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[maku]

Who: Karin Miyoshi and you!
When: 8/11 IC, 7/23 OOC
Where: CERES Gymnasium and CERES Game Center
What: Two prompts for the price of one! Karin decides that avoiding school (and therefore Togo and Yuna) is the best way to deal with Not Being Okay. Training at the gym and doing some ViVid seems like a good idea.
Rating/Warning: Nothing to warn for off the bat!

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01. CERES Gymnasium

[ If you're a regular at the gym then Karin is probably a familiar sight by now. She's been coming at least once a day since she arrived here and it doesn't look like today's going to be any different from her usual routine. Boot up one of the treadmills and run far longer and at a far faster pace than you'd expect from a girl her size and age. Spend an hour or so swinging around her bokken then take a shower and head out. Sometimes that's the last you'll see of her and sometimes she's back again a few hours later. Either way, she's definitely a regular.

Things don't seem to be going as smoothly as usual, though. Karin's doing her usual jogging on one of the treadmill when something goes wrong. Either it just stops running or it jams. Whatever happens, it results in Karin shooting forward and smacking into the front of the machine with a painful sounding thunk.

Bright red, she peels herself off and tries to straighten up before looking around hastily. If she catches your gaze, she'll go even redder and splutter out - ]

Wh--what's so funny, huh?!


02. CERES Game Center

[ So. ViViD, huh.

Karin's only real exposure to the game so far has been the levels she'd had to work her way out of to get to the rest of the colony. She's really not all that interested in ViViD itself but... it might be a good distraction. Could eat up some time at least.

If you're passing her by while she's squinting at some big ViViD-centric poster, you might hear her mutter to herself - ]

So how's this even supposed to work, anyway...?

Comments

[meowbel]

[As Karin started to put on the headgear, that's when Mabel started to push some controls in front of them. Granted, the ViViD was still a little difficult for her to get use to but hey, as long as she gets to have fun?

It was completely worth it!]

And then we wait for the magic to happen! In 5...4..3...2...1....! Ta-dah!

[Behold Karin, you'll see the magical screen before them that allows you to choose whatever game you want! Between a cooking game, a shooting game, and whatever the heck that game is, anything is possible!] What do you think? Looks pretty cool doesn't it?

[maku]

[ Karin flinches a bit. Her only real experience with CERES tech so far has been the creepy horror hospital so she's not really sure what to expect. This... seems innocent enough so far, though. ]

... yeah. Looks pretty cool, I guess.

[ she doesn't want to sound too impressed, after all. ]

So what kinda stuff do you usually play?

[meowbel]

Weeeeelll....!

[She said before making sure said arrow pointed to the last option below!] Between you and me, I think maybe we could probably use something a bit more fun! How about this game?

[Should Karin look at the option, she'll find out that it read "Cooking Mother".]

You feel like baking something today because I sure do!

[maku]

... Baking? Seriously?

[ Her words definitely seem like they should be coming out exasperated but she just sounds bemused more than anything. She gives a little sigh but it's clear that there's a bit of a smile on her face. ]

Sure, why not. Can you actually bake though?

[ because KARIN SURE CAN'T ]

[meowbel]

Of course! If you want, I can even bake a cupcake mountain! And I'll even decorate the entire thing in pink frosting with sprinkles on top too!

[Yes, she's serious about that! With a smirk, she clicked that option and they'll suddenly find themselves in front of a table. With all the ingredients before them, she nudges her brand new friend!]

You think you're up for the challenge?

[maku]

A challenge, huh?

[ It's hard to tell if that's the worst or best possible thing to say to her but either way, it turns her bemused smile into a sharp little grin. ]

You think I'm not? Let's get on with it.

[ karin calm down all you're doing is baking cupcakes you are an embarrassment. ]

[meowbel]

Then let's do it!

[With that, Mabel just pushed on the straight button and right away, the instructions popped right before them!]

First, we're going to need a bunch of eggs! Because if we're going to get a high score, we need to make a cupcake mountain! We gotta get started right away!

[maku]

[ Karin goes ahead and rolls up her sleeves. It’s probably not necessary since her hands in here won’t be carrying any germs but she figures the point of all this hyperrealism is to play along a little. ]

So how many do we want? Or should I just go ahead and start cracking all of them?

[ these cupcakes are probably going to be more shell than egg honestly ]

[meowbel]

As many as we can! I don't think they're going to taste it, I think they just care how many cupcakes we bake! I'll get the butter ready, you just crack all of them!

[With that, off Mabel went to see exactly where the butter went! Of course, once she found it, she immediately started to butter all the baking pans as she could! However, little did she know, Karin probably wasn't going to do quite as good of a job as she thought....]

[maku]

Oh, they're not tasting them? Then I guess...

[ ... she looks down at the eggs with a furrowed brow and then snatches them up and just starts cracking the yolks into the bowl as fast as she can. She's absolutely going for speed over care here and that means that a whole lot of shell is going into the bowl with those eggs. Lovely. ]

[meowbel]

[At this point, Mabel didn't even care if she was making a giant mess! If the judges weren't going to taste the cupcakes (or so she thought! It's been a while since she played this game!), then all that mattered was how fast they were going!

Although, she couldn't help but raise a few eyebrows at the egg shells in the bowl!]

Whoa, you gotta be careful! You can't put egg shells in there, the judges might see that!

[Pause] ...Even if it might give it a really cool appearance!

[maku]

[ She gives a dismissive handwave. ]

If they're not gonna eat them then they won't be able to tell if there's eggshells in here or not. As long as the outside looks good and we make them fast enough, we'll rack up enough points. It's all about speed, right?

[ ... she's still cracking eggs with one hand as she says all this, by the way. ]

[meowbel]

[She did raise a good point but...]

You think we can bake it all and stuff all the shells inside? Or maybe we can just decorate the entire thing with frosting...

[She said before she was deeply pondering about this. As she got the flour out, she simply stared back at the other girl]

But seriously, tell me when you're ready and we'll get the mixing ready!