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[reparator]

Who: CERES & you
When: IC: 10/04 | OOC: 11/15
Where: ViViD & McCERES
What: Intro Log
Rating/Warning: PG-13 | slightly nsfw

//event005.EXE Learning is Fundamental! Let's play CERESLearn ViViD's usual worlds are unfortunately down for maintenance. While CERES' programmers work on getting it back up and running, all new entrees this round will be going through a different level than usual. Only a single world is accessible at the moment, a simple one entitled 'CERESLearn.' "What the $%@& is this?" you must be thinking. Well, it's simple! It's a study program, of course! CERES' advanced AI technology is here to make sure you learn and that you learn sexily. Whether or not you pay attention to the actual content is up to you, the player. Please enjoy it while it lasts. They're here to teach you a variety of subjects and also to make you feel vaguely uncomfortable all over. New arrivals and those logging into ViViD will first find themselves in a classroom with a new operator greeting them rather than Vidia. "Greetings and welcome to Cerealia! It's nice of you to join us at last. As you can see, we're just about to get started! Here are the instructions: ♥ Choose your subject of choice. They include things like medicine, math, CERES economics, CERES history, fun facts about Julius, engineering, and science! ♥ Choose your tutor. You can hire Astor, Hilda, or UN-Zippy ♥ They'll teach you slowly, deliberately, sensually. Then after that, they'll drill you hard and without stopping. ♥ Just when you think you've had enough, they'll quiz you all over until you're sweating and panting. ♥ For those of you who pass, you'll be welcomed well into Cerealia and be given a free voucher for a McCERES Mildly Content meal. Please enjoy!"

//SCENARIOS.EXE PHASE I [ xxxx ] Once you choose your lesson and your tutor, you will be transported to a classroom where you and a few other players who decide to choose the same lesson will sit with your tutor after school, getting knowledge taught to you by someone who seems more intent on learning what's under your clothes than filling your head with knowledge. They will be awkwardly stretching, dropping pencils by 'accident' on the floor, and bending down slowly to pick them up. Certain things might be spilling out of their clothes. Awkward things. They will breathe down your neck and make sure you are well-versed in their anatomy by the end of the lesson. Fortunately, it won't last long as their bodies start to flicker erratically. PHASE II [ xxxx ] Just as things begin to escalate, the flickering will grow intense until your tutor will start to morph before your eyes. What takes their place is something that is anything but friendly. And yes, it will continue to breathe down your neck and speak in a sweet, soft, alluring voice while reaching out with its 'hands' to try and touch you. This will be your cue to run through the halls of the school while That Thing chases you in every single direction imaginable. There will be others joining you as everyone starts bolting out of their classrooms. PHASE III [ xxxx ] Feeling tired already? Well, don't stop and rest now! For those who successfully murder their own tutor, they will get their food voucher and a lovely welcome into CERES. You've officially passed! Everyone will be allowed to mingle around the game room in the CERES Research Tower before being directed into McCERES just across the street. For those who were already in the colony, you will also receive a voucher and directions to McCERES at the end of the game in case you want to go meet up with the newcomers there or just eat some artery-killing fast food. PHASE IV [ xxxx ] For those who get eaten by That Thing or don't pass their quizzes and upset their tutors, they will be forced to endure the Price of Failure. This means being sent to the gym with the other 'failures' to endure a painfully slow and erotic striptease by UN-Zippy. Once that is over, they will then be logged out and allowed to have their complimentary McCERES voucher. BONUS [ whyo'clock ] Congratulations on surviving CERESLearn! Here's your complimentary voucher for a free Mildly Content Meal at McCERES. This month's special is also the McKnight Burger. Characters are immediately invited to take a load off and enjoy some good ol' fashion fast food of questionable origin. Those who decide to order and eat here will also get a special toy included inside their Mildly Content Meals. [ Remember to apply proper warnings on threads with trigger-y or inappropriate material and do let a mod know if your thread careens off into maiming or canoodling so we can lock the log. ]

//RUN.EXE Welcome to CEREALIA's latest intro post. For your convenience, we have compiled a post detailing everyone's usual arrival experience (which is not entirely applicable this round for reasons stated above^) and a FAQ that should explain everything in more detail. Please read them thoroughly before playing. Thank you!

Comments

[projections]

I promise I won't freak out. [He's seen some pretty freaky things in his life. Shirou's sure he can handle it with a straight face. ]

I'm ready to listen to anything you have to say, Elle.

[projections]

I can't take it on by myself, that's impossible. We're going to avoid fighting it for as long as we can.

[No he feels the same way. There shouldn't be anymore Taiga Dojos.]

Both of us don't want to die today. [People die when they're killed.]

[fuckaccuracy]

Well, yeah, if you want to be lame and kill people in the more boring way you can think of.

[Sure, they'd die, but where was the style? Where was the awesome?]

I mean sure, you can kill people. Or... you can kill people and set them on fire. At the same time!

[harepiece]

[LOOK... okay both are debatable, but still.]

