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Who: Everyoneeeeee!
When: OOC: 1/15 ; IC: 5/7
Where: ViViD's new level: Your Health and You (And Giant Monsters)
What: Intro log, welcome to Cerealia!
Rating/Warning: PG-13 for violence, etc! Please let the mods know if the rating needs to be changed or if the log needs to be locked!




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The thing about Cerealia is, there really isn't any nature to be found here. Sure, you can go outside the walls of the city and explore the land beyond but who wants to risk a terrible, horrible death just to sniff the flowers? Not you, that's who! CERES understands that, CERES sympathizes, and sometimes CERES decides to take action when such problems arise. As part of the company's current "Healthier and Happier YOU" initiative, they've decided to let everyone get back in touch with nature a little.

Via ViViD.

Of course, this being CERES, the nature they've sent everyone to is more of a swamp. The place is disgusting, a real marvel of ViViD ingenuity and it smells like the dead. There's strange rustling among the leaves from creatures that may or may not want to eat you, and random pits that open up right under your feet with the goal of sending you straight into the marsh. It's not really that fun. There's no welcome sign either, no nothing except for swamplands as far as the eye can see.

Welcome to ViViD!

This is Mosley. One of our programmers forgot to include a welcome greeting for the level this time. How incompetent can you get? He's been fired now, it's fine. Instead, I will greet you today. Lucky you! You've been invited today to participate in CERES's "Healthier and Happier YOU" level where we've combined both physical exercise and relaxing meditation into the ultimate ViViD experience. Isn't that fun? You can... go camping and stuff. Or whatever. I don't... know...



Honestly, I don't even care. Have fun.

//SCENARIOS.EXE


PHASE I

[ 6:00 ] Welcome to your new healthy living training ground! What does a swamp have to do with healthy living, you may ask? Absolutely nothing! To make up for it, CERES has outfitted all players with the proper equipment for their new healthy living lifestyle. They also may or may not have let you keep your shoes based on how benevolent the ViViD gods were being at the time. (Not very.)

Oh, and all newcomers will have something additional on their fancy new yoga shirt. It will be displayed loudly and proudly all over the front and back of it. And if you're one of the few not wearing a shirt, it will be on the back of your pants. As in, your butt. It will be on your butt.

What’s ViViD trying to say, anyway?

Regardless, it probably doesn’t matter as much as finding your way through the swamp. Some sort of dry land would be really nice right now, wouldn't it? You'll have to watch out for the mud that will suck you right down under the marsh, and the creatures with lots of teeth that will never surface from the mud but won't hesitate to snap up an unwary foot or two.

CERES is sure you'll be fine. Totally and completely fine.

PHASE II

[ 8:00 ] Eventually, if you try really, really hard, you’ll make it to a house. Actually, it’s more of a shack, really. If you clamber your way out of the mud and the gunk and the marsh into said shack, you will find it to be empty aside from a table. A table hosting a huge pile of... well, health drinks. See, there's totally a health theme in this level. CERES would never make a ViViD level that wasn't thematically appropriate. Never! Health drinks of all sorts and types and sizes can be found here and there’s even a sign too; it simply says:

Take one.

Well, that seems safe.

Unfortunately, you won’t be able to leave said shack until you do take one. And drink it. The door will lock shut and cover itself in more swamp until you do. Yay. Depending on your luck, the drink may do the following to you:

➟ Cause your ViViD experience to glitch. This may involve phasing through walls, seeing everything in 8-bit, or hearing really annoying old video game music everywhere you go.

➟ Cause status effects. This can include suddenly moving incredibly slowly, being turned to stone for a period of time, suddenly being on fire, suddenly being poisoned, etc etc.

➟ Be healthier. Mmm, kale and hummus smoothie. Taste those veggies.
If you try to take more than one, that’s fine too, nobody will stop you, but you probably won’t get lucky more than once.

PHASE III

[ 9:00 ] And back you go, out into the swampy wilderness. Don’t give up! Keep going! Eventually, you’ll find the end of this level. Probably.

Eventually, though, you may stumble across something in the mud and the muck. It’s... a little doll?

