You've seen the flyer. Or maybe you haven't. Whatever your reasons may be, you've decided to log onto ViViD today at around 6 PM. At first, all seems normal as the game loads, and you prepare to start on what should be an average adventure. Maybe you'll do a little fighting, or some exploring, or even a little platforming. Either way, there shouldn't be anything unusual about this.
Right?
You couldn't have been more wrong. The moment you log in, something goes strange. The game glitches around you, whatever world that started to load seizing up and freezing with static, warping with strange colors. And then a different setting loads smoothly like nothing ever happened. The first thing you notice is that it's sprawling and beautiful, if not a little ostentatious. Should your curiosity draw you from the courtyard you've arrived in through the great double doors, you'll arrive in...
... a ballroom. Welcome to prom. |
PHASE I [ 6 00 ] There are tables scattered around the periphery of the room, and a DJ, somewhat out of place in this beautiful setting, is stationed at the back, spinning out tunes to help you get settled into the start of the night. On the scattered tables are... punch bowls? They look tantalizing, and they come in quite a rainbow of colors. Should you be brave enough to take a sip, you'll find interesting things will happen. Drink the red punch, and you'll end up in rococo fashion. Drink the pale champagne-colored punch, and you'll find yourself sporting elegant regency attire. How about that cool blue punch? You'll step right into the roaring 20's. What about that dayglo orange punch over there? How about some far out 80's, man? That futuristic purple punch will suit you up in Tron style. And then there's one last punch bowl on a lonely table in the corner. No one can quite identify that color. Is that ... brown? Brave this punch bowl and you'll be, uh ... richly rewarded with modern-day fashions. Will you step up and test these refreshments, for science? Or will you be the first onto the dance floor, or to make an insane request of the DJ?
Last but not least, certain Cerealians who glitch into the level may find they have a specific corsage attached that they cannot remove! If they stick around long enough, they'll find one other lucky soul with a matching corsage. This is your ViViD assigned date! No one is going to force you two to dance... but you might find that the longer you put off dancing, the tighter that corsage gets around your wrist, or the more it begins to prick your chest, depending on its location. Might want to rethink your position...
Dates: - Shijima Kurookano & Himeko Inaba
- Trucy Wright & Enomoto "Ene" Takane
- Adelina & Rock Lee
- Byakuya Togami & Lailah
- Archer & Touka Kirishima
- Sakuya Le Bel Shirogane & Maya Fey
- Leon Kuwata & Alisha Diphda
PHASE II [ 730 ] So you're here. Whether out of curiosity or you've resigned yourself to the strange festivities, you're in. Maybe you've been wallflowering it up for a while, even with the cool kickin music playing. Whatever the case may be, the DJ announces themselves (DJ Slim Shaydee, not to be confused with that knock off from Earth). You're welcomed in an enthusiastic manner. Also hey, if you're near a table, see those cute placards? Yeah the ones in the center pieces mixed in with the bowl of candy and flowers. You'll notice they have a neatly typed out list— DJ Slim Shaydee says whoever fulfills the criteria on the list will be crowned Prom Royalty. Who doesn't want that???
- Successfully complete a slow dance
- Do the cha cha slide OR do the electric slide without messing up the turn
- Make out in the rose garden out back
- Have a dramatic fight with a close friend and storm out (you may come back after)
- Comfort a crying friend in the bathroom
- If you're a minor, accidentally get drunk
- Successfully spike every punch bowl within a 20 minute time limit
- Confess romantic feelings to the object of your affections
To truly kick it off or maybe give those ambitious types a head start, DJ Slim is gonna play you (yes all of you) a group dance! Hope you know the moves to the Cha Cha Slide. If not, don't worry, the song will tell you every step.
Oh and one more thing — anyone who fulfills an item on the list will get a confetti surprise. What does this mean? It means a golden, multi-faceted little ball will spontaneously appear over your head out of nowhere soon after you fulfill a condition, hovering for a moment before it explodes into a shower of confetti. Enjoy!
PHASE III [ 900 ] Whew. All these fast paced songs sure have you tired out, right? Maybe take a sip from the many punch bowls around the room if you haven't tested them out yet. Or try your hand at fulfilling another portion of that list from earlier—by spiking the punch. Better work fast though, the bowls themselves refresh fairly quickly once they sense contamination. See how many you can get in one go! Or if you're not a dirty prankster, see how many people you can catch spiking those dang bowls.
