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cosmoooc2015-09-28 11:25 pm
stigematize) wrote in 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 forcosmographia, 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.
Clearly, you’ll just have to make the best of it.
How this works:
☆ This is a test drive for
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.
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Now that's a tough one, they're all so very mundane! But I guess not everyone is super interesting right off the bat.
Given your pretty hair though I'm gonna guess you're actually NOT a summer child. I'd predict maybe a springtime birth actually so I say July is a lie!
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[She runs a hand through her hair, smiling again.]
I do try to keep it nice. You're only half right, though. You picked the lie out, but I wasn't born in spring, either. I wanted to save this bit for another guessing round, but... My world doesn't change seasons anymore. We've only had summer for almost fifteen years now. I was born after the climate changed, so no matter what month, I'm still a summer child.
So, what about you? It's your turn.
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[She claps and smiles extra bright.]
Alright my turn, not to show you up but my life is...a bit abnormal so finding something mundane is harder then finding the weird.
[Did her glasses actually gleam just then?]
1. One time while sleep walking I put a massive bounty on my own head and didn't find out about it for months. I just kept getting attacked by assassins and having to kill em until my best pal figured out what i'd done.
2. Another time I was stranded on a tropical island with my Ex-boyfriend. The local tribe worshipped us as gods until they tried to toss us in a volcano. I had to get a ride off that cursed lump of land from the king of Atlantis.
3. Finally! I became the biggest hero in my city when I fought a super powered bunny rabbit in an amusement park. I kept him on his toes for a solid fifteen minutes before he accidentally ate a poisoned carrot!
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[No, seriously, what? Asuka stares at her as if she's grown a second head.]
No way. You're making that all up, aren't you? There's not one chance I'd believe any of that, let alone two out of three!
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Sorry~ That ain't the rules. Only one of those three is the fib! You're gonna have to figure out which two sound more believable. I assure you I got the scars to prove em.
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You think I'm an idiot, don't you? I'll buy this gem stuff because I've seen it with my own eyes, but what you're talking about is completely insane! You're probably just trying to worm out of playing your side of the game right and didn't want to admit up front that you didn't want to play it.
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Gosh you ARE a skeptical one aren't ya? Your world must be the most boring place ever if you can't imagine someone living a life of fantastical adventures and comic mishaps! I mean sure a never changing weather pattern sounds interesting at first but maybe it just makes things even more dull.
But rules are rules. You pick the right one I'm bound ta be honest. Are any of those any weirder then this?
[In a flash of red light from behind her, the woman begins to change. Her hair bun unties itself and reties into pony tails, the blond melting into half black and half red. Her skin goes pale as snow and the clothes under her doctors coat change into a corset and skirt also in red and black. Finally her sensible shoes become knee high boots.]
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[Wait, what? Asuka's glare turns to another wide-eyed look, followed quickly by her backing up to what feels like a safer distance. She jams a shaking finger out to point at her.]
J-just what the hell is that?! What did you do? What are you? Get away from me!
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Oh gosh you a riot! This is what I normally look like! But I clean up pretty good don't I?
[Tossing back one of her pony tails in a model style hair flip.]
Does this make me look more like a person who had adventures like that?
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[If transforming like that is a gem thing, it's not something she knows about yet.]
Besides, I don't want to believe any of what you said. Atlantis? A superpowered rabbit...? And the other one said you killed people! Why hasn't anyone arrested you yet, you psycho?
[Juuust gonna back up more on that note. Whatever her deal, it's clear to Asuka that she can't trust her.]
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Freak huh? Yeah I've been called worse. And crazy? Well that's just a fact.
[She twirls the hammer and slams it into the ground putting a surprisingly deep dent in the stone and a crack that races towards Asuka and stops a few feet away. Just a hairline fracture really. Seems like there are plenty of those around here.]
But this ain't makeup, and my hair looks great! Some have known to call it whimsical! But you're being just plain rude all because I don't look like you!
Now...are you gonna pick a lie out of my truths? Or are you gonna keep having a tantrum?
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Forget the stupid game!
[Everything was so much easier when the threats were hundreds of feet tall. At least then she had her Eva to protect her. Here, there is a person, and Asuka barely knows how to operate her gem yet, let alone how it would help now.]
I don't care which one's the lie anymore, just leave me alone!
[And though it's the opposite of cool, dignified, or honorable in any sense, Asuka turns to run. She can find someone else for this. Someone safe. Someone sane.]
[Dear god, let the other people be sane.]
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[Harley's not inclined to let her get away that easily. She jumps on the hammer of her mallet which bends and then launches her soaring through the air. In the air she transforms and flips landing in front of poor Asuka...looking like a perfect copy of Asuka except with paler skin and red and black hair.]
If you're gonna start screaming every time you meet someone you don't understand, this place is gonna be a lot scarier. You might even hurt someone! Or yourself!
this sure went well
[So Asuka screams. Loud, shrill, high-pitched, the kind designed to draw attention and drill through the ear drums. Of course, it's just a normal scream.]
[Then, because it's been such a huge help already, more yelling.]
Get away from me! Someone, anyone, there's a crazy, murderous psychopath after me! Someone arrest her! Lock her up! Get her away!
This has got to be the greatest failed game yet.
[The screaming is so loud it hurts her ears so she covers them for a moment and pouts, which is still using Asuka's face so that makes it even more surreal. Some other gems are probably looking out of their rooms at the noise but when they see it's Harley they either go back to what they were doing, or stick around to watch the fireworks.
Finally when she can handle no more of it she reaches behind herself once more and in a flash of light produces a cupcake aiming it for Asuka's mouth before she throws.]
Oh cram some frosting in it will ya! I'm reformed ya close minded baby!
CUPCAKE FIGHT
[Dead on. Her mouth's already open for shouting, so it catches easily against her teeth; she has to reach up to remove it. That's a...]
Hey, don't you throw things at me!
[She hawks it back, even as her free hand goes to wipe the mess of frosting from around her mouth.]
Why should I believe for even one second that a weirdo like you is reformed?!
Cosmos is a serious game for serious characters
Because you have NO proof to the contrary! Innocent until proven guilty ginger!
[She takes aim and pops the cap spraying purple soda her way]
You need to get a grape on yourself! Soda that is!
and Asuka is always well-mannered and polite
Uuugh! This isn't the time for stupid puns, you creep! Stop spraying me!
[In fact, Asuka tries to get in close now, hoping to get a grip on the bottle herself so she can turn it back on Harley.]
How about you get a taste of your own medicine?!
She's the hero this city deserves, but not the one it needs.
[The spray turns into Harley's face making her shift back into her original form, still pale and two toned but at least she doesn't look like you anymore]
It's so sticky sweet! The bubbles tickle my noooooose!
[Not the worst thing she's had sprayed on her at least.]
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Hah! Serves you right for trying to spray me with that stuff!
[As the spray dies down to more of a fizzy dribble, she shoves the bottle back at Harley.]
Taking my face, threatening me with a hammer, being so weird in the first place... You should be glad this is the worst I did.
[Who was screaming and ready to run for their life earlier? Not her, nope.]
You owe me an apology.
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Sure, I'll apologize for scaring you as soon as you apologize for calling me nasty names. That's no way to behave just because you can't believe that my life is amazing.
[She's also not sharing that towel with you until you apologize either so enjoy dripping dry.]