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.
lumpyspacegem: (Default)

[personal profile] lumpyspacegem 2015-11-23 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh is that all?

[In another flash of light her body leans forward and she transforms into a familiar unicorn from in town]

Check it ouuuut~ She comes with and without wings.

[More light as she makes wings appear and flaps them a few times]


icebearforpresident: (#highfive)

[personal profile] icebearforpresident 2015-11-23 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome.

[Ice Bear is still speaking in his usual stoic voice, but he raises one paw in the air as a sign of victory.]

Ice Bear likes Gaige's ideas. Ice Bear can get used to this friendship.

[The bear blinks for a moment, then feels compelled to tell Gaige his own building stories.]

Ice Bear made a clone Ice Bear robot. Robot was very destructive. Ice Bear approved of his destruction for dealing with annoying koalas.
geez_louise: (Dance my pretties!)

[personal profile] geez_louise 2015-11-23 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh man, this is so cool! That's even way better looking than the stupid ponies my sister loves!

Wait, with wings?! No way!

Is this a power all of us get?? Man, I could be a dragon! YES!

Finally, something useful with this stuff!
spookybloobloo: (Default)

Napstablook | Undertale | Smoky Quartz

[personal profile] spookybloobloo 2015-11-24 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Option 1: Around the Temple

[There's a few chips lying on the ground several feet from where the snack table is. Also lying on the ground a few feet from those is an incredibly easy-to-draw ghost wearing a pair of headphones, a heart-shaped gem floating in the center of their body. They seem to be staring off into space, a somewhat glazed look in their eye.

Uh...come bother?]


Option 2: Two Truths and a Lie

Oh...that sounds like

fun...

[They hesitate for a moment. The game does, in fact, sound pretty fun, but...

well, their life is pretty boring.]


Why don't...you go first...
Edited 2015-11-24 03:04 (UTC)
domeinion: Alice surprised (breakthrough!)

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[personal profile] domeinion 2015-11-24 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, a ghost! I mean, a real ghost. Ours weren't really ghosts at all, just alive-looking versions of dead people who were really convenient to -- anyway. [waves] Are you asleep? You should have a room...
determinedpacifist: (Default)

Re: ASGORE / undertale / blue lace agate

[personal profile] determinedpacifist 2015-11-24 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
Hey.

It's not our surface. But it's a surface. Good to see you.

You owe me a cup of tea.
determinedpacifist: (Default)

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[personal profile] determinedpacifist 2015-11-24 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
Hey. How's the mixtape going?

(Frisk draws near. Smells like butterscotch and cinnamon.)

Touch the big gem monster if you can. It can explain stuff better than me.
2hellwiththe1stlaw: (middle digit)

[personal profile] 2hellwiththe1stlaw 2015-11-24 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[The stoic steady voice is a little weird, but she's met weirder in her travels. He's like the exact opposite of Mister Torque really.]

That is so cool! What are Koalas? What did Ice Bear Bot use to destruct them?
lumpyspacegem: (glitter whip)

[personal profile] lumpyspacegem 2015-11-24 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shifts back grinning smugly]

It's a power most of us get eventually. Ya gotta hang around long enough and fight enough gem monsters to earn it I think. And there's no way to make sure you get that power exactly, you might get something different.

[To give another example she reaches into her glowing chest gem and draws out a long thorny looking whip cracking it theatrically in the air.]
icebearforpresident: (#armscrossed)

[personal profile] icebearforpresident 2015-11-24 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Perhaps one day this bear will yell out 'Explosions!', but it probably won't happen in a wild way like Mister Torque.]

Koalas are a small fuzzy bear. Ice Bear met one before. Nom Nom. Internet sensation, but Ice Bear thinks he's a butt.

...

Robot Ice Bear showed up and started hugging Nom Nom. Tightly. Ice Bear doesn't know what happened after that.
geez_louise: (sly as shit)

[personal profile] geez_louise 2015-11-24 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, what? That sounds like a video game! Who has time for that? And its unpredictable too? It might as well be real life!

Ok, Amethyst. Real dirt, you and me. How do you get to run this place? I can deal with all of the jewel-anime-transformation girl crap as well as the next, but what are the perks?
Edited 2015-11-24 21:37 (UTC)
lumpyspacegem: (fufufu~)

[personal profile] lumpyspacegem 2015-11-24 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well she likes how direct this kid is]

No one really runs the place except that jerk.

[She points to the crystal heart gem]

It keeps us from leaving town and sometimes tells us what to do if it wants something. And if we do it we get more powers.

As for perks...

[She looks thoughtful]

Well you get your own room that can look like whatever you imagine...more or less. And it's harder for you to die now that you're not a normal human...no school I guess? I dunno I've never been to school but kids on TV seem to hate it.
geez_louise: (got an idea)

[personal profile] geez_louise 2015-11-24 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
You're...kidding right? You listen to something that doesn't even talk BACK to you to tell you anything, and you figure it out by yourself?

Yup. Definitely like real life.

Oh, what?! You seriously can't even leave this stupid town? How has no one, you know, not exploded everything, blown up the borders, DEMANDED an answer? Does this place and powers make people forget?!

[Yeah, Louise is not going to stand for this].