While you're doing that, the DJ seems to want to wind down the energy in the room. That means, you guessed it: time for that coveted slow dance. As the first chords of the song play, the doors to the garden veranda and hedge maze open. How romantic.
PHASE IV [ 1000 ] It's the end of the night, and maybe you've been trying your best to satisfy all those win conditions. Or maybe you haven't! Either way, it's clear from the mood in the air that the time is drawing near for the announcement of the Prom Royalty. The DJ brings the lights low, and spotlights hit his stand. He brings a mic to his mouth, and announces grimly that there will be no Prom Royalty. Apparently, no one satisfied enough of the win conditions! How can that be? Surely someone tried! Well, whatever happened, the DJ isn't happy, and the lights in the room will come back up. The DJ will mess with some of the equipment at his station, and all across the room, small panels will open up near the ceiling. Pouring out will come ... balloons? And not just any balloons - they're water balloons, and not only are they somehow floating, they're coming straight for you. How are they flying? We just don't know. If they come in contact with you, they'll frizz your perfect prom hair. Worse, if you apply even the mildest force to them, they'll immediately pop and drench you in freezing cold water, leaving you drenched.
The ballroom quickly fills with these angry little balloons, threatening to flood the room completely if too many of them pop. Will you flee and save yourself? Try to save your friends? Try to reason with the DJ and stop the balloon menace? No matter what you do, you'd better work fast. The floor is already getting dangerously wet...
BONUS [ hour ??? ] Remember that garden maze? From a certain point of the evening on, prom guests have been free to wander through as they please. They're beautiful, a rose maze by day that looks even more breathtaking at night with fairy lights glittering and winking in between all the flowers and leaves. Maybe you wandered out there to get away from the craziness in the party. Perhaps you want to be a true wallflower. But should you explore this maze with another at your side, you'll find it a pleasant enough trip, and if you manage to make it all the way to the center of the maze, you'll discover a secluded little gazebo that seems like it was placed there just for you.
Go in alone, though, and the maze seems like a completely different place. The fairy lights will be dimmer, less pleasant. You'll hear a rustling too loud to just be the wind. What was that sound? Turn around, and nothing is there. Too late you'll realize that the maze itself is alive, and has been watching you this entire time. It doesn't like lone wanderers. Better run fast or find a way to get out of the plant's clutches before you really become veggie.
However, if you get caught, you'll be trapped by the sentient vines that shoot out from the walls and bound to the side of the maze until another lone explorer finds you. At this point the vines will reach out and snap up that unlucky soul, too, wrapping you both up in a not-so-tender embrace. You'll both be stuck there until you can do whatever it is the maze wants that will convince it to set you free. What is that? Well, it does seem to be fond of lovers... and public displays of affection.
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[But they can talk about that later. He's genuinely curious about Adelina and how she became the one Tadashi tested the dragon with and her apparently medieval world.] Our world's a lot more like Cerealia but with less aliens. I don't know where dragons would even live if they existed. [...aha.] Anime's like...okay so you know what a movie is, right? It's a kind of art style from Japan. It's all art, too, either from drawing or computer graphics or whatever so it's different than a movie. There're a couple of shows that have the dragons being super-powerful beings and they talk and stuff. Not exactly realistic, but we're also from a world where a giant lizard-monster's actually a registered resident of an Asian country. [In other words some things just don't make sense.]
The element of surprise is always one of the best ways to go when it comes to stuff like this. Hawke actually tested the dragon yesterday, too. Let's just say she really, really didn't know what she was up again. [He gives her a bemused look.] Do you really want me to explain it? It's...a long and kinda complicated explanation since it's a lot of mechanics and engineering.
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May I ask what a samurai is? As for dragons, I imagine they would live in large caves as they do in my world. You do have caves, don't you?
[you never know!! to her, finding they didn't have caves wouldn't be as strange as finding that they didn't have magic, after all, and tadashi had already told her that.]]
So it's similar to a film, but entirely drawn? How interesting! I love artwork as well. I used to sew tapestries back home, so I have some experience with how to turn an image into part of a story, but seeing an entire story drawn... It must be incredible. [she pauses when he describes the lizard monster, though.] I thought your world didn't have any monsters. Beyond that, why would you give citizenship to one?
