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.
fintastic: (realtalk)

[personal profile] fintastic 2015-12-26 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ Feferi just rolls her eyes behind her back; his question is distraction enough, so she lays off for the moment. There's a skip in her step as she makes her way through the door behind him, then falls in step next to him. ]

Oh, well. Nepeta and I were a sprite for a while, that was kind of weird? And I got to see Eridan and Sollux again! Sort of. I think we all kind of decided to put everything behind us? [ She doesn't sound entirely sure; she moves on quickly, eager to tell Karkat all about her after-death experiences. ] Oh, and then after we were done being a sprite, we joined Vriska's pirate crew and Aradia and Sollux were there too! And so was Tavros. Then Aradia scared one of the humans, and then Tavros, Nepeta, Sollux, and I all left, and that's kind of what we were in the process of doing before I wound up here!

[ She stops her enthusiastic exposition and looks at Karkat as they walk, thoughtful for a moment. ]

You don't think I just... disappeared there, before I wound up here, do you? I did not even think about that before!
cyan_maid: (You are EMBARRASSING me!)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2015-12-26 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[The fact that he knows her name, even if it's a guess on his part, gives her pause, moreso than the idea of mind control, which is...admittedly a little insulting. She likes to think herself strong-willed enough to make her own decisions, thanks. (Even though in many ways she is not.) Her brow furrows, and slowly, she shakes her head.]

I...can say with all certainty that you are the only troll who's shown up in town since I've been here - and I've been here for months. And I swear, I...I know I've never seen you before today, much less done you harm, but...maybe there's something else going on here? I have heard that, um...folks can come in from different points in time, and...

[She huffs a little, frowning. This was ridiculous! Who would go so far as to make her skewer somebody?]
a_fate_accepted: (To be more than what once was)

[personal profile] a_fate_accepted 2015-12-26 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[The woman followed as the boy ran, and wondered why he stopped. She was about to say something when she saw the flames flicker out. Crisis averted?]

[She hung back a moment, giving him space to process the scene. Though she knows nothing about who he is or where he came from, a part of Celes wanted to believe that this was significant for some reason. She knew better than to disrupt his thoughts.]

[However long they lasted. Ah. So he's the types that could only focus on one thing at a time?]


Your focus was broken and the fire diminished. It would seem the fire was your own make.

Where I am from, we would call fire that does not burn the one that summoned it magic. Does that mean anything to you?
cuteandquarky: (pout)

[personal profile] cuteandquarky 2015-12-26 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
It does, though! I cannot really explain it, but it just happens! People show up and disappear and there isn't any reason for it.

[She stops short and bites her lip. Okay, maybe this is not the best time or place to be airing out her frustrations with this place.]

Anyways, there should be a gem somewhere on your body. It is the source of all your new powers and stuff now. It also lets you open up your own private room somewhere in the temple!
crabmunicator: (054)

[personal profile] crabmunicator 2015-12-26 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Karkat's look stays skeptical, and odds are he may have gone on to argue more if not for the distraction she offers.]

What powers?

[But he knows the gem she means. He spotted it earlier, but everything else about her being here and alive and not mind controlled kind of knocked it out of mind. He touches his chest, nudging the cut in his shirt - go figure why it 'remembered' that after the lava he fell in - to better show the teardrop-shaped gem at his chest.]

Is that what this is? How did it get in my skin? -- And if you have one, where is it?

[He looks at her like it might reveal itself if he just squints hard enough.]
crabmunicator: (069)

[personal profile] crabmunicator 2015-12-26 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
[The only troll? His eyebrows lift up, worry sifting in, but that gets put on hold as soon as she gets to time.]

FffuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKK!

[Remember those fires? Because there they are again, blazing up over his spread, quaking hands.]

I am sick to the top of my protein chute of fucking time shenanigans! Are you seriously, honestly, one hundred percent no falsity or screwing around telling me that yet again my tired, worn out soul is subject to the flip-flop whims of time's fickle hand? Here I was prepared to be glad to be not dead when by all rights I should be, and now not only are my friends not even here, but if they ever do show up, there's no guarantee they'll have a single, flailing clue what everything I've been through has to do with anything. My life is a goddamn party. Gather up all the nobody I know, Jane, because we're celebrating the next chapter in Karkat's Lifelong Mortal Devastation!
waxinglight: (o rly)

[personal profile] waxinglight 2015-12-26 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that's...a new one. Hm.

"Would that mean you deliver judgement on the wings of justice then?"
crabmunicator: (026)

[personal profile] crabmunicator 2015-12-26 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, forget the ocean for now. He's never seen it in person before, but it's not about to vanish behind him, unlike the subject (literally) at hand.]

[But as for magic...]


Ugh. Look, no, we're not calling it magic. Magic just calls to mind stupid arguments over whether magic is real or not and two friends of mine who I'm pretty sure aren't here. Let's just backtrack to the first point, because what do you mean, my own make? I don't make fire, not like that, and I tell you right now that if I ever had the ability then some things in my life would have either been a whole lot harder or a whole lot easier.
crabmunicator: (009)

[personal profile] crabmunicator 2015-12-26 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
Hold up, you were a sprite? For who? When? How does that even happen? And what do you mean, when you were done with it?

[That part's easier to address than all the rest, and it's the first thing to stand out to him, so much so that he stops his walking just to ask about it.]
a_fate_accepted: (Your words are rotting my brain)

[personal profile] a_fate_accepted 2015-12-26 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
[At that the girl folded her arms.]

