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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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[firstcloud]

[ Phase I ]

[ Indecent. This person is acting incredibly indecent. Kagemitsu (covered in wounds, scrapes and bruises, hair out of its costumary ponytail and hanging in a tangled mess around him) had been ready to learn, sure, he doesn't mind learning. But this teacher was starting to freak him out.

He hugs Poko to his chest, nervously wishing for this to just be over. He had intended to learn some history, not...this. ]

Poko, what do we do?

[ This was nothing he had ever trained for. He was Botan's shield, not a...person target? ]


[ Phase II ]

[ He's not going to deal with this any more. So he smashes his swords into the thing, to get it at least a bit away from him.

He tumbles away from the creepy creature. ] Poko! [ The small round spirit turns bigger, and after Kagemitsu has jumped up on her back, she runs out of the room, away from the creature. ]


[ Bonus ]

[ He's too tired for this. Really.

First he had been struck by heartbreak when Sasaki-no-danna had turned out to be the Orochi, then there had been the battle to seal said Orochi, and then there was the Orochi's followers, like Ashiya.

And now it had been this.

Kagemitsu, slumps against a table, rather then eat the food. Poko nuzzles his cheek, and licks it. Then she tries to get his attention to the food, and he looks up at it, head still on the table. ]

...is that really edible?

ii

[snakebait]

[ 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?!

Re: ii

[firstcloud]

[ 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!?

Re: ii

[snakebait]

[ 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?

Re: ii

[firstcloud]

[ He doesn't want help (or he sort of does but doesn't, at the same time. And Hirari has his own monster to defeat, anyway. ]

Don't you have enough to handle right now!?

[ Kagemitsu hits the Kumou swords together, discarding the sheaths on the floor. Poko leaps up against the monster that had followed them into the room, and Kagemitsu jumps from her back and onto it, so they attack it from two directions. ]

Re: ii

[snakebait]

Not if I deal with mine first!

[ It's not quite a competition, except it kind of is turning into one now.

The monster comes for his legs, but he slashes it across the face, making it back up and wail at him before lashing out again. ]

Re: ii

[firstcloud]

[ Wha-- ]

Why are you all competitive all of a sudden!?

[ Just focus on taking down the thing before you bleed out, moron-nii-san!

Which Kagemitsu is trying to do, cutting at the monster with his two swords, pulling away when it lashes out at him, but leaping up on its back to stab it in the eyes. ]

Bonus

[pure_confidence]

[ Peggy glanced at his food and frowned. ]

It is, rather unfortunately, but perhaps if you eat it slowly it might not entirely disagree with your system.

[ Says the woman drinking only a water and an apple, the only "healthy" item on the menu because, frankly, any place that serves "McKnight" burgers are immediately on her suspect list after that first picnic about a month ago. ]

Re: Bonus

[firstcloud]

[ He gives her a doubtful look. He's sort-of a vegetarian but he eats fish... ]

I'm not sure I should try, it looks much fatter than anything I've ever eaten.

[ He thought he'd try but then the real thing ended up in front of him and just... Why this weird thing. It's so different from what they eat during Kamakura. ]

[pure_confidence]

[ Peggy's smile is immediate and just a touch rueful. ]

Yes, well. I'm afraid that's the nature of the food in a place like this. To be perfectly honest, it's not much better at the market. They seem to believe that processed is much better for you then a few vegetables and some fresh meat.

[ she paused ]

Although I wouldn't entirely trust the meat here in general.

[firstcloud]

[ Sorry, he's from too far back in time for one of those things... ]

Processed? The food? Does that mean everything is like this?

[ He prods the weird fake food. ]

[pure_confidence]

[ she pursed her lips and then sighed. ]

I'm not entirely sure myself, but at least the vegetables at market seem to be real enough so I imagine so of the meat must be as well.

[ she shrugged ]

Of course, you don't have to take my word for it. You can try the food and see for yourself what you think. [ Just don't blame her if he gets the runs later. Those knight burgers the first time and been positively deadly. ]

[firstcloud]

[ He is relieved at that, at least. He doesn't have any reason to doubt or trust her, but thinking that there might be normal food to cook normally, then he can relax a little bit at least. ]

I'm not very interested in trying this thing, to be honest. I'd rather see if there's anything I can cook myself.

bonus;

[deontology]

[ASSUMING TEST DRIVE CR IS STICKING if that's okay--

But nonetheless, finding ancestor-san slumped like that is not so surprising, when he considers his own first foray into this place. He doubts that what Kagemitsu experienced was any better... but he simply steps forward then, shaking his head.]

It is apparently edible, but I would not eat it. They have put things in the food before.

[sup, friend. Killjoy Abe Descendent here to brighten your day.]

Re: bonus;

[firstcloud]

[ SURE THING works for me.

He straightens a little, and looks up at the taller man. Oh, it's Hirari-nii-san's maybe-sort-of-descendant... He wrinkles his nose at the food, and at the words, moves Poko away from the so-called food so the tanuki won't eat it. It's suddenly looking even more suspicious than before. ]

If it's edible, then it should look it. [ Was it poisoned... ]

[deontology]

[Might be poisoned, honestly...... Sousei just nods at that, simply. He agrees...it's bullshit, really. Just don't try the soda.]

It does not taste edible, either.

There are foods that are more familiar to what we're used to, however, if you look. [Thank goodness, because he refuses to eat anything else.]

[firstcloud]

[ Better not even considering to eat it at all, then. ]

Food that cant' be eaten shouldn't be made. [ More importantly. He's much more interested in knowing what kind of familiar food there is to be found. ] Like rice and fish?

[deontology]

Yes.

[He agrees with the first point, but he's responding to the question.]

I've found some manner of foods that can be cooked in the market.

[...]

Enough to live off of, at least.

[firstcloud]

[ Does that mean there's no proper food after all... ]

I'll have to have a look there as well, in that case. It's worth knowing what is possible to find.

[sunshrouded]

[Sorry ancestor-san, but Tenka's a little distracted.

Because he's 98% sure that's his tanuki. So even in the middle of class he's making clicking noises with his tongue and trying to wave his hand to get Gerokichi's attention and if he happens to get Kagemitsu's too, so be it.

So he's just hissing-]

Gerokichi....! Gerokichi!!

[firstcloud]

[ Pay some attention, descendant.

Poko snorts a Poko snort, and Kagemitsu, who was sure the random person was talking to someone else, is offended on the tanuki's behalf over the name, once he realizes that no, that guy is actually calling Poko a name starting with 'puke'. ]

Don't call Poko weird names.

[sunshrouded]

[ . . . what. Tenka is blinking now, entirely befuddled because that's not what he was expecting.]

Who's Poko?

[firstcloud]

[ There's no 'what' about it, you know.

He picks up Poko protectively. ]

This is Poko.

[sunshrouded]

No way, that's Gerokichi. [he blinks] My younger brother named him and everything!

[firstcloud]

Poko doesn't have that name. It's Pokoya. [ Or Pokoai, sometimes. ] Poko's name has been Poko for decades.

[ Meanwhile, Poko is observing the strange young man. He feels familiar, even if he is unfamiliar. ]