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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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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

[ now that gets him to raise an eyebrow. So much for ladylike behavior. ]

I understand your frustration, but we should at least attempt to be diplomatic...

I tried that! And he went all "blah blah classified" on me! And, like, no harm done-- [ HNNNGH. ]

... I was hoping that he'd realize we should all be on the same page.

[ doesn't he want their help? Zara feels a headache coming on. ]

Well, as it so happens, I am the patient type.

Are you going to patiently wait until he decides to cooperate, then?

In a manner of speaking.

[ aka he's going to find a way to make him cooperate sooner. ]

... So you're going to improvise.

In a manner of speaking, [ he repeats, a small smile curling his lips. ] Rest assured that I will find something to do while waiting, Miss Yang.

Wow.

[ a pause, and then she snorts. ]

I almost feel sorry for the guy.

Feel sorry? My. I can't help but wonder what it is you're imagining.

[ please, he's a rabbit... ]

That's a secret. But let me know if he behaves, will you?

I'll see to it. How does one go about meeting him?

You give him a phone call and probably don't threaten to do facial damage when you see him.

Phone call...? I apologize. I'm unfamiliar with the technology here.

[ pls help ]

... You got this clunky device that lights up with weird images when you push buttons, right?

[ her description gives him pause, but then he reaches down into his pockets, pulling out what he imagines has to be what she's talking about. (It is.)

He'd noticed it earlier when he couldn't find his medical kit, but had no idea what it was. ]

You're referring to this?

That's the thing. This is what... well, I guess it counts as a phone. You use this to contact people.

How?

[ literally, how... he doesn't even understand what he's looking at, exactly. Does it shoot out letters? Carrier pigeons, maybe? Sorry, Yang. ]

Try touching the screen-- that square-shaped shiny part.

[ well, she's... just going to do the very basics here. ]

[ obediently, Zara touches a finger to the screen - one that he quickly retracts when it lights up, eyes widening and ears stiffening in surprise. He immediately looks over at Yang. ]

Is that supposed to happen?

[ Did you say something, she's chinhanding at your ears. ]

I never get over how cute that is...

... Excuse me?

[ are you talking about the phone... that's not cute!!

except no, it's pretty obvious she's talking about his ears, and he's... not sure how to react, so that'll do for now. ]

The way your ears twitch! Kind of reminds me of home.

[ she'll explain that maybe eventually. ]

... I am a grown man, you know? Please don't say things that will hurt my pride.

[ he doesn't want to be cute!! HE WANTS TO BE COOL... or at least handsome. Somewhat more aggressively, he holds the phone towards her. ]

Now, how do I use this?

[ ... Zara, that's also cute. But Yang keeps her comment to herself, tapping various parts of the screen. ]

You'll have to experiment a little, but you can find the people you want to talk to here. And hit this part to call them, and you'll hear their voice on this thing. This part's for seeing them--

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