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.
syborg: nothing between me and the rain (no sleet)

[personal profile] syborg 2015-03-23 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
At least some of us have getting familiar with the environment as our top priority. [ He's seen a couple of otherwise pretty ordinary kids and people (and one talking dog) that don't seem suited to combat, but isn't that what heroes are for? Doing the fighting, so nobody else will have to. ] Others who've come here look and act like civilians.

onemorechapter: (WHOA)

[personal profile] onemorechapter 2015-03-23 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
Twice?? What-?

[How?]
mysterysnack: (no longer loving this shit)

[personal profile] mysterysnack 2015-03-23 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Whaaaaat, his outfit is totally normal. Don't diss the shades, man, they're essential.]

Well that's... good to hear. Though it sounds like monsters are a real thing that do definitely happen around here, so... thanks for the heads-up? [Because that's going to make his screwed-up day any better.]
hypnotherapy: ([h] is that all?)

[personal profile] hypnotherapy 2015-03-23 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
Ah - I remember those.

I think I drove a few away from damaging my shop. They didn't like that very much. [ He seems amused at the memory. ]

At least you'll have some friends. Less lonely that way, at least.

Your Wizard didn't come with you? [ That's a concern. ]
strengthinkindness: (Actually...)

[personal profile] strengthinkindness 2015-03-23 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
...Sometimes, like here, we're drawn to a place...other times, we're taken there...

And even still...sometimes the world itself manages to lure us there...
cantaffjordablizzard: (i don't know if you can hear me)

[personal profile] cantaffjordablizzard 2015-03-23 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
[soon.

anna waits, eyes wide and eager, ready for elsa's powers to show themselves. but when they don't her smile disappears, and she frowns at her sister's hand, like maybe being disappointed in it will bring her powers forth.]


Why didn't anything happen? They can't be gone for good, can they?

[not after all that trouble with the doors and the ice castle and the act of true love and that mess...]
mysterysnack: (happy headshot)

[personal profile] mysterysnack 2015-03-23 10:29 am (UTC)(link)
... still not a whole lot, considering how people are getting here and what they're being tasked to do. It's just... a messed up situation on the whole.

Though at least the little city here is nice. Friendly people, too. Er, non-Gem people.
onemorechapter: (Repeat that?)

[personal profile] onemorechapter 2015-03-23 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
It's what I'm used to.

For others, a more city-living life may be what they're used to. [An observation, and one that could perhaps be expected. Defaulting to behavior that makes the individual most comfortable, in a strange new environment like this.]
syborg: (nothing to keep me from the storm)

[personal profile] syborg 2015-03-23 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
I just got back from fighting one. [ Yep, there sure are monsters. There sure are a lot of monsters. ] There's many of them out there, so if you're not intending to fight, you shouldn't go outside the town too much. It would be dangerous for you.

[ Looks at him for a moment. ] But you're a dog, so you can probably outrun some of them.
ryuusei_subaru: (Sorrow and sadness)

[personal profile] ryuusei_subaru 2015-03-23 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm glad you managed to, at least. Seeing people fight against each other instead of those things...

[He frowns. It was strange and unnatural, it put his friends in danger...and he never wants to see Link Power drop like that again. It's not something to be toyed with!]

Less lonely...I guess that's one way to see it. It doesn't seem hard to make friends here, either. [Everyone's so friendly! So far, anyway. Then again, they're all lost here together, huh...

The frown remains on his face.]

No. He was complaining that the hole I entered was weird, and I was listening to him, but somehow I went in anyway...and it was like he just disappeared from my Hunter while I was in there. I guess the hole really was made just for me...

[He hopes War-Rock is safe at home. :( ]
lifeisfun: (Default)

[personal profile] lifeisfun 2015-03-23 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
Uh-huh! It's tasty, even!

Berry will just bounce happily on her heels as she waits for you to try it.
mysterysnack: (brb not looking at explosions)

[personal profile] mysterysnack 2015-03-23 10:35 am (UTC)(link)
I'll... keep that in mind. Yeah. [Not that any of this is reassuring in the slightest. Really, just talking about monsters and the like makes him worried about how Vivi and Arthur are doing. Which probably shows super heavily on his face.]

P-probably, yeah! Haha... I'm alright at running. [He's okay at fighting too! Just... really really really doesn't actually want to. Ever.]
icytouch: (Default)

[personal profile] icytouch 2015-03-23 10:35 am (UTC)(link)
I'm all right. [ a slow exhale. ] Do you think it was telling the truth? What did you hear?
syborg: (no calm)

[personal profile] syborg 2015-03-23 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
They're trying to make themselves comfortable, which is understandable, but.

