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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

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[bigstick]

[ you really want to go up to this guy, steve? the one standing here, drinking a milkshake, totally chill with life. or, uh, outwardly chill with life. you're going to regret this decision.

his eyes go a little wide and he pulls his mouth off the straw, grinning like a politician. ]

You didn't watch the powerpoint, dude?

[ is this steve rogers? he's pretty sure this is steve rogers but he also isn't sure it's steve rogers. he's gonna be totally cool instead. ]

[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.]

[bigstick]

[ that grin just spreads. ]

Well, a-'course you do. Wouldn't be right if you didn't, but it did sort of answer that particular question. We had to go do the video game thing and now we get free food and then, we have to settle in and work hard for our explode-y words. Together! Totally a thing!

[ a pause ]

I mean, suspicious as fuck but totally a thing. That's aliens for ya.

[ casually slurps his milkshake again. oh, that regret. it will be soon and it will be fresh. ]

[savesthedance]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that finds the whole thing suspicious, at least.

[The whole 'settle in and place video games' thing, though? Really? That's the last thing he'll be able to do. In some respect, what choice does he have? He needs to survive in the place, but as if that's all he'll do. He wants more answers, and he plans to find a way to get them.

Having fun and enjoying himself while worlds are being destroyed just isn't an option.]

[bigstick]

Hell no, my friend! I mean, who's to say that these alien jerks here didn't destroy our planets in the first place? Like, dude, you expect me to believe that two alien species are hanging around Earth being all "hey why don't you blow it up and I play hero and save them from being blown up"? C'mon, Steve, you and I know better than that.

[ america, he didn't... introduce himself yet... but anyway! he just scoffs at the end and wags his milkshake at steve, leaning in to grab his shoulder and look him in the eye. ]

So, what I say is we just bide our time until we've got a little spot set up and all these good folks here are less broke and hungry and find out what's really going on, y'know? After all, these alien dudes are all shiftier than a money owing ruski, you feel me?

[savesthedance]

[Every thing America says is exactly what Steve has been wondering. That's more than enough to keep him willing to talk to this...strange...person, but it's the fact that America says his name that has him pause the most.]

...You know who I am? [it's not exactly an uncommon thing back home, but this wasn't home. This was a place with some major worlds colliding issues. He wasn't expecting someone he didn't know to know him so casually, but he supposes it's certainly possible, given he's come to find that timelines are apparently messed up as well.]

[bigstick]

[ ah! he jerks upright a little, surprised. he didn't really mean to give that away so soon and sort of scrubs a hand through his hair as he tries to figure it out. well, he certainly can't tell him he's from a comic in his world, can he? (which makes america think, if steve is real here and alternate universes are a thing than that means everything's real in a different universe, even the shit that is fake for him. holy shit, that's so cool.) so just... time to play along with it! steve can be real in america's world too, right? ]

Oh, uh. [ hm. ] You don't know me, do ya? Figuring not since people here seem to not have Nations in their world which is totally disappointing, just fyi! But, uh, yeah. I know you back home, kinda.

[ UHHH HOW TO PUT IT..... ]

So, right. I'm America! Which is kinda weird, with the whole Captain America thing -- haha, believe me, it's amusing to me too. But uh, my name is literally The United States of America. Kind of a... physical personification of the country? So, been alive as long as the place was an idea, can't die until the place ain't a thing anymore -- which, kind of don't know about that either since Prussia's still around and once in a while, someone will spot Rome. As in like, the Roman Empire so, Iunno, man. Probs immortal or something. [ anyway ] So, yeah. That's how I know you, since I'm like... actually America.

[savesthedance]

[Steve is kind of used to getting throw into confusing messes, but this? This is something else.]

Hang on. You're... America? You're literally the country?

[that is the weirdest thing he's ever heard, but then again, Thor was real and he's just been digitally saved from his world being destroyed, so maybe it isn't as strange as it first sounds.

But um. This...isn't how he would've picture his country, though. He was talking like a fifteen year old on the internet.]

[bigstick]

[ he just brings up two thumbs and a bright grin. ]

Yep, that's me! In the flesh! So glad you're gettin' this, dude. I tell people here and they're like "oh no that's impossible" or "you're insane and leave me alone." It's getting kind of annoying! Just 'cause y'all folks don't have Nations back home doesn't mean I cease to exist, y'know? I do not! I'm around and heck, even Russia's here -- but that guy sucks so don't talk to him, son. You won't enjoy it.

[ and a nod before he takes one last sip from his milkshake and tosses it out! in the recycling bin! heck yeah.

also whatever, he can talk however he wants. ]

[savesthedance]

Honestly? I'm getting the feeling the impossible really isn't all that impossible anymore. [just..saying. He's seen so much, between everything that's happened back home and then suddenly finding himself here. Can he really dismiss anything, just because it sounds a little bit strange? With alternate universes out there, it was hard to say just what couldn't exist.

And he didn't mean that negatively! He just thought, you know, America would be more...old and wise? Or something like that. But maybe this isn't as surprising as he originally thought, given that he's basically acting like the average modern American.

It's still a lot to wrap his mind around.]

[bigstick]

That's the spirit! [ he looks kind of excited now, punching the air with a fist a little. ] Limit your reality and you get nowhere, that's what I always say! And now we're here, hanging out with freakin' aliens and crap. They're probably backstabbing aliens that will no doubt wish us harm but hey, not if we get there first, ya know!

[ america, what are you even...

that said, he could totally be old and wise if he wants to. sometimes he is! it just... catches people off guard. like the spanish inquisition, no one expects it! if you talk to him enough, he might surprise you too. ]

Gotta say, it's pretty cool being able to hang out with Captain America of all people. Never get to do that back home!

[savesthedance]

[oh gosh that enthusiasm, but at least America seems to be on similar wave lengths when it comes to CERES. He honestly wondered if they would be backstabbing aliens, but he didn't have enough information yet to really be sure. He was going to give them the benefit of the doubt for now, and hope they honestly were trying to help everyone.

And given what he's seen of America so far....yeah, that'd be a bit surprising. But he already feels like most of what comes out of the country's mouth is going to be a surprise.]

Can't say I've had a chance to sit down and talk to my country. [still. trying to wrap his head around that.] And you said that's a usual thing, where you're from? Other countries are.. people, too?

[bigstick]

[ after this, america's gonna poke around himself. gather as much info as he can and probably harass the people in charge as often as they'll let him. it works out in the end.

but yes, exactly. keep everyone on their toes! ]

Heh, guess you wouldn't, but yeah! It's a normal thing. Only me and... Russia [ he makes a face ] are in Cerealia but, there's one for every country. You should see our world meetings, gets super chaotic -- which is hilarious when Germany's the one who makes the powerpoints for them. He gets so mad, yells at everyone to sit still and stop arguing but they totally never do.