Welcome to CERES' new dating experience -- ABOMIDate (Catchy, huh?). They've found that they're a little concerned with everyone's ability to... connect with denizens of different species, and in a place like Cerealia that is full of aliens, that's a Big Problem! After all, it's pretty clear by now that there are a lot of things about your friendly neighborhood aliens that you just know nothing about. What else do you not know? That the greeting of a Faswwg is face licking? That feathered species require mating dances to woo? That [REDACTED] needs [REDACTED] to [REDACTED]? So clearly, the way to fix this problem is...to practice dating other species!
Namely eldritch abominations! In CERES' experience, eldritch abominations really sum up the full interspecies dating way of life and provide you a variety of different species (and orifices) to enjoy.
So it's time to put on some proper music -- no, not that, that's not right. There, that's better. Anyway, time to put on some sexy background music, and woo the monster of your dreams!
 [ horrifying noises of nightmares and despair ]
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PHASE I [ 8 00 ] Welcome to the new and improved Abominable Dating, CERES’ brand new virtual dating experience! The first thing you will see will be a character select screen, because CERES wants you to get to the dating part right away. Don’t worry, there are a lot of beautiful and handsome candidates to choose from so feel free to jump right in! There’s this fellow, or this dashing lass and even a hidden character who is... not really all that hidden if they’re right there to be picked, but there you go!
You have to pick one. There’s no other option, I’m afraid.
And once you do, you’ll end up in a room with your date, dressed up in beautiful, date-like clothing. Unfortunately, everyone else who picked that date will also be in the room with you, also dressed up and prepared for dating.
This is awkward.
It gets even more awkward when your date decides that you look like a great main course. Watch out for those claws/teeth/limbs/etc! Maybe you can work together to take down your starving date, sad as that sounds.
PHASE II [ 1000 ] No dating game would be complete without stat boosting sessions. Regardless of how you feel about your current date, you’re locked into the game now (and hopefully not while covered in the blood of your date themselves, though they just come back even if you managed to kill them), and the game is picking a stat it thinks you need to work on. Either your intelligence is deplorable, your charisma is totally lacking, or your strength is at noodly-arm levels. That’s pretty bad. (It doesn’t matter what your actual intelligence, charisma or strength are, the game might be making things up at this point.)
Because of this, you’re going to be automatically tossed into a mini-game to increase those stats! This will be fun, absolutely. Nothing but Fun here in ViViD. So regardless of what the game thinks you’re lacking, it’s going to throw you into the same mini-game -- eldritch abomination make-over sessions.
You'll show up at a row of dressing rooms, each marked with a sign above the door reading NO INTELLIGENCE or NO STRENGTH or NO CHARISMA in bright red letters. Choosing the right one (embrace your shame) will reveal your initial date to you. They bat their eyelashes in greeting and growl out a very sultry, Will you help me, senpai?
Time to get to work!
You won’t be able to leave the mini-game until the monster is completely satisfied with its makeover, so it’s time to really tap in to your inner fashion sense. Of course, the fact that you’re all trying to apply makeup to the same monster might make this hard, but you can surely all get along, right?
Right?
PHASE III [ 1800 ] At first, you were on a date. Finally, you, your monster, candelight. Everything was going right until... well, you made a bad dialogue choice. They asked you what your favorite food was, you accidentally picked "Italian" (or maybe picked it on purpose which makes this even worse!) and then things went dark.
When you wake up, you'll find yourself in a cage. The room is dark and dank and there's no light other from the crack of a door somewhere up a flight of stairs. You're in a cage in a basement and there's a key glinting on the table right across the room there. Is it for your cage?
Welcome to the Yandere Route.
You might not actually be alone though. The cage isn't terribly big but there's enough room for someone else and if you shift around a little, you'll bump into them. Maybe you should share some woes of the eldritch horror dating experience. Maybe you should try and find a way out! Who knows? But there's one thing for sure:
You're both extremely naked.
Good luck!
PHASE IV [ 1830 ] You did it. You’ve gotten to the end of the game, or nearly. You’ve earned up enough affection points somehow. Maybe it was through the eldritch abomination following you around to trying to eat you or maybe it really, really, really liked your makeover. Maybe there was that thing and the cage and some weird pictures it took -- who knows! But now it’s time for the inevitable scene.
The confession scene.
Except... well, ViViD can’t do confession scenes very well. You'll find yourself there in the schoolyard, dressed in the appropriate school uniforms but...
For one thing, there’s a heavy shower of rose petals. A heavy shower. They’re everywhere. They might get in your mouth and face, they’re pooling around your knees, it's a rose petal flood and you're about to drown!
