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//TESTDRIVE.EXE
//TESTDRIVE.EXE
 The lights flicker overhead, music blaring from the speakers as you step inside, every sound drowned out except for that hypnotic tune. The walls are painted in an array of hypnotic colors, saturated to the point where your attention doesn't know where to land, and all kinds of screens hang from each corner, showing flashing images of ads, gadget after gadget appearing in a second to show you the best of what Ceres has to offer. Dancing bodies flank each side of the large ballroom, bodies with eyes that look hollow and their faces too symmetrical. They'll occasionally glance at you and smile, maybe even engage and offer to take you to one of the private rooms in the back. However, their words are interrupted when the lights suddenly turn brighter and focus on the center where a raised platform sits. A man appears in the center, one hand raised to silence the music while the other holds a microphone. He pauses to reach out for a glass, snatching it from one of the wait staff passing by before raising it to the crowd. "We've finally obtained our first victory here on Cerealia. The colony is ours completely and will be fully functional from this day forward. Please enjoy all the luxurious amenities we have put together, and join me in journeying towards a new and better future. Together, we will expand our territory here and reach even further horizons. And by all means, don't be shy with the staff. They're also here for your entertainment."He gestures around the room, smiling before taking a sip of his champagne. Applause echoes from the crowd while Julius steps off the stage, handing the mic to one of the staff before pausing for pictures and interviews from reporters. You stand in the crowd as the lights dim once more, lost in a sea of people and wondering where to go next. |
//SCENARIOS.EXE
PHASE I [ 18 PHASE II [ ?? PHASE III [ 21 PHASE IV [ 02 BONUS [ why[ The party will be long, so take your time enjoying each scenario... and dreading it. At the end of it all, things will be calmed down and you're free to enjoy the night as you please. Remember to keep things PG (the FAQ below elaborates!), and absolutely no forcing any R-rated things with anyone below 15-16 (so be sure to ask their age, right?) or the droids will have a little fun chasing you around! Do enjoy the pretty views of the gorgeous digital city though. Which seems strangely quiet, but at this late hour, why not, right? ] |
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The screens lining the walls inside even extend into the bathrooms and the back rooms, playing commercial after commercial, all CERES themed, as you mingle with the other guests, but occasionally, the image transforms into a flash of something else. It appears for a split-second. There's the face of a woman, lips parted in a soundless cry. She looks to be in pain, fingers pressed to the screen. It's so quick that most don't register it, barely even notice it's there unless they focus. The party continues without incident, otherwise. Because it's a pretty damn good party, isn't it? There's plenty of food, strong drinks - hey, no one under seventeen is allowed to drink - and many decorative people. Just ignore that feeling of being watched! You're just so good looking, after all.
//RUN.EXE
Welcome to CEREALIA's first test drive! Please forgive our appearance as we are going through the final stages game completion. While most pages are under development and/or hidden from the public eye, please don't feel discouraged, since knowing everything doesn't always make the experience. Your characters will know as little as you. For your convenience, we have compiled a mini-FAQ - please read it thoroughly before playing. Thank you! FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS HOW DID MY CHARACTER GET HERE? You may have been just been doing their day-to-day activities - be it swimming or fighting demons - but the next moment, a crack and blinding light - now you're here, in your best attire, celebrating. The memories of your at-home activities fade away like a fleeting dream, and it's replaced with the feeling of happiness. ( You haven't forgotten your past, just that anything you were doing seems far too distant to be important. ) Must be something in the air. You can't remember clearly fighting for CERES, and whatever this Julius Vincere is telling you might be complete bullshit for all you know, but something influences you to play along anyway - if you think about it long enough, perhaps you had fought for CERES after all...?WHO/WHAT IS CERES? WHAT IS CEREALIA? You mean... you don't remember? After all the help you gave it?WHAT FORMAT CAN WE USE FOR THIS TESTDRIVE? Action (brackets/prose), video/voice, and texting are all available via your CEREVICE at this moment. Most functions are currently undergoing a system update, but as long as it is still connected to the Auralia Network, it will be available for communicative uses.WHAT IS ViVID? An amazing VR game! The demo version of ViViD will be here to play, aren't you excited? It's played with headsets that immediately allow you to experience full-body simulation, without having to move