Cosmographia Monster/Event Journal ([personal profile] stigematize) wrote in [community profile] 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 for [community profile] 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.
togabito: (Default)

[personal profile] togabito 2015-04-27 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm usually asleep or dead when I see her anyway."

Wow, that's...that's not a creepy thing to say at all.

The Sinner walks over to the rock and casually puts her hand on it.
burningbrighter: (hope)

[personal profile] burningbrighter 2015-04-27 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's really weird, and she has half a mind to ask about it when---

"Hey!"

She jumps when that happens, watching for any sign of impending disaster. Surely a magic meltdown is about to hit them, right?

"So it doesn't do anything?" she asks, tentatively coming closer.
togabito: (male)

[personal profile] togabito 2015-04-27 10:00 am (UTC)(link)
The Sinner slowly removes her hand from the rock and just...looks at it, thinking hard. If that's true...

And then she turns into a guy.

"...huh."
burningbrighter: (face the past)

[personal profile] burningbrighter 2015-04-28 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
WHOA that's new. She jumps back, clearly startled.

"...uh, no offense but what the hay was that?"
togabito: (standing)

[personal profile] togabito 2015-04-28 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
The Sinner spends a few moments looking over his body. Long coat, check. Barcode tattoo, check. Skull facemask, check. Huh. At Sunset's question, he looks up, his eyes solid black.

"...you should probably touch the Heart. It'll explain everything."
burningbrighter: (Default)

[personal profile] burningbrighter 2015-04-28 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, but will it turn me into a guy?"

Asking the important questions here, Sunset.
togabito: (male)

[personal profile] togabito 2015-04-28 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
Shrug.

"If you want?"
burningbrighter: (Default)

[personal profile] burningbrighter 2015-04-28 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[She touches it---definitely more anxious than before. Thankfully, she doesn't change form to a pony or anything else, but she does feel the warm glow of understanding flow through her.]

Okay then. Guess that means I'm stuck as a magic rock. And somehow we...fight crime?
togabito: (male)

[personal profile] togabito 2015-04-28 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
'Crime' has a very different meaning for The Sinner than it does for you, Sunset.

"I don't really want to fight babies, though."

Case in point.
burningbrighter: (hear me when I say)

[personal profile] burningbrighter 2015-04-29 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
"What does crime have to do with babies?"

She folds her arms, looking very confused by this.
togabito: (male)

[personal profile] togabito 2015-04-29 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
And now he's just looking at you like you're weird.

"...babies are small, helpless, and can't do anything, making them a counterproductive drain on society's resources. Being born is a crime with a mandatory million-year sentence. How do you not know that?"

...it doesn't sound like he's joking.
burningbrighter: (face the past)

[personal profile] burningbrighter 2015-04-30 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh...kay?" She's really, really confused by this. "But if no one's ever born, who takes care of the grandparents? How do you keep going?"

Because even she can see a flaw here.
togabito: (male)

[personal profile] togabito 2015-04-30 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Blink blink.

"People get born. I mean. It's not illegal to have children...I think?"

Pause.

"I got a million-year sentence for the crime of amnesia, so I don't really have any idea how many things are illegal. But being born is definitely one of them."
burningbrighter: (this worries me)

[personal profile] burningbrighter 2015-04-30 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
"...so it's not illegal for parents to have kids, but it's illegal for the kids to start existing?"

What? She's just gonna...back away, totally baffled here.
togabito: (sitting)

[personal profile] togabito 2015-04-30 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
The Sinner sits down, shifting back to female form as she does so.

"Well...most things are illegal until you purchase an exemption. I guess...babies don't have purchasing power?"
burningbrighter: (my past is behind me)

[personal profile] burningbrighter 2015-04-30 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
"So...wait. Who's getting all this money?"

Because this totally sounds like a bad time.
togabito: (sitting)

[personal profile] togabito 2015-04-30 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
SHRUG.

"I guess the government?"
burningbrighter: (so many uncertainties)

[personal profile] burningbrighter 2015-04-30 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
"That's no way to treat people," she says, because she's apparently now an expert on that subject.
togabito: (sitting)

[personal profile] togabito 2015-04-30 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
"That's just how it is, really."
burningbrighter: (she was awful)

[personal profile] burningbrighter 2015-05-01 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
"And that makes it okay?" She shakes her head. "No offense, but I really hope wherever this is...isn't that."

She can't quite explain what's so horrifying about that idea to her, but she's really longing for Canterlot High right now. Even Equestria.
togabito: (sitting)

[personal profile] togabito 2015-05-01 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Probably isn't. The Panopticon would never let a room like this exist - too many unused resources."