In fact, it’s a little doll of one of your most important people (or, alternatively, of someone you absolutely hate). It might be someone in Cerealia currently, or someone who isn’t, but either way, the doll is there and it’s clearly them (covered in mud and all). Be careful, though. If you toss it aside, you’ll suddenly see that important person being tossed aside. If you cut the doll, you'll suddenly see that person bleeding. Even if they aren’t present in Cerealia, whatever happens to that doll, you'll see it happening to them. Is it a hallucination or are they actually there? That's a little more up in the air.

And if they are present in Cerealia, well... doing things to that doll might very well hurt them too -- for real, this time, though.

Be careful! Or don't. You do you, as CERES would say.

PHASE IV

[ 12:00 ] And then, eventually you reach a quiet, swampy area. Not that the rest of the swamp isn't swampy, this area is just extra swampy.

There’s very little happening here in this swampy place; even the birds are no longer squawking. And for a long moment, everything will remain quiet and peaceful, a place of reprieve... until the swamp begins to bubble. Then suddenly, a new friend will burst out of the swamp, showering mud and gunk everywhere.

Without warning, that creature is going to try to grab for the nearest person (it might be you!) and let out a mighty roar when they have them. Then, they'll hold them up to... read the nutrition facts on their shirt? What?

Of course, it will try to gobble you or whoever else it grabs if it finds, say, the salt content to be acceptable (the monster is watching their carbs). If it's not, then they'll just fling you away and move onto the next snack. For those without a handy nutrition facts label on your shirt, well, it might just take a gamble and try to eat you anyway.

Great. A health-conscious monster. That's just what this level needed.

BONUS

[ xx:xx ] Finally, you’re free of the game. Without warning, you’re dumped into Cerealia properly and you’re able to scrub the mud and gunk from your clothing (wait why did that come back with you and where are your normal clothes?). You're able to then make your way to your new place of residence (or old) and...

There is a tiny tree there waiting for you. Isn’t it cute? And if you take care of this tiny tree, it will eventually bear fruit! Tiny fruit. Itty bitty fruit.

Depending on which tiny tree you get, it will be one of the following: a tiny dildo tree, a tiny bacon tree, a tiny kazoo tree, a tiny carolina reaper tree, or a (dumb) tiny hats tree.

Everything will, naturally, be tiny. Enjoy your new healthy CERES gift!


[ 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. ]

//RUN.EXE

Welcome to Cerealia's January 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. Thank you!

corona: (‣ bweeee heeee)

[personal profile] corona 2016-01-16 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ omg there are no words to describe her pride right now. She doesn't even know Mary and this is amazingly impressive. ]

Good! Terrorist! Yes. Assuming that is exactly what it sounds like then... yes. That is a great example.

See? You can totally climb this tree. I hit someone on the head earlier too! [ well, now she's hit several someones BUT OK KEEPIN IT LIGHT ]
immobileyes: (What do you mean kidnapping failed?)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2016-01-16 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
You hit someone here? Are there bad people here, too??

[ Well, good thing she's with Rapunzel then. Mary doesn't have anything on her to throw this time. ]
corona: (‣ i'm learning how to get up off my knee)

[personal profile] corona 2016-01-16 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Rapunzel stops halfway through her attempts at climbing, turns around, narrows her eyes, and says gravely: ]

There are bad people everywhere.
immobileyes: (Daily trauma)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2016-01-16 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[ O-oh. Well that just left her petrified. ]
corona: (‣ i'm looking for the thunder)

[personal profile] corona 2016-01-16 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Er. But... that's okay! Look– That's just fine because you know what?



You hit a terrorist and that's amazing.





[ AND COACH RAPUNZEL GIVES ANOTHER STUNNING PEP TALK ]
immobileyes: (Hnnnnnnnngh)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2016-01-17 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not always going to have things to [ trip and ] hit terrorists with, though.

[ Mary does have to point this out-- albeit rather meekly, because she's not sure she can handle... well, that. Again.

AND ON THAT DAY, MARY RECEIVED A GRIM REMINDER... ]
corona: (‣ i should be serious)

[personal profile] corona 2016-01-17 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
N...o. No, you won't. [ And what a good point it is!! ] But there won't always be terrorists around! Regardless of what I said. I mean–

I'm not a terrorist.




[ aren't you ]
immobileyes: (I swear I didn't call you fat!)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2016-01-17 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I know!! You didn't try to kidnap anyone for money!

