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.
trixupmysleeve: (I so want this!)

Re: A

[personal profile] trixupmysleeve 2015-12-15 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Well make it stop! Trixie is a beautiful unicorn not some hooman!

[ She looks like she's trying to focus, attempting to cast a spell, but all that happens is a firework shoots out of her horn, bounces off the ground and shoots into the air bursting into glittering blue sparks.]

That...was not what Trixie was trying to do.
im_pancake: (Default)

Re: A

[personal profile] im_pancake 2015-12-15 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Hang on, hang on. We'll never get anything done if we're all panicking.

[And Twilight tries an idea of her own. Her horn glows and... A plate of quesadillas lands in front of her, causing the great Princess of Friendship to shriek and hide behind a rock.]
trixupmysleeve: (huhwhat?)

Re: A

[personal profile] trixupmysleeve 2015-12-16 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
What the-!?

[Well that did a good enough job of distracting her from her own worries for a moment at least. She leans in and prods one of the flowery tortillas and then recoiling when it oozes cheese]

Now is not the time for snacks Twilight Sparkle!
im_pancake: (6)

Re: A

[personal profile] im_pancake 2015-12-16 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
That wasn't my intention! And don't tell anypony this happened!
badassdelinquent: (pleased)

[personal profile] badassdelinquent 2015-12-16 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay! I'll show you to the library, but remember to look both ways before you cross the street, alright?"
im_pancake: (8)

[personal profile] im_pancake 2015-12-16 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Well... Alright." Twilight wanted to tell her that she was fine and she wasn't a filly, but this was still a new world.
badassdelinquent: (Default)

[personal profile] badassdelinquent 2015-12-16 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Raspberyl never gives advice she doesn't follow - true to her request, she carefully looks in both directions before reaching out to Twilight.

"Ah...you don't have a hand to hold, do you? How about I put my hand on your shoulder before we cross, then?"
trixupmysleeve: (Saucy served)

[personal profile] trixupmysleeve 2015-12-16 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmpf, yes because this is by FAR the most embarrassing thing you've ever done I'm sure.

[Well, you don't become a traveling performer without learning to take a free meal when you can get it. So now she's eating one of the quesadillas]

What exactly WERE you trying to do?
im_pancake: (10)

[personal profile] im_pancake 2015-12-16 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Trying to see if I could help you out!

[And she notices her eating the quesadillas]

And how can you eat something so... [shudder] cheesy?
trixupmysleeve: (Saucy served)

[personal profile] trixupmysleeve 2015-12-16 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She sniffs a little indignant.]

Perhaps you have never known what it's like to be unsure of your next meal Twilight Sparkle but sometimes we must take what we can get.

Especially after being humiliated and having said humiliation almost ruin your dreams and source of income.
nailed_it: (Thoughtful)

[personal profile] nailed_it 2015-12-18 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
[She looks up as well, taking in the scope of bubbles the Heart Gem's chamber contains.]

Probably. Most of them are, anyway.

[There's a reason she doesn't come in here much that actually doesn't have anything to do with the Heart Gem. Because somewhere in here is the gem belonging to the monster that killed Ruby.

She gives a blink, and then switches tracks, smiling a little lop-sidedly.]


I've seen people bubble other stuff though, so who knows. Somebody's diary could be hiding in here.

[She laughs.]

Or their ex.
im_pancake: (11)

[personal profile] im_pancake 2015-12-18 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
I...!

[She sighs]

I'm sorry, Trixie. I really am.
trixupmysleeve: (:()

[personal profile] trixupmysleeve 2015-12-18 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yes well...that's good to hear.

[A pause while she chews thoughtfully and swallows.]

Of course, my retaliation did go just a touch too far...so the great and magnanimous Trixie will put the past behind us as we are in an unfamiliar place, via mysterious means and our magic somehow weakens.

im_pancake: (8)

[personal profile] im_pancake 2015-12-18 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks, Trixie. But, yes, we do need to figure out where we are and what's happened to us... and to you.
trixupmysleeve: (:o)

[personal profile] trixupmysleeve 2015-12-18 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
The sooner the better.

