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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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He just.. stares at her though, much like he did just now. Except after a moment it turns from a slight squint into something more like a frown. Maybe he should have expected she'd throw a fit, the girls in his class are exactly like that too, after all.. but maybe he was hoping she wouldn't cause such a big fuss. Especially not in those weird clothes and all.
And although Heung Soo could probably shake her off if he tried, he just.. doesn't fight girls. Guys, sure, but this is a different story altogether, so he's more or less stuck here until she decides to let go of that arm.
Doesn't mean he can't still look vaguely bothered about it. ]
Was I supposed to apologize? [ After all, it technically wasn't his fault he bumped into her, he was just pushed along by the crowd. So he hardly feels like it's something that needs an apology or whatever - isn't it the kind of thing where you can just move on and be done with it instead of having lengthy bouts of social interaction (especially of the fussy kind) over it?
Apparently he doesn't even care all that much if he sounds rude again, although he's at least not being entirely harsh or anything either. ]
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He could be as bothered by as he wants, it doesn't change the fact that she's going to keep her grip on him. In fact, his reaction only causes her blood to boil underneath her skin. If this was Two or Three, this guy would apologize in a heartbeat, wouldn't he? ]
Of course! Do you think that you shouldn't? Even if you didn't purposely bump into me, you should apologize to be polite. [ She sighs heavily. Even if she's so used to scolding her sister's whenever they were being irresponsible or just lacking any manners, it still feels like a chore. But that's why she's the most mature out of all of them—or at least most of them. ]
Shouldn't someone your age know that?
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It's probably why, after clicking his tongue, he does finally apologize. ]
.. Sorry. [ But it looks like it's the most bothersome thing ever for him to do even as he says it.. he's mostly hoping she'll stop drawing such a scene and actually let go of him.
But he figures he should add before she starts something like this with every single person who bumps into her-- ]
This is a party. You should expect to be bumped into. [ Not even saying it to be rude, but more as if it's something he has to teach her for her own good. Or maybe the good of people around her, really. ]
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And people should expect themselves to apologize when they bump into someone. [ She clicks her tongue, her fingers curling into the palm of her hand (and she's at least fortunate that the gloves keep her nails from digging into her skin) as she speaks.
No. No. She breathes, distancing herself from that childish idea of throwing a tantrum in a public place. Besides, she's obviously the better person out of the two. ] Unless they're unruly mutts.
[ Is that a personal jab at him? Possibly, but she'll personally keep it vague for a number of reasons. ]
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In fact, he still looks pretty unconcerned despite her being on the verge of another tantrum. Or maybe he's just hard to read, who knows.
It's almost as if he's contemplating something, glancing off to the left and then the right, and then he sighs, as if he's doing something really bothersome for her here. ]
There's supposed to be rooms in the back, it's a lot more quiet there. [ Despite.. the activities.. they might be meant for.. but Heung Soo's not particularly thinking of that, anyway. ] If you don't want to be bumped into, then go there. [ This really is him trying to help, okay. To the extent that he usually does, anyway.
He just sucks at it. ]
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Fortunately Four was observant, another trait of hers that she held highly above her other siblings, and noticed quickly that he wasn't very concerned about her temper. At least he wasn't like Five, who would constantly tease her until she's throwing whatever object she can get her hands on, but the way he looks so unconcerned reminds her of Three, and that only brings a sense of annoyance; fortunately a mild one. ]
Is there? [ But her annoyance is swept away all at once, being replaced with the curiosity similar to a child's. ] Bring me to them, [ The order comes swiftly, and she doesn't look as if she was going to take no for an answer. But she at least adds; ] please.
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Did a girl just order him to take her to the rooms in the back.
It feels strangely awkward - or maybe embarrassing is more the right word, really - and for a moment he's glancing around almost as if he's trying to look for a way out of this, no matter whether it's just literally dashing away or finding some way to talk her out of this. The former seems even more embarrassing though (especially if his leg would play up) and the latter seems like it's going to be useless, judging from her tone.
So in the end, there's not much of a choice. This isn't exactly the kind of place to throw a stink with anyone anyway, or you'd be stuck in a fairly small party space with that person for the rest of the night.
It's why Heung Soo doesn't really seem to protest even when he sighs and speaks up. ]
Why is it that hard to find by yourself?
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She reminds herself to keep those thoughts under lock, sighing almost at the same time as he did. ] It's not hard at all.
[ It's funny. ]
But would it honestly kill you to help a woman?
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It probably explains why he looks so annoyed - which is just his way of expressing awkwardness, really. ]
You wouldn't want people to start talking about you, right?
[ Because he sure doesn't want them to talk about him, he already gets enough of that normally. He doesn't need to add some weird reputation involving girls to it. ]
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[ And that's when the light bulb hits. Not like she didn't have the thought for probably a brief second beforehand, but she certainly pushed that aside for her own personal goals. This guy isn't Cent handsome and he looks like the type she can walk all over on, like Decadus, and the thought alone brings a sense of disgust that she easily covers with the reddening of her cheeks. ]
If people are immediately going to think about that, it's their own fault for having their head in the gutter! It'll be far more embarrassing for them to realize that I simply needed guidance than anything actually happening.
[ Because Four will argue against doing anything like until the day she dies. (Ha.) She's the virgin, after all, and she's going to keep her innocent slate clean so long as she was here. ]
So are you going to continue standing there or are you going to show me?
[ It's not like he has to follow her in there. That's his own choice. ]
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But what's most important to him about that thought is just that she's a complete pain in the ass. And as much as Heung Soo has the tendency to mother hen the people around him as well as he can, there's limits to that sort of thing when brattiness comes into play - even from girls, okay.
He heaves a sigh, glance sliding off to the size. ]
Aiissh.. don't provoke me.
[ Not that he hits girls or anything, but he did kick one girl's bag up like a soccer ball once.. but he doesn't really mean it in any violent kind of way, he just means that if she'll behave like a normal person, he'll behave like a normal person.
.. A very quiet normal person, but hey. He's not moving until they sorted this part out, okay, he doesn't let people walk over him that easily. Else he wouldn't have been called a thug in school. ]
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But she'll stop. Only because it will get her to what she wants. ]
If it is bothersome for you, then I'll stop. [ But, again, the only reason why she's pushing away that selfish "daddy's little princess" (that he so proclaims) attitude of hers was for her own benefit. And who knows, One may be around and could see her acting coldly to a human and storm over with a harsh scolding. ] I apologize for my behavior beforehand, so please...
[ Her entire demeanor turns an entire one-eighty, but she doesn't break any sort of eye contact. Even if the thought alone makes her desperately want to claw his eyes out. ]
Do you mind helping me?
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So instead he just gives in, hoping that it won't look too strange to any onlookers. ]
Fine. [ Not really.. polite about it in return.. but he's not a guy of many words, in case it wasn't obvious yet, and he's already turning on his heels and walking as if he's just plainly telling Four to just follow him with that gesture. ]
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Instead she focuses on his agreement, smiling despite his tone not meeting her expectations. She also reaches out without any hesitation to grab onto one of his sleeves for safe keeping. Because she's not getting lost in this crowd, okay, especially with people still approaching her despite her scowl. ]
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Instead he just shoots them a look - and if Four might be good at scowling, killing people with glances is Heung Soo's speciality. Even his normal expression already looks cold and annoyed, after all, so when he tries, it only seems worse. And it works, making the people shut up instantly as they're still walking on.
Still, he does speak up - in general or to her, it's hard to tell. ]
Aiiish. I knew it.. [ That people were going to be a pain in the ass about it, that is. ]