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.
connie_maheswaran: (Calculations in check)

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-25 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. So its, like, the heart of this sanctum. [Catching up on the lingo pretty quickly]. So that's what tells us what we have to do?

I guess that makes sense since the gems aren't here.

A war. No way. The gem wars. I know a little bit abut what Steven told me, but this must be something completely new.

What? The internet crashes?? Maybe there's some sort of satellite interference. Has anyone tried to wager a guess where we are?
magistermentium: (▲ on my soul)

[personal profile] magistermentium 2015-03-25 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Oh? Then why are you hiding it under that hat and hair of yours?
alittlemystery: (Tell me more.)

[personal profile] alittlemystery 2015-03-25 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Some version of earth, but not mine. None of this stuff exists where I'm from. We have demons and monsters and all, sure. But this gem stuff is totally new for me. And I saw some giant talking turtles show up here? And a kid I talked to basically comes from a sci fi genre setting.

So as for where it is in the world, who knows? Even a guess based off the local town's population's looks and accents is useless cuz I'd just be applying the standards of my earth to this earth.

To be honest I've spent most of my time hanging out in here hoping the G.F.G. there will finally reveal something useful. Town has given me nothing.

[gestures at the Giant Floating Gem when he says G.F.G.]
alittlemystery: (How encouraging.)

[personal profile] alittlemystery 2015-03-25 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Because I like my hat.
connie_maheswaran: (two plus two means whatever)

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-25 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
In my version of Earth, gems have been here longer than humans, but the only kinds that are actually seen there now are the crystal gems and the corrupted ones that turn into monsters. The other gems are the ones that defend us against the corrupt ones. So a bunch of new gems, including me, existing here is completely crazy.

It'd be like, well, if you went into a hole and came out a demon with no explanation.

Giant turtle? Science Fiction? Ok, I have to know we're all here for a reason: sounds like that destiny stuff Steven's meant for somehow got transferred to us. So you're not the only one from a world without the gems? How many people like tha are here?
connie_maheswaran: (Default)

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-25 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Ok, that stops the girl in her tracks-bad enough its a pony THAT TALKS, but its what she says that catches her attention].

Again? Do you travel worlds, Miss...pegasus?
alittlemystery: (This book says trust no one.)

[personal profile] alittlemystery 2015-03-25 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Pretty much all of us who are stuck with gems now.

The towns people don't them, just the ones who are getting yanked in.

It could be destiny weirdness or it could just be like. This place is running a RNG that's yanking people at random into this place to fill in the void of warriors to take care of the corrupted gem monsters around. Like some sort of program it's autorunning until their numbers go down.
connie_maheswaran: (Calm smile)

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-25 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Connie, who is still walking in a daze, almost runs right into the girl. Now, Connie is usually more than happy to blend into the crowd, but this is one of the few times where she at least has an idea about what's happening, and is able to offer advice. So here's Connie, new gem of Petalite on her shoulder, looking down slightly at the smaller girl].

Oh, I'm sorry. Are you all right?
magistermentium: (▲ it came out of a small thing)

[personal profile] magistermentium 2015-03-25 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Heh, so you too, eh Red?

[Sitting down next to Wendy on the large piece of stone is a sharply dressed man who looks maybe a decade or so older than her. He only has one eye, because in the place of where the other should be is a triangle shaped piece of pyrite.
Although he probably doesn't look familiar, it's quite possible she can't shake the feeling she's met him somewhere before...]


Now all we need is Question Mark and the whole gang's here!
connie_maheswaran: (Wrong canon!)

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-25 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
So every and anyone in the sanctum. Great. Well, here's hoping these people actually care about why they have gems now.

I never thought I'd be one of those people. I figured at best, I'd try to help the crystal gems however I could. I never thought I'd actually BE one.

Just like Beach City.

Ugh, an RNG? That would be chaotic, to just take a world and wreck its flow just for insanity's sake. Please tell me you haven't run into people who very clearly shouldn't have a gem!
magistermentium: (▲ lately i'm feeling like a big bang)

[personal profile] magistermentium 2015-03-25 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Uh-huh. You sure it's not 'cause you're ashamed?
alittlemystery: (Why is this my life.)

[personal profile] alittlemystery 2015-03-25 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
There are absolutely people here who should not have a gem.

