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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!

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[ Phase I with Astor ]

[ Well, this woman is not at all uncomfortable with how the guy was acting. Rather, she's amused. And she laughs, a stupid grin on her face. ]

Oh you'll have to do it better than that, little cockroach. This old granny isn't gonna fall that easily.

[ He's more dressed than she is! ]

[ Phase II ]

[ She's not going to fall easily when the thing changes, either. She's seen weirder, though, that's for sure.

She's seriously just still amused. ]

Wow, you look like a turd!

[ Stop laughing like a madwoman, woman. ]

[ PHASE IV ]

[ She failed the quizzes. On purpose. Just to see what would happen.

And now she's confused.

And has walked right up to the robot, and is prodding it with a stick. ]

But what are you? You look so funny, I've never seen anything like this.

[ For a woman her age, it's unusual to find so unfamiliar things. ]

[ Bonus ]

[ But then again, she'll see a lot of unfamiliar things here.

As for this food? ]

Man, I wanna shove this in Julian's poopy face!

[ To feed him? To mess with him? Who knows, Julian is her best friend and she might do either one. ]

[Relief follows, since it's nice to be met with such kind reassurance. The smile present is small but pretty, and Kaoru's hand moves away, dropping that demure gesture of thought.]

Glen Baskerville? I will surely remember the name and description. Should I see him, I'll let him know that his servant is here. [The names are all foreign, and the gesture that follows is, too. Kaoru blinks at the offered hand in an owlish sort of way for a second before extending one, too. However, rather than a proper shake, Kaoru's hand rests just shy of actually touching and a somewhat embarrassed look is offered.]

Please excuse my rudeness. Customs of the West are still something that I struggle with. You would properly be referred to as... Mister Nightray, correct? [Adapting to different forms of address can certainly be a struggle too, good lord.

That said, Kaoru's own introduction comes seamlessly. A gentle bow, a softer smile, and a polite:] My name is Nagumo Kaoru. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, despite the poor circumstances. I hope that this place hasn't been treating you harshly...

[Naoi seems to be in the building to mingle with newcomers rather than to eat, because after two cases of weird shit happening after eating, he's extremely wary of the food that this place serves... Any part of it, really. The grocery store is probably tainted too, but at least it's better than Return of The Burger.

Because of that, though, his response to her question is pretty much immediate since he has no mediocre food to distract him.]

Kind of. I've been here for a while, anyway, so I could probably answer any questions that you might have! You're new, right? They've been pretty rough on a lot of you guys lately.

[ You sure you want to ask the woman dressed in less clothes than the teacher?

She seems completely fine and, out of all things, is laughing about the chase and Yata's comment about not trusting the teacher in the first place. She thinks it's hilarious that the teachers turned into turd-looking monsters. ]

Oooh yeah! Not having fun, Crow-chan?

What is?

[ Too late, Oz. Yata slips and falls on his back, bringing Oz down with him. It's strange how he doesn't feel any pain. For a second, he considers how this might all be just a bad dream, but he realizes it's probably because he's hugging Oz's legs as he buttslides across the long water spill and into a former teacher's open mouth at the end of the corridor. Time to scream. ]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

[ ...and kick the bug's jaw upwards out of reflex. For a moment, it looks like Yata's leg is on fire. ]

[ Briefly, he retracts his hand with a laugh, brief and gentle. ]

No harm. I'm more commonly addressed as Master Vincent, but I would be content with whatever you should deem appropriate, Miss Nagumo. Honorifics are terribly complicated things, after all. As for my experience here, thus far, I'd say my fortune has just recently taken a turn for the better.

[ Offering his hand once more, with a faintly playful quirk of his brow. ]

I would be happy to show you, if I may.

[ Yata looks forward so fast. She has a BANDAGE BRA. He has so many regrets. ]

D-Does this look like fun to you? And that's not my name!

[ But he honestly wonders how she came to the conclusion that she should arbitrarily call him a crow. Coincidence? Why is she even behind him... Go away... ]

If Master Vincent is what's most common, it would be remiss of me to select something different. [Terribly complicated, indeed... Though Kaoru doesn't have much of a preference for one set over another, ease of remembrance aside.

The offer earns Vincent a look of muted curiosity and mild surprise, though.]

...If it wouldn't be troublesome. I would hate to waste your time. [But an offer is an offer, so Kaoru's hand extends again, still uncertain and hesitant to make contact.]

[ Being chased by his own teacher-creature-monster-whatever he's finally found a good spot to fight it where he can get the advantage. He doesn't know it, but it's the gymnasium.

