crystalclods | Test Drive Meme | December-February 2016/17

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Test Drive Meme | December-February 2016/17


TEST DRIVE MEME
Welcome to the Cosmographia Test Drive Meme! This is a place for you to test out any characters you've been considering for the game or just to splash around in the waters and see what's right for you. Give our infopages a glance over and use the prompts below as a jumping off point! Threads from prompt A and B can be made canon for the game so long as both parties agree to it! Prompts C and D, unfortunately, cannot, as they take their cues from events and Excursions already run in Cosmographia. In short - pick a character, write up a starter and have a blast!
PROMPT A - ARRIVAL
You don't remember getting in this hole but you definitely remember falling out of it. You go tumbling out into the heart of a cavernous temple. Sparkling Gems suspended in bubbles float lazily about the ceiling, just a little out of reach. There's a greenish glow cast over the room by the huge crystal looming before you in the center. It's... curiously heart shaped, now you think to take a closer look at it. If you're curious enough to touch it, you'll get some basic answers about your situation... but then again, there's no guarantee you're just going to walk up to a giant weird thing in the middle of a giant weird room and touch it, right? Why not take a look around and see for yourself what kind of place this is? Perhaps you'll run into someone in the same predicament as you, or perhaps you'll run into someone who can help explain why there's a weird rock now affixed to your body?
PROMPT B - THE FARMER'S MARKET
It's Thursday in Waverly Bay, and that can mean only one thing: the weekly Farmer's Market is here again! The town plaza is all abuzz with activity today. Stalls not only from farmers on the outskirts of town but from crafty residents with interesting homemade items to sell, and businesses looking to attract the Market's crowd are all here! The weather's a little chilly but it's still an excellent place to spend the day, so long as you've got some money to spend. Are you shopping for a good deal on vegetables for dinner? Or perhaps you're getting a feel for the residents, having recently arrived? Or, perhaps, are you an industrious gem who's looking to set up shop? Either way, you're bound to run into somebody in this bustling, busy place.
PROMPT C - INVESTIGATION
Now that you're starting to get a hold of your powers, you've been sent through the warp pads on some kind of mission to Bricktown, the nearby city. As it turns out, the town is suffering from an infestation of small, bird-like creatures that have taken to nesting around town and letting out the most awful of rackets. Poofing these creatures will net you a small Gem shard. Poof as many as you can and bubble all those shards! You won't be able to do it alone, though. Maybe one of these birbs is just a bit out of reach or maybe you've not gotten a hang of your powers yet. Either way, working with your fellow Gems is the best way for you to get to the bottom of this and find where these birds are coming from!
PROMPT D - COMBAT
Uh-oh! Looks like you've run into a monster! These critters can pop up anywhere around Waverly Bay so it doesn't really matter where you were before or what you were up to. All you know now is that you need to buckle down and beat this thing! *Giant Mothwing* - With broad wings that shed scales on the wind, this corrupted Gem bears a striking resemblance to a large moth or butterfly. The body between its wings is no beauty, though - it usually stays rolled into a wheel-like spiral to protect its flat, pinkish gem, but when it uncurls to attack it looks more like a worm with teeth. Yikes! Loud noises make it lash out in agitation. Even when it's not attacking, it flies around restlessly, shedding sharp, glasslike scales that can leave nasty cuts as they whiz past. It'll be hard to get close to it unless it's lured down out of the sky. *Chameleoid* - The shape of this monster's body is more like a tardigrade than a lizard, but its camouflage ability and long, sticky tongue are worth commemorating. The Chameleoid can flatten and expand its body, and change the color and texture of its outer hide to blend in seamlessly with its surroundings, and it uses this ability to duck in and out of battle. Keep an eye out for suspicious movement when it vanishes from view. The Chameleoid shoots out its 20-foot-long tongue to disarm, trip up, and gross out Gems, but it's not averse to eating any small objects it might grab. The inside of its mouth looks softer than the rest of it, so maybe you can turn that to your advantage...? *Hippocampus* - A serpentine monster from the sea that sports a pair of razor-sharp forelimbs, two tusks, two horns, and a wicked set of jaws. Where's the protection for the rest of her body? She has a soft belly and a slightly more armored back. Luckily - for her, not you - she can breathe fire to respond to attacks on her tail. Why does an aquatic monster breathe fire?? Sometimes the world just doesn't have to make sense. She's about three three elephants long and faster on sand than she looks, preferring in battle to slither around swiftly and spit fire, but if caught, she'll turn her horns on you! *Wildcard Option* - Make your own! You know by now that you've got some special powers just from being a Gem. Apparently, from what little you've heard, you can shapeshift into things and pull a weapon from your gem, and you have some sort of unique special power. But maybe you don't know what it is yet, or you're still not used to using it? Guess you're going to have to learn on the job. Don't leave your fellow gems hanging if you see them fighting one of these little guys either! You're going to need each other to take 'em down!
PROMPT E - WILDCARD
Not into any of these prompts? Thought of something more fun? Go for it!