And demons. Demons who shouldn't have gems.
connie_maheswaran: (recovering)

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-25 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Fine. Take a look at the world she's in now. It should be easy enough, get some information, write it down, report her findings. Except...who would she report them to? That boy, someone else? There was no Steven or Garnet or Amethyst and Pearl, so how would she know who to trust? She needed something familiar, or at least someone.

And here, seeing her in the crowd? She got her wish.

Because there was no way she would forget the gem that nearly drowned her, that hurt Steven's dad's leg. That day had not left her mind easily and probably never would.

But Steven told her she'd sacrificed herself to save him and the other gems. Maybe she shouldn't be so biased. For now.]

Lapis?
alittlemystery: (Pines!  Like the tree!)

[personal profile] alittlemystery 2015-03-25 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah! I'm not a little kid anymore so why would I be?
connie_maheswaran: (Squinting)

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-25 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no. You have to be...

Wait, there are DEMONS?! DEMONS IN THE SANCTUM?!

[Ok, calm down. No one had to know. She took a breath, pinching her nose between her fingers].

H-how do you know they're demons? They might just be, you know, really ugly where they're from!
alittlemystery: (Seriously dude.)

[personal profile] alittlemystery 2015-03-25 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Because it's the one that harasses my family.

...he use to be a triangle but I guess he has a human body now.

I'm not actually sure if it's one he got with the gem or if he hijacked someone's body again.

Don't worry, mostly he just sticks to harassing people and alluding to me how he's going to descend the world into chaos when we get back home. I think he's taking this place as a vacation.
connie_maheswaran: (Thinking)

Re: green triangles | that thing what this thing is based on

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-25 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
[It was bound to be that some people here, once Connie lurked, were going to stand out. One of them was this person who was obviously supposed to BE an actual gem, looking at the heart of this place. She had to be cautious, of course: by description, this sounded like the gem that Steven had fought off, the ones that had invaded Beach City on that ship. Best not to scare her off].

You don't look that scared to be here. Is this normal?
connie_maheswaran: (Dial information)

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-25 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
You get harassed by a triangle? That's a scary thing in your world? Hmm.

[What a strange sounding world. Being scared by shapes. So odd].

Wait, he can take bodies at will? That's a thing?

Ok, that's bad, really bad. I mean, the crystal gems are ok, but there were gems from the home world who were very NOT ok. The last thing we'd want would be your triangle demon guy meeting up with them.
connie_maheswaran: (Gazing)

Re: weiss schnee | rwby

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-25 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Hmm. A task. And here was some girl asking for help. She supposed there was no harm in helping, right?]

Oh, sure thing, Miss...?
connie_maheswaran: (Angry)

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-25 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Some people were definitely scared, some rude, some just generally accepting of their situation. Some of them, though, decided to act like idiots. This was an idiot].

Don't kick the gem! Don't you have any self preservation skills?
alittlemystery: (Tell me more.)

[personal profile] alittlemystery 2015-03-25 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
What are those gems like? You say gems and Crystal Gems like they're different things.
connie_maheswaran: (you sure?)

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-25 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
I've never met any of the home world gems except for one, and even she had been imprisoned on Earth for many years, so its not accurate.

The Crystal gems have been on Earth a long time, and they fight to save humans. They're a little rough around the edges, but they're very knowledgeable and kind and have the best interests of Earth at heart. The home world gems, they have their own agenda, and from what their actions have been so far, I would say they're not very concerned toward earth's inhabitants.
alittlemystery: (This book says trust no one.)

[personal profile] alittlemystery 2015-03-25 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Could this be an alternate reality where things turned out different and there are no Crystal Gems?
connie_maheswaran: (Doing this)

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-25 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
But you just said the people in...Waverly City aren't surprised by Gems at all, and that there's been battles before. So there have to have been gems here, or at least ones that ventured forth into the town.

What exactly do they know about the gems, and what have gems had to do here? I wonder if this is another place that needs defending from monsters.
alittlemystery: (Tell me more.)

[personal profile] alittlemystery 2015-03-25 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
They know about the corrupt gems but that's like. Their way of life. Like some towns have coyotes. This town has corrupt gem monsters.

They mention the war like it was pretty recent but it seems like a lot of stuff got ruined by it. The library is kind of a sad mess and like I said the internet is awful.