The monsters here seem to want to approach the temple, so without an organised force, noncombatants would find themselves in trouble. [ Despite the corruption and the ranking system that he feels doesn't accurately represent his teacher's powers, he's picked up some things that are positive about the Heroes' Association.

He's a little one-track minded. Defend civilians, okay. He's more talking to himself at this point.
] Even if a few of us independently begin these behaviours, it'll be enough for an alarm system at least.
mysterysnack: (hold on you missed something)

whurgh this got lost in other tags

[personal profile] mysterysnack 2015-03-23 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. Good to know. [Gives him a bit of hope, too. You're probably helping more than you know, Fluttershy.]

... What were the other worlds like?
icytouch: cuppa (t e n)

[personal profile] icytouch 2015-03-23 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ no thank you!!

elsa looks wholly alarmed. her eyes are wide and her throat runs dry but she tries again, leaning her weight forward, brows furrowing in concentration. but nothing happens. not even a breath of cold. it feels like she's empty inside, like the well of magic within her, the source she has always pulled upon, has run dry, or disappeared. ]


I'm.. I don't know..

[ she swallows hard. ]

This has never happened before.
hypnotherapy: ([h] "alright then")

[personal profile] hypnotherapy 2015-03-23 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
It'd be a waste of my skills if I couldn't. Years of netbattling experience has to count for something. [ The skills he learned a long time ago transfer well enough into the real world, though of course there are many differences. ]

We're all bunched together in one place. It's only natural.

So you had the same kind of experience. I'm not sure what called me, either.

[ He notes that frown. ]

Don't worry. I'm sure he can take care of himself.
onemorechapter: (Default)

[personal profile] onemorechapter 2015-03-23 10:39 am (UTC)(link)


It's certainly a lot to be expected to take in. [Particularly on being a gem, now. And she couldn't even tell what hers was at first.]

Hm. Haven't taken the chance to go into the city yet.
strengthinkindness: (I am sometimes in between)

[personal profile] strengthinkindness 2015-03-23 10:41 am (UTC)(link)
I-It...It talked about...becoming a magical gem... [She unconsciously tapped the stone on her chest.] That...we're the gems...

It...also talked about the temple here... [She glanced around, imaging the map that the jewel gave her in her mind.]

I...I don't really think it would...lie to us...
onemorechapter: (Hmh.)

[personal profile] onemorechapter 2015-03-23 10:41 am (UTC)(link)
[The luring seems to be what happened here, at least.

Whatever Blake's thoughts are, all she winds up actually saying is-]


...Strange.
mysterysnack: (shit here i am falling down this chasm)

[personal profile] mysterysnack 2015-03-23 10:43 am (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't do you much good to just hang around the temple and the wilderness all the time, so... consider it. The food's alright there... not that you... actually have to eat or anything...

I mean, it's not necessary but it's still food, right? [This has become less "talk to Blake about the situation" and more "slowly convince yourself that everything is fine".]
strengthinkindness: (But you find your strength anyway)

[personal profile] strengthinkindness 2015-03-23 10:44 am (UTC)(link)
Mm...it...always takes a bit of getting used to...
icytouch: (Default)

[personal profile] icytouch 2015-03-23 10:44 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think so either. [ at least, that's not the impression in her heart. but elsa is cautious by nature, so she still can't help but wonder. mimicking futtershy's movement, she touches her fingertips to the gem affixed to her front. ]

But I suppose that means we're stuck here, at least for a little while.
ryuusei_subaru: (Default)

[personal profile] ryuusei_subaru 2015-03-23 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
Netbattling...? You mean virus busting?

[Well, viruses did only show up three years ago thanks to the FMians. Maybe this guy was one of the first to use the Battle Cards on the network...so "years" is probably right, even if it does sound like he's been at it longer than that. But that's impossible, right?]

I think everyone who ended up here had that kind of experience...or at least, everyone I've talked to so far. I wonder what it means...

[But thinking about War-Rock...well, with his personality at least, it brings back a tiny smile.]

He's very strong. And stubborn. I think he can probably manage. I can't help but worry anyway, though, he's one of my best friends!
mysterysnack: (hold me)

[personal profile] mysterysnack 2015-03-23 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
[What. Just... what. There are no words for this.

Just dog staring. Yep. Lots of staring. Congratulations?]