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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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[He smiles wider at that.]

Miss Mary it is, then! A very classical name. It suits you.

[Marys tend to be shy, right... Even if they're not, he can make it up, if it relaxes her.]

E-eh? It does??

[ way to catch her off-guard. ]

[She's making this way, way too easy, so someone who seemed so cautious. Maybe she's just shy, after all?]

It does! In my opinion, at least. Don't you think so?

[He nods, very confident in his answer.]

[ Curiosity is a killer. ]

I... don't know. No one's ever told me that before.

Never?

[This explains so much, and yet, so little.]

What a shame! They must be blind and stupid, to miss something so obvious.

I didn't notice either...

[ IS SHE A MORON. ]

[MAYBE A LITTLE... But Cynbel rolls with it, because he's super good at being super fake.]

That's hardly surprising. It is much harder to know oneself than it is to know another!

... Is that it... um, then thank you for telling me?

You're very welcome.

[He tilts his head at her, still smiling, but he's letting a little concern slip into his expression.]

Are you afraid of me, after all? You hide yourself as though you expect to be attacked, Miss Mary.

I... don't really know anyone here, s-so I don't know who to trust...

I see.

[He nods and crosses his arms, looking very serious.]

In that case, you and I must get to know one another better! That way, you will at least know one person here.

... [ Give her a moment to peer at Cynbel properly, for a rather long time. ]

[And he'll just stare straight back, looking as neutral as he possibly can. He gets the feeling that pushing his luck either way right now could tip this away from friendliness.]

... Mm. I'll be your friend.

[ she looks so petrified. ]

[His smile widens, and he claps his hands and laughs with glee. It'll be okay, Mary, because this isn't a bad thing!!]

That's wonderful! I'm glad to be your friend, and I promise you, I will be a good one.

[Good acquaintance, maybe. It's a little harder to get into Cynbel's "won't run off if you're in mortal danger" column.]

[ She probably wouldn't judge him (much). She jumps a little at his sudden enthusiasm, but manages to stammer out a response. ]

T-then, I promise too!

[He laughs again, nodding at her answer.]

I'm glad!

[Then, he motions to her with one hand, still smiling.]

Now that we're friends, do you suppose you might want to come out from there? Or should I come to you?

I can do it... [ and very slowly, she shuffles out.

HI... new friend. ]

[Cynbel approaches without hesitation, but it's a slow approach. He thinks Mary's likely to run off if he's too fast, like a scared cat, so he'll have to rein it in.]

There, now. It's much easier to talk together this way, isn't it?

[And he stops, about a foot away.]

Would you like to have something to eat? If you're as new as you say, you must have had a very trying day.

[ He already knows her type so well, it's impressive. ]

... A lot of things tried to kill me. So I should probably keep my strength up. [ logical!! ]

[His only experience with this kind of thing is with skittish, stray animals, so he got lucky this once. Sorry, Mary!]

Oh, my... Did they go that far? What a terrible welcome.

[His eyebrows go up, but it's polite surprise and not very genuine. Cerealia is way more dangerous than he'd first thought, but that was months ago.]

All the more reason to, ah, "keep your strength up". Here, there is a place over here to eat that seems very popular!

The.... Mc... something? [ she has no idea what that even means. ]

Yes! It's an odd name, but it must have some good food, or people wouldn't go. Don't you think so?

[Oh, the naivete of people from lands without fast food...]

Mm... I still don't really understand why they don't eat at home.

Perhaps they are terrible cooks?

[Restaurants usually have good food people might want to try, anyway, but that's the simplest answer he can think of.]

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