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C E R E A L I A ★ M O D S。 ([personal profile] reparator) wrote in [community profile] estoria2015-07-21 05:52 pm

« 016 ⇢ EVENT016.EXE »

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!




//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

[ 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

[ 10:00 ] 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

[ 12:00 ] 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

[ 14:00 ] 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

[ xx:xx ] 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!

tachyonme: (pic#7298360)

[personal profile] tachyonme 2015-07-23 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
Bad start with what?

[Talking to Vector? If so, he agrees. Although, there was actually something he'd thought about bringing up to Vector...it might be a moment before he remembers what it was, though. He's been too focused on today's events.

He does roll his eyes at part of Vector's plans. Up, of course they're going up.
]

I've been looking, and I keep ending up down there. Or shoved into a room with some patient in it.
dualshadow: (goddamn pokemon coma theory)

[personal profile] dualshadow 2015-07-23 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
[That looks like a doctor's coat, and those are medical charts he's holding, but... No. No way. There's no way that this man could be a doctor, although he's certainly proving just as incapable as the chart she found.

Still, doctors could be...eccentric. If he really was a doctor and the one who wrote her chart, then she has a few things to address with him. Miyako doesn't help him try to yank out his coat. She chooses to watch with a distant expression on her face, although that's somewhat mitigated by the fact that she's still trying to hold her gown closed in the back.]


Are you the doctor in charge of me? I have some concerns.
yaayaa: (i'm sorry)

i

[personal profile] yaayaa 2015-07-23 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Nakigitsune is all dressed up in a doctor's outfit, with a totally appropriate surgical(?) mask, and heading towards...whichever room this is, he's actually kind of lost right now. He stops for the stranger though, staring curiously at his blanket cape.

The fox on his shoulder is the one that speaks up, though.]


Yes?
endgamer: (017)

[personal profile] endgamer 2015-07-23 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Finally, a proper hospital with a cute girl all dressed up. The fact that the coat is too big makes her all the more adorable, and he smiles a bit goofily to himself. She looks too young, but there's no harm in actually being semi-nice, he supposes.]

What am I, a mascot for a drink company? I don't actually have a theme song, it's just some bull they stuck down on this chart.

[He considers it.]

I don't even know what I'd pick if I did have a theme song. That'd be a tough choice.
notsosolo: (Default)

[personal profile] notsosolo 2015-07-23 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
I've been a general sort of here for a couple months now. But this wasn't what I was expecting this place to be when I walked in this morning.

Don't let the coat fool you, the only things I'm qualified to treat are skinned knees and tummy aches.
hoasen: (TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL)

phase ii!!!

[personal profile] hoasen 2015-07-23 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[She hasn't had much experience with the apparitions, but instinctively, as soon as Mitsutada was threatened, she immediately dashed towards him. Whatever it was that was covered in blood was going to attack, so she had to go stop it from happening? Mitsutada seems to be shaken by this, what is even happening?

The first thing she did was try to shove Mitsutada out of the way of the blade, using the force of her run to help propel them. It's not the best plan right now, but it's one to get him out of the way of the blade.]
dualshadow: (WHO BUILT THIS HOUSE IN MY FLOWERBED)

[personal profile] dualshadow 2015-07-23 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
[She tenses and grips the clipboard she's holding at her side tightly. It wouldn't be of much use against a sword, but she's not going to let it go, either. Her initial question of how this stranger managed to maintain his clothing and weapon vanishes at his statement. Of course. The people who were already here could prepare instead of being dumped in against their will.

She puts her back against a filing cabinet and a fair distance away from Sousei and the fallen patient.]


I have. Tell me, do they always treat new arrivals with such a warm welcome?
zitteraal: (29.)

[personal profile] zitteraal 2015-07-23 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ HE DIDN'T CHOOSE THE WOOBIE LIFE...

But okay, he's being tasked with fighting, and that's easy enough! Sorry cthulus, you truly never had a chance to thrive; Adolf throws those scalpels like fucking ninja stars and they all stab neatly in the targets' vitals.

His fingertips spark, again, but without his meds he can't unleash his true Pikachu potential. So that's that, there are two cthulu docs on the ground with knives in their throats now. One seems to be holding something?! A clue?!
]

—If you're afraid of bodies, don't look.
hoasen: (NO YOU CANNOT PUT THAT THERE)

bonus

[personal profile] hoasen 2015-07-23 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Because...why.

First is he laughing? And then he's laughing and asking such a strange question? At least she's used to the situation when it comes to hugs, not that she can say...why. She's sworn to secrecy (Kanda threatened death.)]


You'll be embracing for quite a while. If that is fine with you.
souling: (pic#9311887)

[personal profile] souling 2015-07-23 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no. Oh no....

Someone punish me for saying that.
junebound: (63)

bonus

[personal profile] junebound 2015-07-23 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ Suddenly some stranger is hugging her, and while Rika isn't opposed to hugs, it's still strange. Knowing this place, though, it's really not all that surprising.

So she just smiles, patting the stranger's head. ]


Mii... Are you alright?
antagonize: (062)

[personal profile] antagonize 2015-07-23 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Whoops, did I hit a nerve?

[He's not Sherlock Holmes, exactly, but he can tell this guy is slightly serious about that.

He doesn't sound apologetic about it, though. It's just quiet banter as he takes a moment to make sure the coast is clear of any other angry patients, before edging towards the left path. Bringing up sore subjects is not as fun when 1) he doesn't know the person, and 2) there's nothing he can get out of it.]
queenofminiskirts: (surprise || dnw)

OPEN

[personal profile] queenofminiskirts 2015-07-23 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
phase 1

[Well. This is an interesting game. Kaoru takes the name tag and the stethoscope but she doesn't bother with the lab coat. It doesn't really work with her the Children's uniform she always wears to go into ViViD.

