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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I don't know a thing about being a doctor and here I am! Trying my best to help everyone out, including all those weird medical charts and stuff!
[Still, that doesn't stop her from raising an eyebrow at him]
...That depends, exactly what do you mean by 'borrowed'?
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[There's a light grin though.] Borrowed just long enough to get out of here, no big deal. [Hiro, that's actually called stealing.] I think I'm just as qualified to pretend I'm a doctor as you are don't you think?
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Oooohhh, now that's definitely gotta hurt them! But I wonder would that count as hitting a monster according to the ViViD though! Still, that poor nurse even if they are creepy looking!
[But a small smirk appeared on her face] Oh really now? Well, I could give you a coat but...if you really want to get out of here, it's gonna be a lot harder than it looks!
I mean, you're going to have to beat the game somehow!
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Would you rather the nurse be the one hitting you first? But I didn't even think about it counting as a strike against a monster. It was good enough for a distraction to get to level two at least.
[There's an echoing smirk though.] Trust me. I've played tons of video games. It's gonna take more than this to stop me from winning. [The rest of her sentence catches up with him though.] And anyway if you just gave me yours, what about you? Wouldn't that just leave you wide open for attack?
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[And you know, it almost got her 'killed' but that's for another time! Of course, just as she was about to speak up? She immediately closed it back shut.]
Uugghhh, good point, I didn't think about that. I wonder if we'll be able to go find a random closest or something and find something there. That or we get you a coat and maybe they'll think you're a doctor?
[...Mmaaayybbeee?]
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[But her suggestion's actually a decent one and he finally sits up a little taller, shifting to his feet into a crouch.] Either of those could work. Depends on how much danger you want to face to get a coat. [He looks around, eyeing the hall for any sign of a closet.] You really think they just keep these things in closets? [He holds up a finger though as though he's about to lecture.] And anyway, video game logic has taught me that if you think there's a monster waiting in the closet for you, there probably is.
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Oh! It usually involves someone cutting them up or exploding them! Not a very pretty sight but at least that works right?
[Good thing there wasn't any real blood involved! But as she crossed her arms, she pondered in thought]
Probably? I wouldn't doubt that's probably what they want us to do but there could be nurses or monsters around the corner! So if we were, we're going to need something to attack with. Like something really really big!
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[Trying to make stupid jokes helps him keep calm even as he looks around, also pondering in thought. His eyes soon land on a cart nearby and a grin slowly spreads over his face.]
What about something like that? We could use it as a battering ram to throw off any monsters to give us enough time to escape.
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[Priorities! But still, she couldn't help but chuckle at that joke. Although, her thoughts were cut short once she saw said nearby cart]
Well, we could! It's worth a try and a lot better than just sneaking up on all the monsters we can find anyway. I’d say we go for it!
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How good are you at scouting? Would it be better if I'm on the lookout for monsters and you drive?
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[Even if said sled kind of bursted into fire but no big deal! He didn't need to know that. Once her hands were on the cart, a huge smirk appeared on her face]
Just tell me whenever you're ready and I'll be on the moveout!
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Let's get going.
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The louder the sounds got behind them. She didn't need to look to see what might be running after them]
Now what? You got any other plans, Hiro?
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[Which would be fine if the hallway wasn't impossibly long, but details.] I do have one more idea though...they're behind us, right? We could probably use the cart to knock them back when we're close to the door. Think so?
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[See the deadpan look on Anna's face, it's definitely there. Although, she didn't have much time to think of comeback. She had quickly go to the left and immediately rushed straight up to said door]
You got it! Let's hope I can make it work though... [She trailed off. After all, this was something she never tried before! So with a mumble or two, the moment she closed the door, she quickly turned back and pushed the cart back.
...Nevermind the wide eyed look on her face the moment that it did hit said monster though]
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Nice. Knew that'd work. [He looks up at her, not at all surprised she seems a little startled but rushing right through it.] Looks like we're clear to head up for the next level. Are you ready? [He points into the distance, pointing at another set of stairs at the end of their hallway.]