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

[spontaneouscombustion]

Indeed it does! Although when and how many kinda changes around. Usually we get new people on the same day, though!

[revolutionfalcon]

In other words, I'm not the only one you'll get today.

[Well that makes sense, at least. He is still a bit curious about the whole gem thing, though.]

So you got one of these on the way in too, then?

[He indicates his eye, though he doesn't really need to.]

1/2

[spontaneouscombustion]

[She sticks out her chest, showing off the balloon-cut indicolite embedded there.]

Yes indee--

2/2

[spontaneouscombustion]

Ow!

[She's gonna... look a bit uncomfy because HEART why'd you do that?!]

well pinkie the real answer is because I am a terrible mun--

[revolutionfalcon]

[Interestingly enough, he doesn't look that bothered by it himself. Resigned about it, maybe, but not bothered.

But hey, it still blinks and stuff. Which might make it creepier, honestly.]

It only hurt on the way in, I think. I don't remember what happened in that hole too well. It's inconvenient, but I'll learn to compensate.

[Shun you are taking this far too well. Though you do get used to losing things when literally everyone you've ever loved is dead or missing.]

GEE, I had NO IDEA!

[spontaneouscombustion]

Still, though... most of the OTHER gems don't take OUT body parts... [She looks at the Heart.] Heart, you've got some 'splainin' to do!

muahaha and all that

[revolutionfalcon]

[He looks at the heart too, but only for a couple of seconds. And then he shrugs, of all responses to have.]

It can explain all it wants. I don't really care either way. Explanations won't do anything for me.

[What's done is done. This isn't something he can fight or reverse, so all he can really do at this point is acclimatise.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

... Really?

[Wow, you've got nerves or a heart of steel. Maybe both. Either way, Pinkie's a bit confused. MOST people wouldn't be so blase about losing an eye.]

[revolutionfalcon]

Trust me, I've got a lot of experience with sudden changes in my life.

[Again, things that happen when your hometown gets invaded and destroyed by an interdimensional army when you were like, thirteen. And then when your sister gets kidnapped a few years later and you have to go dimension-travelling to find her. And so on and so forth.]

I'll be fine. Anyway, since you're obviously not from where I came from...do you know if anyone else from my world is here? They'd have something like this.

[He extends an arm; it looks quite different to the duel disks you would have seen, with a round screen and a little square bit to make up the length, but the 'blade' of it, when he flicks it out, will look identical to the others barring colour.

He's kind of hoping Yuto or Ruri might be here, deep down, but he's not getting his hopes up at all.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

Mayb-EEEEE is that a duel disk?! You play Duel Monsters too?!

[YAY, somebody new who can teach her to play!]

[revolutionfalcon]

[Well. You could ask him to teach you, but someone who always plays as if his life is on the line (because it usually is) probably won't give you the best response.

Still, he looks very interested at your recognition of the disk.]

I do, and I'll take that as a yes. Their names?

[He's a bit blunt about it, but hey, this is honestly pretty good behaviour for him.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

Gongenzaka, Masumi, and Yuuya~!

[Tooootally your friends, right?]

[revolutionfalcon]

[Gongenzaka gets a very mild, 'oh him' kind of expression, Masumi gets about the same, but the mention of Yuya's name makes his eyes narrow rather dangerously.]

Sakaki. I need to talk to him.

[Shun, that is not the tone of somebody who just has 'talking to' someone on their mind, that is the tone of someone who will probably be barely restraining themselves from physically attacking the person in question.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Duly noted, even if Pinkie doesn't betray it quite yet.]

Sure! What do you need to talk to him about?

[revolutionfalcon]

[He takes a moment to weigh his words, deciding how much to tell you.]

...A friend of mine.

[The answer is apparently not much yet, but you might get a tiny bit more if you prod.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

Reeeaaally? Cuz it seems like you're pretty angry at him. [GASP!] You two didn't have... a FIGHT, did you?!

[revolutionfalcon]

[He looks at you with something almost like pity for your apparent naivete.]

What do you expect? My last comrade vanished, and he was the only one there at the time. He started using Dark Rebellion. And now I'm seeing visions of Yuto around him.

[There might be some hastily covered-up sad in that last sentence.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

[The key word is apparent.]

That... sounds really bad.

[revolutionfalcon]

[Sorry, pink pony, you will have to prove to Shun that you're not as naive as he takes pretty much everyone who hasn't been through war to be before he starts taking you seriously on that front.]

Hmph, that's one way to put it. I've tried talking to Sakaki before, but we're always interrupted.

[By a bunch of assholes Shun beat coming back to troll him, by spirit-or-whatever Yuto appearing to tell Shun to calm the hell down (Yuto should know him better than that by now, really)...]

[spontaneouscombustion]

Ohhhh, okay! So you just wanna TALK talk! For a minute there I thought you wanted to scream at him and hit him or something! Phew!

[That a bit better?]

[revolutionfalcon]

[Maybe. He doesn't look altogether surprised you noticed he was leaning that way a bit; he might be decent at controlling his emotions, but subtle he ain't.]

I wouldn't make any promises, but if it can be resolved by talking, I'd prefer it.

[He doesn't need to waste his time on another Standard duelist.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

Works for me! And I'm sure Gon and Masumi and I can help if you DO start feeling too angry!

[And by helping she means lots of nice, immobilizing bear hugs.]

What's your name, by the way? [She nods her head in a light bow.] I'm Pinkie Pie!

[revolutionfalcon]

I'm sure they would.

[Masumi he's not too fussed about, but he's pretty well aware that if Gongenzaka got hold of him in a situation like that, throwing him off would be a pipe dream at best. He might have battlefield experience, but the guy's about three times his size.

And that is a very strange name, but he's not sure what he was expecting. It's a little awkward, like he's having to actually remind himself how to be polite, but he inclines his head. He probably would have been reluctant to give his name until recently, but most of Standard must know it by now, honestly.]

Shun Kurosaki.

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Yay, near-literally giant fourteen-year-olds!]

Nice to meet you! So should I call you the whole thing or Shun or Kurosaki?

[revolutionfalcon]

[It's probably a good thing you asked; it's been far too long since anyone but Yuto's called him Shun that he probably wouldn't react well.]

Kurosaki is fine...Pinkie Pie.

[He sounds like he's going to take a bit to get used to that name, but it's said with the same completely serious tone as everything else. He's clearly good at being serious with weird names...just ask Raid Raptors - Fuzzy Lanius and Singing Lanius.]