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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

[cheats]

[ It seems like Ciel is a pretty fast reader, or at least a super skimmer, since he's flipping to the next page already... ]

Still, for this much already, it's impressive. I didn't even catch that. [ Which is, of course, referring to some small detail from the powerpoint, since Ciel had been partially consumed by rage and perhaps not paying as much attention as he should have been but ah, well. He sure did try. ]

Is this sort of thing part of your usual work too?

[allweather]

[Maybe he should have dogeared the relevant pages, or underlined important lines... He wasn't expecting a note inspection and, well, they are very thorough - he doesn't have much else to add, verbally.]

Formally? [so, that's a no. feels like it's time to fiddle with his glasses again.] It's the easiest way to keep track of everything else.

[cheats]

[ If this were someone else, Ciel would feel rude about having just stolen Reim's hard work and inspecting it so thoroughly, but. This is Ciel, so this is pretty much standard for him. Granted, he's usually going over police reports with this level of intensity, but hey. The Watchdog is thorough. ]

Well, you're quite right about that.

[ He nods, slowing down as he gets to the part about the worlds getting destroyed. ]

I would have my butler do the same, were he here.

[allweather]

[Ciel's butler must be a great guy... A great guy who takes notes...]

Hmm. [He doesn't know enough to hazard a guess on whether or not Ciel cares that his butler isn't here, so he won't even bother saying they might scoop him out of that "code" yet, if that is how it works. Instead,] There can never be too many people keeping an eye out, I suppose.

[cheats]

[ Ciel nods, then holds out Reim's notes to offer them back. He hasn't finished reading them, but he doesn't want to stand there and just ignore the conversation either. He already likes Reim enough to not do that... ]

Well, if he shows up, I'll send him your way, then. It would be work done best together to be thorough, I'd assume.

[allweather]

[What a respectful young man... Reim does take his book back, and without snatching it away like a baby.]

Most likely it would. It wouldn't be too much trouble?

[This is a kid's butler they're talking about, although something about his comment suggests he would involuntarily go into work overdrive and eat up the time of anyone who made eye contact. But also the butler thing.]

[cheats]

[ Ciel just shakes his head in response ]

No, not at all. It's part of his responsibilities to gather information anyways, and besides that, he enjoys it.

[ because he, too, is a big nerd ]

[allweather]

[He can feel the kinship already.]

In that case, I'd be happy to put him to work if he turns up.