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Who: Not CERES
When: OOC: 5/15 ; IC: 7/7
Where: Tropical ViViD Estates
What: CERES thought everyone deserved a bit of a break.
Rating/Warning: PG-13 for some questionable swimsuit choices. Please let the mods know if the rating should go up!

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You know what everyone needs after rampant robotic attacks and another iteration of clone wars? A vacation! That’s right everyone, you deserve this. CERES understands what you need. CERES is here for you all the time, so never doubt that this is a pleasure colony, and they are here to look after all of your needs. Kick your feet up, relax, and let CERES Recreation and Activity Necessity Keepers (Team RANK, that is) set you up with your ideal getaway.

It’s as if you can sense the incoming relaxation and luxury before you even completely finish loading. There’s the warmth encompassing your entire body as your code gets transferred into this particular ViViD Level. A cool, refreshing breeze hits you. The sounds of waves gently lapping against the coast fill you with relaxation. The sun, the sand, the surfs, it’s all there – welcome to the beach, baby!

An echoing greeting message from the ocean comes next, if you can translate it.

OOOOOOOOOOOOHMAHH GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHD.

YOOOOOOOOOOOORRRALL SOOOOOOOOOOOOO KYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT.

KYOOOOOOOOOOOT EEEENAAAAUUUUUUUF TOOOOOOOOOOOOO EEEEEEEEEEEEEEET.

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PHASE I

[ 0800 ] That said, isn’t that breeze a little… too strong? It feels like it’s brushing up against all of you, if you know what I mean. When you open your eyes and look down, it becomes rather clear why. It seems that you’ve found yourself in some pretty interesting attire. Everyone. No exceptions. You appear to have two options – be overcome and scream like the Victorian maiden your heart says you are, or strut like a model in this stuff. Turn some heads! Work that up do!

But don’t worry, we’re also conscious about safety here at CERES! Therefore everyone’s also been provided a pair of super high-tech safety-tested appendage protection floatation devices (STAPFD for short.)

At least everyone around you is caught in the same sort of attire – and everyone around you also appears to be stuck inside a giant sand castle. It’s entirely malleable to what you want it to be! Want to see a fancy sand bidet? Feel like adding a sand statue in your honor? Think that wall should now be a door? Well, with enough perseverance, you can make it happen!

Just uh, be careful about getting sand in your… everywhere.

PHASE II

[ 1000 ] Someone broke it. Not pointing any fingers, even though you sure do seem like a prime suspect, but someone broke it.

It almost starts like an earthquake with how the castle starts to rumble, the sand shaking right beneath your feet. And then the walls right next to you start to cave in followed promptly by the ceiling right… above your head. Oh dear. The sand starts to run and fall, losing its structure and shape. The hallway behind you starts to cave in, ceiling first and then the walls follow suit. Now the sand really is getting everywhere – but not just uncomfortable places. It’s in your hair, your eyes, your nose…. this sure doesn’t seem like a pleasant way to go!

Best to start running – there’s a trusty drawbridge to get over the moat (because what’s a sandcastle without a moat?) but who knows how long until that, too, is going to give way? Best to cross over it before it starts to shake and disappear too. Or if you don’t make it, hopefully you can land some pretty impressive airtime to make it to the other side!

If not, well...there'll be the sensation of sand crushing down upon you, filling your mouth and eyes, and you won't be able to breathe at all – and then you're alive again on the beach (but possibly in yet another new, uncomfortable, skimpy swimsuit). Honestly, be more careful, would you?

PHASE III

[ 1200 ] However, once you do make it to the other side, it’s all smooth sailing from there! Or is it? Hah, as they say, life sure can be a beach.

Which is what this is.

Welcome to your Beach Episode, folks. Now that you’ve made it out of the collapsing sand castle, you’ve made it to the luxurious, picturesque golden coastline. Sure, you’re coughing up fine, luxurious, sand dust right now and you’ve definitely gotten sand in all of your crevices thanks to your swimsuit, but that’s okay! Go take a soak in the ocean or something or cool off with a smoothie. There’s a smoothie shack off into the distance, complete with a long chalkboard with… well, probably a few familiar names? And some unfamiliar ingredients. Sounds appetizing right?

That said, once you do ingest some of the smoothie with the name of a newcomer, you might suddenly find yourself feeling a bit… different. You’ll be taking on some of their traits, one of the most intense parts of their personality – or you might need to take a second to sit down because you’re suddenly seeing one of their memories. Whoa. What do they actually put in this stuff?

PHASE IV

[ 1500 ] For the brave souls that venture out into the water, you have even more adventures waiting for you. Anyone who’s swimming around, wading in the water—hell, even looking at the water is getting scooped up and deposited in one of these giant orbs. But don’t take up too much room, because someone else is getting shoved right in there with you. Time to get cozy with your new friend, because it's only going to get worse as the waves begin to carry you out into this big, blue, virtual ocean. Hopefully the choppy waves don’t bounce you around too much or – well, you could always get really friendly with a stranger! Why not?