Mm, I'll let you know if I see another one. They don't seem to stay in groups, though... [As far as he's seen, anyway. Once he's run into one, there usually isn't another for quite a while. THAT SAID, even though he notices the borderline mockery going on here, the reason for it sails over his head...]

What's ViViD? Is that what this place is called? [By which he means the school itself but, close enough...]

[deontology]

[Right...getting out of here. If only that was as easy as it should be. Except that he'd suspected it wouldn't be, and he isn't surprised about that.]

We are unable to... "log out" at the moment. [Computer terminology is so hard.] There must be a task that we still need to complete.

[Or fail.

Probably because the bug is still alive.]

[immobileyes]

Mm-mm. [ a slow headshake. ] Um, but I've been outside with my friends more, and it's been fun!

[foodcritic]

You're pretty confident for someone who's really proud of oatmeal, you know.

[he's definitely getting banned from the kitchen, but until she's eaten the pandora hearts equivalent of mystery food x, she'll have a little fun with it in her own way.]

[foodcritic]

[she's not so sure, given how he's acted so far. but she'll still give him a reply.]

Someone tried to say I was a... mafia crimelord and all these killer robots tried to get me. [she still doesn't even know what a mafia crimelord is. aside from a bad guy.]

[sagemodes]

Oh, uh, name's Naruto Uzumaki! Just call me Naruto!

[ There's a salute from him. He'd say things such as "FUTURE HOKAGE" but he's positive no one will even know what that is so he just left it unsaid. ]

Well, sometimes ya just need to give them the benefit of doubt, y'know? But yeah, they're definitely lacking in them now that I've been here a bit.

[cheats]

Actually, as I recall, our friendship is based on a kidnapping, so it therefore doesn't count.

[ I mean. Clearly. He says it like it's completely obvious and reasonable, at least. ]

[sagemodes]

Hey, as long as you believe that you can do it, anything's possible! [ this is too protag of an answer, but that's because you're with an actual protag and not a distorted one for once.

So he's going to slam both his fists together. ]

Alright, I think I got parts of my power back, so it's go time!

[projections]

[He nods once.]

Something must have happened here recently. Keep your guard up.

What do you think it could be? [Shirou's speaking quietly because he doesn't want them to attract any unwanted attention.]

[immobileyes]

[ She probably wouldn't judge him (much). She jumps a little at his sudden enthusiasm, but manages to stammer out a response. ]

T-then, I promise too!

[immobileyes]

Thank you... um, for everything. You've really helped me a lot!

[immobileyes]

So I should... let it stay there?

[projections]

I'll do my best and run as fast as I can. [ Shirou's not going to lie to Mary and act tough this time. ]

Well, I can understand why you're uncertain yet. There's no guarantee we'll both get out of this in one piece.

[projections]

Look, I can't leave you with that diet knowing you eat so much ramen. Why don't you try eating some more vegetables? And you can drop some rice too.

I don't know if she'd shank us in the open and I don't want to find out either. Just think of eating healthier meat. [Shirou the actual simpleton.]

[souredsweet]

Please think nothing of it, miss. I'm glad that I had the opportunity to help.

[HELPING!!! But Kaoru will turn a little toward the opposite door and wait for Mary, so she can be shown the way out.]

[sagemodes]

You're weird. [ TOO BLUNT. but hey it's Naruto what do you expect. ]

[ Well, he can definitely do that, but that'd imply he knows how to cook, so... yeah. Nope, not really. ]

Thinking of eating healthy ain't the same as trying to make a healthy meal, ya know. But yeah, guess that'd be ugly if that worm wasn't that easy to beat in the first place.

[sagemodes]

They're my Shadow Clones. [ Yep, that's all he can say for now without spoiling more. ]

I can call a lot of them at one time, but that'd make the place a bit too cramped so.

[ SHRUG. ]

[sagemodes]

When I don't want to be found by people, but yeah, that's the gist of it.

[ Because boy howdy his childhood was p rough, but then again that's because he's ignored all the time so. ]

[projections]

Why, what's wrong? You want to protect whoever is close to you too. Isn't it the same thing? [He doesn't even get it so he doesn't think he needs to apologize yet. You lost me.


> Shirou

> Being careful in 2014k

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I can't make any promises. [Sakura's here and he doesn't know what he'll do to protect her. Lord, he wasn't joking earlier. ]

You don't need to worry because I've been training myself for situations like this. How about you? Can you fight or anything? [Are you anime Heung Soo?]

[harepiece]

[Luckily, coming from a place where somehow everyone knows how to cook and anyone who doesn't is kitchen-banned, she will probably not suffer through anything too traumatic.]

It's a good starting point! [He will argue this to his dying breath...] And it's really tasty if you make it the right way! And filling. And warm.

[These things had all been very important when they were stuck in crappy murder barracks...]

[harepiece]

But if you wanted to, you could have avoided me! Especially now, right? You can't just claim a friend was grandfathered in by kidnapping.

[Ciel can't get away with that sort of unlogic here okay NO ESCAPE.]

[rollin]

Your ninja game's too strong, man... [ But he won't even question it. ] Aight, let's take those bugs down.