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[reparator]

Who: Everyone, you poor saps
When: OOC: 7/22 || IC: 2/08
Where: ViViD's new Heath and You: A New Way to be Healthy
What: Intro log, intro log! Come get your intro log!
Rating/Warning: PG-13; some violence and questionable situations. Let us know if it veers into other territory so we can lock the log!

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//event016.EXE

The doctor's office is hardly the funnest place in the world to be. Children crying, adults bickering in hushed, stressed tones, the receptionist looking incredibly bored... Wait. How did you get here? Weren't you watching a powerpoint a second ago (or enjoying your time in your cozy apartment in Cerealia)? Well, now you're in ViViD, and in an attempt to concentrate on healthy living, CERES has released a new level: Health and You: A New Way to be Healthy. Sure, you could log out at any time if you're a ViViD pro and used to this whole experience, but now that you're here, why not sit back and enjoy it? Indulge in some easy level grinding or something. Besides, it'll take a little while for the game to let you log out without calling you a spineless quitter, and who wants that added to their ViViD rep? So instead, take a look around the tiled hospital. Visit the receptionist and say hello (she ignores you, go back to your seat). Pick up a snack at the vending machine (except every single one only has these gross things in stock). Maybe you should just test the truth of that old idiom, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away", especially with that weird doctor over there. Is he staring at you? He might be staring at you. Seriously, go find an apple before he comes over here. Well, well, well... isn't it time for your c h e c k - u p?

//SCENARIOS.EXE

PHASE I [ 0800 ] If you're a new arrival to this fine city, you will find yourself waking up in a bed after suffering through that unfortunate powerpoint. The sun streams through the window, the bed is uncomfortable but not terrible, and everything is quiet and idyllic... wait. Where are your clothes? You'll suddenly find yourself dressed only in a medical gown (yes, complete with back open) and you seem to be... in a hospital? That's new. If you take a look at the medical chart attached to the bed, you’ll even find your chart, name on it and everything. That can’t be right, can it? You're the picture of health! You're welcome to wait around for the doctor to dispute these claims but no one's showing up anytime soon (aside from the possible roommate you might have, in the same situation as you). There’s nothing stopping you from leaving the room or looking around at least (except for the lack of clothes), but it’s all hospital as far as the eye can see. Try and be careful what rooms you poke your head into; there are some strange aliens getting their check-ups in there. They don't seem like they want to be bothered. If you’re not a newcomer, and go into ViViD searching for riches and grand prizes (or just stumble in there by happenstance), the receptionist will stop you and hand you a stethoscope, lab coat, and name tag. Congratulations, you’re a doctor now, and you have free reign over the hospital. Go nuts. Or don’t, because there are still those aliens waiting for their check-ups. Now it’s your turn to get dragged away by a frazzled nurse to administrate a tentacle massage to a patient, as she's now on break! Have fun and don't get the hospital sued. PHASE II [ 1000 ] Just don’t end up in the basement. If you end up in the basement by some weird twist of fate (or via trapdoor, which could happen because let's be honest, this is ViViD), you’ll find yourself in a long, empty, blindingly white hallway. The floors are white, the walls are white, the ceiling and the flickering lights are white, and you have the odd feeling you're being followed. If you turn to see who it is, you’ll find that it’s your younger self. They’re not solid. They’re not real. You can stick a hand through them, and it will go right through. But they are you, whether age 4 or age 14 or anywhere in between, and they’re covered in blood and holding an equally bloody knife. Quietly, as they follow you, they'll mumble, over and over and over again, “It was you, you did it, you killed them, you’re the murderer.” And they will follow you until you get out of that blindingly white hallway, and away from those blindingly white lights, and if you tried to touch them, there will be blood on your hands. The younger you won't respond to anything you say, just following behind you like the frightening apparition they are. At least nothing else is stopping you from returning to the main hospital, no matter how surreal this experience might be. Just find the stairs. PHASE III [ 1200 ] As soon as you’ve managed to escape the clutches of that frazzled nurse who still refuses to come back from break, you’ll find that the atmosphere has turned very dark indeed. There’s rain pounding against the windows, and as lightning flashes and thunder booms (it’s all ambiance, you see), there’s the tell-tale Mwahahahaha of an evil, mad doctor at work. What a sinister guy. Turning a corner will lead you right to his very, very evil doctor's office. He's repurposed one for his sinister deeds and some nurses are looking very put out about it. There's someone attached to the medical table who might need some help and of course, it could be one of your friends that he’s snagged. You might want to help them before that very evil mad doctor tries to add an extra limb or two to your poor friend. Honestly, who needs three elbows? Or maybe it’s you who’s been grabbed by him and attached to the medical table by strong, metal restraints. Hopefully someone follows the “Mad Scientist: This Way” signs all over the hospital and saves you because really, three elbows? PHASE IV [ 1400 ] Of course, while the ambiance is still dark, grim and creepy, and the rain still beats upon the glass of the windows, there is a murder...because why wouldn't there be? The director of the hospital has been found murdered, slumped in a seat in his office, hand in hand with his secretary. Oh no! You’re welcome to investigate the crime scene if you want, but it’s not a very good one; there aren’t any clues, and the director and his secretary actually seem to be alive if you prod them hard enough. They're a bit put out by your interruptions and might ask you to "go solve this somewhere else" the more you bother them. How rude of you to muck up their death scene. But there’s a new quest for you, and it says this: Pursue Justice or Pursue the Truth? If you choose to pursue Justice, you will find yourself dropped into a new ViViD level, this one a straight hospital hallway with no doors and alternate routes. Some posters line the hallway but most of the detail is lost in the dim light. Not far ahead of you, The Suspect can be seen running away. (Naturally, you can tell that they are The Suspect by their poorly scribbled out face and black silhouette.) If you should follow them all the way to the end of the hallway (and it is a long, long, long hallway), you can grab The Suspect. Of course, that's if you make it there without falling through any of the trapdoors, tripping over medical supplies or stumbling into less fortunate player characters. If you're successful, you’ll hear a jaunty tune and you’ll receive a bonus of 50,000 ViViD points. Congratulations! You may now log out and continue with your daily life. If you choose to pursue the Truth, you will find yourself dropped into another ViViD level. This level is a maze; there are filing cabinets stuffed full of papers making up the walls (though the papers are all blank) and they seem oddly impossible to move. You will need to find your way through the maze while avoiding more trapdoors, more scattered medical supplies, the occasional angry cthulhu patient and the occasional player character who has been grabbed by the occasional angry cthulhu patient. Eventually you will be able to find the end of the maze and there you will find a scrap of paper with a clue on it, signed Bellona Recreare. You may now log out and continue with your daily life. Strangely enough, you can’t seem to access that quest again once you’ve completed it once. Oh well. BONUS [ xxxx ] There are plenty of sexy nurses wandering the hospital (yes, everywhere) and they know your shots aren’t up to date. Should they manage to catch you and jab you with one of their needles, you’ll have some of the following side effects: ➟ Unstoppable urge to hug the nearest person ➟ Unstoppable urge to kiss the nearest person ➟ Unstoppable urge to dance with the nearest person ➟ Hiccups that last for 20 minutes ➟ Uncontrollable laughter that lasts for 20 minutes ➟ Hallucinations that everyone around you is dead, which also lasts for 20 minutes You may pick and choose which effects happen at which times or if there is a combination of them. Have fun! [ Remember to apply proper warnings on threads with sensitive or inappropriate material and do let a mod know if your thread careens off into maiming or canoodling so we can lock the log. ]

