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

[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.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

[You humans and your first and last names. Plus Gongenzaka Noboru's a mouthful, even for her!]

Kurosaki it is! And you can call me Pinkie if you want!

[revolutionfalcon]

[Even if he was prone to using names often, using just your 'first' (yes, these humans thinking your two names are a first and last) seems awfully familiar to him, and he doesn't much like the idea. It's nothing personal or anything.]

Maybe later on.

[You don't seem like you'll leave him to his brooding, after all. He'll probably see you again.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Ah, see, nobody's explained the concept of name formality to her yet.]

Really? Why not now if you're going to later?

[revolutionfalcon]

[Huh. He's not exactly the best person to be explaining politeness, but...]

In the language I speak, using a first name without an honorific usually shows you're close to someone - or extremely rude. So I keep to last names and full names these days.

[With two notable exceptions.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

Ah, I gotcha! Back home we don't really use honorifics- whatever those are- or divide our names up into first and last names all the time.

[Pony naming conventions, what are they? Also, she HAS heard an honorific before, for Chiyo-chan.]

Sooo what WOULD you call me?

[revolutionfalcon]

[He shrugs. Usually he doesn't really think too much about names, he just doesn't particularly want anyone calling him by his first right now.]

You said Pinkie Pie, so I'll just call you that for now.

[And maybe one day when he gets a bit less stunted, he'll call you Pinkie.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

Okey-dokey-lokey~ And I guess I can settle for calling you Kurosaki for now! Ooh! What about Kuro, or Saki? Would one of those work?

[Formality between friends, what is that?]

[revolutionfalcon]

[He. Might be wincing a bit at that. He's not used to silly, or people trying to shorten his name.]

If you must, the first half at least means something on its own.

[So that'd be 'Kuro', then. He'd kind of prefer the whole thing, though.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Just be thankful she didn't suggest "Rosa" as well, dude.]

Really? What's it mean?

[revolutionfalcon]

[Yeah, that would've been an interesting one.]

"Black". The second kanji in my surname is a suffix as its pronounced, so it needs to be attached to something.

[He could get into the topic of kanji but he'd probably need something to write on.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

Oh, that IS a cool name! So does Shun mean something too? And what's a kanji?

[revolutionfalcon]

[Ah, right, he figured you weren't Japanese - that's why he introduced himself first name-last name instead of the order he's used to.]

Japanese uses a few different alphabets; kanji is one of them. They're symbols that mean different things depending on how they're used. So my surname has two kanji; one pronounced "kuro", which is "black", and "-saki", which is "flower". The one in my first name is read differently depending on if it's a word or a name, so in my name it's "Shun", but in normal usage it's read "hayabusa", which is "falcon".

[So in other words, yes, Shun does mean something. It means he's a bird nerd.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

Oooooh Falcon Blackflower is a REALLY cool name~! Hmmmm I should ask the others what THEIR names mean sometime!

[revolutionfalcon]

[Okay he hadn't really registered how ridiculous his name would sound translated until you said that. But anyway, at least he can drag the others down with him--]

I'm sure they'd be more enthusiastic about it than I am.

[Probably. Most people are more enthusiastic than Shun is about everything except destroying Academia.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Oh, come on, it sounds awesome!]

I bet! Ooh, I can't WAIT to ask them! And to tell them you're here! Juuuuuust wait until Gon or Masumi's there before you talk to Yuuya, 'kay?

[revolutionfalcon]

...Again, I wouldn't promise anything. If they're there, fine. If they're not, too bad.

[Sorry, Pinkie, he's not that nice. The best he'll give you is that he won't actively hunt Yuuya down. After all, the whole Yuuto thing is kind of on the top of his mind right now.]