He's on the creature's back, sword stabbed deep into it to keep him rooted when he sees Kagemitsu run through the wide open doors. ]

Kagemitsu?!

[ Back in the day--like a hundred years ago or so--she used to wear more clothes. Then she left the Taishirou and left her clothes behind. Or something. ]

Yep! It looks super fun! Nothing beats some scary looking monsters that wants to eat you!

[ She's a samurai, of sorts, she loves dangerous situations. ]

And I don't know your name. [ She wouldn't use it either way. ]

[ Vincent is only fortunate enough to just narrowly evade the chair - buuut that less favorably leads his fancy gold-capped boots to skid over dust and debris, propelling him right back onto his ass.

u g h . ]

Well, that was-- unexpected.

[ But he's good! He's good. Other than a bumped elbow and wounded pride, anyway... At least the offender is a cute young girl. ]

[WHAT KIND OF SUPERPOWER IS THAT...

One that Oz doesn't have time to consider for very long, that's what. At the end of the long buttslide to near-certain death, Oz picks right back up where he left off with (ie screaming loudly), but this time he has the presence of mind to roughly jerk Yata to his feet by the arm and book it down the opposite side of the hall.]

Don't look back—! [Because surely that will help keep the rudeass bugbeast at bay... Either way, he's kind of slipping and sliding all over the place with his now slightly wet shoes, but he sure is trying valiantly to get them both out. What appears to be an exit door shines majestically ahead...! Sweet salvation!!

...Or a second bug creature.]

Why is this happening?!

[ The old woman who doesn't look like an old woman is surprised when she's suddenly pulled aside in her mad dash (accompanied by mad laughter) and if she wasn't such a lax and lazy person, she would have possibly drawn her sword on whoever that was.

She doesn't, though, and instead, she just looks at him in befuddlement.

Then she pats him on the head. ]

Aw~? You worry about the old granny~? How sweet of such a cute little turd~

[ And here Kagemitsu was trying to get away from his own creature. He's not exactly happy to see another one. Poko skids across the unfamiliar flooring.

But then there's a familiar voice and he is certainly shocked to see Hirari. Stabbing the monster like he had stabbed the Orochi/Sasaki-no-danna... ]

Nii-san!?

Hardly, miss.

[ Vincent's words as dressed with amusement, as he slips his palm into Kaoru's. Nimbly turning 'her' wrist upward, so that he may bow in to softly kiss the knuckles exposed to him.

Once done, he'll regain his stature, with gloved fingers tracing lightly up the other's palm until he may fondly squeeze the more delicate digits beneath his thumb. ]

You see? Simple enough.

[ Kagemitsu jumps, clearly startled. He was trying to focus on anything but the woman who was supposed to teach them history, except he wanted to know the history in question. He had been focused on the tanuki that was with him, only partly listening to Hilda.

So yeah, he's a little startled at suddenly being talked to. ]

Ah---Oh. Kagemitsu. Kumou Kagemitsu.

[ Seems a lot of people chose this specific class. Kagemitsu did, too, because knowing the history of a place would help in understanding it. (Like, what even is a gun, it's nothing he's ever seen before.)

He's jumped up on Poko's back, after the tanuki had changed into her much bigger shape, and when they see the running kid, Poko dash up to the boy, and Kagemitsu pulls him up on Poko's back.

The spirit/animal is certainly much faster than a little boy, so they are quick to get further from the monster after that. ]

Are you alright?

[ Oz, his hero!! Yata keeps up with him with some difficulty, his face lighting up when he sees an escape from this madness... and faltering when another bug blocks their way. ]

I dunno, but it looks like we can't run anymore.

[ He looks unshaken, raising his arm as if to shield Oz from the creatures. wow Yata so cool (...?) ]

You scared?

[ He only noticed her before she spoke thanks to Poko. The tanuki is, after all, a spirit, and can tell when people are close by.

He looks over, a confused look on his face. Why is she hiding... ]

Yes?

Again, it's up to your discretion to decide. [ Takakage nods slightly. Several of his friends in Hinoto-Ri had been able to eat fast food and keep it down, but it's a skill that he never managed to learn. ]

Ah, yes, sure. Though it may be easier if you ask me questions. What would you like to know?

[It is - perhaps unsurprisingly - an unexpected and bold gesture to someone who doesn't even call people by their first name more often than not. Having expected something closer to a handshake, the surprise present is very much genuine.]

