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Prismatic Mods ([personal profile] prismods) wrote in [community profile] prismaticrap2020-09-08 11:33 am
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▶ TDM .019


You awaken amidst the darkness with only a faint light to greet you. Your body is hemmed in by shards of crystals, gently sparkling and possibly pricking your skin. The surrounding landscape is dyed in the pinks and purples of the dusk filled with crystals protruding from the ground, some as large as a skyscraper. After an hour or two of wandering through the crystal wilderness, a group of people find you worse for wear. They are the gallant Moon Knights from the planet of Prismatica. Because of the strange phenomena during the past months when scientists observed the sudden appearance of rainbow crystals in the sky, the government has been feverishly combing through the moon for more Moonblessed to be rescued. You’ll eventually be brought into Iris’s moon government center.

You all may have your usual inquiries — Where are we? Who are you? What's going on? — and the Prismals are almost too eager to answer. They tell you about their world and about the first appearance of the Moonblessed as the medical staff give you an examination to make sure you’re not carrying any viruses or biological hazards. If you react violently, you may be restrained and nerfed with a specialized neurotransmitting gun that releases a numbing agent through the top of your spine. Once the examinations are over, you’re informed that you will be provided accommodations on their planet during your stay. You will then be escorted to the docks, and led onto a large transport vessel that makes frequent trips back and forth between the Iris moon and the planet. Faces onboard vary from both old and new Moonblessed as well as the local Prismals.

The next destination: Prismatica.


Welcome to the Jungle
Iris Moon, Government Center (Arrival) and Planet Prismatica, City of Lunatia | top

Welcome to Prismatica’s hub, Lunatia, the city of your dreams! A bustling metropolis lush with bright lights, vibrant colors, luxuriant plant life, and all the conveniences of technology absent from your own world… It seems like paradise to all the uninitiated. After a quick tour of the city, new arrivals can find themselves getting cozy in their new homes.

 A  Settle in your new home at Level 2 to find new roommates and say hello to your neighbors! City officials will give you directions to the designated districts across Level 2 and instruct you to pick out a unit. Each apartment complex has a different aesthetic, some may look cozy, some stylish, and some bizarre. The free accommodations have a basic living space that can only fit two or three people at most in one unit.

Starter Chromaspace furnishings are provided which can be controlled with the touch of a built-in panel. Examples are color-changing curtains, transforming sofa beds, cabinets turning into tables, etc. Customizing your apartment or moving out will have to wait until you earn more chroma. Until then, why don’t you check out your new neighborhood or explore the city levels? Maybe your new roommates or neighbors can give you a “hand” with allowance for dinner.





What’s Behind Door #1?
09/08 | Crystal Beach, Lunatia | Submitted by: [personal profile] machizumo | top

The recent torrential rains and showdown with the Viergian Queen Tempeste have shifted the sands of Crystal Beach and dredged up seaweed and flotsam from below. The slight mess coupled with the seasonal transition into fall makes for a quieter beach and a more open space, if you pick the right time of the day.

Kazuma Kuwabara ([personal profile] machizumo), one of Lunatia's Moonblessed, has done his best to pick the right moment. He's saved up his energy -his Chroma- as best as he’s been able to, and he's decided that he's going to give busting out of Prismatica a shot. He's not sure how good his odds are, but there are odds. While Kuwabara is only but a human fighter who won't really be able to stack up against the demons that he normally keeps in his company, he does have one thing that nobody else he's heard of has... the ability to slice through dimensions!

It's not easy to summon, but he manages it, reflecting on his home and how to best reach it, how to potentially help others reach theirs. It's just past dawn when a large, clean tear in reality rises up along the atmosphere just above the mostly deserted beach, as though the scenery were made of fabric being met with sharp scissors. Beyond the tear is a swirling vortex of color and more.

What more means, Kuwabara doesn't personally get to discover. His energy is expended almost instantaneously, and he grows solidly crystallized before he hits the ground. The rest of it... that's for Prismatica and the Moonblessed around to discover.

 B  The dimensional tear gives way to several more multicolored tears all across the planet. These strange rips have a strong gravitational pull that is near impossible to outrun. Find yourself close to one, and you may be pulled inside before you can even think to escape.

What’s on the other end? Inside, you find a scene of Prismatica ten years into the future, and the world is significantly more advanced. It is a time of great prosperity. The planet has been completely restored, flourishing with new life. Ten years' worth of memories flood your mind, and you have settled so deep into the culture and the world that you now think of yourself as a true-blue Prismatican. Maybe you have a good job. Maybe you have a spouse and three kids. Maybe you still think about home from time to time. Maybe you wouldn’t mind staying here with your loved ones. Hey, a lot can happen in ten years.





Fire and Brimstone
09/08 | Dimensional Tears | top

Not every dimensional tear leads to paradise. Some may pull you deep into the flames of a dying world, during the Calamity centuries ago. The first to greet you is King Majestas, his visage sitting on top of a throne built over a mound of crystallized bones. He fondly strokes his beautiful satyr lover, Lunae, as he encourages you to explore the vast wasteland. Attacking him is useless as he will disappear with Lunae after saying his piece.

