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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

[lionly]

Maybe that bug beat us to this place and scared who was here off... hopefully they just did what we did.

[Elza keeps his voice quiet too, looking around suspiciously because we all know what happens when it gets too quiet in one given place.

And when you comment on how quiet or empty it is in that given place...]

[lionly]

[Elza steps forward to meet him, relieved now that the monster is out of the way. He moves to clap a hand at Nesso's arm, at his elbow, looking at him with a more relaxed expression.]

But you dealt with it pretty well.

[You know. With killing and such.] Now that we don't have anything dangerous chasing us... I'm really relieved to see you, Nesso.

[rollin]

What else could it be, genius? [ And Yata's speaking in stage whispers. ] You see anything?

[immobileyes]

[ ... THAT'S NOT MAKING HER FEEL ANY BETTER. ]

Mm... but I don't want anyone to die like this...

[immobileyes]

I-I hope so... [ ABOUT-FACE!!! ]

[immobileyes]

... Can you teach me how to do it?

[topscores]

[And Nice is just happy enough to watch Naruto do his thing (because the more he does, the less he has to do honestly). His eyes will get wide with surprise, though, and he'll put his hands into his pockets as he watches the explosion and the creature shoot backwards.]

Cool!

[Because Naruto totally needs that ego boots of someone thinking he's really cool, right?]

[topscores]

[Well Nice is ridiculous like that, definitely.

And when he hears Elza laughing, he looks over at him and raises an eyebrow. He told him to poke it?? He did??? And now he's laughing??

Whatever...]

You done over there? I'm ready to get out of this weird place if you are.

[Hopefully the bugs are...mostly gone...]

[topscores]

[Nice just huffs a little bit, and looks over at Rin as he moves. It was...a ruler...]

It's not a normal sized roach!

[But whatever, if he had to make sure neither of them died, he supposed he could do it. And it's a good thing he's finally made up his mind, because the monsters seemed to have found them.]

Damn...[His hands go to his headphones, and he looks back over at Rin.] You stay back, okay?

[topscores]

Whatever you wanna do. Some people keep it secret, too.

[He doesn't really see the point in that, but it's not really his place to judge it.]

It's not really my business about what you do with it in the end.

[topscores]

[Nah.

Okay, well he's going to be following this slightly annoyed-looking guy, but at least he might be getting some answers. Hopefully.]

Hopefully it's not a trap or anything. That'd really suck.

[Because this is obviously the first time he thinks that something like this could happen...]

[topscores]

[Good grief...he scratches at the bandage on his nose.]

I take it you haven't figured much out in that time.

[topscores]

I don't know! I can't tell from pieces in a box...

[Well, Nice isn't all that amused at the situation either, because he still feels like there's the small chance he might be made to pay for it.

...Because that's his priority.]

People ask for all sorts of weird things to be delivered.

[cheats]

It's an extended kidnapping.

[ This unlogic is not stopping... ]

I'm not free yet, since you dragged me into things so thoroughly.

[foodcritic]

Just because it's tasty doesn't mean it's hard to make, though. Oatmeal is as simple as it gets!

[probably. granted, she doesn't eat a lot of oatmeal, but that's because her dad and ludger both usually went all out for every meal. oatmeal was reserved for usually just days when they're rushing and can't really waste a lot of time cooking.]

[harepiece]

There are probably some things that are more simple than oatmeal. ...Toast!

[don't sound so proud of yourself oz]

[harepiece]

[what the actual hell ciel why]

Even if it's an extended kidnapping, there's plenty of places for you to go to, right? You don't have to be my roommate.

[harepiece]

[ABOUT-FACE INDEED. He'll hold his hand out for Mary again because he wants to book it and he doesn't want her accidentally tripping...]

There's probably a door we overlooked, that's all! I mean, things got really chaotic really fast...

[harepiece]

[AND LO, because they have invoked the ancient magic of horror movie tropes, there's a crashing sound from somewhere down the hall right as Elza finishes speaking. The ominous sort of could-be-friendly-fire crash, too, like perhaps some skittish person accidentally knocking a pencil tin off of a desk rather than a big obvious A BUG IS THIS WAY crash.

Oz hesitates for a second, glancing up at his travel buddy with some measure of trepidation. If it were up to him he'd just barrel down there to see what's what, but he doesn't want to be responsible for dumbly leading other people into danger...]

Should we go look? It might be a person...

[He says while already starting to shuffle in that direction.]

[foodcritic]

...You didn't have to take it so literally.

[seriously, oz!!]

[harepiece]

I'm just saying! If you wanted something really unimpressive, I could do that too, probably.

[THAT IS GOING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.]

[foodcritic]

Why would I want something unimpressive? You're weird....

[stop derailing this conversation, dammit!]

[immobileyes]

[ She still might trip, but she'll take his hand (in a surprisingly firm grip for a tiny girl). ]

So we should check all of the doors...

[ oh boy. ]

[immobileyes]

... [ a nod, albeit a tiny one. ] I'll think about it.

[harepiece]

[Truly she asks the impossible of him now...!]

Well, I definitely won't be serving you toast, either way. [What a relief(?!)] I should probably stop eating up so much of your time, too. Sorry about that! [He doesn't sound sorry at all...]