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[Welcome a new face to Prismatica! He looks a little timid, but he straightens up and smiles before launching into things.]

Hello! I'm Dazai Osamu, famous author and fashion icon... well, back home! To be honest, I just got here, and I don't know many people. So... an acquaintance of mine said I should make an effort to meet people... even if it's kind of scary...

Anyway, writing is a great icebreaker, right? I won't judge any amateur efforts, but please check the attached for details! And don't forget me, even if you don't participate!

[Attached is a flier with details on the... well, it's marked nsfw miraculously and you should be glad because emblazoned across the top of it are the words DICK LIT in all caps and brilliant red. The text is as follows:]

(And Other Moonlacing Stories)
In honor of the absent Sakaguchi Ango, a Decadent endeavor!
The first literature contest of its kind!
Challenge yourself!

Rules: All entries must be written. They may be poetry or prose, or other written content. All entries must pay tribute to something relating to moonlacing, and may, at your discretion, cover Adult Themes.

The winner will be provided an amount of chroma equal to what would be generated by the described moonlacing acts, so get creative!

Judges: Dazai Osamu, Nakajima Atsushi

[He keeps adding attachments as the day goes by:]

Entries due the 14th of next month at one minute til midnight!
Anonymous entries may be messaged directly to the judges via my inbox!
Otherwise post your entry here!

Comments

audio, un: tigerpoet

[tigerpoet]

Yes, they can be.

[If Dazai says otherwise, Atsushi will smack him.]

You can send them to Dazai's inbox, I think? We're roommates, so I'll just read over his shoulder.

[riptidequeen]

Okay. Good.

I'm interested, I don't really do writing, a friend back home was big into it, but I might give this a shot.

[tigerpoet]

I look forward to reading it. Our friends are writers too - I think Dazai misses them.

[riptidequeen]

[Ahahaha at the looking forward comment she's now flustered on her end and trying to hide it.]

I think everyone here has someone they miss from home, so I kinda get it.

[tigerpoet]

[Is that weird to say about someone's writing when they might write porn? Oops.]

Dazai's just arrived, and apart from me he doesn't know anyone here. And like he says, writing is a pretty good icebreaker.

[riptidequeen]

[A LITTLE WEIRD, just a little though.]

Oh, are you two from the same world then? And it's certainly working at least!

[tigerpoet]

We're coworkers back home.

['Coworkers' rather than 'friends'. It's no surprise that Dazai's feelng lonely, considering that he and Atsushi were never all that close.]

I can't help but worry about him settling in...

[riptidequeen]

[She notices that, coworkers. She won't say anything about it though.]

Well, he seems to be doing okay? Aside from the whole starting a contest thing.

[tigerpoet]

That's true. [With Dazai, it could be so, so much worse.] I'll try not to fuss too much, but I'm a worrier by nature.

[riptidequeen]

Well, everyone worries in their own way?

[Like what else can she say to that?]

[tigerpoet]

I suppose that's true.

It's nice to meet you, miss...?

[riptidequeen]

Oh.

I'm Lapis, Lapis Lazuli. It's a pleasure to meet you as well.

[tigerpoet]

That's a lovely name. [One of his favorite gems!] I'm Nakajima Atsushi, like Dazai said.

[riptidequeen]

Th... Thank you. [Wait... But he sounds(?) different from the person she knew with that name.] Is, um, if it's not too forward to ask this but... Is your name a very common name?

[tigerpoet]

It's not a common name, technically, but there are four people named that in Lunatia.

It's a very, very long story.

[riptidequeen]

... Four.

[Holy heckle, although Lapis can't talk there are stars knows how many Lapis Lazulis out there back home.]

Oh, well. I just think I've met one of the others, so I wouldn't want to be rude assuming you're the same person after all.

[tigerpoet]

You've met one of the white-haired ones, I assume?

[Since the other one is his split personality and he thinks Inner would let him know if he knew this person.]

I'm the one with blue hair, I'm easier to tell apart from those two.

[riptidequeen]

You assume correctly, yes.

[Although she's only met the one once in person and talked to him over the network once.]

Huh, I didn't think humans could have blue hair.

[tigerpoet]

It depends on the world. In mine, they don't naturally have that color, but I'm technically not human anymore...? My hair was black when I was a living human.

[necromancy turns everything 100% more anime]

[riptidequeen]

... I. Didn't know humans could come back from the dead.

[tigerpoet]

I didn't know they could either, before I was brought back.

[riptidequeen]

So, um. Does that make you some kind of... [A brief pause as she's looking up the word for it.]

Zombie then?

[tigerpoet]

[...she's not wrong.]

Zombies aren't usually intelligent, so I've been going with 'ghost'...

[riptidequeen]

They aren't? [She simply looked up the word, nothing more than that.]

And a ghost wouldn't be able to do things though, I thought?

[tigerpoet]

[Can't believe Lapis needs to watch 50 more Halloween movies.]

Zombies are basically mindless creatures driven only by hunger. Calling them animalistic would be an insult to the intelligence of animals.

Ghosts aren't usually solid like I am, so it's not a perfect fit, but it's closer.