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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[ She squints at the girl on the table, until she starts to hear those noises and just scrunches her face is grotesque interest. ]
Knock that off!!
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[Otherwise, it's gonna keep happening!!!]
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[ [ She equips her baton in her hand instead of the clipboard, and soon enough she only needs to swish it through the air and it cuts through the restraints with ease, despite not being a blade at all. ]
Only, the doctor and the nurses seem to turn on Nonon just as much as the escaped patient, those creepy nurses screeching inhumanely as them move closer... ]
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[Hopping up and out, only to, well...]
Might as well let you handle those guys too.
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[ She's holding her baton out defensively, but the nurses seem to be coming from all sides, more and more of them, with their grotesque bodies and missing faces, carrying needles and scalpels, knocking over a cart full of medical supplies. ]
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Kinda at a disadvantage here. Why not owe two?
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That's disgusting!! Like hell do I want to see that!
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[Yes, beat them up, Nonon. Release your anger on them.]
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[ She hits one left, then another right, knocking the nurses back but they keep coming. The Doctor himself with a giant bonesaw in hand pushes through the crowd, coming to finish the job apparently, cackling like a madman. ]
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[Not even lifting a hand to help. What a good new pal.]
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[ ...She means NPC. Of which she's currently beating the hell out of right now, kicking a nurse in the chest as it tries to get back to its feet and sending it crashing into a group of them.
You're going to owe me a whole lot more than one or two! The doctor approaches the two of them, cackling and swinging his bonesaw, making Nonon hop back to dodge it. ]
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[Okay fine, she'll do something. Mostly slamming her body into the doctor. She doesn't even care if she gets cut. Cause...it ain't gonna bleed.]
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[ Apparently they are on different pages, except at least that Keeper finally understands enough to help while Nonon beats the shit out of a few more nurses, showing no mercy.
Her bedside manner could really be a lot better. ]
What the hell are you doing?! [ When she notices how useless the girl is, throwing herself at the doctor instead of actually fighting him, she's quick to grab Keeper by her hood and drag her off, trying to get away from the fight. ]
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Really, no one has ever actually tried to save her before, this is a new feeling.]
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What are you just standing around for?! Let's get the hell out of here!
[ She's grabbing the other girl now and pulling on her arm hard, having no idea what Keeper is thinking. ]
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[Despite saying that, she's still running with Nonon. No sense in fighting back as of now.]
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You were saying?!
[ So she's still holding onto Keeper, her hand slipping down to her wrist, pulling her as she runs, turning down one hallway then the next. ]
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[Nonon doesn't even need to pull. Nope, Keeper is going full out, her broken-ish arm trailing behind her for the time being.]
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[ They push through another set of double doors, then another, and soon find themselves in the children's ward, with pretty floral murals on the walls. Nonon just pulls the other girl into a room and bars the door behind them. ]
Shh!! [ Outside the nurses trod along, looking for them, even pushing the door, but moving on after thinking it's locked. ]
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Either way, she has a hand over her mask, as if that would actually stop her.]
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Eventually she just hops up on a box of supplies and leans back against the wall. ]
I don't know if your arm is actually going to be broken or not once we leave ViViD but if it is I'm not footing the bill. [ She just sighs... ] But doesn't it hurt?
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[At least they got a break. Though, she isn't breathing hard....or even at all.]
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...You look like a corpse.
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[Yep, going to be cracking shit back into the sockets. This can be loud.]
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[ Throwing a bunch of tongue depressors at Keeper to get her to stop!! ]
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