 C  All Chroma has evaporated, and everything is covered in an endless diamond sheen. In the distance, you hear the screams of people dying and the constant sounds of crystals being ground up.

Eventually, shadows appear before your eyes. Possessing crystal horns and a crystal tail, these devil shadows are consumed by your worst sin and will not hesitate to hurt you and those around you. The slothful can put others to sleep and soon ravage them in their slumber, the lustful can awaken the darkest taboo desires in you, and so on. No matter what your worst sin is, the shadows will thoroughly enjoy committing vile acts until you submit yourself to them.





Closing the Gap
09/09 - 09/10 | top

A day or two after the dimensional tears start appearing, Lunar Scientia announces that they have finished analyzing the mysterious rifts and will proceed to seal them after rescuing the missing Moonblessed. They will be calling for the Moon Knights and any remaining Moonblessed volunteers to grab some dimension sealing equipment. Yes, you read that right. The tears will be sealed shut in nearly the same way one would vacuum seal food for extra freshness.

 D  These dimension sealers are not just any ordinary vacuums. They require an excessive amount of Chroma to power. Just hugging one person alone won’t cut it. Prolonged awkward and uncomfortable hugs with at least two or three different Moonblessed will do the trick.

The Lunar Scientia will suggest setting up camp with your chosen partners and dimension sealers near a dimensional tear. Spooning is naturally the most optimal of positions. The longer you moonlace and the more people you engage in contact with, the higher the effectiveness of the dimension sealers. A meter on the device will indicate when it’s ready to be activated, but beware of the sinful shadows from Prompt C trying to stop you from sealing the rifts.


Once the holes are sealed and everyone is rescued, the Lunatian government and mainstream media stations will start issuing friendly PSAs on all the public access networks about the dangers of cutting holes through the fabric of their universe.


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NOTICE: We had a typo error on the log! Lunae is meant to be a satyr, not centaur. All typos have been fixed.

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[personal profile] vetrarosa 2020-09-08 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ #1: he's a welcome sight for sore eyes, aerith's missed him and she's just about had enough of people she cares about leaving -- that's no bueno, people.

#2: he looks like he's going to give the poor vendor one heck of a knuckle sandwich, and aerith's rushing to interfere, deftly slipping between them. time to deal with #2 first. and so aerith, all 5'4 of her with a basket full of freshly picked flowers, smiles sweetly at samatoki.

you won't hit girls, right, mr hardcore? even if it looks like you're fresh off nicotine withdrawal? ]


It's okay, Samatoki. I'll get it -- I still owe you for the last time you helped me with my garden.
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Hello pretty flower girl~

[personal profile] boutdatlife 2020-09-10 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, she is definitely a sight prettier than anything he has set eyes on so far. Also, she is very right in that he does not hit women. So of course he is already drawing his hand back, glaring at the merchant as she slips her petite frame between him and his target.

He huffs out a breath at that sweet smile, really, don't do that kind of thing to him in public, what if he smiles or something in response.

Wait, she knows his name? Helped in her garden? Wait...

Excuse him while he just looks at you Aerith, because pretty lady say what now?]


I don't know what you're talking about. Tch...

[Looks off the side, hand coming up, fingers curl to swipe his thumb across his lip, he means if she's going to buy them he won't stop her, maybe she can tell him how the hell she knows his name and what the hell he was doing in a garden?!]
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well hello mr hardcore handsome!

[personal profile] vetrarosa 2020-09-11 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ ah --

aerith blinks, surprised; either samatoki doesn't want to admit that he's actually kind enough to help aerith lug heavy sacks around for her garden, or he really doesn't remember. she takes a moment, meeting those eyes curiously. does he remember her? he had been gone for a couple of months now, and she's come to miss his company, because who else (besides cloud) would be so grouchy and so secretly warm-hearted at the same time? but it seems like he doesn't, and it's okay, too. maybe. starting over isn't so bad, right?

still, she has cigarettes to buy and a yakuza's nicotine withdrawal to fix, so she purchases it for him cheerfully, handing it over to him. ]


You were here before, you know. I'm Aerith.
Edited 2020-09-11 04:25 (UTC)
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[personal profile] boutdatlife 2020-09-14 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Samatoki lets the transaction take place, glaring one last time at the merchant because well he can okay. It's annoying to be told he needs to go cuddle something less prickly than himself if he wants to smoke.

When he reaches out to take the cigarettes he knows she says she owes them to him but, to him she's a stranger, albeit a pretty one and a nice one but still.]

Thanks, I'll pay you back. Sa--[Right, she already knows his name, because he was here before. That is never going to get any less strange, but at least he is stepping out of line and letting business proceed as usual in the shop. Already getting ready to pull out a smoke from the pack, his brain needs the nicotine man, it's overloaded right now.]

You sure you're not confusing me with someone else?
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[personal profile] vetrarosa 2020-09-14 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
There's only one Samatoki, right?

