//TESTDRIVE2.0.EXE

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//TESTDRIVE2.0.EXE Welcome to the Castle-town of Valoria The prototype of ViViD's newest level has been complete. However, right now, only a single castle-town is open and available to be accessed with a mini-mission for all registered players. This castle-town is currently undergoing a terrible plague that causes those who drink the water to become strongly infected by the venom laced within. The venom creates a form of volatile madness known as The Maenas, and it is said to originate by a single flower growing in the center of the castle-town's lake. In order to purify it, everyone will have to work together to rescue the Priestess who is being held hostage in one of the castle-town's main towers, which is currently being guarded by a large dragon. Who that dragon is working for is currently unknown, but right now, it's preventing the priestess from helping the villagers. At the log in screen, players will be greeted by Vidia, giving them a friendly announcement and providing them with the mission details: "You're here at last! There's no time to delay, Player. The priestess mourns the more you hesitate. Come on, get equipped, and follow me! Are you ready? You simply have to follow my instructions. ✩ Get to the tower and defeat the dragon. ✩ Do not kill the townsfolk. They don't know any better! Knock them out, but do not let them die, or the imps will eat their corpses! ✩ Kill the imps, they're aggravating the madness! Each imp will release a soul orb on death. Grab it! It'll protect you from the madness, too. Each soul orb is worth ten credits! ✩ You have six hours. Please rescue the Priestess in that time, and she will be able to let you out. ✩ If you encounter people already from Tellus, you'll get a bonus orb for each soul orb you collect for all players. ✩ If you don't fight, you'll end up affected by the flower's curse... please, band together with someone and travel with them to slow the effects. ✩ The dragon will continue to re-spawn if it's fought alone. Please fight as a pair or group to bring it down if you can! ✩ Remember, you only have six hours... hurry, please!"

//SCENARIOS.EXE PHASE I [ xxxx ] You're standing right in the center of the entertainment district inside the main ViViD hub. The machines sit before you, beckoning to being worn so you can test out the newest level in ViViD. There are others around you, in similar positions. Researchers are on stand-by to document your every move and make sure there are no glitches at all. As you settle into your chair, you slowly put on the helmet and find yourself being immersed in a world that's so real, you can hardly tell whether or not you're in the game or still in reality. (Please don't attack the researchers, they're only doing their job and they won't hurt anyone!) PHASE II [ xxxx ] You're fully immersed in the game now, wandering around with the list of objectives Vidia gave you. It's your choice where you want to start first. You can talk to the NPCs, engage in a grueling battle, level up, or head straight to fight the boss in a daring suicide run. However, as you walk through the castle-town, you catch glimpses of shifting faces. The NPCs look familiar for a moment, maybe reminiscent of someone back home. The effect lasts too short for it to be noteworthy until it continues to occur. Feel free to explore, but remember, you have six hours, a holographic timer to the side of your screen will appear when you wish for it. PHASE III [ xxxx ] Another glitch appears. This one is more debilitating than the rest, leaving you hanging mid-attack. The game seems to freeze completely for a solid two minutes. In that time-span, the world shifts to your own. You're standing right in the middle of the one you remember, staring up into a sky painted red with fire while a blood-curling scream erupts from the back of your mind. You glance down around, and one by one, the people start to fall to the ground, shattering like glass. In the distance, the dragon looms, staring straight at you and roaring, though its voice seems equally agonized. Then the game resumes normally as though nothing happened. Your complete your attack and continue as normal. Then something else appears within the darkness for a moment, lost in a single blink. That one second passes so swiftly it's barely noticeable. It might throw you off, it might leave you facing a pair of imps or crazed hordes. Whoever is with you had better started fighting... And you'd better run if you're alone! PHASE IV [ xxxx ] You've reached the end. Victory is yours. The townspeople are cheering, and the Priestess is rewarding you with a kind smile and several credits to your name. The dragon lies on the ground defeated, though its eyes are open still, hollow and black. In the reflection, you can still see the traces of a world left behind. In that moment, you can also swear you see it blinking when it should be dead, but there's no time to dwell. You're being logged out and the researchers are shoving surveys in your face or asking you questions about your experience. BONUS [ whyo'clock ] Welcome to the Dressing Room. This is where you can dress up your character in ViViD in all kinds of costumes. Completing missions will open up new outfits that will be delivered in the real world to character's flats. As a prize for completing the above mission, characters will be rewarded with some special outfits (both are unisex). Characters will immediately be launched into the Dressing Room upon completion so they can see themselves modeling their brand new outfits to one another. [ You can choose to set your threads in the game or before/after if you'd like. Remember to apply proper warnings on threads with trigger-y or inappropriate material and do let a mod know if your thread careens off into maiming or canoodling so we can lock the log. ]

