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cosmoooc2015-03-22 10:30 am
stigematize) wrote in 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 forcosmographia, 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.
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.
Re: Strong Bad | Homestar Runner (+ MLJ CRAU) | Apatite
You want to fight me?
[It... was kind of a stupid question to ask, and he knew it, but he thought that they were all on the same side.]
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Now that's more like it. I was starting to worry about you, Marty.
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You... you were?
[He wants to ask why the hell he knows who he is, but he's still kind of stunned by the familiarity to say something too complex at the moment.]
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Are you kidding me, man? Of course I was! I thought death horse must've got you. But you're better than that. And now all we've gotta deal with is the magic rock thing.
[Or so he thinks. He's all smiles now, but that won't last long.]
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[What.]
Are you sure you're not confusing me with someone else?
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...y'know? Calice? The mirrors? Horses and dragons and a bunch of crap about friendship being magic? No way you could forget all that.
[Great time to grow a funny bone, Marty.]
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[That's not right. Calice never wipes an entire memory. This guy who looks and sounds exactly like one of his best friends, and answers to the same name, even...isn't his friend. He looks a little emotionally devastated for a second, at least until he pulls the tough guy mask back together]
Yeah---yeah, you're totally right. Did I say Marty? I meant, uh, Morty. There's this Morty dude I used to hang with, funny story, looks a lot like you. Sorry for wasting your time.
[Friendship only works in ponyland, he guesses. He'd stuff his hands in his pockets if he had any.]
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Wait, how do you know me, anyway?
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Didn't I just tell you? You look like some Morty kid.
Or would you rather believe the magical horse story?
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[Meaning: A magical horse story an't be that much weirder.]
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...except even a Marty that didn't know him from any other two bit Bill could possibly be gullible enough to trust him. He'd have to really go all out on this story. Deep breath.]
All right, but you remember that you asked for this...
Once upon a time, in a magical land puked up straight from some middle schooler's notebook, there were pretty ponies in every color, living in magical harmony with all kinds of fantastical and cool beings. Mighty griffons, intimidating serpents, awesome dragons... And the ponies had all kinds of great power. Unicorn magic, wings and things...and earth ponies, with no awesome power to speak of but being the handsomest and the strongest.
But all was not well in the kingdom of girly delights. One of their perfect unicorn princesses fell to darkness, becoming an entity known as the Death Horse. Or Calice, if you wanna get technical. She made it her mission to suck up everything like some giant pony vacuum, bringing 'em to a little pony town fueled by revolting levels of friendship and sweetness, to watch her subjects and eventually suck 'em all up. Her vacuum's power grew and grew until she sucked up regular folks from different planets, even. Funny thing about this vacuum, though: whoever got caught up in it popped out the other end as some storybook critter.
I turned into an earth pony because she failed to recognize my might. So I'm this freakin' horse, and everybody's bleating about friendship being magic and about how we all need to be BFFs to save the world and stuff, and that's all a complete load of crap, right? I told 'em to quit wasting time and let the unicorns blast her with their spells or something. Most people couldn't handle my awesome, so I didn't exactly get all buddy-buddy. Good, 'cause I didn't want to.
But not everybody blew me off. One of 'em, a little dragon...didn't tell me to go away. He actually had acceptable taste in music, and I was so bored out of my mind that I agreed to hang out. And then it was so not-terrible that I did it again, and again, and much to my complete disgust I started caring about him.
Yeah, whatever they had in that water got me. I hopped all aboard the friendship train. And once it started, I got another, and another...until I couldn't call myself the baddest of bad loners anymore.. And I still don't want to tell 'em they were right, but...fine. I'll say it, if only because you look too much like him for me to not care: I like having friends.
And the freakiest part: my first friend, that little dragon who wouldn't leave me alone? He wore a vest exactly like yours, he called himself Marty McFly, and he sounded exactly like you. So either you've got some freaky critter clone somewhere in this crazy universe or I'm making all this up, man. Your call.
[Please say he's making this up. Send him away. This doesn't have to be your fate, McFly.]