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A. Arrival

[Boyce falls through a hole near the ceiling, one of the larger creatures to be deposited in the heart of the temple save perhaps the gems that were obviously inhuman to begin with. This gem, crashing through a field of lightly phosphorescent bubbles and onto the steps leading up to the crystal heart, is certainly human in shape, if no longer in hue. He's large, made larger by his heavy woolen sweater and the cap only just now thrown off of his dishevelled, hairy head... but the colour has been drained mostly from his face, and true to the gem now lodged, hidden, against his breastbone, a marbled line of grey and black cross his face from temple to opposite jaw. The rest of him is covered by winter-wear, which luckily has done a little to dampen his fall.

He is not prone to theatrics. Cussing quietly, but shortly, he pushes himself to hands and knees and takes this alien space in with a wary kind of uncertainty, before retrieving his hat and his footing. A silver tint colours his weathered cheekbones: embarrassment for the abrupt entrance, confusion and mortification for this unknown situation.

Usually he doesn't reach out, much. Usually he keeps himself to himself, but this is... too strange.]

What are you? Is this a dream?

[Surely you've summoned him here. He hasn't even caught on that the heart-gem is pulsing gently behind him, enigmatically setting the scene.]

B. Market

[He's had a little bit of time to cope with the massive amount of change he's had to undergo over the course of a couple of weeks. Its a begrudging change: Boyce doesn't like being intruded upon, and he still feels as though some core part of him has been invaded in some horrible way... but given the fact that apparently his life-long problems with lycanthropy are at an end, and that he's spent much of his life wrangling monsters even if he's always felt very strongly for their protection... both are helping him cope.

So is the fact that most of his compatriots share the same fate as he does. It's not a lot, but it's something... and quietly the heart of the temple pulses with its soothing magic. That helps probably more than he knows.

Currently he's avoiding the current of people milling around him at the farmer's market by towering over an eddy of human traffic, admiring some woodwork crafts, trying to look like he belongs. He's asked to have a guide show him the sights as where he's from the cart and buggy have only just been re-invented. He's not familiar with current-day technology so most of this boggles him. It's... embarrassing.]

This is nice. What is it... for?

[It's nice, but he has no idea what cribbage is, nor why someone would create a board shaped to resemble a fish to play the game.]

With any luck, Yayoi could consider this a vacation.

She was no stranger to other worlds, having gone to Marchenland numerous times in the past, going to the Land of Picture Books with that mess with Miyuki's totally not past jilted girlfriend, the numerous fairy worlds over the years for the Precure Parties that inevitably ended in fighting some big world ending threat, all of it.

And yet, Yayoi was glad that some comforts of home, mostly her trusty old laptop, her Smile Pact and a couple of other things made the trip in her bag. She had been on her way to a book signing when she had been brought here, and Yayoi sighed deeply.

"Well, at least it's a vacation to deal with my burnout," said Yayoi, shaking her head. "I should get to checking this place out, before the inevitable Feeling of Doom sets in."

Genre savvy, she was. Call it a hangover from being a superhero for ten years running.

And then a tiny, dark-pink pony trots by, her voluminous mane pulled back in a ponytail and a tattoo squarely on her flank. Glancing up at Yayoi, she blinks a few times.

"Oh, Yayoi. Have you seen Nozomi around?"

"I haven't seen Nozomi in a while," admitted Yayoi absently, not noticing that she was being addressed by a dark-pink pony. "I... uh..."

Taking a glance downwards, Yayoi blinked surprised eyes at Mako. "Uh... wait, lets start over. We ARE talking about Yumehara-san right?"

There's a pause as Mako blinks a few times. Why are you acting so surprised to see her - it's a Code Applejack.

It has been awhile since her last Code Applejack.

