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.
badassdelinquent: (wink~)

[personal profile] badassdelinquent 2015-12-24 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, I'd love to educate you on the actual differences between demons and angels - I am a teacher, after all - but let's get your other questions answered first, okay? Let's do this the quick way!"

Beryl walks over to the Heart and gestures invitingly at it.

"All you have to do is touch this, or we can keep trading questions back and forth for the next few hours."

That's not even a hint of sarcasm as she says this.
fintastic: (heheh)

[personal profile] fintastic 2015-12-24 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Oh come on! It's not that bad, at least we're not dead!

[ It was the end of the road for her, really, so she can't be too fussed. Having nothing but an eternity of dream bubbles in front of her wasn't so bad, but if she could be living some kind of life, even if it meant being a rock? She would take it. ]

I don't know about you, but I like being a rock a lot more than I like being a ghost. You get used to it after a while!
crabmunicator: (053)

[personal profile] crabmunicator 2015-12-24 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't care about your stupid subtype quibbles," he snips out, because angels are demons and that's that, as far as he's concerned.

But she's moving on anyway, gesturing to the... the big, shiny rock. Irritation rolls back to make way for apprehension, settling into a frown and the set of his eyes.

"Why should I? I don't even know what that is. Why is it glowing like that?"
cyan_maid: (Eugh! No thanks!)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2015-12-24 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
[You've gotta be KIDDING! What the heck was up with these flames? She doesn't have any other liquids - ]

...Excuse me?!

[She looks at him as if he's just spontaneously sprouted three heads, and they're all singing "She'll Be Comin' 'Round The Mountain When She Comes" in perfect three-part harmony.]

I don't even know you! And I'm pretty sure no one has ever been stabbed by juice!
badassdelinquent: (Default)

[personal profile] badassdelinquent 2015-12-24 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
"This is the Crystal Heart. If you touch it, everything will be explained!"
crabmunicator: (148)

[personal profile] crabmunicator 2015-12-24 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
[He turns on her, huffing, pouting, looking like his cheeks might inflate to balloons if they puff out any further. But at the same time...]

[Not dead. Not ghosts. He tries to keep the look there, but it falters, and fuck, fuck, he really did--he really did die. He palms at his chest again, over the two neat cuts through his sign.]


But what about the others? They--I was supposed to help them, Feferi. How do I do that here?
crabmunicator: (011)

[personal profile] crabmunicator 2015-12-24 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[He has no better idea than her. They weren't there before, and he's thrown enough tantrums in his life that he would have noticed a consequence like this by now.]

Not the juice, dumbass! The fork! You were all white and red and evil, and three times creepier than charcoal edition Harley was, and you stabbed me through the torso with your giant fork before reviving me to try to prove some esoteric point Jade was failing to make. Don't think you can weasel out of it just because you're not scary as shit anymore!

[She's consequently a lot easier to stare down like this, even bare his fangs at.]
crabmunicator: (020)

[personal profile] crabmunicator 2015-12-24 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
"The... Crystal Heart," he repeats, lifting an eyebrow.

He rises from the chair.

"Okay, nope, I'm out of here. Listen, Raspberry or whatever it was, you can keep your angel-demon qualms and light-up rocks to yourself, because I'm out. I'll find my answers elsewhere and we'll both be the merrier for it." Waving over a shoulder, he turns to look for the door. "I'll shoo the next idiot I see your way and you can have fun shoveling nonsense at him. You happy?"
fintastic: (thankful)

[personal profile] fintastic 2015-12-24 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ She wants to ask about the shirt. But she thinks she might not even need to. ]

I don't know. I have only been here fifteen minutes or so myself! Maybe we can find a way to help them together? But I don't think freaking out will really do anyone much good!
crabmunicator: (059)

[personal profile] crabmunicator 2015-12-24 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
But--

[Freaking out is his specialty, Feferi. He frowns at her hard, but the brunt behind it is a whole heap of emotions he didn't have time to deal with before showing up here and running into her. His fingers poke at his gem again, feeling the strange, faceted surface.]

... Okay. Okay, we can do this. We'll find something.

[He might be saying it more to himself.]

