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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...mostly, yes.
[Though her eyes did lower. Expression and tone betraying traces of guilt.]
We did get into a small fight not long ago. It was my fault. Sort of. There was this mask...I thought it was pretty, the way its wings looked like Angewomon, and I put it on. I didn't know it would make me say mean things to him. He got upset and ran away.
But then I made him chocolates and said I was sorry. He forgave me. So we're friends again.
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You and Takeru, fighting? [That's the wrong way to emulate your bothers, kids.] I can't believe it! Are you sure it wasn't a dream?
[He scratches at his chin and smiles lightly.]
Eh... But as long as you two are getting along... [All thanks to Hikari having seven hundred times more apology skills than her brother.]
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It wasn't a dream. It really did happen, even though I wish it didn't.
A lot of weird things happen here, actually. Even weirder than the Digital World.
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Well, he's not really going to doubt her, so he just nods at her affirmation of the truth. But he quirks an eyebrow as she says that.]
Oh yeah? Like what kinds of things? [He's had more adventures in the digital world so he wants to be the judge of that!]
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Well...there was the carnival a little while back. They made all of us dress in these strange clothes, and tried to turn some of the other kids into prizes at the booths.
Then there are the games. Like the one we're in right now.
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Okay, this game is really weird? There's other weird ones like this?
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Every game in here is different every time. Sometimes, they're kind of scary and sometimes they're just weird and don't make a lot of sense. Just before I got here, I heard people talking about one game that looked like a school dance or something...but the one I remember was more like a swamp adventure with an underwater monster that tried to eat me.
[She didn't seem too worried about the monster, though, and the reason why came out with her next statement:]
Tailmon said she got a good workout taking that one down. It wasn't even a digimon, so it was nowhere near as strong as her.
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I'm glad you're alright. That does sound like a lot of trouble... [Then after a moment, he adds, with a twinge of hope entering his voice.]
Wait, Tailmon's in this place too?
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Of course she's here. [As if it should have been obvious. Why wouldn't she be?] Patamon too.
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[On one hand, it does seem logical that they'd show up in a place like this, with virtual games and codes and a lot of other digital speak going around. On the other hand... the path between their worlds was closing, and Taichi had just said farewell to Agumon. It seems too good to be true that they could all be reunited again... and in a sense it really is too good to be true for him, as he's seen no sign of his own Digimon yet.]
Hey, have you seen Agumon anywhere?
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[There were a lot of monsters running around, but no small, orange dinosaurs.]
He was with you just before you got here, right? We only just beat Piemon. So he must be around here somewhere.
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Piemon? Um... what about Apocalymon? He was with me, but... [Not at the moment he left. He takes a few sharp glances around.] We'll have to keep our eyes open for him!
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Who's Apocalymon?
[Was this one of those things people were telling her about with timelines and pasts and futures meeting? Was Taichi from the future? ...and just how far?]
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He's the last bad digimon we faced... right after we beat Piemon. It... it was a close one. [And traumatic, but he keeps up a soft smile because they survived in the end. And because he doesn't want to worry her anymore than he has to.]
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There's another Dark Master? I thought it was supposed to be just the four.
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Don't worry, Hikari. It might have been tough, but we kicked his butt.
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[...okay, maybe she'd been a little worried. Somebody more powerful than the Dark Masters? Someone who sounded like he'd basically created the Dark Masters? Understandably worrying. But then Taichi reassured her that they'd won, and she visibly relaxed.]
Of course we did.
When we're all together, we can do anything!
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You got that right! And we'll find our way out of this mess together too, you know?
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Oh!
If you mean the game we're in right now, I know how to get out. But it'll only take us back to the main city of this world, not the Digital World.
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Eh, you do? Good job, Hikari!
[Now he crosses his arms confidently.]
So we have another world to work with. We'll find a way out of that one too!
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I'm sure you will, Oniichan.
And until then, you can meet all the new friends I've made! They all know about Digimon because of Tailmon and Patamon, so you don't have to hide Agumon from them, either.
[No disguises for the little orange dinosaur.]
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So it's okay for them to walk around freely in this place? That's great news!
[Maybe Agumon still wants to wear a hoodie anyway!]
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Tailmon still likes to hide in the trees when we go to the gardens, or when I'm at school...but that's only because she likes it up there. She says she can see more up high.
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Um, did you just say 'school'...? [It can't be!! Taichi has so many blissful days of summer vacation left!]
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I chose to go. Actually, they even give you some money if you go, like a job! Which is good, because I'm trying to save up.
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