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

Aria Blaze | MLP:EG: Rainbow Rocks

[fishtails]

[So there's this new girl wandering around with really silly hair. She looks... despondent? But also upset? And she has a big old chunk of pyrope garnet right at the base of her throat, but it you look at it there's... a bunch of grooves in the surface? They make it look kind of... shattered.

Anyway, it's pretty easy to notice her, since she's yelling, if nowhere near at the top of her lungs.]

Adagio? Adaaaaaaaagio! Adagio! ...Sonata? ... ADAGIO!

[burningbrighter]

[Adagio. Sonata. Sunset Shimmer knows those names...and that voice. It's Aria of the Dazzlings, of course, and her gem is...back together? Still damaged, but...this could be pretty bad.

Still, she's gotta give this a chance.]

Don't think you'll find them. The heart gem doesn't make holes for everybody at once, and I haven't seen them.

[fishtails]

[Oh great. Just who she wanted to be stuck in some backwater rock dimension with. Super.]

And why should I trust you, exactly? Something with the power to bridge dimensions can't possibly be stupid enough to take just one part of a three-part harmony.

[If it was just Adagio, she'd understand, but... she's not even the lead.]

[burningbrighter]

...oh, I dunno, I think it can.

[She folds her arms.]

Look, I don't want to fight you. It doesn't have to be like before.

[fishtails]

Well lucky for you, I'm not really up for a fight. Not yet.

[She has no idea how many of Sunset's friends are waiting in the wings, after all.]

[burningbrighter]

I hope we never have to. Look...I know we've got a rough history, but it doesn't have to stay the same. The gems here don't want to hurt you, we all want to get through this. Together.

[no_refunds]

....Marco?

[fishtails]

[She blinks. What.]

Excuse me?

[no_refunds]

That's what you were doin', right? Marco Polo?

[fishtails]

I said Adagio. It's a name.

[no_refunds]

But you said it like you were- ah, never mind. Joke's dead.

Anyways, they're probably not here!

[ceasetoexist]

Yeah, you're not going to find crap or anyone.

Chances are? Anyone you know? Didn't get brought with you.

[fishtails]

Uh-huh And you're the expert, I take it?

[ceasetoexist]

By this point?

Yeah. Sure am.

[fishtails]

Okay, but it doesn't make sense for it to just take me. I'm not the lead, I'm not the one who... okay no just taking Sonata would make way less sense.

[ceasetoexist]

You're thinking too hard about it. People who run places like this usually don't have a set of qualifications they're looking for in the people they take. They just do.

You got unlucky. That's it. That's all.

[kuukai]

Already tried tha'.

[ Kyouko's leaning against a wall, watching the girl. ]

[fishtails]

Are they your partners?

[kuukai]

Not fer them. [ She scowls. ] Someone I know.

[fishtails]

Huh. Is their name Adagio?

[spontaneouscombustion]

PINKIE!

[Oh look, there's a bright pink pony behind you, Aria!]

[fishtails]

[She jumps.]

Sonata, you can't just-

[Oh. It's... a pony.]

Uh... hey.

[spontaneouscombustion]

Hey! So who're Sonata and Adagio? And what's YOUR name! I'm Pinkie Pie!

[fishtails]

My... partners. And I'm Aria.

[She knows that name, though. And appearance.]

You... don't happen to come from a place called Equestria, do you? Or a place called Canterlot High?

[justhavecourage]

. . .

[Sorry. No Adagio here. Just a very confused... elf? Sure. Go with that. He goes up to her, rubbing his ears as he does so. You sound even louder to him. Please stop.]