Simple indeed, but I wasn't aware that greetings outside of my country were so... ah, warm? [The polite way of saying "too familiar"... What is this. Society is complicated enough in ye olde Japan, who needs to deal with ye olde Not Actually England Or France and its ten thousand flatteries!!

Kaoru just looks vaguely flustered (and flattered accordingly) though, fingertips of the hand not in Vincent's resting against a cheek in a shy-looking gesture.]

But thank you for showing me, sir. Even though I've been here for some time, there is still much that's foreign to me... It's a little embarrassing.

[kya yata the true shonen hero...!!

But Oz will pull up shy, stopping behind Yata's raised arm and looking a little alarmed. Though probably not for the reason he expects... or should be...]

Wait—! We can't just... These were people before, right?

[The idea of holograms doesn't really make sense to Oz, even with his jamjar experience. As far as he's aware, what he witnessed was pretty similar to what happens to people when they become Chains. A LITTLE MORE TERRIFYING on both ends of the spectrum, but still...]

[ He was right; it was Kagemitsu. Good to know he wasn't seeing things. The pain in his arm would come back eventually and he couldn't guarantee what would happen then.

He pulls the blade out, and slashes at its neck this time, but it doesn't finish it. Instead, it takes the chance to throw him off itself, and he lands on the floor. ]

I didn't know you were here too! Need some help with that?

( phase 1 )

[ ... well. If there's anything that could convince Shuu he went straight to hell after all that, it's this. One moment you're dying, the next moment you're suddenly in a classroom having to pick from some stupid lessons.. does this look like the kind of guy who's interested in learning anything. We don't need no education...

But even moreso than that, he has no idea of what's going on here. Zero. Being from Sengoku times and not even used to human customs at all, none of this looks familiar to him whatsoever. Especially not with how modern everything is, and how weird everything looks, and the fact that there's humans everywhere.. and with the instructor. God, the instructor. Shuu doesn't even get it. He's practically still considered underage where he's from despite being twenty, and even if he wasn't, he's enough of a baby that he has no idea how to deal with this?! He just looks puzzled at first, vaguely uncomfortable when they get too close, and by the time they're whispering in his ear he's just officially Done with this. Freaking humans.

Don't be surprised if this guy suddenly takes his test and instead of filling it out, starts folding it into a crane in the middle of the classroom.. random intense origami going on here, judging by how he's frowning at the paper. Are you brave enough to check what's up? ]

( phase 2 )

[ See, now this is a whole lot better. Sure, whatever these things are, they're not human. But it doesn't really matter to Shuu. Anything he can relieve all these negative emotions on right now (the confusion at not knowing what's happening, the anger at suddenly being surrounded by humans, everything) works.

So he's totally not afraid of the creature. If anything, the creature should be afraid of him with how furiously he's facing it..

By the time you managed to deal with your own tutor and walk through the hallway to find the way out, you may find Shuu standing around in the hallway as well.. except there's the huge corpse of one of those monsters next to him, and he's kicking it over and over again despite it clearly being dead already. You don't understand, okay. This thing hasn't suffered enough for the amount of times it's been breathing down Shuu's neck. ]

So how's this..?! Feel like you've taken responsibility yet?!

[ .. yeah. Totally sane display here. Sneak past or try to actively engage the weirdo here, it's your choice.. ]

( phase 3 )

[ At least he doesn't stand around there forever with the corpse. Eventually he does get out as well, gets the coupon and everything else.. but it still doesn't help all of his confusion very much. The welcome to CERES he's heard, sure, but.. well, he's supposed to be dead. Is this just some really weird dream of the afterlife he's having? Although he's not sure why he would dream up so many humans and weird.. bug things.. and all this weird technology he's never seen before..

It's all confusing. And since it's confusing, it's annoying. He's very much like a little kid after all. He just wants to Know stuff already.

So he figures maybe he should ask someone about it, but he's really not in the mood to just call someone over and ask them politely. Especially not since he's not going to extend that courtesy to humans in general to begin with, please.. so whether you manage to avoid it or not - Shuu will be sticking out his leg just when you pass by with all intentions to trip you. He's casually looking the other way as he does so, so it's passable as an accident, but he does mean to do it. Much quicker way of getting people's attention, honestly!! ]

[ She isn't even in this class, what's she doing here. Well, she already killed the dude tutor, so she's out hunting for more. So she stops when she passes the door to Hilda's room. ]

Oh, poops. More?

[ She just tilts her hat a little bit, to stop her face from getting hit by glass. She doesn't care about the blood, though. She already is spattered by some. ]

Wonderful work!

[ Yeah, she's applauding him. ]

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