Cosmographia Monster/Event Journal ([personal profile] stigematize) wrote in [community profile] cosmoooc2015-09-28 11:25 pm
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TEST DRIVE - Part 3

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.

☆ This post will remain open until it begins to approach 5000 comments! Then a new test-drive post will be made.

☆ 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.

[personal profile] geetttdunkedon 2015-11-22 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)


No.

For me, home was a mess. I-... sorry.

[he doesn't know who he's apologizing to.]
Edited 2015-11-22 21:15 (UTC)
guardimom: (please be good)

[personal profile] guardimom 2015-11-22 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Suddenly, the thing that was off about this Sans...it makes sense. She remembers the past. The war. Just how dark things could get...]

I cannot speak for my other self, but I believe I am the one who should be sorry. I had a responsibility to keep our world from harm. I ran from it. I failed all of you.
geetttdunkedon: (shroom)

[personal profile] geetttdunkedon 2015-11-22 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Come on, Tori, don't be like that. It wasn't your fault.

[He does blame her a little, but he doesn't like seeing her like this.]
guardimom: (please be good)

[personal profile] guardimom 2015-11-22 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
You have suffered...the entire underground has suffered for a long time, and my silence only allowed it to worsen.

[Her paws shake a little.]

I know I cannot ask for forgiveness. I can only endeavor to stop any further tragedy in this new world.

... wait a minute i thought goats had hooves

[personal profile] geetttdunkedon 2015-11-22 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)


Tori...

[He wants to reassure her it's not her fault, but he doesn't know what to say. He can't help but feel that it is.

He doesn't like that feeling.]
guardimom: (shocking heartbreak)

They do. I am just a failure.

[personal profile] guardimom 2015-11-22 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[She hangs her head.]

This is my responsibility. Sans...I know you cannot trust me after a failing to that horrific degree, but. I will still fight for you as much as I can.

[Even if that means...no. She must. She hates herself, but she must be strong where others cannot, and she has failed at this for too long.]

no toriel canon has paws, i just realized that goats don't actually have paws. gj toby

[personal profile] geetttdunkedon 2015-11-22 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)


You don't have to do that for me.
guardimom: (please be good)

okay, I double-checked. yup. awesome job, toby :D

[personal profile] guardimom 2015-11-22 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head.]

It is the very least I can do for you and for everyone I have come to care for. So whatever this new world brings, I will be here to protect.
geetttdunkedon: (snaz)

[personal profile] geetttdunkedon 2015-11-22 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
If we got souvenirs, I'd take a keychain.
geetttdunkedon: (snaz)

[personal profile] geetttdunkedon 2015-11-22 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sans resolves to just sighing. Seems like there's no stopping Toriel on this.]

Well... just remember we're here for you too, if you need it.
mopocalypse: (ufufufu)

[personal profile] mopocalypse 2015-11-22 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what the Heart should do if it sends people back, send them to a gift shop on the way out! Kind of like theme park rides at the exit. Buy Waverly Bay-themed shirts! Pens! Coffee mug cozies! Your soul may have returned to your body, but if you miss your gem that much, you can buy official replicas to stick on your clothing and bags! It becomes a merchandising juggernaut! After all, what else are you gonna spend all the leftover this-world-only currency on? All proceeds go into the newbie fund or renovations to the Temple.

Something like that.
geetttdunkedon: (shroom)

[personal profile] geetttdunkedon 2015-11-23 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
[When she said "soul returned to your body," he sort of blanked out on everything she said after that.

Soul.

The gem was his soul.

Unsurprisingly, actually. After all, when your physical body poofed, what was left of you was your gem.

His left hand drifts up to cover the eye on the same side. His gem.]


Your soul?
Edited 2015-11-23 00:17 (UTC)
mopocalypse: (what else can i find here?)

[personal profile] mopocalypse 2015-11-23 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure. [She nervously rubs the back of her neck: her own gem.] I mean, it's sort of like something I've run into before. People whose souls were turned into gems. Those weren't attached to them, though. I think this way's probably easier for all of us.
guardimom: (your guardian)

[personal profile] guardimom 2015-11-23 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
I will. Thank you, Sans. With you here...this world is a little less bonely.
2hellwiththe1stlaw: (Death by robot)

[personal profile] 2hellwiththe1stlaw 2015-11-23 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Oh well that's easy! I'm gonna build myself a robot bodyguard!

I'm like a super genius engineer, and back home I never went anywhere without my trusted buddy DT. But he's not here so I need to make a new one.
geetttdunkedon: (snoople)

[personal profile] geetttdunkedon 2015-11-23 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[He is suddenly reminded of that dumb joke he told all that time ago. It feels like a dream.

He snorts from laughing.]


