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?
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PHASE I [ 08 00 ] 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. ] |
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phase ii
[Kuzuryuu, of course knows that Leon was not one of the six survivors of his game, having seen pictures in one of the files Monokuma prepared for them. However, he had no way of knowing until just now whether or not Leon was a culprit or a victim. The answer is obvious, of course, thanks to the scene he just witnessed.]
[He stares around Leon as the other boy starts spluttering, looking right at the uniform clad doppelganger. It's almost hard to believe it's the same guy, though he guesses this does prove that Leon was telling the truth about his talent. After a moment of taking it in, his eye moves back to look at the real Leon, taking in his pale face.]
You're wasting your time trying to argue with it, better to just leave it alone and get out of here. I'm willing to bet they can't follow us back upstairs, otherwise I'm sure we'd see a lot more people with these fuckers following 'em around.
[Initially, he'd assumed that these things only showed their faces to killers, but...he'd seen Mabel with one. And there's no way an innocent, happy, 12 year old girl like her has ever killed somebody, even on accident.]
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[At first, that's all he can say. A hot wave of shame washes over him immediately when Kuzuryuu speaks: he's so level, so calm and rational-sounding, it's enough to drive a guy crazy. How can he just walk around like this and not give a shit? Leon hadn't been expecting to run into anyone else down here, and he sure as hell hadn't been expecting them to be having the same "hallucinations" he was--which obviously aren't hallucinations! Kuzuryuu just looked right at Leon's doppelganger. It's fucked up and backwards, but suddenly, that makes everything feel less real, not more real.
It's not some insane vision, dream, or hallucination. It's just some bullshit virtual reality everyone's dealing with. And he's the one dealing with it this shittily.
He clenches his fists again and avoids eye contact. Ah, shit. Two spots of bright red begin to show on his cheeks, stark against the paleness of his face, and his teeth grit noticeably.
But he can't sulk forever--that's just going to make him look even worse!--so he finally manages more than that. It's a fight, but he even keeps his voice level.]
I mean--yeah, let's just get outta here--I've been tryin'! I've just gotta find the stairs! I thought they were this way! A, ain't they this way?!
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[It's not so much that he doesn't give a shit, it's more that he refuses to let CERES get to him. Especially when this attempt to poke and prod at him is so much weaker than the last one. Which he...definitely could have handled a lot better. Really, what bothers him most about all this is the state of his doppelganger, not what it's saying. He really could have done without the physical reminder of what a crybaby he was at that age. Especially when other people can actually see it! That's just insult to injury...]
[He's quiet a moment longer, taking in Leon's ashamed blush and continued stuttering, clearly debating on what to say next.]
You can't let CERES get into your head anymore than they already are. They're just trying to fuck with you. So... [He gestures towards wherever "this way" happens to be, before sticking his hand back in his pocket.] Lead the way. If that's not the right way, we'll just try somethin' else.
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[He says it more decisively this time. He's still embarrassed, cheeks still burning. And deep down he rankles a little: is this guy looking down on him for freaking out over this? Anyone would freak out over this, dammit! But he has to admit that he was expecting a lot worse from Kuzuryuu's reaction. Hell, he probably deserved a lot worse. What would he think if he walked in on a dude acting the way he'd just been acting?
Well, maybe he wouldn't blame them, considering all the shit CERES puts them through. Maybe Kuzuryuu feels the same way.
Leon just walks in silence for a few long moments. His focus is on getting that down first. Go this way, look confident, shake it off. Don't put your hands in your pockets, they're covered in blood, moron. (That was a near miss.) Finally he's pretty sure he can trust his voice again . . . and he hates staying quiet too long. Especially with this morbid-ass background noise.]
--It ain't like I knew--ah, forget it. What the hell?! Do they pull shit like this on us too? Since when? Where's it stop, man? It won't even let me log out! This entire thing is bullshit!
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[And, sure enough...]
Tch, I hear that. Bullshit is CERES's specialty though, and they'll pull it on us whenever they get the chance. Especially when they bring in new people. Shit always goes wrong when they do that. [Okay, he knows Leon said to forget it, but as a frequent user of the "Forget It" card himself, Kuzuryuu knows that whatever he's supposed to be forgetting is actually something that's really bothering the baseball star. Something he should probably get out in the open.] Whatever it is that you didn't know...it doesn't matter. You could have been warned for every stupid, screwed up thing this company tries to pull and yet...you still wouldn't be ready for it when it happens. It's different...seeing something compared to just hearing about it.
[Prooooobably safe to say that Kuzuryuu isn't looking down on him for freaking out so badly. Because truthfully, he agrees. Anybody would freak out about what they're seeing right now. For the briefest moment when he first encountered the child still toddling along after him, he had as well. Just...not nearly in as spectacular of a fashion. And all his anger had been directed at CERES, not the ghost child.]
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