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.
monge: (🍦|| Did I awe you zura)

!!

[personal profile] monge 2015-12-24 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[So Komajiro hasn't been here long, that's not good. Komasan was hoping he could get those very answers from him. Well then, gem collecting will just have to wait, for now he has to be a cool big brother.

...Again.



...Why does this keep happening??]


A-Ah, w-well, even though I just got here, it's clear that we're in... [thinkthinkthink] ...a magic castle, zura!

[Considering all the pretty gemstones, that doesn't sound too far off. Y-Yeah, he can work with this.]

We must've fallen into a storybook without even realizing it, zura!

[Is that a thing that can happen? Komasan is going to guess that's a thing that can happen. He kinda got sucked into another world to perform a movie of all things, it honestly didn't sound that strange to him.]
monge: (🍦|| Drown your troubles zura)

[personal profile] monge 2015-12-24 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Sir, he is a dog, thanks. For someone who gets confused for a lot of stuff, you sure don't have a problem assuming other people's species, Perry.

Also Perry's threat goes completely ignored. If anything, Komasan just finds it interesting.]


I can't make a noise like that, zura.
doesntdomuch: (Heinz why do I even bother with you)

[personal profile] doesntdomuch 2015-12-24 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
[His glare then turns into a look of annoyance. Well, better than the weird staring at least.

Perry then points to Komasan, hoping that he'd get the point and notice that he's wanting to know who he is.]
monge: (🍦|| zura zura)

[personal profile] monge 2015-12-24 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
[This is a weird ass kappa.]

A-Ah...

I-Is there something on my chest, zura?

[What is he pointing at?! Who just points at someone?! Did he get ice cream in his fur? That seems like a thing he'd do.]
cuteandquarky: (u serious)

[personal profile] cuteandquarky 2015-12-24 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Jade has sympathy for Karkat. Really! But he also managed to not answer her question whatsoever, and now he is freaking out even more than before!]

Karkat! Calm down!

[She would shake him by the shoulders, but Jade has the sneaking suspicion that it would not help the situation.]

We aren't in SBURB anymore. We are in a totally different universe! I do not know about whatever happened in your timeline, but everybody here is safe and alive, and all of that paradox space bullshit got left behind. You are not doomed!

Now can you tell me what happened? I don't remember anything about the new session.
waxinglight: (what do you mean?)

[personal profile] waxinglight 2015-12-24 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
He? Voices?

[this is sounding worse and worse by the second...]
waxinglight: (relieved smile)

[personal profile] waxinglight 2015-12-24 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[oh no, he really is adorable...]

I'm glad to have helped! Ah. but do you have enough money?

[...maybe she should have asked that first, um.]
crabmunicator: (107)

I hope you were expecting teal deer because here's a herd of them (I'm so sorry)

[personal profile] crabmunicator 2015-12-24 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
We--we're--what?

[Karkat gapes. Different universe? He looks around again, but it looks the same as it did the last time.]

But I died, Jade. Look at my eyes. Are my eyes white? There was...

[He gestures off to the side uselessly, trails off.]

Okay, I can back up. Okay. [Huff.] We were on the meteor, almost to the new session, and everything was a massive shitshow because no one was ready and I was just realizing the unmitigated chain reaction romance disaster I had allowed to go off under my own sniff node. Also, none of us knew how to stop the meteor. But just as we're all finally gathered together, you teleport in, skin the color night's half-assed descendant and wreathed in the firm stink of evil. You teleported us off the the meteor, onto some Land in the new session... and...

[Frown.]

Then I don't know what, we were all scattered and I can't fucking remember what happened between. Kanaya and I were on LOFAF, then you showed up with this chick from the new session, Jane I think? And she was also evil, but different evil, like all red and creepy and quiet. You reveal that you're under the mind control of Her Imperious Condescension, and no I don't know how it happened so don't ask.

Then you tell us that the Empress has made the gracious offer to enslave our lowly husks in the coming universe if we just go see Echidna about the Genesis Frog. I tell you how much the idea sucks, then you go off on some rotpanned tangent where you... threatened us with Jane's life powers? [Eyebrow raise.] Which made exactly zero sense, but involved Jane running me through on her fork as an example. She revives me, John shows up out of nowhere, you both disappear, Jane... sells some blood to Kanaya for some reason? I don't even know where she got all that.

