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.
cometkin: (sheepish | thousands of voices)

Re: Greg Universe | Steven Universe

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-04-27 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Greg takes his hand, grateful for the help.]

Uh, sure. I guess you're not a local, then.

[Where to start, where to start, hmm.]

So, um, not everyone knows this, but there's a species of alien space rocks called Gems out there who used to visit Earth thousands of years ago. They have all these leftover temples and hidden sanctuaries and stuff. And... this looks like it's one of them!
cometkin: (guitar | some say i have no direction)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-04-27 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Greg will be patient and hold on.]

Really? Comics? Cool. I've got a bunch of old Harveys that probably should be in a museum. [They're actually Steven's now, but shhhhh.]

I wonder how you'd have a grass museum...
connie_maheswaran: (He was incredible!)

Re: Greg Universe | Steven Universe

[personal profile] connie_maheswaran 2015-04-27 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Different universes. I'd never sell Garnet short!

Stil, Lightning is pretty fierce and has great stories, if she feels like talking.
herolegs: (04 Jaw Drop)

[personal profile] herolegs 2015-04-27 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Chie's gotten into the habit of checking in on the entrance chamber once or twice a day, just to see if anyone new has arrived. She's hoping to meet her friends from home, but she's more than open to making new friends too. So she's present just in time to watch poor Steven tumble through his hole and land right on his rear.]

Whoa, geez! We really oughtta put some mattresses down in here or something... You okay, kid? [She dashes over immediately to help him to his feet.]
spontaneouscombustion: Feel free to use with credit! (Default)

Protag ahoy!

[personal profile] spontaneouscombustion 2015-04-27 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, new guy!

[And TADA! It's a pink, talking pony with a VERY pink, VERY curly mane bounding up to him! And a blue, balloon-shaped stone in her chest, but that's not TOO noticeable, right?]

Hi, there!
strengthinkindness: (That's awful!)

[personal profile] strengthinkindness 2015-04-27 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[It was always a bit surprising when someone new was arriving at the temple. And though it was mostly the same, the sound of screaming as someone fell always startled Fluttershy a little.

But snapping out of it quickly, she headed towards the sound, arriving just as the boy landed.]


O-Oh my gosh...! Are you all right...?
believesineveryone: (I dunno...)

[personal profile] believesineveryone 2015-04-27 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh hello! Steven wasn't sure who this new person was, but she seemed friendly enough if she was offering him a hand up, so he took it and got up on his feet, using his free hand to wipe the dust off his pants.]

Thanks ma'am, but I'm fine! Falling out of space and back to earth was a harder fall.

[Said with complete nonchalance.]

Um...do you know where this is? I've never seen anywhere like this in Beach City before...
believesineveryone: (Default)

Helloooooooo

[personal profile] believesineveryone 2015-04-27 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Well...that was new. Steven considered for a minute that he might have hit his head on the way down through that hole...but a few seconds of staring and the realization that he himself was part alien gem made the fact that a pink pony was talking to him seem considerably less weird.]

Oh, hi! Are you from around here? ...Wherever here is?
burningbrighter: (this worries me)

Sunset Shimmer | My Little Pony: Equestria Girls | Sunstone

[personal profile] burningbrighter 2015-04-27 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
[What's that? Another thud in the temple? Of course it is. There's a teen girl with vivid red and yellow hair sprawled before the crystal.

She seems a little freaked out by her surroundings. Magic crystals and shine---it's just like---.]


Oh no. I am definitely not up for being here today.

[She lifts her hand---okay, not a hoof. She's probably not back in Equestria. But it's still weird, and she's just going to tug on the end of her hair and scoot away from it now, rocking back onto her feet.]

Geez, Sunset, can you be any worse at pulling it together? [Headshake. Thank goodness nobody saw that, right?]
believesineveryone: (Um...)

[personal profile] believesineveryone 2015-04-27 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
I'm fine...just a little sore is all.

[Steven wasn't really paying attention to who he was talking to as he was in the middle of standing up...but once he caught sight of Fluttershy, he stopped for a second. Only just a second though; talking ponies weren't even the weirdest thing he'd seen this week and whoever this was seemed nice enough to him, so she'd get a smile and a wave.]

Um, hello! I'm...Steven, Steven Universe! Who are you? And...do you know where I am?

[Cause he sure didn't.]
strengthinkindness: (Excited)

[personal profile] strengthinkindness 2015-04-27 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[She hesitated a moment. Steven Universe...where had she heard that name before.]

It's nice to meet you, Steven...My name's Fluttershy...

This is the temple where...all new Gems first come to...

[Wait.]

Steven...oh! Do you know Connie?
alittlemystery: (Oh dear.)

[personal profile] alittlemystery 2015-04-27 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
. . .are you by any chance Steven as in Knows Connie Steven?