[ You're fine in her book!! ]
corona: (‣ is this ur ball of foil)

[personal profile] corona 2016-01-17 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, you were kidnapped? Aside from right now, I mean. In ViViD. Why?
immobileyes: (See no evil (wait Kano's still here))

[personal profile] immobileyes 2016-01-17 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
I wasn't-- I mean, not that time-- [ Mary???? ] The terrorists we stopped back home tried to do that with a lot of other people, though... and you seem really nice, maybe just a little scary-- but not a terrorist!

[ REST ASSURED, RAPUNZEL. ]
corona: (‣ satisfaaaaction)

[personal profile] corona 2016-01-17 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Okay she can't help but laugh at that. ]

I seem scary? [ Grinning, Rapunzel leans back and pops a hip. ] Really? Wow. That's a first for sure.
immobileyes: (There's the man who touched me)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2016-01-17 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
You came running out, yelling, and you stabbed something.

[ All very scary things, which is why she's saying this matter-of-factly. It's hard not to be startled by someone also covered in mud-- which prompts her to check the closest strands of hair. With the mud mixing in with the white, she probably looks more like a swirl cone than anything clean. Urgh. ]
corona: (‣ persuasion)

1/2

[personal profile] corona 2016-01-17 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
All incredibly good points that I respect. My name is Rapunzel, though. Like the flower? If that helps make me any less scary. What's y–
Edited 2016-01-17 06:20 (UTC)
corona: (‣ but you will have to look much closer)

u saw nothing

[personal profile] corona 2016-01-17 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ Frankly, with the excitement combined with the mud's properties of sticking to everything in sight, she hadn't given much thought at all to Mary's appearance, regardless of how alien it should actually appear from what she's used to.

Now that she's touching her hair, though... Hair is her speciality. ]


Oh my gosh. Your hair is... is... It's white!!
immobileyes: (Did that hamster just talk?)

1/2

[personal profile] immobileyes 2016-01-17 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
... [ Rapunzel. Where has she--

Oh.

Oh.

Oh?!?!?! ]


Rapunze--
immobileyes: (HWWAAAGHJDKSHJFLG)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2016-01-17 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
.... Eh?!

[ Not "Rapunzeh", "Rapunzel". That aside, though, and trying to recover from her sudden realization (long - admittedly super muddy - hair), delicate, princess-like features (maybe under the mud)-- she had to be--!!

But of course the exclamation brings her back to the moment, and she nervously threads her fingers into her hair now. ]


Y-yes?? It is?? T-that's not weird!

[ It's a little weird. ]
corona: (‣ i mean that's just psychotic)

[personal profile] corona 2016-01-17 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ On the other side of this exchange, Rapunzel has finally calmed down but now her eyes are following Mary's expressions very closely.

ARE FLOWERS SCARY TOO??

B-Better to move on with confidence and warmth, right? She clears her throat, coughs, and laughs in the span of three seconds. ]
I... Ah. I wouldn't really know what's weird! I just think it's... nice? [ that's a safe thing to say right ]
immobileyes: (Doki.)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2016-01-17 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ It is, for all that it seems to fluster Mary further (it's a good thing the monster seems to have lost interest, honestly). Rapunzel - The Rapunzel - thinks her hair's nice! Her perfectly normal(ish) not as long hair!!

O-oh no, she's turning red now. ]


I.. thank you? I think your hair's really pretty too... [ When, you know. The mud's out of it. ]
corona: (‣ tell me what i am all about)

[personal profile] corona 2016-01-17 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. Thank you! [ First she's scary and now her hair's pretty? Man, Mary sure knows the quickest way to Rapunzel's heart.

Luckily accepting compliments about her hair is much easier than accepting compliments about anything else. HER BRAND IS HAIR. ]


Were... you going to tell me your name too?
immobileyes: (Hnnnnnnnngh)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2016-01-17 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. Oops. This whole fairy tale realization still has her composure frayed rather badly, but Mary does her best to stop... being.. embarrassing, yes.

Even if she still manages to stammer out her answer a bit. ]


Mary. I-it's Mary.
corona: (Default)

[personal profile] corona 2016-01-18 02:05 am (UTC)(link)