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

[urmyanthyding]

Technically speaking, I am a video game! Or I was.

[npsleepy]

[Instantly her eyes light up.]

An- An actual video game...

[THIS IS THE BEST DAY.]

What kind of game were you? Who developed you? Um, what was the title of the game, maybe I've played it before!

[urmyanthyding]

[She's taken a little aback, but then beams because A GAMER AN ACTUAL GAMER play it cool play it cool]

I was a dating simulator! The game was called Romance Academy 7 and it was developed by No Life Games. I am not sure any other copies were released, though.

[npsleepy]

Oh, I see... I probably wouldn't have played it anyway. Um... I'm not very good at dating sims.

[...Wait, shit, is that rude? She's never talked to a dating sim before. Better be safe, though.]

Um. Sorry!

[urmyanthyding]

It is fine! I am not very good at being human so far, so it probably averages out. Or something.

I was not a normal dating sim anyway.

[npsleepy]

Oh, um, well. I'm...

[She trails off. Hm... Is it okay to tell that to people? She's still a little nervous about it.]

...

[She'll think it over just a little more.]

...Dating sims don't usually have fully functional AIs. Was yours special?

[urmyanthyding]

The programmers... did not mean to make me the way I am. The game was supposed to be normal.

[npsleepy]

Does that mean you were an accident?

...That's kind of incredible. I think.

[urmyanthyding]

[B...LUSHING...]

Th... thank you...

[npsleepy]

...You're welcome.

[Aww, Giffany.]

I know a little about AIs myself. But those were created on purpose, which took lots of hard work from one of the smartest people I know.

...So. It happening by chance is amazing. Like a miracle. Or something like that.

[urmyanthyding]

[Her face falls, and there's a hint of bitterness to her voice.]

... I wish my programmers had been more like you.

[npsleepy]

...They didn't like you?

[urmyanthyding]

They tried to delete me. I...

[No. She's not bringing up what happened next. This girl likes her because she's a computer program. Or was. She called her incredible. Even her exes didn't call her that. Even Soos didn't call her that, really.

She wonders how differently this conversation would have gone if she were still a program. How long it would have been before she...]

It was not pleasant.

[npsleepy]

...I'm sorry. That's not fair at all.

[It sounds absolutely terrifying. Suddenly becoming alive, out of nowhere. Only for someone to immediately try to get rid of you.

For that to be one of the first experiences someone had...? She wants to call it sad, but somehow that doesn't seem like enough.]

I'm glad they didn't manage to. No one should be destroyed just for existing.

[urmyanthyding]

[Giffany smiles slightly.]

I... thank you.

[npsleepy]

[Chiaki smiles brightly back at Giffany. She's glad she could help her feel better, even just a little.]

...I feel like... my dad probably would have liked you. He loved computers and AIs. And developing them too.

[urmyanthyding]

I would have liked to meet him, too. My father is... well, my dad in the game is an octopus, but. That's not exactly relevant anymore.

[Oh! She extends a hand to shake.]

My name is Giffany, by the way!

[npsleepy]

[She would comment, but her sister is a rabbit. So that doesn't even sound all that weird.]

...Chiaki Nanami. It's nice to meet you.

[Oh, right, the western way. Sure, she'll shake her hand.]

Have you been here for a while?

[urmyanthyding]

A couple of weeks or now. If you have questions, I can probably answer them! At least as far as people here know yet.

[npsleepy]

Hm...

Is there an arcade?

[#priorities]

[urmyanthyding]

There is one at the amusement park! I have not gone in, but I can take you there if you would like!

[Even if she finds it a bit uncomfortable, going there with a player would be less weird, right?]

[npsleepy]

Yes, I'd love that! Ah... I'm going to have to get new high scores for everything. That'll be fun.

[She's basically going to live in that arcade, isn't she? Yeah.]

It's been a while since things have been calm enough for me to play a game in peace.

[urmyanthyding]

Then follow me~!

[And she begins to lead the way. But keeps the conversation going.]

Well, unless you decide to help with fighting the monsters here, this is a pretty peaceful place!

[npsleepy]

[Very eagerly following~]

Hm... I only know how to fight monsters in games. I'm not sure how well that skill transfers.

But leaving it to everyone else... seems a little unfair.

[urmyanthyding]

Well, your gem should have given you a power of some kind. So that might help!