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

[cometkin]

Yeah, you probably do! [They sell tee shirts that say 'Osaka' on them in Osaka, right?] Maybe we can find you an Osaka shirt somewhere and I'll wear one of my old Mr Universe shirts and we can take a picture.

[ohmygah]

Yeah! We'll be name shirt people! [Said with a lot of excitement for a sentence that sounds like she just cobbled various words together. Even if it makes sense in context.]

[cometkin]

Yeah!

... hey, that's a great name for a band. Or an album.

[ohmygah]

Name Shirt People? What kinda band could they be?

[cometkin]

Uh, probably any kind of band, actually. Maybe it could be our band name if we had a band together?

[ohmygah]

Whoa! Really? But I don't even really know how to whistle!

[She's no Yomi, but she wouldn't call herself phenomenal, musically wise.]

[cometkin]

Huh. Well, whistling is kinda hard for some people. But that's okay, I can whistle for the two of us.

[ohmygah]

[Conclusion: Osaka has decided that Greg is pretty darn cool.]

You're really nice, Mr. Universe!

[cometkin]

Thanks! You're a really good kid, Ayumu!

[He's the coolest dad this side of the cosmos! Even if he's not your dad.]

[ohmygah]

Thanks! If we're both really good, then maybe the rocks won't mind is being here!

[It doesn't quite occur to her that they might've forgotten that entire topic.]

[cometkin]

[What? Oh, right.] I dunno, Pearl can get touchy about some pretty minor things. She's one of the Gems that still live on Earth. Her and Garnet and Amethyst and Steven.

[AND LAPIS AND PERIDOT AND JASPER BUT LET'S NOT TALK ABOUT THEM.]

[ohmygah]

[Those are nice names.]

I guess I'd be mad too if someone was in my room. [She pauses to consider it.] Other than friends and nice folk.

[cometkin]

[Yeah, they are.]

Yeah, but even with friends and nice folk, it would startle you if they were there when you didn't expect them, right?

[ohmygah]

A little! But they can't be doing anything too bad...

[cometkin]

Yeah. But Pearl's a little high strung, so even though she knows me and you're nice folk, she'd still freak out a little right away.

[Greg looks at the door to the chamber they're in, frowning a little.] Man, I dunno if I'm gonna be able to open that. I never used to be able to before. Maybe we will have to wait for the Gems to find us here.

[ohmygah]

Oh, I getcha! That explains Miss Kurosawa gets real upset when Mr Kimura tries to join us during girl's swimming day. [Yes, that's definitely why.]

How long do ya think it'll take for them to find us?

[cometkin]

I dunno. There's a bunch of bubbles up there, so maybe next time they come in with a new bubble? They do that pretty often. Like once a day or so.

[Still that seems like a pretty long time to wait.]

Huh. I wonder what would happen if I knocked on it. Maybe Steven's in his room and he'll hear it?

[Does that even work with magic doors that can go anywhere?]

[ohmygah]

Can't hurt to try. Unless its like an electric fence or something. Then it'd probably hurt a lot.

[cometkin]

Naw, it's not really.

[So Greg goes over to the door... and it opens for him? Okay, that is weird. And... this place it's opened up to doesn't really look like Steven's room either.]

Huh. I don't think we're at the temple. At least, not the temple I know.

[ohmygah]

Why do rocks need so many temples? Is it so the mom rocks and the dad rocks can worship the God rocks?

[Important questions.]

[cometkin]

... huh. I never asked.

[Maybe he should have.]

[ohmygah]

[Now this has really got her thinking. She moves over to the wall and rubs it a little.]

If the temples are made of rocks, do the alien rocks feel bad making it outta fellow rocks?

[cometkin]

You know, I didn't ask them that either. I dunno if it's the same, though. Gems are kind of different than normal rocks. They can think and they have magic and stuff. And they've got bodies that they make so they can walk around.

[ohmygah]

Huh? [That explains a lot. In her mind, she had imagined little rocks rolling around, shoving things together to make temples, falling on the head of intruders... Bodies were probably more useful.]

So they're rock people?

[cometkin]

Yeah! Their real bodies are the rocks, but they sort of project human-shaped bodies from those rocks.