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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

[rollin]

[ Yata laughs and shakes his head like Oz... you must be new... ]

No, I mean, it's cool. I ain't mad. You know what I'm saying? [ Try to keep up. ] We're both cool, though. You got that scythe and those chains, and I got my aura. That makes us badass!

[ Sorry if he's not making sense. The classroom door is open, so Yata will simply saunter in. His skateboard is somewhere in the front, underside up with a flame insignia and the letters HMR painted in thug font. You know the type. ]

[springful]

Unfortunately, no. I'm not even sure how I ended up here in the first place. [Yeah, she's pretty lost on what's going on. From uncomfortable lessons to killer bugs to quadruplets....]

[savesthedance]

'Course I did. But that doesn't mean I don't still have questions.

[It's not like big companies are always truthful, after all.

And yeah, he may not realize it yet, but he's going to regret approaching America sooner rather than later.]

[savesthedance]

That our homes are being destroyed and they somehow managed to digitally save us?

[It made sense in some ways, or at least didn't seem completely impossible, but in others... It was just a lot to take in.]

I take it you're new here too, then?

[He wants to talk to someone that's been here a while, if there even is anyone like that. If there is, maybe they'll have some insights into the situation that he doesn't. But he's definitely curious to see what her thoughts on the matter are, too.]

[savesthedance]

[It's not so much her that's surprising, it's how young she is. Given everything he's just gone through with Bucky, it's just....strange. He can tell she's right in her mind, though. HYDRA definitely crosses his mind, but it doesn't linger there long.

However, he did just witness a "tutor" turn into a monster. He may be outside of the game now, but from what he understood of what he was told, this was all some digitally remade reality anyway. Who was to say a fake Peggy couldn't be possible?

But who was to say they couldn't have uploaded the real Peggy, pulled from a time before he was separated from her?]

Yeah, I-- that'd be great, actually. [Which reminds him! He digs in his pocket and pulls out the coupon he won in the game.] I have a coupon? Is that the same place?

[He doesn't know if this is some kind of a trick, or a dream, or just some weird hallucination, but it's Peggy. The way she's talking, acting, carrying herself...It all feels right. While he's not dropping his guard, not completely, he's taking a chance to at least hear what she has to say.]

[lionly]

[And I wouldn't be so lonely? Elza replays the words in his mind. But he's wise enough not to ask about that, at least not yet, just barely after meeting.]

Books and flowers. [He smiles.] I'm guessing you'd like books on flowers too.

[lionly]

[Wow Oz way to generalise!! Don't classify animal people as all the same-- Elza's expression contorts with mild confusion at the mention of a festival (no he doesn't remember at all maybe blissfully so), but...]

You had me thinking we were from the same place for a moment, there. So you ran into him here... I don't know him that well, only through Nesso, but he's an ally.

[lionly]

[Elza frees his own longsword, the black blade slicing through the air before he holds it at an angle, poised and aimed toward those damn monsters. He smiles wryly at the question, not looking over.]

Yeah-- you wouldn't guess it, though, would you? It's amazing what turning into a bug-monster-thing does for your attractiveness.

[A shake of his head and his hand tightens around his sword's hilt.] They're coming, Nesso.

[lionly]

[Elza clucks his tongue doubtfully.]

Something like that... It shouldn't be possible.

[But, hm. His fingers comb over his hair before he notices the way that Zara's looking at him. One ear twitches and he smiles easy, obligingly.]

I'll ask around, too. We should convene afterward and discuss whatever it is we hear.

[smokingspirit]

[ Now isn't this a Sight.

These people seems to be adapting quickly, too. But why are they doing this in the first place?

He looks between the two people with a most skeptic look on his face. He removes his cigarette from his mouth before he speaks, at least. ]

Fries and cockroach machines are on the same level?

[ Not what they were saying, Mr. Spirit. ]

[smokingspirit]

[ He can't do that. He has a responsibility to take care of his easily frightened subordinate and stuff. ]

That's a bit more specific. [ Which does help to narrow it down considerably. ] It's not any kind of person I've seen recently, at least.

[smokingspirit]

Why shouldn't I be?

[ Can't you see he's wearing his serious face? Except he's not, he looks half-lazy most of the time and he does to now as well. ]

Hmmm, not necessarily, no. A lot of times, dreams make less sense than this place does.

[flaredo]

I hope you're the patient type, then. I already told him he was getting a punch the next time I saw him.

[smokingspirit]

[ To be fair, it's no big deal. It just has to do with breaking laws and whatnot. ]

Oh, it didn't have any soul.

[ He can easily tell. ]

None of the robots does.

iv

[smokingspirit]

[ Yeah he's gonna judge so hard.

But then he's got a bit more to focus on.

Like a robot actually having a soul.

Now that's a first.

Excuse the spirit's staring or don't. ]

[immobileyes]

Y-yes! Your friends... are important, right? I understand that.

[ even though she is scared of pretty much everything right now. ]

[immobileyes]

[ Wise decision, that. ]

Mm! Like their meanings, and how to make flower crowns and--

[ She actually needs to stop herself from rambling, turning pink with the realization. ]

U-um, what about you... Elza? What do you like?

[immobileyes]

It's Mary... [ yes, what a fine name for shy people. ]

[immobileyes]

E-eh? It does??

[ way to catch her off-guard. ]

[immobileyes]

... I can't really fight...

[lionly]

[Elza finds the excitement of hers absolutely endearing, what a nice young miss. He's still smiling when she cuts off, his chin on his palm.]

Me? Hmm--

I'll give you a typical knight answer, I think: I enjoy my duties. Swordplay, defending others, so on. [He touches the hilt of his sword with the tips of his fingers.] Duty keeps me rather busy, but I do like it, and I'm glad I serve under the captain I do.

[immobileyes]

Both sides of a story? I think I understand.

[ ... but why salt? ]

[immobileyes]

You're a knight?? [ so many knights today, what a haul. ] L-like the ones who fight for honor and to protect the kingdom and the princess and--

[ ELZA YOU'RE SO COOL??? ]

[thirdarrow]

Yes. Though we will need to find a way how. I have visited other planes, but only with the aid and guidance of transdimensional beings. [ How best to explain Philemon... ] Since CERES pulled us from the code, perhaps they can also access different worlds, too.

[ And maybe he could find a way to receive news of his homeworld. Not being able to renturn is a problem. ]

[cheats]

[ It's quite obvious, and yet, even with Oz being terribly predictable in some ways, Ciel is just as predictable... So this gets him to go from dere right back to tsun immediately. His thoughtful frown turns to a scowl. ]

What in blazes are you talking about now? That's a terrible comparison to start with!

[ Note, however, that Ciel is not rejecting the candy apple offer. ]