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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 ii; ]

[ Allen, by virtue of being a battle-hardened shounen protag, reaches the other side of the moat with seconds to spare. But instead of sinking to his knees and kissing the ground in relief, he twists around to check on his fellow ridiculously appareled comrades. ]

[ Whether or not they're close to safety, the drawbridge starts shaking dangerously. Allen's eyes fill with the realization that a sandy death is probably imminent, but more importantly, also gleam with determination as he starts sprinting right back to the moat. It's not too hard to decipher his intentions, since he sure looks like he's going to dive in to save whoever might be stuck on the other side. ]

Crown Clown, extend!

[ And the somewhat ridiculous cape he's been wearing ever since he arrived suddenly expands and slings itself around the arm of whoever's on the other side or falling with the crumbling drawbridge. ]

Hang on!

[ Allen Walker ends his good shounen deed for the day by slinging you up and over like a fish on the line, and possibly accidentally throwing you into another pile of sand. But a pile of sand on the right side. You're welcome. ]

[ phase iii; ]

[ Okay but why would you pay want to pay $120 dollars to drink a smoothie named Allen Walker. He looks like he's stuck between side-eying the whole affair and looking like he's actually considering it. Because. He's hungry. ]

[ And he's not the only one! Whether or not you're about to get a smoothie or already have one in hand, a small golden creature is making its hasty way over to get a sip. By flying in frantic circles over your head or opening its mouth in a wide sharp-toothed smile, either way Timcanpy is hungry. ]

[ And Allen is too, but who cares about him. ]

[ phase iv; ]

a.

[ aren't you glad to be stuck in a bubble with him, even if it is getting hard to breath in here. Allen takes shallower and shallower breaths as time passes before he finally raises his clawed hand and speaks decisively-- ]

I'm going to cut us out.

[ and plunge them into the ocean to a watery death, apparently. ]

b.

[ okay but being swallowed by a whale has got to be one of the weirdest experiences Allen has ever had, leave it to Cerealia to traumatize a shounen protag. Not that he really is traumatized. Allen's too busy feeling relieved that he's got his own Exorcist uniform back on, with Timcanpy winging about his shoulders. Still. ]

[ Now what? ]

[ After Allen clambers down from the ridiculously extravagant fountain he woke up in, he stands soaking wet in the middle of a road, eyes wide and absorbed in the city around him. He's traveled all over the world, but he's never seen anything quite like this before. Which is why he's standing around, open-mouthed, Timcanpy swirling in slow steady circles around him ]

[ He stands there doing just that for a long time until he catches sight of you from the corner of his eye. Maybe you got eaten by the whale with him, maybe you had an extremely embarrassing swimsuit on that Allen can't forget to his ever-deepening shame, but either way Allen decides to take his chances with you because he doesn't know what's going on please help ]

Excuse me! Do —

[ and whatever else Allen's about to ask gets drowned out by a loud growl, courtesy of his stomach. Nice. ]

[ Good going, Allen. Inaba finds herself narrowing her eyes at him when she hears the sound of his stomach. ]

Ah, um—... do you want to go to my workplace? We have food over there, you know.

Edited 2016-05-15 02:44 (UTC)

[ Allen runs a hand through still sopping wet hair to peer at her, his mouth half-open from the question he was about to finish but ]

[ well ]

Huh?

[ Look, let him struggle through her offer once more, when he's a little less flustered by his surroundings and the fact that he just met a real life Good Samaritan. ]

— Really?!?

[ Maybe this day won't end as badly as he thought it would. ]

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