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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Minato still manages to sound calm for how flustered he is on the inside, but it's really a matter of time before he loses that too, what with the imminent disaster lying ahead.]
That's because- [Whatever Minato was about to say is cut off by a particularly high part in the song and the sound of him taking a half-step off and tripping as a result, pulling Yu down with him in his neglect to note that their hands are still linked together as they crash gracelessly onto the floor.] Whoa!
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Of course, this time he's drunk, and he doesn't catch himself as well. His knees take the brunt of the shock, and a sound of pain escapes him as they land in a heap. He's got his one hand braced next to Minato, and the other, well... their hands were still linked, weren't they?
Yu blinks owlishly down at his friend-slash-the boy he just confessed to. ]
This seems to happen to us a lot.
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The eyes looking back at Yu are a bit devoid of expression, and they blink once before Minato groans a muffled "Oof", letting go of Yu's hand so that he can gently extract himself from this mess- at this point he's had enough social awkwardness for one night, and he stares down at his fallen friend long enough to conclude that Yu wants to remain on the floor.] Think I hurt something...I'm logging out. [And he hastily adds this before doing just that:] Sorry.
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Sorry.
Yu will only groan, briefly shutting his eyes on a quiet sigh. ]
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Speaking of his friends, it didn't surprise him to see Minato and Yu. It sort of surprised him to see them fall into a pile of awkward limbs everywhere. And it sure as hell surprised him to find that Minato quickly logged out and Yu continued to sit.
It's not his business. It's not! It's really not...but...well, he's going to slowly inch his way over to Yu, dressed back in his Tron outfit after trying out a couple of things before sitting on the floor next to him and pulling his knees to his chest, arms wrapped around them. He's not sure what to say at first, quietly looking at the older boy and trying to process what he'd just seen.]
...the ceiling's not really that interesting. I've looked at it a lot tonight, too. ["Are you okay" seems too personal to start with, but it's on his mind.]
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It's more interesting when it's spinning, a little. Did you know someone spiked the punch bowls? I'm kind of drunk.
[ Yu winces one eye shut, running a hand over his hair. ]
I think I may have just gotten shot down. I'm not really sure. That's definitely the second time he's run away from me. At least the first time I could blame the books. This time I'm pretty sure it was mostly my fault. [ Yu leans forward a little further, letting his head hang. ] ... I really need to stop saying things without thinking about them first.
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[Around the time he helped spike them in the first place. Whoops. He'll have to have that discussion later, this is more pressing. He doesn't speak again for a moment as he allows Yu to babble, still taking time to understand what he's saying. "Shot down"? "Second time"? "Blame the books"?
'I'd never kissed anyone up until a few days ago. Now? I can't say I even kept track of the number.'
'I'm still sorting out how I feel about all of it.'
Oh...oh no. It...doesn't take a genius to put all of the pieces together and again, it sort of hurts to think about.]
But if you stopped saying things without thinking, you wouldn't say them at all. [It's said quietly, but he strongly believes that.] What makes you think this was mostly your fault? [He's hoping that by explaining it he'll get a sense of what Yu means by "this" anyway. Just to be sure.]
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[ He agrees easily enough because he knows himself. He'd've kept his mouth shut if he were sober. ] But that might have been best in this situation. I wonder if Minato-san will talk to me again. I don't think he feels the same way.
[ Yu says that last sentence a little quietly, his expression distant. He pauses for a second before glancing over at Hiro with a somewhat wry look. ]
I've had to think about it, but this is how I feel. I just wasn't planning on saying anything so soon. Or maybe at all. [ He rubs a hand over his face. ] And yet, I'm still talking. Why are we still sitting on the floor, come to think of it?
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The rest of that now. That's tricky.] Not saying anything wouldn't have helped, dude. It would've just manifested into something else instead and the results would probably be disastrous. [He looks down, pulling at one of his shoelaces a bit to give his hand something to do.] What exactly did you say to him anyway?
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[ That's something, always having your serious discussions on the floor. But Hiro's right about him not moving. He kind of doesn't want to.
He doesn't say anything in response to that - "it would've just manifested into something else." Yu knows better than anyone the importance of the truth. But he's also struggled more than anyone with expressing himself, in many ways. Plus, something like this... it's kind of embarrassing, isn't it?
