crystalclods | Test Drive Meme | August-September 2016


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 the Gem Observatory. From the sounds of things, there's an ancient relic here somewhere that could serve useful for the Gems in the Temple and someone has to go out and find it. ... the only problem is that you're not exactly sure where you should start looking in this place. And on top of that, it's a complete mess. Junk and debris and books and papers everywhere with no clue where this relic could be. You're going to have to do some serious digging to find this thing. And on top of that, you might find that when you try to go back the warp pad you took here has managed to stop working in between your arrival and now. Maybe something went wrong back in the control room? Or the pad itself needs fixing? You'll have to poke around in the guts of the machine to try and figure this one out.
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...? *Strawberry Spider* - Though its long, spindly legs holding it off the ground make it look like a spider, this monster is actually mostly made up of plant material. Trees and strawberry plants are rooted in the corrupted Gem's featureless, geometric body, forming woody legs and blanketing the monster in foliage and strawberries. Its aroma may be sweet, but the Strawberry Spider is ruthless and very, very perturbed. It stands 15 feet tall and 25 feet wide, and its skittering feet move fast to stomp on attacking Gems. Thinking of cutting off a leg? Try it, and hundreds of strawberry runners will immediately sprout from the stump to ensnare you. The strawberries are hungry, and they've got a "taste for blood"... Damaging the plants living on it won't actually hurt the corrupted Gem, and they grow back fast. This will be a tough monster to defeat. *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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Granted, he could have done it himself--probably, eventually, anyway-- but it wasn't like he was going to turn down an offer for help, even if it was from a strange person in a strange place. He pulled in his legs, a quick extension for momentum as he tipped over, and...!

Back on his feet. Chesnaught shook off his head and took a moment to straighten out his shell. "Whew! Thank you."

Finally let him get a glanceat that big heart in the middle of the room, too- it was pretty, but if this place had its own version of the Anistar Crystal Sundial, how did it work underground?

Oop! Where were his manners. He turned around and bowed slightly toward his rescuer. "Oh, must be my new trainer!"

"Yeah, no problem." He talked to turtles, liondogs and skeletons. What's a turtle-bear?

It was the next bit that brought him pause, rubbing the back of his neck. He was a new guy, definitely, which meant he probably had to work out what was the norm in their world.

"You're in a new world, man. I dunno about trainers or any'a that stuff, unless ya mean gettin' built up. I mean..."

He raised an arm to flex, patted the bicep.

"I ain't got a routine, but whatever I do works!"

"A new world?" He'd never been outside of Kalos, but how different could it be in... uh... those other places? "What kind of Pokemon do you have here?"

This guy looked pretty tough, himself; seemed like he lucked out this time! And no sooner did Kanji flex his bicep than Chesnaught flashed a grin, curling his arm inward in a- what he considered- heroic and showy pose.

"Don't you worry, I don't need any help with that! Naught even a stampede of Tauros can make it past me."

Yup. Okay. He really liked this turtle-bear.

"Pokemon ain't a thing here. Everybody comes out of a hole from their world and winds up here as a gem. One'a these." He raised his hand bearing that mottled purple stone. But he figured he'd do the whole thing if that helped.

"Didja touch the Heart? It's able to fill you in on the basics when ya touch it. It talks about what a gem is, why you're here, and some other stuff that leaves a new guy either less confused or more confused than when they came in."

He paused. Didn't someone use the word 'pokemon' before here? Oh well...

"Pokemon... aren't a thing? But I'm a--"

A look at the speckled stone in Kanji's hand started to shed some light on things. Also explained why when he fiddled with his own stone shortly afterwards, he couldn't pull it off of himself. So it was a part of him, now...?

"...Are you sure? That thing looks kinda fragile..."

"If I wasn't sure, I wouldn't be tellin' ya. Don't hit it, just touch it. Go ahead."

He nodded to it, and hoped he wouldn't witness basically their only way of getting back home.

Test Drive Meme | August-September 2016

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