[another look of confusion. she's picturing giving an ogre or a griffin citizenship and it's just wrong, somehow. but, moving on!]
She liked it, then? Ah, but... You're right, I shouldn't waste your time. I most likely wouldn't understand it anyways.
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[Well. That's something to look into whenever they get back.] Yeah, exactly! They probably have some examples on the movie app you can download here. [Probably so aptly named CereFlix.] I don't know how to sew or anything but I like drawing. Usually they're blueprints for a new project but sometimes it's just fun to doodle whatever comes to mind. Technology's advanced really far, too, so some of it actually looks lifelike in some instances. And Godzilla's not…actually real. He's just really famous and so they decided since he usually shows up anyway he might as well have residency. Don't ask me, I didn't decide on that.
She liked it enough and that's what counts. [His eyes widen a little and he shakes his head.] Oh, no! That's not really what I meant. I don't mind explaining stuff like that. [Actually it's kind of his favorite thing to do.] Some people just consider it a waste of their time, that's all.
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[#knight superiority. but, she's pausing for a moment.]
App...?
[what on earth is an app, she has no idea. godzilla is equally weird, but as he's telling her not to ask him, she can let that go. probably.]
Then, if you would be willing to explain it, I would love to hear about it. I apologize in advance for any additional questions I have during the explanation.
[she doesn't mind how long it takes, really. she's just curious.]
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[Ahem. Anyway.] App. Like a program. You've seen the little icons on your CereVice haven't you? Those are different apps. There's one for calling, one for texting, one for the library now...for...whatever reason...they're programs to tell devices what functions to perform and provide a whole bunch of information. There're apps for games and movies and books--Tadashi made one, too. His is used to track people in the colony and it'll tell you when people show up or disappear and they're connected to his robotic birds that can pinpoint a person's location in the city via a tracking system. That's how he found out I was here in the first place.
[And GPS trackers in his hoodies are exactly how Tadashi kept tabs on him at home. It's clear that he likes to talk about these things and that he's comfortable explaining them.] Don't say I didn't warn you, okay? I don't mind questions either. [Especially when he knows he has the answers. With that, he launches into a rather detailed explanation about the dragon, the work Tadashi put in to design its flexibility and how Hiro modified the wings to be more aerodynamic and keep it up for longer periods of time and about the wiring and the engineering and the pyrotechnics involved (including pairing them with the hydraulics and modifying the temperature for the ice to stay cold enough and the flames to stay hot enough.)
It's a lot of discussion of metal and welding and programming and maybe he's talking a little too much but it's a pretty big project. And he finally stops and gives her another tentative grin.] Like I said it's kinda complicated. But Tadashi and I have been inventing stuff since I was a kid so it was just about applying the same fundamentals we know about.
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[neither of them will ever be swayed.]
Oh! I know what you're speaking of, I simply didn't know what they were called. Mm, his design sounds like a rather useful program. Is there something I should do to obtain it on my own device?
[as he speaks, she goes silent, listening carefully. she asks questions when something is particularly confusing, but still comes out understanding little of how it works. that's okay, though. it sounded cool and that matters too.]
That's incredible. How young were you when you began designing these sorts of things?
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Tadashi usually designs useful things. You could probably ask him to install it on your CereVice for you since it's more of a specialty app. I know he was offering to install it for people a while ago, he'd probably be happy to do it.
[To be fair a lot of people in the colony don't ever quite understand everything Hiro talks about, but he's come to find that people accept that and it helps. Inventions and robots are cool, end of story.] When we first started? I was about three or four. [A beat.] It used to drive our aunt crazy because we'd take apart a lot of stuff in our house and create things in our room growing up. Tadashi's always been good at this kind of stuff and I wanted to do it, too. We've made some pretty cool stuff since then.
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<small<[her smiles softens a bit as he goes on. it reminds her of her older sister, even if their time when they were younger was mostly spent playing pretend and acting out imaginary adventures rather than inventing anything.]</small>
Did you find your love of inventing through him? That's wonderful.
<small>[but...]</small>
You lived with your aunt?
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[He seems a little surprised by the question.] But yeah. We've lived with Aunt Cass almost my entire life. Is...that weird where you're from or...?