//RUN.EXE

Welcome to Cerealia's July intro log! For your convenience, we have compiled the characters' arrival experience here, and should you have any questions, feel free to ask them here! You can also check the FAQ for more general inquiries. Should this event log hit Captcha, there is an all-purpose overflow here. Regarding phase IV, should your characters tackle the alternate ViViD levels and make it all the way through, please PM the mod account to let us know if they picked Justice or the Truth, as that will have an overall impact on the game! You will also receive your plot clue at that time, should your character have gone down the Truth path. Please PM the mod account by July 29th with the decision your character has made; the thread does not have to be completed, that just will allow us to tally up the choices for August's event. Thank you!

Comments

ota;

[feytality]

phase i;

[The doctor's in]

[And she's definitely a legitimate doctor. It's not just some teenaged girl who got a lab coat and stethoscope slapped on her and decided to run with it. Whether you're new or old, fellow "doctor" or not, she's waltzing right up to you without a care in the world, and handling that stethoscope completely incorrectly.]

[Just don't expect any backrubs]

[Do expect: DRAMATIC POINTINGS, and waving around one of the files (yours? who knows) in front of your face. So much for patient doctor confidentiality.]

You're sick with jungle fever! And there's only one cure!

[More cowbell?! She sure is trailing off dramatically]

phase ii;

[Ah yes, the creepy basement with the mini-mes stalking people to call them murderers and insist over, and over, that it's their fault. Naturally, Maya's just going to shrug or smile this off with some kind of kooky commentary and an adventurous spin while she snags whoever and high tails it out of the room, right? There she goes again--]

[Hang on, wait, isn't that Maya folding up against one of the white walls, pressing her hands (which are bloody, by the way, don't touch the mini-mes) against her face and looking... distressed? Wow. That's new. She's whispering something, too, barely audible over mini-topknot's insistence that she is in fact the one to blame.]

