TEST DRIVE

[stigematize]

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 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.

Comments

[freckledninja]

[This here turtle just arrived and is distracted by poking the orange gem in his chest]

Poke. Poke. Pookkkeeee.

Okay so it's NOT a button that D installed in me when I wasn't looking.

As Fluttershy can't help checking if these are people she knows XD

[strengthinkindness]

...Mikey?

[Hey turtle. Have a colorful pegasus...pony...thing.]

[freckledninja]

Yes!

[sadly there is no recognition when he sees her. Sorry Fluttershy :( But he does light up once he registers she is a talking pony]

Whoa! Are you a mutant too? You're almost as pink as our cat!

[strengthinkindness]

[Well, no harm in checking.

Realizing that he doesn't seem to know who she is, she smiles politely.]

N-No...I'm actually just a...pegasus...

[Just a pegasus.]

[freckledninja]

Ha! I so told Donnie pegasuseses were real. Shows him!

[strengthinkindness]

[She can't help a soft giggle. Oh, if only you knew, Mikey.]

A-Actually...they might not be real in...your world...But where I come from we're...pretty normal...

[freckledninja]

Awww no! Don't say that! I want there to be cute ponies everywhere!

[strengthinkindness]

W-Well, I'm...here now...

[For whatever that's worth...]

[freckledninja]

Yeah! It's cool to meet you!

Can I pat you? Is that cool?

[strengthinkindness]

It's...nice to meet you too...

[Her ears twitch a bit at the question, but she nods with a smile.]

Sure...

[freckledninja]

[gives her a very gentle and careful pat on the head]

You alright?

[strengthinkindness]

[She nods.]

Mm...it's fine...

[She can see why her animals liked it.]

[freckledninja]

Making new friends is so cool.

[spontaneouscombustion]

Oh, hi, there! [Sudden pink pony behind you!] Hey, you look familiar! You wouldn't happen to know any green eyed, red masked turtle guys, would you?

[freckledninja]

Y'mean Raph? Yeah, that's totally my bro!

Are you a friend of his? Like how much do you rate on his growl-o-meter?

(Still pony)

[spontaneouscombustion]

SWEET, I KNEW it! And he was kinda confusing about what a mutant is, but he seemed alright!

[Translation, probably around where you rate, Mikey, maybe a touch lower.]

[freckledninja]

What was he talking about that boring stuff for?

[spontaneouscombustion]

[She giggles.] He wanted to know if I was one, but we don't have those where I come from, and I thought he meant if I was a turtle thing? I mean I don't LOOK like a turtle, do I?

[freckledninja]

Naw, you're one hundred percent pink pony pal!

A mutant is just like a dude or gal who got covered in some green stuff and changed.

Like slimy goopy green stuff.

[spontaneouscombustion]

Now see, you explained it a LOT better than he did! And I HAVE been covered in green stuff before, but it never really changed me! So nope, not a mutant, just an Earth pony!

[freckledninja]

. . .are there SPACE ponies?

[spontaneouscombustion]

OOH, maybe there are! Not that I know of, though. Back home, an Earth pony's a pony that doesn't have a horn or wings! We're also a little stronger and a little better at farming stuff than unicorns or pegasi!

[Yay, low-level latent earth magic!]

[freckledninja]

[brb imagining Pinkie Pie dressed in overalls and riding a tractor

He doesn't know there's another pony for that!]

Farming ponies....

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Pffffft Mikey please... tractors are for wimps.]

Yes indeedy! My whole family are rock farming ponies, and one of my best friends who's pretty much my maybe-cousin and her family are apple farming ponies! I don't farm though, I plan parties!

[freckledninja]

...! You plan parties? What kind of parties??