TEST DRIVE

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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

[cyan_maid]

[Hm? Who's this person, offering answers to questions? Jane likes answers.]

Oh - ah, yes, please do! I've heard a few different things, but I'm still very, very confused.

[connie_maheswaran]

[Just a slightly smaller girl than you, looking sympathetic and fairly bookish despite the lack of lenses in her glasses].

I can try to keep things as, well, normal sounding as I can. This would be pretty startling for many people.

For starters, we're in a gem sanctum, as far as I can tell. The people who are here, gems, come to get their missions, or recharge or talk, as far as I can tell. As far as what gems DO, its your typical "protect the world from bad guys" scenario.

It's just...I've befriended the gems in my world, but on Earth there are only supposed to be three. I don't get why people who never HAD gems have them now.

[cyan_maid]

[Ah, right, there's no lens shine. Are the glasses just for show then? Jane would ask, but the explanation catches her attention.]

It's already quite startling to go through a hole and pop out in a place like this, but I appreciate that, thank you.

Huh...so you know actual gem people? How interesting...but this isn't your home, is it? Er, well, what's outside isn't your home, I mean.

[connie_maheswaran]

[Oh, she'd get one. Connie wasn't wearing it to be one of those fake hipster girls. She was an honest to goodness nerd, thank you].

Yes, that's something out of Alice and Wonderland, isn't it?

Several, and one of them is my best friend! He's only half gem though.

No, I don't think so. There's only supposed to be three gems in my world, and I'm definitely not one of them.

[cyan_maid]

[Seems sort of silly to wear glasses without lenses if you were a hipster, anyhow.]

It is! Then again, it's not as strange as some of the other things I've been tumbling into. It's pretty close, though, and definitely just as hard to believe.

Your friend is...half a gem. So, wait, wouldn't that make it three and a half gems living where you're from?

[Connie's got that somewhat bewildered look to her, and her answers are limited - but informative! - so she definitely couldn't of been a gem person before this. At least, that's what Jane thinks.]

[connie_maheswaran]

[Oh, it's ridiculous in general. Connie, of course, had her reasons].

Wait, so you mean you've been through a ton of crazy things yourself? Like what?

Uh...well, yes. I guess I never thought of him as a "half,' just Steven, my best friend. But even only being half gem, he's pretty powerful. Could I see yours?

[cyan_maid]

Well...

[She was about to go into her experiences when she realizes that maybe calling someone's friend a 'half' of anything isn't very polite. Jane turns red.]

Oh - gosh, um, I'm sorry! I didn't mean it in an impolite way, er...so it's more like a nationality, then? Like if someone were Italian or somesuch?

[A bit flustered, Jane pushes up her bangs so Connie can see the larimar in her forehead.] S-Sure. And yours is...?

[connie_maheswaran]

It's technically true, I just tend not to think about it. You're right though, he is half magic, half human. I just think of him as "Steven, best friend with a magical destiny" thing, you know.

[Connie spies it, marveling it a moment]. Cool. [She pulls down on the right side of her shirt, showing the Moss Agate on her shoulder].

[cyan_maid]

That's probably a better way to think about one's friends...I think. Is he here, too?

Oh! How interesting, it's on your shoulder! I guess these gems can turn up in any place.

[connie_maheswaran]

I hope he is. I'll be looking for him, he is my best friend.

[It just wouldn't be the same, being here without him. It would definitely be more scary].

I've seen the head, the hands and the chest, so far! Who knows where else they'll be?

[cyan_maid]

Hoo hoo, then I think I would like to meet him.

[Might as well get to know everyone who has experience with gems, after all, and if they're like Connie, then they've got to be nice, right?]

I bet we'll find out while we're here! After all, there seem to be so many folks in this predicament.

[connie_maheswaran]

Oh, you'll like him! He's got so much energy, and he's the nicest guy!

[She just hoped he popped up sometime soon].

Yes, and some I don't think I'd ever see in my world. I'm pretty sure I'm not losing my mind and saw full grown turtles walking around.

I still haven't talked to them, feeling slightly intimidated!

[cyan_maid]

[A pause.] Full grown...excuse me, did you just say there were full grown turtles around here?

[connie_maheswaran]

Yes. With bandannas and weapons.

I'm pretty sure no one can dream that up.

[cyan_maid]

...I'm really going to have to check this place out proper as soon as possible.

[connie_maheswaran]

You and me both.

[cyan_maid]

Maybe we could explore together sometime -

Oh! I just realized, I never got your name. Mine is Jane Crocker, what's yours?

[connie_maheswaran]

We can do that whenever you want! I don't think I feel too comfortable doing it by myself just yet.

Oh man, if my mom were here, she'd already be yelling at me for being so rude! I'm Connie, Connie Maheswaran!

[cyan_maid]

Hoo hoo, it's fine! I've been just as rude! It's nice to meet you, Connie, though I wish it were under different circumstances.

[connie_maheswaran]

You mean where we're not transported to a strange place with gems in our bodies and having no idea what's going on?

I almost wish I could say that's typical...well, what day is it?

[cyan_maid]

Um...it should have been around a Friday from where I came from, I think. We sort of had to trust our computer calendars once we got into January, but we looked more at the month and number rather than the day. That doesn't necessarily mean it'd be the same for you, I'd bet.

[connie_maheswaran]

I guess its just another way of telling days and all. I guess now it might matter a little less, unless there's a free and easy way to get out of here.

But I'm guessing we wouldn't be able to leave that easily if we were brought here like this.

[cyan_maid]

I'd like to think it would matter a bit more! If we're going to be here long, I want to know how long.

Probably not, but it's worth investigation, wouldn't you say?

[connie_maheswaran]

You and me both! Also, I'd like to know if we're in some sort of time loop and time for us back where we belong won't be, you know, severely messed with!

Definitely. Should be one of the first things we find out!

[cyan_maid]

I hadn't thought of that...gosh, I haven't had a chance to think through much at all!