[ aerith asks him playfully, green eyes bright with warm mischief. she's leading him safely away from the poor vendor, who seems to be sweating buckets from his interaction with him.

falling into step beside him, her expression softens, giving way to a flicker of -- something wistful. ]


You really don't remember me, huh?
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[personal profile] boutdatlife 2020-09-14 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Tch, no one can be me.

[So, that means he has to accept the reality? He is not sure he is ready for this but she's got a look about her that the yakuza has to admit, he likes it. Mischief, bright eyes, so he is following the young woman.

The vendor has been spared today, who knows about the next time Samatoki needs a pack of smokes. The wistfulness catches his attention, it's still surreal to realize that people know him but he can not recognize them, he remembers nothing about being here ever in his life.]


I don't remember any of this.

[This place, nothing feels familiar and that he is being recognized and if he is honest calmed so effectively gives away that she has to at least know him.

Hard as that is to accept. Because it means there is some chunk of his life that he has no memory of?

Samatoki is just going to light a smoke, take a drag and try to process whatever his life has become at this moment.]
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[personal profile] vetrarosa 2020-09-15 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
This place tends to do that. Sometimes when people leave and come back, they don't remember a thing, either.

[ she remembers when tifa had told her that she had been here, too -- the bittersweet frustration of not knowing, and she can read it on his handsome features. and it's okay, samatoki! maybe it'll come back, maybe he'll just have to live with it because that's how it is.

as it is, he's taking things swimmingly well, and she nudges him with a soft smile, feeling a faint, warm tingle of chroma at the contact. there, just some to get him through for the little things. ]


Don't worry, you didn't do anything really bad while you were here. I think.
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[personal profile] boutdatlife 2020-09-20 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
That's fucking stupid.

[Not that he means to be crude but seriously, why snatch someone, send them back, snatch them again but not let them remember? Really? Utter and complete bullshit.

That could be because right now he is still on the fence of rather someone slipped something to him and he is on a real bad trip. Which if he is, someone is paying for this shit when he comes to.]


Then it wasn't me if there's trouble I'll find it.

[He does his best to hide his real emotions, instead throwing some cocky words and that perpetual scowl of his out there into the universe. Inside Samatoki is a confused, pissed off mess. But since he can't punch the current company picking a fight is not in the cards. She doesn't deserve that.]
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[personal profile] vetrarosa 2020-09-20 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, you got arrested and picked fights all the time. Sometimes I got to join in.

[ aerith tells him airily, her smile mischievous and bright. ]

You just didn't do the really terrible, horrible stuff.

[ because that's not him, and they both know it. she pauses thoughtfully, observing him -- she's sure underneath that gruff exterior, samatoki must be confused and mad and looking for a way to vent his frustrations; it's just that he's too much of a gentleman to take it out on her. ]

Hey. Wanna go find some trouble? There are people here who are terrified of you, you know. You've been good to the stallholders who have been bullied by some of those gang members.
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[personal profile] boutdatlife 2020-09-23 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
You like that kind of thing huh?

[Okay, red eyes are a little more curious now, that definitely sounds like him and like a good time.]

Don't go telling too many people that, get them thinking I'm going soft.

[No, that is definitely not him. Interestingly enough or at least it would be to him, she is very much right. He needs some kind of outlet, his emotions are right at the cusp of an explosion but he would never take that out on a woman, any woman, especially one who apparently likes to get in trouble with him?

His scowl for a moment twists into a smirk. Okay, now she's really talking his language.]


That's more like it, let's go.
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[personal profile] vetrarosa 2020-09-24 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm, it makes things interesting. And they were all bad guys, so --

[ so that was an easy choice to make! aerith, amused by how samatoki softens and is so familiarly protective of his gentler inner nature, puts a finger to her lips. ]

Your secret's safe with me, Mr. Hardcore.

[ and then she's taking him by the wrist lightly, leading him down the curling alleyways and winding streets to the more memorable parts of town by the slums, where kinds are playing and sellers are with their wares, and it's clear there are more than a few gangsters milling about. it just so happens, however, that one of these thugs is shaking down an old couple for protection money a street away.

she pauses, frowning. ]


They've been doing that more, these days.
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[personal profile] boutdatlife 2020-10-02 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Good, weird as it is, maybe it was me.

[It is definitely sounding more and more like him as it goes on without a doubt. That playfulness, almost teasing makes him smirk but also hurts a little.

Reminds him of Nemu and happier times with her.]


Good, wouldn't want to have to be mean to a pretty girl like you.

[He teases, not that he can't tell a woman off but he is not inherently disrespectful to them, just a little mistrusting all things considered with his home world.]

What the fuck, I hate shit like that.

[Every step they take into the slums he almost seems to relax, more himself, meaning those red eyes go predatory, daring any one to take a chance at him or her, she's with him and that means under his protection.

When they see the thugs, it's without a doubt he is heading for them, no hesitation. He'll be storming right in the middle of them with a sneer, yanking the first one he can reach by his shirt, only to make sure the guy meets his fist first.

He'll try his mic if he needs it but for weak little shits like this, what's the point.]


EH! Cricket-dick bastards, think you can just come around shaking down good honest people, I'll fuck your face up!