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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. |
park heung soo | school 2013 | phase iii
But before Heung Soo even has a chance to properly think about all of it, some person or another shoves a drink into his hand before disappearing into the crowd again without the guy himself having a chance to pipe up about it. After all, even if the drinking age here is lower than back home, it still doesn't feel entirely right to drink. If not just since the thought of what his older sister would say in the back of his head is stronger and more convincing than any other conscience he'd ever need. But it's pretty tempting since the weird fuzzy feeling confuses him and he's pretty sure that it'll go away if he just drinks some (some more, maybe? the feeling does feel like he's supposed to be drunk or something, he thinks).
While he's staring at the glass and deciding though, it isn't very difficult for someone to accidentally bump into him in the busy crowd. The glass tilts a little because of the sudden force, spilling some of the drink on the clothes of whoever happens to be passing by at the moment. You, maybe. ]
Aish-- [ Even though he's already making a sound of annoyance since this might turn out to be troublesome, he does look up to see who got hit by it. At least you got his attention? It's not easy to obtain, usually. Even if it might have cost you smelling like alcohol for the rest of the night. ]
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She grits her teeth in aggravation and glares]
What was that? Why!? [A grimace] Ach--Smells! [Her eyes water and her nose wrinkles as she ineffectively wipes at the drenched dress. Honestly they're lucky she threw her shoes into a corner sometime earlier or she might have toppled over from her frantic movements.To her the smell of the alcohol is overwhelming. It was bad enough in the drink glasses, but it's even worse when it's spilled on her. Her own glass starts tipping precariously...]
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Thankfully Heung Soo's reflexes are at least good, and the moment he sees the glass tip like that, he puts his own hand around it as well, like he's trying to keep from spilling more drinks right now.
But then there's the problem of.. well, what now. He can't exactly walk away from this with a clean conscience, but it's still bothersome as hell.. Aissh, why does he always have to get caught up in these kind of situations?
After a moment of awkwardly staring between her, the drink and her drenched dress, he puts his drink (or what's left of it, anyway) down on a nearby table. ]
Maybe they have something to clean it in the backrooms. Come on.
[ Not exactly the most friendly about it, but it's not like he's being downright rude either - he does look a little bothered, but that's pretty much the full extent of it. It's just that he's not too great at interacting with people, so this is his variation of helping.. not like he can just drag her along to back there without her causing a fuss, he's sure, or he wouldn't have wasted words on it. ]
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She looks at the drink in her own hand and makes a face at it too,half-tempted to simply toss it off in a corner somewhere, but instead she puts it roughly down on the table next to his and follows.]
Could just take it off. Who cares? Annoying anyway. [Oona grumps, going to cross her arms over her chest only to hastily pull them away in a rather comical grimace, not wanting them to get wet too.]
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But then she says that as they're walking, and that's just far enough past Heung Soo's treshold of "things that are still normal" that he just turns his head to look at her with the most sceptical gaze ever.
She's not really going to take her dress off, is she. Please don't. ]
You'd be naked. [ This is not even him being deadpan, this is him saying something she obviously understands right?? He's not begging, but somehow there's still a hint of the please don't go there sentiment in his tone. ] It's not like you can go change here.
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[Oona waves her hand and shakes her head again] Will have to take it off to clean it anyhow, right?
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In fact, he doesn't even know what to say to that for a moment or two, it's just that weird. Instead he just stares, but he knows he's got to say something or she might just really start taking her dress off then and there and that's just going to be an uncomfortable situation for everyone involved. Especially him. ]
.. Is this normal to you?
[ THAT'S REALLY THE ONLY THING HE CAN ASK HERE... this is just too weird for him, he's a normal high schooler, what did he ever do to deserve this other than being a general bastard for a while in the past. ]