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.
no_refunds: (If what I think is happening is happenin)

[personal profile] no_refunds 2015-03-26 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
[...squints at Peridot

...squints at the Heart]



Are we talking about the SAME gigantic evil heart, or..? I.. I feel like I'm missing somethin'.
ohmygah: (You ever wonder why the sky is blue?)

[personal profile] ohmygah 2015-03-26 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
[That sure is some towering going on. Osaka can't help but feel tiny underneath her. Especially when she says all sorts of words she doesn't really understand. Makes her feel dumb.

She does latch onto one word though.
]

I never got around to seeing it, I guess. Action movies are pretty hard to find sometimes...
connie_maheswaran: (yeeeah no)

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-26 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.

[Connie made a face. Really, people and the strange worlds they came from. How did you treat being an adventurer like it was some kind of every day thing?

Then again, Steven did just that, didn't he?]

I don't know if it'll be that simple. Have you tried using your, uh, native powers?
connie_maheswaran: (Giving the information)

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-26 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
[So it might have been slightly possible that Connie had been purposely needling Peridot, if for no other reason than the gem was responsible for invading Beach City and giving Steven his black eye, not to mention him almost breaking their friendship].

Oh, I don't know. There are a LOT of people here, not even just humans. Who knows what information they have?
connie_maheswaran: (I'm almost 30 percent sure!)

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-26 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I won't, if only because what I'll tell you is not going to explain what we're all doing here, or why we have gems.

But in my world, the ones that have them are these alien-well, yes, I guess I have to call them that, aliens called the Crystal gems. The ones on Earth fight for us against monsters and corrupted gems left over from a gem war on earth years and years ago. Gems from their homeworld very recently Earth with the intent to probably start making more mischief.

So why WE have them, I can't tell you. I only know the gems, and my best fried Steven who's half human.

Isn't that most kid's dream? Not mine, of course. I prefer books.
rosecrystarium: (In thought)

[personal profile] rosecrystarium 2015-03-26 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Part of Lightning was amused at Yeul copying her. But this girl probably had never been given much of a chance to do things on her own without her guardian watching. She nods before answering.]

Almost all of them. Whatever this world is, it's playing by its own rules. This is the most human I've felt in a long time.
undiagnosed: (you can't get your life back)

sterling archer / archer

[personal profile] undiagnosed 2015-03-26 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
temple

[archer is certainly no stranger to waking up in places he's never seen before. he gets to his feet slowly, squinting at the bright colours. boy, he sure does have a bitch of a hangover.]

Does no-one here know about moderation? Seriously, it's like I'm in-- William Ramsay's wet dream!

[dusting his suit off, he's quick to discover a gemstone sticking out his chest. wonderful.]

...Oh, good. It tore my shirt! [archer that's not the main problem here--

he decides to take his frustration out in a mature way, by yelling at the biggest, brightest gem.]
That was bespoke, asswipe! This stupid cult temple better have a payable cheque for four hundred dollars hidden under one of those rocks!
beyourrock: (HUFF PUFF.)

[personal profile] beyourrock 2015-03-26 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Everything had changed so much! Just what on Earth happened. It was like Earth but..

Pearl flinches when she sees someone in the heart of the temple. Someone with a colorful vocabulary. She puffs up with a frown as she walks up to the newcomer, her fists clenched at her sides loosely.]


You know, yelling won't help anything!
beyourrock: (GASP.)

Pearl | Steven Universe

[personal profile] beyourrock 2015-03-26 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Temple

[Everything was familiar and yet different, but Pearl found herself within the temple, looking around cautiously. It felt strange to be without the company of her fellow crystal gems. Even Amethyst. And that was saying something. Pearl purses her lips as her ballet slippers pad silently through the temple.

With her hands clasped over her chest, she wanders through tge temple, calling out.]


Steven? Garnet? Amethyst? Are you there?

[She frowns, hearing her own voice in reply vibrating off the walls.]

Hello?
lunarrover: (04. Until the fellas)

Re: Pearl | Steven Universe

[personal profile] lunarrover 2015-03-26 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cosmo hears Pearl from quite a distance away, using his superior canine hearing. Those names sound familiar - they're the same names as the people Connie asked him to look for - and so Cosmo scampers his way deeper into the temple, toward the Heart, where the voice was coming from.

Pearl will find herself approached by an aging brown dog in a white spacesuit. His eyes glow as he speaks to her telepathically.
]

<Cosmo has heard those names before! You are friends with Connie, yes?>
beyourrock: (STEVEN don't touch that!)

Re: Pearl | Steven Universe

[personal profile] beyourrock 2015-03-26 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Pearl blinks as she watches the dog approach. In a space suit. She squints at it for a moment before she flinches, hearing the voice in her head. She looks around before looking back at the dog. Was it talking to her?

