New Arrival

"New Arrival" is the 1st episode of the first season of Gem Antics and is the 1st episode overall.

Official Synopsis
A performer gem named Moonstone crash lands on a planet known as Neverita and is taken in by Mint Sapphire. However, the other gems on the planet aren't so friendly.

Plot
This is the first episode and our first time not only roleplaying as these characters, but also, for some of us, with each other. To kick this new and highly anticipated roleplay off, we are first introduced to a Moonstone, a dancer gem, working under the Homeworld caste of the gem race. This Moonstone in particular was rather popular and a favorite performer to many upper class gems as she had a unique passion for dancing. Despite that, only being assigned nearly the same, identical, uninspired, dance routines, without the freedom to dance outside of that had made her grow quite unhappy.

On this day in particular, Moonstone was being flown to yet another assigned show. The route to her next show required passing a strange planet. A lone, organic planet with a forgotten past. It had once been a colony of Yellow Diamond but was slowly abandoned and left to rot due to various complications during its development. The main of these being that during its colonization, Yellow Diamond had gotten herself roped into helping the Homeworld forces on Earth during the rebellion. The planet itself was hardly habitable and was a rather uncomfortable setting for gems; barely suitable for being a colony. The ship suddenly began to veer off course to then plummet towards the mysterious ocean planet. The Nephrite would seem to be actively steering towards the old, abandoned Neverita. Moonstone would rush into the cockpit to see what was going on after Nephrite had called them in there, and it had turned out that the Nephrite had been suicidal. The Nephrite had taken Moonstone with them on the flight because they didn’t want to die alone. As the ship pierced and slipped into the planet’s atmosphere, the area around where they’d eventually crash would be subjected to a forceful blast from their entrance into the planet’s atmosphere. The entire cockpit would be obliterated in the crash, wiping out the Nephrite, but Moonstone would have been close enough to the cockpit door to have survived. The incident caught the attention of some of the remaining gems on the planet. These gems being, Red Pearl, Gold Pearl, and Mint Sapphire. Mint Sapphire had been in her village where she had foreseen the crash. This gave her an advantage in finding the source of the strange sound. The Pearls though would split up and search but ultimately not find anything and give up their search. Mint would find Moonstone disoriented near the crash site and take her in. She knew what Moon was going through now as the exact same thing had happened to her nearly 300 hundred years prior. She had sympathy for her and would treat her with the utmost hospitality, letting her even stay in her workshop with her in the village. Eventually, Mint would tell the Pearls about Moonstone only for them to fuse into Bronze Pearl and attempt to shatter Moonstone who, to them, was this invading Homeworld gem. Mint would successfully be able to defend them, though, the village would sustain a bit of damage. After losing, Red would be livid and Gold would be worried.

Over the course of a few days, Mint would repair the damage done to the village. Moon also would get a tour of the known locations on the planet from Mint. Mint (with help from Moonstone) would also begin installing a warp pad for the village, made from parts of Moonstone’s ship, materials from the Ship Graveyard and from the Galaxy Warp. With the loss of the fight still on her mind, Red would march back over to the village with Gold behind and would try again but not as Bronze but as themselves. An argument between Red and Mint would break out eventually devolving into a full fledged fight. Red hates Mint because of the elite status she held on Homeworld and her ability to avoid Red’s attempts to attack her. Moon and Gold would spectate with concern. Another fight would break out and Mint would be able to poof Red. Gold would return back to the temple with Red’s gem in hand where she'd wait for her for hours to reform.

Characters

 * Moonstone
 * Mint Sapphire
 * Red Pearl
 * Gold Pearl
 * Bronze Pearl
 * Isseo (brief appearance)
 * Moonstone's Nephrite (brief appearance)