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

[strengthinkindness]

[That actually gets her to flinch a bit, and her ears fold against her head as she glances away.]

It's...not easy, really...Sometimes I just...try not to think about it...

[Turning back to him, she manages a smile.]

But usually...it's because there are still people here...good people, who've never had to deal with this kind of thing...so I try to help...and making friends with them makes it a little easier...

[keaton_mask]

[Ah, so it does effect her more than she lets on. He'll try not to talk about it as much, then.]

Yes, that does sound like something you would do.

[So does that mean he'd have to start helping people if he got caught in some sort of horrible world hopping loop? It's not like it hasn't started already or anything. ...He'd really rather not, pass. Some people are just not worth it.]

Is...is it possible to leave this room yet? It's starting to unnerve me.

[strengthinkindness]

[Fluttershy nodded.] Sure...how about I show you to your room?

[keaton_mask]

As long as it's anywhere but here.

[His way of saying "whatever"]

Lead the way.

[strengthinkindness]

[With another nod, she'll lead him to where the rest of the residential rooms are.]

We'll have to find the one that reacts to your gem...

[keaton_mask]

Please...don't say that. I'm trying very hard to ignore it.

[Which is really difficult considering he can feel it. Because if there's one thing Kafei adores, it's being turned into things. Even if the gem thing isn't as...intrusive, it's still there and he'd like it to stop please.]

Maybe it'd be easier to simply see your room first.

[strengthinkindness]

Mm...all right...

[She'll lead him to a door that opens with soft glow of the gem on her chest, revealing the inside of her cottage back in Equestria.]

Come on in...

[keaton_mask]

[That's...that's her cottage. It's like he's right back in Equestria, how did... He looks inside, then back outside, then inside again. How...how is it doing this? It's...

Magic, isn't it? Of course it is.]

It's just like your home...

[strengthinkindness]

Mm...the rooms are able to change, according to how the occupants want it to look like...as long as we don't create anything too big...

[Despite how similar it appears to her cottage, there is a notable difference; mainly a large wall that stretched farther than would be possible in the house, filled with pictures of people and ponies and animals.

And if Kafei's looking, he might notice his own picture - in the fox form he had in Equestria - up along the wall.]

[keaton_mask]

[Kafei's hand runs along the wall as he looks around, as if testing if it's really real.]

They can make anything?

[How big is too big? What if he made Clock Town... What if he could make...certain people?

That train of thought gets cut off when he sees the pictures on the wall, some of those faces very familiar to him. Fluttershy had used her room to create a whole wall of memories and- That's him. That's him as an animal. Right there. In plain sight. Please tell him he wasn't really that...cutesy.]

N-No one has seen these, have they?

[strengthinkindness]

Mm...not anything...Trying to make something bigger than a mansion I think is too difficult...We also can't make food here...and anything we make here we can't bring outside of the room...

[She watches him, before glancing up at the wall of pictures.]

A few people...

[keaton_mask]

[So no Clock Town. Still, the idea of modeling a room after something he's more familiar with actually sounds amazing. Every other world has been too strange, too foreign. Not being able to take anything out doesn't even sound that bad, why would he ever leave?

Oh wait, maybe to do some damage control. Because a few people isn't none.]

O-Oh, wonderful.

[There are people who have seen him as an animal. Fantastic.]

[strengthinkindness]

It's not...that bad...

[Sorry.]

They probably wouldn't make the connection between you and how you look as a fox...

[...Except the picture suddenly changes from his fox form to how he looks as a human.]

[keaton_mask]

[Aaaand there it goes. Kafei jumps back at the sudden change, but at least this is some magic he can get behind.]

This...this will definitely take some getting used to.

[There's a silent "thank you" in there somewhere.]

[strengthinkindness]

[She nods.]

Mm...right...

[At least he's not alone though.]

[keaton_mask]

[Kafei is, at least, extremely thankful that he's not alone. Not alone with one of the people he liked most in Equestria at that. If he were to arrive here without knowing anyone, who knows how bad he would've taken things.

Spoilers: Very badly.]

So...about your gem...

[He really means "our" gems, but again, trying to pretend like he didn't change for the millionth third time.]

[strengthinkindness]

[She turns to him with a curious smile.]

Yes...?

[keaton_mask]

What else can it do?

[It's not like he cares or anything, he just...needs to know. For science.]

[strengthinkindness]

Mm...well...it gave me healing powers...

[keaton_mask]

Ah yes, healing powers. Of course.

[Just more magic.]

I guess that's harmless enough.

[strengthinkindness]

It...helps a bit, especially with some of the things that go on around here...

[keaton_mask]

[There's a moments pause and he can't help but look uncertain.]

Do...do I want to know what that means?

[strengthinkindness]

[Oh boy.]

W-Well..th-there are...um...m-monsters...that we have to fight sometimes...

[keaton_mask]

...

[Kafei takes a good look around the cottage, studying everything carefully, every nook and cranny before walking over to a nearby corner. Yes, this will do, it's perfect.

Excuse him while he sits here and never moves again.]

[strengthinkindness]

[She sighs softly.] Kafei...