And as a follow up: Are you okay?
believesineveryone: (-gasp-)

[personal profile] believesineveryone 2015-04-27 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
So this is a Gem place...maybe they just haven't shown me this part of the temple yet.

[He scratched his head for a second...but the mention of Connie was enough to snap him out of his pondering almost instantly.]

I do! Do you know Connie too?!

[...Steven, Steven please. At least he sounds really happy and excited??]
strengthinkindness: (Oh look over there)

[personal profile] strengthinkindness 2015-04-27 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
[She giggled. So she had been right!]

Yes! Connie was among the first of us to arrive here and receive a gem...
believesineveryone: (Default)

[personal profile] believesineveryone 2015-04-27 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah! To both of those...but, how did you know I'm Steven?

[He managed to get up and dust his pants off, just a little bit confused by the person in front of him. All in all he seemed like a nice guy, and he wasn't all that put off about him knowing his name; maybe he just had future sight like Garnet? Either way, he'll hold out his hand for a shake!]

Who are you though? I don't have future vision unless Garnet lets me use it.
spontaneouscombustion: Feel free to use with credit! (Default)

Re: Helloooooooo

[personal profile] spontaneouscombustion 2015-04-27 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
[That and it's not like he doesn't have experience with pink animals and females with pink, curly hair, right?]

Nnnope! I've been here- and "here" is in Waverly Bay, by the way- for a teensy WENNSY bit over three weeks! I'm from Ponyville, which is back in Equestria!
believesineveryone: (I dunno...)

[personal profile] believesineveryone 2015-04-27 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Woah woah woah woah. Woah. Fluttershy. Woah.]

Connie...has a gem? Are we talking about the same Connie? Connie Maheswaran?

[Last time he checked, Connie was just a regular human and didn't have a gem at all. Maybe this was the Gem Homeworld and Fluttershy was talking about a different Connie?]
Edited 2015-04-27 01:43 (UTC)
strengthinkindness: (This is me)

[personal profile] strengthinkindness 2015-04-27 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oh...yes...um...

[Here we go. How to explain?]

This world...it's different than the one you're probably from...There, where Connie is a regular human...here, she's been given a Gem...

Most of us who were brought here from our own worlds...we've all been given Gems...

[Raising her hoof, she gently taps it to the pink butterfly-shaped jewel on her chest.]
alittlemystery: (Soooo hey what are you into?)

[personal profile] alittlemystery 2015-04-27 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
[handshake it is, buddy! Good firm tiny hands handshake between two tiny men]

You knew all the names of those Crystal Gems people she talks about. Nobody else but someone from her world would do that. Unless I guess there was an alternate world that closely resembled her world....

[deeply considering this train of thought, sorry. distracted now]

Then again there's no telling if you are or not until you meet up with Connie. But I don't think it's likely that you're not her Steven. And she'd be bummed if you weren't...
alittlemystery: (Excuse me!)

[personal profile] alittlemystery 2015-04-27 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
I uh.

Hey, I'm Dipper.
believesineveryone: (Default)

[personal profile] believesineveryone 2015-04-27 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Nope. He'd never even heard of either of those places, so he was even more confused than he'd been before hand. On the other hand though, this new friend certainly had an infectious attitude of happiness and he felt himself smiling despite the situation.]

Huh...I've never even heard of Waverly Bay or Equestria. Could you tell me about them?

[And before he forgets his manners any more, he'll pull his brain back in enough to remember he was supposed to actually introduce himself to new people.]

Oh yeah! Right. I'm Steven Universe, it's really nice to meet you!
togabito: (sitting)

The Sinner | Freedom Wars | Kunzite

[personal profile] togabito 2015-04-27 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry to say, you have company. Interestingly enough, she has the same red-and-gold color scheme you're rocking, although in her case it extends to her clothes, as well.

Strangely enough, there appears to be some kind of glowing white thorny vine wrapped around one of her forearms.

"Where is this?"
Edited 2015-04-27 01:49 (UTC)
believesineveryone: (Um...)

[personal profile] believesineveryone 2015-04-27 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
...I only really understood part of that, but I think I get what you're saying.

[Because Steven wasn't really one to lie about things like that and he didn't see any shame in admitting he didn't get every single detail. He was confident that he'd pick things up more after a chance to think about things.]

Basically...wherever this is, it brings people here and makes them Crystal Gems, right?
strengthinkindness: (When you make a change)

[personal profile] strengthinkindness 2015-04-27 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[She nodded.] Basically, yes...

[It's all right, because most of them still don't understand it either.]
believesineveryone: (Um...)

[personal profile] believesineveryone 2015-04-27 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Don't worry Dipper, he only caught about half of what you said because he was thinking about Cookie Cats, but he got the jist of what you were going for.]

Hi Dipper, it's nice to meet you! Do you know a lot about this place? What can you tell me about it?

[Because that was priority two for him right now before he set off to look for Connie. Sometimes you had to tackle priorities out of order in order to handle them properly after all.]