you let the Cheat in youw last awesome fowehead club! He doesn't even have a fowehead! It's mowe like a slanty-type dealio.

[ He kind of does a quick shrug-type thing. ]

Supa-powah? Nah man, nah man. Unless you count the wock that's been im-pale-ed in my head as some kinda powew. That'd be pwetty wad.
crapfully: (so...boring...)

[personal profile] crapfully 2015-05-26 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Power of dunce, maybe.

[Never mind that he has no idea what his power is yet either, shhh. The top-popping thing doesn't seem to be it this time.]

So. We're in rock world, and you're the only thing familiar. I guess we're in that club.]

[Of course it would be this way. Of course. He's sounding a little resigned at this point.]
thepoweroflove: (3)

Re: Strong Bad | Homestar Runner (+ MLJ CRAU) | Apatite

[personal profile] thepoweroflove 2015-05-26 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Marty blinks. While not the weirdest thing he's run into while here, this guy is probably the shortest wrestler he has ever seen.]

You want to fight me?

[It... was kind of a stupid question to ask, and he knew it, but he thought that they were all on the same side.]
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[personal profile] terrificathlete 2015-05-26 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
The Powew of Dunce it is! [ Hey, he can slap a name onto his new "gem-impaled-into-forehead-powers"! Thank you, Strong Bad. ]

Oh no. Wock Wowld is a completely diffwent thing and it's down in Flowida. You and me awe both in Wock Land! It's not as big, but it's not the cwappy Wock Land in Tokyo, so I'm pwetty happy with it.