//RUN.EXE Welcome to CEREALIA's second Test Drive Meme. Please forgive our appearance as we are still going through the final stages of game completion… mostly fighting with table codes. 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 post detailing everyone's arrival experience and a FAQ that should explain everything in more detail. Please read them thoroughly before playing. Thank you!

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Yang Xiao Long | RWBY

[flaredo]

[ PHASE II ]

[ Yang's decided to roll with it. Which isn't to say that she doesn't have a whole lot of things to say about all of this, but right now-- well, why not try to get through the game? Who knew, maybe there was more to it than she'd originally thought.

And it's true, that some of the NPCs, the more she glances at them, seem familiar. Ren's eyes meet hers, in passing, and she thinks she can spot Blake's tell-tale bow somewhere up ahead. But it's not them, and finally, Yang gives up on hopefully approaching NPS and goes for a more productive approach.

Which is to say...

If you see this teenager getting into actual flame-fisted shenanigans with imps, and grinning as she flips herself into the middle of a group of them, don't worry. This is normal for her.

In fact, she probably wouldn't mind company. The more, the merrier, right? ]


[ BONUS ]

[ Okay, so it's not even remotely attractive, but from the way Yang is beaming like a little kid who just scored a lifelong supply of Dust ammunition, it doesn't need to be. But to you, poor soul who just so happened to catch her in the middle of modeling this hilarious new outfit: ]

So? [ She'll do a slow twirl, fingers curled in a parody of bared claws. ] Do I look great or do I look GRRRREAT?

[ Feel free to groan. ]

II

[bitterend]

[Seemingly familiar NPCs are actually a lot more jarring to her than most would realize. Especially if they share the faces of people who should be, you know, dead. Wang Yi's resigned to the fact that she's basically goddamn insane, though, so she shrugs it off.

Somewhat.

Whatever remaining paranoia and general unpleasant feeling she has is instead put into her attacks- while Yang is flipping herself into the middle of a group, Wang Yi herself leaps right into the lot of them, trishulas stabbing down on their ugly little heads. Unfortunately, she doesn't quite see Yang as she sweeps in, and the edges of her trishula are sharp, not just the pointy end--]

Out of my way! [Rude. But as blunt as the exclamation is, she doesn't yell it out without reason. Sweeping her arms side to side, she keeps slashing at the imps coming close to her, making a path through the crowd.

It's barely as adrenaline-rushing as hunting down the Demon of Xiliang, but eh, it'll do. Maybe they can work together? Somewhat???]

[flaredo]

[ Well, sure, if she doesn't stab Yang in the face-- but it's not as though she's spent the last few years of her life being a good big sister (hair ruffles when Ruby didn't want them, a must) and flirting with guys.

... Okay. Maybe she'd done that too, but more importantly, she'd seen more than her fair share of combat, and before she can take on friendly(???) fire, she's dancing back and whirling to help widen that path.

It might have been a bit explosive, but why not use her gauntlets? ]

Do you warn all the girls, or is it just my lucky day?