Yu blows out a breath. ]
That I have feelings for him, more or less. A lot has happened between us... [ Much of it Hiro knows, having been there for the jungle. ] I'm still not certain of exactly what I'd like to do, but I can't deny I feel something for him. His response was to say this was happening too fast...
[ Yu braces his elbow on his knee and his forehead on his palm. ]
He doesn't feel the same. I shouldn't've... [ A beat. The more he thinks about this, the more he manages to convince himself that 1) this was a bad idea and 2) Minato definitely does not feel the same. And as it progressively hits him, he feels progressively worse. Finally he sighs out, feeling kind of tired. ]
I owe him an apology. But we'll be alright. [ He doesn't actually think they'll stop being friends over this. He'll ache for a while, but he can get over that. ]
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Saying it's happening too fast doesn't mean he doesn't feel the same, dummy. [Sorry, Yu.] Have you met Minato? Dude's weird and you just said it yourself, a lot has happened between you guys. It's a lot to process. …sometimes you can know you feel something for somebody and you still have to take a lot of time to really sort it out. You felt something for Minato for a while before you decided to try saying something didn't you?
[A beat.] Were you serious about it? Your feelings for him and telling him. Were you serious?
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The question wins a look of surprise, though. Open surprise. ]
Of course.
[ Total honesty. ]
I'm drunk, not joking.
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I did fall on top of him. [ He sighs out slowly. ] But I see what you're saying. I would have liked to tell him under better circumstances. I'm not sorry for my feelings. I'm sorry for telling him how I did.
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[ A beat, and Yu stares at him. ]
You set your kitchen on fire telling her you liked her?
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I kinda told her I would make her pancakes but I don't really know how to cook so I was looking at the box for instructions and she started squeaking into my cat's stomach and I put the box down because she's super distracting and I was kinda freaking out because I don't know what I'm doing in a kitchen and I set the box on part of the burner.
[Pause.] After that Ruby tried to put the fire out with Tadashi's pillow and it was an even bigger fire until I found baking soda to put the whole thing out but it was sort of a giant mess. So we sat on the floor and things just…sorta spilled out. [He grins slightly.] Turns out she liked me, too.
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I'm glad. I think you two will make each other happy. ... if you need some cooking lessons, I could probably give you a few pointers.
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[He presses his mouth into a thin line.] You know Minato…what makes you think it's a you-problem and not a Minato-problem? [He knows that Minato's views are things are a little skewed and given their last couple of conversations he can guess there's something going on in that boy's head.]
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Yu turns thoughtful at that, but again, doesn't interrupt. It's a little easier not to run his mouth when he's not confronted with one of the objects of his affections, as it turns out. He does sway a little before shaking his head. He'll have to try and address that later when he's a little more clearheaded. He knows he wants to address it, but he's at the level of drunk where he knows he's too drunk to handle that level of conversation. Might as well just answer the question instead. ]
Because I'm the one that's made moves on him. Twice. The first time wasn't even intentional. And yet somehow, I developed these feelings anyway... [ He groans as he presses the heels of his palms into his eyes. ] He did tell me he didn't mind the kiss from back then. But I don't want to read into his words too much when his first impulse seems to be to run away.
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You're also in a giant ballroom full of people and didn't really give him a warning before you told him how you felt. Maybe he was just blindsided. My first instinct when I told Ruby I liked her was to immediately stop talking until she dragged me out of my own head so...[A shrug.]
Basically? Feelings are pretty dumb but that doesn't make them any easier to understand. And it doesn't make them any less real. I really don't think Minato would say he didn't mind if he actually minded. He can actually be a blunt jerk sometimes.
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[ There are a lot of things Yu appreciates about Minato. That the other Wild Card was one of the only people to bluntly acknowledge that Yu made mistakes in the jungle is something he still appreciates. Minato...
Thinking about him more in depth makes a tight feeling shift through Yu's chest, and he breathes past it slowly. ]
I know, [ he repeats, more quietly. ] I'll just have to talk to him. Maybe when I'm not drunk. That might be a better idea. [ His tone is wry. Should he try getting up? They've been here for a while. Urgh. ] We should move...
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Guess I shouldn't have been so adventurous with the punch bowls after all, huh?
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[He mostly wanted a read on his mental state, but maybe that's better to talk about when Yu's sober since at least Hiro will remember this whole conversation.]
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