You'll have a highschool aged girl with really red hair coming by to check your chart. Or maybe you're a fellow "doctor" making your rounds. Either way, Kaoru is staring at the chart in her hands because...what?]


...this sure is an interesting condition.


bonus

[Kaoru likes sexy nurses. These nurses have the body of a sexy nurse, but everything else is simply creepy. AND THEN ONE OF THEM JABBED HER WITH A NEEDLE! Why would anyone do that out of the blue!?

Then Kaoru starts hiccuping. She claps a hand over her mouth but her chest still heaves with another hiccup that is badly muffled by her hand.

To make matters worse, when she passes by someone, she grabs them by the hand and drags them into a dance.

And, someone who happens to be out of hand's reach, may find themselves being dragged by an invisible source towards this girl. Either way when it happens she says,]
I'm--[hiccup.]--sorry!
emotive: (Blinded by rose colored dreams)

bonus!

[personal profile] emotive 2015-07-23 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Here's a someone who's ventured too close. Ai managed to avoid the faceless nurses, since their eerie and unsettling appearance is more than enough to set off anyone's inner warning bells.

The woman with the stone in her forehead was a different kind of strange and Ai finds her hand taken and being pulled into a dance.
]

Oh! Pardon me!
dualshadow: (shitposters clogging up my feed)

[personal profile] dualshadow 2015-07-23 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Miyako gives this newcomer a quick. evaluating look. She seemed...awfully chipper for being stuck in a strange basement. And the being behind her—Well, it was to see that Miyako wasn't the only one being hounded by a creepy child clone.

Still, the chipperness is off putting, and Miyako doesn't really trust anything she's running across. She cautiously but politely gives Hawke an answer, keeping an eye on both Hawke herself and her tiny doppelgänger.]


Unfortunately, no. I was searching for one before you found me. Unfortunately, this hallway seems to extend for some distance.
cutebutexpendable: (7)

[personal profile] cutebutexpendable 2015-07-23 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, me. And you're the only elf I've seen for miles, so I guess that makes us two of a ki-

[ ... okay, Styx has witnessed some messed up shit in his time, but the sight of Illidan is still enough to make him trail off. When he speaks up again, he's a little more cautious. ]

Wow. Now that's something you don't see everyday. You do that to yourself? 'Cause, man, that's a hell of a trade-off right there.
queenofminiskirts: (worried || that can't be right)

closed to Shiho (Phase 4)

[personal profile] queenofminiskirts 2015-07-23 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[As soon as the rain started Kaoru went and met up with Shiho (because if things were going to go down she wanted them to be together).

So they ended up receiving the quest while they were together. Kaoru looks at the options and thinks...what would Minamoto want them to do?]


...I think we should go for Truth.
zitteraal: (22.)

[personal profile] zitteraal 2015-07-23 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a stretch of awkward silence here where Adolf has no idea what to do or say... his arms stay wrapped around Sai because of the effects of the shot, but now he just feels. Badly.

He clears his throat.
]

...They shot me with something. That's why this is happening.

[ Nice backpedaling. ]
yaayaa: (たずねきてみよ)

bonus

[personal profile] yaayaa 2015-07-23 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Nakigitsune is hiccuping uncontrollably from his own shot! Which he totally felt, sadly enough. So when Tarou suddenly approaches him with that incredibly surprising request, he...hiccups in reply. And takes a step back. He's confused, okay?]

W-what are you doing, Taroutachi-san?
cutebutexpendable: (6)

[personal profile] cutebutexpendable 2015-07-23 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ The plant's leaves rustle in response. ]

No. No one's here. Now go away and don't look behind the talking potted plant, you hear?
emotive: (I build my thoughts from the ground)

bonus

[personal profile] emotive 2015-07-23 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Ai's not a patient, but she is donning a white coat. She sees the nurse jabbing Korra with the needle and is about to run forward to help and perhaps fend off the nurse herself. Instead, the esper skids to a stop when she sees Korra running.]

W-Wait!

[The nurse is stalking towards them and for a split second, Ai Thao's eyes flash and the nurse is sent flying into the opposite wall.]

There she shouldn't bother you anymore!
Edited 2015-07-23 02:49 (UTC)
dualshadow: (This guy are sick)

[personal profile] dualshadow 2015-07-23 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Once Miyako sees the flying papers, she very quickly takes a few steps back. It doesn't take her too long to realize that the papers are not, in fact, some sort of trap, and once she does, she slowly and carefully moves forward again.]

Five.

[She answers his question, but why did he even ask it? Yes, Vector looks young, but certainly old enough to know basic arithmetic!]

What, may I ask, are you doing?
zerotohiro: (That's a great idea)

[personal profile] zerotohiro 2015-07-23 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
[With the confirmation that Clonco belongs to her he moves in closer to get a better look, not-quite ignoring Aura but definitely eyeing the mechanics of the machine.]

Hunk of junk, huh? Kinda looks more like a robot to me. [It's a light comment, mostly just for the show of being polite before he bends slightly to get a better look.] Where'd you get it?
junebound: (58)

iia

[personal profile] junebound 2015-07-23 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ Rika was going to approach Ciel before his outburst, but she watches in silence for a few moments as he yells at the apparition.

When it seems like he's done, she finally decides to speak up. ]


...Excuse me. Would you like to find a way out together? [ She has her own ghost following her too, a small child that looks to be only about five years old. The ghost's eyes are soulless as it quietly repeats how she's the reason her friends have died over and over again. ]
zerotohiro: (Well that's a surprise)

[personal profile] zerotohiro 2015-07-23 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[...and out of everything that's gone down in this ViViD, that's probably one of the most disturbing things yet.] What? Like...I look familiar, or I look like someone else you might know?