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.
wreckyeah: (Really?)

[personal profile] wreckyeah 2015-10-23 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[This Ralph's got a very passing familiarity to Vanellope, so he doesn't recognize her voice. He doesn't want to look around too much and end up accidentally dropping the box, so he hasn't spotted her yet.

He snorts at the nickname, but answers her question anyway, though it's missing an affectionate nickname that the other Ralph would bestow on her.]

It's an oven, I'm deliverin' it to one of the restaurants.
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] You can't be serious)

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-10-23 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
You nearly hit me just now, aren't you watching where you're going?

[ Well, at least she'll now answer that question after complaining. ]

But yes, I am indeed new.
gigglesnortpriestess: (oh!)

[personal profile] gigglesnortpriestess 2015-10-23 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess so. I learned a bit from touching the crystal heart...but we can't leave the area?


[That...kind of sucks.]
foolish_seal: (Shoot me now.)

[personal profile] foolish_seal 2015-10-24 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, we're stuck here for now.

But at least there's internet.
sugarcar: (Suuuuuuure)

[personal profile] sugarcar 2015-10-24 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
[She catches the lack of the returning nickname, and suddenly she's hanging over the next roof, hopefully making sure he can see her this time.]

Well, y'better be sure not to wreck it! [She waits.] When'd you get into delivery services, anyway?
sugarcar: (Ya done with yer tantrum?)

[personal profile] sugarcar 2015-10-24 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
I wasn't gonna hit ya! I've got better control of my speed than that!

[Partially true.]

I thought so. Ya don't look like you're from around here.
sonofaglitch: (but under my hood)

[personal profile] sonofaglitch 2015-10-24 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
B-But ya were--

[It LOOKED like she was glitching. Even regular people corrupted by glitches lose the ability to properly communicate.
So what's going on here?]


Hey, kid... Ya haven't by any chance run in'ta somethin' that kinda looks like an egg, have ya?
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] Neutral)

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-10-24 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Uh huh. [ She doesn't believe her. ]

I happen to be a very recent arrival. And I doubt many people here have wings.
wreckyeah: (I don't agree.)

[personal profile] wreckyeah 2015-10-24 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[The movement catches his attention and his eyes widen. She's the first person he's seen from Litwak's here. But, before he can question her, she fires a question to him.]

My nickname might be 'Wreck-It', but I plan on gettin' this there in one piece.

[He shrugs slightly, the box shifting in his arms.]

Gotta make money somehow, an' it's something I can do that most people can't.

[He looks directly up at her.]

You, you're...Vanellope, right?

[He mispronounces her name slightly, it's still mostly recognizable, though. Seems that he's got the original Ralph's tendency to almost remember certain names.]
sugarcar: (Ya done with yer tantrum?)

[personal profile] sugarcar 2015-10-24 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
[She grins just a little at Ralph's expression, but the name mispronunciation still gets her.]

Well, yeah, 'course I am! You haven't forgotten me already, have ya, Stinkbrain? [She finally stops hanging and hops up to sit on top of the roof, so he can see her better.]
sugarcar: (You sold me out!)

... this is the closest icon to her expression, but she's more linefacing rn

[personal profile] sugarcar 2015-10-24 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
But I was what? [Nope, still not letting him see her if she can help it. She doesn't trust him.]

I haven't seen anythin' like an egg. Is it as rotten as you are?
sugarcar: (Oh?)

[personal profile] sugarcar 2015-10-24 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Yup, s'what I thought! [She hops down off the roof.] Prolly not much newer than me, then!
sonofaglitch: (i've got tires that drive the road)

[personal profile] sonofaglitch 2015-10-24 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
[He can't decide if that's the less worrying answer, because it doesn't explain why she appeared to be having glitched movements.]

'Scuse you, ya little brat! I was tryin' ta--

... I didn't think ya were human. The way ya were movin'... Look, s'complicated alright? Cut me some slack!
scarlet_devil: ([Adult] Into her eyes)

[personal profile] scarlet_devil 2015-10-24 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
So, where did you come from?
wreckyeah: (Huh?)