Ms. Yuyuko.... I'm sorry.... [Well, this is new]

phase iii;

[Well, this is about the perfect scene for a b-movie remake of Frankenstein. Too bad a certain spirit medium in training has just decided she's the protagonist of this new film and she's taking this in a different direction. Whether you're strapped down to a table or she's being bodily grabbed and inspected for possible locations for a new elbow, she's definitely making a scene. And kicking evil doctors in the kneecaps and possibly grabbing you to make a dramatic getaway]

....You really don't want to get plastic surgery here, trust me!

phase iv;

[And now comes the obligatory murder scene. Lack of clues? Unhelpful witnesses shooing them off the scene? This isn't anything new to an Ace Attorney protagonist, in fact, she's surveying the scene with a pout, before the options come up.]

[Then she's looking around to you and puffing her cheeks]

Justice or truth?! What the heck is that all about! We should be getting both! For...

...Whoever these guys are!

[So which one?]

wildcard;

[HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT]

phase ii

[hamham]

[This scene isn't new to Gundam, the man having been wandering the basement for a while now. He's met a couple people here already, but he's a little surprised when he sees Maya. Not that he can say he knows her spectacularly well, but can something like this really get to her that much?]

Such a cowed position like that isn't fit for one with an aura like yours.

[Yo, mind if he leans against the wall across from you and keeps you company? Sorry about the mini-me of his own huddling close to his leg and mumbling his own accusations.]

[feytality]

[Murder-sempai noticed her.]

[For realsies, Maya has to do a double-take when Gundam's voice finally shakes her out of her murder-related stupor, and she almost forgets that this guy doesn't remember her. (If he did, there'd be a different story)]

[...But that's kind of sweet. In a weird, overdramatic kind of way.]

[She lifts her head, trying to perk up! It's not super effective, but there's an effort being made]

I guess you'd be the expert, huh...

[hamham]

Hmph...I am not sure if "expert" would be the correct term to use. [He's not great with socializing, even when he does pick up on things like this.]

The experience that has been afforded to me, however, is useful sometimes.

[Still, she's not exactly perky, and he recognizes that.]

I cannot see a reason to allow these apparitions to dig so deeply into you. It is merely CERES' way of disarming you.

1/3

[feytality]

I dunno, you're all into auras and charms and... weird aliens!

[Also, hamsters.]

[But she's doing her best to avoid looking at him or the mini-topknot that keeps, persistently, calling her a murderer.]

I.. I know it's just a stupid trick meant to mess with us, but, I.....

[feytality]

[...Yuyuko....]

....

[feytality]

---I-It's just freaking me out! I was so adorable, and now that adorableness is being used for evil! I can't believe it!

[Nailed it.]

[hamham]

[There isn't an immediate reply, Gundam instead searching her posture and face as she speaks. Is that really what bothers her about this...?]

Even then, to allow that to impede you in any way offers CERES to claim their victory. No matter what they show you, you must accept it and walk forward with strength in your step.

[Glancing at the child again. Adorableness, huh?]

ii.

[undaunts]

Hey... are you okay?

[Ruby's crouching in front of Maya, blinking at her. Her own mini-me is a ways away, staring at her, but it doesn't bother Ruby in the least; she's not a murderer, that's just silly.

But seeing Maya crouched like this really is worrisome, even if she doesn't know her.]

You shouldn't listen to people who call you murderer, you know.

[feytality]

[What a goody-two-shoes. But really, if it had been the other way around, Maya would definitely be concerned over a complete stranger, too.]

[But as far as mini-me apparitions reenacting horror movie tropes went, this mini-topknot is right about one thing: a woman died trying to protect her. That's the same thing, right?]

I.... I'm fine.... i-it's just a little creepy, that's all...

[That was a sad attempt at a brave face, because she doesn't want to worry this girl.]

[(Ruby's perfectly right, though.)]

[undaunts]

I think it was probably a little more than creepy.

[Ruby will just reach out a hand to Maya then, offering to help her up.]

But it's okay! Let's just get out of here, and then we'll be in the creepy hospital, which is a bit better!

[feytality]

[She's hesitant, because she made the mistake of touching the mini er) Maya and getting blood on her hands, but she doesn't want to brush Ruby off entirely, so she pushes herself up off the ground]

Y-Yeah... that's a good plan. This place really sucks.

[And now, glancing around for Ruby's mini-me, trying very, very hard to ignore her own...] Is she saying the same thing?

[undaunts]

You mean about the murder and guilt and everything?

[...]

Yeah. I mean, if that's what yours is saying.