I go off and do my thing until Meenah messages me saying there's trouble, I message Dave, Kanaya and I go to investigate, and then everything's on fucking fire and there are explosions and the fucking Battleship Condescension hovering overhead, but none of that matters because Gamzee and Terezi are fighting to the death, oh fuck, I hope she's not dead now. [Breathe.] So I--I run for Gamzee, because holy shit I can't just let him kill her, but he--stabs me--through the chest. And I fell in the lava.

Oh god, Jade, how the fuck am I going to get back there?
a_fate_accepted: (To be more than what once was)

Celes Chère | Final Fantasy VI | Rutilated Quartz

[personal profile] a_fate_accepted 2015-12-24 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
The Heart of the Temple

[As many others before, a blonde woman could be found face-first on the ground in the middle of the temple. Her hair bundled in a giant tentacled mess. Gingerly, Celes raises up her body to examine her surroundings only to be immediately confronted by an oval gemstone wedged into her palm. Even more distressing, the stone is translucent, with only golden spindles preventing her from seeing completely through her own hand. To her surprise, her fingers work fine, as though there wasn't a piece of rock separating bone and ligaments.]

Magicite...? [Because there was no other rock that she knew of that could explain it. There was no time to be overwhelmed, however, as her new situation demanded deeper appraisal. The former general quickly noted that she was uninjured, save for the new gem, but also that her sword was nowhere to be seen. The only possession that seemed to have followed was her outfit and the bandanna that she was clutching in her left hand. Leaving her possessions, she then started examining the room, noting the heart stone in the center while also seeing the bubbled gems floating all around.]

A stone in my hand and hundreds of cracked ones suspended in bubbles. Who is to say that a similar fate awaits me if I heed this call? [She'd feel better with her sword. Or, even better, somebody familar.]

Farmer's Market

[Celes had some time to adjust and found the world... interesting. A part of her knew that Waverly was completely different from where she came from but she couldn't help feeling a sense that the lands beyond were not unlike the World of Ruin. Still, it was enough time to know more of the gems, and the powers, and the fact that many were completely unskilled with them.]

[She would not let that pass.]

[So, she decided that if she was going to be stuck here, she was going to be of some use. Throughout the market one may find a woman with a yellow jumpsuit handing out flyers. They read:]


Hey you!
Got a weapon you don't know how to use?
Ask me if you want training.
Don't be an idiot!
Knowing how to use it can save lives.
Probably yours!
a_fate_accepted: (Forged of ice and steel)

B

[personal profile] a_fate_accepted 2015-12-24 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
[He did indeed run into somebody. A stern-looking woman who is looking down at the grey-toned child with startled curiosity. Her first instinct is to yell at him something terrible, but, fortunately for Karkat, her military training kicked in and appraised the situation first.]

[Ah. Yes, that would seem to be worth running around like an idiot. Looking around, she pointed to the nearest stretch of beach and yelled:]

Quick! Run to the sand and bury your hands! Smother the flames and it will go out!

[And if he was going to continue to flail, she decided she'd pick him up and throw him into the ocean.]
pega_pony_princess: (Default)

[personal profile] pega_pony_princess 2015-12-24 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Of course! Poses are like...the rhubarb to justice's strawberry! The pie of heroism isn't complete without them."
cyan_maid: Jane doesn't know what the fuck is going on (What is even going on?)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2015-12-24 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
White and red and evil...?

[Jane's brow furrows, her expression nothing short of honest confusion.]

Look, I don't have a darned clue what you're getting at. I wear blue, for starters, and I've never resurrected anyone, not even here! And I wouldn't stab someone with my trident just to prove a point, that's crazy! I swear I've never seen you before in my life, just - your species I've seen, but definitely not you! I'd remember!
domeinion: Alice distressed, spinning. (so sick of potatoes)

[personal profile] domeinion 2015-12-24 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess it's a really, really long story. But that's okay! He's just the person who built it. He's... well, he's gone now, anyway.
forthespiders: (Croissant? Muffin? You? Donut? Cookie?)

