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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Fine, fiiine. There're plenty of enemies up ahead, so let's get started, 'kay?
[UP, UP AND AWAY.]
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Make it quick! [This complete with an "encouraging" nudge, which is of course just Kagami whapping at Kashuu's shoulder. What a great pep talk!!]
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But Kashuu will take off down the hall, and he sure wasn't wrong about there being a higher concentration of enemies to fight off over yonder. It doesn't take much time at all before they cross paths with a creepy nurse, and Kashuu spends his once-per-interaction Cool Token by fluidly withdrawing his blade and cleanly cutting it down. It's not three bodies, but someone with an eye for swords would likely be able to tell from the ease of the cut alone that adding two more probably wouldn't be a problem...
Also, for some reason, Kashuu seems a lot less tetchy about getting blood on his blade than he did when Kagami was trying to cut his gross hobo clothing on it?! Swords.]
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Kagami follows him without hesitation, despite his tragic lack of weapons, because he doesn't want to miss this supposedly cool sword action. One nurse really isn't as impressive as three bodies at all, but he's sort of impressed anyway. It's because he's jealous... he's jealous Kashuu gets to slice and dice enemies and he's stuck watching, that's it. It still earns Kashuu a patented annoying whistle for his efforts!
And Kagami stopping to look at the fallen nurse and nudge it with his foot. Yep, that creepy nurse sure is down.] Well, well! [NOT BAD he doesn't add out loud, woops.]
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I tooold you! My performance is perfect. If these things stop being so scattered, I'll show you something really impressive!
[Kashuu "stabs things to impress people" Kiyomitsu...]
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Oh-- [He stoops down, casually divesting the nurse of its nasty syringe. This will do... And back to Kashuu, before he has a needy-for-attention fit over there. He snakes an arm around his shoulder to start them walking again, come, let's kill stuff...]
You keep saying that! I'll believe it when I see it.
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THE FIT WAS ON ITS WAY, THOUGH. See, that's one hurdle down! He's definitely distracted from his own complaints so he can bat at Kagami's shoulder with his free hand.]
Hey, hey, not so close. [He's still a weird fish hobo and he also has no pants, that's a no-go...]
Anyway, just keep an eye out, I guess.
[At the end of the hall, there's a split! The right direction seems to lead toward the front area of the hospital where the waiting room is, but there are shuffling noises down the left side that indicate more enemies are probably that way... WHICH WAY, WHICH WAY.]
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The usual point, that is. He hums in reply and leans forward slightly to look both ways down the hall, considering.
Well... he's off in the direction of Enemy Sounds, with his trust syringe at the ready. Without saying anything, because either Kashuu comes with or he's awful forever, so - no pressure.]
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But he definitely sounds a little baffled and a little huffy as he tags along, jabbing his thumb over his shoulder.]
Make up your mind, would you? I thought you wanted to go get your stuff back or whatever.
[Gosh!! What a fickle can of shark assholes.
Anyway, when they turn the corner down the next hall, it's basically that post-elevator scene from silent hill. Who let all these weird nurses out?? A mystery. Kashuu makes a sound that seems to imply he finds it very unappealing...]
Ew.
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Later, alright? Don't rush me. I'm giving you a chance, aren't I?
[See, he's doing this... for Kashuu!! But actually for himself. There's no real guarantee his stuff is in that other direction, besides-! What if this pile of ugly nurses isn't here anymore when he has all his things?
Kagami gives him a look, a probably mildly uncomfortable look that's his half-assed attempt at looking pleasant. He'd clap Kashuu on the shoulder in camaraderie, but he's busy fussing with the syringe in both hands, so Kashuu is spared this time...
He'd say something else, but a nurse comes at them with needle intent just then, and he's much more excited about darting forward to shove his syringe into its creepy face.]
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-Things that Kashuu Kiyomitsu has just learned, which he for some reason didn't learn in their previous interaction despite all of the glaring warning signs
Actually, he's still not as worried as he should be?! He just makes a "uweh" sort of noise like a pansy punkass.]