[It's just said pretty frankly, but Ruby does pull back her hand as Maya gets back up on her own, smiling.]

Pretty weird, right?

phase iii

[good_ideas]

[Shiho is really, really glad to be saved. Really.

But at the same time, she feels like there's something she should address first before she gives her saviour any (grudging) gratitude as they run, evil doctors waving scalpels at them while trying to clutch at their bruised kneecaps.]

And who says I was coming here to get plastic surgery?!

[She's cute enough with any of that, okay!!]

[feytality]

[Nonsense. Clearly, Shiho is not as adorable as Maya, which means there's always room for improvement!!]

[And her gracious (no) savior (no) is attempting to grab her hand for ease of running away together, evil crazy doctors in pursuit and lightning crashing in the background to accentuate the mood]

What you do in your private time with mad scientists is your business! But really, you should be going to less shady doctors for that kind of thing....!

[good_ideas]

[Shiho briefly toys with the idea of letting Maya grab her hand. For one, this girl had accused her of needing plastic surgery and that was grounds enough for using psychometry to read her embarrassing memories, petty as that actually was.

But on the other hand, this girl had just saved her. Shiho closes her hand so that Maya can't touch her palm.

.......why does doing the right thing always leave such a bad taste in her mouth? (Stupid Minamoto. Even when he wasn't here he'd still somehow made sure they acted as he wanted them to.)]

I'm not here because of that! I don't need it because I'm plenty cute enough!

[feytality]

[But can such an embarrassing creature as Maya truly be embarrassed.]

[In any case, Maya has to wonder why she's closing her palm (what could she have possible done to offender her!!), but hey, if they're running, they're running. As long as they didn't become the next rendition of Frankenstein or Rocky Horror Picture Show, she's not going to complain.]

[...she is going to continue running her mouth off, though]

Well, you are pretty cute... but I don't think plastic surgery will get you where you want to go. After all, my cuteness is totally natural.

[Maya, they're running for their lives from demented doctors, is this really the time...]

[good_ideas]

[Also there's no time like right now while the doctors are throwing surgical tools at them and they're running to save their natural cuteness.]

I don't want to go anywhere! And my cuteness is natural too, okay! It's probably even more natural than yours is!

[....Whatever that means...

A pair of forceps and a scalpel bounce off the wall behind them.]

Phase IV

[fairbrook]

[As if on cue, have (+1) surly gothic Rapunzel giantess chiming in from behind.]

What is justice without truth, madam?

[What kind of question is that, Sir Hellsing? And more importantly, where did she come from? Was she even there before? Why is she here? She's not insistent on finishing off that cigar, is she...?]

Well?

1/2

[feytality]

[If Maya was more of a jumpy loser prone to startling at comedic moments, she'd shriek at the sudden appearance of the iron gian-- countess, but]

[No, actually, she is that much of a loser]

Eeek!!

[Kind of ironic, as she was just addressing anyone she could see. Integra was apparently not someone she could see.]

[feytality]

[Ah! It was woman! The... police woman who loved boring books and hated newspapers. Or something like that, right?]

H-Hey! Don't sneak up on me and steal my lines! I was just about to say that!

[Was she, though?]

[fairbrook]

[She's six feet of petulance and bulletproof, in any case. Somehow Integra doubts that. Her brow furrows.]

'Truth' is absolute, and without knowing it, justice is rendered obsolete. In pursuing truth, we are given the tools to administer justice. Understood?

[Trust her, she's a knight.]

Miss Fey, I wish to escort you, if you would allow me.

[feytality]

[Maya wants to stay huffy, but that sounded way too cool, and Maya's easily impressed. Whoever this police lady is, she's definitely got a presence.]

[She settles down almost immediately. This girl really is a whirlwind]

Y-Yeah....

[No kidding about that] You do, really?

iv; ace attorney fun times like old times

[prosecutory]

[Edgeworth is frustrated. Yeah, this is nothing new, especially being thrown out of a crime scene and being stripped of investigation authority. It shows in how his frown progressively becomes deeper with each obstacle - no helpful clues, the director and his assistant don't seem to be really dead, and now they want everyone else out. He grits his teeth and raises a hand to his forehead as he tries to hash this out. But before he could get those logic wheels turning for a new solution, the text appears and Maya's voice snaps him out of his logic zone and back to ViViD reality.

He squints at the words. Pursue Justice. Pursue the Truth.]

What the...? [Edgeworth is dumbstruck. Justice, or the truth? Huh? A part of his brain seems to malfunction. Maya's right, of course; both justice and the truth are a lawyer's goals. But to be forced to choose only one route?] What kind of quests are these?!

[Then again, the truth seems to be that this is all a farce.]

[bewrightback]

[Continued here!]