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.
forthelifeofme: (Lunar eclipse)

[personal profile] forthelifeofme 2015-11-07 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
A gem?

[She raised her hands to move her hair from her face and noticed her fingers. No sign of gemstones were there, which was a bit of a relief.]

Um... what would it look like... I'm not sure...

[Her hands move from the palms to her arms to her...]

[Well.. that gem in her chest seems new...]
coneyislandcrazy: (cute behind bars)

[personal profile] coneyislandcrazy 2015-11-07 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
The Doctor? Oh we had him too! But he left...or was thrown out...i'm a little vague on how it actually works.

[ She lights up again]

The statue of liberty!? How big WAS this guy?
nananananana_batman: (pic#9710050)

[personal profile] nananananana_batman 2015-11-07 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
[He noticed her confusion and nodded. His own was covered in layers of protective armor, and yet he still felt worried since it was in the forehead, right in the middle of it.]

You should familiarize yourself with whatever gem power you have. Trial and error will figure it out, before it goes haywire.
nananananana_batman: (pic#9710054)

[personal profile] nananananana_batman 2015-11-07 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
He was actually pretty tiny for a world destroying maniac, but chances are he was also a shapeshifter considering how many bricks he could transform into.

We had to exploit the Keystones in order to beat him.
forthelifeofme: (Clouds and thunder)

[personal profile] forthelifeofme 2015-11-07 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[She hastily hides the gem underneath her garb.]

Gem power?
coneyislandcrazy: (LOL)

[personal profile] coneyislandcrazy 2015-11-07 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Bricks, stones. I'm noticing a theme here.

Well our situation is a little different.

[She gestures to the heart gem]

That thing has summoned us all here. We don't really know why or how. Magic I guess. There are a bunch of monsters just outside of town that are constantly trying to get in town and probably trying to get to this place. So we go out there and beat em up. Then once you defeat them they poof into gems and we stash them here.

[She gestures to the bubbles of floating gems]

See, they used to be people like us. But their gems got corrupted somehow and they turn into mindless monsters. So we keep em here and hopefully we can save em eventually....or someday all those bubbles will pop and we'll have a flood of monsters right in the heart of our base.
nananananana_batman: (pic#9710046)

[personal profile] nananananana_batman 2015-11-07 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Each gem is endowed with a gem power. Whatever it is, they don't tell you until you figure it out on your own.
nananananana_batman: (pic#9710043)

[personal profile] nananananana_batman 2015-11-07 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
So it can override portal devices then. Good to know. That means there's a chance that my friends can get here if there's a Foundation Element here.

[At the mention of the gems, he scowled.] And no one decided to lock them up for good reason? They just LEAVE them there?

And people wonder why I have Kryptonite in the Batcave.
coneyislandcrazy: (Blahblahblah)

[personal profile] coneyislandcrazy 2015-11-07 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Hey don't look at me B-man. I had a long argument with Robin about what we should do with the stupid things. But we're not in charge here.

...actually now that I think about it no one is really "In charge" we all just kinda do our own thing. Mob rules yo.
nananananana_batman: (pic#9710049)

[personal profile] nananananana_batman 2015-11-07 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Mob rules, great.

That being said, it said something about rooms, right?
youllpayforyourinsolence: (listen)

[personal profile] youllpayforyourinsolence 2015-11-07 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
Ether is the building block of life on Bionis. All life requires ether. It is energy that can be harnessed by individuals... so a mix, perhaps... but more like magic.
stopdestroyingmythings: (Default)

[personal profile] stopdestroyingmythings 2015-11-07 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
[But... but... she can't... She doesn't have her limbs. As soon as she lands, she looks over to Amethyst being dizzy. Amehtyst really believes in Peridot... But...

...

Peridot doesn't. She can't do her finger helicopter, she can't make her screens, she can't generate electricity, she can't fire plasma balls... She can't do anything.

She just sits on the ground and sorta kinda curls up into a ball.]

...I'm sorry I let you down. I'm such a failure.
coneyislandcrazy: (Issue one smirk)

[personal profile] coneyislandcrazy 2015-11-07 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Oh sure, that's the best part. Check this out.

[Leading him over to one of the many doors in the area]

OK so our gems give us powers right? Like my gem...

[She twists around showing him the diamond shaped red and black stone in the small of her back]

Let's me do stuff like that shapeshifting trick! I dunno what yours does yet you gotta figure it out. BUT! They also let us access our own personal rooms. And inside these rooms you can create whatever you want...more or less. If it gets too complicated and chaotic the room breaks. That's a mess. But give it a shot! Just...try to open the door.
lumpyspacegem: (sitting up concerned)

[personal profile] lumpyspacegem 2015-11-07 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ What is this strange feeling of guilt she has suddenly? She shakes some crud out of her hair and rubs her arm awkwardly before coming to sit down next to Peridot]

Nah you didn't let me down. You're just...new to this stuff.

