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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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[ The way she says years makes it sound like the word is still very unfamiliar to her, and she doesn't really know what it means, just that it's a significant measure of Earth time. It must mean something to him. She thinks about prodding him on what he really means by that useless comment though; something pings her that he's not really trying to tell her that she's useless.
But she decides against it, because she'd rather hassle him about things that are actually funny. ]
You could always put a rock pile in your room, if that's what you're into. Maybe... a mirror? Then you don't have to worry about anyone walking in on you!
[ Even by human standards, this is sounding weird to her. ]
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Maybe they take requests.]
I could. [He says thoughtfully, with a stroke of his chin.] But it's these rocks in particular that I'm after. [He rubs a hand on the wall behind him before he moves to stand up.] That's definitely the only reason anyone would have for wandering around here anyway, right? So why are you here? You here to mooch my turf? I think you're here to mooch my turf.
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[ Despite her sarcasm, she still helps herself to a seat next to him, pulling her knees up and hugging them. She peers up at some of the bubbles floating around in the room. ]
I guess I just came here to think. There's a lot of that to do, when you're done being dead, you know? Or, maybe you don't know but there is! Suddenly you are alive again and you can actually do something meaningful. I want to do that! I just don't know how yet, and maybe I hoped there would be an answer in here.
[ She looks back down at him, still wearing a big smile, perking her fins up curiously. ]
What about you, why are you reely here? And don't play koi with me, I know you are not here just to take a nap! I was not hatched yesterday, you know.
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He can't help but feel himself clam up a little when she's so candid with him, but he can't really deny the fact that she's hitting notes that resonate with him. Part of it is sympathy and part of it is relief that he's not the only one feeling lost. He can't help but latch onto that a little.]
Sort of the same reason, I guess. [He admits, talking slower as if he's being a little more careful about what he spills before the floodgates open.] I was having a gander around where I came in. I was just wondering what the criteria for bringing us in really is, also wondering how it even works. Are we, like, magnetized for destiny? And these guys are the kid with the box full of screws, plucking us up out of nowhere? I dunno if I like knowing there's something out there that just picks us out like that. There's other people back home, I had some suspicions about whether their raffle numbers would be called.
[He pauses the ramble, reeling himself in a little.] So. Y'know. Stuff.
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I think if it was totally random, then there would be trolls I don't know here. Even some of the humans I know are here! If they were just grabbing trolls and humans from whenever and wherever, what are the odds that my friends would be here? Really really small! There's probably a reason, and we are probably meant to be here! I wouldn't worry about it too much though. We're here and there's nothing we can do about it.
[ Because that's helpful. ]
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Not that she seems to care, which is comforting. It's been a while since he talked in any sort of depth with anyone but Karkat, but now is as good a time as any.]
Huh. [It's a sound of consideration, because what she's saying makes sense.] Touche. I guess I haven't seen any regular old humans, either. Not even celebrities. I don't know if it's possible to have the best and brightest without Beyoncé among us. [Like she knows who that is.]
Being here doesn't worry me. Whatever I was doing back home is done. I think I have an amplified feeling like I left the iron on. Only my house and all the people in it are in another universe. For all we know, everything could be on fire back there and we just have to forget about it.
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Even if it's on fire, and there was something you could do about it, you would still need to go forward here, so that you could get back there. You can sit here and worry about what might be happening while you're not around, but it won't do anything but make you more upset!
Besides, I'm sure whatever's meant to be happening is probably happening at this very moment, so there's probably not a lot you can do if it's meant to be on fire.