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C E R E A L I A ★ M O D S。 ([personal profile] reparator) wrote in [community profile] estoria2016-01-14 05:00 pm
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//EVENT024.EXE

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!

psycholawgy: (all i ask of you)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-01-28 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
What? No.

[ she shakes her head, a bit puzzled by the question. ]

How else would you fight a monster, anyway? I mean, my weapons are my fists.
sortileges: (65)

[personal profile] sortileges 2016-01-28 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ That at least makes him go quiet, because his "weapon" so to speak is more than that. She'd seen a glimpse of it, but he doesn't feel particularly comfortable going into more detail yet. ]

What would happen if you died? [ He asks it quietly, voice a lot softer now. ]
psycholawgy: (chords of steel is just wrong...)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-01-28 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
I would respawn...

[ she sets her helmet down on the shelf and opens the door. ]

Are you ready to see the colony?
sortileges: (40)

[personal profile] sortileges 2016-01-28 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
Respawn? [ That sounds horrific. Thanks for the imagery, Athena. From what he can tell it means it isn't permanent at least. He shakes his head, as if to tell her that it doesn't matter, she doesn't need to answer that.

He has time to figure that out. ]


No idea. [ He gives her a crooked smile, wiping the back of his hand across his mouth as he tries to prepare himself. Can you do that when it's something this big though? ] But we don't really have a choice, right?
psycholawgy: (but who cares about that bish?)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-01-28 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
Nope.

[ and without any prompting, she opens the door...! WELCOME. TO CEREALIA!!!

it's underwhelming to say the least. there's a counter with a robot lady manning it, as well as a technician on a ladder fixing the blinking lights on the ceiling. ]


You should try to find your own place to stay in, first. Then you can start exploring.
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[personal profile] sortileges 2016-01-28 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ Look, Athena, even blinking lights are new to him, he looks absolutely flabbergasted at the robot lady managing the counter, then to Athena as if to ask Am I actually going crazy?

Or maybe she's the crazy one for not thinking anything of it. ]


Right. Where can I... do that?
psycholawgy: (fame! i'm gonna live forever)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-01-28 11:50 am (UTC)(link)
The residential district.

[ she can tell that he's so shocked by all of this, so she'll guide him around the colony! she takes him by the hand and pulls him out of the building and into the streets where it's filled by aliens and robots, as well as other colonists. ]
sortileges: (64)

[personal profile] sortileges 2016-01-28 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ He opens his mouth to ask her what direction he needs to go in to find that, but needn't bother as a second later she's pulling him by the hand into the streets. If he thought the building he had been in was New then it's nothing compared to outside.

It's surreal and honestly it's good that Athena is pulling him because he almost forgets to walk. To even breathe. He mades a choking noise in the back of his throat, which is probably the only sign that he's Overwhelmed here. If she looks back though he'll cover it up as best as he can, not wanting to inconvenience her further. ]
psycholawgy: (nothing to fear)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-01-28 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ he doesn't have to hide his surprise when she can hear it loud and clear.

she cants her head to the side, laughing. ]


I can't believe you. What kind of world do you come from, anyway?

[ keep up with her, though, merl. she's walking ahead now. ]
sortileges: (68)

[personal profile] sortileges 2016-01-28 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Wow don't laugh at his pain, that's rude. He has no idea that she's reading his emotions at all but they're probably all over the place at the moment. All four flashing on red alert because he feels frazzled. ]

Nothing like this. [ He's trying to look at everything at once while trying to keep up. Luckily he's had plenty of experience running away from things, it's actually nicer to be running to keep up with someone instead. ] There was the castle, fields and lakes. Where did all these buildings come from?
psycholawgy: (we'll go dancing round the clock)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-01-28 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ a castle

a castle

castle

c a s t l e ]


Are you a prince from like, the medieval times?!
sortileges: (69)

[personal profile] sortileges 2016-01-28 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ah, now he truly does choke. On his own saliva but still. ]

No. No I'm not the... Arthur's the prince, I'm just his servant. Though I can't say I know what you mean by "medieval times" either so...

[ sweats ]
psycholawgy: (chords of steel is just wrong...)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-01-28 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Arthur... that name's so fit for a king.

