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. ] |
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.
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Seeing as he's fresh blood and doesn't know how to ViViD yet...] Well, you can do it as...
[And so follows this possibly long explanation with hand gestures and waving and how to try to leave the game or to look at his stats and stuff. Part of it is also because this game is different to the others, so she doesn't quite know all the settings herself. It's been blocked by bosses...]
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kanda's still confused by the time vietnam's done explaining, brow furrowed. the whole deal about settings, screens, and stats is a little beyond him. it's not like he spent much time in the science department if he could help it. ]
Have you tried it yet?
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It's probably better if he tried it himself, but yes. Good question, Kanda. Though when she wants to answer, she keeps tugging at her labcoat. It's becoming increasingly uncomfortable (not the labcoat).]
I tried before. It didn't work. This instance really is keeping us here.
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What if I kill myself?
[ he's 100% serious about this suggestion. ]
That has to stop something from working in this machine.
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This idea though.]
Technically it should work, you should be ejected. But when we are unable to log out last time, and we are able to feel pain, there's a chance that it will carry over outside of the game. [Dotanuki was completely drenched in blood during that time, but it was much more serious than this.]
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unfortunately, that's also about when the drugs kick in. immediately, kanda's expression twists into one of abject horror, at himself, for having this kind of desire. he also completely and fairly obviously freezes in place. ]
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She has to be ready to stop him! Which means she should hug him to do that right. He looks like he could do with a hug. Hugs are wonderful.
...Why is she even thinking that. As she looks over at him, she tries to peel her eyes away, though for some reason, he's looking rather tense.]
A...are you alright? [Asking a question would make a perfect distraction.]
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[ he just had a thought. a gross thought. ]
...I need a blade.
[ why the hell does he feel like hugging someone right now when finding a weapon should be more important? kanda scowls even harder at his priorities. ]
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If you are sure. We can locate a blade around? It is a hospital. But what do you need it for?
[Now she's just rubbing her arms. Don't...don't consider it! They've only met twice!]
cw suicide talk in this subthread
[ serious as he sounds, he's also still quite a mess: hair tangled, barefoot, and wearing the hospital gown. his hands flex briefly, and his gaze flies over to vietnam's shoulders. ]
That shot. [ mumbling half to himself. ] Seems like something Komui would come up with...
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She quickly shakes her head, moving towards him instead of leading him towards any possible station with a blade.]
Yes, but it is not the same situation right now. It might not work the same way. You could hurt yourself outside of the game too.
[Also what is he talking about? "Komui"?]
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he deals with all of this by frowning really hard and extremely roughly dragging her into a sidehug, complete with a tch. his arm is perilously close to her neck. basically, it's a really bad hug. ]
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At least her expression shows her true feelings on the matter: what is going on.]
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...if you ever tell anyone about this after it wears off, I will kill you.
[ no "if" on the wearing off, because he can't handle the alternative. and the forced contact is making him grouchy and threatening. ]
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[She clears her throat. Should she pat him on the back? Or maybe it's better if they just stand here like this and wait for it to wear off. He's assuming it wears off anyway. She would hope so too.]
I will keep it a secret. My own dignity is on the line as well. [Kanda, you're not the one hugging someone who has a naked butt.]
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Right.
[ another pause. he can't imagine walking like this (god it would be so embarrassing), so he can't really carry out his plan right now.
looks like all he can do is wait.
grumpily. ]
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At least he can't carry out his plan now. This gives her more time to try to work it out! The problem is, while she's trying to plot out how to stop him, she's no longer concentrating on stopping herself from giving him a warmer hug.
Gross.]
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This is stupid.
[ why hugs, why. ]
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A-ah, it could be worse.
[They could be stripping. She saw those tarot cards back in the day. God.]
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[ kanda sighs again, almost explosively. don't jinx it bud. ]
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[YEAH KANDA DON'T JINX IT. She doesn't want to say. She could be hitting on him right now. That would be hell.]
Perhaps it is better we do not think of how it can be worse.
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[ she's probably right. kanda sets his jaw, thinking about other things. like training, and mugen, and not being here.
it'll wear off soon... hopefully. ]
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...
[How long is this meant to take anyway, she wonders. Little did she know this was going to be the longest twenty minutes she'd ever experienced in a while. While she's here though, she did notice that he worked out a lot.]
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not immediately, anyway.
and yes viatnam get it ;)]Fuck. [ he pulls away as soon as he can, rubbing his arms like he can erase the feeling of human contact. ]
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Also yeeeaaah hot body bonus WINK.When he finally pulls away, she could feel that she can too, and starts stretching her arms before she straightens her clothes. That was certainly an Experience.]
R-right. Thank goodness it wore off.
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