"Ah, sorry, I thought you were the Yayoi I knew. My name's Mako Linden; I'm Cure Reverie of the Wonderful Journey Precure. We're kind of a team for Precure that travel between parallel worlds. And my Nozomi isn't quite the same as the one you're thinking of."

"Oh! Well I'm Yayoi Kise, Smile Precure. It's very nice to meet you. Parallel world Precure huh? It's been a long time since I've come across that concept."

She held out her hand in a shake for Mako. "Nice to meet you, Mako."

Mako smiles and places her hoof in Yayoi's hand. It's much softer and squishier than a normal pony hoof.

"Likewise! Sorry about the pony thing, I got nabbed from Equestria and this is my new baseline, apparently."

"I've honestly seen weirder," chuckled Yayoi with a shake of her head. "You kind of look like one of the fairies out there, just equine."

"So you said you knew me and a Nozomi?"

Nod nod.

"Yes. Well, let's see...the first time I met you, you wanted to spar as fellow Electricity-using Precure, it was pretty fun. And Nozomi..."

Pony shoulders aren't suited for shrugs, but Mako manages to do it anyway.

"She's my sister."

"Sounds like me. I've never met another electricity-user until now," laughed Yayoi.

"Oh? Sounds cool. Nozomi would be a cool sister."

"She is! Sometimes she helps out at the lab and we always have fun with that."

Pause for thought.

"Honestly, you're better at it than I am, but that's fine. Everyone has different strengths."

"I'd almost be worried for Nozomi in a lab, but she has gotten better with everything," said Yayoi with a laugh.

She nodded.

"I'm sure you're great at it too. I get this feeling you probably figured out more than I did. All I know is how to throw down lightning blasts everywhere."

"Well, at first, yeah, but once you figured out you could do more you were shaping it pretty easily. Me, I figured out how to make myself a human electromagnet and basically stopped there."

"That's still really cool," admitted Yayoi.

"Wait, shaping it? Like my Thunder sword and stuff? I just saw Reika do it several dozen times and eventually figured it out. Everyone else did too, but with other magic weapon forms."

Mako's tail swishes as she considers.

"You weren't even paying attention at one point and you made a perfect replica of Tokyo Tower. Out of lightning."

Yayoi sputters in a muffled laugh.

"That certainly sounds like me. It sums up my whole team to be honest."

~*Arrival*~

There's a young girl wandering around the Heart Room, looking lost as she calls for...something?

"Teatime? My Queen♥?"

There's a long pause.

"Nebby?"

~*Investigation*~

Moon is staring with round eyes at one of the small birbs. Want. She makes a small leap, trying to catch it, but doesn't manage to get anywhere near it. Probably because she's tiny and can't jump.

Cheeks puffed out, she makes a sulky face as she stomps petulantly on the ground.

"Get down here and become mine!"

There are now lots of little hops as she tries desperately to grab the birb.

~Arrival~

Back again. What is this, some kind of rebounding world?

Serena sighs. "And here I was headed to Hoenn. At least I got OFF the boat this time."

There's another lost girl there and she waves. "Hey, new here too?"

"Until we got out of Equestria, I never met most of your regular team, but...that does sound like them, yeah."

Mako smiles.

"You've been doing good? Seeing anyone lately?"

Pause. Moon's head tilts to the side.

"...yes? Where is here, anyway?"

It doesn't feel like Ultra Space...

"That's where the whole pony thing comes into play, right?" asked Yayoi curiously.

She nodded, giving a shrug. "I've had some dates before. I haven't had much of a social life though in between public appearances for my manga signings."

"Well, it's this other world that keeps drawing people in." explained Serena, tapping the Heart Crystal very gently to prevent getting shocked or anything.

"This crystal thing just keeps drawing people in, or at least I THINK it does. I know I was headed to Hoenn when I got here."

"Yeah, anyone in Equestria gets turns into one of the native races, and humans don't exist there."

Mako considers this before reaching up and patting Yayoi with one hoof.

"I'm sure you'll find a nice girl at some point. You're very lovable."

"I was in Alola!"

Moon puffs out her cheeks as she stares at the Heart.

"Rude. Where are my Pokemon?"

"Oh, Alola! I really want to go visit there when I'm done my tour in Hoenn."

Aww, the poor kid. Wait, was she her age or just really small...?

"Probably back where you got sucked in from here," said Serena.

"The heart didn't even let me have Pikachu this time. Not that was a good thing because I didn't want to separate him from Ash but..."

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