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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

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.

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[While she's yelling at space and time for dropping her here, Amethyst... might just hear the scrapping cloth-on-stone sound of someone or something else coming from a different (taller) hole.

Until a young man with a mop of old-man-gray hair flops out of it, face first onto the ground]

...

[That...okay that happened.

Amethyst flinches back, lifting a foot as the man just drops to the ground in front of her. She stares at him for a good long moment before saying anything.]

...Okay, this is getting weird.

[Look, he have a craving to crawl into a hole, and none of the IT was around to curb his weird urges today.

He stands up, and a smooth dark yellow stone glimmers in his throat. Though he doesn't seem to notice it just yet.]

If it helps, this is maybe only the third weirdest thing to happen to me?

[There's no way that Amethyst could miss that gem, just as prominent as the one on her own chest. It causes her stomach to drop; this shouldn't be happening.]

...this really is a kindergarten.

[She mutters, staring up at Yu. With the way she said that, it's clear it was more to herself than to him directly.]

It...this isn't right. I gotta find the others.

['I'm being told this isn't right by a purple lady'

He realizes. And even someone as generally used to weirdness as Yu kinda has to take some affect to that.

...so he turns around and tries to crawl back in his hole]

Hey! Where do you think you're going?

[Amethyst turns to quickly grab him by the wrist and pull him back, frowning.]

Don't go back in there, just- ..uuugh what is going on?!

[She growls, slamming a fist against the wall with enough force to make the thud reverberate through the Temple.]

..Look. You're obviously a gem- a new one, I guess- and I know this is probably really weird, but...don't go anywhere, okay? It'll be even worse if you wander off and I have to go find you.

[He doesn't fight, that'd be rude. Instead he tilts his head]

Gym? No, I'm not equipment.

[...is he joking? Who even knows]

[It actually takes her a minute, only because she's so riled up right now.]

No, gem! See? Like mine!

[She pulls the edge of her shirt down for a second to show him before just- suddenly grabbing his hand and pressing it to his own neck as best she can. It's...really hard, since she's short, but she manages.]

You've got one too!

[Oh, that's something smooth and hard and warm there.

He doesn't think 'gemstone' right away. He thinks 'oh god is that a tumor'

and images of Dojima smoking all the time and giving him a random tumor in the last ten minutes flood through his head and if anything he goes paler then before, eyes wide]

....oh.

[Amethyst lets go of his hand with a sigh, running both of her own hands through her hair.]

Oooh this is bad....this is so bad...

[But even as she says that she remembers, oh, there's a gem here who probably doesn't want to hear that his existence is bad and it shuts her up extremely fast. If anything she could almost be as pale as he is, but it's hard to tell as her hands still in her hair.]

..D...don't worry. It'll be fine, okay? I'll figure something out.

[Oh, she's upset. And while he is very confused and a little scared (but not as much as he SHOULD be, he realizes. Something about this place makes him feel safe) his first instinct is to help]

Hey... it's okay. Take a deep breath.

[She looks up at Yu quickly, her expression a mask of "I'm not freaking out, you're freaking out", because if anyone should be scared and confused, it's him.

She has to think. She can't let him see that this is a problem, because it's not (but it is, she knows it is, there shouldn't be any kindergartens active anymore). After a moment she blurts without thinking.]

C'mere! Lemme see your gem!

Hmm, alright.

[He crouches a little, spreading the collar of his dress shirt so she can see what he can't.

It's a warm orange-yellow, smooth and unfaceted. Like a dollop of honey]

[Amethyst has seen a lot of gems in her time, so it doesn't take her but a few minutes to identify what he is. She knows she hasn't seen as many as most, but...anything coming from kindergarten would be familiar to her.

She reaches a hand out impulsively, as if to touch his gem...before quickly jerking back. She can't do that. It isn't the same. But she remembers when she got her name, when she learned what her gem was...when Rose...]

Amber. You're Amber, okay?

Just stick with me. Like I said, I...I'll figure something out.

[He opens his mouth to tell her 'No I'm Yu.' but closes it again. For one thing he's starting to be convinced this is a dream. It's nothing like the tv world after all... and a person shaped hole he had a urge to climb into sounds a lot like something his mind would make up during sleep.

And two... well it seems to be giving her something to focus on. He's been called worse]

I'm in your hands.

[It does help, at least. She takes his hand suddenly again and starts tugging him along, away from the holes in the wall specifically.]

Okay, we need to find Garnet and Pearl bef-

[But there she stops as quickly as she started, freezing in place for a moment. Amethyst hadn't actually considered what they might do if they encountered another kindergarten gem. Rose found her, not the others.

...would they even react the same? What if they just wanted to bubble his gem to put the problem out of sight?

Out of sight, out of mind.]

...actually, we're doing this on our own. I can tell them about you later.

[He frowns softly. There's something going on here for her personally. He has good instinct for these things.]

If something wrong? This place doesn't look dangerous...

...a place like this shouldn't be active anymore.

[She answers slowly, not looking his way but instead ahead at the many holes in the wall.]

But...you're fine, okay? There's nothing wrong with you. Don't let anyone tell you that there is. Ever.

[Then she mumbles, trying to tug him along with her again.]

You're just as important as any other Gem, homeworld or not.

[He follows obediently, very very confused. Everything she says is Greek to him]

I... don't really understand. But it sounds important.

It's okay, you don't gotta. Just listen to me and you'll be fine. First of all- don't worry about those holes.

[She can barely look at them now. She wonders just...how many others could be out there right now, wandering Earth.]

Second. I'm Amethyst. Third: if you run into anybody who calls themselves Garnet or Pearl? Don't talk to 'em just yet. Let me handle it.

...If you run into a kid named Steven, he's okay. But don't tell him too much.

[All gemstones, like what she called him. Well, except Steven. He's pretty sure that's not a gemstone.]

...are you not getting along with them?

[No Steven is totally a gemstone, she promises.]

Not exactly. ...It's complicated.

[She doesn't want to tell him she's worried how they'll react to his...well, existence.]

Just don't talk to them until I tell you it's okay, okay?

Fair enough.

[He could tell she was trying to look out for him, even if he didn't really understand it. So he offered her a warm smile]

I'll take your word for it.

[Amethyst gives a nod before pulling up to a stop at the door that leads to the cave to the beach. She hesitates for only a moment before finding that it opens in response to her gem, much to her relief.]

Good, at least that still works. C'mon, let's check this place out.

[When he sees her open the door, he touches his own gem curiously. Does his do that too?

He follows her out, looking around]

...the beach? But how...?

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