Nice one, Tori.
coneyislandcrazy: (my normal person disguise)

C

[personal profile] coneyislandcrazy 2015-11-23 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
[The person she happened to fish out is a blond woman in a doctors coat, skirt, heels, comfortable looking shoes, and a pair of puppies on leashes. The German Shepard puppies are currently tugging on separate pieces of a stick of beef jerky while the woman turns to smile at Asuka]

Ah, I know that game well. Who should go first? Would you rather tell the two truths and a lie first or would you rather guess?
antabaka: (034 - vierunddreißig)

[personal profile] antabaka 2015-11-23 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[That was easy! Asuka brightens, glad she's found someone who will help without a fuss. And so long as the puppies aren't bothering her, she doesn't mind them.]

I can go first.

One, my last doctor was a blonde. Two, I was born in July. Three, I grew up in Germany. Which one's the lie?

[Simple, mundane stuff to start with. She can show off mix in the more fantastic stuff later.]
coneyislandcrazy: (my normal person disguise)

[personal profile] coneyislandcrazy 2015-11-23 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She strokes her chin thoughtfully taking in the offerings.]

Now that's a tough one, they're all so very mundane! But I guess not everyone is super interesting right off the bat.

Given your pretty hair though I'm gonna guess you're actually NOT a summer child. I'd predict maybe a springtime birth actually so I say July is a lie!
antabaka: (019 - neunzehn)

[personal profile] antabaka 2015-11-23 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her lips purse at first. Not interesting? She's plenty interesting! But the look melts away as soon as the compliment comes.]

[She runs a hand through her hair, smiling again.]


I do try to keep it nice. You're only half right, though. You picked the lie out, but I wasn't born in spring, either. I wanted to save this bit for another guessing round, but... My world doesn't change seasons anymore. We've only had summer for almost fifteen years now. I was born after the climate changed, so no matter what month, I'm still a summer child.

So, what about you? It's your turn.
coneyislandcrazy: (my normal person disguise)

[personal profile] coneyislandcrazy 2015-11-23 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha! Now THAT is a clever way around that fib! Brilliant!

[She claps and smiles extra bright.]

Alright my turn, not to show you up but my life is...a bit abnormal so finding something mundane is harder then finding the weird.

[Did her glasses actually gleam just then?]

1. One time while sleep walking I put a massive bounty on my own head and didn't find out about it for months. I just kept getting attacked by assassins and having to kill em until my best pal figured out what i'd done.

2. Another time I was stranded on a tropical island with my Ex-boyfriend. The local tribe worshipped us as gods until they tried to toss us in a volcano. I had to get a ride off that cursed lump of land from the king of Atlantis.

3. Finally! I became the biggest hero in my city when I fought a super powered bunny rabbit in an amusement park. I kept him on his toes for a solid fifteen minutes before he accidentally ate a poisoned carrot!
antabaka: (015 - fünfzehn)

[personal profile] antabaka 2015-11-23 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[What.]

[No, seriously, what? Asuka stares at her as if she's grown a second head.]


No way. You're making that all up, aren't you? There's not one chance I'd believe any of that, let alone two out of three!
coneyislandcrazy: (my normal person disguise)

[personal profile] coneyislandcrazy 2015-11-23 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her lips curl into a wicked smile]

Sorry~ That ain't the rules. Only one of those three is the fib! You're gonna have to figure out which two sound more believable. I assure you I got the scars to prove em.
antabaka: (013 - dreizehn)

[personal profile] antabaka 2015-11-23 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her lips purse and her eyebrows draw down low over her eyes.]

You think I'm an idiot, don't you? I'll buy this gem stuff because I've seen it with my own eyes, but what you're talking about is completely insane! You're probably just trying to worm out of playing your side of the game right and didn't want to admit up front that you didn't want to play it.
geez_louise: (ah geez)

And a Belcher storms into the fray!

[personal profile] geez_louise 2015-11-23 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[It had been a few minutes since the bunny headed girl had fallen through the hole and, through a flurry of flailing and a freak out that involved her running around the room interrogating people, she had touched the gem and, needless to say, found herself torn about the situation. But the last straw for the nine year old? She felt the back of the neck heavy with her own gem: Oregon Opal.

Not that she would know what it was or what it looked like].

And who CARES what it looks like! [Louise exploded out of the temple, looking to find answers from any passer-by]. Who sticks a gem in the back of someone's head?! It's like "oh hey, I'm gonna stick you in this world where you frikin' don't know anyone or anything, but here you go, and here's an accessory for your neck? No thanks! Is this real? Is this legal?! I'm only a kid!

I don't even know my powers! What a gyp!
Edited 2015-11-23 18:33 (UTC)