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.
better2do: (just forget me)

[personal profile] better2do 2015-11-13 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Asriel had gone still again. He couldn't make it far enough to hide before his Dad appeared, and...he can't meet his eyes. He's too...

Too...

Something. Something he can't name, because it's a mix of so many things that he has a hard time parsing them. Being without a soul for so long makes emotions so confusing.

Still, Asriel finds himself nodding to answer his father's question.]


It's...um...[Oh gosh his voice, so scratchy, so strained. He's so scared.] It's even...lovelier outside...Dad.
didntgetdadslooks: (all-purpose shot)

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[personal profile] didntgetdadslooks 2015-11-13 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Meanwhile, another new arrival walks up to her because UH. Look she's been staring at her hole and crying out of happiness for like ten minutes a familiar face is just icing on the dang cake.

She approaches... hesitantly. This could be Gaige from before... y'know. Everything. And clears her throat, smirking a little. There's a procedure for this.]


Vault hunter.
Edited 2015-11-13 17:27 (UTC)
throatofeternity: (May angels lead you in)

Lil | Lux-Pain | Pink Diamond

[personal profile] throatofeternity 2015-11-13 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
A

[She had been alone. Alone and hungry and cold, though none of those things really mattered. Then a hole had opened, and she had made her way through, and... she stood in the middle of easily the most beautiful place she had ever seen. Everything glimmered and shone, and she just. Stood in the middle of it all for a little while, not even really noticing the brilliant pink gem in her throat.

So there's a twelve-year-old girl who is very pink in a... kind of dirty dress standing around in the Temple. You might want to guide her to the Heart or something? Or address the fact that she looks like she hasn't eaten in days. She is really thin.]


B

[Or you might run into her at the beach. Lil loves beaches - how could she not? They were just so beautiful! Proof that the outside world was worth exploring, worth seeing, worth living in.

And so, here at least, she approaches you! Her feet are wet and caked in sand from running in the waves, and the bottom six inches or so of her dress are wet too.]


Isn't this wonderful?

(ooc: NOTES FOR MIND READERS/EMPATHS/WHATEVER. Lil has absolutely no straight-up anger or sadness in her. Pretty much at all. She... also has another entity living inside her that she represses hardcore and is literally made of negative emotions. If your character can read close enough, it's called a SILENT. It seems potentially very dangerous.

Also if your character has that sort of training/kowledge she is really obviously suffering from a very long period of neglect. She's malnourished, frail, and looks like her skin has not seen the sun in years. Not a healthy 12-year-old, Lil.)
Edited 2015-11-13 20:02 (UTC)
2hellwiththe1stlaw: (action pose)

[personal profile] 2hellwiththe1stlaw 2015-11-13 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Earth? Nope sorry, wrong planet. I went to school on Eden-5. But that was just High School, I learned so much more living out on Pandora! SO MUCH more you wouldn't even know!

Anyway if this planet is like High School you're in worse trouble then you thought.
2hellwiththe1stlaw: (eep)

[personal profile] 2hellwiththe1stlaw 2015-11-13 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[That voice...a chill runs up her spine and the Crystal Heart can wait! She's not seeing anything in her HUD so...wait did that come from behind her!? She whirls about and comes face to face with a dead woman.]

A-ANGEL!? You...but...how?

[Gaige.exe has crashed. rebooting....]
stopdestroyingmythings: (Thinking)

[personal profile] stopdestroyingmythings 2015-11-13 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wrong... planet...? Eden-5? Hmm... Wait, hold on. Peridot will get out a tape recorder and turn it on.]

Log date: 7118. I've just made a discovery. Humans aren't just on earth, but other planets as well. Given what Amethyst said about the cluster, this might not even be earth. Or humans are moronically dull enough to have multiple earths. I do know of Eden-5 and Pandora, but how many more planets have humans infected? This requires further study. Facet 5. Peridot. End log.

[She turns off the tape recorder. Yay for nerd notes!]
didntgetdadslooks: (the drop rate is HOW low?)

[personal profile] didntgetdadslooks 2015-11-13 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[A slight smile. Ah, vault hunters. Her favorite people. And that reaction tells her Jack wasn't able to save her, which is good.]

I... don't know. But I'm here! I'm here and... and... I can walk! And do this!

[Angel does an actual Disney Princess Twirl. IT HAS BEEN SO LONG OKAY SHE IS VERY EXCITED.]

Guess the universe knew you'd need a guardian angel on your side... wherever we are.
2hellwiththe1stlaw: (Echocast)

[personal profile] 2hellwiththe1stlaw 2015-11-13 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh yeah? Well two can play at this game! Gaige produces her Echo recorder]

Hello listeners~ I don't know what my subscriber numbers are at right now as I'm STILL stranded in this alternate universe. It's not all bad though. There's a junkyard with enough scrap I think I can get to work on Deathtrap 2.0, and this weird looking green dork who thinks she's better then me. HA! I wish you guys could see she just...drops everything to make notes on her tape recorder. Like mid conversation. Who does that?

[And she ends the recording, pot calling the kettle black much?]
stopdestroyingmythings: (Frustrated)

[personal profile] stopdestroyingmythings 2015-11-13 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[You know what? No.]

Give me that, you clod!

[She's going to try and take the tape recorder away from the human because that's her thing HOW DARE YOU.]
2hellwiththe1stlaw: (<3)

[personal profile] 2hellwiththe1stlaw 2015-11-13 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Welp, that's it. She shrieks with glee and jumps at Angel for a hug!]

OMG OMG OMG! THIS IS AMAZING! I...you have no idea! I mean...maybe you do...do you? No you said you don't...but...YES! You're here and he's not! And I am! And I don't know where here is but you're here!!!