[personal profile] wreckyeah 2015-10-24 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
'Course I didn't forget ya, I just don't know ya that well.

[He's relieved that she's not as precariously perched now. She seems rather sure-footed, but accidents still happened.]
sugarcar: (Huh?)

[personal profile] sugarcar 2015-10-24 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
[At that, her grin starts to fade.]

A'right, c'mon, it's not funny now. Y'know me better'n that. [At least, she hopes so.] Y'saved Sugar Rush, remember? Ya visit me all the time, after closing. [Sometimes she visits instead, of course.]
wreckyeah: (I don't think so.)

[personal profile] wreckyeah 2015-10-24 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Ralph expression falls, it's obvious that she thinks she's her friend. He shakes his head.]

Sorry, kid. I'm not the Ralph you know. I've talked to him once or twice, but I'm not him. I'm from Hero's Duty, only been plugged in a couple of weeks.
sugarcar: (Thrown away)

[personal profile] sugarcar 2015-10-24 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Her expression falls. Even at the mention of 'Hero's Duty' she can't bring herself to make the obvious joke. She thinks for a moment.]

But... but you weren't in that game... I've only seen one Ralph in the arcade, and he's... well, Ralph.

[She doesn't understand.]
sugarcar: (Huh?)

[personal profile] sugarcar 2015-10-24 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
What, this?

[She suddenly appears on a branch facing outward from the tree, so he can see her.] I can do that at home, too! It's a loooong story. An' before you ask, I'm not a glitch.
sugarcar: (Waving)

[personal profile] sugarcar 2015-10-24 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
Sugar Rush! What game did you come from?
sonofaglitch: (and satan is my motor)

[personal profile] sonofaglitch 2015-10-24 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
[He turns to look at her now that she's made herself visible, though flinches a little reflexively.]

... Ya sure looked like one.

[T is sure this isn't a trick or anything either. Glitches can't trick, the same way they can't communicate. After all they're not even sentient.]

Glitches are kind of a big problem where I come from, so... sorry 'bout the mistake, I guess.

[Honestly, he keeps forgetting not everyone here is from the same universe, nor is he sure how this particular one they're in now operates. He's only got his own to go on.]
islistening: (*ABOUT SOMEONE WHO'S LISTENING)

[personal profile] islistening 2015-10-24 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
OH... INTERESTING.

[But if signing works, he'll stick to it for now.]

I... NO, PROBABLY NOT. BUT THAT IS NOT ANYTHING NEW. STILL, DO NOT WORRY ABOUT ME.

WHERE... IS THIS?

[A place he doesn't recognize is very much cause for concern.]
islistening: (*WHAT DO YOU TWO THINK?)

[personal profile] islistening 2015-10-24 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
The Amalgamates are not a long shot off, frankly.

There's a moment of hesitation as Gaster looks around, taking in the temple's interior. No, he definitely has not seen this place before. It could not be from the Underground, cavernlike as it is. And the human is here... the surface, then? But it still feels... off... and these stones, they reek of magic.

Shakily, he signs. Somehow, Frisk may get an impression of what the gestures mean.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

THIS IS... IMPOSSIBLE...
determinedpacifist: (a little light music)

[personal profile] determinedpacifist 2015-10-24 07:59 am (UTC)(link)
"It's still happening, though," Frisk says quietly. "I don't think this is my surface. It's a surface, though. And yeah, I understand you fine."
islistening: (*THE THOUGHT TERRIFIES ME)

[personal profile] islistening 2015-10-24 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
[...He's very strongly reminded of a Temmie. Or perhaps the dogs from Snowdin. It's almost tempting to pet her... ah, well, at least it brings the shadow of a smile to his face.]

SO YOU ARE ACCUSTOMED TO EXTRADIMENSIONAL SPACE AS WELL. I SEE.

MORESO THAN HUMANS, THIS ROOM IS NOT WELL EQUIPPED TO HANDLE IT. I BELIEVE IT IS ATTEMPTING TO GENERATE OBJECTS BASED ON MY MEMORY AND PERCEPTION, BUT I'M FINDING IT DIFFICULT TO READJUST TO THIS SINGULAR PERSPECTIVE.