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

[microbrobotics]

I'll be fine. I've done way worse back home.

[alittlemystery]

Not gonna stop you, man.

[microbrobotics]

Then - uh -

[ ... yikes. this is maybe a little too high after all. he shimmies down a little more, trying to get to a safer spot. and then he slips. because of course he does. he doesn't fall, but he is dangling. and he scrapes his arm on thing he's clinging to. ]

Whoa - ow -

[ annnnd when he says that key word, the world's softest, huggablest golem starts to materialize below him. ]

[alittlemystery]

UH. What's that.

[microbrobotics]

Uh - I don't know -

[ it's vaguely indigo-tinted, which means it must be Hiro's. it gently takes Hiro from the thing he's clinging to and holds onto him. ]

Hey! Lemme go!

[alittlemystery]

[cracking up because what else can you do i mean really]

[microbrobotics]

[ it's so cute and Hiro's so irritated by being held by it!! after a moment it gently lowers Hiro to the floor. and then disappears. ]

What the heck was that!?

[alittlemystery]

I don't know!

[microbrobotics]

[ ughhhhhhh ]

Why'd it show up? Did I do that?

[ wait, it showed up when he said ... ]

Ow?

[ ...... yep here it comes again. ]

[alittlemystery]

Did you think about a marshmallow man or something?

[microbrobotics]

Nnnnno, I think it's 'cause I said "ow"?

[ a second one pops into existence ]

Weird. They kind of look like a bot I had back home.

[alittlemystery]

That's a pretty soft robot.

[microbrobotics]

That's 'cause he's 'sposed to be vinyl and stuff. Less marshmallow and more balloon man.

[alittlemystery]

But why a balloon robot?

[microbrobotics]

'cause he's a nursebot. He's supposed to help doctors and be a first responder and stuff. My brother built him.

[alittlemystery]

Whoa, that's really cool. I wouldn't think to make that kind.

[microbrobotics]

I wouldn't either? I mean, I do robots, but not that kind. This is all Tadashi's.

[ such a longing look at the bot as it fades away again ]

[alittlemystery]

...you okay, man?

[microbrobotics]

-- It's fine. Whatever, I figured it out. Hooray me.

[alittlemystery]

It seems pretty helpful....? Ish?

He's kind Soos shaped.

[microbrobotics]

Soos? Who's Soos?

[alittlemystery]

Friend of mine at my Grunkle's. He's the handyman, fixes all the busted stuff at the shack.

[microbrobotics]

Shack? ... "Grunkle"? Dude, where do you live?

[alittlemystery]

*I* live in California. But my twin sister and I are spending the summer in Oregon with our grand uncle. He runs a tourist trap called the Mystery Shack.

[microbrobotics]

[ oh hey fellow californian ]

California, really? Where at? And ... wow, Oregon. How remote are we talking here?