[bitterend]

Sometimes, they end up on the wrong end of my trishula before I have the chance.

[Ha... ha... Wang Yi's tone is an incredibly deadpan one. She's not joking. Sometimes, it just happens. So don't get in her way of revenge, basically. It's that simple!]

Do you know where this dragon is? [Schhhratch, another imp dead. There's soul orbs all over the floor, but Wang Yi isn't bothering to pick them up. She's only here for something to do other than to go even more insane from sheer boredom, after all. While there's a whole world of new technology here, there's nothing that makes up for the thrill of the fight.]

Bonus

[changeably]

[Sorry, Yang, but you've found one of those weirdos (a tiny, pointy-eared weirdo, in fact) without a Tony the Tiger in their world, so he just stares at her.]

Well... You wear it with confidence, at least!

[It's the nicest thing he can think to say, because she really does seem excited, after all. Even if her taste in clothes is apparently horrendous.]

[flaredo]

[ HELLO TINY POINTY-EARED WEIRDO, AREN'T YOU CUTE-- ]

If you can't flaunt what you put on, you might as well go naked.

[ Don't say that with all the grace and dignity of a proverb, Yang, it's not a real one. ]

[changeably]

[She's pretty cute, herself, but that idea has his gasping, like she said the most scandalous thing he's ever heard.]

That's rather extreme, isn't it!? You can't wear nothing!

[Please don't wander around naked, Yang. His heart couldn't take it,]

BONUS

[splitthebaby]

Please don't tell me you tried to tack the number eight on the end of that. It seems like there would be copyright lawyers already posed to sue you either way.

[You can't steal slogans from popular cereals in cerealia.]

[flaredo]

No jury alive would convict me!

[ watch her. ]

[splitthebaby]

That all depends on how much money you have.

bonus.

[implanted]

[ Wash didn't reaaaaaally want to wear this outfit, but hey... ushered into it. He manages to recover his helmet (equip it??? how do games work) at least, though it probably looks even weirder. A UNSC helmet on top of a purple dragon. ]

Uh... [ Well... she has enthusiasm. ] Grrrr....eat?

[ Actually, the suit is kind of cute. Maybe not on him, though. He's more of a cat person. ]

[flaredo]

Glad I've got a vote of confidence, Mister Helmet! You miiight want to work on your outfit coordination, by the way.

[ at least get the helmet to match. ]

[implanted]

Right. [ Was that an insult... ] Game fashion was never my strong point.

[ He never had a strong point, to be honest. ]

Wait—Mister Helmet?

bonus

[duad]

Huh...?

[ Is she... asking her? Mary looks around before she realizes she is and then laughs. She's looking pretty cute in her kigurumi herself, she's surprised at how comfortable it is — it adds to her standoffish demeanor. ]

Oh. Yeah! It really suits you.

bonus!

[glamming]

[Yeahhhhh... No. She examines her for a moment, squinting ever so slightly, before looking down at her nails. Apparently, fake acrylic nails are more impressive than this sight.]

Please. You can't pull that outfit off.

[Says the girl pretending to be a super model while wearing a purple dragon suit.

Nailed it.]

II

[particularity]

[--that is indeed a teenager flipping herself into a group of imps and looking as though she's thoroughly enjoying herself, now isn't it? Hinata watches from a safe distance, evaluating whether or not his level is enough to risk something like this...

But. She is fighting them all on her own.

So perhaps she'll hear him calling out to her:] Oi, do you need some help over there? You're kinda outnumbered, you know.

phase ii!

[homemade]

[At first glance, Two thought that was her sister Five jumping around that group of imps. Not that Five liked to use her fists in combat... but that wild blonde hair flying in the wind did remind Two of her missing sister for just a moment at least. And well, there were probably some other similar physical attributes too...

Ah, but she shouldn't just stand around watching when she could be doing something! Two runs up to where Yang was fighting, with sword in hand and cheery smile on her face.]

Need some help?!