Come on, we need to go look around and take stock of this place. There might be more of us here, and if there are we have to find out who and how long they've been around.
fintastic: (chinhands)

[personal profile] fintastic 2015-12-24 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
That's a great plan! See, this is why you are our leader!

[ She's not trying to patronize him. It's just the most obvious course of action. ]

The door should let us out, but you probably know that! I didn't actually explore that far, I kind of wanted to hang out and see if anyone else showed up. And... well, you did!

[ Of course, now that he's touched the gem, she's all about explaining. ]
waxinglight: (sadface)

[personal profile] waxinglight 2015-12-24 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Did something bad happen to it?

[the distinct phrasing makes her wonder...]
waxinglight: (a kind smile)

[personal profile] waxinglight 2015-12-24 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Something about that feels familiar, but she can't recall why. Nevertheless, it makes her smile, and she laughs despite herself.

"Are the poses necessary though?"
domeinion: Alice dressed as Red (totally red and not alice)

[personal profile] domeinion 2015-12-24 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Have you ever heard of a randomizer?
waxinglight: (what)

[personal profile] waxinglight 2015-12-24 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
A what?

[she's. only vaguely familiar with a computer...]
domeinion: Alice and A (chaos and order)

[personal profile] domeinion 2015-12-24 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
It's a device someone built to change some things in their past. It rewound the world and made it so that everything changed. People died when they should've lived and lived when they should've died, personalities and memories started to change, fish were walking around on land. The world couldn't sustain itself like that.
waxinglight: (distraught)

[personal profile] waxinglight 2015-12-24 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
That's horrible...

[she can't even imagine something like that, and she was definitely in the "destroy the entire world" camp once.]

How did that happen?

[it couldn't have been out of the blue, right?]
domeinion: Alice frustrated (do something for a change)

[personal profile] domeinion 2015-12-24 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
He spent a hundred years building it after gaining immortality, then activated it just after someone I knew confronted him. In the new world, we all thought everything was normal at first. I only learned otherwise with the Voices and then went out to study all the changes to the world. They needed to send me on a journey, anyway, to fix things.
lilbitcountry: (002)

A.

[personal profile] lilbitcountry 2015-12-24 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Big brother is here! All is right with the world]

MONGE~! You made it! I knew you would!
monge: (🍦|| Peeking zura)

[personal profile] monge 2015-12-24 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
K-Komajiro!

[By time Komasan turns around to face his beloved brother, he's already collected an armful of gems for no particular reason. They're his now, he's claimed them]

H-Have you been here this whole time, z-zura?!

[Komajiro got to a place before him? Well this certainly feels... different.]
monge: (🍦|| Monge~)

[personal profile] monge 2015-12-24 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[And of course, Komasan completely falls for it.]

Monge~ Such a nice gem, zura!

[And with that, he slaps a paw against the Heart gem and...

...oh.

Oh no.

That's...that's really weird.]
monge: (🍦|| Wait for me zura!)

[personal profile] monge 2015-12-24 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
[It's there! It's really there! Komasan doesn't wait for a second, he lets go of her hand and rushes over to the stall as fast as his little legs can take him.]

Monge~! I can't believe we found it so fast, zura!

[As he stands up next to the stall, balancing on his tippy toes, he looks back to her in complete awe. Those big eyes are literally sparkling.]

I would've never found it without your help, thank you so much, zura!
monge: (🍦|| Zura?)

[personal profile] monge 2015-12-24 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Komasan being...Komasan, of course can only hear "Koma-san" as..."Komasan." It...doesn't sound much different, is he even calling him anything else?]

Eh...It doesn't sound any shorter to me, zura.
lilbitcountry: (005)

!

[personal profile] lilbitcountry 2015-12-24 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Only by 10 minutes 44 seconds...but who's counting?]

Not too long brother, I heard your voice and came rushing over!

Where are we anyway? This doesn't look like anywhere I know.

[And his phone had no bars! Truly this means they're outside reality.]
doesntdomuch: (I had fun once)

A

[personal profile] doesntdomuch 2015-12-24 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Perry had just woken up and was still trying to get his bearings over what the heck is happening when he sees this weird cat thing.

He had no idea why this guy was staring at his forehead (since he hasn't noticed his own gem yet) or why he thought it was "sparkly", so he glares at Komasan, giving him a warning chatter.]