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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
[For someone who normally has no problem going around in just his boxers, Eiji is pretty damn mortified to end up in one of the backless speedos.]

Okay, this...this is...

[So here we have a panicking young man trying desperately to get the flotation device off and covering his bottom.

How long till he realizes he's wearing his henshin belt, fully loaded with Medals?]

Phase II
[Okay, so NOW he's figured out that he can transform, so have TaToBa, and just in time too!]

Everyone, this way!

[He can't do a whole lot to stop the castle from falling apart, but he can at least help evacuate. Even if that's mostly holding people beneath him as he tries to block the sand from falling on them.

But with the drawbridge falling apart, his legs convert to grasshopper legs as he prepares to jump.]

I can probably take two at a time--just hold on tight!

Phase IVa
[It's likely a hilarious story how Eiji ended up in the water and stuck in one of those balls, but he is now face-planted in it, still transformed, and you are on top of him.]

Uh, I know there's not a lot of room here, but can you move your knee? Please?

Phase IVb
[Eiji wakes up in a fountain with the water pouring down on him. It takes him a minute to recover from the shock (and realize that he's wearing actual pants underneath his suit) before he cancels his transformation and sits up.]

Where...wait, no. This is the colony, right?

[He starts to get up and staggers and falls right back down again. It's starting to occur to him that he's still injured from Inugami, he hasn't eaten, and he was transformed for quite a while.]

I think I might need to rest.

[Eiji wasn't alone, though Jinga managed to come out of this drier but with a definite excessive amount of sand all over his black clothing. He also wasn't doing anything about getting rid of it. Instead he held a sheathed long sword pointed at Eiji, his face set in a rather curious mix of annoyance and resignation even as the armor was dispelled and Eiji tries to get up before flopping back down.]

What kind of Knight are you?

[Because most Knight armors tended towards one or two colors and they certainly did not have a belt like that. He just couldn't take the chances, not with the fragile truce he had just made with Ryuuga.]

[And now we have someone with ridiculous hair threatening him with violence as a way of saying hi. It's just like home!]

Knight?

[It takes a second for him to make the logical connection that oh, he probably looks like some kind of knight as OOO.]

Oh, no, I'm not a knight. I'm OOO. It's...kind of hard to explain.

[Like Jinga has anything to say about the state he was in (his hair though always is a bit of a mess). He stares at Eiji for a few moments and then sniffs, twirling his sword and sliding it back on the loops of his sash. It was at that point a small glowing blue butterfly appeared and settles on top of his head, chiming as it settled down.]

Try me.

[Because really, something close to a Knight was not the strangest thing he has ever heard of in his life.]

Well...a long time ago, 800 years ago, actually, in Europe, there was a King. And he wanted to take over the world, so he tried to become some kind of godlike being? And he had to create this in order to do it, along with Medals that helped capture the powers of different animals. But he lost control of his powers and ended up sealing himself. I ended up with this when Ankh found me and needed someone to collect the Medals.

...Right, I didn't explain Ankh or the Greeed.

[No, you misunderstand. "Hard to explain" doesn't mean it's all that complex or anything--it just means that Eiji is terrible at explaining things and should not be put in charge of storytime.]

[It always seem to start with someone who wanted power and went about it in the wrong way. The problem was that while kings that wanted power in Europe had always ended up becoming linked to Horrors and not.... well, whatever Eiji was trying to explain. At least, that's how he had heard in the lessons he had as a child.

But he just lets Eiji ramble on because whatever that OOO was, it wasn't anything to do with the same thing as a Knight's armor. Which was fine as far as he could tell. Jinga did not need more Makaikens coming at him in the middle of the night. Bad enough the city itself likes trying to kill them, he didn't need more Makai to up the odds against him.

Though maybe he should show a little bit of pity and cut the poor guy off before he stumbled all over himself and tried to start from the beginning again.]

So basically it is not Soul Metal or Knight Armor, right?

I don'the think so. I've never heard of those, at least.

Eiji Hino | OTA

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IVB Because transformations.

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phase ii!

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