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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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(No drilling this time - he's tired. And after not eating for a whole day, his concentration is slipping.)
slow my ass
(Don't talk about Odawara castle.)
The blast drives the thing back, and Kaihime takes this chance to attempt stabbing through the same place Takakage aimed at. If she just gets it through and whips the thing around--
--she gets three centimeters in before her sword is stuck.
Fuck.
rly rly slow
The spear dissolves and reforms in a rough cone with its point centred on Kaihime's sword. It takes a few precious seconds, but before the monster gets a chance to turn around the cone slams into its back, causing the armour plates to crack and ease up around the whipsword.
It comes loose - and the CERES knight spins, lashing out with its tail.
'slow'
-its teeth are on her face.
Kai gives such a scream that you would think she's the monster everyone was running from. The right side of her face is completely covered in its long mouth, and she can't do anything about it other than twist her sword in a futile attempt to pull it back out, why won't it die-
here have a longass tag in return
He inhales deeply and closes his eyes, becoming (almost) perfectly still. The spellbook rises from his hands and hovers in the air in front of him, pages fluttering in an unseen breeze. Familiar spells surge into his mind, patterns traced countless times before. He brushes aside the usual, focusing in his search for the ones buried deeper within - the two pathways which would evoke explosive power. A power he has practice tempering, but not guiding.
The tome glows and begins to circle him, preparing to unleash a flurry of razor-edged pages - but he keeps it suppressed, restraining the spell from running its course.
It isn't something he has done before. Instead of letting the magic run its course, he wills it to bend - away from the prescribed path of manifestation in reality. The arcane energy resists, twisting under his control. Precious seconds tick by as he wrestles with the unwilling mana -
- and there is a sharp crystalline crack which resounds throughout the room.
A brilliant flash precedes the flare that ensues. Myriads of light spears condense into existence around him, spiraling briefly before launching themselves at the monster. They fall like rain, piercing straight through its hide and splintering its form. A particularly concentrated surge decapitates the beast's head clean off, and a dozen more burn its jaws to ashes. In the span of a few moments, the CERES knight has been reduced to ash.
The shower is over as quickly as it was summoned, leaving the air smelling of ozone. And as for the one who called it... he has been still while the magic worked, but his focus snaps as abruptly as his spells. The spellbook before him stops defying gravity, and its owner follows a moment layers
(He's passed out, Kai. Do something.)
1/3 MORAL DILEMMA TIME
It still hurts. There's blood. Her eye feels a bit wrong, but the sudden disappearance of the force that was latching onto her (almost eating her alive) makes her suddenly remember the person that was trying to help. Stepping back, she finally looks around and tries to understand what the hell just happened.
Finally, her (one good) eye finds its way to the figure lying on the floor, and there's the surge of fear that the knight decided to change its attention to her mysterious ally. Her feet jog into action before her mind does, rushing towards Takakage--
2/3
The words barreling up her throat, the words 'are you alright' and 'hey wake up' suddenly die in her throat. Her grip on her sword tightens instead, because she was just at Oshi Castle, rushing at Mitsunari after executing the water attack. And this person, a cute boy on the enemy side, happened to be very good with water. Very, very good.
And his life is now in her hands.
The life of someone who probably helped to make Odawara Castle surrender, the life of someone that she's fought against. And lost against. His disturbance hastened the Old Man's death. And he's just.
Here.
3/3
But this is also the person who just saved her life, and, well- she's suffering from amnesia, right? They might be allies now. That might actually be in the past. So she shakes Takakage by the shoulders, before giving up and carrying him on her back instead.
Kindness will be repaid with kindness, obviously.
She'll walk out the room, footsteps being the only sound present in a place that was just filled with screams.
there is a typo in the previous tag screams 1/??
......
......... it's surprisingly quiet in here. Much more quiet than before.
His head is getting clearer, bit by bit. The fog of exhaustion still blankets his consciousness, but... if he could just... reach... a little further...
2/2
He emerges into awareness as if rising from the deep,breaking the water surface abruptly. The world jolts into existence around him, painfully sharp for a brief moment before lapsing back into varying degrees of fog.
It hurts to concentrate, but he forced his mind to obey. He seems to be in a room somewhere, half-sitting up. The monster seems to have gone, and there's someone else in the room -
- but before he can get a clear view of their face a sudden coughing fit causes him to double over. He reflexively raises a hand to cover his mouth, and it comes away red.
... oh dear.
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"Hey- are you alright?!" Obviously not, seeing that he just coughed up blood, thanks Kaihime. Before he ends up falling over again, she'll just... grab his shoulders.
Please don't just shrivel up and die, gosh, that last attack couldn't have taken that much out of you, right?
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Which still leaves the problem of the blood on his hands. He frowns a little, forcing himself to focus, but the water doesn't come. He can sense some in the air, but it just won't obey his will.
... maybe he's just... tired...
Her touch startles him more than it should have, causing him to jump again. It isn't enough to set off another coughing fit, but the movement makes him wince.
"... I'll be fine."
His voice is faint, almost a whisper, but nevertheless firm.