The gem walks up to tge dog, a few feet away still, before she clears her throat.]


Ah, yes, I do know Connie! Is she here?

[She says, with a wary tone to her voice. Just. How.]
lunarrover: (01. When the party was nice)

Re: sterling archer / archer

[personal profile] lunarrover 2015-03-26 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wow, this guy sure is yelling a lot. Fortunately for him, Cosmo's been hanging around the temple entrance for some time now, trying to act as something of a greeter for newcomers and trying to ease whatever fears they might have about this place. Cosmo is a good dog, after all, and a big part of that is looking out for the humans in his care.

And so Archer will find himself approached by a brown dog in a white, dog-sized space suit. Cosmo says nothing at first, just eyeing the man with curiosity, trying to find out what his deal is.
]
lunarrover: (12. She really want to skip town)

Re: Pearl | Steven Universe

[personal profile] lunarrover 2015-03-26 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
<Da! Connie is here. She is Gem now too!>

[Excuse his improper grammar, Pearl. English isn't his first language, and also he's a dog. Even when you're communicating telepathically, those are significant barriers to overcome.

He seems glad to hear that she does, in fact, know Connie, though! He lets out a tiny bark and pants happily.
]

<Have you touched Heart Gem, yet?>
lunarrover: (10. I see ya' little speed boat)

[personal profile] lunarrover 2015-03-26 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
<That is what Cosmo thought as well. It has been long time since I have been on Earth, however.>

[Also, he's only ever been in Russia. All this gem stuff doesn't exactly sound familiar, but he figured that maybe it was an American or a western-European superhero thing? Cosmo doesn't exactly keep up with current events on Earth.]

<Cosmo had thought that perhaps things had just changed in his absence.>
Edited 2015-03-26 21:33 (UTC)
beyourrock: (GARNET.)

Re: Pearl | Steven Universe

[personal profile] beyourrock 2015-03-26 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
She's what?!

[Pearl visibly bristles as her hair becomes unruly.]

But how?! She's pure human! Organic! She can't possibly be-

[Pearl pauses though as she turns to the large gem in the room. Right. That thing. She walks up to it, seeing her own faint reflection in its surface.]

Touch it? I-I don't even know where it's been or who else has touched it!
lunarrover: (14. Get back u flea infested mongrel!)

Re: Pearl | Steven Universe

[personal profile] lunarrover 2015-03-26 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
<Is what happens when someone is brought here. Check your forehead, you are one now too!>

[Cosmo's being polite and not reading Pearl's mind right now. Unfortunately, that means he doesn't really get that she was already a Gem before she came here. Connie had called them Pearl and her friends Crystal Gems, but it hasn't really occurred to him yet that she's a world where "Gem" means the same thing that it does here.]

<And Cosmo as well!>> [He opens his mouth slightly and runs his tongue over his teeth, revealing that one of his upper canines has been replaced with a glowing gem of his own.] <Heart Gem is sapient. It will explain your questions in ways that Cosmo cannot - you just have to touch it.>
strengthinkindness: (Thinking it over)

[personal profile] strengthinkindness 2015-03-26 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, it's a good thing she more or less knows about you HI TRIXIE.]

Um...th-the last one is the lie...I think...

[At least she's pretty sure.]
alittlemystery: (How encouraging.)

[personal profile] alittlemystery 2015-03-26 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Aren't all the angry mobs in our lives your fault, Grunkle Stan?
alittlemystery: (Soooo hey what are you into?)

[personal profile] alittlemystery 2015-03-26 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
It's freaky but the powers are cool?

Maybe you can summon a magic axe now or something?
alittlemystery: (Questioning your priorities.)

[personal profile] alittlemystery 2015-03-26 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
How young...?
connie_maheswaran: (Hmm)

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-03-27 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
He's my age.
cape_and_wizard_hat: (Normal)

[personal profile] cape_and_wizard_hat 2015-03-27 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Trixie pauses for a moment. Perhaps she made it too easy for this pony...]

Trixie deems you to be correct.

[She then waits to see if something happens.]
strengthinkindness: (Uh oh)

[personal profile] strengthinkindness 2015-03-27 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
[They both wait, the silence stretching on for a while.]

...O-Oh...am...I supposed to give you a riddle too?
alittlemystery: (Excuse me!)

[personal profile] alittlemystery 2015-03-27 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
You're like...twelve?
cape_and_wizard_hat: (Unsure)

[personal profile] cape_and_wizard_hat 2015-03-27 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, it's kind of awkward.]

Perhaps...

[She theatrically motions toward Fluttershy.]

Let Trixie hear your try, winged one!