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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]

So then I'll be mad. Fine.

[ It's still better than the friendship express ]

I'll meet people on my own time. Yours is ridiculous.

[harepiece]

If you were left to your own time, you wouldn't leave the apartment for anything besides business.

[Which he says with complete confidence, like he KNOWS THIS FOR A FACT. Mostly because, yeah, basically.]

[cheats]

[ Ciel just stares right back at him with a flat expression of his own. ]

And? I'd at least get my work done.

[harepiece]

[tHAT'S IT.]

I hereby decree that you must leave the apartment with me at least once a day from this day on!

[cheats]

I refuse your decree.

[ He even turns his nose in the air like the haughty brat he is. ]

[harepiece]

You can refuse it, but for every day that you do, that's a day I can do whatever I want to make up for it!

[PREPARE YOURSELF, CIEL. Courtesy doesn't apply in times of war...]

The first counter-decree is that I'm not sharing my desserts.

[cheats]

[ These two actual children... Ciel has a moment where he thinks about countering the counter-decree with a counter-counter-decree, but also decides that's stupid, thankfully. So instead, he just settles for staring back at Oz as if he's grown another head. ]

You're serious about this? Why?

[harepiece]

Because! Talking to people is important.

[Look he knows what growing up in social isolation can do to a person okay HE KNOWS THIS, CIEL. HE IS TRYING TO HELP.]

It doesn't even have to be much. I won't force you to talk to anyone or anything!

[cheats]

[ There's a moment where Ciel is clearly weighing his options on this, but ultimately... He nods. Giving in now is better than getting something stupid again like his neverending birthdays... ]

Fine. But if they're irritating, I won't waste my time with them.

[harepiece]

[HE ONLY HAD TO DEAL WITH ONE NEVERENDING BIRTHDAY!!!]

Good, you won't regret it! ...Well, you're so cranky that you might regret it a little - but in the long run, you won't!

[cheats]

[ one too many ]

Ergh... No, I will certainly regret it. Your stupidly cheerful personality means that you'll only attract idiots.

[harepiece]

[GIVING CIEL A LOOK.]

I somehow ended up with you, didn't I?

[cheats]

Actually, as I recall, our friendship is based on a kidnapping, so it therefore doesn't count.

[ I mean. Clearly. He says it like it's completely obvious and reasonable, at least. ]

[harepiece]

But if you wanted to, you could have avoided me! Especially now, right? You can't just claim a friend was grandfathered in by kidnapping.

[Ciel can't get away with that sort of unlogic here okay NO ESCAPE.]

[cheats]

It's an extended kidnapping.

[ This unlogic is not stopping... ]

I'm not free yet, since you dragged me into things so thoroughly.

[harepiece]

[what the actual hell ciel why]

Even if it's an extended kidnapping, there's plenty of places for you to go to, right? You don't have to be my roommate.

[cheats]

[ wow listen that logic has no place here ]

...Well, yes. But I've been with you long enough now that I may as well not change it. I still need someone to tend to my affairs.

[ re: dress me ]

[harepiece]

[WHAT A SHIT. A logicless shit... Oz is tempted to continue arguing and it's written all over his face, but you know what, he will just keep this a silent battle and claim victory in his head.]

I guess it would be a bad thing if you had to walk around outside looking all rumpled, huh? No one would take you seriously then.

[Don't make him tempted to revoke his dressing duties in a dumb situation somewhere down the road, Ciel.]

Anyway! Are you done looking around here?

[cheats]

For now.

[ He moves to cross his arms out of habit, but as his brokeass arm protests that, he just rests his hand on his hip. ]

I'll return later to do a proper inventory, but this is a good enough overview to start.

[harepiece]

[It seems Oz catches that, if the way his brow briefly furrows upward is any indication. Gotta see about that healthcare... But he won't voice anything aloud just yet, instead opting for the much more elegant:]

Don't sample them out of business, okay?

[Ciel.

TO THE DOOR THOUGH, which he'll prop open.]