[personal profile] forthespiders 2015-12-24 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Delinquents?" She mused. "Perhaps you are mistaken? That sounds like the sort of thing goodie-two-shoes would do."

A part of the spider-girl wondered, though, if this new side of her could be taken advantage of. Just a little.
forthespiders: (2x wink~ ;;))

[personal profile] forthespiders 2015-12-24 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh of course, dearie! [The spider girl's lips press into a long, thin smile as her two bottom-most set of hands rub together and the top two spread over the table.]

I recommend everything!!
cuteandquarky: (traumatized)

1/2

[personal profile] cuteandquarky 2015-12-24 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jade takes a moment to listen to all of that, trying to process it. Whatever timeline Karkat just lived through sounds bad and she can't really blame him for acting like this after all of that.

Some of it sounds familiar, and she tries to remember...]
cuteandquarky: (exhausted)

2/2

[personal profile] cuteandquarky 2015-12-24 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[...but that just results in a huge headache. She doesn't even know if this is her timeline or not. Maybe Karkat is doomed. Or maybe she's doomed, because John is dead in her timeline. But he's supposed to come back?

...Yeah, she'll need a lot more time to process this. Better to focus on the basics for now.]


Your eyes are yellow, and they have pupils. You are definitely alive here! You are also kind of a rock now.

I do not know how to get back. It just happens randomly sometimes. People come and go and there is no real rhyme or reason to it!
agent1: (kekeke)

[personal profile] agent1 2015-12-24 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She nods, arms crossed and listening with a sage air about her. Then she picks up another pineapple. ] Then let's get two! You know, one for each of us!
samsa: (Excuse □ excuse??)

[personal profile] samsa 2015-12-24 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[...point.]

Well...I would be calling you Komasan-san, otherwise.
badassdelinquent: (angry)

[personal profile] badassdelinquent 2015-12-24 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Tch. Typical honor student. Fine, run away."

Raspberyl levels a dramatic finger at him.

"But first, tell me your blood type!"
badassdelinquent: (Default)

[personal profile] badassdelinquent 2015-12-24 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, yeah. I'm a demon, after all. As a delinquent, I perform good deeds to my heart's content!"
forthespiders: (Proceeds go to real spiders!)

[personal profile] forthespiders 2015-12-25 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Yeees. This was exactly what she was hoping for.

"Oh, well... perhaps you would like to perform delinquency for my booth? I could most certainly use a little bit of PR. And you're about as little as they come! Ahuhuhu~~"
polyturtle: (this final jeopardy is hard)

[personal profile] polyturtle 2015-12-25 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Its a risk we all take.

[Hi, there. Don is in the room as well, quietly meditating when she arrived. So, he stands up, dusting his legs off.]

It stinks, but its the truth.
a_fate_accepted: (Warmth veiled in cynicism)

[personal profile] a_fate_accepted 2015-12-25 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[She looks up at the crystals with cautious appraisal, nodding at the voice. Though she should be afraid, the sound of somebody else was a welcome addition to the nothingness of the past few days.]

I suppose I should take comfort in knowing that others have faced the same dilemma and passed unharmed.

[A small grin rolled across her face and she turns towards the voice.]



[And double-takes.]


Ah...

[She bit her lip before she said something offensive. See, Edgar? She can use tact.]

...are you... alright?

[That was the worst case of Imp spell she had ever seen...]
Edited 2015-12-25 04:12 (UTC)
frozenmemories: (Listening)

BEEPBEEP- Fairy coming your way! Also- Market day!

[personal profile] frozenmemories 2015-12-25 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Here is a oddity- Cirno's sitting along side the stalls, a Husky pup by her side and fish laid out on a tarp. She's calling out about fresh fish and to offer a price, obviously not paying too much attention. Another strange part is she is without her wings...Weird.

But it's not long before she stares, almost as if she's forgotten who Reisen is before waving and calling out.
]

Hey! I know you! I ran into you during the Flower Festival.