[OK, this feels really uncomfortable but she's going to be honest with Peridot]

When I got here I felt like you do right now. The Heart Gem thing took away all my powers except for my whip. So that even Steven's nerdy friend was like...way stronger then me. She had like four different powers and I only had my whip.

I felt...really helpless.
nananananana_batman: (pic#9710050)

[personal profile] nananananana_batman 2015-11-07 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Interesting. And you said a room, right?

[Looking over to the wall, he reached out as a door with a bat appeared on it. Hesitantly, he opened the door to reveal... a room in a mansion somewhere and a elderly man looking up at him.]

Ah master.. [Batman slammed the door shut. NOPE NOPE NOPE BRICK IT.]

I'll look at it later.
stopdestroyingmythings: (Angry)

[personal profile] stopdestroyingmythings 2015-11-07 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Seems like every day of my life.

[She says that somewhat bitterly.]

I even had my robot beat Pearl's and I still got no praise. When am I ever going to be able to feel big? And now that I'm here, and... and there's probably no cluster... I'm useless.
lumpyspacegem: (Should we mash it up?)

[personal profile] lumpyspacegem 2015-11-07 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ Putting an arm around her shoulders gently]

You're not useless. You just having found your use yet.

[Then a slight grin]

But I guess if you want to feel big...I can do you a favor.

[Amethyst glows purple and begins to shrink down till she's the size of a doll. She could easily be crushed by Peridot at this size.]

There you go! Now you're huge.
coneyislandcrazy: (What's going on in this thread?)

[personal profile] coneyislandcrazy 2015-11-07 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Snort and giggle]

Who was that? Your Dad? No wait he said Master...
stopdestroyingmythings: (Yelling)

[personal profile] stopdestroyingmythings 2015-11-07 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Wait, what? What just happened...? Why did... the Amethyst make herself even SMALLER?]

...But you're supposed to be big! Why are you... Why did you...

[Peridot is incredibly flustered.]
nananananana_batman: (pic#9710046)

[personal profile] nananananana_batman 2015-11-07 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
It was no one, ignore that. [Damnit, he did not want this to happen. Not today. Harley was a bright woman, she would figure it out.

Then again, Lex and Joker didn't when they torched his cave.]
lumpyspacegem: (You're kidding right?)

[personal profile] lumpyspacegem 2015-11-07 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Well now you're the big one!

[grabbing fistfuls of fabric to climb up her side, the room starts to shift and change to Amethysts will till it is a replica of Beach City...except much smaller. Peridot is now the size of the statue outside the temple.]

There you go! You're the biggest one here!
coneyislandcrazy: (Sailor moon sayz)

[personal profile] coneyislandcrazy 2015-11-07 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[She squints at him and strokes her chin]

...eh...well what business is it of mine. We already knew you had to be pretty kinky the way you dress.

Anyway the room is a nice benefit. But remember nothing you make in the room can leave the room. And like...food you make in there doesn't work either. You gotta get a job and buy things.

stopdestroyingmythings: (Wince)

[personal profile] stopdestroyingmythings 2015-11-07 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
[What is happening WHAT IS HAPPENING. Peridot looks around somewhat uneasily. She... definitely looks HUGE. Even... Even larger than a three-gem fusion. Maybe even a four-gem fusion. But still, WHY IS AMETHYST DOING THIS FOR HER.

Peridot sort of blushes and gives a little bit of an awkward smile and laugh, though it's obvious she's still flustered.

But deep down... Even though she's the same size, all this illusion makes her feel... good. Big. The smile becomes less unsure.]
nananananana_batman: (pic#9710054)

[personal profile] nananananana_batman 2015-11-07 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, seems like smashing random things for studs wouldn't work this time around.] Got it. I keep some American in my belt, but I don't know if that's the currency here. Got some yen, won, euros, pounds... bus tokens...

[He chose to outright ignore the kinky part of her statement.]
ofwindandarrows: (30)

[personal profile] ofwindandarrows 2015-11-07 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
[She has room to grow into them? That's what you have to do with kids' clothes, after all...

And her hand is free! It's free! It's... that was still kind of weird, but she's just not. Going to mention anything about it. >You must be Social Link Level 3 for Yukari to stop being quite so weird about this...
]

Oh, I just started working here like... a month ago. But I do pick out some of the cuter stuff as it comes through. Like that clearance stuff...

[And yeah, she wouldn't work at a place she didn't like, really. I mean. It's Yukari.]