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.
ohmygah: (What am I looking at)

[personal profile] ohmygah 2015-04-29 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Wellllll... ooookkaaaaaaay.

[And she slowly turns around. Kinda hoping this isn't a prank.]
cometkin: (concern | is my only home)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-04-29 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a gem there, isn't there?]
ohmygah: (The brain needs sleep when you talk)

[personal profile] ohmygah 2015-04-29 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[There's totally a shiny purple fluorite gem there on the back of her skull.]
cometkin: (concern | is my only home)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-04-29 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
[He had a terrible feeling that was going to be the case.]

Uh, hey, Ayumu? You've got a gem too.

[This is Worrying.]
ohmygah: (Default)

1/2

[personal profile] ohmygah 2015-04-29 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Ohh. Okay!

[That explain what he meant by shiny.]
ohmygah: (HOW AND WHY DID YOU DO THE THING)

[personal profile] ohmygah 2015-04-29 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
W-WAIT, HUH?!

[PANIC RISING.]

WHERE DID IT COME FROM AND WHAT'S IT DOING IN MY HEAD?! THAT'S WHERE MY BRAIN IS, IT SHOULDN'T BE THERE!
cometkin: (fear | this life in the stars)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-04-29 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
I DON'T KNOW!

[OH NO, YOU'VE GOT GREG ALL PANICKY AGAIN TOO.]

It's just there! Like it's part of you now!

[oh gosh have they turned into gems oh no]
ohmygah: (EMOTIONS AND FRIENDS ARE HURT)

[personal profile] ohmygah 2015-04-29 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Now that she knows its there she can't stop rubbing it and touching it and generally panicking over the thing stuck in the back of her head.]

I DIDN'T AGREE TO GEMS IN MY HEAD!
cometkin: (kneel | but that's a kneejerk reaction)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-04-29 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't agree to a gem in my chest!

Oh gosh oh heck, is that what happened when we crawled through the hole? Why doesn't anyone warn people about that?

[BAD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN THE HOLES ARE MEANT FOR YOU.]
ohmygah: (HOW AND WHY DID YOU DO THE THING)

[personal profile] ohmygah 2015-04-29 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
WHY WOULD SOMEBODY DIG HOLES FER PEOPLE TO FALL INTO?! I THOUGHT IT'D BE NICE BUT ITS NOT!
cometkin: (kneel | but that's a kneejerk reaction)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-04-29 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know! ROSE NEVER TOLD ME ABOUT THIS!
ohmygah: (EMOTIONS AND FRIENDS ARE HURT)

[personal profile] ohmygah 2015-04-29 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
ALL I WANTED WAS A NAP IN GROUND!
cometkin: (concern | is my only home)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-04-29 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Aaaaaaarrrrgh.

... no. No, he had to keep it together. For Ayumu's sake. Deep breaths, Greg. Deep breaths, deep breaths, deep breaths.]


Okay. Okay, we're going to-- to find one of the real Gems figure out what happened. They have to be around here somewhere. This is their kind of place.
ohmygah: (Get the chopsticks right this time dummy)

[personal profile] ohmygah 2015-04-29 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
R-right! Good thinking! Then we'll make 'em talk.

[She pounds her fist into her hand for dramatic effect.]
cometkin: (sheepish | thousands of voices)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-04-29 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
Um. Maybe not by punching.

[Because then they might punch back. And they don't want to be punched by Garnet.]
ohmygah: (Devious plans flying left and right here)

[personal profile] ohmygah 2015-04-29 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
Then kicking!

[She demonstrates with swinging one of her legs a little. She wavers a bit and nearly loses her balance before setting it back down.]
cometkin: (concern | is my only home)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-04-29 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
No, not by kicking either. Pearl, Amethyst, and Garnet are all thousands of years old and a lot better at fighting than humans--and Steven is my son.
ohmygah: (You ever wonder why the sky is blue?)

[personal profile] ohmygah 2015-04-29 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
[HMMMMM. She stares upward, thinking carefully.]

That could be a real mess. Like Darth Vader vs. Luke Skywalker. Only reversed...
cometkin: (concern | is my only home)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-04-29 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
The only lightsaber fight I'm getting into with my son is a pretend one. With plastic lightsabers.
ohmygah: (Imma gonna grab a knife)

[personal profile] ohmygah 2015-04-29 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow! Those are real fun! Do ya make the, uh..

[She spreads out her arms and spins for this next part.] Shoooooom. Ker-csh! Shooooooom.
cometkin: (sheepish | thousands of voices)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-04-29 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
Is there any other way to play with lightsabers?

[Greg was a kid when Star Wars happened. He has lightsabering down pat.]
Edited 2015-04-29 07:27 (UTC)
ohmygah: (And now for a word of wisdom!)

[personal profile] ohmygah 2015-04-29 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
I've seen people do it with a "Hoowaaaaaaaa hi-yaaaaaaaa" [Demonstrated with clear karate chops.] But it just doesn't look right.
cometkin: (sheepish | thousands of voices)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-04-29 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, no, you want to go khhh-shooooooom. Hi-yah is if you're Miss Piggy.

[From panicking to lightsaber noises in a matter of minutes.]
ohmygah: (Get the chopsticks right this time dummy)

[personal profile] ohmygah 2015-04-29 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
Miss Piggy's always bugged me. How's a pig go and fall for a frog? And isn't it bad if the stage guy and an actress get in a relationship?
cometkin: (sheepish | thousands of voices)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-04-29 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
Well, sometimes you end up loving someone who isn't even your species. [He shrugs.] Maybe that's why Kermit always rebuffs her, because he's the stage guy and she's the actress.