[ you don't say. ]

I'm not good at history, but medieval times were when dragons were rampant, and there was no electricity? I don't really know! Oh! And people wrote with quills instead of ballpens, and swordfighting... jousts... horses...

[ she's just saying random words now. ]

Witch burning. . .
sortileges: (8)

[personal profile] sortileges 2016-01-28 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well, this is awkward. Often he'd avoid bringing up that he knows Arthur at all but considering it doesn't look like he was even brought here for that reason. Athena just listing random words though. Girl, no... ]

Actually there's only one dragon left, and he's chained under the castle. [ Hopefully she doesn't go spreading that one around. ] What's elec-- [ But ah... she's still going on.




Until the final thing that makes his jaw tense and now he feels all the more uncomfortable. ]
psycholawgy: (i spy something with my little eye. . .)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-01-28 12:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oops. merlin already looks the part of being uncomfortable, and then there's hearing his anxiety. ]

Did I say something wrong?
sortileges: (13)

[personal profile] sortileges 2016-01-28 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He shakes his head, frowning because he can't really say anything against it. What he can say though is this: ]

It's just never pleasant to watch. [ Especially if ONE DAY THAT COULD BE YOU. ]
psycholawgy: (oh snap!)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-01-28 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Woah! I got it right then!

[ she snaps her fingers. ]

Score!

[ wait. there are more serious matters at hand— ]

Sorry for bringing it up.
sortileges: (32)

[personal profile] sortileges 2016-01-28 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
It's-- [ Well it isn't fine per se, but it isn't her fault. She doesn't know. ] How far is that time from you?

[ He changes the question instead, because it's easier than sticking to a topic about witch burning. ]
psycholawgy: (blah blah blah)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-01-28 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm probably a thousand years ahead?

[ never count on athena to be historically accurate. but at least it's kind of close??? ]
sortileges: (83)

[personal profile] sortileges 2016-01-28 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He shouldn't have asked. At least with her inaccuracy it makes it seem like less time has passed than it actually has. ]

...Wow. [ It's all he can say for a long moment and this time he does stop to just process that information. ]
psycholawgy: (all i ask of you)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-01-28 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she leads him up some stairs and into the train station. it's less busy than the streets, but it sure is noisier what with the trains coming in and out of the station. ]

Well. Okay. We're here at a train station [ she says it very slowly so even a toddler could understand. ]. This is where you go if you want to travel easily around the colony.
sortileges: (18)

[personal profile] sortileges 2016-01-28 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He isn't a toddler?!?! And speaking slower hardly explains what a train is--only a train actually arriving and people exiting and getting onto the train really does explain that. ]

Which do we need to take?

[ He asks it, but let's be real here... he won't know which train that is anyway. ]
psycholawgy: (and every night there is music)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-01-28 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Whichever! The trains... think of them like really fast carriages without horses? Anyway, the trains go around the colony, so no matter which you take, you'll still end up where you need to go.

[ she swipes her money card on the scanner and enters through the gates. ]

Do the same thing I did. You should have a card on you too! It has all your money in it. e
sortileges: (17)

[personal profile] sortileges 2016-01-29 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well this is more complicated than he expects. The card in her hand looks unlike anything he's seen (all they have back home are coins...) and he has to pat down his clothes to try and work out where it might be because it isn't as though he expects to find it anywhere.

Thankfully, he pulls it out of his jacket pocket without any problem. ]


Like this? [ Even as he asks he copies the motion she did, looking rather pleased with himself when it opens up and he can walk straight through. Nailed it. ]
psycholawgy: (revolution!)

[personal profile] psycholawgy 2016-01-29 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Good job!

[ to commemorate this special achievement, athena gives him a thumbs up. (that's it. that's all she does before she turns to get inside the train.)

the train has a bunch of passengers inside; some are seated, some are by the poles, some are chilling by the door and blocking everyone's way. rude. it's a train...! and since merlin hasn't ridden one in his entire life yet, athena decides to give him a piece of advice. ]


Hold onto those. [ she points up to the straphangers, and she claims one for herself. there's no seating room for them today! ]

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