Vi-cious!
[AND THEN HE'S OFF because he said he'd show Kagami something impressive so dangit, he's gonna show Kagami something impressive!! Anyway, he basically proceeds to become a stabby windmill, slice-and-dicing his way through like he's some sort of sword spirit or something, dang. He dodges the nurses that come at him with needles, pivots like he's dancing, and finally manages his three-body cut. Only a serial killer would be impressed by this, so it's a good thing Kagami's the audience!]
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And just in time to finally see the three-body MEGACUT... It's as excessive as he wanted it to be. Let him just- shove some Dead Nurse off to flop to the floor, first.]
You are impressive! [this is truly his best effort.]
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But Kashuu is willing to overlook it in favor of the praise?! Someone help him.]
I know, right?
[But Kagami can just keep complimenting him and praising him for being good at murdering weird monsters, that's good too. Luckily (for the nurses) there's nothing left here to massacre - just a gross, bloody and gore-y hall and two maniacs. Kashuu takes care to rid his blade of blood before sheathing it again, chest still puffed out in some measure of pride.]
I guess you don't really need a guard or anything either, huh?
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Speaking of gross, he's going to toss his nasty syringes off to the side and stoop down to collect more from the other nurses. He's never heard of video games but he definitely knows how to play?! This looting...]
Oh, you're a quick study, too. [sarcasm compliments count.] I don't, but it's faster this way.
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Then I guess I can keep looking with you. [On the off chance that he also gets complimented again...
But!! He'll just ignore all the gross syringe business going on here, stepping neatly around the bodies to continue down the hall.]
O-kaaay, where would weird guys hide a big sword? Let's see, let's see...
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Thankfully he's done looting bodies quickly enough, trailing after Kashuu like the gross hobo shadow he is.]
And the rest of my stuff. Who would want to wear this forever?
[He says, like having his other rags taken means he's obligated to keep the gown and coat... like that's how it works.]
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Who would wanna wear the stuff you were wearing before forever?
[Apparently Kashuu also believes that he's just going to be stuck with the gown and coat, because he makes no other comment on that... No, he just focuses on the fact that Kagami is dressed like a walking mess and he needs Help™.]
You should let me find a better outfit for you.
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What for? My stuff is just fine.
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[Just no, which he says right after sighing like he's personally witnessed a great tragedy.]
I'll fix it up no problem, so you can just leave it to me. You don't wanna walk around a city like this looking like you spent all night rolling around in the mud on a riverbank, yeah?
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It makes sense until he thinks about it.]
I always walk around like that. What's your problem with it?
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[That's... yes. Yes, welcome to Kashuu Kiyomitsu. Anyway, he continues carding through supplies and desk drawers like he's not currently guiding this conversation in a weird direction. Unsurprisingly, he's not very successful! He finds like, another clipboard for his efforts, and a sheet of stickers that are probably saved for the alien children patients.
He pockets those.]
wanders back in w/ starbucks
Well now that he's distracted from scavenging for miscellaneous trash...]
I don't care if it looks good... What's wrong with you? [like for real.]
i have kagamis eyebrow extensions ready
What's wrong with you? [He snaps back reflexively, like an actual five year old...
But he'll turn away from whatever pile of garbage he's looking through to face Kagami more fully, because this is Serious. People who don't understand fashion need more help than anyone.]
If you wanna feel good about yourself, you gotta look your best. Trust me! Just give me liiike, I dunno... an hour? You'll feel like a whole new person!
i hope they're permanently angry
Pass! I'll keep this coat [why] and we'll call it done, okay?
omg... he'll just paste them on at an angry angle
Keep the coat, but you gotta let me help. I'm looking for your gross stuff, so pay me back! It won't even take that long, I promise.
perfect A++++ aesthetic
fake angry eyebrows, the fish asshole
an impressive title for sure
the title he truly deserves
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