[OK Gaige prioritize, what does she need to know?]

He's dead. We did it! I mean Lilith technically did...it but I did most of it...it was this whole thing...do the twirl again? that was so damn cute!
2hellwiththe1stlaw: (action pose)

[personal profile] 2hellwiththe1stlaw 2015-11-13 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
What? No way back off!

[Planting her human hand firmly on Peridot's face while she holds the Echo recorder out of reach]

This is mine! I brought it from home!
stopdestroyingmythings: (Yelling)

[personal profile] stopdestroyingmythings 2015-11-13 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Peridot stars flailing her hands in an attempt to get the tape recorder.]

You humans aren't allowed! I'm a Peridot, you're not even a real gem!
2hellwiththe1stlaw: (In the mouff)

[personal profile] 2hellwiththe1stlaw 2015-11-13 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
You're not the boss of me!

[She'll hook it back onto her belt and jump out of the way letting go of Peridot hoping that physics does her dirty work for her]

stopdestroyingmythings: (Angry)

[personal profile] stopdestroyingmythings 2015-11-13 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[THUMP. Looks like it did. Peridot growls and gets up.]

Yes I am. I'm a real gam and you're just a hybrid. You're below even pearls! You shouldn't even have all this junk to build your robot!
2hellwiththe1stlaw: (middle digit)

[personal profile] 2hellwiththe1stlaw 2015-11-13 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
That doesn't even make any sense. What kind of a screwed up sort of logic is that?

[Holding up her arm with the gem]

This doesn't have anything to do with what kind of a person I am you noob!

And if you think you're better then me? Bring it on!

[In one smooth motion she draws her shiny gold revolver pointing it at Peridot]

I've killed things WAY bigger then you.
stopdestroyingmythings: (Wince)

[personal profile] stopdestroyingmythings 2015-11-13 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Woah, okay, vaguely threatening-looking thing being pointed at her. Peridot steps away a little and eases up.]

...Robot building competition?
2hellwiththe1stlaw: (wanted for for excessive adorability)

[personal profile] 2hellwiththe1stlaw 2015-11-13 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[Actually that sounds like a lot more fun. She lowers the gun]

Who's gonna judge it? Last time I was in a competition with someone over science she bribed her way into winning and my robot exploded her.
stopdestroyingmythings: (Grin)

[personal profile] stopdestroyingmythings 2015-11-13 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
...I know this Amethyst. She can be sure to judge fairly.

[And by that Peridot means judge Peridot to be the winner. But she's not going to say that.]
2hellwiththe1stlaw: (already thinking of how to kill you)

[personal profile] 2hellwiththe1stlaw 2015-11-13 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah? Does she know anything about robots? I don't want just some common nobody to be in charge of this!

[Pistol goes back into it's holster for now, she's already considering how possible it might be to have Deathtrap 2.0 be ready for this or if she should go with something less ambitious...NO! her pride is on the line damnit!
didntgetdadslooks: (... me.)

[personal profile] didntgetdadslooks 2015-11-13 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's not an incredible amount of Angel to hug, what with the long-unused muscles and such, but she hugs back as tight as she can. Which is not extraordinarily tight, probably, given Pandora toughens a body up something fierce when you're not locked in a bunker. Actual physical contact. It's wonderful.]

I... I'm so glad. Good.

[And she will totally oblige Gaige with another twirl. And a giggle.]

It's really nice to see you without the whole murder thing going on.
2hellwiththe1stlaw: (eep)

[personal profile] 2hellwiththe1stlaw 2015-11-13 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Right!? Oh migosh seeing all of you here and not in there and not being so pumped full of gunk...

[She freezes in place a look of worry flashing across her features]

Wait...you don't still Eridium do you? I mean I have some bricks I could give you but I dunno how long they'll hold you over...

[In a panic to keep Angel alive she's already unpacking her backpack and producing purple glowing rocks.]
didntgetdadslooks: (the drop rate is HOW low?)

[personal profile] didntgetdadslooks 2015-11-13 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Angel bends down and gently sets a hand on one of Gaige's. Shh, friend. Also: more physical contact heck yeah.]

It's okay. If I'm walking around now and I'm still alive, I'll be fine without it. Not that I know why, but. [A sort of half-shrug to communicate the phrase "oh well"] Thanks anyway. For... a lot of things.
2hellwiththe1stlaw: (whats going on down there?)

[personal profile] 2hellwiththe1stlaw 2015-11-13 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gaige actually blushes and smiles sheepishly tucking the purple rocks back in her bag...actually that sparks a thought in her head and she looks back over her shoulder at the Crystal Heart and then to the rock in her wrist.]

Maybe it's got something to do with these things...Did you get one too?
didntgetdadslooks: (all-purpose shot)

[personal profile] didntgetdadslooks 2015-11-13 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I think so. It's... on my back, though, so I'd have to take all my clothes off and find a mirror or two to look at it, and uh. Don't... exactly have time for that right now.

[Though that said if anyone thinks Angel isn't going to go get her own real person clothes to wear instead of this nasty suit her dad gave her as soon as possible they are WRONG.]
2hellwiththe1stlaw: (meh)

[personal profile] 2hellwiththe1stlaw 2015-11-13 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah...yeah that's probably not a good idea. We might need to fight our way out of here.

[Because everything back on pandora involved fighting on some level]

And I can't get Deathtrap to come online so...that blows.

[Pouting SO hard without her floating bodyguard. She considers for a moment and then takes Angel's hand because she doesn't intend on letting anyone teleport in and steal her away or shoot her or some other terrible plot twist]