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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.
o7 will do
Davesprite? What about actual Dave, is he here?
[He's gotta ask about his bestie.]
And what about bubbling? Is that what those are?
[He points a finger up at the ones hovering overhead.]
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[She hopes that's the case, anyways. She hates to think he's just gone forever.]
And yes, that's what those are! This is where the monsters end up when they're defeated. Though some of those gems have just been here from the start, too.
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[He rubs his hand over his face. He hopes, hopes that she's right, too. He doesn't know what he was doing earlier when he saw him fly past with Jack and the other dog person.]
[Other worries threaten to crowd in, but with Jade still explaining, he's able to shove them back down. They can chill for now
and surely explode later.]So is everything gems here? Us, the heart thing, the monsters--what happens to the rest of them, anyway?
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Um... and when people get hurt really badly they... poof?
[She makes a small motion with her hands, like a very tiny explosion.]
So everything but the gem vanishes. I guess it's like... they retreat into their gem so that they can get better? And then their body reforms around the gem. So that is what happens to the monsters. They are just hiding in there, but they can't get out unless the bubble is popped.
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Come on, let's move out of here. I don't want to be around those things when I don't even know what my supposed mystery power is.
[He'll go so far as to tug her sleeve, if he can.]
But are you saying that would happen to us? My life's dependent on some rock in my chest now?
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[Still, she lets him tug her away, then begins leading him towards the rooms. Maybe having his own place to hide away in will help to calm him down?]
And I don't think that it's dependent on the rock! It's more like... it serves as a backup? So long as your gem doesn't get damaged, you'll always be okay. It's kind of like god tier, only without the weird uncertainty of what's just or heroic or not.
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I'd say it's easier than dying for it, but that threshold has since been stumbled over ass backwards into the pit of lava beneath.
[He prods at the gem again. It doesn't really feel like anything, just a rock under his hand, but it's weird as hell just the same.]
So what's the damage threshold for it? It's not one little scratch and you're dead forever, is it?
i realized i'm not sure how the door to the rooms work take this with a grain of salt
[Dave, specifically, but Jade figures it isn't her place to spread gossip about somebody who isn't even here anymore. She stops when they're in front of a door, then turns to look back at him.]
Anyways, your gem also opens the door to your room! The temple gives you your own room that you can shape with your imagination. It's very handy!
no problem o7
[Easier if he doesn't know it's Dave, really. The prospect is bad enough on its own.]
Are the rooms at least private? I've had it up to my horns with all the locks and passwords I had to set up just to try to keep people from wandering through memories into my hive in the dream bubbles.
[He's not stepping through the door just yet, though. He's not exactly sure how the gem thing works.]
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[Okay, she's a little jealous about that. She can count the number of times she encountered the dream bubbles on the ship on one hand.]
Well, anyways, only you can open the door to your room! If you leave it open then other people can get inside, but so long as the door is closed, you are the only one who can get in. So yes, they are very private!
To open your door you just need to try and focus the thought of wanting to go to your room through your gem. That's how I do it, anyways.
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[But okay, the door. He faces it properly now, gives it a determined sort of look, and closes his eyes to focus. His room--no, his block. Jade said it was shaped by imagination, right? He remembers his old respiteblock in his hive, the walls, the furniture, the general layout. The door opens and he steps through as the room resolves itself into something familiar.]
[Inside it's distinctly trollish. The walls, desk, and and a chest of drawers are all dark greys, while other furniture stands out in squashy purple: a chair in front of the desk, the large, rounded shape of his recuperacoon. The walls have posters of troll movie stars, but as he goes to look them over--]
Oh come on! Just because I can't remember the full titles doesn't mean they have to descend into literal keysmash gibberish.
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The fact that the stars on his movie posters all have grey skin and horns is a pretty good indication that whoever lives here is inhuman, too.]
Is this what your room looked like back on your home planet? It's very... interesting! And very dark.
[Then again, most things would be compared to her old room, with its pristine white walls and colorful posters. Even on the ship, everything had been yellow and gold. Thus, Karkat's place is unbearably dreary to her, but she will do her best to be culturally understanding.]
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[
Or vinegar. It's vinegar he has for them.]--Yeah, this is more or less like it was in my hive. And it's not dark. You humans are the ones who go making everything bright all the time, you diurnal weirdos.
[He goes up to a wall, hmming to himself.]
Do you know if this can mimic windows? I am positive I can't recreate the whole of Alternia, but if I could at least get the memory of the view projected...
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[She takes another look around the room, mulling something over.]
But for the record, you should not try to imagine an actual area much bigger than a room. I've heard it can be very dangerous!
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Dangerous how?
[But then he's looking at the wall. If he can just project the way it looked... He thinks remembering it, the colors of the clouds, the shapes they made. The deep purple of the night. It was dark season when he was last on planet, and--what phases had the moons been? Their color is easy, green and pink as bright as neon, as the unreal hues of lime and bubblegum candy, and decides crescents. The twelve-pane window is easy, standard, natural. There was the look of hives in the distance, blocky and uneven, pops of color set against the grey in doors and awnings and the outward tinge of their windows. He remembers the particular green of the night-shaded grass. The constellations that dot behind the red cloudy wisps aren't exact, but the feel is right.]
[It shapes together under direction of his thought, and at the end, he sweeps a curling come-here gesture at Jade.]
Here, look.
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I don't think the rooms can handle that much information, so they will start to glitch if you try to push them too far. I don't know exactly what happens, but it is probably pretty bad!
[That said, she peers out the window, ears perked up. Alternia looks different - distinctly alien. She remembers seeing it briefly in a dreambubble somewhere down the line, but that was a long time ago, and dreambubble memories are always a little hazy. But now she can focus on all the strange little details, like the colors of the night sky, or the strange architecture of the houses. The moons are what stand out to her the most, though, strange and otherworldly as they are.]
Is this Alternia? It's so... dark! The moons are nice, though. I especially like the green one.
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[He scans over the view he's created again, across the buildings and up to the sky.]
If I have to live on an Earth I'm not going to squander the opportunity to make my own living space look more like something I know.
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...Okay, she's still glad he's here.]
I didn't forget, it is just weird to see! And it's not just the night anyways; your buildings are all weird and dark too. I was just pointing out an interesting detail. There is no reason to be such an asshole about it!
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I did not forget; I guess I just hoped that you might have learned to be a little nicer after three years!
But that is not important right now. Do you have any other questions, or should I just leave you to play with your room?
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[His frown grows.]
But no, nothing else right now. If you want to leave me to my asshole dome then go ahead.
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[Troll is in air quotes. Jade doesn't think that anything she says can convince Karkat to be less abrasive, but she can try, okay? That said, she begins walking out of his room.]
Have fun in your asshole dome, Karkat! I will see you around.