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.
cometkin: (duckface | knowing i have)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-05-06 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Greg shakes his head.] She's still working on it. And I've got no clue.

... I don't think those other Homeworld Gems are around. I dunno, though. I'm not sure if I'd recognize them, even with Steven's descriptions.
Edited 2015-05-06 05:12 (UTC)
mitorta: (☆ or you can start speaking up)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-06 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
Best news I've heard all day. That's the last thing we need.

[She huffs, scuffing the ground with her foot.]

Man, all of this bites. One second I was in my room, and the next I'm...wherever here is.
cometkin: (um... | pics of myself)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-05-06 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Unbeknownst to Greg, Peridot is here. But at least Jasper really isn't.]

Yeah. I know. I'd been on my lunchbreak at the carwash when I saw that hole. But nothing good comes of going through holes made just for you.
mitorta: (☆ when they settle 'neath your skin)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-06 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
So you just...saw a random hole and crawled into it?

[That's...weird, even for Greg.]
cometkin: (oh NO | through the cold atmosphere)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-05-06 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
... it sounds pretty silly when you put it that way. But it was like it was made for me. It was me-sized. I felt drawn to it.

[He knows exactly how dumb this sounds. Boy it sounds dumb.]
mitorta: (☆ when they settle 'neath your skin)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-06 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
...no, I get it. It's...kinda hard to explain that feeling.

But what I wanna know is where they came from. As far as I know, there's only one kindergarten on Earth.
cometkin: (hmm | that i'm a lightspeed distraction)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-05-06 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I mean, we've sort of been suspecting we're in a parallel world or something like that. There are people from other universes than ours here, we know that much. There's this little flying girl, Ichigo, that dresses like a strawberry--she's from some space empire called the Great Cosmos that has Earth in it but doesn't know about Gems or anything--but the people of her world's Earth know about the Great Cosmos.

It's pretty weird.
mitorta: (☆ or you can start speaking up)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-06 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Aaaalright, so definitely not Earth, then. Alternate universes are confusing, but I guess it's better than not knowing.

[Uuugh whyyy all she wanted to do was hang out today, maybe go get some fries or something, geez.]
cometkin: (hmm | that i'm a lightspeed distraction)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-05-06 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

It's good you're here. I mean, it stinks that we're stranded here and the thing keeps turning humans into Gems, but at least you know enough to help explain things to everyone who's from another world. Which is a lot of people.
mitorta: (☆ you can be the outcast)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-06 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Eh, it'll work out. ...I mean, I'm not sure if I'm the one you're gonna want to put on explanation duty, but...

[She'll try?]
cometkin: (hmm | that i'm a lightspeed distraction)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-05-07 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Greg shrugs.] Pearl's the one that does most of it, but she could use more help than just me and Steven and Connie.
mitorta: (☆ you can turn a phrase)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-07 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
That's no big, then. I can't tell them how they got here or anything, but gem stuff is pretty straightforward. ...sometimes.
cometkin: (hmm | that i'm a lightspeed distraction)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-05-07 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Well, I don't think even Pearl has much of a clue how we got here.
mitorta: (☆ sometimes a shadow wins)

[personal profile] mitorta 2015-05-07 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Wo-hoah, seriously? Geez. She always seems to know...or at least she thinks she does.
cometkin: (oh NO | through the cold atmosphere)

[personal profile] cometkin 2015-05-07 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It's that weird.