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.
derplander: (Default)

[personal profile] derplander 2015-12-29 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
"I have no answer for that," said Meteor, shaking his head. "I do not know if these are remains but I do know is that we are in no danger at the given moment."
terraburning: (Default)

[personal profile] terraburning 2015-12-29 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Terra doesn't care. There are no more pauses in her speech as she tries to find words that won't offend. Her tone is clear and precise.

"'You' are in no danger. 'I' am in a temple where Espers are murdered and their remains enshrined."
crabmunicator: (084)

[personal profile] crabmunicator 2015-12-29 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[He notices. He also doesn't press. If he was going to be all friendly with Jade again, he can't turn around and be too rude to Jane about the same thing.]

That's all I wanted.

[Really, the apology does help.]

[He holds up his palms, warm but unharmed, and absent of flame despite the lingering dust of ash from earlier.]


You said it was my gem that caused this?
sallya: (you know who i am)

[personal profile] sallya 2015-12-29 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
Definitely a woman.

...Actually. This could be the work of a hex. Even altering your memories of being a woman.
tippingfate: (7)

[personal profile] tippingfate 2015-12-29 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[honestly he doubts her memories more then his own. But that's a risky statement he's not willing to die for]

But for what benifit? Unless...

[Tharja s so getting eyes narrowed in her direction]

sallya: (you know who i am)

1/2

[personal profile] sallya 2015-12-29 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Who can say? An elaborate prank maybe.

[...]
sallya: (say my name)

[personal profile] sallya 2015-12-29 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
...Why are you looking at me like that?
Edited 2015-12-29 02:56 (UTC)
a_fate_accepted: (Your words are rotting my brain)

[personal profile] a_fate_accepted 2015-12-29 02:58 am (UTC)(link)


[She folded her arms.]

And you expect me to believe that while knowing my friends are back in the world I came from and possibly in great peril, that the best I can do is sit on my butt and wait? Is that what you are telling me?

[Her tone is tense and pressing, but her voice is not raising or showing any signs of anger; this was a test to see how his statements hold to scrutiny and pressure.]
a_fate_accepted: (Words abound that remain unsaid)

[personal profile] a_fate_accepted 2015-12-29 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Ah.

"Y-You... didn't need to show me this if it was inconvenient, you know. I would have taken your word for it."
sallya: (say my name)

A. I HOPE THIS IS OKAY....

[personal profile] sallya 2015-12-29 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[oh great.]

...Hmph. That was terrible, even for you.
derplander: (Default)

[personal profile] derplander 2015-12-29 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
"But ARE these Espers? Not everything is the same in every realm." said Meteor. "These could be something entirely different."
tippingfate: (17)

[personal profile] tippingfate 2015-12-29 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
You and Averesa are the only ones with the skill and ability to get close enough.

[...and maybe Henry. But this didn't have enough head exploding to be him]
sallya: (make a dragon wanna retire man)

[personal profile] sallya 2015-12-29 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't do that. I liked you as a woman.

[a pause]

I like you as a man too.

I like you no matter who you are.
a_fate_accepted: (Forged of ice and steel)

Battle

[personal profile] a_fate_accepted 2015-12-29 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Celes was taking stock of the day when what did she see but a dragon...fly? chasing after a boy in an oversized purple cloak. He seemed to be in trouble. Oh sure, from an outsider's point of view, it looked like he had things covered what with the lightning and all, but Celes saw the clumsy way he barely dodged out of the dragonfly's way. She had no doubt that he would win, but he would not be winning uninjured.]

[Instinctively, the former general broke the distance of the sidewalk and planted a foot on the sidewalk's railing. Leaping up, she positioned her shadow to cover the monster and make the sunlight work for her. But most surprisingly of all, when she reached for her blade (which wasn't there) she could feel the pull of magic drawing a form from the gem in her right hand. In the instant that she was airborne, her eyes realized that she was carrying a blade that she had never seen before. Losing her concentration in the moment, the dragonfly managed to get out of the way and the woman planted her feet in a hard, but steady landing.]

[...damn...]

[Angry at herself, she looked over at the boy and shouted, venting her anger at him.]


Offense and defense! Your opponent wants to survive the confrontation no less than you do!!
Edited 2015-12-29 03:53 (UTC)
polyturtle: (this final jeopardy is hard)

[personal profile] polyturtle 2015-12-29 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
...Yes. I know it sucks. But there's not much we can do, not knowing exactly how we got here. And as long as we don't know the means, we can't use those means to reverse our situation.
a_fate_accepted: (To be more than what once was)

[personal profile] a_fate_accepted 2015-12-29 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
[...]

[The woman halted, hand set on her side to reach for a hilt that was not there. She focuses her attention back to her hand, drawing the stone that was there up to eye level to peer through it once more. And, once more, she moved her fingers to verify that she still could move her digits.]

[Her attention returned, once again, to the hall with the floating gems, the large one perched in the middle. This... really wasn't her world, and the world of the espers was shattered... back then.]

[Without turning back she asked:]


Do you know of a place I can lay my head?
tippingfate: (2)

[personal profile] tippingfate 2015-12-29 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ his eyes widen a little and he smiles, nodding]

No, you're right. I believe you.
sallya: (you know who i am)

[personal profile] sallya 2015-12-29 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Good. Doubt me again and regret it.

[all bluff when it comes to Robin though]

...If you want to change though I could try and cook something up.

If.
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[personal profile] polyturtle 2015-12-29 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
You have a room here in the Temple; it opens with your gem.

[As if to demonstrate, his upper right leg glows, and a door opens out of thing nothing in one of the Temple walls, briefly, only to close again.]
toaflame: (☀ don't turn away now)

[personal profile] toaflame 2015-12-29 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
...no. It ain't.

[Who is this guy?]

Shouldn't you be with your parents or somethin'?
tippingfate: (3)

[personal profile] tippingfate 2015-12-29 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
[he winces and guestures at the room at large]

Let's not get too hasty. Look around.. doesn't this place look a little like something from the Outrealms? Maybe there's something other then a hex at work here.
toaflame: (☀ and watch from far away)

[personal profile] toaflame 2015-12-29 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Right. But once I leave this place, where am I gonna expect to find myself then? Cause this don't look like any place I've ever seen before, unless the Badlands just got a whole lot wealthier overnight.

[Which he highly doubts. Plus it's a desert with scenic nothing in it.]
a_fate_accepted: (A fool thinks they are wise)

[personal profile] a_fate_accepted 2015-12-29 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
In that case I would say asking what you would find is more important than where.

But to your specific question, I would say that you will find the city of Waverly Bay. And, yes, you will be right to say that it is not the land you are aware of, though perhaps it is similar to it.

But with a name like "Badlands" I somehow doubt it.
monge: (🍦|| Life is full of mysteries zura)

[personal profile] monge 2015-12-29 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
N-No, I don't think my mother is visiting today, zura.

[Would be nice, though. She'd probably love all this stuff. Oh well, too bad, he'll have to make due.]

Maybe we can be with your parents instead, zura!
a_fate_accepted: (Words abound that remain unsaid)

[personal profile] a_fate_accepted 2015-12-29 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
I... I will see.

[Experience tells her that nothing is given without something wanted. She also didn't feel too comfortable accepting accommodations from an entity that may be responsible for their current situations.]



[Still, she sharpens her stance and addresses Donatello directly.]


Thank you for your help and your honesty. My name is Celes Chere, ex-General of the Gestahlian Empire and member of The Returners.