out of your seat! You can enjoy the demo world, design your own, play alone, play with a team, but remember, the boss must be beaten! Please check the phase ii thread for details and interactions!SO... PHASE III? Sexy things can happen, you're getting hot and heavy on the dance floor, and there are rooms in the back that can be decorated to your mood, after all. REMEMBER, the age of consent is 15-16, please use your own discretion and don't upset people. For the test drive, any situation that goes above PG (beyond kissing/grinding/light making out... We're lenient) must go into threads in your own journals. Any creeper behavior or unwanted advances will get an IC boot into the Frozen Locker with "Let it Go" on repeat.POWER LIMITATIONS? Actually, no, the characters don't have any of their abilities locked or otherwise suppressed. More info will be i the official FAQ, but so long as you don't destroy the entire game ( and we trust you can use your powers responsibly— as does CERES! ), limitations are nonexistent.OKAY, WHAT ABOUT PREVIOUS GAME MEMORIES? It's completely acceptable to bring a character that has been in a previous game to Cerealia!THE NAME LOOKS FAMILIAR. . . Yes, a loosely related setting concept with a place called CEREALIA was pitched for an ExitVoid phase before the moderators decided to close the game for good. A few of us got together with the original pitchers of the idea since we thought it really awesome and with a lot of potential and decided to try our own thing with it!ARE THE GAMES RELATED? Nope. Not at all, it's been rehashed from the ground up and built to stand on its own as an original place and game.We'll keep coming back to this, so don't worry. |
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Oh. What's this? He was actually already half prepared to try and find a way to flee with his food before she decides to rain hell down upon him (and then maybe quickly find Heisuke and pin the blame on him somehow - he's done it before, he can sure do it again even if Megumi might just be a demon in disguise) but then she suddenly stops mid-sentence to stare.
.. Did she.. break..? He sure doesn't know why she stopped like that, but he just sits still for a moment or two until he realises this means the coast might be clear for a few moments.
Guess who's taking this lucky moment to shove as many of the steak sandwiches down his throat as he can. ]
LMFAO DIE SHINPACHI!!!
Why you--!!
[ And with a swift kick to his shin (oh, she hopes he chokes), her hand reaches out and grabs the remaining sandwiches (three! three is good!) and snatches them off before he hounds them. With them firmly on her plate, she lifts it and licks all over the sandwiches before giving Shinpachi a triumphant grin. ]
You lose, jerk!! They're mine now!! Eat 'em and weep.
[ And she's going to bite into them all for good measure- oh heaven in her mouth, this is better than boys love- but only just!! ]
AHAHAHA I'M SORRY I COULDN'T RESIST THAT TAG OPPORTUNITY
It's probably a good thing. Better than him noticing she licked all over the sandwiches, anyway, that might just make him flip out even more at a woman doing something like that. ]
Bwut I was hewe first! [ Yes, his mouth is still half full but HE CAN'T HELP IT WHEN SHE'S BEING SO RUDE.
He's a grown ass man but he doesn't even care right now. Steak sandwiches. Steak sandwiches. ]
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That doesn't make it okay for you to steal things off my plate and the trays!! Jerk!!
[ And quickly enough, she's chomping down on her own sandwiches, making sure he doesn't get anywhere near them because fuck that noise. It's then that a very nervous-looking android lady... who doesn't look like an android lady, comes in and very carefully, starts setting the sandwiches down on the emptied tray while the two morons fight.
And that's when Megumi notices it, mid-cursing, mid-chomp...
Oh, sweet, sweet meat...
She glares at Shinpachi, grabs her licked sandwiches and pushes them onto his plate and sticks her tongue out at him. ]
If I'd have known you were such an ass when I helped you with those cans back in Zelien, I'd have tossed them in your face!!
[ Now excuse her, she's going to get some more. Fresh ones!! ]
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In fact, he not-so-subtly shoves the plate away from him and further on the table, as if he doesn't even want to look at those sandwiches anymore now. He'll just grab something fresh too, once the lioness over there is done gathering her pickings first. He's pretty sure that if he pushed her more, she'll claw his eyeballs out or something..
.. women sure are scary, huh.
But then her words distract him. He didn't really notice the first time she mentioned recognizing him since he was sort of preoccupied with the food, but this time there's nothing else demanding his attention. ]
Zelien..? [ Huh? This girl, too--
It takes him a moment, but then it clicks. That time when they got stuck in that weird world with walking corpses, didn't she approach him and Sano back then? He'd met so many people that he didn't instantly recognize her, but she does seem vaguely familiar now it clicked. ]
Wait-- you're right, you're from that place too..!