OK, well that's a relief. I was not about to be happy about being one of those Alan Moore deals. The last thing I need is that gritty realism, its real enough!

Oh, school. Yeah, right. I was really concerned about missing classes when I have SUPER POWERS.
2hellwiththe1stlaw: (bang bang)

[personal profile] 2hellwiththe1stlaw 2015-11-24 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoa...that got dark!

I love it!

[Leading Ice Bear into her room, it's set up like a massive work shop with platforms, work benches, some rock and roll posters as well as pictures of her friends, and a wanted poster with Gaige's face on it. The girl is apparently worth $820,000,000,000]

Home sweet home.

[Promptly turning over the wagon and scattering machine parts so she can see what she has to work with.]

This is good...I think this would be a good start.
lumpyspacegem: (Eyes up here.)

[personal profile] lumpyspacegem 2015-11-24 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shrugs]

Hey dude, you don't wanna listen to the big rock you don't have to. I'm just tellin' ya how it is.

You can leave town whenever ya want but something makes everyone come back. Most people don't get more then a day or two out of town before they walk back, and there's nothin' out there for miles. Once you get going you just feel like you have to come back.
geez_louise: (ah geez)

[personal profile] geez_louise 2015-11-24 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Why would I do that? It doesn't do anything but give you missions, right? It's not my mom, and I BARELY listen to her.

And nobody has a problem with that? I'm getting some serious brain washing vibes here.

Wait, can that happen to me? Is this thing in MY HEAD?! IS IT?!
icebearforpresident: (#doublevision)

[personal profile] icebearforpresident 2015-11-24 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
...You are the coolest person Ice Bear has ever met. [And he gives her a paw thumbs-up.]

[Ice Bear follows Gaige back to her humble abode, immediately finding himself looking around the room curiously. The environment reminds him of a cross between a mechanics garage and a punk rock club basement. It's something he'll have to get used to, since the bear is a clean and organized type.

He stops and looks at the poster with Gaige's bounty written all over it. Just what type of world this this girl come from?]

Ice Bear is curious to know more about where you came from.
lumpyspacegem: (Eyes up here too)

[personal profile] lumpyspacegem 2015-11-24 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Because if you get a mission and do it, then you get more powers, duh.

Oh no, most of us have a problem with it. We just don't know what to do about it.

I don't think it's in your head...I think it's in your gem.

[She taps her own gem]

Your body is just a creation of your gem now. So your brain and stuff is actually in your gem too.
geez_louise: (see you in hell!)

[personal profile] geez_louise 2015-11-25 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh, what? F-FINE, I guess I can do some of these missions. What do we have to do, go to the store, brickwork?

That's even worse! No one even asks for this gem, and it programs a fail safe? That is messed up!

Wait, what? I don't follow. How is your brain and your body functions in a gem? I barely get the way my body works and it still makes no sense.
lumpyspacegem: (brokenface)

[personal profile] lumpyspacegem 2015-11-25 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Uh...to tell you the truth the only missions I've had so far is "Defeat this really strong monster." And the second time I didn't even defeat it someone else did.

OK so, I'm not the best person to explain it but basically, you know about souls right? Humans believe in souls where I come from.

Basically your soul is in your gem. And your body is just something the gem creates.

So if you get hurt too badly, your body goes POOF and you retreat inside your gem to heal.

As long as you don't crack or smash your gem you'll just keep coming back.
geez_louise: (EAGER)

[personal profile] geez_louise 2015-11-25 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
That's a mission! I'd do that for fun! Ha! Ok, so maybe it won't be super bad here, so long as we get the proper establishments going.

[Yeah, Louise is an opportunist].

What? Ok, that's weird and really screwed up, yet cool at the same time. I might need to process that.

Nah, nevermind, its cool! I don't care about the scientific and moral implications!
therealrisette: (Thoughtful and/or plotting)

[personal profile] therealrisette 2015-11-25 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's why Rise's jealous! She has to be all age-appropriate with her wardrobe now. Boo.

... But again, at least some of these knee-length-on-her skirts look cute. She can work with that.]


It's summer in December here?

[She'd thought it was a little warmer here than where she left, but she kind of skipped several months in the transition from Equestria to here. She hadn't put together that it's what she'd think of as an autumn month here yet.]
ofwindandarrows: (34)

[personal profile] ofwindandarrows 2015-11-26 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, don't be a kid! ... Wait that doesn't make sense.]

I guess we're in the southern hemisphere here, yeah. I mean... I'm pretty sure it's October right now.
lumpyspacegem: (aye aye!)

[personal profile] lumpyspacegem 2015-11-27 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Establishments huh? Like what?

[ Amethyst is not one to object to such behavior. She bursts out loud with laughter at that last part]

Well then you should fit in just fine around here kid.
geez_louise: (Dance my pretties!)

[personal profile] geez_louise 2015-11-27 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, you know, the usual stuff. Gambling, a decent black market no one knows about, maybe some undercover fights! This place is probably so nice it hasn't got any of that stuff yet. Could probably make a real profit here with the right circumstances!

[Oh yeah. No parents, people who needed excitement. She could definitely do something with THIS].

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Just play off the little kid thing and I should be fine, right?