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.
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[personal profile] npsleepy 2015-05-21 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Hm. I don't really remember. But this seems... like something that would happen in a dream.

...I think.
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[personal profile] spontaneouscombustion 2015-05-21 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[She laughs.]

Yeah, it does, doesn't it?! Buuuuut it'd be kinda weird if we were ALL having the same dream, right?
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[personal profile] npsleepy 2015-05-21 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe if it was a shared dream...

[...]

But that's not the case here. I get it.
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[personal profile] spontaneouscombustion 2015-05-22 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Yup, you've got it! My name's Pinkie Pie, what's yours?
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[personal profile] npsleepy 2015-05-23 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
...Chiaki Nanami. Nice to meet you. Hm, this is the first time I've met a pony.

[She's pretty sure this is a pony, anyway. Or just a very small horse? Hm.]

Outside of games, anyway.
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[personal profile] spontaneouscombustion 2015-05-23 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Pinkie nods her head in a light bow.]

Nice to meet you too, Chiaki-- wait, you've met other ponies?! Where?! What kinds of games were they?!

[HALLELUJAH SOMEBODY WHO KNOWS OF HER CULTURE!!!]
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[personal profile] npsleepy 2015-05-23 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Um, let's see...

There was Magical Kingdom Pony Quest... Wonderful Friendship Adventures... My Pony Pals... And a few more. Hm, it's a pretty popular topic. Usually 2D platformers or sim games.

[They're also usually extremely simple games for little kids, but you're talking to the Ultimate Gamer here. She doesn't discriminate.]
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[personal profile] spontaneouscombustion 2015-05-23 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
WOw, those ALL sound fun! Aaaaand are those last two things types of video games?

[She learned a little bit about them at her birthday party, but not a lot of the finer details.]
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[personal profile] npsleepy 2015-05-24 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Hm, they were fun. I completed all of them 100%.

Yep. Video games have different genres just like books or movies do. But... I enjoy all of them equally.
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[personal profile] spontaneouscombustion 2015-05-24 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I gotcha! [She tilts her head a bit.] Is it really hard to finish games all the way?
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[personal profile] npsleepy 2015-05-24 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Not if you take your time and be patient.

But... it can be kind of tricky sometimes, I guess. Like if you've gone through all staged and you're missing the final collectible, but you don't know where it is... Or if you've missed something important earlier and you need to redo a lot of the game to fix your mistake.

That just makes beating it feel that much better, though!
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[personal profile] spontaneouscombustion 2015-05-24 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow, that DOES sound tricky. Even WITH fingers! You must be really, REALLY good, though!
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[personal profile] npsleepy 2015-05-26 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
That's cause I've got lots and lots of experience.

But I have to be good. If I weren't, I couldn't be the Ultimate Gamer.
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[personal profile] spontaneouscombustion 2015-05-27 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow, REALLY?! So your special talent is playing video games?! COOL!

[... Pinkie, don't. Talent is probably a LOT more painful for Chiaki and her schoolmates to talk about.]