I have no problems discussing things with you, but can we please keep this to one topic at a time? I would rather finish one thought before moving to another if you do not mind.

[Seeing as the discussion of magic is going to probably make him lose focus again, she decided to forgo that direction for another time and focus on the task at hand.]

To the second point, let me be frank. I have no idea what you were or were not able to do but when your mind focused elsewhere your... problem ceased.

Whatever you wish to call it, [She raised her hand to her side.] whenever one manifests an ability at will or otherwise... [In a flash a blade appeared where there wasn't any.] Then what else can it be but the manifestation of one's own will?



[She swishes the blade to the side before returning it to a hilt that would have been around her waist. Instead, the sword vanishes back into the ether.]

But I am open to counter-suggestions. If there are any.
pega_pony_princess: (woooo)

[personal profile] pega_pony_princess 2015-12-26 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Cynthia makes an :O face and stares at Michiru for several long seconds before surging forward and wrapping her in a hug.

"That's perfect! I LOVE IT! You're the best!"
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] Oh what the fuck.)

B

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-12-26 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The young woman she happens to collide with is... not that human looking. Her skin is unusually pale, her eyes are slit pupiled and blood red. And she has fangs and bat-wings. ]

Hey, be careful!
polyturtle: (I'M TTLY MODEST)

[personal profile] polyturtle 2015-12-26 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Am I--

[He rubs the back of his head at this.]

Yeah. Why? My looks?
a_fate_accepted: (To be more than what once was)

[personal profile] a_fate_accepted 2015-12-26 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[She nods.]

How long have you look like that? I have a spell that can revert you back, if you will permit me.
cyan_maid: (Unsure over here)

[personal profile] cyan_maid 2015-12-26 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[WELL THAT CERTAINLY DERAILED ALL THOUGHT PROCESSES JANE MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE HAD

She stares, openly and wide-eyed, at the profanity-spewing troll in front of her, hands ablaze once more. There's not much Jane can really make of his rant, only that he's...certainly had to deal with enough shit to be at the end of his rope, and boy does she know that feeling well herself. When he finishes, she holds her hands up in defense.]


W-Well...it's...not really all that bad?

[Brilliant, Jane. So eloquent.]
waxinglight: (no really what)

[personal profile] waxinglight 2015-12-26 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[well that sounds utterly nightmarish.]

So you were controlled by those voices? Do they still bother you now?

[she can't imagine sharing your head with so many voices at once...]
waxinglight: (what do you mean?)

[personal profile] waxinglight 2015-12-26 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[michiru's used to weirder, but the bat wings definitely give her pause.]

I'm very sorry!

[she bows in apology, but...]

...are those real?
waxinglight: (baking)

[personal profile] waxinglight 2015-12-26 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[spiders? oh, well, she supposes that makes sense, this lady is a big old spider and all. hm.

michiru examines the pastries some more, then points to a croissant display.]


Are those plain or are they filled?

[she loves chocolate filled croissants! they're not quite like the chocolate coronets saki makes, but they're close enough.]
waxinglight: (another smile)

[personal profile] waxinglight 2015-12-26 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Michiru seems a little baffled by the hug for a moment, but smiles and hugs back anyways.

"You're very welcome? I don't really know what I did - I just said the first thing to come to mind."

But now she's curious...

"Do you really own a pegasus? I thought those only existed in books..."
domeinion: Alice listening to music. (this is great)

[personal profile] domeinion 2015-12-26 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I was a host once, actually. They're not in my head anymore, but there are a few vestigial habits we all have, so you won't B+RIGHT the way they found you. Mostly walking into walls, a few speech things. You get used to the patterns and they never quite leave. How did you know I'd been one?
waxinglight: (distraught)

[personal profile] waxinglight 2015-12-26 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
The way you speak of them is in depth - I assumed it was personal experience, I'm not sure how I feel about it being right. It must be terrible to feel like a puppet...
domeinion: Alice surprised (breakthrough!)

[personal profile] domeinion 2015-12-26 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose it would be awful the way it used to be. An old friend of mine from when we were kids... he doesn't talk much, and he always looks haunted. But it was him and his journey that started to change things. By the time I came along, the mob was more -- well, they're always chaotic, and having the god of order on my side might have balanced a little out. But they didn't care about their hosts before, just whether they could complete their objectives. With me or Camila or Napoleon or any of the newer hosts we've found, their well-being mattered as much as their destiny. They let Abe sleep a lot, actually.

...It's also a little hard to be afraid of an ancient eldritch legion that sings inappropriate campfire songs and keeps walking you into walls because they don't know where they're going.
pega_pony_princess: (Default)

[personal profile] pega_pony_princess 2015-12-26 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Huh? I don't OWN her - she's my partner! And where are you from that you don't have pegasuses...pegasi?"

Pause.

"...I have no idea what the plural of pegasus is."
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] Thoughtful)

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-12-26 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Despite being physically twenty, Remi's only five feet tall... Not all that imposing. ]

Why, yes... They are. As you might imagine, I'm not exactly human.
waxinglight: (obligatory shoujo icon)

[personal profile] waxinglight 2015-12-26 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"My mistake, sorry. My home is the Land of Greenery - although I suppose one would also call it Earth. It's filled with spirits of nature, but I've never seen a pegasus. Or, ah, pegasi? They must be common where you're from, if you're a Pegasus Knight."