At least until it’s made very clear that fresh air does not make it back into these balls. That seems like a bit of a design flaw. Now what? Fight the other person who’s inhaling all your air? Suffer through it for swimsuit-clad fun? Or if you break it…. well, you sure are stranded out in the ocean. Or are you?

After enough flailing, you’ll be met by a giant, dumb-looking creature who will then eat you whole.

Everything goes dark. This is surely the end --

And then you're in Cerealia proper; it seems that was the exit to the level (but why there?) and you'll find yourself either in one of the fountains or the pond in the park. Either way, you'll be very, very well. And this time, that's not virtual. But hey, at least you'll have all of your stuff with you.

BONUS

[ xxxx ] Do you hear that?

Anyone idle on the beach will hear a distant melody coming from further out into the ocean. It’s a beautiful, elegant song that automatically makes the listener stop what they’re doing and immediately wander toward the noise. It takes you a moment to recall – it takes a moment to think about anything now, really – but you remember hearing the smoothie shack owner say something about mermaids populating the beach. Could this be their song calling out to you? Whether you would normally abide by this kind of call or not, you find your feet walking further and further out into the water, the shallows lapping up to your ankles and up and up as you are drawn in by the song.

A rather classic song, though the usual instances of French are also replaced with the very enticing, enchanting nonsense promise of omelette du fromage........and then they try to drown you.

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( phase i: how could this happen to me )

[ If anything, there are definitely more than two options here, depending on the swimsuit you're suffering with. You can scream for sure, but that draws even more attention to yourself. You can strut... but that takes a lot of confidence.

Or you can try and blend into the sandcastle wall and pray for death to come faster-- Well, not quite, but this certainly wasn't what he'd expected after remembering being in a desert last. Now, there's sand everywhere and his armor is gone, instead is the ridiculous butler style "swimwear" in its place. In fact, if you happen to glance over he might be using the inflatable they've been provided with as a piece of cover and he... seems to be refusing to move from the wall itself, instead looking around for a place to make an exit. ]

If it's made of sand that means it isn't impregnable, but... [ He's talking to himself, yes, but if you want you can always chip in with ideas. ] ...if we start with the base the whole thing will fall down.

[ And he kind of doesn't want to move his hands away in a room full of strangers... what a dilemma. ]

( phase ii: i've made my mistakes )

[ Well, okay. Maybe he does sometimes hit at things like a hammer to a nail instead of being more cautious, but they were never going to get out of here had they not done anything. When the walls begin to crumble though, he finally seems to forget about covering up and is ushering people out of the hole that has been made in one side of the castle. ]

Quickly! We don't have the time to stand around!

[ It's a loud yell, so hopefully even if you're on the other side you can hear it.

Hopefully. ]

( phase iii: got no where to run )

[ At least this time there is some kind of drink, though not many of the above sound appetising in the slightest. Honestly, some of them sound as though they're a weird ritual that blood mages might get up to. It makes him pause, though he really has no idea how to stand anymore without it being overly awkward.

He doesn't even know where to begin, but there might be so hope in unraveling information out of the smoothie shack's bartender. ]

None of these make any sense. [ Maybe that isn't the best way to start......... but at least it's to the point? ] Are you just here to just present us with riddles or can you offer anything actually useful?

( phase iv: the night goes on as i'm fading away )

[ If he had known he wouldn't have ventured into the water. It had been the idea to use it to just take a moment to cool off, but also to take shelter where maybe, just maybe, it wouldn't feel so weird to stand without many clothes. That plan fails horribly when he's pulled up into the plastic ball with someone else, flinching away when whoever it the unfortunate person who is stuck with him for this.

He doesn't panic but he clearly tries to offer more room between the two of them. ]

What is this even supposed to accomplish? [ God his head is pounding at this rate. ]

[Kaguya makes a pained noise as they're forced in the ball-- she can't keep her balance when she's so caught off guard like this and she topples over almost immediately.

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But at least this man is familiar--which honestly, she's not sure if that's a good thing or not. Would it be better to be caught in this weird situation in weird clothes with a complete stranger, or someone who would know, to some degree, that this state of dress (or undress) is as uncomfortable for her as it surely is for him?

Well.

Probably best to not dwell on any of that, honestly.] Lord Rutherford. [She says it in way of greeting, first and foremost, and then looks off at the water they're bobbing in.] Perhaps it is just for the amusement of whoever is in charge...?

[Because at the moment she can't see the upsides to any of this]

[ More like ThisIsntFine.jpg. He's in the same boat--or rather orb--in that he isn't sure if this makes it better or worse, though honestly this lady is definitely way too polite to deal with something like this, that's for sure.

Now if someone like Sera was stuck in this situation, she'd probably be having a ball right now. ]

--Cullen. [ He corrects, just because that's even weirder when they're both so..................

so...

Best not to dwell on that, actually. ]

I fail to see what is remotely amusing about it.

[ At least with neither of them flailing the orb is just floating along... ]

Cullen Rutherford | ota!

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