[Now that she's eaten and calmed down she's patting her new body trying to figure it out, turning out her pockets to find them empty before she struggles to her feet again grumbling]

How do bipedal creatures live like this?
im_pancake: (13)

[personal profile] im_pancake 2015-12-18 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Same way we do, except they have a different center of gravity.

[Yeah, her first time - not so fun.]
trixupmysleeve: (Eek!)

[personal profile] trixupmysleeve 2015-12-18 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
If you say so. Seems undignified and off balance to me.

[she takes a few steps wobbling towards the giant gem, starting to find her center of gravity thanks to practicing on two hooves for the stage. She's not quick enough though and falls forward planting both hands on the gem. Instantly her eyes go wide and her expression shocked as information pours into her brain]

Wha?!

Bill Cipher | Gravity Falls

[personal profile] sempervigilantes 2015-12-18 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
The Temple

[Standing in front of the Heart Gem is a lean young man dressed in a suit, as fancy as it garishly yellow. He reaches out his hand, which is covered by a black glove, and touches the large crystal as most new arrivals do. A few moments later, he lowers his hand and smirks with a chuckle.]

Heheh, déjà vu.

[Well, when you're billions of years old and have been to or seen into thousands of different dimensions while viewing infinite possible futures, some places and situations are bound to feel familiar. He wanders around the Temple until he finds somebody else and approaches them.]

Hey buddy, ya don't by any chance have a mirror do ya? Looks like somebody picked out a body for me and I'd like to see it!

[Since he doesn't remember possessing anyone. At least he can tell he's not a 12-year-old this time.]

Farmer's Market

[At some point, Bill realized he could shapeshift even while in this body. So what does he decide to do with that power? Turn into a venomous (or at least venomous-looking) snake and hide in a crate of apples until somebody comes along, of course! And someone eventually does, a woman picking up one of the apples. When she does, Bill leaps out and hisses at her, making sure to show off his fangs. The woman screams, dropping the apple and running away.

Once she's gone, the dream demon slithers out of the crate and onto the ground before changing back into human form. He laughs as he grabs an apple for himself, then takes a bite. Ahh, nothing like the fruit of discord! Maybe he won't be so bored here after all.]
aura_spear: (14)

[personal profile] aura_spear 2015-12-18 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
[That bit of information startles Pyrrha a bit.]

There could be people here?

Farmer's Market

[personal profile] sempervigilantes 2015-12-18 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
Don't ask me, I'm not the shopkeeper!

[Girl on weird armor, meet guy in flashy yellow suit! He's hanging around near the apple stand, eating a golden delicious he took from the crate and didn't pay for.]
nailed_it: (Don't trust this face)

[personal profile] nailed_it 2015-12-18 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
[That lop-sided smile becomes a lop-sided grin. She was kidding, Pyrrha.]

Nah, I doubt it. I'm sure we'd see 'em if there were.

[Probably hear them too. You know, hopefully.]
aura_spear: (07)

[personal profile] aura_spear 2015-12-18 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
[She glanced at the bubbled gems again. It was still a rather unsettling thought.]

I hope so.

C

[personal profile] sempervigilantes 2015-12-18 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Bill scans his eye over Muffet's baked goods. Aside from being slightly flat nothing seems off about them, but he looks at the spider girl with a grin.]

Let me guess... Those aren't chocolate chips!

[He bets they're actually flies.]
Edited 2015-12-18 08:30 (UTC)
nailed_it: (Demure smile)

[personal profile] nailed_it 2015-12-18 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Yang gives another glance around the chamber, her gaze falling briefly on the Heart Gem where it steadily beats away and then she glances back towards Pyrrha and lightly elbows her arm.]

Come on, this room is a drag. Just wait until you see the view outside the Temple.
aura_spear: (Default)

[personal profile] aura_spear 2015-12-18 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Turning back to Yang, she manages a smile.]

That good, huh?