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cosmoooc2015-03-22 10:30 am
stigematize) wrote in 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 forcosmographia, 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.
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.
cardgames on motorcycles etc
So... are they still monsters now? [Head tilt. They don't seem that scary. And he's fought imps before. Wait a second.] What kind of monsters? [Oh you know what would be awesome--] Are they ghosts?! [He sure hopes they're ghost monsters! So cool.]
TWO SERIES TOO LATE SON (she says as the plot prepares to enter a dimension centered on it)
[Yes, let's skip that.
At least the rocks are different--hers is a lump of Idocrase.]Hmnn, presumably. From what I gather it's rather like a 'stasis' of sorts...
[She brings a hand to her hip, frowning a little.] Whatever they are or were, I doubt ghosts would be accurate; they would have to be dead first, neh?
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it occurs to me now that I gave this muse far too many :D icons for someone who bARELY SMILES orz
[She pauses, glancing back to John.] What do you know of this place so far?
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[As she says this, she points to the giant gem in the middle of the room. That'd be the thingggg she poked earlier to get her info so.]
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[This does seem to be a good reason, yes. Not everyone is Jade, John.]
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her dad's a jeweler haha
If you push something enough, even a gem, it will crack, you know.
[She looks up at the bubbles as she speaks, frowning.]
A cracked gem is never easy to repair--and that's in the case of normal ones. As for these ones, I can only imagine what sort of damage could come from a crack. If it isn't repaired fast enough, a crack will spread...
And eventually, there will be nothing to recover.
[Masumi looks back down again, continuing.] Unpleasant as it is, the more we fight such things, the greater risk to their gem there would be; bubbling them presumably keeps them from harm until such a time they can recover...the alternative is risking all sides involved.
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Awhile.
And that's when the rest of her comment hits him.]
Gems?! They're-- they're gems, too?! Like... [He rubs on the blue spot on his throat.] like me...?
[Well. That makes things different, just a bit.] I-- I can't just leave them in there!
being familiar with canon is really great in threads like this gosh. (im so sorry john)
You know, if you put your hand on that gem over there, it'll explain things a lot faster than I can.
[Because the answers in order are--no there's no doctor, they don't know how long, yes the gems are them, and yes you sure are going to leave them there JOHN...]
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If you don't wanna help, just go. I'll count to ten and everything. But-- I'm not going to leave them in there. Okay? [Breathe.] Okay.
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[Alright, if your shoulder is in range, or heck, even your arm, she's grabbing that--]
I am not the one whose life I am worried about.
They are the ones you put at risk if you open those bubbles!
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Gonna just find a... small looking monster up there. There. That... beetle looking one, only not the one in the image exactly.]
Okay, stand back a little! Here goes nothing!
[He wishes he had a hammer right now. But, well, POP goes the bubble. He waits a second or two or five for the monster beetle to attack. But--- it doesn't. Seems kinda confused more than anything.]
Hi! I am John! [So. Let's just see how this goes from here.]
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The gem shines, materializes in John's hand and...
...Oh you would be lucky enough to find a tame one wouldn't you.]
...A jade beetle. Hmn.
[Beetle does indeed seem quite confused--and it's a good thing beetle doesn't register loud sounds as sudden movements, because if something does move suddenly she'll probably bite your hand John.]
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Hey, it's okay, right, uh... [Think think think.] Casey. [Going with a classic now.] You can hang out with me until you feel better! [Oh my god, wait a second, he can say a line!] I'm a little-- uh, I'm a little dirty, but I'm still good! [YES.]
[And that is how John gained Casey the Jade Beetle. /sage nod.]
masumi nO also wow i hope the mods let you actually keep that beetle now fft
[...BUT YOUR LINES OF CHEESE MEAN NOTHING TO THE CULTURALLY DISTANT MASUMI
no really she's just sort of staring at you oddly because. What.]
...'Dirty'..? [Sir you are the last person she would view as perverse. Also that is not a thing you say out loud.
no masumi wrong 'dirty'-!]oh my god wouldn't that be great XD;
It's-- uh, it's just a line from a little movie called Con Air! [That 'little movie' clearly implies that it is The Most Awesome Movie Ever.] Uh-- do they have movies here...?
[Gonna carefully deposit Casey to his shoulder, yep.]
the tiniest casey...
It sounds American.
[...Yes yes it is Masumi.]
If that's the case, you might find something like that here then--I haven't visited the town outside this place yet, but from what I've heard, it seems to be somewhere in America...
this is stupid-- YEAH RIGHT!
jOHN...
[YOWAIT--] Do you even know anything about where you are beyond what I've said..!?
[ALSO SHE DOESN'T HAVE MONEY so that's a thing]
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[The choice is obvious.]
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masumi plz, convert to the greatness that is con-air
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