PHASE I [ ?? ?? ] This time, ViViD is a deathtrap.
There is random magma everywhere, monsters will spawn at random, and at some points, the game is entirely unplayable. It’s like the dev team totally disappeared mid-constructing the level.
Oh wait, that’s exactly what happened.
Monsters may spawn on top of you, you may suddenly be standing in a poisonous bog, you may suddenly lose your powers, or your senses, or so many different things --
It’s time to get out of here, ASAP.
Thankfully, the exit is obvious. Like. Blindingly obvious. It’s got a big sign over it that says EXIT
And just like that, you’ll be out of ViViD and --
PHASE II [ 0830 ] When you wake up (and it’s strange, because you were sure that you were logging out just a second ago), it’s in a pile of bodies.
They’re cold, but not in the same sense that a dead body would be cold. While they are lifeless and look incredibly real, they don’t feel real. They feel like dolls, mannequins, empty models and nothing more. Their code doesn’t seem to be functioning right.
And what some characters may realize upon looking at this pile of bodies is that they are all of the characters who were sacrifices before. Any character that was dropped who had a high magical or spiritual affinity is there in that pile of bodies, lifeless and eyes blank and vacant. Even you might be there, staring at your own dead body -- but it isn’t real It can be touched, but it’s really nothing more than a lifeless body.
You’ll have to crawl out of that pile of bodies to get anywhere, and then you’ll realize -- you’re in the Sanctuary, a building built by the characters as a safe place from CERES. And it’s looking pretty run-down at this point. The technology in it no longer functions, there is no security on it whatsoever…
Oh, and now there’s a pile of bodies. Great.
PHASE III [ 1000 ] There’s also a robot.
It’s wandering from place to place, though it’s impossible to follow. One second it’s there, the next it’s just gone.
Also, it’s wearing this. Weird.
But even with that on its face, the robot seems focused on one thing in particular. In fact, it has a sign, and it says:
Down with CERES. Up with Robots.
That’s a happy, cheerful message. If you try to go up to it to talk to it, it will look at you before...bonking you on the head with the sign and running off. That’s incredibly rude.
Alternatively, you may be safe and sound in your home, but then the doorbell rings, and there’s the robot again. The duck mask is gone, but now instead it has a pin on his fake lapel, and then he’s shoving a pamphlet at you.
He tips his hat, and then he’s gone. Weird.
(Also, if you hold onto the pamphlet, it will lead you directly to the person whose picture is on it, and you’ll feel like you’ve known them and have loved them for years.)
PHASE IV [ 1245 ] But not all is fun and games and shenanigans. There is something...well, strange happening, and the first real realization of that will be when it starts to rain. More than just the localized rain that a few unfortunates have dealt with -- no, it’s raining completely and totally, and that’s when it might hit you.
For the first time in Cerealia, there’s weather.
It’ll rain for a few hours, and then it’ll stop and become hot and sunny. It may get humid, considering it’s a jungle planet. At night, it’ll get rather cold.
Seems like whatever was keeping Cerealia’s atmosphere stable is now gone -- which also means that characters may start to occasionally experience headaches, nausea and dizziness if they go too close to the walls. It seems safer in the center of the city, and the Residential District is still okay, but… there’s no doubt that the planet’s atmosphere is starting to encroach on the city.
BONUS [ why o'clock ] But who cares about all of that? More importantly, you are here in this… totally not shoddy city to have fun, and it’s still being advertised as a pleasure colony. Or, well, it would be if, you know, CERES was still around.
But close enough.
And as a pleasure colony, it would figure that the first robots to really get fixed are...well, the Pleasure District robots. Unfortunately, the Pleasure District is still a nice big mess, so now they’re wandering the entire colony, looking for people they can hug, massage or...try to drag into more explicit activities.
Welcome to Cerealia!
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And he gets back to pulling, and manages to get his arm free, scrambling back to... tuck himself behind the girl with the broom.
Gundam Pilot 04, ladies and gentlemen.] Thank you. He was not letting go.
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[ ... Look, she knows these robots are incredibly persistent. ]
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[A brilliant idea, okay?] Though I'm not going to leave you alone around it!
[No way no how. A little smile, sheepish.] I mean, I'd try to rescue you back, but maybe better if we don't wind up in a vicious cycle.
[So therefore.] Come on, Mary.
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[ ... Quatre, just drag her. ]
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He smiles apologetically.]
Mmhmm! I'm glad. I wouldn't want to forget you, Mary. But Naoki told me I've been gone for a while. I'm sorry about that. For me it doesn't feel like I've gone anywhere, or that any time has passed. So it's a little confusing.
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I didn't think I'd see you again.
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That wouldn't do at all. So I'm glad... that I get to see you again.
[No good losing friends. Quatre won't have it.]
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[ and that's something good, she thinks. ]
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[Though he thinks that they'd mostly all prefer to find their way back to their real worlds, safe and sound. But then he'd miss his friends here, and... well. It's all complicated.
So they're far enough away from the robot for a moment that he can turn and kind of sweep Mary into a hug right? Because he's going to. Right now.] It really is good to see you. Even if for me it feels like it's only been a little while.
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Y-yeah... welcome back.
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It's good to be back. Sorry I worried you, Mary. We'll have to catch up, all right? I want to hear about what I've missed. I want to know how you're doing.
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[ Basically, "everything's been a mess." ]
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[That's the sense he gets anyway. Everything is still a mess by the looks of it.]
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[ It's a little easier to focus on that. ]
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[So maybe back to Mary's? If she doesn't mind?]
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[He will follow Mary then! And they can talk.]
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I kind of miss when it was boring...
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[Quatre lets himself be ushered, honestly relieved to be inside somwhere where the rest of the world can be shut away. For the time being at least.]