For another, the eldritch abomination you chose to romance is getting closer and... closer. And closer. And that sure is a lot of teeth, huh? Is it coming in for a kiss or to eat off your face? It’s... really hard to tell with all the rose petals, isn’t it?
To make matters even worse, you can’t move -- you’re locked into the scene until it comes to its proper conclusion. The game is stuck and you're here, suffering through it all. Well, you're suffering unless someone comes and rescues you, but who in the world would interrupt a touching scene like this to do that?!
BONUS [ why o'clock ] You know you have to get dressed up nicely for your date. It's an important one! Third date means third base, after all. So, you’re shoved into a closet, and surrounded by tons and tons of choices to pick from. You're spoiled for choice!
But, well... no matter what you put on, or even if you just elect to stay in your regular clothing, it changes as soon as you step out of the closet to meet your date.
Don’t worry, you look adorable.
It can’t be taken off, of course. So you’d better get comfy, because you’re going to be a pink dinosaur for your third date and... your fourth date. And your fifth. Hell, you might still be a pink dinosaur when it comes time to confess! How... cute.
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Do I look like a gorilla? I thought those were hairy?
[Totally serious there.]
I mean, I'm not. But wow, seriously? A gorilla?
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It was the first thing that came to mind, that's all.
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[Sheepishly, Kara rubs the back of her head, trying to think of how best to explain.
She's seen you Kara. The truth is probably best? ]
I'm a Kryptonian? Like...maybe you've heard of my cousin, Superman? I'm uh...Supergirl.
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Never heard of any of those.
[POP CULTURE WHAT'S THAT]
Anyways, the powers aside, you look pretty human. Sound like one too.
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[She hooks a thumb at the S on her chest. It's a thing.]
But no, I'm not human. I'm from Krypton, a planet about fifty light years from Earth. I live on Earth now, though.
[A beat.]
Uh. You can call me Kara, though. Kara Zor-El.
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[Shiki's ability to give a fuck? Very low...
Although, a humanoid woman who claims to be from a different planet and a different species?? There's some interest in that.]
Mm. So it really is a big world out there...
Shiki.
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[Kara flashes a smile, feet barely touching the ground as she listens to the awkward sounds from the closet.]
Shiki. That's...Japanese, yeah?
[She asks, then in Japanese:]
My cousin, Kal, gave me some language books. I visited once too, to stop a crazy man with a bomb.
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... Accent's off, but better than expected.
[That actually might get a ghost of a smile from Shiki.
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[She's trying, okay.]
You uh...have some blood on your cheek.
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Nn. It's not even real.
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[Kara jerks her chin up towards the knife.]
What's your story. Most people don't just carry around a knife and use it like that.
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As for Kara's question though, Shiki seems to clam up for a moment before replying back with the barest hint of irateness in her tone.]
Most people don't get whisked away into a different dimension into a virtual video game either.
That said, it's easy to carry around and conceal.
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[Trained by Amazons, and Batman...]
You some sort of monster hunter or something?
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[Although, with Shiki, she's monster enough so...]
The target doesn't matter. It almost always end up being monsters though.
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[Hey, it's a fair question.]
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hey that's her class in Grand Order.]That's what it sounds like doesn't it...?
[Thinking about it for a moment, Shiki then shrugs as she heads towards the door leading to the hallway.]
Call it what you like then. I don't use it.
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[Kara's voice takes on a slight edge, not angry, but a question she sort of needs answered. Kal. Clark. He'd ask the same thing.]
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Shiki knows who she is and what the complications are with a person like her. She's a murderer who has yet to take a life and yet sees the death of everything and everyone around her.
But would she kill someone for money? There's something self-righteous about the alien girl's words in her perspective and it makes her scoff. She doesn't need money. She's never been in need of material things because if that was all there is, Shiki Ryougi wouldn't be in this current state.]
I'm not desperate if that's what you're asking. No, I never killed a person.
[There's no one worth killing yet.]
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Fair enough. Not exactly what I was asking, but that really settles it. Sorry, just...It's complicated.
[She believes you, and lets the matter drop, stepping out into the hallway. The closet behind them thumps a few more times...]
Maybe we should go see who else is stuck in here and help 'em out.
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I'd like you to meet an AsagamiThe only thing black and white for Shiki is life and death and even then there's weird boundaries concerning that topic.Shiki doesn't respond to the apology and rather answers Kara's suggestion instead.]
If that's what you feel like doing.
[cause guess who's gonna go and be the cool kid and not be helpful for the time being...]
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It's the right thing to do. Those things could hurt someone.
[...She stops and looks back at Shiki.]
And you might want to duck.
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You had a stalker.